Rival Spring 2014

R IVAL celebrating the Duke & UNC-CH connection

THE AFTERMATH

See the post-game pictures of celebration and sadness after the two games UNC-CH and Duke played against one another this season - 26

STUDENT DJ’s

SENIOR BUCKET LIST

Meet student DJ’s who study by day and work the spin table by night - 18

Things every UNC Chapel Hill and Duke student must do before graduation - 29

Volume 9 • Issue 4 • SPRING 2014

a letter from the editor

staff Editor in Chief

spring issue 2014

Photo Editor Art Director Social Media/PR Treasurer

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CH Moira Gill, UNC-CH Ilana Wolpert, Duke Eric Kline, UNC-CH

UNC-CH Writers

Caroline Leland Erin Kolstad Mark Dawson

Duke Writers

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can remember every detail of the day I was accepted to Duke University: where I was (gawking at a movie filming location in Manhattan), what I was wearing (a poorly chosen velour sweat suit), what I did when I found out (threw my phone and ran around a hotel lobby). I was obviously ecstatic but also extremely nervous. As a born and raised Floridian, I thought of J.J. Redick as solely a player for the Orlando Magic and firmly believed that the only important sports rivalry existed between UF and FSU. The night before I flew to Duke to begin my freshman year, a friend already in college passed along a piece of wisdom to me: “Overtime, you’ll develop a life at Duke while still keeping your life at home. Except by then, you’ll begin to call Duke your home.” He was right – Duke has become my home. And I’m just as torn to leave it as I was to leave my first home in Florida. But such is life – as soon

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as I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in one place, it’s suddenly time to go.

But as happy as I am to say goodbye to living in a dorm room and eating Pitchfork Provisions’ chopped Mexican salads for every meal, I am definitely sadder to say goodbye to the Duke moments that can never be replaced. There aren’t enough pages in this magazine to list them all, but they include risking hypothermia to see the greatest basketball game of my life, 4 A.M. life talks with the Notorious B.I.G. blasting from coffee shop speakers, and being a secret Tar Heel fan as editor of a magazine that has literally changed my life. Thank you for an incredible four years, Duke.

You’ll always be my home.

See you soon, Lauren Paylor Editor-in-Chief

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Lauren Paylor, Duke

Jake Klein Ryan Hoerger Emmie LeMarchand Anna Mukamal Rachel Fischell Jessica Lee

Photographers

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CH Kate Schneider, UNC-CH Ellie Wilson, Duke Catalina Villegas, Duke Sarah Houck, Duke Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

Designers

Moira Gill, UNC-CH Elise Bruguera, Duke Jessica Lee, Duke Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH Wendy Lu, Duke

Blog

Sherry Zhang, Duke

Rival is a joint publication between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that seeks to reinforce and redefine the historic rivalry. Rival is independently recognized at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is also a member of the Duke University Publications Board.

Funding for Rival Magazine was provided in part by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Congress and the Duke University Publications Board.

All content, pictures, graphics, and design are the property of Rival Magazine ©2013-2014. All rights reserved.

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in this issue: Feminist Activist Initiative STUDENT D.J.'s pg. 13-17 pg. 18-20 Get an exclusive look at this in-depth feature on UNC-CH basketball coach Roy Williams' life off of the court, as detailed by his daughter Kim.

Rival writer Rachel Fischell interviews student DJ’s from UNC and Duke to show the talent not only as musical, but as a skill in bringing people together.

Senior Bucket List pg. 29

Poet's Corner pg. 28

The Rival staff has put together a comprehensive “bucket list” of things to do while you are a student at Duke or UNC Chapel Hill!

STudent Entrepreneurs pg. 8-10 Discover more about the collaborative Duke-UNC Chapel Hill Startup Challenge event - a chance to learn more about fellow students and alumni involved in starting small businesses.

“Ball- -ad -et” by Anna Mukamal (By submission)

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Students meet with start-up representatives and share resumes (MORE ON PG. 8)

in every issue: Pregame pg. 4-5

Tar Tracks | Devil's Advocate pg. 11-12

Athlete's Corner pg. 22

Discover the talents of Duke and UNC's two modern dance groups: Movement and Modern Extension.

A Duke student and a UNC student share their perspective on university life in the Devil’s Advocate and Tar Heel Tracks column.

Rival sports columnist Ryan Hoerger talks about the upcoming baseball season and what the game will be like without players who recently retired.

Top V pg. 6-7

By the book pg. 30

Remember Snomageddon 2014? Check out what Duke and UNC students were up to on their days off from classes.

Out of the blue pg. 31

In this issue, two classes offered at UNC Meet the 2014-2015 editorial staff in and Duke on the topic of the AIDS disease this issue’s Out of The Blue section. are compared side by side.

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Duke Pregame: Building Momentum

Momentum dancers synchronize and perfect their dance.

By Sherry Zhang, Duke Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke Photos by Catalina Villegas, Duke

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dancer enters center stage right beautifully crafting her body to the music. Another dancer follows her entering center stage left who slowly synchronizes to her pirouettes (turns) and développés (a movement in which the leg is first lifted parallel to the floor then is fully extended). This is the opening for one of Momentum’s pieces choreographed by Rachel Zacharias (’16), Natalie Lubin (’17) and Cosi Goldstein (’17) to “Black and Gold”

by Sam Sparro. It’s a feel-good jazz piece that incorporates incredible floor work and technique. Momentum, usually recognized as a physics term for the motion of a body, well-exemplifies the beautiful motion of bodies. “[The] idea of movement and how beautiful it can be motivates us through,” Kendall Covington, Vice President and Treasurer of Momentum, says. She describes Momentum as “an all girl multi-style dance group [that] focuses on ballet, hiphop and modern as [their] three main styles”.

All of their pieces are student-choreographed and all the practices and collaborations are student-lead. Students are encouraged to choreograph “small group”

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other artistic performances. “One of our biggest accomplishments this year was performing at Homecoming for the first time,” says Covington. Besides these larger events, Momentum usually partners with various philanthropies on campus hosted by sororities or other dance groups.

A future collaboration that is currently in the works is one with UNC-CH’s Modern Extension Dance Company. It started as a suggestion by a dancer in Modern Extension who is a friend of a sophomore member in Momentum. Due to scheduling conflicts, the explosion of Modern-Momentum-Extension will have to wait.

Snake 1-2-3-4, switch leap, tilt jump, come back together. As the piece wraps up, the dancers continue to display their athleticism with their beautifully crafted lines and pointed feet. See the full performance on Saturday April 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm in Page.

pieces from very early on because it builds a creative outlet. The community and passion for dance in this group is hard to miss. Most of the girls started dancing between the ages of three and five. Currently, Momentum has 17 members, seven of which are first-years. Haylee Levin, a first-year in the group, says she loves Momentum and loves how it pushes her to experience dances styles outside of her comfort zone.

The piece continues with intricate footwork and detailed synchronization, cannon and building.

The dancers practice up to four times a week at the Arts Annex, a dynamic housing space on campus that provides rehearsal space for all of Duke’s dance and art groups.

Although a relatively new group – they are currently in their fourth year– Covington believes that her favorite experience with Momentum has been the ability to watch them develop and grow.

“From our first showcase in Schaeffer my freshman year with a lot of random pieces of all different styles [to] seeing how amazing our freshmen are this year, [in addition to] getting to perform at some of the big events like Awaaz has been really great,” says Covington. Awaaz is one of the largest showcases of the year highlighting various dance groups, singers and Ready, Set... Go.

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UNC Pregame: Modern Extension

By Lisa LeFever, UNC-CH Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke Photos by Kate Schneider, UNC-CH

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t’s a blur of baggy t-shirts, leggings and long ponytails as the dancers of UNC-CH’s Modern Extension Dance Company sprint by late on a Tuesday night in the basement of Woolen Gymnasium. The dancers form a circle with three on the floor in the middle. The rest of the group join arms and move together in harmony around the fallen before breaking apart in a flash of high kicks and pointed toes.

“I have faith in you! You can do it – take it from the very, very top,” Park Cannon calls out to the group.

Cannon is the co-president of Modern Extension along with Celeste Cowan. Cannon and Cowan are both seniors – Cannon is a Hispanic Linguistics and Linguistics double major and Cowan is majoring in Biology and minoring in chemistry.

