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Done with phase one: Bryan Center construction kicks off Renovations to the Bryan Center entrance, Page and West Union will continue through Spring 2015 and beyond Emma Baccellieri News Editor

Work on the Bryan Center’s newest upgrade began in earnest over winter break. Crews spent the last several weeks doing demolition work—tearing down the first set of double doors in the building’s main entrance. To keep disruptions to a minimum, work will pause until spring break. “It helps with traffic flow immediately, because people only have to go through one set of doors,” said Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects. Plans had originally called for the work to begin during spring break, which would have required the closure of the main entrance for the rest of the spring semester. By spacing the work out over breaks, the University should be able to avoid closing the entrance during the semester, Burdick said. After picking back up for spring break, crews will again pause and will likely resume the work following commencement in May, though there is a chance that the renovations might begin slightly earlier in April, Burdick said. The work should be completed in time for the start of the 2015-16 academic year. The entrance is being renovated to improve the environment inside and around the Bryan Center and will include a new glass facade that will allow for increased natural light. The design was inspired by campus structures such as Penn Pavilion and Von der Heyden Pavilion. Work continues on a number of other campus construction projects—some of which are not far from completion. The water reclamation pond, at the corner of Towerview Drive and Erwin Road, will open later this Spring, Burdick said. The pond itself has been completed, and water is being pumped from the pond to a chilled water plant to help bring the University’s net water usage for heating and cooling closer to zero. Work on a bridge, pier and pumphouse have also been completed. See Renovations on Page 4

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level of intensity in a conference game on the road is something that they have not experienced,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There’s a sense of urgency with every ACC game that you can’t manufacture—you have to experience it.” As the momentum shifted back-and-forth throughout the second half, Duke finally seized control when sophomore guard Matt Jones stroked a 3-pointer with 2:26 remaining to give the Blue Devils a 64-59 lead. Freshman Tyus Jones sliced through the lane and finished off the glass less than a minute later, padding Duke’s lead and sending Krzyzewski leaping off the bench. The eight-point victory marked the first time the Blue Devils (14-0, 2-0 in the ACC) had defeated an opponent by single digits this season. Following the 997th win of his coaching career, Krzyzewski was unsurprised See M. Basketball on Page 8

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‘One of the greatest advances of modern medicine’ am so very grateful for the spectacular education I received at Duke, which enabled me to do something special later in life, and for the partnership of my many magnificent colleagues at Duke and Grace Wang elsewhere who made our shared achieveHealth & Science Editor ments possible. I am Three decades after he began re- lucky and grateful.” search to help the deaf hear, Duke proThe cochlear imfessor Blake Wilson has been awarded plant technique, acthe nation’s top prize for bioengineer- cording to the Nationing. al Institute of Health, Wilson is the winner of the 2015 Fritz has been performed Blake Wilson J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize for his on 320,000 people worldwide. The imwork with cochlear implants, the Na- plant uses electrical signals to help the tional Academy of Enbrain interpret sounds and stimulate audigineering announced ringing a person tory nerves, enabling Wednesday. from total or nearly people who are deaf or Wilson—adjunct suffering from hearing professor in biomedi- complete deafness to loss to hear. cal engineering, elec“Blake’s receipt of trical and computer en- highly useful hearing is a gineering and surgery, stunning achievement that the Russ Prize is yet anas well as co-director many thought would be other example of the of the Duke Hearing significant impact of Center—received the impossible. his achievements in imprize in conjunction the quality of — Tom Katsouleas proving with four others who life for individuals all helped to pioneer cochlear implants. around the world, and importantly, demThe Russ Prize was established in 1999, onstrates the enormous power achieved and is considered the top honor in the when the worlds of engineering and medfield of bioengineering with a $500,000 icine intersect,” Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean award to its recipients. of the Duke School of Medicine, said in “I am thrilled to receive with my es- a release. Wilson’s personal contributions to teemed colleagues this singular honor,” said Wilson in a release. “We all stood developing cochlear implant began on the broad shoulders of great scien- in the 1980s when he created a model tists, engineers and physicians who pre- that made implant patients understand ceded us in our work, and we all were words with greater clarity. His work is helped mightily by our coworkers. I essential to the wide success of today’s

Professor Blake Wilson awarded national prize for cochlear implant research

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Chronicle File Photo Blake Wilson serves as the co-director of the Duke Hearing Center, which is housed within Duke Hospital, pictured above, and is home to research and development of treatments for hearing loss.

cochlear implant surgeries, and made it possible for implant recipients to communicate with others in a quiet environment. “Blake Wilson has made seminal contributions to developing one of the greatest advances of modern medicine,” Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, said in a news release. “Bringing a person from total or nearly complete deafness to highly useful hearing is a stunning achieve-

ment that many thought would be impossible. The work of Blake and his collaborators is a shining example of the power of engineering to address some of humanity’s grandest challenges, and we are exceptionally proud to count him as an alumnus and colleague.” Wilson will be a featured speaker at the Duke Engineering 75th Anniversary Lecture in March. His talk will give an overview on the development of the modern cochlear implant.

