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Major matters more than Uni, study finds

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What you major in may matter more than where you go to school, according to a recent study.

College Measures, a partnership between American Institutes for Research and Matrix Knowledge Group recently found that associate degree graduates earn about the same as bachelor degree graduates on average, but are out-earned by graduates with a technical degree. The study uses data from postsecondary education records for graduates from mostly public institutions—such as Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—and matches them with information from state unemployment insurance agencies. “[The results were] so uniform and so powerful that I’d be shocked if they don’t pertain to students at fairly elite private institutions,” said Mark Schneider, president of College Measures and vice president of American Institutes for Research.

Schneider explained that engineers are the highest-paid profession and graduates with majors in humanistic subjects, such as philosophy, will not make wages to compensate for expensive tuitions.

Similarly, there is a discrepancy between

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The main entrance to Perkins Library will close next summer to enable additional renovations.

Over the summer, the lobby will be expanded to enclose the covered outdoor terrace.

The renovations also include the creation of a small moat in front of the library to provide additional drainage for when it rains. The summer renovations will mark the end of 10 years of construction projects across Perkins Library, which began with the construction of Bostock Library and the Von der Heyden Pavilion in 2003.

“It will give us the kind of entrance that a library of the stature of Duke’s deserves,” said Deborah Jakubs, vice provost for library affairs and Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian.

Construction will only take place over the summer to inconvenience as few students as possible, said Aaron Welborn, director of communications for Duke University Libraries.

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‘Save the gun’ law to redistribute confiscated firearms

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Under the provision of a new policy in North Carolina, law enforcement agencies can no longer destroy confiscated or unclaimed firearms.

Backed by the National Rifle Association, Senate Bill 443 states that the only guns that can be legally destroyed by the police are those that are damaged or are missing serial numbers. All other guns, whether seized from criminals or acquired through buy-back programs, must be either kept by the police, donated or re-sold to licensed gun dealers. The “save the gun”

law goes into effect in October.

“In the past we have generally asked for permission from the courts to destroy weapons that were involved in a crime on campus,” wrote John Dailey, chief of the Duke University Police Department, in an email Sunday. “This new law does reduce the options we have for disposal.”

Even before it was officially passed by Gov. Pat McCrory, this gun destruction bill received overwhelming support in both the House and the Senate, which voted 98 to 16 and 48 to one, respectively. In addition to restricting gun destruction, this same bill also allows guns to be carried into res-

taurants and bars, or left in vehicles.

Philip Cook, senior associate dean for faculty and research at Sanford School of Public Policy, noted that the National Rifle Association might have backed this legislation as a symbolic gesture in support of their ethos that guns are not a problem when they are owned by “law abiding” citizens.

“In fact, in this view, guns are a good thing, because they allow people to defend themselves, deter crime and fight for freedom,” Cook wrote in an email Tuesday.

Cook added that the new law would not dramatically increase the supply of used

guns in the market, despite the popular belief that it would do so.

“The number of guns acquired by gun buybacks nationwide is small compared to the total number that change hands each year nationwide, which is close to 10 million new guns and six million used guns,” he said.

According to Cook, the only major impact this new regulation will have is a slight decrease in the price of firearms due to the increase in supply.

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Portions of Duke Forest closed for deer hunting

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Now is no time for passing the buck.

The Office of the Duke Forest will be closing three divisions of the Duke Forest to public access for the sixth Annual Deer Herd Reduction Program. The program, an effort to reduce the excess xcess white-tailed d deer population in the Forest orest by bow and gun hunting, ting, will begin Sept. 23 and nd will con3. clude on Dec. 13.

“This hunt is functional in purpose only,” nly,” Program Director or Sara Childs said. “OverabunOverabund deer in the Forest dant white-tailed mpacting the natural are negatively impacting rocess, which in turn regeneration process, affects habitat for other wildlife and the availability of high quality natural areas for teaching and research uses.”

The Durham, m, Korstian and Blackwood Divisions of the Forest will be closed to the public Monday through Friday. No hunting will occur in any of the divisions when they are open on Saturdays and Sundays, as well as Nov. 28 and 29.

The hunting program stems from a study conducted by the Office of the Duke Forest in 2005 that surveyed the number of deer. It determined that there was an overabundance of white-tailed deer in the Durham, Korstian and Blackwood Divisions. The excess of deer in this area has been shown to damage the plant diversity in the Forest.

“Deer eat herbs and stems of shrubs and young trees,” said Norman Christensen, re-

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search professor and founding dean of the Nicholas School. “We know from the study of permanent plots in the Forest that they have had a devastating impact on many plant species and altered the diversity of forest communities.”

Not only does the excess of deer impair many plant species in tthe Forest but it can also be a danger to the peo people who visit.

“High population numbers favor the spread of disease in the deer herd,” Christensen said. “Large nu numbers of deer present several problems besides bes the general nuisance of eating people people’s shrubs. These [problems] include high numbers of in road kill and the spread of tick-b tick-borne diseases such as Lym Lyme disease.”

A According to the Office the Duke Forest website, of th deer population in the the d Forest is down from 2010, Fore but iit is still higher than in 2011 and 2012.

The hunting is only accessible to two hunting groups selected by the Office of the Duke Forest. Childs declined to disclose the names of the groups.

“It is not open to the general public, but if Durham or Duke affiliated locals were members of these groups, they could potentially participate,” Childs said.

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After a few weeks of campaigning, hanging fliers, and soliciting strangers for signatures, 12 freshmen have been elected to the Duke Student Government.

The newly elected freshmen senators are James Ferencsik and Kavita Jain for Academic Affairs, McCall Wells and Melodie Bonanno for Equity and Outreach, Meredith Davin and Priyanka Venkannagari for Services, Ben Salzman and Katherine Zhou for Durham and Regional Affairs, Shelby Wailes for Social Culture, Emma Gruber and George Mellgard for Residential Life and John Turanchik for Facilities and the Environment.

When the polls closed at 10 p.m. Tuesday night, a total of 662 votes had been cast, a sharp decline from last year’s 831 votes.

“Personally, I consider this to be a fairly good voter turnout considering how much effort actually had to go into the voting,” wrote DSG Attorney General Syed Adil, a sophomore, in an email Tuesday.

