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Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Freshman Tyus Jones scored Duke’s last nine points in regulation as the Blue Devils stormed back from a seven-point deficit in the final 1:30 to force overtime, eventually defeating No. 15 North Carolina 92-90 in the extra session.

Blue Devils erase late deficit and prevail in overtime behind Jones’ 22 points Nick Martin Sports Editor Tobacco Road—meet Tyus Jones.

Playing what will go down as one of the best of the 239 Tobacco Road rivalry games, No. 4 Duke downed No. 15 North Carolina 92-90 in overtime Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium behind senior captain Quinn Cook’s six 3-pointers and Jones’ late-game heroics. The pair combined for 44 points by the time it was all over.

“I was just trying to make a play. My brothers believe in me when I have the ball in my hands and that gives me all the confidence in the world,” Jones said. “There was a point—I think

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it was 79-72 in a timeout—and [head coach Mike Krzyzewski] told us, ‘We’re going to win this game.’ We believe in everything Coach says. There wasn’t one moment we doubted ourselves. Even down 10, we know there’s a lot of basketball left.”

The Blue Devils (23-3, 10-3 in the ACC) trailed by seven with 1:38 remaining in regulation and seemingly could not buy a bucket—they were 3-of-10 from the field since the eightminute mark. Luckily for them, Jones lives for those kind of moments.

The Apple Valley, Minn., native scored Duke’s next nine points—including the game-tying layup with 27 seconds left—and put the Blue Devils right back in the game. ”He’s got cold blood, he’s got cold blood in his veins. It’s amazing to watch,” Cook said of Jones.

The freshman kept it going in overtime, converting on a layup and finding his backcourt partner Cook for a fast-break layup—Jones’ eighth assist of the game. Cook came through

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moments later with 31.8 seconds remaining, as he converted 1-of-2 free throws to push the Duke lead to 91-89. Twentythree seconds later, the senior sealed it with one more from the charity stripe to give the Blue Devils their final margin of victory in the first overtime game the rivalry has seen since 2004.

“It’s tough for this game to always live up to the hype, but I think tonight’s game exceeded it,” Krzyzewski said. “Every once in a while, one team doesn’t do its part—us or them. But for the most part, both teams come and play at a high, high level. And that’s what happened tonight.”

And as the score indicated, the game was arguably Duke’s hardest-fought of the season.

After opening the first half on a 15-6 tear, the Blue Devils fell flat coming out of halftime and for the first time

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Duke student selected as finalist for Mars expedition Mars One—a nonprofit group that is working to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars—recently announced its 100 finalists out of 200,000 original applicants. One of them is senior Laurel Kaye, a physics major from Long Island, N.Y. Kaye will go through the final round of the application this year to see if she will be one of 24 people chosen to be the first to colonize the Red Planet, in teams of four at a time starting in 2024. The Chronicle’s Georgia Parke sat down with Kaye to talk about her dream of going into space and the path that remains to get there.

so after I had first submitted, so it came as a big shocker.

TC: What aspect of space travel interests you the most?

LK: For me, it’s the scientific discovery, and that’s throughout the entire process. When you’re building the devices that get you from Point A to Point Mars—the last time NASA kicked off the space program, you had all sorts of things like all sorts of medicines, all sorts of medical technology, all sorts of firefighting technology, more advanced comThe Chronicle: What first compelled you to puter systems, so you get a lot of that and apply? Did you originally see it going this far think that’s really exciting that we’re discovor was it a whim at first? ering things like that.

Laurel Kaye: I’ve always wanted to be an And I also just love the idea of new astronaut…. My friend actually shared [the worlds. We don’t know much about it and application] with me on Facebook and that trying to find out more about it, I love the aspect of unknown. We don’t know what we’re was how I first found out about it. The plan had going to find there. We have all these rovers and things that take samples that are being been to go on to get a brought back, we’re just using like asteroids degree or a doctorate that happen to make it to Earth. I just always and then apply to NASA, The second round was a Skype interlove the stars—there’s something sort of ro- view. That was with the chief medical officer but, when I found out, I started thinking mantic and appealing about seeing a huge of the mission, Norbert Kraft. I was told to not let anyone know until this point what about it, and the more starry sky, and then going there. the questions were. They gave study materiI thought about it, the TC: What was the process of applying like? als and I had to learn a lot about Mars and more it seemed like— What have they asked you for? why not? It seems like about the mission…like atmospheric temwhat I’ve always wanted LK: There’s a video, there’s a short descrip- peratures and the highs and lows of pressure to do.… I wasn’t expecttion of yourself and then they had a series of depending on where you are and a lot of ing it, of course, because essay questions and those questions were just science. And they wanted you to learn how they said 200,000 people experiences or challenges that you faced, ex- much oxygen life support machines were applied, so you can’t reperiences where you had to work in a team capable of...of course, they don’t have all ally have high expectaor just other experiences that pushed you these things built yet, but that’s their goal. or difficult times and how you got through I had to remember all these dates of previtions with those kinds them. The video itself asked three ques- ous Mars missions…. Now we have a much of numbers. And they really took a long time in between. I submit- tions. It asked why you want to go to Mars, better sense of the timeline of when we’ve ted [the application] two summers ago, after what your sense of humor is like and why been sending things and which countries my sophomore year, and then I didn’t find you would be a good candidate.… Between have been sending stuff. Then more perout [about the first round] until late Janu- the essays, the little self description and the sonal questions about a specific challenge I ary of last year. It was about six months or video was all they went on in the first round. had faced.

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An interesting question was—Mars One is a one-way mission but he asked me, if they had built a rocket or if they had the means to take me back after getting there, would I go back?

TC: What did you say?

LK: I said no. I would definitely want to go back eventually if it was possible, but if I had worked for a decade or more and spent so much time trying to get there—again, it’s something I think is the coolest thing ever, to have people living on Mars—there’s no reason that I would want to turn around and go back straightaway.

TC: What type of person does it seem they are looking for? Or are they looking for as diverse a group of people as possible?

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Mulch ado about nothing: After being sidelined for legal path redone with gravel concerns, DSGRU returns “There were some legal issues and confidentiality issues that needed to be worked out” Alex Griffith The Chronicle

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle After student complaints, the mulch pathway, pictured above, was covered with gravel.

Kirby Wilson The Chronicle Duke has abandoned the academic quadrangle’s mulch pathway leading to Perkins in favor of a new gravel path.

The mulch pathway was first laid to maintain the water collection of the quad’s 80-yearold oak trees, but has faced drainage problems in recent weeks. After weeks of complaints from students on social media—including Yik Yak and Facebook’s Fix My Campus—the temporary pathway has been changed to gravel.

Few students will miss the mulch.

“Especially after the rain, I find it ridiculous to have to trudge through these mud paths to get to class,” freshman Adriana Santomero said.