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Paris on terrorism alert after 12 killed in magazine attack Helene Fouquet Bloomberg News PARIS — France was put on the highest terrorist alert after the country’s deadliest attack since World War II killed at least 12 people in shootings at the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in eastern Paris. Two people dressed in black and carrying firearms, including AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, entered the offices of the magazine on rue Nicolas Appert, shooting at random. At least one shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic. The magazine’s most renowned cartoonists — Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Wolinski — were among the dead, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Eight people were injured. Four of them are in critical condition. “France is in a state of shock after this terrorist attack,” French President Francois Hollande told reporters. “An act of exceptional barbarity has been perpetrated against a newspaper, against liberty of expression, against journalists.” The three assailants, including a driver, fled from Charlie Hebdo in a Citroen C3, headed toward Porte de Pantin on the northern edge of Paris, where police lost track of them, according to Emmanuel Quemener from the police union Alliance. Hollande said all potential terrorist targets across France have been put under the highest protection, adding that several possible incidents had been foiled in recent weeks. He will address the nation Wednesday night. Rallies to show support for Charlie Hebdo were planned in cities across France. France’s last major terrorist violence came in 1995, when bombings struck public places between July and October, including the Saint Michel metro station in the heart of Paris. Bombs also exploded in the Place de l’Etoile. In all, eight were killed and about 200 were injured. The bombings were blamed on an Algerian rebel group. “We can’t accept this madness,” said Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Mosque of Paris. “We want to live in peace.” Most of Wednesday’s victims were part of the magazine’s newsroom, said Matthieu Lamarre, a spokesman for the Paris mayor’s office. One of the dead is a police officer, he said. Charlie Hebdo’s cover this week is on “Submission,” a book by Michel Houellebecq released Wednesday, which is sparking controversy with its depiction of a fictional France of the future led by an Islamic party and a Muslim president who bans women from the workplace. Also Wednesday, the magazine on its Twitter account posted a cartoon depicting Islamic State Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Charlie Hebdo’s offices were firebombed in November 2011 after it published a special edition featuring the

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Journalists, police officers and ambulances observe the scene at the office of Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of the attack.

Prophet Muhammad as a “guest editor.” The fire caused no injuries. Charlie Hebdo is located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, a former working-class neighborhood that is becoming increasingly fashionable. The glass-and-concrete fourstory modern building is on a quiet street off leafy, broad Richard Lenoir boulevard, leading to the Bastille square. The newspaper is owned by Les Editions Rotatives, a holding controlled by some of its reporters, and managers. In his sixth novel, Houellebecq plays on fears that western societies are being inundated by the influence of Islam, a worry that this month drew thousands in anti-Islamist protests in Germany. In the novel, Houellebecq has the imaginary “Muslim Fraternity” party winning a presidential election in France against the nationalist, anti-immigration National Front. Houellebecq’s book is set in France in 2022. It has the fictional Muslim Fraternity’s chief, Mohammed Ben Abbes, beating National Front Leader Marine Le Pen, with Socialists, centrists, and Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party rallying behind him to block the National Front. Ben Abbes goes on to ban women in the workplace, advocates polygamy, pushes Islamic schools on the masses and imposes a conservative and religious vision of society. The French widely accept the new environment, hence the book’s title.

France is home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, with more than 5 million people of the faith out of a population of about 65 million, a number that’s been growing with children and grandchildren of 20th-century immigrants. Very few Muslims have reached top-level jobs in France, and second-and- third- generation French people of Arab descent say they often face discrimination. The fear of Islamization has traction in France with opinion polls showing the anti-immigration Le Pen would lead in the first round of the 2017 presidential race. The party topped the Socialist party and UMP in last year’s European elections. It may score well again in this year’s local ballots. The attack comes against the backdrop of French military actions in Africa and the Middle East to combat Islamic groups. The French army currently has two overseas operations, with about 3,800 troops. Its forces began fighting in the Sahel region of Africa — spanning Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Fasso and Niger — in 2013. France also joined the United States in fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. About 800 soldiers are stationed in the Middle East for the operation and France is bombing the group in Iraq. — With assistance from Angeline Benoit, Marie Mawad, Gregory Viscusi and Fabio Benedetti-Valentini in Paris.

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be completed by the end of the semester. The 80-year-old auditorium has been closed this year for a “facelift,” in Burdick’s continued from page 1 words—new seating, increased accessibility for those with disabilities, new lighting The largest remaining aspect of the and new carpetproject is the plant life that will surround ing. the pond. The plants must be well-estabPage will hold lished before the pond can open to visiworship services tors, Burdick noted. when the Chapel Read more about closes for reno“It’s going to be beautiful, but it’s gorenovations at Duke vations in May, ing to take a little bit for the plants to take root,” she said. online at www.duke- Burdick noted. Once the plants have taken root, the The renovachronicle.com. pond will be ready to open—likely by May, tions to West Burdick said. Union continue as well, on track to be The pond was originally scheduled to completed by Spring 2016. A new foundabe completed by Spring 2014, but poor tion has been poured, and work will begin weather caused delays. on the steel structure of the framework in Work on Page Auditorium will also February. Emma Loewe | Chronicle File Photo

