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by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

All that glitters is Old Duke.

The 90s favorite Smash Mouth will perform April 12 as part of Old Duke, the annual musical throwback concert.

Duke University Union made the announcement early Tuesday morning, releasing the news with a Harlem Shake dance video.

Sophomore Willa Townsend, DUU Joe College co-chair, said she and cochair Jordyn Gracey, a junior, prioritized bringing a live band to Old Duke.

They chose Smash Mouth as Old Duke’s performer during first semester.

“Smash Mouth is a well-known band from the 90s that has far more than a couple of popular songs,” Townsend said. “They’ll be great live and an awesome way for the student body to come together and relive the 90s.”

The band rose to prominence in the late 90s with hits such as “All Star” and a cover of The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.”

The Joe College committee spent more money than in past years because the committee felt so strongly about bringing a band, Townsend said, but she declined to comment on how much money was spent to bring Smash Mouth. In past years, Old Duke has featured artists such as rapper and reggae artist Shaggy and the band Sugar Ray. SEE SMASH ON PAGE 4

Former Duke star started in two Final Four seasons

by Jackie Klauberg THE CHRONICLE

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Smash Mouth, the rock band behind the 1999 hit “All Star,” will perform at this year’s Old Duke concert April 12. The event is sponsored by Duke University Union.

Former Duke basketball star Phil Henderson died at his home in the Philippines Sunday of a reported cardiac arrest. He was 44 years old.

Henderson, a 6-foot5 guard who made three NCAA Final Four appearances in his time at Duke from 1986 to 1990, was the captain and leading scorer of the 1990 Final Four team.

“We’re so sad about his Phil Henderson passing,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “[I] talked to his mom this morning.

He’s a good guy, very talented player.”

Henderson is one of 60 Blue Devils to finish his career with more than 1,000 points, currently ranking 33rd in program history with 1,397. Henderson also recorded 330 rebounds and 217 assists.

Perhaps the play he is remembered for most is a dunk he performed over Georgetown’s Alonzo Mourning in the second round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament. The SEE HENDERSON ON PAGE 8

Bryan Center Despite protest, Dillo still leaving stores shuffle in renovations

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Bryan Center renovations are forcing a shuffle among several of the building’s stores.

The University Store and the Lobby Shop spaces are scheduled to close around May 15 after the Spring semester ends, said Jim Wilkerson, director of trademark licensing and operations for Duke Stores. These changes are part of a larger set of renovations to the Bryan Center Duke Stores, including the Gothic Bookshop and the Textbook Store. Wilkerson added that this is the first time these spaces have been renovated in the past 30 years.

To accommodate the large number of visitors who come to Duke during the summer, a smaller quantity of University Store merchandise will be sold out of the Gothic Bookshop space from the beginning of summer until Aug. 1. Additionally, a scaled-down version of SEE STORES ON PAGE 5

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Students pack themselves into Armadillo Grill to watch last week’s Duke-Carolina game. The popular restaurant, which also serves as a sports bar, will leave campus at the end of the semester.

A short-lived burst of student opposition has not stopped the administration’s plans to replace the Armadillo Grill this summer.

Students circulated a petition to keep the Tex-Mex restaurant and bar, affectionately called “the Dillo,” days after a Jan. 18 article in The Chronicle reported its upcoming ouster. This petition, however, did not reach the Office of Student Affairs.

Both Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, said they have not seen the petition to date, and plans to replace The Dillo are moving forward.

“There has been no talk about the Dillo moving back into that space,” Johnson said.

The student petition accumulated 1,000 signatures in fewer than five days, said manager Erika Garris. The owners of the Dillo could not be reached for comment.

The petition will not cause any changes for this Fall, however, because the contract for the Bryan Center space currently occupied by the Armadillo Grill has already been signed by the owners of the Loop Pizza Grill, Johnson said.

He noted that Duke Dining reached out to the owners of the Dillo a year and a half ago, asking them to submit a

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“I can’t help but wonder what life would be like on this campus if I were straight....”

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Memo raises doubts Freshman hopes to improve about double majors Uni’s food production ethics

by Michelle Menchaca THE CHRONICLE

College students are finding it increasingly difficult to graduate in four years, but Duke students seem to be doing just fine.

Low national graduation rates have raised questions about the optimal way for students to plan their academic careers. Taking on multiple degrees can work in many cases but can also create issues for successful graduation. Duke students buck the national trends, but administrators noted that students should weigh the benefits of one or more majors before choosing to pursue them.

An official letter from the National Commission of Higher Education Attainment last month decried low graduation rates and urged schools to make graduating students on time a priority by expanding the resources and support they have available. One recommendation was to prevent students from completing more than one major in an effort to improve students’ progress toward graduation.

“The number of Americans attending college is at a historic high, but far too many never make it to graduation,” the letter said.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, said he believes that even though it is popular, pursuing multiple majors, minors or certificates should be done with careful consideration.

“Duke is very interested in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning and the last thing we would want to do is limit students on the education track,” he said. “But I do think it’s important that Duke and its students understand that majoring in multiple areas shouldn’t just be seen as collecting merit badges.”

According to the Department of Education, only 40 percent of college students are able to graduate within four years, while only 60 percent graduate

within six years. The NCHEA letter notes that budget cuts, decreased support service programs and higher tuition rates have all contributed to low national graduation rates.

Duke, however, does not seem to share these same struggles. According to News and World Report, Duke has a four-year graduation rate of 89 percent, more than double that of the national average.

Bruce Cunningham, assistant vice provost and university registrar, credits this high graduation rate to the qualified and academically driven students that the University accepts each year.

“We also have a terrific support system on campus,” Cunningham said.

“Faculty, advisors, deans, student affairs, and staff—all of whom have a part in making sure students make good progress towards their degrees and that any issues are addressed quickly.”

According to the NCHEA report, there are a number of reasons why students do not graduate in four years.

Some want a break from a tedious academic schedule, some have medical or family issues and some discover a college that gives them a better fit.

“The support services here are outstanding. This is a very responsive place for students who need help,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.

Just because students can graduate with multiple degrees, however, does not mean all of them should. Nowicki believes that while many students are suited for multiple degrees, for other students a single degree may be the best choice.

“Duke is always going to support multiple majors, but we want to make sure we help students explore these major options thoughtfully,” he said.

Nowicki noted that other schools

by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

Freshman Daniel Woldorff, a member of the student group Food for Thought, works to promote ethical food consumption at Duke. Woldorff attended the national Real Food Challenge conference in Baltimore last weekend to discuss nationwide efforts to encourage food sustainability and is in discussions with Duke’s dining provider, Bon Appetit Management Company, to improve the way Duke’s food is produced. The Chronicle’s Elizabeth Djinis spoke with Woldorff about the ethical food movement on campus, how Duke adds up and what foods to watch out for in the dining halls.

