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Gender-neutral Violence against women up in crime report bathrooms expand across campus Tyler Lian The Chronicle More than half of the single-occupancy restrooms on campus have dropped their traditional male and female designations in the past year in favor of more inclusive gender-neutral signage. Gender-neutral bathrooms can now be found in high-traffic areas across West, Central and East Campus like the Bryan Center, Perkins Library and most residence halls, as the result of a joint initiative by students from Duke Student Government and Blue Devils United. Many single-occupancy facilities are now labelled with an image of a toilet, replacing former signage that was exclusively male, exclusively female or “unisex.” Most of the sign changes took place during the See GENDER-NEUTRAL on Page 4

Austin Peer | The Chronicle Bathrooms have been labeled as genderneutral in Perkins Library, the Bryan Center and most residence halls.

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle The University’s newest annual crime report shows an increase in “Violence Against Women Act” crimes, but administrators said the data doesn’t tell the whole story. The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act—or the Clery Act—requires all universities to report certain crime statistics to students and employees. This year marks the third year the University is required to separately identify Violence Against Women Act offenses, and the data shows an increase in stalking and domestic violence. At the same time, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh said that by and large the report shows Duke to be a “very safe campus,” compared to others in North Carolina or nationwide. Similarly, he noted that reading too much into year-to-year fluctuations is not necessarily accurate. “It’s difficult year after year to see if these are trends or just an aberration. For every one of those numbers, there is a

story behind it,” he said. “I don’t take a lot of concern in one year over another being up by three, given how large we are.” The report includes information from 2013, 2014 and 2015. According to the report, rapes on campus have increased to 13 in 2015 from 11 in 2014—however, there were only six in 2013. In residential areas, the number jumped from five in 2013 to 10 for the past two years. Within the VAWA category, incidents of stalking, including cyber-stalking, on campus increased from three in 2014 to 16 in 2015, and domestic violence from three in 2014 to 12 in 2015. Dating violence is up to five from only one incident in 2013. The Duke University Police Department compiles crime statistics by gathering data from reports to campus police, local police and other University departments, including the Office of Student Conduct. Presented with the numbers, Cavanaugh said a statistical increase does not necessarily indicate that more such incidents are happening on campus. Rather, he said, it could indicate better outreach and more self-reporting, leading to “more accurate numbers.” Figuring out the cause of the higher numbers is difficult to conclusively

determine, he admitted. As for the stalking and domestic violence upticks, he noted several caveats to the data. Most of the stalking cases involved employees and visitors, and most of them were cyber-related, he said. In addition, in most cases the victim knew the perpetrator, who was typically apprehended. Cavanaugh noted that the police may not play a large role when the crime occurs between people who are familiar with each other. “When two people know each other, it’s difficult to intervene and get in the middle of that,” he said. “This is one issue that we collectively own as a community. This can’t in any way be solely a police issue.” At the same time, Cavanaugh insisted the University would not be taking anything for granted and would continue to find ways to mitigate crime. In recent years, the University has increased its staffing of security guards and has worked to improve lighting and fencing on campus. Most importantly, Duke has installed about 800 security cameras during a several-year period, Cavanaugh said. Although he declined to comment on exact locations—to not interfere with the cameras’ ability to detect crime—he noted that the University is planning on installing cameras outside East Campus residence halls. There are no plans to put cameras inside residence halls, Cavanaugh said. The report also showed a decrease in burglary on campus from 51 in 2014 to 23 in 2013, although there was a slight increase in burglary incidents within residence areas, from eight to 13. Cavanaugh attributed the decrease to better communication, with students being warned to not prop open doors or leave them unlocked, for example. Motor vehicle theft on campus increased from nine in 2014 to 18 in 2015, but Cavanaugh noted this was primarily due to unlocked scooters and bikes, not cars. Lastly, liquor law and drug law violations have been steadily increasing the past three years. Liquor law violations on campus rose from 288 in 2013 to 372 in 2015, and drug law violations from 53 in 2013 to 100 in 2015. See CRIME REPORT on Page 4

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Rock the Vote director says youth can shape election a larger difference on the issues they care about the most. We’re also trying to bolster The Chronicle the “collective power” of young people to vote. Today, Rock the Vote has run the As a director of Rock The Vote, Heather largest non-partisan voter registration drive Smith—Trinity ’98 and a member of the in our country in the last six election cycles. DukeEngage National Advisory Board—has We’ve registered and turned out millions helped millions of young adults vote in their first and millions of first-time voters, and another presidential elections, shaping Rock the Vote’s interesting thing about our organization reputation today as the largest non-partisan, is that we don’t tell people who to vote for. non-profit voter registration organization in the We give them the option to let them express country. The Chronicle’s Rob Palmisano spoke themselves by choosing which candidate will with Smith about her role with the organization best suit their own beliefs, or those of their and the ongoing significance of its mission. family and friends.

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The Chronicle: What originally inspired you to help young people register to vote? Heather Smith: When I first got started, I had just graduated from Duke and was working on environmental policy and organizing and running different campaigns, and I quickly realized that many of the things I cared about were actually being decided by all of these people we were electing, and I wanted not only to have the power to vote in elections for myself, but also to spread that power across as many of my peers as possible. That’s what led me down this path. TC: What has been the secret behind Rock the Vote’s success, and can you describe the scope of that success? HS: For the last 25 years, Rock the Vote has been on a mission to register and engage with as many young voters in their first elections as possible. We’re not really looking at people who are already going to vote, but people who—like me at the time—aren’t very wellversed in politics. We feel that these people can be authentically reached, meaningfully spoken to and ultimately motivated to make

every dollar efficiently in order to sustain the efforts into the next election cycle.

TC: If you had to name the greatest challenge you’ve had to overcome through your efforts with Rock the Vote, what would it be, and why? HS: 18-year-olds are very different than they were four years ago, and four years before that, and so on. So it’s an ever-changing demographic audience of people we’re trying to reach, as well as an ever-changing media and technological landscape that is turning out more and more online tools that speak to our audience, so we have to constantly make sure we’re keeping up TC: What part about your job do you look and staying relevant. forward to the most? HS: I ran the organization for eight years, TC: What is the greatest lesson you’ve and now I just sit on the board, but I think learned along the way? the best thing has really been passing the HS: I think the greatest lesson for me baton off to the next generation of young has been that young people have been at people who want to help other young the forefront of social change movements people register to vote. It was also such a throughout the country and the world in our creative and open place to be—when you history, and that’s no different today, especially run a national organization, you get input with strength in numbers. The impossible from some people who you’re working with becomes possible when you’re mobilizing the every day at all kinds of events—so to see the largest generation in U.S. history, and I still creativity and passion of 18 to 25-year-olds remember the 2008 election—my first cycle from all around the country and all different running Rock the Vote—when we registered pockets of the United States, it was really 2.5 million voters with hundreds of thousands inspiring. I think often times in politics it’s of volunteers, and the sheer number of people “Young people are apathetic,” “They don’t who participated prompted “Time Magazine” care” or “They don’t know any better,” and I to dub that year the “Year of the Youth Vote.” felt like every day I had another opportunity to prove that wrong. TC: What’s the next big milestone for Rock the Vote? TC: What do you least look forward to? HS: My opinion on where we could HS: Running a major nonprofit is hard go spans in two directions. First, I think work. So you have the fun part, working with about Rock the Vote’s ongoing mission not celebrities and media, and doing concerts and just to register young people to vote, but driving people to the polls. But you still have to motivate their passion for doing so— to make payroll, and you still have to manage that’s how you really effect lasting change

Courtesy of Duke Photography Heather Smith serves on the Board of Directors for Rock the Vote, which aims to promote voter registration among youth.

into a voter. Secondly, we’ve always been dedicated to making the process easier and helping people realize how it works and why, because you can’t expect people to show up if they don’t know how the system works or why it even matters. I think there’s a great need for re-education in the merits of civic engagement in our country, and while that sounds rather boring, I think Rock the Vote could really do something about it, so that when young people eventually turn 18 they will be that much more excited to register and contribute to their democratic process. See ROCK THE VOTE on Page 4

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around campus dedicated to reading sonnets by William Shakespeare. “We like to have [the readings] in a more central spot on campus, so then other people will see it and perhaps want to come listen for a little while,” Dove said. The idea to read works aloud was inspired by a reading of “Paradise Lost” by Trinity College in Dublin, Sussman said. “It was just amazing to hear a long poem like that,” Sussman said. “When it was first published in the 17th century, people read it out loud to each other, and it was really written to be experienced that way and to

Students that walk past the Chapel Wednesday might feel as if they have been transported to West Egg, New York. The English department is hosting a marathon reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel “The Great Gatsby” beginning at 10 a.m. President Richard Brodhead will be the first reader for the six-hour event, and 27 other readers—both students and faculty—will take turns to finish the book. The event, called the Great Gatsby Gabfest, is part of a series that aims to make notable See GATSBY on Page 4 works more accessible to the community and celebrate reading. “We wanted to do something that held a special place in a lot of people’s memories of what they had read in college or high school and was a great work of art,” said Charlotte Sussman, director of undergraduate studies in the English department. The reading will take place outside under a tent, but in the event of a thunderstorm, it will be moved inside the Allen Building. The event will be open to all, and participants and students that stop by between classes to listen will receive a free t-shirt. Flapper costumes are not required. “It’s meant for people to go in and out,” said Michelle Dove, undergraduate studies assistant for the English department. “The Great Gatsby” will be the third marathon reading that the English department has done. Last Fall, the Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons department read Milton Bradley’s “Paradise The reading will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday Lost,” and in the Spring, there were events with President Brodhead as the first reader.

