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With 19 running, Court of Appeals ballot crowded

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After delays, reclamation pond to open in May Duke hopes pond will cut dependence on water from the city of Durham by 20 percent

Lack of voter interest is a concern for some in atypically full race

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Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle In an unusually tight race, 19 candidates are currently vying for the one seat available on North Carolina’s Court of Appeals.

Analysts fear that voters in the November election will have less information to distinguish between the numerous candidates, and may be less likely to come out to the polls because of it. The abnormally crowded ballot is the result of Justice John Martin’s unexpected early retirement in August—which was announced too late in the election process for candidates to be narrowed to two in a primary election.

“I think a lot of people looked at the race and felt like it might be wide open,” said Keischa Lovelace, a current candidate in the race and a Deputy Commissioner of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. “There wasn’t one individual who was the frontrunner.”

Of the 19 candidates, many have relatively little judicial experience. The court of appeals typically is not a highprofile race, but the high number of See Appeals on Page 5

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Plans for the reclamation pond began after a severe drought in 2007. The structure of the pond is completed and is beginning to fill with water with a final completion date set for May 2015.

After a series of delays caused by “one of the wettest winters in history,” the water reclamation pond is on track to open May 2015.

Construction of the pond located at the corner of Erwin Road and Towerview Drive— which was initially scheduled to be completed Spring 2014—experienced a delay in the planting schedule which began in mid-October rather than wrapping in Septemeber as planned, said Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects for Duke Facilities Management.

Now, construction of the pond, which will filter storm runoff from 22 percent of the main campus area and provide a standby reservoir during droughts, is running smoothly and on track to meet its new deadline.

“The dam is complete and so is the earthwork – that means that the digging and shaping of the pond’s rim is complete and the pond is starting to fill with water,” Burdick said.

She added that construction is now focused on the site’s amenities, including a bridge, gazebo and walking path.

Sustainability—both in terms of construction and the final product—has been a focus of the project.

Plans for the project began in 2008 after a drought in 2007 that was so severe that Durham had less than 60 days of water available.

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Sushi Love demand ‘unlike anything we had ever seen’ After high demand caused delays, the restaurant has tweaked its delivery system

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Kali Shulklapper University Editor A flood of student orders caused a severe delay in Sushi Love delivery Monday night, but the restaurant and Campus Enterprises were determined to make the process more efficient for the second night of delivery.

Monday, on its first night as a MerchantsonPoints vendor, Sushi Love received more than 100 orders—an amount that is almost three times that of average nights at other MOP restaurants, said sophomore Colin Power, co-director of restaurants for Campus Enterprises. The influx of orders caused a massive delay in delivery, causing some stu-

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dents to wait more than three hours for their “The biggest problem was just volume,” food, and some to never see its arrival. But, said Brian Taylor, a junior and co-chair of despite an abundance of complaints, Power the Duke University Student Dining Advisory said the team successfully devised a manage- Committee. “People were counting down ment system to remedy the hours and placed the the problems—ensuring orders right away.” he biggest problem that Tuesday-night delivHe added that the ery ran smoothly. student body’s level of enwas just volume.

“We anticipated that People were counting thusiasm was completely this would be a massive unexpected, creating success and planned for down the hours and placed both positive and negait to be one of the larg- the orders right away. tive consequences. est days ever seen,” Power “It was the first day — Brian Taylor and they are going to said. “But it blew [those expectations] out of the have some growing water. It was unlike anything we had ever pains,” Taylor said. “They are going to be a seen.” great vendor, but unfortunately were unable Power added that the the flood of orders to meet the services expected out of them for is not merely attributable to Sushi Love’s first that day.” week as an MOP vendor, but is a testament to Taylor encouraged students to bear with the amount of interest in the restaurant by See Sushi on Page 7 the Duke student body.

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As North Carolina’s Senate race heads into its final days, Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican Speaker of the N.C. House Thom Tillis remain nearly neck-and-neck. The race has attracted significant national attention and has been deemed the most expensive Senate race ever, with many outside groups providing considerable funding as both parties battle for control of Congress. With less than a week until Election Day, take a look at how the two candidates stack up on key issues.

Chairwoman of Armed Services Emerging Threats subcommittee.

Supports pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and arming moderate Syrian rebels.

Says all options should remain open, including ground troops in Iraq and Syria, but hasn’t explicitly stated a position on ground intervention.

Supports withdrawal from Afghanistan but criticized the Obama administration’s timeframe as too hasty.

Wants to increase teacher pay and reduce classroom sizes. Supports allowing students to refinance their loans and making early education a priority.

Is against allowing students to refinance their loans. Wants to repeal Common Core.

TAXES: Favors higher taxes for the wealthy and tax cuts for middleincome families and closing loopholes for big corporations.

MINIMUM WAGE: Supports increase in federally-mandated minimum wage to $10.

TAXES: Wants to reduce the corporate income tax and state government spending. Supports rolling back on gas tax increases.

MINIMUM WAGE: Opposes the federally-mandated minimum wage. Believes individual states should be able to decide on minimum wage but has not explicitly stated whether the current state minimum wage is sufficient.

ABORTION: Supports making abortions safe and legal. Wants to focus on preventing unwanted pregnancy in the first place.

CONTRACEPTION: Supports companies covering contraception in their insurance policies and expanding Medicaid’s coverage of family planning services.

ABORTION: Supports stricter abortion policies, including mandatory ultrasounds and requiring physicians to provide certain information 24 hours prior to the abortion such as description of the fetus, alternatives and medical risks.

CONTRACEPTION: Supports making oral contraceptives available over the counter.

Supports leaving definition of marriage up to states and prohibiting sexual identity discrimination in schools. Opposed Amendment One.

Believes in constitutionally defining marriage as one man and one woman. Supported Amendment One.

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In the race for the House seat of North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, Democrat G.K. Butterfield is seeking a sixth consecutive term against Republican Arthur Rich, who has never held public office. With less than a week until Election Day, take a look at how the candidates match up on key issues.

Voted for informing Mexico about the Minuteman Project, a group of volunteers who have taken on surveillance of the Mexican border for undocumented immigrants, and also voted against building a fence along the Mexican border.

