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The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee deliberated Monday on what food trucks and Merchants-onPoints restaurants should be recommended to Duke Dining for next year based on a survey administered to the student body.

Parlez-Vous Crepe and Foster’s on the Fly received the highest number of votes for favorite food trucks in the survey. Those receiving the lowest number of votes were Captain Poncho’s, Baguettaboutit and Chirba Chirba. Mac-Ur-Roni and Deli-icious had highest ratings as potential food trucks to be added. Among the lowest-rated Merchants-on-Points vendors were Skewers Hookah Bar and Grill, Palace International, Nosh and Pizza Mia Italian Grill.

DUSDAC members expressed concerns over the opening hours of Serrano Delicafe, a potential Merchant-on-Points vendor and a local delicatessen. The vendor’s Facebook page reveals that the restaurant has limited hours—it is closed on Sundays and Mondays. It is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 or 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays., from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays and on Saturdays it is open from 4 to 11 p.m.

“That’s a lot of days when they are not delivering during prime hours,” said coChair of DUSDAC Chris Taylor, a senior.

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The Coalition for Preserving Memory presented an exhibit at the Brown Gallery featuring original works made by students representing their understanding of the six recognized genocides Monday evening. See story on page 4.

UNC researchers find better long-term health linked to early education

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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that children who receive quality educational enrichment very early in their lives may have better health decades later.

The Abecedarian Project studied the potential benefits of early childhood education for underprivileged kids.

The project, which began in the 1970s, followed underprivileged children from pre-kindergarten age into their 30s to trace the effects of an early childhood enrichment program. Recent findings of the project indicated that children who received educational interventions from infancy to the age of five were not only more likely to succeed in school,

but were also more likely to have better health in their 30s—as suggested by their lower blood pressure and risk for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

The randomized controlled trials and the study’s long-running design are strengths that point to its high validity, said Elizabeth Pungello, a principal investigator of the project.

“Kids literally were selected off the streets,” Pungello said. “The fact that it’s longitudinal and that it’s a randomized design really gives us more confidence in the results.”

Pungello noted that the children were followed for 35 years, which strengthens the conclusions made in the paper.

She said she considers stress to be one of the potential factors in these results.

“When you’re living [with long-term] stress, you’re constantly activating a biological response, and it has a wear and tear on the system,” Pungello said.

“Our hypothesis is that by providing the education, they have a high-quality, certified, stable place all year long, [and] that experience helps combat the chronic stress.”

Frequent relocation may be another factor influencing the results of the study, said Francis Campbell, a principal investigator of the study. Children who received the higher-quality education were able to attend the same childcare center with most of the same instructors for many years, whereas other children living in poverty might have had to move around to multiple childcare centers,

missing out on the benefits of the first group’s more stable environment.

Other explanations include a better diet for the children receiving the intervention—they were provided with two meals and a snack—and regular structured active playtime, Campbell said.

The findings are very interesting and have a lot of merit, but they should not be overblown, said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Center for Child and Family Policy.

“This study is one of our country’s best early childhood intervention studies ever, and that is positive,” Dodge said in an interview. “[But] the effects See UNC page 6

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Powwow organizer talks Duke Native American culture

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The Native American Student Alliance organized its annual powwow event showcasing Native American groups from within the Duke community.

TC: What was the powwow like?

MH: We brought a bunch of people from all over the east Coast. We had drum groups, which is basically a bunch of guys sitting around a bunch of drums in a circle. They sing and they play the drum and it is this music that shapes the powwow. We had over 90 dancers, which was really amazing. The dancers are the people you see in regalia— very dramatic, we don’t like the word “cosThe Chronicle: What did you hope to ac- tume,” but a lot of people use that word— complish with this powwow? that’s the traditional image that people tend Maia Hutt: The powwow is an annual to misunderstand. That’s not something [native American Student Alliance] event indians walk around in. it’s a very specific and this is the biggest one that we’ve had so cultural, spiritual outfit that you wear when far. The goal is to bring together the Duke you’re dancing. community and members of the native community in Durham and all over the SouthTC: Which tribes were there? east coast. We want to bring them here so MH: A ton of groups were there. There they can share celebration… it is an oppor- were some Cherokee from north Carolina. tunity for Duke students to see a culture they Generally, there were north Carolina tribes. don’t normally get to see on campus and There were some navajo… there was a lot that is generally underrepresented. of diversity.

