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Environmental DukeImmerse to launch in spring

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Duke will partner with Texas HBCU Paul Quinn College for new DukeImmerse program Sarah Kerman The Chronicle DukeImmerse’s next project involves reaching out to another university to partner in studying urban and environmental issues.

The new Urban Environmental Justice and Social Entrepreneurship DukeImmerse program is set to launch in Spring 2015. Eight students from Duke and eight students from the historically black Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX will spend a semester taking a special topics course on tools for community involvement and three other courses on environmental justice, social entrepreneurship and urban restoration.

Duke students will spend three weeks in residence at Paul Quinn, and Paul Quinn students will spend two weeks at Duke.

“Students will study the relationship between environmental outcomes and Dr. Michael Sorrell social inequalities.” said Deborah Gallagher, associate professor of the practice of environmental policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, an instructor in the DukeImmerse program and director of the Duke Environmental Leadership program.

Rebecca Vidra, another instructor within the DukeImmerse program and director of the environmental science major, said the DukeImmerse course she will instruct will differ from other courses she has taught because the class scheduling is unlike that of traditional Duke courses. The spring semester ends a week and a half earlier and students only attend class 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. On Fridays, students will attend community involvement events.

Gallagher advises prospective applicants to ask themselves if they are ready to take on such an immersive experience. Prospective applicants should “want to take risks,” she said.

The program is accepting applications until Oct. 17.

Sophomore Sam June, an environmental sciences and policy major, expressed interest in the program’s immersive approach to problem-solving. June grew up on a Navajo reservation, a place she said faces its own environmental justice issues.

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Leighton Durham | The Chronicle With local historic site in danger of being sold to developers, North Carolina is trying to raise funds to buy the land itself and preserve it. (See story on Page 3.)

The Pizzeria closes, removed as MOP vendor “Our first instinct is to replace it with a similar kind of food”— DUSDAC considers replacement Kali Shulklapper University Editor The Pizzeria, a popular Merchants-onPoints vendor, has recently closed for business—leaving one fewer option for students to spend food points.

Duke Dining received a complaint that The Pizzeria—commonly referred to as Cinelli’s—had not been answering calls placed for deliveries. After a member of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee noted the same experience when they called earlier in the month, Robert Coffey, director of dining services, called the owner to discuss the issue.

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officially closed in early September. The tential vendors in an effort to fill a previous Pizzeria has given no notice of the closure, vendor deficit. and the owner is currently trying to sell the “We will go quickly, but also be as thorrestaurant, Coffey said. ough as possible,” Taylor said.

DUSDAC subsequently removed The He added that this situation has ocPizzeria’s information from the MOP curred before, both with food trucks and website and is currently MOP restaurants. looking at other vendors “Losing Cinelli’s is he one thing that will unfortunate to fill the spot. They are because considering other choicmitigate the problem there were a lot of peoes such Mexican food, is that Cinelli’s is one of ple who really liked it,” dessert and late night Taylor said. “The one eateries, said junior Bri- many options for pizza and thing that will mitigate an Taylor, co-chair of the Italian food. the problem is that CiDUSDAC. nelli’s is one of many — Brian Taylor options for pizza and “Our first instinct is to replace it with a simiItalian food. It may have lar kind of food,” Taylor said. “But the dif- been their favorite place, but there are ference is that we have so many pizza plac- plenty of other options.” es already.”

The Pizzeria was the only specialty, There is no definite time frame as to full-service Italian restaurant—with menu when the spot will be filled, but DUSDAC See Pizzeria on Page 16 has already communicated with several po-

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DSG unanimously passes 2014-2015 Executive Agenda Sunder and vice presidents present goals for the year—everything from an LGBTQ Focus program to DevilsGate expansion Alex Griffith The Chronicle In a short meeting, Duke Student Government confirmed this year’s Executive Agenda.

President Lavanya Sunder, a junior, and each of the seven committee vice presidents presented their objectives for the year. Goals included everything from the creation of an LGBTQ Focus to DevilsGate expansion, and the agenda was unanimously approved by the Senate.

Sunder’s goals included devoting a wall in the West Union to student art upon the building’s completion in 2016. The wall would feature art created by interdisciplinary student groups and would incorporate themes present throughout the university.

“It’s going to connect the West Campus Union to the current class, which I think is really important to give the the chance to leave their legacy and get involved with this new building. It’s also going to encourage interdisciplinary arts on campus, which is an initiative that the administration has been working really hard on,” Sunder said in an interview following the meeting. “I’m a big advocate of student input, and I think it would be incredible to have student input in a visual manner.”

Sunder also proposed the creation of a “Duke Encyclopedia,” which would include information about the university and its many programs and student groups in one centralized location.

“I feel like I have a good source of knowledge of what goes on around campus, but I can’t imagine having any of this knowledge coming in as a first-year. There are so many things that you only hear about by virtue of knowing friends in those programs,” she said. “It’s to level the playing field, and I think information does that in an incredible way.”

In addition to Sunder’s ideas, the committee vice presidents presented their goals for the year. Vice President for Academic Affairs Ray Li, a senior, proposed the creation of a new LGBTQ Focus program for first-year students, along with the reworking of the summer reading program to include more than a simple reading component.

Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs David Robertson, a senior, explained that his committee aims to continue working with the Duke Political Union and the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group to increase political participation through voting and awareness, as well as working on the rebranding of Durham for

Mike Ma | The Chronicle Sunder’s goals include devoting a wall in the West Union to student art and creating a “Duke Encyclopedia.”

Duke students to increase the city’s accessibility.

The agenda described by Vice President for Equity and Outreach Keizra Mecklai, a junior, includes Greek Ally Week, a mental awareness week, medical leave reform and an information sheet about Counseling and Psychological Services and sexual misconduct policy.

She also expressed support for the creation of an LGBTQ Focus program.

Vice President for Facilities and Environment Ellie Schaack, a senior, said that her goals are to minimize construction impact around campus for current students while also raising Duke’s sustainability, improving residential facilities and increasing disability access around the University.

Vice President for Social Culture Tucker Albert, a junior, said he wants to expand DevilsGate to foster student community and to increase Prevent. Act. Challenge. Teach. training on campus to prevent gender violence.

Finally, Vice President for Services Billy Silk, a sophomore, described several goals for campus dining. His

The Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR)

Open Forum Monday, October 6 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Perkins Library, Room 217 The Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) advises President Brodhead on social responsibility issues related to the University’s endowment. ACIR has made recommendations regarding conflict minerals and Darfur. As part of ACIR’s role of identifying issues of broad concern within the Duke community, ACIR invites all students, faculty, and staff to an open forum to learn more about the work of ACIR and suggest items for its consideration.

committee aims to increase healthy dining options and late-night options, along with evaluating the freshman meal plan to make sure that students on financial aid can add food points to purchase meals on West Campus. The creation of an advisory committee to assist Student Health was also proposed, as was a plan to increase emergency contraceptive access on weekends.

Finally, Student Organization Finance Committee chair Davis Treybig, a junior, said that SOFC would audit the DSG budget for the first time and would continue to analyze student group funding data, particularly with the help of the newly created Duke Student Government Research Institute.

