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Nonprofit to give Durham a CHANCE

Royster indicted on felony charge

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by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

by Leena El-Sadek THE CHRONICLE

An international service organization dedicated to aiding local youth has returned to its roots here at Duke.

Concern and Help for the Advancement of Neighborhood Children through Education, also known as CHANCE, is a student-led organization that tutors underprivileged students. The nonprofit was founded at Duke in 1985 with the support of former Duke President Terry Sanford and other University leaders. Although it has expanded to many other universities in the United States and abroad, its presence has since diminished in Durham. CHANCE founder Eugene Lee, Trinity ’87, has returned to campus, however, to revitalize the program.

As a sophomore at Duke, Lee said he realized that a program for tutoring local students was not present at Duke. As a result, Lee and some friends founded CHANCE, which has expanded to Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University and Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.

The program in Durham began to deteriorate during the 17 years after graduation when Lee lived in South Korea, Lee said.

“This is an organization that started in ’85, and it’s still going—even without Duke,” he said.

Ultimately, CHANCE hopes to expand its chapters to more countries, especially in the

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Dawud Wharnsby plays guitar at the Abraham Jam Interfaith Concert, sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, in Page Auditorium Wednesday evening.

SEE CHANCE ON PAGE 5

Senior Lee Royster will face a felony charge related to the car accident that killed classmate Matthew Grape Sept. 14.

The Durham County grand jury indicted Royster Monday on the charge of felony death by vehicle, said Candy Clark, administrative assistant at the Durham County District Attorney’s office. Royster is tentatively scheduled to appear before a judge the week of Dec. 5, though the final court calendar has not been issued.

Assistant District Attorney Kyle Pousson, Law ’08, is the prosecutor in the case. Pousson declined to comment, citing pending litigation.

Under North Carolina law, felony death by vehicle—a Class E felony—is an impaired driver unintentionally causing the death of another person when impairment is deemed to be the proximate cause of death.

According to North Carolina sentencing guidelines, a person guilty of a Class E felony without a prior record could serve 15 to 31 months in prison or under supervised probation among other conditions, such as house arrest.

Durham attorney Bill Thomas is Royster’s attorney in the case. Thomas confirmed the indictment and noted that it has not yet been served. A court date is contingent upon service of the indictment.

“We are making arrangements for [service of the indictment] at this time,” Thomas said.

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Late night at Pitchfork Provisions Redistricting pits

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The restaurant was relatively quiet Saturday night, save for some small groups of diners and passersby. But around 1 a.m. Sunday, hordes of students flocked to the venue, eager to take advantage of Pitchfork Provisions’ late night menu options and 24-hour operating schedule. That night the eatery—nestled in the basement of McClendon Tower—experienced its weekend rush.

The busiest hours for Pitchfork Provisions on weekends occur from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., general manager Scott Wells said. During that time the restaurant, which replaced The Tower at the beginning of this academic year, especially caters to late-night eaters, whether they are stumbling back from Shooters II or seeking a break from a night-long study session.

Indeed, the late-night diners tend to be slightly more animated than an average group of restaurant patrons.

At 1:40 a.m, two students engaged in an arm-wrestling competition while they waited for their food. Others were in a more affectionate mood.

Pitchfork Provisions, the 24-hour eatery located in McClendon Tower, serves many students each weekend after midnight.

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incumbent Democrats against each other

by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

The recent redistricting of North Carolina will pit Democratic allies Rep. David Price, D-N.C., and Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C. against one another in a 2012 election for control of Duke’s congressional district.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation July 28 that reshaped the fourth district to contain both Price, who already serves in this district, and Miller—who currently represents the 13th district.

The University—as part of the fourth congressional district—has a particular stake in the change.

This move, commonly referred to as “double-bunking,” SEE REDISTRICTING ON PAGE 4

SEE LATE NIGHT ON PAGE 4

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“[Switching to Google Apps] would save us a lot of money because it would be free, and right now we’re currently paying for Webmail service” —Senior Christina Lieu on Duke Webmail. See story page 3

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Suspect in White House shooting arrested in Pa.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 21-year-old man with a self-professed hatred for Washington and President Barack Obama was arrested Wednesday in connection with rifle shots fired near the White House last week, as authorities sought to link the gunfire to bullet damage discovered at the executive mansion, officials said.

The suspect, Oscar Ramiro OrtegaHernandez, who had been the focus of an intense law enforcement search since the gunfire Friday evening, was arrested at a western Pennsylvania hotel shortly after 12:30 p.m., the Secret Service said. U.S. Park Police had obtained an arrest warrant charging him with felony possession of a dangerous weapon.

On Tuesday, four days after the gunfire, officials discovered at least one bullet hole in a window on the south side of the White House,the Secret Service said.The window is about 750 yards from where the shots were fired,at Constitution Avenue and 16th Street.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

GOP report claims TSA has Senate recommends not improved aviation security shift to Google Apps

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by Arden Kreeger THE CHRONICLE

Despite improvements to Webmail last week, students are still considering alternatives to Duke’s email server.

Duke Student Government unanimously approved a resolution in support of transitioning from Webmail to Google Apps for Education. The new system would utilize Gmail as its email server while also giving students and faculty access to Google Calendar, Google Documents, Google Chat and other Google services. “[Switching to Google Apps] would save us a lot of money because it would be free, and right now we’re currently paying for Webmail service,” said senior Christina Lieu, vice president for athletics, services and the environment. “[It would also] help facilitate collaboration and communication among students and faculty.”

About 43 percent of Duke students already forward their Webmail messages to a different email address, and 36 percent of the student body forward their email to Gmail specifically, The Chronicle previously reported.

Lieu said switching to Google Apps would not compromise the security of Duke’s email system.

In other business: The Senate passed a “903 Resolution” recognizing Mike Krzyzewski, men’s basketball head coach, on his 903rd win Tuesday night against Michigan State University. The resolution was met with applause from the Senate.

DSG also approved a $10,000 grant to the Duke Marketing Club for its “Heroes and Villains” Library Party. The party will be hosted Feb. 25 in Perkins and Bostock libraries. The grant passed by a hand vote, which resulted from sophomore Fedja Pavlovic, senator for residential life and dining, who objected to spending $10,000 on a social event.

DSG approved a $525 grant to the Million Meals event for advertisements and one plaza board for its Jan. 11 service event in the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. The event, which usually takes place at Southern High School, is part of the Durham and regional affairs committee’s ongoing effort to facilitate student engagement in the Durham community, according to a DSG budgetary statute.

Know Your Status, an organization that offers free HIV tests to college students, will receive funding to bring an HIV-positive jazz musician to the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. The musician will perform and then speak about his experiences as an HIV-positive musician.

The Duke Investment Club was granted funding to bring Dale Carnegie to campus as a guest speaker. Carnegie is the author of the book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”

The Senate also discussed the selection process for this year’s commencement speaker, journalist Fareed Zakaria. Senators noted the possibility of reforming next year’s selection process in hopes of increasing student input.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a $56 billion federal investment in airline security, flying is no safer than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks and the bare hands of passengers may be the best defense once a terrorist gets on board, two members of Congress said Wednesday.

Deriding the Transportation Security Administration as a bloated bureaucracy that recruits security personnel with ads on gas pumps and pizza boxes, the two House Republicans said it needed to undergo almost a dozen reforms.

“Americans have spent nearly $60 billion, and they are no safer today than they were before 9/11,” said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. “We need to make travel safe in America, and right now it’s not.”

Broun joined House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday morning to present a harshly critical report on the TSA’s performance.

Broun said a terrorist bomb could be place aboard an airliner “very easily” at his home airport in Atlanta.

“TSA has not prevented any attacks,” Broun said. “It’s just been very fortunate that we’ve had no attacks.”

TSA spokesman Greg Soule denounced the report.

“At a time when our country’s aviation system is safer, stronger and more secure than it was 10 years ago, this report is an unfortunate disservice to the dedicated

men and women of TSA who are on the front lines every day protecting the traveling public,” Soule said. “TSA has developed a highly trained federal workforce that has safely screened over 5 billion passengers and established a multilayered security system reaching from curb to cockpit.”

Mica and Broun, both longtime critics of the agency, challenged the need for 3,986 employees at its Washington headquarters, saying they earned an average of $103,852 a year.

“We never intended to have TSA grow into this massive bureaucracy,” Mica said.

Instead, the report said, the TSA should set standards for airport and airline security and be open to use of private contractors to carry them out. The TSA also should station more personnel abroad to intercept terrorists and to ensure that passenger screening and baggage inspections in foreign airports are up to U.S. standards.

The report cited data released this year showing that there had been 25,000 airport security breaches in the past decade. Given the leaky security network, it said, “passengers and crew offer our first and most effective line of defense.”

The report said that the TSA has wasted money on ineffective equipment and programs, has been slow to install explosive-detection devices at the nation’s largest airports and has deployed SEE TSA ON PAGE 6

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REDISTRICTING from page 1 is an attempt to inhibit the number of Democratic districts in North Carolina, some experts and Democrats said.

The double-bunking is unprecedented in North Carolina on the congressional level, said Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer in public policy studies. McCorkle said the new map is unreasonably shaped to enclose Democrats in the same district.

Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, said, however, that the redistricting is an attempt to represent the increasingly conservative state of North Carolina more fairly.

Both Miller and Price said they would seek to represent the fourth district if the redistricting bill is not overturned by the May 8 congressional primaries. Democratic party leaders and voters filed lawsuits against the redistricting Nov. 3 and Nov. 4. The redistricting bill could also be overturned by the courts. “I am supporting the legal challengers to the redistricting, but I plan to run for congress again,� Miller said. “The districts are just completely different, but the fourth district is, realistically, the only place that either one of us would run.�

Miller added that under the new lines of the fourth district, neither he or Price has a majority of returning constituents. “[Price] represents 33 percent of the new fourth district. I represent 31 percent—35 percent was represented by neither of us,� he said.

Price, who is leading the delegation to challenge the new district map, also said he plans to run again in the

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fourth district in 2012. “I intend to stick with the fourth district through the twists and turns of redistricting,� Price added. “I am ready to run in whatever the district looks like and I am eager to represent it to the best of my ability.�

The University could face a significant loss in this double-bunking process because many constituents of Price, a former University political science professor, are now at risk of losing him as a representative, McCorkle said. “David Price was in tune with the needs of Duke and knew Duke,� he said. “Duke loses in this process, to the extent that they may lose Price.�

An Oct. 19 polling memo from Democratic firm the Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group showed Price would take 46 percent of the vote and Miller would take 25 percent and 29 percent of voters would remain undecided.

About three-fifths of the total respondents said they were familiar with both candidates. From this group, 50 percent of voters said they supported Price and 28 percent demonstrated support for Miller. Seventy-two percent of Price’s voters said they strongly support him, though 42 percent of Miller’s voters said they felt the same about Miller.

Despite the prospect of being opponents next spring, the candidates said they are allies in Congress, noting that their political differences are fewer than their similarities. They both added that, ideally, the redistricting would be overturned, and they would be given the opportunity to run in separate districts. “We need to challenge the map,�

Price said. “This is an illegal map.�

LATE NIGHT from page 1 “Give me a hug,� one male student said, reaching clumsily to embrace his friend. “You’re one of the funnest girls at Duke.�

The same student later faced interrogation from another female friend, who asked, “You made her orgasm with your kisses?� “I’m a very good kisser,� he replied.

The students arrived at the restaurant from seemingly all walks of life. Some wore suits, and others donned sweats. A few clutched beer cans, and one girl balanced a glow stick on her head. All, including sophomore Gracie Dulik, were ready to eat. “I love that they have breakfast late-night because breakfast is my favorite meal,� Dulik said. “And I really like that they have a variety of options, but breakfast is definitely my favorite.�

Dulik said she is proud to be a frequent diner.

“[I eat here] once a day, at least,� she said. “Probably twice a day... for lunch or dinner and then late night.�

Senior John Hoyle, another regular at the restaurant, said the food’s quality is not the eatery’s most appealing factor. “Twenty-four hours is by far the best thing about it,� Hoyle said. “The food is not spectactular.�

Given the concentration of students in the eatery at such a late hour, the 24-hour feature of Pitchfork Provisions seems to be a major selling point for a large portion of West Campus residents.

Wells said he remembered one particularly memorable early morning at his workplace. “A few weeks ago... I think there was an international event so a lot of the international students were in here at about 3:30 [a.m.],� he said. “There were probably about 50 or 60 people in the restaurant, and everyone in the restaurant was singing ‘Frere Jacques.’ So that was pretty cool.�

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CHANCE from page 1 Middle East, where poverty and poor education systems are widespread, Lee said. Because CHANCE has been successful at a variety of universities, Lee is determined to bring it back home.

“I want to revamp CHANCE everywhere, but before I move to other universities, I can’t let my alma mater down,” Lee said. “The foundation has to be strong before I move on so other universities can model us.”

CHANCE is a free tutoring program that focuses on helping public high school students maximize their capabilities inside and outside of a classroom setting. For the Durham chapter, Duke students provide the tutoring and local businesses partner with the program to provide the high school students with meals and additional activities, such as field trips.

A lack of commitment once Lee left caused the fall of the organization, said freshman Bo Peng, an emerging CHANCE leader. Peng added that the program requires significant time and energy from its leaders.

When the organization first started in the 1980s, it was run solely by volunteers using local donations. CHANCE was unable to sustain this, however, because it could not afford an office or a full-time executive board like other thriving nonprofits because it was a student group. This caused many of the leaders to leave the organization to pursue their personal careers and family responsibilities, Peng said.

In order to solve this problem, Lee is reaching out to a wide range of students to act as leaders in the program. The program currently tutors students using East Campus facilities, but CHANCE is expanding its resources to West Campus in order to attract more Duke students, Lee said. It is also seeking a space that can accommodate a large group of high school students. Under Lee’s attempt at revitalizing CHANCE, businesses will start sponsoring community involvement activities, such as museum trips, free meals, school tours and athlete speakers.

“We also try to build knowledge and equip [the CHANCE participants] with tools that our parents gave to us,” he said.

“They will be aware of things such as work ethics, responsibility, confidence and self esteem. It’s like having a well-rounded support system away from home.”

Some Duke students are eager to revitalize CHANCE.

Freshman CHANCE leader Katie Shpanskaya, for example, said she wants public high school students to experience education beyond the classroom.

“As a kid, I went to museums all the time and learned so much from them, and I feel that is something all kids should experience,” Shpanskaya said. “CHANCE is more than just a tutoring program. We want the students to experience what we experienced as kids—we want to go beyond education.”

David Malone, director of the Service Learning Program and the director of undergraduate studies for the education department, said CHANCE represents a long-standing commitment Duke students have to the Durham community, particularly in education.

“The relationship between Duke and Durham is of central importance to our mission here at Duke,” Malone said. “We need to think more critically about the integration of our civic CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO and intellectual lives—student engagement with the commuFormer Duke President Terry Sanford at a CHANCE tutoring session in 1985. nity provides an opportunity for this.”

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ROYSTER from page 1 “Service of an indictment may or may not include an arrest.”

The car accident occurred near the intersection of Academy Road and Duke University Road at 2:40 a.m.

Sept. 14, according to a DPD incident report. Royster, the driver of the car, was charged with driving while impaired following the accident.

The DWI charge was dismissed Oct. 5, citing the reason “for inclusion on future indictment,” according to the court document signed by Pousson.

Thomas added that the felony charge will be evaluated under the case management process.

Case management procedures recommend that Class E felonies be plead out or tried within 12 months of the indictment, though the timeframe is variable depending on the circumstances of the case, Clark said.

In these types of cases, the prosecution has to gather further information following the initial indictment, said Durham attorney Bob Ekstrand, a former profes-

sor at the School of Law and Law ’98. Ekstrand, who is not involved in Royster’s case, specializes in criminal defense.

Proof of impairment may be the most critical piece of evidence in cases like these, though other facts and circumstances surrounding the incident can significantly alter the outcome of the case, Ekstrand.

Royster’s blood alcohol concentration at the time of the accident is not yet known, DPD public information officer Kammie Michael wrote in an email Tuesday.

“It is important to resist the impulse to draw conclusions without the facts and fill in the factual gaps that always exist simply because a charge was filed,” Ekstrand said. “The point of a charge is to put a person on notice... but they are presumed innocent.”

Royster is still enrolled as a student, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. The administration generally handles felony charges against students on a case-bycase basis.

Wasiolek added that the Office of Student Affairs remains dedicated to addressing the consequences of

alcohol use.

“We have and will continue to provide educational opportunities for students to learn how to best avoid the negative consequences associated with alcohol,” Wasiolek said. “We are highly committed to a harmreduction approach.”

The night of the accident, Royster was driving south on Academy Road in a Chevrolet Equinox with Grape riding in the passenger seat, according to the DPD incident report. The vehicle was traveling at 65 mph in a 35 mph zone before veering into the opposite lane and going off the road.

Grape was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a report by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Grape’s probable cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. He was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. It is uncertain whether Grape had been drinking that night.

Royster was taken to Duke University Hospital for treatment of injuries before being released later that morning.

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new high-tech body scanners in “a haphazard and easily thwarted manner.”

“Our concern is that explosives continue to be the focus of terrorists,” Mica said.

He said he was “not impressed” by the TSA’s planned evolution to a more risk-based approach. The agency has been criticized for applying the same security standards to all passengers, including children and the elderly.

Soule responded that the risk-based approach was “designed to maintain a high level of security, while improving the overall travel experience, whenever possible.”

“Each of these initiatives moves us away from a onesize-fits-all approach and enhances our ability to provide the most effective security, focusing on those who present the highest risk, in the most efficient way possible,” Soule said.

The TSA faced a public outcry last year after it introduced the new scanners, which critics thought were overly revealing, and procedures for vigorous pat-downs of those who refused to use the scanners.

They are no longer the most significant issue for regular travelers, according to the U.S. Travel Association. A survey released Wednesday by the travel industry group said the biggest objection voiced by frequent flyers was that other passengers delay security lines with too much carry-on baggage. They said passengers also dislike requirements that they remove their shoes, belts and jackets.