Advocates for “shared responsibility� of undocumented immigrants between federal agencies and those employing immigrants. Is against breaking up families and seeks to guide undocumented children to citizenship.

Supports requiring states to implement education reforms independent of the national government. Wants to extend the current interest rates on federal loan program for many undergraduate students, saying that allowing current interest rates to expire would burden students.

Is against federal influence in state education, and promotes pay raises for teachers and administration.

Encourages domestic manufacturing and promotes the export of American goods, and has proposed energy saving plans intended to cut costs for local businesses and promote green jobs.

MINIMUM WAGE: Advocates for an increase in minimum wage, citing that this will be one step towards ending the cycle of poverty in North Carolina and the United States.

Has voted yes on legislation expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines, and has voted against legislation banning federal health coverage that includes abortion.

Strives to promote start-ups in North Carolina by eliminating the role of federal government in state and local businesses. Wants to create jobs by increasing industry and domestic trade, and supports the overhaul of the current unemployment benefits system.

MINIMUM WAGE: Proposes to eliminate taxes on minimum wage and thus increase income, resulting in more disposable income in order to help workers upgrade existence toward a livable level.

Is strongly pro-life.

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Duke, UNC establish center to promote healthy eating New center has potential to “improve the health of millions,” says Dean Kelly Brownell

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“We’ll employ an innovative approach combining big data analysis with largescale field experiments to pursue triplewin strategies - policies that benefit consumers, are not hurting the bottom line Gautam Hathi for companies and have broad impact on Health & Science Editor the public good,” Harding said in the reA new research center—which will lease. develop strategies for promoting healthy A similar USDA-funded center at eating—is being established by Duke and Cornell University has been researchthe University of North Carolina at Cha- ing ways to change how students choose pel Hill. food in school cafeterias.

The center will be funded by a three“A lot of those things are good ideas, year, $1.9 million grant from the U.S. they work,” Harding said in the release, Department of Agriculture. It will be “so now we’re going to take them into a called the Duke-UNC USDA Center for broader setting and try to change peoBehavioral Economics and Healthy Food ple’s behavior in stores, farmers’ markets Choice Research and and other places where lot of those things will focus on improving people make food dietary choices among are good ideas, they choices.”

Researchers from food stamp recipients. work, so now we’re going The goal of the center both Duke and UNCis to find ways of using to take them into a broader Chapel Hill will be involved in the center. data and consumer psy- setting and try to change Since 2007, the numchology to change the people’s behavior in stores, behavior of food conber of Americans using sumers. The grant ap- farmers’ markets and other food stamps has nearly plication by Duke and places where people make doubled, the release UNC for the funding to food choices. states. The program host the center was supreached record heights ported by several large — Matthew Harding with approximately one out of every six Ameriretail chains, including cans using the program.

Walmart.

“This is important research that has The BECR Center will be headed by Matthew Harding, assistant professor of the potential to improve the health of public policy at the Sanford School. In millions of Americans,” Kelly Brownell, a Duke News release announcing the dean of Duke’s Sanford School of Pubcreation of the center, Harding said that lic Policy and a food policy expert, said research at the center would aim to de- in the release. “Matt Harding has asChronicle File Photo velop strategies that improved consumer sembled an impressive team of people to Kelly Brownell, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy and a food policy expert, has diets and help food companies make work on very important issues.” praised the team of researchers Matthew Harding has assembled to work at the center.

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voter turnout in judicial races has traditionally been a problem.

“I went to the polling booth in the 60s, and the floor was ankle deep in judicial ballots,” Mitchell said. “People would go in and vote on the other ballots, and they didn’t know anything about the judicial elections, so they didn’t even pretend to vote. Ask the Board of Elections. That’s still the case now.”

Mitchell is similarly skeptical of voters who do pick a candidate in this election.

“If they do vote, there will be nowhere near 5 percent of the voters who know one of the 19 candidates or anything about them,” said Mitchell. “If they do vote they’ll be voting for a name that looks pretty or something, or who knows what.”

Some of these alternative-voting strategies include picking at random or picking from the first names listed on the ballot, said Shelby Benton, president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association.

“It’s unfortunate, it really is,” said Benton, “There are some really qualified candidates out there.”

Not everyone, however, shares this outlook on voter turnout. Candidate Hunter Murphy, an attorney, is confident that voters will do their research and reach an educated decision.

“I trust that the voters who are going to vote will pay attention to what they’re doing,” said Murphy. “There’s a lot of interest in our race, and it hasn’t just gone by the wayside.”

This year is the first since 2002 that candidates running for the Court of Appeals have not received funding for their campaigns from the government. The Judicial Campaign Reform Act, which allowed candidates running for the Court of Appeals to receive grants from the government for their campaign, was re-

continued from page 1 candidates has led to concerns that voters will be even less likely to make an informed decision—or to vote at all.

J. Brad Donovan, another candidate for the seat and also a Deputy Commissioner at the North Carolina Industrial Commission, is skeptical that all of the candidates who registered are truly dedicated to winning the seat. He feels a number of candidates have done little in terms of promoting their campaigns or gaining support.

“They haven’t come to any events, they have no signs and they have no campaign,” Donovan said. “They just filed and are taking a chance.”

Complicating the election beyond the length of the ballot is the fact that the judicial codes of ethics limit what candidates can discuss—making it even harder for them to stand out.

“You really can’t say much on the campaign trail other than who you are, what you currently do and your qualifications and experience, but you can’t speak out on any issues,” Lovelace said.

Even if the candidates are able to distinguish themselves based on the talking points available, lack of voter interest is still a concern.

“Judicial races, especially court of appeals races, are not especially high on people’s list of priorities,” said John Arrowood, a current candidate and former judge on the appeals court.

Fear that voters might skip the judicial ballot, however, is not new. Burley Mitchell, former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, who is not running for the seat, said that low

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Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons A seat on the N.C. Court of Appeals, pictured above, is being contested by 19 different candidates.

pealed in 2013.

Political parties and special interest groups have filled the void created by the absence of government funding— making the race an unusually political one.

Although the political parties of the candidates will not be listed on the ballot, there are eight registered democrats, eight registered republicans and three independents running in the race. The Democratic and Republican parties have each endorsed a candidate—Arrowood and Judge John Tyson, respectively.

