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Aleena Karediya Local & National Editor In an effort to get more students to the polls for midterm elections, Duke is partnering with North Carolina Central University to provide transportation to early voting sites.

The Go Vote Early program—led by the Committee for a Joint NCCU-Duke Program in African, African-American and Diaspora Studies—will transport students and employees from Duke to an early voting polling site at NCCU in late October. Duke does not have an early voting site of its own on campus. With new voter identification laws in place and North Carolina’s hotly contested senate seat in the national spotlight, the student vote has become an area of particular focus for activist groups across the state.

“The low rate of voting overall in mid-term elections is an unfortunate feature of American politics, giving those few who do vote undue influence,” said Naomi Quinn, professor emerita of cultural anthropology and an administrator of the Committee for a Joint NCCU-Duke Program.

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Photo Courtesy of the “Breaking Out” Campaign Previously held in the Bryan Center, the “Breaking Out” exhibit, which features photographs of sexual assault survivors holding up words recounting their experiences, will debut in the Duke Chapel this Friday, Oct. 17. (See story on Page 7 of Recess)

Students brainstorm answers to Ebola outbreak Duke Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator challenges students to find solution for Ebola outbreak Grace Wang Health & Science Editor

Photo Courtesy of The Washington Post Angela Hewlett receives assistance putting on protective gear at the Nebraska Medical Center, where an Ebola patient is being treated.

Students are pioneering potential solutions to end the spread of Ebola.

The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke is launching the Ebola Innovations Challenge. Throughout the challenge, the student community will submit possible plans to end the spread of Ebola. According to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention, three cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the U.S., including two nurses previously in contact with the deceased patient.

Amid the growing concern of the infectious disease in the US, the global Ebola crisis is one that requires eminent solutions to address a broader population.

“The vast majority of the Global Health problems today could be solved with science we already have,” said sophomore Priyanka Venkannagari, a member of the student advisory committee of SEAD. “[The challenge] is about implementation, execution and how we can use existing resources to better a community in need.”

The 2014 Ebola outbreak—one of the largest in history—has a cumulative number of 8,997 cases according to the Oct. 15 report by

the World Health Organization. The Ebola virus spread through these developing countries with poor precaution measures and treatment measures, afflicting the general population as well as healthcare workers. In the middle of the crisis, SEAD seeks to engage students and faculty in working to address the global concern.

“Within the student engagement work stream of SEAD, we put on the Ebola Innovations Challenge because it is a very timely and high-profile challenge going on globally right now,” said Kimberly Bardy Langsam, program director of SEAD. SEAD was one of seven university development labs selected nationwide in 2012 See Ebola on Page 4

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DSG proposes Fix My Campus affiliation and new pass/fail policy Alex Griffith The Chronicle In a Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday night, Fix My Campus requested status as an affiliate, the Senate passed a resolution to change Duke’s pass/fail policy and the DSG judiciary proposed a student advocate program.

With the granting of affiliate status, FMC—a student organization which handles complaints and suggestions about improving Duke facilities—would report to DSG and have access to DSG resources and personnel. The pass/fail policy resolution proposes change which will allow students to take two pass/fail courses counting towards requirements. The judiciary’s student advocate program will train student lawyers to represent other students facing the DSG student court.

FMC presidents senior Cameron Tripp, junior JP Lucaci and sophomore Betty Chen presented their case for the organization’s inclusion into DSG’s affiliate bylaw. They explained that although FMC is doing a lot for Duke students by itself, access to DSG resources, connections and personnel would help it increase its scope and effectiveness.

The presidents noted that the group is currently independent and has to go through lots of red tape to complete many of its larger projects. With DSG’s help, many more of these projects would be possible and the group would become more streamlined and better equipped to handle student suggestions, they said.

Lucaci explained that some of the projects FMC is working on, including a charger loaning program in Perkins Library and expansion of bike racks around campus, would

be made simpler once the group is officially affiliated with DSG. Although Lucaci and Tripp are already members of DSG, other members of DSG would also gain a role in FMC if affiliation is confirmed. The amendment to the affiliation bylaw would allow the President of the Services Committee to appoint a senator to the FMC committee. Lucaci noted, however, that this is mostly just a “technicality” to ensure that DSG and FMC are communicating.

Due to a process requiring any changes to Senate bylaw to be tabled for a week, the proposal to modify said bylaw will be debated and voted on next week.

Senator of Academic Affairs Annie Adair, a junior, proposed a resolution to change Duke’s pass/fail policy, which currently allows students to take four of their required 34 credits pass/fail as long as they are not Trinity requirements, Pratt social science or humanities requirements or major, minor and certificate requirements.

Adair’s changes propose that students be allowed to take two of their four allotted pass/fail courses to fulfill Trinity and Pratt social science and humanities requirements.

This will encourage students to take challenging yet intriguing classes, she said.

To ensure effectiveness, Adair proposed that the new policy be limited to 200-level or higher classes and that students be required to show demonstrated interest in order to enroll. She maintained that these two pass/ fail classes would not count towards majors, minors, or certificates.

The resolution was passed unanimously, with an amendment to remove the 200-level requirement in favor of allowing courses of any level to be taken pass/fail.

Associate Justice Nikolai Doytchinov, a senior, proposed the creation of a Student Ad-

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle DSG proposed the addition of Fix My Campus as an affiliate and changes to Duke’s pass/fail policy and recognized three new student organizations at its weekly meeting Wednesday.

vocate Program, which would train students to serve as advocates and representatives for other students who appear in a case before the DSG judiciary.

Those who want to serve as student advocates will be instructed on the DSG constitution and legal process and previous cases which may be related to future cases. Students who finish the training will take a bar examination to make sure they are fit to face a court as a representative of another party.

In other business: Executive Vice President Abhi Sanka, a junior, explained that DSG will soon create a committee to select a nomination committee for the Young Trustee selection

process. In the coming weeks, students will select nominees for Young Trustee, who serves a three-year term on the Duke Board of Trustees. The nomination committee will narrow the initial nominees down to several finalists.

DSG recognized three groups—Duke Athlete Ally, which works to combat homophobia and transphobia in athletics; the Duke Black Women’s Union, which will provide mentoring services for black women and will help them with career paths and opportunities; and the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, which works to improve access to medicine and healthcare among impoverished groups around the world.

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Famed photojournalist challenges PeaceCorps‘Peace students to engage, ‘tell stories’ Car’ visits campus Duke Africa Initiative hosts

And that bothered me.”

