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Duke aims to bridge gaps in disability access

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Student-led movement brings to light issues of inclusion beyond physical accessibility Kali Shulklapper University Editor As Duke works to improve campus accessibility for those with disabilities, some are looking to take the conversation further—focusing on how to make the University more inclusive in its social and academic environments, as well as the physical.

Following student advocacy beginning in 2011, the Disability Management System instituted a series of short- and long-term goals—attempting to implement policies and programs related to building accessibility, housing, dining and transportation.

But members of the community are moving beyond the idea of a fully accessible space, advocating for accommodating these needs without a feeling of isolation for students. Although work still remains to make campus fully navigable for those with disabilities, the conversation is now shifting—asking how Duke can be made not just accessible, but inclusive.

“You can attach a ramp to a building, but is it still really an equitable environment?” asked junior Jay Ruckelshaus, who was paralyzed before his freshman year and has since founded the nonprofit Ramp Less Traveled. “Those are the types of conversations that are not happening around the country right now.”

Ruckelshaus noted that, although Duke is making progress on campus accessibility, issues remain with coordination between different aspects of the student experience—such as study abroad and social opportunities.

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As more people have switched to smart phones over the past several years, Duke’s cellular coverage has strained to maintain voice calls and connections— prompting complaints from a number of students and faculty. In response, the Office of Information Technology is currently in the middle of an 18-month project to upgrade cellular networks on campus. The $14 million project involves building a new antennae system and is funded entirely by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

“We are excited to bring a sustainable, reliable, state of the art solution to the Duke community,” said Bob Johnson, senior director of communications infrastructure and global strategies. “With a 95 percent coverage target of the campus coupled with 100 percent carrier material participation, this program is the first of its kind in the nation.”

The upgrade began in Summer 2013, with the build-out of a new communications facility where cell phone carriers place their equipment to allow signal.

Work on the facility was completed this August, and Duke has now begun installing new antennae equipment on campus. The new system will not only allow signal to be broadcast more directly to buildings, but also will cover a much larger area.

OIT is rolling out the new system building by building, with plans to install the new antennae equipment in more than 200 campus buildings. There are currently 24 buildings with the equipment installed and activated—already functioning for Verizon, with AT&T and Sprint scheduled to go online in mid-

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‘Leadership is not easy, and it often goes unrewarded’ opportunity for personal growth.

“Many of them had never had a conversation with someone black in 1965,” Hill said of her college classmates. “But we were even—because I had never met anybody white.”

Emma Baccellieri Giving others the benefit of the doubt News Editor and learning to appreciate different perspectives were key lessons from her Though Janet Hill is perhaps best college experience, Hill said. She later known as the mother of former Blue applied these principles as owner of the Devil basketball star Grant Hill, her suc- corporate consulting firm Alexander cess story is all her own. and Associates, where she worked with Currently serving her second term companies to increase accessibility for on Duke’s Board of Trustees, Hill has employees of all backgrounds. spent three decades at the helm of her “We didn’t use the word ‘diversity,’ own consulting firm, served as a special which the dictionary defines as the conassistant to the Secretary of the Army dition of being different,” Hill said. “We and sat on several corpreferred the word inporate and nonprofit clusion, which does not t was a wonderful boards. At a luncheon speak to separation— shot, but the entire sponsored by the Cambut does speak to the pus Club on Monday, play was all about the pass. rich source of human she spoke about her capital available at evcareer and her views — Janet Hill ery position.” on success—along with She went on to emstories about her family, including both phasize the importance of being groundher NBA star son and her husband, Cal- ed in one’s principles and consistently vin, who played in the NFL for 12 years. striving for excellence, noting the value “Leaders lead. They make tough deci- of having strong mentors. sions after weighing all the alternatives,” Hill peppered her speech with anecHill said. “They take the heat or receive dotes of close friends and family—inthe praise.... Leadership is not easy, and cluding her former classmate Hillary it often goes unrewarded, but great lead- Rodham Clinton, who she described as ers are made in moments of adversity.” “intimidating” and driven even as a colHill described her path to success lege freshman. She also spoke about paras starting during her time at Wellesley enting, describing the strong values she College. Though leaving her segregated worked to instill in her son and the emhometown of New Orleans to attend phasis that she and her husband placed the all-female Massachusetts liberal arts on education. school was a bit of a culture shock for Hill also described sitting in the audiHill, the experience was ultimately an ence while her son played basketball at

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“It was a wonderful shot, but the entire play was all about the pass,” she said.

The afternoon was hosted by the Campus Club as part of their yearlong centennial celebration. The club, which brings together Duke-affiliated women, has used the theme of “Honoring Women in a Century of Change” for their 100th anniversary.

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Satisfaction vies for remaining Merchants-on-Points spot Tim Bai The Chronicle On the same night that Sushi Love debuted its campus delivery service, local sports bar Satisfaction was introduced as another candidate for Merchants-on-Points delivery.

Two spots have been open in the Merchants-on-Points food delivery program since September, and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee has spent the past several weeks vetting potential vendors. Sushi Love was chosen last week to fill the first vacancy and kicked off its delivery system Monday evening—proving so popular that it stopped taking orders after the first two hours in order to catch up on the workload. Meanwhile, DUSDAC considered using Satisfaction to fill the second open MOP space, meeting with the restaurant’s manager and sampling the menu at a Monday night meeting.