Some observers feel these endorse-

ments could unfairly influence an election that is meant to be apolitical.

“If it was my country, I would consider making it a requirement that judges could not belong to a political party,” said Donovan, an independent. “That’s obviously never going to happen, but in the purest sense of being a judge, impartiality is mandatory.”

Information about candidates is available though flyers, social media, their work histories and public court records.

“If the voter wants that information and wants to be informed, its out there for them,” Lovelace said.

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Asking questions about the values and aims of higher education should be an integral component of its pursuit; and any intellectually curious and critical student ought to develop a comprehensive understanding of the university and to explore how, at various points in time, the purposes and ends of the unversity have been diversely articulated.

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Mike Ma | The Chronicle The Duke Global Health Institute’s Global Health Club held a discussion on the importance of climate change at Trent Hall Tuesday.

The Chancellor’s Lecture Series and The Science Advisory Council present

The University, Durham’s largest consumer of water, hopes the pond will cut Duke’s dependence on water from the city of Durham by 20 percent.

The pond’s completion is expected to save the city of Durham approximately 100 million gallons of potable water per year.

Some of the pond’s water will also be pumped to a nearby chilled water plant—bringing the net water usage for heating and cooling on campus closer to zero and providing East Campus dormitories with better access to air conditioning.

Professors in the Nicholas School initially worried that fluctuating water tables in the pond would make it difficult to maintain wetland communities. However, Burdick said that the biology department helped to select plants that will thrive in or out of water. She added that a number of the plants have already been installed on the shore of the pond.

Burdick also noted that all wood used in the project was from trees removed to build the pond, and that the 1,880 trees planted will more than replace the 1,550 that were removed.

The project had a projected budget of approximately $9 million.

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with the speed of delivery, Power said.

“It sounds like today went a lot better than yesterday,” Taylor said. “They’re working out some of the kinks.”

Power, who managed the coordination of the delivery teams from the restaurant Tuesday night, credited Radoozle as a major factor for success. He stated that the amount of orders placed would have been impossible for one person and a single phone-line.

“An online ordering platform like Radoozle doesn’t make mistakes,” he said. “Here and there we make human errors in terms of reading or printing something wrong. But to have someone on the phone writing it all down—that’s not an efficient process.”

Power added that the team is looking to continually evolve with Radoozle’s technology—which currently exists as both a computer modality and a phone application—as well as looking ahead toward different methods of payment. The team, he added, has now figured out the broader challenges of delivery and will be working to find solutions, enabling a more streamlined process featured at other MOP restaurants.

“Our one regret is that they’re not open all night long,” Power said. “We could’ve kept going.”

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“It’s regrettable that some people had a bad experience,” Power said. “Of course, though, a restaurant with 20 orders messes up one, so we were going to have two or three orders where we miss one. But out of 100 plus orders I think we did a fantastic job.”

With only two drivers scheduled for Monday evening, the restaurant had to shut down delivery from 6 to 8 p.m., as well as add another driver. On Tuesday night, the team increased the amount of drivers, maintaining between four and six throughout the evening. Power added that it is still too early to make a decision about increasing the amount of workers in the kitchen, but said the team will look into scaling up on all fronts.

Campus Enterprises also created a system of shutting down delivery for 15 minute intervals every 90 minutes—enabling the kitchen to get back on track and the drivers to catch up

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Brian Mazur Beat Writer Duke is trying not to fall into a trap. Again.

The last time it was on a winning streak and ranked in the Coaches’ Poll, it went down to Miami for a crucial ACC Coastal game and lost to the Hurricanes 22-10 in a South Beach dogfight.

On Saturday, the stakes will be as high as they have been this season when the No. 24 Blue Devils travel to play Coastal foe Pittsburgh noon Saturday at Heinz Field. After back-toback wins against Pittsburgh Virginia and Georgia Tech in October, the vs.

Blue Devils begin the final month of No. 24 Duke the regular season atop the ACC Coastal SATURDAY, Noon and are poised to Heinz Field make another trip to Charlotte for the ACC Championship game in December.

But a physical Panther squad that won last year’s 58-55 shootout in Durham is an obstacle Duke will have to face before it can realize its postseason hopes. Head coach David Cutcliffe admits the Panthers (4-4, 2-2 in the ACC) outsize the Blue Devils (6-1, 2-1) but that hasn’t stopped Duke from churning out wins in 14 of its last 15 regular season games against larger competition.

“Pittsburgh poses a lot of challenges on both sides of the ball,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Senior David Helton and the Blue Devil defense will look to slow down a Pittsburgh offense averaging 233.9 rushing yards per game.

such a physical football team. But it is good being in that game-week swing. We are going to have to prepare well.”

Much of the attention during the bye week has been focused on the Blue Devil defense.

Despite losing captain Kelby Brown to a torn ACL before the season began and injuries to multiple defensive linemen this season, Duke is only allowing an average of 15.1 points per game this season, good for fifth in the FBS behind Ole Miss, Stanford, Alabama and Louisville.

Still, it is not taking a Pittsburgh offense lightly, one that gashed the Blue Devil defense for 598 total yards and six touchdowns last season. Two of the top performers from the

Sept. 21, 2013 matchup, running back James Conner and wide receiver Tyler Boyd, are back this year and are among the best skill players in the ACC. Conner is a dark-horse ACC Player of the Year candidate with a league-high 1,079 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns, while Boyd is fourth in the conference with 651 receiving yards and five touchdowns. Boyd torched the Duke secondary last season for 154 receiving yards and three touchdowns on eight catches.

On the ground and through the air, the Panther offense can be punishing. But it has had its share of problems this season. It is only

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Blue Devils edge past Georgia State Seth Johnson Staff Writer Home sweet home—Koskinen Stadium proves faithful once again.

Duke was able to walk away with a win Tuesday night at home, defeating Georgia State 2-1. The Blue 1 Devils have never GSU DUKE 2 lost to the Panthers in program history, and the victory marks Duke’s second straight after previously dropping five in a row.

“We dominated play from start to finish,” head coach John Kerr said. “We got the two goals to go through and win the game, and that’s what is most important this time of year.”