The path was laid to allow better navigation of the quad while construction continues on Rubenstein and Perkins Libraries. With Rubenstein closed completely and the main entrance to Perkins closed, the only entrances to the library are now at the end of the quad— through Von der Heyden Pavilion and across from Bostock Library. `But although the path creates a more direct route to Perkins, the logistics of navigating it were not always easy.

Senior Nick Albertson said he recalled a time when he saw a female student attempt to trudge her way through the wet mulch. After finding herself in mud up to her ankles, the student removed her shoes and continued her walk barefoot.

Some students speculated that the mulch was chosen for aesthetic reasons rather than functional ones—noting that even if that were the case, the mulch did not do much to make the quad more visually appealing.

“I would say that the quad aesthetics are pretty disrupted by the construction and the blue fence,” Albertson said. “Also, the mulch they picked smells really bad. When it gets wet it smells like manure.”

Paul Manning, director of the Office of Project Management, said aesthetics were not a concern when the mulch path was first made, instead citing the need for a substance that would allow the trees to absorb water.

Junior Will Gallagher, a member of Fix My Campus, said when he brought his concerns to the administration, they immediately went to check out the area.

“I got an email from [Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects] around two weeks ago, and she couldn’t believe how muddy it was,” he said.

Manning said student concerns brought the issue to his attention. After an attempt to raise the path with a foundation of crushed gravel failed to solve the drainage problem, the switch had to be made to a completelygravel path.

Many students noted that they would like to see a permanent solution for the quad until the construction concludes in Fall 2015.

Anything would be preferable to the current mulch, Albertson said—asphalt, wooden planks or even a different kind of mulch.

Junior Lauren Feilich said she disagreed.

“Why would we need a more permanent solution?” Feilich said. “That’s a waste of valuable paved-path resources.”

Even if the new path has problems, Albertson said, he has learned one thing from the path-to-Perkins ordeal.

“It’s amazing the lengths students will go to to save five seconds on their commute,” he said.

After being temporarily sidelined by questions of legality and privacy, the Duke Student Government Research Unit is back on its feet.

The unit—founded last semester—began the semester with a set of six topics to study assigned by the DSG Senate. But administrators’ concerns about students’ handling of confidential data and the difficulty of information acquisition led to a delay in DSGRU operations. After careful examination by the administration, however, the unit has official approval to conduct campus research.

The University did not let DSGRU begin its research immediately because administration wanted to solidify its institutional data policy under new Provost Sally Kornbluth, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education.

“There were some legal issues and confidentiality issues that needed to be worked out,” said Nowicki. “Our new provost wanted to get together with various senior administrators to make sure that we had a full understanding of what the policies and practices needed to be, and that was organized when DSGRU requested some data in December.

There are institutional data that we don’t have the legal right to reveal, and there are also privacy issues with institutional data.”

DSGRU Director Kshipra Hemal, a junior, noted that DSGRU makes sure to comply with all of the University’s rules on data gathering.

“There are a variety of concerns associated with collecting data on students,” Hemal wrote in an email Tuesday. “That’s why we made it a point to comply with all of the Institutional Review Board’s requirements necessary for conducting research responsibly. Research conducted by DSGRU is being held to the same standard as any other research on campus.”

Nowicki noted that the institutional review board plays an essential role in regulating the publication of collected data. Part of the IRB’s job is to ensure that all data from human subjects that could be publicly shared meets a number of standards—ensuring that individuals’ privacy is protected and that they fully understand what they are consenting to when they participate in anything that could be construed as a study.

“To the extent that the DSGRU wanted to

make data public, for example, in collaboration with faculty or for various research projects, they would have to be approved by the IRB,” Nowicki said.

There are six studies currently being undertaken by DSGRU—research into Student Organization Finance Committee funding, DSG demographics, the first-year food plan, the ongoing curriculum review, the independent housing model and selective living group and greek recruitment, Hemal said.

Because these research topics involve several sensitive topics—such as student finances—making sure that DSGRU’s studies are conducted under IRB supervision and review is important to both the ethicality and the validity of the studies, she noted.

Hemal added that acquiring data was also a problem faced by DSGRU during its first attempts to do research.

“Since our research spans across many campus entities from the registrar’s office to housing [and] dining, it was hard to come up with a coherent system for requesting data that applied to all the offices at Duke,” she wrote.

Shared interest in DSGRU studies between students and administrators will help the unit acquire its data in the future, Nowicki said.

“It’s great that students are interested in this range of issues, and the best way to do this is in partnership with the units which are doing this [research], which in general are interested in the same sort of issues,” Nowicki said. “Having student government interest in data analysis means that we can work in partnership with student government rather than be siloed separately.”

When DSGRU was founded by a DSG resolution in September, much of the dialogue centered on the need for DSG to have data backing their policies and decisions.

“There wasn’t enough data in everyday discussions which were based upon qualitative observations,” junior Abhi Sanka, DSG’s executive vice president, told The Chronicle in September. “We didn’t have reports behind the decisions we made and so I felt this void needed to be filled with a policy making process that included statistical evidence and data to make decisions.”

Nowicki added that part of his role is to ensure that the research is conducted effectively with maximum collaboration between interested parties.

“The students’ interest in [these studies] is overlapping with administrative interest across different units,” said Nowicki. “So part of my job in this is to do some air traffic control and get the DSGRU connected with the right unit that is interested in a particular issue.”

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continued from page 2 LK: I think it’s more [the diverse group].

In looking at the other people who are out there running, they have doctors, they have artists, they have writers. They do have a lot of tech-y people and science-y people, but at least 25 percent of the people are a little bit into different things and able to bring a different perspective to the project. I’m curious to see…once they pick the people who are actually fit and mentally capable and psychologically sound what that [group] will be composed of, whether that will be more tech-y people or even less. I think looking for interesting people and people that are capable.

TC: What’s next for you to get to the final round?

LK: They’ve been sort of vague about it, but what they said is that there’s going to be

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training now. There’s going to be physical training and mental training and a lot of teamwork and assessment. What they said is that a good individual, that’s something.

But it’s really important if you’re living and working with three other people you need to get along with those people and work well with those people. It will be more challenges, whereas so far it’s been interviews and essays and videos… I don’t know what form that will take or when it will happen. I was told I would find out in the next couple of months more about it. It’s a little vague at the moment.

TC: Do you feel like the project has enough resources and support to make it really happen?

LK: I think they have a very ambitious timeline. I don’t know if it will happen in ten years. They’re going to send a lot of unmanned [missions], to send a lander and an orbiter. I think, if I see that happen, I’ll be more convinced about the timeline.

I do think that it will happen eventually,

though, in some form. I don’t think necessarily that it will be the same exact form as what they have because technology will change, people will change, budgets will change, so I think that it will look very different.

