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SLGs extend Relaunched Library Party to channel cabaret over 250 bids

by Sasha Zients The Chronicle

After a one-year hiatus, the annual library party will be held Feb. 21 despite ongoing renovations to Perkins and Rubenstein Libraries.

Organized by Duke Marketing Club, the party will have a French cabaret theme this year. The club hopes to raise $50,000 to $60,000 to cover the costs of entertainment, catering and other aspects of the event, which they expect 2,500 to 3,000 people to attend.

“Of course, because we didn’t have a party last year, we want this to be the best library party ever, but it will be really similar to the party two years ago in terms of scale,” said senior Rosa Toledo, who is in charge of overseeing the party.

“People are focusing on the budget, but they shouldn’t be. They should be focusing on the party itself.”

Last year, the start of renovations to Rubenstein Library made the logistics of hosting the annual party too difficult, said Aaron Welborn, director of communications for Duke University Libraries.

“It was all hands on deck here in the library to start moving people and collections out of that building,” Welborn

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Sixteen different selective living groups extended over 250 bids after completing a three-week rush process.

Ubuntu gave out the highest number of bids at 29, followed closely by Cooper House, which gave out 28 bids, and Mirecourt, which gave out 27 bids. InCube gave out the smallest number of bids at 9, followed by Mundi, which extended 14 bids, and Round Table, which extended 16 bids.

Senior Ariel Shpigel, vice executive chair of Nexus, declined to disclose the number of bids Nexus extended. Senior Josh Chester, executive vice chair of Nexus, could not be reached for comment.

Junior Aman Kansal, a recruitment chair of Maxwell House, declined to disclose the number of bids extended.

Black Culture Living Group gives out bids on a rolling basis, and does not have the total number they will extend at this time.

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The annual library party will resume this February after a one-year hiatus.

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DUSDAC members sample gluten-free Vietnamese food truck

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DUSDAC sampled a new gluten-free Vietnamese food truck on Monday evening.

The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee sampled Bang Bang Banh Mi, a gluten-free Vietnamese food truck, on Monday evening.

DUSDAC is currently sampling food trucks to determine candidates to be added to the rotation next year. After sampling Bang Bang Banh Mi’s food, members of DUSDAC had generally positive remarks on the food and the benefits of potentially including the truck in next year’s rotation. Bang Bang Banh Mi would be the first gluten-free food truck

to be added to Merchants on Points.

“As someone who is gluten intolerant, there is a lot of value in the peace of mind knowing that it is not contaminated,” said DUSDAC member Betsy Mansfield, a sophomore.

DUSDAC member Billy Silk, a sophomore, added that the truck would fill a valuable and currently unoccupied niche in Duke Dining by providing gluten-free options and serving Vietnamese food—a cuisine not currently offered by eateries on campus, food trucks or merchants on points.

DUSDAC members also discussed

how the truck provides vegetarian options, whereas other eateries on campus may advertise vegetarian options but are actually quite limited.

“I have a lot of vegetarian friends who complain about having limited options,” said Andrew Gaddis, chief proprietor and founder of Bang Bang Banh Mi. “We will always have at least a couple of different vegetarian options.”

DUSDAC members expressed concerns that students without dietary restrictions would not be attracted to the

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TC: What do you think is the primary role of a Young Trustee?

CB: The Young Trustee is like any trustee and their role is to bring their insight and understanding from their experiences to help make sure that Duke is on the right track and the Young Trustee is heavily weighted towards their recent undergraduate experience, but it’s important to remember that the role of a trustee is inherently the role of governance rather than lobbying or representation. The undergraduate experience is just one of the data points they will be considering as they make decisions and have discussions with the rest of the Board of Trustees.

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Chris Brown, Trinity ‘13, was elected in February as undergraduate Young Trustee, a position that allows a student to sit on the Board of Trustees for three years. With this year’s Young Trustee elections coming up, Brown spoke to The Chronicle’s Shanen Ganapathee about the highs and lows of being a Young Trustee, the campaigning process and the qualities required to be a good Young Trustee.

The Chronicle: What do you feel are the greatest qualities of a Young Trustee ?

Chris Brown: it’s a complex position and there are a ton of things that go into the role of being a Young Trustee and frankly i am still learning them as well. But if i were to pick one, it would be that you as candidates would

TC: What are the challenges and difficulties of being a Young Trustee?

CB: The biggest challenge is synthesizing the tremendous amount of information into the time period that you have with the Trustees. There is always more work to do to stay informed on life at Duke, the board wants you to keep up with university issues, what’s going on in the place. it’s a tremendous time commitment. We have four meetings a year when we are together for a few days and we communicate with each other constantly. it’s a tremendous amount of information that has to be communicated in impactful ways in a short amount of time.

TC: What do you like about being a Young Trustee?

CB: it’s amazing to continue of being part of the alma mater in a meaningful way—to be

part of planning. it’s been incredible to see things in the drawing form or in the planning form and then come back, for example this Fall, and see it go from a picture on paper to a building in real life. A tremendous amount of things happen at Duke as an undergraduate for four years, and to be able to be involved for another three, is absolutely incredible.

TC: Do you have anything to say to this year’s candidates?

