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Café in 300 Panel tackles future of Confederate statues Swift may extend hours Nathan Luzum The Chronicle

Reeya Gupta The Chronicle The 300 Swift apartment complex boasts an outdoor pool, yoga studio, poker tables and many other luxurious amenities—but no restaurant open past 7:30 p.m.

The early closing time has been a subject of ongoing discussion at Swift because many students spend the majority of their day on West Campus attending classes, and often do not return to the complex until after dinner. Although Café 300, the sole dining venue inside the apartment complex, offers a variety of snacks and food options—including lattés for breakfast, fruit smoothies after a trip to the gym and chocolate croissants for an afternoon snack— some students suggested extending its hours so they can grab a latenight pick-me-up or eat dinner while studying in their apartment.

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Durham has been a hotbed of activity directed against Confederate memorials, from the monument in front of the Durham County Courthouse near East Campus to the Robert E. Lee statue at the entrance to the Chapel.

A panel Tuesday investigated the issue of Confederate monuments in both Durham and Baltimore. Hosted by the Forum for Scholars and Publics, the event featured David Graham, a journalist for The Atlantic, Blair Kelley, associate professor of history at North Carolina State University, and Martha Jones, The Society of Black Alumni professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.

“You can suddenly tie together what’s going on with police violence, what’s going on with the presidential administration and what’s going on with these statues all very easily,” Graham said.

He clarified that the postCharlottesville protests directed toward the removal of statues were not a recent phenomenon, but rather a buildup of longstanding frustration.

“I do think that this isn’t totally new.

We’ve been having fights about things like Monument Avenue in Richmond for years,” Graham said. “There was a

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle David Graham (left), a journalist for The Atlantic, attributed the protests against Confederate statues to a frustration against state laws.

spate of laws passed in the early 2000s that were designed to prevent monuments from being taken down.”

The panelists discussed these protective laws and whether they were effective at allowing citizens to express their desire to take down controversial monuments. In 2015, former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed such a bill into law in North Carolina that prevented the removal of monuments, plaques or markers without the approval of the North Carolina

Historical Commission.

Kelley noted that the process of removing a statue has shifted away from the local level and now rests with the state, thereby making Durham and other communities feel “less empowered” in deciding the fate of controversial monuments.

“If laws are written in a way that stunts the ability of the local communities to make decisions about the landscape of See STATUES on Page 4

‘Voting is number one’: Guide to Durham municipal elections Bre Bradham The Chronicle

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Durham is due for a change in leadership this year, with Mayor Bill Bell not running for reelection and three city council seats up for grabs.

As the early voting period approaches, students may wonder how to vote or question whether it’s even worth their time. Students living on campus are eligible to vote in municipal elections as long as they are U.S. citizens and have registered to vote at their campus addresses.

Sunshine Hillygus, professor of political science, encouraged students to take part in the election.

“Voting is number one, in terms that at the end of the day, that is the most important political activity in a democracy,” she said.

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election. The candidates in those seats must reside within the geographic region they represent, but all voters elect them. The election is divided into an October primary to narrow the field and a November election to determine the final winners.

Derek Bowens, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, encouraged students to utilize the Board of Election’s website to confirm their eligibility to vote or to call the Board’s office for more information.

Unlike the 2016 presidential election, there will not be a voting site on campus for the October primary or November general election. However, Bowens noted that there will be early, one-stop voting available at four sites within the city—North Carolina Central University, the Durham County Board of Elections, the North Regional Library and the South

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Study links chemical found ‘Look of a Woman’ author in nail polish to infertility discusses trans medicine Isabelle Doan The Chronicle Women who are trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization may want to consider staying away from nail polish, according to a recently published study by researchers from Duke, Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

The researchers—including Heather Stapleton, Dan and Bunny Gabel associate professor of environmental ethics and sustainable environmental management, and Craig Butt, a former postdoctoral student in Stapleton’s lab at the Nicolas School of the Environment— found that organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs) in many common items decrease the chances of successful in-vitro fertilization.

Stapleton wrote in an email that the groups at Harvard and Michigan had been interested in environmental factors and IVF outcomes for years, but this project came together when they reached out to the Stapleton lab, which has expertise in flame retardants.

“The samples were collected from couples undergoing IVF treatments at a

facility in Massachusetts, and archived at Harvard University,” Stapleton wrote in an email. “To facilitate this project, urine and serum samples were shipped to my laboratory at Duke University, and we analyzed the urine for organophosphate flame retardant/ plasticizer metabolites.”

Courtney Carignan, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, wrote in an email that PFRs were actually supposed to be safer than flame retardants used in the past.

“The flame retardant PentaBDE, used in polyurethane foam, was phased out more than a decade ago after it was linked with negative health effects in animal and epidemiological studies,” Carignan wrote. “PFRs were introduced as a safer alternative, but they have also been found in animal studies to disrupt thyroid and sex hormones— which are important for fertility and fetal development.”

Carignan noted that like the PentaBDE flame retardant, PFRs can migrate out of furniture and See INFERTILITY on Page 5

Special to The Chronicle Craig Butt (left), a former postdoctoral student, and Heather Stapleton (right), professor in the Nicholas School, were involved in a study abou flame retardants and fertility.

Joyce Er The Chronicle At a lecture Tuesday, a medical anthropologist from the University of Arizona discussed the process of facial feminization surgery in the context of the United States’ healthcare system.

Eric Plemons, assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona, presented key findings from his first book, “The Look of a Woman”, which was published by Duke University Press earlier this year.

The book is based on a year of research into the work of two facial feminization surgery (FFS) specialists, including craniofacial surgeon Douglas Ousterhout, who developed the form of reconstructive surgery in the early 1980s.

The book was recently awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Association for Queer Anthropology.

Trans medicine has been shaped by debates about medical authority, who is worthy of medical care and what might count as legitimate medical need.

Plemons explained that FFS is a set of bone and tissue reconstructive processes that aims to make trans women’s faces more feminine.

“You don’t walk down the street and look in everyone’s pants before you decide what their sex is—you look at their face,” Plemons said, quoting Ousterhout’s explanation of the value of FFS. FFS involves the alteration of physical features which are traditionally regarded as masculine in favor of a more feminine affect. This can include reducing the size of a trans woman’s brow, burring and sawing off the wide mandibles on male skulls, shaping a square chin to become oval-shaped, making the lips more full or removing cartilage from the Adam’s apple. The time-intensive procedures can be implemented in 11hour stretches.

“The assertion that facial reconstruction constitutes an enactment

Joyce Er | The Chronicle Eric Plemons, assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona, wrote a book about facial feminization surgey.

of surgical womanhood relies on a particular configuration of trans therapeutics—a claim about how, why and through what means facial surgery is good trans medicine,” Plemons said.

FFS as a practice blurs the boundaries between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, he added, which can present challenges in terms of seeking medical insurance coverage. Plemons recounted feedback that he received from peer reviewers of one of his papers which accepted the efficacy and therapeutic benefit of FFS, but pushed back on its medical necessity.

The reviewers suggested that determining whether FFS should be covered by medical insurance was too complex, as it would be too difficult to identify facial features as masculine or feminine, Plemons said. The reviewers suggested that he revise his paper to “better reflect the constraints of insurance companies”—a point he raised to illustrate the challenges that trans See MEDICINE on Page 5

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DUSDAC discusses Dame’s Duke sets new pick-up, replacement, food trucks drop-off zones for Uber, Lyft Kat Berko The Chronicle Central Campus residents beware— Dame’s Express will not be returning to Duke next semester.