The DSG cabinet was also present at the meeting for the monthly cabinet question session. Chief of Staff Michael Washington, a senior, said that he is working on a guide for seniors, similar to the Blue Book that incoming first-years receive to help them through their first year at Duke, and Policy Advisor Derek Rhodes— See DSG on Page 16

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Campaign must raise $300k to save Durham Civil War site Cultural Resources have said the surrounding land—part of the original farm—would The Chronicle be a valuable addition to the existing landmark. Smith noted that excavation of the In order to preserve a historic Durham property could reveal more about the lives Civil War site, the North Carolina Depart- of the property owners, as well as the movement of Cultural Resources is trying to raise ments of the armies. hundreds of thousands of dollars by the “If there are any artifacts over there, it end of the month. would give us a little bit more of a window Located approximately three miles from into that past. That’s the exciting part about campus, Bennett Place played a vital role it for me,” Smith said. in the resolution of the Civil War. With the Despite the department’s interest in acarea around the site becoming increasingly quiring the land, it has been unable to meet developed, the state of North Carolina is the price quoted by the current owners, looking to purchase the land in order to Bennett Place Business Park LLC. The state preserve it—but funding is insufficient, and originally intended to purchase the site usa public campaign has been started to raise ing a grant from The Civil War Trust—an $310,000 by Oct. 31. The possible develop- organization dedicated to the preservament of the small stretch tion of Civil War battlefailed to seof land is a significant he best way to learn fields—but cure the money. problem for Durham hishistory is to visit the The property’s curtory, said Diane Smith, rent owners extended who works as a historic places where it happened. interpreter at the site. the deadline for the The preservation of Benstate’s purchase by one “I hate to see [development] getting so nett Place is crucial to the month, from the end of September to the end of close to us that we’re sur- education of children and rounded by all this modOctober. If the sale does adults alike. ern industry,” Smith said. not progress in that periThe two-acre, forested — Yifan Song od, the land may instead become available for deproperty played a significant role in the surrender that ended the velopment—a source of concern for Smith.

Civil War. Confederate General Joseph She noted that preserving the natural enviJohnson and his troops used the road run- ronment around the farmhouse allows visining through the site to meet the army of tors to imagine the site as it was during the Union General William Sherman in April Civil War. “If you have a little bit of a backdrop of 1865, leading to the surrender of the Consome trees, it sort of helps give the visitor federacy.

The state currently maintains the farm- the idea that they’re in this little bubble house where the two generals met, now [so] that they can transport themselves called Bennett State Historic Site. Officials back into the original time period,” Smith from the North Carolina Department of said.

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Leighton Durham | The Chronicle The state of North Carolina is looking to purchase the Bennett State Historic Site, pictured above, in an effort to preserve it, and a public campaign has been started to raise $310,000 by Oct. 31.

The urgency of the timeline prompted the state to launch a public campaign asking citizens to raise the necessary funds.

Since the situation was made public, Smith said, the historical site has received several donations from concerned citizens.

The Bennett Place site was briefly owned by the Duke family in the 1890s, and its proximity to campus has ensured a connection to the University throughout the years—including trips by courses and campus groups.

Freshman Yifan Song visited Bennett

Place Historic Park through a professor outing during Orientation Week, and said she believes the farmhouse and its adjacent lands should be preserved.

“The best way to learn history is to visit the places where it happened,” Song said. “The preservation of Bennett Place is crucial to the education of children and adults alike. Visiting Bennett Place, I could almost see the silhouettes of weary soldiers wobbling up the land behind General Johnson astride his horse, ready to accept General Sherman’s terms of surrender.”

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Popular Duke lecture adopted as online course Lincoln Richards The Chronicle Students around the world will soon have online access to one of Duke’s most popular courses.

The online version of the course “Advertising and Society”—will become available on Coursera beginning Oct. 27.

William O’Barr—a professor of cultural anthropology, English and sociology who has been teaching the course since the 1970s—has historically experienced immense student interest in the subject. The course is the latest step in Duke’s relationship with Coursera, which has been strong since the platform’s early days.

O’Barr said his motivation for making the class available online is to help a larger audience think more carefully about the role of advertising in their personal lives.

“I jumped at the opportunity to share the class through Coursera because it opens it up to a broader set of students around the world—a much larger set of people with the same goals in mind,” O’Barr said.

The lecture has always been full, even when taught in the Bryan Center’s 400-seat Griffith Film Theater, and high interest has also been shown online. Approximately 7,000 people from 147 countries have already signed up for the online course. Of the thousands already signed up, 45 percent of registrants are employed full-time and roughly 60 percent are not students at all. O’Barr, however, said he hopes Duke alumni will learn about the course, so that students he turned away in the past have an opportunity to take it.

“We want to encourage faculty to think about how they are teaching their classes and how they can connect them with a larger Duke audience,” said Randy Riddle, senior academic technology consultant for the Duke Center for Instructional Technology.

Duke was one of Coursera’s earliest partners, offering its first courses in Fall 2012 and boasting the course with the highest enrollment in Spring 2013. The University currently has 12 classes on the platform, with more slated to be taught in the Spring.

Despite Duke professors’ success with massive open online courses, the idea of online courses for credit is still a point of debate. The topic came into the spotlight in Spring 2013, when the Arts and Sciences Council voted down a proposal to join Internet education consortium Semester Online, and has been the subject of ongoing discussion as the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences begins to revamp its curriculum.

O’Barr noted that transitioning a class online has both benefits and drawbacks.

The move to an online version presents many opportunities, such as the ability for people in different time zones to watch the lectures at their convenience. However, this creates limited opportunity for real-time discussion and participation. The online lectures are also succinct, rather than discursive and elaborate. “[The videos] are much more like a TED Talk than a Duke lecture,” O’Barr said.

In order to navigate the obstacles that come with an online course, O’Barr is considering hosting a number of Google Hangouts to answer questions that stu-

Special to The Chronicle William O’Barr, a professor of cultural anthropology, English and sociology, will begin offering his popular “Advertising and Society” course on Coursera after October 27.

dents have, Riddle said.

Additionally, transforming the course into an online format poses many technical challenges. O’Barr jokingly described the process as “murder,” saying he had to integrate different kinds of images and footage in addition to recording and editing his segments.

Making a course electronically available also takes several months of planning.

“It is much more like preparing a TV documentary than a conventional course because there is so much that needs to be done,” O’Barr said. “You have to antici-

pate a lot of things.”

Although the course will be available online, O’Barr will continue to teach the course on campus as a live lecture. Duke students cannot currently obtain University credit for taking the course online.

Non-Duke students can sign up for free through Coursera, and the course will follow O’Barr’s online textbook called “ADText.”

“I want [students] to say, ‘I will never be able to think of advertising again without thinking about this class,’” O’Barr said.

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“It’s a special feeling to be able to partner with your alma mater and really make a difference on an issue that impacts so many people.”

Sorrell said, adding that the program has generated high interest among Paul Quinn students.

Sorrell said he has recruited students who are not necessarily the “expected” applicants— some of whom may not be at the top of their class.

“I wanted to pay attention to group dynamics because this is a team-building project.” Sorrell said.

Two years ago, when the city of Dallas announced a plan to expand a landfill 1.5 miles from Paul Quinn’s campus, Sorrell responded by reaching out to the Nicholas School to find a way to collaborate on the issue. A few phone calls later, Sorrell and faculty from the Nicholas School began forming what would become a new DukeImmerse program.

Sorrell said he hopes to see more collaboration between Paul Quinn and Duke in the future.

“I’m not sure what it’ll look like, but we need to figure out how we keep this engagement,” he said.

continued from page 1 “I want to study these social justice issues so I can go back to help,” she said.

Last summer, Gallagher and Vidra took three Duke undergraduates to Paul Quinn for a collaborative Bass Connections project on community-based participatory research. The Bass Connections group was well-received, Gallagher noted.

Many of the other DukeImmerse programs have an international focus, but international travel is not necessary to engage with environmental justice issues, Gallagher said. The issues addressed in the program are not unique to Dallas—students will focus on problems that exist in communities all across the U.S., she added.

Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, is optimistic about the partnership.

Sorrell graduated from Duke with a Master’s degree in public policy studies in 1990 and a law degree in 1994.

Law School hosts International Week Food Fiesta

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle As part of International Week, Duke School of Law hosted an international food fiesta, featuring awards given to dishes in different categories, at Star Commons Wednesday afternoon.

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Last week, Thom Yorke released a new album on BitTorrent in an interesting attempt to change the music industry.

When I went to the website to buy the album, I realized I could probably download it for free. I opted for the latter choice, realizing that I had previously done the same with much less successful artists, so it was only fair.

It’s really difficult for me to remember the last time I paid for music. The same is true for most people I know. Spotify, YouTube, and illegal downloading programs have made almost all music universally available. They have made spending money on music seem, at best, economically nonsensical and, at worst, a little snobbish. Despite the digitization of the music industry, over the last couple of years the majority of my money spent on music has been put into CDs and vinyl.