But this group has gotten much further than any group has before so far. I don’t know enough honestly about the economics of it all to really know exactly how it will all work, but I know that it’s sort of chancy.

It has a lot of moving parts, but I’m very hopeful for it.

TC: And once they have the set of people, I bet a lot more awareness will be raised for it and people can rally behind those names to get out there.

LK: That’s what I’m hoping for. One of the statistics they have is how much money the Olympics raised in a single day of viewing.

If they had that sort of audience like watching the Olympics we could fund it, and if we send people into space, every single person across the world with a television

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TC: What has been the reaction by your friends and family when they saw how far this has gotten for you?

LK: From my friends, complete enthusiasm. I was shocked by how enthusiastic they were. For me it was like, oh, I’m definitely going to apply to Mars, that’s what I’ve always wanted to do. And they were so behind me, which was nice. Every time I’ve made it further and further they’ve all been really really happy.

My family started out very enthusiastic and now they’re definitely very happy that I’m happy but they’re starting to be worried just about the safety risks of it all, because it’s something that nobody has ever done before and there is a lot of unknown.

But I don’t want to step foot on a space shuttle if it hasn’t been tested at least a half a thousand times.

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I love the Internet. More specifically, I love using it to discover news shortly after it occurs. It’s a quick, convenient and thorough way to survey the current state of affairs in our world. In this way the Internet brings people together as we read and converse about similar topics, discussing ideas and nuances in opinion that we would not have without the digital fountain of information.

While promoting cohesiveness, it simultaneously promotes individuality on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, where people follow those who interest them.

That being said, the Internet can make imitation somewhat easier. After perusing enough Pitchfork articles, someone could probably come up with enough genre blends, snarky lines and sonic landscapes to at least sound like a music writer. All in all, though, the Internet is a wealth of information, and imitation is often the first step in creating something original.

While perusing the Internet the other day, I saw a trending topic proclaiming a kind of digital dark age, presumably where we would lose a great majority of our digital information and be thrust into barbarism. Upon further investigation, I found the event that triggered a slew of articles from multiple sources was simply the vice president of Google discussing an almost hypothetical situation. Basically, he described how all new software must be compatible with old software, but that this compatibility comes at the expense of the technology. Eventually, in the distant future, compatibility may be sacrificed to gain a competitive edge, and we may lose important quantities of information. While an interesting concept, it certainly did

not warrant media outlets compelling readers to print out all of their cherished pictures and important documents. Still, this type of yellow journalism is certainly not a modern phenomenon.

Much more interesting, I think, is this story’s reflections of the difficulties of modern specialization of skills. To be effective, well-learned citizens of society, we use technologies and believe ideologies that we do not fully understand. Most of us do not truly understand the technologies that bring us the information that affect our opinions, thoughts and beliefs.

Granted, technological knowledge can be pretty superficial, but it also reflects a deeper failure of not having the time to truly comprehend and empathize with others’ ideas. Could I actually understand the entirety of an idea developed by an executive who spends nearly all his waking moments pondering the nuances of his field?

Perhaps I could grasp the idea’s broad overview and general concept, but I could never do so at the level of an expert. Could I be convinced to action by someone who has slightly twisted the idea to fit their ulterior motive, such as sensationalism or publicity?

Possibly.

As a person who designs the layout for the print edition of the arts section of The Chronicle, it is very easy for me to call for a greater emphasis on the hard copy of our newspaper. I don’t mean this in an old-fashioned or traditionalist way, but practically speaking, I believe the paper edition of The Chronicle helps bring the Duke community together. Most of our traffic comes from people who see articles on social media—which is

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Also, the print edition focuses all Duke news in one place. All of it is more relatable and understandable, with primary sources usually readily available if a reader wants to look more into a story. As a result it acts as a catalyst of campus discourse. Of course, the online edition serves the same purpose; however, under the guise of anonymity, many commenters seem to contribute to discussions without thinking, thus hurting the overall dialogue.

I hope The Chronicle continues to grow in the digital realm, but I don’t think this means the print edition should be written off. All newspapers could benefit from increased support for hard copies, but publications continue to push “digital first” as if the Internet was created last year, and as if they believe that they are getting ahead of the curve by developing online features. A greater emphasis on a print edition might mean features such as print exclusives or more aggressive distribution. However, I don’t think these developments need to come at the expense of the growth of our digital version.

In a changing world it might seem weird to re-develop an old medium, but overall it could help bring this school together. Regardless, we won’t know unless we try.

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Renowned artists to present dance collaboration Stephanie Wu Campus Arts Editor This Friday, one of today’s foremost jazz musicians and choreographers will team up for a premiere performance of dance and music.

World-renowned musician Jason Moran, a MacArthur Fellow and GRAMMY award nominee, is an acclaimed pianist who most recently wrote the score for the film Selma.

In 1999, he formed the band, Bandwagon, a jazz trio with drummer Nasheet Waits and bass player Tarus Mateen—a band which he dreamed up when still in college. Since the band’s inception, Moran and the Bandwagon have become well-recognized and wellregarded in the jazz world.

“Jason has for the last 10 or 15 years been one of the leading jazz musicians in the world,” Aaron Greenwald, Executive Director of Duke Performances, said.

Both Moran and his collaborator, Ronald K. Brown, began their careers young. Brown knew since childhood that he wanted to grow up to be a dancer, and he even founded his own dance company, Evidence, at age 19.

“Ron K. Brown is really a kind of visionary choreographer who for the last 25 years has been choreographing work of leading dance companies in the world,” Greenwald said.

Collaborating with Brown, who currently works with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the program will begin with Brown’s “Grace,” which not only involves wonderful dancing but also has a “palpable, spiritual quality,” as Greenwald describes it, and develops as an abstract narrative that follows a group of people on a journey. Then, Moran and his band will play live music this Friday for the world debut of Brown’s “The Subtle One,” which will conclude the program.

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Greenwald elaborated, “Ron uses a very interesting African American movement vocabulary that is drawn as much from ritual dance in Africa as well as social dance in the United States, as well as being filtered through the history of American modern dance.”

In Brown’s words, he describes the essence of his dance choreography as “storytelling.”

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straightforward narrative. Brown’s association with modern dance on the outset may seem intimidating. After all, the public perception of modern art forms is largely that they are abstract and impossible to understand—as we have seen with many famous modern artists who have repeatedly raised debates surrounding the question, “What is art, anyway?”—However, despite the modern, abstract quality of Brown’s choreography, they are incredibly welcoming to a willing audience.

“The movement [in the dances] is accessible.

It feels like something that is deeply rooted,” Greenwald said. “Jason is also really clearly a modern artist, so he believes in abstraction.