In addition to exhibiting his work in the exhibition featuring Boniface Friedl Building’s Jameson Gallery, Mwangi Mwangi’s photography came to campus to speak to students about American civic engagement, said exhibit host Kathryn Mathers, visiting assistant professor of Jenna Zhang cultural anthropology Local & National Editor Mwangi is the protagonist of FRAMED, an upcoming documentary film that is co-proKenyan photojournalist Boniface Mwangi duced by Mathers. used his work to frame a discussion on activIn his speech, Mwangi addressed racial dyism and race relations in the Friedl Building namics in the U.S., as well as problems in KeWednesday. nya and other African nations—touching on Mwangi’s photographs depict the 2007 post- the election of Barack Obama as the first black election violence in Kenya, which resulted in president, the recent racial tensions in Ferguapproximately 1,000 cason, Mo. and persistent raor a photojournalsualties and more than a cial inequalities. quarter of a million people “There is this very clear ist, you freeze the displaced. Mwangi, a native moment that is truthful. divide—you may go to class Kenyan working as a photogether [with someone] tographer at the time, be- So my goal is to [ask] ‘How and live in completely difcame involved in activism can I tell stories with these ferent worlds,” Mwangi following the crisis—partic- pictures?’ said. ipating in street exhibitions He encouraged the stuand encouraging youth dents in attendance to act — Boniface Mwangi activism. The Wednesday toward solving problems reception for his photogthey see around them— raphy exhibit kicked off with a speech from adding that it is not necessary to go abroad to Mwangi, followed by a Q&A with attendees. aid poor communities.

“For a photojournalist, you freeze the moment “People spend a lot of time wondering what that is truthful,” Mwangi said. “So my goal is to will happen if they do something,” he said. [ask] ‘How can I tell stories with these pictures?’” “Why don’t you just do it? Then you’ll know Following the elections in 2007, Mwangi what happens.” quit his job as a photographer for a Kenyan The exhibition was sponsored and funded newspaper and began organizing. Two years by the Duke Africa Initiative. Approximately later, he was arrested for protesting at a presi- fifty people, a mixture of Duke students and lodential event. cal residents, were in attendance.

“What bothered me was that because “I think it’s a fantastic and jarring exhibition, there were winners, there must have been and it’s great to see Africa portrayed in such an losers,” he said. “But as a country and as a academic light, instead of the usual, say, kids photographer working for a newspaper, we with flies,” said Mary Paul, a Chapel Hill resinever discussed the cost of the violence…. dent. “I wish we could see more of this.”

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The Peace Corps “Peace Car” visited Duke yesterday as part of its journey to recruit students from around the country.

One of four recruitment vehicles traveling around the nation from the Peace Corps’ headquarters in Washington, D.C., the tan smart car sporting the Peace Corps logo made a pit stop outside Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday evening. The stops enable the Peace Corps to increase their social media presence and raise awareness about the opportunities they provide.

“We’ve changed the recruitment process and are trying to amplify recognition [of the Peace Corps]” said Kelly McCormack Monterroso, a spokesperson for the Peace Corps.

“It’s a great opportunity to get outside of your comfort zone and make a difference.”

Monterroso, along with another spokesperson, will stop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University before arriving in Atlanta on Friday. The idea of working for the Peace Corps was immediately appealing to her, said Monterroso, who has served for almost five years as a volunteer in Guatemala.

“I was sold on it,” she said. “To see the world, learn a language, make a difference overseas.”

The average Duke student, she added, has the same sort of mindset as many Peace Corps workers.

“The combination is right,” she said.

“They have a great drive and curiosity.”

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David Jarmul, associate vice president for Duke news and communications, added that the University has traditionally shown much support and enthusiasm for the Peace Corps.

Several hundred alumni have served in the program, he said.

Both the Fuqua School of Business and the Sanford School of Public Policy offer the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program, which provides scholarships to students serving as Peace Corps volunteers. These volunteers must participate in significant service projects in the Durham community after they return from work abroad.

“It’s the way Duke maintains a great relationship with the Peace Corps,” Jarmul said.

Matthew Borden, a graduate student in the Sanford School of Public Policy, is currently studying international developmental policy and served as an English teacher in Indonesia while working for the Peace Corps.

“It was my first major experience in the developing world,” Borden said. “It’s so important to get a first-hand experience.”

He added that his favorite part was meeting so many people from different walks of life.

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Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Local musicians, students and special guest artists performed jazz at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture Wednesday evening.

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continued from page 1 “College students are just one group that doesn’t go to the polls in large numbers.”

Following new voter identification regulations passed last year, several college campuses across the state have seen their early polling sites disappear. Duke did not have an early voting site for the 2010 midterm election, although an early polling site was on campus for the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and for the 2012 primary election. But several North Carolina campuses which traditionally have held early voting for midterm elections—including North Carolina State University and Appalachian State University—also had their polling sites taken away earlier this year.

Quinn said she hopes Go Vote Early will encourage students— who have a history of being absent at polls, she noted—to play a key role early in this decisive race.

“The principle behind this event is simply to get out more voters,” Quinn said.

Go Vote Early will be running vans between the two campuses Thu Nguyen | The Chronicle throughout the day from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30. Quinn added that she has collaborated with both Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats for the program, along with Duke administrators and has received an “enthusiastic” response across the board.

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to participate in the Higher Education Solutions Network, an initiative which receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development. The Ebola Innovations Challenge also fits into the Fighting Ebola Challenge by OpenIDEO, a design and innovation platform, in partnership with the USAID grant challenge.

The Ebola Innovations Challenge is the second annual challenge initiated by SEAD open to the entire Duke student community. Last year, the challenge was to bring healthcare awareness to a broader audience in Kenya. “[The Challenges] are not very medically-oriented at all,” Venkannagari said. “It’s more about business and policy solutions. For example, how do you deliver healthcare more efficiently in Third World countries?”

To participate in the challenge, students can sign up as individuals, a partial team or a full team. Individuals and partial teams will be put together to organize final multidisciplinary teams. The teams will then have a week of time to submit their innovative ideas and solutions. Five finalists will be selected to present at a panel of experts in the field and receive feedbacks. Langsam added that the goal is to generate excellent ideas to submit to the Fighting Ebola Challenge.

“We want to create an environment where students can engage with and learn from others from different backgrounds, such as medicine and public policy,” she said.

The challenge is not only open to undergraduate students but also to the graduate and professional community.

After the presentation, a winner of the Challenge will be selected. Kyle Munn, program coordinator of communications and marketing at SEAD, noted that the judging process will be based on how innovative and practical the ideas are, and how likely the propositions could be implemented.

Co-sponsors for the Challenge include organizations across campus such as SEAD, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and Duke Global Health Institute. During the challenge, the sponsors will host a series of events to help participants with the overall process.

The events will feature a kick-off speaker and a number of workshops dedicated to introducing the broader context for the Ebola crisis, ways to work best in interdisciplinary terms and idea generation.

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn Presents Urinetown Musical playfully ponders serious societal questions

The Pinhook Local venue hosts night of folk music, page 10

“Breaking Out” Exhibit gives voice to sexual violence survivors, page 7

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Katie Fernelius..A Stranger in the Alps

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My friend claims I am too critical of pop culture. He says I overthink it, and that mindless fluff does not need to be overthought. I have always disagreed with him about this, and it has led to some interesting conversations. Most recently, we had a discussion about the possible negative messages in Meghan Trainor’s doo-wop ditty “All About that Bass.” I thought it put a value on female body acceptance by filtering it through the male gaze, while he found it inane to analyze a pop song whose chorus is “I’m all about that bass/’bout that bass/no treble.”

All of my classes and activities have imparted me with several cultural theories through which to analyze movies, TV, music and more, enabling me to talk about culture in new ways. Serving as a writer and reviewer for the Chronicle has also helped me parse out the style through which I critique pop culture. In short, college has made me more learned and articulate about things that interest me than I was before. And isn’t that the goal?