Arguably, though, I’m still not paying for the music. Instead, I am paying the physical artwork and material artifact.

While, artistically, I am bothered by not paying for music, as a consumer I am indifferent. Paradoxically, making music available for free may have further commercialized the industry.

For instance, releasing mix tapes for free is a common way for an unknown artist to build a fan base before putting out an album for sale. One group infamous for giving away a lot of free music is the hip-hop collective Odd Future. Their violent, antisocial raps naturally brought a sponsorship from the too-cool skater clothing brand, Supreme. As a result, in the irony that usually accompanies acts of counterculture, the sponsorship propelled the group to wealth and fame.

Many other artists have done the same through YouTube and Spotify, letting corporations air advertisements before

their songs.

Obviously, advertisements are designed to convince potential customers to buy a product. Companies would not waste time and money airing them if they didn’t work so well. Consequently, money is simply being given to corporations instead of to the artists we love. Of course, artists are still getting paid through the advertisements, but there seems to be something inherently wrong with this system. It further degrades music from an art form to another facet of consumerism.

Art is an expression of the human condition. As a result, all people should be able to enjoy a piece of music on some level. Companies disregard this aspect of music as they target certain demographics by placing their ads before bands that would appeal to their consumer base. They stereotype demographic music tastes, thus partitioning human individuality into people who buy and do not buy their product.

Putting aside corporations and music’s place in our society, there still seems to be something fundamentally wrong with having universal access to music. What does it say about the value we attribute to music when we are not willing to pay for it? Essentially, all we are sacrificing for the art is the time it takes to listen to it. Money is time, so, from one standpoint, by not paying, we are simply reducing the time spent on music. As a result, paying less time for music means it is obviously worth less to us, thus cueing a long diatribe about how our generation doesn’t have the time to appreciate art.

In my experience, though, this is not the case. Most people I know take advantage of free music to listen to a plethora of new artists. This access to music allows for individuals to cultivate their taste. It

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also allows for a kind of depolarization of the music industry as it becomes more and more impossible to pick out even a few artists as the unquestionable leaders in the field.

At the same time, though, some would argue that, with so much music available, it becomes impossible to form the same connection that develops after listening to an album repeatedly. The arts-enthused millennial who is constantly downloading new music might not feel the same intimate connection that a kid from thirty years ago does after listening to an album for the hundredth time in his car because he couldn’t shuffle through a seemingly infinite library of songs.

Despite these arguments, though, I still refuse to pay for music. I would love to support Thom in his musical endeavors, but maybe helping him means not having the time to listen to unknown artists. I would love to support them, too, just as I would love to cut advertising corporations out of the relationship between myself and my music. I would love to accomplish all of these things, but they contradict each other.

It is impossible to listen to all of the music in the world, and, therefore, there is certainly not time to fully appreciate each piece to the extent it deserves. It might help to buy, listen to and digest albums one at a time. The internet is invaluable at offering ways of finding obscure, interesting music. As a society we could benefit artistically from using it to find quality music, but then disciplining ourselves to maybe only one or two albums every couple of weeks. By discovering new music in this way, we might return to more worthwhile, intimate connections with it.

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Namely, Muscles finds art in the human body designated the role of one of two bones: the lucky tall man of the class got to be the muscle, pulling and twisting our arms to represent the mechanics of a person lying face down. We walked around to each group, watching their interpretations of how our spines functioned. They were uniquely different and magical, helping me really see and appreciate the way my spine was both sturdy and supple. One group demonstrated with two people as muscles, both lying on the ground, contracting and extending, creating the tension needed to twist the body.

In the end, we all sat together to recap our experiences, marveling at an anatomy we perpetually use but never acknowledge.

One girl mentioned how “having to be the vertebra made [her] appreciate the architecture of the vertebra much more than studying pictures or even drawing.”

Undeniably, it was “much more difficult using the whole body to illustrate each individual part.” Yet, the very tactile and kinesthetic exploration of the spine not only helped me admire my spine, but also to digest anatomical information.

Tomorrow’s workshop will examine the fuel to body movement or, more simply, the breath, and all together, these workshops invite a sensory appreciation of ourselves. The body, undoubtedly, is a beautiful and fantastic instrument, capable of turning mental desires and distresses into extraordinary works of art.

Christina Lan The Chronicle “Did you know that muscles only pull?

You think they push but they can only pull.” As if seizing the space with her arms, extending them from side to side, Kate Trammel, dancer and choreographer, acted out the mechanisms of muscles in a short monologue excerpted from the upcoming performance of Namely, Muscles on Saturday.

She increased the intensity of her arm movements as she shouted out, “left, right, the agonist and the antagonist, acting like a couple but never touching.” Thus demonstrates the complexity and harmony of the human body. Sharon Babcock, who got her PhD in anatomy from Duke, and Trammel explore this phenomena in two workshops that explore anatomy through movement and dance. The first workshop focused mostly on the spine, and the second workshop will focus on the heart, lungs and diaphragm. In each workshop, they discuss the roles of each of these parts of our body in life processes like breathing.

An enthusiastic amateur in dance and a stranger to human anatomy, I came to the workshop expecting a yoga session involving numerous backbends. I think it would be accurate to say that these conjectures were mistaken, as what followed was a lesson of engaging and understanding the mechanics of my body.

Beginning with loosening up our spine through a series of stretches, the class was geared toward achieving an understanding of the structure and workings of the spine.

Everyone in the class had a different comprehension of anatomy, but the lesson that ensued easily engaged everyone’s interests while staying informative.

We started out by breaking into groups and analyzing different vertebrae, namely, the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral. In these small groups, we were given individual vertebrae and told to examine them and feel them. The tactile exploration surprisingly enhanced my ability to connect with my spine. It gave me the chance to admire the curves, dips and edges of my thoracic piece.

After getting a sense of our vertebrae, Trammel and Babcock instructed us to create its shape with our hands and then with our bodies. Coming together, Babcock taught us the parts of vertebra, including the vertebral body, the vertebral foramen, the vertebral arch, the spinous process and the transverse process. We went back to physically imitating our individual vertebrae and proceeded to examine other groups’ exhibition of their respective vertebrae.

We shouted out the parts we could identify and, amazingly, despite the variations in

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This Saturday, Oct. 4, at 8 p.m. in the Ark Dance Studio, Kate Trammel will be performing Namely, Muscles, choreographed by Claire Porter. After the performance, there will be a panel discussion with Dr. Sharon Babcock, Kate Trammel and other Duke faculty and students.

interpretations, each person was able to demonstrate each of the units with her body.

It was a funny feeling to reduce myself to an object and to hold still for examination: I was, for the moment, a tiny and spectacular fragment of a miraculous machine.

Once we got a sense of the physical makeup of the vertebrae, Babcock and Trammel connected the structures to our body movements. We saw how the cervical vertebrae had differences in vertebral bodies in order to accommodate the rotation and the flexion and extension of the neck. It was fascinating to examine how each of these parts, detached in every other type of vertebrae, were fused together in the sacrum. As Trammel noted, “these variations will be reflective of how those units work.”

Focusing back on our own bodies, we were instructed to model extension, lateral flexion and rotation by mimicking the formation and movement of vertebrae, discs and muscles. In a group of five, I was

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Robert Rauschenberg, The Ancient Incident (Kabal American Zephyr), 1981. Wood-and-metal stands and wood chairs, 86 1⁄2 x 92 x 20 inches (219.7 x 233.7 x 50.8 cm). © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York.

The exhibition Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting is made possible by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York. At the Nasher Museum, the exhibition is made possible by Trent Carmichael; David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Funds; Office of Academic Affairs, Trinity College, Duke University; Parker and Otis; and Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger.

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Thoughts on the student-run Duke visual arts festival Annie Piotrowski The Chronicle Just another typical day at the Duke Arts Festival: “So, what’s your vision for next year’s festival?” I ask the Visual Arts Showcase curator Justin Sandulli after the exhibition’s opening reception. Before Justin can answer, a question arises from one of the many circulating DUU Arts students.