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The Chronicle: Why did you choose to focus on ethical food consumption and what is your goal in joining the student group Food for Thought?

Daniel Woldorff: Our goal in Food for Thought is to make the food system more ecologically sustainable, more fair, more humane. [This cause] is really important because food is the intersection of so many different aspects of our lives: social justice, culture, history, nutrition. It involves bioengineering, it involves economics—all of these different parts of our lives.

There are so many great things that come from food, from bringing people together to getting us energy everyday, but it also is part of a system that creates slavery in southwest Florida and creates a huge amount of pollution of our great rivers. We are responsible for that—we’re the ones buying it, and we’re the ones supporting the system, so we’re trying to find a way to act more ethically by maximizing our benefit and minimizing our impact.

TC: How would you describe Food for Thought?

DW: Food for Thought is a group of students that are working to improve sustainability of Duke’s purchasing, and shift dollars from less ethical purchases to more ethical ones. We are one of many groups

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across the nation doing the same thing.

We’re part of the national Real Food Challenge, and so we’re all working with a tool called the Real Food Calculator, which we use to calculate the percentage of real food from our campus vendors. We go through the actual invoices of vendors and categorize each item by ecologically sustainable, humane, fair, etc.

TC: Last weekend, you attend a conference about the issue of ethical consumption to meet with like-minded youth. How did that go?

DW: Several of us went to a conference hosted by Real Food Challenge where we got to meet all the other people across the country who are working on these projects.

We shared information about our successes and challenges, went through some training and workshops, really put ourselves in a grander context, really understood that we are doing this as a movement across the entire nation.

TC: How well do you think Duke currently promotes ethical food consumption?

DW: Duke contracts with a food service provider, Bon Appetit, and even before [Food for Thought] was ever involved, Bon Appetit has been a leader in sustainable food in the food service industry. They are doing a lot of different practices that students don’t know about, so what we’re trying to do is work with them, see what their goals are and what our goals are and see where we can work together and improve the system as a whole.

TC: How do you eat ethically at Duke?

DW: Try to balance both health and sustainability. I look for the least processed, freshest foods and try to get ones with as little meat as possible, typically completely vegetarian. I would avoid the things like eggs and pizza, I try to avoid the fruits that are most likely not from around here, definitely not seasonal, such as pineapples— you can’t grow those here.

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PALM CITY, Fla. — In a gym usually home to the Hyde Park Academy Thunderbirds, President Barack Obama spoke about his own home late last week — and the trouble it faces.

He warned students and teachers that the fragility of families, the easy violence of guns and a threatened education system are failing Chicago’s South Side, where he once worked as a community organizer and began his family.

“Change requires us reflecting internally about who we are and what we believe in,” he told the rows of uniformed students lining the blue breeze-block walls in bleachers. “And facing up to our own fears and insecurities, and admitting when we’re wrong.”

More than he ever did in his first term, Obama is describing the country as he believes it should be, not the one it has been for much of the past decade. It is an inspirational technique of the community organizer and of the upstart national candidate he once was.

But Obama has always been good with words and moments. It’s the hard partisan work inside Washington that has so often vexed him. After returning Monday from a golf outing on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, Obama faces a schedule largely free of public events this week, leaving time for the private political work that is key to this kind of governing.

How to bring his skills in the first area to bear on the second is the central question

occupying Obama and his senior staff, who hope to harness his post-election political freedom on behalf of a domestic agenda still broadly unpopular among Republicans in a divided Congress.

He is threatening executive action to confront such issues as climate change, a greater concern to the young voters who comprise his base than it is to House Republicans. His vast former campaign organization also is mobilizing to fight outside the Beltway for a political agenda whose fate will be determined inside it.

“He no longer feels to me like a prime minister,” said John Podesta, chairman of the Center for American Progress, a think tank closely associated with the administration, and a White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration. “He now understands the full range and power of the presidency to get things done.”

Podesta managed Obama’s 2008 postelection transition, and he has traced the president’s arc in office as a sympathetic observer and sometime adviser.

But he and many other Democrats were critical of Obama’s response to losing control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections, when a chastened president sought to accommodate an empowered Republican Party. Since then, Obama has seemed at times lost down the rabbit hole of partisan battles that he had once pledged to end.

Some of the Washington work he will face this week and beyond pivots around

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — More than 50 meteor fragments were examined after a rock from space exploded over Chelyabinsk last week and sent shock waves across Russia’s Urals region that shattered glass, injuring

more than 1,200 people.

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struggle to graduate students on time because the demand for classes can be so high. The problem is not that students lack the time needed to fulfill major requirements, he added, but that universities are not offering enough of the required courses to meet student demand.

Duke makes an effort to ensure that the resources and classes are available if students want to pursue multiple degrees, Nowicki said.

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DILLO from page 1 proposal with an updated business plan to appeal to a broader range of students.

“The Dillo chose not to submit a bid,” Moneta wrote in email Monday, adding that it was not the University’s decision to close the restaurant.

Sophomore Brendane Tynes said she did not agree with the University’s request that the Dillo cater to a broader demographic.

“I don’t think it’s acceptable for Duke to ask Dillo to change its menu,” Tynes said.

“What does the Loop have that other places don’t? If you want a burger you can go to McDonalds. If you want pizza you can order in. There is no convenient way on campus

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Students expressed their excitement about the Smash Mouth announcement on Facebook and Twitter, and many commented that they are more excited

economics, feels lucky to be able to graduate on time without worrying about fulfilling his major requirements on time.

“I didn’t always get the classes I wanted, but there were always classes available that would fulfill requirements.”

Katy Falletta, a senior expecting to graduate with a major in Public Policy, minor in Women’s Studies and certificate in Global Health, agrees that she has not had to worry about fulfilling her graduation requirements in four years.

It may take thoughtful planning and consideration, she noted, but ultimately she was able to get the classes she needed to fulfill the necessary requirements. to get Mexican food.”

Garris said that her duties are the day-today running of the restaurant, but her superiors are working on trying to get the Dillo back on campus, even if it moves to a new location.

“It is in all of our best interests that Duke have Armadillo Grill on campus,” Garris said. “[The owners] are working diligently with Duke Dining” Although the eatery is still slated to vacate its current location, Moneta said the University is open to the restaurant submitting a proposal to return elsewhere on campus.