Yet my friend accuses me of pretension, which, to an extent, I cannot justifiably deny. Whose right is it to tell the masses what is good or bad for cultural consumption? We, as critics, take it upon ourselves to “educate the masses” about the cream of the current culture and attempt to assert ourselves as tastemakers.

This has been a practice as long as print media has existed, but what relevancy does it have in today’s society?

Pop culture itself deserves to be talked about. It is one of the few things that links every person on the planet; though each society retains its own unique customs and traditions, they are blended in to the mélange that is global pop culture. It can serve as a unifying force for people of

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various backgrounds—just think of how many “Thriller” tribute videos there are on YouTube, from Minneapolis third graders to Filipino prisoners. Think about how many international musicians or actors are popular in the United States. We would not know famous artists such as Marion Cotillard or Ed Sheeran as household names if we just limited ourselves to local or national culture without immersing ourselves in the cultures of other nations and communities.

Pop culture transcends boundaries because so many enjoy it, whether it is music or theater, film or television. To say it is not worth talking about is to overlook its importance on a global scale. We are all passively participating in consuming or contributing to pop culture.

Then there are those of us who truly have a passion for pop culture. The role of a critic is, at its essence, an occupation for someone who loves culture and, more importantly, loves talking about culture. One could argue that people do not need cultural critics—what good is telling someone what to listen to or what to watch? Let people form their own opinions! But they would be wrong.

A critic is important as a guide for the way we think about pop culture. Any good critic never just says, “This movie is good,” or “This song hurts my ears and is terrible.”

A good critic rationalizes his or her opinion by providing a solid set of reasons for why an item of culture is lacking and tries to influence his or her audience into understanding the reasoning behind his or her opinion. Some of our greatest philosophical theories have emerged from cultural criticism as responses to other theorists and dramatists. This is a storied tradition that any person can be a part of.

What many critics need to remember to do to remain relevant and maintain his or her respectability is to never forget to speak like a real person. The late, great film critic Roger Ebert once wrote, “I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, ‘If you understand something, you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don’t, you won’t be able to understand your own explanation.’ That is why 90% of academic film theory is b******t. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

The critic easily ensnares himself or herself in the trap of pretension when he or she forgets who the audience is.

An audience reads a review as a piece of entertainment in and of itself, and to alienate it with jargon would undermine the critic’s point. Critics must also remember to never be overtly malicious to the cultural subject in question, as excessively nasty reviews put down creators rather than giving them an incentive to improve themselves and, by extension, pop culture at large.

A good critic explains his or her rationale in a way that makes the audience think along the same lines. A good critic provides a lens through which to view a film. A good critic aims to build up pop culture rather than break it down. With all of these things in mind, a critic can help improve culture as a whole and remain integral to the creative process.

I firmly believe that cultural criticism is as important today as it ever was, and that it, as a concept, continues to be a worthwhile endeavor. Culture is an integral part of the global fabric of society, and to ignore it or stop talking about it would limit our worldview and make us lose perspective on our fellow humans.

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Exhibit gives voice to sexual violence survivors Christina Lan The Chronicle

“The hardest words I ever said were, I need to talk to someone about an assault.” One survivor holds up these words, her testimony to the reality of experiencing sexual violence.

This survivor’s photograph is one of 32 volunteers’ stories, shared in an effort to end the silence that revolves sexual violence and to inspire healing through art.

The “Breaking Out Exhibit”, sponsored by the Duke Women’s Center, directed by Hanna Metaferia, Trinity ‘14, and photographed

by Antoinette Hayford, Julia Dunn and Naa Adoley, will be revived in the Duke University Chapel this Friday, Oct. 17.

Previously held in the Bryan Center, this exhibit is the third “Breaking Out” since the first launched in 2012 by Develle Dish writer Neha Sharma, Trinity ‘12. Develle Dish, an online blog, is a space where Duke women can openly express their stories without feeling inadmissible. The blog, along with Duke’s reduced statute of limitations in 2012, compelled Sharma to begin this photo documentary project which was inspired by Grace Brown’s Project Unbreakable. The first iteration of “Breaking Out” aimed to counter the campus and national attitudes and events undermining victims of sexual violence through an unshakeable message and solidarity.

That vision has not swayed: it has only grown stronger with this year’s exhibit featuring 32 participants, an increase from the typical 10 to 12 participants of the previous two projects.

“I think this is the kind of project that grows by word-of-mouth on campus…I feel so indebted to the people who spoke out

first, who proved that you can speak out and that it will be positive for the campus and that there will be people who listen,” Annie Piotrowski, coordinator of this year’s exhibit and Recess staff writer, said. “I really credit Hanna for helping to make more people feel comfortable in bringing their stories forward.”

Hanna Metaferia, previous editor of Develle Dish, was key in displaying the project at the Duke Chapel. As one of the Chapel scholars, she invited both the Duke Chapel and the Presbyterian Campus Ministry to become co-sponsors of the exhibit.

“The exhibit in the Chapel will demonstrate that the Chapel is a sanctuary for all victims, and is another channel that plays a role in promoting social justice,” Metaferia said.

The Chapel has had a history of hanging art on its walls with collections that connect with community partners and issues of social justice, with and without theological undertones. Christy Lohr Sapp, Associate Dean for Religious Life, underlined the Chapel’s commitment to healing through spirituality and creative arts in efforts to support those who feel alienated for any number of reasons.

“My colleagues and I felt like the exhibit didn’t get enough time in the BC and we wanted to send the message more broadly, because it was such an important topic,” Sapp said. “We wanted to communicate that we’re this place of support, reconciliation and wholeness…we’re this big building, but we’re also here for you.”

For those who missed the exhibit last year, the placement in the Chapel offers another opportunity to honor the survivors who have broken the silence and to acknowledge the problems surrounding sexual violence that still persist.

In Metaferia’s own words, “These stories

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are not forgotten.”

Sheila Janardhan, director of Breaking Out 2015, wants viewers to be “both empowered and inspired by the survivors and to see that Duke has a long way to go. In creating an avenue for students to speak out, students can break out of the culture of silence and there will be a community that can offer support.”

Although the partnership with the Chapel may seem unprecedented, the exhibit is a strong testament to the sanctuaries that can exist for anyone who has ever felt victimized, whether or not that person has faith traditions.

“It’s a place that anyone can come to…at Duke, it’s hard to be vulnerable, and one of the things the Chapel communicates is that it’s okay to be vulnerable,” Sapp said. “We want to be a resource that’s empowering, not disempowering.”

One of the exhibit’s participants, Anastasia K rkli a, Trinity ‘14, specifically chose to have her photograph taken in the prayer room of Duke’s Center for Muslim Life.

“For me, the photograph complicated the relationship between my faith, as my source of healing from many forms of violence I experienced, and the silence that plagues religious communities that are yet to openly affirm survivors of sexual violence without shame or judgment,” K rkli a said.

“It was a powerful way of beginning to live my truth unapologetically.”

“The location of the exhibit is especially meaningful because the Chapel is not only a religious site but also both the geographic and symbolic ‘heart’ of our campus,” K rkli a said. “In some way, the issue of sexual violence is quite literally being placed at the center of our university.”

