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McCrory offers ‘North Carolina plan’ in State of State address “There are still a lot of communities, small businesses and individuals that are hurting, and there is still much work to be done” Sarah Kerman The Chronicle

Governor Pat McCrory listed new initiatives for North Carolina in his State of the State address at the NC General Assembly Wednesday night.

In his second State of the State since being sworn in as governor in 2013, McCrory touched on a range of topics—including the economy, education, healthcare and transportation and infrastructure. He both highlighted his accomplishments as governor and laid out his plan for North Carolina’s future.

“Despite this tremendous accomplishment, there are still a lot of communities, small businesses and individuals that are hurting,” McCrory said. “There is still much work to be done.”

The State of the State address is given by the governor every other year.

McCrory was vocal about the topic of health care reform, an issue that is prominent in both state and national dialogues.

He said that he would work with state legislators to develop a North Carolina plan for Medicaid expansion in the coming year.

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Alex Deckey | The Chronicle Students standing in the student section of Cameron Indoor Stadium during Duke men’s basketball’s game against Georgia Tech received “Coach K 1K” shirts congratulating Coach Mike Krzyzewski for his 1,000th career victory Wednesday.

Students disappointed by LDOC committee’s fake release Kali Shulklapper University Editor

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The fake release of this year’s LDOC lineup caused a commotion on campus, and students have openly expressed their disappointment.

Following a countdown by LDOC committee cochairs, sophomores Anton Saleh and David Soled, a video posted by Duke Student Broadcasting Tuesday night announced that the Last Day of Classes line-up would actually be released Thursday at 10 p.m. The goal of the teaser video was to build the hype around the event and get people talking, Saleh said—but he did not account for the amount of public backlash that has ensued.

Derogatory posts on Yik Yak and other platforms have dominated the world of social media since the video’s release.

“You have to take it with a grain of salt,” Saleh said. “I wouldn’t say [the backlash] was completely unexpected, but I didn’t expect it to be as crazy as it was.”

Saleh added that it was not his and Soled’s intention to upset the students to this extent. But despite these intentions, many members of the student body voiced that they were frustrated by the video’s deception.

Sophomore Alec Mazzuckelli joked that he was greatly saddened by the teaser.

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“I was very disappointed to see that I was lied to and I hope it doesn’t happen again,” he said, laughing.

Duke University Improv recently released a parody of the LDOC committee’s video, mimicking the actions of both co-chairs.

“I think they may be the two most hated people on Duke’s campus,” sophomore Risa Brudney said jokingly.

Saleh, however, said that he does not regret their decision to release the teaser video, noting his belief in their intention to simply build momentum for the event.

“We legitimately thought it would be a good way to get the students hyped and excited about LDOC,” Saleh said. “I 100 percent stand by what we decided to do.”

Some students, such as sophomore Emma Randall, noted that the video was misleading.

“It definitely means that everyone’s expectations will be higher on the fifth,” she said.

But others viewed the video with less distaste.

“I thought it was funny,” said sophomore Vrushin Dani. “I thought the fact people were outraged was funny as well. People need a sense of humor.”

Saleh noted that, despite the harsh feedback, they accomplished their goal of getting students to talk about the event.

The line-up will officially be announced Thursday at 10 p.m. on the LDOC Facebook page.

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DSG talks reducing size of Senate and executive board Proposal would cut Senate to 42 members and reduce number of committees Alex Griffith The Chronicle Structural changes could be in store for the Duke Student Government Senate—but not the changes proposed two weeks ago.

In a meeting Wednesday, DSG heard a plan to restructure the current format of the Senate. The plan would lower the size of the Senate and change its structure. Under the proposal, 42 senators would be elected instead of 60, and one of the Senate’s executive committees would become a cabinet position. This plan contrasts with a district-based plan presented two weeks ago, which would elect senators from residential constituencies rather than from graduating classes. During the meeting, DSG listened to the first reading of several proposed amendments to the DSG Senate Bylaw, Executive Bylaw and Constitution which would implement the plan.

“We want to make sure that people who are not in selective living groups or greek groups have an ability to get onto DSG, have an ability to have their voice heard and have the ability to affect change on campus,” said Senator for Academic Affairs Jacob Zionce, a senior.

The proposed amendments were presented by Zionce; Senator for Academic Affairs Annie Adair, a sophomore; Senator for Social Culture Russell Crock, a senior; and Vice President for Social Culture Tucker Albert, a junior.

According to the proposed changes, the Senate would be cut from its current size of 60 members to 42 members, including six executive committee vice presidents. Each com-

mittee would have one elected member from each class, in addition to two at-large Senators.

Each committee would be headed by one elected vice president, who would also serve on the Senate.

In addition to the Senate changes, the number of executive committees would be lowered from seven to six, with the work of the current Social Culture Committee being handled by a director in the President’s cabinet.

Several of these proposals were made in response to another DSG restructuring plan, which was presented two weeks ago. That plan proposed that senators be elected from newly created residential districts around campus, and would also merge the Residential Life and Social Culture Committees as well as the Facilities and Environment and Services Committees.

The newest proposal would move to limit the effect that SLGs and greek organizations could have under the district model, where they could theoretically collude within their districts to make sure their candidates get elected to promote their interests, the group of senators explained.

Wednesday was the first reading for the amendments. During the next DSG meeting, a second reading will be held and the Senate will vote on amendments. If passed, the changes to the Constitution and bylaws will face public referenda during the DSG spring election in April.

In other business: The Executive Board of the Senate reiterated its support for the petition against the newly enforced Housing, Dining and Residential Life guidelines governing how many upperclassmen are required to live in their selective group’s section.

The Senate passed a budgetary statute to

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle The DSG executive board reiterated its support for the petition against the HDRL guidelines requiring 30 percent of SLG and greek housing residents to be upperclassmen Wednesday.

allocate $5,500 from the surplus fund to buy and install two swimsuit dryers in Brodie Recreation Center.

Student Organization and Finance Committee approved the creation of the Duke Fashion Exchange, which facilitates the ex-

change and sale of clothing among Duke students.

In addition, SOFC allocated $1,600 to the United in Praise student group to pay for a group of speakers who will speak about the Civil Rights Movement.

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Markers in brain linked to depression Duke researchers find that brain’s area associated with memory and emotions plays a role in depression Abigail Xie The Chronicle Certain markers in the brain can predict an individual’s risk of developing depression and anxiety, Duke researchers have found.

The study conducted by Duke researchers concludes that the brain’s amygdala—an area associated with memory, emotions and decision-making—plays a major role in depression. High amygdala Johnna Swartz reactivity in response to high levels of stress can be indicative of a person’s vulnerability to developing depression and other mental illnesses, according to the recent article authored by Duke scientists in the journal “Neuron.”

“We were able to predict several years out,” said Johnna Swartz, lead author of the study and post-doctorate associate in Hariri lab in the psychology and neuroscience department. “That was surprising because nobody had looked at if brain function could predict Thu Nguyen | The Chronicle

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continued from page 1 McCrory recommended a North Carolina plan that would expand the Medicaid program, which provides health insurance for those below the poverty line. Under McCrory’s proposal, the state would obtain a waiver from the federal government which would allow it to bypass some of the expansion requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act while still receiving funding from the federal government.

“I will only recommend a North Carolina plan, not a Washington plan, so we can put patients first,” McCrory said.

Democratic legislators expressed cautious support for the governor’s Medicaid expansion plan. Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham acknowledged that McCrory had to be mindful of political concerns within his own party.