At its Monday meeting, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee discussed dining options to replace Dame’s Express on Central Campus starting in January 2018.

Robert Coffey, director of dining services, shared that Dame’s Express will not be renewing its contract with Duke, which ends in December 2017. He explained that the Central Campus eatery was “kind of up and down” in terms of its food quality and

its hours of operation. “[Dame’s Express] came to the conclusion that they need to focus on their off-campus locations,” Coffey said.

Though, the new restaurant has not been chosen yet, Coffey mentioned that several businesses have expressed interest in the location, including The Picnic Basket Catering.

However, Coffey noted that filling the vacancy will not necessarily be easy, since Central Campus will likely phase out 18 months after January 2018. For this reason, Coffey explained that a more viable option may be to replace Dame’s Express with an eatery already See DUSDAC on Page 5

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Since the Brodhead Center opened, Duke’s food trucks have moved to less popular locations on campus.

Maya Iskandarani The Chronicle Gone are the days of splurging on an Uber ride between the East and West Campus bus stops.

Duke is now preventing taxi and ridehailing services from accessing certain high-traffic areas on Duke’s campus.

Any Uber, Lyft, taxi or other app-based transportation service called to the Bryan Center Circle, West Campus Bus Stop, Research Drive Circle and East Campus Bus Stop will be automatically redirected to an alternative pick-up zone nearby.

The policy also affects pick-ups and drop-offs for game days and performances at Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus.

“We’ve talked with Uber and Lyft, and both have incorporated the designated drop-off and pick-up zones into their systems,” said Alison Carpenter, transit planner for the Parking and Transportation Services department. “They’ve said that having a consistent location will also make it easier for drivers to find and connect with their riders.”

The policy change began as an initiative of PTS to improve safety in areas with high pedestrian congestion.

Planning began in the spring, with Duke Student Government, Housing and Residence Life, Duke Police Department, the athletic department

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and Uber and Lyft collaborating to design the strategy.

Carpenter wrote that some of the areas are now restricted because they had been sites of conflict between buses and private cars. Others were restricted simply because of limited space.

Though the strategy was created with safety in mind, some students said they are concerned that the new pick-up locations may in fact be less safe than before.

Senior Ashley Kelley said that redirecting students to less visible areas could put them at greater risk.

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SWIFT from page 1 keeping it open until 10 p.m.,” said Sam Clowney, owner of the new café and many other venues around campus including Café de Novo in the Law School, Bella Union and Café Edens.

“However, such a change would have to take place after a couple of weeks or once we are able to gather enough data on student trends for the café. We would also consult with Duke Dining Services and make changes accordingly.”

At Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee’s meeting Monday, Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey explained that the hours for the café are not set in stone, as dining services are trying to tailor the café’s hours to the needs of people living in the building. Based on the information Coffey has gathered thus far, he said he thinks the shop will be open in the mornings and then late into the evenings.

“There’s not really a need [for the café] in the afternoon hours,” Coffey explained.

The café area—located in the lobby of the building—was acquired with the rest of the apartment complex by the University last January. Before that, the café was a lounge featuring sofas and televisions.

Because merchants-on-points—a program allowing local restaurants to deliver meals on food points—is usually available late, some students question why the café located in their own building is not open during the time that residents are most likely at home or studying right above in the common room.

Junior Ben Yang said that he comes to the eatery every morning for coffee but would love to have it open in the evening for a quick bite.

“I have actually stopped by twice while it was closed,” he said.

Sophomore Helena Guenther noted that having late hours would be more convenient for her busy schedule. She added that more healthy options such as grab-and-go fruit at the café would be better for her diet regime.

Although Clowney said the café has been gaining popularity among students, he added that he plans to introduce several measures to invite student feedback. Clowney is planning to provide survey cards for quick and anonymous feedback in addition to an open house for 300 Swift residents. Until then, he urged students to go directly to the staff to discuss their concerns.

As an alternative, students have access to food trucks outside during the later evening hours.

“I understand that’s going well because they can park right in the front of Swift,” Coffey shared at the DUSDAC meeting.

Although many students were glad that the University opened the café, there are still some who have not yet visited, including junior Yumin Zhang. She said that although she had not yet eaten at the café, she was excited to see what it would offer in the future.

In addition to the café hours, students living in 300 Swift have also expressed frustration with several other issues associated with the newlypurchased residential building. Each apartment contains only one desk, leading some students to search for other suitable nearby study locations.

Other areas of complaint include the wifi—which students had to set up themselves using routers—and cell reception for certain carriers.

The Chronicle Despite possible concerns regarding buses to shuttle students from Swift to West, students have generally been happy with the transportation. Swift-toWest buses run every 15 minutes at peak times of the day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to midnight.

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STATUES from page 1 their town and their city, then who shut the conversation down?” Kelley asked.

Graham gave several examples of state authorities refusing to yield to local pressure to remove a monument. He mentioned statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate officer who murdered Union prisoners of war and was an early figure in the Klu Klux Klan—in Memphis, Tenn. The Tennessee Historical Commission refused to remove this statue, despite the support of Memphis’ mayor and city council.

The conversation also touched upon the value of monuments and memorials as historical lessons, and whether history would disappear as statues are taken down.

“I think monuments are teaching things—I think they’re teaching people that this is not your space,” Kelley said.

“I love history—that’s what I do, but I’m pretty sure I don’t need giant metal statues to do that work.”

Jones added that even if all monuments were removed—something that is in “no danger” of happening—the extraordinary amount of Civil War literature in libraries would still be present to read and teach those who are interested in learning about the history.

As a professor at Johns Hopkins, Jones also spoke about Baltimore’s decision to remove four monuments in August. Although some regarded the move as a sneaky, undercover operation, the removal was in fact the final step of a comprehensive two-year process involving public hearings and expert testimony, she explained.

Jones used Baltimore as a model for how other cities might consider addressing Confederate monuments in the future. Even in settings where one cannot be removed, cities can install other figures near the original statue to create “dueling monuments.”

“The State House in Maryland has Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and then—until recently—Roger Taney,” Jones said.

Douglass and Tubman both escaped from slavery and are considered heroes of the anti-slavery movement.

Taney wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott Supreme Court case, which stated that slaves were not American citizens and had no right to sue in federal court.

Toward the end of the panel, an audience member emphasized the need for more public art to combat the symbolism of Confederate memorials.

She also criticized Duke for hosting the talk on University grounds and “preaching to the choir” instead of venturing into the community to engage more people in the conversation.

Another member of the audience—a former Baltimore resident—noted that many residents had never paid attention to the Taney statue prior to its removal.

She explained that taking down the Taney monument thus encouraged people to talk and think about a topic that they otherwise would ignore.

“There’s a violence that undergirds where these [monuments] come from,” Kelley said. “For me, that violence is still visible.”

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Food Trucks on West Campus The committee also discussed where the food trucks on West Campus will park while the Kilgo parking lot undergoes construction. Construction of the area was supposed to already be completed, but it has only just begun after a permit issue delayed its start, said Aris Marton, assistant director of retail operations for Duke Dining.

“I’m meeting with [Parking and Transportation Services] tomorrow to see what other options are there [for food trucks],” Marton said. “Unfortunately, there aren’t many.”

She explained that food trucks must be parked in an area easily accessible to students and that also has good wifi connection, since the trucks need wifi in order to take food points. Marton mentioned one potential parking spot for the trucks was by the Duke Student Wellness Center, but said she worried about its poor wifi connection and location “off the beaten path.”