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theSANDBOX. True story: Two or three weeks ago, I was walking through the Sanford parking lot on a Saturday. A smallish, dark-haired man decked out in Duke athletic gear got out of an SUV parked near the athletic building. He looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place him. So I just kept walking.

Then I heard it, and I knew I could never retell this story around my classmates (And of course—here I am, telling you now). I heard a woman’s voice ask, “Coach, can I get a picture with you?”

I awkwardly glanced back and saw Coach K taking a picture hastily with the woman and her young son before power walking into the building. I know no one saw me, but I felt myself turning red as a tomato. I admit that I have no idea what takes place on a basketball court. But Coach K is an icon—how could I call myself a Blue Devil?

Tuesday night was no different. I halfheartedly watched the first few minutes of K’s record-setting game up here in The

Chronicle office, but then I went back to my dorm to do homework and watch Netflix. But when I checked Facebook and saw my news feed coated with congratulatory 903 statuses—albeit a couple hours after the fact—and smiled.

I know that people attach great importance to 903 and Coach Kyrzesfg…

Krzevzks….Kzyrzkew…however you spell it. College basketball is important to a lot of people, just not to me. Still, I wear my Duke t-shirts with pride. I’ve waited in line for several hours to squeeze into Cameron. I may not have come to Duke for basketball (I’m positive there are people who fall into that category), but I appreciate the school spirit. And I won’t forget that K set this record during my sophomore year because everyone was talking about it—even people like me, who never grow tired of philosophical conversations about the pointlessness of college athletics.

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Recess doesn’t publish on Thanksgiving.

T You’ll have to m make do without us on that most indulgently in lazy holiday, which, I know, is a little like (complete simile s with something else ine essential to the enjoyment of a h holiday).

Because I won’t get to express e my gratitude in writing n next Thursday, and because I f feel so overstuffed with thanks ( (like being overdosed on confidence, d or eating so much turkey that t you pass out at the table, which is another thing Drizzy w might m do), I’ve started giving some out a week early this year. s N only is it the right thing to Not do, d it’s a way for me to restrain myself from making too-soon Jerry Sandusky jokes. Or touching little boys’ thighs. Or both. Onwards: Global Warming: This is apparently not actually a good thing. And jokes about it aren’t ever funny in the least. But I am sincerely pleased that its 78˚ outside right now, and at the increasing likelihood that Long Island will soon be underwater.

Parking on campus: Duke Parking and Transportation has for at least the past decade waged war on the student body on the bursar bill battlefield, with the tacit consent of the school’s administration.

And they have yet to extend the courtesy of informing students when and why the Bryan Center lot will be closed. But I’ve managed to make it through the semester, sans parking pass, with a measly $60 in tickets, so I’m not complaining.

Coldplay: Around this time of year, a seasonal affect catalyzes my ‘drine comedowns, and that’s when I get a little testy,

listen to a lot of rap music and spend an inordinate amount of thought on verbally abusing friends and family. As it turns out, the one thing that prevents this annual slide is optimistic and painfully earnest arena rock. Enter Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland: if not for “Charlie Brown,” I’d have had the sunshine crushed out of me.

Pabst Blue Ribbon: I’m white trash, and I’m in trouble?

Rick Perry: Thanksgiving break is a little like enforced procrastination: I know all the end-of-semester work I don’t want to do is on the other side of it, and I’d much rather worry futilely about it than actually start doing it. But I can comfort myself by knowing that, even if I don’t study one moment and waste all my parents’ money, it could be worse: I could be Rick Perry.

A$AP Rocky: This dude is awesome.

Coach K: We here at Recess don’t know a whole lot about “sports,” because we weren’t good at them in high school and the whole idea feels barbarically zero-sum to us. But we’ve noticed that winning is generally approved of, and this fellow has apparently done more of it than anyone else ever. Good on you, Coach K! By the way, what is all this “dribble penetration” that commentators keep referring to during college basketball games? Is it considered deviant behavior?

Check back with us in two weeks (and remember that the criticism herein does not reflect editorial opinion). In the meantime, I hope this prompts your own Thanksgiving reflections. If nothing else, we can all be glad we have fully functional brains with a reasonable command of acronyms and political platforms.

—Ross Green

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Recess Interviews: Novelist Margaret Maron money from the publishers. They got bigger contracts.

Their books were taken more seriously. That’s why we Mystery writer and North Carolina native Margaret Maron is founded Sisters in Crime, which is now an internathe author of 26 novels and two series and the winner of several tional organization to promote women’s writing in the major American awards for mysteries, including the Edgar and mystery field.

Agatha Awards. As a Blackburn Visiting Writer in the English R: Are there particular techniques you use that are Department, Maron took some time between writing workshops to unique to mystery writing, or do you just put the character talk to Recess about politics, the mystery novel, her trials as young in a place and let the story evolve organically? feminist and why you don’t need a college degree.

MM: [As an example], Deborah Knott is a district court judge, and this gives me a chance to look at the Recess: What distinguishes mysissues that are facing that part of the tery from other genres? state. When I went to the mountains, I Margaret Maron: It has a looked at over-development and where definite form. There has to be a tourism interrupts the lives of the peocrime, and in the end the reader ple that have been there for 200 years. has to feel as if justice has been Same with the coast—I looked at the done. It doesn’t necessarily mean pollution of our estuaries and conflict that the good are rewarded or between sportsmen and indigenous that the evil are punished, but fisherman. I don’t get up on a soapbox, that it feels like justice is done. but I let my character take positions on R: Why did you end up writing the issues. mystery novels?

R: I think a lot of people at the univerMM: I didn’t want to do the sity level question whether they should usual coming of age novel where do something they love or do something you trash your family, and make practical. When you were getting into writit sound like it was more horrible ing, was there ever a point where you questhan it was. And I’m not a contioned whether you should do something fessional type of writer. I don’t more practical? take my clothes off in public. So MM: This is very practical for me. the mystery allowed me to hide Here’s the thing—I don’t think that a in its form...You can get as politicollege degree is always necessary. I cal, as religious, as sociological don’t have one, for instance, and I don’t as any other form of literature, think having one would have made a and that appeals to me. difference in how much success I might R: You grew up on a small tohave. I read everything voraciously, bacco farm in North Carolina and from trash to the classics. And I think spent time living in New York. It the more you read, the more you have seems like your two series’ proa facility with the language, the more tagonists, NYPD Lieutenant Sigrid you understand. It opens your mind to Harald and North Carolina Diswider horizons. trict Court Judge Deborah Knott R: What’s the best piece of advice you’d JISOO YOON/ THE CHRONICLE give to aspiring writers? are very much linked to the places Award-winning mystery novelist Margaret Maron will come to Duke for a week-long Blackburn Visiting writer fellowship. where you’ve lived.

MM: Finish. Finish the story, finish the MM: Place is absolutely crucial to writing. In fact, I R: I don’t know if you’d describe yourself as a femitake my characters and I put them in a certain place, nist, but is gender equality something you try to advocate book, finish the essay. Don’t get halfway through and quit. and I let my story grow organically out of the setting. through your writing?

My first novel [One Coffee With] grew out of my expeMM: Absolutely. I don’t know how any career woman riences working in the art department at Brooklyn Col- could not be a feminist.

Maron will host a public reading on Thursday, Nov. 18 at lege and watching the way the acids and photographic You see it all across the spectrum. [When I was start- 7:30 p.m, in the East Duke Parlors. The event is free and open chemicals were mishandled. There was a poison cabi- ing out as a writer] the male writers got more promo to the public. net that anybody could get into...And so in the novel, I

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At the time I created [recurring character] Sigrid Harald, you didn’t have a whole lot of senior women police officers. Women were looked upon as poaching on men’s grounds, and the police force was, like, 90% male at that time. It’s more common now, so to write about her now is a little difficult. You do not realize how the world has changed in 20 years. You do not.

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TAKE CARE YOUNG MONEY

For whatever else it may be, Take Care is most of all a contrivance. It’s a remarkably representative reflection, at one particular moment in the man’s contrived second career, of an Aubrey Drake Graham of Toronto, Ontario, who once starred in a teen soap opera called Degrassi: The Next Generation.

All of this is more by way of description than evaluation; that is, leave aside for now any of the pejorative notions implicit therein. Two of Drake’s Take Care collaborators, Rick Ross and the Weeknd, have conjured up similarly contrived on-record personas to impressive results; that Graham once starred in a teen soap should be no more an indictment than, for instance, that William Leonard Roberts once worked as a correctional officer or that Abel Tesfaye’s misogynistic anecdotes are most likely fictional constructions. Outsized personalities, regardless of their basis in reality, can make for good rap music. Nahmean?

Drake had this last point already figured out on 2010’s Thank Me Later.

That album was unabashedly selfcentered, and the Drake at the center wasn’t afraid to show off a loverboy croon or to represent himself as the king of a game he had barely started playing: being a rapper. Eighteen months and a slew of high-profile guest spots later, Take Care improves on its predecessor’s attempt to define the patently absurd creation that is Drake. This means synthesizing a set of disparate strands—world-beating swagger, Southern-rap signifiers, Noah “40” Shebib’s synth-heavy atmospherics, not to mention a whole bunch of loverboy crooning—into a coherent whole. If that sounds like a task, well, it is.