Emily Liu The Chronicle Interested in 3D printing a model of the brain or a Blue Devil? The newly-renovated Technology Engagement Center can make it happen. Located in the first floor of the Telecommunications Building, the Technology Engagement Center is a hub for innovative technology that aims to facilitate student-faculty research interactions. It is home to a variety of Office of Information Technology groups, including the Co-Lab Studio and Duke Research Computing. Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Michael Faber, IT Innovation program The center aims to provide a place for students manager, said the main goal of the to interact with OIT faculty. Technology Engagement Center is to provide a space on campus where OIT can On the other hand, Duke Research interact with the students. Computing is more tailored for those who “I want this place to foster a spirit of need access to big production servers for technology and innovation,” Faber said. “I their research, and is mainly used by graduate want people to think of this as a place that students. However, this shared location has they can come between classes to tinker and unintentionally resulted in the diffusion of to play.” ideas between different groups of people, Since the vast majority of OIT staff noted Mark Delong, director of Duke work downtown at the American Tobacco Research Computing. campus, they miss out on face-to-face “We’ve seen a blurring of traditional interaction with students and faculty on research computing and emerging campus, he explained. technologies like 3D printing,” he said. The Co-Lab Studio houses 55 3D printers Chip Bobbert, a digital media and as well as laser cutters and CNC routers, emerging technologies engineer, explained and is open to all students for use. It has a that the center has so many 3D printers diverse range of programming, including because the demand is high. studio nights and tech support. Students “When we built this space, we wanted can also reserve meeting rooms within the anybody to be able to come in and have Technology Engagement Center for their See TECH CENTER on Page 4 own use.

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TC: Do you have any thoughts on the upcoming election? HS: When I look at this election, the debating dialogue feels angry and negative. The American public seems frustrated—you see the Bernie Sanders camp going, “The system isn’t working for us,” so very high levels of frustration. For me, it raises the urgency for organizations like Rock the Vote who aren’t candidate-specific to say, “Hey, we are the largest generation in U.S. history, and we believe that larger, special interests are trumping our own,” and the only way we’re going to shift our country and leverage the tools we are given to do so is by mobilizing in strength of numbers to represent our political beliefs by choosing our candidates.

summer while students were away. “I’m so excited that there is student interest in [the gender-neutral bathroom project],” said senior Ilana Weisman, executive vice president of DSG. “If one or two or a handful of students feel more safe and appreciated and welcomed on campus because there’s not a stick figure on a bathroom door, then it makes it worth it.” As these changes gradually spread to the remainder of Duke’s single-stall bathrooms, the initiative’s focus will now turn to making these gender-neutral bathrooms more easily accessible to the community, namely trans and gender-nonconforming individuals who could require those facilities for their privacy and safety. Although Weisman said she expects that all future construction of new buildings will include gender-neutral restrooms, she wants to advocate for accommodations in buildings that may not currently have any single-occupancy restrooms, such as those on Science Drive. But the initiative’s goal of converting more multiple-stall

TC: What message would you offer for young people who are voting in their very first election this November? HS: It’s a powerful thing to be able to cast a vote and participate in this process, so congratulations, enjoy the moment and bring your friends along with you to the polls!

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restrooms, she admitted, will be a bit more contentious, though she pointed out that gender-neutral multiple-stall bathrooms already exist on the third floor of West Union and at the Center for Documentary Studies. Junior Alice Reed, vice president of advocacy and policy at BDU, agreed with Weisman, saying that the notion that trans and gender-nonconforming people are going to be sexually violent if allowed into bathrooms is incorrect. “There have no reported cases of trans and gendernonconforming people perpetrating violence in bathrooms, but there have been droves of cases of violence being perpetrated against trans and gender nonconforming people in bathrooms,” she said. Reed said she recalled feeling frustrated by the starts and stops in the progress of the gender-neutral bathroom initiative, especially considering that changing a bathroom sign was a “minor fix” compared to some of Duke’s larger projects, like the new West Union. The gender-neutral bathroom initiative began in earnest last Fall after serious discussion the year before. Then, it was up to teams of students to catalogue every single-occupancy restroom on campus, a process that took most of the Fall semester. The project stalled in the Spring, but nationwide protest of North Carolina’s House Bill 2 pushed gender-neutral bathrooms up the administration’s priority list, both Weisman and Reed said. The students involved with the initiative from DSG and BDU are proud of the work that has been achieved so far. Nick Antonicci, director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and John Noonan, vice president for facilities, have been important administrative collaborators. Still, Reed said she knows that more needs to be done to ensure the safety of attacked and marginalized trans and gender-nonconforming groups. “President Brodhead, the chancellor [for health affairs Dr. A. Eugene Washington] and Coach K have come out to say, ‘I don’t support HB2. We as an institution don’t support HB2,’” Reed said. “So I would really like to see them and the administrators we’ve been working on this project with to put their money where their mouth is, and make this campus a safer space by prioritizing these changes.”

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TECH CENTER from page 3 access to a 3D printer within a reasonable time,” Bobbert said. “We don’t want to stifle innovation, and we don’t want to have people waiting for two or three weeks before having access to a printer.” Staff noted that there are always a handful of students working on independent projects or checking out the 3D printers. Sophomore Neel Prabhu said that he has been using the center to experiment with 3D printing. “The fact that Duke students have free access to this is amazing,” he said. “I’ve just been printing anything from little desk toys to upscale three dimensional models of things like cells or other biological structures, just for fun. The staff here is very helpful as well. They’re very willing to come and help you out even if they’re busy with their own work.” Bobber added that the student response to the new space has been “overwhelmingly positive.” “This kind of serendipitous interaction between students, researchers and faculty can happen more often now because we have that shared space here,” Faber said.

CRIME REPORT from page 1 Although the upward trend has been consistent, Cavanaugh said that this category—like others—could be due as much to better reporting as actual increases in criminal activity. “I personally don’t have the sense that the utilization or practice [of drug and alcohol use] has increased significantly over the past couple of years,” he said.

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If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you know that it’s job application season here at Duke University. Freshly returned from their summer internships, students have wasted no time in turning around and starting the whole process over again. For some, this is an invigorating prospect; for others, such as myself, it is stressful and sometimes overwhelming. Regardless of your outlook on the job search process, you probably have made time in your schedule for one of the great hallmarks of employment: the Career Fair. There are many such events around Duke in the fall, from the generalist’s Career Fair to specialty forums like TechConnect for the more hardcore STEM enthusiasts. Whatever your passions may be, navigating career fairs can be tough. After all, there are dozens if not hundreds of companies to choose from, hundreds of other students milling around and only so many hours in a day to spend schmoozing the company representatives. After attending the Fall Career Fair and seeing which strategies worked and which did not, I decided to write up a list of tips and tricks that will help you dominate your next career fair. 1. Your backpack is your greatest weapon. With only a backpack and a mildly distracted air, you can carve out ten square feet of standing space for yourself, which is crucial when you are struggling to get face-time with a recruiter. A normal college student’s backpack containing only a single textbook weighs over 12,000 pounds, and when swung at the speed of a typical turning motion it will impact its target with the force of a mid-size rhinoceros at full gallop. Upon slamming into

the face, sternum, and/or stomach of your desired victim, your backpack will immediately knock them backwards or to the ground, freeing up the space that they were rudely occupying. Plus, if you’re spacey enough, you won’t even have to say “sorry!” You might feel dorky wearing a backpack over a suit or a nice dress, but rest assured that it will end up coming in handy. 2. Recruiting representatives are savage, wild animals. When aggravated, they won’t hesitate to tear your career aspirations to shreds. As with bears, lions and cougars, recruiters consider eye contact a sign of aggression, so to maintain proper safety, avoid eye contact with any recruiters unless

editor’s note you explicitly intend to engage them in conversation. For example, when passing by a booth you don’t intend to stop at, let your face go slack and your eyes become glazed and tired-looking. The recruiters will mistake you for carrion and will leave you alone. 3. Make sure to ask the recruiters their names, and repeat their names back to them slowly so that you never forget them. Never. 4. Hand every recruiter that you talk to at least three copies of your resume. After career fairs are over, recruiters engage in an ancient and mystical ritual in which they burn the firsthanded-in resume of every applicant over a dumpster fire. The second

