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To mixed results, Duke bridges gap between online and classroom Ryan Zhang Special Projects Editor Editor’s note: This article is the first of a twopart series examining online education at Duke.

Today, The Chronicle looks at how professors have embraced massively open online courses and adapted these tools for the physical classroom. Tomorrow, The Chronicle will investigate Duke’s future of online education.

Through online education, Duke faculty have brought their classes to the farthest reaches of the world while furnishing a stronger on-campus experience—though some professors have found integrating digital strategies into the physical classroom to come with a steep learning curve.

The proliferation of massive open online courses, commonly known as MOOCs, started in 2012 with the emergence of national platforms such as Coursera and edX. Duke has offered MOOCs through Coursera since

Duke football overpowers Pittsburgh in 51-48 doubleovertime win Brian Mazur The Chronicle Not perfect, no problem.

The Duke defense looked far different from the fourth-best scoring defense in the

nation, but it made plays when it needed to.

The Blue Devils and the Panthers put on an offensive clinic Saturday afternoon at Heinz Field, with quarterback Anthony Boone throwing for 266 yards and three touchdowns. But it PITT 48 was a key stop by the in the secDUKE 51 defense ond overtime that proved to be just enough to put Duke in control of the ACC Coastal Division for the second straight season, winning 51-48 on a

five-yard touchdown run by wildcat quarterback Thomas Sirk.

“Our defensive coaches were resilient,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There are just days where things don’t go your way and you can’t lose [your players]. We had something left in overtime. After that kind of a day, we had something left in overtime to get a stop and force a field goal.”

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Hospital Halloween: ‘Nice to have a distraction’ Potential Ebola patient

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special for the kids.”

Duke Children’s Hospital—through the Child and Adolescent Life Program—holds an annual Halloween parade and festival each Oct. 31. This year marked the 19th anniversary of the program where children and staff members dress in costumes ranging from policemen to princesses.

The Halloween party, like other Child and Adolescent Life Program events, aims to give hospitalized children the same exposure to childhood experiences in a home-awayfrom-home experience. The kids—carrying trick-or-treat

A patient displaying potential symptoms of Ebola was admitted to Duke University Hospital Sunday.

Duke announced the news in a University-wide email Sunday evening, and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services held a press conference less than an hour later. The patient arrived in the United States from Liberia Friday, entering through Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, and showed no symptoms of the disease upon arrival in the U.S. The patient does not exhibit any symptoms other than fever and is currently isolated in a secure unit within Duke Hospital.

The patient arrived in North Carolina Saturday and developed a fever Sunday morning in Person County, approximately 40 minutes from Durham. The Center for Disease Control was notified, and the individual was then transferred to Durham to be admitted to Duke Hospital. The patient’s blood sample will be sent to the State Laboratory of Public Health in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the result of the evaluation should come out Monday morning.

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Sarah Waters The Chronicle Dressed as the blue-striped Dory from “Finding Nemo,” 9-year-old Savannah Henderson celebrated her fourth consecutive Halloween at Duke Children’s Hospital.

Savannah has had 30 brain surgeries due to infections.

Her two-year-old sister, dressed as Nemo from the movie, had open heart surgery last month.

“You can see, she’s busting out of the seams, she’s very excited,” said her mother Aimee Henderson. “It’s nice to have a distraction. They do a good job here, making it

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Public education cuts add fuel to fire in Hagan, Tillis race “It’s become a focal issue for how you think about Tillis,” says political science professor Christine Wei The Chronicle Education has become key in this year’s Senate race, and both sides are scrambling to gain an advantage on the issue.

North Carolina is now ranked among the states that have cut the most in per-pupil spending over the past seven years, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ report released in October. Having cut 14.5 percent of the budget per pupil since 2008—leaving $5,030 to be spent per student in the 2015 fiscal year—North Carolina saw the sixth largest decline in the nation.

The campaigns of both Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican Speaker of the N.C. House Thom Tillis claim that the other side has not done enough to protect education in the state. With the election just days away, Republicans have been on the defensive as they rebut attacks against Thom Tillis’ record on education in the House of Representatives.

“Education has been one of the most important things in this state for a very long time,” said John Aldrich, PfizerPratt University Professor of Political Science. “It’s one of the really important things about the politics of this state.”

Aldrich explained that a good education system has been a major contribut-

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ing factor to the growth of North Carolina’s technology industry.

“The more educated the citizenry of the state, the more attractive it is for better paying jobs to come to North Carolina,” Aldrich said. “That’s been the whole point of the Research Triangle Park. They started it in the 1960s,

relying not only on having the major universities but having the rest of the area who’s not university-educated still be well-trained through K through 12.”

Republicans, led by Thom Tillis in the House of Representatives, imposed major cuts on the state education budget after the 2010 elections, Aldrich ex-

plained. These cuts have been felt at the local level in Durham.

“Since 2008, state funding for [Durham Public Schools] has been reduced by more than $50 million,” said Heidi Carter, chair of the Durham Board of See Public Education on Page 3

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Education. “We have seen reductions in funding for school buses, transportation, teachers, teacher assistants, supplies, technology, at-risk student services, textbooks and more.”

Republicans have increased teacher salaries this year, but Democrats argue that these increases do not compensate for the previous cuts.

“It didn’t completely make up for the cuts, but they were able to claim ‘Oh, we raised teacher salaries’ for the first time in however many years.’ And then Democrats are then able to say ‘But you devastated spending on K through 12 before then,’” Aldrich said. “So both sides have real claims about what had happened in education policy through Thom Tillis as the Speaker of the House.”

Democrats have used education as a way to attack Tillis throughout the campaign, even though the Sen-

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continued from page 1 bags to receive toys at designated stations—walked the hallways of the hospital to show off their outfits to onlooking parents and staff. “[The program’s goal] is helping normalize the hospital environment,” said Child Life specialist Judy Panella.

“They don’t have a choice about being here on Halloween. But what can we do to make it as much like a trickor-treating experience that they would have around the neighborhood?”

