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Junior Keizra Mecklai has been elected Duke Student Government President after a race against fellow junior Tucker Albert, with 60.67 percent of the total votes. A total of 2,531 students, or roughly 30 percent of the Duke student body, voted in the election. Mecklai received 1,536 votes, Albert received 929 votes and write-in candidates received 66 votes. There were no candidate complaints during the vote-counting process, and results were officially released an hour after the polls closed at 10 p.m. Tuesday. Sophomore John Guarco was elected DSG executive vice president with 63.19 percent of the votes, defeating sophomore Shaker Samman. Junior Nikhil Gavai was elected Student Organization Funding Committee chair with 55.7 percent of the votes after an instant runoff, with sophomore Sanford Morton receiving the other 44.3 percent. Sophomore Apara Sivaraman was eliminated in the instant runoff. “Obviously, I was overwhelmed and sur-

prised and excited and I feel ready to take on the challenges in the coming year,” Mecklai said after receiving the results. Mecklai ran on a platform focused on the University’s sexual assault policy, housing guidelines and DSG transparency—ideas she worked on as vice president of equity and outreach. She will serve a one-year term as DSG president. “The first things I want to work on are working with the new curriculum which I talked about a lot during the election, [in addition to] cooperating with the Women’s Center and Office of Institutional Equity to talk about sexual assault policies going into the coming year and lastly working with Duke administration and [current DSG President] Lavanya Sunder,” she said. Albert expressed support for Mecklai after the results of the race were announced. “I’m very sad to hear that I won’t be able to represent the student body next year, but I know that Keizra will do a great job,” he said. Mecklai is the fourth consecutive female DSG president—meaning that juniors will spend the entirety of their undergraduate See DSG on Page 3

Future Young Trustees to alternate White defends Athletics’ handling two and three year terms of misconduct allegations Patricia Spears The Chronicle Following a resolution passed by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, the Board of Trustees voted to change the structure of the Young Trustee position. In December 2014, GPSC passed a resolution urging the trustees to add a third Graduate Young Trustee position. At their February meeting, the Board discussed this proposal and opted to find an alternate solution. Starting with the 2016 election cycle, the

undergraduate and graduate schools will alternate years of electing a representative who serves three years instead of two. “Even though as a collective body [graduates] outnumber undergraduates, we have a marginalized position with respect to our representation on the Board of Trustees, so now we get a sense of parity over the long run,” GPSC President Ben Shellhorn said. Each Young Trustee that is elected to serve three years will only have one nonvoting year. Currently, the Undergraduate

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Carleigh Stiehm Editor-in-Chief Kevin White, vice president and director of athletics, released a statement to local news sources stating that the athletics department follows proper procedure when cases of misconduct are brought to their attention. This release comes one day after The Chronicle reported that many members of the athletics department were made aware of allegations of sexual assault against Sulaimon in March 2014. Sulaimon was dismissed from the team in January 2015.

The statement leads with White stating he wanted to “clarify the role of Duke athletics staff and coaches in the student conduct process at Duke.” Member of the athletics department consistently follow the pro- Kevin White cedures for reporting cases of sexual assault and other misconduct, White said in the statement. Staff and coaches report allegations that they are See White on Page 9

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‘One Person, One Vote’ website details grassroots fight for civil rights Photos Courtesy of Duke Today

Students, faculty worked with SNCC veterans on website launched before “Bloody Sunday” anniversary Staff Reports The Chronicle Duke students and faculty worked in collaboration with national activists to launch a new website chronicling the story of the grassroots effort for black suffrage. The website—One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights—launched Monday after working in tandem with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veterans and civil rights scholars from around the country. Its launch took place the week before the

March 7 anniversary of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday,” when state troopers attacked the peaceful voting rights march of 600 local demonstrators in Selma, Ala. “This site not only begins to tell a story largely ignored by civil rights canon, but also pilots a way to meaningfully bring Movement participants and scholars together for that purpose,” Courtland Cox, chair of the SNCC Legacy Project, said in a Duke News press release. The website focuses on the narratives of SNCC leaders in drawing national political attention toward voting rights. The focus of the website, according to the release, is to document “how the bottom-up strategies of young people and black community leaders across the Deep South created an expansion of political, social, and economic opportunity for all citizens in the 1960s.”