“Marvins Room” succeeds for the same reason that “Runaway” and “Blame Game” worked on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: each demonstrates its creator’s vulnerability by struggling against it. The repeated female vocal, “Are you drunk right now?” that anchors the track reminds us that we’re listening to a guy who, despite enjoying all the fame in the world, can be chillingly empathetic: sad, impulsive, unsure of whether to be regretful or vindictive, ultimately coming off as both at once. By contrast, “Shot for Me” and “Doing it Wrong” simply dress up unlikable misogyny as false sympathy; “Practice” is too sincere in its delusion to come off as anything other than creepy, much less relatable.

Of course, this is but one of many sides of Take Care. The union between Drake and Lil Wayne’s Young Money label is the most incongruous in rap today, and absurdist shit talk via Lex Luger bombast of the former has rubbed off on Drake’s tortured superstar confessionals, mostly superficially.

His verses on “Headlines” and Tha Carter IV’s “I’m Good,” which took

shots at West and Jay-Z, have attracted plenty of scorn from traditionalist rap blogs quick to point out that, hey, this is Wheelchair Jimmy speaking. That’s not in and of itself a substantive criticism. When taken alongside Drake’s penchant for reconnecting with exes and wooing strippers, though, his poorly-executed newfound aggression makes Drizzy look all the softer. Likewise all his lip service to chopped-andscrewed Houston trap-hop: there’s a track here called “Underground Kings,” and on “Good Ones Go,” he raps, “I’ve been chilling in the city where the money’s thrown high and the girls get down/ In case you’re starting to wonder why my new shit’s sounding so H-town.” It doesn’t, not in the least, and the lyric exemplifies the sort of self-aware artifice that can make Drake so repellent.

Appropriately, what’s most striking about Take Care is its unrepentant ambition. Take Care comes closer to the superhuman, epochal designs of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy than anything since, and Kanye West’s magnum opus provides an illuminating comparison. “Marvins Room” isn’t as grandiose in its execution as “Runaway,” but both tracks demonstrate Drake and West, respectively, at their most vulnerable and most incisive; Kendrick Lamar even shows up to play the Pusha T-esque foil on the subsequent interlude “Buried Alive.” Like “Lost in the World,” Take Care’s title track features a Gil Scott Heron sample and a piano riff over a four-four beat. And both albums are consumed by women, and their creators’ tumultuous relationships with them.

Take Care doesn’t stand up to MBDTF, though even mentioning the two together certainly confers some measure of merit on the former. At eighteen tracks, Take Care appears bloated next to the fiercely purposeful MBDTF, and Drake doesn’t exhibit West’s talent for sequencing his songs to maximum effect. Most crucially, and most revealingly, though, is this: even relative to Kanye’s torturous complexity, Drake is shooting for something too multifarious and, again, contrived, to ever really hit his mark.

That’s a shame, too, because aside from the posturing, Drake’s flexing an undeniably impressive flow on Take Care—rhythmic and economical, composed but aggressive, squeezing punch lines into the last possible syllable without ever seeming out of breath. Sure, there’s the ill-advised Nicki Minaj affect he tries on “Make Me Proud,” and his scratchy monotone on “Cameras” is modeled after Weezy but winds up sounding more like Kid Cudi. But tracks like “We’ll Be Fine” and “Underground Kings” don’t just mark development from Thank Me Later; they show a rapper who’s found a voice worthy of his boasts.

—Ross Green

childish gambino CAMP GLASSNOTE

Donald Glover must be the most versatile entertainer in the world today. As Donald Glover, he is a stand-up comedian, former writer for “30 Rock,” star of the show “Community,” GAP model and head of sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy. As Childish Gambino, his focus is only rapping, as he points out early on his new album: “Donald Glover / No relation.”

Childish Gambino has released six mixtapes in his three years behind the microphone. Early in his career, many critics dismissed Gambino as a joke; simply a comedian taking potshots at shallow music culture. Three years later, he has established his legitimate musical talent with a particular aptitude for memorable lyrics. His first widespread song, “Freaks and Geeks,” exemplifies his lyrical flair: “e.e. cummings on her face/ Now that’s poetry in motion.”

Gambino’s debut album, Camp, plays host to plenty of witty hashtag-rap: “Made the beat and murdered it/ Casey Anthony,” or “You can f***ing kiss my *ss/ Human centipede.” But Camp is also more than very clever wordplay. The album deals with Gambino’s struggle to develop an identity in the music industry. On the down-tempo, introspective “All the Shine,” he asks, “Is there room in the game for a lame who rhymes?/ Who wears short shorts and makes jokes sometimes?”

Gambino knows he’s talented, smart and can appeal to a wide audience. He alternately raps and sings over slowmoving, orchestral beats, guitar-driven tracks and decidedly more club-ready, synth-heavy productions—a testament to his versatility. For this reason, there is no one song that resembles the other, leading to 13 unique tracks that could pique the interest of different crowds.

Newfound fame, sudden female attention, alcoholism and the difficulty of maintaining a real relationship amid his celebrity are all touched upon throughout the album.

In his more mainstream and admittedly “dumb” songs, his favorite topics are his superiority to other rappers and his apparently elephant-sized endowment. Nevertheless, as mentioned, these messages never stray far from the central struggle of Gambino trying to forge an identity that complements his demonstrated range of ability.

Camp is constructed as a symbolic journey of the musician on summer camp, where he is in a place that is completely novel and has to find his niche. By the end of the album, we learn that Gambino still hasn’t found his niche exactly; he’s still at camp. Gambino’s struggle for identity on Camp is all the more compelling given his diverse talents, and ultimately makes for the best debut album of 2011.

— Aymeric Vincenti

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HELLO SADNESS ARTS & CRAFTS

If you don’t want a lovesick pop song written about you, don’t date Gareth Campesinos! Throughout Hello Sadness, the lead singer of Los Campesinos! writes cathartic lyrics about a traumatic breakup. As can be expected from the Welsh pop group, the songs are refreshingly honest—Gareth never sugarcoats his grief. During “The Black Bird, The Dark Slope,” demonic birds feast upon Gareth’s innards, a straightforward allusion to the torture of Prometheus. “Baby I Got the Death Rattle” burns away the skin of his palms using a Bic lighter. Reveries about the female body—“swan necks curled between pelvis with stretch marks and shoulders and those freckled legs”— convey his sexual frustration. The album functions both as confession and elegy, treating his sorrow with his histrionic poetry.

Hello Sadness suffers from Gareth’s overdramatic tendencies. Clichés abound: Eyes are blue like seas, and horses are brought to water. Hearts break, and navels are stared at. When he strays from conventional wisdom, his abject logic is hard to bear. “Life is a Long Time” collapses under the weight of extensive, ornate metaphors for the bodies of ex-lovers, culminating in absurd couplets like “ And with the water and the Cypriot sun/ Would your psoriasis bleach and be gone?” These miscues are all the more disappointing given the band’s knack for placing poetic specificity into a catchy narrative. Only Los Campesinos! can romanticize the sound of a girlfriend’s urination through thin walls or reflect on the “cartography” of scars on a woman’s legs. The problem is, Gareth’s turns of phrase are better suited to humor instead of the album’s depressive tone.

The album’s instrumentation far outperforms its vocals. “By Your Hand” could easily be mistaken for an I’m From Barcelona single with its glitzy piano backdrops and buoyant drumbeats. “Songs About Your Girlfriend” evokes the catchy and fast-paced licks of Spoon’s Transference. “To Tundra” is so much better when its prog rock guitars are not drowned out by Gareth’s voice. Repress the album’s troublesome lyrics, and Hello Sadness becomes quite enjoyable. Give him a few years to recover, and we can hope that Los Campesinos! will return with the exuberance and playfulness that’s endeared them to us for the past three albums.

—Dan Fishman

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Theater studies animates A Doll’s House

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The elegantly dressed man appears from the shadows and examines his massive gift, wrapped in concealing cloth and a wide scarlet ribbon. Slowly, carefully, he tears down this wrapping, enters his house and adjusts two life-sized dolls—one dressed and posed like a wife, the other like a maid. He disappears once again in shadow.

The Theater Studies mainstage production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opened last weekend in Sheafer Theater, darkly casting the classic tale of a wife breaking free from her husband’s world in a production of surreptitious gestures, eerie music and shadows on the wall.

When the play debuted in 1879, it shocked audiences with its portrayal of a woman eventually breaking out of the confined role that society and her husband allowed her. Today, when A Doll’s House has become standard reading for high school English classes, the story may not be quite so shocking.

But director Ellen Hemphill, director of undergraduate studies and professor of the practice of theater, described its continuing relevance. “[It’s about] how they interact—it’s a kind of hyper world of ‘I’m the boss and you’re my little girl,’” she said. “I think this type of communication does still exist in couples and it might be a choice or mutual agreement of interaction, or it might be emotional abuse.”