He noted that the ranking system of the ballots and the large number of candidates—48 total—may have made the process time consuming and deterred voters.

The decline may be linked to the circulation of a website created by first-year Gautam Chebrolu. Posted in the official class of 2017 Facebook group Sept. 9, the site titled “Don’t Vote: Change,” presented a perspective on the effectiveness and legitimacy of DSG. For example, Chebrolu highlights how candidates rely heavily on their friends for success in the polls, rather than legiti-

mate platforms.

“DSG was made so that people could practice politics—that’s why it’s there,” Chebrolu said. “People don’t try to fix [DSG], they just try to uphold it because they’re running.”

Though the title was meant mostly to grab attention and encourage voters to think critically about the merits of each candidate, rather than deter voters, he noted he was happy to see a number of people discussing the post on Facebook.

Regardless of voter turnout, Bonanno said she is “elated” and surprised to have won. While many candidates campaigned by papering the surfaces of East Campus with fliers, Bonanno chose a different method.

“I mostly used social media to help me out. I didn’t have access to a[n off-campus] printer, so I made a Facebook page,” she said.

Candidates were required to purchase all campaign materials with a $25 allotment from DSG. In order to assure fairness, candidates were not allowed to use materials already within their possession or ePrint funds.

Bonanno said she doesn’t yet have any specific goals for her role in the DSG, as she wants to become better acquainted with how the Senate works before solidifying her plans.

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Profs shake out the meaning of Cyrus’ twerking

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What rhymes with perpetuation of racial and sexual stereotypes?

Students and scholars packed the East Duke Parlor to discuss the sexual politics of Robin Thicke’s controversial “Blurred Lines” music video and performance with Miley Cyrus at the 2013 Video Music Awards in a Duke Women’s Studies event called Twerking Class Heroes Tuesday night. The event featured a panel talk, followed by an open floor discussion on the sexual, racial and societal implications of Cyrus’ and Thicke’s performance.

Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of women’s studies, addressed the strong reaction to Cyrus’ appearance at the VMAs—which included a provocative dance fad called “twerking.” The performance raised questions about sexuality, race, stereotyping and the degradation or empowerment of women as an implication of her performance.

“Is it disgusting, is it sexy, are those two things in opposition, or do they exist in a continuum?” Khanna asked the audience. “How can we understand the production of sexuality through such images?”

After playing the “Blurred Lines” video, which featured topless women riding bikes and holding lambs alongside Thicke, panel speakers spurred a conversation on the historical representation and sexualization of women. Clare Counihan, research scholar of women’s studies, said the music video and lyrics—including the line “Tried to domesticate you/But you’re an animal, baby, it’s in your nature”—liken women to animals.

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Women’s Studies faculty question the sexual politics behind Miley Cyrus’ controversial VMA perfomance. were wearing clothes,” said Counihan, adding the notable contrast between the topless women and Thicke’s formal attire in the video. “There’s a clear sense of who has power and who has civilization from how they’re dressed.”

Counihan also noted that the point of the discussion was not to draw blame or critique Thicke’s video.

“It’s not to say, ‘Bad Robin Thicke, bad Pharrell, bad T.I. for turning women into animals,’” she said. “That in and of itself is bad, but it’s important to think about why. What

does it accomplish in the video, in the song, in making that connection?”

The video was “a self-parody of sorts,” said Gabriel Rosenberg, panel speaker and assistant professor of the practice in women’s studies. The absurd plot and contradictions of Thicke’s bravado—such as his dissatisfaction despite bragging about the size of his genitalia—suggest that Thicke realizes that the video is degrading, but wants the audience to know that it is only in a personal fantasy setting.

“It’s a theme party where the theme is sexual degradation,” Rosenberg said.

The panel also presented a direct parody of the video by musical satire group Mod Carousel, in which the women performed the song while in suits and male background dancers wore wigs and make up. Rosenberg lauded the parody’s depiction of gender fluidity, but felt a truly successful parody would have better addressed the concept of sexual fantasy versus power distribution in the real world that arose in the original “Blurred Lines” video.

The conversation turned to the “We Can’t Stop/Blurred Lines” medley performance at the VMAs, for which Cyrus received backlash for her provocative twerking. Counihan spoke of the representation of black women in relation to Cyrus’ backup dancers, who were described as faceless sexual objects behind a white performer.

Counihan stressed the importance of discussing Cyrus’ exploitation of black women’s sexuality, regardless of whether or not the singer was making a deliberate statement.

Undergraduate presenter Danielle Nelson, a senior, said Cyrus used racial imagery in her performance as a means to adopt a new identity beyond her initial public persona as a “good girl” Disney star. Nelson also spoke of Cyrus as “a brand, an image that is bought and sold,” and addressed the potential commercial intentions Cyrus’ VMAs appearance might have had.

After the panel talk, attendees brought up other videos and performances, including Macklemore’s performance of “Same Love” at the VMAs, which Rosenberg said earnestly supported same-sex marriage in comparison to Thicke’s parody of women’s rights.

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According to research conducted at the Duke Lemur Center, lemur hibernation may hold the key to a good night’s rest—or successful inter-planetary travel.

Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Andrew Krystal and his colleagues partnered with the Duke Lemur Center to research sleep and hibernation in fat-tailed dwarf lemurs to discover more about human sleep patterns.

The study revealed that lemurs experience REM sleep during hibernation, allowing them to regulate their body temperature.

“Our motivation was to test the hypothesis that sleep plays an important role in regulating the metabolic stores of energy,” Krystal said.

Collaborating with people from the Lemur Center, Krystal administered a electroencephalography test to monitor brainwaves and body temperature during different sleep states.

During hibernation, lemurs spend time in a state of torpor, which is characterized by minimal brain activity.

“They look and feel dead,” said director of the Lemur Center Ann Yoder.

Torpor is a physiological condition that occurs for no more than 24 hours at a time and is not to be confused with the process of hibernation, said Chris Smith, education specialist at the Center. However, during their six to eight month seasonal hibernation period, lemurs mostly exist in this state.

When the lemurs were in a state of torpor, their body temperature fluctuated with changes in environmental temperature.

But the dwarf lemurs also spent hibernation time in REM sleep, during which their body temperature did not fluctuate.