Satisfaction was one of the first restaurants in Durham to participate in the MOP program at Duke in the late 1990s, and it was a part of the program until 2007. Thurston Lee, kitchen manager at Satisfaction, said the restaurant’s owner loved being involved in the program previously, but he could not handle the volume of demand and had to ultimately drop the program.

“We are super, super excited about having a chance to do this again,” Lee said. “If we are selected, we will give you the best quality food.”

Satisfaction’s menu includes a variety of appetizers, sandwiches, salads and specialty pizzas, with gluten-free dough available. All of the menu items, in addition to canned sodas, would be available for delivery.

When asked about delivery logistics, Lee said the bar currently delivers through Durham Takeout, a delivery service used by local

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle DUSDAC met Monday with representatives of local sports bar Satisfaction, which is a new contender to deliver as a Merchants-on-Points vendor.

restaurants. But for MOP, Satisfaction would hire new drivers that would come directly from the restaurant, as opposed to drivers going through a central location as is currently done. The delivery time would take up to 45 minutes, but drivers would aim for a goal of 30 minutes, Lee added.

Lee said that the staff at the restaurant has not yet decided on delivery fees or added gratuities. Satisfaction currently is open until 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, until midnight on Friday and Saturday and until 9 p.m. on Sunday, but Lee noted they could potentially add later hours on weekends.

“It makes me feel so good that where I’m working is loved by the Duke community,” he said.

Committee members expressed some concern about the time taken to deliver from Satisfaction, noting that ordering food in the restaurant has taken up to 45 minutes. Members also said the menu resembles the menu offered by the Food Factory, which currently delivers on campus. But other DUSDAC members noted that expanding the variety of late night food options was important, and Satisfaction could offer high quality burgers for late-night.

“Two complaints are that we don’t have real restaurants and that we don’t have late night, and that fills both holes,” said DUSDAC co-chair Gregory Lahood, a senior.

Other members discussed the food variety that Satisfaction would contribute if added to the MOP program.

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continued from page 1 In an effort to spark dialogue about higher education and the experience of students with disabilities, Ruckelshaus helped to bring a national retreat to campus last week, titled “Beyond Disability, Beyond Compliance.” Held at the Fuqua School of Business last Wednesday and Thursday, the event aimed to explore challenges such as campus accessibility and extracurricular involvement. The conference focused on thinking about higher education in a proactive manner—one that extends beyond the confines of laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Our overall goal was to try to think outside of the box of traditional disability management and begin conversations about moving beyond the requirements of disability laws and moving forward to a place where students with disabilities truly feel integrated into our college campuses,” said Leigh Fickling, executive director of Duke’s Disability Management System.

Ruckelshaus said he was blown away by the speakers’ enthusiasm, intelligence and willingness to engage the audience. He added that although the conference did not solve any monumental problems, the energy at the event demonstrated striking potential.

“It was really encouraging to feel a sense of community right away, which was exactly what I wanted,” he said. “People will be able to transfer the energy back to their home campuses and finish the conversation.”

Ruckelshaus’ activism has built on the work of other students from recent years.

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with disabilities through the “Accessibility Matters” campaign, which highlighted both the inaccessibility of buildings and the insufficient labeling of accessible entrances.

The following year, Duke Student Government passed a resolution that challenged the University to make West Campus 100 percent handicap accessible by 2022. The DDA then partnered with the administration, ensuring that the current West Union renovation would create a fully accessible space with features that meet— and possibly surpass—the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh noted that progress on accessibility is an ongoing topic—adding that last week’s retreat left participants feeling encouraged about Duke’s position in terms of its commitment to accessibility for disabled individuals, but still dissatisfied in terms of continued progress.

“The biggest thing is to continue to foster an environment that is inclusive, inviting and engaging for individuals who have various challenges,” Cavanaugh said. “That is the aspirational part of what we’re attempting to do.”

Ruckelshaus noted that there are several physical barriers for students with disabilities—including a number of inaccessible buildings, such as the Languages Building and many West Campus dormitories. He noted the disability administration at Duke is rarely involved outside the realm of academic and physical accommodations, including transportation for social events on the weekend and the attitudes of the student body towards those with disabilities. He advocated for the advancement of greater inter-office collaboration between the Student Disability Access Office and other campus organizations, such as the Office for Student Affairs.

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“I studied in Oxford two summers ago and it was a logistical mess to coordinate between offices,” he said. “It worked out, but it would have been nice to have a more structured dialogue to make the process easier.”

Ruckelshaus noted, however, that although no university is perfect, he believes Duke ranks towards the top.

“I think it’s really easy to point at the inaccessible parts of campus,” he said. “Duke works with 100-year old buildings that are difficult to modify, which can certainly be difficult and at times disheartening to navigate. But I think you have to look at it in a new holistic manner.”

Addressing the necessity of a holistic approach towards campus disability services, he said that the university’s resources and accommodations in many areas make up for a less-than-perfect campus accessibility. Broadening the conversation to oth-

ers will be the next step moving forward, Ruckelshaus added, noting that last week’s retreat is only the beginning.

“The more people are talking about it, the better,” he said. “Disability is an essential component of the diversity conversation, but at Duke the broader conversation has been more in terms of race relations, gender and sexuality. There has been a general lack of awareness, and the more that it’s made a part of the conversation, the better.”

