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Wildcats wear down Blue Devils, hand Duke first loss Sam Turken The Chronicle Duke came up short in its first test of the season. On a hot, sunny afternoon at Wallace Wade Stadium, the Blue Devils fell to the No. 23 Wildcats 19-10. After producing 357 yards and 401 total yards against Tulane and N.C. Central, NWERN 19 redshirt junior quarterback Thomas DUKE 10 Sirk struggled Saturday, finishing with 150 yards through the air and a costly interception just before halftime. The Duke offense never found a rhythm and did not take many looks downfield, relying instead on short passes that did not generate enough yardage to stay on the field. “It’s disappointing to lose a game we thought we might have a real good shot at winning,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They’re a really good football team. We have to learn to play well when things don’t go well for you…we had a chance to win the game. We, in both halves, struggled offensively on third downs. I don’t know if we played as hard in the fourth quarter, [with] seven or eight minutes to go, after you get deflated.” Duke (2-1) struck first, capitalizing after redshirt junior safety DeVon Edwards returned an interception of Wildcat

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Wildcat running back Justin Jackson racked up 120 yards on 35 carries as Northwestern moved to 3-0 on the season Saturday afternoon at Wallace Wade Stadium.

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Black mold found in Central Campus apartment Sydney Sarachek The Chronicle

Adam Beyer | The Chronicle Asbestos exposure has long been a concern for Central Campus residents, and the recent discovery of black mold has raised more questions about apartment living conditions.

The recent discovery of black mold in a Central Campus apartment has raised questions about Central living conditions. Mackenzie Drazan, a sophomore who until recently lived in a Central Campus apartment, discovered black mold in the walls and in the air of her apartment during the first week of classes. She said that one of her roommates, who moved in before her, had noticed that the bathtub was covered with black residue and had bleached the tub in an attempt to clean it. As a precaution, however, Drazan hired an outside contractor to inspect the apartment. “The walls were saturated, which is a good indicator that there probably is mold,” Drazan said. “Then they peeled back a section from the wall, and there was a lot of

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black, gross stuff, which they thought was mold—and it was.” The lab results detected two types of black mold—Chaetomium and Stachybotrys—in the air. In addition, the lab found very elevated levels of other common mold species, such as Aspergillus and Penicillin. Depending on the species, black mold exposure is known to cause allergic reactions and a variety of respiratory symptoms. Drazan sent the report to Duke administrators and has since moved to West Campus while her roommates have remained in the apartment. She noted that a sink in the apartment as well as the rubber wall lining will be replaced. One week after the outside contractor conducted tests on the apartment, the Central Campus office of Housing, Dining and Residence Life—along with Duke’s Occupa-

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Duke doctor aids ongoing Nepalese earthquake relief Robyn Guo The Chronicle After a devastating earthquake hit Nepal earlier this year, a Duke doctor has been hard at work trying to rehabilitate damaged communities. In April 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck central Nepal, killing 9,000 people and leaving over 23,000 injured. Mike Landry—chief of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Division at Duke Hospital—was in Bangladesh at the time but soon left for Nepal. Since then, he has worked with multiple organizations to aid in the recovery process. “Nepal is on one of the most active fault lines in the world, so it’s not ‘if’ it’s going to happen again—it’s simply ‘when,’ and we want to be ready.” Landry said. Landry was first approached by Handicap International—a non-governmental organization that assists survivors recovering from natural and manmade disasters—but has since worked primarily as an injury and rehabilitation consultant with the World Health Organization. A central concern has been reintegrating survivors into the community, Landry said, as keeping them in hospitals is not always the best course of action. “Many of these patients do not need to be in acute care hospitals,” Landry said. “They should be in the community, but the limiting factor is that many of them have lost their home, lost their families and don’t often have a place to go home to.” To address this issue, Landry and WHO have collaborated with other or-

Special to The Chronicle An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit central Nepal in April. Duke Hospital’s Mike Landry has continued to help survivors recover and re-integrate into the community.

ganizations—including the International Organization for Migration—to create step-down facilities. “A step-down facility is for people who are well enough that they don’t have to be in an acute care hospital but aren’t ready to go home yet,” Landry explained. “They come into these step-down facilities for high-intensity rehabilitation to improve their function so that they’re ready to go home.” Long-term, Landry hopes to improve the situation of Nepal’s disabled community, which he estimated to be about 20 to 25 percent of Nepal’s total population. Landry and WHO are currently work-

ing with multiple government ministries on a joint policy that approaches both the psychosocial and medical aspects of disability. They are aiming for an April 2016 launch date. Landry is not the only Duke doctor to have taken an interest in Nepal. Dr. Brandon Kohrt—assistant professor of psychiatry, global health and cultural anthropology—has been working on mental health issues in Nepal since 1996. After the earthquake, he worked with WHO and Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, a Nepalese NGO, on mental health programming in Nepal. “When I first started working in Nepal

20 years ago, I never could have imagined that one day I would be sitting in a room with 14 psychiatrists brainstorming about how we can provide services for the millions of earthquake survivors,” Kohrt wrote in an email. Students have also been active in helping Nepal recover from the tragedy. Four Duke students from Nepal created a GoFundMe campaign in April that raised $29,581 in a month. The money was used to purchase materials for rebuilding villages affected by the quake. Working in Nepal has been fraught with political tension. The country’s government recently adopted a new constitution, but numerous ethnic groups displeased with it are calling for national strikes—which has limited aid work by restricting travel. Apart from the political difficulties, policy development is inherently a slow process, Landry said. “Policy development is sort of like watching the grass grow,” Landry explained. “You could do it very quickly, but how useful would that be? The only way to really create effective policies is to have local policymakers engaged in the process.” Landry will give a talk Oct. 27 after returning from Nepal. The talk will be the second and last part of his “Healing After Disaster: A Two-Part Series on Duke’s Global Health Work in Nepal Following the 2015 Earthquake” lecture series.