“If you disturb the ability to sleep, you also disturb the ability to maintain body temperature,” said biology professor Peter Klopfer, a researcher on the study.

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Dwarf lemurs’ sleep habits could aid scientists in inducing torpor in humans.

Krystal wanted to use the lemur study to figure out why we as humans spend so much of our lives asleep— meaning that the study’s conclusions were important because they pointed to a direct connection between sleep and body processes.

Because they spend so much of their lives in a state of torpor, dwarf lemurs manage to conserve more energy than other mammals. Krystal and his team

resolved that if torpor could be induced in humans, it could be valuable to the practice of medicine, as well as applied in other ways.

Induced torpor could be useful for medical patients who need transplants—patients’ brains would be shut off to preserve functions while they waited for an organ donor, Smith said.

He said that inducing torpor could also have potential in aerospace travel.

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Krystal said he plans to continue his work with lemurs.

“For us, it was the fortuitous presence of the Lemur Center and the resources of Ann Yoder and her team at the Center that made this research possible,” Krystal said.

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Every week The Chronicle will be collecting pre-medical students most pressing questions about the field of medicine and asking Duke medical school students to provide their insight. This week, The Chronicle’s Kasey Wien sat down with Jessie Narloch, a student in the School of Medicine, and discussed the health care industry, private practices and residency.

The Chronicle: Do you think that the health care industry is moving away from a diagnostic emphasis toward a more bedsidefocused mindset?

Jessie Narloch: I think bedside manner is always the ultimate goal. I can’t necessarily speak for healthcare as a whole because I’m just starting in my first three weeks of med school. I can, however, tell you that medical schools are focusing a lot more on the bedside manner and bringing patients in to talk to us earlier in our education.

For example, today and almost three times a week we interrupt our normal lectures and have patients come in and explain their diseases. So not only are we learning about body processes and how diseases affect them, but patients also come in to teach us firsthand. We’re learning this info not only for diagnostic measures, but also for utilizing that knowledge for a good purpose and for having a good bedside manner at the end of the day. Bedside manner is not more or less important than diagnostic measures—it’s equal. My mentors always told me that competence is just as important as empathy in medicine. I think that medical education is moving toward that way.

But from what I’ve heard, some doctors are getting a little frustrated by the new medical acts, which are forcing them to think about patients in terms of money and outcomes. But again, I can really only speak from the educational standpoint.

TC: What are your opinions on taking a gap year?

JN: I was at Duke for undergrad and didn’t take a gap year, not because I didn’t want to, but because if I had I would’ve wanted to go abroad. You really have to be in the country to be applying, and if I went abroad I would’ve had to take two years off.

At the School of Medicine, half the people

in my class did take a year or more off, and half didn’t. The people who took the year off really enjoyed it, but I think it’s all about personal preference. Conversely, people say they were ready to get more education because a gap year would take too much time out of their medical pathway. If there’s something you want to do and would be disappointed not doing that before starting the path of medicine, you should do it. You won’t have time once you start your medical education, so if there’s something you need to do, you should take a gap year. Another factor is strengthening your application, so if there are weaknesses in your app a gap year might be a good opportunity.

TC: Does it matter for residency where I choose to go to medical school?

JN: Yes, it matters to a certain extent.

From what I’ve heard, really what matters is how well you do on tests in medical school.

The step one board exam, a general test which all medical schools administer, is one of the biggest factors. To get into med school your extracurriculars count just as much as MCATs and grades—it’s a whole analysis. But when you’re looking at residency, the primary criteria are the board exams.

I’d say the connections you make with the attending physicians in your medical school are also what matters. If you want to go into a competitive field, you want to get to know the mentors in your medical school that are in that field. A lot of it is about who you know and will meet at different schools. If you go to higher ranked schools, you will probably meet professionals with better connections. You’ll then have a better chance of getting into a residency if your connected to more faculty and professionals, as long as you’re active in getting to know the people you want to work with.

TC: Do you think that private practices will make a comeback or are those days long gone?

JN: I know multiple people in private practices who are struggling with the new healthcare act. I think that the way the new act is set up will make it harder for private

practices to continue to exist, but I think the intention of the act is very good to have better outcomes for patients.

It does, however make it hard for physicians to pay for overhead—for example, to pay for programs for electronic records and to have enough staff to keep preventative medicine and check-ups going. The Obamacare act is changing the way private practice has to set itself up, and it’s hard because all these changes are costing them more money. I know people who are thinking of selling their practices because of it.

But I think as we get used to the changes it will get better—it’s just a hard transition.

I think private practices will decline initially, but we’ll see how it goes once Obamacare and health care are settled in more in our country. Then things might get better.

TC: What was the most stressful part about applying to medical school?

JN: I think the most stressful part is the waiting and knowing that in some respects you’re being judged in the process. For me it was really just the waiting. It’s such a long process that lasts the whole year. You wait for two months to get your MCAT score, then you wait to see if you can get secondary’s, and all along your comparing yourself to others.

I wish I wouldn’t have compared myself to other people who were applying because you have to wait so much for secondary’s and interviews and decisions, and these come at different times for different people. You might even get put on a waitlist, so you’d have to wait even longer. There’s just a lot of waiting and that can be hard after so much work in four years of undergrad.

I’d say limit your use of the Student Doctor Network—which is a forum of students who talk to each other about the application process—because it can get addictive and is a breeding ground for comparing yourself to others.

It’s a test of your ability to persevere, and that’s what it’s supposed to be. The whole process is like an analogy for medicine. You have to think what you can do right now to tackle the process and break it up into pieces. It can be overwhelming to think of it as a whole.

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During the renovations, the entrances under the Perkins-Bostock connector will become the primary entries to the libraries, Welborn said. He added that Perkins Gallery will close and Von der Heyden will be accessible from its outside door.

The step currently outside the main Perkins entrance that many trip on will also be removed, Jakubs said.

Most students will not have to adjust to the entrance closing—along with ongoing construction to Rubenstein Library, the West Union building and the Bryan Center Plaza—during the school year.

Some students are still concerned the closing will be an inconvenience for those present over the summer.

“Renovations are all well and good but they don’t need to throw them all at us at once,” said sophomore Brooks Sime, who is planning to take summer courses.

