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Student interest has caused a surge and diversification of Graduation with Distinction programs Patton Callaway Senior Editor As the number of Graduation with Distinction students has increased, so has the variety of GWD programs across majors.

The number of students who graduate with distinction has doubled in both the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering over the past decade after a department-led initiative to increase interest in the program. The increase in the quantity of students pursuing GWD has driven up the quality of final theses, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity.

“The students who choose to write undergrad theses are some of our best researchers,” Dean of Trinity Laurie Patton wrote in an email. “They’ve discovered their intellectual passion and are willing to give up a lot of other options to pursue that passion. We like seeing the number of students working in this manner grow.”

With more students than ever participating across a range of departments—each with their own model and requirements for GWD—some have called for standardization of the process. Although a set program model is not a part of the GWD program’s immediate future, a trend towards seminarbased courses has emerged across Trinity and Pratt. Departments in Trinity have gravitated towards GWD seminars, allowing students the opportunity to collaborate with peers.

While Pratt has also added GWD seminar courses, engineering deans have focused more on increasing the types of distinction programs available to engineering students.

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Students prepared for Thursday’s football game by participating in pre-game activities Gerardo Parraga The Chronicle In preparation for the first Thursday night football game since 1994, campus organizations have planned special pre-game events to encourage student attendance.

Game attendance has seen a decline since 3,100 students filled Wallace Wade Stadium to watch the Aug. 30 game against Elon University, said junior Tucker Albert, Duke Student Government vice present of social culture. He expects Thursday’s game against the University

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of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will reverse that trend and draw a record number of students.

DSG planned many pre-game events to ensure students have the full game experience even though the game is on a weeknight, Albert said.

“One, it is against UNC—our rivals,” he said. “Two, it is a must win to get to the ACC championship. Three, the football program has been proving [itself] and with that has come more attendance.”

In addition to Wednesday’s Aer and Small Town Records concert—which were reminiscent of the annual personal checks concert before the home UNC basketball game—Devilsgate will be giving out free food and t-shirts before the game. Sophomore Shaker Samman, leader of Duke football fan group Cutsboro, sophomore Sam Morton, president of Small Town Records, and Harli Grant, campus

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concerts programming chair, organized the concert. The concert will give students an extra push to come out to the football game, Samman said.

Following a long-established tradition, Duke will be playing for the Victory Bell against UNC. The past two games have been won by Duke.

Since Coach David Cutcliffe has taken over the football program, there has been a spike in attendance as the team has been winning more, Tucker said. Under Cutcliffe’s leadership, the team broke an 18-year bowl drought in 2012.

The game will be a nice change of pace from the usual Thursday schedule for students, he added.

“I think all of DSG and Duke itself is very excited to see the attendance in this game,” Tucker said.

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continued from page 1 Changes in participation Although the GWD program has existed in some form for at least a century, student interest in the program has increased over the past decade—doubling from 12 to 25 percent of Trinity students and from 10 to 20 percent of Pratt students. Baker attributed the surge to departments’ efforts to reach out to students and encourage pursuing GWD. “We have invested time and made [GWD] a priority, enabling funding resources to be distributed to departments who focus on thesis promotion,” he said.

Associate Dean of Trinity Norman Keul noted that the numbers in Trinity have plateaued over the past several years, but added that the slowed growth is to be expected—only a certain percentage of each class has a natural interest in pursuing a thesis. “[The 25%] captures the people who are most interested in writing a thesis and has increased the level of quality of the final products,” he said.

The doubled participation across each college reflects an average across all departments and does not translate to a change within each major, however. Certain majors’ structures better facilitate a written thesis or capstone project, driving more students to gravitate towards GWD. Regardless of department variation, deans of Trinity and Pratt say they are satisfied with the surge of the past decade and the steady numbers that have held for the past few years.

Trinity versus Pratt Trinity offers 49 different majors to undergraduate students, resulting in a diverse scope of studies. The GWD programs and final products exhibit a similar diversity— programs vary from independent studies and seminars to collaborative workshops and poster presentations, while the final projects span from posters and published academic papers to short novels and choreographed dances. Beyond differences in subject matter and format, the variety stems from departments’ autonomy over their GWD programs. Department heads determine the academic qualifications for participating in the program as well as the

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requirements for completion and evaluation of final theses.

“There is probably so much buy-in to the GWD programs because the departments can make it their own,” Baker said.

He noted that biology, cultural anthropology, economics, history, international comparative studies, sociology and public policy are among the departments that have demonstrated the most significant improvement in GWD participation and structure.

Trinity administrators are harnessing the departments’ GWD strengths with a thesis workshop for department heads this December as a forum to discuss best practices. Several Trinity departments have gravitated towards seminar-based thesis courses, where students enroll in a two-semester class and collaborate with their peers as they research and write their own topic.

However, Keul emphasized that a standard program would not fit across all majors.

“We are not attempting to convert people to this one model,” he added. “It would be hard to standardize a GWD program because departments conduct research dif-

ferently. For example, humanities students tend to do more solo work, while social sciences tend to have a more collaborative approach, and then sciences are lab-based.”

Although the Trinity and Pratt programs remain separate now, GWD programs within the two colleges may connect and collaborate in the future.

“The connection [between Trinity and Pratt] is not there, and it should be,” said Linda Franzoni, Pratt associate dean for undergraduate education.

With only four majors, Pratt GWD has less department diversity than Trinity and instead offers a variety of distinctive recognition opportunities. As participation in GWD has increased, Pratt administrators have also focused on expanding the paths to distinction available, adding the Grand Challenge Scholar program, endorsed by the National Academy of Engineering, and the Pratt Research Fellows Program, a school-wide competitive research program. Dean of Pratt Thomas Katsouleas noted that many Pratt students complete extensive research outside of the GWD

based on the nature of their studies.

“Graduation with Distinction is just one of many honorary paths in Pratt, but it originates back into liberal arts culture— we’ve added different ways to become distinctive,” he said. “The underlying experience is one of deep scholarly inquiry with a faculty advisor, and that seems to be more important than any details of the requirement.”

Three of the four Pratt majors offered—civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering—require students to write a technical paper to qualify for GWD. Franzoni created a course three years ago for mechanical engineers pursuing GWD so that they could collaborate and share their research, mirroring several seminar-based GWD programs in Trinity.

“It made the students feel like they were in it together, and they were able to ask each other good questions and ensure that they weren’t too steeped in the jargon of their own project,” she said.

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Biomedical engineering majors must complete an independent study and present their findings during an oral poster presentation session as opposed to writing a technical paper. All Pratt GWD programs share fundamental components, including a GPA cutoff and research with a faculty member.

Franzoni noted that the percentage of GWD students each year appears correlated to the job market and number of employment opportunities.

“Engineering is a very marketable degree, so if the jobs are there, [Pratt students] are going to be given attractive offers,” she said. “Students do research when the economy is not doing well as a strategy to become more educated so that when the economy does recover, they are at a higher level.”

If students are interested in graduate school, pursuing GWD allows engineering students to test their future plans and gain valuable research experience.

“As a freshman, I had never done research before, so it was helpful when my chemistry seminar professor matched me with a second-year graduate student in the McCafferty Lab,” he said. “There are times when I thought I should try another lab, but I really like the people and the work.”

In order to graduate with distinction, Podracky will complete a paper outlining his research—what he did, what he learned, what worked and what did not work—paired with a final poster presentation. The chemistry GWD program has allowed him to explore future career paths and opportunities.

“When I came to Duke, I wanted to do pre-med, but then whenever I was volunteering at the hospital, I was always wishing that I was in the lab,” he said. “This is one of the reasons why I wanted to come to Duke, because you have these opportunities to work with people doing really interesting things. It changed the course I thought I would be on.”

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Rebecca Holmes, Dance Senior Rebecca Holmes studies West African dance and hip-hop, but she is combining her passion for education, dance, creativity and entrepreneurship in her thesis. It focuses on better understanding how dance education in elementary school classrooms is as integral as other subjects.