resume is typically consumed as part of a post-career fair feast, along with small pieces of candy and bottled water. Only the third resume is actually read and discussed. The religious practices of recruiters are poorly understood. 5. There are only seven jobs given out every year, so competition is fierce. Remember that every time someone you know gets a job, there is one less job available for you, so you had better do your best to beat everybody else around you. Career fairs and job offers aren’t about finding out what makes you happy or fulfilled, they’re about measuring your success relative to that of other Duke students. Being happy for a friend who gets a job is tantamount to admitting that you are a disappointment and a leech on society. Pray for the failure of your loved ones and enemies alike. Subjugate your competitors. 6. Dress professionally. 7. You might get nervous when you’re talking to a recruiter, so keep a few airline/minibar-sized bottles of booze in your pockets. Knocking back a few drinks will help calm you down, and nothing displays confidence more than taking down a shot of bad tequila without the slightest hesitation. 8. Send follow-up emails to recruiters that you met. Make sure that they know that they were your favorite recruiter of the day, and that they are special. A compliment about their physical appearance will help show them that you really care. With these handy career fair hacks up your sleeve, you’re ready to take on your next career fair in style! Good luck finding a job, fellow students. Just don’t take mine. -Tim Campbell

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In my four weeks at Duke, I’ve sometimes been asked what has surprised me about the place, what I didn’t expect to experience. This exercise in soulsearching typically comes once the perfunctory which dorm and what major questions have been exhausted, when a short pause and a cursory glance around the bus reveal that, yes, there are still three more stops left in this conversation. When I hear this question, I think first of the usual candidates for the unexpected at Duke: all the newfound free time to manage, the hellscape that is the 10:05 a.m. rush at the East bus stop and the epiphanic horror of noticing sweat gradually condensate against the walls of a certain local hotspot. But above all these, I think of quiet mornings when, still clinging to a night of sleep gone too soon, I drag myself to Marketplace for a peaceful meal, only to be pummeled into submission by the strains of Meghan Trainor’s “NO” as I grab a plate and head toward the pancake bar, leaving the words “NAH to the AH to the NO NO NO” stamped in my head for the rest of the day. The power of Marketplace’s music was certainly unexpected, sometimes in bizarre ways—nothing says dry campus like pouring juice to the tune of Justin Timberlake’s “Drink You Away”— even as its song choices are so very expected and predictable. I decided to investigate the mystery of Marketplace’s music, expecting to hear gripes about the East Campus dining hall’s ambience that would echo my own. But I stand corrected. It turns out there are many fans of the playlist. “I honestly really like it,” first-year Jessica Chen said. “I feel like it’s really in tune with what students like, what’s currently in and popular.” Teig Hennessy shared a similar sentiment. “You come into Marketplace and you’re immediately in a good mood because Fifth Harmony is on—and who doesn’t love Fifth Harmony?” he said. “If you’re having a tough day, you’re feeling stressed out about classes, you walk in and you’re greeted by Hailee Steinfeld, and all the stress just melts away.” Alex Adams agreed as well. “When I walk into Marketplace in the morning and I hear Silentó, I always feel a little more hype,” he said. For the uninitiated, Fifth Harmony is an X-Factorborn girl group with the hit “Worth It,” Hailee Steinfeld is a young actress-turned-singer known for “Love Myself” and Silentó is a rapper who distilled a generation’s worth of dance memes into “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” All of these artists make frequent appearances on Marketplace’s music lineup. Students’ reactions make it apparent that the mix may have an uplifting effect, both combating breakfast’s drudgery and complementing the dinner rush. Psychological studies have pointed to music’s effect on everything from meal enjoyment to eating speed. Chipotle is well-known for capitalizing on music’s effect on meals, even hiring a professional DJ to curate their mix and spurring the creation of a Facebook page called “The Music Played at Chipotle” for curious customers. Regardless of arguable differences in the quality of their respective food (or music), Duke Dining and Chipotle have this in common: both are clients of Mood Media, a company that provides in-store music for businesses and retailers. In 2011, Mood Media acquired Muzak—a name synonymous with dreaded “elevator music”—and, according to its website, the company now reaches over 150 million customers daily at more than 500,000 locations, which include those of Nike, McDonald’s and T.J. Maxx. Barbara Stokes, director of residential dining services at Duke, revealed that the playlist firstyears hear when they walk into Marketplace is titled “College Hits,” one of many channels catered by Mood Media. The mix features popular singles from the last couple years, reflecting the current EDM and hip hop-inflected pop scene with artists like Major Lazer (“Lean On”), Rihanna (“Work”) and The Chainsmokers (“Closer”). According to Stokes, Marketplace occasionally See MARKETPLAYLIST on Page 10

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Recess interviews: Comedian Hannibal Buress Kirby Wilson The Chronicle Comedian Hannibal Buress— who comes to Raleigh this Friday to per form his new act “The Hannibal Montanabal Experience”—has run the gamut of the comedic experience. Only 33, he’s acted in movies, written for acclaimed sitcoms and sketch shows, dazzled on TV in supporting roles, has hosted his own shows and even lent his voice and likeness to popular video games. But when you ask Buress which p a r t o f h i s c a r e e r h e ’s e n j o y e d t h e m o s t , h e ’ l l t e l l y o u i t ’s a l l about stand-up. “I like doing stand-up the most because I can do it at any time, I have the most control over it, I can travel with it, I can use it as a reason to travel,” he said. “If I want to go to Hawaii, I don’t want to pay out of my pocket to go to Hawaii.” For the better part of a decade, B u r e s s h a s b e e n o n e o f c o m e d y ’s most prolific touring acts, playing cities almost constantly despite his busy filming and writing s c h e d u l e . H e ’s n a v i g a t e d h i s a c t around writing gigs at “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” and recurring acting roles in beloved series such as “Broad City” and “ T h e E r i c A n d r e S h o w. ” Buress seems most comfortable in the controlled spotlight of the s t a n d - u p s t a g e . H e h a s n ’t s e e n t h e final edit of his own fascinatingly i n t r o s p e c t i v e N e t f l i x d o c u m e n t a r y, “Hannibal Ta k e s Edinburgh,” b e c a u s e h e d o e s n ’t l i k e t o w a t c h himself offstage. He says there have been rare occasions in which t h e c h a o s o f t h e E r i c A n d r e S h o w, now in its fourth season, has m a d e h i m u n e a s y. W h e n h e d o e s a p o d c a s t o r r a d i o i n t e r v i e w, h e never listens after the fact. B u r e s s ’s o n s t a g e c o n t e n t m e n t gets at a fundamental truth about the comedian: he just wants to

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Hannibal Buress, a standup comedian, hails from Chicago. He has acted in sitcoms and sketch shows, has hosted his own programs and even has recorded voice for video games.

tell jokes. In 2014, when Hannibal publicly mused about the untilthen not-as-talked-about alleged s e x u a l m i s c o n d u c t o f B i l l C o s b y, the world memorably exploded. B u r e s s ’s j o k e c r e a t e d a m e d i a maelstrom that resulted in allegations from dozens of women a g a i n s t t h e s i t c o m s t a r, w h o n o w stands trial for aggravated indecent assault in Pennsylvania. To Buress, his Cosby joke was just that: a jest rather than a vigilante grab at the spotlight. “[I was] just talking about what

I t h o u g h t w a s t h e h y p o c r i s y, ” Buress told a nationally syndicated radio host in August. “It was a still a joke, that was just the angle.” When I asked him Thursday about how prominent per formers such as Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr had canceled tour dates in North Carolina this year after the passage of House Bill 2, a controversial anti-LGBT state bill, Buress called the law “ s t u p i d ” a n d “ g o o f y. ” B u t h e a l s o s a i d d o e s n ’t t h i n k p u n i s h i n g h i s fans would do much good.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Buress will be performing in Raleigh this Friday to perform his new act “The Hannibal Montanabal Experience.” He prefers doing live stand-up over writing or performing for recorded shows.