The Dillo is scheduled to end service on May 17 and the Loop is scheduled to move in early August after renovations this summer, Johnson said. for the Smash Mouth performance than the LDOC performers, previously announced as Steve Aoki, Kendrick Lamar and Travis Porter.

“Smash Mouth was one of the first CDs I owned,” said senior John McGinty.

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STORES from page 1 the Lobby Shop, which will just sell dry goods, will operate out of another room on the upper level of the Bryan Center.

“As soon as the renovated Lobby Shop and University Store are available Aug. 1, then we’re in a big hurry to move all the University Store stuff back into the renovated space and the Lobby Shop merchandise back into its renovated space,” Wilkerson said.

The Gothic Bookshop and the Textbook Store have moved their inventories off campus while their Bryan Cen-

ter locations undergo renovations. The Gothic Bookshop closed Feb. 2, and the Textbook store closed Feb. 1, both to reopen by the end of the summer. The University Store and Gothic Bookshop will boast glass entrances looking onto the Bryan Center Plaza, next to Joe Van Gogh coffee shop.

“It’s going to be inconvenient—we know that—but we really had no choice but to shut these operations down in order to do renovations,” Wilkerson said.

“We made arrangements... to make sure customers can still call us and get whatever they need from us.”

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The Gothic Bookshop, among several other University stores located in the Bryan Center, will undergo renovations this Spring and summer.

Walsh said he does not anticipate a major revenue loss while the stores are closed. The timing of the renovations was planned so that the Textbook Store was not affected during the shopping period for Spring semester textbooks, nor will it affect students in the Fall. As for the Gothic Bookshop, Walsh said the lost revenues are not a concern because its sales are quite small anyway.

“The benefits of improved visibility and improved access for customers far outweigh the short-term impact,” Walsh said.

Those wishing to purchase books from the Gothic Bookshop must now do so over the phone or via email.

Textbook orders can be placed at the service desk or online. All orders will then be delivered to the Textbook Store’s service desk in the Bryan Center below the University Store.

Junior Eva Bahnuk, who has worked at the Gothic Bookshop since her freshman year, noted that all employees of the store were promised jobs at other Duke Stores while the renovations are taking place. She is currently working at the Textbook Store service counter.

Walsh said he anticipates substantial improvements to the Bryan Center stores’ operation. “[When] the Gothic [Bookshop] is visible from the Plaza... and the University Store is right there on the Plaza with new glass doors, it’s going to totally change the model for the University Store and the Textbook Store and the Gothic [Bookshop], and that’s more than a fair trade off,” Walsh said.

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METEOR from page 3 Ishchenko, a member of the expedition from the Urals Federal University, said by phone.

The meteor blast over the Chelyabinsk region, which has a population of 3.6 million people, was the largest recorded since the Tunguska event flattened more than 800 square miles (2,100 square kilometers) of Siberian forest in 1908. The object entered the atmosphere at 9:20 a.m. local time on Feb. 15, hours before an unrelated asteroid half the length of a football field hurtled past the Earth.

“The fragments were found deep in the snow and ice around the lake,” Ishchenko said. “They’re now being tested.”

Chelyabinsk police are investigating sales of meteor pieces via websites, the Interior Ministry’s local division said in an emailed statement. Supposed meteorites have been put up for sale at prices ranging from 10,000 rubles ($330) to 500,000 rubles, according to the statement. The police are seeking the people behind the offers.

An 8-meter hole was punched through the ice on Cherbarkul Lake. Divers failed to find pieces of meteorite under water, Rossiya 24 reported Feb. 16.

The rocky pieces found around the lake contain about 10 percent iron, Victor Grokhovsky, a member of the Russian Academy of Science’s meteor committee who headed the expedition, said in a statement on the Urals Federal University’s website.

Before hitting the Earth’s atmosphere, the Chelyabinsk object was about 17 meters and had a mass of about 10,000 tons, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement.

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OBAMA from page 3 the unresolved fiscal and political questions about the role of government in promoting economic and social change.

His success in those mundane matters will determine how active he can be on behalf of his broader economic agenda, which calls for public spending on education, research, job training and other areas. First is how to avert $85 billion in automatic spending cuts scheduled to begin March 1.

In recent weeks, Obama has drawn bright lines with congressional Republicans over taxes and the federal debt limit that he has stood by with public support on his side.

Podesta described his likely approach with Republicans as “trench warfare,� a test of whether Obama has learned how to play a better inside game.

Even outside the Beltway, it is not optimism that Obama is using to support his calls for change, but a blunt reminder of the necessity to adapt to a changing economy.

To an audience of factory workers in western North Carolina a day after his State of the Union address, Obama warned that many of the manufacturing jobs that once sustained Appalachian towns will never return. He criticized the politics of Washington — a trope since his 2008 election — but also pledged to do better at that part of his job. “I will be back there fighting for you, because there’s nothing we can’t do and no possibilities we can’t reach when we’re working together,� he said. “We just have to work together.�

But the prospects of a breakthrough with congressional Republicans are poor.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where Obama has been unable to secure approval for his nominee for defense secretary, for-

mer Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. Last week, the president complained that 60 votes should not be the new normal for passing legislation or confirming nominees.

He sounded more like the old annoyed Obama rather than the new one who seems to accept partisanship as an enduring feature of his tenure. “The filibuster has historically been used selectively,� he said during a Google Hangout session, adding that “it’s just unfortunate this kind of politics� are playing out with troops still in Afghanistan.

All reelected presidents emerge with newly grand ambitions and a sense of confidence that only a popular referendum on their record can provide. Obama has been no different.

He warned Republicans as early as his first post-election news conference that he believes his victory was a clear endorsement of his proposals for taxes, spending, immigration and other measures.

The confidence carried over to his State of the Union address last Tuesday, an hour-long speech devoted to closing the income disparity between the rich and the poor. At its core was the populist message that Republicans used in the last election to brand him as a class warrior, a label he no longer seems to fear.

David Kennedy, an American historian at Stanford University, was reminded of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s call in his 1944 State of the Union address for a “second Bill of Rights,� a hugely ambitious liberal agenda. “It was dead on arrival and he knew it,�

Kennedy said. “But he was laying down markers. And I couldn’t help but think of that approach as I was listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address the other night.�

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Obama’s historic election at a time of financial crisis and war seemed like another such moment, and with control of Congress, he secured broad health-care legislation that eluded his predecessors. But there has been little since Democrats lost full control of Congress.

How to add to, and cement, his early legislative achievements is Obama’s challenge. But what is considered a big presidential agenda today in an age of austerity and lingering antigovernment sentiment is smaller than it once was.

