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Kaila Brown, a fifth-year graduate student, and Alexander Rickabaugh, a Pratt sophomore, passed away this weekend, prompting administrators to encourage students to support one another

The Duke community suffered two devastating losses this weekend, as two students passed away. Kaila Brown—a fifth-year graduate student in English—and Alexander Rickabaugh—a sophomore in the Pratt School of Engineering—both passed away Sunday. The thoughts of The Chronicle staff are with the family and friends of these two students during this painful and difficult time. The Chronicle will be accepting letters to the editor remembering and honoring Alexander and Kaila. Submissions must be under 500 words and will be accepted until Wednesday, Sept.

24 at 5 p.m. Please submit letters to chronicleletters@duke.edu and include your name and affiliation with Duke. All selected letters remembering these students will appear in The Chronicle Thursday, Sept. 25. Additional pieces may be selected to appear in the digital tribute to the lives of these two students. This week The Chronicle will run obituaries honoring the lives and accomplishments of Alexander and Kaila.

from Brigham Young University. Rickabaugh was from Winston-Salem, N.C., News Editor & Special Projects Editor and was a resident of Avalon House in Kilgo Quadrangle.

The Duke community lost two stu“These losses are heartbreaking to dents this weekend. family, friends and the entire Duke comKaila Brown—a fifth-year graduate munity,” Moneta wrote in his email. “We student in English—and Alexander will do all we can to offer support and Rickabaugh, a Pratt sophomore, both comfort to all. I urge each of you to take passed away Sunday. Their deaths advantage of all opportunities for care are unrelated, and although cause of should you or anyone you know be in death has yet to be distress.” determined in either Moneta said in an aving now been case, foul play is not interview with The involved in way suspected.

Chronicle that the Administrators urged too many student deaths, University cannot yet students to support one legally share details, another and to take ad- it doesn’t get easier. Every as the medical examinvantage of University re- one is as painful as the one ers have not issued resources. ports. that preceded it. Yet, I’ve “Be attentive to The English Departwhat’s going on with never been at a place like ment and Graduate everyone,” said Sue Duke where people come School are developing Wasiolek, assistant vice together and support each plans for a memorial president for student for Brown, according affairs and dean of stu- other like this. to Moneta’s email. dents. “Support everyA gathering was — Larry Moneta held one as best as you can.”

Monday night to Vice President of Student Affairs Lar- remember Rickabaugh and provide supry Moneta announced the tragedy in an port for grieving students. Nearly 100 of email Monday afternoon.

Rickabaugh’s college and high school Brown was from Apple Valley, Calif., classmates packed a Kilgo commons and received her undergraduate degree room for the event.

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Rickabaugh was described as a “showstopper” and an “adventurous person.” Stories of his enthusiasm and humor elicited laughs at several points throughout the evening, and students who lived with Rickabaugh in Jarvis last year said seeing him slacklining in front of the building was like “coming home and seeing your brother.”

This was not the last time the community would gather to remember Rickabaugh, but rather a “first attempt,” said Gary Glass, Counseling and Psychological Services associate director for outreach and developmental programming.

Resources available for students include CAPS, DukeReach and Duke Police. Both Moneta and Wasiolek emphasized that students should lean on one another and offer support to those who are struggling.

Members of the Duke community have a responsibility to care for one another, Wasiolek said, noting that students who see others in need should reach out to secure help.

“Having now been involved in way too many student deaths, it doesn’t get easier,” Moneta said. “Every one is as painful as the one that preceded it.

Yet, I’ve never been at a place like Duke where people come together and support each other like this.”

Women’s Mentoring Network revamped with DSG help socially? Where do I belong academically?’

And it’s a very confusing period of time,” Peng said.

The main change to the network is the implementation of the pod system, modeled after Princeton’s mentoring program.

Sarah Waters In past years, underclassmen could be partThe Chronicle nered with upperclassmen in a traditional mentor-mentee style. Now, participants are Women on campus have access to a new placed into pods of four or five women peer-mentoring system in the revamped who share academic or career interests.

Women’s Mentoring Network.

The partnership has already increased Following through on a campaign awareness of the program, with 120 signpromise from the Spring, leaders of Duke ups at the activities fair and 30 underStudent Government have partnered with classmen present at the launch event last WMN to overhaul the program and in- Thursday. crease its visibility. DSG President Lavanya Walker emphasized her desire to elimiSunder, a junior, and nate hierarchy from the Molly Walker, a junior program. Each pod inhe key is to make and DSG director of cludes at lease one upsure that everyone gender equity, have startperclasswoman in order ed a partnership with feels valuable and can con- to ensure diversity of WMN to utilize DSG’s tribute equally and there’s experience, but the pod resources and connecsystem encourages menno label that’s restricting tions to the student body toring between women in order to improve the you or making you feel of all years. network.

“The key is to make unimportant.