“He [McCrory] gently from a political standpoint took a step in the right direction,” she said.

McCrory noted that Medicaid was a hotly contested issue in the last legislative session.

“Last session, we came close to passing Medicaid reform, but progress stalled on the one-yard-line. Let’s not take another pass this year,” he said.

Also on the topic of health and safety, McCrory highlighted state efforts to combat drug

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addiction. He specifically highlighted the Let’s Talk It Out underage drinking advertising campaign currently being run by the state.

“These ads about underage drinking hit you at the heart,” he said.

McCrory’s rhetoric about health and wellness as it relates to youth and veterans also appealed to Cotham.

“As a former high school principal, I was really glad to hear talk about underage drinking and drug abuse.” she said.

McCrory additionally discussed how health and wellness issues relate to veterans’ affairs, placing a big emphasis on programs to aid veterans as they re-enter to civillian life. He announced plans to expand the Veterans Treatment Courts program, which could be expanding into Durham.

On the topic of courts, McCrory announced several efforts to reform the criminal justice system in an attempt to improve retention of correction officers. Initiatives he discussed included implementing intelligencebased crime prevention initiatives and efforts to reduce drug use and gang membership in prisons.

McCrory announced several other new initiatives—including structural reforms to oversight of worker’s compensation claims, the NC Competes job program, a historic preservation tax credit and a plan to raise teacher base pay to $35,000 per year.

Despite all the new initiatives he announced, McCrory acknowledged the budget strain that North Carolina still faces, even in

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Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Governor Pat McCrory, presented his annual State of the State address at the N.C. General Assembly Wednesday evening. McCrory admitted that “there is still much work to be done.”

the years since the recession. McCrory noted that entitlements like pensions are still a major expenditure.

“All of our challenges and initiatives will require money and resources—like last session, money will be tight,” he said. “Much of our budget is already obligated as we sit down to write the budget in the coming weeks.”

Leah Abrams, a high school junior from

Carrboro and state senate page who attended the speech, said she enjoyed listening to the governor talk about the economic plans for North Carolina’s future. However, she also expressed concern that McCrory didn’t cover some important issues in his speech.

“I wish there was more on Medicare, women’s rights and unfreezing teacher pay,” she said.

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I struggled to write this editor’s note. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I knew that I wanted to write about relationships and romance. But, the thing was, I had already done that last semester. Sure, discussing how to make a perfect hookup playlist didn’t really delve into the nature of love, but it touched on the subject.

So, instead, I started to think about why I wrote that article in the first place. Why did I even need to have a hookup playlist? As I thought about it, I started to realize that my hookup playlist represented a very specific way of communicating feelings of romance and passion and, yes, maybe even love. More importantly, though, I realized that music is often the best way to communicate the idea of love in an accessible manner. I am certainly no expert on love, but let me attempt to explain.

While there were songs like the ridiculous, yet classic, “Ignition” on the playlist, it started with a song by Elvis called “Loving You” and ended with a song that includes the line “I can’t think of a better thing than growing old with you.” That playlist didn’t just have to be used to chart the ups and downs of one night.

It could be used to chart the ups and downs of an entire relationship.

There’s a reason that people use the phrase “soundtrack to my life.” More so than arguably any other form of media, music is so strongly associated with major moments in our life. “Take It Easy” by the Eagles will forever remind me of riding around quiet Minnesota suburbs with my dad in his old Jeep, and “Rivers and Roads” by The Head and The Heart puts me right back in the final days of high school. There is something so incredible and elegant about how music can capture moods and feelings and memories in a way that simple words or images cannot.

So, in that sense, we fall in love to the sound of music. A first kiss might be set to the backdrop of a song at Shooters. (Is this a bad thing? Unclear.) A first date could forever be

associated with the Tony Bennett song that was playing in the restaurant when you entered.

The head over heels love that strikes out of nowhere could have its very own playlist. And, of course, as our good friend Taylor Swift has taught us so well, break-ups are often best represented as songs.

In the same way that music consists of structured lyrics, complex melodies, harmonies, riffs and chords, love and romance also consist of this crazy combination of logic from the brain and pure emotion from the heart and spontaneity and careful planning and hope and fear and a very certain kind of fire. That’s not something words can describe.

It is practically impossible to convey the specific love one feels for someone else with just words.

Instead, we turn to music. The brain’s logic can be heard in the words of a singer and the measured structure of a song. The underlying emotion can be felt in the chords and the tenderness or pain in the singer’s voice.

And that hope and the fear and fire and the uniqueness of it can be felt in the ebb and the flow of the song. The waves of emotion that come in and go back out as time progresses.

I don’t have a formula for you this time around. I really wish I did. I know Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so I’m sorry about that. I sure wish I was enough of an expert to have a playlist that could make two people fall in love. But, hell, I didn’t even know enough about love to realize that a hookup playlist could also be used to represent so much more I wish there was a formula to fall in love. A playlist you could put on every time you were in the same room as your crush. A song you could play to make a relationship work out.

But there isn’t. There is no opener, buildup or closer for this. Instead, we just have a crazy jumble of emotions that is unlike anything else that we ever feel. And that crazy jumble of emotions is something that we call love.

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I was a good enough actor to be in theater (read: 8th grade), I had a musical director talk to me about his interpretation of why musicals existed at all.

“Why do people sing in musicals? Why don’t they just speak their lines?” he asked me.

I fumbled for an answer, so he cut me off and explained.

“Every time people sing in a musical, it is because there is so much emotion that words can absolutely not cut it. There is nothing else they can do but sing.”

At the time, I thought it was absurd. I didn’t understand. Now, I can see. At least a little bit more than 8th grade Sid did. Music is a powerful tool of expression. It can express rage, sorrow and pure joy in a way that our actions and words cannot.

Love is one of those instances where words simply don’t cut it. Because love isn’t something that can be expressed in words.

That’s what music is for.

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Panda Bear contemplates darkly on his latest album

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Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper marks Noah Lennox’s fifth album as Panda Bear (produced by Domino Recording Company and released on Jan. 9 of this year). The record has, deservingly, been met with significant critical acclaim and demonstrates Lennox’s mature, polished musical talent.

The sound he achieves on Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper is challenging to categorize, but lands somewhere in the territory of neo-psychedelic electronic funk, characterized by oscillating fuzz and groovy loops in which you can get completely lost. With soaring ballads and thick, entrancing beats, Panda Bear shows

us how to tune out extraneous distractions and exist thoroughly in the present.

“Mr. Noah” and “Boys Latin,” the two extended plays he released at the end of 2014, stand out as instantly addictive headboppers. With gripping theatricality and a disturbing Halloween-style ghostly hook, “Mr. Noah” evokes a strobe-lit graveyard that gives the sense that Lennox has chosen the album title well. “Boys Latin” is nothing short of transportive, drawing off the same ghoulish background as “Mr. Noah” but elevating and building upon itself to crescendo into Panda Bear’s signature complex rhythmic style.

The album’s opening track, “Sequential Circuits,” is a dark electronic cannon that fills up your head and seeps into your bones with its phantasmagoric gravitas. The emotional, dark nature

of the record as a whole is immediately apparent, but Lennox’s method of coping with challenges he faces—middle age, mourning his father’s death, caring for young children—is bold and playful.