Many of his proposals build on past prog-

ress, including his pitch to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. Others, such as immigration legislation, seek to address long-standing problems that his predecessors were unable to fix.

And one of his most controversial proposals seeks only to renew a lapsed ban on assault weapons. Even those ideas may be too much to secure for Obama, unless he can turn the political world that is into the one he thinks it should be. “I hope — and at this point it’s only a hope — that the aspirational agenda he has laid out intersects with a political strategy to deliver him a different Congress in two years,� Kennedy said. “Otherwise, it will remain only aspirational.�

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by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE

Five years ago, few knew Kyrie Irving’s name as an underclassmen in high school.

Fast-forward to now—the former Duke point guard has more titles than he knows what to do with. After his first year in the league, he was named NBA Rookie of the Year.

In the internet-sensation Pepsi Max advertisements he goes by “Uncle Drew,” a nickname that has caught on with media and fans. His Cleveland Cavalier teammates dubbed him the “Dark Knight” when he was wearing a facemask in December to protect his injured jaw. And ESPN the Magazine called him “the most captivating 20-year old since LeBron.”

His newest title tops his laundry list of aliases: NBA All-Star.

First steps to stardom Contrary to the norm on the AAU circuit, Irving’s father, Drederick—a former NBA player—brought Kyrie along slowly. Irving played on a middle-of-the-road AAU team, the New Jersey Roadrunners, and did not attend major camps until he was an upperclassman in high school. The emphasis was on getting better as a person, student and player, which ingrained a mantra that he has lived by since: hungry and humble.

Finally, the time came to throw Irving in the fire, which required the then-scrawny, 5-foot-8 Irving to transfer from the smaller, more academically rigorous Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey after his sophomore year of high school to nearby St. Patrick High School, a national public-prep basketball powerhouse at the time. The move also allowed the ambidextrous guard to be coached by one of the best high school basketball coaches in the business in Kevin Boyle.

Count current North Carolina guard Dexter Strickland as one of the many who had never heard Irving’s name before they became teammates at St. Patrick on a team that also included current Charlotte Bobcat forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, the No. 2 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft.

“I was in the gym working out, and [Irving] was sitting on the stage behind the hoop watching me workout,” said Strickland, describing his first encounter with Irving several months before that season began. “Afterwards, he introduced himself saying he transferred [to St. Patrick], and he started practicing with us. At the time he could not dunk. He would try to get me to teach him how to dunk…. That was the first time I met Kyrie.”

Those vertical challenges were shortlived.

“He always had great handles and was very crafty,” Strickland said. “I think a few months later out of nowhere he started doing windmill [dunks] and throwing it off the backboard. It was kind of funny.”

As his physical abilities and explosiveness caught up with his already advanced skills and instincts, Irving blossomed as a player. After his brilliant junior campaign leading his squad to a state championship and 24-3 record, Irving participated in a marquee national camp for the first time in his career.

The summer before his senior season in high school he attended the NBPA Top-100 camp in Charlottesville, Va., where current Duke juniors Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton began aggressively recruiting him to Duke.

Thornton and Hairston had already made their pledge to Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, and they made their pitch to Irving and Harrison Barnes, who would eventually commit to North Carolina.

“We knew that Ky and Harrison were the last two that coach [Krzyzewski] was going after,”

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Selected No. 1 in the 2011 NBA Draft following one injury-shortened season at Duke, Kyrie Irving played in his first All-Star Game last weekend.

Hairston said.

More importantly, the event humbled Irving, which is what allowed him to fully maximize his potential. While at the camp, Irving went head-to-head against current Detroit Piston guard Brandon Knight—the top-ranked point guard in high school basketball at the time.

“To say Brandon Knight outplayed him would be putting it kindly,” ESPN senior recruiting anaylst Dave Telep said. “At that moment, I think Kyrie had never gone through anything like that before. I remember talking to him the next morning. He skipped an optional workout and his head was down. It was clear that he had never faced adversity like that [in front of numerous college coaches and scouts].”

Irving didn’t keep his head down for long.

“I was actually watching that game,” Hairston said. “I think Ky used that as a wake up call.”

A few months later, Irving was the No. 1 point guard in the class, and Telep recalls walking out of one of Irving’s high school games wondering if he were the best player in all of high school basketball. He averaged 24.7 points per game and led St. Patrick’s to a 24-3 record in his senior season.

“I believe everyone has their moment of truth. The great ones will look themselves in the mirror, pick themselves off the floor and go get it,” Telep said. “I think that was his moment.”

In that process of picking himself off the floor and before dominating in his final prep season, the Blue Devil coaching staff, as well as Hairston and Thornton, locked up Irving. Citing his relationships with players on the team and Krzyzewski, Irving committed to Duke over Kentucky, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M in October.

Strickland, however, was a bit more skeptical of Irving’s decision to wear royal blue.

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Six months after winning a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Abby Johnston’s Duke diving career has ended prematurely.

Head coach Drew Johansen announced Monday that the senior had surgery last week to repair a bone spur on her clavicle and ease inflammation in her acromioclavicular joint and will miss the remainder of the Blue Devils’ season.

Johnston was a three-time All-ACC selection and earned Duke’s first national title for women’s swimming and diving when she captured the 3-meter springboard competition at the 2011 NCAA Championships.

“It was a really tough decision for me. I was a mess the entire weekend,” Johnston said. “Just the thought of not being with the team and not competing in the ACC Championships was really hard for me. It’s still going to be really tough having to be on the sidelines supporting them while they compete, but ultimately I had to do what was best for me.”

The Upper Arlington, Ohio native had been suffering from the injury for more than a year. It affected her performance at the 2012 Olympic Trials, forcing her to withdraw from the individual competition after qualifying for the Olympic Games in the 3-meter synchronized competition with partner Kelci Bryant.

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In her one meet this season, Abby Johnson finished first in the 1-meter springboard event against South Carolina Jan. 12.

Johnston was able to compete for Duke just once this season, finishing first in the 1-meter springboard event in the Blue Devils’ meet against South Carolina Jan. 12. She spent the first half of the school year attempting to rehab her shoulder but could not muster the strength to complete the 3-meter event at the same meet.

“I thought that having a three-month break when I got back from the Olympics would help the inflammation go down, and I was going to be able to come back as good as new, but structurally my shoulder just didn’t hold up,” Johnston said. “As soon as I started training again the inflammation and irritation was back, and I just didn’t have the strength that I used to have in my arm.”

Johnston said she thought her international diving career was finished before the surgery, but she has now become open to the possibility of returning and making a run at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Until that decision is made, the senior will occupy herself with rehabilitation and medical school applications.