WMN President Bo sure that everyone feels Peng, a senior, explained — Bo Peng valuable and can conthat the goal of the nettribute equally, and working group is to give there’s no label that’s rewomen a sense of belonging in the Duke stricting you or making you feel unimportcommunity. ant,” she said.

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Post office changes cause longer wait times Scholars discuss Increase in processed packages and new locker system, among other changes, cause long waits

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Students attempting to pick up packages from the West Campus mailboxes found themselves waiting in line a little longer than usual this year.

The first few weeks of the school year are typically a time with increased mail delivery, said Angel Wingate, assistant vice president for the Office of Information Technology. But there were several other elements contributing to the long wait times—including a new package locker system and the fact that freshman mailboxes were relocated from East Campus to the Bryan Center this year.

“At the beginning of each semester, we typically experience a heavy influx in the number of packages we receive for the first 2-3 weeks,” Wingate wrote in an email Friday. “So lines are not unusual during this time.”

She noted, however, that a 22 percent increase in the number of packages processed between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15 this year—compared to the same time period in 2013—probably contributed to the longer lines.

The new locker system is designed to provide students access to their packages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students are notified through the current automated system that their package is being held either at the service counter or in one of the new package lockers in the mailbox lobby.

If the package is being held in one of Alex Deckey | The Chronicle the lockers, students need to retrieve a An increase in processed packages, a new locker system and the relocation freshman mailboxes numbered locker key that has been placed from East Campus have contributed to long wait times at the Bryan Centerofpost office. in their mailbox. Once opened, the locker notifies the system that the package has unnecessary wait time for the student and week, the mailbox services will use two sepbeen retrieved and keeps the key, which further delays for all others in line. arate email accounts to send notifications becomes reassigned to another student This year’s longer lines were noted by of packages waiting; one from mailboxfor use. students in popular servicecounter@duke.edu and one from But the new system Facebook group Fix My packagelockers@duke.edu. has confused some stuCampus, which is spon“We are hopeful that using different e are reviewing dents—contributing to sored by Duke Student accounts to send the messages, in addiour operational this year’s longer lines.

Government and fields tion to continuing to put the appropriate “Our staff in the Mail- hours and considering requests for campus im- content information within the emails, will provements. help students quickly and easily determine box Service Counter has what adjustments we “I’m currently stand- where to go to retrieve their packages,” noted that frequently should make [both] during in a 20-30 minute Wingate said. they are assisting a stulong mail line at the dent who has been wait- ing the first few weeks of She emphasized that staff is taking ing in line to pick up his school and throughout the Bryan Center,” senior several other steps to address the longer [or her] package, only academic year.

Ruslan Ardashev wrote lines and increased wait times. As well as to find out after looking in a post that garnered working on ways to better publicize the in the back staging area, package locker system and how it works, — Angel Wingate more than 30 likes.

Wingate noted that staff’s hours were recently adjusted in orthat the package is in one of our lockers,” Wingate wrote. the post office has taken several steps to der for the mailboxes to remain open durShe noted that this scenario creates an cut back on the wait times. Effective this ing lunch. Current hours are from 8 a.m.

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“We are reviewing our operational hours and considering what adjustments we should make [both] during the first few weeks of school and throughout the academic year,” she said.

Staff is reviewing hour-by-hour data on package pickup as they consider an optimal staffing model for the service counter during the first two [or three] weeks of each semester, Wingate said. Operational processes such as space utilization are also under review, in order to ensure the most efficient use of resources and maximization of productivity.

Wingate added that the addition of freshman mailboxes at the Bryan Center means that all mailboxes are now consolidated in one location. Students will now be able to keep the same mailbox address for their entire stay on campus, ending the additional line burden caused by the mass issuance of keys at the beginning of the Call Bill Thomas for a free consultation.

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Prominent foreign policy scholars tackled the potential threat of Sino-Russian relations at a talk Monday in the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Experts weighed in on international issues—including China’s and Russia’s recent territorial encroachments and the possibility of an alliance between them against the United States. Dan Blumenthal, director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Jakub Grygiel, George H.W. Bush associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, served as a two-man panel at the event hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Society.

One of the main issues the speakers agreed on was that a Sino-Russian alliance would be potentially dangerous to U.S. interests.

“The number-one issue for us in terms of the US-Russia-China relationship is that the two countries don’t bind together against the United States,” Blumenthal said.

He added, however, that historical animosity between the two countries made such an alliance unlikely in the near future.

The countries’ natural gas deal earlier this year—in which Russia sold 38 billion cubic meters of gas to China for $400 billion—had not been as fruitful toward building an alliance as media expected, he noted.

Russia and China are both “lonely” powers with limited alliances, Grygiel said.