President Richard Brodhead, who made a welcome speech at the retreat, added that Duke has learned to understand a diverse set of needs and has made many accommodations over the years—though room for improvement remains.

“But every time you reach a new point, it gives you an understanding of new needs that may exist,” he said.

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November. All residence halls are scheduled to have the “The issue was resolved almost immediately,” Lakey equipment fully installed by the end of December, and said. “The cell service is now excellent.” the project should be fully completed Johnson said that any users who beby March 2015. lieve they are seeing degraded service ith a 95 percent Individuals who have Verizon can relative over the past month should recoverage target of notice a difference in service throughport it to the OIT Service Desk. out campus—though some areas, par- the campus coupled with 100 Cell service complications are priticularly buildings which have not had percent carrier material parmarily due to lack of signal strength, the antennae equipment installed, reJohnson said. Campus buildings new ticipation, this program is the and old alike pose issues for signal— main problematic.

“My cell service can vary from no first of its kind in the nation. with the thick walls of Duke’s tradibars to five bars,” said freshman Lizzie tional Gothic architecture making — Bob Johnson signal weak in some buildings, and Speed.

OIT has spread the word about the sustainable LEED exteriors in newer upgrades through flyers in affected structures blocking signal in others. buildings. But for some, the new antennae equipment The new antennae system, however, should resolve both has actually negatively affected cell service—such as Ve- issues.

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Duke’s three-headed monster The ACC is loaded.

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Countdown to Craziness has come and gone and now it is time to truly prepare for the season ahead of us. And although the Associated Press has yet to release its preseason poll— it’s expected to come out some time at the end of this week—we do have the USA Today preseason coaches poll to peruse.

Once again, the ACC is loaded with talented teams from top to bottom and this season—after the final round of conference realignment—No. 9 Louisville joins the mix as the fifth ACC team in the coaches poll top 25 and the fourth in the top 10. No. 3 Duke, No. 6 North Carolina, No. 8 Virginia and No. 24 Syracuse represent the other four ACC programs in the preseason top 25.

But the ACC is always good. Why does any of this matter? Well, for two reasons.

First, the ACC is actually better than it normally is—especially compared to last season. Last year, the ACC had five teams in the preseason AP top 25 and only Duke and Syracuse cracked the top 10. The ACC ended up sending six teams to the big dance but amassed only a 6-6 record in the tournament and sent only Virginia through to the Sweet 16.

Although I can’t necessarily predict how teams will fare come tournament time, it seems safe to say that the ACC will send at least five or six teams into the 2015 NCAA tournament and has more than a legitimate shot to grab a No. 1 seed.

Second, this year’s Blue Devil squad is the youngest it has been in a long time and a powerful ACC could cause it to stumble a few times as it tries to find itself throughout the season. As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my column before Countdown, a few missteps shouldn’t be too much cause for concern, especially with how talented Duke’s opponents are.

ESPN Insider recently asked the coaches of the ACC to create their own poll, ranking the teams of their conference. Duke led the poll in both total points and first-place votes but Louisville, North Carolina, and Virginia were not far behind.

Parity in the ACC—much like parity in the SEC in college football—is actually a great thing for the conference. Not only would it help when the polls come out

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Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Safeties DeVon Edwards (left), Deondre Singleton (center) and Jeremy Cash (right) have emerged as leaders on the Blue Devil defense.

Brian Mazur Beat Writer Some might say three’s company, but when it comes to Duke’s safeties, a trio is perfect.

Although there are normally three safeties on the field, one more than conventional defensive formations allot, much is asked of starters Jeremy Cash, Deondre Singleton and DeVon Edwards.

Under defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, the Blue Devils have played a 4-2-5 defense since 2009, with the biggest difference being that instead of a third linebacker, the team plays

with a third safety. The formation has taken a while to sink in, as Duke was one of the worst defensive teams in the ACC from 2009-2012.

But this season, it is ranked fifth in the FBS in scoring defense and has forced 13 turnovers.

A big part of the defense’s resurgence has been the play of the three starting safeties, which was the only position to return all of its starters coming into the season. Cash, Edwards and Singleton have had a hand in forcing eight of the team’s 13 takeaways.

Still, their expectations have risen as fast as Duke’s relevance in the college football world.

“We knew that we needed to step up

because we have experience in the back end,” Edwards said. “I wouldn’t say it has gotten easier because the expectations are higher.

When we mess up the coaches make it a big deal. Playing and trusting where everyone is going to be is easier, but coaches have become stricter.”

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Duke to close home slate with Panthers Brian Pollack Beat Writer After finally snapping their five-game skid, the Blue Devils will look to pick up one last victory at home.

Duke hosts Georgia State to close out its nonconference slate Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

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The Blue Devils earned a key 2-1 victory against Duke Pittsburgh Friday night that secured them a TUESDAY, 7 p.m. spot in the conference Koskinen Stadium tournament, but Tuesday’s game will have no bearing on ACC postseason play.

Instead, Duke is embracing this game as a chance to improve in certain areas and an

opportunity to build up positive momentum for its playoff push.

“There’s a great vibe among the team,” head coach John Kerr said. “Again, going back to that five-game losing streak, we played extremely well in a few of those games. We were due for a good ACC win and we’re going to try to take that momentum and build it into this week.”