Maia Hutt is a Trinity senior who helped organize this year’s Native American Student Alliance Powwow. The powwow is an annual event designed to bring the Duke community closer to Native American groups from around the area. Danaid, who is one-sixth Native American, sat down with The Chronicle’s Kirby Wilson to talk about the event and the burgeoning presence of Native American culture on campus.

TC: Was that difficult at all? Did the tribes have different traditions?

MH: no. They do have different traditions, but the powwow circuit is not the same group of people over and over, but these people—the dancers, the drum circle—this is what they do. They have a powwow every weekend. it’s almost like any other celebration. They all know each other, it is time to see old friends, that kind of environment.

There’s no sort of tension or anything like that.

TC: What is your view of the Duke community’s relationship with native Americans?

MH: This incoming class is the first time that we’ve had one percent native American represented, which is a really exciting thing.

That’s never happened before. There are going to be some navajo students visiting next weekend, which is really awesome. Because it’s such a small fraction of Duke students, it’s bound to be underrepresented because

that’s what happens. We do have the occasional unfortunate incident where somebody stereotypes a group of people as a caricature like when we had that “Pocahotness” thing happen a few years ago. in general, though, i don’t think it comes from a place of hatred or anger or anything like that, it comes from just not knowing, and that’s the whole point of the powwow.

TC: how do you think the powwow went?

Was it well-attended?

MH: it was wonderful. Frankly, i was really pleasantly surprised… We had a few people dropping in saying, “hey, just here to see the powwow!” who had absolutely no affiliation with Duke or nASA… We had quite a few Duke students who came by, and it’s great because it’s the kind of event where you can walk in, join and then leave. You don’t have to sit down and seriously commit. We had a lot of people coming and going which is really nice. The food truck helped a lot because everybody loves food. it was really positive.

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Friendship Houses wrap first year with Divinity School

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Duke Divinity School students reflect on their experiences with students with disabilities a year after interacting with them at the Friendship Houses.

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As its first year comes to a close, residents of the Friendship house— which unites Duke Divinity students and individuals with developmental and learning disabilities under one roof— reflect on the project as a success.

The two adjacent Friendship houses, located off-campus, are divided into

upstairs and downstairs apartments and managed as a collaboration between the Duke Divinity School and charitable groups hopeSpring Village, reality Ministries and the Arc of north Carolina. each apartment lodges three Duke students and one person with a developmental disability—a “friend.”

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A student participates in the Coalition for Preserving Memory’s exhibition of original artwork featuring unique student perspectives on heinous crimes against humanity Monday evening at the Bryan Center.

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Coalition commemorates Genocide Remembrance Week

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The Coalition for Preserving Memory and Duke University Union collaborated to present a multimedia exhibit as part of Genocide Remembrance Week.

The six main walls of the exhibit consist of photos of moments of genocide throughout the world. The exhibit serves as a means to facilitate discussion, said exhibition curator Josephine Ramseyer, a sophomore. The Armenian, Darfur, Cambodian, Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides as well as the Holocaust were the primary features of the exhibit.

“My vision was two things,” said Ramseyer. “One, to bring the discussion of genocide to campus through student art and their perspectives, and two, to question the term genocide itself because it is so politicized, so contested and such a big word to label something.”

Sophomore Eliza Meredith, CPM president and a collaborator on the exhibit, said the point was to grapple with the heart of the issue surrounding genocide, but that it is hard to do so because genocide can mean so many things.

“It was great to bring together so many people and to interpret these events through their eyes.” Meredith said. “Genocide affects us all but there are different ways to interpret the past and reconcile these awful moments in history besides the naming ceremony.”

Part of the exhibit was dedicated to commemorating the lives of those belonging to the LGBT community who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

“Some people might feel like they already know about the Holocaust, but this is a different take on it,” said sophomore

Fiona McCrossin. “It is very important to educate about LGBT persecution in terms of the perspective of non-Jews and particularly important that people understand the gravity of the situation.”

“This exhibit offers a new perspective because we are not giving people numbers or facts, but having people tell their own stories,” said sophomore Lauren Silk. “Having photos saying how people felt is a great opportunity to tell their struggle.”

