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House musician Steve Aoki will perform at the LDOC celebration following the Ultra Music Festival.
Following a world tour and an appearance at Ultra Music Festival, respectively, Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki will headline the 2013 Last Day of Classes concert. The LDOC committee, chaired by senior Bo Triplett and sophomore Izzy Dover, announced the headliners Thursday night at midnight via text message, Twitter and Facebook. In addition to Aoki and Lamar, LDOC will host Travis Porter, an American hip-hop trio. Aoki and Lamar will come as part of a packaged college tour music deal and will be bringing one or two additional artists, to be announced at a later date. Additionally, the committee is working on securing a “jam band” as an opening act, Triplett said, for a grand total of either five or six artists. The up-and-coming careers of Aoki and Lamar make this year’s LDOC particularly exciting, Dover noted. “We were really lucky with timing this year, and it’s cool to
be able to contribute to a larger LDOC legacy of bringing artists here right before they get very famous,” Dover said. Dover noted that both artists encompass completely separate genres, so the concert will appeal to a variety of music-lovers. Aoki is an electro house musician, whereas Lamar is an emerging rapper. Aoki—who will perform a second time at Ultra Music Festival this year—started his own label, entitled Dim Mak Records, in 1995 and released his first album, Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles, in 2008. His father is a famous Japanese wrestler and started the restaurant chain Benihana. Lamar is a member of the group Black Hippy and most recently known for touring with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. He cites Tupac Shakur as his favorite artist, inspiring both his music and lifestyle. Through bringing a wider variety of artists, Dover said that this year’s committee hopes to change SEE LDOC ON PAGE 3
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Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar will perform at the LDOC celebration as a stop on his world tour.
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North Korean refugees visit Group proposes Duke, tell story of escape PayPal-like site by Ryan Zhang
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Two student refugees from North Korea will speak about their experiences living in and escaping from the country Friday in an event sponsored in part by Duke Amnesty International and Vision for North Korea. Jeongho Kim, 21, and Cheoljun Yang, 19, escaped North Korea as teenagers, traveling to China before eventually settling in South Korea. Senior Kelly Heo, who first found out about the pair two years ago, recently arranged for Kim and Yang to come to the United States with the help of nine sponsors. They arrived on campus Sunday. Both students had family members who had escaped before them.
Students may no longer need cash to make purchases both on and off campus, said sophomore Tre’Ellis Scott, Duke Student Government vice president for services. Ivy, a new online payment system, will allow students to electronically wire money to one another or to any other member of the system. The accounts can link directly to a participant’s credit card number or directly into their bank account. Scott and freshman Alex Semien, senator for services, presented the new payment plan at the DSG meeting Thursday. Scott said if the program is successful with the student body, the administration may connect Ivy with DukeCard accounts. “Ivy is really innovative and it is
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Students share lunch with two college-age North Korean refugees as they tell the story of their escape earlier this week.
quick,” Semien said. “Honestly, it is the fastest peer-to-peer system that I have seen. Students almost never have cash with them anyway.” Duke administrators, including Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and some professors, had the opportunity to begin using the website earlier this semester. The mobile application is scheduled to be launched soon. Scott said in the first week of use on campus, more than $10,000 in transfers were made. He added that the platform will be useful when students need to share a taxi or split a restaurant bill. Ivy, however, will be more helpful within organizations on campus, Scott said. If a group charges students and members through SEE DSG ON PAGE 2
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