“I want to fight for dance’s voice, and show people that dance does matter and should be something taken seriously,” Holmes said.

The dance department requires all student majors to complete a senior project, either a choreographed production or a research paper, in addition to a new research methods course. Holmes noted that students who want to graduate with distinction must take their project one

Chris Podracky, Chemistry Senior Chris Podracky works in the McCafferty Lab, studying the chemical biology of chlamydia. For his GWD research, he is examining chlamydia enzymes in search of the most virulent enzyme, or combination of enzymes, that could then be blocked by small molecule inhibitors and kill the bacteria. Podracky noted that the Chemistry GWD path begins early since students must complete extensive lab training before beginning the two semesters of an independent study and an additional half-credit course, in addition to 20-hour weeks in the lab and writing the final paper. He noted that his GWD path began as early as freshman year.

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Her interdisciplinary research involves observing dance classes in local elementary schools, interviewing teachers and researching neuroscience and policy. For her final product, Holmes plans on creating an interactive video in which the art mimics the content. She noted the dance department’s emphasis on creativity in developing a final product.

“They want us to push boundaries and present something that leaves the audience in awe and with questions,” she said.

“I believe in my project, and I am not doing this to check off a box—I want to know why dance does not have the validity that I think it should.”

Mary Hoch, English Senior Mary Hoch chose to write a short novel for her English thesis as an opportunity to pursue creative writing and to graduate with distinction. Hoch traveled abroad four times at Duke, and these travels color the seven short stories that compose her 60,000-word novel—from Melbourne and Oxford to Nebraska and New York City.

“I can’t just sit at a desk and wait for an idea, I have to do things. That’s why I love to travel,” she said.

Within the English major, students can choose to write an analytical thesis or a creative thesis in order to graduate with distinction. GWD students then enroll in a workshop course and complete their thesis during senior year with help from their peers and academic advisor. Hoch works closely with English professor Christina Askounis and peers from her English workshop course, gleaning feedback and comments as her work evolves.

After graduating in December, Hoch wants to pursue a career in fiction publishing.

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“It helps to have written things so that you know your authors and are able to connect with them,” she said. “[My thesis] helps my editing skills and ability to look at a work critically, understand how to fix it and improve the quality.”

Ishan Thakore, Public Policy Senior Ishan Thakore wanted to develop continuity between his summer experiences in global health fieldwork and his public policy education. His thesis allowed him to conduct more extensive field research and travel back to Kenya after participating in the DukeEngage WISER program the previous summer.

Thakore explored the most effective ways to adapt treatments for maternal depression to mobile phone systems in order to more easily access low-income mothers in more rural areas.

“Adapting part of those treatments using voice-based mobile technology can help health workers deliver treatments, because mobile phones are now highly prevalent in low-income countries,” Thakore wrote in an email Friday.

In the Public Policy major, students with a qualifying GPA enroll in a twosemester seminar course, beginning the Spring of their junior year and finishing during the Fall of senior year. GWD students collaborate across their various project topics, submitting a final thesis paper as well as presenting their work with a final poster.

Thakore noted that many of the skills he has learned throughout the thesis process will help him after graduation.

“There is a degree of persistence and determination involved when writing a major paper,” he said. “Sometimes I get frustrated or hit a stumbling block, but then I have to be willing to adjust to get it done, which is a good life skill.”

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A ‘ 45-year-old project’: Fuqua Military general talks policy tops BusinessWeek rankings in Latin America, Carribean ‘I hope that the number one ranking generates extra publicity,’ says Fuqua dean

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The Fuqua School of Business jumped five spots to number one in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s most recent ranking of best MBA programs.

The highest Fuqua ranked before this year in Bloomberg’s biennial MBA rankings was number five in 2000. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School trails Duke at number two, followed by University of Chicago’s Booth School, the MBA program that had previously occupied the number one spot.

“The main place where Duke saw a lot of improvement was on our survey of employers,” said Francesca Levy, editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Business Schools vertical.

Bloomberg asked employers—specifically those that hire a lot of MBA graduates—what qualities are most important to them in business school graduates, Levy said. Employers then rank business schools on well they did in those categories. These evaluations account for 45 percent of the overall rankings.

“Duke jumped a lot on those measures because not only were employers really happy with the students Duke was producing, but they were the employers that hired a lot of MBAs and had a lot of weight in the survey,” Levy said. “Fuqua turns out to be a really good place to go if you want access to the kind of employers that are hiring a lot of MBAs and

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Fuqua School of Business, pictured above, jumped five spots in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s ranking of the best MBA programs.

who tend to be really happy with students Duke is producing.”

One of the areas Duke did really well on was collaboration, Levy said.

“We want to bring people into our programs and put them out into the workforce who have the ability to collaborate in very diverse settings,” said William Boulding, dean and J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration at Fuqua.

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involve corruption, inequality income, poverty and lack of proper infrastructures in these countries.

“There is no silver bullet to solve this problem,” he said. “We haven’t solved criminality in the history of mankind. We need to put it in a place where local law enforcement can solve problems.”

Fraser was the leader of the U.S. Southern Command between 2009 and 2013, a four-star general role, which gave him oversight over 1,200 personnel from all branches of the military as well as civilians from other agencies. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1975 and held several other positions in

Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, former commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command, spoke at the Sanford School of Public Policy Wednesday evening about foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The talk—co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the American Grand Strategy See General on Page 17 Program—was titled “Continuing Security Challenges in Central and South America and the Caribbean: Drugs, Immigration, Disaster Relief and More.” It functioned as an open discussion between the audience and Fraser who fielded questions on topics ranging from Guantanamo Bay to China.

“The key security issue that crosses all of Latin America is what I call ‘transnational criminal networks,’” said Fraser.

He stressed his opinion that the solution to these problems is political and that the U.S. can play a supporting role.

“We have to be part of the solutions also,” he said, noting that the primary market for drugs and victims of human trafficking is the United States.

Fraser emphasized that there is no conCatherine Farmer | The Chronicle ventional military threat from countries Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, pictured above, spoke in the western hemisphere. Issues causing about American foreign policy in Latin Amersecurity concerns, however, are those that ica and the Carribean at Sanford Wednesday.

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What a time to be alive. Indeed, how glorious it is that we live in an age where no cultural institution is sacred enough to be spared from the warped skewering of Adult Swim. Adult Swim, also known as Cartoon Network’s latenight big brother, has long been a haven for alternative comedy and the cartoons that little 10-year-olds can’t watch because it would taint their young minds. The programming block is much more than just a dumping ground for Family Guy and King of the Hill reruns, however. The original content churned out by Adult Swim in the past several years has been consistently high-quality, such as cult objects like The Boondocks, Childrens Hospital, Eagleheart and The Heart She Holler. But how many people do you ever hear talking about Adult Swim? Maybe high school or college guys. Maybe critics. This is largely unacceptable. However, a new day has arisen for Adult Swim, and it’s all thanks to Too Many Cooks.

“What is Too Many Cooks?” you might say to yourself. Well, it’s only the weirdest, wildest video to go viral this year. You may have seen it, along with three million other people who are probably equally as confused as you are.

Created by Casper Kelly, Too Many Cooks initially appears to be a family sitcom intro in the vein of ‘80s and ‘90s cultural touchstones like Family Matters and Full House. The video starts with a montage of cast members for the sitcom Too Many Cooks over an insidiously catchy theme song filled with delightful non-sequiturs such as “Too many cooks will spoil the broth.” Then it keeps going, and going, and going…

Verily, Too Many Cooks is 11 minutes well spent. In deference to those who would

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inevitably cry “Spoiler!,” I won’t detail here the curlicues into which the video eventually contorts, but rest assured that an entire decade of culture is effortlessly parodied with a dose of surreal humor to boot. The video aired at 4:00 a.m. a few weeks ago on Adult Swim, where only the night owls and the programming block’s devotees would have even seen this. I can only imagine the shock of seeing something so impossibly strange—even by the highly weird standards of Adult Swim—in the wee hours of the morning.