“The people that are coming for my show for the most part weren’t involved in that,” he said. This is not to say Hannibal Buress offers a sanitized, cushy comedy experience. His standup is mostly incisive, sometimes comically harsh observations about the world around him. H e ’s n o t a f r a i d t o r u f f l e f e a t h e r s if those feathers could use a good ruffle. In 2010, in his stand-up album, “My Name Is Hannibal,” Buress, a native of Chicago, has some fun at the expense of another midwestern city. He recounts written criticism from an audience member at one of his shows, who claims Fort Wayne, Ind. has a remarkable comedy venue, “Snickers.” “I wrote her back,” Buress says on the album. “‘You may have a good comedy venue there, but after you leave that show, you still live in Fort Wayne, Ind.” Last Friday, Buress played a show in Fort Wayne, Ind. When I told him Thursday I thought that was rather courageous given his comments, he responded in the classic down-toearth, dr y Hannibal cadence. “There are cities that aren’t great cities, man,” he said. “I’m not saying that Fort Wayne sucks, but I will say that there are some people that live there that think it sucks without a doubt. And you could say that about anywhere.” Buress is a realist when it comes to the state of his craft, too. Even though he’s found a home in comedy, he says he doesn’t think the world needs more comedians. Or rappers, for that matter. “It probably could be dwindled down by at least 40 percent or so,” he said with a laugh. “There’s too many entertainers.” If Buress’s insane comedic output is to believed, though, he thinks we could all use a little more Hannibal.

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You shouldn’t have to wait to watch horror movies until October. There are only so many films you can actually fit into 31 days, and why would you want to wait when we’re in the midst of one of the absolute best decades for new and inventive horror movies since the 1980s? The 2010s are a veritable renaissance of horror, and I’ve curated a list of a few films to start adding to your typical canon. Why wait until October when you can have Spook-tember? “The Neon Demon” (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) The latest opus from the director of “Drive,” one of the best films of the decade so far, “The Neon Demon” is an artsy, giallo-inspired tale of a novice model (played by a never-better Elle Fanning) who realizes that her fellow models may be more than jealous of her beauty—they may want to take it by force. “The Neon Demon” has little in the way of traditional plot, but it’s an indelibly beautiful movie that stages its scares and gore into Goya-esque tableaus. Cliff Martinez’s synth-drenched score, often the most underrated aspect of any good horror movie, creates an ambience of pure dread from the first frame. The film also stars the excellent Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Christina Hendricks and a campy Keanu Reeves. “The Invitation” (Dir. Karyn Kusama, 2016) Have you ever wondered why people turn to cults? How could people take solace in organizations that the

outside world views as creepy and even a little nefarious? “The Invitation’s” titular organization is certainly creepy, though the nature of its ultimate nefariousness remains the driving question of this tense little thriller. An effectively staged one-location film, “The Invitation” tracks a dinner party from hell. The homeowners (played by the riveting Tammy Blanchard and the louche Michel Huisman) have recently joined The Invitation, and they politely entrap their houseguests and try to sell them to their new way of life. However, Blanchard’s ex-husband (Logan Marshall-Green) and his new girlfriend (Emayatzy Corinealdi) sense something wrong. But who’s truly crazy: the insiders or the outsiders? “Darling”(Dir. Mickey Keating, 2015) “Darling” is a simple film, wrapping up in a neat 78 minutes, but it sinks its teeth into the audience from the first scene. For most of its running, the movie solely focuses on Darling, played by Lauren Ashley Carter in an absolutely star-making performance. Tasked with caring for a haunted 19thcentury brownstone in New York City, Darling swiftly falls victim to its spirits and inherent madness, and those who cross paths with her (a smarmy “nice guy” played to the hilt by Brian Morvant and a scene-stealing Sean Young) soon wish they hadn’t. The movie would feel slight if it wasn’t for Carter, who does better acting with merely her saucerwide eyes in 78 minutes than many famous actors have accomplished in a lifetime. Keating’s black-and-white cinematography takes to her like a cat to milk, and the results are spellbinding.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons “Darling” follows a New York City brownstone caretaker’s descent into madness.

“It Follows” (Dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2015) On paper, “It Follows”has the most basic concept out of these recommended films. Hapless teens are stalked by a shape-shifting curse that is passed from person to person after hooking up. Essentially, as one fellow Chronicle staffer so eloquently put it, the titular “it” is a “STDemon.” However, director David Robert Mitchell takes this concept to terrifying extremes. The nebulous demon’s forms range from the mundane to the terrifying, and the film creates master ful jumpscares from merely panning to an unknown person. Could they be a stranger, or a killer? “It Follows” is one of the rare horror movies that maintains its level of horror until the final battle, a pitfall in which lesser films plunge into stupidity or boredom. The tense, pool-set showdown here is arguably the highlight of the whole movie.

“The Babadook” (Dir. Jennifer Kent, 2014) Unlike the other movies on this list, “The Babadook” is Australian. Don’t be fooled, though: the film eschews the creature-feature trappings so overused by Australian horror cinema (do we really need another giant crocodile movie?) for a solemn meditation on motherhood and grief that just so happens to have a frightening, top hat-wearing monster. Essie Davis plays Amelia, a recently widowed mother whose son, Sam (Noah Wiseman), is acting out against his schoolmates and family. One night, she reads him a picture book called “The Babadook” and unleashes its titular monster in their already fragile home. While the movie itself is plenty scary, its horror derives not from the Babadook, but from the unbearable tension between mother and son. Some of the scariest moments in the film result from Sam’s pettiness and Amelia’s reactions, and supernatural forces only heighten the natural drama that arises from such a situation.

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You might be wondering whether television drama has been having an identity crisis over the past few years, or if society is just becoming increasingly entertained with dark, bleak cynicism. It is pretty odd that viewers are tuning into this new genre of humorlessness and tragedy, such as in “The Walking Dead,” “Game of Thrones” or True Detective, over comedy and sitcoms. Why are we tuning into social unrest, political dissatisfaction and grim bleakness over canned laughter, predictable endings and cliché story lines that could leave us with instantaneous pleasure instead of general discontentment? The Golden Globe for Best TV Series in 2016, “Mr. Robot,” which stole our hearts and our time, is no different. It is clear that viewers like myself fell in love with Rami Malek’s eerily captivating portrayal of Elliot, a schizophrenic cyber hacker that attempts to bring down corporations, capitalism and government surveillance from behind his computer screen. Working as a computer programmer at a cybersecurity firm by day and trying to overthrow the firm as a vigilante hacker at night, Elliot means well by turning over child pornography pedophiles and unfaithful spouses from Ashley Madison to the police through his searches. Yet Elliot captures the essence of a true anti hero - grappling with morphine addiction and social discomfort, in the

process of trying to reveal the bad guys, fix the global economy and redistribute the top one percent’s wealth—all from behind his computer. Breaking through the “fourth wall” to speak directly to the audience, Elliot shares an introspective look into his mental fragility and his inherent disconnect from others. He prefers to interact with people by hacking into their social media and email accounts to understand who they are, and while this may be slightly pitiful and creepy, it demonstrates Elliot’s desire for intimacy and his convoluted way of gaining insight. The psychologically troubled antihero is constantly against the “trappings of modernity” but remains infuriated with everything he feels excluded from, leaving him feeling isolated and alone. Elliot frequently shares monologues about his disillusionment with society,

asking questions such as why “we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe it’s that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit. The world itself’s just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of bulls**t masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I’m not saying anything new, we all know why we do this, not because “Hunger Games” books makes us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it’s painful not to pretend, because we’re cowards. F*** society” And while we are more likely to pity Elliot than idolize him, the audience can all inevitably find mutual understanding with him and his authentic moral

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Elliot, played by Rami Malek, is an anti-hero set on overthrowing his cybersecurity firm.

concerns, seeking to connect beyond social media and recognizing our world built on fantasy — brainwashed by “our synthetic emotions in the form of pills, psychological warfare in the form of advertising and mind-altering chemicals in the form of… food!” So no, we might not have social anxiety disorder, schizophrenic hallucinations or be a paranoid recluse like Elliot, but it is obvious that we all can relate to his criticism of mainstream society and disenfranchisement with conformity. So why do we love this show so much? Our love of “Mr. Robot” reflects America’s current climate – we’re unhappy and we want change. Maybe we love this show because no matter where we fall on social or political issues, it is clear we live in a very divisive time, in an election year where it feels like there’s no middle ground in sight and we have no control over our fate, yet Mr. Robot fantasizes the possibility of rebellion amongst such economic and political turmoil. Glorifying anarchy and deconstructing civilization at a time where it feels like we have no control makes “Mr. Robot” irresistibly addicting and inherently authentic. Mr. Robot is essentially a show about societal discomfort and panic, examining what the world would be like if there was a global economic collapse. And while “Mr. Robot’s” dystopia See MR. ROBOT on Page 10

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changes the mix for themed meals. For the most part, though, you’re hearing “College Hits”—the same mix that streams at Cafe Edens, Dame’s Express and parts of the Bryan Center. The Marketplace mix is not without its detractors, however. Some students complained of the lack of variety in the playlist, hearing the same songs repeatedly. Others, like first-year Michael Witte, suggested Marketplace could take notes from another campus eatery: West Union. “In my opinion, it’s not my favorite,” said Witte, who describes himself as “more of an indie rock guy. If they played the same stuff [at Marketplace] that they do in West Union, I would like it a lot better.” Customers at the West Campus eatery find themselves in a soundscape decorated by classic rock tunes and even the chance Radiohead cut. West Union falls outside of the Mood Media umbrella at Duke, which may explain its comparatively eclectic playlist. The soundtrack to a meal at Marketplace is a testament to the simple currency of pop music: it’s accessible, comfortable, familiar. Yet the playlist also raises a question surrounding music’s role in public settings. Should a playlist offer the immediate ease of Top 40 singles, or should it try to challenge and educate listeners, opening their ears to new sounds? Students in Marketplace may hum along as they snatch a slice of pizza, but never will they tilt their phones to the speakers in an attempt to Shazam the current song. They may experience the pleasure of saying, “I know this one,” but rarely will they enjoy the thrill of asking, “What was that one?” Students can give feedback to Marketplace through an online form located under the dining hall’s page on the Student Affairs website. Depending on suggestions, perhaps the playlist will expand its musical palate— or not. Until then, I’ll embrace starting off each day with a dose of Shawn Mendes and scrambled eggs. The Marketplaylist is here to stay.