Lyrically, the songs are bleak, contemplative and impersonal enough that they allow the listener to connect on a fundamental human level. This is evident in “Come to Your Senses,” which asks over and over again, “Are you mad?” and answering “yeah, I’m mad” with a shadowy, trippy backdrop. Respite comes in tranquil serenades like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Lonely Wanderer,” which are both punctuated with some truly beautiful instrumental sequences and show how Panda Bear has a complexity and depth far beyond EDM club noise.

“Selfish Gene” is a standout deep track

in which Panda Bear picks up the tempo with a solemn reflection on parenthood: “When it comes to fill those spaces/only you can fill those spaces.”

This album is dark, relatable and powerful, crossing gritty post-punk electronics with rhythmic funk and existential lyricism. If it falls short anywhere, it is that the tracks tend to bleed together into an inseparable mass of sound, but that effect may be what Panda Bear was aiming for anyway; the album feels more like a stream of consciousness than a progression of separate tracks.

Lennox is an accomplished artist with a wholly unique sound, and with Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper he has pulled off the impressive feat of continuing to evolve as a musician while staying true to his origins.

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Fireworks: Thoughts on the Super bowl halftime show Drew Haskings Local Arts Editor As a die-hard Seahawks fan, this year’s Super Bowl was very disappointing in ways that will haunt me for a long time. The ecstasy of that incredible bobble-catch followed up by the agony of the botched final offensive play was too much for me, and I would just like to forget about the actual sports aspect of the event for a good long while. Thankfully, I can turn my attentions to the other main attraction of the Super Bowl: Katy Perry’s halftime show.

As a primer to the rest of this article, I would just like to say that I feel no strong opinions one way or the other about Katy Perry. Like many Top 40 artists, she has songs that I love and songs that I hate yet have stuck in my head on a constant loop. Her lyrics are generic—she never sings about anything but sex or selfempowerment—and her voice is decent, but her production team and management have crafted her into an entirely unique pop phenomenon regardless. In today’s pop landscape, she occupies a sort of “bombshell” archetype that few other singers seem to gravitate towards; in public appearances, she tries her hardest to come off as glamorous yet still fun, crass and identifiable. Perry loves kitsch and Americana, rejecting the traditional Marilyn Monroe inspirations that so many singers favor these days in pursuit of being a modern-day Bettie Page.

This was all on display at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. My expectations were low after Bruno Mars’ blandly competent and exceedingly dull showing last year, so I was pleasantly surprised at how entertaining Perry’s performance was. Perry’s halftime show was chockfull of spectacle, energy and, above all, fun. She

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reinforced the notion that she exists in a Technicolor fantasia, and her sets were basically living cartoons.

Perry opened the show resplendently riding a Julie Taymor-esque giant tiger and singing her hit “Roar” in a get-up not unlike Chad Michael Michael’s figure skating outfit from Blades of Glory. The rest of the set showcased a vertiginous chessboard, a beach full of anthropomorphic trees and beach balls and a comet that cheesily

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soared around the stadium. There were, of course, fireworks by the dozen, but what Super Bowl halftime show would be complete without excessive pyrotechnics?

Perry, as always, was game throughout the whole thing. Her voice, which veers towards shoutiness in smaller venues, proved to be a natural fit for filling the massive University of Phoenix Stadium, and she was a competent lip-syncher when not singing. Her dancing was lovably

goofy, never more so when flanked by one of the two breakout stars of the whole show. The dancing sharks were the perfect representation of her aesthetic, a great blend of cartoony nonsense and shameless fun. That they were out of sync while dancing made it all the more fun and enjoyable. For Perry, though, the other breakout star almost clouded over her entire performance. The comeback of Missy Elliott, ten years in the making, was the true highlight of the halftime show and indubitably the biggest water-cooler moment in the subsequent days.

Elliott was utterly dominant in her return to the public spotlight after a long bout with Grave’s Disease. Performing a medley of her classic hits “Get Ur Freak On,” “Work It” and “Lose Control,” she was electric, dancing and rapping as she stole the show.

Perry was wise to sit back and play hype-man for Elliott’s set, and she added to the sense of camaraderie and looseness prevalent throughout the whole show. However, the exceedingly high quality of Elliott’s vocals and performance overshadowed Perry, and the momentum died considerably after Elliott left and Perry ascended her shooting star to perform “Firework,” her one major vocal misfire of the night. Both artists fared incredibly well in comparison to poor Lenny Kravitz, who was reduced to faking his way through a guitar solo and singing a gender-reversed version of “I Kissed A Girl” in what was essentially a cameo.

Overall, the halftime show was a very fun time. Perry was pleasant and likable, Elliott was transcendent and the showmanship on display was clever and entertaining. Next year’s Super Bowl will have a difficult time recreating the energy level that was present at this year’s show, even if they get someone more vocally established. If I have one suggestion, it is this—more Missy; more sharks.

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Wittgenstein’s Hamlet provides new take on classic Dillon Fernando The Chronicle

We all know Hamlet––to be or not to be, the iconic skull in the graveyard, everybody dying at the end––as a tragedy at its finest. Even today, the work remains as one of Shakespeare’s greatest masterpieces, boiling with themes such as pervasive madness and the pursuit of a succulent revenge. What more could one ask for in a piece that continues to rattle the brains of both distinguished literary scholars and jaded high school students alike?

One senior, Michael F. Myers, however, asked for more. In his production Wittgenstein’s Hamlet, Myers gives Shakespeare’s Hamlet a philosophical revamp.

From the title, we know who Hamlet is, but who the hell is Wittgenstein and what has he done with Shakespeare? Simply put, Ludwig Wittgenstein is a philosopher who focused on the philosophy of language and how the various contexts in which we speak language manifest in our behaviors and perceptions. For the past year, Wittgenstein’s ideology has captivated Myers to the point that he was compelled to integrate his newfound fascination with the timeless Hamlet for his senior honors thesis.

Enter Wittgenstein’s Hamlet.

A week ago, I meandered down to East Campus’s Brody Theater––a building I only knew existed minutes before arriving––to observe Myers and his theater crew rehearse and tweak some of the final scenes of the play. On the stage, two actors were having a colorful dialogue, while a woman was wandering the room fixing a continuous stream of string from various ceiling fixtures––creating a spider web-like, yet oddly crystalline feel to the design. When I awkwardly walked through the door, everyone stopped and stared at me––and I know it wasn’t because I was sexy. After Myers welcomed me with a full smile and motioned to the empty set of stadium rising chairs, I couldn’t help but sit and enter the world of Hamlet through the eyes of Wittgenstein.

The basis of Myers’ adaption derives from a long creative process. A year ago, after researching Wittgenstein’s life by reading his works, watching biopics about the philosopher and, even, taking a class about Wittgenstein, Myers began to write a script with the vision of combining Wittgenstein and Hamlet.

Junior Faye Goodwin recalled that in the early days of the creative process, Myers was open to finding inspiration from those in his production.

“It was meant to be a devised work, which is sort of the idea--work with a group of people and the things you do in rehearsal turn out to be the script,” she said.

As time progressed, the production evolved. What initially was intended to be a hybrid of Hamlet and Wittgenstein soon became an adaptation of Hamlet, in which the work of the philosopher influenced elements of the script, character physicality and themes.

Wittgenstein manifested himself in some of the linguistics of the piece in the language that conveys the connection between Hamlet’s internal conflict and the way he and others interact.

“Our first rehearsals became workshops, and we were looking for ways to construct this adaptation,” Myers said. “When I was writing those [first] pages, I came across a variety of

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different ways the show could’ve turned out, but this final product is the closest to my original vision and the show that Wittgenstein would be happiest about.