But, again, it’s not an abstraction that leaves you scratching your head—it’s an abstraction that I find inviting. It’s abstract because there’s an opportunity for the audience to interpret it in different ways, or to interpret it at all.”

Tomorrow, the Duke and Durham community has the opportunity to discover and interpret Brown and Moran’s collaborative performance, one that is not only full of energy, but also of world-class caliber.

The performance will be Fri., Feb. 20 and Saturday Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at Duke Performances website or at the box office.

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Dillon Fernando The Chronicle Fifty Shades of Grey. Need I say more?

To be perfectly clear, the uber-erotic, sadistic masterpiece adapted from the E.L. James novel was not something I wanted to see during my Valentine’s Day weekend. However, when you’re a single guy and three of your female friends suggest dragging you to the film for a “Galantine’s Day,” I could not help but throw myself at the occasion. But even

though that eventually fell through, I had already sold my soul to writing this article, so I reluctantly ended up having to see it anyways.

I mosied on down to Northgate mall with a female friend—who I had bribed with a free ticket—on a Sunday night.

After purchasing tickets and waiting 20 minutes past the official showtime for the movie to flicker on, one lady–– furious at the late start––proceeded to repeatedly scream, “I WANNA SEE DA SEXY.” And on that note, my Fifty Shades movie-going experience began.

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For those of you new to the world of Fifty Shades, let me provide for you the Sparknotes premise. A college student named Anastasia Steele conducts an interview with the mysteriously charming, youthful billionaire Christian Grey. Grey ends up seducing Steele–– but there is a catch! Mr. Grey is sexually interested in Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM) or BDSM. Invoking the words of the great Rihanna, chains and whips excite him.

But what’s more, Grey wants the whole relationship to be based on the premise that he is the “dominate” individual inflicting the pain on the “submissive” Steele. Essentially, the movie is Steele’s struggle with whether to accept this sort of relationship.

From a technical standpoint, I found the film’s cinematography for most of the plot to be pretty one-dimensional. Most of the scenes involved Grey and Steele talking and the camera focusing on the person talking while the other was out of focus. However, the sex scenes were captured pretty sensuously––which for a movie of this reputation would likely be desired by audiences. As an added bonus, we get a top view of the couple canoodling from Grey’s ceiling mirror with a generous display of muscles. As expected, some of scenes saturated with BDSM were cringe-worthy.

I understand that the intent with Steele’s characterization is that the virgin, innocent, girl-next-door is getting seduced by this big-time billionaire, but I felt that Dakota Johnson’s portrayal was perpetually nervous and hesitant.

However, Johnson takes the role to a point that goes from a-dork-able to sometimes just plain forced. Johnson’s “emotional pleas” were more like inflection-less suggestions. On the other hand, Dornan succeeds in becoming a sexually-dominating Adonis. The movie also had a comedic aspect to it.

The awkward dialogue is like comical repartee and some of the foreplay is just funny. However, the movie embraces this goofiness to an extent. It attempts to have various subliminal symbols that just end up being cheesy. For example, at the beginning of the film, Grey gives Steele a pencil which Steele proceeds

to sensually bite. I’m sorry, but if that’s her idea of giving pleasure, you can count me out. The audience roared in agreement as well.

Along with its explicitly sexual nature, Fifty Shades has also received backlash for promoting domestic violence and female abuse. Fifty Shades appears to be technically sound: Grey openly negotiates the terms and conditions of his sexual relationship with Steele.

Also, Grey does not explicitly force Steele to agree to the contract; Grey discloses literally every five minutes that Steele doesn’t have to continue with the relationship.

I’m all for every individual expressing their sexuality in the means that is most authentic to themselves, and if that involves BDSM, so be it. However, my issue comes with the language that Grey uses in this contract. By signing the contract, Steele agrees to be the submissive one and Grey her dominate. She cannot touch him, and only he can initiate the sexual activity. If Steele actively chooses this lifestyle, so be it, but a woman should not feel pressured to relinquish all of her rights and opportunities for other experimentations to be in a sexual relationship.

I asked my friend who accompanied me to the film for her thoughts. She felt that the sex was somewhat enticing, but that Steele was doing it for the wrong reasons. She was engaging in BDSM because she fell in love with Grey, not because she wanted to express her sexuality in such a way. In fact, Steele repeatedly notes that she wishes they could sleep in the same bed and that she could touch him like normal couples do. However, Fifty Shades of Grey finds redemption in the fact that the film follows Steele over Grey. By focusing on her, the film can be perceived as her exploration of a relationship rather than a true subjugation.

The verdict? See this movie if you want soft-core porn fun for the whole family minus the children. If you’re looking for hard-core porn, stick with your computer. If you want a story of romance, look elsewhere. But, if you’re looking for a raunchy and kinky tale to drag your partner to––ding, ding, ding––you have a winner.

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ANATOMY OF A COMEBACK

Amrith Ramkumar Beat Writer Back on Feb. 8, 2012, Duke silenced a capacity crowd at the Dean E. Smith Center with a 10-point comeback the final 2:38. No one seemed have a great explanation as to how the Blue Devils escaped a team that was dominating them in the paint 42-14 and on the glass 42-35.

“I’ve never seen an arena stunned like that,” Seth Curry said after that game.

A little more than three years later, Duke did it again to its arch-rival. Except this time, the lasting images were not of a step-back, buzzer-beating 3-pointer, an inopportune tipin by North Carolina underneath its own basket or utter disbelief from the home crowd.

Instead, the final 3:17 of regulation Wednesday night was defined by the Blue Devils playing small ball, another brilliant performance by a true freshman for the second time in four years against the same team and the relief of fans who were silenced late in the first half.

Just as it did during Duke’s comeback three years ago, it all started with a key rebound leading to a timely 3-pointer. Instead of Tyler Thornton on the finishing end, this time it was Justise Winslow knocking down the spurt-igniting shot. The swingman converted his first field goal in more than 15 minutes of play following a baseline drive from Tyus Jones—the game’s hero—but the play was all

Emma Loewe | The Chronicle The Blue Devils looked dead in the water in the closing minutes Wednesday, but a furious comeback left Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor celebrating after the final buzzer.

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set up by a defensive rebound.

It may not seem like much, but Jahlil Okafor’s rebound was huge, with North Carolina rebounding more than 40 percent of its misses during the game and scoring 21 second-chance points—almost all of which contributed to the team’s 62 points in the paint.

After that board, Duke got out in transition to find Winslow on the wing after scoring just 18 points in the half’s first 16:53, utilizing the small lineup that engineered late comebacks

against St. John’s and No. 2 Virginia.

“It opens it up,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of the lineup. “Part of the comeback was Jah being able to go oneon-one and then we started driving. But you can’t do that with another big in.”

Then, as was the case during the memorable 2012 comeback, Duke was in rally mode and used a timeout to start extending the game.