The dancers are currently working on two pieces that were each choreographed by the co-presidents. One is for the Company’s big annual performance in April and the other is for the company’s regional performance at the American College Dance Festival, which is attended by colleges from across the nation including UNC-CH and Duke.

“There are probably about 10 pieces in the show – two of them are choreographed by dance faculty and the rest are by students,” Cowan says.

Marian Hopkins, who served as the university’s only modern dance professor until she retired in the spring of 2012, founded the compa-

ny in 1988. The company practices five nights a week, holding tryouts every September for students with experience in modern dance who are interested.

“There are about 22 of us in the group, including several graduate students, one librarian and a faculty advisor who is a parttime dance faculty member,” Cowen’s piece, “Nuclear,” depicts nuclear family structure and relationCowan says. ships.

“I would say that most of us have been dancing Some of it is more similar to consince high school or middle school. temporary. Our show every year I’ve been dancing my whole life; a touches on the whole spectrum of lot of the dancers have been danc- modern dance,” she says.

“And we’re better than Duke,” ing their whole lives. We’re all pretCowan adds. ty experienced,” Cowan says.

Cowan says that the group has Modern Extension is the only dance company at UNC-CH that never done a collaboration with offers a weekly technique class Duke’s modern dance equivalent, and is the only dance company on Momentum, before, but one is becampus that is a part of the Sport ing planned for the fall semester.

“We see them a lot at Master Club Program. They actively fuse together elements of classical bal- classes because a lot of groups come let and newer, more modern dance to perform at Memorial Hall,” says Cowan. “Some dancers go and take techniques.

“Modern can mean a bunch of class [at Duke] throughout the sedifferent things. Some of it is post- mester. There are a lot of connecmodern, which is very abstract. tions.”

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Top v Ways Duke Students Spent the Snow Days

By Jessica Lee, Duke Design by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH and Wendy Lu, Duke

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Freshman Jessica Hennacy and her friends went for a walk in the Duke Gardens and took a ton of pictures. Afterwards, they went to the Marketplace until their toes defrosted, then ran to the parking lot behind Brown for an impromptu snowball fight. They spent the rest of the night watching Season 4 of The Walking Dead.

Photo by Kate Abendroth

Kate Abendroth and friends have the usual snowball fight—in swimming attire.

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According to sophomore Matt Peterson, Cooper House made sleds from scratch and went sledding on the hills of the Washington Duke. They also started snowball fights with other dorms and watched several winter movies, such as Frozen and Miracle.

Freshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai spent 13 hours studying and watching figure skating, but mostly eating in the Marketplace from opening to closing. When they received the email saying classes were cancelled the following day, they ran out to build Olaf from Frozen to celebrate.

Freshman Patrick Terry and other Jarvis residents built a giant 7-foot tall Marshall Plumlee snowman, along with a helpless and much shorter UNC-Chapel Hill snowman beside it. “Maybe the people at UNC-CH will like it,” Terry says.

Sophomore Kate Abendroth and her friends had a snow fight. However, unlike many other Duke students who bundled up in coats and gloves before hurling snowballs at each other, they dressed up in only bikinis, speedos and swim shorts!

By Eu Fern Pan, Duke

Freshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai build Olaf from Frozen.

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By Eu Fern Pan, Duke

Freshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai make snow angels.

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Top v Ways UNC Students Spent the Snow Days Photo by Mahmoud Saad

UNC Students get creative with their sledding vehicles as they race down Manning Drive.

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All over the quad, students expressed their creativity and ingenuity in the snow by creating magnificent snow sculptures of As soon as the powdery snow people, dragons, cats and a particwas sticking to the ground, stuularly good replica of the anime dents on South Campus headed to character Totoro.

Skipper Bowles Drive to sled and snowboard down the steep slope, Football players, including using everything from snowboards the renowned Ryan Switzer, to wet floor signs to cardboard boxorganized a competitive snowball es. One group of students even built fight/football game on the 50-yard a ramp to jump off of. line of Kenan Stadium when the Duke-Carolina game was cancelled. Students and players alike tossed snowballs, passed footballs and created precious memories in the falling snow.

By Erin Kolstad, UNC-CH Design by Wendy Lu, Duke Photos by Kate Schneider, UNC-CH

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Students created an impressive replica of the the cartoon character “Totoro.”

Throughout campus, lyrics from the animated Disney film Frozen were ecstatically belted as the storm raged on. The Bell Tower even got in on the fun when it played the melody from “Let it Go” as students cheerfully asked, “Do you wanna build a snowman?”

Unlike the students, Carolina buses did not enjoy the snow-covered ground. Many buses stalled and slid over the slick roadways. In fact, UNC-CH students had to help push a bus up Skipper Bowles Drive when it began to slide down the hill.

Photo by Olivia Robertson

UNC students help bus drivers get up the Skipper Bowles Hill during th storm.

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By Sofia Stafford, Duke Design by Jessica Lee, Duke Photos by Alex Clayton, UNC-CH

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espite the fact that it was just three hours to tip-off for the Duke-UNC basketball game—one of the most anticipated college basketball games of the year—swarms of eager students from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill filled the auditorium in Duke’s Gross Hall for the inaugural StartupConnect.

The three hour networking event, hosted on February 20, 2014, was yet another impactful example of the power of combining the minds, resources and innovations of these two universities.

Hosted by the Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, the Duke Department of Computer Science, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Duke Career Center, the UNC-CH Mi-

A student and a representative from “TeamSnap” have a conversation after the panel ends.

nor in Entrepreneurship, the Duke Start-Up Challenge and Duke in Silicon Valley, StartupConnect brought students and employers together for an evening of networking and education. Aspiring entrepreneurs from Duke and

Duke and UNC gather to meet with professionals from start-ups at the Duke Energy Hubb on the Duke campus.

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UNC-CH were invited to talk with employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni, from more than 20 companies. According to Duke sophomore Tom Vosburgh, the fair “enabled us to get exposure to what it means to be an entrepreneur.”

Amy Unell, Assistant Director of the Duke in Silicon Valley Program, describes the event as “a collaboration between Duke, UNC-CH.” Entrepreneurs in the Triangle and across the country provide opportunities for jobs, internships and mentoring while connecting with passionate entrepreneurial students.” According to Unell, “it is truly a win-win-win!”

The event format facilitated effective networking and was beneficial to both students and employers. It provided a less formal environment than the traditional career fairs that take place on campus while exposing aspiring

entrepreneurs to local start-ups. By providing entrepreneurially spirited students with the opportunity to hear from a panel of speakers and connect one-on-one with the employer representatives, StartupConnect is an innovative and effective type of career fair.

A panel discussion opened the night, providing advice to students seeking internships and full-time jobs. This selected panel of entrepreneurial Duke alumni explained to students the characteristics and skills employers seek when hiring so that they were better able to understand the process. The panel discussion was followed by an evening of vibrant networking during which students from all departments at Duke and UNC-CH were welcome to introduce themselves to employer representatives at different tables set up throughout Gross Hall. Many of the employer representatives were Duke alumni who want to help open the door of entrepreneurial opportunity to the next generation of Blue Devils and Tar Heels.

During the panel discussion, Duk alumni reflected on their challenges and experiences as entrepreneurs and suggested ways of getting a job in the startup world.

Although all of the panelists possessed different backgrounds and followed different paths to becom-

ing entrepreneurs, their stories all led to one shared takeaway: In the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, uncertainty leads to opportunity. Bant Breen, Duke graduate and Founder/CEO of the management and optimization company Qnary, shared his advice with the audience: “We look for people who have failed, so don’t be afraid to fail.”

Most of the 400 Duke and UNC-CH students in attendance were juniors or seniors who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. While many were seeking internships or potential jobs after graduation, others were trying to find out more about what it is like to work at a startup.

Ronda Closner, a representative from First Flight Venture Center, a high-impact technology incubator that hosts up to 40 companies at a time, was looking forward to meeting students interested in science and innovation. “Duke and UNC-CH both have really great science programs that produce curious minds, which is exactly what our startups look for,” she says.

Similarly, nutraceutical company Vital Plan was looking for interns with the potential to be hired permanently. “This generation embraces change and a new

Amy Xiong discusses job opportunities with the representative for “First Flight Venture Center.”

way to do things, so this is a great opportunity for us too,” says company representative Esther Lee. The event also drew first and second year students looking for a realistic view of the job market, potential career paths and even summer internships during their college career. Duke freshman Amy Xiong attended the event because “it is great practice for networking when I am looking for an internship next summer or a job down the line.”