Junior Adesuwa Giwa-Osagie, a contributor to the creation of the wall commemorating the Rwandan genocide, said part of the approach of her part of the exhibit was to re-investigate the master narrative of history.

“Rwanda’s parliament, out of all countries, contains the largest percentage of women,” said Giwa-Osagie. “This information should offer a new perspective to those investigating the genocide and its affects.”

Junior Yohana Zecarias, another contributor to the Rwandan wall, added that part of the goal of the exhibition is to try to move past the genocide.

“It is important to acknowledge the present and not dwell in the past,” she said. “It was a devastating event for both men and women but it is important to acknowledge that we can move past that and not maintain certain stereotypes.”

Junior Ananya Zutshi, a contributor for the Kashmir exhibit, said she has been to Kashmir once but her family will not let her return due to safety concerns. She added that in technical terms, the events that occurred in Kashmir are not considered a genocide.

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In light of Genocide Remembrance Week, the Coalition for Preserving Memory presented a mutimedia exhibit consisting of photos of moments of genocide throughout the world.

genocide, that it is still important, still happening and needs to be recognized,” said Zutshi. “It raises the question of what is genocide? Does it depend on the type of killing, or the number of deaths? To me genocide is a systematic slaughtering of people—it is using terror and murder for means of dictatorship and it happens at all different scales. You have to think about it. You can’t forget, because it will happen again.”

Sophomore Risa Pieters, the main contributor for the Cambodia exhibit, displayed personal photographs of a cave filled with the remains of human skeletons.

“It is really daunting that they are the real skulls,”w she said. “You can feel how recent it is. To me it is a very recent genocide as I have friends and family who are directly

affected,” she said. “If you walk down the streets, you can see that there is a visible generation missing.”

“I think the representation of different conflicts through different multimedia experiences corresponds quite appropriately with the diversity of genocide and the sense of individual disparity that is unified in one gallery,” said sophomore Justin Sandulli. “It is an incredible collection that is unfolded under the wide spectrum of genocide.”

Sophomore Alissa Anderegg, a student who visited the gallery, said the exhibit put things into perspective.

“We at Duke are so blessed to be in such a safe and comforting environment where education is valued and such a luxury,” she said. “It makes me cherish and appreciate the opportunities we have here.”

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Jewish Life at Duke hosted a meal in celebration of Shabbat at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Monday evening.

“[The Friendship House] has shifted the way that I see people, see what is normal and see what the aim of life is,” said Friendship House Director Greg Little, a graduate student at the Duke Divinity School. “And it’s helped me be grounded in really simple friendships.”

The houses are located in an “intentional neighborhood,” in which Friendship House and Reality Ministries have partnered to transform a street with deserted houses into a place that could serve as a welcoming home for individuals with disabilities, said house director Nikki Raye Rice, also a graduate student at the Divinity School.

“To be embedded within this neighborhood is a great gift,” said Little.

“This expands our identity a bit because we’re not just Friends and student residents, but we’re part of this larger cohesive life.”

He noted that the partnership between Reality Ministries and Duke made the establishment of the Friendship House easier.

“The gift [of Reality Ministries] is that we have 100-200 people inhabited in these friendships every week,” Little said. “To have that already, and then for Duke to come in and have student residents, it was really ripe and fertile ground. It wasn’t coming in and setting up a new thing.”

Resident and Divinity student Zach Bowel joined the Friendship House after receiving an email with information at the beginning of the year. Although he had not previously worked with individuals with disabilities, he said that he thought it would be a valuable growing experience. Bowel said that he has loved getting to know the Friends

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and plans to live at the Friendship House for his remaining two years.

“After my three years, they’re going to have to move me out,” Bowel said. “I love this place.”

Rice and Little, who have served as directors of the House since its opening in August 2013, will continue to live in the House even after they graduate next year.

“Nikki Rae and I are lucky because we are the two directors of the homes. So we, in our role, can live past graduation date,” said Little. “Since [the Friendship House is] only a year old, it’s really a tender time for Friendship House too, so as much stability as we can have is important.”

Bowel said that the biggest challenge when living in the Friendship House was balancing schoolwork and time with his Friend. He explained that because the Friends do not necessarily have many activities throughout the day, they are excited when the students return—but Bowel has to finish papers and work as well.