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I have recently begun to feel like any attempt to provide an academic explanation of the world evades the real question, the unanswerable question: why? January always makes me uneasy. Perhaps it’s because the season compels me to re-orient myself temporally: I am now in 2015. The year of millennium development goals. The future in Back to the Future. Only one year shy of graduation. Perhaps I am uneasy because at this time of year we commit to the change the occasion celebrates, acknowledging that nothing is constant but rather always in a state of flux. I have been thinking a lot about who I want to become in 2015 and how I want to enact that becoming, but I keep struggling with crafting the right resolutions. Of course, I would like to be on Facebook less, to regularly read The New York Times cover to cover and to pretend I’m the kind of person who could happily run five miles on a daily basis, but all of these ideas of a possible-me seem to fall short of a real, concrete commitment to change. They seem more about developing habits than about developing myself. The difficult thing about change is that it doesn’t happen ceremoniously. The clock striking midnight, a diploma placed in our hand or the switching of our relationship status on Facebook doesn’t automatically change who we are. At best, these occasions force us to acknowledge that change happened, is happening and will continue to happen, but change as a process often requires more risk than ritual.

This past year was a difficult year. The murders of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice and countless others galvanized international unrest and protests. Women came forward with stories of sexual violence inflicted on them by loved ones, peers and celebrities. Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria, Israeli aggression killed nearly 2,000 Palestinians and left over 200,00 more homeless and ISIS became headline news with the beheading of journalists, Christians and other detractors. It felt as if the violence and the pain that lurked right under the surface of our world began to bubble up and reveal itself this past year. Rather than confront this pain headon, I decorated my Facebook timeline with think pieces, critical theory and sharply worded statuses. I wielded my liberal arts education and explained away the world in my finest vocabulary, but, at a certain point, I just couldn’t explain any more. I was seeking refuge in answers, rather than in questions. I was exhausted, angered and full of grief. To attempt words felt like stabbing at air rather than at the heart of the matter. In the face of what feels like a continual string of public tragedies, I have recently begun to feel like any attempt to provide an academic explanation of the world evades the real question, the unanswerable question: why? Why does the functioning of the world as we know it necessitate so much suffering? Certainly, detailing how power operates allows us to demystify the state of the world, but acknowledgement alone does not suffice. It is a first step, but one that all too often

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Community-sponsored Intrepid Life begins again Emily Feng Recess Editor The cafe and bar run by former Marine Matt Victoriano faced dire straits last year, when Victoriano announced that high rent costs and a slump in business were forcing him to close his business. In response, loyal customers helped Victoriano mount a wildly successful Indiegogo campaign, raising enough funds to cover the cafe’s immediate costs and forestalling its closure. After a brief hiatus, Intrepid Life reopened December 9 at 904 Broad Street in Durham. Victoriano, who Recess spoke to early last fall, is an earnest man of few words. That earnestness has already been tested several times; Intrepid Life was originally conceived as a brewing company (its PayPal account still reads, “Intrepid Life Brewing LLC”), but when funding fell short, Victoriano transformed the venture into the Parrish Street cafe. Now, in its latest reincarnation, Intrepid Life will no longer be a cafe, but instead a co-working space where members will decide what they pay for products. While Intrepid Life does not have the continuous, airy space it had at its original location on Parrish Street (its new location on Broad Street is zoned as office space) it now has more of a residential feel to it. “It’s not as open, but it is more comfortable and laid back,” Victoriano noted of the space. The new space has several living room areas, couches, a TV and a kitchen where members will be able to bring their own ingredients and make food. Members will be able to enjoy color printing and wifi. Victoriano will also be operating the coffee and wine bar during regular hours. The most novel aspect of the new Intrepid Life is its pay-what-you-want business model, where customers decide

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what to fork over for everything they consume - even if they decide not to pay anything at all. “It’s based on the honor system,” Victoriano said. According to him, the model has been well received so far. Those who wish to use the space will first have to register through Intrepid’s website and pay a monthly fee of six dollars to become a member. Once registered, members will have 24/7 access to the co-working space and all its services. “It’s a different concept,” Victoriano explained. “It’s not a retail establishment anymore.” Victoriano believes that Intrepid Life’s new model is more in line with how he had first imagined the nonprofit to be. “The reason I started the original space was bettering community development, bringing everyone together to learn from one another and make positive change in the community.” Managing a retail establishment, with its myriad of complications and responsibilities, made fulfilling that goal difficult. Victoriano has high hopes that a co-working space will be accessible to Duke and Durham residents and become a social space where people can begin and work on projects together. In the future, Victoriano hopes to begin fitness and storytelling programs through Intrepid’s new location to further its environment of community collaboration. The inspiration for Intrepid’s new model came from an NPR radio piece Victoriano heard that described a pizza shop in Cincinnati which grew its own ingredients and let customers pay what they want for pizza. The DIY flair and the community-oriented aspect of the NPR story appealed to Victoriano. “Based on my experience with the community that came into Intrepid, that gave me inspiration to try it here [in Durham] and be successful,” he said.

