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‘The Coastal Division now runs through Durham’ Duke stings Yellow Jackets in 34-20 win

Khloe Kim and Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Led by strike safety Jeremy Cash and linebacker Dwayne Norman, the Blue Devils held one of the most efficient rushing attacks in the nation to 2.7 yards per carry.

Nick Martin The Chronicle Playing under grey, rainy Durham skies, Duke found its footing early and upset Georgia Tech to capture back-to-back wins against the Yellow Jackets for the first time since 1988. The Blue Devils took down No. 20 Georgia Tech Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium 34-20. Thanks to numerous big plays from a pair of defensive studs and consistent gritty interior play, Duke held the Yellow Jackets to 173 yards on the ground and tacked on a pair of monster returns on special teams to secure its first conference victory of the season. “The line of scrimmage was vicious. It was no place for children out there,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Our defense was flying around. You can hear it. I don’t always hear it in a game, but you could hear the line of scrimmage.

Our guys did a great job of attacking that offense.” In a game of the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object, the immovable object won. The Blue Devil defense, namely its front seven, stole the show throughout the game. Georgia Tech (2-2, 0-1 in the ACC) entered the game as the top-ranked rushing offense in the nation, and Duke (3-1,1-0) entered with a defense that allowed just 2.7 yards per rush. Safety Jeremy Cash and linebacker Dwayne Norman led the way for the defense, as the duo consistently wrecked havoc in the Georgia Tech backfield and combined for 21 tackles—including 5.5 for loss. “We just wanted to play a complete game,” Cash said. “Last week, we saw that the defense stumbled a little bit toward the end of the game, so we came out with the mindset that we weren’t going to let that happen again.”

Norman came up big, most notably on third and fourth down throughout the game, as he stuffed Yellow Jacket running back Marcus Marshall and quarterback Justin Thomas many times by the time the final horn sounded. He also stopped an attempted reverse by Georgia Tech on second down in the third quarter, knocking the Yellow Jackets back 10 yards in the process. “About halfway, I was running back, and something looked a little funny—then the receiver popped up,” Norman said. “In my mind, I just knew reverse. I almost missed him, but thankfully, I got him.” And while the defense was out holding the No. 1 rushing offense in the nation to less than half of its season average, the offense—coming off a forgettable performance against Northwestern— did more than enough to both show improvement from a week ago and secure the Blue Devils’ third win of the season. After going 3-of-17 on third down

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conversions against the Wildcats, Duke stepped up on the crucial downs Saturday, opening the game 3-of-3 on third down and finishing 6-of-16. Despite stumbling on the first drive of the game with a fumble that led to a Georgia Tech 52-yard field goal, Blue Devil quarterback Thomas Sirk bounced back quickly, tossing for 100 yards and a score to freshman wide receiver T.J. Rahming on 11-of-16 passing in the first half. One of the more welcome sights for the Duke fans that made the rainy trek to Wallace Wade came at the end of the first quarter, when Sirk roped a well-placed strike over the shoulder of senior receiver Max McCaffrey for a 32-yard gain. “We knew we had to be more successful on offense,” Sirk said. “We knew that we had to execute higher on third downs. We had to get the ball moving. We can’t go three-and-out, three-and-out. We have

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member of the Human Rights Campaign, which works to achieve equality for LGBTQ Americans. “Marriage was a great thing for us The Chronicle to acquire, but we’re not slowing down.” The North Carolina Pride Parade She noted that her organization and Festival took place Saturday on is working to support statewide and Duke’s East Campus to promote and nationwide initiatives that promote celebrate LGBTQ pride. LGBTQ-inclusive policies in workplaces The 31st annual festival was the and schools. highlight of a pride-filled weekend Senior Tyler Nelson, president of Blue in Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. Devils United, said the main purpose of Events included a parade on West the festival is to build a social community. Main Street—which featured floats, He noted that the visibility of the LBGTQ including one built by Duke’s Center cause, brought to the forefront by the for Sexual and Gender Diversity—and festival, allows the community to set an the third annual 5K run, in addition to agenda for future goals. food trucks and tents selling rainbow“We want to expand what Duke knows colored apparel. Festival attendees as gay or queer,” he said. “This year, we wore brightly colored outfits and have more diversity than ever...we have recited chants, celebrating the June people identifying with brand new identity Supreme Court decision to legalize markers, which is both empowering and same-sex marriage but also noting that awesome.” there is more work to be done. Although the festival brought together “Last year, the focus was on marriage equality primarily,” said Cara Marel, a See PRIDE on Page 12

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Chinese author Yan Lianke gave a talk at the John Hope Franklin Center Friday. The topic of censorship is especially relevant at Duke because of its campus in Kunshan, China.

Jessica Williams | The Chronicle The 31st annual N.C. Pride Parade and Festival on East Campus featured floats, a 5K run, food trucks and tents selling rainbow-colored apparel.

Claire Ballentine The Chronicle For Chinese author Yan Lianke, the chance to speak openly about the censorship of his work is a rare occasion. Yan—one of China’s most celebrated authors—gave a talk entitled “Literature and Censorship in Contemporary China” Friday at the John Hope Franklin Center. The recipient of the 2014 Franz Kafka Prize, Yan’s most famous books include “Dream of Ding Village,” “The Four Books” and “Serve the People!” With the aid of a translator, he discussed the political, social and cultural dimensions of censorship in China and recounted the personal experiences of his own works being censored. “Politics determines everything, so our language and literature is determined by politics,” he said. Yan noted that he has experienced many rejections in his career because

editors feared that his writing would cause controversy. Although he put great emotion into his work, he said he was rejected nine out of 10 times. Eventually, he realized that if he wrote something of quality, it would be published— adding that he is now “the champion of receiving rejections.” His success in getting his work published largely depended on outside conditions such as China’s political leadership, he said. Prior to 1989—the year of the Tiananmen Square tragedy— he thrived in the literary scene, but the instability in the following years resulted in stricter censorship, especially when he attempted to write about poverty in Chinese villages. “Even though a writer may just be a speck, in China your literary fate is closely tied to the larger political atmosphere,” he said. His novel “Lenin’s Kisses”—which