“Wait, do we need to cover up the pianos for the night?”

The moment is wonderful for me, as it speaks to one of the Arts Festival’s signatures–the beautiful, whimsical hand-painted pianos at the West Campus bus stop, as well as the incredible amount of work put in by VisArts and DUU Arts students for this year’s festival. They’re especially commendable since this year’s Duke Arts Festival, which runs from the 29th to the 4th, is completely studentrun for the first time in its history.

This semester, we’ve already seen a wave of new arts projects and groups, from arts and media career consulting to the #Artstigators initiative, a supremely cool, slightly mysterious team of “Crazies for the Arts” (to all Artstigators out there, I humbly ask: how do I become you?). Though this may seem like art for art’s sake, I believe these initiatives, especially the Duke Arts festival, speak to us on a personal level, whether or not we identify as artists.

As much as we say Duke is a land of people in love with their resumes, where you’re likely to hear things like “my pivotal role in international development” while in line for coffee, much of this is merely posturing, or, as I like to think about it, the consequence of good people reading too many career center brochures. Yet, after four years at Duke, these sound bytes eventually all

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fade to background noise and I’m left with the opposite emotion. I don’t know enough about the accomplishments of those around me, from my occasional acquaintances to even my closest friends.

While we hide our struggles under the guise of effortless perfection, we also hide what we’re most passionate about– the focused interests that either don’t make good conversation or end up in one short “Hobbies” line at the bottom of a resume.

Of course, it’s romantic to say things like, “in some lonely fourth-floor dorm room, there’s a painting that will blow your mind,” or “the guy next to you on the bus is composing songs,” or “your study partner is thinking about poetry as much as physics,” but ultimately it’s just not very helpful. We need to bring these

things into the open, because in the broadest sense, they save us from our small perspectives. They are therapeutic through the beauty and complexity of art.

For example, during the past few years, Duke’s social justice organizations have used a variety of mediums from spoken word to theater and photography, in order to powerfully emphasize everything left unsaid on campus. The popularity of these projects speaks to our desire for connections, for art that challenges and heals by articulating our classmates’ experiences.

Though the Duke Arts Festival doesn’t immediately fall under the category of arts activism, while walking through the Visual Arts exhibit, I couldn’t help but remember events like the Me Too

Monologues. We create spaces like MTM for our struggles, not only because it is so difficult to acknowledge them in our everyday interactions, but also because we yearn to find connections. Yet, I think that as much as we transform the worst moments of our lives into powerful art, we also need spaces for celebration–joy, curiosity, the brilliance of self-expression–because these parts of our lives often go equally unexpressed.

Most of all, we need to acknowledge that each individual student experiences both extremes and that our campus does too. While the Visual Arts showcase sweeps me away, I can’t help but remember the Bryan Center’s previous student exhibition, last spring’s Breaking Out photography gallery, which told the stories of survivors of sexual assault. I think, more than anything, this juxtaposition proves a natural, yet often forgotten point: Duke’s survivors, whatever forces them to be strong, are also creating beautiful things. I’d say “me too” for all of the works hanging in the Bryan Center. I’d say it to the girl at the bus stop, playing show tunes for the kids waiting for the C-2 in the dark.

Over the next few days, you can go to the Nasher party Thursday night and show Sabrosura and Dhamaka how you move (or maybe how you don’t move, so they can kindly take you under their guidance). You might be able to spend a Saturday at the Arts Theme House’s Open Studio night or listen to the Takacs Quartet in Baldwin Auditorium or attend the Nelson Music Room recital. Perhaps your involvement will be to watch student films at the Arts of the Moving Image showcase. And you could take time to look at your friends’ artwork or even buy a painting at Friday’s art auction. But, most importantly, be sure to enter the Bryan Center, keep walking and make a sharp left. You won’t forget it.

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Girls Rock NC celebrates ten year anniversary Katie Fernelius Recess Editor This Saturday, community members will have the chance to celebrate ten years of Girls Rock North Carolina as well as to help fundraise for upcoming years at the Girls Rock NC Rally in Carrboro, NC. The rally, co-presented with Merge Records, includes three different events spanning three different venues over the course of 14 hours, including the ArtsCenter, Cat’s Cradle and The Station.

“In organizing this rally, we wanted to hold ourselves accountable to our own mission,” Heather McEntire, front-woman of Mount Moriah and Program Director of Girls Rock NC, said. “We want people to come to this event and to see the chronology.

Kids and parents can come in the morning and experience all of the workshops, then they can see alumni perform, and, then, later in the night, they can see volunteers and staff members perform at the Cradle, and, after that, the headliners. It’s this whole ecosystem.”

The non-profit organization was founded in 2004 by Amelia Shull, an arts educator at the upper school of Carolina Friends School who had been hired after coordinating youth programs for the Durham Arts Council. She wanted to find a way to use her free summers to encourage students of all ages to incorporate the creation of art into their lives. Inspired by the Portland program of the same name, she decided to create a rock and roll camp for girls. In the ten years since its founding, Girls Rock NC has grown from a one week camp at Shull’s school to six different weeks in Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham.

“There are so many amazing women musicians, social workers, activists and

educators that got on board right away to bands and write their own original songs. In help create this program that pretty much a culture where female musicians are more incorporated mentorship space where girls likely to be shown in outrageous outfits and could come to camp and be surrounded without instruments, it’s a powerful message. by women with a variety of strengths,” Shull “We want to create an experience at camp said. “In 2004, we had fifteen people show where girls are able to hold instruments, to up to help. Now, in our tenth year, we have feel like they are driving the vehicle. They three paid staff members and many more can make a loud noise and not be told to volunteers, but our mission is the exact same quiet down,” Shull said. “Ultimately, we as it was from the hope it resonates in beginning: amplify the a way that they know voices of marginalized they can stand-up, folks.” whether on a stage, or Although the scope in a classroom or in a of Girls Rock NC now life setting.” includes after school Although Shull programs, a women’s admits that Girls retreat weekend for Rock was hesitant at adults and a new Teen first to identity as a Action League, the feminist organization Summer Rock Camp due to the stigma for Girls remains the around the term, cornerstone of the they now proudly organization. Over the assert themselves course of the camp, as a gender-fluid attendees participate and inclusive in workshops on environment. Girls confidence, media Rock has also made literacy and, of course, strides in making rock and roll. the program “I never had that more accessible growing up. I never to the community had someone telling by expanding its me that my voice was programming and important and that I offering scholarships could be musical and low-income Special to the Chronicle to write my own lyrics students. and talk about myself and my feelings,” “We really want to try to honor our McEntire said. “This whole organization is roots here and all of the sincere small town devoted to programming and promoting connections we have, but we also want to feminism and talking about social justice and grow and expand to all of the crevices and really focusing on empowering girls. Girls parts of our community that have not yet Rock essentially says ‘you are valued.’” heard of Girls Rock,” McEntire said. “Part All of the Girls Rock campers are put into of that is being able to show what we teach

and being able to offer these revolving workshops that are free and interactive, but also to show these powerful women on stage commanding a room full of people. That’s what we do. That’s our mission. And I can’t think of a better way to showcase that.”

The rally this weekend is not just about celebrating ten years of girls rocking out, but also about realizing and moving forward the vision of the Girls Rock mission. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., free and interactive workshops will be open to all genders and ages. These include workshops on songwriting and zinemaking, lessons on women in music and the media, as well as do-it-yourself stations for screen printing. From 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., a series of bands will be playing at Cat’s Cradle, including Mount Moriah, Ex Hex and The Julie Ruin, among others. Afterwards, there will be a dance party at The Station with DJ Fifi Hifi and DJ Play Play.

Girls Rock NC hopes to encourage girls to get involved in music by giving the stage to prominent women musicians. But Shull is quick to note that, though the program is entrenched in rock and roll, it has a much broader mission.

“We’re not just about creating musicians, as we are about creating change in the community around individual expression,” Shull said. “It really is our way of trying to work with girls about how they can try to speak up and be more confident. This resonates into their families, their little brothers, aunts, uncles and all who see them perform. We don’t see enough girls playing instruments, but when we do, girls know that they can be who they want to be, achieve what they want to achieve.”