The “Breaking Out” Exhibit will open Friday, Oct. 17, and will be on display until Oct. 30. There will be an opening reception from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., featuring a talk from Hanna Metaferia as well as Chapel staff.

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Duke professor and puppeteer presents final show Dillon Fernando The Chronicle When I was a kid, I had a crush on Miss Piggy.

Embarrassing as it is, what drew me to Miss Piggy was her sassy, larger-than-life personality that was both entertaining and all the more candid. As a child, the puppetry in The Muppets and Sesame Street captivated me, but, more importantly, taught me numbers and letters and stranger danger and following my dreams–all from simple puppets.

If My Feet Have Lost the Ground, Assistant Theater Studies Professor Torry Bend’s latest piece, invokes puppetry in a similar manner to more elaborately portray the complexities of the human experience.

The show centers around a woman who finds a live, beating heart in an envelope marked “Read Me” on the back seat of an airplane. The woman then journeys across the world to return the heart to its owner while discovering herself and how she connects more deeply to the heart, people and places around her. Specifically, Bend combines puppetry with layered, landscaped sets and audio-visual effects to produce a piece that deftly connects people specifically through the senses.

Jules Odendahl-James, Director of Academic Engagement in the Humanities, has collaborated with Bend in many previous productions. She corroborates that through this design process Bend crafts “puppets and objects imbued with human empathy, need and emotion.”

Bend found that using puppets as a medium as opposed to human actors allows her audiences to forge a deeper connection to her characters.

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“I fundamentally investigate what it means to be human,” Bend said. “As soon as you take a representation of the human form, it starts to pose questions about what it means to be human. If a wooden puppet is ‘real,’ what does it mean to be real, mean to be alive? Is it cognizant understanding?”

Bend also uses the puppet medium to showcase the power that objects bring to create rich storylines.

“If you have a handmade puppet sitting next to a handmade airplane seat, the airplane seat is as important as the puppet is,” Bend said. “Suddenly we start to pay attention

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to the personality of the objects and relate it our own lives.”

Along with collaborations with OdendahlJames and Duke students, Bend has also tried to bridge Duke and Durham through her community based works. In fact, some of her outreach efforts inspired the storyline of this show.

Two years ago, Bend and her Theatre Studies class embarked on the Dear Stranger Project. She and her students tied approximately 500 envelopes to lampposts around Durham that said “Read Me” and fastened the envelopes with stranger buttons.

Her class filled the envelopes with student and faculty penned letters, poems, stories and reflections addressed to the city of Durham.

These notes symbolically stood as the hearts of Duke being spread throughout the city. Some wrote about growing up in Durham. Others wrote about finding an appreciation for the city and ultimately calling Durham home.

Nevertheless, Bend’s work connected and opened discussion about how Duke can grow to become a more organic part of Durham.

If My Feet Have Lost the Ground is Bend’s final piece here at Duke as she moves on to teach at the University of Minnesota, where the puppet scene is booming.

“She has an amazing eye for form,” Odendahl-James said of Bend’s contribution to the Theatre Department. “She has worked on traditional settings...and on spaces that are much more abstract and much more aesthetic and evocative.”

Bend’s If My Feet Have Lost the Ground should offer a chance to explore our childlike fascination for puppetry (maybe even a crush), but it also strives to portray real emotions like loss, connection and empathy through a more inquisitive and unique medium.

Bend describes the transition as “very difficult” and “to a certain degree, [like] leaving home.” Duke and Durham’s enthusiasm, willingness and excitement, she feels, allow her to grow as an artist and experiment her craft in unique ways. Her final performance in Durham promises to be not just a testament to her craft but also to her keen sense of the human heart.

If My Feet Have Lost the Ground runs from Oct. 16 through Nov. 1 at Manbites Dog Theater.

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Urinetown mixes raucous comedy with subtle irony Stephanie Wu Local Arts Editor

With a name like Urinetown, Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s latest musical undoubtedly brings to mind a bodily function that we regard as indecent in public, one that we would rather do in private. Yet the over-the-top nature of its musical numbers and the suited businessmen with serious faces who throw around the word “pee” in conversation make the musical a comedic portrayal of serious questions which need to be seen, sung and discussed.

“Urinetown is the story of a dystopian future where there is a shortage of water, so one big company monopolizes all the bathroom facilities and makes people pay to go to the bathroom,” Camille Hayward, who plays the role of Little Sally, a narrator and go-between for the audience and the characters, said . Those who do not obey Urine Good Company’s legislation are sent to the mysterious and ominous Urinetown, from which no one who goes ever returns.

The bathroom thus cannot help but be one of the major gathering places of the masses, where the poor, filthy and oppressed people crowd in front of “Public Amenity #9,” squirming to hold in their pee. They are surrounded by a set that presents itself as being just as unpleasant: a spillage of unknown green liquid is seen on the ground and a large barrel labeled “Sewage” sits to one side. From this setting rise the putrid fumes of corporate power and corruption, of conflicting voices of the masses with higherups and of problems rampant in the legal system.

Urinetown tackles serious matters and hypothetical questions of the potential condition of society through both laugh-out-

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“My vision for Urinetown was that I wanted it to present the issues that it is designed to present in an informative but also an entertaining way,” James Hamilton, director of the show, said.

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should these problems present themselves in the future. It creates conversation about problems that are extremely relevant to our world, no matter how ridiculous the existence of Urine Good Company and Urinetown may initially seem.

“Urinetown looks at themes such as…the big conflict between today and tomorrow, and if we should focus on what’s best for today or what’s best for the future,” Hamilton said.

Along with being a satire of various problems entrenched in our society, it also brings to the stage an unprecedented parody of musical theater itself. According to Hamilton, the musical’s message is not that it is unconventional within itself as a musical form, but that “there is no convention and that there shouldn’t be a convention.” Urinetown satirizes well-known musicals including West Side Story and Les Miserables, and even criticizes itself through the voice of Little Sally, who wonders insightfully about how a musical with happy music can simultaneously tell an unhappy story.

Within the dystopia of Urinetown, however, there is also an innocent child-like quality inherent in the musical’s incorporation and presentation of young romance, of following your heart and dreams in pursuit of a bright shining world of justice, peace and joy. The desire of the poor townspeople to seek the day when they can pee for free presents itself as a hopeful revolt against misused corporate power which ultimately meets an unexpected end.

In bringing into our present awareness the potential, both good and bad, that the future may hold, Urinetown is a story where contradictions—between hilarity and gravity, between hope and despair—are at its very core. It’s layered and thought-provoking, yet ridiculously fun.

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Pinkhook hosts night of American folk music Josh Polikov The Chronicle Three different forces of nature from across our great nation will converge at the Pinhook on Wed., Oct. 22 to play some of the grittiest, rowdiest, most rollicking and sweetly sublime tunes a fragile mind could handle. Sam Moss from New England, the Lowest Pair from Olympia, Washington and Zeke Graves, hailing from Durham, North Carolina, will all play together in what can only be described in conglomerate as Americana. The Chronicle spoke with each artist in anticipation of their performance.