Despite a talented mix of freshmen on the roster, it was the upperclassmen that lifted the Blue Devils (6-8-1) to victory Friday, when Kerr inserted eight seniors into the starting lineup on Senior Night. In addition to the usual contributions of captain Sean Davis— who tallied his team-leading seventh assist of the season— and the consistent play of lineup fixtures Jack Coleman, Nick Palodichuk and Nat Eggleston, Duke received clutch play from See M. Soccer on Page 8

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman Markus Fjortoft notched an assist in Duke’s key win against Pittsburgh Friday.

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continued from page 6 offenses. Their differing personality types have also blended together to create a tight knight group on and off the field.

Cash, a redshirt junior who played his freshman season at Ohio State, has a larger frame which allows him to play a linebackersafety hybird position, known as the strike safety. As the oldest and most vocal of the three, he is the undisputed leader of the young unit. His role can change from game to game because of his flexibility—against Georgia Tech he played more as linebacker, but against Virginia’s spread offense he found himself mostly in the secondary.

Cash is the most active at the line of scrimmage and is known to dole out jarring hits, which have forced three fumbles this season. But he has proven to be a trusty player in the secondary, boasting four pass breakups and two interceptions.

Edwards and Singleton are experts in the secondary and are always looking for the interception to get off the field. As the bandit, Singleton’s role is focused on playing deep in the formation and looking to prevent the big play. Edwards plays a similar role as the rover safety, but since he began his career as a cornerback, he is often matched up against a receiver as a nickel corner on passing downs.

However, the duo has been challenged to become more active toward the line of scrimmage and stop the run. This has been evident this season, with both players finding their way into opponents’ backfields for a combined 3.0 tackles for loss. Although Cash is described as the best hitter in the group, Singleton has provided a few big hits of his

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Jeremy Cash has registered 5.0 tackles for loss, two interceptions and four pass breakups from the strike safety position this season.

own, including one on Florida State wide receiver Rashad Greene in last year’s ACC Championship game.

Growing up together Last season was the first season Cash, Edwards and Singleton played a regular season snap in Duke uniforms. Although Cash and Edwards became acclimated with Knowles’ defense during their redshirt seasons in 2012, Singleton was a true freshman who was dropped into meaningful ACC action. All three made big plays last season during the Blue Devils’ historic 10-win season, but it is evident that they are more prepared in 2014, creating a nightmare for offenses. Teams threw for 243.9 yards per game against Duke in 2013, but this season are only averaging 204.6 yards.

“We have a year under our belt playing together,” Cash said. “So just being acclimated to everything as one unit, we have been able to

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build that trust factor. Just being able to trust one another when times get tough.”

The trio’s individual play has changed as well. They have found their niches in the 4-2-5 defense, which has helped the Blue Devils win 14 of the last 15 regular season games.

“This time last year, I would get nervous playing in a lot of the ACC games,” Singleton said. “Now, I just go out there and have fun.

I was worried about messing up, but now I know my stuff, I know I can do it.”

Sour taste from South Beach Duke was riding high after a 4-0 start to the season in September, but was gashed by the Miami offense in a Sept. 27 matchup that the Hurricanes won 22-10.

The defense gave up three touchdowns, including two scoring tosses from true freshman quarterback Brad Kaaya. On one of those passes, Miami was facing a 4th and 19 at the Duke 28 yard line when receiver

Herb Waters beat Cash down the sideline for a touchdown pass that gave the Hurricanes a 16-7 lead. When all was said and done, Kaaya had thrown for 223 yards and two touchdowns.

“We made mistakes that were not very common of us,” Cash said. “Even though our offense wasn’t hitting on all cylinders, we still could have theoretically won that game 10-9. It stays in our mind because that could have been a game that the defense could have won.”

On Oct. 11 the safeties got back on the field and showed why they are the anchors of the defense.

They combined for 21 total tackles and Cash recovered a fumble and had an interception during a solid performance that limited Georgia Tech to 12 points through three quarters. The Blue Devils went on to win the game 31-25—their first victory in Atlanta since 1994.

One week later, more of the same. Cash forced another fumble and joined with Edwards and Singleton to break up six passes in a 20-13 win against Virginia that put Duke in control of its own destiny in the ACC Coastal division.

Going forward, the Blue Devil safeties are confident that they can stop an opponent or force a turnover at any point on the field.

Yards have not defined the unit, rather it is the points on the board at the end of the day that satisfy Cash, Edwards and Singleton. If they can keep holding opponents to 15 points per game, they believe they will be back in Charlotte come December.

“We can control our destiny in that situation,” Singleton said. “We are the only people that can say if we want to win, we are going to win and play in the ACC Championship. That’s our motivation.”

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continued from page 6 with slight favoritism leaning in favor of the ACC, but it would also allow the teams of the conference to face great competition game after game.

In the SEC, Kentucky and Florida reign supreme, but they are leaps and bounds above every other team in their conference, so much so that one conference loss to an SEC team could hurt their tournament seeding. If, hypothetically, Kentucky drops two games all season—one to Florida and one to Arkansas let’s say—and Duke and North Carolina each lose three— let’s say they split the season series and then drop some combination of games to Louisville, Virginia and Syracuse—you could make a serious argument to seed both the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels ahead of the Wildcats.

The only other conference with more teams than the ACC in the preseason coaches poll is the Big Ten with six. But only one of those teams, Wisconsin, is in the top 10. The other five teams—Michigan State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Michigan and Iowa—rank between 18th and 25th in the poll. So although the Big Ten has more teams in the poll than the ACC, it doesn’t have the same quality of competition.