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Subcontractor’s Marriott protests drawing student support Elizabeth Djinis The Chronicle For the past three months, Isaac Perez, 38, has spent almost every afternoon protesting outside the Marriott Residence Inn Durham McPherson near East Campus. Most days, at around 5 p.m., he and his wife and six children line the block around the hotel facing West Main Street, waving signs that read “The workers that worked here didn’t get paid” and “Does justice even exist?” A few cars honk their support for the workers, but many cruise by, oblivious to the protesters. But Perez is trying to bring more attention to his plight. “I will not stop no matter what,” Perez said. Perez worked on the hotel’s wallpaper this past year as a subcontractor of the Indiana-based firm SLP Enterprises. But he soon hit a roadblock when the company, Perez alleged, asked him to sign a waiver stating he would accept $5,500 instead of the additional $30,000 he was owed. Perez refused to sign. Now Perez claims that he is owed at least $30,000 from the company on top of the $30,000 they have already paid him, and that SLP Enterprises owes more than $250,000 to at least 12 other subcontractors. SLP Enterprises could not be reached for comment, but the company’s project manager Robert Sanchez told The News and Observer Aug. 3 that Perez’s team did not finish their work or fix their mistakes, which they were asked to do before being paid the additional $30,000. Representatives from the Marriott Residence Inn did not respond to requests

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Duke students have gotten involved with a subcontractor’s protests outside the Marriott Residence Inn near East Campus.

for comment. On Sep. 11, SLP Enterprises filed a lawsuit against Perez with an Oct. 2 court date, Perez said. Perez said the hotel has not taken any action against him but has asked him to stop protesting outside the building. “That doesn’t scare me,” Perez said. “I’m still fine.” Perez has also started a petition on Moveon.org. The document’s addressees

include Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott International; Mark Laport, president and CEO of Concord Hospitality, the company that owns the Durham hotel as a franchise; and Richard Blaylock, district director for the U.S. Department of Labor. As of Sunday, the petition had 3,325 signatures. The online petition lists 4,000 as the goal. Residents of Durham are not the only

ones who have taken notice of Perez’s efforts. Because of the hotel’s proximity to East Campus, the protests have captured the attention of Duke students. Sophomore Mohamad Chamas said he met Perez in June. Now he is trying to help Perez’s efforts by getting more student involvement. He organized a protest last Friday that was rained out, but is hoping to hold another one soon. Another student at one of Perez’s protests, sophomore Helena Janulis, noted how learning about Perez’s situation has forced her out of the “Duke bubble.” “As Duke students, we lose sight of things that happen around us,” Janulis said. “These people are out here every single day. I’ll be worrying, ‘Oh my God, I have a test tomorrow.’ This is a wake-up call.” Senior Santiago Bejarano met Perez on one of his routine walks from his off-campus apartment to East Campus. When he heard his story, Bejarano wanted to do more. “I said, ‘I could probably get some friends out here with you and see what I can do to give you some social media presence,’” Bejarano said. “I’ll do what I can to help.” Perez reached out to Bejarano for help after he found out about the lawsuit from SLP Enterprises. In response, the senior decided to organize a community and student protest on Sept. 18 outside of the hotel. He invited more than 500 people to the event on Facebook, but only 44 said they were going. Only two of Bejarano’s friends attended the actual event. But he has hope for future protests and wants to get more on-campus groups involved. “Next time we’ll coordinate something a little more,” Bejarano said.

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Sanford Building, Rhodes Conference Room What if students understood that defending a victim of bullying, encouraging a classmate during gym class, or sharing notes and advice actually enhance their social and academic lives? Prosocial behaviors—those voluntary positive actions that benefit others, such as sharing, consoling, and helping—have been identified as significant contributors to positive youth development. During this Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture, Gian Vittorio Caprara will discuss a universal school-based intervention implemented at the middle-school level in Italy. Findings revealed that children in the intervention group showed an increase in helping behavior, along with a decrease of physical and verbal aggression. In addition, intervention participants attained higher grades than the control group at the end of middle school. Furthermore, researchers found that the intervention’s greatest impact was on less well-adjusted adolescents. Gian Vittorio Caprara is professor of psychology and director of the Interuniversity Center for Research on the Origins of Prosocial and Antisocial Motivations at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

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Physician Assistant Program celebrates 50 years at Duke Vir Patel The Chronicle The School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program will celebrate its 50year heritage and accomplishments Saturday. The program, which was established as the first PAP in the country 50 years ago, will celebrate its achievements with an event sponsored and organized by alumni and current faculty of the school. Established by Dr. Eugene Stead in the 1960s, the initiative was designed to address the undersupply of physicians at Duke by training students to supplement physicians’ efforts—such as by taking patient histories and performing examinations—according to the Duke School of Medicine. Duke’s PA school has since grown to boast an almost equal male to female student ratio, offer a unique clinical rotation in five countries and empower its graduates to serve in diverse fields like radiology, oncology and surgery, PAP Program Director Karen Hills said. “Part of [our success] is the ability to recognize the responsibility we have as a leader in the profession and to continue to grow and evolve as a program,” she explained. “It would be easy to sit back on our laurels, but that’s just not who we are.” Hills, who supervises the day-to-day operations of the two-year program, said that students in their first year focus on learning through lectures and seminars while second-year students rotate throughout different clinical settings.

She added that the coursework and clinical experience which students receive enables them to work with physicians across the country and make independent medical decisions for patients in many medical specialties. Serving at the forefront of PA training has allowed Duke to provide its students with numerous opportunities, said secondyear PAP student Scott Zeller, who also added that the program does come with its challenges. “The aspect of Duke that has challenged me the most is the sheer intensity and pace of the program, especially throughout our first year,” he said. “We moved through everything at the speed of light so that we could at least cover all topics to prepare us for clinical year and our future.” In addition to interesting guest lecturers and the network that Duke graduates get access to, Zeller explained that he appreciates the program’s unique global health elective, which pairs students with foreign healthcare providers and stimulates student immersion. Students can fulfill this elective in five different countries, he said, including Bolivia, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Ecuador and Tanzania. The elective—which was the product of a recent partnership between PAP, the Duke Global Health Institute and the Frist Global Health Leaders Program—will send Zeller to Ecuador in January. Duke’s 88-student 2017 class is considered large relative to other national programs, which Hills said contributes to diversity and knowledge sharing. By setting a 1,000 hour clinical experience requirement for admission eligibility, the

Special to The Chronicle Duke established the first Physician Assistant Program in the United States 50 years ago and has one of the largest programs in the country, with 88 students in the Class of 2017.