The national chain store Spirit Halloween donates 10 percent of local proceeds to Duke Children’s Hospital after the Halloween season. The Child and Adolescent Life Program uses these funds to purchase costumes for all sizes and ages. This year the program gave costumes to 60 kids, including the children who were either in isolation or not well enough to leave their rooms, but still wanted to celebrate Halloween.

A total of 24 patients and their siblings participated in the parade. As well as trick-or-treating, the kids enjoyed activities including pin the spider on the web, listening to spooky music and crafts including pumpkin painting.

Savannah was most enthusiastic about her blue outfit with flippers, stating that costumes were her favorite part of Halloween. In some of her past stays at the Children’s Hospital, she had been unable to leave her room for the festivities, but this year—after only being hospitalized a week before the Oct. 31 holiday—she was well enough to participate in the parade and pumpkin decorating.

But no joy from the activities could outweigh her sheer love of dressing as a character from her favorite movie.

“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming,” Savannah said, quoting “Finding Nemo.”

Her mother said holidays are an especially difficult time to have children hospitalized, noting that their family lives in Apex, North Carolina, which is about a 30-minute drive from Durham.

“We don’t live too far, but it’s just far enough that it makes it hard on the family when we’re in the hospital this much.

These little things make a big difference,” Henderson said.

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continued from page 1 “The patient is receiving care from a seasoned team of Duke clinical professionals who volunteered for this service and have trained extensively for this possibility,” Dr. William Fulkerson, executive vice president of Duke University Health System, wrote in the email. “We have anticipated this scenario for several weeks now, and a plan to manage it is in place.”

North Carolina DHHS Secretary Dr. Aldona Wos said at the press conference that the patient’s risk of exposure to others is believed to be “extremely low.” She noted that Governor Pat McCrory has been fully briefed and that McCrory has conferred with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

DUHS spokespeople deferred comment to Sarah Avery, DUHS media relations specialist. Avery declined to comment beyond the email.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations, said that the University had no comment beyond the email.

A representative from the North Carolina DHHS said that the organization had no comment beyond the press conference.

Rachel Chason and Emma Baccellieri contributed reporting.

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ate does not have much influence on state education and college students. funding.

“We’ve also seen Speaker Tillis raise the cost of col“If you look at what Speaker Tillis has done, he lege. He put a tax on college meal plans,” Hayden said. has cut education spending by $500 million to give “Kay has voted for a bill that will let students refinance tax breaks to the wealthy,” said Chris their student loans. Right now, it’s Hayden, a spokesperson for the Kay about the only loan that you can’t reducation has been Hagan campaign. “We’ve seen per-pufinance.” one of the most impil spending go to 48th in the country Tillis has said that he would opin North Carolina.” portant things in this state pose the student loan refinancing bill The Tillis campaign could not be that was in Congress because it would reached for comment, but the cam- for a very long time. It’s increase the national debt and does paign’s website claims that state edu- one of the really important not address the underlying problem cation funding has actually seen a net things about the politics of of college cost. increase from 2011 to 2014.

Overall, Aldrich said that educa“As Speaker, Thom has increased this state. tion will probably be a net positive for education funding by $660 million, going into Tuesday’s election.

— John Aldrich Hagan and gave teachers a historic 7 per“It doesn’t affect Kay Hagan at all cent average pay raise,” wrote campaign spokeswoman because the Senate does virtually nothing for educaMeghan Burris in a statement on the campaign’s web- tion,” Aldrich explained. “But because it’s the Speaker site. of the House who has led the charge in huge cuts folThe Hagan campaign also pointed to differences lowed by this raise, it’s become a focal issue for how in Hagan’s and Tillis’ records with regards to colleges you think about Tillis.”

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Although MOOCs are a relatively new development, Duke has had experience with other forms of online education in the past. The University has offered online degree programs continued from page 1 for more than 10 years, including programs in the School of Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business and the Nicholas Fall 2012—a partnership which has been at the center of the School of the Environment. In 2013, the University signed on University’s efforts to expand and refine its online education to join offer online undergraduate seminar classes for credit initiatives. Although MOOCs are not offered for credit in any through a consortium known as Semester Online. Faculty veof Duke’s schools, materials and strategies from the courses toed the proposal, however, and the partnership fell through. have been integrated into different classes on campus. Lynne O’Brien, associate vice provost for digital and online educa- Flipping out tion initiatives, said online education has allowed faculty to The most common way that MOOCs have been integrated develop inventive new teaching approaches and broader into the campus classroom has been the “flipped classroom” perspectives. For some professors, however, results have been approach. Under the flipped class format, students watch premixed. recorded lectures before coming to class. Professors are then “Two years ago, creating something like a MOOC was very free to use class time however they choose, such as answering innovative just because it hadn’t been done before,” O’Brien students’ questions or creating additional assignments. One said. “Now there are hundreds and hundreds of those cours- popular approach—known as team-based learning— creates es, so just creating a MOOC alone isn’t necessarily innovative. in-class assignments for students to work on in groups.

But what we’ve seen is that courses that were developed last When she first started teaching, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, year or the year before are starting to morph into other kinds assistant professor of the practice of statistical science, experiof formats.” mented with “clickers” in an attempt to make her class more

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The Chronicle interactive. Students would use clickers—small devices used to respond to multiple choice questions—at various points in the lecture. Cetinkaya-Rundel’s search for ways to increase interactivity soon led her to a flipped class using videos that she created for a MOOC. “Students like having videos,” Cetinkaya-Rundel said. “I think teachers have forever been assigning, ‘Read the chapter before you come to class,’ but I think sometimes reading might be a little dry. It might be a generational thing.”

Students in her on-campus class and students enrolled in the MOOC watch the same videos, but do not interact directly in any way. Both groups have offered positive responses to the videos and other MOOC materials, Cetinkaya-Rundel said. It remains unclear whether or not the flipped format has improved grades, though Cetinkaya-Rundel said the format has certainly paid off in other ways.

“We know that it has improved engagement,” CetinkayaRundel said. “If you walked into my class and looked at what’s on students’ screens, the majority of the time it’s actually related to the class. I think the important question is—has learning improved? I’d like to give it a little bit of time so that I can collect some data to be able to answer that question.”

Growing pains But not all classes have enjoyed the same level of success with the flipped format.