ACC play doesn’t start for Duke until Jan. 3 when the Blue Devils host Boston College and in the meantime, Duke will face off against some of the Big Ten’s best: Nov. 18 against Michigan State and Dec. 3 at Wisconsin. There’s also a matchup against last season’s national champion, Connecticut, at the IZOD Center Dec. 18 thrown in the mix. By the time Jan. 3 rolls around, we’ll know a lot more about this Duke team and its competition in the conference, but for now, it appears that the ACC is the conference to beat in college basketball this season.

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some of the more unheralded members of the Class of 2015.

Goalkeeper Wilson Fisher—thrust in for his first career action after freshman Joe Ohaus went down with a concussion last week—continued his strong play in goal, recording three key saves and helping to preserve a 2-0 halftime lead, while midfielder Jake Butwin scored what would prove to be the game-winner for the first goal of his career.

Kerr believes it’s no coincidence that the seniors have raised their level of play as their final season nears its end—and he expects them to continue playing a major role in the team’s success Tuesday.

“More than anybody else, [the seniors] feel the urgency more than the rest of the team,” Kerr said. They’re seniors and they know that every game is precious down the stretch here and they want to keep continuing to play this season. I definitely took that into account when I started eight seniors Friday night and they did a great job, so don’t be surprised if you see guys back in the lineup tomorrow night.”

Against the Panthers (6-8), Duke will look to continue its domination of its Sun Belt Conference opponent. The Blue Devils are 5-0-0 all-time against Georgia State and scored three second-half goals versus the Panthers en route to a 3-0 victory in 2012. In that game, current Blue Devil upperclassmen Nick Palodichuk and Zach Mathers combined to contribute a goal and two assists, making them quite familiar with the challenges posed by Georgia State.

This year’s Panthers are much improved from the 2012 squad that finished 6-12. They are led offensively by the duo of senior Stephen McGill and freshman Rashid Alarape, who have accounted for six goals and two assists combined this season.

Georgia State has been outscored by its opponents 24-15 on the year, but Kerr sees a different team than the one from two seasons ago, and recognizes their ability to knock off his squad.

Even though Tuesday’s contest holds no direct implications on the ACC tournament, Duke is not planning to hold back.

Kerr emphasized the need for the Blue Devils to come away with a victory to improve their RPI and boost their candidacy for the NCAA tournament, as well as to make sure that they are playing their best soccer when the games matter most.

“We are preparing for this game just like any other game and vying for a win,” Kerr said. “We want to try to get a shutout and score as many goals as we can, and the three points at the end of the evening is what we’re after. We’re approaching it just like any other game. We have a lot of respect for Georgia State, we’ve watched them on tape and they’re a very talented group. Their record doesn’t really display how good they are, so we have to be on our toes.”

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DUSDAC co-chair Brian Taylor, a junior, noted that the committee will vote at a later date on adding Satisfaction to the program—adding that options that have been looked at in the past, including wing restaurant Heavenly Buffaloes, are still under consideration.

Taylor also discussed Sushi Love’s first few hours delivering as part of MOP, noting that the restaurant had such a high volume of orders that they had to temporarily halt delivery to catch up. Rather than taking orders via telephone, the restaurant is using student-run website Radoozle—allowing students to select their order from a drop-down menu and place it online.

Delivery times Monday night were reported as long as two hours.

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An open administration Earlier this month, 28 Harvard Law School professors published an open letter in the Boston Globe criticizing Harvard’s sexual harassment policies, which are quite similar to Duke’s. The letter identifies as key issues the lack of due process for the accused, the deference of administrators to federal officials and stepping beyond the statutory

Editorial requirements of Title IX. These questions were similar to those regarding sexual assault that we raised in our September editorial. Today, we would like to address larger issues raised by the Harvard letter and the ways in which they apply to Duke: a notable lack of transparency and communication regarding policies that do not reflect the interests of the community at large.

A backward glance at the University’s recent past displays a disconnect between policy decisions and the community most affected by new initiatives.

Examples of the administration’s failure to gain the input from its constituents—faculty, students and the broader community—are present in examples like the 2U online consortium announced, and

subsequently struck down, in Spring 2013 without the support of faculty members and the general lack of openness surrounding some of the delays and concerns at Duke Kunshan University. We have previously lamented the lack of communication from administrators regarding DKU, urging them to provide “frank and substantive answers to the concerns raised by community members.”

In another instance, Duke Dining eliminated the food truck “Fosters on the Fly” even after it had received the highest number of votes in a DUSDAC survey designed to gauge student food truck preferences. The lack of transparency both during the process of deciding policies and after they are established is problematic and concerning.

This failure to communicate actions when making important decisions affecting large swathes of the University has also persisted in issues surrounding campus construction. During the beginning stages of the West Union renovations, the University launched an outreach campaign to solicit student opinion on plans and ideas for the new space—an initiative that we commended. This thorough communication has not been present throughout the remainder of the process, however. Earlier this month, we criticized administrators for dismissing student concerns about

Duke financial aid can and should improve, and its important to realize that many of the people who use the term middle class on the campus are actually well above that level in this country.

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the effects of construction on student life, in particular the closure of the Bryan Center entrance this Spring.