“It’s like balancing in real life,” he said.

To help students with this balancing act, Reality Ministries provides fun activities, cooking lessons and practical life classes every few days, giving Friends something to look forward to. Each semester, every apartment decides on three goals to improve independent living skills.

Friend Alex Furiness’ goal this semester was hospitality, for example.

Each Sunday, the Friendship House welcomes the community for dinner.

Dedicated to improving his hospitality skills, Furiness proudly made “cookie mush”—a dessert with cookies and whipped cream—to share with his guests.

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The way we use ‘like’ With thoughts reduced to 140 characters, rushed texts and Top 40 music literacy, it is easy to think our language is regressing. Our excessive use of “like,” for example, suggests a lack of fluidity with our thoughts. It implies a level of hesitation

Editorial when we make assertions: “I’m like, pretty sure.”

Perhaps the use of like, however, is, like, actually polite. A recent New York Times article suggests that our seemingly sloppy generation is actually moving towards a more sophisticated use of language. “Like” can be used as a tool. When you frame something you are about to say with a “like” it creates a buffer between your opinion and those you are addressing. It allows you to wallow in a middle ground where you can imply, “I know this is not something you completely agree with, so I’m going to use ‘like’ to soften the blow.”

The use of “like” may also be a manifestation of a subconscious reluctance to be politically incorrect or contentious. It shields us from what we are actually saying, and defers responsibility to uncertainty. These trends suggest a newfound humility and modesty in the way we speak. It

allows us to think: I may be right, I may be wrong, and I’m open to hear another opinion.

It could also be the complete opposite. “Like” can serve as a linguistic crutch, cushioning us from the need to form strong, thoughtful opinions. When you have a way to casually qualify the force of your statement, you never have to fully confront your claims. Used in this way, “like” is far from sophisticated speech— rather, it seems juvenile, and can affect intergenerational interactions. Older generations, for example, often attribute the pollution of language to our generation. They like to label us “millennials” and often associate inevitable linguistic changes to the generation as a whole. “Like” in this context evokes vapid, surfer, Jersey Shore speech. The effects are particularly detrimental in professional settings, where “like” reflects lack of preparation and speaking skills. Perhaps “like” is more a step backwards than one towards sophistication.

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When people use ‘like’, it is most likely a filler word. Indeed, it does serve plenty of other implications, but at its core it provides time to sort through thoughts. Yet as a filler word, “like” differs from others such as “um” because of its relational connotation. Perhaps the influence of increased connectedness does in fact affect our subconscious desire to relate and bridge differences through our language. Or perhaps ‘like’ is simply an example of how we adopt cultural shifts in language without questioning them.

The use of ‘like’ is a product of how language is constantly evolving. Amid this change, we should pause to think about how we use our words, and how they reflect what we are actually saying. Language is our first impression, last impression and everything in between.

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ately, I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed by how short four years really is. Just when you finally feel like you’ve got Duke figured out, it’s time to leave for some place new. Duke’s got a rich and complicated history that, after a certain point, inevitably becomes a part of your own. But while Duke has made an immeasurable mark on my life, it’s strange— and a bit terrifying—to think that we are such

We came into Duke knowing Duke as it was, but unaware of the stories that made it that way. And soon, another set of students will make our campus theirs, inheriting the beautiful, challenging place that we love. They won’t necessarily know the students who fought for a more inclusive Greek community, better dining options or improved sexual assault policies. But they’ll find Duke like it is, and they’ll begin the journey of piecing

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a small part of Duke’s story. And what’s even more unsettling sometimes is how little of that history we really know.

It’s easy to feel like Duke began and ended when we got here. All we seem to know about the Duke of the past is that they had a higher acceptance rate and a better tailgate. No one tells the individual stories, passions and struggles of people who came before. We don’t know those who hosted Take Back the Night, those who occupied the Allen building or those who first decided to pitch a tent in K-Ville.

But even more significantly, we don’t know the students who tried and failed to change things on campus—the people who dedicated their time and energy to things that never played out. They tried to reform our conduct system, fix ACES or improve the racial climate on campus. Those students didn’t necessarily lack the passion or ability to succeed, but they nonetheless left Duke having not finished what they started. We don’t know their stories, and thus, we cannot learn from or build upon their experiences.