The Lowest Pair The Chronicle: How would you describe the music that you play?

Kendl Winter: We are two banjo players that are both songwriters, and it’s kind of just this collaboration of our songs together. We try to weave in our two different banjo styles and our different musical upbringings together.

He has a little more of a kind of a jamgrass, old-timey background and I have a little bit more of a funk or folk background, and we both kind of just write obsessively. It’s kind of folky but I wouldn’t say it’s really anything specific. I wouldn’t say it falls into any genre specifically.

TC: A word that crops up a lot when people write about the Lowest Pair and about Zeke Graves and Sam Moss too is “Americana.” How do you feel about

that term?

Kendl Winter: Americana is easy. I like doing Americana because it just means anything rootsy. I think rootsy is another one it just kind of like draws from the roots of old songs that can tell us about the places we are now.

TC: Is there some sort of common characteristic among everything that could be defined as Americana—a common strain?

Kendl Winter: I would say that Americana tends to have acoustic instruments along with other instruments. I think they draw from a folk tradition, drawing from porch music, music that can be made around a fire or on a back porch or telling stories of the day or the field or how the work was that day. I think that kind of goes through Americana.

playing this kind of music out of the Pacific Northwest that make them different than those playing in other places?

Kendl Winter: Olympia is a really indie and punk kind of area, and I definitely feel really influenced by that in my music. I would say there’s definitely a different feel in different places.

TC: Are there any specific guitarists or banjo players that you guys are very influenced by?

Kendl Winter: I’m a huge fan of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy as a songwriter. We totally admire Julian Welsh. We’re influSpecial to The Chronicle really enced by our friends that are making music in the Midwest and on the west coast.

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TC: Would you say there are any recurring themes in your music?

Kendl Winter: I would say we’re introspective, trying to figure out what’s going on in life, or like in our minds.

There’s a lot of longing, I think, in our music. A lot of dreaming. We really see music as a way to explore really heavy emotions.

TC: Is there anything that comes across when you guys play live that might not be caught on the records?

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started, so it was just kind of like the brand new, we had just started the project. Now we’ve been touring for a year, so a lot has changed because at first we were just working on learning each other’s songs and learning how to do that, and now we’ve had time to really settle in and get playful and explore what kinds of sounds we can do with the double banjo, and we’re just a little more comfortable with each other. We’ve had some time to soak in each other’s presence, so we get to explore more of a soundscape. We have a stronger foundation now than when we recorded.

TC: Can you talk a little bit about the communal aspect of live music, especially how it relates to the kind of music that you play?

Kendl Winter: I think it’s kind of a reciprocation to watch music and to play music. I play very differently if I’m alone on my bed playing by myself than I will for an audience. So it is like a communal thing that you’re sharing.

You feel like people are taking in what you’re performing and if they’re there with you, you feel like it’s almost a conversation. When you talk to yourself you talk very differently than you would talk to someone else. It’s a beautiful thing to have this communal expanse of songwriting because you spend so much time crafting this song, like it’s a very precious piece to you and then you share it so it’s a gift sort of thing. You’re sharing this thing that you spend a lot of time on and having an audience being there and being there when they’re actually receiving it, that’s the beauty of live music.

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BLUE DEVILS PUT STREAK ON THE LINE Ali Wells Beat Writer

Riding a nine-game winning streak, the Blue Devils face their toughest weekend of ACC competition yet with hopes of remaining undefeated in conference play.

No. 21 Duke will host Virginia Friday at 6:30 p.m. and No. 11 North Carolina Sunday at 1 p.m., reVirginia turning to Cameron Indoor Stadium after vs. two weekends on the No. 21 road. The Blue Devils Duke swept the Cavaliers to FRIDAY, 6:30 p.m. kick off their slate of Cameron Indoor Stadium four away games Oct. 3 and will attempt to repeat that result at No. 11 home before taking UNC vs. on the Tar Heels.

Sunday’s rivalry No. 21 match promises to Duke showcase each team SUNDAY, 1 p.m. playing its toughest Cameron Indoor Stadium volleyball.

“The Duke-Carolina rivalry for volleyball in particular has been tremendous throughout the time that volleyball has

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Jack White | The Chronicle Senior Jeme Obeime and the Blue Devils will attempt to defeat Virginia for the second time in two weeks Friday before turning their attention to rival North Carolina Sunday afternoon.

been here at Duke,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I witnessed that when I was an assistant over at UNC in the mid-80s. It was big back then and continues to be big. The teams are always very competitive within

the league and almost always playing for the opportunity to win the championship.”

The Tar Heels (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) earned their 10th sweep of the season Friday against Virginia. North Carolina

has only fallen to ranked opponents this season, with losses to then-No. 11 Illinois Aug. 30 and then-No. 6 Florida State Sept.

26. In 15 matches, the Tar Heels have only dropped 11 sets, nine of them to ranked opponents.

Redshirt senior Chaniel Nelson paces the Tar Heels on offense. Earning ACC Player of the Week honors after her performances against Pittsburgh and Clemson, the outside hitter knocked down six kills without an error against the Panthers and 17 kills against the Tigers. Along with Nelson, outside hitters Leigh Andrew and Lauren McAdoo will also be difficult to contain.

North Carolina boasts impressive talent at the net as well, with Victoria McPherson and Paige Neuenfeldt combining for 129 total blocks in 15 games. The middle blockers stepped up in the Tar Heels’ match against the Cavaliers, forcing Virginia to make errors on attack and turning the match around after the North Carolina squad almost lost the first set.

To take down the Tar Heels, the Blue Devils (14-3, 6-0) will also have to step up at the net. That responsibility will fall to a See Volleyball on Page 12

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Duke looks to deal Tar Heels first conference loss Shane Cashin Staff Writer The last time a North Carolina soccer team faced the Blue Devils at Koskinen Stadium, the Duke men’s soccer team defeated the top-ranked Tar Heels in a thrilling 2-1 upset. According to women’s soccer head coach Robbie Church, his Blue Devil squad is looking to do the exact same thing.

Duke will take on No. 6 North Carolina at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils No. 6 opened the season at UNC the UNC Nike Classic vs. in Chapel Hill, and the Tar Heels traveled Duke to Durham for the Duke Nike Classic, SUNDAY, 3:30 p.m. but each time the two Koskinen Stadium squads did not cross paths. As ACC rivals, however, the programs are already very familiar with one another.

“One of the things you have to deal with when you’re facing UNC is that you have to compete,” Church said of the perennial national title contender. “They always play very hard, so you have to match that intensity.”

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are fresh off of a 2-1 win against Wake Forest Sunday. Sophomore Toni Payne’s goal in the sixth minute against the Demon Deacons broke a lengthy scoring drought of 372 minutes, and freshman Ashton Miller sealed the win for Duke with a late second-half goal. Despite the long stretch without offensive productivity, Church believes in the Blue Devils’ ability to score.

“We went three straight scoreless games, but we did get two goals out of last game against Wake Forest, so we feel more comfortable,” Church said. “We are confident we can score goals.”

The Tar Heels (9-2-1, 6-0) enter Sunday’s match on a dangerous winning streak, having won their first six contests in an always-difficult ACC schedule. North Carolina has not lost since late August, when the Tar Heels fell to Pepperdine by a 1-0 score in California.