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Nicki Minaj blends rap with pop on The Pinkprint Drew Haskins Local Arts Editor

There is a prevailing and unnecessary dichotomy surrounding Nicki Minaj that has divided fans and critics into two factions: those who consider her a rapper extraordinaire and those who consider her a dance-floor diva. Many believe Minaj should stick to the hardened cuts of her mixtape days and guest features, while others applaud her penchant for poppy Top 40 fare. To me, this is reductive and altogether misses the point of what makes her so unique as an artist. Minaj is a ferociously talented rapper with the skills to market herself to the mainstream. While some of her output has tended towards the faceless and generic, The Pinkprint (mostly) rectifies this issue with a series of musically excellent tracks amplified by Minaj at her most confessional. The Pinkprint at its best brings together rap and pop in innovative and catchy ways, defying the characterization of Minaj as belonging to either one or the other musical styles. However, the poppiest of her forays tend to lean towards anonymity. Previous pop-categorized smashes like “Starships” molded Minaj’s lunacy and charisma into a package palatable for rap connoisseurs and teenagers alike, but The Pinkprint’s pop-centric tracks fall short of her previous standards. The raunchy “Get On Your Knees,” with a saccharine hook provided by Ariana Grande, suffers from a sluggish beat and a sound mix that flattens Minaj’s voice into a monotone that deprives this so-called sex jam of desperately needed energy and vitality. The harrowing “Bed of Lies” squanders cuttingly introspective verses about Minaj’s recent breakup with longtime boyfriend Safaree Samuels, as Skyler Grey’s awful chorus derails the mood with silly lyrics like “Do you ever think of me when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.” The rap-centric tracks are more successful, yet the production on these songs feels less imaginative than that seen in some of her previous work. “Only,” a song Minaj has highlighted as a specific callback to her mixtape roots, wastes technically flawless yet lyrically noxious verses from Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown on a spare production that sounds like a single doorbell ringing. Bafflingly, the song credits five producers for this. The Biggie-esque “Four Door Aventador” is more intriguing, with a slinky beat combined with a more stilted flow than usual from Minaj, more similar to spoken word than traditional rapping. “Truffle Butter”—another collaboration with Drake, who this album cements as an ideal musical partner for Minaj—blends warped house music with rapid-fire lyrics about opulence to create the album’s best pure party jam. The Pinkprint’s best tracks mix Minaj’s rap and pop instincts to greater effect than ever before. “Feeling Myself” is a worthy contender for Minaj’s best song, on par with previous highlights like “Come On A Cone,” “Beez in the Trap” and “Super Bass.” She and a sassy Beyoncé trade verses over a beat that sounds like a chorus of crescendoing slide whistles, and the lyrics are absolutely hilarious. The ubiquitous “Anaconda”—a seeming novelty song—sounds much more at home within the context of the album, where it functions as a redemptive respite from the largely oppressive sadness of the tracks. The “Baby Got Back” sample is genius and repurposes the objectification of the original into something more empowering. Minaj is a singular talent with a preternatural knack for hooks and lyrical tricks. Ultimately, The Pinkprint’s refusal to lean into exclusively pop or exclusively rap is telling of what makes her so appealing. The three top-charting songs from the album— “Anaconda,” “Only” and the pop ballad “Pills N Potions”— encompass the range of Minaj’s talents and show that her core audience is receptive to all modes of Minaj. The Pinkprint is not perfect, but it is as self-defining an artistic state as she has made at this stage in her career. Nicki Minaj has chosen to please everyone, and she has largely succeeded.

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Duke looks to keep ACC slate clean against Orange The Blue Devils will go for their third-straight victory Wednesday against Syracuse Sameer Pandhare Beat Writer After enduring a 31-point blowout and the transfer of one of the team’s brightest young players, the Blue Devils are looking to restore a sense of stability after an up-and-down nonconference season. No. 13 Duke will have another opportunity to build momentum as conference play continues Thursday No. 21 Syracuse against No. 21 Syracuse at 6:30 vs. p.m. at Cameron No. 13 Indoor Stadium. Duke Following a comeTHURSDAY, 6:30 p.m. from-behind victory Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday against Wake Forest, the Blue Devils are looking to sustain a complete effort in order to stay unbeaten in ACC play. “Just trying to get a bit smarter and we need to get better rebounding and shut down dribble penetration a little more,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The attacking we need to do at high post and low block is really

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that the Demon Deacons had taken his second-ranked squad down to the wire. “We have no allusion of us being this juggernaut team,” he said. “We think we’re a really good group of guys that have played well.” Freshman Justise Winslow led the way for the Blue Devils with a career-high 20 points on 7-of-17 shooting. Winslow hit key shot after key shot for Duke in the second half, expanding his team’s lead to five with a three-point play with 8:21 remaining. The Houston native also hit back-toback 3-pointers after Wake Forest (8-8, 0-3) had started the second half on a 7-2 run to tie the contest at 34. “At times when your team needs to be lifted up, someone has to step up, and today I did a little bit of that, along with others,” Winslow said. “I think games like this are good for you, especially when you’re able to come out with a W, but there’s a lot we can learn from our

sports Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Senior Elizabeth Williams enters Thursday’s contest with No. 21 Syracuse averaging 3.5 blocks per game.