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Duke Campus Farm continues to grow Ian Jaffe The Chronicle Frequent customers of Marketplace or Penn Pavilion may not realize that some of the food they are eating was grown by Duke students just a few miles away. Five years ago, a class project in ENV 171: Food and Energy—taught by Charlotte Clark, assistant professor of the practice in sustainability education—inspired a small group of students to create the Duke Campus Farm. The farm is located on a 12-acre parcel of land in the Duke Forest that had previously gone decades without being used. Aiming to provide fresh, local and sustainable food to campus eateries as well as educate students about sustainable farming, the DCF has grown both in size and in community participation. “We definitely have ramped up our produc-

tion for Duke Dining quite a bit,” said Saskia Cornes, DCF program coordinator. “We have had more visitors than ever before. We topped a thousand people this year.” DCF supplies a substantial amount of fresh produce for Duke Dining, much of which is used at Marketplace and Penn Pavilion, Cornes said. According to the farm’s 2014 Annual Report, they sold $6,760 worth of produce during the summer and delivered 30 pounds or more of kale and arugula to Duke Dining each week. In terms of educating students about sustainable farming, Cornes said the farm has been extremely successful, noting the continued increase in the number of students visiting the farm each year. See FARM on Page 12

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Former ‘Onion’ editor: ‘People don’t think very much’ Lucy Zhang The Chronicle

black and white, which is so outrageous. I think that tells you a lot about what’s wrong with humans in general. People don’t think very much.

Scott Dikkers has made a career out of being funny as the founding editor of the satirical publication “The Onion.” He has served as the owner and founding editor of the publication and co-wrote the best-selling books “Our Dumb Century” and “Our Dumb World.” Dikkers will give a talk entitled “The Funny Story Behind Funny Stories” today at 4:30 p.m. in Page Auditorium. The Chronicle’s Lucy Zhang recently spoke with Dikkers about his humor, his origins in satirical news and the success of “The Onion.”

TC: Based on your experience, what types of articles tended to get the most page views and publicity? SD: That’s a thing that started with the Internet for us maybe five to ten years ago. We started looking at which stories got the most page views, but often they weren’t the ones we were most proud of or we thought were the best. They were just the ones that for whatever reason were passed along or had to do with something big in the news. In the past, we tried to entertain ourselves The Chronicle: What makes something first. So stories we were most proud of or funny? we thought were most successful were not necessarily the highest traffic ones. Scott Dikkers: That is a very complicated question because we normally don’t think TC: Have you ever avoided any topics about it. But having because they were too niche specific and been in the comedy required too much context for the reader business for most of to know? my life, well all of my SD: That’s a critical thing to consider life really, I’ve thought when you’re doing humor. Too much about it, and I’ve context and you have to explain too much actually written a book for people to get the joke—then it’s really about it because I not worth it. At “The Onion,” we’ve always thought there is a kind tried to be as accessible as possible, meaning of code for making we want to reach as many readers as possible. things funny. I wrote So you want jokes generally to be as gettable a book about the very as possible. However, sometimes if there’s subject called “How to a joke that only a tiny handful of people Write Funny.” It breaks are going to get, but if they’re really, really down the steps that going to appreciate that joke, then we’ll do the brain goes through that even if it leaves everyone scratching to create something their heads. funny. Part of knowing that is knowing what TC: When it comes to serious or tragic makes something funny to the audience or events, is there a line that you or “The to the reader. Onion” won’t cross?

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may also have gained entry through unlocked doors or doors that were propped open. DUPD is working to recover any stolen property that they can, Dailey noted. Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said he is hopeful that these arrests will bring the thefts to an end. He added that it is important for students, staff and police officers to constantly be on the lookout for individuals who might commit crimes on campus, even though these events are rare. â€œWe are very fortunate that the overwhelming amount of time our community is a very safe environment,â€? he said. Junior Lucas Donaldson, a resident of Few HHâ€” one of the dormitories burgledâ€”noted that he feels more comfortable on campus now that arrests have been made but is not entirely at ease. â€œIt still seems like a pretty common problem, and I donâ€™t feel completely safe leaving my door unlocked all the time,â€? he said.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Keohane Quadrangle was one of the sites of burglaries that occurred during upperclassmen move-in. DUPD recently arrested three men after investigations.

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MISSING DEEP THREAT HURTS DUKE Brian Pollack The Chronicle

In the Blue Devils’ first two games of the season, the offense carried the team to a pair of easy victories by averaging nearly 600 yards per game and eclipsing 35 points both times. New quarterback Thomas Sirk looked comfortable in his role, slinging the ball accurately on a variety of short and intermediate routes, with the occasional deep ball mixed in that hinted at big-play potential. For the first two drives of Saturday’s game against No. 23 Northwestern, Duke’s offense looked primed for another productive day. The Blue Devils crossed midfield on the game’s opening drive before stalling, but crossed the goal line on their second series—a savvy, five-yard tuck-and-run by Sirk to give Duke a 7-0 lead less than six minutes into the game. But that was just about all the offense would provide, scoring only a 38-yard field goal the rest of the way as the Wildcats clawed their way back to a 19-10 victory at Wallace Wade Stadium. It wasn’t so much the final numbers that told the story for the Blue Devils— who notched 327 total yards against a defense that had allowed just six points in two games entering Saturday—but rather the approach that did them in. A predictable rotation of swing passes, up-the-middle runs and screens kept Duke from gaining large chunks of yards without any semblance of a downfield passing attack. These issues manifested themselves most on third downs—often the plays on which an entire game swings—when the Blue Devils found themselves in uncomfortable down-and-distances. Of the 15 third- or fourth-down attempts Duke failed to convert against Northwestern, 10 were either runs by Sirk or passes near the line of scrimmage that were far short of the chains. “We have to look at that in regard to the passing game. We have to look at every aspect of protection and what he’s seeing,”

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle With the Blue Devils reluctant to attempt deep throws downfield, Northwestern bottled up Duke’s underneath game Saturday, making life difficult for quarterback Thomas Sirk.

Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’s not normal to have as many layoffs as we did. We had 13 balls thrown to Shaquille [Powell] and Shaun [Wilson]. That’s something we’re studying.” Sirk finished 24-of-39 for 150 yards through the air with an interception, culminating in a paltry 3.8 yards per attempt. The Glen St. Mary, Fla., native completed just eight passes to his starting wide receiver trio of Max McCaffrey, Johnell Barnes and T.J. Rahming—one more than Powell caught out of the backfield by himself. Aside from one 32-yard completion to McCaffrey—which came on a free play after a Wildcat defensive end jumped offsides—Sirk directed most of his passes to the running back tandem of Powell and Wilson in the flat. The duo accounted for 13 receptions and 78 yards, more than the rest of the receivers and tight ends combined. With the Blue Devils driving near the end of the second quarter looking to extend their 7-0 lead, the pattern they had fallen into finally cost them

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Running backs Shaun Wilson (above) and Shaquille Powell were quarterback Thomas Sirk’s most frequent targets in the passing game Saturday, catching 13 of his 24 completions.

dearly. On second and goal from the Northwestern 11-yard line, Sirk looked right and tossed yet another short swing pass—except this time, 6-foot-6 defensive end Dean Lowry had anticipated the play, stepped into the passing lane and snagged the interception to thwart the best scoring chance Duke would have the rest of the afternoon. “I saw him—he just made a great play,” Sirk said. “He’s a big athletic guy and he just made an outstanding play.” Even as the game moved on to its later stages and the Wildcat defense showed its ability to smother the Blue Devils’ cautious attack, offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery didn’t introduce much variety to his play-calls. Duke took a few shots down the field throughout the game, but a combination of good coverage by the secondary and slightly errant throws by Sirk prevented Cutcliffe’s squad from completing the elusive deep ball. On multiple occasions, Sirk had balls knocked down at the line of scrimmage by defensive linemen who had jumped

the route. Northwestern defenders crept closer and closer to the line of scrimmage as they realized the Blue Devils were not willing to take chances, leaving almost no room for the backs and receivers to break free for longer gains. In just about any sport, coaches will preach the importance of needing to keep the opponent on its toes by switching things up. Saturday, Duke did exactly the opposite of that, and it led to its first defeat of the season. The Wildcats did what any good team would do and made the proper adjustments, and they left Durham with their perfect record intact. “I think they tried to read our passing a little bit more, they weren’t as aggressive as we saw on film. I think you saw that with the batted balls. They would rush a few steps and then just wait for the ball,” center Matt Skura said. “Obviously, that’s something we’re going to have to pick up because other people are going to see that on film and want to do that as well. We’re going to take that as a learning lesson and hopefully improve.”

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Redshirt senior Jeremy Cash fueled the Duke defense Saturday to keep the game close, finishing with 3.5 tackles for loss.

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Blue Devils draw with short-handed Seminoles Jack Dolgin The Chronicle When at first they failed, the Blue Devils tried, tried again. But Duke could not find the back of the net Sunday and missed a chance to open up ACC play with a home victory against a depleted juggernaut. The No. 22 Blue Devils drew with No. 2 Florida State 0-0 Sunday at Koskinen Stadium, holding the Seminoles scoreless for the first time this 0 season. Duke bested FSU DUKE 0 the Seminoles 25-8 in total shots and 6-1 in shots on goal, but the many empty opportunities overshadowed the defense’s eighth shutout of the year. “We played well, but we just didn’t quite do the final thing, and that was being able to finish up in the 18-yard box,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We had good quality chances, but just didn’t finish that up.” Duke (6-2-2, 0-0-1 in the ACC) could not have played Florida State (7-1-1, 0-0-1) at a better time. The Seminoles’ senior midfielder Isabella Schmid was returning from an injury and played just 17 minutes, and five players— all hailing from outside the United States— were absent. The result was a Florida State formation set up conservatively, often with nine players behind the ball. “I think they showed us a lot of respect,” Church said of Florida State’s defensive scheme. “The defending national champions basically come out in the 4-5-1, and they sat deep. I think that’s a sign of a lot of respect about people looking at our program.”

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman Kayla McCoy had a chance to win the game in overtime, but Florida State goalkeeper Cassie Miller turned the shot aside to preserve the scoreless tie.

With senior forward Cheyna Williams still in the lineup, Duke triple-teamed the 2014 College Cup Most Outstanding Player on Offense, limiting her to one shot and zero shots on goal. Sophomore Schuyler DeBree was particularly critical to the defensive effort, on one play in the first half using her shoulders and body to push Williams off the ball and letting the ball roll past the goal line to prevent a Seminole corner or shot on goal. The Blue Devils also came up with a defensive stop when they needed it most— at the very end of the game. Florida State had more shot attempts in overtime than it had during regulation, and it almost scored twice in the first 10-minute session,

but both shots sailed wide. “There’s this feeling that…every single person on that back line is so solid,” freshman Taylor Racioppi said. “And that’s just a confidence that they put into our forwards. So that when they do win that ball, we’re gone. We’re turning it on to offense.” That confidence was apparent in many of Duke’s opportunities. In the second minute, sophomore defender Morgan Reid sent a cross from the right flank to junior midfielder Rebecca Quinn, whose shot was blocked and landed right at Racioppi’s feet. But Racioppi— with an open look—struck the ball right at sprawling Seminole goalkeeper Cassie Miller, who made the save.

“That’s a rough one, on the six yard line,” Racioppi said. “I popped it up, and I should have kept it low, and [what] phenomenal goalkeeping they have.” The Blue Devils continued to apply pressure throughout the match, but often had to send in crosses rather than connect passes on the ground due to the Seminoles’ collapsing defense. Racioppi almost scored in the second half off a header, but she fell down in the process—had the referee blown his whistle, the freshman would have been awarded a penalty kick—and the shot sailed wide. Freshman forward Kayla McCoy also had a header opportunity in the second half off a corner, but after jumping over two defenders, her header hit the outside netting of the goal. Perhaps the Blue Devils’ best chance came in overtime. Junior defender Christina Gibbons crossed the ball from the left flank and to the top of the box, feeding redshirt sophomore midfielder Cassie Pecht, whose shot was then backheeled by Racioppi to McCoy. Within the six-yard box but with Miller approaching, McCoy hit a shot with the side of her foot that Miller swatted while sliding. As the ball trickled toward the goal, Florida State cleared the ball just before McCoy could tap the ball in, all but sealing the shutout. “There’s no question the keeper made a few good saves, where a couple got cleared off the line,” Church said. “But we’re in the ACC. We have to have short memories because we have to move on to Boston College and Virginia this week.” The Blue Devils visit the Eagles Thursday before a road test Sunday against the defending national runner-up Cavaliers.