This impossible strangeness is what has propelled it to fame, getting coverage from news sources such as CNN and BBC. To be honest, I’m still grappling with how Too Many Cooks is as popular as it is.

The crazy thing is that this is the second alternative comedy video to go viral (i.e. many millions of views) this week—the other one being Tim and Eric’s creepy Totino’s Pizza Roll commercial. The short itself defies logic with its twists and turns, and it’s deeply weird to see how the public has ravenously consumed this to the extent that it has. In my idle time, I find myself humming the theme song, and I have sung the lyrics in the shower many a time. Yet, it baffles me that Anderson Cooper has seen this.

When you put a little thought into it, it might not be that baffling. The sitcom is a universal cultural icon. Even going back to the ‘80s and ‘90s sitcoms that Too Many Cooks loves so much, I do not know a single person over the age of seventeen who hasn’t watched at least one of these shows. Programs like Full House and Boy Meets World have become integral parts of our childhoods, whether it be through reruns or watching them as they aired. The beginning of Too Many Cooks elicits a wave of nostalgia for childhood,

and the memories are sweet and fond.

Of course, it all goes haywire within five minutes of its bloody end.

Indeed, even the bizarre appeal of the surreal second part might not be difficult to understand. The rise of “normcore” has overshadowed the fact that humans are incredibly willing to consume strange culture that deviates from the standard. Fiction, especially in this day in age, acts as a bizarre funhouse that can distort reality to varying extents yet still reflect our daily lives. This is evident in popular shows like SpongeBob Squarepants and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that imagine impossible worlds with possible people. Even a show like Scandal that is seemingly rooted in a plausible reality has its own weird fun. A devious DC fixer having an affair with the President of the United States, who is colluding with Senate to authorize hits and other nefarious deeds? It would never happen.

It’s too far-fetched! Yet, it’s altogether too possible, as these characters exist in real life in far less sordid circumstances.

But the mind wanders.

Regardless of the deeper questions, Too Many Cooks functions as a wonderful piece of entertainment that demands to be seen. It is unassuming yet incredibly ambitious in a way that is not often seen in culture today. The mundanity of Too Many Cooks belies its deranged heart, and the moment where the family sitcom turns to nightmarish hell-scape ranks very highly on my list of indelible moments of 2014. So do yourself a favor.

Give into the weirdness of Too Many Cooks. Too many viewers could never spoil this deliciously strange broth.

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Music review: Hunger Games, Mockingjay - Part 1 Drew Haskins Local Arts Editor

The Hunger Games, as the current, most lucrative young adult franchise, has spawned a number of products related to the movies in recent years from bargain-basement toys to cheap Halloween costumes to unnecessary tchotchkes. Consistently, the highest quality Hunger Games affiliated merchandise— besides the books and films, of course—have been the soundtracks for each movie. The soundtrack for the third movie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1, is no different.

Carrying on in the young adult movie tradition of Twilight and the previous two films in the series, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1—Original Soundtrack” is not instrumental music, but, rather, narrative songs performed by the hip artists of today. Expertly curated by 18 year-old phenom Lorde, the album’s turbulent electronics and pop savvy make it a fitting companion for Suzanne Collins’ most emotional book.

As opposed to T-Bone Burnett’s folkinflected soundtrack for The Hunger Games and Alexandra Patsavas’ acoustic-pop on Catching Fire, Lorde has assembled an eclectic mix of guest artists for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1—Original Soundtrack” that nonetheless run towards ‘80s-influenced new wave and electro-pop. The contributors are a mix of established stars like Ariana Grande and Lorde herself, ‘80s icons like Grace Jones and Simon Le Bon, and up-and-comers like Charli XCX, Tove Lo and Tinashe. Kanye West even makes an appearance behind the soundboards with a rework of the album’s first single “Yellow Flicker Beat.” “Yellow Flicker Beat” is a strong opening salvo: the song begins with Lorde tremulously humming

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a single note before the verse begins almost completely a capella. The chorus explodes into pounding synths before scaling back and doing it all over again. Lorde’s fingerprints can be found all over this album, with her usual calling cards of spare atmospherics, sinuous beats and wordy lyrics. She’s also an omnipresent vocalist, as well, showing up on a grand total of five songs out of fourteen.

Those songs tend to be among the higher quality ones. The album opening “Meltdown” is a murderer’s row of talented musicians, with Lorde, Belgian dance maestro

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Stromae, rappers Pusha T and Q-Tip and indie darling HAIM all sharing the same track. The collaboration could have failed miserably—just look at all of those names!— with a panoply of competing styles vying for attention, yet to its credit “Meltdown” is a major coup. Stromae’s beat is nothing short of epic and all of the vocalists are able to deftly skip over it personality intact. “Flicker (Kanye West Rework)” and “This Is Not A Game” are slightly less successful. The West contribution is minimal, and the presence of The Chemical Brothers and Miguel on the latter track do not

mitigate the lack of lyrical heft. Lorde’s cover of Bright Eyes’ “Ladder Song” is a similarly tasteful cover that improves little over the original recording.

The album’s two best songs, however, come from the old and new vanguard. Grace Jones exits her hiatus with “Original Beast,” a thumping blend of Afro-Pop and art rock that would not have been out of place on Nightclubbing. Her voice is sonorous and foreboding. What she does is less like singing and more like the chanting of a mad monk.

The song does a better job of capturing the turmoil of Panem than any other song on the record, and it works as both diegetic and non-diegetic music. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1—Original Soundtrack’s other excellent highlight is Ariana Grande and Major Lazer’s “All My Love.” For all of her R&B diva posturing, Grande’s best mode is dance-floor queen, and Diplo’s expert beat provides her with a wonderful showcase for her skills. The lyrics are perfectly emotional in describing the difficulties of maintaining love in tough times, and the main synth line, a veritable chorus of cicadas, is one of the most aggressively weird, yet pleasant, hooks that I’ve ever heard. And, like usual, Grande sells it with panache. You could imagine Effie Trinket getting her boogie on to this in the Capitol.

What really sells The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1—Original Soundtrack is its clear narrative. This is the soundtrack for a powerful female character in Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen, and it tracks her ups and down in a way that is simultaneously obvious yet not literal. The atmospheres of the two mediums—music and film—synchronize beautifully, and it will be a real treat to be able to hear this altogether excellent album in theaters.

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Katie Fernelius Recess Editor This weekend, the Duke University Dance Program will host its annual fall dance showcase in Reynolds Industries Theater. The concert will feature work by both faculty and student choreographers in the Dance Program, highlighting contemporary ballet, jazz, African dance and modern dance.

For many involved in the dance program, November Dances is a meaningful opportunity to broadcast their passion to the rest of the Duke community. The showcase is not just a culmination of their semester’s work but also a venue for deeper expression of their identities and experiences.

“My entire Duke career has been centered around dance and my identity at Duke is definitely that of a dancer,” Ellen Brown, a senior in the dance program, said. “Because I am a dance major, it isn’t just a recreational activity for me, it is what I am studying and what I want to pursue. This includes not just dancing and always being in rehearsals, but also taking academic dance courses.

Therefore, being a dancer and student at Duke is one and the same.”

For her part, Brown is collaborating with a fellow Duke student, junior Stephanie Joe, on a duet that they created while in Chicago this past summer. Their piece was originally part of a larger performance that focused on fears and how they limited expression.

In the months leading up to this year’s November Dances, Brown and Joe continued to workshop the piece so that

it could stand alone.

“We really want people to understand our characters so that the audience doesn’t just see two dancers on stage performing, but rather two individual people, with unique identities, interacting in a space of commune,” Brown said. “We want to get across the ideas of communication and deeper connection.”

