November 12, 2014

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Campus mental health: not a level playing field For students of color and other minorities, there is an added context to mental health Zaynah Alam The Chronicle Although the separate issues of mental health and equity are often at the forefront of dialogue at Duke, several groups suggest that the two are more intertwined than some might think.

On both the national and campus levels, minority students often grapple with different mental health challenges than those faced by their non-minority peers.

The causes vary widely, from historic barriers within the mental health system to underlying stigmas. Student organizations and campus leaders have isolated a number of potential causes and solutions, and are working to both increase accessibility of mental health resources as well as increase campus-wide inclusion of minority students.

A growing trend In 2002, President George W. Bush chartered the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which released a report the following year that extensively documented the ways in which the American Gary Glass mental health system “has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving and inappropriately serving them.”

More than a decade later, student organization leaders at Duke have noted a recent upward trend in minority students accessing mental health resources on campus. This upward trend is often coupled with a long-standing predisposition of mental health issues in these communities.

J’nai Adams, program coordinator at the Center for Multicultural Affairs, noted a recent rise in the number of students of color acknowledging mental health See CAPS on Page 4

Media and arts weekend sees significant, ‘inspiring’ growth “I saw many enthusiastic undergrads and [grads] who can and will be part of this next Hollywood generation” Claire Ballentine The Chronicle As Duke continues placing increased emphasis on preparing students for futures in the arts, the expansiveness and reach of its programming has followed suit.

This year, the Duke Entertainment Media and Arts Network weekend saw significant growth from past years, as organizers sought to both reach students interested in arts-related careers and impact perceptions of the arts community at Duke.

The annual DEMAN weekend—which began Nov. 7—provided undergraduates with the opportunity to learn more about possible careers in arts, media and entertainment by connecting with alumni already established in these fields.

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Coordinators of the event—which has grown in recent years—changed both their campaigning strategies, the various events and the alumni invited, all in hopes to increase attendance said Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the Arts. These changes paid dividends this year, with 302 students and 70 alumni registered for a jam-packed weekend of events.

“This [large attendance] is not something that is necessarily reflected at normal career fairs, so it’s inspiring for students to see Duke alumni who have had success in these fields,” Lindroth said.

For this year’s DEMAN weekend, coordinators looked for new ways to improve the events and make them appealing to students. Lindroth said the main goal was to engage students by taking feedback from previous years and tweaking the events and programs over the weekend. Communication was a big change, as DEMAN sought out different ways to reach out to interested students—including Facebook campaigns

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Life of famed ‘Zoboomafoo’ lemur celebrated by many 20, leaving behind a legacy as a playful friend and caring father, in addition to a television star.

Chris Kratt and his brother and Martin, Trinity ’89, who cohosted “Zoboomafoo,” came to Duke in 1997 to audition Rachel Chason and Emma Baccellieri several lemur family groups at the center University Editor and News Editor for the starring role of the lemur, affectionately known as “Zooboo.” Although For the Duke Lemur Center, the the lemur was played by a puppet most of death of Jovian—a Cothe time, the brothers querel’s sifaka who also wanted to intermix e was great, a really footage of a live lemur. called the center home for 20 years—meant the Jovian’s playful attibeautiful sifaka. He loss of a lemur praised tude and natural beauwas really gentle and curi- ty made him a natural for his kindness and spirit. But for teenagers ous, the perfect lemur for fit for the role, Martin and twentysomethings the show.

Kratt said. across the country, it “He was great, a re— Martin Kratt ally beautiful sifaka,” meant the loss of a childhood icon—ZoKratt said. “He was realboomafoo, the titular role Jovian played ly gentle and curious, the perfect lemur on the popular kids TV show. for the show.”

Footage of Jovian was a centerpiece of Kratt volunteered at the Lemur Centhe popular wildlife show, which aired 65 ter as an undergraduate at Duke in the episodes from 1999 to 2001, and is still 1980s, where he worked with Nigel, the syndicated. The much-loved lemur died of kidney failure Monday at the age of See Jovian on Page 12

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Weekend food trucks return to campus, ‘off to a great start’ then we’ll definitely bring them back.”

DUSDAC is open to further expanding the weekend hours if there is a high demand, Taylor said.

“We would love to add hours and also have them there for Sunday brunch,” he Kali Shulklapper said. “We’ll keep talking to see if we can University Editor make it work.”

As of now, however, there are no plans Weekend food trucks have returned to introduce new food trucks into the to West Campus, with a first appearance rotation, said Robert Coffey, director of

by Humble Pig this past Sunday. dining services.

After finalizing logistics and negotiatLast year, Duke Dining experimenting with Parking and Transportation Ser- ed with having food trucks on Telecom vices, many of Duke’s Drive during lunch e’re going to run favorite food trucks hours, but the options will now be available were cut following low the few vendors on rotating Sundays interest and fire hazbeginning at 1 p.m. this semester and then see ards.