Welborn noted that the only potential concern is loud noise from the construction. Free earplugs are currently available to anyone who needs them.

The ongoing Rubenstein library renovations are slated to be complete in 2015.

Rubenstein Library Director Naomi Nelson said the upgraded library will include more space for researchers and students to work as well as for public gatherings. New additions include two new classrooms that will allow for in-class access to the special collections, more than twice as much exhibition space and an expanded reading room with greater technological capacity.

The Biddle Rare Book Room, which previously was locked due to the value of its contents, will now be open most of the time so more students can use the space, Nelson added.

“Rubenstein will have its own aesthetic—it will be compatible, but it will be very much based on the limestone and oak that were traditional to the original library,” Nelson said.

Welborn said preparing for the renovations was no small task.

‘We calculated that we had to move over 32,000 linear feet of rare books and archive materials,” he said. “I can even tell you that’s about two and a half great blue whales’ weight of books.”

GUN CONTROL

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The banning of gun destruction, however, still presents North Carolina law enforcement agencies with a problem.

The passing of the gun destruction bill means that the Durham Police Department now needs to find other channels to dispose of this large number of weapons.

According to Gun Crime Measures and statistics by Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Durham Police Department has seized a total of 303 firearms in the first half of 2013, including 240 handguns, 30 rifles and 33 shotguns.

“As for what we will do with the guns, we will explore the options that are provided to us under the new legislation, and that is an ongoing process,” wrote Durham Police Department spokesman Lt. Brian Reitz in an email Tuesday. He also noted that the Durham Police Department does not currently have an organizational opinion on this legislation.

“It is too early to speculate as to the impact of this legislation on the department,” Reitz said.

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As a Board, we have long been critical of college rankings—and U.S. News’ in particular— citing random year-to-year fluctuations in rankings and superficial rating criteria as serious deficiencies. Although the U.S. News rating criteria changed this year by placing less emphasis on peer assessment and more weight on average SAT scores of admitted students, it is difficult to judge the value of any individual change, and we believe that our previous criticisms still hold true. Even if the intrinsic value of college rankings is close to zero, their instrumental value is substantial enough to warrant further examination of their merits and drawbacks.

There are at least three ways to judge the quality of college rankings. We can assess their methodology, presentation and criteria.

Methodology refers to the means by which certain variables are measured. For example, whether the quality of Duke’s Writing 101 program is determined by Duke professors or the faculty at one of our peer schools. Presentation encompasses how information is packaged for

Editorial applicants’ consumption. Precise numerical rankings, for example, put excessive weight on sudden movements, like Duke’s leap from fifth to eighth between 2005 and 2006. Although these are important factors, rankings criteria are especially important, both to applicants and current students.

First, criteria shape how applicants think about what a college education should offer them. The emphasis that the U.S. News rankings place on SAT scores, for example, implies that colleges should be judged in large part by the quality of their “inputs.”

The ranking system proposed by President Obama, on the other hand, in part emphasizes the earnings of graduates—a metric that assesses the quality of “outputs.” This year’s Forbes rankings weighed

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The hidden boner

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ack in sixth grade, when everyone was awkward and the AIM chats didn’t matter, my one friend Pantsy (whose name has been changed to protect his identity and reflect his choices) wore these really great pants. And by great I mean terrible.

They were mustard yellow, MC Hammer, basketball shorts-material capris. Now, I was no fashionista myself—that same year, I sported almost exclusively tie-dye and soccer shorts, and I needed a full-out intervention to be convinced to wear a bra. I also had a habit of trying—and failing—to put on makeup.

When people pointed out that neon orange eye shadow was not, in fact, the new hot trend, I would say my little sister put it on me in my sleep—a lie only one of my friends ever pointed out as blatantly untrue, which either indicates I had very nice friends, or the rural South’s educational system is truly in shambles. Likely both.

Needless to say, I was super excited to have this chance to prove I knew fashion. Being the bold person I am, I waited until Pantsy was facing away from me to make my snide comment. “Pantsy, what’s wrong with your pants?” I giggled. Pantsy wheeled around, and all of a sudden, I was face-to-face with a wild, mid-pubescent boner. I like to think of this first encounter of the penis kind as a learning experience. Well, mostly I don’t like to think about it at all, because that would probably be somehow pedophilic, but somewhere in there, there had to have been some learning. Even if there wasn’t, I’m going to ascribe some to it now. Everyone wears a personality for the world to see. This front, however genuine, is available for the interpretation and judgment of everyone and acts as their “hammer pants,” if you will. Yet underneath those courageous capris, everyone has something going on. Everyone has their struggles, motivations and thoughts they keep to only themselves. Some people are better or (lookin’ at you, Pantsy) worse at hiding this awkward boner from others—but everyone has one. At Duke, I belong to an unabashedly cult-like organization called Project BUILD. During BUILD, every night, we listen to the entire life story of a person in our “crew,” whom we have basically just met. The stories are brutally honest and exceptionally thorough— some go on for over 12 hours. At BUILD, I’ve had the privilege of telling my life story to 25 people and have had the honor of hearing theirs. It’s a really weird experience for someone to know what your boner looks like before they’ve seen your pants.

These people know your childhood stuffed animal’s name, but they have virtually no idea what you’re like in everyday life. This dynamic has created some of the best friendships I’ve ever had and some of the most knowledgeable (and awkward) acquaintances.

More than that, these experiences have enabled me to see other people’s boners. Or at least, to know they exist. It’s so easy to go through life assuming people are what they put forth and that their whole self can be summarized by the actions that you personally experience or hear about. But that, my friends, is not seeing the boner for the pants. There

Lillie Reed WUMBOLOGY is a psychological phenomenon (that I should know the name of because I am a psych major but I don’t because I am a psych major) where people attribute their own faults and mistakes to outside circumstance, whereas if they do something good, they attribute it to their own positive traits. Yet people tend to think the opposite of others: that is, they think that when others do bad things, it is because they are bad, and if they do good things, it is because of circumstance.