The opening images of the gift-wrapped house and the poseable women set the tone for the symbolic richness of the production’s gestures.

“It’s Torvald’s world, he unwraps his world, he puts the people in place, he keeps the world ordered and it’s the breaking apart of that ordered world which is the theme of the piece,” Hemphill noted.

Hemphill developed the production with a gestural theater approach, focusing first on the physicality of the characters. For the first few rehearsals, before looking at the script, the actors drew on their own habits to develop three gestures that they do without noticing, and built a repertoire of gestures ranging from imitating a small animal to looking behind their backs as if someone just called their names. These gestures formed a

physical palate that the actors later pulled from.

“All of our gestures were Jenny gestures or [actress Jamie Bell] gestures. It was never Nora or Mrs. Linde,” Jenny Madorsky, who plays Nora, said. “Once we developed those, then, all of a sudden, we started adapting them to the character, so it was kind of the character stepping into our shoes as opposed to the other way around.”

Madorsky recalled one instance of gesture work in which Hemphill played a particularly emotional song and asked Ali Yalgin and Jamie Bell, who play the unrequited lovers Krogstad and Mrs. Linde, to perform their gestures on each other—instead of touching their own ear, they would touch the other’s ear.

“It was incredible, we were all in tears after it, because it was like a conversation between two people with no words,” Mador-

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Ellen Hemphill directs and Jenny Madorsky stars in the theater studies department’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. sky said. “It was so touching and all the sudden the chemistry was there, the relationship was there, before we had done anything with words at all.”

The other production elements build on the gesture-inspired action to produce a brooding atmosphere of deceit and suspicion. The actors wear heavy make-up: five layers adding up to a matte of whiteface with dark raccoon-like eye-shadow.

The actors arrive backstage two-and-a-half hours before each

show for the extensive make-up and hair process. Bell said the make-up helps frame the world of the play.

“It’s sort of similar to the mask theory. While people are still able to relate to the characters, it does take them into a completely different world, a completely different context,” she said.

Hemphill also worked with long-time collaborator Allison Leyton-Brown, starting six months before the show to compose an original score. The music echoes silent black-and-white movie scores of the 1920s. Upright bass, piano, clarinet, flute and a theremin—a wavering, wailing instrument that sounds eerily like strings or a human voice—bolster the jagged and churning atmosphere.

Jim Haverkamp contributed video art to the production.

At times throughout the show, supple black-and-white projections of the characters hover like shadows on the walls, interior monologue turned to wallpaper. The mystery of these images evokes the atmosphere of deception. The central character in this house of cards is Nora, who maintains a household built on a fraudulent and illegal transaction.

“Nora actually is very smart and very cunning. She lies a lot,” Madorsky said. “What [dramaturg Jules Odendahl-James] said is Act One is all about lies, it’s about this illusion that Nora creates and lives in. And I really connect that to the house, so every time Nora talks about this beautiful home I imagine it as this beautiful web of lies that I’ve built and that I live in.”

Nora’s lilt carries her role as a happy wife until a lowlife stranger brings to light hidden details from her past. As the illusion of familial satisfaction explodes, so does Nora’s façade, in one of the most jarring moments of the show.

The gestural acting undergirds the expression of the show. The actors do not broadcast their gestures, they simply perform them, with an authenticity that comes from moving within a character. Something sinister is afoot in the house of Torvald, and everyone’s movements are complicit.

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I’m not sure what keeps attracting me to soft-spoken indie romances: muted sunlight captured on lovers’ faces; stilted, enormously frustrating, mumbly dialogues; soundtracks that reveal themselves as either dismissable or obsession-worthy after just two tracks. Like Crazy, from Director Drake Doremus (director of 2010’s delightfully titled Douchebag), has all of these qualities— with the added bonus of slightly more consequential student visa problems— and remains an incohesive, bubbly aura

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of twenty-somethings suspended and confused within the real world.

Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) are, initially, two college students at an ambiguous designor pre-professional college in L.A. (he’s a budding furniture designer; she’s interested in journalism). Although Jacob—ambling, untethered and babyvoiced—is American, Anna hails from a jovial, tight-knit British family. The two meet in class; scenes from their SEE LIKE CRAZY ON PAGE 8

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As the credits rolled and I left the theater, a nearby viewer loudly exclaimed that he had been fooled, and that he hadn’t taken J. Edgar to be “no love movie.” It was then that I realized that this film is likely to be the most misinterpreted of the year.

Yes, it delves into the homosexual tendencies of Hoover’s life, including his love for right-hand man Clyde Tolson. Yes, sometimes these elements are rendered too obvious by the script. But powered by the directing of Clint Eastwood and the acting of Leonardo DiCaprio, this biopic on the founder of the FBI is a brooding and powerful film.

Despite what trailers show, J. Edgar is a biopic. This comes with a specific mantra in mind, one that Eastwood himself has expressed in interviews: the goal of film is to present a person in his totality without judgment or focus on specific aspects of his life—allowing the audience to determine his character and legacy for themselves.

Here, Eastwood does exactly that. Carefully staging scenes and accentuating noirish aspects, Eastwood allows for every screaming monologue or quivering lip to be felt and experienced as powerfully as intended.

Now in his twilight years and with decades of experience, Eastwood does not shy away from using subtle artistic techniques.

Despite Eastwood’s talent, DiCaprio is the true jaw-dropper. From the first, we see him in a fat suit—overdone at times— as he wheezes through the line “it’s time this generation learned my side of the story.” But this isn’t DiCaprio anymore; it’s J. Edgar. Complimented by strong performances from Naomi Watts (Hoover’s secretary Helen Gandy) and Armie Ham-

mer (Tolson), DiCaprio is fully armed and turns out a roaring performance worthy of Oscar nods. Essentially, the role of Edgar is that of a man with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unparalleled love for his country, operating on the job with such vicious energy that no one stands in his way.

In private, though, Hoover becomes a servant to his heart. Torn between devotion to his religious mother and his homosexual attraction (Hammer), he struggles to maintain the image he projects to the world, knowing that his private life, if revealed, could destroy him.

Ultimately, the strengths of this subtly brilliant project might lend it to misreading or lack of appreciation, at least to the uninitiated. But if you are willing to engage with a film that showcases itself in understated artistic form, then sit back and enjoy.

—Aymeric Vincenti

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relationship immediately follow, represented in brief sketches of the two gallivanting through Californian amusement parks and beaches and indulging in their mutual love of Paul Simon’s Graceland. I-love-yous are eventually exchanged. Though quick and not-quitedirty, their relationship feels cute and careful, like a baby giraffe stumbling onto its feet under the protective gaze of its mother.

All falls to pieces (which the characters, and film, attempt to reassemble repeatedly) when Anna’s decision to overstay her visa sits the lovers down on different continents, she in the minimalist wooden chair Jacob gives her that is inscribed, inexplicably, with the phrase “Like Crazy,” and he in a barren “I’m an artist” warehouse with his new girlfriend, Sam (Jennifer Lawrence). What follows is a series of texts (on devices that evolve from flips to iPhones, supposedly indicating temporal change even though both characters still look 18), continent-hops and failed attempts to remain in the same city for more than a few months. As their relationship unravels and comes together again for the umpteenth time, it feels a little sad, but mostly inconsequential: #firstworldproblems. Everything seems halfassed; both Anna and Jacob push on unconvincingly in pseudo-artistic pursuits that lost my interest not quickly, but gradually and painfully. Eventually, I erased my serious-movie-watching face to concede, along with the two women sitting in front of me, that observing Jacob sketch the same chair over the course of 90 minutes isn’t symbolic or artsy as much as it is laughable.

The entire theater seemed to agree by the end of the film. Jacob and Anna’s stupid arguments became comedic objects; overextended shots of their faces weren’t meaningful but rather the opposite. And as the film ended, the ambiguity of their relationship—which Doremus clearly tried to dilute through the implications of a couple showering together—felt stifling andpassionless. Though I started to remark to my friend that the film “was kind of nice,” I self-corrected: “I found that boring and hard to care about.” Like crazy.

—Michaela Dwyer

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In an age where comedy has become an increasingly nuanced mockery of real life, Adam Sandler and the folks at Happy Madison remain committed to good oldfashioned slapstick humor. While the Louis CKs and Tina Feys of the world craft smart and tasteful shows about the pitfalls of middle age, Sandler serves up a double dose of poop- and Jew jokes in a $79 million blockbuster about coming to terms with an annoying twin. And that is part of the appeal of Jack and Jill: it seeks to please us without any measure of subtlety or wit.

The premise here is indeed quite simple. Sandler stars in the only two roles he knows how to play: the straight man with the sardonic tongue (Jack) and the loud but lovable imbecile with the funny voice (Jill). Whether crippling a pony under her weight or nose-diving a Jet Ski into the backyard, Jill makes us laugh because she’s stupid and clumsy. Jack is the requisite foil, charged with tapping into Jill’s bundle of comic relief. The formula is both dumb enough to please children and entertaining enough to force a few laughs out of adults.

Yet, stupid and clumsy does not a comedy make, and where Jack and Jill really succeeds is in its self-awareness.