important.” For Duke, Thursday’s contest marks its sixth against a ranked opponent with the team sporting only a 1-4 record in its first five matchups with top-25 competition. The tough early schedule was both a blessing and a curse for the young squad. Although the team was able to identify its strengths and weaknesses against top opponents,

piling up losses—most by slim margins— may not have been the best thing for the team’s morale. “We have a lot of balance and a lot of people that can score, but the key is how we play in sync,” McCallie said. “We need to play with a high-intelligence and play in sync together.” The key to victory for the Blue Devils will be to use their size and length to

mistakes and try to get better.” The Demon Deacons opened the game on a 6-0 run, holding the lead for 3:54. Prior to Wednesday’s contest, the Blue Devils had trailed for just 6:13 in their first 13 wins combined. A team headlined by freshmen, who were playing their first-ever ACC road game, Duke responded with a 12-2 run to soften Wake Forest’s opening blow. “A young team usually would fold and give in to that momentum, and guys made big plays,” senior guard Quinn Cook said. “In the ACC, everybody gives you their best shot every night.” Wake Forest preyed on Duke’s defensive interior, scoring 22 of its 27 first-half points inside the paint. Junior forward Devin Thomas led the way for the Demon Deacons with a gamehigh 24 points, most of which came at the expense of freshman center Jahlil Okafor. “He got the best of me tonight,” said Okafor of Thomas. “He played with a lot of energy.” Fresh off a career-high 28 points in his first ACC game against Boston College, Okafor was bottled up for most

of the game by an aggressive Demon Deacon defense. The freshman from Chicago was held without a field goal for the game’s first 15:18 but made key buckets inside down the stretch to finish with 12 points and 11 rebounds. After coasting through nonconference play with relative ease, Wednesday’s contest was one of the first times of the season that the inexperience of Duke’s young players showed. The Blue Devils committed 14 turnovers and allowed 20 fast break points, but every time the raucous Wake Forest crowd had Duke’s back against the wall a new player hit a big shot. With their unblemished record still in tact, the Blue Devils will face another in-state road battle when the team takes on N.C. State Sunday at 1 p.m. Fresh off the young team’s first significant growing pains of the season, Duke appears to be embracing the opportunity to struggle along with the opportunity to grow. “The only way you figure it out is to go through competition,” Krzyzewski said.

clog the paint and force the Orange into tough outside shots. Led by AllAmerican center Elizabeth Williams, Duke has made life tough for its opponents down low—especially given Williams’ penchant for blocking shots, as she averages a team-best 3.5 blocks per contest. The Blue Devils will certainly like their chances to pull out a victory if they make Syracuse a jump-shooting team. On the year, the Orange have shot an abysmal 28.7 percent from beyond the arc and their poor outside shooting has been a deciding factor in its nonconference losses. “It’s a team defensive game, “ McCallie said. “It’s not about matchups—it’s more about cutting down passing angles and taking away the paint.” On offense, Duke will need to find a way to limit its turnovers—a problem which has haunted the squad all season long. The Orange rank seventh in the nation in turnover margin—averaging almost eight less turnovers per game than their opponents—and have feasted on points in transition off of these miscues. A solid, turnover-free performance from Duke senior point guard Ka’lia Johnson will be critical to preventing the Orange from scoring easy, uncontested buckets. “The player you saw against Wake is See W. Basketball on Page 9

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Editorial by laborious recruitment schedules for Selective Living Groups, PanHellenic sororities and Interfraternity Council fraternities. Today, we examine the recruitment process and ways to reframe engagement. We have previously discussed that, in an ideal Duke world, greek life would not exist because of the campus stratification it institutionalizes and the conformity it encourages. The reality, however, is that approximately 34 percent of Duke students are greek affiliated, with just under 40 percent of women involved in sororities and nearly 30 percent of men in fraternities. Last year reported a record number of sophomores rushing SLGs and greek organizations. The reasons for seeking membership in greek