In short, we do not allow others the complexity of experience, influence and personality that we allow ourselves. Instead of accepting the reality that there are thousands of things going on in the heads and lives of others that we can’t know about—it is easier to assume. To use preconceived notions to assign someone an identity we have decided on for them. To listen to only one side of the story and be done. And so we do. With that, I have a proposition for all Duke students. You need to know that you don’t know.

People are complicated. There is always another side to the story, an explanation for an action or a hidden background we can’t know about. Even if you know someone’s entire life story, you cannot assume you know the method to their madness. However, it is an all-too-frequent occurrence in the middle school-like social environments that permeate college and adult life that people refuse to seek more information before developing an opinion of an entire person.

So, Dukies, I challenge you to use your nowseventh ranked intellect to think further about your interactions with others, the gossip you hear and the assumptions you make. Consciously try to realize when you are denying others their full experience and personhood, because in doing so, you’re denying yourself truly knowing them. You’ll find that if you think beyond the obvious, you’ll finally be able to know others as the boners they truly are.

Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday.

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Empathy over empire

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was eight on Sept. 11, 2001, just old enough to remember the day’s events with perfect clarity.

School authorities had decided we were still too young to be told what happened. They left that difficult task to the horrifying sounds and images— towers falling, dust rising, flames and last phone calls—that forever seared the attacks into our collective memory.

The adults seemed scared, and this scared me.

When my father came to pick me up after an early release, he nervously cleared his throat and asked if they had told me. Told me what?

I quickly gained a new vocabulary, a set of grave phrases uttered on television and whispered between classes. “Al Qaeda,” “homeland security,” “axis of evil” … the language seemed foreboding, pregnant with threats. I wondered what to call my homeland. My thick accent, stinky lunchbox, embarrassing cultural cluelessness—all easily betrayed me as an immigrant.

America was a glass fortress, and I stood peering in from the outside.

An older student reminded me of my status the next morning. “Sand n***er,” he said on the bus, pointing at me. His face was twisted with loathing.

“Go home.” I cried in a bathroom stall and did not tell my parents. I sensed the weight of their anxiety, perched on the edge of a confused and wounded society unfamiliar to them. I did not want to add to it.

The boy’s hatred provided me my earliest political education. Victimhood’s cruel memory so often numbs us to the cruelty of its response. I grew up alongside a post-9/11 America—learning its idiom, developing a politics, living in communities— incapable of forgetting the glass fortress, its long and lonely shadows.

“Sand n***er” of course hurt badly, but it was simple childish savagery, based on a simple childish analysis of the world. Us—the good, the victims— versus them—the evil, subhuman. A perceptive teacher picked up on the situation, and the boy was reprimanded. I got over it.

But watching this child’s analysis of the world take root in our adult politics has been painfully impossible to get over. Here we have no grownups to deepen our human compassion, few reminders of our own victims’ anguish. There is only the brute impulse for violent fury and an unparalleled arsenal to unleash it on the world. The flag is a blindfold America’s leaders wrap over its people’s eyes, a blanket to hide the bodies piling in its name.

About five hours after the towers fell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knew the blindfold was tied tight. “Go massive …” he told an aide, “sweep it all up. Things related and not.” His was a long-brewing plan for regime change in Iraq that promised, above all, fat pockets of new oil and military spending.

Around 125,000 Iraqi civilians, maybe more, have died for this vision. The chemical siege of Fallujah left behind a cancer epidemic and a rate of congenital

malformations 14 times that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs. These are, Dahr Jamail reports, “really horrific, nightmarish types of birth defects”: two-headed babies, cyclops babies, babies born with organs outside of their bodies. The forgotten “red line” of their blood stains the rhetoric around Syria. Liberated Iraq’s regime today relies on mass executions and hideous forms of torture— repeated rapes, deprivation of food and water, genital mutilation—as the criminal justice modus operandi.

Common sense

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am not an economist. My knowledge of economic issues is limited to what I can glean from newspaper articles.

But I would like to think that I have at least a little bit of common sense.

So when I am confronted with the fact that the last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage was 2009, and that it has not touched the federal minimum wage for tipped workers in over 20 years, my common sense tells me something has to change.

Congress first passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938

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In doing so, it has opted to continue the “dirty war” tactics top Pentagon officials established during the occupation.

To Pakistan, too, came the sweep. Children there “scream in terror when they hear the sound of a drone,” and kids wounded in attacks often become too traumatized to return to school, forced to abandon hopes of future careers. Congress does not hear their cries, nor those of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners—force-fed with piercing nasal tubes, a form of torture—on hunger strike simply to be charged with crimes.

What makes their suffering any different from ours? Does birthplace affect humanness? If not, how can we accept Obama’s tears in the wake of the Newtown massacre, which left 20 children dead, when no tears—not so much as a single word—were spared for the 21 children killed in his own shelling of alMajalah, Yemen? Which system of ethics justifies the killing of more than 200 children via remote control?

Today’s anniversary offers a chance to use our memory of collective grief as grounds for the expansion of empathy rather than empire. Since 9/11, the U.S. has proven itself capable of only the latter, quadrupling its covert operations budget to police most of the world’s countries instead of asking why it is that so many wish to bring us violence. The paranoia is both global and local, embodied in a “post-Constitutional” U.S. surveillance regime that disproportionately victimizes them, so commonly brown and foreign as an unfortunate fact of birth.

A child’s maturity is marked by the willingness to understand and cooperate with other human beings.

Our stunted and infantile political culture refuses both these options, relying instead on the miserable adult oxymorons of spying, bombing and occupying for peace. Maybe we can take this of all days as a reminder that justice is never served through atrocity.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

in the wake of the Great Depression in order to keep America’s workers out of poverty and stimulate their purchasing power.

The federal minimum wage for worker’s engaged in interstate commerce was then set at $0.25 an hour. Over the course of the next 30 years, the minimum wage for most workers was increased to $1.60 an hour. Accounting for inflation, that would be equivalent to $10.74 an hour in 2013 dollars. In 1968, 3.6 percent of workers were unemployed; last month, 7.3 percent of workers were out of work.

Congress has not raised the federal tipped minimum wage since 1991 when it was set at $2.13 an hour, about half the federal minimum wage of $4.25 an hour. If tipped minimum wage had increased with inflation, it would stand at $3.65 an hour today, a 70 percent increase.