Marton said she did not expect the construction to be over before the end of October. She added that an alternative to having a truck on West Campus this semester would be to have two food trucks at 300 Swift.

“I would say we should try to keep one [food truck] on West,” said senior Kate Scandura, a DUSDAC committee member.

There is currently a Qspresso food truck parked at Environment Hall during the week due the closing of Blue Express late last semester. However, Captain Poncho’s food truck, which

served Mexican cuisine, did not renew its contract over the summer.

“As of now we don’t have a truck to fill the spot,” Marton said.

However, Marton did share that several food trucks have contacted her about the possibility of coming to campus.

Awards At the meeting, DUSDAC briefly celebrated the awards Duke won over the summer for its dining. Duke won three awards from the National Association of College and University Food Services—including a gold award for its sustainability procurement plan, as well a gold award in retail and the grand prize for the Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life.

INFERTILITY from page 2 other products into the air of indoor environments.

PFRs are often found in consumer products that contain polyurethane foam, including upholstered furniture, mattress pads, nap mats and car seats, Carignan explained. One PFR in particular—triphenyl phosphate—is used as a replacement for phthalates in nail polish, she added.

With the prevalence of PFRs in everyday objects, Carignan offered a surprisingly simple solution for couples worried about the effects of the flame retardant.

“Couples wishing to reduce their exposure to these chemicals may benefit from avoiding nail polish and washing their hands several times throughout the day, particularly before eating, as previous studies have shown that people

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who wash their hands more frequently have lower levels of these chemicals in their bodies,” Carignan wrote.

Carignan warned that couples looking to purchase products without flame retardants should confirm that a product is “free of flame retardant chemicals” and not “free of harmful flame retardants.”

Products with the latter, she wrote, may still contain PFRs. One product that is still safe to use, though? Yoga mats, Carignan wrote.

Despite several headlines suggesting that yoga mats cause infertility, Carignan emphasized that certain media outlets had confused yoga mats with gym mats.

Yoga mats do not have PFRs, but gym mats and pit cubes do.

“There is no evidence that flame retardants are used in yoga mats; this reporting appears to be a misinterpretation of the term ‘gym mat,’” Carignan wrote.

Even though couples can make efforts to avoid certain products, Stapleton noted that it is largely impossible to avoid exposure to PFRs altogether.

“We’re exposed to them on a daily basis in our homes, cars and work/class environments. And even if someone did want to look for safer alternatives, it’s actually impossible to know where your exposure is coming from,” Stapleton wrote. “PFRs are used in insulation, furniture, textiles and electronics, and labels are not provided on these products to indicate whether PFRs are present or not.”

Despite some limitations, Carignan wrote that the study’s findings could apply to a larger population beyond women with fertility issues.

Future studies may investigate the relationship of PFR exposure and fertility in the general population, she wrote.

They could explore how the PFR affects the contribution of the male partner, since men and women are equally impacted by infertility.

“While results are directly generalizable to the infertile population, they may also apply to all women in general—presuming that their bodies have the same biological response to these chemicals as women undergoing [in-vitro fertilization],” Carignan wrote.

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MEDICINE from page 2 women experience in their pursuit of obtaining the surgery.

While Plemons described trans women who found FFS to be a singularly cathartic and self-actualizing experience, he acknowledged in a question-and-answer session afterwards that many women have considered the procedure “BS.” Members of the audience generally said that they found Plemons’ lecture educational and informative.

Sophomore Wandi Che added that although parts of the lecture were complex and confusing, she recognized the overall value of the lecture’s subject.

Classmate Melanie Carmejo Coffigny, who also attended the talk, said she thought the topic was important matter for LGBQT+ relations in the U.S. “The reason I came is actually because I’m a pre-med student and this is an extremely important,” Coffigny said. “Additionally, I’m also part of the LGBTQ+ community, so this is very central to my identity.”

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With syllabus week long gone, the real first week of school is now halfway over. The part of me that dreads actually putting effort into classes has taken over and paralyzed my brain—a sensation best described as that spinning, rainbow wheel that shows up when a Mac momentarily freezes, buffering right inside my head.

This is problematic to say the least.

Being a senior who’s graduating this fall, I thought that I would be more pumped to finish out the school year and put my best foot forward because my brain would be flashing around pompoms like a cheerleader strung out on coke screaming, It’s the final stretch! Let’s get this done and finish strong. Instead, I dropped a class last week because it was raining and I didn’t want to go outside. Yeah, I’m that pathetic.

But when I see the first years on campus, ID’d by the lanyards

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around their neck notifying the rest of us of their purity and possession of dreams, I envy their boiling motivation. I was once like them. I want to pull a Dementor and just suck all the innocent urge to succeed right out of their naïve, glowing faces. At this point, the only Patronus that could ward me off would be the form of an HR representative offering me a job.

At our first ever Recess meeting last week, we had so many brighteyed, bushy-tailed freshies who wanted to take up a story and try their hand at arts journalism, something that they may not have done before.

It’s a scary proposition, honestly, and I commend everyone for just showing up to the meeting. One freshie, after signing up to write, announced to everyone later on in the meeting that there was a lot of organic chemistry reading assigned this weekend, and she might want to sit this week out. That was really adorable, and I couldn’t help but die of laughter on the inside. I want to record that moment and play it back to her at the end of the school year because she’ll realize how ridiculous of a statement that was. It only gets worse from syllabus week, and you slowly start drowning once you click “enroll” on DukeHub. But her concern was symptomatic of the early strains of debilitating pressure to succeed here at this school. We grow hardened and serious as students and success-climbers to the point that, unless we actively engage with it, creativity atrophies away—a loss of imagination.

Part of why I think my motivation has dropped this semester is that the culture at college, especially here at Duke, is toxic to creativity.

I thrive on being creative (even if my work sucks), primarily through writing, and here, I feel like I can’t even do that unless it’s for a class or for a beloved institution of mine—and even then, the writing is mechanical and devoid of voice, searching for an exemplary grade.

The grind of working for grades, coupled with the latent academic competitiveness and the struggles of social pressure, has placed a hit out on my muses, who are apparently hiding in plain sight.

During my summer internship, I wrote five pages a week, easily. Fastforward to now, and I can barely write this 800-word editor’s note— and trust me, I have the all the time in the world to write. Even as a senior, I can’t escape the creative rigor mortis inflicted by academics and meaningless extracurriculars.

It’s definitely a mindset game.

If you’ve made it this far through my self-righteous, mourning rant on creativity, you have to understand two things: 1) The high of penning something the world has never seen before and having it published or read by people is unmatched. So yeah, I’d like that process to be less hindered. 2) I realize Duke has several creative groups on campus from dance to theater to music, and even if I’m not involved in them, they serve many people well. I know we didn’t come to art school, but seriously, it’s a problem when most performances on campus

The Chronicle are made up of non-students and friends of the performers who have to be there. Advertise some free food or networking opportunities, and those student numbers change a bit. I’ve been covering the arts at Duke and in Durham for three years now, and the lack of student engagement is stunning. There’s a good chance I suck at my job and haven’t covered most arts events, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I wish Duke students were actively more creative. Now, I’m not implying that we lack the propensity to be creative—you can’t get into this school without a modicum of creative ingenuity. What I mean is, I wish Duke students weren’t actively dissuaded to try anything of the sort unless it’s accessible at their fingertips and they don’t have to put in much time and effort… kinda like a Facebook meme group.

This is the Fall Arts Preview.