All these cases lead us to believe that instances in which the administration does not effectively communicate with the community and solicit its input are not isolated oversights. Moving forward, we beseech the administration to be more forthright in addressing the community and reaching out to constituent parts such as students, faculty or alumni when making decisions impacting the school.

But, what about cases where the administration avoids a conversation because its interests don’t align with those of the community? For example, take the case of the University’s medical leave policy, which we resoundingly criticized in an editorial last April.

Although we hesitate to theorize intent or impugn motives, the medical leave policy seems designed to protect the University from liability rather than helping students with health problems.

However, we firmly believe that even when the issue is controversial and administrators’ interests don’t align with those of the community, a serious conversation must still be had over policy and actions. The administration must explain itself to the stakeholders of Duke University. To do otherwise is to sacrifice transparency and accountability.

Confessions of an ex-perfectionist

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here is a stereotype that Asians are very driven and their parents even more so. From personal experiences, this has, to some extent, been the case. I never felt this pressure from my family, but the strong need to compete was something I always felt from my Asian community.

Growing up, I felt the need to perform well, particularly in my academics. I remember obsessing over my grades throughout middle school and the

reprimanding me for my actions. She reaffirmed my identity and revived in me confidence of my own ability. Her kindness was elemental in my journey of breaking free of perfectionism.

Perfectionism is not inherently bad. However, perfectionism does tend to emphasize the end product rather than the journey. I have run marathons since my senior year of high school. The perfectionist in me says that if I

Thao Nguyen BREAKING DOWN WALLS beginning of my high school years. I would beat myself up over mistakes on exams, to the point where my friends expected to hear my complaints if I made anything less than a perfect score.

Obviously, my grades were not constant throughout high school. Consequently, I found myself on an emotional roller coaster in which my mood would depend on how well I was doing in school. Unfortunately, some of my highest highs and my lowest lows during those years involved grades.

I hit rock bottom my sophomore year of high school after I attempted to cheat on a quiz. I was unsuccessful, but the attempt made me realize that I had become obsessed with academic success. I made the decision out of frustration over the structure of one of my classes. I justified the decision by convincing myself that I was only rectifying a wrong. Of course, my conscience was not convinced.

Since my childhood, my community had always told me that my future depended on my success in school. Although to some this may seem like motivation, even encouragement, to excel in academia, through my experiences, that mindset drastically affected my mentality of learning. In my mind, any less than a perfect grade that I received was a crack in my future until eventually all those cracks would accumulate to completely shatter my dreams.

I actually was in somewhat of a state of depression after my incident with the quiz—not because the teacher found out, but because of the shame of who I had allowed myself to become.

Months later, I eventually confessed to the teacher, who graciously encouraged me instead of

just continue running, I will soon reach the end with all the pictures and medals that I can later brag to others about. In reality, when I run with that end goal in mind, I struggle through the process—the run is tortuously long and the end inconceivably far. I have found that when I enjoy the journey, the end comes much quicker and the process is more enjoyable. At the end, the finish only lasts for some brief minutes—it is the journey that takes the most time.

At Duke we often judge our performance based on our grades. We allow our performance to dictate who we are. I oftentimes have found myself feeling exceptionally brilliant if I performed well on an exam and remarkably dumb if I did not. Up until last fall, I was still struggling with the emotional roller coaster of grades. I thought, if I work just a little bit harder, I will achieve this grade, and then I will be content. In reality, when we allow our performance to dictate our identities, we become emotionally unstable.

What if we enjoyed the process and allowed our grades to be a byproduct? What if we were to let go of our perfectionism, acknowledge our shortcomings and learn from our mistakes? At Duke, where there are so many accomplished people, we tend to base our identities on what we can do instead of who we are. I would like to encourage every individual that regardless of how insignificant—or significant—you may feel, Duke chose you for a reason. You bring something special to the table, and our campus would not be the same without you.

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learned a new word today. I was following the hyperlinks on Wikipedia—typical Sunday afternoon procrastination— when I found myself reading about bicephaly, the condition of having two heads.

There isn’t much else to know about bicephaly, so I soon moved on to my next procrastinatory activities—calling my parents and browsing Facebook. While leaving a voicemail for my mother, I noticed a post on my newsfeed from Nadia, an old high school friend. The combination of my mother’s voice in my ear and Nadia’s face on my screen brought back an old memory.

Nadia is Hispanic. She is good friends with another of my old high school friends, Tarasha. Tarasha is black. My mother, who is a literal white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, could not for the life of her keep herself from

when all else was equivalent.

Thinking about these dueling conceptions of racism, I thought back to the idea of the bicephalic beast. I saw one head of racism— structural, implicit, the fault of few who are alive but many who are dead. My mother saw the other head—the still living, breathing hatred that is the fault of the one who holds it.

And I understood—when people say that racism is dead, they’re talking about the beast my mother knows. They mean that in this era where you’re fired in an instant for stating that any race or gender or, soon, even any sexuality is lesser, the “isms” are no longer particularly meaningful opponents.

I’m not sure that’s true—I think we still see hatred-driven, intentional racism pulling triggers all around the country.

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t’s that time of year again. Basketball season is beginning, leaves are changing color and Starbucks is offering Pumpkin Spice Lattes. When not Instagramming these annual rites of passage, or at least experiencing them, us Duke students are dead-set on what will come to pass during an entirely different season—summer. With eRecruiting already showcasing internships in fields ranging from social media management to tobacco plant breeding, opportunities abound for students looking to prepare themselves for the future, earn some money or avoid spending three consecutive months at home. Of course, those desiring a more classically Duke experience can always get engaged.