The first half got off to a quick start for the Blue Devils (7-8-1) as they registered five shots in the first nine minutes of play— including an unsuccessful penalty kick in the sixth minute. Under the direction of

senior midfielder Sean Davis, the attacking third pushed a lot of opportunities past the Panther (6-9-0) defense, but were just not able to capitalize. The Duke offense was able to capitalize on one opportunity in the half, however. In the 35th minute, Davis led a counter attack down the center of the field and fed it up the left side to freshman midfielder Bryson Asher, who directed it back to the middle for Jeremy Ebobisse. The freshman forward put the ball into the back of the net on one touch to make it 1-0.

Unfortunately for Duke, Georgia State caught the defense off guard within the next two minutes. A lapse in concentration and defensive discipline allowed the Panthers to move the ball into the 18yard box, where senior midfielder Niklas Kivinen attempted a cross that deflected off of senior goalkeeper Wilson Fisher.

After being deflected, the ball bounced into the net for an own goal as the Blue Devil defense looked on, equalizing the See M. Soccer on Page 12

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Sophomore Brody Huitema hit the go-ahead goal off a free kick with 43:21 left in the game.

Dear College Football Playoff selection committee, This time last year, you were nothing more than an idea—a grand experiment college football fans had been salivating over for the better part of a decade. Last night, the NCAA brought you into the world, and your first set of rankings with it.

And although I can’t wait for the first-ever College Football Playoff, I couldn’t help but feel uneasy as I watched your top 25.

Firstly, why are you even releasing a weekly top 25? College basketball has a selection committee just like you, and they stay out of sight until Selection Sunday. This prevents the constant second-guessing of a week-to-week poll that begins with five full weeks left of the season—especially when teams ranked fifth through 25th are useless when it comes to determining the ultimate playoff field.

But when I first saw your rankings, I realized why you would submit yourself to such scrutiny.

The selection special began with a dramatic shot of your board room and a made-for-TV voiceover. ESPN is paying nearly $500 million per season for the next 12 years to broadcast the three College Football Playoff games. This small price tag affords the worldwide leader in sports the rights to turn an otherwise-mundane Tuesday night telecast into a half-hour blockbuster of punditry and debate.

Last year, the BCS standings were determined by a set of objective criteria—a complex algorithm that combined traditional college football polls with a slew of rankings generated by computers. The system was undoubtedly flawed, but the nation’s primary problem with it was that it was nearly impossible to understand.

Now that the College Football Playoff exists, your 12 members are the only ones who can see into the crystal ball. College football’s new rankings are a step up from the BCS—emphasizing head-to-head matchups, conference champions and strength of schedule over meaningless blowout victories— but they are still wrought with subjectivity.

I’m not even mad that you ranked Duke 24th in your first poll—even if that is horribly unoriginal considering both the Associated Press and USA TODAY have them in the same slot. I wouldn’t expect you to have actually seen the Blue Devils play, anyway, and you probably won’t barring another run to the ACC championship.

Just like the computers could never get

Daniel Carp

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NCAA releases Graduation Success Rates amid scandals Nick Martin Sports Editor The NCAA released its annual graduation report Tuesday. Amid the numerous academic scandals going on throughout the country, the report actually sheds a bright light on studentathletes, as 84 percent of the athletes who entered college in 2007 earned a degree within six years.

Since the NCAA began collecting the graduation rates in 1995, there has been a reported 10 percent increase in overall Graduation Success Rates (GSR), 14 percent increase by black males, 18 percent spike in men’s basketball and 12 percent jump in football.

“It’s the highest [rate] ever by a good measure and it’s up virtually across the board,” NCAA president Mark Emmert told The Associated Press. “It’s the best academic performance we’ve ever seen.”

At Duke, athletes of the 26 varsity sports posted a 97 percent GSR, 15

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percentage points higher than that of the national average and 8.9 percent higher than the ACC’s average.

Of the 26 Blue Devil teams, 15 posted a perfect 100 percent GSR: baseball, men’s basketball, men’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s tennis, men’s cross country/ track and field, women’s basketball, women’s fencing, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, women’s cross country/track and field and volleyball.

The remaining nine squads all posted a GSR of at least 83 percent and eight of the nine scored 91 percent or better.

Women’s golf (83), men’s soccer (91), football (92), wrestling (94), women’s rowing (95), men’s lacrosse (95), men’s swimming and diving (97) made up the group of nine.

Alongside the GSR, the Federal Graduation Rates were also released Tuesday. Duke scholarship athletes that enrolled in 2004-07 posted a fouryear class average of 84 percent. The

difference between the GSR and the federal rate is that the GSR takes into account transfers that left the program in good academic standing. Also, the FGR only includes student-athletes that are on scholarship.

The Patriot League led all conferences in both graduation success rate at 93 percent and federal graduation rate at 85 percent.

The ACC was not far behind, registering a GSR of 88.1 percent, which is still better than the NCAA average of 82 percent. In football, the ACC is the only Power Five conference to have multiple teams score 90 percent or higher in the past 10 years. Notre Dame, which led the ACC with a GSR of 99 percent, joined the Blue Devils as the only other men’s basketball program to post a 100 percent GSR. But the conference was not without its dark spots.

The NCAA average for football programs was 71 percent, but not all schools in the ACC managed to best the

national average. The fellow Triangle schools struggled, as North Carolina State posted a GSR of only 65 percent— tied with Florida State for the worst in the league—and North Carolina followed it up at 69 percent.

The Tar Heel men’s basketball program scored a GSR of 88 percent, but is still in hot water, along with the University as a whole, following the Wainstein Report, issued last Wednesday.

Former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein presented his report, in which he accused the University of academic fraud via its African and AfroAmerican Studies department. More than 3,100 students—47 percent of which were athletes—benefitted from what the report called “paper classes,” in which professors would grant artificially high grades. The AFAM department carried on this behavior for more than two decades.

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Blue Devils finish fall slate with 70-over-par outing Amrith Ramkumar Beat Writer The Blue Devils struggled mightily in their final event of the fall, but now have four months to improve before their spring opener.

Duke finished 12th out of 12 teams at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate at Royal Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas Tuesday with a 54-hole score of 70-overpar. Although the Blue Devils finished in the top seven in their previous two starts, they were never able to find a rhythm on the 7,068-yard, par-71 course.