Inside are articles about some of the most interesting arts events happening at Duke and in Durham this semester written by brave, firsttime writers. We’re literally telling you how you can flex your creative muscles if you’re willing to walk or Uber within a 10-mile radius of your dorm. I’ve had to drag several friends, several times, to arts events all over Durham, and after each time, they always say, “That was really cool. I didn’t know we had stuff like this going on. It really got me out of the Duke brain mindset.”

That’s all I ask, Duke. Make time for creativity, and please, give it chance.

—Dillon Fernando

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‘American Dream’ may be LCD Soundsystem’s strongest work Alex Griffith The Chronicle Barely two weeks after LCD Soundsystem released their first song in more than five years, “Christmas Will Break Your Heart,” David Bowie, the idol of LCD mastermind and sole consistent member James Murphy, died.

Murphy memorializes Bowie on LCD Soundsystem’s new album, “American Dream,” with the closing track “Black Screen,” in which he expresses his profound regret that he failed to make more of their shared time. (Murphy was a collaborator on Bowie’s final album “Blackstar,” released just before he died.) The song, twelve minutes long, is paced by a pattering drum beat and pulsing, booming synthesizer— synthesizers which channel some of the more ambient and inaccessible portions of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy—before it spirals into an ambling keyboard outro that concludes the album.

That Murphy would be so clichéd as to conclude his band’s first studio album in seven years with a borderline sappy ode to one of his heroes (Murphy holds only Lou Reed in higher regard) should not be surprising, as LCD Soundsystem’s discography is constructed in large part upon allusion and homage to legends such as Bowie, Reed, New Order, Talking Heads, Can, Brian Eno and a myriad of other artists.

What makes Murphy’s clichés so audacious, however, is how he can fall victim to them for four straight albums and still make them sound fresh and new—even after leaving his listeners

with seven years to ruminate on them.

On “American Dream,” LCD does not change, retains the same magic that gave the band’s first three albums such acclaim.

The opener, “Oh Baby,” wastes no time in hitting the listener hard with heartbreak and manages to incorporate some of the best aspects of two of LCD’s most (rightfully) famous songs, “All My Friends” and “Someone Great.” After a minimalist industrial drum part that further simplifies the famous twonote piano intro to “All My Friends,” rich synthesizer trills back Murphy’s heartfelt vocal—at the end of the song, “[His] love life stumbles home.” Rich and plainly sung so as to make its lyrics universal, it could have been lifted straight out of the opening credits of a John Hughes movie.

In a seven years of absence, Murphy seems only to have grown more and more self-referential, as several songs on American Dream echo earlier LCD classics. “Tonite,” one of the most conventional dance songs on the album, has the same intentionally shallow sound and almost spoken word vocal as “Pow Pow,” off 2010’s “This Is Happening,” all over gaseous bass synth that hearkens back to the band’s eponymous 2005 debut.

Better yet, “Other Voices” sounds like “Sound of Silver”’s “Us V Them,” and channels the same paranoia. Murphy repeatedly rasps a pseudo-chorus of “You’re still a pushover for passionate people” over cowbell and blistering synthesizer until more-or-less full-time band member Nancy Whang delivers a soulless monologue that sounds like

Nina Wilder | The Chronicle Pictured in May at Shaky Knees Fest, LCD Soundsystem return with “American Dream.”

a third-person narration of the band’s break-out hit, “Losing My Edge.”

Other songs seem to tread new ground before retreating to familiar sounds, with the ominous “How Do You Sleep?,” a taunt ostensibly aimed at the co-founder of Murphy’s label DFA Records, Tim Goldsworthy. Over post punk-flavored tribal drums, sparkling arpeggiator and tremolo strings, Murphy screams about—what else?—his regrets and memories of a past acquaintance.

Eventually, booming synths enter the song before a clattery, snare-heavy drum track lifted straight out of “Dance Yrself Clean” slaps itself into shape to turn the nine-minute opus into a dance track.

Other highlights include the single “Call the Police,” a bass guitar-driven song that sounds like the natural evolution of some of the shorter punk

songs found on the band’s debut. A cascading guitar line anchors the song, while Murphy’s admittedly high-andlow lyrics reference Neil Young (“We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nowhere”), wryly comment on gender roles (“Wear your makeup like a man”) and questionably mention how arguing about Jewish history “gives him the blues.”

Despite the familiarity of sounds on the album, Murphy’s infectious hooks and wry lyrics give new life to what could easily have been a mailed-in, retread reunion, and result in what may be the band’s strongest work to date. The same LCD Soundsystem that left the public eye six years ago fell right back into what they were famous for doing with “American Dream,” and hardly missed a step.

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“This may well be the best Northwestern team we’ve played, starting with their defense,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re physical and experienced, they’ve got [defensive backs] back in the right places.... They’re very familiar with their personnel, they’re physical and can run on defense, and they’re very well-coached.”

The Wildcats’ rushing defense was much more vulnerable last year,

Thursday night at 8:30, the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots— led by Tom Brady and his formidable cast of playmakers—will take on receiver Tyreek Hill and the far less talented Kansas City Chiefs’ supporting cast. The coaching genius of Bill Belichick versus Andy Reid, who has somehow used all of his timeouts before the game even started. An indomitable football force versus a team waiting for an excuse to start its rookie quarterback.

You can tell where this is going. The NFL’s season opener is still a day away, yet both of these teams have been under the spotlight for the whole offseason— further proof that the NFL has cemented itself as a true year-round news fixture.

Here’s the problem: No matter how much the league and its affiliates attempt to sanitize its image, the NFL is becoming a hard product to enjoy.

Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league office announced that there would be more emphasis on allowing players to express themselves on the field prior to this season, as touchdown dances and freedom to choose cleat color will be permitted—within reason.

That minute amendment to the rulebook now constitutes earth-shattering NFL news in the league’s eyes.

Never mind that this is a league that still employs Geno Smith while Colin Kaepernick drifts aimlessly from tryout to tryout. Yes, the same Smith that missed half a season after a teammate punched him in the jaw is on an

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Ben Leonard The Chronicle In its last two meetings with Northwestern, Duke has been able to mostly declaw the Wildcats’ offense.

But that hasn’t been enough for the Blue Devils to finish them.

Northwestern and its stout defense have limited Duke to just 23 points combined in the last two years, and will bring an even deeper secondary back to Durham Saturday. The Wildcats are fresh off a 31-20 win against Nevada in Week 1, in which their defense tightened up and gave up just three points in the second half.

And it’s not like Northwestern hasn’t had its way with parts of the Blue Devil defense either—quarterback Clayton Thorson torched the Blue Devils for 320 yards passing and three touchdowns in a 24-13 victory last season.

“We can’t have wasted plays and turnovers against a team like Northwestern or you’ll find yourself behind because they’re a very experienced, highly explosive offensive themselves,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’ll probably come down to the fourth quarter for either team if we both play well.”

The Wildcats have one of the best secondaries in the Big Ten, and will get cornerback Keith Watkins back from a season-ending injury he suffered during training camp last year. Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald said in the offseason he has NFL-level talent and is

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Jack Dolgin | Chronicle File Photo Redshirt junior quarterback Clayton Thorson torched the Blue Devil secondary for 320 yards and three touchdowns last season.

part of a deep and talented group that includes junior All-Big Ten cornerback Montre Hartage and senior safety Godwin Igwebuike, a potential early 2018 NFL Draft selection.

They didn’t showcase the extent of that ability for much of 2016 with Watkins and fellow starter Matthew Harris out for the season, ranking fifth in the conference in passing defense, but they were still able to hold Daniel Jones to a QBR of just 28.3.