Most companies who attended the event are based in North Carolina or have offices in the Triangle Area. However, there were also companies from New York, Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington D.C. and Denver.

From AnyCloud, a document and picture sharing start-up, to Yammer, a private social network that helps companies collaborate on software and business applications, there was a wide range of representation. All the companies, however, shared a common theme in their mission to promote innovative technology solutions for individuals and other organizations.

Similarly, while all of the students who attended the event are at different stages of their career path, they are all equally energized and united by their common interests in technology, innovation and

Students meet and share résumés with start-up representatives.

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Duke and UNC students gather to listen to the panel of start-up professionals.

entrepreneurship.

StartupConnect is a direct result of Duke in Silicon Valley students taking initiative to put student feedback into action. “The student interest has been outstanding,” reports Howie Rhee, Managing Director of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

“We’ve had an outstanding committee from across Duke helping to pull this event together.” In addition to campus organizations and programs that dedicated time and resources, Pratt alumnus and Director at Silver Lake Partners, Sean Delehanty, also generously sponsored StartupConnect.

Duke junior Janvi Shah is credited with the conception of this innovative networking fair.

According to Shah, “many students saw this [event] as a huge need and opportunity since startup employers are underrepresented at Duke’s traditional career fairs.”

The collaboration with UNCCH emerged from student organizers within the UNC-CH Minor in Entrepreneurship who, like Shah, participated in the inaugural class of Duke in Silicon Valley last

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summer. “As their energies indicate, cultivating and nurturing the relationships between the Bay Area entrepreneurial network and the Duke/UNC-CH student body is a priority for both students and the larger university-wide initiatives,” says fellow student organizer and UNC-CH junior Cate Tidwell.

In order to make this event possible, student organizers reached out to Duke and UNC-CH alumni who are involved with startups, many as part of founding teams.

The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Pratt School of Engineering both tapped into their extensive alumni contacts. The organizers also collaborated closely with American Underground, a startup accelerator/incubator with locations in Durham and Raleigh, to represent local startups at the event. Access to the Underground gives highgrowth companies the flexible office space and the necessary connections to reach their potential.

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it’s only natural to support things like StartupConnect as a way to give our companies access to smart students at Duke and UNC-CH.” Shah hopes that “StartupConnect will serve as a central platform for students and startup companies with alumni from Duke and UNCCH to connect.” According to Shah and Tidwell, the goal of this event is to help students navigate the path to entrepreneurship by enabling them to interact directly with alumni who have forged meaningful careers in building companies in a variety of industries.

“I think this is a good step towards building a culture of entrepreneurship at Duke and strengthening ties with a startup-rich Triangle area,” says Brian Strubbe, a Duke junior and student organizer of the event. With all the buzz surrounding the event and its turnout, it seems as though this year’s StartupConnect was just the beginning of what will hopefully be a continued collaboration between Duke, UNC-CH and the Triangle.

Devil's Advocate:

By Emmie Le Marchand, Duke Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

I am pretty sure I have a serious food obsession. I want food all the time, whether I’m hungry or not, and mostly because I’m just bored or because I can anticipate how good something is going to taste. I cannot sit in Perkins without needing something to sip on from the VDH barristas and I definitely cannot work at my dining room table without straying to my pantry to grab a bag of something to nibble on. If someone I’m with is eating then why shouldn’t I be? I’ve been sitting in the same spot for three hours…I’ve obviously well earned my next meal. Food is everywhere and I must have it.

Durham is a foodie’s heaven and maybe it’s just because I’m heading home to England after graduation in May, but I am very aware of leaving behind all the restaurants I haven’t had a chance to visit and all the places I have tried and loved. My to-go-to list is getting forever longer, especially when each time I visit somewhere I immediately want to go back. I don’t want a limit on the number of times I can go line up out the door for Monuts or struggle to finish the contents of a boat at Sushi Love or eat late night Cosmic. I’m praying that the Cheesecake Factory opens a restaurant across the pond sometime soon because I really don’t know if I can live without their Spicy Cashew Chicken and pumpernickel bread.

Brunch is the best part of this country. I would eat breakfast food for every meal if I could. Eggs, sausage, pancakes, bagels, biscuits, French toast, yogurt and granola, coffee, fruit juice…I feel like I’m betraying the full English breakfast by loving American brunch but it’s about the occasion and the restaurant and the anytime of the day. You will be hard pushed to find many restaurants in England like Nosh or Elmo’s that serve breakfast well into the afternoon. Nosh…The Duke Slammer, The DeLuca, the black and blue smoothie.

I’m salivating just thinking about it, mourning the moment I’ll want breakfast after noon and won’t be able to find a place to go. At home, breakfast is a bowl of cereal or a piece of toast. Unless it’s Sunday, when you’re massively hung-over and a fat greasy plate of sausages and beans slumped on your sofa watching the footie is the only potential cure. Here, Nosh is the answer to everything.

An Ode to Food

After brunch, the froyo culture comes in a pretty close second on my list of American gastronomic godsends.

A drink might follow dinner at home with my friends; here I’m totally ok with going out for frozen yogurt instead, with filling my pot full of deliciousness that does not come with the guilt of ice cream and brings just as much relaxation as a glass of wine. When I move to London this summer, I will make a point of seeking out somewhere to get my post-dinner sugar fix, since there aren’t three froyo places within 10 minutes of each other like there are in every city here.

As much as I will miss the food here, along with paying for a full WaDuke dinner on my Duke card or driving to get a Cook-Out milkshake at 2 AM, I can’t pretend there aren’t many aspects of the English food culture I can’t wait to get back to. I’m looking forward to coming downstairs in the morning to a brewed pot of hot coffee sitting on the dining room table. We do the black stuff in mugs, sitting round the breakfast table together. The first person up makes the coffee; they do not drive to Starbucks to pick up a tray of lattés in paper cups, nor do we stop by the Dunkin’ Donuts drive through every morning. I can’t remember the last time we ordered take-out or picked up food instead of cooking, even if it was just an omelet or leftovers. (As I write this I breathe a silent sign of relief that there is a Chipotle in London.) I haven’t found a place to get a decent curry around here, nowhere like the Bangladeshi restaurant in my village that gives us free sorbet served in a scooped-out orange peel.

I know as you read this you are laughing at me missing English food. You’re thinking, how in the world can she prefer fish and chips to a good ol’ American burger with all the trimmings, or what can possibly be tasty about those weird little cucumber sandwiches? Well laugh all you want about our tea and crumpets and feel free to remain mind-boggled about marmite, but there is one English meal that you just can’t knock: the Sunday Roast. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes and veggies, all drowned in gravy, eaten off a wooden pub table and washed down with a pint of cider. That is the gastronomical delight that England and only England can offer and the one big reason my food obsession won’t be relenting any time soon.

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Tarheel Tracks: Different Shades of Blue

By Caroline Leland, UNC-CH Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

We’ve all heard the reasons for why Duke and UNCCH are such rivals: close physical proximity, high selectivity and world-class academics, famously strong athletic programs... But how often do people think about the differences? As a Robertson Scholar, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a semester as a Tar Heel living at Duke — which I took on as a chance for an unscientific anthropological study comparing the two places.

I am obviously limited to my own unique experiences, but I think my observations have credibility because it is always a priority to me to immerse myself in the culture of wherever I am. I’ve done my best to fully dive in with academics, athletics and social life at both schools, and while I have found that both universities are vibrant in every sector, there are marked differences as well.

(Disclaimer: I don’t think I can ever shake my bornand-bred partiality to UNC, but I want to establish that I truly love both schools. Yes, Chapel Hill is ultimately home to me, but Duke is like a second home. And who doesn’t love their vacation home?)

I think one of the main reasons for any differences between the schools is the contrast between public versus private. Because UNC-CH students, as members of a state school, largely hail from North Carolina, they are much more likely to be involved with local politics.

Because UNC-CH’s tuition is controlled by the state legislature, UNC-CH students are much more likely to be paying attention to the decisions being made by state politicians. A related difference between the two rivals is that Chapel Hill is a college town that sprang up because of the university, while Durham existed long before Duke came to town. For this reason, UNC-CH is much more integrated with Chapel Hill than Duke is with Durham, making UNC-CH students more likely to be involved with the community in service and in local politics.