Before teaching Physics II last Spring, Daniel Gauthier, Robert C. Richardson professor of physics, had successfully used team-based learning in small graduate-level courses. In the much larger Physics II class, the transition from traditional lecture to flipped class proved difficult, Gauthier said.

“It was outright riot,” Gauthier said. “Part of it was that it was my first time trying to scale up to a large class. There were issues that were hard to anticipate. You learn some things from doing it with a small group, but that scaling is always a bit of a challenge.”

In addition, most of the students in the class had never experienced the team-based learning format. Compounding the problem was that the class was one of the final requirements for many pre-health students in the class.

“Just think about it: you have a teaching approach that you’ve learned how to succeed in, and suddenly someone’s pulling the rug out from underneath you and putting a different rug underneath you at the last moment,” Gauthier said.

Gauthier noted that issues with the class were not limited to the team-based learning format, with a new online homework system and a new textbook that turned out to be riddled with errors also causing issues. Despite complaints about the class, Gauthier said that the level of learning did not suffer.

“What is interesting is that if I look at how well students performed on the exams, they were at a very similar level to the past several years,” Gauthier said. “Students did just as well, if not a little bit better, than in past years. At the time students filled out the evaluation, I’m not sure that they felt that way, but in the end…I think it was much better.”

A global classroom Some faculty have taken advantage of the global nature of online education to bring new perspectives into the classroom.

William O’Barr—professor of cultural anthropology, English and sociology—teaches Advertising and Society, the most recent Duke MOOC to be made available through Coursera.

“I’ve enjoyed teaching this class to hundreds and thousands of Duke students over the years,” O’Barr said. “But one thing that invariably happens is that when we have foreign students in the class, they bring different kinds of perspectives, especially when we talk about global advertising. What the MOOC offers is the opportunity to open up discussion about advertising in society to a much wider group of people beyond Duke.”

The amount of geographic representation was “absolutely incredible,” O’Barr said. The list of enrolled students included people from dozens of countries, with less than 30 percent from the United States. The class is also diverse in other sorts of perspectives – only about a third of enrolled students reported themselves to be full-time students.

The MOOC will be offered again in the Spring, when it will be taught concurrently with O’Barr’s on-campus course of the same name. The two classes will be integrated in some way, though the details have yet to be worked out, O’Barr said.

“This is the difference between what happens in the classroom at Duke and having a class that has these people from all these different countries with all these different perspectives on advertising,” O’Barr said. “They can talk about their experiences with it and share these with American students.

It’s a kind of magical transformation of the classroom into one that is completely global in nature.”

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Double-icing and the magic of the Menace There are those who will say Duke should have lost and that the Blue Devils got lucky against Pittsburgh. And they may be right—but they’ve never double-iced a sophomore kicker.

After witnessing possibly the craziest game of my football-watching career—rivaled only by the 2003 Divisional Round NFL playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams—I had simply too many thoughts to just break this down analytically. So here it is: how to win a crazy college football game like Duke did Saturday afternoon.

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Always double-ice Did you get the memo? Double-icing a kicker is a thing of genius and here’s why: With two seconds left in Saturday’s game, Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst took a timeout to prep his kicking unit. Duke head coach David Cutcliffe followed suit after both teams had lined up. That’s fine—no surprises there. It’s what normally happens in those situations, and for the majority of Blue Devil fans it was just delaying the inevitable sobering loss. But then, after both squads were re-lined up and ready to snap the ball, Cutcliffe did it again.

“There is no question [I would call the timeouts], I had three,” Cutcliffe said. “All you are trying to do is break a rhythm and maybe set your own rhythm. You don’t ever know [what is going to happen].”

Of course there was no question—you always double-ice.

And unlike Cutcliffe prior to his double-icing call, we do know what happened. Unfortunately-named Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt pushed it about as wide left as he could and the game headed to overtime.

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt shanked a 27-yard field goal attempt at the end of regulation, allowing the Blue Devils another chance to win.

The shrewd move from Duke’s head coach made up the first of four keys to Duke’s unlikely win—the second was not losing it earlier in regulation.

Don’t fear the shootout When Cutcliffe was faced with first-and-goal from the oneyard line following senior Jamison Crowder’s 27-yard reception with just three seconds left in the first half, many thought he had a decision to make: kick a field goal to climb within four or go for the all-or-nothing touchdown. The difference between what the masses thought and what was going on in Cutcliffe’s head—the masses don’t have Thomas “The Menace” Sirk in their back pocket. (Sidenote: whoever gave Sirk his nickname

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is a genius, playing off of Brandon “The Phantom” Connette.)

Sirk plowed ahead, just like he would later in doubleovertime, and the Blue Devils went into the half tied at 28-28.

That decision was part of overcoming recent history, because by halftime it was clear the game was shaping up to be a dreaded shootout.

Prior to Saturday’s contest, Cutcliffe’s Blue Devils were just 1-6 in games in which both teams scored at least 34 points— the scientific definition of a shootout. The sole shootout win came against Virginia Nov. 6, 2010, as the Blue Devils won 5548 thanks to a late score from then-sophomore running back See Double Ice on Page 9

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continued from page 1 completed a a 26-yard desperation heave to wide receiver Dontez Ford with 32 seconds to play in regulation, the Panthers looked poised to send the game-winning field goal through the uprights.

But with two seconds left and after two Duke timeouts, Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt sent a chip shot wide left in the open end of the stadium, sending the game into overtime. The decision to take back-to-back timeouts was an unconventional move that would pay off for Cutcliffe’s team.

“There is no question [I would call the timeouts], I had three,” Cutcliffe said. “All you are trying to do is break a rhythm and maybe set your own rhythm. You don’t ever know [what is going to happen].”

On the six-year anniversary of the Blue Devils’ last overtime game—a 33-30 loss Nov. 1, 2008 at Wake Forest—Duke seemed to handle the extra period with ease. Boone took control with his legs, rushing for 19 yards on the first drive of overtime, including a 12-yard touchdown scamper to put the Blue Devils ahead 45-38.

But as he had all game, Panther running back James Conner made Duke defenders look like bowling pins, punching the ball in from 14 yards out to tie the game and send the game into a second overtime with momentum in Pittsburgh’s corner.