“The only commonality is that they don’t like the status quo,” he said, referring to the current state of world order dominated by the U.S. But Grygiel added that both Russia and China shared an interest in keeping the border between the two countries stable. Although Russia is interested in expanding into Western Europe, and China into the South China Sea, neither power has any interest in the other’s territorial ambitions.

Grygiel added that China was more subtle than Russia in its territorial advancements, preferring to employ “salami-slicing” or divideand-conquer tactics. He noted that China has been testing the reaction of the U.S. and other Western countries in gradually encroaching into the South China Sea. He also expressed concern over a possible transfer of more advanced air technology from the Russians to the Chinese.

Blumenthal, however, said such a transfer was not problematic and added that the current Chinese military was “essentially Russian-made.”

Blumenthal noted that mishandling of opening negotiations between the U.S. and China during the 1970s had hampered the United States’ bargaining position over the past few decades.

“China had a pattern of negotiating that we’ve fallen into since then,” Blumenthal said.

“It also put the People’s Republic of China at the same level as every other great power, when it clearly wasn’t at the time.”

After an hour, the panel opened up to questions from the audience, which comprised approximately 100 people. One audience member wanted to know whether Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine had set the precedent for China to occupy countries in the South China Sea. Blumenthal dismissed the possibility, saying that China had been encroaching into the region long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Li Guan, a Fuqua student from China, said she enjoyed the talk but disagreed with the panelists on several points. “[I disagreed] when they were saying that Russia and China have no choice but each other,” she said. “China has a principle that we do not ally with anyone.”

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ABP struggles with late hours Loss of revenue during late nights and weekends may cause venue to cut back on its late-night hours Carleigh Stiehm Editor-in-Chief Au Bon Pain is facing a lack of business during nights and weekends that could potentially lead to a cut back on hours.

Nick Sandilands, general manager of ABP, came to Monday’s meeting of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee to garner advice and suggestions on how to increase student traffic during off-peak hours.

“The last two hours—from 10 p.m. to midnight—are just atrocious,” Sandilands said, noting that on average the eatery makes around $50 from 10 to 11 p.m. and just $15 from 11 p.m. to midnight.

ABP is not the only venue that is experiencing this loss of revenue, Sandilands said. Since the closure of the bridge that connects the Bryan Center plaza with the main quadrangle, he believes most businesses in the Bryan Center have suffered.

The one exception, he hypothesized, is the Loop because of its unique addition of a late-night bar.

Whereas weekend evenings used to bring in approximately $4,000 of revenue, since the closure of the bridge, totals rarely top $1,500, Sandilands said. He lamented the “quiet” nights and weekends that one now experiences when working at ABP. ABP does not want to close during these under-populated hours, Sandilands said, but it is definitely an option on the table if the situation does not improve. The na-

tional corporation of ABP has grown concerned with the revenue dips during these hours.

Members of DUSDAC responded favorably when Sandilands said he was considering bringing in live musical acts to improve the atmosphere at night. Co-chair Gregory Lahood, a senior, suggested that ABP consider hosting poetry readings on their outdoor patio.

Other members suggested reaching out to selective living groups to incorporate ABP in fundraising efforts.

“I am hesitant to go the fraternity or sorority route because a lot of times that means alcohol,” Sandilands said. “Anything is up for grabs as long as it fits in our company’s mission.”

In other ABP locations, specials such as chicken wings on game days have undergone trial runs, but these were largely unsuccessful, Sandilands said, though he noted that there is “some wiggle room” in expanding menu options.

One option for increasing late night business would be to capitalize on Duke’s “sweet tooth,” one member suggested, by offering discount pastries in later hours of the day.

Sandilands explained however, that Duke students rarely opt for pastries, instead favoring the fresh fruit and yogurt options—a sign that he takes to mean students are being educated on the benefits of healthy eating.

Currently, ABP is running a special in which a customer that purchases 10 espresso drinks will receive the 11th for free.

At the conclusion of Sandilands’ discussion with the members, DUSDAC began conducting interviews to place new members on the committee.

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Bringing human rights home

Ebola: what’s behind it?

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Kathryn Libal, an associate professor of social work at the University of Connecticut, spoke on the localization of human rights Monday evening.

Dr. Chris Woods, the director of graduate studies for the Duke Global Health Institute, discussed the Ebola epidemic in Perkins Library Monday.

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One of the goals of WMN is to give women greater access to networking, especially in male-dominated fields they might otherwise feel uncomfortable pursuing.

Sunder explained the importance of this skill, stating that networking is becoming increasingly important in order for women to succeed in their careers.

“I don’t think that succeeding in business is the only important thing in life, but I think that it’s a clear barrier against women succeeding,” she said.

WMN has also increased alumni involvement in order to further this goal, by planning upcoming alumni panel to expose women to different career paths. Additionally, they hope to add alumni advisors to

each of the pods.

“The goal here is to show that yes, there are women in these fields and they’re here to offer you advice, and it’s no longer a boy’s club,” Walker said.