“We got on the bad side of the ledger and really didn’t make enough putts to scratch and claw our way out of it,” head coach Jamie Green said. “There were a few too many times that all of our guys were having to scramble too much. We put ourselves in jail a little bit too many times.”

Although Duke’s score was extremely high, none of the 12 teams in the field had much success on the difficult layout, as the winning score was 15-over-par and only one team shot an under-par round during the two-day event. Teams played the first two rounds Monday and the final round Tuesday.

The tournament also used a unique format in which the top-five scores from six-man lineups were used. Normally, the top-four scores from five-man lineups are used.

“We made it very difficult,” Green said. “[But] the golf course had some new greens put in and they were quite firm. The first day the wind was blowing between 15 and 25 [miles per hour] all day, so the scores just overall were pretty high.”

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior Turner Southey-Gordon shot a team-best 72 in the final round of the Royal Oaks Invitational Tuesday.

The round that did Duke in the most was the second, during which the Blue Devils accumulated a team-score of 32-over-par, by far the worst round for any team during the week.

After anchoring the Blue Devil lineup in their first four starts, freshmen Adam Wood and Jake Shuman had by far their most disappointing events of their young careers.

Wood carded rounds of 74, 79 and 76 to finish 56th at 13-over-par and despite bouncing back with a final-round 73, Shuman still only finished tied for 37th at 11-over-par after shooting nine-overpar for his first 36 holes.

The duo will look to continue adjusting to the collegiate game and

pro-style courses during the offseason and put the disappointing start behind them. Wood and Shuman combined for four top-20 finishes and two top-10 starts throughout five fall tournaments.

Senior Turner Southey-Gordon provided one of the few bright spots for Duke in the final round, shooting 72 to card the best round for a Blue Devil during the event. Southey-Gordon tied with Shuman in 37th at 11-over-par as the duo paced Duke.

“We talked [Monday] night as a team about being a little more confident out there, trying to hit some good golf shots and being more aggressive,” SoutheyGordon said. “[In general], we kind of struggled. We’ve had a lot of golf

recently. I know we’re looking forward to the offseason.”

Senior Michael Ricaurte—who finished tied for 11th at the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth Oct. 6— never got going in his return to Texas, finishing tied for 50th at 14-over-par after failing to break 75 in each of the three rounds.

Sophomores Andrew Bieber and Alexander Matlari made their first starts in Duke’s team lineup and also never got going. Bieber finished tied for 63rd after three rounds of 78 and Matlari finished 71st out of 72 competitors after opening with rounds of 82 and 83 before a finalround 75.

The Blue Devils will look to hone in on the individual aspects of the game that keep holding them up as they enter the offseason, and won’t return to the course until Feb. 28 for the John Hayt Invitational at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The course hosted the PGA Tour’s Players Championship for 64 years before the event moved to nearby TPC Sawgrass, and will be another demanding test for Duke’s young squad.

The Blue Devils are hoping by the time the ACC Championship rolls around in late April, they will be ready to improve on last year’s 10th-place finish.

“Guys are trying to not hit bad shots,” Green said. “That’s just not the way you want to play golf. We all want to take some responsibility. I’m going to take a lot of that, in terms of the mindset. That will be our aim in the offseason, to make sure that guys know their games and play aggressively. [Also], the bottom line is we’ve got to make more putts.”

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continued from page 9 the BCS standings right, you, College Football Playoff selection committee, will still never get your rankings right. It seems that the only difference since you came into the world is that human error has replaced computer error. If that helps college football fans sleep better at night, so be it—but that doesn’t mean the system is fixed.

The only difference is that this year, finally, college football’s national champion will be determined on the field, not on a computer screen. Four teams will have the opportunity to play for the nation’s top prize and the goal is that with the highest stakes ever, the level of play will rise with it.

But don’t forget that even with a playoff, there will still be teams left on the outside looking in. Under the BCS system, the thirdplace team would always have the biggest axe to grind—now the burden has been shifted to those who finish fifth and sixth in your final rankings. If the playoffs expand to eight teams in the next few years as expected, do you think teams No. 9 and 10 will be thrilled?

In many ways, you don’t have the solution to all of college football’s problems. Rather, you have found a creative and more exciting way to repackage them.

Don’t worry, none of this will actually keep me from tuning in and watching you release your rankings every week. Just like the rest of the nation, I’m a tad bit obsessed. Maybe that’s the reason why college football fans will continue to treat you like the baby of the family—despite all of your flaws, you can do no wrong.

Can’t wait to watch you grow up, Daniel Carp

Sophia Durand | The Chronicle Redshirt senior Anthony Boone is 16-1 in the regular season as Duke’s starting quarterback.

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continued from page 9 averaging 29 points per game and is 109th in the nation with only 177 passing yards per game. Last week against Georgia Tech, the Pittsburgh offense fumbled six times, including five times in the first quarter.

The Blue Devils have thrived off turnovers all season, but must overcome the athleticism and talent the Panthers skill players bring to the table on offense.

‘They are very physical,” rover safety DeVon Edwards said. “They like to use their running backs [James Conner and Isaac Bennett] because they have some big guys [on the offensive line]. It is going to take more to tackle them.”

Sophomore quarterback Chad Voytik will aim to put the ball in the hands of his two potent weapons, but he has been forced to

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make plays of his own a handful of times this season.

Although he is not having a great year throwing the ball, only throwing for 1,234 yards, six touchdowns and nine interceptions, he can make plays with his feet. This was exhibited Oct. 16 against Virginia Tech when he rushed for a career-high 118 yards on 19 carries.

“We know that he is very effective when he is on the run,” Edwards said. “We have to stay disciplined because when he starts running the receivers start making up their own routes.”

Offensively, the recipe for success has been a steady ground game combined with few mistakes. The Blue Devil offensive line is giving up the fewest sacks and tackles for loss per game, which has translated into a rushing attack that is averaging 218 yards per game and plenty of time for redshirt senior quarterback Anthony Boone to find open receivers.