The sophomore finished the day with 263 yards and three scores on a workhorse-like 38 carries.

In the second overtime, Conner was noticeably absent on the Panthers’ first play from scrimmage and the Blue Devils stuffed back-up Chris James for no gain. On the next play, Voytik attempted to run out of the back field, but was stuffed by defensive lineman Jonathan Jones.

The sophomore faced pressure again on third down and lofted another deep pass, but this time the Duke defense had Boyd well-covered, forcing another Blewitt field goal—this time from 43 yards—which he sent straight through the uprights.

On its second overtime possession, Duke (7-1, 3-1 in the ACC) was too much on the ground for the Panther defense, as Shaquille Powell powered his way inside the Pittsburgh 10-yard line on a pair of runs. Facing a third-and-one from the five-yard line, Sirk entered the game and pushed his way into the end zone for the second time on the afternoon, giving the Blue Devils their seventh win of the season.

“I’m always confident when they call that play,” Sirk said.

“Our offensive line has a great sense of trust in that play. I always trust them when we do call that play that they’re going to get great movement off the ball. Our running back did a great job paving the way both times today…. I just did my part and ran.”

Saturday’s tilt closely paralleled last year’s 58-55 Pittsburgh win in Durham. The teams combined for 1,032 yards and 99 points, leaving each defense with questions to answer following the game.

After the Panthers (4-5, 2-3) botched a snap during a field goal attempt on their opening drive, Boone engineered a short drive that resulted in a Jamison Crowder 39-yard touchdown catch.

The touchdown catch was Crowder’s first against an ACC opponent this season. Crowder finished the game with a season-best nine catches for 165 yards and two touchdowns.

“Both [Boone and Crowder] are healthier than they have been,” Cutcliffe said. “All of them have had little nicks and other things and it has just shown at practice. I am very proud of those guys. I thought [Crowder] had that little sparkle in his eye before the ball game. Boy was I right.”

Duke’s defense, which had been one of the best in the nation in total defense heading into the game, struggled to tackle in the first half. Trailing 7-0, the Panthers offense opened up gaping holes in the Blue Devil defense, sending Conner up the gut time after time. He cashed in his hard work on a oneyard touchdown leap with 3:14 to go in the opening quarter.

After another Boone touchdown pass gave Duke a 14-7 lead heading into the second quarter, Pittsburgh seized control of the momentum. Wide receiver Tyler Boyd took a kick back 64 yards deep into Blue Devil territory, setting up a 13-yard quarterback draw by Voytik.

Both teams continued to light up the scoreboard, and the Panthers took the lead with 1:17 to play in the half when Voytik found a wide open J.P. Holtz for the tight end’s second score of the afternoon.

Instead of electing to head into the locker room down a touchdown, Cutcliffe stayed aggressive, calling pass play after

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a football coach, watching them on tape, it is pretty special to watch a guy play the game the way he does.”

The first half featured 56 points and 595 total yards of offense, but points were harder to come by in the second half.

The Panther defense stifled the Blue Devil offensive attack, terminating Duke’s opening third-quarter drive near midfield.

Even when things did not seem to be going Duke’s way— Pittsburgh finished the day with 594 yards of total offense—the Blue Devils found a way to squeak out the win in the fourth quarter and overtime . Duke is now 5-0 in its last five November games, a far cry from the 1-19 November record the team had in the Cutcliffe era prior to last season.

“We are better than what we displayed today,” Cutcliffe said.

“There is no question, we have all seen it. But we didn’t get it done today. I kept telling them they had enough [to win]. It is going to come down to the fourth quarter. Somewhere in there you have to make a play. We were able to make a couple of critical plays in that game, [and] sometimes that is it.”

pass play to set up the Blue Devils in Pittsburgh territory with 12 seconds to play in the half. Boone dropped back and lofted the ball to Crowder—a favorable target in single coverage along the sideline—with the wide receiver stepping out of bounds at the one-yard line.

After the play stood upon further review, Cutcliffe stayed with the aggressive mentality, keeping the offense on the field with three seconds left. Sirk ran behind his linemen to tie the game at 28 going into halftime.

With the game tied 31-31 following field goals by each team, redshirt sophomore DeVon Edwards returned a Blewitt kickoff 99 yards to the end zone, which gave the Blue Devils a 38-31 lead with 13:07 left in regulation.

Again, the lead would not stand. The Panthers responded with Conner’s second one-yard rushing touchdown, capping a 15-play, 81-yard drive.

“James Conner is a special football player,” Cutcliffe said.

“I don’t like watching him when it is our time to play them. As

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Duke’s season ends with shutout loss to Florida State Sam Turken Staff Writer The Blue Devils did not have enough in the tank to capture their second consecutive must-win game, as Duke’s season came to an end Friday.

Duke fell to No. 2 Florida State 2-0 Friday night at the Seminole Soccer Complex in DUKE 0 Tallahassee, Fla. 2 The loss snapped FSU the Blue Devils’ streak of 11 consecutive berths in the NCAA tournament and closed a disappointing regular season.

“We knew last year when we lost five four-year starters that it was going to be a little bit of a different year this year,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We were just not as deep as other teams and we just ran out of gas at the end of the year.”

Duke’s struggles on the offensive end against ACC competition continued in Tallahassee. In past contests, Duke (89-1, 4-5-1 in the ACC) simply could not take advantage of opportune breakaways and openings. The season finale was the first match in which the Blue Devils failed to produce any opportunities to score.

“Up until Florida State, we’ve had

Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File Photo Junior Kara Wilson notched the Blue Devils’ best shot at tying the No. 2 Seminoles, as her header went just wide of the goal in the 76th minute.

really good opportunities,” Church said.“We just did not create the opportunities like we did in those other [games].”

From the onset of play, Duke’s defense was on its heels. Florida State (16-1-1, 9-0-1) controlled possession after two Duke corner kicks in the sixth minute. The Blue Devils benefited from several Seminole shots that went high or

wide of the goal in the first 34 minutes.