Sunday will be a true test of how Duke matches up against one of the toughest teams in the ACC—and in the nation.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Sophomore Toni Payne ended Duke’s 372-minute scoring drought with a goal against Wake Forest last weekend, and will look to ignite the Blue Devil offense again Sunday against North Carolina.

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Blue Devils prepare for important weekend meets Ali Wells Beat Writer With the postseason quickly approaching, the Blue Devils will head north for two of the fastest meets the nation has to offer this weekend in hopes of building momentum for the ACC Championships at the end of the month.

The women’s team will compete in the Wisconsin adidas Invitational Friday, and the men will race in the NCAA Pre-Nationals event in Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday. Both squads will send their top seven runners based on performances earlier in the regular season.

The women have shown individual talent and potential throughout the regular season, but in order to be successful in the postseason, the Blue Devil squad will have to compete as a team. The race in Madison, Wis., will be Duke’s last opportunity to hone its racing strategy.

“Our top five needs to do a better job of racing as a unit and closing the gap,” women’s head coach Christine Engel said. “In our first two meets, we had a gap of around 49 seconds [from our first to fifth runner] for each race. That isn’t going to work if we want to be successful at the ACC and regional meet.”

The adidas Invitational is also an opportunity for the women’s team to score points against teams outside the Southeast region—points which will be vital to keeping the Blue Devils’ hopes of a national championship berth alive if they do not advance automatically by a top-two finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships Nov. 14. Nearly every region will be represented in the 40 teams racing Friday, with 17 of the top 25 teams in the nation competing.

A strong performance in Wisconsin will give Duke the extra momentum it needs to compete at the top of the conference in two weeks.

“I’m a big believer in momentum, so we are looking for something that will fuel our confidence moving forward into the ACC Championships,” Engel said.

The men’s squad is also hoping to use this weekend to shift the team’s momentum after a disappointing showing at the Panorama Farms Invitational in September.

“We have to prove some things to ourselves,” men’s head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We had a really bad day at Virginia. If we correct that, we can be right back in the thick of it again. If we don’t, we stand very little chance of having a

Chronicle File Photo Junior Blake Udland and the Blue Devils will look to build momentum for the upcoming ACC Championship meet this weekend at the NCAA Pre-Nationals meet in Terre Haute, Ind.

strong ACC meet. This Saturday is very important, and we are taking it very seriously.”

Seven Blue Devils will represent the squad in the championship race—Blake Udland, Henry Farley, Brian Schoepfer, William Rooney, Matt Luppino, Nate McClafferty and Daniel Moore.

The first six Duke harriers have been the squad’s top scorers throughout the season. Moore claimed the final spot on the NCAA Pre-Nationals roster with his impressive performance at the Royals Challenge last weekend, leading the B-squad across the line in 25:29.8 and finishing fourth overall in the 8,000-meter race.

The sophomore has rebounded from a series of knee ailments that prevented him from competing last season and has stepped up as the Blue Devils’ seventh scoring runner.

His race last weekend earned him his first ACC Performer of the Week honor.

“That was a good solid race, certainly the first time he has led the Duke team and it earned him the final berth to Indiana,” Ogilvie said. “We are excited for him, and we hope he continues in a positive direction.”

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pair of sophomores: Alyse Whitaker leads Duke at the net with 62 blocks in 17 games, averaging one block per set, and Jordan Tucker has contributed 49 blocks this season.

On offense, outside hitters Emily Sklar and Jeme Obeime will have to be efficient on attack and not allow McPherson and Neuenfeldt to alter their approach at the net. Obeime and Sklar enter the matches this weekend with hitting percentages of .308 and .280, respectively.

The Blue Devils will look to draw on the energy of the Cameron Crazies Sunday afternoon. The match will be televised on ESPNU, which Nagel hopes will draw a host of loud and spirited fans to help Duke pull off the upset in the rivalry match.

Momentum from the Blue Devils’ performance in the Virginia match Friday night will also be a key factor heading into Sunday’s game.

Duke swept the Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va., just two weeks ago, showing strong execution on defense and solid team communication. But Nagel does not want her squad to be too confident heading into the rematch in Durham.

“That’s one of our biggest challenges, playing Virginia so recently,” Nagel said. “We were able to win in three, but I don’t want our team to be overconfident and not prepare as much as they should. We have to do our due diligence to make sure we are prepared for them.”

The Cavalier trio of Tori Janowski, Jasmine Burton and Kayla Sears leads the squad on offense. All three outside hitters average around three kills per set.

Virginia (11-8, 4-2) enters Friday’s match riding a wave of confidence after a thrilling match at Virginia Tech Sunday, coming back in five sets to claim a victory against the Hokies. The Cavaliers dropped the first two sets 12-25 and 17-25, but emerged from a halftime talk in the locker room a different team, relying on Janowski, Natalie Bausback and freshman Haley Fauntleroy. Making her first collegiate start, Fauntleroy recorded eight kills and two blocks to spur the Cavaliers to the win.

Bolstered by the come-from-behind win and an impressive performance by a rookie, Virginia may be a different opponent than the squad Duke swept two weeks ago.

“For them, it doesn’t even matter what happened two weeks ago,” Nagel said. “I expect them to come ready to play and to execute well.”

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continued from page 11 teams in the country,” Church said. “We just have to go out there and get the job done.

We have to take on the underdog mentality and go out there with a lot of intensity.”

Church has high expectations not only going into Sunday’s game against North Carolina, but also heading into the last four games of the regular season. The Blue Devils have their eyes set on the NCAA tournament, but to get there, they must finish with a regular-season record of .500 or better.

Currently sitting at one game above that threshold, Duke faces a tough road ahead,

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Last season, the Blue Devils faced similar high-pressure games down the stretch, and were able to find a spot in the tournament field. Church’s squad is hoping to draw on that experience to help propel Duke into the postseason for the 12th year in a row.

“The bottom line is that we have to win games to get to the NCAA tournament,” Church said. “I firmly believe that if we go in there focused and concentrated we can win all of these remaining games. Our team is looking forward to the challenge, beginning with North Carolina.”

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As students start coughing with the onset of autumn chills, they will be relieved to know that construction of the Student Health Wellness Center is scheduled to begin this Spring. Like seemingly everything about Student Health, a cryptic shroud of mystery surrounds the

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Center. The relationship between students and the system meant to ensure their health is not an overly flowery one, and questions linger about how this newest construction project on campus will address key concerns.

For starters, students are uninformed about the health resources already available to them. The case is particularly grave with freshman, who are unlikely to know the difference between EMS, Student Health and Urgent Care. A simple information session during Orientation Week would ameliorate the situation and is desperately needed given the number of students who require medical services even in the first few days. Regrettably

though, there is only so much that information sessions can do, since even upperclassman can encounter difficulties in seeking the information they need. For instance, Student Health recommends that students use the UNC “hotline” after hours.

Lack of information, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. Current medical services are inconveniently located and lack a sufficient number of fully competent doctors. Hours of operation are also limited and far from adequate for students: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, except Wednesday, when they open at 9:30 a.m., and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Without any medical service on East Campus, an ill first-year would have to drag their self to Flowers Drive to the tuckedaway Student Health. In addition, many students complain that their visits to Student Health are met with under or misdiagnoses.