Another goal of WMN is to create a safe space for women to support each other and establish meaningful relationships.

Planned events range from empowering self-defense workshops to movie nights aimed at facilitating discussion on competitiveness between women, in addition to the informal meetings between pods.

The program also emphasizes inclusivity. There is no application required to join a WMN pod, and the monthly events are open to the entire Duke community.

“I’m just really hoping that with the guidance of their peers, upperclassmen, or alums, [women] can better find a place that’s suitable for themselves earlier on,” Peng said.

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McCurdy looks to use coaching experience overseas Ali Wells Beat Writer For the second time in less than six months, the Blue Devils will have to cope with the loss of standout Ali McCurdy.

McCurdy started the 2014 season as a volunteer assistant coach a year removed from her successful senior year in which she led Duke back to the NCAA Tournament, after the Blue Devils missed qualifying in 2013 for the first time since 2004.

But she will not be on the sidelines for Duke’s campaign to return to the national championships this year, after receiving an opportunity to continue her volleyball career in Romania.

Although the Blue Devils lost a standout on the back line unmatched by any defensive player in the conference, McCurdy’s graduation did not deprive the team of her wealth of knowledge and experience. Bringing her energy and competitive spirit to the sideline, she resumed her role as a team leader from a different vantage point.

“I am super competitive, so as a coach, you can lead and vocalize what you are seeing on the court, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control,” McCurdy said.

“That was a learning experience. But it was awesome to see them asking questions and willing to learn.”

Named ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the past three seasons, McCurdy collected 2,538 digs over the course of her collegiate career, making her the

SPORTS Yuyi Li | Chronicle File Photo Former Duke volleyball standout Ali McCurdy will leave her current role as a volunteer coach to pursue a professional career overseas.

conference’s all-time career leader and only the 12th player in NCAA history to surpass the 2,500 digs mark.

As the 2014 season began, McCurdy watched from the sidelines as her successor, sophomore Sasha Karelov, stepped up as libero.

Karelov finished the 2013 season behind only McCurdy for the team lead in digs, amassing 265 in 33 games as a freshman.

Opening this season with 222 digs in 11 games—and earning a career-high 35 in a single contest against Campbell in early September—the sophomore has benefited

from having her predecessor as her mentor.

“She was super strong as a freshman, and she has made an effort since December to get better each and every day,” McCurdy said. “She is already getting big numbers.

The team is in good shape with having her back there.”

Over the past two months, McCurdy worked closely with Karelov and the team’s other defensive specialists Laura Williams, Nicole Elattrache and Chloe DiPasquale.

Sharing her first-hand experience as the key playmaker of the back line, McCurdy has given the quartet special attention as they work on receiving attacks and serves. They have also had key lessons in leadership and communication from Duke’s best, which will be vital to team chemistry as the Blue Devils head into ACC play.

“It was awesome to focus mainly on the defensive players,” McCurdy said. “It was really cool to see players that I was playing with progress... and having them take what I said to heart. They were extremely responsive.”

But McCurdy and the rest of the Duke squad and coaching staff knew that she might not be around for the whole season.

As McCurdy wrapped up her 2013 season in December, she knew that she wanted to continue playing beyond her career as a Blue Devil. After finding an agent to look into opportunities in Europe, she planned to come back to Duke for a year and wait, working both as a volunteer assistant coach for the volleyball program and interning See McCurdy on Page 5

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Duke hits road to face UNC Wilmington Brian Pollack Beat Writer It’s tough to match the intensity accompanied with knocking off the nation’s top-ranked team, but the Blue Devils will attempt to do just that Tuesday.

After pulling off a major upset Friday night against rival and then-No. 1 North Carolina, Duke will return to Duke action Tuesday vs. night against UNC Wilmington.

The UNC Wilmington Blue Devils will travel within state TUESDAY, 7 p.m. lines in search of UNCW Soccer Stadium their first road win of the year, as they head to UNCW Soccer Stadium for a 7 p.m. kickoff versus the Seahawks.

Duke will be looking to reverse a recent trend against UNC Wilmington, who has slipped by the Blue Devils 2-1 in each of the last two seasons.

“We have a lot of motivation to get things right this time,” head coach John Kerr said. “It’s not going to be easy away from home, in their place, with their fans.

They’re a very talented group and they’re organized and mature. So we understand the challenge ahead, and we’re taking it very seriously.”

Aside from defeating an opponent who has had its number recently, Duke (3-2-1) is looking to use its exciting win Friday as a springboard toward playing at a consistently high level as the thick of the schedule approaches. The Blue Devils had plenty to celebrate this weekend after defeating a No. 1 team for the first time in Kerr’s seven-year reign, but he is making sure

that his team keeps the proper perspective, reminding them that their season has had its share of lows as well as highs.