Complications with the numbers. If they’re not The first food trucks parking and Duke Po- performing well...then we were added to the Merlice prevented the food chants-on-Points protrucks from having won’t continue. But if there gram in 2011, and have weekend hours earlier is a demand, then we’ll significantly increased in the semester. definitely bring them back. in options since. With “We wanted them the closure of the West from day one,” said — Brian Taylor Union and several camBrian Taylor, a junior pus eateries, an increasand co-chair of the ing number of students Duke University Student Dining Advi- have turned to food trucks. sory Committee. “It was just working out Monday through Thursday, there are the logistics and getting approval.” three food trucks on campus for dinner Due to additional construction and hours, with two near the West Campus the lack of parking spots, the hours have bus stop and one in the Wannamaker shifted from last year when food trucks Fire Lane. were on campus for brunch on Sundays The current rotation of food trucks from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Taylor said. includes Humble Pig, Captain Ponchos “We’re going to run the few vendors and Deli-licious. Coffey wrote in an email this semester and then see the numbers,” Monday that the new hours will officially Taylor said. “If they’re not performing be added to the schedule if all goes well.

Jesús Hidalgo and Chronicle File Photo | The Chronicle well or if there’s no demand, then we “Humble Pig had a very good day so After the finalization of logistics and negotiations with Parking and Transportation Serwon’t continue. But if there is a demand, we are off to a great start,” Coffey wrote. vices, many of Duke’s favorite food trucks will now be available on rotating Sundays.

“We would love to add hours and also have them there for Sunday brunch,” says DUSDAC co-chair

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Students showcase creations at 3-D printing competition form itself, said junior Ouwen Huang, one of the leaders of DukeMakers—a club dedicated to advancing 3-D printing at Duke and making it more accessible to students.

“The whole point of the expo is to see Abigail Xie your creations materialized into someThe Chronicle thing real, and that’s exactly what 3D printing can do,” Huang said.

Students competing in the second Along with spreading the word about inaugural 3-D Printing Challenge show- the competition and encouraging their cased their models to judges in an exposi- own members to participate, DukeMaktion Tuesday night. ers also developed ShareSpace—a page The competition, run by Duke’s Inno- where all Duke students could post their vation Co-Lab and the files online and look at DukeMakers, asked stuothers’ work, according e see 3-D printing as to Huang. dents to design models of objects, submit them The 18 submissions this emerging area online and print them of technology exploration ranged from self-adjustusing the 3-D printers able glasses to common available in the Multi- and just want to capitalize on lab equipment pieces media Project Studio. the excitement around it. that would otherwise be Of the fifteen students very expensive.

— Michael Faber who presented their “We see [the compemodels in the final extition] as a gateway to position, sophomores Logan Rooper and 3-D printing,” Huang said. “It gives you Will Floyd-Jones were awarded the “best a community of people to draw you into in show” prize for creating an app that it and it gives people something to work makes exact physical replicas of a key us- towards.” ing a flatbed scanner and a 3-D printer.

The best in show prizes included a “It makes it really easy to make copies MakerBot Mini 3-D Printer and a 3-D of keys,” Rooper said. “You could have a printed medal. Additionally, gift cards to digital wallet full of keys and never have Shapeways—a company that offers 3-D to carry physical ones again because you printing service—were awarded to the could just print them whenever you need winners and runner-ups of the aesthetic them.” and functional categories.

The competition emphasized the im“The event is a way for club members portance of creative, original designs that to demonstrate the new skills they’re take advantage of the 3-D printing plat- picking up,” said DukeMakers leader Re-

Keys, glasses, phone docks and lab equipment among several creations presented by students

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Catherine Wood | The Chronicle DukeMakers collaborated with the Innovation Co-Lab to host the exposition of several 3-D models created by students, including keys, self-adjustable glasses and a wall-mounted phone dock.

becca Lai, a junior. “It’s also a way to find mutual inspiration in what others have been doing.”

With 50 percent more submissions this year than last, the Innovation Co-Lab and DukeMakers remain hopeful that the competition will continue to draw in more students and this technology will spread to more of the campus.

“We see 3-D printing as this emerging area of technology exploration and just want to capitalize on the excitement around it,” said Michael Faber, program

manager of the Innovation Co-Lab. Since 3-D printers were made available at the Multimedia Project Studio last year, Faber says they’ve already seen students doing many advanced projects with them.

“This idea of 3-D printing and rapid prototyping, or project-oriented work, is becoming more and more of a desirable thing not only for students to work on, but also as a demonstration of skill for job searching,” Faber said. “We want to nurture those students who have that interest and that ‘maker’ mentality.”

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continued from page 1 struggles and working to get help through Counseling and Psychological Services and other avenues.

“There’s been an uptick in student of color going to CAPS and students of color going on leave, and I don’t think it’s anything new, but I do feel like it’s a domino effect,” Adams said, noting that as more minority students are open about difficulties with mental health, others seem to be more likely to seek out help themselves.

Blue Devils United President Daniel Kort, a senior, said he has seen a similar trend in the LGBTQ community—which has historically had a higher rate of mental illness than the general population, according to the American Psychological Association.

“I’ve really come to learn that the LGBTQ community has very distinct mental health concerns as opposed to our heterosexual peers,” Kort said. “[LGBTQ individuals are] increasingly susceptible to anxiety, depression, disordered eating and substance abuse.”

Campus environment as a possible cause Adams theorized that an increase in students of color talking about mental health issues could be tied to issues in the overall campus environment.

“A colleague told me it’s not a mental health issue, it’s a campus climate issue, and the campus climate not being so inclusive can create opportunities for students— where maybe their mental health was fine, but the stress of it all can impact students and their wellness,” Adams said. “They’re trying to deal with not feeling welcomed, or the stress of having to support their family when they come back, or maybe they’re first

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generation and everyone’s depending on them to be a success story.”

Gary Glass, CAPS associate director for outreach and developmental programming, sees additional challenges faced by minority students at a relatively small campus like Duke.