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Student Health Wellness Center will improve the situation. On one hand, the administration’s willingness to invest in a new facility spawns hope that it will take the opportunity to also fix the problems of accessibility, hours of operation and sufficient staffing. Providing more comprehensive transport via vans from East Campus would be a good idea, and we hope that part of the invested money is also being used to hire more professional doctors and keep the center open for longer hours. Without these much-needed remedies, re-channeling inadequate resources into a flashy new facility will be little more than a cosmetic facelift.

We believe that the question ultimately boils down to one of responsibility. As a university that fosters a vibrant community, Duke has an onus to keep its students healthy. Providing inadequate healthcare is unfair to students and payers of Duke tuition. It is also detrimental to a prosperous social environment and to academic excellence. Given the $30 million invested in the new Center, we believe that the administration wants to make changes. Let’s just hope those changes are the right ones.

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hut up teacher.

I would bet my tuition that no Duke student has ever said “shut up” to their teacher.

Students do. But those students generally don’t get into Duke. To be fair, telling someone to shut up may not be the optimal strategy of approaching different opinions. So how do Duke students approach differences with their teachers? Yeah, I’m sure that one-star Rate My Professor review really cut deep. At the end of the day I know my teacher decides what letter of the alphabet to put on my transcript. You can bet if I don’t have anything nice to say, I won’t be saying anything at all. Actually, I’ll probably say something nice anyway.

Over the summer, I read an article titled “Ivy League Schools are Overrated. Send Your Kids Elsewhere.” For all intents and purposes, I consider

if my Italian teacher tells me her favorite city is Rome, take a guess what city my cultural analysis project will be about. It can’t hurt, right?

We even disagree to agree. We raise our hands to challenge our classmate’s ideas all in the name of good participation. We try to conjure up nuanced points for the sake of impressing our teachers. But when the time comes to speak out on the class structure, reading assignments or exam format, we become a pack of nodding dogs, salivating for our next treat. Teachers can’t always get it right yet we blindly obey their every instruction as if we don’t have a say in how we spend the hours in and out of their class.

Last week, I was reading an article for class when it struck me how poorly written the article was. We just finished a reading for that very

Kyle Harvey GOLDEN BOY Duke to be an Ivy League caliber school—at least as long as Cornell gets to stay on the list. I had my pitchfork at the ready for this one. The author, William Deresiewicz, began with some sweettalking citing us as “super people” and likening our mental horsepower to “thoroughbreds circling the track.” Just as I began to think this William guy wasn’t half-bad, his article descended into the kind of Ivy League-bashing you’d expect Tiger mom to write in a hate-email to Harvard admissions after her daughter got rejected. His arguments against elite schools jumped from socioeconomic inequality to faulty admission standards to poor educational values. By the time he started implying that going to an elite school makes you “an entitled little s**t,” I wanted to tell William to take a deep breath.

But within his rant, William touched on an issue worth exploring. He observed that his Yale students seemed content with “coloring within the lines.”

They were all too ready to trade exploring a passion for the next A. I reflected on my own academic life and how I managed to string so many A’s together. I imagine it’s a little like being a pet dog. I know all the tricks—even the hard ones. I know just when to sit, lie down and roll over without the teacher even asking.

Most importantly, I never bark. All for that pat on the head at the end of the semester. Who’s a good boy!

This is how I’ve been trained. My English essay reflects my teacher’s opinion. She’s grading it. When I make a comment in class, I watch my teacher’s expression, searching for approval. Hell,

same class on how to write clearly and here I was reading an article riddled with passive voice and convoluted sentences. For the first time, I questioned the validity of the assignment and whether forcing my way through the article was worth my time. Of course, I finished it. I mean, I had a quiz on it the next day. However, I mustered what courage I had and messaged my professor to voice my opinion that the article was a poor choice due to the writing. Then, I waited in painstaking discomfort for his response. I wasn’t clarifying an assignment. I wasn’t posing a question on class material. I wasn’t directly or indirectly pandering for a higher grade. I was suggesting in less explicit words that he reconsider the value of that reading assignment in the future. I felt like an idiot for doing it, too.

If there is a lesson to be learned from this, it’s unclear. My clever professor challenged me to write a better passage and, upon doing so, awarded me bonus points. In terms of my dog analogy, that’s the equivalent of performing the “disobey” trick and getting a treat for it. Not that I mind. What’s important is how uncomfortable I was coloring outside the lines. It goes against what got me here. Treats are tasty and who doesn’t like getting pat on the head? But if we’re going to survive outside the academic system that tamed us so well, we need to learn how to bark.

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’m going to let you in on a little secret— identity is a paradox (a statement that contradicts itself, yet somehow manages to be true). If you were to look it up in a psychology textbook, you would find the definition of identity is the interplay between two innate needs: 1.) the need to feel unique with one’s own sense of personal agency and value, and 2.) the need to feel belonging, connectedness and unity within a community.

To be different, but the same.

I’d venture to say we each have at least one group in our lives that a part of us wishes we felt more accepted by, while another part of us is also proud for not falling directly into

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hh, fall break. The time off we’ve been yearning for since the first mention of midterms. It’s when many shut their books for a bit and, for freshmen, the chance to shower without flip flops or get a meal from somewhere other than Marketplace. But it’s Thursday and fall break is over. It’s back to the daily grind.

Fall Break, like many things Duke promises you, has the ability to make you feel like it’s all going to be okay. You will have time to relax and return to Duke refreshed. Except maybe saying fall break was from Friday to Wednesday was a bit deceiving, since it doesn’t start until Friday night and it ends Wednesday morning. And can you really relax when your professor makes your assignment due the Wednesday morning we return? As much as I love having time off, I have to question if fall break is really that constructive at all.

The four true days we have off begin Saturday and end on a Tuesday. For those of us without a car or the ability to buy a ticket for a four day stay, the

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their stereotype. Beware the double standard created, urging—“Fit in and stand out!” It is nearly impossible to be fully content under this double standard because it does little to cultivate self-acceptance, belonging and authenticity. Instead, it turns identity into a competition of comparisons: “Be just like everyone else, but better.”

Comparison is the thief of happiness because it relies upon a hierarchy in which someone must be worse off in order for someone else to be better. It requires proofs and justifications for worthiness— turning us into human doings who must prove they are “enough” through achievement, as opposed to human beings who are worthy as they are.

So what does that actually mean beyond an abstract level? For me it means recognizing that my version of fun does not have to fall directly into the narrowly defined social construct of Duke’s “Work hard, Play hard” fun— that it’s okay to adopt some parts and not others. My version of fun doesn’t always look like going out and dancing on the Shooters bar (though you know I love those elevated surfaces). Sometimes it’s wine and “Game of Thrones” with my roommate. Sometimes it’s a Friday morning loop around the Washington Duke Inn trail with a friend. Sometimes it’s writing a poem and gaining the satisfaction of knowing I’ve put into words exactly what I’m feeling on that piece of paper. And sometimes it’s as simple as walking to class with my earbuds in, listening to my favorite spoken word piece as the sun shines just right, like a blanket of kisses on my skin.