“I reminded the players that we mustn’t forget about our performances at Louisville [a 5-0 loss] and SMU [a 3-1 defeat],” Kerr said. “We can’t forget that was a team that played and didn’t perform particularly well. We’re capable [of playing well] and we proved that against North Carolina on Friday, but we have to make sure that we maintain our standards in our preparation.”

Putting together back-to-back wins will not be an easy contest against UNC Wilmington (5-1-1), which comes into the game riding a three-game winning streak that features victories against two ranked opponents—a 2-1 triumph against then-No. 17 South See M. Soccer on Page 5

Jesús Hildalgo | The Chronicle After netting Friday’s game-winning goal, freshman Cameron Moseley will look to continue his success against the Seahawks.

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Carolina and a 1-0 defeat of then-No. 25 Campbell. All but one of the Seahawks’ games this season have been decided by one goal or less, so the Blue Devils can be sure to expect another tight match Tuesday.

UNC Wilmington—much like the Tar Heels—is a very defensive-minded squad, having yielded just six goals on the year, and no more than two in any single game.

Duke’s offensive attack came alive in the second half Friday, notching two goals against a Tar Heel defense that had allowed just two all season. Senior captain Sean Davis stepped up with a goal and an assist in that second half— including a beautiful free kick from 25 yards out—and will continue to direct the Blue Devil offense against another quality defense. “[Davis] is huge. He’s the heartbeat of the team, along with Zach Mathers,” Kerr said. “He’s a big proponent of making sure that our pulse is going in the right direction and [the offense] has a lot to do with him for sure.”

Although the Seahawks have slowed down Duke’s offense in the past, the Blue Devils have an array of new weapons that may give them an advantage in the attacking zone. Freshman Cameron Moseley scored the game-winner Friday for his ACC-leading fifth goal of the season, and two of his fellow classmates—Jeremy Ebobisse and Markus Fjørtoft—start at forward, giving Duke a different look up front than the one the Seahawks are accustomed to facing.

Kerr is hoping that these new faces will present UNC Wilmington with difficult tactical and strategic decisions.

But regardless of how the defense plays them, he is confident that his players will be aggressive and put balls in the back of the net.

“I’m not sure how [the Seahawks are] going to approach the game,” Kerr said. “I’m sure they’re going to want to get their defense right in terms of our weapons and make sure that they do the best to keep them in a neutral position.

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in the athletic department. While considering a graduate education in sports management, McCurdy put herself in an ideal position if her dream did not play out.

Only two months after returning to the program, she got the call to pack her bags for the next eight months.

“I am so close to my family... and friends and coaches and everyone at Duke,” McCurdy said. “It is sad saying goodbye to everyone, but there’s not a question about whether this is the right thing. This is something that I’ve worked hard for. What I feel right now is the anticipation leading up to living in a new country for

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With an offer to play for the C.S.M. Satu Mare in Romania, McCurdy visited her friends and family at home in Tampa, Fla., and flew out of the country last Tuesday—just a week after receiving the call. She jumped right into practice Thursday and will begin her season in mid-October.

“We have been fortunate enough to have Ali around as our volunteer assistant, knowing that she might get a phone call to go play professionally in Europe and that she might have to leave at any moment,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “And she has gotten that call. But we are really excited for her and we are going to miss her helping and benefiting our team.”

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Mourning the loss of two of our own Yesterday, it was sunny and the air had replaced its earlier humidity with the crispness of an oncoming autumn. All across campus, business carried on as usual. The C1 took its usual load of students to and from East and West campuses repetitively. The coffee line in von der Heyden was as long as ever. Squirrels

Editorial rummaged, oblivious to passerby, through the garbage bins. That Monday afternoon, we learned that two Duke students had died over the weekend. The sun still shone brightly.

In an email to the student body, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta notified us of the tragic news that two Duke students had passed away in separate and unrelated incidents. Kaila Brown, a fifth year doctoral candidate in English, and Alexander Rickabaugh, a sophomore in the Pratt School of Engineering, left this world too soon. Their sudden and untimely deaths leave us struggling to make sense of of the living in the constant specter of death.

As Duke students, we are all full of hope, promise and ambition. We pass through our days in a haze of caffeine, our heads buzzing with the anticipation of our next challenge, and surrounded by equally gifted students and professors. In the midst of so much talent, it is easy—no, preferable—to forget that quiet tragedy still indiscriminately lurks, hidden.

We live blessed lives of academic privilege and achievement. Relatively few of us have run up against something we truly could not conquer through hard work and natural ability.

Yet death strikes those seemingly least deserving and most promising, too frequently.

Only last semester, we mourned the death of Rebecca DeNardis. The dull truth of what we wrote in our editorial then then still rings true today: it is difficult to grasp the sudden loss of someone who had such a promising future.

How do we continue to hold our heads up and bravely confront the inevitability of happiness and sadness that wait for us each day? Somehow, life still marches on, and the sun still shines.