Florida State finally converted in the 36th minute after midfielder Berglind Thorvaldsdottir received a pass from defender Meghan Campbell. Midfielder Dagny Brynjarsdottir then set up midfielder Marta Bakowska-Mathews for a diving header, which sailed past Duke goalkeeper Ali Kershner into the left side of the net.

By the end of the first half, Florida State had secured an 11-1 shot advantage. Duke’s lone attempt by freshman midfielder Ashton Miller was blocked by goalie Casie Miller.

“In the first half, we just did not keep possession,” Church said. “We defended really well, but you can’t just keep defending and defending.”

The Seminoles maintained their command in the second half but continued to struggle to put the ball in the back of the net.

With 15 minutes left to play, Duke still had a chance for a tie. Church decided to take a risk by adjusting his formation to allow the Blue Devils to push forward.

“Instead of a four-one-two-three… we went to a three-four-three,” Church said. “We weren’t going to play to lose the game 1-0, we were going to play to

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Church’s plan almost paid off when a header by junior Kara Wilson went wide of the goal in the 76th minute. But that was as close as the Blue Devils would get.

Florida State took advantage of Duke’s gamble with six minutes remaining in the contest. Duke goalie E.J. Proctor, who entered for Kershner earlier in the half, was unable to keep a strike by Brynjarsdottir out of the goal, as the ball hit off Proctor’s hands before crossing the plane.

“They burned us on the last goal late because we had a lot of people forward,” Church said. “But we’re always going to make those adjustments.”

By the end of the match, Duke had only garnered three shots on goal, two of which occurred in the last 15 minutes of regulation.

The shutout loss was Duke’s seventh of the year and led to an unfortunate spot in history for the squad. The Blue Devils ended the season with 22 goals scored—tying their 1998 output for the fewest goals scored in a single season.

Friday’s loss to Florida State was representative of the majority of Duke’s season. The Blue Devils avoided upsets to inferior opponents but could not capture a signature win against top competition like the Seminoles.

Despite the early end to his squad’s season, Church can look forward to 2015. Five of Duke’s top six goal scorers are set to return. Freshmen starters Morgan Reid, Imani Dorsey, Ashton Miller and Schuyler Debree will have a year of experience under their belts, and the team will be joined by one of the country’s top recruiting classes in 2015.

Redshirt sophomore midfielder Cassie Pecht—who missed her secondstraight year after she was named Rookie of the Year in 2012—should be ready to return to the pitch next season. Redshirt sophomore defender Malinda Allen and freshman goalkeeper Abby Pyne are also expected to be available.

With the number of talented returners and incoming freshmen, this season should provide next year’s Blue Devils with all the fuel necessary to power a comeback season.

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Desmond Scott. But since then, Duke had gone 0-5, including barn-burner losses in both of its bowl games in the past two years.

In the Belk Bowl in 2012, the Blue Devils could not keep their composure late, falling apart against Cincinnati in the fourth quarter. Against Texas A&M in the Chick-fil-A Bowl last December, an untimely interception and the late-game magic of Johnny Manziel doomed Duke yet again.

Against Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils had all the composure and all the magic—just ask Blewitt.

Heading into Saturday, Blewitt ranked 10th in the nation in field goal percentage at 90 percent. The now-infamous 26-yard field goal—which really should have been a chip shot—was not made any easier when Pittsburgh quarterback Chad Voytik ran for three yards to the right hash at the eight-yard line. With less than 10 seconds left in the game, knowing a chance for a gamewinning field goal was coming, a run to the hash from close distance was a bizarre play.

“With that personnel group in and the clock going, it gave us an opportunity for a run that we had numbers on,” Chryst said. “We had a chance to run to the short side and get out of bounds, but we didn’t.”

Less than 10 seconds left and the Panthers, who thought they had numbers, decide to run the ball? An interesting call, to say the least. There would be more of them.

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Conner had been held to less than three yards—the length of a two-point conversion try—on just seven of his 38 carries all afternoon. Two of the seven times went for oneyard touchdowns and three more went for first downs on short-yardage situations. So when Chryst decided to just go for the extra point—with a kicker who had already missed a chip shot—the play-call was confusingly conservative when a two-point conversion would have won the game.

Then, in double-overtime, Chryst and the Pittsburgh offensive staff held Conner off the field as freshman running back Chris ‘Not James Conner’ James ran for no gain on first down. The next play was a bootleg run

by Voytik for no gain. The next play was an incomplete pass out the back of the end zone. Three plays in doubleovertime and the best player on the field did not touch the ball. Football’s weird that way, I guess.

After these shenanigans, a heavy dose of Shaquille Powell set up The Menace to come on and do his thing. Because every time Duke needs five yards or fewer, he always picks them up. Just as with The Phantom before Sirk, Cutcliffe knows a good thing when he sees it. And if nobody else can stop it, he makes sure everyone else sees it too.

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What’s in a name?

What’s in a name? It’s a question worth asking after the DSG Senate approved a resolution to change the name of the women’s studies department to the department of gender, women’s and sexuality studies last week. Sophomore Tara Bansal, senator for academic affairs, proposed the change, arguing that

Editorial it would combat the exclusionary, “angry feminism” stigma implicit in the department’s current name.

While we support the outcome of this resolution, we find this line of reasoning problematic.

Currently, the women’s studies department offers an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to issues related to “gender identities, relations, practices, theories and institutions.” Courses range from feminism, power dynamics and political theory to body perception and queer theory. With a content scope and methodological approach that extends beyond women’s issues in isolation and instead delves into broader themes of “gender, race, sexuality, class and nationality,” the name “women’s studies” may not fully reflect the nature of the department. The proposed title—department

of gender, women’s and sexuality studies—though not all-encompassing, reflects more accurately the scope of the offered studies. As intellectual discourse on sexuality expands beyond that implied in the term “women’s studies”, the name of the department should accurately reflect the content and methodology of the courses offered.

The proposed title further reflects the changing terrain of national discourse on sexual identity and other LGBTQ issues. Renaming to reflect these changes demonstrates how the department’s focus has broadened since its inception. It also mirrors our willingness to accept a broader definition of sexuality and gender in public discourse. This change in department name has precedents—for example, the shift from the literature department to global cultural studies—and follows the lead of many of Duke’s peer institutions who have made similar changes, including Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Stanford and the University of California Berkeley. The title change, thus, represents a move toward better reflecting the methods of teaching and the content of the studies, rather than prescribing a new direction for the department. It is descriptive rather than normative.