CB: it was an incredible group of semi-finalists and finalists and they should all be excited about their candidacy. i very much look forward to working with them to make Duke a better place in whatever capacity, whether it’s as the next Young Trustee or as really passionate young [alumnus or alumna]. The Young Trustee finalists are a great group and should look to continue to give back, no matter what.

TC: What’s the most valuable lesson you learnt during campaigning?

CB: Campaigning is a really tough process. You learn a tremendous amount about the University, about yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. it serves as a great reminder to the candidates about how rich and diverse the Duke student experience is. There really is no one Duke experience. We may share a lot of events or experiences in common, but the Duke experience is different one way or another. The campaigning process forces the candidates to take a step back and take a deep look at the Duke community and the various sub-communities around them and think critically about what’s most important for the University moving forward.

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WASHINGTON — Republicans are positioning “school choice” — sending public dollars to charter schools, vouchers, virtual schools and other alternatives to traditional public schools — as a way to address income inequality in this election year and connect with low-income, minority voters.

Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a former education secretary, and Tim Scott, R-S.C., one of only two African-Americans in the Senate, will propose far-reaching “choice” legislation on Tuesday that would take the $24 billion of federal money spent annually to help educate 11 million students in poverty or with disabilities and convert it into block grants to the states, among other changes.

The federal money, which represents about 12 percent of total education funding, could be used for a wide variety of public, online or private schools — including religious schools. On average, each student would receive about $2,100.

In a departure from the accountability era ushered in by the No Child Left Behind law under President George W. Bush, states would not have to report whether public schools are succeeding or failing, or follow federal strategies to improve their weakest schools.

Public schools would still be required to test students annually in grades 3-8 and once in high school, and report on student achievement by school and categories such as race and poverty.

The idea of using federal funds for private school vouchers and other education alternatives has long floated around Republican policy circles, but the recent spurt in charter schools and new voucher programs in states have revived the notion. As midterm elections loom, Republicans are emphasizing an issue

they think will be popular with voters.

In the past year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has introduced similar legislation and traveled the country to highlight charter schools and voucher programs while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a tea party favorite and potential presidential candidate, has pushed vouchers, charters and the idea that students should be able to attend any public school in a community, regardless of neighborhood and property lines.

Critics, including many Democrats, teachers unions and groups such as the National School Boards Association, say “choice” sounds good but can pour tax dollars into private hands with little accountability and uncertain educational outcomes for students.

“School choice is a well-funded and politically powerful movement seeking to privatize much of American education,” said Thomas Gentzel, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which has joined lawsuits challenging vouchers in several states.

“We’re not against public charters, and there are some that are well-motivated. . . . But our goal is that public schools be schools of choice. We need to invest and support public schools, not divert money and attention from them to what amounts, in many cases, to experiments.”

Gentzel pointed to charter schools’ mixed record and said there is little evidence that students who attend private schools with vouchers learn more than they would in public schools.

“While the growth of charters has allowed the emergence of some terrific schools, it’s hard to make the case there’s been an explosion of school quality in the 20 years that charters have been around,” said Frederick Hess, a political scientist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute who is moderating a fo-

rum Tuesday with Alexander and Scott about their legislative proposals. “ The notion of sending block grants to states is troubling, said Charles Barone, policy director for Democrats for Education Reform. “What you hear a few years after a block grant is awarded is how many recipients didn’t spend the money wisely,” Barone said. “”The fact is the feds do [targeted education funding] better than the states.”.”

To date, the only federally funded voucher program is the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, created by Congress in 2004. The government has poured about $152 million into the program, which has helped about 5,000 students to pay tuition at private schools in the District of Columbia. The majority of those students attend Catholic schools, and the vouchers do not cover tuition at many of the city’s elite private schools.

The execution of that voucher program has been rocky, with inadequate safeguards for the millions of dollars in federal funding, insufficient information for parents and a student database that contains incomplete information, according to the Government Accountability Office. A Washington Post investigation last year found that the 52 D.C. private schools approved to participate in the voucher program are subject to few quality controls and offer widely disparate academic experiences.

The Obama administration supports public charter schools but opposes vouchers, saying public dollars should not be used for private schools. Several Republican-controlled states have embraced vouchers since 2010, propelling forward an idea that had once been moribund.

The vast majority of U.S. students — 90 percent — attend public schools. Of that group, about 5 percent attend charter schools. Public

charter schools are financed with tax money but are independently run, and in most cases, their teachers are not unionized.

Republicans are lining up behind school choice for several reasons, said Hess of the American Enterprise Institute.

The idea fits neatly into the GOP political philosophy and allows lawmakers to say they’re doing something about education without increasing budgets. It also lets the party easily tap into groups that promote school choice at the state and federal level, Hess said.

In fact, this is National School Choice Week, a promotion funded in part by charter school organizations, several right-leaning think tanks and foundations, Democrats for Education Reform, as well as an advocacy group founded by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.

Finally, “school choice” allows Republicans to connect with low-income, minority voters, a demographic that abandoned the GOP in droves in 2012, Hess said. Minorities in urban areas want choice, and many like the idea of vouchers, he said. “Even on vouchers, African-American and Latino legislators and parents are going to be excited,” Hess said.

“It’s a natural opportunity for Republicans.”