The small, discrete text of the emails we received Monday afternoon belied the magnitude

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his weekend, I spent some quality time revising my resume. The usual stuff was easy–adding recent internships, formatting to fit everything onto one page and “editing” my list of skills. It wasn’t until I looked at the section on education when things got a little too real. That .72 at the end of my GPA wasn’t the prettiest thing to have and honestly a little “meh.” It was resumebuilding time and I needed to impress, which means that .72 needed to round up to the nearest whole number. Thank God for math.

After fraternity rush freshmen year, I thought I was done with the whole man flirting business. In fact, I was hoping to never be in that position ever again. Sadly, no one told me that looking for a job would be the same thing, maybe even worse. From resume stacking

Every single students’ “business attire” included the leather folder. What did this flat flap of fake cow skin contain that made it a staple for practically every interviewee? I was on a mission to find out.

I asked a few friends about the addition to their business gear and most of their answers were so basic, I mistook them for Clorox. The leather folder wasn’t really that important--it wasn’t some sacred artifact or lucky charm. In reality, it just made them look bourgeois. They were pretending to be someone else,and most likely someone of a higher standard. The whole situation reminded me of the saying “fake it till you make it.” Isn’t that what we’re all trying to do? Make it? I couldn’t really fault them--at least they knew what was needed to make it. I felt myself drowning in a pool of doubt

Fedner Lauture PROFESSIONAL SHADE-THROWER to cultivating your personal brand, everything you do revolves around making some big wig think that you’re the poo. You want them to smell your earthy aroma and find it pleasing to their moneymaking senses. As of right now, the only person smelling me was me and let’s just say I needed some Febreze.

Every application and interview was another chance for me to prove my worth. I likened it to being a streetwalker and a hustler. The 2005 movie, Hustle and Flow, chronicles one pimp’s struggle to become a famous rapper. This movie became a source of inspiration for me, specifically its award winning song, “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp.”

The lyrics were moving to my jobless and struggling mind: “You know it’s hard out here for a pimp, when he tryin’ to get this money for the rent.” It was definitely hard and I definitely needed rent money, but really, why did it have to be so difficult?

Through this journey to find my employment Shangri-La, I learned that I needed to make sure that my pimp hand was always strong. Everything about me had to live, breathe and exude success.

But how does one exude success? How can I be about that success life if I was still looking for a job?

I was in unemployment limbo and it sucked.

It was during my first career fair when I learned the truth. All around me, there were students (graduate and undergraduate) going from table to table, schmoozing their way all over the gym.

Honestly, the sight was a little overwhelming for me.

But then it hit me. The route to cash flow nirvana began with the Duke-embossed leather folder!

stemming from my inability to even fake it.

In life, we sometimes let the difficult things bring us down. For me, it was the job search. I’ve always had this misconception that I would find something that could make me “successful.” Don’t get me wrong, a job is completely necessary because I can’t do poverty but that doesn’t make it everything. It’s just one aspect among a myriad of different things from late night Cookout runs to karaoke nights with the besties.

Senior year should mean more than just finding a job.

As my college career comes to a close, I want to look back and feel that I did college right and that it wasn’t a waste of four years. I kept looking at the job search, thinking it was proof of getting it right. That somehow I solved the problem every senior faces.

College is full of infinite possibilities and if the limit doesn’t approach anything, the limit does not exist.

Cady Heron aka Lindsay Lohan aka SWUG Queen may have said it first, but that doesn’t make it any less true. It’s during these excruciating moments of mediocrity, when we realize we’re all a little loss and truthfully that’s okay. My pimp chronicle started with me pimping myself out for some high-paying job at an investment bank but ended with me learning the journey was more than just a price tag. It gave me new friends that I’ll always love, experiences that have shaped me and memories that I’ll never forget.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was college and I freaking love it!

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ost people stick to the news channels that reinforce their own political views. I do the exact opposite. While a typical Democrat might watch MSNBC for validation and fine-tuned talking points, I turn to Fox News for pure, unfiltered entertainment.

Anchors often say something so controversial on social issues in particular that their segments go viral—on any given day in December, I can consistently expect to see a trending video of Gretchen Carlson, Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity denying racism and the “War on Women” one minute while resolutely confirming the “War on Christmas” the next.

When Fox anchors aren’t ironically proving the pervasiveness of sexism, racism and homophobia in our culture, they are showing

Brenden McCartney A TOUCH OF GINGER their partisanship by suggesting that every political or economic roadblock the United States faces is exclusively the result of President Obama’s leadership. Every week Jeanine Pirro fills her segment with anti-Obama hysteria— three of her most recent segments on her show’s website are titled “More empty rhetoric from Obama,” “Arab nations know Obama is not a true ally” and “Obama puts Americans on wrong side of history.” With such sensationalist headlines as these, it is no wonder that our President has such a poor international reputation—Americans on the right and the left criticize him as if he is a dictator making decisions intentionally opposed to the interests of the majority of citizens who elected him twice in a row.