Duke has a more national and international focus than UNC-CH. It’s an emphasis at both schools, for sure, but when 9% of Duke students are international as compared with the less than 3% at UNC-CH, it is only natural that Duke would make international poli-

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tics more of a priority. As a journalism major at UNCCH, I’m required to take a state and local politics class — but such a class doesn’t even exist at Duke, despite their strong political science department.

The other major cultural difference I have noticed between the two schools is in how the students view their time at college. When I was living at Duke, one of the biggest little things, so to speak, that I missed from UNC-CH is that Duke doesn’t have the same “quad culture.” On any sunny day at UNC-CH, you are guaranteed to see people sitting, sleeping, talking, or tossing a Frisbee on the quad. Duke cherishes its own classic quads as well, but seeing people populate them is much less common. After spending several months there, I came to realize this small thing was actually quite symbolic. It stems from the way the students view their time in college. At Duke, with its many career-specific majors and highly competitive academic spirit, college is seen as a platform for what will come after. It’s a time to prepare for your career: to take the right classes, to land the internships, to network.

UNC-CH, a school with a broader liberal arts base and a higher emphasis on local communities, has a different approach. At UNC-CH, where many students are “born and bred” Tar Heels, the general attitude seems to be one of excitement for simply being at Carolina.

Most of my UNC-CH friends don’t know what they want to do when they graduate — while most of my Duke friends are on the path for medical school, law school, or corporate banking. It’s simply different ideas of success.

I am not meaning to imply there’s any sort of right or wrong in the comparative differences between these two great schools. The state and local focus at UNCCH might make us less in tune to what happens on a global scale. And likewise, by focusing on the national and international, Duke sometimes misses out on what Durham and North Carolina have to offer. Statistically speaking, Duke students are probably more likely to be national politicians, while UNC-CH students are probably more likely to be leaders in the state. The mission of each school is different, the student body makeup is different, and therefore the campus cultures are different. I think it’s fun to contrast the two, important to be aware of our differences and necessary to appreciate both so we can learn from each other and ultimately, as any rivals should, make each other stronger.

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uke University senior Lillie Reed grew up in Greenville, North Carolina, an area she calls “very conservative.”

She says that until college, she never identified as a feminist because it was socially unacceptable to do so.

Even so, Reed’s mother is a feminist. “My mom taught me the word ‘misogynist’ before I was four years old,” Reed says. “I think she

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Reed says that before coming to Duke, she didn’t expect to be involved with any feminist initiatives. “When you come to college as a freshman, you think it’s a liberal wonderland,” she says. “But then I started witnessing sexism firsthand.”

Reed says that sexual assault became a problem in her life and in her friends’ lives, and that this issue finally spurred her to get involved. “It got to the point where more of my friends had been assaulted than hadn’t,” Reed says.

ity—the study of how other factors, such as race, socioeconomic class or sexual orientation impact one’s identity—in discussing feminist causes. “Womanism is a more intersectional form of feminism,” Reed says. “Even though some people say I can’t, I identify with womanism as much as I can as a white woman.”

As Reed became more comfortable with the concepts of feminism, womanism and intersectionality, she developed the necessary tools to promote advocacy for feminist causes. She wanted to design a

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might have burned bras.” According to Reed, this is all in a social context where “people would insult you by calling you a feminist.”

When Reed was growing up, sexism was also rampant in her hometown. Once, she was accused of cheating on biology tests because she consistently scored higher than the boys in the class.

Her teacher thought this was impossible since “girls can’t be good at math and science.”

Fast forward to 2014, and it’s clear that Reed’s teacher was mistaken. Reed is now double majoring in Psychology and Global Health and minoring in Biology.

She is also a Chronicle columnist and an intern at the Duke Women’s

Reed began writing for the feminist blog Develle Dish, which is a space for people who want to engage in dialogue about women’s issues. “Writers can be womanists or feminists,” Reed says. She explains that feminism and womanism are two sides of the same coin. “Feminism was started as a movement largely driven by white women,” Reed says. “On the other hand, womanism was started primarily by black women who wanted equal rights, who didn’t think that feminism fit them.”

Womanism is generally taken to be a variation of feminism that is more aware of the issues facing women of color. Reed emphasizes the importance of intersectional-

feminist and womanist activism program with an intersectional focus. “If it didn’t have these components, in addition to activism, we would just be perpetuating a lot of the divides we’re trying to break down,” Reed says.

Although Reed generally prefers to strengthen existing programs rather than to start new ones, she says that “this was a space where one didn’t really exist.” So, she applied for a $5,000 grant through the fourth annual Kenan-Biddle Partnership to pioneer the Feminist Activist Initiative (FAI). It was Reed’s very first grant—and hers was one of 10 total projects to be selected.

The Kenan-Biddle Partnership

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Senior Lillie Reed sits down with RIVAL to speak about her hopes for the new Feminist Activist Initiative and the partnership between Duke and UNC Chapel Hill.

awarded over $49,000 in grants for these 10 projects to be launched during the 2013-2014 school year (see the last page of this article for a brief description of each grant).

According to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s website, this initiative partners with Duke University to promote “student-initiated, inter-institutional projects designed to strengthen established collaborations or encourage new ones.”

The essence of the Kenan-Biddle Partnership is to increase intellectual interaction between students at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Similar efforts include the Robertson Scholars Program, which was started in 2000 and provides full funding for students to engage in inter-institutional, domestic and international study. The Robertson bus system allows students to easily transport themselves from campus to campus, a resource that Reed plans to take advantage of in programming for the Feminist Activist Initiative.

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the FAI exists “in order to capitalize on potential synergies between the two campuses and on mutual energy and excitement for social activism.” The program was initially named the Feminist Colloquium, but Reed and her leadership team later changed it to the FAI to demonstrate that it is not only a leadership program, but also a program dedicated to social activism. Basic components of the FAI include “a leadership retreat, a publication, an activist campaign designed by participants and monthly colloquia where participants will be offered the opportunity to engage with feminist leaders.”

As the founder of the FAI, one of Reed’s goals is to utilize the human resources that are available to her at Duke and at UNC-Chapel Hill. She says she was “totally blindsided” by “how different the approaches to activism were” at the two schools. “Duke students have their 12 million extracurriculars,” she says. “At UNC-CH, students have their one main passion.” She

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thinks that while UNC-CH is an activist community, Duke students are individual actors in a community of activists. Reed acknowledges that because both settings have benefits and drawbacks, the FAI will coordinate inter-institutional efforts to capitalize on strengths and minimize weaknesses.

Reed also envisions the FAI as being in constant evolution. “Each semester, this group of students will create some sort of activism on both campuses through the FAI retreats,” Reed says. “They’ll continue to meet with faculty, staff and visiting feminist leaders to acquire knowledge to share with their fellow students.” Reed says that activist initiatives could include women’s voices in politics, anti-sexual assault efforts, awareness of intersectionality and initiatives to involve women of color in feminist causes on both campuses.

“College is usually the most liberal part of our lives, so it’s a good time to mobilize people to make change,” Reed says. “It would just be a waste for Duke not to make

partnerships with local colleges like UNC-CH.” Her distant goal is to create a FAI-based union between colleges and universities across North Carolina.

Reed hopes that such a partnership will someday exist because she wants to combat the spreading stigma attached to feminism. “As soon as I started working for the women’s center, writing for Develle Dish and publicly expressing feminist ideology in my Chronicle columns, people started labeling me as ‘that feminist chick,’” Reed says.

“Even though I don’t find shame in the term ‘feminism’ because feminists really just want equality for everybody, I felt shame in being called ‘that feminist chick’ because it was used in a shameful way.”

Reed thinks that using labels to define people is dangerous. “Get-

ting labeled as a feminist and nothing more is annoying because it limits who you get to be,” she says.

“Defining me by one aspect of my identity—which happens to a lot of people all the time in different ways—reduces me to one thing.”

Still, Reed thinks that compared to the general population, Duke students are much more receptive to feminist causes. “There are very few Duke students who would openly say that feminism is dumb,” Reed says. “But when it comes to activism and actually putting feminist belief into practice, there’s not a cohesive activist component to the general receptivity.”