While middle-class, suburban voters like the idea of choice for poor urban students, they are less enthusiastic about proposals to foster school choice by eliminating boundary lines, he said. “When you start talking about school boundaries, people who bought a house because of the school system get very nervous and people who don’t have kids are enormously worried about their property values,” he said.

“That’s the real stumbling block — trying to convince suburban and middle-class families they should want this.”

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“They are the only truck pushing the envelope with vegetarian options,” said senior and co-chair of DUSDAC Chris Taylor.

DUSDAC was concerned, however, with the high price points of Bang Bang Banh Mi’s food. Gaddis noted that bowls and sandwiches—with gluten-free bread—are about $9 to $10. he said that the idea to start a glutenfree food truck rose out of his own experience with the dietary restriction. “i was working at an italian restaurant in houston three and half years ago, and i discovered i had a gluten allergy,” he said. he added that even for people who do not have the restriction, the food is healthy and appealing.

The truck started parking outside of Sam’s Quik Shop on erwin road on Friday evenings starting Jan. 18, and Gaddis said that they have been successful thus far. “i have had Vietnamese customers who were very positive about the food and a couple who did not even realize the food was gluten-free,” Gaddis said. he noted that he designed the kitchen to serve many people at a time quickly. The truck has been put on the list for the Durham Farmer’s Market, as well as the food truck rodeo. “if we were to be on campus in August, we would work out the kinks,” Gaddis said.

DUSDAC will be sampling food trucks in the months leading up to their decision in March about which trucks will be on campus next year.

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Medine, senior and chair of external vendors for DUSDAC. Continuing with the sampling, DUSDAC will try CJ’s Street Food, another food truck, at next week’s meeting.

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said. he noted that although construction persists, the library staff is no longer occupied with the renovations and work is “sort of back to normal,” making the party a feasible option.

Marketing Club faculty advisor George Grody, visiting associate professor of markets and management studies, said the club is dependent on fundraising to finance the party.

“We’ve got to go out and fundraise,” Grody said. “The provost [Peter lange] is great and donates some, and after his first library party, President [richard] Brodhead started donating, too.” other funds typically come from the Student organization Finance Committee, the Duke Student Government senate and various academic departments including the markets and management studies program.

The budget covers lighting, furniture, draping and music, which entails both a live band and a DJ. Grody said that the club hopes to raise more than $60,000, because in the past he has needed to put in extra money to cover things. he noted that there is the added pressure of the library needing to be ready and usable for students by the Saturday morning after the party.

Grody said that the library party is a “cool Duke thing” similar to K-ville. he noted that the Board of Trustees

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meeting is the night before, so trustees will be escorted to the event. President and Mrs. Cindy Brodhead also usually attend.

“Students, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff get dressed up in cocktail attire,” Grody said. “it’s a time when the University comes together and other than fraternity and sorority formals, it is the only time many undergraduates get dressed up.”

The Marketing Club threw its first library party in 2011, when the theme was “Madmen and Madwomen”—focusing on advertisement culture in the 1950s and 1960s. The club blew up old images of advertisements found in library archives as decorations. Grody said the party is meant to be both educational and fun.

This year, the theme will center on Paris and europe in the 1920s and 1930s, Grody said. thanh-ha nguyen/The chronicle Welborn said that a library exhibit go- The Library party will be held on February 21. ing up just a few days before the event inspires the theme. The exhibit is about Parisian cabaret in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“The theme always has some connection to material we actually have here,” Welborn said. “it is a way of highlighting those materials and doing something fun with them.”

Grody noted that there had been some debate about alcohol being served at the event. People who are of age can get wristbands for up to three drinks. however, Grody noted that drinking is not the focus of the event, unlike other student-organized social events.

“After his first year at the library party, President Brodhead said that alcohol fills a void and if you have a great party, people do not feel the need to drink,” Grody said.

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DAWKINS PROPELS DUKE

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PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The weather outside the Petersen Events Center Monday night was frigid. Inside, Andre Dawkins had the hot hand.

No. 17 Duke passed a huge test Monday night, defeating No. 18 Pittsburgh 80-65 in the programs’ first meeting as ACC foes. Riding the sharp shooting of Dawkins, who hit six of his seven 3-point attempts en route to 20 points in just 15 minutes, the Blue Devils were able to pull away from the Panthers in the second half.

“We got some looks for him, and all of a sudden, boom we had a double-digit lead,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“We played hard, they played hard, and I think Andre was the difference.”

In the first half, it was freshman Jabari Parker who powered the Blue Devils. His 16 first-half points came in a variety of ways, displaying his arsenal of post play and a pair of 3-pointers. Duke (17-4, 6-2 in the ACC) headed to the locker room ahead 34-32 thanks in large part to six triples - two apiece from Parker, Dawkins and Rodney Hood.

Pittsburgh’s go-to scorer, swingman Lamar Patterson, struggled in the first half, scoring just four points while committing as many turnovers. Hood drew the defensive assignment on the Panther

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Graduate student Andre Dawkins hit six-of-seven three-point attempts, helping Duke to pull away from Pittsburgh in the final minutes of Monday night’s 80-65 victory. star, and was able to frustrate him and contest his shots.

“He’s one of the premier players in the country, [but] Rodney’s a heck of a player too,” Krzyzewski said. “Basical-

ly you had a wash there in Rodney and Lamar. They’re kind of equal players....