Junior Anne Talkington is also choreographing and performing a piece that she began working on this past summer. During her time studying abroad in Greece, she reflected on how she has grown as an individual and as a dancer during her first two years at Duke, then began to channel that into a piece titled “Coming of Age.” “For this piece, I had started playing around with movement phrases in the studio or any open room I could find. I would begin with one movement, and see what followed by just letting my body do what it wanted to do,” Talkington said.

“A little later I started to fit the pieces together around a theme, almost like a puzzle. As a dancer and choreographer, it was interesting to experiment with different sections of the piece, since I tended to choreograph based on how the movements felt rather than looked.”

Unlike Talkington, Brown, and Joe, sophomore Haylee Levin is choreographing a group piece but will not perform in it, though she plans to perform in both the ballet and jazz repertoire. Her piece, titled “Trust in Passing,” includes six dancers and explores the idea of trust.

“The inspiration for this piece came from the idea of how we learn to trust

one another and trust ourselves as well. I wanted to explore this idea of trust through dance and discover how a dancer can be natural onstage as well as a performer,” Levin said. “The piece I created relied on a lot of collaboration between the dancers and me. I wanted the movements and choreography to feel natural for each individual dancer.”

In addition to student work, faculty will also present their own newly choreographed pieces that will be performed by the ballet, jazz, African dance and modern dance classes.

Tyler Walter, associate professor of the practice, has crafted a piece titled “What’s Yours is Mine” for the ballet class. Nina Wheeler’s jazz repertory will explore the idea of commuting through the piece “comMUTE-ication.” Both Ava LaVonne Vinesett and Andrea E. Woods Valdés were inspired by issues of gender. For her piece, Vinesett, associate professor of the practice, has choreographed a piece for her African Dance repertory on how women manifest power. While for hers, Valdés has partnered with local composer and flutist Julia Price for a modern dance piece titled “Ocean Under.”

With both faculty and students engaged in the production of November Dances, the program promises to not just entertain, but also to display the talent, dedication and breadth of the renowned dance program at Duke.

“The dance program has allowed me to really grow as an individual and as a dancer through both the academic and studio classes,” Levin said. “It is a challenge sometimes to fit in all that I want to do because I spend a large

amount of time in the studio, but I absolutely love what I do there and it has added another layer to my education and growth here.”

For some of the students, like Levin and Brown, dance is a core component of their academic work at Duke. For other students, like math and biology double-major Talkington, dance is less an academic pursuit and more of a separate passion from their studies.

“I see my roles as ‘student’ and ‘dancer’ as very different, but I wouldn’t call them separate identities. They’re both just me!” Talkington said. “There’s something very special about being on stage and showing a more vulnerable piece of yourself, and somehow feeling like you’re connecting with the people watching. I love communicating with dance. I feel free to say things I otherwise might not want to share. This way I don’t have to talk. I can just be in the moment.”

The choreographers and dancers behind November Dances 2014 hope that the Duke community will be receptive to the performances this coming weekend.

“Because it is small, I feel like our dance program is sometimes forgotten about. It is literally and figuratively isolated in the farthest corner of campus,” Brown added. “But it is strong.

It’s dancers are strong. We are passionate and have a lot to say and share with those willing to listen.”

“November Dances 2014” can be seen Fri. and Sat., Nov. 21 and 22, at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Industries Theater. Tickets may be purchased at the Duke Box Office.

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As consumers, we tend to make our purchase decisions based on little more than what the hottest trend is, failing to see that as a result of this simple mindset, we often wear and display cultural symbols in an inappropriate way. When fashion designers commodify cultural or religious symbols, they cross the fine line between inspiration and cultural appropriation.

It’s everywhere, but it’s nowhere. What Urban Outfitters’ called a “vintage 90s linen dress” turned out to be directly reminiscent of Ethiopian ritual wear. What they launched as its line of “Navajo” items in 2011, including “Navajo” patterns on underwear and socks, turned out to be not Navajo patterns at all. That same year, Lisa Blue’s interpretation of the swimsuit, featuring a print of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, crossed the boundary into not only cultural misappropriation but also sacrilege. As these prints, symbols and patterns appear nearly universally in fashion, both high fashion and everyday fashion, they effectively become normalized and it becomes increasingly difficult to recognize and label as cultural and religious misappropriation. Because this misappropriation is so widespread, it disappears from our conscious thought and critique.

This conundrum of widespread cultural symbols— particularly those of Native Americans—going unnoticed, and, thus, subsequently shamelessly worn and commodified, conflicts starkly with the lack of presence of a visible Native American population in our lives. This invisibility of Native Americans in many parts of the country, including in Durham, has contributed to an ignorant grouping of all Native American tribes into one large mass, under the umbrella of a set of stereotypic symbols and characteristics. The feather headdress, in particular has become the overarching depiction of all things Native American. Furthermore, its use as an empty fashion element, with disregard to its cultural significance, has caused its widespread commodification: from the Cleveland Indians mascot to the cover photo of Pharrell Williams on Elle, it is everywhere.

Banding together, rather than being banded together. A simple Google Images search of Native Americans shows how we, as non-Natives, define Native Americans and what is considered Native American. The problem of stereotyping is of course only propagated through fashion, which brings to the fore little more than those images which we already associate with being “Native American.” As presented by the panelists, there needs to be greater unification among Native American fashion designers as well as greater collaboration between these designers and today’s fashion conglomerates. Visibility is key.

The need to create more visibility for the incredible diversity of tribes that exist in the world today, and the need for this visibility to make waves through fashion are important aspects to combating this appropriation born out of ignorance.

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The quest for the best coffee at Duke, volume 1 Francis Curiel The Chronicle

Landon Pigg once fell in love at a coffee shop. So did I. It was an early Tuesday morning when I stumbled into Smith Warehouse. Bay 6 was completely empty, and I had an hour to kill before class. As I made myself comfortable on the soft couches, two vending machines towered over me. I hadn’t eaten breakfast, but nothing inside the glass cages looked appetizing. I’d about eaten my weight in brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts in just my first semester back, and I craved something different, something substantial. I stood up and began to explore.

After walking past a number of offices, I finally struck gold: a cafe. The fresh chocolate and blueberry muffins stared at me from behind the counter, and it wasn’t until the barista called me over that I realized that I’d fallen into line. The cash register came to life as she typed in my order: one beautiful slice of mouthwatering marble cake. Just as I prepared to swipe my good ol’ food points card, she asked what I would like to drink.

The list of lattes, espressos and cappuccinos were about as foreign to my eyes as calculus algorithms.

Born and bred in Miami, I wasn’t what you might call a Starbucks regular. On the contrary, the smoldering sun usually led me to the Smoothie King chain down the block. Having never explored the caffeinated world, the vanilla and caramel choices on the cafe’s chalkboard menu completely blew my mind. Uhhh...I’ll have a vanilla latte please. Yeah, that sounded about right. I could totally pass for an expert. What kind of milk? Stumped again. I hadn’t had dairy in about 6 months, so I went for the low fat choice: skim. The barista, with bouncing brown ringlets, smiled and got to work. The machines behind her exhaled large, steam nebulas, and, within a matter of minutes, she was handing me a scorching latte. I walked back to the couch and sat down to taste the $4.99 beverage. Better be good.

I wish I could tell you that I stayed true to my anticaffeinated lifestyle after that day, but I can’t. The magical bean made a convert out of me, and all it took was a shot of espresso, steamed milk and vanilla syrup.

The warm liquid happily landed in my empty tummy, and I’d never been happier to start my morning. Naturally, I wanted to explore my options before committing to one venue. I needed to play the field a little before declaring Smith Cafe king of the all-too-powerful bean.

So I did. I ventured into a new and exciting world, eager for the satisfaction my rusty taste buds would surely experience. First stop on my itinerary: Au Bon Pain.

Now, usually I’m a very compulsive person. Tempted to once again order a vanilla latte, I stopped my eager lips and patiently scanned the menu. Cappuccino. Why not? After one sip, my disappointment was inevitable.