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Juan Bermudez | The Chronicle Brian White scored his third goal of the season in between two second-half weather delays, but Duke could not hold on for the win.

Following a tougher than expected game against High Point Friday, the Blue Devils wanted to make quick work of another nonconference opponent.

Things did not go according to plan.

In a game marred by a pair of 30-minute delays due to severe weather, the Blue Devils tied Presbyterian 1-1 in overtime Tuesday PRES 1 night at Koskinen DUKE 1 Stadium. The match also featured a red card for each squad and a troubling reappearance of Duke’s inability to finish chances from last year.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed not to get the win tonight,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said. “Especially being 1-0 up and a man up.”

The Blue Devils (3-0-1) had found no

issues scoring goals during the first few games of this year’s campaign, racking up eight in their first three games, but had difficulty finding a foothold against the Blue Hose.

“We created a lot of chances,” Kerr said. “We have to do a better job finishing with the last pass.”

The first half was a sloppy affair with Duke largely dominating possession but unable unable to create any real chances with it.

The best opportunity of the first half for either team came in the 32nd minute following a foul, when Presbyterian defender Jacob Luedtke placed a free kick from 25 yards out toward the top left corner, forcing Duke freshman goalkeeper Will Pulisic to make a leaping save to knock it out for a corner.

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But the Blue Devils were not able to crack their defensive front that bottled up Duke’s rushing offense to just 117 yards last year. The Blue Devils will have a more experienced offensive line to block for Shaun Wilson and redshirt freshman Brittain Brown, who gained 120 yards on 10 carries against N.C. Central

Duke’s offense was also hindered by turnovers in last year’s matchup, coughing the ball up twice near the red zone.

“We’ve just got to finish drives and take some more shots,” Duke wide receiver Johnathan Lloyd said. “We’re so much better now than we were at this point last year.”

The Wildcats might be able to say the same about their offense—Thorson has another year of development under his belt after a breakout sophomore season, as does running back Justin Jackson, statistically the most elusive runner in the country last year.

Jack Dolgin | Chronicle File Photo Senior running back Justin Jackson was a first-team All-Big Ten selection last season and has more than 4,000 career rushing yards.

NFL from page 7 NFL roster, but Kaepernick is a “distraction.”

The Kaepernick situation is one of a number of reasons being an NFL fan has become challenging.

When it comes to the games that are actually nationally televised, commitment to player safety seems like lip service. 2015 NFL MVP Cam Newton had to endure several helmet-to-helmet hits that went unflagged in last season’s opener.

Each game features an ad spot with the NFL thanking its fans, because the game wouldn’t be possible without its crazy devotees.

Where was that gratitude when the Rams, Chargers and Raiders decided to relocate to Los Angeles or Las Vegas, thus ripping out the still-beating hearts of their long-suffering, but loyal, fanbases?

Add in the Ezekiel Elliott controversy, the rare domestic violence case that doesn’t get swept under the rug because the player in question a star running back for “America’s Team,” the Dallas Cowboys, and it’s hard not the watch the NFL without feeling… unclean. Elliott’s six-game ban was ultimately upheld Tuesday night, yet he will still play this weekend vs. the Giants—and on primetime Sunday Night Football nonetheless.

Worse yet, this culture seems to be permeating every level of the sport. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League thought they could get away with hiring Art Briles to a coaching position last week. That same Art Briles looked the other way while his players at Baylor were committing egregious acts of harassment and sexual assault. Whoops? (It’s also worth noting that Duke will play Baylor this season, and many of those accused student-athletes will take the field).

Don’t get me wrong, there is a great deal

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that is still uncommon and worth celebrating about football. JJ Watt ran 40 yards in 4.84 seconds at nearly 300 pounds, and raised $18 million for Hurricane Harvey relief in Houston. That combination of traits is not of this Earth.

For my part, I have an emotional attachment to football.

It’s the first sport I fell in love with watching, and now, I have a sports column, so you can do the math there. I’ve watched every draft since 2011, when my hometown Carolina Panthers selected Newton first overall. I never feel more American than when I sit down to watch all three Thanksgiving games back-to-back once a year. That’s why I can’t tear myself away from the television on Sunday afternoons so easily.

Although I support most players in this game—gifted men trying to use their talents to make a living the best they can—it feels like more and more of a chore to try and justify how I can support an enterprise

As they did all of last season, the Blue Devils struggled to avoid big plays against the Wildcats, yielding touchdown passes of 58, 44, and 26 yards. Slowing big plays from Jackson and Northwestern’s offense—which includes the mobile Thorson—will be crucial for Duke to get over the hump.

“We have to tackle. Wrap up, gang tackle,” cornerback Byron Fields said about the team’s plan to slow Jackson.

“Everyone’s got to join the party, all 11 guys. Tackle him, make sure he’s down.

Because if you give him a seam, he’ll cause some damage.”

After a slow start to the season that included scoring seven points in a loss to FCS Illinois State, Northwestern’s offense improved in 2016, helping it nearly knock off eventual College Football Playoff semifinalist Ohio State and topple No. 23 Pittsburgh in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Although the Wildcats have been potent on offense at times, they certainly weren’t consistent last year. They scored 29 or more points five times, but only scored 12 against Minnesota and seven against then-No. 8 Wisconsin.

But what they lack in consistency, they make up for in reliability. Northwestern was in the top 14 nationally in turnover margin, and Thorson threw just nine interceptions.

“The challenge they bring is making you beat them,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re not going to beat themselves. They’re a great team and they’re a great test for us.” that very obviously doesn’t care about the welfare of its players, or the behaviors that it tacitly supports.

I’ll try my best to divorce myself from my favorite brand of casual violence, but I’m not entirely sure I can make that promise.

And if conflicted people like me are still so wedded to the game, that must mean that there will be a market for football when and if the NFL decides to take an actual stand on behalf of its players and the social values it ought to represent.

So crack down consistently on assault, flag illegal hits on defenseless players, let players use what natural remedies they can as opposed to addictive painkillers, and just let Antonio Brown twerk. I’ll contribute by sending a signal to the league, eschewing a game a week in favor of seeing the outside world on a Sunday afternoon.

Besides, what’s the point of watching this season anyway? The Patriots are steamrolling everyone.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been criticized for how he is handling the league’s head injuries and domestic violence issues.

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Get rid of the cupcakes The Bull City Gridiron Classic has never been primarily about football.

When Duke and N.C. Central first met in 2009, the city the two universities share was just two years removed from the resolution of the Duke lacrosse case that bitterly divided Durham. The game was a small but symbolic way for two fan bases and schools—the elitist Northern prep school kids against a historically black university located across town—to come together in one stadium. Maybe the game still serves some of that purpose, though the wounds are not as fresh anymore.

I certainly hope it helps in that sense, because from my viewpoint of the teams’ sixth matchup Saturday, it didn’t appear to make either squad better at football.

The Blue Devils have beat the Eagles by at least 35 points all six times and have outscored them 209-13 in four games since 2013. Duke led 47-7 at halftime last week, when most fans were headed to the exits already, and it was impossible to tell how good the Blue Devils were.

Take the passing game, for example, since throwing more deep balls was a point of emphasis in the offseason. Daniel Jones did connect with Aaron Young down the field for a 54-yard touchdown in the first half, but there were no defenders anywhere near Young. It did not have to be a perfect throw, and Young slowed up a few steps to catch it. Would that same play have been executed and completed against a better secondary? I don’t know.