Both those kids have to be exhausted.

Thank goodness we have a player of Rodney’s caliber to guard him.”

Despite Patterson’s initial struggles, the Panthers (18-3, 6-2) stayed neck and neck with the Blue Devils throughout the first half, compensating by attacking Duke’s interior and getting to the charity stripe, where they converted nine of their twelve free throw opportunities.

Hood notched six first-half points, but all four of his first-half field goal attempts were launched from behind the arc. The redshirt sophomore made an adjustment after halftime, driving to the hoop relentlessly, pouring in seven points early in the final stanza and finishing with 13 points.

Neither team was able to create any breathing room until Quinn Cook hit a 3-pointer from the baseline with 8:50 remaining to give Duke a 57-51 advantage.

Cook, who came off the bench for the first time this season after rolling both ankles in practice, finished with nine points, none bigger than that triple, the second bucket of what became a 12-0 Duke run.

A few moments later, Dawkins followed with his third triple of the game to extend the Blue Devil lead to nine.

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Hood, Blue Devils prove they can win on road

by Nick Martin THE CHRONICLE

PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In its toughest road test of the season thus far, Duke proved it had what it takes to win in front of a rowdy crowd in ACC play.

Led by a 14-point second half from Andre Dawkins and double-doubles from Jabari Parker and Amile Jefferson, the Blue Devils put forth a full-team effort in front of 12,944 roaring Pittsburgh fans at the Peterson Events Center. They rolled to an 80-65 victory and showed the ACC they have what it takes to beat a top team on the road.

“On the road, you’ve got to be tough.

You’ve got to get stops,” redshirt sophomore forward Rodney Hood said. “Today, [Dawkins] got hot. If he didn’t get hot, we would have had to play the same amount of defense.

It’s just a great team effort tonight. We beat a hell of a team in Pitt, and we’re excited about this one.”

Monday’s victory pulls Duke up to .500 in conference play away from Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although much of its success will be attributed to Dawkins’ 20-point performance, and rightly so—he was six-of-seven from long range—it was the play of the defense that al-

lowed the Blue Devils to pull away.

After letting up an average of 75.5 points per game in their two conference road losses, it was Rodney Hood’s containment of Pittsburgh’s main offensive weapon Lamar Patterson throughout the game that allowed the Blue Devils to keep the Panthers under 70.

Patterson entered the contest averaging 17.9 points and 4.7 assists per game with a 51.3 percent field goal percentage. Hood held the redshirt senior to 14 points on 4-of-14 shooting and a season-low one assist.

“I wanted to make him work for every single catch he got, contest him, make him go back door,” Hood said. “I just fought him.

He’s a great player and has been having a great year, especially in the ACC.” But this game was about more than an impressive individual offensive or defensive performance for Duke. It proved to the rest of the conference that the Blue Devils can play on the road as a team and win in the toughest of environments.

“It’s our biggest win, because of the caliber of team we played against and their venue.

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Redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood helped hold Pittsburgh’s top scoring threat Lamar Patterson to 28.6 percent shooting from the floor and a season-low one assist.

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Ross Cockrell begins preparing for 2014 NFL Draft

by Daniel Carp THE CHrONICLE

Duke’s Chick-fil-A Bowl loss was not just the end of cornerback ross Cockrell’s collegiate football career, it was the beginning of his push toward the NFL. Cockrell is not enrolled at Duke this semester, instead choosing to migrate to California and begin his preparation for the NFL draft. The former Blue Devil is doing his strength and conditioning training with Athletes First, the company that will represent the cornerback in his pro-

spective NFL career.

Less than three weeks after the Blue Devils’ loss to Texas A&M, Cockrell was back on the gridiron. Although he was sporting a Duke helmet, the Waxhaw, N.C., native wore an unfamiliar red jersey as he suited up for the East squad in the annual East-West Shrine Game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. Cockrell was one of the standout performers for his team, sealing the East’s 23-13 victory with a one-handed interception in the final two minutes of the game.

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Since finishing his Duke career at the Chick-fil-A Bowl Dec. 31, 2013, Blue Devil Ross Cockrell has worked on boosting his NFL Draft stock.

“I got to spend time with guys from all different parts of the country, all different schools,” Cockrell said. “We got to prepare for how professional football is going to be and make some lasting friendships.”

The East-West Shrine Game gave Cockrell the opportunity to practice and play in front of NFL scouts for the week leading up to the game, gain additional instruction from a new set of coaches and meet with executives from a number of NFL teams for interviews.

“You get the chance to sit down with NFL scouts and NFL general managers and let them get to know you a little bit,” Cockrell said. “You get to let them see what kind of person you are.”

Cockrell added that after leading his squad to a 10-4 season and an ACC Coastal Division title, NFL scouts “know the story of Duke football.”

With the Shrine Game now in the rearview mirror, Cockrell’s focus shifts toward the NFL Scouting Combine, the league’s top exhibition of collegiate talent. More than 300 NFL hopefuls are expected to compete at this year’s Combine, which will be held Feb. 22-25 in Indianapolis.

As Cockrell continues his training in California, he said that improving his strength will be his primary focus for the Combine.