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ere at Duke we mark our calendars with bookbagging season and flu season rather than the changing leaves and crisp weather that fall has brought us.

But every two years, as people reach for their fleece pullovers and warm cider, we also expect a fury of political campaigning for the midterm elections. The approaching fall also means that Election Day shall soon be upon us.

It’s no secret that young adults have traditionally had low turnout in elections, especially in midterm elections when local

mandates of voter registration drives.

Think about that. The government of North Carolina, which is supposed to be “of, by and for the people,” is openly passing laws that keep college students like you and me away from the polls.

It’s not just “college students,” though. Many of these restrictions are specifically targeted at Duke, since most other major universities in North Carolina (think North Carolina State and University of North Carolina) are students who are already North Carolina residents and don’t

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In contrast, the reasoning for renaming the department in order to accommodate those who misunderstand and stigmatize it is problematic and misses the point. Some students, men especially, may be hesitant to take a class under women’s studies, but trying to avoid the stigma is a step in the wrong direction. Catering to the tastes of men who feel alienated by the political associations of gender studies is antithetical to studying the realities of gender and sexuality in the first place.

The key difference between renaming and rebranding is intention—is the objective to influence perception or accurately represent the department’s existing activities? It is a complex issue, further complicated by the notion that the best way to combat the “angry feminism” stigma may be to take a women’s studies class. Whatever the logic behind the initiative for the departmental rebranding, we find that the resolution is sound and reflective of the department’s intersectional direction. In the end, a name is a name—it should provide an unbiased description of what the faculty and students study. As students continue their bookbagging, they should look beyond departmental and course titles and instead engage in their subject matters of interest.

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issues are the driving factor and there isn’t a charismatic presidential candidate or national issues being hotly debated in the media. A study by the Harvard Institute of Politics found that “less than 25 percent of young Americans under the age of 30 say they will definitely be voting.” In fact, studies predict that this year’s midterm elections will have lower turnout for young voters than the last round of midterm elections in 2010.

There are a lot of traditional reasons to vote—fulfilling your civic duty, ensuring your representation in government or for issues you care you about like gender equality, public education or the budget.

A recent campaign by the Duke Political Union asked students to write down reasons why they were voting. The sign started “I’m turning out to vote because…” and students responses ranged from “because I believe my opinion matters, not the size of my wallet” to “because political participation is #swag.”

I’d like to make a different case for why we should be voting—because “they” don’t want us to.

A new voting law passed in North Carolina has made voting for young people, particularly out of state college students (which is a majority group at Duke) incredibly difficult. The new law means that same-day registration won’t be allowed, it shortens early voting by a week, takes voting locations off our campus, increases maximum campaigning contributions allowed and repeals

have to pass through as many hoops as out-ofstate college students do.

My gut response to that is anger. Shouldn’t voting be something that is made as accessible and easy as possible? Isn’t it appalling and outrageous to have such a basic right made inaccessible?

There are many people who can attest to why voting is a sacred right more eloquently than I can. But if you feel apathy start to come think about this—the right to vote is a right that people have marched for, protested for and died for. It’s a right that was given to you as a citizen of this country and a resident of North Carolina.

Voting in this year’s midterm election is to “stick it” to those in North Carolina’s Congress who had the gall to try and stop us.

I understand why it is hard to take the time to register and trek out to the polls to cast your ballot. After all, most Duke students are incredibly busy in a balancing act of school, work, extracurricular activities and social events.

But remember that this attempt to silence our voices and suppress our thoughts, opinions and our access to freedom is a stab at democracy and the core of the American dream. I’m outraged and you should be too.

So get out there and cast your ballot. Show North Carolina’s legislature that they can’t stop Duke.

Shruti Rao is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Monday.

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weekend of self-induced exile was needed from this campus because I can’t even with basic betches running around in Halloween costumes and even more basic performers running around for Awaaz, or whatever that Indian thing was. In my induced vacation, I realized I must have had way too much free time on my hands because I essentially wasted my weekend binge-watching my new favorite wine-tasting show, “Scandal.”

After all, all of my acquaintances and parents’ friends’ children all have summer jobs and careers lined up for what seems like the next 10 years. This is distressing because, to be completely honest, I am more concerned about how I managed to forget about the entirety of the World Series (but really, does anyone watch baseball anymore?).

However, then I realized I’m personally not a failure since I’m bougie and don’t need to prepare for my future because my trust fund is larger than the gross domestic product of most third world countries. But, because the Duke administration and the fascists at The Chronicle feel as if I have not been providing advice suited to my audience, I’m going to help you less fortunate souls find your way to

Monday Monday WITH DISDAIN, YOUR GUARDIAN DEVIL the summer of your dreams. So, after a careful 30-second Internet search, I’ve found your solution—DukeEngage.

To be perfectly honest—and no, DukeEngage isn’t paying me that much money to write this column—DukeEngage is the best way to spend your summer. It’s an 8 week-long trip that improves your resume for free! Can your research position do that for you? No. Melinda Gates, being the charitable .000000001 percent she is, has decided to make all of us her own DukeEngage project by giving Duke money to help others around the world and here in the United States.

The best part of DukeEngage is that it’s selective. This is good because, if you’re doing a group project, you know you don’t want to waste time around people who are obviously totally unqualified and suck. Duke is all about preparing you for the real world, where not everywhere gets access to opportunities that others espouse. I’m pretty sure that when you applied to and got into Duke, the thought of making DukeEngage part of your educational and professional experience undoubtedly crossed your mind. Oh the naiveté!

Your guardian devil is basically your only friend at Duke, so I’ll be real with you, unlike the administration—most Duke students won’t get into DukeEngage, which means if you don’t get to do DukeEngage there’s obviously something incredibly wrong with you. It’s a fun process because it’s basically like applying to college again. I can’t speak for myself, since apparently I do that way too often, but I’m guessing that if you don’t get in, it’s likely because you’re not nice enough, or not as qualified as another undergraduate, who, remarkably, must have so much experience with service work with challenging populations, that sending them to a particular site is more valuable than dropping off a fat check with the memo saying “sorry about your problems.”