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Duke dispatches Monarchs to earn weekend split Zean Liao The Chronicle Coming off a tough loss Friday at No. 4 Virginia, the Blue Devils looked to bounce back Sunday afternoon against Old Dominion. And bounce back they did. No. 7 Duke came from behind to defeat No. 15 Old Dominion 3-1 Sunday afternoon at Jack Katz Stadium. The Monarchs came out swinging, scoring the first goal of the game on their first shot less 1 than four minutes ODU DUKE 3 in. It was a familiar situation for the Blue Devils—who fell behind quickly against the Cavaliers as well—but this time they were able to regroup and score three unanswered goals to pull off the win at home. “From the Virginia game, we’ve learned that we’ve got to come out ready to attack the game but also defend our game,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “When Old Dominion took it to us in the first couple minutes, that was like the ‘okay, hang on’ moment and I was so proud of how the team regrouped and what they brought out and what they recognized today. Credit to Old Dominion for coming out hard against us, but credit to the Duke team for making the change earlier and then never looking back.” Old Dominion’s first goal came off a tip-in shot by redshirt senior Caitlin Walsh and was assisted by a pass across the circle from graduate

student Alex Iqbal. But unlike the Virginia game—when the Cavaliers tacked on three more goals after the initial strike—that would be the last goal scored against Duke (5-3). The Blue Devil defense tightened up and put the clamps down on the Monarch offense, thanks to an organized team defense and a pair of big saves by redshirt senior goalkeeper Lauren Blazing. Even with the defensive game plan in mind, Duke still met a tough challenge in Old Dominion’s aggressive offensive. The Monarchs (5-2) pushed the pace each possession, looking to score within the circle. Old Dominion had another opportunity early on to add to its lead, setting up a corner attempt in the 25th minute to give senior Sarah Breen a good look at the goal, only for her to be denied by a kick save from Blazing. “We expect every team to be pushing it toward our goal so we wanted to come out today and really put our game plan on them,” Blazing said. “We did a really good job of doing that. We forced them to the space where we wanted them and we had a lot of good possession with the ball.” Duke came back with a goal in the 15th minute to respond to the early goal by the Monarchs. The tying score came from a shot in front of the cage by junior Heather Morris, off a cross from sophomore Ashley Kristen. Kristen sprinted down the right side of the field and went between the legs of an Old Dominion defender before passing it off to Morris for her fifth goal this season.

Just six minutes later, the Blue Devils scored again off a goal from freshman Rose Tynan. Tynan corralled a ball from teammate Aileen Johnson and made a move around Monarch goalkeeper Kealsie Robles for the reverse score, giving Duke a 2-1 advantage and Tynan her third goal of the year. Old Dominion dialed up the defensive pressure after surrendering its lead by pushing its defenders up into the opposing backfield, and Duke remained on the offensive and continued to push the ball forward. Halftime approached with neither team scoring another goal after lots of back-and-forth, up-the-field action. Both teams came out in the second half aggressive on offense, but they were met with big defensive stops. The offenses combined for 12 shots in the final 35 minutes, yet only managed one goal as the goalkeepers and defenders traded plays to prevent either team from reaching the back of the cage. Finally, the Blue Devils scored one last goal with 6:15 remaining on the clock. Freshman Caroline Andretta wove in and out of traffic in front of the Old Dominion circle to score an unassisted goal, the first goal of her career. Andretta’s late goal effectively put the game away, as Duke rode the momentum the rest of the way. In the closing moments of the game, the Monarchs had three more shots on goal that See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 9

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshman Caroline Andretta notched the first goal of her career Sunday to cement Duke’s win against No. 15 Old Dominion.

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Freshmen debut at Bonk Invite as Alvarez impresses Alexis Salcedo The Chronicle CARY, N.C.—The Duke James Bonk Invite proved to be the perfect warm-up for the Blue Devils’ fall season. With five new freshmen on the roster and only two practices under their belt, Duke went into its opening event looking to see where it stood. Freshman Vincent Lin captured the consolation prize in one of three singles brackets Sunday at the Cary Tennis Park, one of several Blue Devils to make a favorable first impression this weekend. On the other side of the country, seventhranked sophomore Nicolas Alvarez claimed second place at the Oracle/ ITA Masters, playing against some of the nation’s best competition. The Blue Devils kicked off the weekend Friday in Cary on a high note, capturing four doubles and two singles wins, including victories by freshmen Lin, Jason Lapidus and Adrian Chamdani. Duke fought through Saturday with eight singles losses and three doubles losses, including a close singles match by Chamdani, who fell to Wake Forest’s Sam Bloom 3-6, 3-6 in the quarterfinals after beating Courtney Lock of Louisiana-Lafayette 6-2, 6-2 Friday. The multiple wins in the back draws on Sunday, and the opportunity for the coaches to better understand what makes their new players tick, gave the Blue Devils a better idea of what they need to work on for their

upcoming tournaments in October. “What we are trying to do is just get better,” Duke assistant head coach Jonathan Stokke said. “That sounds super simple, but we have three freshmen and [sophomore Andrew DeJoy] has only played in a handful of matches, so it was all just kind of getting to know them. We have only had two team practices so we haven’t really worked on much, so really a lot of it was, for us as coaches, trying to figure out what they like to do and for them to feel like they got better by the end of their first tournament.” On Sunday, the Blue Devils made up for their first and second round losses with a win by Lin in the consolation finals against Mario Paccini of Elon, 6-3, 7-5, and a seventh-place victory by senior Josh Levine against another Phoenix, Robert Lindgren, 6-3, 6-2. The three-day tournament featured three color-coded brackets and pushed the freshmen to heighten their game as they stepped onto the court for the first time as Blue Devils. Two of the three freshmen finished the tournament with a win Sunday, including Lapidus, who struggled in the beginning of the tournament but managed to pull through with a 6-2, 6-3 victory against Michael Ogden of N.C. State for 15th place in the blue bracket. Chamdani suffered a tough loss in the fight for fifth place in the white bracket, falling in a tough match against Dante