PA school ensures students come in with medical experience and a high level of flexibility, Hills noted. “I think the dedication to diversity in the student body, everything from our cultures to our previous healthcare experience, has allowed us to continually learn from each other and enhance our experience at Duke,” explained Lindsay Cook, a secondyear student in the program. The program is open to applicants from many different backgrounds—Zeller

explained that he previously taught math at a boarding school and noted that the program is currently training a former lawyer and news anchor. “There’s a lot of different ways our students get health care experience, and I think that adds to the richness of our class,” Hills said. “Students learn a lot here at Duke and I really think they learn a lot from each other because people bring such a rich background when they come to the program.”

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DUKE DEFENSE SWARMS JACKETS Sam Turken The Chronicle

During the past two years, Duke has relied mostly on its offense to win games. The Blue Devils had an experienced game-manager in quarterback Anthony Boone and a big-play game-changer in Jamison Crowder. But so far this year, Duke’s game-changers are defenders, and the Blue Devils are doing most of their damage on the defensive side of the ball. Duke rebounded from last week’s 1910 loss to Northwestern with a 34-20 victory against No. 20 Georgia Tech at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday. Although the offense showed improvement after a disappointing performance against the Wildcats, it was the defense that paved the way to victory. “We certainly continued on the path of getting better defensively,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “More people involved in making big plays. The big part is when you win that interior battle. I’m watching A.J. Wolf… and company. We played a lot of people, continuously making plays.” After wearing down in the second half against Northwestern, Duke’s front line proved that it can shut down a strong running attack for four quarters. The Blue Devil defense wreaked havoc against Georgia Tech’s highly-touted tripleoption rushing attack. Led by safety Jeremy Cash, redshirt senior linebacker Dwayne Norman and redshirt junior defensive tackle A.J. Wolf, Duke held the nation’s second-best running team—which averaged 377 rushing yards per game entering Saturday’s contest— to 173 yards. Among the defense’s main areas of success was recognizing the Yellow Jackets’ many disguises and limiting them to short gains on first and second down. As Notre Dame did in its win against Georgia Tech last week, Duke forced the Yellow Jackets to throw the ball on several long third downs. The Blue Devils shut down Georgia Tech’s

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle The Blue Devil defense had plenty to celebrate Saturday—an interception, a fumble recovery, two sacks and eight tackles for loss.

potent halfback dive and controlled the line of scrimmage. The Yellow Jackets rely on the dive by their B-backs to open up space on the outside for rushes by its A-back or quarterback Justin Thomas. As the Blue Devils’ defensive tackles stuffed the B-back, the defensive ends, linebackers and secondary on the outside swarmed around Thomas and the B-backs. “After last week, we lost the physical battle in the second half. And this week here was probably the most physical week of practice we’ve ever had here at Duke,” Cash said. “We watched a lot of Notre Dame film. Our D-line has just been playing tremendously. Especially in a game like this, our defensive linemen were our leading tacklers of the game. They created a whole new line of scrimmage…we were able to play disciplined football and assignment football and tackle the man with the ball.” Despite the offense’s improved showing

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle The Blue Devils allowed just 173 rushing yards to a Georgia Tech offense that entered Saturday’s game averaging 377.0 yards per contest.

from a week ago, Duke relied on its defense to come up with crucial stops. Late in the fourth quarter, with the Blue Devils leading 26-20, quarterback Thomas Sirk threw an interception to give the Yellow Jackets field position at the Duke 35 yard line. But the defense immediately answered the bell, forcing a Georgia Tech turnover on downs. Later in the quarter, when the Yellow Jackets had another opportunity to take the lead, Cash tackled Thomas in the backfield and forced a fumble. Redshirt senior defensive end Britton Grier recovered the loose ball, which ultimately sealed the win. “They saved me from having a huge ulcer,” Cutcliffe said. “It was just unbelievable on third down we turned it over. We had gotten to a point where a punt was a good play for us. Our guys did a great job attacking that offense. It was no place for children out there.”

When the Yellow Jackets did pass the ball, Duke’s secondary was ready. Junior cornerback Breon Borders collected his eighth career interception, and the Blue Devils limited Georgia Tech to just 143 passing yards and six completions on 22 attempts. Duke’s defensive leaders, especially, had a huge impact. As usual, Cash was all over the field as he registered 12 tackles. Norman, who converted to linebacker from safety this past offseason, collected nine tackles—including several crucial stops on third and fourth down. “For the most part, we kept the ball in front of us,” Cutcliffe said. “Anybody would tell you that when you have defensive people that are playmakers, that’s a good way to win games. I can’t say enough about Jeremy Cash. [Dwayne’s] a good football player. He’s a big, fast guy. I told him, ‘Probably your best day as a Blue Devil today.’”

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash collected 12 tackles—three of them for loss—and forced a pair of fumbles to spearhead the Duke defensive effort.