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exacerbates global inequality and our current reality, it is undeniable that there are underlying truths behind Evil Corp’s depiction of corporate America and where our future lies if we continue down this dark, polarized direction. However, as much as we associate with Elliot or other tortured anti heroes, such as Walter White (“Breaking Bad”), Don Draper (“Mad Men”) or Frank Underwood (“House of Cards”), it is important to cautiously identify with such a cynical and bleak characters. What we watch influences how we think and act, perpetuating like minded behaviors. So as much as we empathize with Elliot and his inability to “see those stupid Marvel movies...join a gym.. heart things on Instagram and drink vanilla lattes,” his cynicism reinforces his isolating nature, perhaps leading us to create a similar environment. So while canned laughter on sitcoms makes me queasy, maybe it isn’t the worst thing to tune into shows like “Friends” or “How I Met Your Mother,” every so often, just to be reminded of living in a world with predictably happy endings; where the bad guys get caught and we are left with the capacity to be optimistic, rather than ruminating in our cynical, bleak pessimism.

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For the second straight week, the Blue Devils will travel to take on a team that, like Duke, is heading in the wrong direction early in the season. After entering the season with College Football Playoff aspirations and a top-10 ranking, Notre Dame is now out of the top 25 and is trying to find its footing following early-season losses to Texas and Michigan State. “Obviously, a bad start to our season, poor start, whatever way you want to characterize it,” Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly said at his weekly press conference Monday. “Three games into the season, nobody wants to be where we are, but we are 1-2. I’m a 1-2 coach.” The road to recovery for one of the most storied programs in college football will begin Saturday when the Fighting Irish host Duke Saturday afternoon in South Bend. The matchup with the Blue Devils will begin a string of three consecutive games for Notre Dame against ACC opponents, with games against Syracuse and N.C. State to follow. But first, the Fighting Irish will have to put a disappointing 36-28 home loss to then-No. 12 Michigan State behind them, in which the team unraveled at the seams, allowing 36 straight points to the Spartans after building an early seven-point lead. Although Notre Dame rallied with

Unlike the Blue Devils, Notre Dame has struggled more with defense in its losses to Michigan State and Texas. Kelly’s team allowed 50 points Week 1 against the Longhorns in a double-overtime loss. After losing their three top tacklers to graduation and having senior safety Max Redfield dismissed following his arrest, the Fighting Irish have been forced to rely on first-year starters across the board.

After making a fourth consecutive bowl game and snapping a 54-year streak without a bowl win in the Pinstripe Bowl against Indiana, Duke’s football program appeared to be turning the corner. In addition to the improved recruiting classes which led to more talent on the field, the Blue Devils’ renaissance led by head coach David Cutcliffe included a renovated stadium, better training facilities and even a new mantra—the “year of the beast”—to emphasize the team’s commitment to getting stronger and faster. But instead of looking like a team on its way to another bowl, the Blue Devils find their season teetering, and the progress they have made to get to this point is in jeopardy. If losing to perennial ACC cellardweller Wake Forest wasn’t enough, Duke’s setback against a Northwestern team that lost to Western Michigan and Illinois State at home was alarming. And perhaps the most striking aspect of the team’s slow start is what lies ahead—road matchups against traditional blueblood Notre Dame, as well as a pair of top-15

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three consecutive touchdowns of its own, the Fighting Irish could not complete the comeback, likely ending the team’s playoff hopes. “We obviously compete unevenly, if you will, in a manner that would probably characterize as we lack a sense of urgency in the way we play,” Kelly said. “We play in spurts. We play really well for a period of time, and then we kind of don’t play at the highest level necessary against really good competition.”

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Thompson game-winner ends Duke’s losing skid Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle On a cloudy evening, Duke’s energy level matched the weather. But despite being flat for much of the game, the Blue Devils broke through in the 88th minute to notch their third win of the season. With graduate student Ryan Thompson’s last-gasp goal in the waning minutes at Koskinen Stadium Tuesday evening, Duke snuck past Georgia Southern 2-1 to get back in the win column 1 for the first time GS DUKE 2 in more than two weeks. The Cary, N.C., native’s first goal of the season came 18 seconds later than junior Brian White’s match-winner when the Blue Devils won at then-No. 9 UCLA Sept. 2. “One of the big things [head coach John] Kerr preaches is being on the weak side whenever the ball gets wide,”

Thompson said. “Once the play was developing and we got the ball down that far side, I knew if I came in on the back post, something might happen.” Offensive chances throughout the evening were few and far between for Duke. Although the Blue Devils outshot Georgia Southern 14-9, Duke (3-2-1) mustered just five shots on goal. Part of the offensive struggles can be attributed to the Eagles’ gameplan—Georgia Southern (3-4-1) pressed throughout the night, utilizing a 4-3-3 formation and a high back line that drew four early offsides calls on the Blue Devils. Some of the blame, though, belongs to a Duke offense that simply struggled to create chances, even when it was able to get the ball into the final third. “We have to fine-tune our offense and get our shots on goal,” Kerr said. “We had some moments where the play was good and we got into the final third, but then See M. SOCCER on Page 13

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Blue Devils look to stay hot in first 2 ACC games Hank Tucker The Chronicle After an up-and-down nonconference slate that ended on a high note, nearly a third of Duke’s roster is about to get its first taste of ACC play. The Blue Devils are set to host Wake Forest in their Wake conference opener Forest Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. vs. at Cameron Indoor Duke Stadium before traveling to Charlottesville, Va., WEDNESDAY, 6:30 p.m. to take on Virginia at Cameron Indoor Stadium Memorial Gymnasium Saturday at 7 p.m. Duke’s young team finished Duke an inconsistent month vs. of nonconference play with two straight wins Virginia last weekend, but the most important part of SATURDAY, 7 p.m. Memorial Gymnasium the season still lies in front of the Blue Devils. “We graduated five experienced players and we have five new freshmen, so I think there’s a little bit of a difference there,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “There’s going to be a learning curve ahead for us.” Freshmen Jamie Stivers and Cindy Marina are two of just three players that started all 10 nonconference matches for the Blue Devils (6-4), and freshman

outside hitter Samantha Amos got her first career start in Saturday’s win against UNC-Wilmington, finishing with nine kills. Underclassmen have been responsible for more than 300 of Duke’s 531 kills this season, but senior Jordan Tucker still leads the team with 109. Tucker is one of the few major contributors left from last year’s team that finished the regular season on a tear, winning nine of its final 12 conference games. “It would be nice to be able to build on that from last season, but I just think this team has worked hard to develop since the end of that season into kind of a new team,” Nagel said. “This team has a different court personality. I think they have a different relationship as teammates as well, so I don’t know if we can carry that [success] over.” Tucker and Duke’s three other seniors have never lost to Wake Forest (4-7) in their careers, and the Blue Devils will try to extend their winning streak against the Demon Deacons to eight Wednesday. Like Duke, Wake Forest will have several new faces to prepare for. Freshman Caroline Rassenfoss is second on the team in kills with 153, just behind junior Kylie Long’s 172. Redshirt junior Bailey Shurbet is also new to the Demon Deacons after transferring from Kansas State, and is their top setter with 323 assists. Wake Forest started the season slow

with just one win in its first six matches, but it has started to show improvement in the last two weeks, winning three of its last five contests. “We’re familiar with a couple players, but they’re going to look quite a bit different than they did last year,” Nagel said. “We’re just trying to educate our team and familiarize them through videotape and everything. That’s all we have to go on.” After the rare mid-week game, the Blue Devils will have plenty of time to rest before making their first ACC road trip of the year to Virginia (3-9). Duke got some road experience against Long Beach State and Loyola Marymount in a tournament in California in nonconference play, though it lost to both teams. The Cavaliers are mired in a seven-game losing streak, but played a very challenging nonconference schedule that included seven power-conference teams. Five of Virginia’s seven losses during its string of futility have been sweeps, and it squandered a two-set lead and a pair of match points against the College of Charleston its last time out. Although the Cavaliers beat Duke last year early in conference play, they lost three of their four players that reached doubledigit kills in that match. Their top returner is senior Haley Kole, who leads Virginia with 120 kills this season and is second on the team with 1.5 digs per set. Just two Cavaliers have more than two