SNCC was founded in Raleigh in 1960 trated form. by student leaders, primarily from black “This is an enormous achievement, to universities in the South. The group began find ways to bring these experts who were organizing in 1961 in so central to the voting rights struggle, into the Mississippi and Georgia, his is an enormous formal historical record pulling on momentum toward voting rights. achievement, to find through their own words and on their own terms,” Three states are at the core of the information ways to bring these experts Wesley Hogan, direcon the website—Mis- who were so central to the tor of Duke’s Center for sissippi, Alabama and voting rights struggle, into Documentary Studies Georgia. The archives said in the release. “The of the website include the formal historical record project comes at a mooral histories and pho- through their own words ment when our nation tographs in addition to and on their own terms. is both commemorating key victories of the civil activist profiles. According to the — Wesley Hogan rights movement and seeing those victories press release, the site is the first time SNCC veterans have engaged challenged by new restrictive voting laws in with the academic community in a concen- many states.”

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continued from page 1 careers with a female president in office. Mecklai said the campaign was well-run and fair on both sides, adding that she looks forward to working with Albert in the future. “I thought it was a very clean campaign and we definitely developed a campaign camaraderie that I loved,” Mecklai said. “I’m excited to work with him in whatever capacity he remains involved in DSG.” Candidates of the EVP and SOFC races had similarly positive remarks about their respective campaigns. “It was a great race. I’m glad it was a civil campaign, and I thank Shaker for begin a great running mate,” Guarco said, noting that he plans to focus both on Internal and external affairs to better serve the student body. “I gave it my all, and I’m very grateful it worked out.” Samman said he looked forward to seeing Guarco’s approach to the role. “I can’t say I’m not disappointed in the outcome. I would have loved to serve as EVP, but I can’t wait to see him in the role him next year,” Samman said, adding that he hopes to be elected to the Senate next year to continue his involvement with DSG. “It was a classy race, he was a great candidate.” Voter turnout dropped significantly from last year—with 30 percent of students voting as compared to last year’s 58 percent, which came in an election with the much-discussed 40 Percent Plan amendment on the ballot. This year’s turnout also dipped slightly from that of prior years, 33 percent in 2013 and 39 percent in 2012. “I posted on as many social medias as possible, but turnout remained mostly the same [as the Young Trustee election],” said attorney general Maxime Fischer-Zernin, a senior. Aleena Karediya contributed reporting.

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continued from page 1 Young Trustees serve three years—one of which is non-voting—and the Graduate Young Trustees two years—one of which is non-voting. The compromised resolution was reached through a collaboration between the Board, GPSC and Duke Student Government, said Shellhorn, a third-year JD/MBA candidate who will begin his term as Young Trustee next year. He added that he collaborated significantly with DSG President Lavanya Sunder, a junior. “This is the one that I felt most confident that would mitigate any adverse harm to undergraduate representation while making sure we were equal to graduates,” Sunder said. Although the process was confidential, students were included in the discussions as much as possible, Sunder said. She emphasized that equality in representation between undergraduate and graduate students was important. “I think the parity makes sense for the greater Duke experience,” Sunder said. President Richard Brodhead said that the reason for switching the two and three-year terms is to keep the number of trustees that remain on the Board at a constant 36, a figure set by the University’s charter. “It’s all lost in the mists of time— why is it that Young Trustees have three year terms if they’re undergraduates and two year terms if they’re graduate or professional students?” Brodhead said. “No one knows.” Sunder said she does not expect negative feedback, since the changes will

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not greatly reduce the efficacy of the undergraduate Young Trustee position. “I don’t think it’s going to be a huge blow to the undergraduate community,” Sunder said. Newly-elected Undergraduate Young Trustee Anna Knight, a senior, said that although it does not affect her position, she will play a role in helping the new

Young Trustee acclimate to the Board. “If anything, this means that my mentorship to the next Young Trustees will be even more important ... so getting them up to speed as quickly as possible so they can be as effective as possible with the time they have is incredibly important,” she said. Shellhorn said that although his suc-

cessor will have a different experience, the next Graduate Young Trustee will be at an advantage due to the institutional knowledge gained during the extra time. “If anything, the person following me will be better equipped in his or her third year…because they have better perspective,” Shellhorn said.