The foam-based drink just didn’t sit well with my stomach. It wasn’t until after that visit that I learned of the different types of cappuccinos one can order: wet, dry, chiaro and scuro (each containing custom amounts of espresso, foam and steamed milk). Note to self: read up on the ins and outs of caffeinated beverages before confidently placing an order.

While I have nothing against the ABP workers (who always make me smile on my morning oatmeal runs), I missed the Smith Warehouse barista. Growing up, my parents always believed that the key to their mouthwatering home cooked meals was their blood, sweat and tears. Not literally (because that would not in the slightest way be appetizing), but figuratively. The amount of love you put into something is the amount of love others will get out of it. Sadly, the cappuccino was done a little too quickly to adequately add in that extra oomph. In defense of ABP though, the BC-located chain does deal with far more traffic and clientele than, say, my Bay 6 secret, so I can understand why speed plays a crucial role in serving busy college students.

Anyway, I digress. Moving on to the next stop on my on-the-run (for coffee) tour, I decided to give Bella Union a try. Might as well see what all the hype was about. The worker, presumably accustomed to my measly purchase of gum, was surprised to find my averted eyes gazing up at the beverage menu. I decided to go with a friend’s suggestion. I’ll have a white mocha frappe, please...oh, and can you mix the mocha with vanilla powder? The man happily obliged and got cracking on what would become heaven to my taste buds. I couldn’t remember finishing a drink so fast in my life. That was it. I’d found it: the perfect drink for

my cold, sweet, caffeine craving. It was bliss in a cup, and, coupled with Bella’s signature Antarctica-sized chocolate chip cookie, made for an unforgettable meal (yes, a cookie totally constitutes a meal).

So, there you have it, my tale of 3 venues. Still a novice, I have yet to hit the School of Law’s Cafe de Novo, French Family Science Center’s Dolce Vita and the very popular Joe Van Gogh. Though Bella Union undoubtedly blew my mind, I can never forget my hidden gem at Smith Warehouse. There’s something about that first vanilla latte that will always hold a special place in my heart (and tummy). Now don’t get me wrong, I plan on breaking the habit and becoming a lean, mean, anti-caffeine studying machine again one day...but for now, I shall sip on my cafe Americano, indulge in its sensational warmth, and get through my sleep-deprived all-nighter. Coffee isn’t as bad as I’d always thought it to be. I guess I was just a bit late (or should I say latte) on the uptake. Cheers.

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Indie band TV on the Radio releases new abum Dillon Fernando The Chronicle So few indie rock bands maintain their own original and persisting sound as TV On the Radio. Their latest album Seeds is no different.

TV On the Radio is an indie rock band from the heart of Brooklyn whose booming rhythms and ethereal lyrics are an eclectic mix of electronic synth, reverberating guitar and impressive vocals. Formed in 2001, the band in this new album plays with new techniques such as deeper bass and synth that are softer than their previous while still maintaining a characteristic rough edge.

The opening song “Quartz” is a mash of playful and youthful dissonance. The first seconds of the song are almost disordered.

The listener is ambushed with the clash of the backup vocals and synth. When lead singer Tunde Adebimpe’s voice lingers onto the track, the song shifts to a more concentrated sound that is still laden with simplistic sequence of light bells matching the delicateness of Adebimpe’s voice dispersed through the track. Adebimpe commented that this opening track was one of the best tracks the band has ever recorded, and, to his end, the song succeeds in immersing the listener straight into a line of similarly artistically crafted tracks.

This juxtaposition of sound is a motif that carries through the first half of the album. “Careful You” and “Happy Idiot” rely on the deep underlying beat that connects the various aspects of the songs. These first couple of songs combine quick guitar strums and traditional drum set with more dynamic vocals that shuffle through octaves to add a more nuanced sound to the somewhat telling lyrics very capturing of an individual longing

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for candid love. At times, the combination of all these elements can be inundating, but realizing the careful strategy and artistic construction of each element of the piece makes the tracks a tad more forgivable.

Songs such as “Could You Love” combines a prominent brass sound that is similar to a popular technique in popular music such as in “Shake if Off” by Taylor Swift. However, TV On Radio’s inspiration is not from 1989 but more from the 70s, such as Earth, Wind, and Fire or The Four Seasons. It gives the song a groovy noise that I simply couldn’t help but roll my shoulders to rolls in the Adempipe’s voice.

Listening through the album, the compositions seem more inspired by late 90s rock--a sound familiar to long-time fans from the earlier work--and less reliant on the synth so popular in the first half of the album.

“Lazerray” and “Trouble” showcase a more fragile, yet controlled essence of Adebimpe’s voice. The sky-reaching vocals mesh well with the bumbling and lagging music that pulls the listener between a background music and Adempie’s tenor.

The album finishes with a more intimate styling that poses a highly ethereal sound in the album’s namesake track “Seeds.” The flashy falsetto is reserved only for the back-up and a few recurring verses within the track.

The song is a testament to a reconciliation between TV on the Radio’s soulful nuance and keen ear for simplistic comfort within the melody.

Being a first-time listener to the band, I can honestly say that the music takes getting used to. The sound of the album is can be overwhelming, but it proves a point: that tasteful music is sound of captivating voices and notes as found on this new addition TV on Radio’s collection.

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BATTLE FOR THE VICTORY BELL

Duke will look to bounce back and notch its third win in three years against the Tar Heels Nick Martin Sports Editor For the first time in 25 years, the Victory Bell could spend a third-straight year in Durham.

No. 25 Duke will face North Carolina Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium in the 67th edition of the battle for the Victory Bell. As has been the case the past UNC two years, there will be vs. a lot on the line for No. 25 both squads. The Blue Duke Devils will be looking THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m. to bounce back from ESPN a disappointing home Wallace Wade Stadium loss to Virginia Tech and maintain their spot atop the ACC Coastal Division, and the Tar Heels will be aiming for bowl eligibility.

“It’s the same pressure we had last year, same situation,” redshirt senior quarterback Anthony Boone said. “Really we just have to go out there and handle

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our business. We’ve got to go out and have fun.... We’ve got to enjoy playing for the first time ever on a Thursday night.”

From a historical perspective, Thursday’s game will carry more weight than the obvious postseason implications. Duke (8-2,

4-2 in the ACC) will be going for its first three-peat in the series since the 1987-89 stretch, during which Steve Spurrier was head coach.

And considering the scope of the rivalry and the fact that the past two games have

been decided by a combined five points, this year’s tilt will be televised by ESPN during prime time, marking the first time since a 43-7 victory against Army Sept. 15, 1994, that the Blue Devils will take the field at home on a Thursday night. “[Duke’s] a program that has earned that opportunity,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “[There are] a lot of players that really actually put a lot into it before the guys that are currently on this team. I think the University is excited about it. It’s a good way to give this great institution some great exposure, but another chance for us to play in a primetime national television spot never hurts.”

It will be in the prime-time slot that the Blue Devils will look to prove to a national viewing audience that they are among the best 25 teams in the country.

Just a week removed from an explosive 17-point fourth quarter performance at Syracuse, Duke could not match that total in last Saturday’s loss, amassing just 16 points. Although they remained in the AP top 25, the Blue Devils surrendered their spot in the College Football Playoff rankings, and many pointed toward the See Football on Page 15

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Blue Devils hit the road to take on Lady Monarchs Delaney King Beat Writer After opening the 2014-15 season with a long trip to Alabama Sunday, the Blue Devils will stay closer to home for their second regular-season battle.

No. 7 Duke faces off against Old Dominion Thursday at 7 p.m.

No. 7 at the Ted Constant Duke Convocation Center vs. in Norfolk, Va. Old Thursday marks the Dominion nine-year anniversary of the Blue Devils’ THURSDAY, 7 p.m.

Ted Constant last matchup against Convocation Center the Lady Monarchs at the Convocation Center, where then-No. 1 Duke surged to a 93-56 victory.