“What’s different about the college experience is that everything in college, especially on a campus like Duke, which is a bit insulated, can be amplified,” Glass said.

“Vulnerability gets amplified when you feel like everybody knows you.”

Alongside challenges in campus environment, Glass noted historic struggles for minority students within the mental health field. Until recently, students of minority identities were typically over-diagnosed with mental disorders without consideration of their identities, Glass said.

“The most vivid example is that homosexuality used to be a mental health diagnosis,” Glass said. “As a profession, we have a lot of work to do to educate the community that we’ve learned a lot in our history as well, and that’s incumbent upon us to address mental health issues by naming that sometimes the health problem isn’t with the individual, it’s with the environment they’re having to adjust to.”

Adams said that a growing destigmatization of getting help and taking time off for mental illness may also play a role in the increase in minority students reaching out to mental health professionals.

“Students are more comfortable now, which is why it seems like it’s this huge domino effect of everyone going to CAPS and talking about how they’re not well,” Adams added.

products and programming to foster a more positive campus environment.

DSG Vice President for Equity and Outreach Keizra Mecklai, a junior, approached CAPS with the goal of destigmatizing mental illness on campus and making students more aware of the mental health resources available to them. Inspiration stemmed from her involvement in last year’s What I Be photo campaign—which challenged students to share their insecurities—where she noticed a prevalence of mental health and illness issues.

“The What I Be project made me think that mental health and illness, like other stigmatizing issues, was an issue worth addressing,” Mecklai said.

Though Mecklai’s initial plans centered on producing mental health information sheets to distribute to students, she soon broadened her scope. Drawing from the success of events like Me Too Monologues and Greek Ally Week, Mecklai hopes to create events to foster a greater sense of inclusivity within the student body.

“You can’t hate someone whose story you know—in an ideal world, students would better understand people that they see on campus,” Mecklai said. “The reason why these projects and campaigns with individualized stories work is that when you’re sitting and listening to somebody who’s in your chapter about how they feel at a mixer…you see people who you think are so similar to you but who have something to teach you, and you become invested.”

The DSG equity and outreach committee has also discussed plans for panel discussions with peers and professionals who are living with mental illness, as well as a new mobile application, called Concierge, Student efforts and possible solutions which connect students to available resourcSeveral student groups have acknowl- es based on their issue at hand. edged issues of student equity and mental Although regular events for discussing health, and have been working to produce issues of identity and mental well-being are

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The Chronicle available through several campus organizations—including programming through the Women’s Center, DuWell and the CMA—Glass and Adams each said they felt the issue of marginalization was a larger social one that could only be helped so much with campus events.

“There’s not something we can do and say, ‘Now we’ve addressed this’, because identity is a development process—it’s not an actual situation or event that happens,” Glass said. “For every positive, affirming message that we deliver as departments and services or as student organizations, we know that there also continue to be messages of invalidation, and of offense and aggression, and as long as those are both happening, we need to keep the dialogue going and we have to continue reminding the community of the values we aspire to.”

Phillip Catterall | Chronicle File Photo Gary Glass noted that the profession of mental health has historically struggled to appropriately diagnose and treat minorities.

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DEMAN

view of careers in arts. Alumni described their overall experiences in pursuing arts and entertainment at a university like continued from page 1 Duke, contrasting them with more-popular fields such as management consultand East Campus flyering. ing or medicine. Alumni also dispelled Coordinators placed emphasis on many myths about the job search and emmaintaining a balance between older phasized that there was much room for and younger alumni, especially in repre- growth in their respective fields. senting all aspects of a career in arts and This annual event, featuring movie entertainment from the beginning to the screenings and networking events, sucend. ceeded in inspiring students to follow “It’s helpful for students to see people their passions for entertainment and meearly on in their career as well as those dia through keynote speeches and departfurther along who are enjoying success,” ment workshops, Wade said.

Lindroth said.

“DEMAN Weekend was a great sucRoss Wade, the arts-focused assistant cess,” Wade said. “The Alumni Association director of the Career Center, said that in conjunction with Duke Arts and Amy a balanced mix of new and experienced Unell did an outstanding job of recruiting alumni helped give students a realistic alums to share their experiences and wisdom with students.”

Events included a keynote address by cinematographer Robert Yeoman, a screening of Yeoman’s movie Moonrise Kingdom and departmental workshops run by alumni in the Arts of the Moving Image department and the Center for Documentary Studies.

Unell, DEMAN organizer and an alumna in residence at the Career Center, said that all of the events were well attended.

“There were over 250 student attendees at more than a dozen of the informal, alumni-led workshops which helped students explore the breadth of opportunities and examples of pathways in the arts,” she said.

Junior Catherine White, who flew in from an internship with MSNBC specifically for DEMAN weekend, said that the various panels were extremely insightful.

Photo Courtesy of Duke Alumni Association “I especially enjoyed ‘Charting Your Jaunique Sealy, president of luxury cosmetics company Cosmedicine, led a panel discus- Own Path: How to Build a Career in Film sion with alumni working in arts and media and Storytelling,’” said White, “Courtney Spence, founder of Students of the World, as part of DEMAN weekend.

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“We got a lot of really insightful quesinspired me to take my passion for storytelling and activism further.” tions, many follow-up emails, and I saw many Senior Megan Lax said she empathized enthusiastic undergrads and grad students with Duke alumni who who can and will be part orking in enterof this next Hollywood were initially afraid to stray generation,” she said. from the “typical Duke tainment was path.”