N.C. Central also made things worse for itself throughout the night, hitting rock bottom when it snapped the ball over quarterback Micah Zanders’ head into the end zone to gift Duke two points.

The Blue Devils eventually scored their most points in 68 years by hitting 60 in the second half, when they were waiting for the game to end with their second- and thirdstringers on the field.

Last year, Duke was in front 49-0 at halftime, but the success didn’t do much to prepare the Blue Devils for the rest of the year. They turned around the next week and lost at home to Wake Forest.

On-field improvement is admittedly not the only reason to play a football game, and Duke is not alone—most schools play one game like this every year. College athletics is a big business, and these cakewalks help both teams involved make money.

Teams in the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision, which includes Duke, often pay second-tier teams in the Football Championship Subdivision like the Eagles to come play on their home fields. FCS schools are at a competitive disadvantage with only 63 scholarships allotted for football—FBS teams get 85—and most FCS programs outside the top 10 or so in the rankings are not in the same league as power-conference FBS teams.

FCS teams occasionally pull off shocking upsets—UNLV paid Howard

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle N.C. Central has lost its last four games to Duke by a combined score of 209-13, with the Blue Devils using their second-stringers in the second half for most of those contests.

CUPCAKES from page 8 $600,000 to come to Las Vegas and win 43-40 last weekend—but most of the time, they get beat by about 50 and take their lofty paydays back home to support their entire athletic departments. Duke does not disclose details of the contract it has with N.C. Central, but it likely includes a one-time fee as well as some ticket revenue sharing.

In addition to the ticket and concessions revenues FBS teams get from an extra home game, they usually get what amounts to an automatic victory, which gets them one win closer to bowl eligibility. FBS teams need six wins—some exceptions are made for teams with five—to get to a bowl, which means more money, and they are allowed to use one win against an FCS opponent toward that total.

The Blue Devils have one more game

on their contract with the Eagles next September before turning their sights to FCS foes North Carolina A&T and Liberty in future years. Duke used to have to worry about FCS opponents in the dark days of the 2000s, losing twice to Richmond, but those future games can all probably be chalked up as easy wins.

Besides Duke, more than 90 of the 130 FBS teams have an FCS opponent on their schedule this year, but it does not have to be that way. The Big Ten has a rule for competitive balance that its teams cannot host FCS schools if they have five home conference games on their schedule, and I think other conferences should follow suit.

Outlawing these games would remove an important revenue stream for small FCS schools. But there has to be a better way for them to make money than the current system, which forces players to get blown out by physically stronger teams once a year for money they will never see.

delay. The Blue Devils seized the initiative and immediately created several good chances, including one in the 47th minute for senior Cameron Moseley. The forward received a beautiful defense-splitting pass that put him one-on-one with the Blue Hose keeper Connor Behrend but his shot was directly at the senior.

Following another 30-minute delay, Duke finally struck in the 56th minute after Presbyterian defender Victor Menudier saw a red card for a hard tackle on Moseley. The ensuing free kick was floated in by senior Carter Manley, deflected off a few players and fell perfectly to senior Brian White, who powered it into the bottom left corner for his third goal of the season.

The Blue Hose (1-2-1) had barely threatened in the second half when a sudden mistimed tackle from Duke freshman defender Matthias Frick while attempting to block a shot gave them a penalty kick. Frick also saw red for the challenge, leaving the two teams to play 10on-10 for the remainder of the match.

The penalty kick was launched into the bottom right corner by Luedtke, sending Pulisic the wrong way to tie the score.

Duke pressured for the rest of regulation, but was unable to find a breakthrough despite creating multiple golden chances and racking up its shot total. The Blue Devils ended the match with a 20-11 advantage in shots as well as a whopping corners.

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The pattern continued in the two 15-minute overtime sessions, as Moseley spurned a clear-cut chance to win in the 103rd minute. A cross found its way to his feet through two defenders right in front of the goal, but he smashed a volley directly at Behrend.

Duke mounted a lot of pressure on the Presbyterian goal for the remainder of the overtime period, but could not find a way through thanks largely to the great play of Behrend, who finished the match with eight saves.

“Their goalkeeper had the game of his life,” Kerr said.

Duke will be disappointed not to get the win despite controlling the match, but will not have time to look backwards.

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staple of the first-year experience here at Duke is dining at the beloved freshman dining hall, Marketplace.

The first-year meal plan is designed so that our transition from enjoying meals at home to eating at Duke is guided by an access to a variety of meals from several buffets and the ability to dine exclusively with the freshmen community.

This wholesome and communal experience shifts drastically sophomore year, when almost all our meals come from West Union and are eaten in a to-go container in the middle of our 10:05 physics lecture. Unfortunately, alternatives to West Union are inaccessible to most students who do not have access to pots and pans in their dorms. Those who do possess pots and pans face a limited assortment of fresh produce from the vendors on campus.

There are tangible health and lifestyle issues that stem from the eating habits that the dining plan currently encourages.

Luckily, there are also tangible solutions and long-term benefits.

Although living on campus affords us access to over 35 different venues, many

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students on campus have dietary restrictions and allergies that greatly limit their choices.

Other students are confined to the standard dining plan due to their financial aid and thus must sacrifice their personal tastes for the most economic and least expensive meals. A small salad may be the healthier option but a less expensive and heartier meal will always be the choice of a student who is limited to a daily quota of 25 food points.

While economic decision making remains a useful life-skill for adulthood, sacrificing

Editorial Board our physical health because of financial circumstances should not be our greatest concern during our time at Duke.

Moreover, our dining experience at Duke does not only impact us physically. Most students on the dining plan are basically eating out for two meals on a daily basis while the average American eats out only about four meals a week. We are accustomed to glancing at a menu and swiping our Duke cards, instead of grocery shopping and

taking the time to prepare our meals. The fast-paced lifestyle at Duke encourages and even demands this out of us. However, when we graduate and are no longer bound by a meal plan, most of us will need to become acquainted with the realities of cooking and preparing our meals at home.

The autonomy to eat what we can and want to eat at an affordable price can be granted to us by simply cooking in our dorms. As an alternative to the current dining plan, every dorm could provide an allotment of basic cookware and seasonings, which would be supplied by RAs to reduce theft and misplacement. The three main convenience stores on campus should provide a larger array of fresh produce, and Duke should encourage and foster more cooking and communal eating within West Campus dorms throughout the semester.

At a university as diverse as this one, food has the power to bring people closer together, and the act of preparing food in a domestic setting is a grounding and centering one. Duke is our home, and what we eat is just as important as what we study.

Please give us pots and pans.

Letter to the editor

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e, Duke students are citizens, residents, domestic, international, documented, undocumented and DACAmented. We encompass a vast amount of nationalities, ethnicities, races, and cultures.

We are Duke.

We are American.

Today, President Trump has made a decision that affects Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and/or their families. Yet before we delve into how President Trump’s decision affects these individuals and those of us that are not DACA beneficiaries, it is important to acknowledge the plight that undocumented youth have endured for years. These individuals have been in the United States long before Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was issued.

DACA exists because of those DREAMERS who were actively engaging all over the country, pushing congress to pass the dream act, and that their resiliency and efforts are what led president Obama to pass DACA. As students and citizens of the American society we live in, DACA and undocumented youth are and have been the same as any other youth.

What separated them was their inability to obtain driver’s licenses, a work permit to apply to certain scholarships, or to travel among other aspects that are integral to any person’s interaction with society. Today, there are 800,000 individuals, 27,000 of them in North Carolina, that trusted the government with fingerprints, addresses, and other personal information in exchange for

protection under DACA. As Duke students, we have a responsibility to uphold an environment that is conducive to an experience of learning, engagement, and enrichment. We have had a history of standing as an ally to undocumented students, pushing for undocumented students to be considered as domestic students, and organizing a petition and rally to make Duke a sanctuary campus in Fall of 2016.