Administrators watch sets of students come and go, arguing about the same things and raising the same issues. Unfortunately, we weren’t the first to complain about the Marketplace meal plan, and we weren’t the first to think up a million different ways to fix it. As students, we seem to reinvent the wheel a hundred times each year. After a while, you have to ask yourself why we don’t just leave a set of instructions.

together their own college experience.

As students, our collective power is strongest when we work with those who came before us.

Change always takes time, and it’s tough for any one student to do it alone. Knowing what’s been tried before, and what’s succeeded or failed, is critical to being effective moving forward.

Maybe its time for an oral history of student advocacy at Duke, or something to make sure that student stories are passed on. Either way, we owe it to those who will come after us to make their task a bit simpler, and to help them a bit along the way.

So before you leave Duke, be sure to leave a bit behind. It doesn’t have to be through DSG— there are an infinite number of ways to impact and improve our community. Do something that will last beyond your time here, and be sure to always ask yourself what will make a difference.

And when it’s your turn to inevitably leave and take on the big world, don’t forget to pass on a bit about what you’ve learned. Find someone who can finish something you’ve started, or something you’ve only dreamed about working on. Our institutional memory as students is short—without help, we’ll all have to recognize and challenge things at the same pace you did.

Senior Stefani Jones is DSG President. Her column is the seventh installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of Duke Student Government. Send Stefani a message on Twitter @ DukeStudentGov.

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Cleaning up coal Much is made of coal in the United States. In fact, much is made of coal across the world. The worldwide average of coal use per person per day amounts to 6.4 pounds, compared to an 18-pound average in the United States and a (shockingly) 33-pound average in Australia. And from this single resource, which produces 40 percent of global electric power, we see the contribution of

The moral of the story is this: Without legislation there is no free-market incentive— and in fact, there are free-market decentives— for companies to invest in infrastructure like the one developed by AEP. Although AEP has since abandoned and dismantled their mechanisms for CCS, for a brief moment there was a glimpse of what clean coal might

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ith every major American societal revolution, there have been the conservatives, who advocate for social stability and against assumed “slippery slopes,” and the liberals, who advocate for periodic change and against social stigma. Both conservatives and liberals can be further subdivided into extremists and moderates. During the Civil Rights Movement, for example, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X would both have been considered so-

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As harsh as restrictions have become, and as harsh as upcoming legislation seems to lean, it’s hard to see America moving away from coal any time soon. The industry employs almost 100,000 Americans and huge veins of coal still exist, despite decades of intensive extraction.

The natural next step, then, seems to be research into developing cleaner ways of dealing with one of the world’s dirtiest energy sources, a step that huge coal producers like the United States and China are both taking.

The basic principle behind clean coal is to create a process that simultaneously burns coal, produces electrical energy and recaptures the released CO2. This captured CO2 is then stored far below the earth’s surface, usually under lakes and layers of bedrock, where probability of escape back into the atmosphere is slim to none.

In China, much of the domestic infrastructure is reliant upon electricity produced by coal. China has the worst case of coal pollution in the world, and it hosts companies like GreenGen that are working hard to improve upon systems that scrub ash and soot from coal-plant byproducts and capture and divert CO2. The United States too saw a brief flirtation with this Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. American Electric Power (AEP) developed a prototype CCS system for their Mountaineer plant on the Ohio River, intended to capture and store 1.5% of their CO2.

Yet when climate change legislation failed to pass in the U.S. Senate, the project was dismantled.

The development had been prompted by the threat of legislation regulating CO2 production, and with that threat removed, AEP saw no reason to push the cost of a CCS system onto customers.

Here I always wonder how our history of energy production would have played out if there had been an understanding and articulation of “air rights” in the same way there are mineral rights. Would massive conglomerates own the right to pollute in the same manner that they seemingly own the right to level mountaintops? But I digress.

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look like in the United States.

And to me, that’s disappointing. Amazing that the project received enough funding and for long enough that a power plant was able to capture and store 1.5% of its carbon produced. But still, disappointing. Yet, I think that in this discussion of cleaning up coal, some of the considerations that come prior to physically burning coal are lost. There are huge economic, environmental and public health implications associated with the extraction of coal that no amount of CCS could rectify.