“I was pretty certain that I would be done because I had been in so much pain and was dreading practice, but now that I should be able to come back good as new, I should be able to come back to the sport if I want to,” Johnston said. “I’m much more tempted to come back for Rio, but right now I haven’t decided yet.”

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IRVING from page 7 “I think it’s a good pick for him I just hope that system doesn’t change who he is as a player,” Strickland said at the time.

The pain and gain at Duke Duke fans wanted to remember Irving’s name and number by seeing it hang in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. But a freak toe injury—that Krzyzewski called “dumb luck”—prevented that dream from becoming a reality.

Joining a team that had just won the National Championship, Irving made his presence felt right away when he arrived in Durham and instantly became the best player on the team.

One game, in particular, embodied Irving’s prodigious talents in his one-year stay in college: The ACC-Big 10 Challenge contest against then-No. 6 Michigan State at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Irving dazzled the college basketball world, getting to the rim at will en route to 31 points—only the fourth 30-point showing by a Duke freshman in school history.

“Before that game he told Tyler and I that he was going to kill it,” Hairston said. “Kyrie just dominated the entire game. That was the moment I knew he was really special, and he was going to do really special things.”

Perhaps the most gifted freshman that Krzyzewski has ever instructed, Irving played a scant 11 games in a Blue Devil uniform because of the injury and left school early to become the No. 1 pick in the 2011 NBA draft.

While healthy, the 6-foot-3 and 185-pound point guard averaged 17.5 points, 4.3 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in Durham.

Arguably the most gut-wrenching of all, Irving never got to experience the Tobacco Road rivalry. Or the rivalry never got to experience Irving, who never got to play against his close friends Strickland and Barnes “It’s sad to say he couldn’t play [in the Duke-North Carolina games],” Strickland said. “It would’ve been great. It would’ve been something to see.”

Much of the shortchanged Duke basketball nation still lies awake at night wondering what could have been if Irving stayed healthy.

Rubbing salt in the wound, Krzyzewski gave a hint as to what could have happened.

“I’ll tell you what, Kyrie’s freshman year, I thought we could maybe run the table,”

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In his one season at Duke, Irving scored a career-high 31 points against then-No. 6 Michigan State.

Krzyzewski said during a December press conference. “We had good chemistry right away with that group.”

As painful as it is it can be for Blue Devil fans to watch Irving dominate now, Duke is reaping the benefits. Irving’s enthralling performances on a weekly basis in the NBA have undoubtedly paid dividends for a program that was lacking—or at least publicly perceived to be lacking—that one elite NBA player to carry the Duke flag.

Recruits love Irving’s infallibly tight handles and clutch floor-game that has a spice of streetball to it, as well as his charming charisma. Now, Krzyzewski has a bonafide elite player in the NBA who he can point to when selling his program to young prospects.

“It helps a lot,” Telep said. “It’s a street cred thing. How much more ammunition do you need to give Mike Krzyzewski with USA Basketball and now Kyrie Irving? That’s a hell of a recruiting pitch.”

The future is now Irving’s brief stint of brilliance in college has become a nightly routine in the pros.

Playing on a team with predominately young, no-name talent, Irving’s dynamic scoring and play-making abilities give the Cavaliers a chance to beat teams they shouldn’t on almost any night.

In light of Irving’s success, Strickland admits that Duke did not hurt Irving’s

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The two-year starter—who recorded 21 points and six rebounds in a 30-point loss to UNLV in the 1990 National Championship game—is survived by five children: Genesis, 21; Harrison, 15; Adonia, 6; Athaila, 5; and Azriel, 4.

Henderson was a McDonald’s All-American team member from Crete-Monee, a high school in Illinois. In high school, as in college, Henderson was a threat on both sides of the court, using his length to pick up rebounds, blocks and steals as well as points. Henderson averaged 21.8 points in his senior year of high school and went on to average 18.5 points per game in his senior season. “[Phil was a] gentle person, real gentle person and had a lot of talent,” Krzyzewski said.

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“I don’t think it changed him it all,” Strickland said. “I only said it because my teammate, Leslie McDonald’s [high school] teammate Elliot Williams went to Duke and it changed his game a lot. I actually think Duke made [Irving] better.”

While Irving regularly displays pin-point shooting accuracy and among the best handles in the league, he has gained even more notoriety for his success in the clutch. Irving averages 23.5 points and 5.5 assists per game this season and leads the NBA going 11-for17 in “clutch” situations late in games. The dominance during crunch-time is surprising for some, especially those who were skeptical of the Cavaliers decision to choose Irving with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft.

“I’m not surprised,” said Strickland, who maintains a close relationship with his former backcourt running mate. “I’m so proud of him. I texted him the other day, ‘Keep doing your thing—the sky is the limit.’”

Despite his many names, many people don’t know what to say about Irving. Celtics head coach Doc Rivers was at a loss for words when Irving scored 11 of his game-high 40 points in the final 2:31 of the fourth quarter to lift the Cavaliers past the Celtics 95-90 on Jan. 22. Rivers’ only had one assessment as to how his veteran team squandered the game.

“And then Kyrie Irving happened,” Rivers said after the loss.

With his All-Star debut, history has also happened: Irving became just the seventh player in league history be an All-Star at 20-years old.

The other members of that list: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Kevin Garnett, Isiah Thomas and Shaquille O’Neal.

As if his rise to stardom weren’t enough, Irving finally got some revenge on Knight from that day in Charlottesville. In the NBA Rising Stars Challenge during All-Star weekend, Irving scored 32 points while being guarded by his old rival for much of the contest. None of those buckets were as spectacular as a tantalizing crossover, step-back jumper that Irving drilled over Knight, who fell to the ground trying to guard the move.

“That was kind of payback from the high school days,” said Hairston, who calls Irving one of his best friends. “It was good basketball—they were going back and forth at each other, but I think Kyrie got the upper hand.”

Irving’s impressive weekend continued as he took home the 3-point shootout title and then finished with 15 points in Sunday night’s All-Star game.

And the question of Irving being Duke’s best NBA player ever is becoming less and less of a question by the day.

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The cost of socioeconomic diversity If there were ever a way to sity’s most powerful tool for provide equal access to edu- attracting truly different stucation, it is through financial dents. And socioeconomic aid—or so we are told starting status is one of the strongest from our first college infor- proxies for identifying a stumation session. Although this dent’s background and foresounds appealcasting the ing and even contribution editorial believable on he or she will an individual level, the reality make to campus life. of budget constraints rears its We applaud the Board of ugly head when we consider Trustees for ensuring that financial aid systemically.