FAI participant and Duke senior Cara Peterson was attracted to the FAI because she likes practice rather than theory. She thinks that most Duke students misconstrue

what feminism is.

“I think the term ‘feminism’ is very stigmatized,” Peterson says.

“Even as someone who associates strongly with feminism, there are times where using the word is not advantageous because I know people are going to entirely stop listening to what I say.”

A Public Policy and Women’s Studies double major, Peterson is one of Duke’s 11 FAI participants.

There are also 11 participants from UNC-CH. Peterson thinks that intersectionality—the idea that no one can be defined by a sole identity marker—was crucial in the FAI’s selection process. “One of the selection requirements was that the groups are really diverse,” Peterson says. “Only through diversity can we explore how gender, feminism

Senior Lillie Reed is the founder and chief administrator of the new Feminist Activist Initiative that connects feminist leaders from both Duke and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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and activism interact with our daily lives.”

At the first of the FAI’s initial gatherings, the participants engaged in an activity that was designed to illustrate the impact of stereotyping. In the activity, one participant asked another, “Who am I?” Then, the other described who they perceived that person to be based on their race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion or sexual orientation. Lots of times, the participants inaccurately judged each others’ characteristics by relying solely on their outward appearances.

Even Peterson learned from this activity—and she has been a Women’s Studies major since her junior year. “I wanted to understand the way in which my gender impacts my daily life,” she says. “My major makes me more aware of the bigger structures that reinforce my attitudes.”

Topics of study in Peterson’s major include how commercialization and advertising perpetuate body image issues and the fact that one in four women will be sexually assaulted by the time she leaves college. “Most people aren’t even aware of this, much less do they realize the underlying factors,” she says. “The Women’s Studies major helps me to better understand my identity.”

In some ways, Peterson views her major as Sociology with a gender lens—a multifaceted viewpoint that she will contribute to the FAI. “Gender is a part of our lives that not a lot of people delve into,” she says. “But it’s so critically important to our understanding of what we should expect from our world and from ourselves.”

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men and women are evaluated on stereotypes related to race, sexual orientation and religion. Yet society views men as individualistic and women as communitarian. “If a woman does what it takes to get to the top of a social group, people are going to like her a lot less,” Peterson says. “A lot of hierarchy-climbing involves mentorship, and with less women in leadership positions, it’s harder for women to move up.”

According to Peterson, there is a much bigger difference than most people realize between how men and women are treated. At Duke, Peterson thinks that women are less likely than men to raise their hands in class; similarly, more men run for leadership positions on campus than do women. “It’s much more pervasive than people realize,” Peterson says. “Women are expected to apologize for strong opinions. We tend to start off sentences with justifiers, like ‘I might be wrong’ or ‘I was just thinking that maybe.’”

Peterson firmly believes that how people experience the world is largely based upon their identity markers. She has been involved in Common Ground, a student-led diversity immersion retreat program, and Me Too Monologues, an annual show about identity. She was attracted to the FAI because she has an activist—rather than just a feminist—stance. “I think the definition of feminism is not just working for women’s issues,” she says. “Belle Hooks, a well-known feminist in this era, works against systems of sexism and oppression, and I think oppression can be broadly interpreted to apply to any instance of inequality.”

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be an intern at the Duke Women’s Center in order to create more programming for eating disorder awareness and support. She also plans to develop FAI projects to address self-esteem issues on campus. “My Public Policy and Women’s Studies duo basically means studying what empowerment is,” Peterson says. Within Public Policy, she focuses on human rights advocacy and international development. This means analyzing how external factors keep people from feeling empowered. In Women’s Studies, Peterson examines forms of structural violence that may not be as apparent as these external factors.

Peterson’s dream job begins right now. She is currently writing a book about everything she wishes she had known before beginning college. “I want my narratives to illustrate every aspect of college— dating culture, social scenes, gender-based violence, image issues, academics, the Greek scene, and the addiction to productivity that a lot of students have,” she says.

Eventually, Peterson would like to become a motivational speaker, although she calls that “a big dream.” She wants to address what she believes to be the biggest problem facing women today: a lack of understanding that their gender does impact them—be it for better or for worse.

The Feminist Activist Initiative is designed to show that gender differences can empower women instead of putting them at a disadvantage. It encourages Duke and UNC-CH students not only to embrace feminist causes, but also to promote tangible inter-institutional activist projects.

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By Anna Mukamal, Duke Design by Moira Gill, UNC-Chapel Hill

1. Inter-institutional Contemporary Music Ensemble This collaboration unites the pre-existing Chapel Hill Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Duke New Music Ensemble, two groups that perform music that students compose. The goal of the Inter-institutional Contemporary Music Ensemble is to put on three free concerts in the fall 2014 semester. Students from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill will collaborate and cooperate on every aspect of the effort, including composition, rehearsal and performance.

2. The Duke-UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Partnership (PPE Partnership) This grant builds on the joint Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program that Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill co-developed in 2005. Since the pre-existing program functions on the administrative level by designing inter-institutional undergraduate courses, the Duke-UNC PPE Partnership is primarily a student-led initiative.

The PPE Partnership will sponsor two major speaker events—one at Duke and one at UNC-CH—that each feature discussions, speakers and academic responses that are led, chosen and written by students.

3. GlobeMed: Strengthening Partnerships for Global Health Equity GlobeMed is a pre-existing NGO that aligns with the movement for global health equity. This collab-

oration connects the GlobeMed chapters at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Duke University to analyze the relationship between international aid and community-based health projects. The overall goal is to foster the idea of intellect in the service of society.

4. Inaugural Duke/UNC-CH Graduate Workshop in Classics Pedagogy This inter-institutional workshop will take place on March 28-30, 2014. Most graduate programs in Classics allow graduate students to share their research with each other, but not with the experts of the field. This workshop is unique in that it creates a time and space for graduate instructors and faculty to jointly strengthen their pedagogy in the field of Classics.

5. The Duke-UNC NeuroCare Partnership This collaboration combines the efforts of Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill students who volunteer for NeuroCare, a pre-existing organization that serves local patients with neurological disorders. This partnership is novel because it allows students to supplement their classroom learning by engaging in the community to understand the first-person effects of neurological conditions. The goal is to promote not only the field of neuroscience, but also the positive effects of service.

6. A Blue Note Gospel This project is designed to engage students at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill in dialogue about the origins of Negro Spirituals. The overarching purpose

is to examine the role of gospel choirs and A cappella groups in the African-American communities of college campuses within the Triangle and across the nation.

7. The Campus BioDiv Project The goal of this project is to increase inter-institutional student awareness of the role of biodiversity. The primary interface is an app designed as a tool for students to better understand their local environments. Secondly, this initiative will harness interest in the app to create cross-campus biodiversity conservation efforts through science events and competitions.

8. Jewish Student Collaboration Between Duke and UNC-CH Writers of this grant acknowledge that the Jewish communities at both Duke and UNC-CH are vibrant, active and well organized; however, they exist separately. This program will pioneer inter-institutional collaboration to enhance the Jewish experience of students on both campuses. The partnership begins with one program this year with the hope of future expansion.

9. Duke-UNC-CH Religion & Science Symposium Recognizing the fact that Duke and UNC-CH are home to the nation’s premier religious studies departments, the grantees have designed an interdisciplinary symposium that allows professors to present their research to an audience of students from both campuses.

The goal is to stimulate inter-institutional discussion in order to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and science.

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Turn it Up and dance on: Student DJs bring the crowd together

Wearing a Grant Hill jersey, DJ Reddix is in the zone doing his thing as the crowd dances and enjoys the jams.

By Rachel Fischell, Duke Design by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

Have you ever seen a DJ on campus at a party, event, or club and thought about how they got hired? What about where they learned to DJ? Or who they are outside their role as a DJ? Student DJs are few and far between at both Duke and UNC-CH. It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to share his or her personal music tastes, preferences and expertise with a crowd of peers.

When you really think about it, trying to satisfy the musical preferences of everybody in a room is

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quite the task. Duke DJ Jacob Robinson, better known as DJ Reddix, says that “the main challenge for DJs is that people have diverse tastes, so it can be difficult to balance everyone’s tastes at a party.”

Personally, Robinson really enjoys this challenge – he sees DJing as a way to bring everybody together.