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Alex Serebransky The Chronicle CHAPEL HILL—After a thrilling comeback victory the last time Duke faced North Carolina, another come-from-behind result was not in the cards Saturday night. After Friday’s scheduled match was postponed due to rain, the Blue Devils dropped their third straight contest, falling on the road to the No. 2 Tar Heels 2-1 on a wet Saturday evening at Fetzer DUKE 1 Field. Alex Olofson 2 gave North Carolina a UNC a quick 1-0 lead in the fourth minute and the Tar Heels struck quickly in the second half as well thanks to a strike by Alan Winn before holding off another Blue Devil comeback bid. “I thought it was a great game considering the conditions, great for the fans,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “They [the Tar Heels] were sharp tonight. They’re very good.” The game did not get off to the start the Blue Devils (4-3-1, 0-2-1 in the ACC) had envisioned, as they found themselves down a goal less than five minutes into the game. After what looked like some innocuous build-up play from North Carolina (7-0-1, 3-00) early in the match, Tar Heel forward Zach Wright played Olofson in on goal from the right side of the pitch. The senior fired a low shot headed straight for Duke goalkeeper Wilson Fisher, but the ball skidded oddly on the wet turf and seemed to catch Fisher off-guard. The graduate student mistimed his dive and the ball went right under him and into the net. “We got sucker-punched in the first 10 minutes of the game,” Kerr said. “They got an early goal and then we were chasing the game from then on.” After opening the scoring, North Carolina looked to be the stronger side, as the Blue Devils were not able to find any rhythm in possession and spent much of the first 25 minutes defending. Duke switched up its starting lineup for the first time this season Saturday, adding freshman Ciaran McKenna into the midfield and moving Zach Mathers further up the field in a more advanced, creative central midfield role. The move put the team’s craftiest midfielder further

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Melanie Park | The Chronicle Senior Zach Mathers cut the deficit to one goal with time to spare in the second half, but the Blue Devils could not find the equalizer against the Tar Heels Saturday night in Chapel Hill.

toward the goal and also afforded McKenna an opportunity to further prove himself. “Ciaran’s been doing very well and he covers a lot of ground,” Kerr said. “I thought that now was the time for him to demonstrate that he can get around the park and close people down and I thought he did a great job today.” The Blue Devils looked better as the half continued, and almost got back in the game as sophomore Jeremy Ebobisse forced Tar Heel goalkeeper James Pyle into a good save. The save fell to the feet of sophomore Brian White, who almost tied the game, shooting the ball onto the top of the net from a tough angle. Duke almost fell behind by two goals 10 minutes later, but Fisher made a nimble save with his left foot to deny North Carolina’s Tucker Hume and keep the Blue Devils in the game heading into the locker room. The start of the second period was almost a mirror image of the first. Less than four minutes into the half, Wright collected a through-ball on the right side of the pitch and crossed the ball right into the path of Winn, who fired past a helpless Fisher from point-blank range. “It was disappointing to go two goals down,” Kerr said. “We weren’t playing terribly. We kind of fell asleep there for a second…. Unfortunately, Winn got free and scored a nice goal. “

After conceding the second goal, Duke looked to get itself back in the game quickly, as a Mathers cross pinballed around the box until it fell to sophomore Macario Hing-Glover, who sent his shot right of the goal. The Blue Devils did not have to wait much longer after Hing-Glover’s attempt to find themselves on the board. After the ball fell to Mathers in the midfield, the Keller, Texas, native took a couple of dribbles before firing a blast with his left foot from nearly 30 yards out that careened off the right post and into the back of the net. The strike was Mather’s second of the season. After the goal, Duke continued to pour forward offensively and left itself susceptible to several scoring opportunities by the Tar Heels. North Carolina would have extended its lead if not for a key block by defender Jared Rist and a impressive clearance off the line by Tyler Hilliard. Despite several other Tar Heel attacks, the Blue Devil defense remained stout, and managed to keep the deficit to just one goal. But Duke just could not find that second crucial goal and dropped its third game in a row. “Everyone on the team knows that we haven’t been playing badly,” Kerr said. “We’re playing well—we’ve just got to get over the hump.”

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The Chronicle The weekend was a bit of a rollercoaster for the Blue Devils, but they were able to finish on a high note. No. 13 Duke completed its second tournament of the fall season this weekend in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Collegiate Challenge Cup at the Golf Club of Tennessee in Kingston Springs, Tenn. The Blue Devils claimed a 3-2 victory against Kentucky in the match play portion of the tournament Sunday after finishing tied for fifth with a cumulative 11-over-par score in the three rounds of stroke play Friday and Saturday. “We’re happy to get the win here today,” Duke head coach Jamie Green told GoDuke.com after the win against

the Wildcats. “It was an up-and-down day, but we played well enough to give ourselves a chance to win on the final hole. A win is a win, and it’s great to have it under our belt.” The highlight of the tournament for Duke was a 10-under-par round in Friday’s second round that was the best total score posted in any round of the weekend by five strokes. Although they finished their first tournament of the season with a strong final round back nine at the Rod Meyers Invitational, the Blue Devils were unable to carry that momentum forward in Friday morning’s opening round. They teed off on the 10th hole—a 200-yard par three—where only two of Duke’s five starters made See M. GOLF on Page 8

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DeLaurier picks Duke Jackson Korman

Blue Devils finish fifth Brian Pollack

Duke head coach David Cutcliffe announced Sunday that he has dismissed redshirt sophomore cornerback T.J. Douglas from the program, putting a damper on a big weekend for the Blue Devils. Douglas was arrested Sunday for driving while impaired, according to data maintained by the Durham County Sheriff’s Office. He was released with no bond set, as first reported by Steve Wiseman of the Durham Herald-Sun. In March, Cutcliffe suspended Douglas and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Terrence Alls indefinitely from game action for failing to “uphold the academic, athletic and community standards required of a member of the Blue Devil program.” “Defensive back T.J. Douglas has been dismissed from the program,” Cutcliffe said on a Sunday teleconference with reporters. “There will be no further comment on that development. In regards to Terrence Alls, he will remain on an indefinite suspension from game competition.” Douglas made 12 appearances as a redshirt freshman in 2014, recording one tackle. Duke’s secondary has put together a strong start to the season, headlined by the play of redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash. Safety DeVon Edwards and cornerbacks Breon Borders and Deondre Singleton have shut down opposing offenses through the air, and after a seasonending injury to junior cornerback Bryon Fields during the offseason, the emergence of cornerbacks Alonzo Saxton II and true freshman Jeremy McDuffie has added depth to the unit. The Blue Devils received 18 votes in this week’s AP Poll after upsetting then-No. 20 Georgia Tech 34-20 Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium.