Take the Appalachians. The regions that most often play host to vast coal deposits and the accompanying coal companies are comprised of predominantly rural communities with lower median household incomes than their urban counterparts. The average salary of a coalminer in Kentucky was $70,615 in 2012, while the median household income was $42,610. This economic impetus is often used to gloss over things like water polluted with heavy metals and flash floods that sweep through eroded mountaintop removal sites. Big Coal is able to cite God as the source of such natural disasters and move on, avoiding severe scrutiny.

It’s incredibly hard to look at something like coal production and send it away with a red seal of approval. I’ve heard coal advocates argue that mountaintop removal just allows for more sunlight to come down. I’ve heard coal advocates argue that there is no conclusive evidence that mining activity results in unsafe drinking water and higher cancer rates in regions of high extraction.

But for all of the shady justifications and all of the shelter found behind loose arguments of correlation and causation, it’s impossible to turn a blind eye to the public health impact and the destruction of local ecology. It may well be that we reach a point where burning coal produces carbon-neutral energy, but that’s far from the only provision for coal to be “clean”.

a touch of ginger cially liberal, yet MLK’s nonviolent marches and speeches must have seemed at odds with Malcolm X’s more polarized ideology, which supported violence in the name of progressivism.

In an Ethics seminar a few weeks ago, my classmates and I discussed the necessity of extremism in progressive movements. The class concluded that both moderates and extremists are necessary for societal change, but with a caveat— while extremists help to shake up a relatively stationary social sphere by bringing issues to public light, moderates can make certain perspectives relatable on a more individualized level. Malcolm X’s more extreme platform made enough headlines to raise awareness for the importance of civil rights, but we remember MLK as the humanitarian leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

It is the trend of American society to battle over these social movements on a generational basis. Each few decades, Americans look back on their ancestors and wonder how in the world people used to endorse slavery, segregate schools and keep the vote from women. And each few decades, we grow up with a new social norm that teaches us we are beyond the faults of our ancestors. These days, social issues are often more intangible than slavery, segregation and disenfranchisement. Progressives now fight against conservatives about the subtle detriments of the patriarchy and white privilege, to provide a few examples. Conservatives often respond to these social critiques by denying their very existence.

The issue with such impalpable social causes is that there are rarely any unifying public policy initiatives that can mobilize people collectively for expedited progressivism. Compare this type of intangible progressivism with LGBT equality movements, which can rally behind gay marriage as a political vehicle through which to instigate change. There is no clear political goal that individuals opposing the patriarchy can set that will relate to those who doubt its very existence. This is problematic because as social issues have changed to become more intangible, extremism has changed to make opposing groups more polarized. Extremism might be effective when formulating public policy, but in order to change phenomena that cannot effectively be countered by the government, moderation is necessary in order to allow for change at the individual level.

When students debate things like privilege on Duke’s campus, extremism does not surface in the form of violence, but in a strict “with us or against us” mentality.

In a recent column, I applauded Common Ground for giving me the privilege to truly understand the impact of my words and actions on those around me.

The retreat remains a hallmark of my Duke experience, but the direction some discussions there took concerned me. When participants discussed gender, for instance, the men were told it was their time to listen. When someone suggested that women and men are both responsible—but to varying degrees—for the gender disparities at Duke, her perspective was shot down by another individual who held the opinion that all men, and no women, should be held responsible for the patriarchy. Some women might objectify men and others might discredit feminism, but they do so only as a result of the patriarchy they grew up in. Similar attitudes surfaced regarding race, socioeconomic status and sexuality.

I disagree with the notion that being a victim of unfair social conditions absolves an individual of the responsibility of doing his or her part in fighting social stigma. In addition, I feel disappointed in the unwavering positions many Duke students seem to take from their first steps on campus. “You’re either with us or against us” might be effective in broadening perspective for the self-selecting participants at Common Ground, who usually sign up for the retreat to hear about others’ experiences, but for the average student at Duke the attitude is extremely divisive.