In the timeout, Krzyzewski told his team it was going to win, but the next possession

probably made him one of the few people watching who believed that.

The Blue Devils’ magical run hit the first of many roadblocks when North Carolina swingman J.P. Tokoto—who had 15 points, eight rebounds and seven assists—knocked down a jumper to push the lead back to nine with 2:40 left.

Winslow and Okafor teamed up again to come up with a quick response, though, as the center fed the Houston native for a two-handed jam. Playing small continued to pay dividends when Duke forced a miss from Preseason ACC Player of the Year Marcus Paige—who went just 2-of-11 for five points— and sophomore guard Matt Jones snagged the rebound with 1:50 left.

The DeSoto, Texas, native was just getting started with his glue-guy moments.

After Winslow took advantage of another driving lane and got fouled, he missed both free throws—part of Duke’s woeful 16-of-31 effort from the charity stripe—but Jones was there to save the day. The 6-foot-5 guard exited a scrum under the hoop with the ball, and after a Tyus Jones missed triple and a Winslow offensive rebound, the Blue Devils’ poised point guard drove in for two to cut the lead to five with 1:25 left.

Many will forget Matt Jones’ contribution, but the hug he received from forward Amile See Comeback on Page 12

Women’s Lacrosse

Duke meets Wildcats looking to reverse fortunes Jack Dolgin Beat Writer After cruising to three wins to kick off the 2015 campaign, the Blue Devils face their first heavy battle this season, one that will require all the artillery and backups at their disposal.

No. 8 Duke hits the road to take on perennial championship contender No. 5 Northwestern Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Accelerated No. 8 Center in Northbrook, Duke vs.

Ill. With the Wildcats having won the past No. 5 Northwestern 11 matchups between the two teams—datTHURSDAY, 4 p.m. ing back to 2006—the Accelerated Center Blue Devils hope their early season success will propel them to snap the streak.

“These first three games have been great preparation, just going into bigger opponent, bigger name,” senior midfielder Katie Trees said. “Whenever you’re playing in a different environment, it always brings an added element of surprise and not knowing what’s going to happen.”

Duke (3-0) enters the game having just

braved 22-degree temperatures and gusty winds Sunday against Navy, but the Windy City is a different animal. Located on the banks of Lake Michigan, Lakeside Field—Northwestern’s on-campus lacrosse facility—gets its name for a reason, and game-time temperatures are projected at a brisk 3 degrees Fahrenheit, not including the 12 mph winds.

Instead of facing the full force of the elements, the Blue Devils and Wildcats will take their talents inside at the Accelerated Center, located a few miles from the Evanston, Ill., campus. It is the only Northwestern home game scheduled to be played there this season.

Although Duke will not have to face the added obstacle of frigid weather, it will take another strong performance from the entire roster to take down the Wildcats.

Even this early into the season, the Blue Devils have stepped up and stood out. Kyra Harney earned Inside Lacrosse Rookie of the Week honors for her three goals and two assists in two games last weekend, and the ACC named junior Kelsey Duryea its Defensive Player of the Week. The goalkeeper leads the conference with just 4.64 goals allowed per contest.

In addition, with the graduation of team leader Taylor Virden last year, Trees, Brigid Smith, Taylor Trimble and Kerrin Maurer have proven worthy new senior leaders.

The Blue Devil offense has been balanced through three games, as six players have found the back of the net at least five times. Trimble leads the way in the scoring department with seven goals, Smith ranks third in the ACC in assists per game and Maurer has built on a strong junior campaign—when her 87 points ranked eighth in the nation—with six goals and three assists through three games.

On the other end of the field is a Northwestern team that has reached the NCAA semifinals 10 years in a row. The success blossomed at the hands of Duke in 2006, when the Wildcats beat the Blue Devils 11-10 in double-overtime in the national semifinals.

From there, Northwestern would win seven titles in eight seasons while Duke would lose four consecutive years in the semifinals.

The Blue Devils have lost all 10 subsequent meetings to the Wildcats.

“Northwestern is a great opponent, they always have been,” Trees said. “It’s always a great See W. Lacrosse on Page 12

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Senior Katie Trees will look to add to her four goal total Thursday when the Blue Devils travel to take on No. 5 Northwestern.

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Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Senior captain Quinn Cook drilled six 3-pointers—five of them coming in the first half—to power the Blue Devil long-range attack in his final home game against North Carolina.

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all evening, the Tar Heels (18-8, 8-5) took the lead on a J.P. Tokoto reverse slam dunk. The junior entered the game with three made field goals in his past three games but broke out of his slump with 15 points.

Following an Amile Jefferson layup with 18:20 remaining, Duke went 0-for-6 with two turnovers and North Carolina took off on a 13-0 run. The Tar Heels snagged three of their 19 offensive rebounds during that time. But just like they did in the first half, the Blue Devils—led by their captains—weathered the storm.

After scoring seven points in the first 20 minutes, Jefferson poured in six in the opening seven minutes of the second half, including a four-point stretch to break North Carolina’s run and swing the momentum back to Duke.

Enter Cook. The senior guard knocked down his sixth 3-pointer of the night with 11:12 remaining in the game to close the gap to one for the Blue Devils.

Coming into the game, much was made of the matchup between Cook and Jones and the Marcus Paige-led Tar Heel backcourt. But it was clear from the start Duke was going to get the better of the North Carolina guards. The Blue Devil tandem went for 44 points opposed to just seven combined points from Tar Heel starters Paige and Justin Jackson.

“I watch a lot of film on [Paige]. He’s one of my favorite players to watch. He puts on shows,” Cook said. “It was a great challenge and my teammates helped me a lot. But we’ve got to see him again.”

Cook had 15 first-half points, but he was not alone in securing the early lead for Duke.

Freshman Justise Winslow led the charge in the early going, using his size advantage on Tokoto to convert on a stepback

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game when we play them, so I think it’s just going to come down to who really wants to win, and who has more heart.”

In its first game, Northwestern (2-0) struggled against an unranked Southern California team that finished 9-9 last season, starting in a 7-0 hole. Still, the Wildcats dug out of it and won the game 12-11 in overtime, powered by four goals and two assists from standout freshman Selena Lasota in her first collegiate game.

Northwestern then took on No. 7 and always-competitive Virginia, scoring six times and emerging victorious as thirdyear starting goalkeeper Bridget Bianco only allowed five.

Although Northwestern may have had to exert more energy playing two tougher opponents, it enters with plenty of experience under its belt. By con-

jumper after posting up and then driving past the junior to get the bucket. Jones found Winslow two possessions later on a lob to the rim which the Houston native converted easily. Winslow had six points in the first 4:04.

But it was the sharp-shooting of the Blue Devils’ lone senior that provided Duke with the double-digit cushion it enjoyed for much of the half.