Robinson is a senior at Duke who has recently hired three sophomores to take over his clients once he graduates. As a high school junior, Robinson decided he wanted a job. His father told him to start his own business, but he had no idea where to even begin. As if it were obvious, his

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father commented, “you listen to music all the time – why don’t you become a DJ?” His father then proceeded to connect his son with a local barber who also happened to work as a DJ and thus began Robinson’s career. Since then, he’s immersed himself in running business as a DJ. Not only does he get paid to do something he loves, but he has also learned how to work well with clients and how to “seal the deal.”

As a graduating senior, Robinson is faced with the uncertainty of how the future of his DJing career will turn out.He says, though, that, “it’s definitely a priority.” He’s

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Weston Fleming, aka DJ Groan ‘N’ Sexy, concentrates on his laptop as he creates and plays sick beats.

concerned that “when he transitions to his next city, he won’t have the same built-in community and support as he does at Duke,” as well as the same sizable client base. Robinson is excited by this challenge and thinks he’ll need to take his career to the next level in terms of his skill and his approach in order to maintain his status as a well-regarded DJ. One thing that he believes has helped him immensely is the fact that he owns all of his own equipment, making it easier for groups to hire him. He is often hired by groups affiliated with Duke University, including sororities, fraternities and Duke Sports Marketing.

Although he predominantly works Duke events, Robinson has a good relationship with a variety of venues in Durham that have hired him for events in the past.

Another of Duke’s DJs, Weston Fleming, has made a name for himself as DJ Groan n Sexy. Fleming didn’t begin DJing until his

at a gig and having your friends and total strangers vibing and moving with you.”

Recently, Fleming was asked to play at the release party for Resound Magazine. However, he DJs at the Duke Coffeehouse on a more consistent basis. “ It’s a great venue for me because it tends to attract folks who get down to more than just Top 40s,” says Fleming.

Typically if he’s playing a live show, his mixes will be “something people will want to dance to. Moreover, [whatever it is] must make you feel grown and sexy.”

If it’s not live though, he tends to “make moody downtempo mixes that usually have some sort of narrative undercurrent.

At UNC-CH, a growing number of students are beginning to explore DJing as a way of earning some extra cash and exploring their passion for music. Trevor Dougherty, known as DJ Good Ratio, refers to himself as an

sophomore year of college. When asked about his first experience as a DJ, Fleming says that he “DJ’d a dorm party for maybe 20 people with just a laptop running ‘djay’ software hooked up to a bookshelf stereo.”

“I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I had a blast and people seemed to enjoy it,” says Fleming.

“Eventually everyone in the room was paired off and making out so I figured I did something right.”

Now a senior with two years of experience under his belt, he says that “nothing really compares to Photo by DukeAfterDark playing a lot of DJ Reddix in the zone spinning at Night Lights Presents Homecomsongs you really like ing at Casbah.

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beat farmer” in an interview with The Daily Tar Heel. He, along with current UNC-CH seniors Syem Barakzai and Brandon Schell have all spent a majority of their DJ careers at Pulse Nightclub in Chapel Hill. All three have commented on the public’s growing interest in electronic music.

As sophomores, Barakzai and Schell decided to co-invest in $350 worth of disc jockey equipment.

The owner of Pulse, Richard Sergo, typically hires student DJs and will pay between $100 and $150 for each four-hour shift. By playing one or two shifts per week at Pulse, they’ve certainly managed to make that money back. One challenge faced by student DJs, particularly at UNC-CH, is the hours that they work. If you’re working a Thursday night from 10 PM until 2 AM, classes on Friday can be a struggle. At Duke, this isn’t as much of a problem because many of the

events that the Duke DJs play are on weekends and the events that fall during the week are often earlier in the day.

Interestingly, not only do Chapel Hill bars and clubs promote the use of student DJs, but music professors at UNC-CH have expressed support as well. UNC-CH Music Department chairman, Mark Katz,

“I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I had a blast and people seemed to enjoy it.”

told the Daily Tar Heel last mont that “DJing involves a lot of relevant subjects, like entrepreneurship, professionalism and how to promote oneself.” If we look at the experiences of Duke’s DJ Reddix beginning in his high school days

through his college career, we see that this is inevitably true.

Barakzai, who goes by the stagename DJ Eskay, stated in an interview with the Daily Tar Heel, “there’s no better feeling than throwing on a song and seeing the floor fill with people who are grooving to it.” It seems, based on UNC-CH’s DJ Eskay and Duke’s DJ Groan n Sexy, that uniting a crowd of people is a universally rewarding experience for DJs at both schools.

Clearly, many common sentiments are shared by student DJs across the mixing board – even at two schools with as deep-seated of a rivalry as Duke and UNC-CH. These students all share a passion for music and for bringing communities together. What could be better than getting paid for doing something you love?

Sources: The Daily Tar Heel

Duke student, Weston Fleming, otherwise known as DJ Groan ‘N’ Sexy does work on the turntables.

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Study Abroad?

By Divya Giyanani, Duke Design by Jessica Lee, Duke Photos by Divya Giyanani, Duke

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like to think that life is the sum of our experiences, that it is defined by both the best and the worst of moments. I like to think that life is full of questions, that it holds a series of situations challenging us to the very core.

And I like to think that life is about finding meaning as it pushes us to consider, reconsider and consider again.

But at the same time, life is also busy. Between the ten-page essay that we need to write and the friend with whom we need to catch up and the internship application we need to submit, we often find ourselves trapped in a giant to-do list and caught in a meaningless routine. Can you blame us? Most days, all we want is to make it through the day to a point where we often lose sight of the bigger picture and find ourselves completely lost.

I think that most Duke students experience this at some point or another; it’s almost a rite of passage, a part of our growing up process. Personally, I’ve felt this way for the past year. I’ve been overwhelmed, overcommitted and

overexerted. I’ve felt tired, frustrated and confused. The truth is, I have become so caught up in my daily life that I’ve lost sight of who I am and who I want to become. I have been wandering aimlessly and without purpose, hoping to somehow end up okay.

Someone once told me, “When you find yourself lost in a forest, your best bet is to climb the nearest tree. A view of the entire forest from 200 feet above the ground is a hell of a lot more helpful than those five trees currently around you.”

We all have different ways to climb 200 feet. And, similarly, we all find different ways to change perspectives. For me, that way has been to study abroad. When I made the decision to study abroad last spring, I knew that I needed to take a step back. And that meant leaving my comfort zone, pushing beyond my own perceived limitations and discovering what I am truly capable of. Every moment, every challenge, every decision will help you define who you are and who you are becoming.

At this point, it has been a little over a month since I first saw the

snow-covered Swiss Alps from the plane window. And while this month has been challenging to say the least, it has also been extremely meaningful. I believe that there is meaning in staying on a bus just to see where it can take you, that there is meaning in singing oldschool Britney at the top of your lungs during karaoke night with your new friends, that there is meaning in spending an extra hour at the café before dinner to talk about a lecture you just stepped out of.

With each passing day, life gets more a little bit more chaotic, a little bit more complicated and a little bit more challenging. So yes, we can very well make a list of things we want to do some day, in the near future, when we have time. Or we can go out and actually make them happen.

So here’s to more nights where we dance until 5 AM. Here’s to more trips where we board a train with an unplanned destination, just to have an adventure. Here’s to more days spent in a café, talking about everything and nothing at all. Why? Because I believe that there is a better way to live, a better way to laugh, a better way to learn.

And sometimes, all we need is a little change of perspective to figure it out.

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Athlete's Corner

By Ryan Hoerger, Duke Design by Jessica Lee, Duke Photo by Ryan Hoerger, Duke

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n February, Derek Jeter announced that the 2014 baseball season would be his last. The New York Yankee shortstop will have played his entire career in pinstripes and accumulated one of the sport’s most impressive cumulative stat lines over 20 years: more than 3,000 career hits, 13 All-Star game selections, five Gold Glove awards and five World Series championships.

This is the second time in as many years that the Yankees will deal with the pending retirement of a superstar. Last season, closer Mariano Rivera, baseball’s all-time saves leader, hung up his cleats.

Rivera’s 2013 season was stellar, but also served as a nationwide farewell tour for the veteran reliever.

He was presented with gifts in pregame ceremonies at nearly every stadium he visited in thanks for his many years of service.

Love them or hate them, Jeter and Rivera were consummate professionals on and off the field.