The United States ranks 11th in minimum wage among member states of the Organization for Economic CoOperation and Development—behind Australia, New Zealand, Canada and several Western European countries.

A full-time worker who earns $7.25 an hour has an annual income of $14,500; the federal poverty level is $11,490 for an individual and $15,510 for a family of two. As President Obama pointed out in his State of the Union Address this year, “a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line.” In short, it seems as though the Fair Labor Standards Act is no longer accomplishing its purpose. The federal minimum wage is not keeping America’s workers out of poverty.

The population that would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase to $10.10 an hour by July 2015 does not conform to the stereotype of the middle class teenager who wants to save money to buy a car. Women would constitute 56 percent of those benefitted by the increase, and at least 88 percent of workers benefitted would be at least 20 years old. Moreover, about 44 percent of those who would be affected have at least some college education. Most tellingly, the average affected worker earns about half of his or her family’s income.

According to estimates by the Economic Policy Institute, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 would generate $32 billion in new economic activity, which would translate into 140,000 new jobs. When low-wage workers benefit from a minimum wage increase, they start spending more at local businesses, which in turn stimulates the development of the local economy.

Some economists have argued that increasing the minimum wage will increase unemployment because it will simply be too expensive for small businesses to hire low-wage workers. This argument seems to ignore the fact that the cost of a minimum wage increase for the business owner can be passed on to the consumer by raising the price of the product. A simple examination of the cost of a Big Mac in countries with higher minimum wages demonstrates that effect. In New Zealand, for example, where the minimum wage is NZ$13.50 (about $10.81), a Big Mac costs NZ$5.20 (about $4.16). The average price of a Big Mac in the United States is $3.99.

Last week, alongside lower-than-expected job reports for August, we received good news about the American auto industry. After General Motors teetered on the brink of death a mere five years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that U.S. car sales had soared to pre-slump levels. This seems like fantastic news. Americans are going back to one of their stereotypical obsessions: cars. But we aren’t out of the woods yet. There are still 3.6 million workers, approximately 4.7 percent of all hourly-wage workers, who are paid at or below the federal minimum wage rate.

My common sense understanding of economics indicates to me that raising the federal minimum wage is an essential component of our economic recovery.

Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Joline a message @jydoedens.

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Can Duke Hunt gets an assist from her team win with Connette?

by Danny Nolan THE CHRONICLE

Nearly four months after a tornado destroyed Anastasia Hunt’s home in Moore, Okla., some of the top talent in college soccer converged on Durham for the Duke Nike Classic. But the story of the weekend wasn’t the soccer—it was the perseverance of the Hunt family.

As the Blue Devils took the field for weekend tilts against West Virginia and UCLA, the Duke athletic department raised more than $500 through a silent auction to benefit the Ana Hunt Fund, which was started during the summer to assist in the Hunt family’s rebuilding process.

Although the total amount raised is not being released at this time, the Blue Devils’ fundraising efforts are helping the junior defender’s family rebuild.

Hunt’s father was in attendance for the weekend’s festivities, which head coach Robbie Church said transcended the competition on the field.

“The most import thing was Anastasia and her dad,” Church said. “For [her dad] to come down and spend time with the family, that’s the most important thing. I am just very proud to be at Duke.”

The Hunt family was one of hundreds of families devastated by the EF5 tornado May 20. At 1.3 miles wide, the twister claimed 23 lives and 377 were injured as houses were ripped apart and cars were flung dozens of miles away.

“Being in a disaster is such a scary thing,” Hunt said. “Especially one in which people don’t expect you to survive. All around you is pure chaos, and

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Duke athletics has pitched in to fundraise for the Hunt family’s rebuilding efforts.

When redshirt junior Brandon Connette trotted out onto the field midway through the second quarter Saturday against Memphis, fans and media were left scratching their heads, wondering why he had replaced starter Anthony Boone.

When Boone took his pads off and made an early exit to the locker room right before the end of the quarter, Blue Devil fans collectively held their breath.

When head coach David Cutcliffe announced after the game that Boone had broken his collarbone, Duke’s road to a second straight bowl game got a whole lot tougher.

Very little of the conversation and buzz around the Duke football team following its 28-14 win over the Tigers revolved around their 2-0 start to the season, something the Blue Devils haven’t done since 1998.

And now Duke has a chance to go 3-0 for the first time since 1994. But the loss of Boone, who Cutcliffe said will remain out of action indefinitely, remains the center of conversation about the Blue Devils.

Some fans and media are undoubtedly proclaiming that Boone’s injury means the end to a winning season and Duke’s bowl hopes. Maybe they are right, but there is a small problem with that logic—Connette rejuvenated the offense Saturday, throwing for 198 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 46 yards to lead the Blue Devils to victory.

Connette’s performance wasn’t perfect, but it is promising for Duke that he didn’t fold under the pressure of a tight game. With that in mind, here are two reasons why Duke should remain optimistic despite the loss of Boone and two reasons why the Blue Devils should be worried.

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The tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., May 20 left Duke defender Anastasia Hunt’s home in ruins and her community reeling from the storm.

your life is dependent on whether a concrete structure holds up to code or not.”

With the tornado behind them, the Hunt family continues to rebuild on the very lot that was leveled by the twister. For senior defender and team captain Natasha Anasi, Hunt’s composure throughout the rebuilding process taught the Duke team a valuable lesson.

“She’s such a remarkable individual,” Anasi said. “The entire time she never seemed like she was that affected by the situation and it was almost scary at times when we’d say, ‘you lost everything,’ and she’d respond, ‘we’re rebuilding and we’re going to get back to where we [were].’ It was so inspirational to see that.”

Even as she recounts the terrifying minutes she spent in her family’s aboveground storm cellar, Hunt still manages to find the lighter side of an otherwise-difficult situation.

“We only had my dad’s car [after the tornado], which is a four person sports car,” Hunt said. “It’s a small car, so five large people didn’t fit in it too well.”

Following the storm, the Duke women’s soccer family immediately sprung into action, doing all they could to help the Hunt family recover. Teammates and coaches sent packages of basic necessities to help keep the family on its feet.

“Right when we heard the news, our team talked, texted and emailed in our group,” senior forward Laura Weinberg said, “We wanted to do everything and anything we could right away to help [Hunt] and her family.”