Cook may have downplayed the storyline of the game being his final against the Tar Heels at Cameron, but the senior captain’s first-half play said otherwise. Cook was nearly automatic from downtown, draining five 3-pointers and locking down Paige on defense.

North Carolina, however, would not stay quiet the entire half, thanks to its big men.

After trailing 23-13 with 13:08 following a Cook trey, the Tar Heels spent the next seven minutes chipping away at the Duke lead. Brice Johnson—one of North Carolina’s athletic forwards—led the charge with 12 points and helped the Tar Heels whittle the lead down to six with 7:42 remaining in the half.

Duke once again got some breathing room, extending its lead to nine, but it was short-lived, as by the 4:54-mark a fast-break dunk

by Tokoto and a 3-pointer from Paige had closed the gap to four.

With 3:33 remaining before intermission, Duke got a major scare. After missing on a spin hook, Jahlil Okafor’s left foot came on Joel James’ foot and the Blue Devil big man fell to the floor. After spending several minutes on the court, Okafor was helped off and taken to the locker room. The Chicago native returned to the game just before the break, playing the entire second half and finishing with 12 points and 13 rebounds.

“I was scared for him. You never want to see your brother hurt,” Cook said. “But he’s tough, so I wasn’t surprised he fought through it. He told us he’ll be ready Saturday.”

Duke hosts Clemson Saturday at 4 p.m.

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trast, Duke has had little trouble playing against three small-conference foes.

In this battle between two perennial titans, Duke will hope to expose what has been the most glaring blemish on its opponent’s resume— losing draw controls 25-15 to its two opponents. Although the sample size is small, the Wildcats have also shot only 40.9 percent compared to their opponents’ 44.4 percent.

To leave the Windy City with a win, Duke will need to shut down Northwestern’s leading scorers and offensive threats, Lapota and senior Kara Mupo. The two have combined for 11 of the Wildcats’ 18 goals, their only two assists and more than half of their shots on goal.

“I have no doubt that those who are matched up on [Lapota] will do really, really well, and even as a unit collectively, will help her out whenever we need slides,” Trees said. “We’ve been playing awesome defense together… and hopefully [the game] swings in our favor.”

Jefferson in the ensuing timeout showed how big the extra possession was.

What made it bigger was what happened next.

Tar Heel center Kennedy Meeks—who his head coach Roy Williams said is the “best passer I’ve ever had” in outlet-pass situations—overthrew Paige on a long pass going for the dagger, giving Duke the ball back underneath North Carolina’s basket.

Although Tyus Jones committed one of his career-high six turnovers on the next play, Meeks’ errant pass inbounds pass was the first hint that the Blue Devils could realistically be on the verge of another epic comeback—and another devastating Tar Heels collapse.

Sophomore guard Nate Britt—a 90.2 percent foul shooter who had missed just five free throws all year—then missed the front end of a one-and-one. Five seconds later, Tyus Jones cashed in by knocking down a pair of free throws to cut the lead to three with 1:16 to play.

Just as in 2012, in a little more than two minutes, Duke found new life to set the stage for its point guard.

Jones took over like he has so often this season, driving hard into the chest of Joel Berry II for an old-fashioned three-point play after North Carolina forward Brice Johnson made two free throws with 47 seconds left. The Tar Heels’ latest five-point lead lasted all of seven seconds after Jones’ seventh point in 45 seconds cut the lead to two for the first time since the 8:29 mark.

“Sometimes he would rather have someone else do it, but when he took the wheel, the car finished in first place,” Krzyzewski said.

After Johnson missed the front end of a one-and-one, Jones came up big yet again, using a Winslow screen to swoop into the paint for an uncontested layup. A game that seemed over just 1:56 earlier was suddenly tied.

And as was the case in 2012, no one really had the words to describe the way it happened or the emotions of its aftermath.

After a Paige miss before the buzzer, the Tobacco Road rivals went to overtime for the first time since 2004. The Blue Devils played their small lineup throughout the extra session to gain the upper hand, but could not close it out entirely by going 3-of-9 from the free throw line. Senior Quinn Cook— who had missed just six foul shots all year—missed a pair of freebies that kept North Carolina alive, but the Tar Heels could not convert a purposefully missed free throw by Britt on the game’s final play.

After another unlikely comeback that will be etched into the history of the storied rivalry, Duke had shown the fortitude to come up with a win and give the thousands of screaming fans courtside and millions watching around the world a breather.

By the end, they all had one thing in common.

“They [saw] how big this rivalry is and why it’s the greatest rivalry in sports,” Tyus Jones said.

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Sophomore Kennedy Meeks reacts as the Tar Heels saw a late 79-72 lead disappear in the final 1:30 of Wednesday’s game.

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he deadline for sophomores to declare their majors looms as March 6 draws nearer, raising questions like “Is this major enough?” or “Should I declare something else?” The programs you declare lay the foundations for your academic journey at Duke, and, so, today we reflect on how students choose their majors, minors and certificates and explore what is important in ensuring the combinations therein are intellectually beneficial to students.

Duke allows students to declare a combination of up to three programs. Ever the overachievers, students tend to consider a rigid schedule of courses before considering a program’s actual value because of the allure of a rigorous combination. As always, credentialism drives students to add programs to take “full” advantage of Duke’s allowance. Exacerbating this ambition is the fear that not adding programs might render one’s resume less competitive for internships, jobs or graduate schools though adding them may actually do more harm than good. Such pressures are not a healthy foundation for a vibrant academic culture.

The drawbacks of cramming credentials are manifold: On one hand, taking on a requirement-heavy combination can problematize academic explora-

tion through electives. Be it simply the reduction of free slots available for classes pursued out of pure interest rather than fulfilling a major or graduation requirement across eight semesters—a biology major taking an astronomy course, for example—intense program combinations reduce curriculum diversity by cordoning off 20 courses or even 30 for some combinations. Fewer free electives effectively means fewer exposures to other subjects, a deficiency that even the newly revamped MCAT tells us is not rewarded.

Moreover, some students accept this challenge and resign themselves to several overloaded semesters of five or six courses. While this is good for requirement check boxes, repeated overloading can leave GPAs, friends, extracurriculars and happiness levels hurting after multiple semesters. Furthermore, overloading causes students to spread themselves too thin, providing a surface breadth of understanding but hardly the depth and rigorous comprehension merited. Grasping too many programs risks loosening your grip on each. Do not be afraid to tone down a second major or third program. If a student’s academic plate is full for the wrong reasons, doing less could very well be doing more.

Still, taking on additional programs beyond a

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single major can be commendable if done for the right reasons. Many students stand to increase their breadth of knowledge across fields with “passion minors,” diversify skillsets by drawing from multiple fields, complement their primary subject with another like history or political science or innovate by creatively blending disciplines—medicine and sociology, for example. These motivations produce better intellectuals and more driven life-long learners, making the work of additional programs an enriching experience instead of a source of stress, particularly the customized work of interdepartmental and Program II majors.