To find out more information about Girls Rock NC, visit their website at http://www.girlsrocknc. org/. Tickets can be purchased on their rally page at http://www.girlsrocknc.org/grnc-rally.

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Emily Feng The Chronicle It’s been a big week in country music. Lady Antebellum’s new album, 747, is a testament to their lyrically-driven, ballad-tinged country. For the seemingly precious-few

country listeners out there, Lady Antebellum has been a staple songwriting tour de force in country music since their entrance onto the country music stage in 2007.

Although the majority of the album’s tracks stay within the safety of the status quo, 747 has some radio favorites (“Bartender,” in particular, has already hit country charts) and genuinely well-written songs (“Long Stretch of Love”

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and “Down South”).

Meanwhile, the square-jawed Blake Shelton delivers yet again in his quintessentially-country album Bringing Back the Sunshine, with particularly strong hits in “Good Country Song,” chart-topping “Neon Light” and the beautifully whimsical “South of Heaven.” Yet the little fanfare that accompanied the new releases of these two country giants begs the question: is country music a serious music genre which deserves our critical attention?

My own venture into country began by riding the tail end of a millennial-driven folk and bluegrass revival.

Before long, I was listening to some hardcore bluegrass.

While my peers teeny-bopped to Rihanna and Maroon 5, there I was with my raggedy headphones, intently listening to my crackly, newly digitally-mastered recordings of itinerant bluegrass musicians from the 1940s in western North Carolina. It was a lonely experience because very few people I knew–and even fewer my age–were bluegrass purists. Weak as I was then in my musical convictions, I threw in the towel. I went backwards on the folk spectrum until finally, I arrived at our genre in question: popular country music.

“Don’t you find country idiotically simplistic, formulaic even?” my friends ask me. Yes, I have to admit–like in any musical genre–there are some songs which make it past the industry gatekeepers and shock us with their lyrical superficiality (see Luke Bryan’s “Rain is a Good Thing”) and grammatical incoherence (Chase Rice’s “Gonna Wanna Tonight” is a prime example). But underneath popular country music’s predictable invocations of icecold beer, pick-up trucks and daisy dukes is what I believe to be a genuinely meaningful, culturally complex genre of music worth listening to.

At the center of my peers’ dislike for (radio) country music is, I believe, an instinctual distaste for the genre’s socio-cultural associations: its symbols of meaning, its blue collar audience and, ultimately, the false utopia it draws on for relevance. I say utopia because the bucolic– family values, tailgates, heavy drinking, romanticization of the agricultural cycle–rely on a beautified vision of pastoral paradise. My own hypothesis is that in technocratic, globalized cultures like ours today, anything that bills itself as authentic will gain social traction. But I also say “false” because this nostalgia is for something that has never existed, at least not on a large-scale. By any historian’s account, America’s agrarian past was full of physical hardship and bigotry of all kinds. For every utopia that has existed in the present to theorize the future, there has been a corresponding effort to airbrush the past.

Yet the falsity of country’s utopia does not invalidate its cultural worth. Indian psychologist and theorist Ashis Nandy wrote about false utopias as important boundaries for our mappings of reality: “Selfconsciously or not, we are often in dialogue with utopias which define, or once define, our own utopias as a starting point or as a target of defiance.” All utopias are false anyways: country music offers a potent visual language of sunshine, freedom and porches which draws out the common humanity. Its articulation of working-class values speaks to the relationship which appoints country music as an important conduit and historical artifact for understanding the mosaic of American culture. Blake Shelton’s track off his new album, “Buzzin,’” epitomizes this working class sensibility. It is the same kind of class-based ideology that makes Fox News possible and, yet, also inspires small acts of kindness and hospitality which keep my faith in humanity alive. Heck, it also doesn’t hurt that country music is a good time.

Of course, we cannot take country and its version of Real America at wholesale, at face value; country music’s value in producing and edifying community through nostalgia also reinforces race, gender and class xenophobias (think the Islamaphobic “redneck”).

Because of this, I love country music in much the same way that I love Lana del Rey, the cultural icon, and hate Lana, the anti-feminist. But if we can be aware of the limitations of country music while embracing its unabashed value for human relationships, then I say country music has something to offer everyone. Am I being selective? Yes, of course. But no song is perfect.

So, lay down your pretension and disdain for that which is foreign. Embrace what is universal–love of family, belonging, and freedom–no matter how it is expressed. Screw irony. Screw cynicism. Sometimes what is good doesn’t have to be complex or overwrought.

As long as it’s genuine and makes me smile, then I’m going to, in the words of Randy Houser, put my hair down and get some of that laid on back.

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Duke looks to bounce back against Louisville Adriana Parker Staff Writer After a tough road loss to the secondranked team in the nation, Duke will return to the comfortable grounds of Koskinen Stadium to face an unfamiliar foe.

The Blue Devils will face ACCnewcomer Louisville Saturday at 7 p.m.

Louisville in a match that will vs. be important in their battle to rise Duke to the top of the conference.

Both SUNDAY, 7 p.m. teams will be aiming Koskinen Stadium for a much-needed win after stumbling in ACC matchups last week.

“We look forward to these types of games,” head coach Robbie Church said.

“We’re really looking forward to getting home. We’ve played three straight ACC games. That was pretty vicious. Five of our last seven games were at home so I think that’s going to really help us and really energize us. We play very, very well at home.”

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Sophomore forward Toni Payne—who leads the Blue Devils in assists and is tied for the team lead in goals with four—will look to find the back of the net against Louisville Friday.

week in a road game against then-No. 2 Virginia Tech that ended 2-0. Redshirt junior goalkeeper Ali Kershner was unable to stop an early penalty kick, leading to the Hokies’ first goal of the game, and the Blue Devils were unable

to even the score after the slow start.

“The defense played very well against them,” Church said. “The goal was [a] penalty kick [in] the first 50 seconds in the match. That was something called by the referees that we didn’t agree

with. [For] the last goal, we gave up we changed our formations in the back.

We’re very young, and we thought we could have won that game last week, and we were really disappointed that we’re See W. Soccer on Page 12

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Blue Devils hit the road for tough ACC weekend test Ali Wells Beat Writer After winning their two opening games of ACC play at Cameron Indoor Stadium last weekend, the No. 25 Blue Devils have a challenging road ahead of them as they head to Charlottesville, Va., No. 25 Friday and to Notre Duke Dame, Ind., Sunday. vs.

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The match against Virginia Friday evening will kick off four away matches for the next two weekends, but the squad knows it must take one match at a time

to be successful.

“We can’t get ahead of ourselves,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “[That’s] the focus we have to have to execute and beat these teams, especially on their home courts.”

The Cavaliers (9-6) also notched two wins at home to kick off ACC play, taking down both Clemson and Wake Forest 3-1. Undefeated in five games at home, Virginia recorded its highest hitting percentage of the season, .383, against the Demon Deacons Saturday. Senior outside hitter Tori Janoswki—who is 12th on the Cavaliers’ all-time list with 1,023 career kills—hit .500 with 19 kills and no errors.

Maintaining composure on Virginia’s home court will be as challenging as containing Janowski on offense. Memorial Gymnasium draws a tough crowd of Cavalier fans, especially for the defending ACC champions.

“With Duke, it comes with the territory, being the team to beat,” Nagel said. “In Charlottesville, they have a smaller facility with a great crowd that can get very close to the court. We usually get the best hecklers they have, so we have to be ready to go because they See Volleyball on Page 13

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each other and communicating,” Kerr said. “It’s a young back line with a freshman goalie and two backs that are freshmen so it takes a little bit of coordination and organizing and talking more.”

One big question mark for the Blue Devils is the participation of senior captain Sean Davis, who was absent from the team’s 2-0 victory against the Mountaineers with a hamstring injury. Not only does he lead the team with five assists, but he also provides visible leadership on the field. As for the status of the Holmdel, N.J., native for Friday’s game against Wake

Forest (5-4-0, 1-2), it is still uncertain.