Jenna Gates, Trinity somewhat unheard of ’12 and an agent train“They seemed so, so happy with their deci- while I was at Duke, and ee at the United Talent sion to enter the indus- it’s incredibly refreshing to Agency who helped with the workshop “Navigattry and it made me feel come back...and see how a lot better about taking ing Hollywood 101,” said that she has already seen that step after I gradu- much the interest in and ate,” she said. recognition of the industry improvement in arts opThe alumni involved has grown. portunities at Duke.

“Working in enterwith DEMAN weekend were equally thrilled with — Jenna Gates tainment was somewhat unheard of while I was the results. Keely MacDonald, Trinity ’12 and at Duke, and it’s incredshowrunner’s assistant for FOX’s “Sleepy Hol- ibly refreshing to come back two years aflow,” said she loved encouraging students to ter graduating and see how much the infollow what they are truly passionate about terest in and recognition of the industry has grown,” she said. and thought the events were successful.

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DUKE’S IN GOOD HANDS

Laken Tomlinson was recognized Monday for his off-field volunteer work Photo Editor Laken Tomlinson’s achievements are not limited to his performance on the football field.

A round of applause filled a room at the Durham Rescue Mission Monday afternoon as Duke’s starting right guard addressed a large audience on the topic of strength and perseverance. But the event had a surprise ending—Tomlinson was being set up to receive an award for his dedication to community service.

“I want to start this message off with one word. And that word is resilience,” Tomlinson said. “And the only person that I can think about when I think of this word is my mother. My mother, Audrey Wilson, raised me and three other siblings. I was born and raised in Jamaica. And the most resilient person I could ever meet is my mother.”

Tomlinson talked about his life growing up in Jamaica and his family’s migration to the United States. He

sports Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Redshirt senior Laken Tomlinson was recognized as an Allstate AFCA Good Works Team honoree Monday.

touched on his involvement in his school’s football program beginning in the eighth grade and introduced another influential figure in his life—his mentor, Robert Sperling.

“He would talk to me how to be a man and how to appreciate what I had; it wasn’t much, but I had to appreciate

it,” Tomlinson said. “It’s truly amazing having a person who can impact your life so much and at such a young age that I truly thought that I was the luckiest person in the world.”

During his junior year of high school, See Tomlinson on Page 8

Duke to face Northwestern in NCAAs Beat Writer Duke’s season stays alive with an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

The seventh-seeded Blue Devils will face Northwestern Saturday at 2 p.m. at host North Duke Carolina’s Francis E. Henry Stadium. After vs. losing to the Tar Heels Northwestern 1-0 Thursday Nov. 6 in the ACC tournament SATURDAY, 2 p.m. quarterfinals, Duke Francis E. Henry Stadium joined seven other schools receiving at-large bids in last Sunday’s selection show.

“Any year you find a way to get into the NCAA tournament is successful,” head coach Pam Bustin said. “We played a tough game on Thursday against No. 1 UNC, and that was proven enough—to ourselves, anyway—that we’re ready for the NCAA tournament. We’re really excited, and we’re happy about the opportunity.”

The Wildcats (16-6) earned an automatic

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Sixth time is a charm It was nearly an hour after the final whistle blew and my friends began spilling out of the stands below to rush the field.

Postgame press conferences had just finished and I was finally leaving Wallace Wade Stadium.

You could still feel the excitement in the air after Duke’s 48-30 win against Miami last November—the Blue Devils’ sixth straight triumph, which propelled them back into the AP top 25 for the first time in 20 years.

I passed through the stadium’s North Gate. Defensive end Kenny Anunike was packing up his SUV with his mom about 20 feet ahead of me.

The victory was a special one for Anunike. It was more than just his Senior Day—it was his third.

Anunike had been through about as much as a player could have during his six-year career at Duke. A position change from tight end to defensive end, multiple knee surgeries and years lost due to injury. After making a strong comeback and anchoring the Blue Devil defensive line in 2012—his fifth year—en route to the team’s first bowl appearance in nearly two decades, Anunike had a choice to make. He already had an undergrad degree in biological anthropology and a masters under his belt but was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA—one final chance to play football.

Kenny decided to give it one last shot.

He had become the Van Wilder of Duke football—the kid who just wouldn’t leave college. During his final season, Anunike was the last remaining member of David Cutcliffe’s original Duke recruiting class. Lest to say, there was no shortage of grandpa jokes in the Blue Devil locker room.

It was during those last two seasons that Kenny and I got used to seeing each other a couple times a week at football events. Slowly but surely, we became friends in only the way a student reporter and a student-athlete could— every interview ended with a joke and a smile.

Kenny glanced up from the open car door and called me over. As I congratulated him on the win, he

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bid to the tournament after upsetting No. 2 and top-seeded Maryland in the Big Ten final Nov. 9—the first tournament title for Northwestern. Saturday will mark the Wildcats’ first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 20 years, while the Blue Devils (12-6) have qualified three times over the past four seasons.

The contest will feature two highly represented conferences for this year’s tournament. The Big Ten and ACC combine for nine teams in the tournament and sevenof-eight at-large bids. The ACC tops the list with six teams playing Saturday out of a conference with just seven teams.

“This has been a crazy year nationally— crazy in a good way,” Bustin said. “The parity is so much greater and there are teams posting up some good wins and some good records outside of our conference…. But if you’re in the ACC you definitely get an edge in not only getting into the tournament, but doing well in the tournament.”