When someone doubts the existence of the patriarchy or does not fully understand what privilege is, liberals should not respond by demonizing and blaming him or her. Doing so makes moral reconciliation an impossible goal. Students should not seek to persecute one another, but to understand opposing viewpoints. When we disagree about social phenomena, we should question why individuals who share a human existence could think so differently about an issue before trying to jump to an answer that we have likely adhered to for as long as we can remember. The social struggles that we experience at Duke cannot be remedied by a handful of students exclaiming, “F--- the patriarchy!” To counter our generation’s social stigmas, we must begin conversations with an open mind. While future generations will certainly look back and wonder how people ever doubted the white man’s social privilege, we must realize that the complex solutions to these deeply rooted social biases can only be found in tolerant unison.

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Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia

Brendan McCartney is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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April 17 - May 3 Exhibitions Etruscan Cities. An exhibition produced in conjunction with ARTHIST 561/CLST 560. Opens April 17. 2nd Floor, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse. Free.

Capstone and GWD in Visual Arts and Visual & Media Studies. Opens April 24.

Bays 11 and 12, Smith Warehouse. Free..

Media Arts + Sciences Lab Posters.

Panels describing the 9 new MA+S labs with words and images. Thru April 30, 2014. Corridor Gallery, East Duke. Free.

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist.

Remarkable paintings by American artist Archibald Motley, master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Thru May 11, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

My White Friends. “Racial-identity portraits” by photographer Myra Greene. Thru May 17, 2014. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Night in the City of Light: Paris’ Cabaret 1881-1914. Academic Focus Gallery, Thru June 29. Nasher Museum of Art + Cheap Thrills: The Highs and Lows of Cabaret Culture in Paris, 1881-1939. Thru May 31, Perkins Gallery, Duke University Library.

Free.

Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection. Recent acquisitions and other highlights from the collection, including paintings, works on paper, photography, video, installation and sculpture. Thru August 8. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Events April 17 Exhibition Opening. Etruscan Cities.

5:30-6:30pm. 2nd Floor, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse. Free.

Duke University Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir. World premiere of David Kirkland Garner’s Soprano Saxophone Concerto with Susan Fancher, soloist. Works by Shostakovich, Steven Bryant, John Mackey, and selections from Lord of the Rings by Johan de Meij. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Parade. By Alfred Uhry. Music and lyrics

by Jason Robert Brown. Directed by Drew Klingner (T’14) (Sr. Distinction Project). 8pm, Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. 8pm.

New Works Festival. A weekend of staged readings of plays and screenplays written by members of the Duke community. 8pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. Free.

New Works Festival. (See April 17) 8pm.

April 20 Parade. (See April 17) 2pm.

April 22 Student Chamber Music Recital. 7pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

April 24 Exhibition Opening. Capstone and GWD in Visual Arts and Visual & Media Studies. 5-7pm, Bays 11 and 12, Smith Warehouse. Free.

April 25 Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, dir.

Celebration Concert. 8pm, Biddle Music Bldg., Fountain Area. Free.

April 26 Duke University String School. Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3pm. Beginning Ensembles & Intermediate I. 7pm, Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

April 27 Duke University String School. Chamber Music Concert. 4pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. 12pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

May 2 The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Brown. Performance by SOULOWORKS/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers. 7pm, The Durham Arts Council’s PSI Theatre. See SOULOWORKS.com May 3 Choral Society of Durham Spring Concert. Featuring Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard and Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri, with full orchestra. 8pm, Duke Chapel. $20 Gen. Adm., $5 Students.

The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Brown. (See May 2) 7pm.

May 4 The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Brown. (See May 2) 3:30pm.

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All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum of Art. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change.

4/18

An evening w/ Lauren Wolkstein ’04 (7pm, W, Digital) AMI Showcase--Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming

4/21

Night Scene (7pm, G) - Q&A w/ dir. Cui Zi’en AMI Showcase—Queer Chinese Cinema

5/8

Cadillac Records (7pm, N, DVD) Archibald Motley Exhibition Film

April 18 Parade. (See April 17) 8pm.

New Works Festival. (See April 17) 8pm.

April 19 Parade. (See April 17) 2pm & 8pm.

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PhOtO COUrtESY OF DOMEniCK DEMAttEO

Phil Fairleigh, a cross-country and track runner at Duke, filed his paperwork to declare for the NBA draft this week.