Al Pacino, playing himself, is the movie’s triumphant

nod to itself. For those who would question why the silver screen legend of The Godfather and Scarface would subject himself to Sandler’s shenanigans, the movie has a ready answer: Pacino is going insane. Tortured by years of cell phone-distracted audiences and celebrity-worshipping fans, his frustration with life leads him to fall head over heels for the Bronx-born Jill.

Their relationship is in some ways an analog for the viewer’s own with Sandler here: only an insane person blinded by desperation or the past could love a woman hundreds of pounds his senior, and only a depraved and nostalgia-obsessed moviegoer would pay $10 for Jack and Jill. And once we, like Pacino, abandon our standards and ideals—informed by the context of today’s comedy genre—then maybe we too can find enjoyment in something simple and seemingly straightforward: for Pacino, that thing is Jill. For the viewer, it’s the movie.

In the end, Pacino is the device by which Jack and Jill questions our entire conception of modern comedy. Are we insane to find a movie like this funny? Or has the comedy landscape become so pretentious that we need a return to the insane to enjoy some classic family fun?

—Ben Brostoff

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Donovan Varner’s 64-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter Saturday against Virginia made history as it vaulted Varner into a tie with former Blue Devil Clarkston Hines with 189 career receptions.

“Just catch the ball, get vertical and score,” Varner said when asked what was on his mind when he caught the pass.

“Don’t let anybody catch you. I just ran as hard as I could.”

Varner then broke the record just minutes later with a 21-yard reception. He finished the game with seven catches for 132 yards, his highest yardage total since the 2009 season finale when he racked up an impressive 174 yards on 11 catches against Wake Forest.

The performance against the Demon Deacons highlighted a breakout sophomore year for the receiver. After recording 65 catches as a sophomore and 60 as a junior, Varner set 60 receptions as his personal goal coming into final season.

“I didn’t realize until late in my junior year... that I was getting close to the record,” Varner said.

Although he has been one of the most consistent performers in the conference over the last three years, Duke was the only team willing to promise Varner a role in the offense when he committed out of high school.

“Coming out [of high school], I knew I wanted to play on the offensive side of the ball,” Varner said. “[Head coach David Cutcliffe] came to my house and explained to me how his offense works.”

Primarily a cornerback in high school, Varner saw offensive snaps as a running back on screen passes where SEE VARNER ON PAGE 8

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Andrew Wenger and the Blue Devils will take on Georgia State in the first round of the NCAA tournament Thursday at home.

Duke finished off its regular season schedule playing two out-of-conference opponents at home two weeks ago, tying Elon in double overtime and defeating Mercer. The Blue Devils knew it was important to prepare for postseason play by competing against non-ACC foes, with games in which they would be unfamiliar with the opponent and have little time to prepare.

This preparation will be put to the Georgia test at 7 p.m. tonight when Duke hosts State Georgia State in the opening round vs. of the NCAA tournament at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils (10-7-3) and Duke Panthers (13-7-1) both earned at-large bids to the tournament, with Duke one THURSDAY, 7 p.m. of six ACC teams and Georgia State one Koskinen Stadium of four from the Colonial Athletic Association to make it into the field of 48 programs.

“The Elon game was a real tough game, and again they were much like Mercer and a lot like Georgia State,” head coach John Kerr said. “They’re going to make sure they’re organized in trying to prevent our attacking front six and make life difficult for them.”

The Panthers play a tight style with their 4-3-3 formation, which has resulted in their averaging just 1.48 goals per game this year. Although clearly not overpowering, their offense survived with a propensity to pull out close games, winning six 1-0 contests. Sophomore Evan Scott leads Georgia State up front with eight goals on a team-leading .178 SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 8

No hot seat for Cutcliffe A sentiment that seems to be growing in popularity with students and alumni alike is that head coach David Cutcliffe should be on the hot seat. The ignorance of such commentary not only makes me furious but is also a train of thought I would bet has never crossed the mind of any senior university official.

I could not agree more that Cutcliffe’s in-game decision making has been questionable at times in crucial situations. And it is indisputable that his teams have been plagued by poor tackling, execution in the red zone and struggles in the kicking game. Some of this blame falls on the coaching staff Jason and its preparation, but a coach can’t wrap a player up, hold onto a pass in traffic, or knock through a short field goal.

The biggest disappointment with the Cutcliffe Era to this point has to be Duke’s inability to win games when the outcome is still in question late in the fourth quarter. Despite its current 3-7 mark, Cutcliffe described his team at his weekly press conference as “a good team with a bad record.” Had the Blue Devils converted a few more red-zone opportunities or gotten a more consistent performance out of kicker Will Synderwine, they could easily have five wins, and the program would have a shot at its first bowl berth since the 1994 season.

At this point in his tenure at Duke, though, the success of Cutcliffe’s direction cannot simply be measured by wins and losses. Before being critical of his inability to emerge victorious from tight ball games, one must look at a much bigger picture.

From the turn of the century until Cutcliffe’s arrival

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Donovan Varner broke Clarkston Hines’ career reception record Saturday at Virginia with seven catches for 132 yards.

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his coaches looked to use his quickness and agility to surprise defenses. Varner believes that his experience playing in the secondary has helped him as a playmaker on offense.

“I know a lot of the tendencies of a cornerback and how they read plays,” he explained. “I know their eyes get them beat a lot so I try to set them up with nice moves. I think it also helps me from a physicality standpoint.”

Though he is listed generously at 5-foot-9, Varner does not back down from bigger defenders.

“A lot of receivers don’t like to block and don’t block,” Varner said. “I take pride in it.

Being small, a lot of people doubt me. I show them whose really big out there. I’m big in the heart and I’m physical out there.”

Varner’s strength and toughness are not only exhibited as a blocker, but also when he runs routes fearlessly into the middle of the field. He attributes his ability to work in traffic to his teammates and coaches from his pre-college playing days. They instilled in him that it is unacceptable to be afraid of being hit. His fellow pass catchers admire this characteristic and the younger players look up to him.

“In the Virginia game last year on 4thand-20, he caught a 22-yard pass across the middle in traffic with lots of defenders around him,” redshirt freshman tight end Braxton Deaver said. “You just look at that, and you say that’s what a playmaker does.”

Varner hopes to take his playmaking ability to the next level. After graduating in December, Varner will move back to Miami to begin training for the NFL combine and individual franchise pro days. He has a mutual connection with three-time Pro Bowl slot receiver Wes Welker and hopes to work out with him to further develop his technique.

Unfortunately for Varner, his record may not hold for long, as junior Conner Vernon, his teammate since high school, is only seven catches behind with another year of eligbility remaining. Cutcliffe joked around with the duo at halftime of the Virginia game, saying Vernon was right behind Varner. Although the locker room was lighthearted about the competition for the achievement, Cutcliffe knows that Varner’s absence will leave a void next year.

shooting percentage.

“Their attacking guys are very athletic, very direct and have some speed and strength,” Kerr said. “So, we’re going to be very aware of that.”

Junior Andrew Wenger may receive his toughest challenge, though, from the Panthers’ veteran defensive front that allows just .95 goals per contest. Georgia State tied for 33rd in the nation in shutout percentage, registering nine clean sheets in 21 contests.

The Blue Devils, in comparison, have blanked its opponents just five times in 20 games. Duke makes up for this, however, with the nation’s seventh-best scoring offense at 2.1 goals per match.

The offensive unit is led by Wenger, who despite leading the team in goals has seen time on the back line recently due to the absence of Sebastien Ibeagha. Although Ibeagha was back for the team’s most recent game, it was a transitional game for Wenger, who needed time to adjust to being a forward again.

Wenger, who is fifth in Division I in goals this season with 17, knows that he will have to be comfortable back up top in order for the team to win.

“I hope I can just find my rhythm again,” he said. “I never really got into it in the [Boston College] game, but with a little continuation we can hopefully get things going.”

In all four seasons with Kerr at the helm, the Blue Devils have made the NCAA tournament and earned a home game in the opening round. Even though a potential road match against tenth-seeded and undefeated New Mexico looms in the second round, Kerr knows he must focus on the home-field advantage and the game at hand.

“It’s a lot of hard work getting to this stage, and having a home game to start off the postseason is huge,” Kerr said.

“We’re not looking past it. We have a lot of respect for Georgia State.”

in the 2008 season, Duke went 10-82 under the combined tutelage of Carl Franks and Ted Roof. In his almost four seasons, Cutcliffe has posted a record of 15-31.

Beyond just the substantial increase in win percentage is the fact that the Blue Devils are competitive in the vast majority of its games at this point. Earlier in the decade, the outcome of many conference games had already been decided before the first quarter even ended.

And, perhaps most importantly, after winning just three conference games in those eight seasons, the new coaching staff has led its team to six conference wins. Although playing for moral victories is not part of the program’s philosophy, Duke has been competitive in at least one contest with every ACC school other than Florida State since Cutcliffe took over. Acquiring this confidence is crucial, since beating conference competition will be the only way to reach postseason play.

The defense has been inconsistent at best over the past four campaigns, but the numbers do show that the unit is progressing in the right direction as both total yards and points allowed are lower than last year. But, the real progress with Cutcliffe at the helm has come on the offensive side of the ball, which is not surprising given his track record for mentoring quarterbacks.