In the teams’ sixth all-time matchup, Duke will look to even the series record 3-3 after two See Field Hockey on Page 9

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshman Ashley Kristen and Duke will look to slow down a hot Northwestern team in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday.

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Tomlinson started receiving multiple offers from Division I programs after just a handful of years playing football.

Ultimately, the 6-foot-3, 330-pound offensive lineman bought into head coach David Cutcliffe’s vision and committed to the Blue Devils.

“My mom cried the day I signed my letter of intent to go to Duke University,” Tomlinson said. “I just remembered that I couldn’t have been in a better position in life, to make my mom truly proud of me in all the decisions I’ve made in my life to get to that point.”

Moments after Tomlinson discussed the trials and tribulations of life growing up in Jamaica, he stepped away from the microphone, thinking his afternoon at the Rescue Mission had concluded. But Colin Desouza, an Allstate representative, called him back to the podium to announce his selection to the 2014 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.

Tomlinson is one of 22 football players from across the country to receive this honor, recognizing the redshirt senior for his commitment to community service and achievements off the field.

Aside from academics and football, Tomlinson volunteers at the Durham

Chronicle File Photo Tight end Braxton Deaver will return for a sixth season next year.

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wrapped me up in the type of hug that only a menacing, 6-foot-5 teddy bear could give.

As we looked out over the field he had just played on for the final time, we talked about his six-year roller coaster

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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Right guard Laken Tomlinson has excelled on and off the field at Duke and will likely be one of several Blue Devils to hear his name called during the 2015 NFL Draft.

Rescue Mission, speaks regularly at the Durham School of the Arts on the importance of education and leadership and is a frequent visitor to the Ronald McDonald House of Durham. In May 2012, he participated in a well-digging project in Ethiopia to bring clean water

to a local area.

In the moments following the surprise announcement, Tomlinson explained the importance of giving back to the community.

“It means so much to me, and I’m sure my mom will be so proud of me

right now,” Tomlinson said. “She’s probably the first person I will go and tell. Coming from my background, I didn’t have a lot coming up, and in the position where you can give back I feel like that is something you need to do to live a quality life.”

ride. I asked Kenny if it was all worth it.

He took me back to the last game of his fifth year—the heartbreaking 2012 Belk Bowl. “I knew it wasn’t meant to end on that field in Charlotte,” he said.

Anunike came back because he thought he had something left in the tank—less than a year after that conversation in the Wallace Wade parking lot, Kenny had made the Denver Broncos roster as an undrafted free agent.

Just like Anunike’s career was meant to end after the 2012 Belk Bowl, Kelby Brown and Braxton Deaver’s careers weren’t meant to end on Duke’s practice field, where they each suffered torn ACLs within a one-week span this August. Both were granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA Monday, and both admitted they had reservations about making a final comeback.

By playing a sixth season, Brown and Deaver will make the Blue Devils incredibly deep at both linebacker and tight end in 2015. Planning for both players’ presumed departures, Duke went out and recruited high-caliber replacements during the latter half of Brown and Deaver’s careers. The 2015 Blue Devils will feature Brown at linebacker alongside young studs Chris Holmes and Zavier Carmichael and fourstar commit Ben Humphreys. Teaming up Deaver and four-star commit Tyler Petite will give Duke two big-time targets at tight end.

With the return of two outspoken leaders and All-ACC playmakers, the Blue Devils have the chance to be just as good—if not better—next year than they are today. Should they perform to their potential, both Brown and Deaver have a shot to be NFL draft picks. New life has been breathed into a pair of football

careers that once appeared to be over.

Unlike the majority of the decisions football players make, the decision to return for a sixth year has nothing to do with their team—it’s a purely personal choice. Just like any college student nearing graduation, they get to decide what they want to do with their lives, whether that means getting a job or going back to school. Both Brown and Deaver had the option to say that they didn’t feel like dealing with the physical toll of major college football anymore—that they preferred to move on to the next phase of their lives. They

chose to take one last ride because they felt as though they each had unfinished business.

It wasn’t until that conversation in the parking lot with Kenny Anunike that I understood what a sixth year really means to a player. It’s more than an opportunity to play the sport you love for the last time or a last-ditch effort at a professional career—rather, it is a chance to seize back control of something that has been taken from you.

Here’s to hoping Duke’s two newest Van Wilders make the most of that opportunity.

Jack White | Chronicle File Photo All-ACC linebacker Kelby Brown, along with Deaver, will return from an ACL tear suffered in the preseason to play for the Blue Devils one final time in 2015.

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MOOCs are classes hosted online with the goal of unlimited open access to spread quality higher education across the world.

MOOCs revolutionized higher education by lowering physical and socioeconomic barriers to educational opportunities. For example, anybody around the world can sign up to take courses in cryptography, sales pitches, law and more at no cost on Coursera. The ease of access to these courses is empowering for life learners or disadvantaged peoples who are balancing work and family or who cannot afford college. For many MOOCs, these benefits are multiplied by the quality of

the courses. Institutions like Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking to be at the cutting edge of MOOC development, such that top professors are providing serious courses that can really provide a quality education to users. For many students, college or life learners, MOOCs provide a way for

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At Duke, the first MOOCs were launched two years ago through Coursera, with students able to sign up for non-credit classes that provide skills or teach subjects that do not find their way into a regular schedule. These classes expose students to skills like checkbook balancing or subjects like the economics of the music industry that are not offered or are hard to justify as part of a four-course schedule. Beyond Duke, MOOCs are useful for when the learning bug persists after graduation and for picking up skills that do not fall naturally into a 32 credit career.