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are deluded enough to think you’re worth it and will get in at some point, congratulations!

You’re officially better than all your other non-engaged colleagues. End of story. And because you would then be one of Duke’s precious ambassadors to the world, which is important because I don’t want people thinking I go to school with a bunch of losers, your guardian devil hopes you’ve thought your location through wisely. “Will India be like Slumdog Millionaire? No? How about Jordan?

Just kidding, I don’t like falafels. Colombia?

But Shakira doesn’t live there anymore. How about Detroit? Oh my God, I’m not a miracle worker.” This is the thought process you must go through before you can even think about beginning a culturally immersive summer serving the community.

Most importantly, however, is realizing that an integral part of “challenging yourself [to] change the world” is talking about how much DukeEngage changed your life upon your return. This is incredibly important and, even if you aren’t going to get into DukeEngage or apply anytime soon, practice makes perfect.

Because your guardian devil knows from experiences how to be a fake betch, something

edit pages I attribute to effortless perfection, I am aware that statements like “I really understand the plight of rural Ugandans,” “I feel as if I’ve become a part of Chinese culture due to my summer there” or my favorite “Trees in Portland have feelings too, ok?” are a part of the magic of DukeEngage.

In fact, DukeEngage presents challenges in several ways. The most relevant one is social media. If you don’t post about your DukeEngage experience via funny/inspiring/ self deprecating statuses that include photos illustrating a rose-colored glasses version of the real DukeEngage experience, you did it wrong. This will take months of understanding how to get more “likes” than your classmates who are hugging ethnic children in impoverished communities, but I’m confident that with a witty Facebook album title, you will master this.

I assume that you dislike hard work and feelings like most Duke students, so I caution you not to engage too much with your summer experience. From what I’ve been told, DukeEngage, or really any summer experience, is only worthwhile if you see it for what it is, get involved and allow it to change you. That sounds like a lot to be honest. I don’t like it when my vacations are that immersive—which is why I never visit museums abroad. The last think you want to do as a DukeEngage participant or hopeful is to be active or ruminate too much on your experience. It might be transformative, which would suck, because that means you could still grow as a person. If my wonderful advice helps you with your DukeEngage goals, you can thank me at the true pinnacle of your summer—DukeEngage Academy.

Your guardian devil has decided to spend the upcoming summer supporting efforts to provide underprivileged University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students with actual professors and coursework

The Chronicle @DukeChronicle

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Tomorrow isn’t an apology for today

T

he future. It’s all Duke administrators talk about these days.

I want to talk about the now though—that awkward time between the past and the future that’s hard to overlook because you’re living in it.

Right now, students are living through an onslaught of construction and closures. Cranes are now Duke’s North Star—if you walk towards them, you’ll always find your way home. Just don’t get too close or you’ll walk into a ditch.

Construction is so pervasive that hard hats should replace T-shirts as the freshmen gift. When I walked through the medical complex a month ago, a construction worker dropped a tape measure from the roof of a building, coming within a few feet of “Short Term Illness Notification Form”-ing me out of my 8:30.

West Union is closed. Rubenstein Library is closed. Part of Bostock Library is closed, and so is the main entrance to Perkins Library. Page Auditorium is closed. The Bryan Center Plaza is closed. When they blocked the Plaza off, the Flowers building became the shortcut to the Bryan Center. Now that route is also closed. Come spring, the main entrance to the Bryan Center will close. That big, ungodly thing in the center of campus, the Chapel, will also close then.

Altogether there are 35 projects in or beginning construction

Justin Koritzinsky SOUNDOFFS FROM EDEN in the next year, according to Facilities Management. While each of these projects is a valuable improvement to the campus, taken all together, it seems like we have more construction here at home than at Duke Kunshan University.

It feels as though administrators planned to complete all these projects simultaneously within a canceled academic year, but forgot that they can’t cancel classes for a year. So they did the next best—lay tarps out on the main quad and pour mulch on them.

Of course, administrators can’t be expected to understand students’ grievances. They don’t have to live through the construction—just work in it. They aren’t woken up by construction in the morning or have to walk longer routes late at night in bad weather. And then there are the few administrators that live on campus and claim to commiserate with students, until they return to their multiple-roomed, climate-controlled apartments and homes.

At the Duke Student Government-sponsored Town Hall last Thursday with Chairman of the Board of Trustees David Rubenstein and President Brodhead, Rubenstein emphasized that the construction would be valuable to all current students, even ones who wouldn’t experience the improvements. He said the construction could increase the value of a Duke degree and subsequently raise students’ job prospects. Rubenstein’s economic analysis of the construction is a common blunder by administrators who can ignore its human effects from their offices.

What these people miss is that students aren’t investing in Duke when they spend $60,000 annually to attend, they’re investing in themselves. Duke should invest in these students too, not just in infrastructure to attract future students.

The easy response to these arguments is that current students are selfish and can’t understand how the construction will improve Duke. That’s just not true.

Students are humans, and like the U.S. government, capable of empathizing with large institutions like Duke. But when they wake to bulldozers and cranes in their front yard, they are understandably upset.

It would be naïve to overlook the fact that the place students call home will house an entirely different population in four years.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not the place where they live, study and socialize today, and that shouldn’t be minimized by the future.

The administration should open its ears to students—they should hold a forum for students to speak their concerns and make recommendations. Surely the idea of hosting hundreds of students and responding to candid comments is daunting to administrators, and students shouldn’t expect knowledgeable responses to every inquiry. What students should expect and do deserve is a firsthand acknowledgement and commitment to addressing legitimate issues and recommendations. This would do much to improve administrators’ accountability.

Even when someone can’t understand others’ grievances, they indicate a legitimate issue that needs to be addressed if they are so commonly and repeatedly expressed. The only way to begin understanding it is to talk to them. So Duke administrators, talk to us—we don’t want to complain as badly as you want us to stop.