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Saleh of Auburn, 3-6, 4-6. Upperclassmen DeJoy and senior Daniel McCall also lost in straight sets—McCall fell 6-7 (0), 3-6 to Jacob Nicolussi of Old Dominion and DeJoy dropped a 1-6, 1-6 match to Nikhil Mannepalli of Radford. The Duke coaching staff took the first event of the fall season to analyze its players’ games so that it can make necessary changes and perform as a cohesive unit in the upcoming ITA All-American tournament in Tulsa, Okla., in the beginning of October. With head coach Ramsey Smith away with

sophomore Nicolas Alvarez in Malibu, Calif., for the Oracle/ITA Masters, Stokke and volunteer assistant coach Jason Tahir switched frequently between matches, offering advice to as many of their players as possible. “[I want them to be] working on professionalism, just taking care of themselves, coming out prepared, stretching, warm-ups and scouting their opponents—that type of thing,” Stokke said. “I think for all of them the big thing is learning to handle [score] adversity.”

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FOOTBALL from page 1 quarterback Clayton Thorson for 24 yards. The Blue Devils quickly turned the turnover into points when Sirk rushed for a four-yard touchdown to end a five-play, 26-yard drive. But after that, the Blue Devil offense went cold, putting pressure on the defense to keep Northwestern (3-0) off the scoreboard. Duke’s defense initially answered the bell. Throughout the first half, the Blue Devil defense stifled Northwestern’s running attack and Thorson. The smaller defensive line held its own against the Northwestern’s highpowered running attack, which entered the game average 279.5 rushing yards per game. Although the Wildcats broke several big runs when rushing between the tackles, Duke’s defensive ends and defensive backs closed the gaps on the outside to keep the Wildcats out of the end zone in the first half. Sophomore Justin Jackson finished with 120 yards on the ground to lead the Wildcats, but did not break off any game-changing runs. “We knew they had a good running back, so we focused on the run,” senior linebacker Dwayne Norman said. “We knew he was fast, so we focused on lateral movement. It’s definitely hard.” When Duke finally began to mount an offensive threat late in the second quarter, Northwestern defensive lineman Dean Lowry deflected a Sirk screen pass to himself for an interception to end a drive that could have given the Blue Devils a two-score lead heading into the locker room. After Duke’s defense held firm, a fumble by sophomore running back Shaun Wilson on the Blue Devils’ next series gave the Wildcats back the ball with time to score. Northwestern took advantage of good fieldsudoku_488B position at the Duke 35-

yard line as Jack Mitchell knocked a 37-yard field goal through the uprights to cut the deficit to 7-3. If the Wildcats had not turned the momentum of the game before halftime, they left no doubt right after intermission. Solomon Vault returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown to give Northwestern a lead it would not relinquish. After holding Duke to a three-and-out, the Wildcats then went on a 10-play, 53-yard drive and added on a Mitchell 44-yard field goal. “We weren’t close on that kickoff coverage,” Cutcliffe said. “We had some people that obviously got themselves out of position. We cover very strong to a corner. I’m going to see where the ball came down, where the ball was caught. But also, we should have people there when somebody comes back across the field.” With 3:45 left in the third quarter, following a Duke turnover on downs, the Blue Devil defense came up big again. Cornerback Alonzo Saxton II ended a Northwestern drive by intercepting Thorson at the Duke 32-yard line, giving Sirk and the offense another chance. Duke tried to come back, as senior running back Shaquille Powell gashed the Wildcats on a 16-yard run to set up a 38-yard field goal by Ross Martin to trim the lead to 12-10, but Duke’s defensive line began to wear down in the fourth quarter. Following two six-yard runs by Jackson, backup running back Warren Long found a seam on third and one and sprinted 55 yards untouched into the end zone to extend the Wildcat lead to 19-10. “I think they had 19 yards rushing in the first half. But something happened,” Cutcliffe said. “When you keep going back on the field…our offense usually stays on the field a bit. I think there’s some human nature involved in all of that.” The Blue Devils did not take many looks downfield all afternoon, making a comeback

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Listen and learn about mental health

n September 10, a group of students gathered in front of the Chapel to increase awareness of World Suicide Prevention Day and mental health issues. An organizer of the gathering has also been involved in starting Duke’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Over the past several years, campaigns to encourage discussion of mental health and illness have worked through Mental Health Awareness Month and groups like Peer For You. They hope to remove stigma from conversations about mental health and to provide resources and support for students. When students think of mental health resources, Counseling and Psychological Services comes to mind first. Unfortunately, common misconceptions about CAPS that we and others have sought to dispel deter students from going to talk to CAPS. With 30 percent of undergraduates going to CAPS over the course of four years, many students are in communities where CAPS and support options are being in fact encouraged in times of need. Even for these students, however, and especially for those who never go but need to, the journey to the first appointment can be problematic. Between the initial phone call, the literal steps to talk to CAPS and the stigmas surrounding mental health, there

are deterrents for students even as CAPS works to address these issues. A related issue is that Duke’s medical leave policy, which we have taken issue with in the past, still contains serious flaws. It seems that at the expense of providing the best experience possible for students, the liability minimization achieved by requiring two semesters of leave and then a readmission process frequently dissuades students who would

Editorial benefit from a medical leave from taking one. The impersonal, blanket nature of this policy seems a gross mismatch to the personal, individual nature of mental health issues. And to the students who find themselves unaffected by any serious mental health issues, we urge you to consider your role in helping those who are. This primarily means listening attentively to your peers and being the friend or acquaintance who reaches out to resources with them. Though what each person needs varies, it can often do more harm than good to try to single-handedly “solve” someone else’s problems. Simply being willing to listen and