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Power forward Javin DeLaurier announced his commitment to Duke and head coach Mike Krzyzewski Sunday, becoming the third member of the Blue Devils’ Class of 2016. The 6-foot-9 DeLaurier is a four-star prospect and is currently ranked No. 44 in the 2016 ESPN 100. DeLaurier committed to the Blue Devils after visiting campus this weekend, joining point guard Frank Jackson and small forward Jayson Tatum. The Charlottesville, Va., native is athletic and mobile for a player of his size and has shown the ability to dominate the glass on both sides of the court. DeLaurier also has shown great rim-protecting ability and often alters shots on the defensive end. Although his offensive game is mostly around the rim at this point, the forward is working on developing a stronger outside game. With DeLaurier in tow, the Blue Devils now hold commitments from three prospects ranked in the top 50 of the 2016 ESPN 100.

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Virginia shuts out Blue Devils, keeps Duke winless in ACC play Ben Feder The Chronicle Duke came up short in its quest to unseat the topranked team in the nation. The Blue Devil offense turned the game around late in the second half, but could not find the equalizer and came away emptyhanded. No. 1 Virginia defeated No. 19 Duke 1-0 Sunday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., leaving the Blue Devils without a conference victory through three ACC games. DUKE 0 The Cavaliers dominated play, 1 outshooting the Blue Devils 19UVA 10, including an 8-2 advantage in the first half. Although Virginia goalkeeper Morgan Stearns was forced to make six saves, the Blue Devils were unable to generate substantial offensive pressure, as the opposing defense found ways time and time again to clear the ball. “I just didn’t think we were very sharp offensively today. They controlled a lot of the play and put us back on our heels,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We didn’t get a chance to get full and get our numbers full in the box. We only had ten shots on goal and they weren’t very dangerous shots.” Virginia (8-1-1, 2-1-0 in the ACC) dominated play in the first half. Although the Blue Devils (6-3-3, 0-12) had the best chance of the half in the 11th minute, freshman Taylor Racioppi’s attempt just missed the post. The Cavaliers had two sustained pushes in the half with multiple shots in quick succession, but the Blue Devil defense in front of sophomore goalkeeper E.J. Proctor held firm. Defenders blocked four of Virginia’s first-half shot attempts, keeping the game scoreless entering halftime. But the Cavaliers would not be denied for long. Just more than 10 minutes into the second half, midfielder Alexis Shaffer put the ball in the back of the net to give Virginia a 1-0 lead—a lead that would not be relinquished. The goal was Shaffer’s fifth of the year and was assisted by defender Tina Iordanou. The Blue Devils awoke after allowing the goal.

M. GOLF from page 7 par, setting the team back four strokes after just a single hole of play. The Blue Devils were unable to recover in their opening round, finishing with a 10-over-par score that put them in 11th place out of a 12-team field that featured six ACC and six SEC representatives. Freshman Alex Smalley was the lone highlight for Duke in the first 18 holes, recording just a single bogey en route to an even-par round that featured 10 straight pars out of the gate. “Alex’s play [Friday] showed a lot of maturity,” Green said. “When he gets dialed in, you can see him itching to go low. He had a good rhythm and a good feel, and even though his rounds weren’t super low, that also showed his maturity because he was able to be so consistent. His even-keeled nature was a big part of him being able to shoot in the red.” Smalley finally got some help from his teammates in the afternoon session, when the Blue Devils reversed course and beat their score from the morning round by 20 strokes. The Wake Forest, N.C., native began his second round with a birdie on the 433-yard, par-four first on his way to carding a two-under-par 69—but that was far from the story of the afternoon for Duke. Sophomores Jake Shuman and Adam Wood came out for the second round in blistering fashion, combining to shoot seven-under-par on the front nine without a single bogey between

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman Kayla McCoy led the Blue Devils with three shots, but none found the back of the net as top-ranked Virginia dealt Duke its first ACC loss Sunday on the road.

Duke’s best chance to tie the game came in the 80th minute on a header by sophomore Imani Dorsey that sailed just wide of the net. Following the opportunity, though, the Blue Devils only attempted one more shot the rest of the way—a Kayla McCoy strike that landed in Stearns’ arms. McCoy had a team-leading three shots, despite playing only 48 minutes. “After the goal was scored, we became more aggressive,” Church said. “It’s unfortunate that it took a goal to be scored for us to go into a more attacking mentality.” The Blue Devils’ counterattack was plagued by five offsides calls, four of which occurred in the first half. The Cavaliers boast one of the best defenses in the nation, headlined by senior Emily Sonnett, the Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the 2014 College Cup. To pull off the upset, Duke had to find a way to carve through a Virginia defense that has allowed just six them. Shuman came up with an eagle on the parfive seventh and finished his round at five-underpar—the best single round a Blue Devil recorded during the weekend. With its stellar second round, Duke catapulted all the way up to third in the standings at the conclusion of play Friday, seven strokes behind second-round-leader and eventual runner-up Virginia. Saturday was less kind to the Blue Devils, who came back down to Earth with an 11-over-par score in the final round of stroke play Saturday. Smalley imploded with nine bogeys or worse as he carded an 80 in the third round, while Wood led the squad with an even-par round to finish tied for 13th. Sunday’s match play format pitted each ACC school against an SEC counterpart, highlighted by a matchup of the Cavaliers against No. 12 Vanderbilt after the Commodores defeated Virginia in a playoff Saturday to claim the stroke play crown. The Blue Devils finished with a narrow 3-2 victory against the host Wildcats as the two conferences each picked up three wins in the match play competition. Wood took the final tee time for Duke and sealed the victory against Tyler McDaniel, who finished tied for fifth in stroke play with an overall score of three-under-par. The Blue Devils will not have much time to recover before their next competition, as they will travel across the country to North Plains, Ore., to compete in the Nike Collegiate Invitational beginning Sunday.

goals in 10 games, which proved too tall a task. Duke’s defense limited a Cavalier offense that had scored at least two goals in each of its first eight games to only one tally. The Blue Devil back line turned in another strong performance, blocking a number of shots before they reached Proctor between the pipes. Proctor, who recorded two saves Sunday, has only allowed six goals this season. The Blue Devils will return to Koskinen Stadium looking for their first conference victory Sunday against No. 10 Virginia Tech. Stylistically, the Hokies are very similar to the Cavaliers, and have not been shut out this season. “We’re very, very capable of winning the rest of them out. But we have to be able in this league to play harder typically right now the whole time,” Church said. “There’s some things that we have to work on each day training in practice to make ourselves better.”