Though the benefits of MOOCs are undeniable, they should remain as on-the-side options

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Behind that locked door

large part of the genius of George Harrison’s music is that, on the one hand, he is always striving for a sense of metaphysical oneness with the universe, and, on the other, he is fully (and painfully) aware of the insuperable distance between us all. It’s a tension that is everywhere in his work, and it’s especially strong in a song that hits me particularly hard–“Behind That Locked Door.”

“Behind That Locked Door” is a song of encouragement that Harrison wrote for Bob Dylan when the latter was making a comeback to live performances. In it, Harrison pleads amidst the milky sounds of a pedal steel guitar for Dylan to “let out [his] heart, please, please, from behind that locked

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year, 50 billion land animals are factory farmed globally. You might say, “Well, as long as the animals are treated well, it doesn’t matter how many of them we ‘produce.’” I’d probably agree with that statement, but the fact of the matter is that factory farmed animals aren’t treated well. In fact, to say that they aren’t treated well is an enormous understatement.

Global demand for cheap meat coupled with a lack of serious animal welfare regulation has produced a system in which animal farmers can legally have no concern for their animals’ welfare—in Nevada, for example, there is a state law that essentially makes legal any animal farming practice so long as it is industry standard. So the industry standard

Eugene Rabinovich ARE WE THERE YET? door.” But the song is much more than a personal message between music superstars. I think the metaphor of the imprisoned heart hits at something deeper—it captures not only what happens when we hide our inner world from others, but also the fact that, in many deep ways, it’s impossible for us to fully understand what goes on inside the minds of other beings, especially in those of non-human animals.

Our empathy is limited. It’s limited in quite a fundamental way. The best we can do is to surmise what it’s like to be another human being, much less a bat. Nevertheless, on the human front, we’ve managed to make great strides in expanding our empathy.

I think we ought to start doing the same with respect to non-human animals. Admittedly, the suffering of animals is behind an even more firmly locked door than that of our fellow humans. But they still undeniably suffer, even if that suffering turns out to be different in relevant ways from our own. The scale of the suffering we induce in animals, though, should force us to at least question our attitudes, especially given our track record. Just over 50 years ago in this country, for example, it was still acceptable to hold that black people were different in the relevant ways from white people and therefore their inferior treatment was justified. In general, humans are very good at making “us vs. them” distinctions and using those distinctions to care about one group over another. Given this last fact and the fact that there exist no checks to make us accountable for the way we treat animals, I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that the animal suffering we’re responsible for is unjustified.

Factory farming is the biggest perpetrator. Every

of throwing all male baby chicks in a grinder in an egg-producing operation–perfectly legal in Nevada.

What’s more, factory farming externalizes its costs in other ways. It is, for example, the single biggest contributor to climate change.

A lot of the problem is in our outlook. The very word “factory” in factory farm suggests that we look at farmed animals as commodities, and not as suffering beings similar to ourselves in meaningful ways. Take a look at a USDA report on livestock and poultry, and you’ll see exactly what I mean. The “production” is measured in tons, considered as an export or an import—the industry experiences “modest expansion.” But this is a category mismatch: non-human animals aren’t goods in the same way that iPods are. Measuring up the meat industry in terms of tons of goods produced won’t erase the misery of the animals that went into it.

Animals are different from humans; there is no doubt about that. But that doesn’t give us a carte blanche to do what we like with them. Any pet owner can tell you that his or her pet is capable of feeling emotions similar to ours. Pigs and cows and chickens are capable of a lot of the same (and sometimes more) emotions. But there is, regrettably, a world of difference to how we treat the two classes of animals.

It’s therefore supremely important for us to step back and seriously reconsider how we treat these beings completely at our behest. In other words, we should be striving, always striving, to imagine what lies behind that locked door.

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

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e often call Duke a “Gothic Wonderland.”

Eager visitors and tour guides alike use this term. It’s all over Instagram, especially during the excitement of Blue Devil Days or after the blanketing of Main Quad with a gentle snow. It is certainly not an inaccurate description of our beautiful campus.

But I’ve come to think that “wonderland” is an apt description on another level—Duke is not the real world. Apart from the Hogwarts-esque buildings, stepping onto Duke’s campus is like stepping into an alternate reality. Call it the “Duke bubble” or whatever you will, life is uniquely different here.

Whenever I go off-campus or go home for a break, this hyper-reality becomes brutally clear. At Target I see parents and their kids buying food and school supplies.

When I make nursing-home visits in Durham, I talk with elderly people who are most excited about seeing their grandkids and are happy simply because their most recent visit to the doctor went well. And, when I go home, I see my dad on the phone with business calls and

Zach Heater THE MIDDLE GROUND my mom busy with volunteer work.

At Duke, I am busy writing papers, studying for exams, going to debate practice, trying to manage weekend social events and keeping up with all my friends.

“College” may describe something academic, but “college” is also a social phenomenon. On both counts, Duke has a way of making us forget what life is like beyond the bricks of our Gothic Wonderland.

On the academic front, it is easy to overlook how exceptional we really are. None of us need to have our egos augmented – our parents, schools and now our University do enough of that – but in the throes of rigorous academic competition, we usually compare ourselves only with those at Duke. We forget that in terms of academics we are among the very top students in this country and around the world. My class, the class of 2017, offered admission to 12 percent of the 31,805 that applied. Duke’s 6,500 undergraduates are in the top .02 percent of college age Americans.