Any professor or professional will tell you that your particular program combination will not dictate your long-term career or life prospects, so pick the combination of majors, minors and certificates that fits you. And for first-years, we recommend asking an upperclassman if they wished they had taken more interesting and exciting courses using their free electives; you might save yourself some common regrets of unnecessarily overcommitting. Duke should be about learning well, with passion and interest fueling our academic decisions. Ultimately, if you decide to add a major or minors and certificates, feel free to do so, but with the right reasons in mind.

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applied under Duke’s Early Decision program like 38% of my class. Apparently there was something that seemed pretty cool about this “gothic wonderland,” but to be honest I had no idea what I was getting into. My perception of Duke was shaped by a couple visits to the university and a total of three hours actually spent on campus where we didn’t even see the campus I would spend my first year on.

I did know a couple things. I knew I wanted college sports presence—those cheesy teen movies must have gotten to me, I knew I wanted to go somewhere pretty highly ranked—don’t like act like you didn’t—and I knew I wanted to be somewhere where the weather was pretty mild. So, as I’m sure you guessed, this brought me to one conclusion: Stanford University.

But, who are we kidding? I wasn’t going to get

Dillon Patel IT’S CASUAL... into Stanford—as much we like to think we are right in line with our Californian friends across the country. Anyways, I decided to apply early decision to Duke and like most of you, penned those reasons in my “Why Duke?” essay for Guttentag and the gang to peruse. So now, more than three years after high school me wrote about his future aspirations, I thought I might be fun to venture back. Here goes nothing.

“As I walked across the Duke Gardens, up Chapel Drive, and into Craven Quad, I could already tell this was a walk I could get used to. [I think I’ve walked up Chapel Drive a total of three times. I have however spent a surprisingly large amount of time in gardens, but only “surprising” compared to the zero times the average Duke student visits the gardens each semester.]

I could hear the sounds of political debates complemented by impending cheers of a nearby tennis match. I began my college search in this very place, making a quick stop to a nearby school marked with a terrible shade of blue, before making my way to the Northeast. However, each time I visited other schools, all I could think was how they never seemed to compare to Duke. [Wow, I was quite the kiss-a**, but this part was basically true, except the whole section about political debates and a tennis match.

I visited in the middle of summer so I’m guessing I might have improvised a tad there. Okay, maybe more than a tad.]

I could just see myself meeting with the Chanti-

cleer staff over in the Flowers Building then grabbing lunch at the beautiful West Union, all before my Macro-Economics class. [Looking back at this essay three years later, I can’t help but love this line the most. First, I don’t know how I even knew what the Chanticleer was as a high school senior. I’m not even sure if they still exist now. Also, the thought of grabbing lunch at the West Union seems ridiculous comical anytime in the near future. Eventually, Duke is going to have to add “have been to West Union,” on the list of unofficial graduation requirements. Finally, the idea of looking forward to Macroeconomics is simply laughable.]

At first I wasn’t sure what it was, but this place just felt right—maybe it was just the Duke charm or maybe it was something else. I admire the vast array of diverse activities and campus traditions, from tailgating football games to tenting for Carolina games and maybe even spending weekend at the lemur center. [I have never tented for a Carolina game. I have never been to the lemur center, and thinking about the possibility of experiencing “real tailgate” just makes me sad. However, I am currently in the walk up line for the Carolina game so I didn’t totally give up on my “dreams”].”

I’ll save you the pain of reading the final few paragraphs of my Duke Admission a**-kissing and copy pasted version of why I would be a great fit at [insert University name here].

While most of my “Why Duke?” is painfully laughable, it has somehow led me to the right place.

While I may never have tented for a Carolina game or joined the mysterious Chanticleer, I have spent a solid number of nights bracing the K-Ville elements for big match-ups. I have been challenged my professors and classmates more than I even could have expected and have met a group of people that shaped me into the person I am today.

Before I came to Duke, I had no idea of how much I would become enthralled in campus scandal after scandal, shocked by the absurdity of certain aspects of campus culture while delighted with the way our campus has often been to the first to call itself out and has proven surprisingly malleable to change.

Duke is a place of coexistence where we don’t always get along, whether it’s between trinity students and “Pratt Stars” or collections of self-entitled douches and the rest of campus. However, I’d like to think we all leave with at least a little better understanding of each other. I may have come to Duke for pretty architecture and a solid basketball team like many of you, but hopefully we’ll be leaving with much more.

Dillon Patel is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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wo years ago I was fifteen pounds lighter then I am now. I was also considerably fatter back then. Allow me to explain.

“Fat” is your mindset when you struggle with body image. It has everything to do with where your thoughts are focused and very little to do with quantitative reality. “Fat” is constant obsession— looking in the mirror, examining your stomach, thighs or whatever you have deemed a “problem area.” It’s being excessively aware of the feeling of the waistband of your pants right below the softer skin of your navel. It’s being terrified of Thanksgiving and other holidays involving large quantities of food—leading you to dread celebrations meant for moments of family and friend bonding. “Fat” is often linked to body dysmorphia, disordered eating and a general loss of perspective in what the human body is actually meant to look like. “Fat” evolves into an obsessive, emotion-numbing, brain-washing, life-altering

I wish to emphasize is that disordered eating is not a choice one makes—it is a mindset that takes over.

For many, it is a way of protesting a form of trauma like sexual assault or other forms of abuse. It is an attempt at asserting control over something we know we have direct access to— what we put in, expel from, and do with our bodies—as a way of tricking ourselves into believing we can have the same form of control over all aspects of our lives.

At the same time, this disease can feel very dehumanizing and it’s almost embarrassing in a way to explain how something that seems so vain, at least to one who doesn’t understand it, can take over in such an overwhelming way. It’s not about attention. My own disorder was almost the opposite—an attempt to do all that I could to just not have attention drawn to my body, because I felt as though the only kind of attention my body could bring was negative. Courtney E. Martin, who spoke on Monday for Celebrate

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’ve never been good at asking for help. Some might call it independence or self-reliance, but mostly I think I’m just too stubborn to let anyone know I can’t handle everything on my own.

It’s the first annual Mental Health Awareness Month at Duke and groups across campus are teaming together to help fight stigma surrounding mental health.

Many of us will respond to the Facebook event but most will nevertheless think to ourselves, “I don’t have a mental illness”, and continue on with our lives as if this month and its meaning is no different than any other.

It’s a common tendency, I think, to keep yourself on the other line of mental illness. “I haven’t been diagnosed, I haven’t gone to the doctor, I don’t take pills—I must be healthy”.