Keeping the miscues to a minimum will be important for the Duke offense. During the

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Miami game, crowd noise in the NFL-sized Sun Life Stadium played a hand in a number of false starts and botched snaps that doomed Blue Devil drives more than once. Heinz Stadium is also an NFL Stadium, but Duke is confident that it will be able to adjust to the hostile environment.

“We are not really sure [about the crowd noise] because we have never been to Heinz Field before,” center Matt Skura said. “If it does become an issue, we can correct it on the field. Right now we are not really concerned with noise, but if that situation does arise we can fix it.”

If the running game is stuffed, the weight will lie on the shoulders of Boone to make plays through the air. The Weddington, N.C. native has had an up-and-down season, only completing 57.9 percent of his passes, but has shown flashes of the NFL prospect many expected he would be this season.

He started the Virginia game completing 14-of-16 passes and tossed a short touchdown to tight end Erich Schneider, but only completed six passes the rest of the game.

Boone will look to exemplify a type of consistency that Cutcliffe wants to see more of out of his team.

“The biggest thing for us is finding some consistency in all aspects of the game. We have had good moments in kicking, defensively and offensively,” he said. “The thing that we need to do starting this Saturday is become a consistent football team.”

One thing that might not be consistent to what Duke has seen all season is the weather.

A weather system is expected to approach Pittsburgh Friday night, which could mean a cold rain or even a few snow showers in 30-40 degree weather around the noon kickoff.

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continued from page 10 first time Monday.

“Just based on the [Kenneth] Wainstein report, this is a case that potentially strikes at the heart of what higher education is about,” Emmert said in an interview with the Associated Press. “Universities are supposed to take absolutely most seriously the education of their students, right? I mean that’s why they exist, that’s their function in life. If the Wainstein report is accurate, then there was severe, severe compromising of all those issues, so it’s deeply troubling....

It’s absolutely disturbing that we find ourselves here right now.”

But North Carolina is not be the only ACC school with academic missteps.

In August, Notre Dame suspended five football players for alleged academic misconduct. None of the suspended players have yet been reinstated. Media reports came out earlier in the month revolving around Syracuse’s football and men’s basketball teams, as the reports stated that the programs will face an NCAA hearing regarding alleged rules violations that include academic impropriety.

With graduation rates seemingly increasing each year yet falling alongside academic scandals like that of North Carolina, the NCAA will look to continue its emphasis on providing its players with the education they deserve while simultaneously cracking down on institutions that attempt to cheat the system.

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score 1-1.

Despite dominating the offensive stat line—Duke outshot Georgia State 12-1 in the first half—the Blue Devils headed to the locker room lamenting lost opportunities and the lone mistake that left the game knotted at one.

“A majority of the seniors started and did a great job again,” Kerr said. “They bring the intensity, they feel the urgency and it really helps our team and some of

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these young guys come along.”

The Blue Devils came out of the locker room replicating their first-half quick start, creating a lot of early opportunities and keeping the ball away from the Panthers. In the second minute of the half, aggressive play by Duke forced its second penalty of the match. Sophomore forward Brody Huitema lined up against senior goalkeeper C.J. Cochran and bulleted a strike into the bottom left corner of the net, stretching the lead to 2-1.

The rest of the half showed much of the same aggression in attack for the Blue Devils as they sought a third

goal to put the Panthers away for good.

Although it would never come, by the end of the period Duke had registered 14 shots to Georgia State’s seven, and took four more corners.

The Panthers would not take the loss quietly, though, and became much more assertive in the final 15 minutes of the game—registering their third yellow card of the game in the 88th minute to go along with 11 fouls for the match.

In the end, the Duke defense remained resilient and prevented Georgia State from equalizing.

Stepping off the field in his last regular season home game, Davis— who registered his career-best eighth assist of the season—reflected on the win and how he plans to lead the team moving forward in the final games of his collegiate career.

“I’m just trying to enjoy it,” Davis said. “These are my last games at Duke, a place that I really fell in love with over the years, so I’m just trying to enjoy it and give as much as I can to the team and lead the way.”

Using the momentum of the previous two wins, Davis will lead Duke as it faces off against ACC foe Virginia Tech on the road in Blacksburg, Va., Friday night at 7 p.m. It will be the final regular season game of the year for the Blue Devils, who look to come away with the victory and carry some momentum into the ACC Tournament. With a win or a tie against the Hokies, the Blue Devils will host the first round of ACC play at Koskinen Stadium Nov. 5.

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Wired in The fine line between cellphones as tool, accessory and added appendage has blurred and seemingly vanished in today’s world. On the bus, in meetings, at the dinner table, the small devices—smart or not— are as ubiquitous as they are ostensibly vital to dayto-day operation. In response to student complaints about unreliable cellular service across campus, Duke’s Office of Information Technology partnered with service providers to build new antennae systems and upgrade cellular networks. The 18-month, $14 million project is funded entirely by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. We applaud this initiative, which will help to alleviate student frustration from one too many dropped calls. Yet the project raises questions about the ubiquity of cellphones and the impacts this portable technology has on our daily lives.

We have come a long ways since the days when conversing with someone necessitated a face-to-face interaction. Cellphones have increasingly substituted these invaluable in-person communications with impersonal text messages. Today, it is not uncommon to text a friend living next door rather than call or meander the five-foot journey to engage in person.

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in person. A dinner, it seems, would be incomplete without a cellphone buzzing from atop the table or a conversation interrupted by a new Snapchat notification. And while the various social media applications so readily available and conveniently centralized on the cellphone interface—Instagram, Twitter, Facebook—may offer the perception of hyper-connectivity with friends, it in fact promotes breadth rather than depth in personal relationships.

The ability to learn about fall break adventures through a Facebook status or an Instagram photo provides only a surface update of a friend’s life that an in-person conversation would bolster.

Cellphones, in this way, have become an inseparable inorganic appendage to the organic body. Connected all the time to the wealth of

Rather than depending on the absence of a ‘no’, which is ambiguous and reactive in a sexual encounter, this teaches people how to be proactive and ensure a positive ‘yes’ is present before engaging in sexual activity.

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hite people are not taught to think of their whiteness as a defining part of their identity.