He was conservative about his artistic tastes.”

The development of the Hamlet in Myers’s production has striking similarities to Wittgenstein’s behaviors and the way he conducted his own life over time.

“Wittgenstein had a lot of strange relationships with people,” Goodwin said. “He had a ton of students, disciples, lovers who he interacted with––like he [Hamlet] had with Horatio and Ophelia.”

Furthermore, Myers found that many characters in Hamlet were redolent to the few people prominent in Wittgenstein’s life. Even so, these other characters

retained traits similar to those in the original Shakespearean text.

From what little I saw that night, I noticed that the portrayal of Hamlet was a bit more pedantic and logical–– to the extent a tragic hero is allowed.

Unlike the Hamlet from my high school English class, this Wittgenstein-esque Hamlet fecklessly drew truth tables and physically illustrated his cognitive perplexity and inner-conflict.

While the cast took a 10 minute break, the actor who plays Hamlet, Thomas Kavanagh, scrawled a phrase encoded in logic symbols on the blackboard where Hamlet delivers many of his monologues. While I was staring off into space, Kavanagh interjected by asking me what I thought about his drawing––more importantly, if I could decode it. Upon the board were two

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“be”s sectioned off in parenthesis and connected by a zig-zag: it was the iconic “To be or not to be.”

Kavanagh is no stranger to the stage.

In addition to playing the lead in a variety of Duke theater productions, Kavanagh most recently portrayed Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in The Perfect Detonator.

For Kavanagh, the process of playing Wittgenstein as Hamlet is multifaceted: he attempts to simultaneously play Wittgenstein while capturing “Hamlet’s ingenious and lunatic quest for truth and justice.”

“Playing someone like Hamlet can be a little intimidating, so when I think about playing the philosopher first, I can prove to myself that I’m bringing something new to the role,” he said.

Towards the end of the rehearsal, when most of the cast had retired for the evening, Myers and Kavanagh remained on stage, trying to perfect the dynamic of Hamlet’s soliloquy in front of the blackboard. The exchange of ideas was organic and constructive and, in some ways, esoteric.

Myers and Kavanagh have known each other since 5th grade. Kavanagh attributes this rich history between them as contributing positively to Myers’s direction in this production.

“Since we have a long working relationship, there’s a great connection,” Kavanagh said. “Mike is the mastermind of all that we’ve done, and he’s the one that truly understands Wittgenstein–– he’s basically the translator. He’s really good at advocating for the drama of this philosopher’s life and has made it a truly passionate biography.”

Most of these actors have worked with Myers before in other productions. As senior Elizabeth Nadler relays, working with familiar faces is an opportunity to allow personality and camaraderie to influence the way the characters come to life on stage.

“The cast is very close...it’s become a part of my life,” Nadler said. “In developing our characters, Mike asked us to put in so much of our own personal outlooks and experiences. I play emotional characters so you have to pour a decent amount of yourself into it [the role].”

For Myers, the camaraderie is certainly intentional, “As a director you need to speak a lot of different dialects...Thomas and I, we don’t have to interpret each other very much. There’s just a lot of support for one another...and it’s really easy to experiment with each other because everyone is truly free to be their creative selves,” Myers said. “My favorite moments as a director are when other people can teach me something about my vision that I didn’t know.”

As the night came to close, I couldn’t help but be enamored by the positive energy in the room. The direction of the scenes flowed so fluidly and the acting was equally fervent. Not to be cliché, but I was often kept on the edge of my seat.

This play features some of the extraordinary student talent at Duke. At one point, Myers told me that directing and working in theater was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. A combination of his love for theater with innate talent, his production is destined to be a unique fusion of Shakespeare and philosophy.

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The non-sports-lover’s guide to the Super Bowl

The Chronicle I get it. Not everyone can understand why two, 250-pound bulldozers would run full speed into each other for the sake of a pigskin filled with air. I mean, why is it that Sunday, the day of rest (or let’s be honest, homework) is instead stereotypically defined by masses of men crowding around the TV with wings and nachos in hand? Well, today I hope to give all of you non-sports lovers a crash course on how to sound intelligent and interested during this upcoming Super Bowl.

have three to five other people explain their nearly identical circumstances.

Or maybe you want to sound up-todate with the teams. This is an easy one. Crack a joke about the Patriots deflating footballs, maybe quoting Jimmy Kimmel with “Attorney Gloria Allred is now representing nine of the 11 balls Tom Brady allegedly squeezed.”

Or when someone asks you a question that you don’t know the answer to, claim that you are running back Marshawn Lynch refusing to answer questions by the media. Everyone will laugh and forget about the initial inquiry. If you’re desperate, stand up and scream, “I’m the best corner!” like Richard Sherman.

It may surprise you how no one will question such an outburst.

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You don’t have to be an expert to appear knowledgeable of the game. You can use social cues to determine when to get excited or angry. People seem to have a habit of embracing their animalistic nature when a man unexpectedly gets hit by a truck, I mean player, so feel free to yell “OHHHHH” or jump up and down if something like this happens.

Pick one team to root for and don’t get caught cheering for both sides because you will look like a bandwagon fan. You will be kicked out of the room, and you will be shamed from the sport for life. Keep your commentary vague.

“The defense appears weak.” “They can’t stop that guy.” “This game is too close for comfort.” Trust me, all the announcers are saying the same things that you are. Also, feel free to knock over the chip bowl if people seem mad about the game. That’s happened almost every time that I’ve been to a Super Bowl party.

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into the end zone in order to get points for your team, a.k.a “a touchdown.”

You can either throw the ball or run it to do so. Since using a standard system of one point or two points is overrated, the inventors decided that touchdowns would be worth a whopping six points.

Naturally, then you kick the ball into the big four; or is it maybe a capital Y? I’m not sure, but that gives you one point.

Or three points if you didn’t already score a touchdown. Easy, right? I could go on to explain to you the numerous defensive formations, offensive plays named after exotic animals and beaches we stormed during WWII, but I’d rather stick to the basics here. Simply put: Ball in end zone = score. More points = win.

Thanks, math!

The Game Itself

So, just like basically every other sport on this earth (okay, except golf) more points means you win. It’s easy.

All you have to do is get the football …

Wait right, the football is an ellipsoid (egg-shaped) ball made of leather that, no matter how it hits the ground, always seems to bounce in a direction no one was hoping for. Disclaimer: it looks nothing like a foot, nor do you kick it, except in the event of field goals, kickoffs, punts … actually you do seem to kick it a bit in the game. Anyway, I digress. You want to get that football through Valentines Day

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There’s only 60 minutes of play, but with the play clock running down there’s usually about 11 minutes of actual action in a football game (I swear this is not a made up number). At this time, it may be necessary to talk about how you played football in high school, say something believable like you were a cornerback … no, not a quarterback, a cornerback.

You guarded the wide receiver, plain and simple. Logically, you had a careerending ACL tear and, ever since, you’ve stuck to just watching. You’re bound to

A 30 second commercial costs $4.5 million at the Superbowl. That is more than 90 times the average amount an American household makes per year.

They better be good. Even still, it’s easy to get into the compulsive Super Bowl gambling mode by betting on whether the first commercial will be a car or beer commercial. Seriously, it’s almost never been anything else. On a side note, I highly encourage you to stay tuned for the halftime show with Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz leading the way. Hey, the next wardrobe malfunction could be on its way.