They won – a lot – and did it with class. They lost – not as much – but were gracious in defeat. It’s very likely that Jeter will get his own personal send-offs from the other 14 teams in the American League.

As a Boston Red Sox fan, the retirements of Rivera and Jeter produced conflicted feelings. I’ve spent the majority of my life actively rooting against them and what they represent – a huge payroll, a long history of winning and their dominance over the

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Red Sox from 1918 to 2003. But when Jeter retires, the core of the Yankee teams I spent my childhood despising will be gone. As players on both sides of baseball’s most heated rivalry have retired, the Red Sox-Yankees matchup has lost some luster. Players have become friendlier, and the teams haven’t met in the playoffs since the Red Sox won Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. Jeter and Rivera were the kingpins holding the rivalry together, but with them gone, I’m going to have to find new ways to hate the Yankees.

When Mike Krzyzewski decides to hang up the whistle and retire from the Duke sideline, it’ll be interesting to see how he’s received. Krzyzewski’s still going strong at age 67, and he’s in a race with Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim for first place in the men’s Division I record book, so this scenario probably won’t play out for a while. But should he announce a pre-emptive retirement a la Jeter and Rivera, he’d have the opportunity to embark on a similar farewell tour around the ACC. Would Coach K be as well-received in his final visits to ACC arenas as Jeter will be around major league baseball? I have my doubts. People tend to hate Derek Jeter because he plays for the Yankees. People tend to hate the Blue Devils because they’re coached by Mike Krzyzewski.

That said, Krzyzewski’s credentials are undeniable: four national championships, two Olympic golds, and before it’s all said and done, probably 1,000 career wins.

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He’s done a lot for the sport of basketball, and those accomplishments deserve recognition. He’s won and lost with class, despite the fiery intensity that rubs some the wrong way. I bet many ACC road crowds would give Krzyzewski a much warmer welcome if they knew he wouldn’t be coming back the next time Duke visited.

The reaction in the Dean Dome might not be one of those suddenly hospitable crowds. The Duke-UNC rivalry has persisted despite the retirement of Dean Smith because of the closeness of the schools, the intensity associated with college basketball in this state and decades of mutual dislike built up between the fan bases. It will continue without Coach K. But there will be a gaping hole once Krzyzewski calls it a career, and Tar Heel fans will have to find a new way to reinvigorate their hatred of Duke, just as I must with the Yankees in the postJeter era.

Jeter’s last professional game will be at Fenway Park, and tickets prices have skyrocketed for fans wishing to pay their respects to a baseball legend. Would the Tobacco Road rivalry soften for just one night to honor Krzyzewski? Only time will tell.

Ryan is a Duke sophomore. He plays trombone in the Duke University Marching Band.

Duke-Carolina The Blue blood rivalry

The graduate students in Section 20 “hex” the opposing team as they leave the court after warm-ups.

By Jake Klein, Duke Design by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

of Ryan Kelly, Kendall Marshall, Reggie Bullock, Antawn Jamison, n a world where the most Rick Fox, and Kenny Dennard. So important decision in life is grab a seat, pop some popcorn, choosing a shade of blue, Rival and get ready for an in depth look Magazine presents Duke-Carolina: at the rivalry on the big screen.

The Blue Blood Rivalry. Tobacco Background Road has been given the HollyThe Blue Blood Rivalry started wood treatment before, but never as a book called Blue Blood by like this. For the first time, viewers renowned Tobacco Road historian can experience the game day exArt Chansky in 2003. Across five citement buzzing in Durham and volumes, Chansky, a UNC-CH Chapel Hill leading up to tip-off. alum, provides a fresh take on the Originally released digitally last greatest rivalry in collegiate athletMarch before a wider release in ics. Although billed as a review of November, The Blue Blood Rivalry the last 50 years in Duke-Carolina premiered in Los Angeles for the basketball, Blue Blood traces the first time in February, becoming an rivalry all the way back to the turn instant sensation featuring the likes of the 20th century, detailing the

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origins of the Duke (then Trinity College) and UNC-CH basketball teams in the pre-ACC world of the early 1900’s.

Hassan Pinto, another UNC-CH grad and founded of GreatestFan Films, obtained the digital rights to Chansky’s Blue Blood. GreatestFan acts as a bridge between sports and technology, providing users with different media to interact with their favorite athletes and celebrities. GF also digitizes coffee table books, such as Blue Blood, allowing a wider audience to experience them via an eBook format. Pinto and Chansky originally wanted to make a hybrid eBook containing both pictures and video clips

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contribution by Image Entertainment, the film’s distributor. All in all, their total budget was less than $100,000.

The Blue Blood Rivalry was released via online video on-demand services last March, coinciding with the game in Chapel Hill. It premiered the following November on the East Coast, earning rave reviews. It was released again in February leading up to the first Duke-Carolina game of the season.

It is now available on Amazon, iTunes, and other digital retailers as well as on DVD. Overview Unlike other sports documentaries that are centered around teams, athletes, or games, The Blue Blood Rivalry focuses more on the Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images relationships Durham and ChapSeth Curry celebrates a shot during the NCAA el Hill have with the rivalry. The Tournament on March 29, 2013. film itself is structured as a moreor-less chronological overview of to provide readers with an inside the greatest Duke vs UNC-CH look into the rivalry. To this end, moments from the Art Heyman Pinto contacted writer/director fight in 1961 to the Austin Rivers Jason Rem, known for his work shot 50 years later (although an on Fox’s sport documentary series interesting anecdote about the 18th Beyond the Glory, to film scenes century feud between the Duke for the book. But shortly after and Mangum families is briefly filming began, the production mentioned). Each defining moteam realized a few clips wouldn’t ment in Duke-Carolina history be enough. is followed by commentary not “Once we started filming for only from former players such as the eBook, we realized that we Jay Bilas, Seth Curry, Mitch Kuphad something much bigger on chak, and Phil Ford, but also local our hands and that was a film fans and students. Passionate Tar that needed to be shared with the Heel fans talk smack about Danny world,” Pinto said in a GF press Green’s posterization of Greg Paurelease. At Rem’s suggestion, the lus while Dukies reminisce about team decided to make a docuJeff Capel’s buzzer beater. Campus mentary with Chansky serving classics like K-ville and the Pit are as screenwriter. The project was documented, and footage from a funded by $30,000 Pinto raised on celebratory bonfire and Franklin Kickstarter, an online crowdfundStreet storming sneak into the film, ing company, and an undisclosed but even those scenes aren’t the

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main focus of The Blue Blood Rivalry.

Pinto described the film as having a “mix of CBS’s Amazing Race” for the way it goes right into Durham and Chapel Hill, filming on location in several iconic hotspots. Members of the Chapel Hill Fire Department describe the massive public support of their Carolina blue fire trucks, bartenders and waitresses from venues such as Tyler’s Taproom and Tobacco Road Sports Café recount fan reactions to big games, families from all over the country tell stories of finding basketball tickets packed in suitcases under the Christmas Tree, even Durham Mayor Bill Bell makes a cameo to give his take on the rivalry. But the most entertaining location by far is Durham’s 40 Below Barbershop.

Guards Quinn Cook, PJ Hairston, and Reggie Bullock as well as musician and Duke graduate Mike Posner, all make appearances at 40 Below, yet the nameless, everyday

Photo by Sarah Houck

Cameron Crazies go wild to CASCADA’s “Every Time We Touch” during a timeout.

people arguing for their favorite team really sell the scenes. Perhaps the funniest moment in the entire film is when a diehard Duke fan admits he’d let his son go to UNCCH if they offered him a free ride, after declaring Chapel Hill was off limits.

Somewhere in between all of these stories and zingers, The Blue Blood Rivalry finds time to stir up even more controversy. One segment is dedicated to each school’s famous arena, Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Dean Smith Center. Jay Bilas candidly tells of playing the first game at the newly opened Dean Dome and how All-American point guard, Johnny Dawkins, said “we need to get one of these” in awe of its size. Blue Devil fans, as they always do, mock the Dean Dome’s size, giving the often cited phrase “there isn’t a bad seat in Cameron.”

Studet tickets are also debated, both by students and alumni. Duke students laud the tenting experien-

ce based on the sense of community it builds along with the assurance that the most dedicated fans get seats. Tar Heel supporters, however, quip that it’s a system for people who “aren’t smart enough to develop a lottery.” Even the schools’ uniforms are debated, with no clear consensus being reached.