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The promise of 1787

ut of America’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, is the most eminently quotable; a 2003 poll also revealed it to be the American people’s favorite document. The Bill of Rights, meanwhile, maintains a cherished place in many an American heart with its enshrinement of freedom of

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speech and freedom of conscience, the right to bear arms, protections against unfair courtroom proceedings and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. But the Constitution itself, from the Preamble to Article VII, seems to occupy a less familiar place in the American mind. Save for an informative email from Larry Moneta last Thursday, it would have been easy for Constitution Day to come and go without any recognition. It’s easier still to forget, or misremember, what makes the Constitution so special. Let’s start with the Preamble. Gouverneur Morris, a member of the New York delegation to the Constitutional Convention, insisted that the Constitution begin with the words “We the People,” not “We the States,” identifying individual citizens, not state governments, as the ultimate source of the national government’s legitimacy. Today, we seem to take “We the People” for granted, neglecting to recognize just how radical it was to write those words. During the Virginia ratifying convention, Anti-Federalist Patrick Henry scoffed at the language of the Preamble: “What right had they to say, We, the people?” The Framers, Henry argued, had exceeded their authority when they scrapped the Articles of Confederation in a convention intended merely to amend them. We should be grateful that the Framers overstepped their bounds. The Constitution they crafted has not only benefited the United States but has also served as a model for the myriad republican governments that have taken root in the world since that pivotal summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. Today, even the most repressive governments couch their legitimacy in the language of “We the People.” Myanmar’s constitution begins with the familiar phrase: “We, the National people…” Belarus, the last remaining dictatorship in Europe, opens its constitution with the words, “We, the People of the Republic of Belarus…” Syria’s constitution trumpets: “The completion of this Constitution crowns our people’s struggle on the road of the principle of popular democracy…” For the citizenry of these countries, however, the promise of democracy, remains to be realized. For millions of Americans, too, it took decades, if not centuries, of struggle for their country to fulfill the promise of the Constitution. The Constitution of 1787 included the Fugitive Slave Clause, which mandated that

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offering simple but sensible advice is important in being supportive, and it also does well to recall that we are not medical professionals. Shouldering alone someone else’s issues without the skills to treat them can in some cases leave supporters compounding issues with their own anxieties, to the detriment of both parties. At Duke, it can be hard to talk about mental health. From the very beginning, with first-year Convocation introducing our most outstanding classmates, we find ourselves in a pressure-filled environment to not only succeed but to be great. The pressure is a natural byproduct of our circumstances but one that we can learn to mitigate. The pressures are felt even more acutely as different issues come and go for different groups like female students, students of color, queer students and others who have to deal with those aspects of their identity make it even more challenging to address mental health. We encourage all members of the Duke community to continue having conversations about mental health, and to continue to work to make our campus a place where students can find resources and support to help take care of themselves. In tomorrow’s editorial, we will further explore our campus as the backdrop of our mental health and wellbeing.

democracy continues today. The brilliance of the Constitution, then, is not that it was some kind of exhaustive law detailing the best policies on every issue for every era ad infinitum. The true genius of the Constitution is that it structures the politics of the country in such a way that successive generations of Americans, each seeking recognition of their rights, find in the Constitution words that speak to their aspirations and mechanisms that allow them to pursue their cause. When a destitute Florida convict was denied legal representation by the state, he looked to the Sixth Amendment and appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court, which, in the 9-0 Gideon v. Wainwright decision, upheld his right to counsel. When Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the March on Washington in August 1963, he spoke not only of a dream but also of a “promissory note to which every American was to fall heir,” the Constitution’s promise of full American citizenship. As Justice Kennedy wrote this June in Obergefell v. Hodges, “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times.” The Constitution doesn’t belong to Gouverneur Morris or James Madison or Roger Sherman alone. It doesn’t belong to Congress or the President or the Supreme Court. It belongs to you and me. It is ours to inherit, ours to question, ours to interpret, ours to amend, ours to pass on to our posterity. The Constitution deserves our admiration but not our worship. It is a human document crafted by human hands, not divine scripture received from on high. We have Madison, not Moses, to thank for delivering it to us. In Federalist 14, Madison, writing as Publius, asked: “Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?” We are wise to avoid “blind veneration” of the Constitution for a healthy acquaintance with the meaning of the Constitution breeds its own sort of informed veneration. Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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here is more to the world than consulting or finance. I find myself repeating that phrase over and over every day while talking with my fellow seniors who are in the throes of the postgraduate job hunt. Every day, it’s another casual conversation of “How’s the job stuff going?” only to hear “Oh, I’m looking into consulting right now, and if that doesn’t work out I don’t know what I will do with my life.” Every day, I keep telling myself the same thing. There is more to the world than consulting or finance. Like a nervous tic, I find myself repeating this without warning and with little control.

felt increasingly pushed in a direction not out of my own volition but simply because it was expected of high caliber students and that it was what everyone else was doing. My message today is a simple one, and perhaps I’m writing to remind myself more than opining for the benefit of others. There is so much more to life than consulting or finance. Because we live in an elite setting where the expectations of leadership, prestige and wealth are more overt than implicit in daily life, the pressure to follow these paths is high. That pressure exists here at Duke because we’re surrounded by the products of wealth

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The oral history of renovation

ith the widespread process of renovation across Duke’s campus finally beginning to end, The Chronicle begins to reflect on how construction proliferated so quickly and thoroughly in such a short amount of time. We sent Monday Monday behind the scenes to get the inside story on what really drove the renovation saga. President Richard Brodhead: The day was July 31, 2012. I had had a long and tiresome day writing poetry at the Lemur Center. I like to go there sometimes on my days off and make eye contact with the lemurs until we both begin to weep. I then collect both the lemurs’ tears