SCOUTING from page 11 The struggles have shown in a big way— Notre Dame has allowed more than 500 yards of total offense in both of its losses. Although the Fighting Irish have their share of playmakers, the team has only forced three turnovers so far this season. “I don’t know how much you can keep pushing that envelope in terms of how many first-year players do you put out on that field against outstanding competition,” Kelly said. For a Blue Devil team that has struggled in its own right on the ground, Saturday’s contest against the Fighting Irish may be the opportunity head coach David Cutciffe is looking for to jumpstart running backs Jela Duncan and Shaun Wilson. Duke will also have a chance to turn around its struggle on special teams against Notre Dame, which made a few massive blunders of its own in the loss to the Spartans. The Fighting Irish had a kickoff return touchdown called back due to a penalty and also botched a punt in the second quarter that turned the game around. “I like the energy in the group. I like their investment in it in terms of—I don’t have to beg anybody to be on these teams,” Kelly said. “A few years ago, it was like we had to pay them to be on special teams. So I like where they’re going. We’ve got to clean up some of those unfortunate mistakes.” But the area where Notre Dame will have a decided advantage against the Blue Devils will be on offense. Although Duke’s defense has held strong without much help

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kills per set, and the team has combined for 239 attack errors—resulting in a subpar .153 hitting percentage. Despite not starting the season on the right foot, Virginia is 2-1 on its home floor and will be playing at home this weekend for the first time in September. “Virginia and Duke—we’re similar schools, unlike some of the other schools in the ACC,” Nagel said. “Our team is going to be excited to be on our first kind of road trip, traveling with our favorite bus driver on the bus to the game…. We’ll give it our best shot.” from its offense through the first three weeks, the Blue Devils will go up against an explosive Fighting Irish attack spearheaded by junior quarterback DeShone Kizer— who has nine passing touchdowns and four rushing touchdowns this season. Kizer’s strength running the ball— something Duke struggled to defend against Wake Forest’s Kendall Hinton earlier this season—makes him especially lethal. Combining the quarterback with the talented duo of Josh Adams and Tarean Folston in the backfield gives Notre Dame a number of options to attack the Blue Devil defense. With the Fighting Irish having the superior talent on the field, Duke will need to find a way to force turnovers. To do that, the Blue Devils will need another strong performance from their secondary, particularly cornerback Breon Borders, the active leader among all FBS players with 12 interceptions. Kelly said Borders caught his eye on tape, but Duke will have its hands full with a trio of wideouts averaging more than 50 receiving yards per game. “They’ve played a very difficult schedule. They’re extremely talented in all phases,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said Tuesday. “Offensively, their front is just outstanding. Their quarterback has got incredible skills. They have the players in place, so it’s a huge challenge to go on the road and play them, but it’s a huge opportunity for our team.” With both teams in danger of falling 1-3, Saturday’s contest could be the difference between a second-half recovery or a season to forget for both programs. Ben Feder contributed reporting.

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PANDHARE from page 11 teams in Louisville and Miami. That’s not to mention road tilts at Coastal Division rivals Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech and a Thursday night game against North Carolina, which has outscored its Tobacco Road rival 111-50 in the last two meetings. At this point, the problems facing the Blue Devils are apparent, but the solutions simply don’t appear to be in sight. Starting quarterback Thomas Sirk isn’t walking back onto the field anytime soon, and my preseason prediction of 20 passing touchdowns for Daniel Jones—he has two through three games—makes me look borderline insane. For every Duke positive, such as linebacker Joe Giles-Harris’ strong start on defense, there seems to be a matching negative, such as the struggle to find consistency at tight end and wide receiver. The issue that should leave fans most worried is the trouble the Blue Devils have had in the trenches. The best programs in the country excel on both the offensive and defensive lines, and although I won’t confuse Duke with Alabama anytime soon, it would be a change to see running backs Shaun Wilson or Jela Duncan not run into an apparent brick wall of defenders on seemingly every carry. Combine the team’s struggles with a tough schedule, and the result is a team that’s only favored by ESPN’s Football Power Index to win two games the rest of the season—home contests against Virginia and Army. Even the Army game is expected to be close, with FPI giving the Blue Devils a 52 percent chance to win.

It is for this reason that the next nine games for Duke may be some of the most crucial in program history. Although the Blue Devils have attracted three- and four-star recruits away from in-state powerhouses in recent years, the program will have a tough time continuing to do so if it can’t stay competitive against conference opponents the rest of this season. Nonconference games against Notre Dame this year and Baylor in 2017 and 2018 will certainly attract attention to Duke football, but getting blown out in them may be worse than simply scheduling a few cupcake opponents. The Blue Devils’ effort to turn the season around faces a looming time constraint. With the footsteps of Duke men’s basketball creeping up from behind, the Blue Devils will have to show improved play on the field in the coming weeks before all eyes and ears turn to the hardwood. Of course, no one will mix the importance of men’s basketball and football on Duke’s campus, but renovations to Wallace Wade Stadium haven’t exactly paid major dividends in terms of fan engagement and attendance at games so far this fall. The remainder of the season also holds plenty of importance for Cutcliffe—better known as the magician that led the Blue Devils to 48 wins in his first eight seasons. Cutcliffe has stressed his desire to continue the transformation of Duke football, and after signing an extension through June 2019, it is unlikely that the head coach would be on the move anytime soon. But one has to wonder how things may change if the likes of Auburn, LSU or even Oklahoma— all traditional powers that might have openings if their struggles continue—come

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calling this offseason. In many ways, the difference between 5-7 and 3-9 will never be more significant, even though the end result is the same— the Blue Devils missing out on a bowl game. Squeeze out five wins and the season looks like a rebuilding one that the program can bounce back from. But fall in the three or four-win range, or even worse, and it becomes possible that the new Duke football takes a major step back. The first three weeks of the season have been far from what some imagined, even considering the loss of many important seniors and Sirk. But this is where the Blue Devils find themselves, and how they respond could change the course of the program.

Moser played just 38 minutes—his fewest this season— with freshman forward Colby Agu playing only 25 and rookie midfielder Brandon Williamson failing to see action for the first time this season. And although freshman Suniel Veerakone has made his mark offensively so far with two goals and an assist, the other Blue Devil newcomers have struggled to make an impact in the team’s early games. “It’s not easy because now it’s a big step up, both physically and mentally,” Kerr said. “Now they’re playing against guys that are three or four years older than them and with a lot more experience.” Georgia Southern’s only first-half shot on goal came on what nearly proved to be a game-deciding mistake by Duke defender Kevon Black. The 6-foot junior attempted to head a free kick out of bounds, but instead from page 11 headed it past Blue Devil goalkeeper Robert Moewes, leveling the game at one apiece the last pass or the last run wasn’t there, so before halftime. Luckily for Duke, Moewes came to play in we need to really work on that.” the second half as the Eagles peppered him Much of the first half saw both sides with shots throughout the final 45 minutes. pushing the ball forward, then failing to The Dortmund, Germany, native made five create any real pressure on goal. The teams second-half saves, including two critical combined for only eight shots and just stops that provided his team with the spark two corner kicks in the first period. Duke, it needed to make one last push and eke out however, was able to take an early lead a victory. Moewes entered the game tied for when Thompson looped a cross into the third in the ACC with 22 saves. Eagle box, finding the right foot of junior “Rob’s a good example of [bringing defender Markus Fjortoft, who volleyed it constant energy,]” Kerr said. “He stepped home for his first goal of the season. up and he’s ready for it. Our guys, at “I always like to be an offensively-minded moments, looked really sharp and really defender,” Fjortoft said. “That’s a way for good. But we have to execute and we have me to set myself apart and that’s how I like to put teams away.” to play. They were pretty deep tonight and it With the win, Duke now has the gave me a lot of space and I love that.” opportunity to carry momentum into Kerr added a wrinkle to his starting The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation Friday’s home matchup with Pittsburgh— lineup Tuesday evening, starting junior 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 both sides will be looking to earn their first midfielder NoahForSnyder in place of Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 ACC win of the season. freshman Max Moser. For ReleaseWednesday, Tuesday, September For Release September20, 21,2016 2016