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Ross Cockrell is preparing to show off his skills at the NFL Scouting Combine, which hosts more than 300 players in February. and just making sure that I’m as healthy as possible going into the Combine,” Cockrell said. “Those are the two things that I really want to accomplish.”

He also will focus heavily on the 40yard dash, which NFL scouts typically use as a barometer for young cornerbacks.

Although Cockrell was known more for his superior ball skills during his career at Duke and not for his blazing speed, the former Blue Devil said he is confident that he can break 4.40 seconds later this month in Indianapolis.

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telling me the last couple days that one of these games I’m going to explode, and today was that day.”

With 6:07 left, Cook found Dawkins on a busted play as the shot clock wound down. Dawkins drilled another shot to give Duke a 13-point lead. Feeling streaky, he rose up again and drilled his fifth triple the very next time down the floor.

“Once he gets one, he can get three or four,” Hood said.

It was another stalwart defensive performance for Duke, which has not allowed more than 65 points during its current five-game win streak. The Blue Devils also won the battle on the boards, 37-32, their fourth straight victory in that department.

Patterson finally got going, converting a 3-point play and knocking down his first 3-pointer of the game with under five minutes to play, winding up with 14 points, almost four below his season average. But it was not enough to ignite a Panthers comeback, as Cook found Amile Jefferson for a lay-up that became a 3-point play and a 70-57 Blue Devil lead. Jefferson was a steadying presence for Duke all game, finishing with 14 points and 10 rebounds.

As Pittsburgh tried to make a late comeback bid, the Panther defense forgot to guard the hottest person on the floor— Dawkins. Duke ran down the shot clock, then found Dawkins wide open in the corner for his sixth and final 3-pointer of the game, putting the game out of reach.

“You go back to the same thing, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Parker said of Duke’s ability to keep finding a spotting-up Dawkins. “That’s what we did tonight.”

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This is a spectacular venue,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Prior losses on the road to Notre Dame and Clemson had many questioning the Blue Devils’ ability to stay mentally focused in front of tough opposing crowds. With success against the likes of Miami and Pittsburgh on the road, Krzyzewski cites the Blue Devils new lineup rotations as a key to the Blue Devils’ recent victories.

“We started out the conference in three games and, again, I take responsibility—we were not very good even though we won one game,” Krzyzewski said. “Since then, we’ve played more people and I think that helps.

We’re fresher playing defense.”

Monday’s victory allowed Duke to prove itself to be an elite team—both at home and on the road. Hood and the rest of the team know they have yet to reach their ceiling and point to the past two weeks as proof of the Blue Devils’ constant improvement, something that will be integral as they move into the thick of conference play.

“We’re a better team than we were at the start of ACC play,” Hood said. “regardless of playing on the road or at home, we’ve improved the last two weeks.”

The victory—Duke’s third in six days—sets up Saturday’s matchup with No. 2 Syracuse, one of the nation’s three remaining unbeaten teams. But the Blue Devils will get some much-needed rest before traveling to New York to kick off another three-game stretch with two road contests.

“This is the end of what we call an energy cycle. Three games in six days,” Krzyzewski said. “Now we’ve got to get ready for another energy cycle after this.”

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Getting out early Early graduation rates are on the rise.

Since 2010, the number of students opting to get out early has jumped by 30 percent. Over the last few years, more and more students have chosen to end their educational careers at Duke in September or December rather than in May. In 2013, this group made up almost a quarter of the total graduates—24 percent, up from 20 percent only three years earlier. Although it might be that the start-up celebrity status we often associate with leaving college early has finally caught up with Duke, the more likely explanation is that students feel that their time and money is better spent elsewhere.

Undoubtedly, at the heart of the rising early graduation rate lie financial considerations.

Duke is not cheap and has not gotten any cheaper over the last few years. Many find it hard to justify the hefty price tag prima facie, and that justification becomes more difficult when students have the option of finishing early. Although money likely accounts for most of the early graduation trend, it is also likely that many students choose to graduate early because they no longer see college as the place

for learning. Instead, they may feel that their education would be better continued outside Duke’s hallowed neo-gothic walls. Early graduates like these hail from all disciplines— they might be entrepreneurs eager to test out their business skills and innovation in the

Editorial so-called real world, or the lifelong student of the humanities who sees the world as her classrooms and is keen to explore. Others may have promising jobs awaiting post-graduation or are simply burnt out from almost two decades of school.

Each of these justifications speaks to two opposing trends we see in higher education.

The first is a widespread instrumentalization of the college degree, which is symptomatic of modern attitudes regarding college.

Politicians, parents and students question the exact monetary value of spending four years at a place like Duke and ask whether their tuition dollars would be better spent elsewhere. We have lamented the instrumentalization of

It’s refreshing to read about a Duke student who is so consumed by the quest to further our understanding of science. Students like Britanny are in the minority on this campus, but it is heartening to learn that they exist.

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I had no problem singing along to Robin Thicke’s jazzy summer anthem. I was attracted to the sound and the lyrics as soon as I heard them stream through my radio. It wasn’t until I got back to campus and back to work with the WHO Speaks team that I actually heard the lyrics for what they are: an excellent

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college in the past, as this attitude does not do justice to the personal and intellectual exploration that attends a Duke education.

This personal growth cannot be substituted for a high paying salary. That said, the decision to save tens of thousands of dollars is entirely justified.