A Friendly Rivalry?

In an interview with Grantland. com, Rem states that he always thought Duke-Carolina was a “friendly kind of rivalry, unlike Bama and Auburn, [with] the guy killing the trees.” Any poor soul foolish enough to wear the wrong shade of blue will argue there’s nothing “friendly” about this rivalry, even if neither side has stooped to committing arborcide.

Still, it’s hard to argue that Duke and UNC-CH fans really hate each other. In fact, they might even like being together, if for no other reason than to mock and argue. This interaction between such passionate bases is at the core of The Blue Blood Rivalry.

As Duke President Richard Brodhead put it, “part of each of our identities is that we have this famous rivalry with the other school. But if all we had is a rivalry, that wouldn’t be so good either.”

In addition to the basketball and the campus traditions, the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill are discussed throughout the film.

Durham is recognized as the home of several Fortune 500 companies as well as one of the most prosperous cities in North Carolina, if not the country. Chapel Hill, on the other hand, is praised for its more direct relationship with UNC-CH Photo by Robert Willett/News & Observer and its extension of the campus’s A young Tar Heel shows his team spirit while culture, such as its famous holding up a “Go Heels!” sign.

Photo by Associated Press

The crowd at the Dean Dome celebrates with Reggie Bullock after he makes a shot.

Carolina blue street signs. More importantly, the 10 miles that separate these great cities are also highlighted. No other great rivals, whether its Auburn-Alabama, Yankees-Red Sox, or Celtics-Lakers, has to live side-by-side with each other the way that Blue Devils and Tar Heels do. This connection has strengthened the rivalry, but also developed a sense of community.

While many great rivalries drive people apart, ours has brought us together. Said Rem on his take of the respective fan bases, “they get fired up, have fun, have a party, and the winner wins, the loser loses, and there’s another game in that year or next year. And they go right back to it.” As much as both sides enjoy winning, they’d much rather lose one game than lose the rivalry all together.

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Memories from the games Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke

Clockwise from top: Cameron Crazies painted themselves in the signature Duke blue. • Duke celebrates the win over UNC-CH with a traditional bonfire on the main quad. • The view from the student section during the Duke-UNC game in Cameron. • The final score of the Duke-UNC game in Cameron. Top photo by ESPN; all other photos by Lauren Paylor.

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Clockwise from left: UNC fans ?? captions here!!! All photos by Aleise Preslar.

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Poet’s Corner

Ball

ad et

By Anna Mukamal, Duke

What you have before you now is an anti-poem.

QUICKLYsoifeeltheneedto tellyouthatyouaremissing theactionifyoufocusonthe

I am in a trance and what comes to the surface is:

ballerinainthemiddleofthe stageyouneedtoignorewhat isprintedherebecauseit’snot

a mystic magical momentous mix of my memories; a crescent of the clear celestially clouded crown. the queer queen of queries, quips on quintessential leaps and leopard legs and the livid longing for letters toward tyranny of totalitarian treaties of twisted treasures and the silky surface itself is sultry, is even slipping away sssooo

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what she is telling you with the fluidity of her movement and the dynamism of her lips.

Dancing around these words are a million others.

They prance and pirouette, pounce on the pragmatic.

They hail from an implicit realm of silent salience… choreographing transcendental waltzes even as this page burns: one ephemeral ember to rem ember Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke

BEFORE YOU GRADUATE...

BUCKET LIST

Stroll through the Duke gardens in the spring time and have a picnic at the Coker Arboretum Drink out of the Old Well and climb the Duke Chapel See a live concert at Cat’s Cradle, Local 506, The Pinhook, or Motorco Enjoy a blueberry wheat beer at Top of the Hill, and have brunch at Parker and Otis Discover the Nasher Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Museum Participate in Relay for Life and run the Al Buehler trail Explore the Morehead Planetarium and see a major performance at DPAC

Cheer loud for your team at a UNC Chapel Hill vs. Duke basketball Relish these great four years of your life.

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By the Book

By Sofia Stafford, Duke Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

Duke

UNC

Course Name Course Number

Aids and Other Emerging Diseases BIO 154

AIDS: Principles and Policy PUBH 423

Professor Offered in Fall 2014?

Sherryl Broverman No

Ronald P. Strauss No

Required Books

AIDS: Science and Society, 6th ed Race Against Time, Lewis, 2nd edition Global AIDS Myths and Facts

“You’re the first on I’ve Told”: New Faces of HIV in the South

Number of Papers

3

1

Number of Quizzes/Exams Course Grade

0/3 3 assignments/papers 2 exams 1 final exam

Attendance Policy

Additional

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0/0 Class Participation and Service, Book Essay, Critical Incident Reports (reflection of service or research conducted), Final Essay, Final Presentation Attend and interact Attendance at lecture is required for all students who have not previously taken the PUBH 420 course. Attendance is required at seminar or Movie/Discussion meetings.

There are no additional require30-40 hour service learning or ments. The class counts towards research placement requirement the Global Health major and minor (depending on prerequisites) which includes an experimental learning component.

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out of the Blue Introducing Rival's Executives for 2014-2015

Editor-in-Chief

Duke University freshman Anna Mukamal is a writer, a long-distance runner, a violinist, a backpacker, a “foodie” and a poet. Pursuing a Spanish major with a minor in English and a Policy Journalism & Media Studies certificate, Mukamal spends much of her time exploring multidimensional communication. Working as a research assistant for a local freelance journalist has led her to consider a career in publishing or magazine journalism. With interests varying from photography to religion, Mukamal loves academia and dreams of becoming a professor. Be it through her poems, her violin music, or the features she has written for Rival Magazine this year, Mukamal is a storyteller at heart. She is currently collaborating with Religious Studies professor Shalom Goldman on an essay about the historical interaction between Judaism and Christianity. Next year, Mukamal will work alongside two Duke cultural anthropologists to document the lives of Latina housecleaners in Durham for “The Maid Project.” A Robertson Scholar, Mukamal will spend the spring 2015 semester at UNC-CH, where she hopes to further unite Duke and UNC-CH staff members as Rival’s Editor-in-Chief.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Peru, Venezuela, the United States and Spain, Catalina Villegas has been an avid photographer of the culture shocks, inequities and beauties of life she encounters. Inspired by Sally Mann and Edouard Boubat’s work, Villegas has typically pursued her passion for photography as a hobby. With much excitement, she first reached out to Rival the summer before her freshman year, not knowing how intense a rivalry she was getting herself into, and has thoroughly enjoyed every moment as a photographer. As Creative Photo Editor, she hopes to work with the team to bring to life those moments of pain, joy and euphoria that UNC-CH and Duke suffer each year. As a Duke freshman, Villegas is pursuing a double major in Public Policy Studies and Global Health, along with a certificate in Markets and Management Studies. She also enjoys working at the Global Health institute as well as working with Durham’s Latino population.

Sports Editor

Photo Editor

Duke sophomore Jake Klein has been chosen as Rival’s new Sports Editor for the 2014-2015 academic year. A statistics major, Klein has spent two years on the Rival staff, primarily as a feature writer. He began his writing career by writing poetry for his high school’s literary magazine. He currently is working on a fantasy novel and hopes to one day write for Grantland, ESPN’s Bill Simmons’ sports and pop culture blog. In addition to writing, Klein is Duke’s first and only award winning trophy maker, having won the Awards and Recognition Industry Educational Foundation’s George J. Waas Memorial Scholarship in 2012. As a non-athlete in high school, he credits trophy making as a way to still be involved in sports. “I don’t kid myself.

Building trophies certainly isn’t the same thing as being out there on the field or the court,” says Klein. “But the season isn’t over until someone picks up the championship trophy.”

Although UNC-CH junior Alexandria Clayton is specializing in Editing and Graphic Design at the UNC-CH’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, her passions lie in the world of tattoos and photography. At age 16, she realized her love for body art, but never imagined she could make a career out of it.

Upon entering UNC-CH, Clayton was given the spark she needed to pursue her dreams of being a photographer for a major tattoo magazine. By creating “Monstro Photography,” she hopes to get her name out there and build a cliental base of models and customers. Clayton has spent the past year building her photography portfolio in the hopes of submitting it to Inked Magazine. She is hopeful that one day in the near future she will be recognized as a successful photographer and designer within the tattoo industry.

Design Editor

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