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arlier this year, the long-awaited West Union finally opened to students. Although there is certainly room to admire the beauty of West Union, in light of the almost $90 million cost of constructing the building, today we aim to critique certain negatives of the new glass box. First of all, on a positive note, we acknowledge that West Union is a valuable contribution to our campus. The building, with its slew of long tables and its thirteen centrally located eateries, provides a place for students to congregate, allowing for the construction of a more centralized West Campus community, similar to how Marketplace provides a centralized location for the first-year to come together in on East Campus. Meeting and study spaces ensure that West Union is a hub even outside of mealtimes. Additionally, with regards to food, West Union offers a level of variety that was unavailable before its construction. That said, there are critiques to be made of West Union and its impacts. First, in rolling out West Union and its new vendors, the administration has limited the availability of other food choices: food trucks have been relegated away from the main quad and Merchant-on-Points hours have been

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limited; additionally, the vast majority of campus food outlets have been concentrated into a single space. All of this has limited food flexibility for students. For example, because of Merchant-onPoints changes, a student sick in bed cannot order meals until 8 p.m.; similarly, a student living on Central who wishes to dine early must now choose between taking a bus to West Campus just to have a meal and eating Dame’s for dinner. Students who are far from the main quad for other reasons, such

Editorial as commitments in Durham, also need to go out of their way just to get food, or wait until 8 to eat. As food flexibility has decreased, food prices seem to have risen. That’s incredibly unfortunate: costly meals are unaffordable for many people on our campus—from budget-minded graduate students to non-tenured staff to undergraduates on meal plan A to East Campus RAs with low allotments of food points. Since West Union’s opening has coincided with a reduction in the number of non-affiliated eateries, it is now quite hard to find a cheap meal. Although we

recognize that West Union vendors must turn profits, we strongly hold that students and staff should not have to choose between eating less and overspending because of high prices. In critiquing high prices, it is hard to ignore the fact that students have essentially been funneled into West Union through the centralization of eateries at Duke, and that Duke enjoys a financial benefit to the tune of 17.2% of vendor profits from each student that dines at West Union. Duke is not alone in profiting from dining options—many other private schools do. The key difference with Duke lies in the fact that Duke undergraduates are required to live a significant portion of their four years on campus and as such, are constrained to dine on university meal plans, guaranteeing the university a source of continued revenue. Since students have little agency in the choice to buy a food plan, we urge them to question whether Duke should be profiting from their purchase or whether their profits might be better used as a subsidy to lower prices. In the end, although we appreciate the new West Union, we believe that students should question any downsides to the $90 million investment and always consider how dining could be better.

True manhood

he state of manhood within American society is progressively becoming a crisis. Although fascinating reports and opinions regarding the U.S. 2016 election are rolling in like a flash flood and consuming our attention, there are other developments that likewise deserve our notice. Nearly three weeks ago the U.S. Federal Reserve released a statement indicating that “the economy has returned to near-full employment,” with an unemployment rate at around 4.9 percent. On the surface, this appears to be great news for our country and its citizens; yet it is only half the story. In order to grasp what is truly taking place within the American workforce, it is imperative to understand what the term “employment” really means. “Unemployment,” according to Investopedia, is “the percentage of the total labor force that is unemployed but actively seeking employment and willing to work.” As a statistic, this is

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what men should distinctly be like. As King Solomon once wrote, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” For lack of a true vision of whom they should become, millions of guys within our generation are deluded by “fake war” and “fake love.” “Fake” war can be easily identified as living vicariously through digital media such as video games, but it can extend to fighting any battle that doesn’t have lasting worth. “Fake” war involves passivity in the areas of our lives that truly matter and which have eternal ramifications. The premise of “real” war, meanwhile, is a rejection of passivity, a recognition of what is at stake and an assumption of responsibility for what happens. A “real” war involves a fight—laboring and striving towards a goal against internal and external foes. Fighting a real war requires courage, which G. K. Chesterton defines as “almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

DEEP MAGIC measured out of the total American workforce, which is the sum of those who are employed and unemployed. Notably, it neglects to consider those who are able to work and are not actively seeking a job. Outside the scope of the “4.9 percent,” Nicholas Eberstadt, writing for the Wall Street Journal, calculates a “male jobs deficit” of about “10 million, even after taking into account an older population and more adults in college.” This includes 7 million males who are aged 25-54, which comprise “the traditional prime of working life.” According to Eberstadt, as many as 9 out of 10 of these males are not pursuing forms of education to improve their circumstances, but are engaging in full time leisure. This couples with another shocking statistic from the Pew Research Center, which indicates that young males aged 18-34 are “are now more likely to live with a parent than to live with a spouse or partner.” Although it does not comprise the majority of living arrangements, “living with a parent” is the most common living arrangement for males in this age category at a staggering 35 percent. Also trending sky-high in the past decade is the ubiquity of pornography and its endemic use by adolescent males. A report by the Barna Research Group finds that 67 percent of male teens and young adults regularly use porn, which is a far greater proportion than that of any other demographic. Viewing pornography is also becoming increasingly morally acceptable amongst this demographic, despite the overwhelming evidence that it is harmful to romantic relationships and marriages, severely detrimental to the male psyche and rampantly degrading of women. An increasing proportion of males is not thriving in America--this much is clear. The modern political left has become so fervent to extinguish complementarianism—the idea that men and women are equal in significance and value and yet also unique--that it has forsaken vital standards for

“Fake” love is free and boundless; along these lines a man can simultaneously love everyone and no one. Consumption of pornography certainly falls into this category, though many of our relationships do as well. Real love, on the other hand, involves a covenantal relationship and a readiness to sacrifice; it has a cost. As Jesus commanded His disciples, “Love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” This is directly mirrored in the way that we as men are to approach romantic relationships. As Paul writes of Jesus, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ [Jesus] loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Truly loving someone, via Paul, means counting that person as not merely equal, but as “more significant” than yourself. Real war and real love are tied together into what may be called “servant leadership.” This seems to be paradox of terms, and rightly so. “Leadership” brings to mind the idea of taking charge and directing everyone else around you, while “servant” implies being under someone’s charge else and performing duties for that person. To embody both these terms at once is to be a humble and selfless doer, an influencer and empowerer who lives foremost for what is ultimate and thus also for what is eternal. This is the call for every man. Anything less isn’t worth your time or your soul. As you, like every other human being, continue to change, mature and develop, ask yourself: “Who am I becoming?” Exemplifying true manhood doesn’t come easily, and it certainly doesn’t happen by simply “being ourselves.” It requires an objective standard and a person to whom we conform our character. This is where the internal “war” begins. So don’t just be yourself. Be like the ultimate man. Be like Jesus. Addison Merryman is a Trinity senior. His column, “deep magic,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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‘The West Wing’ rewritten

ne night during the first week of classes, I was walking back to my dorm in Edens, trying not to think about the litany of readings and problem sets I’d be assigned in the coming weeks. As I passed a common room with walls of glass, I glanced in and saw Dule Hill’s likeness on a television. Those in the room were watching “The West Wing.” I paused for a moment and smiled before quickly moving along so as to avoid looking like a character from

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Jeff Sessions, literally wrote the handbook that helped kill a 2014 bipartisan deal on comprehensive immigration reform— what would have been a step forward from gridlock. Miller is clearly confident in his moral and political infallibility. In fact, when John Burness—visiting professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy—was asked about Miller for a recent Towerview article, he noted the Trump advisor’s “unwillingness to listen to a viewpoint that wasn’t his.”

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“Rear Window.” I had smiled not because I liked “The West Wing”—I hadn’t even seen it—but because growing up, I loved Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator. I maintain that “The Social Network”—for which Sorkin won a screenplay Oscar—is about as close as you can get to technical perfection, and I stuck it out through all three seasons of “The Newsroom.” Even so, I never watched “The West Wing.” Maybe I thought it was too mainstream— that my fandom would suddenly be unexceptional if I bought into the massacclaim surrounding the show. Then recently, as I was googling Duke’s fictional graduates, I came across Sam Seaborn—the deputy communications director of the fictional Bartlet administration. He is a graduate of Duke Law and a primary player during the first four seasons of “The West Wing.” I quickly read about the character and watched a couple episodes of the show. My assessment was simple: Sam Seaborn is whip-smart and a consummate idealist. No matter your politics, the passion with which he approaches public service is admirable. Sorkin likes to make his characters earn that designation of whip-smart, chiefly through verbal sparring matches with bigots and ideologues. The rhetorical adversaries of “The West Wing” almost always relent or falter quickly. Staffers’ debates gravitate towards sermonizing as Sorkin’s heroes are inspired by the righteousness of gun control and universal healthcare; it’s liberal wish fulfillment of the highest order. And for those who abhorred the presidency of George W. Bush in real time, “The West Wing” provided a palatable version of our “city upon a hill.” If the “eyes of all people” couldn’t be averted, maybe, with the help of some rapid-fire dialogue, Sorkin could find us something pretty to look at. It’s hard to imagine how Sam Seaborn might react to the pushback of a real conservative pundit or staffer rather than what Scott Meslow refers to as Sorkin’s “straw men,” ready to be knocked down. What would a verbal sparring match between a member of the Bartlet administration and Stephen Miller, advisor to Donald Trump, look like? Miller—who’s a Duke graduate— might be understandably mistaken for one of Sorkin’s “straw men.” His hateful rhetoric and convoluted interpretations of clear statistical evidence would, in the world of “The West Wing,” make him an excellent target for rhetorical firing practice. In reality, Miller is paid to never admit defeat. Earlier this year, while opening for Trump, Miller proclaimed, “Everything that is wrong with this country today, the people who are opposed to Donald Trump are responsible for!” That’s quite an abdication of responsibility for someone who, as communications adviser to Senator