Ian Jaffe | Chronicle File Photo Sophomore Adam Wood helped the Blue Devils clinch a victory against Kentucky in match play Sunday.

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to keep our defense off the field against a Georgia Tech team. They’re going to run the ball and maintain possession a lot of the game.” On the ground, Duke rushed for 165 yards, led by senior running back Shaquille Powell, who did the majority of his damage in the first half. In one drive alone, Powell rushed on seven straight plays for 42 yards, culminating in a score to put Duke up 7-3 with 6:14 left in the first quarter. Powell would tack on another score in the opening frame, but not before Sirk found Rahming streaking across the middle on a slant for an 11-yard touchdown strike. Two minutes later, Ryan Smith provided the second-most electrifying play of the day, as he fielded a Georgia Tech punt and, after shaking a couple would-be tacklers, streaked up the right sideline 69 yards to the one-yard line. Powell capped the drive with his second score of the day to put Duke up 19-3 after one quarter of play. After Georgia Tech closed the gap to six with a 12-play, 74yard touchdown drive to end the half and a 48-yard field goal in the third quarter, Duke kickoff return specialist and safety DeVon Edwards brought Wallace Wade to its feet when he took the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for the score to push the Blue Devil lead to 13 and secure his seventh career score. “Special teams came through for us,” Sirk said. “DeVon Edwards, he’s such a playmaker every time you get the ball in his hands. Guys on the sideline, as soon as any team kicks it short, we’re just expecting a return. We’re just like, ‘Oh no, they kicked it short, there goes DeVon.’” Sirk, though improved, still had a pair of costly interceptions, both coming in Duke territory in the second half. He finished 17-of-25 through the air for 114 yards with the touchdown to Rahming and two interceptions, plus an additional 52 yards on the ground. Luckily for the Blue Devils, the defense stood strong on both occasions following Sirk’s interceptions, holding the Yellow Jackets to a field goal and a turnover on downs—the latter coming with less than six minutes remaining in the contest. But it was Georgia Tech who would have the game-ending turnover. With 2:12 remaining and Duke’s lead at just 26-20,

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ast week, a new publication launched on Duke’s campus. The Tab, a news site started at the University of Cambridge in 2009 by students, put its first articles up on its Duke site last Tuesday. In the days following, controversy amassed on Facebook in the All Duke group with lengthy commentary condemning the site as a “superficial glamorisation of privileged lifestyles.” Although there is merit to this view based on the launch articles chosen by the Tab, we believe several valid positions were obscured by the social media frenzy in defense of the publication. Beyond the first introductory article posted to the site, the four articles released in The Tab’s first two days covered an interview with Brian Grasso of this year’s “Fun Home” controversy, a British first-year’s take on his first American day party, an interview of a “Kurdish heir by day, Duke frat boy by night” and a meeting with senior Serena Kerrigan. The responses by students were a combination of disbelief and disgust, with the initial post receiving a few hundred likes on Facebook. They felt the articles reflected poorly on Duke and elevated very privileged lifestyles on campus. Charitable defenses from other students noted that perhaps The Tab was brought to Duke because it knew an audience

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Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault t was a rainy afternoon; my friend and I were curled up with cups of cinnamon tea. She looked out the gothic paned windows and whispered, “Dana, I don’t know how people aren’t running around this campus screaming.” We watched as people holding books over their heads dashed to make the bus. Those with umbrellas lingered longer, chatting with friends until they too sought shelter from the unabated rain. “I know,” I breathed back. It’s now almost daily that I find out another person I know has been sexually assaulted. Or committed sexual assault. The stories I’ve heard make my skin crawl. Each

or perpetrator of sexual assault doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. By refusing to act when we see someone in trouble, we are tacitly allowing perpetrators to commit assaults unabated. Bystander intervention in sexual assault is the classic “if you see something, say something.” That doesn’t seem particularly difficult, right? In practice, bystander intervention is so much harder. What do you do when the aggressor is your best friend? Frat brother? Someone you’ve been romantically involved with before, consensually? What if the victim is wearing a really revealing dress? If they were dancing at Shooters? If both people are intoxicated? If they’ve had sex before? If they’re friends? Dating? If you don’t know the people at all?

Dana Raphael BETWEEN THE LINES story is another dark cloud, another gust of cold wind, adding to the never-ending downpour. The biggest survey on sexual violence ever conducted was released last week and included responses from more than 150,000 students at 27 research universities. It confirmed that the number of women sexually assaulted on college campuses is nearly 25 percent. Just think about that. One in four. That means college women have a better chance of being sexually assaulted than of getting the flu—and we all remember the petri dish that is a first-year dorm. Sexual assault is disturbingly common. If a room has more than 4 women in it, chances are there’s a survivor among them. If you have more than 4 female friends, chances are you know a survivor. And yet despite the prevalence of sexual assault, it’s still considered a taboo topic. Revealing oneself as a survivor is often met with shock and awkward silence, or even outright disbelief and disapproval. We clearly need to work on these immediate reactions, because last week’s survey found that 75 percent of survivors will tell a friend what happened. How you react to a person telling you about their assault will largely color their entire healing process. The survey also revealed disturbing facts about bystander behavior, finding that among those reporting witnessing a drunk person heading to a sexual encounter, a whopping 77 percent did absolutely nothing. This isn’t to say that every drunk person headed to a sexual encounter ended up having sex or that the encounter constituted sexual assault, but it does reflect bystanders’ alarming ambivalence regarding the outcome of the situation. Perhaps even more disturbingly, more than half of people who witnessed “someone acting in a sexually violent or harassing manner” did nothing. Just because you think you would never be the victim