If you asked me or any other white student at Duke to make a list of my defining characteristics, I would probably list a lot of my passions, personality traits and relationships before I ever thought to identify myself by the color of my skin. Student? Yes. Methodist? Yes. Son and brother? Yes. Runner? Yes. White person? I guess…?

I’m not alone. “The Whiteness Project” is a documentary film produced by director Whitney Dow. When completed, it will have interviewed an otherwise diverse group of 1,000 white Americans about their own experiences with being white.

One of the most significant findings, the producer

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And it should also be said that white people are not taught to talk about race in an open way. White people are, rightly, uncomfortable with people who might identify too strongly with their whiteness in a spirit of superiority. In fact, it might be fair to say that the only time white people are really called to identify with their whiteness is when the horrifying actions of white people in the past are recounted.

This is ignored in most conversations about white privilege. Those who would convince white people of their privilege often make an implicit assumption that white people are fully in touch with their whiteness and always aware of it. This is a bad assumption. Indeed, the conversation is often set up between people

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information available at our fingertips, we have become increasingly wired in pervasive ways—take, for example, the habit of checking email every few minutes without necessarily processing the action.

In the classroom as in personal relationships, the invasion of mobile devices has been seemingly ubiquitous. It is not uncommon for phones to be out and text messages to be sent during lectures.

Even when not in use, cellphones are often splayed across tabletops or vibrating from within backpacks— constant distractions from learning and attentiveness in class. The use of cellphones in class is ultimately a personal choice; however, it is important to consider the impact on fellow students. Certainly, the impact on others in large lecture courses may be minimal, but in smaller seminars the use of cellphones can be distracting and conspicuous. Although mobile devices can offer some utility in a classroom setting— recording lectures, for example—they often serve more to distract than benefit. Ultimately, the average class lasts 75 minutes, a dinner perhaps an hour— consider unplugging yourself for these brief respites to fully engage and devote your attention.

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says, has been that most white Americans see their whiteness as a passive part of their identity. They check the “White/Caucasian” box on applications and on the census, but it’s not something that they think much about otherwise.

The ability to not think about race in every situation is a privilege that white people have.

They never worry about being treated unfairly in employment, education or social circles because of their race. They don’t have to fear judgwments along the lines of stereotypical generalizations. They certainly don’t worry about young white men being gunned down by police out of irrational fear. White people can walk into any situation—literally any situation—without thinking about their whiteness.

This is a privilege, but it also explains why attempts to convince white people that they are privileged fall flat. How do you convince people that they are privileged by something which they are taught to think of as a passive, non-essential part of their identity? Convincing white people that they are privileged is a tough sell if white people barely think of themselves as white.

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who are forced to be always aware of their race and those who never have to think about it. We are clearly operating on different planes.

Before white people can be convinced of their privilege, they need to be firmly convinced that they are in fact white. It sounds bizarre, but in a country where white people rarely face hurdles because of their whiteness it can quickly become disassociated from one’s self-image. But if we ever want to work through the complexities of race-based inequality in America, white people must be made to notice their whiteness. Rather than seeing whiteness as a passive part of our identities at the bottom of our list, we need to begin thinking of it as an always-active force in our lives. Whiteness is a decisive part of our identities—even if we don’t think about it.

Somehow those of us who are white need to notice our whiteness as an active—not passive— part of our identities. Then the conversation about white privilege might begin to make sense.

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Reconciling the language and empathy gap

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arly in my life I learned what it was like to live in linguistic limbo—where I could understand a language that I couldn’t speak. Growing up in an immigrant household meant that my conversations with family members were generally reciprocated in two tongues—my mom and grandparents would speak to me in Korean, while I would respond in English.

At the time, the interchange seemed so natural that I hardly noticed how my voice couldn’t articulate the very sentences my ears so easily comprehended. Still, I felt something special taking form whenever we spoke.

We were creating a discourse that was ours alone, a makeshift system of syntax and semantics that bridged the gap that language left behind. Boundaries were

So as much as language may serve to bring certain people together, it also inevitably excludes others.

Even among native speakers of English, there exist harmful assumptions that estrange us from one another—in the United States, the Southern dialect is unsophisticated, the voice of the West Coast is laid-back, and the Midwest accent is our “standard” American English. We gain nothing from such narratives except misunderstanding and resentment.

On the other hand, what we lose is something infinitely valuable—the ability to establish solidarity with the feelings of others.

I’ve given a lot of thought to how we can learn to foster empathy towards people who seem, at first,

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here’s something about the feeling of driving west as the day breaks around you, the sun rising in your rear-view mirror. Maybe it’s the glorious auburn light that instills wonder in all those who drink it in. Maybe it’s the feeling of satisfaction in living out a bit of American folklore as you whiz past the roadside McDonalds’ and the strip malls that make this country great. Whatever it was, I was feeling it this weekend when, at 6:30 in the morning, I found myself driving to WinstonSalem to take the Math subject GRE. I felt a little bit like a cross between Jack Kerouac and an early, Oregon Trail-style pioneer.

And I felt proud, proud to take part in the mythology of my homeland. But as my train of thought wandered on that drive, I realized that I was proud not so much of being an American, but of something deeper.

You see, once I got thinking about the West, I remembered a factoid that I had learned in my Ancient Greek class—the word “west” comes from the same etymological root as the Greek (hespera) and Latin (vesper) words for evening, a reflection

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broken and chasms were crossed, for language was to us the sharing of souls, not words.

But as the years passed, I began to see that not all languages in this world are treated as equal. For all the flavorful diversity enjoyed by our nation, the dialogue of our collective experience remains insipidly monolingual. As native speakers of the world’s de facto lingua franca, people from Anglophone countries are blessed with the agency to understand and partake in an international discourse spoken in our own mother tongue. This hegemony has sometimes facilitated and sometimes stagnated the overall flow of narratives in our global network, but as Immanuel Kant would be quick to point out, net results don’t always reveal the injustices that occur betwixt and between.

As a native English speaker in the United States, I’ve rarely been put in a situation where I couldn’t express myself in my own words. But every day I meet people who struggle to communicate their thoughts in the language beyond a few basic phrases. And every day I realize, to my horror, how much the presence or absence of linguistic common ground influences how I can see a person as a person. When I listen to an immigrant speaking in broken, tentative English, I assume on instinct that the extent of his or her intellect corresponds to what I hear. At once, fellow human beings in my mind are reduced to simpleminded creatures with limited capacity for creativity, simply for struggling to speak my language.