I speak of engagement not in the on-one-knee, diamond ring-clutching sense, but in the spirit of the “get engaged!” double entendre-crested T-shirts given to DukeEngage participants. Aided by a $30 million fund courtesy of the Duke Endowment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the program has given thousands of students, including 425 this past summer,

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calling them Natalie and Teresa.

My mother is liberal with a capital L. She devoted months of her life to fight a losing battle for President Obama in western Colorado, and she spends hours every day tutoring Hispanic children in my hometown. I knew that nothing about her slip-ups was intentional.

But nevertheless, they made me uncomfortable. They betrayed the fact that we are so endlessly exposed to white culture and nothing else that difference doesn’t easily fit into our understanding of our world. Even more troublesome, I worried that she wouldn’t have subconsciously corrected the name of someone she saw on the news. I suspected that the fact that they were her high-achieving daughter’s friends primed her to think certain things of them— preconceptions that primed her to think of names like Natalie and Teresa.

I have been taught what to do when I encounter racism. You don’t worry about offending the racist. You spare no niceties— you go to any lengths to rectify the problem.

“Mom!” I said. “You’re being racist.” Never mind that her face was already bright red.

Her embarrassment deepened when I called her out, and she immediately became so defensive I couldn’t have a constructive conversation with her.

One of my mother’s earliest memories is of her mother crying about Martin Luther King being assassinated on April 4, 1968. It was her birthday, and she couldn’t understand why Mom was so sad. To my mother, racism is a thing that stems from conviction of superiority and resulting hatred. It is a thing that purchases a gun, that aims a gun at the second balcony of the Lorraine Motel, that sends neurons to a finger telling it to apply pressure to a trigger. It requires intent.

My understanding of racism is very different. It comes from implicit bias training, from hearing stories from black friends about being in group projects and having kind, well-meaning people not look their way for the answer. It comes from reading about experiments in which resumes with names that were more stereotypically black got interviewed at lower rates than those with names that sounded white, even

beast is racism’s other head. It is racism that comes not from intent but from the structure of society, how institutions are designed and predispositions crafted.

We know how to fight the first kind of racism: full-frontal assault. Make people feel guilt and shame a la Frederick Douglass’s The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro. Shove their hypocrisy in their faces. Show them by any nonviolent means necessary that the hatred motivating their oppression is wrong.

But these tactics don’t work with the second kind of racism. There was no hatred motivating my mother’s habits. There was no bad feeling. The worst she could be accused of was ignorance, but even this she actively tried to combat. She is simply the result of a society that has been unfairly structured.

And I took her red face and made her feel worse. In being so combative, I stopped her from examining whether her behavior stemmed from preconceptions she should actively try to correct.

This happens with other types of –isms, too—most notably sexism. Men who treat women like they’re weak or comment inappropriately on women’s appearances are sometimes treated like they’re actively, intentionally trying to oppress women, when sometimes these men are just going along with what they’ve been taught all their lives.

Treating people who are the unassuming products of an unfair system like they’re the enemy—assigning them intent where none exists—only inspires defensiveness and creates backlash. Because people speak out unproductively, using the weapons for the first head on the second, we come to stigmatize speaking out at all. Two camps develop when there should be only one.

The battle for the second head–the systematic oppression head–is no longer an issue of us vs. them. Once the ill will of the oppressors disappears, it’s us vs. it, us vs. an unfair system. And to fight it, we need to treat everyone like they’re an ally, not an enemy—because we need everyone on our side.

the opportunity to take part in long-term, immersive service experiences in locations across the globe. With 39 formal programs and the option available for participants to propose their own, DukeEngage projects provide us with a door to the world, be it a faraway country or a neighboring state.

Unfortunately, however, faraway countries seem to be much more appealing destinations to DukeEngage-d students than neighboring states. When DukeEngage international program decisions were released the December of my first year, I watched those who were rejected from their first choices weigh the pros and cons of applying for a domestic program—their deadline is, strategically, two months later than that of international program—and throwing in the towel in hopes of better luck and a better application the next year. All too often, people chose the second option, often without Though rejection can hurt—my submission to the first resume drop of the recruiting season did not even merit a “thank you for your interest” stock response, leading to hours of angst and bullet-point tweaking on my part—I believe disappointment is not the sole cause of people’s choice not to re-enter the DukeEngage application portal until it is Pumpkin Spice Latte season once more. “I don’t know, why would I want to go to western North Carolina or someplace like that? I just feel like I’d have a much richer experience by going abroad,” I’ve heard many a time as the January domestic project deadline came and went. The evidence is more than anecdotal; according to an August 2013 Chronicle article, only one independent project took place in the U.S., and multiple sources claim that attracting applicants was a regular problem for directors of domestic programs. As someone who has taken part in long-term civic engagement work both here in the United States and abroad, I know well the allure and benefits of international service but nonetheless believe it is by no means inherently superior to work done domestically.

This past summer I took advantage of a generous grant and spent as much as possible on airfare to faraway Cape Town, South Africa, where I worked for an incubator for social ventures. I witnessed poverty on an unimaginable scale, collaborated with people hailing from four continents and sent Snapchats from atop Table Mountain. I experienced being the only white person in the room for the first time and learned how to live with a family with wholly different beliefs and cultural norms. I spent an embarrassing amount of time frantically emailing my parents in search of advice, but I made it out alive as a reasonably more self-aware person than I had been eight weeks earlier. My time abroad, even in a country where English is the “lingua franca,” challenged me far more than I had ever imagined.