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A straight invitation to Gay Pride

he largest protest Duke University has seen in an entire year is scheduled for Saturday. The North Carolina LGBTQ Pride festival is coming to East Campus, and in 2016, that is still radical. It doesn’t take much digging through the university archives to figure out why. Fifty years ago, you would have been expelled from Duke for being gay. Forty years ago, you would have received an email from Duke President Terry Sanford

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is less guidance about all of the subtle moments in between. This Saturday, good allyship is more clear-cut. You should attend NC Pride. Attend not because it will be the most fun you have on Saturday, but also because, at least this weekend, it will be the most important thing you do. This is your formal invitation— extended for the reason that we need you. And we need you in ways you may not have yet realized.

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Although “The West Wing” is centered more on the triumphs of its progressive heroes than bipartisan compromise, members of the Bartlet administration still recognize that opposing viewpoints are vital to the political process. As Leo McGarry— the fictional White House chief of staff— notes, “statesmanship is compromise.” All-encompassing blame is too easy and doesn’t lend itself to the dense dialogue Sorkin likes. In fact, it seems to me that the reason people love “The West Wing” is that its characters make us feel optimistic; they labor under the weight of their task but never seem completely disillusioned; it’s like Sisyphus got some friends and they actually started to make some progress. Before this starts to sound like heroworship, I should note that I don’t consider Sorkin himself a liberal hero. For example, despite all his progressive dialogue, women are often poorly rendered or underrepresented in his work—his scripts are a series of boys’ clubs. In “The West Wing,” Sam Seaborn—the ultra-idealist—even tells a female colleague wearing formal attire that she “could make a good dog break his leash.” It’s an awful comment from one of the shows most ostensibly righteous heroes. Sorkin’s work is plagued by a glaring focus on the ultra-competent men of his stories and the women go to the wayside—I think of a particularly cringeworthy scene from “The Newsroom” in which a young producer working on a piece about sexual assault reasons he has a moral obligation to believe the accused rapist rather than a female rape victim. The problem with a political television show written by one person is that the dissenting voices feel so half-hearted. The fact that I often agree with what the heroes are saying makes it palatable, but I’m sure I’d find it difficult to sit through a version of “The West Wing” written by Stephen Miller. In some ways, Sorkin’s treatment of conservative characters—as well as women and people of color—reminds me of a quote from John Stuart Mill: “A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. When we diminish those with which we cannot identify or reduce them to “straw men”—in a teleplay or a stump speech— we do a disservice to ourselves by failing to carefully consider opposing viewpoints constructively or render a realistic portrait of the human condition. Whatever our message is, it’s incomplete. Jake Parker is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “thinking too much, feeling too little,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

justifying his decision to exclude sexual orientation and gender identity from the university’s nondiscrimination policy. Thirty years ago, you would have read in The Chronicle about DSG revoking the charter of the undergraduate LGBTQ group for its “promotion of homosexuality.” Ten years ago, you wouldn’t see, let alone hang, a pride flag over a West Campus dorm room window. Five years ago, you would have to peer over a fence to spot the LGBTQ Center in the basement of the old West Union. Four years ago, you would struggle to find a class on LGBTQ identity on ACES. And at this time last year, you certainly wouldn’t know of “HB2.” Yet, on Saturday afternoon, East Campus will not look like a protest -- it may even look like a party. But to many in the LGBTQ community, Pride feels like a riot. To understand Gay Pride, we must first understand something about shame. When people attack queer folk—when they terrorize nightclubs, pass homophobic laws, etch death threats on dorm room walls and make cheap jokes—they teach a version of toxic shame that instructs queer people that an immutable characteristic is cause for inferiority: that queer people should live in silence, that they should obscure who they are. So, for queer communities, unapologetic authenticity is the highest form of rebellion. Glitter, not pitchforks, is Pride’s most potent tool of protest. The Stonewall uprising—our most famous civil rights moment, our first Pride—happened at a bar. It was neither polite nor solemn. It was lead by trans women of color. It was drunk, and there were sequins. And this weekend, our response to indignity is, again, to throw a party. To wear ridiculous outfits. To blast music. To acknowledge a society whose disapproval works to deny moments of self-expressive joy, but to choose to dance and love and smile anyway. But unlike most parties at Duke, Pride isn’t closed. Unlike most parties at Duke, guests are not merely welcome—they are critical. Allies matter for Pride. Last year wasn’t especially easy for queer folks at Duke. But it also wasn’t easy for allies. There is no instruction manual for effective allyship. And while there is good advice about what to do during the big moments—when a friend comes out, or when we encounter homophobia—there

We need allies at Pride because, when allies show up, closeted and questioning students can find community at lower personal risk. For a questioning student listening to the sounds of the parade from their East Campus dorm room, walking alone to the festival is not merely courageous. It is herculean. When allies come to Pride—when they invite their friends—they make Pride accessible for those who may need it most. There are few things more powerful than introducing someone to the people with whom they share a history for the first time. We need allies at Pride because, when allies show up, queer folk know who they can lean on. Take Duke’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Bryan Center as an example. The CSGD is important in large part because it affirms that resources, staff, peers and support are available to queer and questioning students. But for many LGBTQ students at Duke, it’s easier and more powerful to know which of your friends will give you support themselves. For an ally to post a photo from Pride to Facebook is more than an act of self-indulgence. It can be an act of radical visibility, of community love. Allyship is only useful if it’s evident to others, and it is good news that it isn’t difficult to make yourself known. And we need allies at Pride because, when allies show up, the volume gets louder. The crowds get bigger. The message gets amplified. And more people get reached. If there is one additional person who sees a message of equality, one more passerby that catches sight of the parade, one more Newsfeed that is populated by a message of LGBTQ dignity, one more person who is moved to challenge an assumption about queer identity, then your attendance will have been worth it. So this is an invitation. It is an invitation to you, the football player in the mid-calves with the coupon to Sports Clips; to you, the sorority girl with the southern drawl and the long-term boyfriend; to you, the Kinseyzero with a paper due on Monday and a lingering skepticism that your presence is really, really needed. This is an invitation for all of you to join us. You are invited to our protest. And you can definitely stay for our party. Tanner Lockhead is a Trinity senior. His column, “not straight talk,” usually runs on alternate Mondays.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS SEPTEMBER 21-28, 2016

Project Orfeo

Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 4:00pm Baldwin Auditorium Novelist Richard Powers (“The Time of our Singing” and “The Echomaker”) joins Duke faculty composer Scott Lindroth, the Horszowski Piano Trio, clarinetist Benjamin Fingland, flutist Laura Gilbert and Duke faculty violist Jonathan Bagg in a mixed-media concert that combines readings from Powers’ 2014 novel “Orfeo” with performances of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, and the premiere a new Lindroth composition. The mixed-media event will weave probing and eloquent passages from “Orfeo” around performances of both compositions, placing them in the context of the novel’s central topic, the search for a revelatory new musical language for our time. Free for students; General admission $10

SCREEN/SOCIETY FILM: “THE BOY AND THE BEAST” Wednesday, September 21 7pm Richard White Auditorium

OPEN AUDITIONS FOR DUKE PLAYERS FALL SHOW Thursday, Sept. 22 & Friday, Sept. 23 5-7pm Brody Theater, Branson Bldg

“THE JEMIMA CODE” EXHIBIT OPEN AT CDS Thursday, Sept. 22-Saturday, Nov. 5 9am-5pm Center for Documentary Studies

WORDS & MUSIC: A CONVERSATION ABOUT “PROJECT ORFEO” Friday, September 23 12pm Old Chemistry 011

MUSIC: SONGS IN THE NIGHT Saturday, September 24 8pm East Duke 201 (Nelson Music Room)

NASHER PRESENTS MODERN ART NOTES PODCAST LIVE: TYLER GREEN AND XAVIERA SIMMONS Monday, September 26, 2pm nasher.duke.edu

2016 NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL—”MIRAR MORIR: EL EJERCITO EN LA NOCHE DE IGUALA” Monday, September 26, 7pm White Lecture Hall

GUAC & TALK Wednesday, September 28 6-7:30pm Devil’s Krafthouse

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost of the Arts.