Duke’s annual budget reYesterday’s editorial urged flects this priority: the Office students to think critically of Undergraduate Financial about the University’s finan- Aid received approximately cial aid policies for interna- $85 million this past year, detional students; today, we spite the endowment’s losses want to extend that discus- in the recent recession, said sion to the role of financial Alison Rabil, assistant vice aid in enabling socioeco- provost and director of finomic diversity. nancial aid. Additionally, For the most part, we af- that office deserves credit firm the conventional wisdom for their commitment to that financial aid is a univer- truly “meeting 100 percent

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of demonstrated need” as more families need financial aid than ever after the 2008 downturn. These actions demonstrate that socioeconomic diversity is more than just a buzzword at Duke. It is a persistent commitment.

But even if the University’s financial aid has stayed afloat in the short term, certain macro-level trends threaten its sustainability—and that of socioeconomic diversity—in the long run. First, although Rabil noted that Duke has kept its tuition increases at approximately 3 percent per year—low compared to some of our peer schools—the rising cost of higher education everywhere makes college unaffordable in a way that cannot be addressed by financial aid forever.

Duke could have billions of dollars for financial aid and still not solve the underlying problem: the actual cost of higher education is becoming terrifyingly unaffordable.

To be sure, need-based financial aid has improved accessibility and the high application numbers at Duke and its peer institutions indicate that, for some, no price is too high for a degree. The latter fact especially has eliminated any real pressure to trim the University’s costs.

But until a critical mass of colleges prioritize lowering tuition, higher education will be increasingly inaccessible for many. There will come a point when financial aid cannot continue to act as a BandAid, as it does now, because tuition increases drive up fi-

nancial aid spending. Rising tuition costs will eventually squeeze out middle-income students, who benefit little from Duke’s financial aid coffers already and will be even more strapped for cash in the future.

Duke’s commitment to financial aid even in hard times is an encouraging sign.

But budgetary constraints are a poor excuse to address serious problems: first, the lack of true socioeconomic diversity in the neglect of aiding middle-income families and second, the overall unsustainability of the higher education model. We understand that money is tight at the University, but—as the situation does not look to dramatically improve—perhaps some serious rethinking is needed.

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can’t help but chuckle whenever I hear people that it was one of the worst intersections in town. And talking about a perceived lack of campus safety. so, as we got out of the truck and approached the A few incidents notwithstanding, Duke’s campus- residence with our gear, I surveyed and scrutinized es (and their peripheral areas) tend to be some of our surroundings. As my partner entered the house the safest locales in the city—you’re to assess Anna, our patient, I lagged probably not going to get shot walkbehind just long enough to see a man ing down Campus Drive at 2 a.m. walking up through the yard. Black, With that being said, there are mid-20s, about six feet tall, clutching definitely other places in this city an open Budweiser, wearing baggy where being in the wrong place at clothes and an indifferent expresthe wrong time might well lead to sion, his eyes fixed on me. Instantly some new holes in your torso. Havsuspicious, I allowed him to proceed ing grown up in sheltered suburbia, through the door before me, wordI remember the all-too-stereotypical lessly—from his appearance alone, excitement I felt when dispatched to I had surmised that he was up to no my first gunshot wound call. Climbgood. Once inside, our mysterious ing out of the ambulance with the stranger motioned for me to follow pep and exuberance only a trainee him to a back room; I followed, restcould have, I unleashed a barrage of my hand on my flashlight with pre-med series ing assessment questions on my patient, the thought of having something premeditations who sat on the pavement clutching to defend myself with if things went his right side. As I waited for him south. In the darkened bedroom, he to respond to my queries, he just looked up at me reached down into a drawer, and I braced myself … exasperatedly, pointed to another round patch of only to see him pull out medications. scar tissue on his chest, and said, “Man, same s***, In the minutes that followed, all was revealed. Our different day.” stranger was a neighborhood youth named Justin, Evidently, I wasn’t quite used to the ubiquity of and, though not related to Anna, had become her de violence in that community, or in any other one, re- facto caretaker after her husband’s death. After paally. Safety and security have always been things I’ve tiently explaining her list of medications and medical taken for granted, so it required a different frame history to me, Justin went back into the main room of mind to provide medical treatment within gang- and confirmed my partner’s growing intuition that land enclaves. When it comes to staying safe in EMS, there was nothing medically wrong with Anna, tellwe’re taught from early on that “scene safety” is ing us that she got very lonely at times. Upon saying paramount. It’s easy to spot obvious issues: If I ar- this, Justin walked over and embraced the blind, deaf rive to find my patient wearing a clown mask and Anna, comforted her and suggested that he make holding a Bowie knife, I’ll probably turn around and dinner for the two of them. Giving us a smile and a leave. However, it’s much harder to determine if a thumbs-up, Justin thanked us for our time. safe scene will stay that way. Any clues pointing to My heart melted. I’ve never been one to get emoproblems will likely be subtle and non-specific. A pa- tional in the field, but that scene was so beautiful I tient suddenly becomes quiet and looks around the nearly cried. Words fail to describe the shame I felt room, a bystander moves between you and the exit, for having judged Justin solely on the basis of his the knife that was on the table when you walked in is appearance. My overzealous suspicion had led me not there anymore—all can be easily and rationally to prejudice myself against this beacon of love and explained, but can also be major red flags under the hope in a neighborhood that seemingly lacked both. right circumstances. As such, there’s a fine line be- I was wrong about Justin, in the same way anyone tween precaution and paranoia, and it’s not uncom- is wrong when judging another based on superficial mon that you end up a little paranoid from time to characteristics, or defaulting to stereotypes. Without time. However, you can’t let your paranoia get in the action on all of our parts to combat it, the endless way of personal interactions, and you should never cycle of prejudice will continue unchecked through make judgments prematurely. our generation and those to come—as the maxim I recall a particularly vivid example where I let the goes, “Same s***, different day.” line blur. It was a muggy summer night, and we had been dispatched to a residence for a Life-Alert activaJay Srinivasan, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. This tion (think “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”). I noticed column is the sixth installment in a semester-long series of that the address where we were heading was located weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, a block away from a noted hotspot for gang activity as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage and drug sales; I had heard from multiple sources with the field of medicine.

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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any bating the facts anymore, but how the facts are delivered. other name would smell as sweet.”