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Duke to host Wake Forest on Senior Night Quinn Cook: Duke’s secret ingredient Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer

For much of the year, the focus surrounding the Blue Devils has centered around the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class—the post prowess of Jahlil Okafor, the craftiness of Tyus Jones and the athleticism Wake of Justise Winslow. Forest vs. Wednesday night, the most consistent player No. 3 for Duke will get his Duke moment alone in the WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium spotlight. No. 3 Duke hosts Wake Forest at 8 p.m. on Senior Night for point guard Quinn Cook at Cameron Indoor Stadium. With a victory, the Blue Devils will secure the No. 2 seed in next week’s ACC tournament after Virginia clinched its second consecutive regularseason conference title Monday. Cook may be Duke’s lone scholarship senior, but as a captain and emotional sparkplug, the floor general has been irreplaceable for head coach Mike Krzyzewski this season. After rolling his ankle in the second half Saturday against Syracuse, Cook returned to the floor and ended up playing 34 minutes—the fewest minutes he has played since Duke’s ACC opener against Boston College Jan. 3. In addition to leading a young team, the senior is enjoying his best statistical year in a Blue Devil uniform, shooting career-best percentages from the field, charity stripe and beyond the arc. Cook has four 20-point games in his last six and has been held to single-digits just three times all season. Based on the defensive matchup, Duke (26-3, 13-3 in the ACC) has switched between man-to-man and

When Quinn Cook came to Duke, he was an afterthought in a star-studded five-man freshman class that was expected to be one of the Blue Devils’ best in years. Austin Rivers was the heralded superstar. Alex Murphy was regarded as the guy who could have the biggest NBA upside. Marshall Plumlee was the long-awaited end of his family’s Duke trilogy. Cook came to Duke as a quiet point guard searching for his place within the program. Four years later, the wiry senior from Washington, D.C., is the last man standing. The Blue Devil captain will be the only member of his five-man recruiting class to be honored Wednesday night when the Blue Devils play their last home game of the season against Wake Forest at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Forward Michael Gbinije was the first member of Duke’s 2011 recruiting class to go, transferring to Syracuse before the end of his freshman year. Rivers followed later that spring, making the jump to the NBA, where he was drafted 10th overall by New Orleans. Cook’s two remaining freshman classmates, Murphy and Plumlee, both redshirted. Murphy played for just oneand-a-half seasons before transferring to Florida December 2013. Plumlee has one year of eligibility remaining and will play next year. Graduation is sometimes viewed as a failure in today’s college basketball world. With more and more players leaving school after one, two or three years to optimize their draft stock, 22-year-old NBA draft picks are sometimes viewed by teams as too old. Cook is anything but a failure. In the one-and-done era, he is a college basketball success story. During his four years in Durham, Cook’s game has undergone a complete transformation. His sophomore season was when he flourished as a distributor, averaging a career-high 5.3 assists per game. As a junior, Cook struggled to find a comfortable role with Jabari Parker dominating the ball on offense and Tyler Thornton competing for minutes at the point guard position.

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zone this season, but even with just eight scholarship players on the active roster, Krzyzewski has begun to extend the pressure past midcourt in recent games. The Blue Devils have employed a three-quarter court press at times in each of the team’s past three contests, giving Cook and freshman point guard Tyus Jones even more area to cover. But Cook has responded well, continuing to score and defend without getting fatigued. The senior played 39 minutes against Clemson and the full 45 minutes in Duke’s overtime win at Virginia Tech. The first meeting between the Blue Devils and Demon Deacons (13-16, 5-11) came down to the wire, with Duke ultimately prevailing 73-65 in WinstonSalem, N.C., Jan. 7. With a new wrinkle on the defensive end, Wake Forest was able to slow down freshman Jahlil Okafor, who finished with a double-

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Senior captain Quinn Cook is averaging career highs in field goal, free throw and three-point percentage and has been held to single digits just three times all season.