Fresh off a 50-point rout of Alabama last Sunday, the Blue Devils are poised to repeat their 2005 success against Old Dominion this time around despite breaking in four new starters early in the season.

“Everybody was really focused [Sunday],” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The team handled a lot of diversity,

showed a lot of maturity and executed across the board.”

The Lady Monarchs (2-0) have some momentum of their own after winning their first two games to maintain a perfect home record that they will look to preserve Thursday. Redshirt sophomore Jennie Simms and redshirt senior Chelisa Painter currently lead Old Dominion, averaging 24.5 points and 15.5 rebounds together through two contests.

Although the Lady Monarchs scored just 41 points in their season opener, they responded by scoring 66 points Monday against William & Mary. Old Dominion knocked down eight of its 15 3-pointers in the contest led by forward Tiffany Minor, who was 4-of-6 from beyond the arc.

With the Blue Devils boasting seven players 6-foot-3 or taller, the Lady Monarchs will likely try to continue doing damage from long range to pull off the upset.

“This team has more shooters,” McCallie said. “Our shot contesting is going to be very important to us.

That’s going to be our focus: great shot contesting, great rebounding and then try to get a little bit more transition on offense.”

In addition to being a sharpshooting team, Old Dominion also boasts plenty of experience. The Lady Monarch starting lineup features four upperclassmen, and just one of three freshmen has seen the floor for longer than a minute in the first two games.

On the other hand, McCallie started two freshmen—Rebecca Greenwell and Sierra Calhoun—in the opener for the first time since assuming the head coach position at Duke (1-0). The freshmen combined for 34 of the team’s 90 points.

All five Blue Devil freshmen are competing with Duke’s veterans for time on the court as McCallie and her staff continue trying to find an effective rotation.

“I feel like we have more than five starters,” McCallie said. “[Sophomore forward] Oderah Chidom is a starter in my head, [freshman forward] Azurá Stevens is a starter…. We’ve got a nucleus that’s very strong, and we just try to focus on who finishes and who finishes the strongest.”

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Duke looks to continue hot streak at Louisville Jack Dolgin Staff Writer After winning the ACC last year, Duke has a chance to post another strong conference finish if it can win its final three games of the season on the road.

The No. 21 Blue Devils—riding a three-game winning streak highlighted by an upset of then-No. 3 and undefeated Florida State—will take on Louisville No. 21 Duke for the first time in vs. two years Friday at 6 p.m. at Cardinal Louisville Arena.

Although Duke FRIDAY, 7 p.m. is currently third in Cardinal Stadium the ACC and the Cardinals have dropped four of their past five contests, the Blue Devils know earning their 13th conference win on the road will be no easy task.

“They have some really good athletes,” head coach Jolene Nagel said of Louisville, which expects a sold-out crowd for Friday’s match. “They’re very well coached. We’re going to have to play in Cardinal arena. We’re going to have our work cut out for us.”

Having concluded its home slate this season, Duke (20-6, 12-3 in the ACC) will face tough road tests at North Carolina and N.C. State next week after its battle with the

Cardinals (15-12, 7-8). The Blue Devils posted an impressive 13-2 home record, but are only 6-4 when playing away from Cameron Indoor Stadium. On the other hand, Louisville is 5-5 both at home and on the road this season.

The Cardinals enter the contest ranked 63rd in the nation in blocks, compared to Duke’s 172nd ranking. However, when it comes to the Cardinals’ statistical advantages, the buck stops there.

The Blue Devils significantly outpace Louisville in aces per set, digs per set, kills per set, assists per set and hitting percentage and are ranked second in the nation in the latter two categories.

Duke hopes it can use its numerous advantages to end the match quickly in a hostile environment. So far this season, the Blue Devils are 11-0 in three-setters and 8-1 in four-setters, compared to just 1-4 in five-set matches.

One of those five-setters came Nov. 2 at Virginia Tech, when Duke lost both the match and junior outside hitter Breanna Atkinson to an ankle injury. She has yet to play since, but Nagel is hopeful the Ashburn, Va., native will be back for Friday’s game.

“She’s been making great progress,” Nagel said. “We’re really hoping she’ll be able to play Friday…. She’ll definitely be back for the start of the tournament.”

Louisville enters the game coming off of a 3-0 blowout loss to Wake Forest, a team Duke swept 3-0 in two matches this year.

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The Blue Devils feature strong individual performers, such as standout sophomore Sasha Kerelov, who is 19th nationally with 5.22 digs per set, Kelsey Williams, who is ninth in assists per set and outside hitter Emily Sklar, who is 38th in kills per set.

However, with only three players in the top 40 in all major statistical categories, the Blue Devils win by playing as a team, as shown by their huge win against Florida State last Thursday.

“This team is right up there,” Nagel said on how this year’s team compares with past Duke squads. “Had we won the five-setters vs.

Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh, we would have been been tied with [North] Carolina and Florida State at the top of the ACC.” Louisville, with both fewer kills and fewer errors than its opponents this season, has relied on air artillery from underclassmen.

Sophomores Janelle Jenkins and Maya McClendon each have a team-high 315 kills, followed by freshman standout Tess Clark, who has 246. On defense, junior transfer from Mississippi State Roxanne McVey leads the team with 406 digs, and Clark leads the squad with 120 blocks.

With the NCAA Championships around the corner, Duke seeks momentum as it faces its three final ACC opponents. Coming off a bitter second-round loss to American last season, the Blue Devils are looking to take care of the games they are expected to win, like Friday’s tilt against the Cardinals.

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continued from page 13 poor showing from the offense as the cause of the upset.

The game against Virginia Tech was Duke’s worst offensive performance of the season since its 22-10 road loss to Miami Sept. 27. Boone was just 18-of40 for 181 yards and two interceptions against the Hokies, and failed to establish any sort of a rhythm with his receivers.

The loss marked the first time since the matchup against the Hurricanes that Duke failed to score through the air and left many questioning the offense’s ability.

“What we didn’t do last week, we left a lot of points and yards on the field where we miscued on some throws,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve got to continue to have the ability to run the ball, but we’ve got to make some plays in the passing game.”

Thursday night should provide the perfect opportunity for the Blue Devil offense to bounce back.

The Tar Heels (5-5, 3-3) enter the game as the fourth-worst team in the nation in both scoring defense and total yards allowed per game and have allowed at least 27 points in all six of their ACC contests this season.

The leader in the offensive charge for the Blue Devils will be Jamison Crower, who has been North Carolina’s Achilles’ heel in the past two contests, catching the game-winning touchdown in 2012 and scoring twice in last year’s 27-25 victory.

Although Crowder has not put up

the same eye-popping numbers that he did in 2013—he finished the year with 108 catches for 1,360 yards and eight touchdowns, which is nearly double the 64 grabs, 767 yards and four scores he has amassed this season—the senior has still proved himself to be an explosive threat.

If history holds true, Crowder should have one final memorable performance to cap his career against the Tar Heels.

But Duke will have to depend on more than just a big performance from Crowder if it hopes to claim the victory Thursday—namely its stingy defense.

The Blue Devils allow just 18.1 points per game, good for 11th in the nation. In its only shootout of the season—a 51-48 double-overtime victory at Pittsburgh— Duke’s defense still managed to come up big, stuffing the Panthers on three consecutive plays in the second overtime period to force a field goal. Against a potent Tar Heel attack that averages 35.9 points per game, the Blue Devils will be looked upon to step up and stifle North Carolina.

“They have a cast around [quarterback] Marquise Williams that is exceptional,” Cutcliffe said.

“Their offensive line is healthier than they’ve been. They’ve had problems there, and they’ve settled that end and settled that down. He’s a great player at quarterback.”

If the Blue Devil defense can bottle up Williams and North Carolina’s offense, then Duke students should hear one thing above the construction come Friday morning: the ring of the Victory Bell.

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Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell scored 17 points in the season opener at Alabama and will lead the Blue Devil offense against Old Dominion Thursday.