Labels can be used to make dissenters seem heartless or Juliet was no politician. to avoid scaring off moderate supporters. Labels can be Last Tuesday, the U.S. Senate reauthorized the Vio- used to create the illusion of change and reform, while lence Against Women Act (VAWA) despite remaining ideologically stagnant. Is the 22 dissenting Republican votes. Social political science realm ruled by headlines? media exploded with shouts for these 22 Do other scientists debate solely based on senators to be voted out of office. Surely their papers’ abstracts? these dissenters would have to be backBut we are as bad as the politicians. ward, right wing extremists in order to We label ourselves as the Democratic oppose a bill intended to protect women vote, Republican vote, white vote, black from violence. Well, not exactly. vote, gay vote, female vote. Once you laMolly Ball of The Atlantic wondered bel yourself, you can be catered to, focus travis smith why anyone would take such a politically groups can be assembled and you can be with a space septic stance, especially considering that won over. You aren’t dynamic, open to helmet on the GOP lost by an 11-point margin among discussion or capable of a varied position. women voters last November. She sat down You are a statistic with “known” political with Christina Villegas, a visiting fellow at the conservative positions. You are a dog that can be thrown the correctly Independent Women’s Forum. Villegas pointed to many worded bone and remain happy. specifics of the act—such as the targeted areas of vioSo don’t label yourself. lence, the “mandatory-arrest” policy, along with waste and When you do, the American two-party system forces fraud—that could be made more effective and account- you to fall on one side of an issue, no matter how multi-facable. Villegas’ objections may be well intentioned, but eted. This structures a damaging debate between parties, when these concerns are labeled as opposition, the act’s where conceding a point means “losing” it to the other supporters label dissenters as pro-abuse and anti-women. side. So instead of conceding, we reword and repackage.

When asked if opposing the VAWA for relatively minor But politics shouldn’t be an us-versus-them discussion. objections was worth it, given the accompanying depic- We are all American. Labeling those with other views as tion as being anti-women, Villegas responded, “Having “them” discounts—even vilifies—valuable perspectives. the courage to question various sections of this bill doesn’t Don’t discount the opposition without checking their make you pro-abuse or anti-women. No bill should receive sources. Instead of seeing a headline stating that the Viounconditional support because its intentions are noble or lence Against Women Act received “no help” from 22 Reits title sounds beneficial.” Though I support the VAWA, publican senators and saying “vote them out of office,” learn I have to agree with this philosophy. All issues should be from them. Understand why they dissented; don’t just autoopen to debate and revision. matically hate them for it. Issues are never as cut and dry as Politically charged titles are nothing new, and politi- “for” or “against,” even though we usually vote this way. For cians are smart about how they use language. As Ball again or against; Republican or Democrat; chocolate or vanilla. pointed out, when President Obama and Vice President Be curious and investigate the entire scope of the issue. You Biden announced proposals for new gun legislation earli- may still come to the same conclusion, but your wisdom is er this year, they didn’t use the words “gun control” once. more stable with a comprehensive understanding.

They side-stepped such an alienating, big-government Sure, labels are the first things you see, but don’t be term and opted to instead speak of “gun violence” and superficial. Dig deeper. You may see me, my height, my “gun-violence legislation,” to much success. extremely athletic stance and think, “He’s good at basThis reminds me of how my mother spoke to my dog. ketball.”

Every few months we would be off to the “v-e-t,” but never Nope. to the “vet,” so as to not raise any suspicions. The vet’s office never changed, but our dog’s reluctance to go did.

Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Rhetorical manipulation clouds reality. We aren’t de- Tuesday. You can follow Travis on Twitter @jtsmith317.

hree-and-a-half years ago, I received a call from Duke admissions telling me that I’d gotten off the waitlist.

Duke was better than my other options in nearly every way. I might have accepted on the spot, but I was nervous. I had come out as a sophomore in high school, and I wanted to go to a college where I didn’t have to worry about my sexuality. Before I enrolled, I scoured the Internet for some hint about Duke’s LGBT life. I was surprised to discover that Duke patrick oathout has had a rather dynamic realpolitik with history: In 1999, the Princpatrick eton Review labeled Duke one of the most homophobic schools, but seven years later Duke turned around and was ranked one of the friendliest schools for LGBT students by The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. I reached out to some LGBT Duke students who were active on Facebook and asked for their perspective. They all assured me that Duke was a great place to be LGBT. In my first month here, I doubted my decision. Coming to Duke felt like a step back from Houston, although I had a hard time understanding why. I don’t think I was blasé about coming out—I just felt like I was always entertaining straight people with the novel saliency of my experience.

I’d also heard in early meetings with administrators that homophobia was the most prevalent form of physical and verbal discrimination on campus. I’d been harassed before, but no one had ever bothered me in school, so I had a hard time believing that students were doing this. It didn’t take long for that perspective to change.

On Halloween night of my first year, a friend of mine got into a fight with two other students. As I wrenched my friend away, one of the other students pushed me to the ground and hissed, “You f***ing f****t.” I left the fight (with my friend) shell-shocked. No one had ever called me a f****t before. I tried to forget about it and decided it was an isolated incident.

But the harassment continued. In Spring of my first year, I was kicked out of a section party after kissing a boy.

I was told the party was invite-only, and I asked why none of the other uninvited guests were being asked to leave. I left the party humiliated, so embarrassed that I never told anyone about it. And then, on the last day of classes, a student paintballed the LGBT flag hanging from my window. Before Duke, I had never felt the need to celebrate LGBT pride with a flag. But after months of incidents, I felt compelled to support a cause I had previously taken for granted. I reported the vandalism, partly because I wanted a resolution, partly because it was so much easier to report when I didn’t know who the perpetrator was. No one was ever charged.

Harassment directed at me has diminished, probably because I’ve mostly stopped going to parties. You stop wanting to go out after endless nights of disquiet.

But I know the harassment toward others hasn’t ceased.

I’ve seen students get slammed with homophobia on the website Collegiate ACB. Gay friends of mine have been shoved when they’ve kissed their partners at Shooters.

And most of all, we are mocked whenever we say something slightly effeminate. It’s incredibly jarring whenever someone repeats something I’ve just said back to me in a high-pitched voice. I’d rather be shoved any day than be mocked for someone’s entertainment.

LGBT harassment is still the most prevalent form of physical discrimination on campus. In addition to the harassment, I rarely feel like I have a student mentor to look up to on these issues. There are few out LGBT individuals in positions of leadership. Some of the LGBT individuals who hold positions of influence stay silent, and relegate their identity to rumored whispers. That’s the unfortunate thing about being gay—you either own it or you don’t. You can’t change your skin color, and it’s hard to hide your sex.

But you can hide your sexual orientation. And it takes some damn courage to be out on this campus.