The End of the Game Whether it is the closest game in the world or a blowout of epic proportions, it is an unspoken rule to remain until the end. That’s right, hold in your pee and forget about any last minute assignments that you realized you forgot to submit because you’re making it to the last snap. Some will cry, some will cheer, but most probably don’t have their team in this game, so it’s easy to merely be indifferent.

Make sure to thank your host and get out of there quick before fantasy prospects for next season start getting debated. Trust me, that’s a whole other conversation that you are clearly not equipped to handle.

If you follow these basic principles, I promise that you will not be the most qualified Super Bowl analyst, but you’ll be sufficiently adequate. That’s what you were going for, I assume.

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With just eight active scholarship players left on the roster, the maturation process for Duke’s freshman quartet—now 50 percent of the team—is accelerating at an even faster pace. Part of 66 that growth is the GT DUKE 72 willingness to speak up, even to a captain.

With Quinn Cook struggling from the field in the first half, that’s exactly what Justise Winslow and Jahlil Okafor did. And the senior responded.

Cook scored all 17 of his points after halftime as No. 4 Duke inched its way past a scrappy Georgia Tech squad 72-66 Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Enjoying a career year from behind the arc, the captain found most of his success in the lane against the Yellow Jackets, translating his high-intensity on-ball defense into aggressive drives to the basket.

“Justise and Jah, they got on me. They said they needed me, and I wasn’t there in the first half for them,” Cook said. “One thing about our team is it doesn’t matter what class you are, you can say whatever to anybody, and they have to respect what you say. That was really it, just freshmen having their teammate’s back, and I responded…. It

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wasn’t their first time [speaking up].”

The Blue Devils (19-3, 6-3 in the ACC) fell behind early but took a 21-16 lead on a wing 3-pointer by freshman Tyus Jones. The Apple Valley, Minn., native followed that up with consecutive look-away passes in transition that netted Duke three more points.

Duke applied heavy ball-pressure for most of the game and got out in transition when it forced turnovers. The Blue Devils finished with 20 points off turnovers and 12 fast-break

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points, including back-to-back lay-ups by Winslow. The Houston native finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double.

As they have in nearly every conference game this year, the last-place Yellow Jackets (10-12, 1-9) kept buzzing, refusing to go quietly despite Duke’s best efforts to shoo them away. Georgia Tech scored the last See M. Basketball on Page 12

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Duke to open season with double-header Seth Johnson Beat Writer New year, new team—same dream.

Two-time defending NCAA champion Duke opens its 2015 campaign with a pair of games in as many days this weekend.

No. 3 Duke But this year’s team is vs. far from the one Blue Devil lacrosse fans have High Point come to expect over the past two seasons in SATURDAY, noon Durham.

Vert Stadium “We are very young and very different,” head coach John Air Danowski said in an Force vs. interview with Blue Devil Network. “This No. 3 is nowhere near what Duke we’ve been in the last SUNDAY, noon couple of years.”

Koskinen Stadium Despite the two national titles, the No. 3 Blue Devils will have to replace their three starting attackmen from last season—Jordan Wolf, Josh Dionne and

Christian Walsh—who combined for 132 goals and 67 assists a year ago—as well as faceoff specialist Brendan Fowler, who is now a member of the Duke wrestling team.

“We don’t have many seniors on the offensive end,” junior midfielder Myles Jones said. “It was easy for us to hide behind those guys and run with them and have them take the reins and have us fill our roles. This year we don’t have those seniors, so we have to get comfortable stepping up.”

Duke returns just four starters this season, including its three preseason All-Conference selections in Jones, short stick defensive midfielder Will Haus and midfielder Deemer Class. Haus will join fellow seniors Justin George and Jack Rowe as the team captains for the squad.

“The older guys are always the key to your team,” Danowski said to BDN. “They’ve been in these situations before—although the leadership role is going to be new to all of them.”

The new leadership will be put to the test with two quick turnaround games this weekend. Saturday the Blue Devils travel to See M. Lacrosse on Page 12

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Junior Myles Jones will look to lead the Blue Devils in their season-opener against High Point Saturday.

After an impressive upset, Duke will try to keep its winning streak alive as the Blue Devils hit the unforgiving road against Wake Forest.

No. 17 Duke will face off against a struggling Demon Deacons team Thursday at 7 No. 17 p.m. at Lawrence Joel Duke Coliseum. The Blue vs.

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“We are just trying to get better every game,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Every game it’s the process of doing the little things better, and we have got to continue that.”

Duke (16-6, 7-2 in the ACC) is coming off a win against No. 8 Louisville. The Blue Devils thrived on offense, as all starters scored in double-digits, showing great teamwork and balance. As a team, Duke chose smart shots, shooting 47 percent from the field.

The Blue Devils also moved the ball very efficiently, with each starter recording at least one assist. Senior Ka’lia Johnson is fourth in the ACC in assists, averaging 4.0 a game.

“We are sharing the basketball,” McCallie said. “[We are] finding each other more.”

The Blue Devils did a nice job of boxing out against the Cardinals, grabbing a total of 43 rebounds to Louisville’s 35. Duke’s rebounding this entire season has been explosive—the team is averaging an NCAA-high 31 defensive boards a game and its rebound margin of 14.3 is the highest in the nation.

A notable performance came from Oderah Chidom. The sophomore forward scored 14 points on five-of-six shooting and recorded six rebounds. The California native’s performance was considered one of the reasons Duke pulled off the upset.

Throughout the past two games Chidom has contributed much more to the team, averaging 12.0 points and 8.0 rebounds. “[Chidom] was very aggressive—she took the ball hard to the rack,” McCallie said.

“Oderah has a lot of confidence and a lot of ability.”

Duke, however, needs to improve in certain areas if it wants to keep its winning ways and capture its second win against the Demon Deacons. Turnovers are a nagging issue that has haunted this Blue Devil team the entire season. Against Louisville, Duke turned the ball over 22 times. This season the Blue Devils are averaging 18.9 turnovers a game, See W. Basketball on Page 13

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four points of the first half to cut a 38-30 deficit to just four, capitalizing on back-toback turnovers by Jones, including a lay-in

by Robert Sampson—son of former Virginia legend Ralph Sampson—at the buzzer.

“That’s as poor as we’ve ended any half for a long time. We had an eight-point lead and we go for two-for-ones. We just threw the ball away,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They scored four points and had the [second-half possession] arrow. I thought that was going to be—if we had lost, I thought the end of the half would’ve been the reason, but we were able to muck it out.”

Cook missed all four of his shots in the opening frame but came out strong in the early minutes of the second half, bolstered by his conversation with Winslow and Okafor. The captain turned the corner and scooped in a lay-up with 16:38 to play, then drilled a corner triple, firing up the crowd and himself.

Cook had hit 10 of his last 18 triples entering Wednesday’s game, but made the adjustment to attack the Georgia Tech interior with his shots not falling from downtown.

“People always fly out to me because I’m a quote-unquote shooter so I was just trying to get to the basket and create for myself and others,” Cook said. “All the stuff that I work out with [Jon] Scheyer and [Jeff] Capel, doing different things than just shooting threes.”

His next lay-up seemed destined to put the Blue Devils well on their way to their sixth conference win.

Sophomore Matt Jones—who scored 11 first-half points to help Duke overcome Cook’s slow start—corralled a defensive rebound in traffic and shoveled the ball to Winslow. The Houston native never quite

Philip Catterall | The Chronicle Senior Quinn Cook posted a team-high 17 points, all of which came in the second half, to lead the Blue Devils past the Yellow Jackets Wednesday.

got control of the ball, bobbling it in midair before launching an outlet pass to Cook down in the corner. The senior drove hard and finished an up-and-under move to push the Duke lead to 51-44.