“It’s a day-by-day thing right now,” Kerr said Tuesday.

“I hope he [can play], because he’s a big player for us.

Fingers are crossed.”

The Blue Devils will face a Wake Forest squad that has struggled with its own inconsistencies recently. After blowing out Virginia Military Institute 7-0 at home, the Demon Deacons dropped their next game at Clemson 3-1. They then proceeded to bounce back with a 2-1 victory at home against Akron Tuesday night.

Despite a bit of shakiness, however, Wake Forest boasts the best offense in the ACC by almost every standard.

Entering the Akron game, the Demon Deacons led the league in a six offensive categories, as they average 6.88 points per game, 2.25 goals per game, 2.38 assists per game and have notched 18 goals, 19 assists and 152 shots on the season.

The leader of this offense is junior forward Michael Gamble, who on Tuesday was named the NSCAA player of the week for his four goals and two assists in the team’s two games against Virginia Military Institute and Clemson. The Columbia, Md., native has contributed just less than one-third of the Demon Deacons’ goals and assists this season, and currently leads the ACC in points, shots, goals, assists, shots per game, points per game, goals per game and assists per game.

“He’s the danger guy. If we can shut him down by preventing him from getting the ball, number one, and then have cover and balance behind him when he does get it, that’s the key,” Kerr said. “[Gamble] wants to go to goal quickly so we have to get numbers around him and make sure that he’s watched at all times.”

Kerr believes that his team has an excellent chance to capture a third consecutive victory if they continue to play smart possession soccer.

“They’re very dangerous on possession. We have to make sure we’re ready for their counterattacks because they get the ball and they go quickly,” Kerr said. “It’s going to be a good battle.”

Friday’s game is the seventh annual Genna Wiley Memorial Match to raise money for breast cancer research. Pink towels will be handed out to the first 500 fans in attendance and fans who wear pink will receive free admission.

their opponents thus far this season 18-9.

Inconsistency has plagued the team and was the main factor in its 6-0 loss at then-No. 5 Florida State last Thursday.

For Duke, sophomore forward Toni Payne will be a pivotal player in Saturday night’s match. She will be entering the game leading the team in assists with four, tied with senior Kelly Cobb for the lead in goals and second only to freshman Imani Dorsey in shots and shots-on-goal.

“Toni’s a handful. She can really run at players,” Church said. “She’s become very dangerous in the box.

People have to have a game plan for Toni Payne when they play against her. She’s been very consistent all year.”

Because Louisville is new to the conference and unfamiliar, the Blue Devils will have to rely on the Cardinals’ recent performances in order to build a strategy. Duke must capitalize on the strength of its defensive line—led in part by senior defender Anastasia Hunt—and drive an attack on Louisville in order to improve its conference record.

“We’re in a crunch time. These last seven games are really, really important games for us,” Church said.

The Blue Devils have not had an easy schedule recently, facing Pittsburgh, N.C. State and Virginia Tech all on the road. Saturday’s game will be one more obstacle to overcome in their journey to the ACC and NCAA tournaments.

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Junior goalkeeper Ali Kershner and the Blue Devil defense will look to bounce back from a tough loss to then-No. 2 Virginia Tech when they host Louisville Friday.

Alex Albert Staff Writer At a time when they are playing arguably their best soccer, the Blue Devils will be tested on Friday night by the best offense in the ACC. Coming off of the team’s first consecutive victories of the season, the Blue Devils will travel to Spry Stadium Friday for a 7 p.m. kickoff against Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C. Duke This game will provide another vs. opportunity for Duke to translate Wake consistent success at home into a Forest victory on the road.

The Blue Devils have played Friday, 7 p.m.

Spry Stadium their best soccer late in games this season—15 of the team’s 19 goals have been scored in the second half. This trend holds true on the defensive end as well, where they have allowed opponents to score only four goals in the second half so far this season, compared to 11 in the first half. Head coach John Kerr believes the key to victory is matching this strong second-half performance earlier in the game.

“I think a good plus for us tonight was that we had a good start to the game and our movement was good.

I think we’ll have to do the same thing going forward against Wake,” Kerr said after the Blue Devils’ 2-0 victory against Appalachian State Tuesday. “We can’t go in being wishy-washy or not concentrating, we have to make sure that we’re ready for that game from the get-go.”

For Duke (5-3-1, 2-1 in the ACC), the story recently has been all about defense. Seniors Zach Mathers and Jack Coleman anchor an otherwise young back line, as the veteran duo is typically joined by freshmen Markus Fjortoft and Kevon Black. Another freshman, Joe Ohaus, has been solid in goal as of late. This Blue Devil defensive unit has been responsible for two consecutive shutouts leading up to Friday night’s game.

Kerr attributes this recent success to greater unity and harmony that comes naturally with more game experience.

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The Cardinals (4-5-1, 1-1-1) will travel to Durham after their third conference match of the season against Miami ended in a draw. Freshman Alison Price sent the game into overtime, evening the score with a goal in the 86th minute. Louisville ended the game with an 11-8 shot advantage against Miami, but was unable to score the go-ahead goal in either of the overtime sessions.

The Blue Devils and the Cardinals both have one conference road loss early in conference play, meaning that both teams will be ready to battle for 90 minutes when they take the field Saturday.

“They’re a very good team. They’re sort of like we are, right in that bubble, a little above .500, a little higher than we are in the RPI,” Church said. “We have to make sure we watch them. We’re impressed with their backs. They can play with forwards, they’re strong in the midfield. We haven’t played them before in the past with them joining the conference this year.”

Louisville’s scoring is dominated by its freshman class. Forward Isabella Habuda spearheads the attack with three goals scored off 11 shots, followed by Price, who has netted two goals of her own. Despite the success of their freshmen, the Cardinals have been outscored by

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman goalkeeper Joe Ohaus has led the Blue Devils in their past two contests, posting shutouts in both victories.

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Notre Dame (3-10) was swept in both of its opening ACC matches 3-0, but the Irish gave then-No. 6 Florida State a run for its money Sunday, forcing 32 ties and 10 lead changes before falling 34-32, 25-22, 25-19. Junior setter Hanna Muzzonigro had a career-high 34 assists of Notre Dame’s total 42—two more than the Seminoles produced. The Irish also put down 46 kills to Florida State’s 45.

But Notre Dame struggled on defense in both its matches, unable to put up good blocks at the net and giving up 16 service aces between the Miami match Friday and Florida State contest Sunday.

The Blue Devils (10-3, 2-0 ACC) will look to take advantage of the Irish’s defensive weaknesses. Sunday Duke hit a seasonhigh .427 with 54 kills and only 10 attack errors, led by outside hitter Emily Sklar. The junior—earning ACC Player of the Week honors—finished her fifth-straight match with 15 or more kills, knocking down 16 en route to the Blue Devils’ sweep of the Hurricanes and fifth-straight win.

Despite their recent efficiency on offense, the Blue Devils cannot underestimate their opponent.

“I know this sounds cliche, but every match in the ACC is a big match. Going on the road makes it that much more of a challenge,” Nagel said.

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Challenging assumptions about poverty Robert Walker, a professor of social policy at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and an adviser to a United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, discussed the conclusions of his most recent study with members of the Duke community Tuesday evening. Through the results

Editorial of his study, “The Shame of Poverty,” Walker examined how individuals living in poverty identify with their economic status. He found that controlling for cultural definitions of shame, impoverished individuals in almost every country surveyed expressed some feeling of shame when reflecting on their poverty.

The study examined poverty on a global scale, but there are a multitude of connections to life at Duke. This year, the University has allocated more than $130 million to provide financial aid to those undergraduates who demonstrate sufficient need so that the Duke experience can be affordable across the economic spectrum. Many aspects of life here are shielded from the economic

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I like to think that something first becomes real when I learn it exists. By that logic, Yik Yak is a brand new social media platform that was invented five and a half weeks ago. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sorry to say Yik Yak is not the online furniture-trading app we’ve all been waiting for (hit me up venture capitalists). Rather, Yik Yak connects you with people near your location--perfect for a college campus-and allows you to anonymously post messages that are up-voted and down-voted by other anonymous users. Yik Yak is so simple that the only reason it beat out the hundreds of other apps with the exact same idea is because of the cute, cartoon yak spinning around its loading page.