Here on our campus, issues of immigration affect students from all over the world, whether it is students who were born outside the United States and have been living here undocumented since their early childhood, or it is international students who come to find themselves with little or no option to stay in this country after their education is complete and exercise their many talents and skills in the workforce. As a community that is disproportionately affected by President Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric and actions, now more than ever, we need to stand together and be resilient.

For those impacted by the decision that was made today, we want you to know that you are not alone. You belong here. You are part of the Duke community, and we are committed to making sure that Duke continues to be a university where you feel welcomed.

We are here to stay, and we will persevere.

In Solidarity, Elizabeth Barahona, Daisy Almonte, Axel Herrera, Alejandra Aguilar, Norma de Jesus, Maryam Asenuga and Ivan Robles

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n the midst of the GOP health care debacle, public officials on the Democratic side of the aisle are beginning to take advantage of the situation and praise radical alternatives to our current health care system. When speaking about the future of health care in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Senator Elizabeth Warren asserted her position saying, “Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.” Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for “Medicare for All,” and is planning to introduce a bill to Senate floor in the upcoming weeks. During his 2016 presidential bid, he provided a detailed, yet very costly plan on his website.

Here is the bad news for the left wingers of the Democratic Party: when it comes to advocating for universal health care in the United States, talk is cheap. If implementing single payer health care was so simple, Colorado and Vermont would’ve succeeded in their recent attempts to do so. With momentum in its state legislature, California is next on the list to try.

If California was a country, its

already burdens citizens with a top marginal tax rate of 13.3 percent—the highest in the entire country. Data Analysis from CoreLogic concluded that for every 2 home buyers coming into the state from 2000 to 2015, 5 are selling and moving. Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic. even said to CNN, “The middle and lower middle can no longer afford to live in California.” In 2015, California had the largest number of out-migrants across the country. How will California keep its middle class from leaving?

What doctors will even want to stay if the state tells them how much they can make and who they can treat? Paying for universal health care surely won’t help.

Furthermore, the Public Policy Institute of California found in May that 65 percent of all adults in California supported SB 562’s single-payer insurance system. However, that percentage dropped by over 20 points when those polled were informed that this system would require raising taxes. On the surface, single payer may seem attractive. However, when people are informed about the actual bill that has to be paid, support seems

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What about the lacrosse case?

t is always interesting to notice how a name like Duke travels.

Late last year, I travelled to Gore, a rural town in the South Island of New Zealand affectionately named “The Brown Trout Capital of the World.”

Even in Gore, people had heard of Duke.

I went to Gore to document a gathering for men to help stop domestic violence in their communities. The weekend retreat attracted a wide range of male-identified folk. There were biker missionaries with Bible verses threaded white into leather jacket sleeves, caressing monstrous Harleys like you would a pet dog, reformed gangsters identifiable by snatches of conversation in which they talked about old haunts, loners in weathered flannel that sat on the edges of the group, fiddling with the zips on their sleeping bags and staring into the ground.

A lot of the men were ex-convicts who were working to reconcile identifying as both perpetrators and

Mitchell Siegel

Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi

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approximately $2.5 trillion economy would rank directly behind the United Kingdom as sixth largest in the world. Thus, California has the capacity to experiment with a single payer system. However, the state must be prepared to pay the bill and displace the private insurance market.

The Healthy California Act (SB 562), a bill to implement a single payer system that passed California’s State Senate, would cost anywhere from $331 to $400 billion dollars, which is more than the state’s entire budget. Under the bill, those receiving private insurance, employer-based coverage, Medicare, and Medicaid would all lose their existing coverage and be subject to the centralized state system. Illegal immigrants will also be eligible for coverage. Copays and deductibles would be prohibited, and all 40 million California residents would be eligible to see a specialist without a referral.

There’s one tiny issue. How does California come up with sufficient revenue to pay for it? Total state spending for fiscal year 2017-2018 is projected to be $183 billion.

The Wall Street Journal estimates that a single payer system could increase the size of the state budget by 110 percent. State legislative analysis proposes that California would have to implement a $200 billion tax increase. The other $200 billion would come from federal, state, and local funds already in place that include funding from Medicare and MediCal (the state’s system of Medicaid). The Legislative analysis suggests that the extra $200 billion could be raised by implementing a 15 percent payroll tax. Californians would thus experience a tax increase coupled with the 15.3 percent they already lose from their paychecks due to federal taxes (FICA and MEDFICA).

A study from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, which projects that the bill would cost $330 billion, says that $225 billion would come from Medicare and MediCal, while another $106 billion would be generated by a 2.3 percent gross receipts tax on businesses, a 2.3 percent sales tax, and tax credits for families that are currently qualified under Medi-Cal. The sales tax would exempt basic needs including food, housing and utilities.

One thing the state doesn’t take into account is its diminishing popularity as a desirable residential territory. California

victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Many of the men used the retreat as an opportunity to grieve, share, and productively come to terms with trauma.

Others reacted in different ways. For Sean, a small verbose man who selfidentified as a devil’s advocate, it was an opportunity to rally against the “global oppression of men.” Sean was thrilled to hear that I studied at Duke. “Ah, the Duke lacrosse case,” Sean said. “The apotheosis of political correctness.

Those boys were the real victims of all of this rape hysteria.”

I was reminded of this moment when I overheard a throwaway response to gender equity efforts on campus, which also mirrored responses I had previously heard in P.A.C.T. trainings, the Women’s Center bystander-intervention program.

In my experiences inside and outside of Duke during the past four years, I have learned of the 2006 Duke lacrosse case– in which members of the lacrosse team were accused and later exonerated of rape charges by a stripper they had hired and racially abused– as a byword for false rape narratives.

“What about the lacrosse case?” is a question that people, typically men who presumably do not support sexual assault, ask to make a counterpoint in discussions about gender-based violence, ostensibly about due process.

For all the concerns with due process, questions like these are often implicated in a different sort of political quest; asked mostly by men and almost never by women. Statistics show that the majority of sexual violence is committed by men against women and people of other genders. To cite the lacrosse case in the context of this reality is to essentially worry yourself with the welfare of men and to make certain presumptions about the hysterical lying of women. It is to violently shift the empathic center of the conversation from survivors of sexual assault to their perpetrators.

Events like the recent white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, emphasize how crucial epistemological Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity sophomore. His strategies of memory and history are column, “truth be told,” runs on alternate in the resurgence of explicit white Wednesdays. to dwindle dramatically as it did in both Vermont and Colorado.

Former Governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin realized back in 2014 that the 11.5 percent payroll tax and exorbitant premiums required to pay for Green Mountain Care, Vermont’s universal health care initiative, would cause immense “economic disruption” for businesses, families, and the state’s economy. Pre-existing law puts Vermont on track to collect $1.7 billion in tax revenue.

However, green Mountain Care would’ve needed $2.6 billion in additional revenue provided by a 151 percent increase in state taxes. Green Mountain Care would’ve also amounted to a 16 percent cut in payments to doctors and hospitals.