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organizations or SLGs are numerous and varied. For many freshmen, the transition from East Campus to the large and unknown abyss of upperclassman living brings with it fear of losing the security and comfort that East Campus provided. Joining an established group may appear to remedy the fact that close-knit hall communities fracture into small pockets around campus— especially with the new housing policy limiting bloc sizes to only six students. External pressures tied to campus social culture—one in which status and a semblance of a social life seem tied to greek life and SLGs—also reel students in. The desire for acceptance is an understandable and deeply human one—yet the process to achieve that belongingness often sows more insecurity and internal angst than unity. The ingrained hierarchies and exclusivity found in social groups at Duke—the “tier system”—often frames recruitment as survival of the fittest rather than as a process of finding real friendships. As we enter the throes of the recruitment season, we challenge those involved—both prospective students and current members—to reframe the approach to recruitment. To see it not as an opportunity to climb the fictitious social ladder

but, rather, as an opportunity to meet individuals you want to get to know over the next three years. To rush not simply because it is the thing to do or because everyone else appears to be doing so but, rather, because it is right for you—and, if so, then be engaged, critical and introspective throughout the process. Recruitment, by nature, is a process of both acceptance and rejection. And while denial can feel personal, it too is an opportunity for reflection—does the disappointment stem from being left out of a “top tier” selective group, one whose members you may not have clicked with? Or was it denial despite a true connection? In either case, titles of greek organizations or SLGs are not the prerequisites to relationships or personal worth. The introduction of new anonymous public platforms like Yik Yak and the new Snapchat Campus Story this year may sway the atmosphere of recruitment this season. It is up to students to use these platforms responsibly. Ultimately, recruitment should be a process of community and self-discovery rather than one of exclusion and status seeking. Be active in integrating reflection in every stage of the recruitment process, and do not rush into anything too quickly.

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Going abroad has been one the best decisions I have ever made. In fact, it comes right up along with my decision to come to Duke and making that crucial switch from boxers to boxer-briefs. I thought I would meet new people spending my semester in Spain, but never did I think that my Barcelona crew would be an array of Belgians, Dutch and Germans. While we may come from countries miles apart from each other, it didn’t take long to find things in common. Eventually, we formed a post-class gym crew, hitting up Body Pump every Thursday after Creative Economics. We also jammed out to “Blank Space,” watched the annual “Victoria Secret Fashion Show” and even caught the latest “Hunger Games”. What I found especially interesting was just how normal it

Dillon Patel IT’S CASUAL... became to see just how instinctively people from different European countries would speak English to each other, even when neither spoke it as a native language. I honestly don’t know how they all spoke English so well. Some of these people had never stepped foot in an English-speaking country for more than a week at a time, yet their English skills were light years ahead of my Spanish ones. They learned because they had to. As Americans, we have the luxury of travelling the world without being forced to understand a new language or explain the basic aspects of our culture—but rather just assume that it’s widely known. If 2014 taught us anything—it was just how relevant privilege still is in our society, whether it was white-privilege, socio-economic privilege or heterosexual privilege. So, I figured since we are already spending our day “checking off” our daily boxes of privilege, we might as well add one more to the list—American privilege. American privilege is turning on the television in any country in the world and seeing information on our county and in our language. We are arguably the only country in the world that prints memorabilia that says, “Back to Back World War Champs,” and chants our nation’s name in totally irrelevant situations. However, this sense of pride has quickly transitioned into implied cultural dominance. Go to any European airport and English will almost always be a language on every sign. Go to Oktoberfest, and you’ll find entire

rows of tents blasting “Sweet Caroline” and “All the Small Things.” American privilege is walking into a movie theater in any developed nation and catching the new “Hunger Games”. American privilege is assumed dominance, or at least global recognition, in the worldwide music, tech and even journalism scene. Being abroad was one the most amazing experiences of my life. When else in our lives can we country hop on the weekends with out best friends and have places to crash all over Europe. I travelled to places that were built for Instagram posts and met some of the most interesting people I’ve ever had the pleasure of raging with. However, all along my journey, this idea of American privilege just kept coming back to me. I like to think I’m somewhat culturally aware and know what’s going on in the world, even while I can still only name a handful of world leaders and still get confused over the whole Amsterdam/Holland thing. While taking a class on International Journalism and Global Media in Barcelona, I found the scope of US media absolutely astounding. At one point during class, we began discussing the major players in world news and various American students expressed that they would never trust something on Tele Sur or Al Jazeer. Meanwhile, I found our blind acceptance of American media even more astounding. We are so busy arguing over the bias of FOX or CNN that we omit the heavy American bias that they all carry. Eventually, I figured it might be interesting to explore a day in my life in Barcelona: American Privilege Edition. I woke up and ate a couple Ritz crackers I bought last night. Check. Turned on the radio and jammed to the new Taylor Swift song. Check. Walked to the metro and bought a metro ticket in english. Check. Went to class. Grabbed a Starbucks. T-Swift was playing on the speakers. Learned International Economics in English. Check. Check. Headed back to my apartment and turned on the TV to watch some “Storage Wars” on Discovery. Check. Went out to a nightclub. Jammed to some more T-Swift. Check. Check. Check. American privilege is everywhere around us, but like any other privilege, difficult to see without taking a real look at the inherent cultural advantages we hold. So maybe next time, just take a quick check to see what inherent advantages we hold and use them in a positive way to learn about a different culture or way of life. But remember, T-Swift should still be playing in the background. Dillon Patel is a Trinity junior. This is his first column of the semester.