These criticisms have become just as commonplace at Duke as they have elsewhere among Republicans and even Democrats who think that their party needs to distance itself from the President in order to retain the White House in 2016. President Obama himself has become a more potent conversational frame than his policies. This marks the point at which I believe criticism is more harmful than constructive. A day doesn’t go by lately without a columnist or a news anchor criticizing Obama’s golf meetings, his use of the executive order while working with a crippled Congress or his vacation time.

Such public condemnation is unwarranted and entirely political, especially when rightleaning criticisms of executive orders and vacation time were virtually nonexistent during the presidencies of Reagan (who issued more executive orders in his first term than Obama has so far in both) and W. Bush (who took nearly three times the number of vacation days as Obama has).

Whenever the criticisms become more substantial, I respond with skepticism.

Nothing humors me like a Duke student in class explaining how the Affordable Care Act will hurt the economy with his limited Economics 101 jargon, like overhearing a conversation at Marketplace about how Mitt Romney would have handled the Syrian Civil War better by a group of students who likely couldn’t identify Syria on a map or like a friend complaining about the Central American immigration crisis without realizing that part of U.S. law is a clause holding that any international refugee has the right to apply for asylum.

I do not mean to say that we are responsible for knowing every minor detail of a topic to have an opinion on it—obviously someone doesn’t need to know precisely where in the world Syria is in order to have an opinion about U.S. foreign policy. That said, there is a fine line between having an opinion to exercise civic duty and having an opinion to be a self-proclaimed partisan pundit.

On campus I respond to blanket statements about how President Obama is the worst President in U.S. history by asking questions.

Usually I just ask critics to put themselves in the President’s shoes. If you were in charge of one of the few developed nations in the world lacking universal health care, how would you go about instigating such monumental policy change? If you were President during the peak of the Syrian Civil War, what would you have done besides drawing a red line around chemical warfare—how would you have responded once this line was crossed?

If you were responsible for being the leader of a public highly averse to returning to war, how would you react to a group of radical Islamists sweeping across Syria and Iraq?

Odds are you don’t have perfectly crystallized answers to these questions. And if you do, on either side of each issue, they are likely based on oversimplified assumptions about the various actors involved in each of these events, fed to you by frames provided by the media.

That’s normal. Duke students are opinionated, and most don’t have time to keep up with the nuances of politics and international relations every day. But while philosophical debates can be fun and enlightening, ignorant partisanship can only be crippling.

President George W. Bush’s public approval skyrocketed in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Debate continued about the merits of going to war in response, but people everywhere stood in support of our leadership and of each other. We shouldn’t need tragedy to be united. By the same token, we should perpetuate an environment in which we can debate the merits of policy while simultaneously respecting our leaders of all parties. With that, I’d like to say thanks, Obama, for the toughest job in the world so far well done.

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n honor of Bisexual Visibility Day and in preparation for the upcoming North Carolina Pride Festival this weekend, I feel compelled to write this: It’s time to work on being more inclusive.

How could this make any sense? Duke students have been participating in the local pride festival for thirty years, and the LGBTQ community has had a prominent presence on campus, especially in recent years. What could we be doing wrong?

Well, let’s first have a look at the terminology we’re using. Many people have been using the term “gays and lesbians” to describe all people who aren’t straight and gender normative.

The slightly more appropriate and most common term is “LGBT”–which, as you probably know, stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

However, these terms leave out a lot of people. What about asexual, pansexual, questioning, intersex, genderqueer or any of the many other identities that comprise the community “LGBT” is meant to describe?

Of course, this is often addressed by expanding the term to “LGBTQIAP+,” which is obviously quite clumsy and unapproachable. A common objection to this

McKenna Ganz THE DUKE LIFE STRIKES AGAIN term is that it’s “too complicated,” which is true but is often used as an excuse for bigotry and calling everyone in the community “the gays”--but that’s beside the point. What matters is that people are taking shortcuts with terms that have the potential to marginalize or erase other identities. And the meanings within these acronyms are too often misunderstood.

For example, ask a random person on campus what the “A” in LGBTQUIAP+ stands for and the answer you’ll get almost every time is “Ally.” Actually, that isn’t what it stands for.

The “A” does not stand for ally. It stands for “asexual.” This may seem like a matter of semantics to many readers but I must insist that this misconception be thoroughly debunked. The “A” stands for asexual, and it’s actually very important that we use it that way.

Individuals within marginalized communities need representation. It’s the first step to being accepted socially and is a necessary component in order to achieve recognition in the fight for equal rights. Representation is a mode of empowerment and provides a space for gender and sexual expression. When minority groups don’t get representation, they are vulnerable to marginalization, denied validity and lose the ability to feel like part of the queer community as a whole. This is one of the reasons why Duke now has a “Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity” rather than an LGBTQ center.