Colorado miserably failed in its efforts to establish ColoradoCare. Amendment 69 was a public referendum to establish single payer health care in the state via constitutional amendment. After the 2016 election, a whopping 2,065,362 (78.9 percent of the vote) voted no. ColoradoCare would have had an estimated $25 billion annual cost that would’ve been paid for by a 10 percent state income tax hike. This would have tripled the rate to 14.63 percent and made it the highest in the country. The non-partisan Tax Foundation summarized all the issues with the plan with this: “In 2019, the first possible year of ColoradoCare’s health care delivery system existing, the tax is estimated to generate $25 billion. This would almost double Colorado’s general fund budget, which is $27 billion in 2016. The revenue raised from the new tax will be combined with Colorado’s federal Medicaid matching contribution to fund ColoradoCare’s $36 billion annual budget, but those funding sources are likely inadequate.

Even in the first year, the Colorado Health Institute estimates that ColoradoCare would have a deficit of $253 million, suggesting that the 10 percent tax rate is set too low.”

So much for that.

Secretary Price should let California experiment just to prove the infeasibility of such a proposal. That might ensure that single payer never gains any more momentum in the United States ever again.

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nationalism. There is no denying the intellectual contribution the Duke lacrosse case has made for far right political movements, as Sean, our devil’s advocate, or Stephen Miller, can attest. The case has become a touchstone for those who claim that political correctness has gone mad; it seems to have confirmed a fantasy for people who have long suspected that the victories of civil rights and feminist movements– which legitimated the claims of women and people of color to basic personhood– were conducted to oppress white men.

The apparent racial and genderbased suffering of white men appears to be the latest and most meaningless political cause to rally around. Men’s rights movements have been called the gateway drug to white supremacy, and it isn’t difficult to see the continuities between their approaches. Both involve identity building of privileged groups centered on an imagined oppression.

Locally, nationally and globally, more

and more men are becoming convinced of the victimhood of their gender, a victimhood that is largely manufactured and grounded in the myths such as false rape epidemics.

These connections feel important to me because they are part of Duke’s legacy. This is how the Duke name travels, from Durham to the Brown Trout Capital of the World, and it is also how Duke is remembered. This is not to say that people who reference the lacrosse case are white supremacists or misogynists, but rather an to take an opportunity to explore continuities in the meaning behind a question: who it centers, who it may neglect, what type of worldviews produce and thrive upon its asking.

I know that I too have wondered about false rape accusations, and I also know that this has been an instinctual response for many of my maleidentifying friends and peers who have been captured, to varying degrees, by the fear of being wrongly accused. The men’s rights movement has been largely successful in disseminating a narrative which construes the threat of false rape accusations for men as one that is as grave, likely, and urgent as the welldocumented threat of sexual violence for women.

In all of this, possibly the greatest tragedy in this legacy is that Duke has become a byword for false rape allegations while hundreds of students of all genders have experienced sexual violence on this campus with no recourse. In 2015-16, 238 students made contact with support services at the Women’s Center regarding an experience of sexual misconduct. Out of all of these students, only sixteen cases pushed to proceed with a formal investigation. Only five cases resulted in severe disciplinary sanctions of suspension or expulsion. For all those men concerned with due process, it seems a shame that the discrepancies between these figures are not more of an issue.

Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi is a senior and founding member of the Duke Men’s Project.

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DURHAM from page 1 Regional Library.

The early voting period for the primary will begin Sept. 21 and end Oct. 7, with the election falling on Oct. 10. Early voting for the general municipal election—which takes place Nov. 7—will run from Oct. 19 to Nov. 4, according to the Board of Election’s website.

Students can register on-site during early voting and will only need their Duke student IDs to do so.

The IDs can serve as students proof-of-residence because the University supplies the Board of Elections with lists of students’ information, Bowens explained. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, confirmed that the University will provide the necessary information to enable this process for the upcoming election.

Gunther Peck, associate professor of history and public policy, explained in an email that students

who hope to vote on the day of the election will have to go to their corresponding precincts. East Campus residents will be able to vote at George Watts Elementary School if they are registered to vote before election day, while West and Central Campus residents vote at the Patterson Recreation Center.

“Students need to update their registration information to make sure they vote at the correct precinct,” Peck wrote. “In the last election, twothirds of all provisional ballots, those cast at the wrong precinct, were thrown out by the Republicanled County Board of Elections statewide.”

As for voter turnout, Bowens said he hopes the fact that the races are being contested will lead to higher voter turnout than in previous municipal elections. In the 2015 primary, less than eight percent of registered Durham voters cast ballots, and less than 11 percent voted in that year’s November election.

“The turnout wasn’t significantly high when you compare that against the [presidential] general election last year, when we were looking at close to 70

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percent turnout,” he said. “So typically the trend is that there is a huge dip in voting for municipal years, but we think that since this is the first election since 1997 that we have a non-incumbent mayor running on the ballot, we think that will increase turnout.”

The dip in participation between national and local elections is not the only statistical disparity.

Hillygus said there is a “really huge” gap between voter participation among young people and older people.

One reason for this, especially among college students, may be difficulties in registering to vote.

“In the United States, because we have to register to vote, that registration barrier becomes far more of an obstacle for young people,” she said. “Every time they move, they’re supposed to update their address, and that can get complicated for college students in particular making decisions about whether you register to vote back home.”

Hillygus also noted that for municipal and state elections, there is not the same barrage of media attention that accompanies presidential elections.

In addition, groups that work to mobilize young voters for national elections tend to be absent for local races. “[Young people’s] consumption of news is not coming from talking with other parents at a PTA meeting. It’s not coming from talking with your neighbors about the city services,” she said. “People’s connection to the local community is really focused on Duke, so their connection to politics is far more national for college students.”

Some organizations are planning events on campus or organizing trips to off-campus events leading up to the elections. Duke’s POLIS center is hosting a forum for first-years to learn about voting in Durham at Gilbert-Addoms Down Under Sept.

20, and transportation is being offered to and from a mayoral candidates’ forum hosted by the Sanford School of Public Policy at City Hall Sept. 14.

Neither Duke Democrats or Duke College Republicans has endorsed candidates in the elections, but both are advocating for students to participate in the races.

Senior Colin Duffy, president of Duke College Republicans, wrote in an email that it is important for students to get involved in their local government because it “has the biggest direct impact on their day to day life.”

“We really want to encourage Duke students to vote,” said senior Annie Lo, a vice president of Duke Democrats. “Because it’s such a privilege that we all have to become a part of the Durham community for the four years we’re here, we want Duke students to feel as involved as possible, especially because they are definitely affected by the outcome of these races.”

UBER from page 3 for students to be waiting alone in the dark for a strange car if they’re not around other people.

Those [original] areas are where security is, and that’s where the most blue lights are,” Kelley said, referring to the outdoor phones scattered around campus that dial directly to Duke police.

Carpenter responded to such concerns by claiming that the newly-designated zones are the closest possible options to the now-restricted areas, and also ensure vehicular and pedestrian access, visibility and proximity to security.

Kelley also pointed out a general lack of awareness of Duke’s new policy. She said the University must do more to inform students and drivers about athe site changes.

“I haven’t heard about this yet, and my boyfriend’s an Uber driver. If he hasn’t heard about it, then it hasn’t been communicated to the local driving community yet,” Kelley said.

Sophomore Ivan Robles agreed with the new policy, but likewise believed the administration had the responsibility of advertising it to students.

“I think [the policy] is a good idea in response to all the congestion at bus stops and the potential for accidents, especially during sporting events,” Robles said. “My only concern is that students will not be aware.”

The policy is already in place, with a grace period extending until Sep. 18. Thereafter, drivers who violate the new rules will receive a $250 fine. It remains unclear whether the person ordering the ride will also be penalized.