One year previously, however, I had lived and worked in a decidedly unglamorous locale—Horry County, South Carolina. Thirty minutes from Myrtle Beach, 10 from a quiet commercial district and 180 from my hometown, it was a far cry from the exotic locales to where my friends taking part in international DukeEngage programs were traveling.

I still managed to struggle and grow, however—I worked with people whose Southern and Gullah Geechee heritages were like nothing I had ever seen. I helped to curate a local museum’s first exhibit on AfricanAmerican history and pondered my right to do so as a white person working temporarily in a county home to 45,000 black residents. In hindsight and after the lessons of my domestic internship, I should have known working abroad would not be a walk in the park.

Looking back on these two experiences, I may have packed my American flag t-shirt for the journey and kept my Verizon SIM card when traveling to South Carolina, but simply being close to home did not make me feel at all deprived of access to the cultural differences and meaningful service work that we seek when going abroad. Realizing this is far from intuitive, but admitting it can allow us to see past the allure of long-haul flights and alien landscapes and realize that, in the end, service, with all its dicey group dynamics and less-than-occasional teachable moments, is service. No matter where it takes place.

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Oct. 29 - Nov. 11 EXHIBITIONS

City Under One Roof. October 27 thru January 24. Center for Documentary Studies, Juanita Kreps Gallery. Free.

Picture Books. Thru Nov. 7. Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco. Free.

DEMAN WEEKEND: Nov. 7-8

Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting. Thru January 11. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Miró: The Experience of Seeing. Thru Feb. 22. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

Traces of the Past. Oct. 12 thru November 30. Smith Warehouse, Bays 10-11, second floor.

Free.

EVENTS

October 30 Opening Reception & Artists’ Talk. Event to celebrate the “City Under One Roof” exhibit.

6pm, Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Concert-Vox Luminis. Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis will perform works by Heinrich Shütz and the Bach clan. 8pm, Duke Chapel. $20/$34 General Public; $15 30-&-under; $10 Duke students.

November 4 Voice Master Class. With Robert Wells, baritone. 5pm, Nelson Music Room – East Duke Building. Free.

November 5 Artist Talk. “Survivors of the Yoga Mat: Lessons about Trauma.” Visiting artist Becky Thompson will share her groundbreaking work of yogic in healing. 12pm, Duke Diet & Fitness Center (501 Douglass St.). Free.

Artist Talk. “Towards a Pedagogy of Tenderness.” Becky Thompson gives talk on building community. 3pm, Women’s Studies Pink Parlor, East Duke Building. Free.

Book Discussion. Modern Classics of Catalan Literature: The Time of the Doves by Mercé Rodoreda to accompany the Miró exhibition. 11am, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

November 6 Panel. Companhia Urbana de Dança: Aesthetics & Activism in Brazilian Dance. Discussion moderated by Katya Wesolowski with Companhia Artistic Director Sonia Destri Lie and dancers. 12pm, Ark Dance Studio. Free.

November 7 Workshop. Yoga for Every Body: Down Dog and Dharma. Yoga and writing session. 11:45am, The Ark Dance Studio. Free.

Art, Conflict and the Politics of Memory Speaker Series, Part II. Eric Michaud (´Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Laura Morowitz (Wagner College), Andrew Herscher (Univ. of Michigan). 2:30pm, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, 2nd Floor. Free.

Connect with distinguished alumni in the entertainment, media, and arts industries.

Masterclass. Alumna Monica Hogan (’12) will conduct a dance masterclass as part of DEMAN weekend activities. 2:30pm, Ark Dance Studio. Free.

Companhia Urban de Dança. One of the most exciting new ensembles from Rio de Janerio fuse hip-hop, samaba, capoeira, and contemporary dance. 8pm, Reynolds Theater. $28/$34 General Public; $15 ages 30-&-under; $10 Duke students.

November 8 Companhia Urban de Dança. (See Nov. 7) Public Reading and Talk. Eula Biss, author of On Immunity. Reception to follow. 7pm, East Duke 201. Free.

November 9 Book Discussion. (See Nov. 5) 2pm.

Concert. De Capo Chamber Players. 4pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Organ Recital Series. Stephen Schnurr (T‘87), “Alumni Series” recital on the Aeolian organ.

5pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

November 11 Veterans Day Concert. Duke Chorale. 8pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. (ATC) = Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. All events subject to change.

10/29 Huamulin, Boy Xiaoqian - Q&A w/ dir. Li Xinmin Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--Memory Project (Chinese documentaries) 10/30

Waste Land (SW) - discussion to follow Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series.

6:30pm reception / 7pm film screening.

11/2

Pan’s Labyrinth (2pm, N) In conjunction with the exhibition, “Miró: The Experience of Seeing”.

11/04

Russian Ark (W) AMI Showcase--European Cinema series

11/08

Moonrise Kingdom - w/ cinematographer Robert Yeoman ‘73 (4pm) Special Event. Q&A to follow w/ Robert Yeoman.

11/10

Seven Days in Heaven (W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

11/11

Taxi Driver [35mm screening] AMI Showcase--Film Noir Series ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

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