These aren’t random hypothetical scenarios; these are the real situations each of us encounter every single day. I’ve heard, seen or experienced every single one of them. It takes a lot of training, practice and selfconfidence to know how you would respond to each one of these, and if when reading this you don’t know how you would act, consider signing up for PACT, Duke’s bystander intervention training. Sexual assault is a horrifying topic, made all the more terrifying by the sheer numbers of survivors and unknowing friendships we have with many perpetrators. In that monsoon of disgust, it can be much more tempting to seek shelter from the downpour and willfully ignore those being soaked outside. It’s a lot easier to carry your own umbrella and, if it’s big enough, convince yourself that it isn’t actually raining. But it is pouring. We need to force ourselves to see the real scope of this problem. Sexual assault isn’t something that happens to a small minority of people. For too many, it becomes a defining part of the college experience. For so many survivors, a simple intervention on the part of their peers could have changed the course of that night and the course of their lives. I look back on my own experience and wish someone had been standing there looking out for me. If we care about our peers and want them to succeed in their pursuits, both at Duke and beyond, we have the moral imperative, the responsibility, to act for our fellow students. Even if acting makes us feel awkward, uncomfortable or obnoxious, those few moments of discomfort are a small price to pay for being the force that changes another person’s story for the better. Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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o begins our nation’s Constitution. Yet, I submit, few Americans today appreciate just how profound and revolutionary this document is. In celebration of Constitution Day, which occurred earlier this month, and the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, which was earlier this year, this column will trumpet the triumph of governance that is the U.S. Constitution and the continued importance of upholding its carefully-crafted structure and original meaning. Both Republicans like Speaker John Boehner and Democrats like President

private contracts will necessarily trample on the rights of the people. Second, the powers of the state must be constitutionally minimized because the actors of the state will invariably by seduced by their power into accumulating more and more of it. As Lord Acton famously observed, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In the same vein, Madison notes in Federalist No. 51, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

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ver the past few years, a worrying trend has emerged on American college campuses. A large number of liberal students have, under the guise of “social justice,” begun turning away from reasoned debate. Any voice—conservative or dissenting liberal—that dares say something politically incorrect in public is immediately shut down by an overwhelming outpouring of liberal rage. They do not consider the

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Barack Obama, and even foreign leaders like Lady Margaret Thatcher, understand the exceptional, extraordinary fact that America was the first nation on Earth founded on an idea instead of a religion or ethnicity. We are a nation premised on the universal, selfevident truths that all men are created equal under God and that they are endowed by their Creator, antecedent to the formation of the state, with certain unalienable, natural rights. A government, then, is properly understood to be instituted by the people to secure and safeguard these God-given rights. So, how does our Constitution implement these lofty ideals? First, the Constitution acknowledges that all sovereignty resides in we the people and that the government acts in accordance with the will of the people through their elected representatives. This, we call representative democracy. Second, the powers of government are limited in scope and restricted to specific, enumerated grants of authority from the people. This, we call the rule of law. Sir Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried” and that “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Like Churchill, the framers of our Constitution firmly believed in the right of self-government but understood the faults of popular democracy. Democracy suffers from the problem of rational ignorance, a persistent failure of voters to educate themselves on the political affairs of the polity because the costs of information gathering are higher than any benefit that can be derived from making an educated vote. Moreover, majorities can use their will to subjugate a minority, which James Madison clearly recognized in Federalist No. 10. Despite these shortcomings, democracy is the best method by which to ensure that the government acts in accordance with the general will of the people. While most people understand the principles of democracy espoused in the Constitution, I posit that the far greater contribution to the advancement of humanity made by the Constitution is its expression of limited government bound by specific, enumerated powers. The Constitution is designed to constrict the powers of government in order to prevent a tyranny of the majority and to maximize the blessings of liberty. There are three independent reasons to bind the fists of the Leviathan. First, there is the philosophical reason that a minimal state is the most compatible with the protection of the natural rights of the individual. This notion is first posited by John Locke in his “Two Treatises of Government” and later reformulated by Robert Nozick in his seminal work “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.” Any government that seeks to do more than the minimal functions of national defense, policing and enforcing

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” To prevent the accretion of power by the government, the framers designed a careful separation of powers both within the tripartite federal government and between the dual sovereigns of the federal and state governments. Sadly, this precious equilibrium has been bastardized by the delegation of legislative powers to the executive creating the administrative state, the abrogation by the Supreme Court of meaningful judicial review and the encroachment of federal power onto the states through a post-Wickard v. Filburn understanding of the commerce clause and a post-South Dakota v. Dole understanding of the spending power. Third, the power of government must be limited because the government is simply massively inefficient at managing the lives of the citizenry, and this is to be expected due to perverse incentive structures between private and public actors. In perhaps the earliest American articulation of this principle, Albert Gallatin, the fourth Secretary of the Treasury, stated, “Governmental prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.” Public choice theory explains why special interest groups and corporate welfare exist due to concentrated benefits and diffuse costs. The simple truth is that the concentrated fist of government will always be less efficient than the diffuse mechanism of the invisible hand, as first explained by Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek. America is exceptional because we pioneered the rule of law instead of the rule of man or of might, rejecting the ukases of kings and the edicts of emperors. I wish to see a return to the principles of limited government and individual liberty delineated by our Constitution. Yet, those principles are continuously eroded every day. Take, for example, the recent attempt by our president to legalize more than five million unauthorized immigrants through unilateral executive action, earning a rebuke from the judiciary. And this is coming from an author who favors unfettered immigration. In any case, I hope this column will prompt you to think about the relationship between your government and you. Next time you walk through the scanners in RDU with your arms raised in surrender, ask yourself, “Is this the pose of a free man?” Jonathan Zhao is a Trinity senior and the Editorial Page Editor. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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merits of opposing ideas. They use emotional discomfort as a guide to which ideas are good and which are bad. They threaten American freedom of speech and even freedom of thought; it is their stifling political correctness that I hope to address in this column. In many of our nation’s educational institutions, political correctness has reached absurd levels. Take, for example, an incident in November of last year when a professor at Marquette University was suspended for his defence of a student’s views. An offended co-worker immediately reported him to the administration, leading to his removal from campus. This is an example of the typical knee-jerk reaction we have grown used to on college campuses; liberals refuse to hear new ideas on a subject simply because the subject is taboo. Certainly, the views the professor in question was defending may have been that gay marriage is wrong, but that does not change the fact that this offended liberal was simply being deaf to new ideas. I would like to make an important distinction however. Political correctness is of course the blind, ideological, dogmatic rejection of words and ideas merely because they “offend” someone’s sensibilities. Distinct from political correctness, though, there is another, superficially similar kind of backlash which I like to term “democratically true.” In contrast to political correctness, democratic truth is of great value to our nation because it represents the real voice of the American people taking a stand for what is right. An example of democratic truth in action is when Duke planned to host the Islamic call to prayer at the Chapel. A sudden din of real American voices rose up to quiet and override the liberals’ tortured arguments. An example of politically correct backlash, by contrast, would be whenever liberals loudly disparage and silence anyone who writes a conservative column in The Chronicle. At first glance these two examples may look similar. But the two in fact couldn’t be more dissimilar. This is because there are just certain facts that we Americans should all know to be true. We will punish any public figure that questions Israel’s automatic right to exist, America’s unconditional love for its military or the notion that America is the land