As Duke continues to grow its fundraising efforts for Hunt, the junior defender said she does not hesitate to reflect on the group of people that guided her through one of her darkest times. “[The team] doesn’t now how much it meant, especially to me and my family,” Hunt said. “It was awesome to know if I needed to go anywhere or someone needed to come help, [the team] would have done it.”

Senior forward Mollie Pathman led the organization of those messages from members of the team, if only to give Hunt a little inspiration in her time of need.

The Blue Devils finished the weekend with a draw against West Virginia and a loss to UCLA, but as one player walked off the field to find her dad, the overall spirits of the team couldn’t have been higher.

“We don’t all know what they went through or what they continue to go through,” Church said. “But to see them together, it was great. She definitely had a different glow about her, the Duke family definitely had a different glow overall.”

The Blue Devils have played one of the nation’s toughest schedules in the young 2013 season and the squad has gone through injuries and growing pains alike—but as the team continues to build, Duke may have already conquered its biggest challenge.

“It really showed me that we are more than just a team,” Pathman said. “We are a family.”

The offensive line didn’t miss a beat When a team switches quarterbacks midgame, the offensive line will often have issues dealing with the new cadence and different rhythm of the backup, but that was not the case Saturday. Duke’s only two false start penalties both came before Boone left the game.

Connette looked comfortable taking snaps and directing the offense, and the offensive line had no problem adjusting to his signal-calling and tendencies. Since Boone and Connette are similar in many ways—both can make plays outside the pocket with their feet, for instance—the offensive line will not have to change its protection scheme or general game plan to accommodate a new starting quarterback.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Duke still has work to do after bounce-back win

by Cameron Kaplan THE CHRONICLE

Sometimes just winning a game isn’t enough.

Bouncing back from a loss to Maryland last weekend in their conference opener, the Blue Devils defeated GSU 0 Georgia Southern DUKE 1 1-0 Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium.

Although Duke came away with a positive result, the team identified a number of areas it wishes to work on in the coming weeks.

“We’re disappointed that we made so many opportunities and didn’t convert, and that’s been the song so far this season, that we’re pretty good offensively at creating some chances but we just can’t finish them off,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “If we keep on it like that, we’re going to get smothered at some point. We really need to focus on ending our opportunities.”

Junior midfielder Nick Palodichuk netted the lone tally for the Blue Devils (2-1-1) in the 50th minute, his first goal since missing most of last season with an injured ankle.

Sophomore forward Luis Rendon made a strong run down the left side of the field and played a cross into the box. After a few deflections, the ball dropped to sophomore midfielder Zach Mathers, who crossed it to the back post for Palodichuk to score. “[Palodichuk is] a guy that we count on.

He’s a big player for us,” Kerr said. “If he can get on the score sheet, either scoring goals or assisting goals, that’s good for us because he’s a dangerous player.”

Duke had no shortage of offensive opportunities in the first half but failed to find the back of the net. Controlling possession throughout, the Blue Devils outshot Georgia Southern (1-2-0) 15-2 in the opening 45 min-

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utes. Duke put four shots on goal and hit the post three times in the first period but went into the locker room with the game scoreless.

Palodichuk broke the tie less than five minutes into the second half, but the Duke midfielder said that his team did not respond well to taking its first lead of the game.

“I think it made us actually too comfortable,” Palodichuk said. “After we got the goal, we kind of sat back in and relaxed a little too much, and that’s when they started putting pressure on. It’s kind of detrimental. We need to learn when we get the lead, we need to keep

pushing. We need more goals.”

Searching for the tying goal, the Eagles raised the pressure on the Duke defense.

Goalkeeper Alex Long kept Georgia Southern at bay in the final minutes, making eight saves in the second half to preserve his second shutout of the season.

After allowing three goals to Maryland in Duke’s loss Friday, Long was able to get back on track with a clean sheet.

“We’re happy with his approach,” Kerr said of his transfer goalkeeper. “We saw him back there talking, and he was very safe with

his handling. [He had] good distribution as well to start some attacks. It was a very positive performance from him.”

With a second ACC matchup against Virginia Tech just days away, the Blue Devils will look to improve on the offensive end but were ultimately satisfied with their defensive effort.

“My defense had a great game,” Long said.

“They stayed strong the whole time. They didn’t let up. I have their back, and that’s my job. We needed to bounce back, we needed to move forward, and there’s no better way to do that than a clean sheet and a win.”

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Connette is back under center full-time Connette was recruited and brought to Duke for his arm, but over time evolved into an offensive utility man for the Blue Devils.

He started one game at quarterback in 2010, spent most of 2011 sitting out with an injured shoulder and played a combination of wide receiver, tight end, running back and wildcat quarterback in 2012. Connette was dubbed “the phantom” because no one ever knew where he would show up. He was one of just seven players in the entire nation to record touchdowns passing, rushing and receiving.

This year Connette has been slated as the second-string quarterback since the beginning of the offseason, when Duke’s backup, Thomas Sirk, ruptured his Achilles. He spent the spring and summer taking the majority of the second-team reps, shifting his focus more towards the role of a traditional quarterback as opposed to his phantom role last year. Whereas offensive coordinator Kurt Roper could only use Connette as a quarterback in a few packages last season, this year Roper can feel free to make any play call he desires with Connette taking snaps.

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The kid is tough, unfortunately Connette has never shied away from taking a hit and is not afraid of getting roughed up if it means getting a first down. But as a starter, Connette’s toughness could be a problem. Connette said he has never slid during his football career, and doesn’t plan on starting anytime soon. If he cannot learn to avoid contact and protect his body, Connette might find himself sitting on the trainer’s table next to Boone.

Cutcliffe’s next option at quarterback is true freshman Parker Boehme, who has yet to take a snap at the college level. Although Boehme showed potential in spring and summer scrimmages, he is nowhere near ready to start at quarterback against ACC opponents.

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It only gets harder from here Although Connette led Duke to a win in a hostile environment against Memphis, he has yet to prove that he can effectively distribute the ball through the air for a full game. In 27 career contests prior to last Saturday, Connette had thrown the ball just 45 times.