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I just wish someone would tell me like, ‘This is how the rest of your life should look.’” This line from the hit series “Girls” is a ridiculously relatable sentiment when you are a twenty-something trying to figure out exactly what it is you want to do post-graduation. There are the lucky few who knew that they wanted to be a veterinarian or a journalist since they were 10 years old. But for the rest of us… let’s just say to use the word “daunting” would be euphemistic. Particularly second semester when the job clock is ticking away and questions from relatives and family friends range from, “So what are you going to do with your fabulous educations?” and, uh well, that’s about it. It becomes even more frustrating when you understand how privileged you are for the opportunities Duke has opened up for you, while still not being able to figure out exactly what it is you intend to do with all that potential supposedly sitting

Cara Peterson IT’S CALLED A “VICTORY LAP” in your back pocket. To me, this all has to do with a fear of uncertainty. For many, our type-A personalities make us cling to structure and plan for the sake of having a plan. Some examples—breaking up with a significant other because you don’t know where things are going, applying to grad school without really knowing if it’s what you want because it provides a set path, generally making decisions before they truly need to be made. We are so scared of unknowns that we steer clear of it in its entirety without recognizing all the possibilities it has to offer. Unknowns are like missing puzzle pieces— without them we don’t have the full picture. And, yes, there are times when we are going to have to make decisions without the full picture, but there are also times when we prematurely make decisions before we need to because the mere presence of these unknowns freak us out. In these moments, we need to stop and ask ourselves why we are making certain decisions and plans before we act upon them, particularly those where rash decisions lead to permanent consequences. If we don’t, our comfort zones will lead us to implement ill-fated solutions that do nothing but narrow our perspective by applying blinders that remove unknowns and alternative options from our purview. For those who have been able to relate to this article up to this point, I offer you a New Year’s resolution—live the questions. This concept comes from Rainer Maria Rilke, author of Letters to A Young Poet. He writes, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the

answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Take in those words for a moment. For me, these words offer three forms of encouragement. The first is to turn our fear of the unknown into a curiosity about it. Uncertainty can be uncomfortable, but just because something makes us uncomfortable does not necessarily mean it is bad for us. If we had all the answers, there would have nothing to get excited about, nothing to grow into, nothing to stay up at night wondering about. There would be nothing left to explore if we could already see the whole picture— if we already knew what the rest of our life was going to look like. There is so much joy to be had in figuring out who you are and in becoming the person you want to become as a means, rather than a means to an end. Once I realized that, I realized that instead of fretting over not knowing, I should actually be rejoicing at the space I have yet to stretch into. The second encouragement I get from Rilke’s words is to trust our inner voices to lead us because personal experiences create non-transferable knowledge. There are some things we cannot just take someone else’s word for—we need to have felt it and to know it in an incarnate way. It needs to be our own. Sometimes that means walking into a mistake even if you know it is a mistake. Ultimately, trust your internal compass—it may not always create the straightest path to where you want to go, but it will keep you headed in the right direction. The third and final encouragement I receive from this piece is to pay less heed to time. As author Courtney E. Martin wrote, “Forget the clock and take your compass because the direction you are headed in is more important than the time it takes to get there.” Often I feel we look over our shoulders at all the overachievers around us and come to the conclusion that everyone has things figured out, while we are left sitting in the dust. In reality, most people are still struggling to figure things out. Rushing ourselves to make a decision or come up with a comprehensive plan would only force us to unnecessarily narrow our options due to—you guessed it—fear of uncertainty. It is okay not to entirely know. Sometimes, most times, that is kind of the point. Regardless of the mysteries ahead, the one thing you can always trust is that you will be you. And if you listen to that inner voice and allow it to speak over the anxieties and fears that sometimes bottle it up, that is when you know you are doing what is right for you.

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Kindness, gratitude and holding doors

few weeks back, I was walking past Pegram toward my off-campus house in the pouring rain—my headphones were in and my hood was up, a demeanor that practically screamed, “I am cold, miserable and ready to get the heck home.” Out of the corner of my eye, someone stepped outside and held the door for whom I assumed was his friend following behind him. As I walked past the dorm, I saw him let the door swing shut behind him. No one else followed. He was waiting, in the cold miserable rain, for cold miserable me. Let me ask you something, Duke. Following the two-year anniversary of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook—have you given thanks today? Have you been kind and grateful and smiled in appreciation? Not just the volunteer-at-a-local-shelter or help-an-elderly-ladyto-her-car kind of nice. I mean the easy kind that happens on a daily basis—the kind of nice where you smile and say hi to the kid from your freshman year writing class as you walk by each other on the plaza—instead of mindlessly perusing your phone to avoid eye-contact. And not just the stuffed-with-pumpkin-pie-onThanksgiving kind of thanks—the kind of thanks where, instead of plowing your way home after a long day of classes and ignoring