Notice those last two activities were solitary. I note this because there was a period of my Duke career where the fact that I enjoyed spending time by myself gave me a bit more anxiety than was due. I felt embarrassed for craving time alone every so often because I thought it would keep me from “doing college right.” Knowing that, quite frankly, there was not a single piece of me interested in going out 5 nights a week, made me feel like I was failing to live up to the undergraduate experience I was “supposed” to want and how I was “supposed to be.”

For your information—there is no “supposed to be.” “Supposed to be” was not a standard I’d come to by my own terms, it was someone else’s standard I felt the need to impose upon myself. It was the standard of the

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dominant narrative, and I wanted to do it right.

Wasn’t that how I’d gotten into Duke in the first place? Figuring out the rules, following the criteria needed to earn the A? Adapting to the expected standard and owning it?

Convincing myself that my own social expectations could be different from the “supposed to’s” was hard because it felt like the equivalent of telling myself I needed to do well enough in class just to pass. And when have any of us really ever known how to do that? We are overachievers, and achieving often implies competition. I’d argue our achieving nature in academics often transfers to an achieving nature within the social scene, too. Going

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out becomes not just about letting loose and blowing off steam, but about showing face to accumulate social capital. This explains why “I haven’t seen you out in forever, where have you been?” can come across as a thinly-veiled “Don’t you know how to have fun, loser?” What makes you think that just because I wasn’t at Thursday night Devines, I wasn’t having a blast watching Mat Kearney at Cat’s Cradle or having a cookie-dough-eating, sweatpantwearing heart-to-heart with my little? God forbid I was studying! Just because my version of fun does not fall into the “Wednesday: Shooters, Thursday: Devines, Friday: date function, Saturday: Shooters and Sunday: He’s Not” routine doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.

And yet we still feel pressured to measure up to the same standard, a double standard trying to satisfy those two innate identity needs—to be different and the same. To do the things you love, but still do what everyone else expects you to do. To have your own voice, but not get dismissed by the status quo opinion. Trying to live up to this double standard is like having two lines to walk. The two lines are not one and the same. They may run close enough that we can keep a foot on each, but eventually one will sweep in a different direction and we will have to choose some sort of middle ground.

The beautiful thing about being aware of this double bind is that it allows us stop seeing our two identity needs as contradictory things keeping us from reaching 100 percent via both standards. It makes us realize 100 percent is impossible. Fulfillment, happiness, fun— these are incommensurable values. We are all individual entities with passions that cannot be placed on one scale of measurement. As writer Brene Brown says, “What we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.” I can’t compare my life to someone else’s because I don’t know what their journey is about and they don’t know what mine is about. So standards of measurement are sort of irrelevant.

Being happy shouldn’t have to measure up to a standard to count. It shouldn’t require the validation of some outside authority. It should require the validation of you.

only way to get home is to have our parents/guardians pick us up. If you want to get the most out of your stay, you should probably leave Friday. This means your parents either have to drive over after work or take the day off.

You probably won’t do too much Friday night unless you live close and leave early and so maybe you’ll decide to leave Saturday morning. So four full days quickly turn into three and a half. Now also consider how you’ll get home.

Tuesday isn’t a holiday and so either you’ll come back on Columbus Day or your parents will once again have to take off work.

Seems a bit complicated, right? So freshmen year when I stayed at Duke for fall break, I didn’t feel too bad since I knew it would be more of a burden than it was worth to be home for two or three days. But the fall break burden reared its ugly head in a different way. The Gothic Wonderland that I had learned to love within the short span of two months shut me out. Everything closed and all the freshmen scrambled to the “Place Under Marketplace” to stock up on snacks and decided it was finally time to venture off campus to really eat in Durham (read: Ninth Street.)

Staying at school for a weekend and two days felt like being abandoned while all your friends went on to bigger and better things without you. The buses hardly ran and the University encouraged multiple trips to the vending machine or meals spent with real money that you ate by yourself or the only other two people on your hall who you had conversed with in the bathroom once or twice before. Everything at Duke reinforced the idea that I needed to leave. So why wasn’t the University making it easier for me?

Maybe fall break could start in the middle of the week. That way my parents could justify the stay at home by taking off Wednesday and bringing me back on Sunday. Or professors would understand that fall break isn’t an extended period to do assignments, but rather a period to catch up and/or get ahead. Duke wanted me to go, but it was making it so impossible to leave.

But this year when a friend asked me to go home with them, I jumped at the idea of finally having a real fall break.

I went with a friend to the big bad city of Washington D.C., known to her as home. I was finally going to get away from Duke during break. I wouldn’t be isolated and scourging for food. I would be in a nice city and I would enjoy myself. In actuality, we just did a lot of napping.

I hadn’t realized just how exhausted I was, and sleeping in a real bed made it that much more apparent that sleep and I were in an estranged relationship. When I felt energized enough to actually do something for the day, I, like every other motivated Duke student, pulled out some work and proceeded to leave it on my lap while I watched Duke beat Georgia Tech.

Fall break was a time for resting and actually having a break and so work was something I tried not to be concerned with, but with two deadlines looming in the near future, it was hard to put it out of my head.

So now I’m back at Duke and I feel conflicted. Stay at Duke and really get to know the Gothic part of the Wonderland or leave and feel concerned about all the work (you thought) you left at Duke. Is fall break really for us students, or is it rather the University’s saving grace when we (inevitably) complain about how much work we have and how busy we are. This just in Duke—we are busy and stressed and five (two) days just aren’t cutting it when it really comes to a break. Sleeping in and spending time with your parents are what breaks should really be about.

They should be a time when you can finally get some perspective and realize that you will make it through this semester. Or at the very least, they should be a time to watch a 13-episode season of a show that’s been cancelled and not feel one ounce of guilt about it.

I’m not one to complain, but when it comes to fall break, I’m asking for Duke to please give us the real thing. Let us remember what it feels like to rest and have conversations with friends and families. Until then though, let’s just say when it comes to the relationship I have with the four day October weekend—we’re on a break.

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www.Homecoming.DukeAlumni.com FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 4-6 p.m.

Blue Devil Pep Rally

The cheerleaders are ready, the band is all warmed up, and Coach Cut is ready for his boys to “rip ‘em up, tear ‘em up, give ‘em [‘heck’] Duke!” Make sure you’re part of the official #DukeGang that comes out to show love for the Blue Devils! [ Bryan Center Plaza, West Campus ]

8–9:30 p.m.

The Graduate School Reception [ Kirby Horton Hall and Patio, Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens ]

9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

President Brodhead’s Homecoming Dance [ Wilson Gym Basketball Courts & huge tent on K-ville Quad ]

9:30 p.m. n Duke Chinese Dance Troupe n Duke Bhangra n Sabrosura 11:00 p.m. n Duke Swing n Momentum n Defining Movement (DefMo)

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Duke Football vs. University of Virginia Homecoming Game 2014 [ Wallace Wade Stadium ] Cheer the Blue Devils to victory as the team takes on the University of Virginia’s Cavaliers in Wallace Wade Stadium.