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in the 99th percentile in the nBA in terms of percent body fat, coming in at well over 25%. his basketball iQ is “404 not Found.”

But hold on—Fairleigh’s not trying to get drafted as an offensive or defensive contributor. no, given the recent trend of nBA teams trying to lose games (known as “tanking”) to get better drafting position, Fairleigh has coined himself a “tanking specialist,” with a number of coveted skills determined to get his team the best possible odds in the nBA Draft lottery. As such, Phil “The round Mound Stuck on The Ground” Fairleigh has demonstrated remarkable aptitude with setting moving screens, taking deep 2’s in transition, running the sidelines on inbounds from half-court, firing heatcheck 30-footers after starting the game 0-for-7, committing lane violations on the first free throw of a two-shot foul and being fearless in the lane—even in the face of quintuple teams.

More importantly, teams often draft young players based on their potential, which has led to ignominious selections such as Kwame Brown, Michael olowakandi and robert Swift. however, Fairleigh has such a lack of potential that there’s no possible way he could be considered a bust, as expectations should already be properly lowered. i realize that i probably come off like a shill for Phil “The one-Man Wrecking Ball” Fairleigh. So let’s consider his weaknesses: first and foremost, he listens to nickelback. Fairleigh also has terrible

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four years, as the sharpshooter has also managed to use her height to post-up smaller guards in the paint. She was Duke’s leading scorer this season, averaging 17.2 points per game and grabbing 5.2 rebounds per contest. liston holds the record for most three pointers in a season, with 87, and her school-record 252 career treys rank seventh in ACC history. even though a handful of experts projected liston to be a second-round pick, the lynx nabbed her with the final pick of the first round. head coach Joanne P. McCallie said that seeing her now former players chosen back-to-back in the WnBA Draft made perfect sense. “it is hard to describe it in words,” McCallie said. “For all that Chelsea has been through. For the Connecticut Sun to understand her value and how terrific she is, it is absolutely incredible. To see Chelsea come up as 11 and see Tricia come up as 12, it was perfect. They played together for four years and they have been fantastic.”

body odor, which—along with many other factors—makes him a proverbial lockerroom cancer. Finally, he has picked up the bad habit of playing in traffic (he’s literally a streetballer.), which, given the fact that he’s legally blind, means he may be an insurance risk for the team that selects him.

As a very principled individual, Fairleigh will force franchises to court him—he has publicly announced plans to hold out if he doesn’t get drafted into a major market. To further burn his potential bridges, he has called out Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich—“i’m not a fan”—and Timberwolves point guard ricky rubio—“he couldn’t cut it on the streets.” regardless of which team drafts him, the first thing Fairleigh will do with his signing bonus is take a cab home to Chicago, before requesting the remainder of his bonus in $1 bills.

Although we haven’t discussed Fairleigh’s intangibles—he’s great at small talk and is a BiG fan of conspiracy theories—it’s time to look at the overall picture. Fairleigh considers himself a hybrid of Muggsy Bogues and Shaq, and his self-proclaimed idols include JaVale McGee (for his hoops iQ), JaMarcus russell (for his sobriety) and Bob Dole (for his contagious enthusiasm). his basketball ability should fall somewhere on the spectrum of those three.

Best-case scenario: Fairleigh successfully leads an 0-82 campaign for his franchise.

Worst-case scenario: his play and brash nature antagonize fans to the point that they literally start World War iii.

Draft Grade for the 76ers: A+ Draft Grade for all other nBA franchises: F Gray and liston led the Duke to a 28-7 record this season, which included an appearance in the ACC Championship Game and a stint as a two seed in the nCAA Tournament.

The Sun also chose Stanford forward Chiney ogwumike with the number one overall pick in the draft and the Tulsa Shock drafted Baylor guard odyssey Sims.

The Blue Devils return three starters next season, guards Alexis Jones and Ka’lia Johnson, as well as forward elizabeth Williams, who is poised for a big senior season after being the only Duke player to earn All-America.

After four years as teammates, liston admitted that it might take some getting used to facing off against Gray at the next level. “it is weird to even think about that,” liston said. “it is going to be different on the court for me, but we are always going to be friends. We will be working with each other, giving each other advice. however many minutes we play against each other, it is going to be a battle, but we will remain teammates and are always going to be rooting for each other.”