Competition for internships, research positions, graduate school admission and jobs is intense, I know.

Part of the intensity comes from holding ourselves to the ridiculous standards set by other Duke students without acknowledging those graduating from other schools or not going to college at all. Our grades may be based on the performance of other Duke students, but our sense of our own intelligence and talents should not be. Just being mediocre at a school like Duke is a world-class achievement that few can claim. And people should be proud, not ashamed, of that.

Pre-professional Duke culture sucks students into feeling like their life-long goals are unattainable unless they’re curing cancer, captain of the crew team and simultaneously acing each and every course. It’s important for us to recognize that Duke’s academic rigor is a draw for students. But true success in the real world is based on more than just grades and numbers, and it is important to remember that we are at a place that

promotes something slightly different.

Regarding the social aspect of “college”, it is easy to forget what social life and friendships are like in the real world. At Duke there are always people around.

Whether it’s on the C-1, eating dinner at the Bryan Center or studying in Perkins, it can actually be kind of difficult to find a place on campus where one can avoid seeing people and be truly alone. We get used to living in close quarters with roommates and other friends.

Overall, most of us spend way more time around other people than we do by ourselves. We are almost made to feel bad if we are alone for an extended period of time – wondering how other people have so many friends and we do not. The truth is, however, after graduation, we will not be surrounded by so many people we know in such close proximity.

That’s further complicated by the fact that we won’t have groups already in place to facilitate friendships like we have at Duke. It makes sense that we develop friendships with those who have similar interests and participate in similar activities on campus. And, as students with limited amounts of free time, it makes sense that we do a lot of our socializing within the planned events of clubs and living groups. It is great that Greek life organizations, selective living groups and student clubs can bring people together to form (hopefully) lasting friendships. Even for those of us who are not in a Greek organization or an SLG, they provide great opportunities for having fun with friends and meeting people. And it’s true that some of my best friends are people I met in groups—like my campus ministry.

But groups like these are unique to college campuses.

And I worry that sometimes they might keep us from practicing an important life skill—making and keeping friends without the help of an established organization.

At Duke, it may be that a lot of our friendships are based on common interests and group membership than on genuine attachment to another person. Don’t some of our friendships just keep going because we are in the same place doing the same things with people in certain groups? In the real world, sustaining friendships means making connections with other individuals. This requires an investment of time and emotional effort far beyond what most of our college friendships do.

No wonder recent graduates seem desperate to flock back to campus during Homecoming and tag all their reunion photos with #nevergraduate.

These academic and social phenomena are not unique to Duke—they come with the college experience anywhere, though they might be slightly more intense here. What isn’t? College is a unique social and academic experience, and I’m thankful to be having it at Duke.

However, I can’t say that it will leave us prepared for the real world in every way. We should certainly enjoy it while we are here. But we should also remember that we inhabit a small subset of a much bigger world, full of outrageous expectations and peculiar social conventions.

So try to find a quiet spot and learn to spend a little time alone. Think more carefully about your friendships and cut yourself some academic slack. You certainly don’t want to reach the end of senior year and realize that you’ve become like Alice, running down the rabbit hole into her own Wonderland: “never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”

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Zach Heater is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

Letter to the Editor In response to “N.C. early voting revealed as vulnerable to identity fraud” I am writing about a recent story entitled “N.C. Early Voting as Vulnerable to Election Fraud,” which I fear adds fuel to an already roaring fire of misinformation and confusion. There are three major issues with the story. First, the story neglects to identify James O’Keefe as a notorious right-wing provocateur whose dishonest, controversial tactics nearly landed him in prison a few years ago. The second is a straight factual error. The story states twice that O’Keefe received twenty ballots. He received zero ballots: he received 20 affidavits requiring him to sign and affirm his identity before receiving a ballot. Had he signed, he would have committed a felony, which is precisely the incentive that is in place to keep voter fraud from occurring. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the story quotes without comment the notion that “large groups and organizations” are responsible for voter fraud in the United States. Numerous studies

have shown that there is literally zero evidence for this claim. According to Justin Levitt, a professor of law and one of the nation’s leading experts on this topic, there have been 31 proven cases of voter fraud since 2000, and none of them involved “large groups and organizations.”

All told, the story is a puff piece for O’Keefe and his absurd video, which shows nothing other than election officials following the law (this may be why it has not gone “viral,” although the article twice states that it has).

This is problematic in itself, but especially because, in today’s political climate, the fantasy of widespread voter fraud has been used as a tool, primarily by convinced conservatives like O’Keefe, to legitimate restrictive voter ID laws. Duke University, and its newspaper, should be dedicated to the responsible weighing of evidence in proper context—not the mere regurgitation of partisan Youtube schlock artists..

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The changing faces of God

don’t usually think much of it, but whenever I meet someone for the first time, I am born again. There’s something special that happens every time our minds put a face and a name together—a unique persona is created from the dust of the unknown. So while I may think that I’m still the same person as before, it’s not necessarily the case—in the mind of the other person, I am reshaped into an image of his or her making. In this way, I am a different person to different people.

Psychologist William James stated that an individual person consists of as many different “selves” as there are people who recognize him or her. To him, the concept of one’s “self” is anchored not so much to our personal thoughts and memories as we may think, but rather to our relationships. We are, for better or for worse, known by how others perceive us.