“Quinn definitely drives to the lanes and he’s the leader of this team, and he never backs down from any situation,” Tyus Jones said. “He has a confidence level like nobody I’ve played with. He’s always confident that he’s going to make the right play whether it’s shooting, passing.... He’s just a leader.”

Georgia Tech scored nine of the next 12 to cut the lead to one, firing up the Yellow Jacket bench. Redshirt freshman point guard Travis Jorgenson slapped the floor repeatedly waiting for Tyus Jones to bring the ball downcourt.

Cook said the floor-slapping didn’t

bother him, but the Blue Devils responded by rattling off a 9-3 run of their own to regain a seven-point lead. Winslow put the exclamation point on the spurt by picking off a cross-court Jorgenson pass and swooping in for a transition dunk.

Georgia Tech head coach Brian Gregory called timeout to stop the bleeding, and the Blue Devils slapped the floor as one when play resumed. It didn’t help, though, as junior Chris Bolden hit a 3-pointer to slice the deficit to four, but Okafor answered back with a step-through post move to make it 65-59.

Yellow Jacket center Demarco Cox kept Okafor off-balance for much of the night— the freshman was forced to take his shots farther away from the basket than normal.

The Chicago native finished with 14 points

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High Point University (1-0) for their season opener. Faceoff is set for noon.

The Panthers were 9-7 in 2014 and are among the favorites to win the Southern Conference this season. Although a young program—2015 marks the team’s third year of competition—eight players with at least10 games of experience last season return to the lineup.

Duke will have to watch out for two key contributors throughout the game—redshirt senior goalkeeper Austin Geisler and junior attackman Dan Lomas.

Geisler ranked second in the nation last season with 13.63 saves per game and was named the 2014 Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year. Lomas—the 2014 Atlantic Sun Offensive Player of the Year—registered 42 goals and six assists during last year’s campaign. In the team’s Feb. 1 season opener against Delaware—a 15-10 victory for the Panthers—Lomas scored five goals and added one assist.

Jones knows that he has to prepare his younger teammates for the matchup. Even with the two national titles under his belt, it comes down to keeping everything in perspective, one game at a time.

“I always have a quote with the guys that yesterday’s goals don’t win tomorrow’s games,” he said. “We’re working hard, so we’re excited and ready to step on the field Feb. 7 against High Point.”

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Junior Deemer Class ranked second for Duke in 2014 with 38 goals and 27 assists for 65 points.

After Saturday’s matchup, the Blue Devils will take the field the following day at Koskinen Stadium for their noon home opener against Air Force. The Falcons will have revenge in mind after last year’s 20-9 loss to Duke in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

Air Force will have to stop Jones this time

around if the team hopes to leave Koskinen victorious. Last year, the Huntington, N.Y., native scored three goals and added five assists in the win. This time around, his leadership may be more pivotal than his individual success.

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on 5-of-12 shooting and played his best down the stretch.

A floater by Bolden trimmed the Duke lead to 67-63 with 1:15 remaining, and Georgia Tech got the ball back after Okafor missed a baseline jumper late in the shot clock. But Matt Jones picked off Marcus Georges-Hunt’s outlet pass, and Cook salted the game away at the free-throw line.

Duke gets a rematch against No. 8 Notre Dame Saturday at 1 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Fighting Irish defeated the Blue Devils 77-73 Jan. 28 in South Bend, Ind. “The league is unforgiving in that there’s so many good teams,” Krzyzewski said. “It wears on you. To be able to win a game in this manner, that’s what keeps you afloat and gets you tournament-ready.”

was able to worry about myself and my development as a player,” Jones said. “This year Coach has gotten on me about saying something to the younger guys when they aren’t doing something right in order to build that trust with those guys. It’s a lot of teaching as opposed to working on my own development.”

Heading into the game, the Blue Devils are riding a 17-game home winning streak. Their last loss at home was March 2, 2013 to thenNo. 1 Maryland 16-7.

The Falcons will look to end that success in the underdog role. Their 11-6 record in 2014—the program’s first winning season since 1997—was the best in school history.

With plans to build off that success to start the season, eight seniors—including team captain Davis Gunter—will seek exploit Duke’s youth Sunday.

Jones warns against underestimating the abilities of his younger Blue Devil teammates, however.

“People are going to be surprised about how good we are with our young talent,” he said.

No matter the level of talent his players may possess, Danowski is reluctant to expect immediate success for his squad.

The two games this weekend will serve as a litmus test heading into a long season.

“It’s going to take a long time,” Danowski said. “This particular team is going to need to play games. We’re going to need to fail.

We’re going to need to lose. We’re going to need to be competitive.”

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the highest average in 25 years.

Free throws are another deficit that needs to be addressed by the Blue Devils. Last game, Duke shot 54 percent from the charity stripe.

But in away games this season, the team is averaging 71 percent from the line, which should bode well for the squad Thursday.

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Greenwell and Johnson played 36 and 35 minutes respectively, not even logging 10 minutes of rest between the two.

“We have gotten in great shape physically from playing those minutes,” McCallie said.

“They are taking full advantage of it.... It’s a lot more fun to play than to sit on the bench.”

Although Wake Forest (10-13, 1-8) has not looked overly impressive, its players will still put up a strong fight, as evidenced by the two teams’ first meeting Jan. 4, in which the Blue Devils barely squeaked out a 70-63 victory.

One player Duke knows it will have to watch out for is senior Dearica Hamby. The Demon Deacon front court star is averaging a doubledouble with 20.2 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. In the first meeting, Hamby was held in check, though, scoring only 11 points on 4-of16 shooting. But McCallie knows duplicating the effort will not be an easy task. “[Hamby] is a great player,” McCallie said.”She is always around the basket, has a nose for the ball. [We have to] contest the high post...or take it to the basket...and know where she is on the court at all times.”

The Blue Devils will look for Elizabeth Williams to lead the way for them. Her last time facing Wake Forest, the senior center scored 18 points, with eight rebounds, five steals and six blocks.

The freshman duo of Azura Stevens and Greenwell will also need to have a strong performance. This season both freshman combined rank as the third-highest-scoring freshman duo— 27.2 points per game.

Although the game is fewer than 30 miles away, it will seem like a world apart in an opposing arena. The Blue Devils will hope to use this chance against Wake Forest to shake of their road game problems and pick up their fourth-straight conference victory.

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he refrain “Me Too” will echo not just across Duke’s campus this weekend, but also college campuses nationwide. The Me Too Monologues production—performed monologues selected from anonymous submissions that draw from individuals’ experiences with matters of identity and belonging on campus—will spread its provoking model to schools like Columbia and Princeton. We are enthusiastic about the expansion of so powerful a production, but we pause here to reflect on the evolution of the monologues and its impact on Duke’s campus.

When it first began in 2009, Me Too centered primarily on issues surrounding race—a focus inspired by founder Priyanka Chaurasia’s experience at Duke’s Common Ground retreat.

The production gave private narratives a public space, offering a counter culture where individuals could submit pieces that went against the traditional grain. Monologues challenged audience members and struck with vulnerabilities revolving around issues of identity that lurked unspoken beneath the surface.