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notched a double-double against Alabama.

Three Blue Devils had not achieved this in one game since the trio of Monique Currie, Alison Bales and Chante Black accomplished the same feat in a 2004-05 season that ended with a trip to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament.

“It’s great to be productive scoring and rebounding,” McCallie said. “To see [Greenwell] three steals away from a triple double—that was pretty amazing. When you have players that try to specialize… that’s not good. Real players, great players, play the whole game—all facets.”

Although the game will be played

away from Durham, some players will be travelling much closer to home than others. Seniors Williams and Ka’lia Johnson will both return to their home state for Thursday’s contest. The Ted Constant Convocation Center—just 25 minutes from Williams’ High School—saw a young Williams take the court in 2006 with her AAU team.

Johnson and Williams will have to battle the nerves that come with playing in front of friends and family, but the duo is ready to meet the challenge and lead their younger teammates back to their old stomping ground.

“They’re seniors—they deserve a game home,” McCallie said. “It’s meant to be fun and give a family a chance to see them, and they’ll enjoy it.”

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remember exactly where I was during the deciding moments of the 2000 Presidential election.

I was six years old, suited in pajamas covered in cartoon velociraptors, and sprawled across a hotel bed in Orlando. My family had just finished the long drive down from Sanford, North Carolina, and we were merely hours away from a sunrise and the onset of a Disney vacation. As I poured over park map after park map, I glanced up to see my mom and dad staring at the TV, which was quickly tallying electoral votes. A few for Bush, a few for Gore, a few more for Bush…

“Dad, who do you want to win? Who did you vote for?”

“Both your mom and I voted for George Bush; he’s the Republican candidate.”

be blue. The same symbolic influence is true for animals along party lines, in that it’s easy for a child to identify as republican if they simply love the floppy ears on an elephant. Children are not unintelligent, on the contrary, they are more observant and intuitive than many of us have been in a long time. But it is because of this, that they adopt and embrace the symbols and stories that they are told.

As simple as this construct may seem, it signals the near-instant death of possibilities for bipartisanship or collaboration across party lines. When I was told that my mom and dad were rooting for Bush, I understood what that meant only in terms of being anti-Gore, which in turn, made me anti-Democrat. Now, I can say with 100% certainty that I have successfully

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“Those are the elephants, right? The red ones?”

The process that began in my head at that moment was instantaneous: my dad wanted George Bush to win, so he must be the good guy. If George Bush was the good guy, that must make Al Gore the bad guy. Bad guys always have to lose, so if Al Gore loses, then the good guy gets to win! I labeled myself as a Republican at that exact moment.

The power of storytelling is no secret. No matter which culture or history you align with, there’s a high probability that you learned your morals and beliefs at a young age thanks to the weaving of a storyline. It isn’t until we leave childhood behind that we realize that stories carry more than good vs. bad, and that not every story is as straightforward as righteousness conquering evil. But to a young child, these dyads are all that exist, both in the fantasy world and in reality. So, far too often, when we explain American politics to young minds, we explain it in terms of our own political beliefs, and in terms of the dyads that we know so well. Instead of “candidate A believes this and candidate B believes that,” children hear “candidate A is good, and candidate B is bad.”

The concept of a fairytale understanding of politics early in life is rooted not only in good vs bad, but also in terms of the symbols that we use. Convincing a first grader to tell all of his friends that he is a democrat is almost as easy as convincing him that his favorite color should

completed a 180 degree political reversal.

Over the past four years, I’ve moved away from home and been exposed to multicultural communities, the idea of institutionalized inequalities and the concept of a human rights paradigm. But for those that never encountered these ideologies, the fairytale continues.

Now, I want to be clear by saying that the fairytale understanding of politics is not something that is constructed along party lines. This story could just as easily have been flipped in terms of what is democrat and what is republican. However, it seems that understanding that politics should not be understood only in terms of winners and losers is as difficult to explain to a college student as it is to explain to a six year old. I’m not asking that everyone move toward the middle of the political spectrum. I’m asking that we look inward to consider whether we vote according to our personal beliefs or according to good guys and bad guys. I’m asking that we be mindful of the stories that we tell future voters. Rather than explaining issues in terms of good vs bad, let’s explain in terms of complexities and openended questions. Let’s trust the young minds around us enough to allow them to tell their own stories.

Because a world in which everyone is fed their opinion from birth is no fairytale.

Zach Fowler is a Trinity junior.

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A case for the Bull City

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uke isn’t known for its town-gown relations.

In fact, when I was applying to college, Duke’s location was one of the sticking points when I was deciding whether to come here. But the more time I spend here, the more I’m realizing—Durham’s kind of awesome. Why, then, are we as Duke students so adamantly reluctant to venture off our sheltered campus? I hear lot’s of excuses, but I’m not convinced any of them are valid.

“Why would I leave campus? I have everything I need right here.”

It’s true that, on a campus with our own restaurants, post office, hospital and even a movie theater, going into Durham might seem redundant. In fact, it would be quite possible to spend four years at Duke without ever having to spend much—if any—time off campus.

Doing so would, however, be a huge mistake.

It’s true that most of our basic needs can be met on campus. But using that as an excuse to detach from the larger community is not only a personal disservice—it fails to recognize the wealth of resources and experiences just beyond the campus walls—but also a failure to be a good citizen and neighbor.

Katie Becker OR NAH “I do spend time in Durham. I go to Shooters twice a week!”

First of all, that’s a lot of Shooters.

Second, let’s get something straight—going to Shooters is not seeing Durham. Getting dinner on Ninth Street is not engaging with the city.

Even shopping at Brightleaf or Southpoint isn’t really getting to know Durham. Sure, these places may not be physically part of Duke’s campus, but they’re still very much part of the so-called “Duke bubble.” Populated and supported largely by Duke students, these venues show a very limited picture of what it means to live in Durham.

If you really want to get to know the Bull City, don’t restrict yourself to places where you feel comfortable, where the people look like you or where you will find other Duke students.

Volunteer at a local school. Get involved with one of the many organizations serving the community. Check out the international cuisine in the communities of North Durham. Ride the Bull City Connector into East Durham and learn about the rich history of the Hayti district.

Learn about the social and economic problems facing the city, as well as its culture of activism in combatting these problems.

“I’m from New York/Los Angeles/some other major metropolis. In comparison, Durham is boring.”

Okay, so Durham may not have skyscrapers or celebrities, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a city full of history and culture. Did you know that Bennet Place, just 10 minutes from campus, was the site where Generals Sherman and Johnston negotiated the largest troop surrender of the Civil War? Did you know some of the earliest sitins in the Civil Rights Movement happened in downtown Durham, three years before the sitins in Greensboro garnered national attention?

Did you know that the Hayti district was the first entirely self-sufficient all African-American

district in the country, and that North Carolina Central was the first state-funded AfricanAmerican liberal arts college?

Maybe you did know. But a lot of Duke students don’t, and that’s a shame. Yes, Duke should do a better job of educating us about Durham, but we would also do well to take the initiative to really get to know our neighbors and the history of the city we live in.

“I’m already so busy with school and extracurriculars. How in the world do I have time to get to know Durham?”

Many students choose not to engage with Durham out of fear that doing so will somehow interfere with their educational goals. Let Durham be your classroom. You don’t need to go to Africa or Latin America on a fancy, exclusive service program to learn about the dynamics of poverty and inequality—they’re right in our backyard. And we must recognize the role we play in perpetuating them to realize the role we must embrace to alleviate them. Living in our artificial Duke bubble doesn’t absolve us of our role in the community. It’s simply willful ignorance.

Among my peers, I have found that ones who are somehow engaged with the community

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’m a sucker for romantic comedies. The rom-com is my go-to genre on Netflix and, for me, a solid rom-com beats a night at Shooter’s any day. On my list of guilty pleasures, watching rom-coms places in the top five, somewhere between indulging in Panda Express more than once a week and spending a shameful amount of time book bagging the second courses are released.