This is one reason why our bonds with our parents remain particularly significant throughout our lives. For many of us, they were the first people with whom we ever made contact. At the moment of our birth, our existence is empty, suspended in a lonely liminal

Chris Lee WHAT’S IN A NARRATIVE? space. Only when we are lifted into the embrace of our parents are we validated with unique membership in this world. We become someone else’s daughter or son—our identity is consecrated only when we know we are precious to those around us.

In any relationship, there exists a dynamic equilibrium between intimacy and mystery. As children, we naturally want to know everything about our parents and all the important conversations they seem to be having. But when we discover too much, when the mystery shatters, we realize that they are in fact imperfect human beings, just like we are.

It becomes our first fall from innocence. As John Steinbeck writes in “East of Eden,” “When a child first catches adults out— when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence—his world falls into panic desolation.

The gods are fallen and all safety gone… And the child’s world is never quite whole again.” We can no longer trust our parents wholeheartedly with the childlike faith we once had because we know that they and the world around us are flawed.

Sometimes I like to compare the progression of Western history to the development of an individual person’s life. In both narratives, there are times when God is seen as an intimate Father and other times as a distant Judge, depending on the stage of growth. In the late Middle Ages, God’s presence seemed almost tangible, as in childhood, with manifestations of his glorious miracles revealing themselves to saints and walking with devout followers during their pilgrimages across the continent. When the emergence of cities gave rise to growing scholastic cultures focused on philosophy and higher learning, God became seen as a schoolteacher, with the world as His school, a place full of curiosity, contemplation and discovery. Then came the Black Death, a mysterious plague that damaged the people’s trust in the Father they thought they knew—if God was so benevolent, then how could he so arbitrarily bring mass destruction?

After the Middle Ages, the Word seemed to gradually become Flesh, as God was brought down more and more to the level of humanity.

The Renaissance and Reformation stressed the glory of humanity and strengthened the intimacy between God and man by removing the Church as a spiritual intermediary. Yet, the dawn of Enlightenment rationalism and empiricism led people to see God in a more deistic sense, as a rational but detached Creator figure. Subsequently, the rise of modernity saw God’s stature shrink as the status of mankind soared—if modern technology could allow man to compress even time and space, how soon until he could reach the heavens as well?

So how does today’s “grown-up” world see God? Now it seems that every person encounters His face in a different way, if at all.

I believe that the way we see God is a blessing to us. In the same way that our relationship with our parents first anchored us to the outside world and validated our existence, so our perception of God or any higher power we may conceive of forms a valuable portion of how we see ourselves. In a world where we are essentially a different person to everyone we know, this bond might be the one identity, the one face, that grants our lives true meaning.

The entire narrative of human history can plausibly be portrayed as our journey to reconcile the different faces of God, both the intimate and the mysterious. In all relationships, the destination proves not so important as the journey and the struggle itself. As university students, I believe we owe it to ourselves to participate in these questions of faith that have been carrying on since the beginning of our history. So I encourage each and every one of us to take one more step on this journey, wherever we are now—we may be surprised by the faces we encounter on the way.

Chris Lee is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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continued from page 1 lemur who would one day become Jovian’s father. When he returned to Durham eight years after graduation to cast the role of Zoboomafoo, Kratt was reunited with Nigel—and discovered that his son, Jovian, was made for television.

“Jovian was a super beautiful animal,” said David Haring, the center’s registrar and photographer. “No one was surprised when he passed the screen test with flying colors.”

Haring described Jovian, who was born at the center in 1994, as long-limbed, with cream and russet fur and bright yellow eyes.

The Kratts came to Durham in 1997 with a complete stage set that they erected inside an outdoor cage. They filmed two weeks of footage of Jovian and his parents on the set, which became known on the show as “Animal Junction.” Though all three lemurs made appearances, Jovian was the clear star.

“He was funny,” Kratt said, recalling how Jovian would grab his hair or nose while filming. “There was a lot of great interaction, and it made for a lot of great moments.

Outside of the show, Jovian was described as a “capable and caring father,” who sired 12 sifakas by two different partners, leading to four grandbabies and two on the way, according to the center’s website.

Jovian is survived by his mate Pia and their family group, which includes 6-yearold son Conrad, 2-year-old son Ferdinand and 10-month-old daughter Gertrude. He also has three grown offspring who left the family group for breeding but remain

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Though Jovian was by all accounts a down-to-earth and friendly lemur, his time as a TV star was followed by some Hollywood family drama. After he wrapped on “Zoboomafoo,” Jovian was introduced into an established lemur group that consisted of a female named Alexianus and her three children. Over the course of seven years, Jovian and Alexianus had three babies of their own—but sadly, none of them survived past infancy, and drama brewed with the children from Alexianus’s previous partner. The oldest daughter, Pia, was ultimately kicked out of the family.

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When Alexianus died in 2005, however, Jovian and Pia were reunited—and the two became partners. Jovian and his former “step-daughter” lived together until his death, bearing nine children, seven of whom are still alive. The pair also have four grandchildren, with two more on the way.

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at the center, and a fourth grown daughter who lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. In total, Pia and Jovian had nine infants, seven of which are still alive.

Based on sightings of Jovian and Pia before his death, staff at the center said

they hope Jovian has produced one last offspring, though it is too soon to tell if Pia is pregnant.

Jovian’s body will be held in an ultrarefrigerated environment and used for scientific study, Haring said.

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