Yet there has been a marked change in the tone and focus of the monologues in recent years.

onlinecomment This doesn’t sound like it was much of a forum at all, but an echo chamber.

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With popularization has come a shift away from what can oftentimes be uncomfortable issues, like race, to issues that already occupy broad platforms in campus discussion. In expanding to instead describe the myriad Duke experiences, the monologues have increasingly gravitated toward issues like body image and mental health. While these topics are vitally important in their own right and should be discussed on campus, they diverge from the production’s original mission.

In this way, Me Too Monologues has become a victim of its own success. A broadened audience has shaped the types of stories in a way to more likely elicit “me too” moments from the audience, which in turn influences the types of submissions in the first place. Popularization, then, has catalyzed a cyclical effect that perpetuates public narratives rather than reveals the hidden private.

We ask, then, what the goals of the monologues are and what impact the production hopes to have on the Duke community. If it is meant to elevate and amplify the voices of those at the fringes—voices often muffled by the dominant campus culture of whiteness and affluence, a culture of hegemonic normativity—then it is important to recognize how the power and voic-

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es of the monologues can replicate existing cultural and social dynamics. Addressing the social isolation that can occur on campus is an intensely important issue, and allowing these common experiences a platform to be heard does, indeed, unite students. However, regurgitating common experiences, even if through uncommon lenses, simply (re)produces the stifling of issues regarding the particularities of identity.

As Me Too Monologues gains traction, its producers should take time to reflect on the purpose and method of conveying campus impact. Recognizing the importance of the power differential between the stories of those who may be marginalized in their multiple identities and those who are common should inform the decisions of the production team. In this vein, developing an advisory group to preserve the power and intent of the production may be beneficial. Yet, the onus falls also on audience members to fully engage with the narratives. The monologues are not voyeuristic exhibition but a call to engage and question with open mind. As you head to the monologues this weekend, engage in the monologues and attend the post-discussions with willingness to be challenged, uncomfortable and vulnerable.

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n the U.S.—where Islam is the third-largest religion and where, by 2030, almost two out of 100 Americans are projected to be Muslims —a growing controversy exists as to whether Islam and American values are compatible with each other.

After the 9/11 attacks, Muslims were portrayed as violent and anti-Western. Fear of Islam grew after the U.S. supported war against the Islamic State group and, most recently, after the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris. Yet, surprisingly for many, Muslims historically have defended our homeland, and America has had a longstanding openness towards Islam.

To begin with, we must understand that radical Islamists account for a tiny, although very vocal, fraction of the over 1.6 billion world Muslim population. In the U.S.—the bastion of religious freedom—Muslims generally represent an ethnically diverse, educated and

Geysar Gurbanov GUEST COLUMN integrated group. And only eight percent of American Muslims believe suicide bombings are sometimes or often justified.

As an example, growing up in post-Soviet Azerbaijan—where religion was banned under the communist rule—my parents allowed me to read both the Bible and the Quran. They explained to me that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believed in the same deity but in distinctive ways just like various branches of Islam have their differences in worshipping God. They also taught me to treat others as I would like others to treat me. And never in my memory had I perceived non-Muslims as infidels.

When I came to the United States as an exchange student in 2004, I lived with a Christian Baptist family.

Seven years later, an American Christian woman gave me shelter and adopted me into her family as her own child. While I continued to practice Islam, I also celebrated Christmas and Easter holidays. Besides, as an American Muslim, I support the absolute equality of all people. I endorse separation of religion and state.

And I believe in freedom of speech.

Nevertheless, on Jan. 16, sitting in the Duke University Chapel during Friday service, where “adhan”—the call for Islamic prayer—had been cancelled because of threats against Muslim students, I could not but wonder about the escalating Islamophobia in our society.

Praying under the guard of undercover officers and policemen, I suddenly felt vulnerable in the U.S. Unfortunately, there is a lot of ignorance about American Muslims.

For starters, Islam is not a new phenomenon in America. In 1776, John Adams, one of our Founding Fathers, praised Prophet Muhammad as a “sober inquirer after truth” in his “Thoughts on Government.”

Twenty-one years later, he signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which declared that the U.S. had “no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility” of Muslims.

Other Founding Fathers—George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson—all defended religious freedom in America. In his autobiography, Franklin wrote that “even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.” In addition, the first country to recognize the United States’ independence in 1777 was Morocco, a Muslim state.

Furthermore, Muslims are not foreigners in the U.S. They are part of our American history. The first Muslims came to America as early as the 16th century. They fought in the Civil War for the Union; they died on the battlefields of World War II fighting against the Nazis, and as Winston Churchill wrote in his letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, “We must not on any account break with the Moslems … the main army elements on which we must rely for the immediate fighting.”

In fact, two of the earliest mosques in the U.S. were built in traditionally conservative states—in North Dakota in 1929 and in Iowa in 1934, where the Muslim National Cemetery in Cedar Rapids is a burial site for American Muslim veterans who perished in World War II. And during the Vietnam War at least 12 American Muslims died for the country.

Moreover, even after the 9/11 attacks, many American Muslims joined the war on terror and, as of 2012, 3,600 Muslims were on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. Muslim tombstones in the Arlington National Cemetery are a reminder of their sacrifice to defend America.

Today, however, by portraying Muslims as existentially evil and anti-American, by presenting Islam as a religion of violence, by burning the Quran and attacking the religious beliefs of Muslims, we are missing an opportunity to reconcile the world’s largest religions.

One way to achieve this goal is to encourage inter-religious dialogue to promote coexistence in the U.S. in the manner our Founding Fathers envisioned it and to educate all people in the spirit of tolerance, love and peace.

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Geysar Gurbanov is a Rotary Fellow at Duke-UNC Chapel Hill Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.

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nyone who knows me will tell you I am more than a little obsessed with Me Too Monologues (MTM). So much of what the show aims to do is analogous to what I try to do with my columns—bring vulnerabilities out in the open, expose what is below the surface. MTM creates a safe space where the toxic effortless perfection myth that dominates Duke culture can be combated through an alternative, more realistic narrative— one that is able to be more honest and open under the protective guise of anonymity.

Elizabeth Howler, an actress in the 2014 show, stated, “A lot of times Duke students project an image that ends up perpetuating our loneliness because we don’t see other people are struggling like we are. I just wanted to be part of a project that helps empower and at the same time humble students.” Amen.

But a lot of times, I think people’s understanding of the show stops there. While I think this is an incredible

Cara Peterson IT’S CALLED A “VICTORY LAP” message to take away— that you are never alone— MTM has more to offer. I personally believe the show’s greatest strength is its ability to reveal the invisibility of privilege.

Allow me to explain this further.

The common understanding is that “privilege” denotes high socioeconomic status. While this is one way of looking at privilege, it does not capture the full truth.

There are numerous forms of privilege including, but not limited to—white privilege, male privilege, cisgender/hetero privilege, ability privilege and Christian privilege. These privileges come with the ability to identify as that which is unmarked or has been labeled the “norm.”

Gloria Steinem, a feminist scholar and advocate, once said, “Whoever is in power takes over the noun — and the norm — while the less powerful get an adjective.

Thus, we read about ‘African American doctors’ but not ‘European American doctors,’ ‘Hispanic leaders’ but not ‘Anglo leaders,’ ‘gay soldiers’ but not ‘heterosexual soldiers.’” Privilege remains invisible because those that hold it are usually unaware of the difference in experiences between those who share this unmarked identity marker and those who do not.