Justin Koritzinsky is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Monday.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting NEW courses for Spring 2015 For more information please contact 668-2603 The Middle East Now: Politics and Culture TTH 11:45-1:00 Revolution, protest, youth movements, war, conflict, imperialism, occupation, neocolonialism, oil, terrorism, religion, Islamism, Zionism, media, social media, culture, creativity, art, music, film, literature, women, gender, and sexuality. From Morocco to Egypt to Palestine and Israel to Iraq and Iran to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. A far reaching, but in depth exploration of the politics and culture of the Middle East today. X-listed POLSCI 222 Professor Ellen McLarney

**NEW—AMES 228:

Introduction to Israeli Culture TTH 11:45-1:00 What is Israeli culture? what is its relationship to traditional Jewish culture? What place do other religious and ethnic traditions occupy in it?

And what is the relationship between culture and state? This course surveys of Israeli culture from the late 1940s to the present. It examines Israeli fiction, cinema, popular music, AND visual culture and explores the major themes that preoccupy cultural workers, including ethnicity, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, class, the Jewish Holocaust, religion and secularism. IT HIGHLIGHTS TH LINKAGES BETWEEN CULTURAL, LEGAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES. X-listed JEWISHST 245 Professor Shai Ginsburg

**NEW—AMES 245:

**NEW—AMES 316S: Breakdancers,

Vocaloids and Gamers: East Asian Youth Cultures TTH 11:45-1:00 From breakdance crews in Seoul, video game teams in Shanghai, and skateboarders in Tokyo, youth cultures flourish and travel throughout East Asia and outwards across the Pacific Rim. This class tackles theories of youth identity while paying close attention the ways kids in Asia have changed their societies and reflected back larger political and economic issues. We’ll be thinking about how style, media, body practices (like breakdancing), concepts of romance and sex, and global communication are incorporated into the daily lives of young people and in turn make them a powerful and heterogeneous cultural force. X-listed CULANTH 316S Professor Dwayne Dixon

**NEW—AMES 320S: Refugee

Lives: Violence, Culture and Identity WF 1:25-2:40 This course will examine the reasons for and outcomes of Arab refugee movements of the past century. What does displacement mean? How have Palestinians, Sudanese and more recently Iraqis and Syrians coped in an environment where they are cut off from everything familiar?

Art, literature and film will be integrated as key texts. The service-learning component of the course builds upon existing frameworks in Arabic language courses. The course will include invited speakers who will present their experiences working with refugees from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Haiti. Professors cooke and Houssami

**NEW—AMES 321 Rumi:

Mysticism and Poetry W 4:55-7:55 The poetry of Rumi is widely considered the zenith of ecstatic poetry in Islamic literature, and has given birth to a rich tradition of mysticism, poetry, music, and dance. This course examines the life, writings, and teachings of the famed Rumi. All material will be read in translation. No previous coursework is necessary. X-listed RELIGION 381 Professor Omid Safi

**NEW—AMES 332S: Storyworlds:

The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative M 3:05-5:35 Is “tell me a story” an universal imperative? Seminar examines storytelling practices across a broad span of histories and cultures, and the creation of storyworlds through multiple media, genres, and platforms. Topics include comparative oral traditions, Medieval story cycles, serial tales, textual poaching and fanfic, alternate reality gameworlds (ARG), social media, transmedia storytelling and transcultural fandoms. X-listed AMI 338S; ICS 333S Professor Eileen Chow Modern Hindi Literature in Translation MW 1:25-2:40 A survey of Hindi literature from the early twentieth century to the present, with focus on the power of literary forms–poetry, plays, short stories, novels—to induce aesthetic experience and express cultural endeavors. Premchand, Nirala, Muktibodh, Rakesh, Vinod Kumar Shukla.

No prerequisites. Professor Satti Khanna

**NEW—AMES 352:

AMES 413S: Vampire Chronicles

TTH 1:25-2:40; M 7:30-9:45 From Dracula to Buffy and beyond, this course will examine literary and cinematic representations of vampirism, focusing in particular on their implications for our understanding of sexuality and desire, gender identity and ethnic alterity. In addition to the Western figure of the vampire per se, we will also consider related traditions in other cultures, particularly in China. In particular, we will use the cross-cultural circulation of vampiric traditions as a starting point for thinking of vampirism as a symbol of circulation in its own right. We will also look more broadly at the circulation of blood through the body politic, and particularly modern economies of blood donation and blood selling. X-listed with AMI 217S, ICS 406S, SXL 231S and Womenst 231S. Professor Carlos Rojas

**NEW—AMES 532S: Contemporary Chinese Culture Tu 3:20-5:50 Addressing how to conduct research and write about contemporary Chinese culture from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives; introducing the critical theory and comparative and interdisciplinary approaches; engaging students in current debates about the rise of China and its implications for social and human values and cultures. Prerequisite: advanced knowledge of Chinese. Professor Kang Liu

Jews and the Ends of Theory M 6:15-9:15 What role has Jewishness played in our conception of theory? How has the figure of the Jew (in his Jewishness) shaped Euro- or Americentric theory’s discourses on colonialism? And how do we think (implicitly or explicitly) or, more prescriptively, how should we think and talk about Jews, Jewishness and theory when the promises of European modernity lie in wreckage around us as around its former colonies? In this seminar we will examine these questions through the figure and writing of Walter Benjamin, who has become one of the figureheads of critical theory in the second half of the 20th century. Reading Benjamin alongside his commentators, we will think about Jews and critical theory now. X-listed JEWISHST 541S; LIT 580S; ICS 541S Professor Shai Ginsburg

**NEW—AMES 541S

**NEW—AMES 551S: Translation: Theory/Praxis W 3:05-5:35 Examines theories and practices of translation from various periods and traditions (Cicero, Zhi Qian, classical and scriptural translators, Dryden, Schopenhauer, Benjamin, Jakobson, Tanizaki, Qian Zhongshu, Derrida, Apter, among others) and considers topics such as incommensurability, cultural exchange, imperialism, “Global Englishes,” bilingualism, and techno-language. Prerequisite: open to undergraduates, but all participants must have strong command of one language aside from English, as final project involves original translation and commentary. X-listed LIT 551S Professor Eileen Chow Check out our Language courses too: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Tibetan