I know what you’re thinking. Great, another anonymous message board. What better way to

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realities of daily life, as students spend food points liberally and nobody living on campus worries about making rent. Although coming from an underprivileged background might not carry the stigma that Walker discussed, it’s important to realize class is embedded into certain aspects of Duke life. Students may feel pressure to pursue more lucrative careers if faced with the prospect of economic uncertainty after college, be it student loan debt or simply paying the bills. Around campus, status symbols slowly have become the norm: the glow of MacBooks in lecture halls and students flashing iPhones on the bus. Outside of the classroom, socioeconomic status becomes more and more visible in the choices we make in our extracurriculars and social lives. Even free time becomes a privilege, as some students look to work-study to augment their financial aid. As desirable it is to create academic environment free from the stress of personal finances, it simply can’t be ignored.

But the questions raised by Walker’s research also focus how we think about poverty from an academic perspective. There are lenses we wear when thinking like an academic without realizing

it. Examining poverty as a systemic problem is very different that facing the realities of one’s own poverty. It becomes fetishized, an abstract object that can be displayed, consumed and studied, instead of personally dealt with. What are we missing when we study a phenomenon for which we have no experience of?

At Duke, students are in a unique opportunity to come into contact with the severe inequality so often discussed in academia. DukeEngage creates opportunities for students to tackle the issues surrounding poverty in a foreign and domestic context. Service learning programs push students into the local community as tutors and mentors for Durham youth. Yet at the end of the day, poverty is an issue that is intensely personal, no matter how prevalent. Our academic perspective can only capture the testimony and statistics of this experience. Bringing our focus to issues of poverty at home, rather than de facto exporting them abroad, will bring about a finer understanding of the psychological toll that accompanies financial instability. Those of us without the personal experience of poverty can discuss the implications of Walker’s study, but simply because something is recognized does not mean it is understood.

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engage in civil and intellectually stimulating dialogue? I had doubts too. While downloading the app, I prepared myself for what was sure to be an onslaught of obscenities, unprovoked hate and shameful usage of English grammar. I was wrong.

Well, for the most part.

I wouldn’t go as far as to label Yik Yak constructive, considering a substantial percentage of posts are about pooping--but to be fair, how often do we get to detail our precious time on the toilet? Middle school sex-puns also get more up-votes than I would hope for. But that aside, Yik Yak is merely the platform in which Duke students dictate the culture of the community. Anonymity too often breeds negativity, but the Duke Yik Yak community values humor without maliciously targeting others.

Yik Yak operates on a voting system and next to every post there is a tally of up-votes and downvotes represented in a score. For instance, “who’s going hard tonight? (-3)” compared with “Up vote if you’re really sick of the hook up culture (56).” If a post’s score falls below (-5) it disappears forever, often to the relief of the embarrassed poster—I’ve been there. Scrolling through the live feed I watch

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as hurtful, toxic comments get down-voted into oblivion while people genuinely sharing their feelings and concerns consistently rank among the top posts. When the top post reads, “Let’s stop having separate tailgates” or “treat the Marketplace workers with respect,” you know that someone out there is saying “I don’t have to say this but this is how I feel” and more than a hundred other people feel the same way. In the most unlikely place, Duke created a community.

Communities thrive on empathy. It’s Sunday night in Perkins. I’ve procrastinated to the point where I’m actually clicking the Buzzfeed links on Facebook. It’s crunch time and I feel helpless in a sea of perfect robots jamming away on their keyboards, flying through problem sets. I open Yik Yak and find a different world than the one I see on first-floor Perkins. But it’s the same world. Every post comes together in a resounding chorus of “We are all in Perkins. We are all screwed but we are going to make it.” It’s then I realize I’m not the only one who spent Saturday naked in bed with a crate of Pitchforks wings. Maybe Duke needs anonymity to be human. Ideally, we wouldn’t have to put on this perfect image in the first place, but Yik Yak lets me see that below the surface, everyone’s struggling.

I’m not trying to glorify Yik Yak. For every genuine post, there are three complaining about how P-Waves always wear their shirts and D-Sig never wears any. Yik Yak exaggerates the presence of alcohol on campus and becomes consumed by sexual frustration after a disappointing night at Shooters.

At first glance, Yik Yak provides just another tiresome venue for Duke students to validate their wit.

But spend a quarter of the time I do on the app and you realize its value goes deeper. I’m confident that Duke students don’t go on Yik Yak to make other students feel bad. They go on to say the things that they can’t say otherwise. They say they’re homesick and they’re stressed. They feel alone and not good enough. They joke about Duke math classes and missing the C3. On Yik Yak those feelings are valid and they are shared. And on Yik Yak we can talk about poop, because whether we admit it or not, everybody’s doing it.

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ith the recent passing of two cherished Duke students, Kaila Brown and Alexander Rickabaugh, and the birthday of my dear friend and beloved Semester at Sea shipmate Casey Shulman, who passed away in 2012, this past week has been one of heartfelt loss mixed with bittersweet memories. Realizing that how much good someone brings to the world or how loved someone is does not tie them any tighter to life is devastating to grasp, particularly at an age when we feel invincible— like life is just getting started. My heart goes out to all those struggling with loss. I do not have much to offer, but I’d like to share what I do— the 3 life truths Casey Shulman instilled in me.

Life is not a race track. It is more of a museum with some incredibly awe-inspiring exhibits. The point is not the speed with which we can pass through each display, nor the precision with which we can commit each display’s details to memory. The point is to

Cara Peterson IT’S CALLED A “VICTORY LAP” pause thoughtfully, take in the finer details of each masterpiece and explore the emotions it pulls out of us. The extent to which we open ourselves to all that our experiences have to offer is what holds value. Often times we are so set on getting where we are going that we forget to live the age that we are. Some of my favorite memories are from nights when I paused a moment to think to myself, “tonight I get to be 22.” It reminds me of how Casey’s way of being always seemed to have something to celebrate, no matter how simple. It also switches off my autopilot and reminds me that so much relies on our ability to be present in the moment, as that is the only moment in which we can feel what it actually means to be alive—feel our heart beating, feel the swell of our lungs with each breath, feel the emotions that give our experiences meaning.

Love harder. We often fear loving things too much because it makes us vulnerable and open to getting hurt. But fighting this fear and doing it anyway is far better than the regret that comes with realizing we did not love someone or something hard enough while we had the chance. Casey’s memorial was so beautiful because I got to hear what an impact she had made on others’ lives and think about how she had impacted my own. It was also heartbreaking because I realized how much magic there was inside this one person—becoming so evident with story after story— and it made me bitterly question why it is so easy to take the simple presence of a friend for granted. These sentiments

can best be expressed through two lines in a poem I later wrote, “Because hurt is nothing more than the measure of how much something meant to you,/ Because mourning is only a representation of how well we attached ourselves to the life we are living.” Khalil Gibran exposes this same beauty in certain kinds of sadness by urging, “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” Losing a loved one brings great sadness, but trying my best to be thankful to have known Casey in the first place and to have had her in my life does offer me some comfort.

I urge others who are hurting right now to think of the moments they shared with those who have passed away in our Duke community and cherish what gifts these memories are. We should never be afraid to give each other permission to celebrate the things we loved about those no longer with us.

Finality does not exist. Once we have lived something, it is written in the stars. Experiences are forever. We will always have shared that moment, that memory together— and it is in this way I believe “we are infinite.” I think some people make a mistake in believing the way to be remembered is by having one’s name in a history book or engraved into the side of a building. Why is it so important for the memory of a name to be passed down, when beliefs and feelings are what make an impact? When one lives his or her life in a way that is so meaningful that it ripples into others who then carry that ripple forward and forward into time— that’s the way to be remembered. I never really knew my grandfather, but I know he is to my mom what my mom is to me. I know him in my own way because the values I carry in me were passed down from him. Casey certainly had this same impact on those around her. “Thankful” was Casey’s word. She wrote it on a piece of paper to represent what SAS meant to her, taped it to the mirror in her room, and lived it every day. And even though we no longer have her here to beam that belief like sunshine out of her smile, the word continues to hold such deep meaning for us, and that will inevitably be passed on. Through her, I have come to realize the surest way to find joy in life is to believe that each moment is one that can bring magic. This commitment to thankfulness as a discipline did not leave with Casey—it has remained with all the people she touched. Long after we are all here to talk about it, that ripple of hers will continue. I have no doubt the ripples of Kaila and Alexander will do the same.