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looked out my office window and there it was — a fence around West Union. Dean Sue: We were very excited. The West Union was going to look exactly as Brodhead designed it. It would have Gothic touches but be rendered in glass to confuse any burglars. President Brodhead: Burglars cannot see glass so they would keep bumping into the glass until they went away or died of blunt trauma injuries. Dean Sue: But then something began to go wrong. Fences were coming up rapidly all over campus over a much shorter time period than Brodhead had planned. And none of the new

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HOPE, FOR THE WIN Perhaps it’s a sign of my own insecurity, but I think it reaches a deeper truth about life on this campus. That going against the grain of peers who seek the same set of options year after year requires a great deal of will power and a bit of risk taking. More importantly, that deciding what to do after graduation is perhaps the most difficult decision one can make because there is no set path before you. Over the past three years, I have witnessed the power of groupthink at Duke where everyone always feels as if they are competing against their peers and even themselves to do more, be more and somehow just be better. Since returning to campus this fall, the same has been true in this case with management consulting. Suddenly, pre-meds, human rights advocates and everyone and their mother are attending an info session for Bain or a lunch with Deloitte. The suits populate campus, portfolios in tow, with freshly printed resumes and students eager to impress their desired firm with their acumen and impressive accomplishments. This column is not to disparage the opportunity to join the ranks of consultancies because they truly are great opportunities to pay off student loans, have some financial security and make an impact immediately out of graduation. In other words, I hypocritically joined the hordes in attending information sessions and applying to these firms just because I thought, “Why not?” However, as an individual who desires to chart my own path to a meaningful life, the pressure to follow the masses into investment banking or consulting incentivizes me to look and exist elsewhere. The pressure still exists, and frankly it is altogether stressful and unnerving. Before I came to Duke, I had never heard about management consulting or investment banking save for knowing that both led to lucrative careers. Honestly, I never gave them a second thought. Then, graduating seniors and close friends began to pursue these opportunities and my respect for this broad set of options grew, as did my interest in them. Yet, even as I began to become more comfortable with these potential options, I too sat in the information sessions and worked through case prep for interviews with friends with a little bit of my heart elsewhere. I have

and privilege whether in the form of our classmates, the buildings aptly named for donors and philanthropists or the general atmosphere of wealth that permeates the buildings and student community. To be poor at Duke or after Duke is nothing less than a disgrace in this system of thinking. And a highpaying, prestigious job following graduation is what matters most to prove your significance, worth or value. Frankly, I have and will always believe this corrosive mentality damages us far more than it motivates our success as students and leaders. It turns empathy into a commodity, justice into an afterthought and service into that thing you do once a year as part of a company outing. We should view our educations as tools with which to serve society and make a positive difference, not as investments that yield increasing financial returns over time. Consulting and finance may be what you really care about and want to do with your life. But for most of the people I know on this campus that is simply not true. Our reasons for applying to a top firm is simply to get ahead in life and build a successful career so that some day we can make a serious impact on the issues we truly care about. It makes sense, but it continues to bother me that this framework is what we have begun to subscribe to. The only way to make a difference is to gather privilege, wealth and tangible skills. The only way I have value as a human being is if I am winning and appear more successful than others around me. Perhaps this maxim is true, but I hope that we can form our own paths to meaningful lives. As I sit in the library pondering what the future may hold, this is what I think about. When I come to the end of the road, will it matter to me more that I took a lucrative job out of college because it was the expected path, or did I pursue that dream to help start a secondary school where I taught with DukeEngage or live on a couch working for a political campaign I care about? Every time the answer is predictably the same. There is so much more to my life than consulting or finance. Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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and mine and mix them together with charcoal to create ink paste. I use this to write my poetry. This is my favorite pastime, but it is also emotionally tiring — so on that day, I decided to stop at a bar before heading home. While waiting for my virgin vodka, I saw a child in the corner of the bar playing with some wooden blocks. The child had arranged the blocks so as to perfectly resemble my one and true love, The Duke University. Yet as soon as I had sighted this achievement, the child stood and began smashing and kicking at his masterpiece with a hammer. Dean Sue Wasiolek: Little known fact — lemur tears are hallucinogenic. President Brodhead: It was in this moment that I understood the brevity of life. Within only a century or so, this young child would be dead and I, too, would be nearing the end of my life. I needed to create something magnificent so that my place in history would be secured — and I needed to do it soon. I grabbed a napkin and began furiously penning a plan for a new Duke. Dean Sue: It was ambitious. West Union was to be expanded. Central was to become a real campus, featuring a Gothic village and a grand boulevard connecting it to the other campuses. Every room on campus was to have at least three bidets, each carved from a different kind of stone. President Brodhead: Lemurs would be free to roam the campus at will. They would come up to my office and weep freely from my windowsill, dampening the students below with their lemur tears. This is my dream. Dean Sue: He called me that night and told me about this grand new vision he had for Duke. I told him it all sounded wonderful but that there was no chance it was going to be approved by the BOT. Board of Trustees (BOT): I am the Board of Trustees. Please pay no attention to the endowment investment that may or may not be happening behind this curtain. President Brodhead: I spoke to the BOT for fifteen hours. I had myself hooked up to seven different IV drips in advance to make sure I would stay hydrated. BOT: He spoke for so long that one of the old, white men that constitutes me died during his speech. I held a funeral right there in the room by burning him on my conference table. Even during the eulogy, Brodhead continued to loudly pitch his plan. Dean Sue: I didn’t think the BOT would go for it at all. But as President Brodhead was leaving, it asked him to leave his napkin-plan behind. President Brodhead: The next day I