double of 12 points and 11 rebounds but attempted just two shots and committed three turnovers in the first half. Demon Deacon center Devin Thomas rose to the occasion against the Preseason Player of the Year, pouring in 24 points on 12-of-20 shooting. The junior is nearly averaging a double-double with 12.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. Wake Forest came back from a ninepoint deficit and briefly took a 57-55 lead with 5:47 to play, but then Cook and Jones helped the Blue Devils close out the game with a 12-2 run. Justise Winslow finished with a team-high 20 points, but struggled through the rest of the month with various injuries, including a shoulder issue. As the regular season winds down, the Houston native is back on track, despite playing with what Krzyzewski called a fractured rib after Saturday’s win against the Orange. Winslow has scored in double-figures in eight consecutive games and has been attacking the rim relentlessly, finishing acrobatic lay-ups or getting to the free-throw line. The freshman has also made six of his last 10 attempts from beyond the arc. Wednesday’s game will also be the team’s first since The Chronicle reported Monday that junior Rasheed Sulaimon had been the subject of sexual assault allegations prior to his dismissal from the program Jan. 29. Duke vice president and director of athletics Kevin White released a statement Tuesday defending the athletics department’s actions, saying that, “Coach Krzyzewski and his staff understand and have fulfilled their responsibilities to the university, its students and the community.” After Wednesday’s home finale, the Blue Devils will finish the regular season Saturday against rival No. 19 North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Knowing that the Blue Devils were bringing in a talented floor general in freshman Tyus Jones, Cook brought a markedly improved 3-point shot back to Duke for his senior season and has learned to be just as dangerous—if not more—playing off the ball than on it. For the first time in his career, Cook is hitting more than 40 percent of his shots from beyond the arc and is the team’s second-leading scorer at 15.9 points per game. But perhaps more striking than the ways Cook has grown on the court is the way he’s grown off of it. Once shy when surrounded by cameras and microphones, the veteran is an eloquent speaker and is one of the team’s go-to quotes for media members. As a junior, Cook was passed over for Duke’s vacant captaincy in favor of redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood—who had been with the team for just one year and had never suited up for a game with the Blue Devils. Taking it as a major wake-up call, Cook strove to become the leader his team needs and has since delivered. Captaining the Duke team as a senior, Cook has been responsible for the mentorship of the Blue Devils’ four freshmen, which comprise half of the team’s rotation. As a result, this year’s Duke squad has a level of chemistry that the teams of Cook’s freshman and junior seasons— also led by high-profile freshmen—lacked. That the Blue Devils are poised to post their best regular-season record in Cook’s four seasons is no coincidence. There’s no question that Jahlil Okafor is Duke’s best player. Justise Winslow is the team’s most talented player. But as a steadying force on the court and an emotional leader off of it, Cook is the Blue Devils’ most valuable player. At Duke, even the most breathtaking talents come and go year after year. In the age of one-and-dones, they just don’t make players like Quinn Cook anymore.

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ampus debate and intrigue erupted Monday in the wake of a Chronicle article reporting allegations of sexual assault against former Duke basketball player Rasheed Sulaimon. The reported allegations come shrouded in the memory of the 2006 lacrosse case whose legacy continues to shape Duke’s external reputation today. Nine years ago, three members of Duke’s men’s lacrosse team were accused of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer and were quickly condemned by the University’s administration and members of its faculty known as the Group of 88. The players were later found to be innocent. Although the circumstances are markedly different and the two cases are by no means directly paralleled, the lessons learned from the lacrosse case are imperative at present: We should not be too quick to judge. Yet, despite this cautionary tale, the court of public opinion seems to have already delivered its verdict. Many—both at Duke and beyond— have been quick to condemn the respondent. Many have drawn parallels to Jameis Winston’s case at Florida State and the recent cases at University of Virginia and Vanderbilt. Yet, the court of public opinion needs to be reined in from

such judgments and naïve comparisons which are based on woefully incomplete information. It ought instead to understand the system of the official courts and legal obligations and stick to the known facts of the case before getting caught up in its own echo chamber. What, then, are the known facts of the case? In short, not many. We know that no official allegations were brought forth and, thus, the cases did not go before the formal student conduct process as per the University’s policies. We know that, under Title IX, members of the Duke basketball staff and athletic department are mandatory reporters who must notify the Office of Student Conduct of any sexual assault cases they hear about. And we know that Sulaimon remains as a student in good standing, suggesting that no conclusive investigation has been completed against him. What remain glaring questions, however, are the details and timelines of what in fact occurred. Did leaders of the basketball team and athletic department who knew about the allegations report the cases to the Office of Student Conduct, as per their obligation as mandatory reporters? If so, what occurred within the Office of Student

onlinecomment In what world does Duke have a reputation of not going after high profile student athletes of sexual assaults. I remember something exactly the opposite during the Duke lacrosse scandal. —“piteus” commenting on the article “Rasheed Sulaimon at center of sexual assault allegations prior to dismissal”