The tendency is natural, which makes it even worse. Oftentimes we gauge the level of a person’s intelligence by the eloquence of her speech or the insight of his argument. Those who harbor a mastery and artistry of our language are regarded as complex, multifaceted and impressive individuals.

At the opposite end of the dichotomy are those who appear inarticulate, and thereby unsophisticated, because the language we speak feels foreign on their tongues. To us, they are not people but caricatures, stock personas with nothing unique to contribute to our conversation.

much different from how we see ourselves. It’s not too difficult to imagine yourself in the situation of a person you can relate to, but can we do the same with someone who doesn’t even speak our language? What can we possibly share if not our words?

The masters of the English script have long been frustrated and fascinated by the inadequacy of language to fully represent the sentiments of the heart and mind. In a way, language is built inherently upon its own lack—we speak knowing that our words will chase the lost object of their reference, only to fall short. Shakespeare knew this better than anyone— his actors are constantly breaking language with lies, puns or misunderstandings, dancing with words until slippery new meanings are created. But if words can so easily deceive us, how can we resolve this semiotic crisis of ours? How can we trust language to convey exactly what we mean to say?

The truth is, our human capacities for language and empathy are both flawed. It’s impossible for us to fully understand the words of others, much less the feelings that they are trying to express.

So I believe the only way we can reconcile the shortcomings of our language and empathy is to find other ways to speak and listen.

When I talked with my grandparents as a child, we barely had a common language-neither of us could speak back the words we heard. And yet, boundaries were broken and chasms were crossed—for language was not the foundation but the fruit of our relationship.

The sharing of feelings was what came first, and everything else followed naturally.

Our emotions are inscribed onto our hearts in one common language. So let’s not be discouraged if language seems to hold us back from understanding each other--after all, it’s not our words that are really doing the talking.

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of our ancient awareness of the eternal recurrence of the Sun’s cycles. And that got me thinking about what it was that I liked so much about etymology—it provides an understanding of the histories of words and the ways in which they connect us to people that have lived on opposite ends of time and of the world.

So it wasn’t just that I was feeling particularly American that morning—it was that I was feeling a sense of communion with people from another time and place. This sense of communion is a huge selling point of national folklore and traditions in general. But it’s a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the creation of American national identity has been a way for people on opposite sides of a continent to buy into the idea that they have moral obligations towards each other. This is an impressive step up from tribalism, and it represents a commitment to moral ideals based on the abstract concept of nationhood. On the other hand, though, nationalism kindles our desire to make the in-group versus out-group distinctions that we’re so prone to making, sometimes with disastrous results. It’s therefore quite important that we figure out how to separate the good from the bad, how to conceive of traditions and national identity as an important step towards the realization of the worth of all human life, not just American human life. It may seem like a tall order, but the fact that we are even committed to such an abstract concept as nationhood should be heartening evidence that there is room still for abstracting further.

These ideas are of direct relevance to an issue that I’ve recently started exploring—immigration policy. Most opposition to immigration policy reform in the United States rarely denies these very real and substantial gains to migrants and native-born Americans alike. Instead, it simply ignores them and focuses on the harms to the natives (“We can’t let them take our jobs and lower our wages!”). But the truth is that the economy is not a zerosum gain. It should be taken as a meaningful sign that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose purpose is to promote American business, ardently supports the liberalization of immigration policy; as they point out, “removing eight million undocumented workers from the economy would also remove eight million entrepreneurs, consumers and taxpayers.” Immigrants start businesses, and businesses create jobs. While our distant evolutionary ancestors might have had good reason to mistrust strangers, the environment in which our xenophobia was adapted was different in almost all the relevant ways from our current one; in today’s world, cooperation contains fewer risks and has much more room for mutually beneficial gain. Nonetheless, our love of the “us and them” story is getting in the way of producing policies that might be helpful to both “them” and “us.”

In this example, xenophobia is noxious to both the migrants and the native-born Americans. But even in instances where liberalizing immigration policy would be harmful to native-born Americans, the gains to the immigrants might outweigh the costs to the native-born Americans, and it might still be worthwhile to pursue the policy. I dream of a utopia in which national identity has about the same weight as state identity has in the United States I’m proud to be an Ohioan, but I certainly don’t think that Ohioans, simply by virtue of being from Ohio, are more worthy of moral attention than people from other states. I know it’s hard to reject national pride altogether—witness the delight I took in the feeling of being American on my journey west this Saturday. But before we get lost in the stories surrounding our national identities, we should remember that we are, above all, human beings.

Eugene Rabinovich is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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It’s on Us: A Call to Action Members of the Duke University Community: This year, President Obama challenged college campuses across the country to help put an end to sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct affects an alarming number of men and women throughout their college experiences. Talk to anyone at Duke, and he/she will tell you that our campus is no exception. Sexual misconduct impacts all of us, so we must stand up and take responsibility for the safety of our friends and classmates. It’s on us to prevent sexual misconduct.

We recognize, as Greeks, that statistics show that sexual misconduct is more prevalent in the Greek community, and we promise to do our part to make Duke University safer. However, we cannot do this alone; every person on campus has the responsibility to make Duke a better place. We must hold each other accountable for our actions and resolve to build a safer community. It’s on us.

As Duke students, we ask you to look out for each other. We are a community of students, and regardless of age, affiliation, identity, or orientation, every person here deserves a standard level of universal respect. If you see this respect compromised, say something, speak out. Together, we will hold each other accountable for the protection of all students. It’s on us.

With this letter, we ask you to stand up and speak out. Talk to your friends, sign up for PACT Training, and take the It’s On Us Pledge. Silence is quiet permission; it perpetuates a culture we can no longer ignore. No one is exempt. We all have the responsibility to end this violence and make Duke a safer place to live and learn. It’s on all of us.

Respectfully, and with great hope, E.J. Baldridge - President, Interfraternity Council JT Ross - President, National Pan-Hellenic Association Sabrina Zeller - President, Multicultural Greek Council Kate Preston - President, Panhellenic Association