Yet, much to my dismay, many people are oddly averse to rom-coms. There are those who prefer action movies filled with an excessive number of explosions.

How could we forget the unbelievable fight scenes that make you really question the firearm training, or the lack thereof, the villains received. In some dark corner of the movie preference spectrum, there are also the somewhat strange individuals who are absolutely enthralled by horror movies—once thought-tobe-dead girls crawling out of wells in rural towns, some psychopath killer with a chainsaw and random hitchhikers who the main characters always naively decide to pick up. But coming from a guy who is scared of riding roller coasters, I guess I’m in no position to judge. To each his or her own, right? On the other extreme of movie—watchers are those like me—the romantics. (I hope you read that in the intended luring, Spanish accent. If not, go back and reread).

Now, let’s clearly define the word “romantic” before we continue. According to dictionary.com, there are several definitions of the word “romantic.” Here is one of them— Romantic [roh-man-tik], noun – a romantic person.

Bravo, dictionary.com. Bravo. Let me try again.

Romantic [roh-man-tik], adjective- imbued with or dominated by idealism, a desire for adventure, chivalry, etc.

Given the latter definition, I’d like to think that I strive to be romantic. I wouldn’t say I’m the whole Ryan Gosling in “Crazy, Stupid, Love” style of romantic

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edit pages beyond Duke are able to find the most meaning in the classroom. In fact, I’m hard-pressed to think of any major or vocational goal where spending time in the community—in the real world—isn’t beneficial. My friends who serve in the community are the ones who have the sense of purpose that so many of us lose sight of in at Duke. Those who make an effort to truly know and love Durham have the sense of perspective and the energy to do well here.

“But Durham is so sketchy.”

We need to think very carefully about what we’re saying here. I hear words like “ghetto” and “ratchet” thrown around all the time when people talk about Durham, without any regard for the implications of using this language to other-ize segments of the city we all share. It’s undeniable that words like “Durhamite” or “sketchy” are implicitly racialized—and often used in ways that are explicitly racist.

Indeed, from the moment I set foot on campus, it felt like I was bombarded with warnings to stay away from Durham for fear of violence and crime. Yes, Durham does face these problems. Most cities do. But these are community problems—our problems—and scaring students into seclusion helps no one.

Framing these as problems only relevant to some citizens of the city neglects the collective responsibility we all share.

So, what do we do?

We can all—myself included—make better, more sincere efforts to get to know this city that we have adopted, at least temporarily, as our home. None of us is here by force. We are part of this community. So let’s stop complaining about the “Duke bubble.” I’m sure that, if we try, we’ll find it’s not that hard to pop.

Katie Becker is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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where I reenact that lift move from “Dirty Dancing” to woo girls. Please, like I have the upper body strength to do that with anyone. Rather, I feel like I would be more of the awkward, daydream-y type of character who would probably be played by a younger version of Steve Carell or maybe even the beloved Michael Cera. If I were female, I’d hopefully be played by Amy Poehler or Mindy Kaling.

All the rom-com critics ridicule the unrealistic plots. For those of you who have been deprived of the wonders that are romantic comedies, here’s how the usual storyline plays out—boy meets girl or they’ve been friends forever, boy and/or girl has issues X,Y or Z with the relationship, boy and girl break up for a bit, realize they are happiest when together and the two live happily ever after.

Throw in some good ol’ top 100 chart songs (sometimes the acoustic versions) of the movie’s release year that may or may not be relevant to the movie, an unforgettable best friend character who never fails to crack you up and voila!

You now have about an hour and half of high quality entertainment.

As much as these unrealistic and exaggerated parts are criticized, they are exactly why I love rom-coms. I’ll be the first one to admit that they are absolutely ridiculous. The cheesy lines, the outstanding success rate of the love-at-firstsight relationships and even just how insanely attractive all the characters are.

Frankly, they are unbelievably idealistic. But when did being idealistic become a bad thing?

Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit jaded. Perhaps it is the truly infamous sophomore slump hitting me close to halfway through the year or the stress of midterms and the upcoming finals season, but I’ve had the yearning for some romance to fill my life. I don’t mean some prolific love-life type of romance, but rather an idealism and desire for adventure. Something to inspire me to jump out of bed, see the best in everything and live my life as if it were a rom-com (hopefully minus the heartbreak and whatnot, of course).

So if you feel the same way or just have an hour and a half to kill, maybe it’s time to go watch “Love Actually” or “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” because, objectively speaking, rom-coms are the best. A few tears will be shed (or maybe that’s just me), many laughs will be laughed and you’ll come out feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Don’t feel guilty if you do because I think everyone needs some romance here and there.

I suppose it is only appropriate that I end this column similar to how a romcom would end. So work with me here and imagine “Time of My Life” faintly playing in the background as I type the final words to this article. I slightly smirk, amused at how meta this entire ending is and the scene slowly fades into the never-ending credits as the song crescendos. (Don’t worry, it’s not a Marvel movie so there are no extra scenes afterwards.)

Don’t be afraid to be romantic, Duke. Here’s to comedy, here’s to romance.

Brandon Choi is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Where in the world is DKU?

The grand opening of Duke Kunshan University this week marked the official culmination of the five years that have been spent on planning, preparation and debate Read The Chronfor the school.

With students icle’s coverage of DKU online at www. now settled camdukechronicle.com. into pus—though construction is ongoing on the majority of buildings—student life is more than halfway done with its first semester, offering several master’s degree programs along with an undergraduate semester program. But with the school in the spotlight for its grand opening,

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some students stateside have been prompted to ask: Where in the world is Kunshan?

The city, with a population of more than 1.6 million, is in the southeastern part of the Jiangsu province—roughly halfway down China’s east coast. But Shanghai is just outside the province and can be accessed from downtown Kunshan via a 20-minute train ride.

The DKU campus, however, is located outside of the heart of the city—about 20 minutes northwest of the Kunshan South Railway Station. Shanghai remains a popular weekend destination for DKU students, however, due to the variety of activities and culture that cannot be readily accessed in Kunshan.

The campus is also approximately 20 minutes away from Tinglin Park, a memorial and nature preserve that is one of Kunshan’s most popular tourist destinations.

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FUQUA

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“Students, alumni and faculty are always there to support you—to prepare you for an interview, to build a community or to learn something,” Valenzuela wrote.

Fuqua has always placed a lot of emphasis on skills such as collaboration and innovation in the office, Boulding said. He added, however, that the ranking shift does not signify a change in the program.

“I think that what’s changed is that the world has shifted a little bit,” Boulding said. “They’ve discovered that students who do have the ability to lead effectively in teams and drive innovation within companies bring a real sense of purpose and make a difference for their companies.

We’ve kind of stayed the same and the world has shifted in our direction.”

With this year’s BusinessWeek ranking, Fuqua administrators hope to see an increase in the applicant pool.

“I hope that the number one ranking generates extra publicity and people go ‘Wow, I’d like to be a part of that kind of school,’” Boulding said.

He noted, however, that he doesn’t want to take anything for granted.

“I don’t think we can afford to have an ounce of complacency that goes along with this ranking,” Boulding said, adding that Fuqua administrators and professors will continue to work to keep Fuqua on top in the coming years.

Valenzuela wrote that Fuqua professors are constantly expanding the boundaries of their fields and pushing students to give their “110 percent.”

“I’m really happy for all the people in our community who worked so hard over an extended period of time to draw this result,” Boulding said. “That’s the part that feels best. There is some external validation for a lot of really hard and excellent work that has been put in by all members of our community,” Boulding said. “Fuqua was chartered in 1969, so in some sense, this is a 45-year old project in the making, and it’s really fun to see this outcome.”

‘Appropriate, or appropriation?’

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle The Forum for Scholars and Publics hosted a fashion show and panel on the representation of Native American cultural symbols at East Duke Wednesday evening.