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Conduct? Was a Title IX investigation conducted, and what is the nature and state of such an investigation? Finally, it is uncertain whether Sulaimon’s dismissal is connected to the allegations of sexual assault. Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s official statement divulged only that the dismissal came after he “repeatedly struggled to meet necessary obligations.” Whether the allegations contributed to or were directly linked with such failure to meet standards remains uncertain. If we have learned anything from the lacrosse case, it is that the court of public opinion must not be too quick to jump to conclusions without necessary information and procedural knowledge. The gaping swath of questions that remain shrouded in ambiguity and mystery render it impossible for bystanders to responsibly ascertain guilt or innocence. Yet, another facet of this cautionary tale is the broader reality the nature of this case evokes—that sexual assault is a very real problem plaguing college campuses across the nation. With the gravity and sensitivity of sexual assault in mind, it is imperative to take the claims of all parties involved—especially the two claimant women—seriously, to respect them and their privacy and to offer the community’s support.

t’s 10:58 p.m. on a Wednesday night and all my assignments due the next day are done. Yawning, I look at the time on my computer screen, which is tinted yellow to block blue light said to interfere with sleep. I answer one final email and turn off my computer. “Grades, social life and sleep. Pick two.” This is how college was jokingly described to me. But there’s definitely truth to the joke: sleep is often sacrificed when students are busy. All-nighters are both necessary evils and badges of honor, a testament to the “work hard, play hard” attitude used to describe Duke and its students. But for the almost 10 percent of college students with chronic insomnia, the work-play-sleep tradeoff complicates an already difficult relationship with sleep. 11:12 p.m. Pajamas on and teeth brushed, I set an alarm for 8 a.m. so I can go to the gym before my 10 a.m. class. I begin reading a book from the library.

help me sleep. The worst part about insomnia is feeling alone. When it’s 4 a.m. you don’t want to wake someone up to complain about your inability to sleep. In the quiet, it feels like the rest of the world is asleep except for you. You fear that you will never be able to sleep and that you will never know how it feels to be well rested. You worry about how tired you will feel later that day and the resulting unproductivity. You stress over whether you will have enough energy to work out or whether you can squeeze in an afternoon nap. You think about how much more successful you would be, if only you could sleep. 1:07 a.m. My roommate comes into the room and turns on a light. When she sees I’m still awake, she apologizes and asks if she woke me up. I tell her no, I’m having trouble falling asleep. I leave the bedroom to read in the living room. My brother has no sleep problems, but he is not

Rachel Anderson THE GRAB BAG Most college students suffer from acute insomnia at some point during their college career. Such bouts with insomnia can be triggered by anxiety over upcoming exams, sporting events or social stressors, and staying up late on weekends makes going to bed at more reasonable times during the week difficult. Acute insomnia develops into chronic insomnia when someone experiences trouble falling asleep—or falling back asleep after waking up—for three or more nights each week for at least one month. At that point, chronic insomnia can result in health problems, inefficiency at work and a reduction in a person’s quality of life. 11:27 p.m. I finish the chapter and put away the book. I insert my earplugs so I won’t hear my roommate enter the room later. I turn off the light and close my eyes. My personal relationship with sleep has deteriorated since coming to college. After going out with friends on weekends, I am sometimes be awake until 5 or 6 a.m. because my brain is still wired from socializing. Despite getting ready for bed at 11 p.m. before early morning classes, I may not fall asleep until 3 a.m. or later. The next day I may try to nap, but I usually can’t fall asleep. After several nights with little sleep, I become so tired that I fall asleep immediately. I sleep well for another day or two, and for the moment I think I am cured of my insomnia for good… until the next sleepless night when the cycle begins again. 12:21 a.m. I check the time on my phone and I think about the hour I’ve just wasted lying in bed. I take a melatonin supplement hoping that will