After scoring over 30 points just 12 times in eight seasons, the Duke offense has managed that feat 15 times in slightly under four years. Much of this success is a result of improved quarterback play. Under his new coach’s watch, ex-quarterback Thaddeus Lewis morphed into a career 10,000-yard passer after a rocky start in his first two seasons. Current signal caller Sean Renfree has struggled with consistency at times but has also demonstrated the ability to put up points in a hurry.

Another major area where Cutcliffe has had tremendous success is on the business and fundraising side. The first eight seasons of the decade saw just four home games with crowds in excess of 30,000 people. The new regime has put at least that many people in the seats on nine occasions in less than half the time.

More than just driving ticket sales, Cutc-

“He’s one of them that you miss when they finish, not just because of his statistics,” Cutcliffe said. “You miss Don because Don’s just there every day in practice. Day, after day, after day. I’ll miss Don when he’s done, not just his play, but his presence on our squad.”

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Cutcliffe has been especially impactful on the fiscal side of the program, raising funds for new facilities. liffe has also gotten alumni excited about football again, and the results are tangible.

The donations have been pouring in at an impressive rate, none more significant than former Duke All-American Bob Pascal’s $6 million donation for the school’s new indoor practice facility.

The improvements that he is making to the fiscal aspects of Duke football would buy Cutcliffe time even if the team wasn’t demonstrating improvement on the playing surface. Plus, you have to remember that the other coach on campus receiving a lot of attention lately had an inconspicuous start to his time in Durham. Mike Krzyzewski had a combined record of 28-47 over his first three seasons at Duke, and letting him stick around turned out to be a pretty good administrative decision.

More than anything else, Cutcliffe is learning something he probably figured out at his previous stops at Tennessee and Ole Miss. Fans are greedy, and the more promise and hope you give them, the more they are going to demand.

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Duke’s blue period As he describes the blos- tion and development of new soming arts scene at Duke, academic programs, and has vice provost for the arts Scott contributed to the growth in Lindroth displays his skill student performances and exas a composer. Masterfully, hibitions. In addition to addLindroth pulls together indi- ing new arts courses to the vidual stories of registry, Duke editorial progress—the has hired half growing currica dozen stelular offerings in the arts, the lar new faculty members who success of Duke Performanc- have been working with each es—and crafts a coherent other to create innovative and narrative of a university that, interdisciplinary curricular despite its reputation, teems opportunities for students. A with artistic life. particularly electrifying new In what has become an seminar, “Wired,” explores ever-climbing crescendo in novel ways to present huthe visibility of the arts over manities research through the past four years, Lindroth’s visual technologies and draws promotion of Duke’s arts together students and profescommunity has been both im- sors from the Classics, Visual passioned and effective. His Studies and Computer Sciadept handling of the strate- ence departments. gic funds reserved for the arts Progress on the academic has allowed for the installa- front has been paralleled

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by the resounding success of Duke Performances and projects like the “Artists in Residence” program. Student attendance for Duke Performances currently peaks at about 50 percent of the audience, up from 14 percent in 2005. In that time the University has sponsored over 20 Artists in Residence, and Lindroth’s office has been able to endow the residencies of several visiting artists. Lindroth has also helped to foster greater artistic collaboration between Duke and Durham, providing support for community events like the Full Frame Film Festival and the American Dance Festival.

The vice provost has paid for this renaissance with funds from the Office of the Provost, made available in a five-year

“strategic funding period” following the release of the current strategic plan in 2007. If new programs and offerings find success and popular support, Lindroth searches for long-term funding in the form of endowments and grants.

The money allocated to the strategic fund has been integral to the growth of Duke’s arts community, and the future of this community relies on renewed funding when the current funding period ends this year.

If, in the creation of a vibrant arts community, Lindroth has played the dual role of composer and conductor, the students have been the musicians, adding volume and texture to the growing arts scene. Student organizations like the Duke Dance Council

have hosted and promoted a number of successful student events and new projects, such as a burgeoning collaborative council for the arts, promise to build on this progress. More effective than the work of any one group or individual is the collaboration between students, faculty and advocates in the administration to produce an artistic culture at Duke that seeps into the mainstream Duke experience.

To ensure that the arts continue to grow, the University must continue its current level of financial support.

Now, and in its next major fund raising campaign, the University must seek sustainable sources of arts funding.

Without this funding, we risk concluding the piece before the final movement.

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hen sports and the law cross paths, no age such cases to be made transparent through one ever really ends up happy. stricter enforcements of regulations regarding The firing of legendary Penn State sexual crimes committed on college campuses. coach Joe Paterno last week shows Though this is an important step how strong the consequences of at the administration level, the violating a legal code can be in the community has an equal responrealm of college sports. The scansibility of being vigilant against dal itself was shocking, but even these types of crimes. more unbelievable was the amount This case is just one in a series of time that passed before the scanof incidents regarding student dal was uncovered. athletes that shows how far a “culAfter the Penn State Board of ture of entitlement” can go when sony rao Trustees announced their decision, it comes to violating individual the subsequent protests seemed to that’s what she said rights and civil liberties. There is be occurring on the assumption an assumption that when it comes that Paterno was a victim of that decision. to athletics, certain things can be overlooked to But he was not a victim; rather, he was a signif- preserve the program. We must remember that icant actor in the perpetration of terrible crimes while we have a thriving sports culture at Duke, committed by Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State we should be wary of the “culture of entitlement” assistant coach. And the fact that Sandusky had that could easily come with it. The Penn State been committing these crimes at least since 1998 scandal reminds us of the damage that such a culspeaks to the forgiving nature of the past and cur- ture can inflict on a school’s name, recognition rent college judicial process, particularly when it and integrity. comes to athletics.

I don’t think we can blame the students who Paterno’s failure to take appropriate mea- protested last week for the loyalty and love they sures when learning of Sandusky’s actions fol- showed for their coach. We above all know what lows the trend of how colleges deal with cases it means to love and respect a figure whom has of sexual assault, especially those committed by led and inspired both athletes and students. We athletes. According to a recent New York Times can, however, blame the system that allowed the article, in many cases of sexual assault involving crimes to pass unnoticed for so long. The “culture football players, the main disciplinary action of entitlement” has placed high-level administrataken is to suspend or place the players on pro- tors in the difficult position of either following bation, rather than expelling them. This was the the law and risk harming their athletic program case with the Arizona State case of 2004, when or quietly overlooking serious crimes committed a female student was raped in her dorm room by members of these athletic programs. and the perpetrator, a member of the football The only way to eradicate this culture is to team, was expelled but then readmitted within hold student athletes and their administrators to a few weeks. When the student sued the school, the same standards of conduct to which we would she received $850,000 in compensation and the hold any other student or official. And as easy as school agreed to hire a women’s safety coordi- it is to point fingers at those higher up, students nator and overhaul its policies on sexual assault. are equally responsible for creating and perpeMany legal experts saw this case as a positive trating this culture and the expectations we have turning point for overhauling the privileged sta- of athletes. tus given to male athletes with regards to quesIt will be a long and hard process, but it looks tions of sexual abuse. like we are finally moving in the right direction in Yet, last week’s incident displayed that this replacing this culture of entitlement for a culture privileged status still extends to certain athletes, of equal opportunity. The students and adminand even administrators. And the victims are istrators at Penn State are facing the real-world no longer only women, but also children. The consequences of certain actions and, sometimes school is currently investigating whether or not more importantly, the failure to act.

Paterno and other administrators violated the It’s a difficult lesson to learn, but it always Clery Act, which requires the disclosing and helps to remember that “You play for the name reporting of cases of sexual violence in col- on the front of the jersey, not the name on the leges and universities receiving federal fund- back.” ing. If the school is charged with this violation, the case would have significant implications Sony Rao is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every on future university policies. It would encour- other Thursday.

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avid Brooks had a great article last Thursday in The Yankee fan wears a Jeter uniform, or a Jordan fan wears the New York Times on American inequalities, detailing number 23. which were socially acceptable and which were not. I Inequality of personal connections is socially acceptable. thought I’d give it a try, Duke-style of course.

Students, especially pre-professionals, are not Note to reader—these are observations, not scared to let other people know that they “know to be construed as normative judgments. people”—especially people at investment banks, Let’s start with legacy admissions. Disconsulting firms or other elite fields. Such concussion of inequality for legacies is socially nections are validation of networking acumen, unacceptable. Students don’t brag to other or possibly some well-connected and accomstudents about their Duke lineage. Such plished parents. Sometimes the supposed “conbragging might make non-legacies suspect nections” might be ephemeral, existing mainly the worthiness of the person’s admission to (or only) in discourse to bolster one’s profesdaniel strunk Duke—did they just get in because of legacy sional credibility among peers. Even these “cona fly on the wall admissions? This inequality, while advantanections” are still acceptable to mention, howgeous, is often perceived as better-kept quiet. ever tenuous they may be.