Julia Janco ADDING IT ALL UP everyone in your line of vision, you realize that rain is cold but you’re lucky to have a warm home to go back to, your backpack is heavy but you’re lucky to have books to read and school is tough but there are helping hands holding doors everywhere you look. Two years ago, I returned home to Connecticut for the holidays to a community in mourning. A town of funeral processions and memorial sites. A town of heartbreaking tragedy. My hometown is next to Newtown, where 26 students and faculty were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary. Everyone I know at home was in some way or another affected by the events of Dec. 14—a friend, a teacher, a neighbor lost. A community rattled. We watched the funeral processions drive through the center of town, a sea of black cars and flashing lights. We made trips to the silent, solemn grocery store, giving out nods and faint smiles as if to acknowledge that we’d at least made it through another day. But amid the tragedy, there were small reminders of hope and outpourings of kindness—in the teddy bears and green ribbons adorning the streets leading up to my old middle school, the new housing point for the Sandy Hook students. In the candy bars on windshields, in the parking lots and the trails of strangers paying for each other’s coffees at local stores. The extra hugs and kisses and phone-calls around the holidays and that extra effort to fit in one more “I love you”. At certain points in our lives—dictated by tough times, heartbreaking tragedy or federal holidays—we are more conscious that life is fragile and that hugs and kisses and laughter are important. That we can’t take anything for granted and that we have a thousand reasons, right here and right now, to be thankful. But then life goes on. And we have this tendency to forget our gratitude, or at least let it slip to the back of our minds. This tendency to get caught up in school and work and papers and tests and parties and google calendars exploding with colors, planned to the last second. We’re rushing down the Bryan center plaza, sprinting to catch the C-1, sulking back from Perkins at 2 am— and it takes a single freshman graciously holding open a door to remember that sometimes we need to slow the heck down. So I ask this of you, Duke—on this two-year anniversary, in the midst of rush parties, tent scheduling and the start of a new semester, take a few extra seconds from your time-crunched schedules to smile at someone. To say thank you to the people you laugh with at 2am, in a crowded dorm room watching countless episodes of “How I Met Your Mother”. To call your mom and say I love you. To stop on your trek back from Perkins and look at the Chapel. To say yes, this 95 page novel of an article is the most painstakingly boring thing I’ve ever had the privilege to have to read in one night, but boy am I lucky to be here, at this beautiful, nationally ranked, basketball and football school. In honor of the 26 lives that were lost much too soon, take a minute to spread a little kindness and thanks. To look around and realize all that you have to be grateful for. Because if we don’t stop and look around once in a while, we might miss the chance. Julia Janco is a Trinity senior. This is her first column of the semester.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting NEW courses for Spring 2015 For more information please contact 668-2603 **NEW—AMES 228:

The Middle East Now: Politics and Culture TTH 11:45-1:00

Revolution, protest, youth movements, war, conflict, imperialism, occupation, neocolonialism, oil, terrorism, religion, Islamism, Zionism, media, social media, culture, creativity, art, music, film, literature, women, gender, and sexuality. From Morocco to Egypt to Palestine and Israel to Iraq and Iran to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. A far reaching, but in depth exploration of the politics and culture of the Middle East today. X-listed POLSCI 222 Professor Ellen McLarney

**NEW—AMES 245:

Introduction to Israeli Culture

TTH 11:45-1:00

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

**NEW—AMES 320S: Refugee

Lives: Violence, Culture and Identity

WF 1:25-2:40

This course will examine the reasons for and outcomes of Arab refugee movements of the past century. What does displacement mean? How have Palestinians, Sudanese and more recently Iraqis and Syrians coped in an environment where they are cut off from everything familiar? Art, literature and film will be integrated as key texts. The servicelearning component of the course builds upon existing frameworks in Arabic language courses. The course will include invited speakers who will present their experiences working with refugees from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Haiti. Professors cooke and Houssami

**NEW—AMES 321 Rumi:

Mysticism and Poetry

W 4:55-7:55

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

**NEW— AMES 390/AMI 390/Culanth 290 Special Topics: Palestine &

the Moving Image; 6 WEEK COURSE (January 26 – March 6) TTH 3:05-6:05

Since the earliest days of cinema, Palestine has been subjected to an extraordinary range of moving image practices. This six-week course offers students a critical introduction to this history, from the orientalist cinemas of a century ago to the experiments of today’s video artists.

We will ask how politics and aesthetics have intersected across a range of historical contexts marked by contests over visual as much as political forms of representation. We will explore cinematic representation in relation to gender, violence, place and displacement and address critical debates regarding “national cinema”, spectatorship, and witnessing. Professor David Nick Denes, PhD. University of London

**NEW—AMES 541S

Jews and the Ends of Theory

M 6:15-9:15

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

**NEW—AMES 551S: Translation:

Theory/Praxis

W 3:05-5:35

Examines theories and practices of translation from various periods and traditions (Cicero, Zhi Qian, classical and scriptural translators, Dryden, Schopenhauer, Benjamin, Jakobson, Tanizaki, Qian Zhongshu, Derrida, Apter, among others) and considers topics such as incommensurability, cultural exchange, imperialism, “Global Englishes,” bilingualism, and techno-language. Prerequisite: open to undergraduates, but all participants must have strong command of one language aside from English, as final project involves original translation and commentary. X-listed LIT 551S Professor Eileen Chow

Check out our Language courses too: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Tibetan