The other trend cuts directly against the instrumentalizing current. This trend is embodied by students who believe they can learn more on their own, and we see nothing wrong with that. If students have extracted everything they can from Duke and feel ready to move on, then all the more power to them. In any case, the rise in early graduation rates challenges the value of the four-year college experience and forces us to question what constitutes a higher education at a place like Duke.

Ultimately, we recognize that graduating early is a highly personal choice on the part of students and their families and that students should do what makes most sense for them and their life goals. Whatever the reason behind their departure, we wish these early graduates the best of luck moving forward and hope that our paths may cross again someday.

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girls, not my friends, not me.

But in just a year and a half, I have heard more stories and seen more tears than I would have ever imagined entering college as a sheltered freshman.

WHO Speaks debuted our rape culture campaign last week, and some of the first counter-arguments included the idea that a poster campaign doesn’t do anything to

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example of rape culture.

I’ve had this argument with many friends, many times over, as I did my best to explain the notion of rape culture. Many would say that people, not song lyrics, are the ones actually committing the rape. So why get all worked up about lyrics like Robin Thicke’s?

Many would say that advertisements featuring nude women have become so commonplace that they’re almost harmless.

So why try to point out the difference in how men and women are used in commercial advertising?

Many would say that the slogan “no is the new yes” is on a pizza box—people aren’t even thinking about rape when they’re eating a pizza. So why try to point out problems that aren’t even there?

Many would argue not only that a drunk girl is asking to be taken advantage of, but also that the media is right to lament the lost futures of the two boys accused of rape. So why even focus on the idea of victim blaming?

If rape is the actual problem, why attack the little things instead of correcting the larger issue at hand?

Yes, rape is a problem. It’s a huge problem.

But what helps perpetuate rape and its aftermath are all of the little things we do, say and condone that are a part of our culture and, by extension, a part of us.

I’ve previously tried my best to not be nit picky and always point out things that offend me in conversation. But becoming desensitized to things that help perpetuate rape culture, objectify women or encourage victim blaming ultimately put us all at risk of not being as responsive as we should be when we hear of situations of sexual misconduct happening to our peers.

I used to carry around my own sense of invincibility. Rape statistics, sexual assault reports: They were just numbers. Not real

initiate change or spark a movement.

No, we can’t stop rape or eliminate rape culture with a few posters. But what we can give you is simple food for thought. Whether it be something you glance at once in the cold waiting at the bus stop, see as you’re walking across the bulletin boards in your hall or see garnering likes on Facebook, the poster is aimed to bring awareness, spark discussion and, more importantly, reveal the nature of rape culture.

That way the next time you hear, “Girl drop it to the floor, I love the way yo booty go. All I wanna do is sit back and watch you move, and I’ll proceed to throw this cash,” or see another naked woman sensually advertising men’s suits, you might think twice about the need to objectify a woman to garner mainstream popularity.

There are actually ways to advertise products without using women. Axe body sprays figured that out after a complete redesign of their product campaign for their Super Bowl ads this year. Previously, their commercials focused on the concept that women were to blame for men’s poor behavior due to their “increasing hotness” over the years. Their new “Make love not war” campaign is a shift in product marketing that focuses on attaching a socially relevant message to their advertising.

Rape culture, embedded in our music, media and language subtly aims to diminish the strength of women in society.

Being a part of WHO Speaks makes me more passionate about my status as a woman and encourages me to help show other girls on this campus that being a woman is by no means a flaw.

Because ladies, we are flawless.

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or most of you, my opposition to The 40 Percent Plan will probably come as no surprise. As chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, I am undoubtedly predisposed to preferring the current system, but I write this guest column, not as a member of Duke Student Government, but primarily as a Duke student genuinely interested in ensuring that the student activities fee is equitably and efficiently spent.

I am opposed to The 40 Percent Plan because it adds unnecessary bureaucracy, creates a perverse incentive system that negatively impacts small student

who most need the money. Further, by requiring groups to run campaigns, student organizations waste valuable resources and time that could be spent actually planning events and furthering their missions.

20 hours spent campaigning is 20 hours taken away from teaching long-term patients at the Duke Hospital how to swim, in the case of Swim and Splash, or organizing the logistics of the Library Party, in the case of the Duke Marketing Club.

Finally, groups are less able to accurately predict their funding needs in August for an event that is

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t 10 a.m. last Friday, I sat down with an accomplished midcareer professional whom a friend had recommended to me for internship advice; I’ll call him Joel. After Joel and I got to know each other, I outlined my five-point plan for getting a summer internship that could lead to a job after graduation. I told him where I planned to apply and what I would say in my cover letters. He brushed aside my well-constructed plan with an unsettling question: “What do you actually want to do this summer?”

Even as an aspiring policy wonk, I couldn’t honestly tell him that my ideal summer consists of fetching coffee and writing memos that no one will ever read. Still, it’s what you’re supposed to do! I told Joel

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guest column groups and results in less efficient allocations.