When we use “A” to mean “Ally,” we are contributing to the erasure of an entire group of people and cementing the power of dominant allies. We are effectively denying their membership to the group in favor of straight allies who don’t really need that representation. Allies are important and wonderful, but they need to remember that participation in the movement for equal rights doesn’t grant them membership into the community for which they are fighting. Taking the “A” inserts allies into a place where they don’t belong.

This is called appropriation, and stopping it is especially important because asexuals are already a disadvantaged group often denied validity because asexuality “isn’t real.” Erasure is a problem faced by many other groups, such as bisexuals, pansexuals and persons who don’t conform to the gender binary. Less recognized identities like these are almost considered mythical--many people simply don’t believe they exist. Bisexuals are “greedy,” asexuals just “haven’t found the right person yet,” and genderqueer individuals are often mistaken as transgender. Getting rid of these misperceptions and prejudices will allow all groups to be recognized for what they are and as valid parts of queer communities.

We need to find a blanket term that applies equally to people of all gender identities and sexualities. While “queer” is an effective term, it has a complicated history of structural violence and marginalization. Although the term has for the most part been reclaimed, not everybody is comfortable with its universal use. So what other terms could possibly be available to us?

I, personally, am a huge fan of the term “MOGAI,” which stands for “marginalized orientations, gender alignments and intersex.” It’s simple, perfectly inclusive and doesn’t really have any negative connotations.

Unfortunately, most people even within the MOGAI community have never heard of this term--so they don’t know to use it. It just doesn’t have the recognition power it needs to be effective. I’d love to get this term into more common usage because it represents so beautifully what activists have been trying to achieve. It’s inclusive, easy to use and can’t be appropriated.

Even if we don’t end up using this particular term, I think it’s important for us to find terminology that achieves more inclusive dialogue other than “LGBT.” I’m not asking you to go completely out of your way to please everyone.

I’m not the politically correct police. I’m certainly not asking you to use “LGBTTTIQQAAP+” in casual conversations. But if you’re planning on attending the festivities on Saturday, please keep all of this in mind as you celebrate Durham Pride, engage in dialogue about equal rights or while you make your posters for the parade. Make an effort to adequately represent all the groups we’re fighting for, not just the most visible ones.

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

McKenna Ganz is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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Hard Art, DC 1979. Photographer Lucian Perkins’ iconic images of the underground punk scene in Washington, D.C., ca. 1979.

Thru October 11. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Picture Books. An exhibition of self-published and handmade photography books. Curated by Larissa Leclair, with additional juried works. Thru Nov. 7. Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco.

Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting. Six decades of the artists’ work with selections from the Nasher Museum’s collection.

Thru January 11. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Miró: The Experience of Seeing. The Nasher Museum presents a rare glimpse at the later works of Spanish-born artist Joan Mirό (1893-1983), one of the greatest innovators of 20th-century art in Europe. Thru Feb. 22. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

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September 24 Now Now Oh Now. (SOLD OUT) Visiting artists Rude Mechanicals lead an intimate audience of only 30 people through a two-part cabinet of wonders in Duke’s Sheafer Theater, combining serious scientific content with the nerdy pleasures of interactive gaming and the undeniable satisfaction of Murder Mystery Theater. Presented by Duke Performances. Thru September 27, 7pm & 9pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. $24/$10 General Public; $10 Duke students.

September 25 Wine tasting. 6pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free with sameday ticket to Miró.

September 26 The Case Against 8. Full Frame is proud to partner with NC Pride on a screening of this award-winning documentary by Duke alum Ryan White, chronicling the case to overturn CA’s same-sex marriage ban. Starts at dusk, Durham Central Park.

Faculty Recital. Rebecca Troxler, flute; John Pruett, viola; Barbara Krumdieck, cello; Andrew Willis, fortepiano. Music of C.P.E. Bach in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

27 Months. Screening of doc-in-progress about three Peace Corps volunteers, part of the CDS doc-in-progress screening about three Peace Corps volunteers, part of the Fresh Docs series with the Southern Documentary Fund. 7pm, Full Frame Theater, America Tobacco Campus. Free.

September 28 Free Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. 12pm-4pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

September 29 2014 Duke Arts Festival. A celebration of the campus arts community featuring campus-wide performances, events, and an exhibition showcasing Duke’s student artists.

Presented by duARTS in partnership with DUU Visual Arts committee. Thru October 4. More information at duarts.org.

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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 Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

All events subject to change..

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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Diamonstein-Spielvogel Filmmaker series—Stanley Nelson

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Contagion (W) – part of a weeklong series of public events on the continuing Ebola epidemic in West Africa

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The Battle for Johannesburg Reel Global Cities – documentary w/ discussion to follow

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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, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.