Compare that to nearly three quarters of play against the Tigers, when he threw the ball 21 times. Connette will now be asked to throw 20, 30 or even 40 passes a game, something

The promotion of Brandon Connette to starting quarterback in the absence of Anthony Boone could have its benefits and its drawbacks, columnist Zac Elder writes.

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HUNTING

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over 110 [pounds], but last year we had one that was 175.” $31,770.

Childs said that the program aims to reduce the deer populaSteve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate edution by 100 does by the end of the hunting season. cation, said he disagrees with the study because higher educaclosed period, said members of his group have been through tion shouldn’t be quantified by exit salaries. rigorous training before entering the Forest. He said the hunt“The challenge that we have when we’re thinking about from page 1 ers do not shoot from more than 16 to 17 yards away and are higher education is that we tend to lump higher education all appropriately certified. together, when in fact it’s a very complex ecosystem of kinds “If anybody involved ever makes a questionable shot, they’re of institutions that have different kinds of optimal outcomes,” questioned,” Thompson said. “Everyone has had to put in a lot the earnings of graduates of science, technology, engineering Nowicki said. of work to be in this program. If somebody’s hunting with us, and math programs. According to the study, graduates who Schneider noted, however that the research may not be relthey know the intention of the hunt is to manage the deer herd.” majored in math, engineering and computer sciences out-earn evant for Duke students since it is common for graduates to As a part of the program, hunters are required to record de- those who majored in sciences, such as chemistry and biology. continue their education through graduate school. mographic information about the deer.

For example, graduates with a bachelor’s degree in math“The world that Duke students live in is a very limited and Thompson noted that the deer in the forest have seemed ematics in Texas earn $48,875 their first year, whereas those elite one,” he said. malnourished and are not reproducing as frequently as in past with the same degree in chemistry earn $36,090, according to The study warns that the earnings from early, post-graduayears. As a result of the efforts made to control the population, the study. tion careers may not accurately reflect the long-term earnings the deer that are left will have more resources to themselves, Additionally, graduates with degrees in biology—the field of graduates, which College Measures is still working to assess.

Thompson said. with the largest number of science graduates—often earn less Although the study questions the value of receiving a de“There are too many deer still, but they are getting healthier. than English majors in their first year. Those with a bachelor’s gree from a particular school, Khadijah Bhatti—Trinity ‘12 and The kidney health and weight of the deer have both benefitted,” degree in biology in Texas earn $26,430 in their first year, and public policy major—explained that coming from an elite instihe said. “During the first two years we didn’t find one that was graduates with the same degree in English and literature earn tution was beneficial in her job search.

“People definitely respond to the fact that you’re from a prestigious university,” Bhatti said. “It’s difficult to say whether the major itself affected where I ended up … If you can relate your major to the job you’re doing, recruiters will respond to that.”

Ian Harwood—Trinity ‘13 and also a public policy major— noted, however, that in his field of work the Duke brand name does not carry much weight.

“I have friends [who majored in computer science] who are making lots of money... I’m not making any money, but I guess in my experience it’s not so simple as, ‘Man I wish I was studying engineering so I was making more money,’” he said. “My path has just been a little less clear.”

Nowicki said the mark of a good education is if students learned how to learn, communicate, think and problem-solve.

He added that the Duke general curriculum and different ma“ T H E Y E A R S H AV E PA S S E D B U T T H E I R M E M O R I E S jor requirements all provide students with these skills.

“The worth of an education is something that can only be L I V E I N T H E H E A RT S O F T H E I R F R I E N D S A N D FA M I LY, calculated on someone’s deathbed,” Nowicki said. “At the end of our lives we’re all going to ask ourselves, ‘Did we do someA N D O F T H I S U N I V E R S IT Y . W E A R E S A D D E N E D B Y T H E I R A B S E N C E thing that was fulfilling to us, that brought us happiness, that made a difference in the world?’ and that’s where one is going B U T I N S P I R E D B Y T H E I R L E G A C Y. T H I S PA I N F U L D AY A L S O to ask, ‘Was my education worth it?’”

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— Richard H. Brodhead, President, Duke University

On September 11, 2002, Duke University dedicated a Memorial Grove of six trees in Keohane Quadrangle to honor the alumni who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Today, on the 12th anniversary of this tragedy, we will lay a wreath in the Memorial Grove to remember these alumni: J. Robinson “Rob” Lenoir ’84 Peter Ortale ’87 Christopher Todd Pittman ’93 A. Todd Rancke ’81 Frederick C. Rimmele III M.D. ’94 Michael Morgan Taylor ’81

Please join us today to pause and reflect on these members of the Duke family.

TWERKING

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Another audience member referenced Madonna’s 1989 music video for “Like a Prayer,” which received positive reviews despite controversy surrounding its content.

The discussion transitioned into the overarching issue of twerking as a cultural stereotype for black sexuality, and the widespread oversimplification of the racial and cultural genealogy of the dance.

Attendees continued to return to the point that Cyrus and Thicke’s actions were either an effort to sell an identity, particularly Cyrus’ desire to diverge from her child star roots, or a simple commentary on prevalent topics of society. One student noted that many performers seek to provoke reaction from the public.

“It’s really wonderful and productive to use pop culture as a way to talk about really nuanced arguments that need a pop culture event to clue us in and make us aware of the issue,” Nelson said. “Otherwise we wouldn’t have a chance to sit down and talk and unpack these complicated and very historically ingrained issues.”

Annu Dahiya, a Ph.D. candidate in literature, said she was pleased that enough students cared about the issue to fill the room.

“It’s really great to start tracing the genealogy and history of these different discourses beyond the ‘Wow, this is horrible’ instantaneous factor,” Dahiya said. “It’s good that undergrads and grads alike are thinking more about the lineage of these problems.”

DSG

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first-years to build relationships with faculty as well as better pre-registration advising.

“Freshmen should be able to speak with their academic advisor and/or pre-major advisor before they enroll in courses... to choose a schedule that suits them better,” wrote Jain in an email Wednesday.

Executive Vice President of DSG junior Nikolai Doytchinov congratulated the newly elected senators, and said this was one of the most competitive campus elections he has seen.

“My advice to [the candidates] would be to approach DSG with the same seriousness and enthusiasm with which they approached their campaigns,” Doytchinov said.