For me personally, I have never given extensive thought to my sexuality because I have never had to “come out” as heterosexual or cisgender. Meanwhile, most LGBTQ individuals remain in the continuous process of “coming out,” to old friends and new, for their entire lives. I have also never thought of myself as having a race. Being white is not something I have ever felt to be very defining. I have never had to worry that wearing a hoodie on the street at night may make others perceive

me as a threat or bring unwanted police attention. I look in the mirror and see a woman staring back, not a white woman or a woman of color, but simply a woman. That sense of unmarkedness is privilege. This privilege can be dangerous, particularly when one thinks the way he or she experience the world is how all others experience the world and that he or she can, therefore, speak for or represent those others and their interests.

This is why it is important that, though anybody in the Duke community can write for the MTM, most of the pieces showcase stories highlighting the impacts of identity markers outside the hegemonic “norm” and allow these experiences to have the spotlight and be documented, acknowledged. Only by creating this consciousness of privilege are we able to begin changing harmful systems. I think it all boils down to this statement by Robert Anton Wilson: “Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.” We do not realize that with different identity markers come different experiences, different worlds, different realities, and this makes it harder to understand.

One of this year’s monologues states, “[I believe that] most people are not purposefully racist, sexist, homophobic— they simply are not aware of how their actions impact others due to the invisibility of privilege.” This contradicts the widespread misconception that for an act to be discriminatory it must be purposefully so. Many of these acts are intentionally harmful, yes, but I think even more occur without the “oppressor” realizing it—perhaps in the form of stereotyping that makes it harder for minorities to get certain jobs and opportunities or microaggressions that chip away at self-worth. We have all played the role of the “oppressor” in one way or another throughout our lives, each and every one of us, because it is impossible to understand the full implications of our actions all the time. It takes effort to educate ourselves on the things our individual assortments of privileges blind us to.

This education begins when we learn to listen. Listening means more than hearing what the other person is saying and waiting for the pauses in which to interject one’s own opinions. It means listening for sake of understanding. Steinem claims the best thing one can do for those who are marginalized is “to listen to them, because you don’t know you have something to say until somebody listens to you” (link). MTM is a great place to start. So I urge you— if one of your friends says they are headed to the show this Thursday, Friday or Saturday, say “me too.”

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am sitting with a group of 4th graders I work with when one of them casually mentions that she is waiting for her dad to bring home her new iPhone 6. This prompts an animated discussion on their part about the trials of the “old” iPhones— iPhone 5s—and the significant increase in quality of life granted by the iPhone 6.

Are you kidding me?

That’s not exactly what I say. Nonetheless, with an incredulous tone and a serious jaw-drop, I ask them why they need an iPhone 6.

They respond with, frankly, all the reasons that I need one.

For talking to friends, calling my mom to let her know I’m alive, and checking Facebook and Instagram.

They ask about my phone, so I show them my iPhone 4 and explain that I didn’t get a smartphone until I graduated.

Their shock comes in two parts.

Graduated, they wonder first, from what?

From what? High school. It’s as if they hope for my sake that I got it at my Pre-K ceremony.

Well what did you have before that? They wonder next.

A non-iPhone. That’s right, kiddos. A phone without internet, that flipped open because I wasn’t nearly cool enough to

Julia Janco ADDING IT ALL UP join Blackberry nation. A phone I received in junior high for safety reasons, to keep in contact with my parents. A phone that had a fifty-text limit each month, so I often resorted to calling my friends on their home phone—I wonder as I mention this whether kids these days even know what a landline is. And it wasn’t until later in high school that I begged and pleaded for a higher texting limit.

I realize that this makes me sound old and perhaps slightly spoiled. I also realize that I am extremely lucky to have received a cellphone—in any form, pre-historic and 2-inches thick or not— and that those older than me wouldn’t have been able to believe it, either.

Every year, we see more and more technological advancements, and today, it seems like people all across our society— my grandmother and I, for example, text on the regular—are hooked on our technology.

So hooked, we are, that quite often there’s no need to be “in the moment” because instead we can experience it from behind the glare of our screens. We can also upload the moment: we can post, tweet, or snap it virtually simultaneously, and just as quickly the rest of the world can enjoy it as well.

I think back to my sophomore year, when I spent Spring Break in the snowy woods of small town West Virginia on a Habitat for Humanity trip. Twenty of us huddled together in a small cabin with bunk beds, one bathroom and no phone service.

Leaving technology behind is freeing. We talk, debate, play old childhood games, occupy our time interacting with each other instead of sitting in the same room half talking, half scrolling through newsfeeds on our screens.

And when something momentous, important, laughable and strikingly beautiful stands in front of us, the reflex to reach into our back pocket is slightly delayed. It’s a moment to be enjoyed and savored and laughed at first, and captured for the public eye second.

Technology is important. It navigates us—and even goes so far as to predict the roadblocks and traffic ahead, answers our endless questions—honestly, what would we do without you Google and Siri?, and allows us to communicate with long lost friends or those living far away—my dad’s third grade class recently reconnected on Facebook. I’ve seen the impacts of computer programs for students in local schools, and have myself made an effort to learn a little more each day, while waiting for a bus or in line at the grocery store, by replacing apps for social media with those for kindle and podcasts.

Despite these benefits—and many, many more—we can’t forget to look up from our screens once in a while. To enjoy the roads we navigate, debate together about the questions we ask, to soak in the view through our own eyes before we look through the lens, to communicate with those sitting around us, right now.

Kids and kids-at-heart, remember the world passes by while we scroll through on our screens. There were days, believe it or not, where we got by just fine without a phone, and you probably won’t miss it as much as you think.

Julia Janco is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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someone’s psychological vulnerability to depression, and if so, how far out in time brain function could predict.”

Swartz’s research is part of the lab’s Neurogenetics study started by senior author Ahmad Hariri, professor in Psychology & Neuroscience, and aims to find genetic and brain markers associated with various mental illnesses.

The study found that individual amygdala responses to stress did predict a person’s higher risk of depression, even four years in the future.

Previous studies have concluded that the amygdala is a predictive biomarker for post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers who were deployed in war-zone combat. Swartz’ research, however, was the first study to demonstrate amygdala’s role in more common stressful life events.

“Rather than severe trauma, we wanted to look at the life events that a lot of people deal with,” Swartz said.

The 753 participants of the study—all Duke undergraduates aged 18 and 22 years old—had to provide genetic data and do an functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan, where they were shown faces with fearful or angry expressions. This measured the amygdala’s response to potentially threatening faces and stress, Swartz explained.

One year later, the participants were asked to fill out an online questionnaire that included a checklist of common life events that they might have experienced and questions about what impact these events had on them.

“Going through a breakup, failing a class, losing a job—those are the types of things that were on the questionnaire and that students experience,” Swartz said.

The follow-ups, which were sent out for several years, determined if an individual was exhibiting symptoms of depression and whether those symptoms correlated with stressful events.

“We found that high amygdala response and high stress led to high levels of anxiety,” she explained.

“There had to be a combination of both.”

Because amygdala reactivity indicates someone’s inherent risk of developing depression or anxiety, a major implication of this study is an increased ability to predict and treat these disorders.

Due to the high expenses of the fMRI scan, Swartz’ team is working on identifying gene markers for amygdala function—a much easier and cheaper tool for analytics. “[Gene markers] would also predict for depression risk,” Swartz explained. “By screening people, we can guide those at risk to seek treatment earlier on, rather than waiting for the problem to get really severe and chronic before they enter treatment.”

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