Like a lot of gays, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m tired of being the representative for something that I’ve been reduced to. I’m politically moderate, so I often ask myself, “When did I become so gay?” Maybe Duke is changing me, and maybe that’s a good thing. But I can’t help but wonder what life would be like on this campus if I were straight.

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Time for a K-ville Magna Carta

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n Feb. 13, The Chronicle ran a guest piece (“PowThe LMs are not held directly accountable in any meaner monitoring”) criticizing the line monitors’ en- ingful way to the students they are there to serve. Why forcement of walk-up line policies leading up to have we outsourced the regulation of our rightful propthe Carolina game, suggesting that their erty to such an organization? Regardless of strict enforcement undermined the spirit of paul vanderslice your feelings about how the LMs operate, the game and the would-be Cameron Crashouldn’t you demand a say? What if they guest column zies. Online commenters responded by acwore greek letters rather than blue jackcusing the author of “whining” and of being ets—would you feel differently? I am not at unwilling to accept an unbiased application of the rules. I all proposing that we eliminate the LMs, but I do believe find this reaction surprising. that it is time for us to take back a measure of control over The key characteristic of the student section of Camer- the student section. In 1215 the barons of England forced on is the privilege of free and equal access for all students. King John to sign the Magna Carta, which obligated him to Before the line forms, no one student has a stronger claim ask their permission, through Parliament, before he could to a ticket than any other. In this sense, these tickets are change the law. held in common by the student body. The problem of how In the same vein, I suggest that the head line monitor to allocate tickets is solved by giving preference to those be made into an elected position. Candidates would have who show up first. to explain why they would be best able to regulate access to The LMs are the police force for this system. This group our seats, and it would enable a campus-wide conversation sees itself as so autonomous that it applied for selective about the type of K-ville experience we want to have. This living group status last year. New LMs are selected by the would democratize the organization and allow students a previous LMs themselves, which serves to perpetuate the greater voice in its operation. Compared to other major dominance of characteristics deemed ideal by the estab- elected offices such as DSG president and Young Trustee, lished leadership. Though DSG plays a role in approving the LMs probably have a much more significant impact K-ville rules and appointing the head line monitor, the LMs on many of our day-to-day lives. Local sheriffs are elected. have developed a code of conformity within their ranks that What’s the difference? Why shouldn’t we have a voice? creates a distance between themselves and other students.

Lastly, this shouldn’t be at all threatening to the K-ville This insular and unelected group has almost full control establishment. In spite of all the criticism, LMs truly are the over access to what is in essence our property. most devout Cameron Crazies and work very hard to imFrustrations with the LMs are common and not limit- prove the Duke basketball experience for all of us. They ed to just the less devoted walk-up liners. Last week I wit- deserve our thanks for bringing order out of what would nessed first hand how certain students were given favorable otherwise be total chaos. Consent, however, is key on this treatment based on their relationships with the monitors. campus, and there’s nothing wrong with making the head What’s worse is that some of what tenters are subjected to line monitor ask us for it. Then we can all decide whether would be considered hazing were if carried out by a greek or not we get bathroom breaks. organization or SLG. The lack of consistent and equitable enforcement is not the main problem, however.

Paul Vanderslice is a Trinity senior.

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Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

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THE CHRONICLE

February 19 – February 25 Exhibitions Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital).

Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Thru February 23. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 Life magazine series on segregation. Thru March 2. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Road to Desegregation at Duke. A look at the contributions of African Americans at Duke 50 years after desegregation. Thru March 3. Rare Book Room Cases, Rubenstein Library. Free.

A Mockery of Justice: Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair. How the popular press satirized one of the most notorious legal cases in French history. Thru March 9. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide. How maps project ideas of urban space. Curated by students in the Franklin Humanities Institute Borderwork(s) Lab. Thru March 17. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Alphabetic Excursions. Prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Light Sensitive. Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Thru May 12. Nasher Museum of Art.

Events February 21 The Duke University Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor. Two Shades Of Blue, featuring the UNC Wind Ensemble, Evan Feldman, conductor. Works by Eric Whitacre, Percy Grainger, Frank Ticheli, Lukas Schingenschuh, John Williams and others. 8pm, Reynolds Theater. Free.

Japanese Music Performance and Talk. James Nyoraku Schlefer and Yoko Reikano Kimura of Kyo-Shin-An Arts perform on shakuhachi and koto, and discuss the musical features, aesthetics and history of Japanese music. 4pm, Biddle Music Building Lobby. Free.

Andrew T. Nadell Book Collectors Contest. Undergraduate and graduate student bibliophiles show off their personal book collections. 1:30-3pm, Perkins Library Lobby. Free.

February 22 Piano Honors Concert. Featuring advanced Duke piano students. 6pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Encounters: with the music of our time presents the Ciompi Quartet with guest artists from Kyo-Shin-An Arts. Works include Daron Hagen’s Concerto for Koto and String Quartet (2011). 8pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free.

Ark Dances. Informal dance performance of works entirely by students of all backgrounds. 8pm, The Ark. Free.

February 23 Organ Workshop. Visiting organist Jonathan Biggers will offer a workshop on “Creative Hymn Playing” in the Chapel chancel. 11am, Duke Chapel. Free.

OBIE-winning Brooklyn-based theater company

Hoi Polloi

Republic brings to Duke A work-in-progress presentation of

a new theater piece inspired by Plato

Theater Previews New Works Lab. See ad on this page.

Recital. German Lieder by voice students, featuring songs by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, and Marx. 2 pm, Nelson Music Rm. Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Free.

Totally Baroque. Music by J.S. Bach, Telemann, Handel and Purcell. Featuring Elizabeth Linnartz, soprano; Lewis Moore, bass; Alicia Chapman, oboe; Jennifer Streeter, recorder; Andrew Bonner, viola d’amore, violin; Robbie Link, viola da gamba; Andrew Pester, harpsichord. 7:30pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free.

February 24 Organ Recital Series Concert. Jonathan Biggers, hailed as “one of the most outstanding concert organists in the United States,” will present a recital on the Aeolian organ. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

Screen/Society All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105.

(W) = Richard White Auditorium.

2/19

ASHES OF TIME [35mm] Christopher Doyle Retrospective AMI Showcase

2/20

THE JOURNALS OF MUSAN (W) Transnational North Korea Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

2/21

IRANIAN TABOO (W) Iranian Cinema Middle East Film Series

2/25

5 BROKEN CAMERAS Palestinian/Israeli documentary Middle East Film Series ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

Saturday, February 23 at 8 pm Sheafer Theater FREE Presented by the Department of Theater Studies

Open rehearsal in Sheafer Theater Friday, February 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm Hoi Polloi’s two-week residency was made possible by support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.