Housing inequality is socially acceptable. It is completeHigh school inequality is both unacceptable and acceptly fine to verbally take pride in your housing assignment— able to discuss. Though not necessarily bad, one should not Kilgo>Edens>Central. A Duke student has every right to seek opportunities to mention that he or she went to a place take gratification in his or her somewhat arbitrary real es- like Exeter, Andover or Choate. On the other hand, it is pertate allotment. fectly acceptable on almost any occasion to mention graduatShowcasing scholarship inequality is unacceptable. A.B. ing from a public high school.

Duke scholars, B.N. Duke scholars, Robertson scholars— Career inequality is socially acceptable. If asked, it is comnone should flout their merit scholarships. Despite such pletely fine to proudly name drop McKinsey, Bain, BCG, scholarships being earned, it is better that these students Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan or any other supposed upperhumbly keep it under wraps if they can. echelon destination. Teach For America and top-tier graduAthletic inequality goes either way. Like non-legacy ques- ate schools are also socially acceptable to flaunt. On the other tioning of a legacy’s admission, non-athletes question the ad- hand, it is not socially acceptable to criticize these students mission of Duke athletes. Did they just get in because of their as “corporate sell-outs” (like major inequality, however, this athletics? But so long as that sport is cool enough, it is socially social convention is regularly ignored). acceptable—no one ever questioned his academic credeneCalling out financial inequality among Duke students is tials when Kyrie Irving came to play. socially unacceptable. One does not mention that he or she Inequality in athletic fandom is socially acceptable. It is is paying the full ticket to attend Duke, nor does one ask othcompletely fine to brag about black tenting, and hold it over ers if they are doing the same. Alternatively, it is completely other less-than-crazie Duke students who choose to sleep in socially acceptable to mention how one works while in coltheir dorms each night. It’s equally acceptable to show supe- lege to foot the bill. Such work is commendable. Paradoxirior fandom by painting oneself completely blue, or possibly cally, financial work-study doesn’t seem to be equally socially by even supporting sports other than basketball. admirable, though essentially the same thing.

Discussing major inequality is supposed to be socially unWaDuke inequality is socially acceptable. It is completely acceptable, though this unacceptability is frequently ignored. acceptable to eat at the WaDuke on a regular basis with your Among peers, one should technically not boast about taking food points, and mention that you do as such. Though some a “harder” or “more useful” major, no matter how much eas- students might better budget/protect against the mass usage ier other people’s majors might be. If one is an engineer, this of food points, if one has the money to routinely afford such rule applies less, as engineers must justify the extra hours they high-end food (and a car to get there), this eating is not sospend studying by telling non-engineers about their particu- cially inacceptable. larly taxing degrees.

Scheduling inequality is completely acceptable. There is Talking about GPA inequality is socially unacceptable. nothing wrong with posting your schedule to Facebook. Not Though ACES has a class rank feature, it would be rather having classes on Fridays is a demonstration of scheduling skill. obnoxious to broadcast one’s rank to the general public. Not having classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is a Additionally, since some students discount those “unequal” demonstration of scheduling godliness. Having a class every easy majors (see above), people might discount one’s GPA hour of every day is a proclamation to all of Facebook that one anyway. is a “serious” student (engineers and pre-meds, we get it).

Flaunting sorority and fraternity inequality is socially acWelcome to Duke! Like the world at large, we are a generceptable. It is completely fine to wear with pride one’s greek ally friendly bunch—but just as obsessed with stratification, letters, whether it be in the form of a T-shirt, hoodie or the and probably a tad bit more competitive with each other. ubiquitous pinnie. This is done often. Some wear such letters as instant proof of status on the supposed “tier” of the greek Daniel Strunk is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every system they inhabit. The rest simply wear their letters like a other Thursday.

letterstotheeditor What about women’s basketball?

After reading the Nov. 16th issue of The Chronicle celebrating Coach K’s accomplishments, I’m not sure which is the more remarkable feat: the winning of 903 games or the fact that The Chronicle’s editors completely forgot about women’s basketball. While using quotes like “greatest coach in college basketball history” and “winningest coach in Division I history” the paper seems to ignore the fact that at the University of Tennessee there is a coach with 168 more wins, 85 fewer losses, and twice as many national championships.

It is important to celebrate accomplishments, but let’s make sure to put them in their proper perspective.

Benjamin Stormo, Ph.D. candidate, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Training Program Coach K’s defense of Paterno inexcusable As a proud Duke alum who is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I was appalled and disgusted by Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s attempt to make excuses for his fellow coach, Penn State’s Joe Paterno, for not contacting police when informed of a horrific act by then assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Coach K wants us to give Paterno a pass based on his age (“one thing you have to understand is that Coach Paterno is 84 years old”) and thus the “immense changes... and how social issues are handled in those generations.”

For a man who in June taped a show for ESPN with Paterno about “ethics and integrity and issues related with college athletics,” Krzyzewski’s moral ambivalence and his insistence that Paterno remains a “great man and it’s a horrific situation,” makes clear that he needs to revisit his understanding of integrity, ethics and greatness.

When teaching writing workshops, I always start with character, because exploring human nature is what makes writing such an endlessly fascinating pursuit. Plot discussions focus on throwing stumbling blocks in the character’s way, so he or she is forced to make choices, because in the immortal words of J.K. Rowling’s Albus Dumbledore (drawing on Sartre) “It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

The point Coach K doesn’t understand, or perhaps chooses, willfully, to miss, is that it’s the choices one makes when faced with such a horrific situation that prove whether one is truly great, not the number of football or basketball games won.

Joe Paterno has achieved many wonderful things in his 84 years. But, like many who could have achieved true greatness, he had a tragic flaw, one that resulted in children who might have been saved being sexually abused. His legacy is rightfully tarnished. Coach K shouldn’t be in the game of making excuses for the inexcusable.

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n Oct. 6, 2011, the United States government passed Senate Resolution 201 and the world moved on with little notice or fanfare. But I noticed the apology that came 129 years after the fact. More specifikristen lee cally, I noticed the contraguest column diction the apology showed against the backdrop of present day law-making, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

In 1882, 129 years ago, amid a floundering post-Civil War economy, a growing anti-Chinese labor sentiment encouraged the United States government to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, which heavily restricted the immigration of people from China. It has the dubious honor of being the nation’s first racist immigration law put into practice. It proclaimed Chinese “dangerous to the political and social integrity of the United States.” The act, which was proposed as a 10-year ban, would stretch six decades until its 1943 repeal. It took 129 years and persistent calls to action from the Chinese-American, Japanese and Jewish councils to extract an apology from the U.S. government for passing racist discriminatory practices into law.

In the same week that the U.S. Congress passed S. Res. 201 to apologize for “six decades of legislation that targeted the Chinese people for physical and political exclusion,” I traveled to the Hope Community Center in Apopka, Fla. as a part of alternative Fall break on immigration and gender.

When our group arrived in Apopka, there had just been a police raid on the community. (S. Res. 201 regrets legislation that “induced trauma that persists within the Chinese community.”) At the Hope Community Center, we discussed recent immigration laws in Arizona, Georgia, Florida and Alabama that granted police the power to approach someone on the “reasonable suspicion” that they were illegal and ask for identification. (S. Res. 201 regrets legislation that “fostered an atmosphere of racial discrimination that deeply prejudiced the civil rights of Chinese immigrants.”) In my host family, the three eldest children left home at 10 p.m. to work for a cleaning service. The second oldest daughter paid thousands of dollars to attend a single community college course because she could not qualify for financial aid.

(S. Res. 201 regrets legislation that “restricted the capacity of generations of individuals and families to openly pursue the American dream without fear.”)

The current presidential administration has had one of the harshest immigration stances, deporting more undocumented immigrants than its predecessors. Although it contends that its motivations are primarily to deport criminals, I saw families of undocumented workers who had to live in fear of deportation and who were not criminals, but rather students and honest working people in every other way but on paper. Now, I am hardly an expert on immigration reform, but it struck me as an incredible contradiction that the U.S. could acknowledge the racial wrongdoings it had perpetuated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and continue to practice unconstitutional immigration laws in present day.

When I was little, my grandfather told me about his 12-year-old self, locked alone in an Angel Island cell waiting to be processed through immigration. My grandfather told me about the relief he felt when anti-Japanese sentiment rippled through America during World War II. He told me about the “I am Chinese” button he wore to distinguish himself from Japanese Americans who were taken from their homes and put into internment camps.

That my grandfather did not speak up for Japanese Americans interned during WWII, but instead rejoiced that he was no longer an “enemy” in the eyes of the U.S. government is a sad complicated truth, but it need not be repeated in history.

I cannot help but think the U.S. government has adopted an “act now, apologize later” approach to immigration law. And so this S. Res. 201 apology for the systemic racial discrimination against Chinese Americans and their descendants struck a deeply personal chord with me because despite Congress’s apology for the past, a system of restrictive immigration policy that encourages racial and ethnic profiling continues in present day. To pass an apology for racial discrimination 129 years too late, it took the political will of Asian-American senators in office and coalitions of Asian-American and Jewish activists. To keep history from repeating itself, it will take equal strength and courage from an outspoken group of voters like us.

Sarah Darer Littman, Trinity ’84 Kristen Lee, Trinity ’13

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