1. Bureaucracy At present, to receive programming funds, student groups must fill out a line-itemized budget at least one week before the event takes place—two weeks if they would like the ability to appeal—and present at a five-minute hearing on Tuesday night. In the latest manifestation of The 40 Percent Plan, at least as I understand it, student groups would need to fill out line-itemized budgets at the beginning of each semester for events they plan to hold over the next three and a half months, run a campaign in an attempt to get that funding and then re-submit those budgets to SOFC if the group were to not get any event they would like to hold funded in full. Further, SOFC would also need to submit line-itemized budget recommendations at the beginning of the semester.

First, there are the logistical concerns that this would bring. Let’s assume that 150 groups decide to participate in the process, each presenting three budgets on average. At 10 minutes per budget, that comes to 450 budgets and 4500 minutes, or 75 hours, that SOFC needs to spend within the first week of school. Second, even disregarding the aforementioned logistical issue, The 40 Percent Plan needlessly adds more bureaucracy. Student groups will now have twice as much paperwork to fill out and a campaign to run every semester.

2. Incentives and Efficiency SOFC directly assesses the funding needs of student groups. In contrast, The 40 Percent Plan rewards groups that campaign well. Just as the most charismatic politician is not necessarily the most qualified for his position, groups that are able to most convincingly articulate their funding needs may not be the ones

taking place in December. For example, a flight for a speaker might cost $463 instead of an estimated $500, but, under The 40 Percent Plan, SOFC would not be able to take back the $37 difference, money that could then be allocated toward another event.

In short, SOFC is not perfect, but I strongly feel that it is a better system than that which would exist under The 40 Percent Plan. While an interesting idea in theory, I can’t help but ask, “What problems does The 40 Percent Plan solve? And could they not be solved more efficiently and effectively by making adjustments to the current system?” Further, it should be pointed out that The 40 Percent Plan is currently encapsulated by a constitutional amendment of 127 words. The authors of The 40 Percent Plan have argued that the amendment is purposefully nebulous so as to give DSG the flexibility to figure out the logistics. Nonetheless, it seems to me illogical to debate a proposal solely in the abstract, when that proposal would institute an entirely new bureaucracy, without first discussing what that bureaucracy would look like. In other words, the logistical skeleton presented by representatives of the plan at the Council for Collaborative Action meeting Sunday afternoon needs to be substantially fleshed out in writing before the proposal should even be seriously considered by the student body.

If you still have questions about SOFC and The 40 Percent Plan, I encourage you to come to SOFC office hours in the DSG Office on Tuesdays from 6-7 p.m., or you can contact me directly at joycelau.abc@gmail. com. Also, check out the SOFC website for more information.

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Letter to the Editor Duke political groups support The 40 Percent Plan As leaders of three of the political student organizations on campus, we write in support of The 40 Percent Plan. We have grown frustrated by the status quo and our student government’s unwillingness to acknowledge the flaws in SOFC’s operation.

We believe The 40 Percent Plan would benefit students by providing them the opportunity to donate to organizations with which they are involved and incentivizing groups to compete for students’ money.

The 40 Percent Plan encourages students to become knowledgeable about student groups and encourages groups to tailor their programming to align with students’ interests.

The 40 Percent Plan introduces an element of fairness and accountability that does not currently exist. Under the status quo, group leaders have to go through seemingly endless red tape to get funding for their organizations. This process distracts from groups’ substantive work and makes it difficult to plan events in advance because one never knows how much money SOFC will be willing to allocate.

Under The 40 Percent Plan, groups will have more funds available to them throughout the year, making it easier to plan ahead.

Two main objections we have heard from members

of DSG Executive Board are that 1) this policy could hurt small groups and 2) that groups could use the funds they receive from students on frivolous items like cars. Both of these objections are unfounded. Small groups will likely benefit from this policy because they have very passionate members who will donate substantial portions of their 40 percent to such small groups.

And The 40 Percent Plan would not change the way student groups can spend their money. All groups would still have to report expenditures to UCAE before and after making purchases.

Our undergraduate student body is composed of 6,500 bright individuals, all of whom are knowledgeable about student organizations. We should trust our fellow students and give them a say in how their money gets spent. We hope you will join us in signing The 40 Percent Plan or, at the very least, help us find an alternative to the status quo.

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mountain sound that I needed to consider my future and do something that would look good on my resume. He told me I was full of crap. Again he asked, “What do you actually want to do this summer?” Hesitantly, I shared my utterly unrealistic, entirely hypothetical dream: driving across the country, staying a week here and a week there, sitting on porches with rheumy-eyed grandfathers, worshipping at churches of every variety, visiting presidential birthplaces, climbing a mountain or two, working odd jobs for gas money and writing about it. I want to follow in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville and the characters from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” It’s far from unique. But it would be mine: a great American road trip of my very own.

I’m not the first young person to feel the tug of wanderlust.

Another was E.B. White, the author whose obituary in the New York Times called him “one of the nation’s most precious literary resources.” While he’s known for the children’s books Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, White was also a prolific nonfiction writer. I like his essays best. His cloth-bound collection has occupied a place of honor on my bookshelf ever since I stumbled across it in high school English.

In the essay “Years of Wonder,” White tells of his unusual but true journey to Alaska. After getting fired from a newspaper job, he decided to work on a steamship headed north. He served meals to the gruff men who shoveled coal into the ship’s furnace, cooped up in the ship’s belly like modern Jonahs. Why did the young White embark on that bizarre adventure? Because, he writes, “there is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health and nowhere to go but all over the place.”