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t’s Thursday and anyone who gets a thrill from attempted murder, steamy sex scenes or problematic patriotism is watching Shonda Rhimes’ “Scandal” tonight. Rhimes’ hit show premiered last Thursday to 12.2 million viewers and was followed by series “How To Get Away With Murder,” which opened to over 14 million viewers. The new thriller was best known for its executive producer—you guessed it—Shonda Rhimes. If you’re still lost, ever heard of that show “Grey’s Anatomy?” Yeah, she did that too.

Some may consider Rhimes a god(dess) or a champion for the lost and underrepresented. I think that’s a bit reaching. Simply put, her characters are complex people that are funny and all sorts of messed up, characters that span all races and sexual orientations. Rhimes combats the idea of the Asian sidekick or the saucy Latina, ideas often based in harmful stereotypes. But just two weeks ago in a New York Times article, Rhimes was reduced to one—the angry black woman.

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The creator of one of the best shows on network television can’t write women characters that fight back without being depicted as an angry black woman? Something doesn’t seem right about that to me. Why is it that being a woman—a person—with a large collection of emotions, isn’t really what people see when they think of an angry black woman? Unfortunately even acclaimed writers and producers don’t get a pass when it comes to being painted as an archetype before they’re painted as a person.

Here’s a quick history lesson on where this angry black woman idea originated from. The archetype appeared in the late 1920’s radio show “Amos ‘n’ Andy”. Sapphire, the matriarch of the show family, was depicted as bossy and verbally abusive to her husband. Picture her hands on her hip and a snappy point finger. Sound familiar? Seems a lot like that “Independent woman who don’t need no man” meme that circulated around the internet God knows how long ago. Archetypes that characterize blacks as individuals with polarizing traits like sassiness, laziness or being hyper-sexualized are nothing new. In fact, almost 200 years ago, shows that depicted these racist stereotypes were the most popular types of entertainment in the country. Can you say blackface?

You might be saying to yourself now, ‘Brianna, we get it? Racism was bad and people mad fun of black people, but that was forever ago. Besides black women are strong and independent and angry was just a word to depict that.’ Oh okay. Perhaps it’s that strength that leaves more than 2.5 more black women than white women murdered by men, annually.

When it comes to survivors of sexual assault, for every survivor to report, 3 times as many black women than white women will not report the crime.

Women who are victims of sexual assault often feel shame or ask what they could have done differently to prevent the assault. Now imagine feeling like you have to be strong, independent or a fighter and living with the misguided idea that you just weren’t strong enough to prevent the attack.

I can only imagine how this adds to the shame those women feel. Now imagine wanting to speak out about your assault. Along with the pressures of being a woman which paints victims of sexual assault as sluts or asking for it, add to that the pressure of being seen as a hateful, spiteful woman.

Add to that the pressure that although you were an “angry black woman”, you weren’t angry enough to stop your attacker.

What those memes on the internet don’t tell you is that behind every stereotype there is someone who tries to find themselves within media or conversations only to find antiquated ideals that rely on ignorance and false ideals. The world black women live in is no different than the world at large--we all take in the same negative images, even if they’re about us.

I have talked to strong black women going to college who can’t be too strong or too angry during discussion for fear of not being taken seriously.

Black women know all too well the word “opinionated”. There are strong black women who are preyed on by the police or attacked by their neighbors. Women who were seen as angry or uncivilized or “ghetto” before they were even seen with any humanity at all.

Why does this matter? Well, I’m a black woman. I really don’t want to be angry, but honestly, I’m not apologizing for it and neither should any other black woman. We have a right to be. We have a right to be multidimensional. We can be funny and irate and “classically beautiful.” We can lead TV networks or be President. We can even be black dependent women who sometimes need a man. I know it may sound like I’m just complaining to get your pity or that I am trying to move focus to the black girls. And to that I would say no to former and yes to the latter. Because if an acclaimed writer and producer can’t write complex black dimensional characters without being cast as a stereotype, well then, that’s something I will share my opinion about—and you can read it every other Thursday.

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Letter to the Editor Your vote matters Perhaps the most important Senate race in the country is happening in Duke’s backyard.

Incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan is locked in a tight battle with former Speaker of the North Carolina General Assembly Thom Tillis for a Senate seat, which could determine which party controls the Senate. The 2014 Midterm Elections will be pivotal in shaping the national political landscape for the rest of President Obama’s term in office. This year, your vote truly matters.

Our reputation, in fact our legacy, at this university is one of political action. From the 1969 takeover of the Allen Building to the protests of the Vietnam War, Duke students have a history of active engagement in the political sphere. The upcoming midterm elections are an opportunity to build upon this legacy.

There have been election initiatives for every recent major election on campus, but this year is different. There is no polling location on campus, registration to vote closes significantly earlier, and the absentee voting timeframe has been limited.

Last year, the North Carolina legislature passed stringent voter identification and registration laws, which limit college students, minority, and low-income communities from voting. But people

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have been working hard to make it easier to register and vote.

Here’s how you can take action: Go to studentvote.org and enter your information to fill out a registration form.

When filling out your address, all on-campus students (East, West, & Central) must use their PO Box number as their mailing address and their residence hall’s street address as the home address. Off-campus residents should use their physical address.

Finish inputting your information, print off your registration form, and sign the form.

Drop it into one of the DSG-sponsored voter registration boxes on campus or mail to the Durham County Board of Elections. The deadline to submit your form in the on-campus boxes is October 9th. October 10 is the final day to register with the Durham County Board of Elections.

North Carolina is our second home. When we mobilize — when we commit to making our voices heard — we can make a serious difference.

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Thu Nguyen | The Chronicle With the Pizzeria no longer an MOP vendor, restaurants including Sushi Love, Monuts, Heavenly Buffaloes and Chubby’s Tacos are being considered as new options.

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also a senior—said that he is working on a transportation program similar to Uber exclusively for Duke students. Director of LGBTQ Affairs and Outreach Daniel Kort, a senior, said that he is working on a lecture series on subjects topical to the LGBTQ community at Duke.

In the aftermath of the announcement, the committee has been considering other potential options such as The Q Shack, Chubby’s Tacos and Heavenly Buffaloes— the recently opened chicken wings restaurant off of Ninth Street.

Most recently, the committee has considered student-favorites Sushi Love and Monuts Donuts.

The student body has displayed distinct enthusiasm for the possibility of adding Sushi Love as an MOP vendor. Research conducted by sophomores Colin Power and Kevin Hatch, co-directors of restaurants for Campus Enterprises, revealed a preference for Sushi Love over other sushi restaurants such as Mount Fuji and Vine Sushi.

In other business: Senior Cynthia Wang was selected to be the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair.

Funding for the Korean Undergraduate Students Association was passed. Approximately $2,000 was allocated to the group for the presentation of a documentary about sextrafficking in Seoul.

The resolution concerning the first topics of study for the DSGRU was tabled until next week after the inaugural groups of investigators are chosen.

Duke Symphony Orchestra performs in Baldwin

http://tinyurl.com/hiho2014 Limited space still available for all meals.

Tickets for services are free to all students with Duke ID. The Freeman Center for Jewish Life is located at 1415 Faber St at the corner of Campus Drive and Swift Ave. Parking is extremely limited.

Guests are strongly encouraged to take the bus.

To make your reservations or for more information contact

jewishlife@duke.edu or 919.684.6422 http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/jewishlife

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Duke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Harry Davidson, pictured above, performed its second concert of the year in Baldwin Auditorium Wednesday evening.