renovations looked like what he had designed. President Brodhead: Originally I had planned for a grand baroque building, five stories tall, which would be a kind of library for food. You would roam at will around the space and rent out the food you wanted so that you could look at it in your room for up to a month. But the plan was taken away from me, and instead it became Penn Pavilion. I was very upset. Dean Sue: The whole project was hijacked. Originally, instead of just getting a touch-up, the Chapel was to be totally rebuilt as a 600 feet tall marble penis. President Brodhead: The Chapel is a grand phallus guarding us all from the sky. It is childish to euphemistically cloak it in the garb of a church. Anyway, I fell out with the BOT after their treachery became apparent. BOT: Brodhead’s plan was an opportunity to increase revenue on campus. I could fit in more vendors and more students and decrease running costs by erecting many glass boxes. A university needs money, you know. It can’t all be paid for by the dark and nefarious investment activities that may or may not be occurring behind this thick, black, velour curtain. President Brodhead: There was nothing I could do. In anger, I locked myself in my room and remained there for three days with nothing for sustenance but the lemur tears I had harvested in anticipation of the Great Lemur Death. But then, on the third day, the great Pharaoh Khufu visited me. Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza: I felt bad for the guy. I told him, “look, sometimes things don’t work out how we planned them. I mean, look at the pyramids. Did you know my original plan for that was just to build a commemorative bench? The idea got taken away from me and we ended up with the Great Pyramid. But it wasn’t the worst thing to ever happen to me,” and I told Brodhead that. I told him, “Brodhead, you are a good man and a great president. One day, they’re going to name a dorm after you, and your place in history will be sealed forever.” I think that cheered him up a lot. President Brodhead: Pharaoh Khufu was right. One day, my name will be on a dorm. And ultimately, that’s all that matters in life — knowing that somewhere in the world, people are sleeping, drinking and having sex in a location that bears your name. Monday Monday would like to note that President Brodhead’s fantasy campus was ultimately built in China as Duke Kunshan University.

CENTRAL from page 1 tional and Environmental Safety Office— held its own investigation. They did not find any mold, however, noted Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. “The fact is mold is in all buildings, especially in the humid south,” Gonzalez wrote in an email to Drazan. “The only danger is when you disrupt the mold, which is what happened in this case.” Drazan said she chose to hire a private inspector because she knew of someone who had been hospitalized last year as a result of black mold in her Central Campus apartment. Gonzalez said he is not aware of any such incident. Although black mold is a new concern for Central Campus, it is not the first time there have been safety concerns about apartment living conditions. In previous years, residents have been concerned with asbestos in their apartments. Typically used in construction materials, asbestos is a known carcinogen when high concentrations are inhaled during a long period of time. Gonzalez explained that the ceilings and walls in the Central apartments have a trace amount of asbestos in them, as is common in structures built before the 1980s. He added that the risk of exposure from asbestos is minimal. “There is no risk of exposure to students unless the surface is disrupted— sanding the ceiling for example,” Gonzalez said. Apartments have been vacated in the past, however, when asbestos was deemed a serious threat to residents’ health. Gonzalez noted that student health is a top priority. “If a student has a concern, they should contact our office so we can inves-

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FARM from page 3 “It is a great way to connect to people who have not had the opportunity to work in agriculture, and to have them learn more about agriculture,” noted sophomore Sara Snyder, a student intern at the farm. In addition to everyday volunteers, DCF also gets volunteers by partnering with student organizations—such as the preorientation program Project BUILD— and several classes and their professors. In Spring 2016, the farm will work with a class titled The Environment and Law: Literature and Science, taught in part by Cornes. “The farm serves as a venue for academics to come and discuss [food] issues, and have it actually be experiential learning,“ said Claire Fox, a master’s candidate at the Nicholas School of the Environment and associate farm manager at DCF. “It’s more than just an outdoor classroom.” Staff at DCF believe the farm has been successful at meeting its stated goals, and the farm has recently published a new strategic plan highlighting its continuing goals to “educate, engage, empower, energize and enable” the campus—at least in terms of sustainable agriculture. “It feels amazing that I have been able to grow this food, and then see it go onto people’s plates,” said Snyder. “It’s a feeling of pride.”

DIKKERS from page 3 try to make sure that the target for our satire is well-considered. We don’t want to make the victims the target of satire. But there’s never been a topic or thing that happened that we thought, “Oh we just can’t say anything about that because it’s just too sensitive.” Humor is a great way to deal with tragedy in life, and in many ways it’s the most human response you can have to hard times. In finding humor, you’re finding humanity.

I was never really interested in anything else—going to an office or making things in a factory—any of the regular things that regular people do.

TC: Would you consider yourself an outwardly serious, boring and/or uninteresting person who writes funny things, or someone who openly expresses his humor as well? SD: I’m absolutely the former. I’m an incredibly boring and uninteresting person. I’m the quietest person at any party. All my humor energy goes on the page. I didn’t used to be like that. Before I got into writing TC: If you could travel into the past, comedy, I was the funny, crazy guy making what historical (or not historical moment) jokes all the time and being silly. Because would you like to satirize the most? Why? I spend my working day pouring all that SD: It would be fun to go back and comedy energy out on paper, I don’t really satirize the harnessing of fire or what have any of that energy left. I just want to really happened with Jesus. Or the relax, but I like myself that way. Roman Empire—but the problem TC: Do you believe satirical news will is back then you would get killed for writing satire. It wasn’t a protected right, always be marketable? SD: I don’t know. I can only hope and there were a lot of satirists who were exiled, so I don’t know if I would that humankind evolves to a more free, be a satirist if I lived back then. It wasn’t open and respectful society. But I don’t think human evolution is necessarily exactly a sensible career choice. linear. I think it’s very possible that we TC: How did you get into satirical can revert back to thousands of years ago in a heartbeat. All it would take is a huge writing and comedy? SD: I don’t really know or remember. near-extinction level event or a third I’ve been drawing cartoons since before calamity nuclear war. Assuming nothing I can remember. I still have greeting like that does happen, hopefully we’ll keep cards and calendars that I made for my getting wiser and more compassionate grandma for her birthday when I was four, and considerate. I think in a world like and I was always drawing things and trying that, satire is a great peaceful outlet for disagreement and unrest. to make them funny. TC: How did it become a professional career? SD: I never really thought about it until later in high school when you have to start thinking about your job. It’s just all I ever did anyway, and I think I just assumed that that was what I would do and keep doing.

TC: Why do you believe “The Onion” is important? SD: I don’t think that I believe that “The Onion” is important. It’s there to make people laugh ultimately, and it’s important for the culture. But there’s obviously a lot more important things.

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