Or at least, that’s what I thought to myself when I had an overwhelmingly rough semester a couple years back. I wasn’t healthy, per se – my diet, my sleep patterns, my mood swings all pointed to something being wrong. But I knew all too well,

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state of being if one isn’t careful.

This is not intended to be an article about how pervasive disordered eating is on this campus— though if you weren’t already aware, here’s a little review of the statistics. 60 percent of college-aged women suffer from some form of disordered eating, and men are beginning to be diagnosed at progressively higher levels. Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents. A recent study showed that “over 1/2 the females between the ages of 18-25 would prefer to be run over by a truck then be fat, and 2/3 surveyed would rather be mean or stupid.”

But as I said before, that’s not what this article is about. It’s about where we go from here. It’s about the misconceptions of what eating disorders are, what it feels like to have one, and some of the empowering realizations that can lead us to realize the opposite of the control we so desire is not chaos, but freedom. This is a rallying call to those out there who are personally affected by that voice in the back of your head. These thoughts are not you. You are too beautiful to let these thoughts become you. To let missed gym time make you feel guilty for choosing to see friends instead. To be distracted from studying for an orgo test because of the two cookies you ate with lunch.

For all people who struggle with this issue—not just women, not just white women or women in sororities, but people of all races, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, shapes and sizes. I am writing this for you, because I believe you need to hear it. Because this disease is confusing and unrelenting, and so closely tied to one’s sense of identity. I am here to deliver the news that, if you choose to trust yourself and the process, a different world is possible. Here’s some of the things I’d like to clear up…

First and foremost, eating disorders are not some superficial struggle with appearance, but a deeply internal battle with uncertainty and control. Disordered eating is a coping mechanism—not unlike alcohol, drugs, and other addictive behaviors—that, in reality, has very little to do with food. For me, it resulted from dealing with the pressure to live up to the expectations placed on me, in more areas than just appearance. It was my way of communicating—I don’t know what you want me to be, so I’m just going to make myself as small as possible so there’s no parts of me left for you to pick apart.

I strongly, strongly urge you all to read this creative piece I wrote from the point of view of one still struggling with disordered eating as way of truly understanding what it feels like. The main part of this

Our Bodies Week explains how women are often brought to view their bodies as “a vital commodity that might betray you at any moment; a zit might erupt overnight, a tampon might leak, a flaw might be revealed”. We are led to believe that they are the source of our struggle, rather than the outside forces telling us they aren’t good enough. We reject our own flesh before rejecting this socialization because it is so pervasive.

This is where Women’s Studies and feminism were vital in helping me to overcome disordered eating, an approach Courtney Martin encouraged, as well. Gloria Steinem explains in her book “Revolution From Within”, “[H]ierarchies try to convince us that all power and wellbeing come from the outside, that our self esteem depends on obedience and measure up to their requirements” when empowerment actually results when we believe our own bodies have “a center of power and wisdom within.” For the longest time I tried to convince myself “I am not my body, I am not my body” as a way of overcoming anorexia and over-exercising. When I finally realized that, in doing so, I was still giving my body over to an ideology that was causing this body dysmorphia and subsequent harm, I understood why I’d never been able to fully accept the phrase in the first place. To be free, I need to claim my body back from “them”— culture, media, and other institutions trying to take ownership of my body. I needed to recognize the power this corporeal vessel held and take it back for myself. I am my body. I am not their body.

It is only through our bodies we get to experience life. By separating myself from my body, I was diminishing my experiences, becoming numb to the most direct way of embracing life. Through touch and taste and general embodiment. My body is not for their pleasure and enjoyment—it is for mine. I am the only person in the world who will ever experience first hand pleasure from my own eye slits and through the touch receptors on my fingertips.

My body is for me. Think of what it DOES for me.

It’s a gift not an encumbrance. A switch happened when I realized my “fat” frame of mind was just making me feel like I was living that day waiting for the next, waiting for when I would be skinny enough for everything to be perfect. And lets be honest, perfect is pretty unfulfilling. It leaves no room for growing and making mistakes, and simply being. The time our life begins is not when we become skinny enough, perfect enough. It begins right now.

from friends and family, what it meant to be depressed, and knew that couldn’t possibly be me. Mental illness to me was doctors and pills and diagnoses. But this, this was temporary and I would recover. So when friends suggested I go to CAPS I politely declined and went about my business. I dealt entirely on my own.

My struggles were, as I knew at the time, temporary. But that didn’t make them any less difficult. And dealing with them on my own, and attempting to go about my life pretending I was okay when I most certainly wasn’t, didn’t make things any easier. In fact, I’d argue they made them much, much worse.

To me there was a line, between them and me – them being the ones like friends and family and those close to me who suffer every day from diagnosed mental illnesses, and me being the one on the other side, who couldn’t possibly be dealing with anything in need of help and further attention.

One of the goals of mental health awareness month is to help students realize that the line isn’t as definitive as we may believe. In fact, there is a broad spectrum of mental health issues and all of us fall somewhere on that scale at some point as we go through periods of waves of sadness, depression, fear, anxiety and stress.

After all, this is a tough environment.

We go to a school run on talent, ambition, coffee and 20 hours locked up in Perkins to get work done. A thousand activities, extracurriculars, interviews for internships and jobs and summers saving the world. Many of us—myself included—strive for perfection, and do not let our imperfections show to anyone but ourselves. Our answer to “how are you?” is always “fine” with a smile, even when we’re so far from that.

We are too driven, too smart, too stubborn to say when we need help. When we’ve let ourselves bite off more than we can chew.

If there is any one single piece of advice I can provide as a senior, looking nostalgically back on my time at Duke, it is to not be afraid to ask for help. It doesn’t make you less strong, smart, driven or determined. It only makes us human, more human, and perhaps even more wise and strong for admitting that we can’t handle everything on our own.

And we don’t need to. Between CAPS, Peer for You, You’re Not Alone, the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and countless other organizations and resources on campus—not to mention staff, professors and our own peers—Duke has countless support systems and countless people offering helping hands for the moments when our mental health isn’t at its best.

Everyone needs that helping hand at some point. I hope Mental Health Awareness Month will help encourage us to learn to accept it.

Cara Peterson is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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

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StartupConnect Networking Fair 2015 Thursday, February 19, from 5:30-9 p.m.

Gross Hall, 140 Science Drive StartupConnect brings students and employers together for networking and education. Each year, a panel of startup employers is selected to provide advice to students seeking internships and full-time jobs.

Agenda 5:30 p.m. – Employer and Student Registration 6:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion 7:00 p.m. – Student-Company Networking 9:00 p.m. – Adjourn

For a list of the 30 startups that will be attending, visit http://startupconnect.eventbrite.com And be sure to RSVP. Free food and drink will be provided.

Brought to you by Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Pratt School of Engineering, and Career Center.

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