of opportunity. These are democratically true ideas. By contrast, the ideas that rape, racism or homophobia are bad are not set in stone and the political correctness that protects them should be questioned at all times. Now, I would like to turn to a particularly pernicious manifestation of political correctness that has recently begun to grip college campuses. It is known as a trigger warning—a note put at the start of a work or

syllabus to warn readers it contains content that could potentially “trigger” PTSD flashbacks. Greg Lukanioff and Jonathan Haidt recently wrote an excellent piece in The Atlantic addressing the harm that trigger warnings are doing. In their article, Lukanioff and Haidt demonstrate that trigger warnings are bad because they encourage “magnification” and “catastrophization”— the inference of dangerous trends from minor things. They in turn prove that trigger warnings are a dangerous trend by referencing a small number of extreme cases of over the top political correctness. It is a truly elegant argument. The authors should be applauded for their psychological approach to the matter of political correctness. The idea that you can get over your trauma by avoiding it has become all-pervasive on American campuses recently. But, as Haidt and Lukanioff point out, if you ask any psychologist, they’ll tell you that the best way to get over a phobia is sudden, unannounced confrontation. The best way to deal with someone’s arachnaphobia, for example, is to drop a bag of spiders on them in their sleep. The best way to get someone over a fear of heights is to kidnap them, bring them to the top of a tall building and then push them off. In much the same way, the best way for a rape survivor to get over her trauma is to suddenly subject her to graphic depictions of sexual assault, an experience she would miss out on in a system that used trigger warnings. This trend of trigger warnings and political correctness represent a mortal threat to our education system. Liberal students, using Socratic thinking, now question whether the Socratic method itself feeds back in to systems of oppression. But how, in this situation, are professors supposed to teach? As the old educator saying goes: “Don’t teach students what to think; teach them how to think. And then if they start using that thinking to question how you’re teaching them, go back to teaching them what to think.” If the culture war were a real war, Monday Monday would be a poorly trained soldier with a misfiring bazooka.

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PRIDE from page 2 LGBTQ individuals in a celebration of pride, attendees said many challenges remain for the community to overcome. “It’s still hard for people to change their [last] names when they get married,” said Leah Sanchez, co-owner of Lez Get Married, a wedding company for LGBTQ couples. Mental illness is also a problem for LGBTQ youth, explained Chris Tackett and Dana Cea, representatives of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. They noted that there is a higher prevalence of mental illness among the LGBTQ community. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, gay, lesbian and bisexual groups are about two and a half times more likely than heterosexual men and women to have a mental health disorder. The intersection of religion and LGBTQ pride also impacted the festival. Several protesters picketed on West Main Street as the parade was beginning. “We love these people enough to warn them that they’re celebrating a sin that will put them into hell for all of eternity,” said Buddy Fisher, a street preacher. But the number of protesters at the event has diminished over the years, noted Tony Davidson—an employee at the LGBTQ nightclub Legends in Raleigh. One focus for Blue Devils United this year will be on how religion often comes into conflict with queer identities, Nelson said. “I think it’s really sad when someone has to hide their queerness to fit into

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religion, but I also think it’s really sad that someone has to lose their religion to express their queerness,” he said. He added that he thinks Duke students can alter some people’s negative perceptions of the LGBTQ community. “We as Duke students really have the power to change [that],” he said.

CENSORSHIP from page 2 satirizes contemporary China—caused him the most problems, he noted. However, Yan said he eventually stopped worrying about the reactions elicited by his books. “I feel that it’s really up to me,” he said. “You can reject my work, but I will write whatever.” Censorship in China has become stricter and more systematic in recent years, Yan explained. Because of this, publishers have begun increasing restrictions in an effort to preserve their own jobs. Individual writers have responded by engaging in selfcensorship—a trend that Yan finds “terrifying.” Yan said that he writes without this sense of internalized censorship. “To me, the real tragedy is that once you’ve reached this stage, you might be past your golden age of productivity,” he said. The University has also wrestled with censorship and self-censorship as it tries to establish a presence in China. Throughout its development and inaugural year, Duke Kunshan University has dealt with questions about academic freedom. In 2013, Chinese authorities banned seven topics from being discussed in classrooms, including freedom of the

press and failures of Communist leaders. William Johnson, a professor of classical studies who taught at DKU last year, told The Chronicle in June that he did not believe censorship to be a major issue on DKU’s campus, but that Chinese students in his class did seem to have a tendency to self-censor. Yan said that his advice for upcoming writers is to abandon the idea of writing to create change. Despite his success, Yan believes literature in China is marginal and that he has been even more marginal within that scene. In addition, he explained that a writer needs to focus on finding his or her own liberation from the writing process, instead of trying to make

an impact on society. Several students who attended the event said they were impressed by Yan’s words. “He’s a really well-respected author, but the way he talks is very down-to-earth,” said Faye Lu, a first-year graduate student. Jasmine Zhao—a second-year graduate student—said she appreciated how freely Yan could share his feelings at the event, especially because he is so restricted in his own nation. Yan said he is continuing to write, despite having had two of his novels denied publication within the past year. “Just a reminder, today we did not talk about censorship. We talked about Lianke’s rejections in life,” he joked.

Muslim Student Association celebrates Eid al-Adha

Han Kang | The Chronicle Students gathered at Penn Pavilion Saturday to celebrate Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday marking the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

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