On Sunday, I talked with a junior who would make E.B. White proud. Emma Arata just returned to Duke after a semester away. She had always planned to study abroad or do DukeEngage, but, at some point, she realized that “there were parts of myself I was ignoring and let stagnate while I forged on with the rigorously academic Duke life.”

So last summer, instead of classes in Paris or service in Vietnam, she went to Alaska and worked in a salmon processing plant. On their days off, she said that her friends “would cram 12 people into the bed of a truck and drive to a beach to have a bonfire or hitchhike to the mountains or go dancing at the one tiny bar in town.”

I asked Emma if she changed during her time away from Durham.

She said she didn’t change. Rather, she “became more genuinely herself.”

Her words merit a full reprinting: “There’s a whole amazing world outside of Duke infinitely full of things you literally cannot fathom until you experience it. [Duke students] have been fed this limited idea of what success is and how you must achieve it to be happy, and we try to control our lives and push ourselves blindly forward in pursuit of that standard. If anything, I’ve learned that trying to control things is completely futile and real life happens when you follow your heart. Legitimate opportunities come to you when you’re doing the things you love.”

Emma is a free spirit. She wears Teva sandals with fuzzy socks and doesn’t much care about appearances. Yet, like most of us, she is also intellectual, driven and passionate—in her case, about what she calls the “human-food relationship.” Those qualities make her a true Dukie.

Yet she resists the strictures of five-year plans, which makes her an unusual Dukie. We tend to follow plans and stick to timelines—that’s how we got here. Planning the future allows an illusion of control.

Graduate in four years, spend two years in consulting, get an MBA, get a new job, get married, get promoted, find a house in the suburbs and have two-and-a-half kids. If we stick to plans, we avoid the possibility of failure. So we look for a “good” summer internship.

Joel told me that I wouldn’t find a good internship—unless I actually wanted one. He proposed a heresy that didn’t fit with any of my plans or expectations: Maybe I don’t need to do an internship this summer. Maybe I need to ignore my resume, hit the road and pursue an unmanageable dream, like Emma and E.B. White did. And maybe the pursuit of that dream will lead me to whatever truly lies down the road.

Andrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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January 28 – February 3 Exhibitions Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Exploring the creation and maintenance of borders.

Thru February 2. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene. Photographs by First Book Prize in Photography winner Gerard H. Gaskin. Thru February 22. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Remarkable paintings by American artist Archibald Motley, master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Opens January 30, 2014. Thru May 11, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

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from the previous year. Ubuntu saw a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of people rushing, said senior Andres Davagnino, an Ubuntu rush chair.

“There was definitely a big spike in the number of people rushing,” Davagnino said. “it was one long deliberation, but we’re really happy with the new class, and we really enjoyed the process.”

Sophomore Kari Barclay, a round Table member, said that while the number of people rushing round Table increased from previous years, their application numbers remained steady.

Senior everett loving, vice president of Cooper house, expressed the difficulty of narrowing down the nearly 400 candidate pool. “if was difficult because when you have 400 people, you’re bound to have a plethora of great candidates,” loving said.

Sophomore logan Brundage, a member of Cooper house, noted that although Cooper house was not looking for a particular quality in those looking to join, it was important that a potential candidate could integrate well with the current Cooper house community. “in addition to being an individual, it’s important that everybody can fit in the house,” Brundage said.

Candidates who rushed smaller SlGs

The Chronicle reported having a more relaxed and positive experience than those who rushed larger, more competitive ones. Some students said they opted out of rushing certain SlGs because of the competitive environment. “i heard there were 100 people rushing Ubuntu, and i didn’t want to waste my time,” said freshman erin Brooks, who accepted a bid from Jam! Freshman lara haft, a new member of Ubuntu, noted that the rush process was stressful and tended to be stacked in favor of extroverts. Despite that, haft said the overall experience was positive and was excited when she received her bid notification late at night.

“They came to my door at 2:30 a.m., and there was a slight knock,” haft said. “i opened the door and there was [an Ubuntu member]. he just gave me this little smile, and he said ‘i need you to come with me’ and at that point, i knew.

We all went to [Gilbert-Addoms] and there was a bunch of Ubu family, and i felt incredibly welcome.” haft regretted being split up from friends who had dropped out during the rush process or did not receive bids. “it sucks because if they had their way, they would have would have picked them all,” haft said.

Events January 30 Choral Vespers. The Vespers Ensemble will be featured as part of the NC “HIP Festival,” an early music festival sponsored by Mallarmé Chamber Players. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

Full Frame Winter Series. An annual series presented by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The Crash Reel, directed by Lucy Walker. 7:30pm, Carolina Theatre. Free.

January 31 Open Rehearsal. Preview of Stephen Jaffe’s new HIP Concerto No. 3, with commentary by the composer and musicians. Part of the Triangle HIP (Historically Informed Performance) Festival. 2pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

February 2 Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-andtake crafts, live entertainment. 12pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

February 3 Lecture Series in Musicology. Eric Wen (Juilliard, Curtis School of Music). “An Unprecedented Network of Disorientations, Dissonances, Rhythmic Obscurities, and Atmospheric Dislocations: The Introduction to Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet.” 4:15pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

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, 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.

graphic by rita lo/The chronicle