your typical college student. He maintains a regular sleep schedule, including weekends—in bed by ten, awake by seven. Deviation makes him grumpy. He dims his electronics to mimic the natural light fluctuations, and uses black out curtains, sleep masks and earplugs to create a soundproof, pitch-black chamber. 1:34 a.m. I go back to the bedroom. My roommate is asleep. For those of us not ready to commit to a Spartan lifestyle like my brother, new technology offers a wide range of solutions to our sleep problems. A variety of mobile applications and fitness devices that track sleep patterns suggest that sleep can be hacked. Sleeping pills, herbal supplements, meditation CDs and white noise machines offer remedies to make us fall asleep faster. Personally, I shy away from these products because I want a natural and permanent solution. 2:21 a.m. I change my alarm to 9:30 a.m. I need to sleep more than I need to work out. March 2-8 is Sleep Awareness Week, and I’m setting a personal goal to sleep better this semester. I plan to start keeping a sleep journal or download a sleep app so I can keep track of my sleep habits. Maybe I’ll try to keep a rigid sleep schedule like my brother and make sleep a higher priority. Whatever it takes, I’ll try, because I don’t want to be an insomniac forever. I just want to sleep. 3:07 a.m. My mind is finally quiet. At last, I sleep. Rachel Anderson is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other semester.

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he first time I read Rolling Stone’s inflammatory article about the University of Virginia, something didn’t feel right to me. In the piece, a young woman alleged that she had been brutally gang raped at a fraternity party her freshman year and claimed that her peers and the administration had failed across the board to protect her. Now, it wasn’t necessarily that I didn’t believe the story— I’m more than certain that brutal violence of this sort does take place on campuses, regularly. I’ve heard more than enough reports to know that it does. It wasn’t that I had faith that the campus and administration at UVA had handled the allegations better than the article claimed. Colleges and universities are notoriously abysmal at handling cases of sexual assault, whether they are covering up accusations or denying due process rights to the accused. It was that the piece felt uncomfortably salacious, the entire message hinging on a story so graphic that I could barely finish it. I certainly believe that victims should have the right to share their stories whenever and however they deem appropriate, but I worry when a focus on a story impedes our ability to understand the larger systems at work. And so, when the news surfaced that the sloppy reporting and discrepancies in the article had led Rolling Stone to issue an apology for the story, my heart sank. Advocates immediately began asking themselves: how many years will this set us back? Five? Ten? I realized immediately that this story would join the ranks

Katie Becker THING AGAIN

they certainly represent some experiences, when they come to dominate all depictions of sexual assault, we have a problem. Especially as our understandings of consent and violence are evolving, focusing merely on one type of violence may in fact disempower victims whose experiences don’t match what they see on TV or in a movie. And some narratives do more than just misrepresent the realities of sexual assault; they may actually perpetuate other forms of prejudice and oppression. The rape of a white woman by a black man, for example, is one such misleading narrative that is virtually inescapable in both historical understandings and our modern media depictions of rape in this country. The very misconceptions that facilitated human rights abuses like lynchings continue to influence race relations in our country and on our campus. In one of my favorite Ted Talks, The Danger of a Single Story, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie critiques the way we use stories to understand the world around us. She argues that people are extremely “impressionable and vulnerable…in the face of a story,” which is dangerous when the stories we hear and internalize do not reflect the complexity of human experience. She contends that when we are exposed to a single story over and over, we start to accept that story as the sole element of an experience. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with sharing a story about assault. Stories can help educate the community, and the experience of sharing may prove cathartic for victims.

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of the Duke Lacrosse scandal, becoming yet another weapon for rape apologists to silence all women who come forward about their experiences of assault. This is a saddening misrepresentation of reality, as the Justice Department and other researchers estimate that only 2-8 percent of rape accusations are false, a rate comparable to that of other felonies. Obviously that’s still 2-8 percent too many, but it’s a far cry from the claim that all women lie about rape. Moreover, even though the media and pundits continue to perpetuate the idea that all men should be terrified of a false accusation of rape, the truth is that men are still more likely to be victims of sexual violence than victims of false accusation. Even so, when you Google “Duke rape,” you have to wade through a page and a half of articles about Duke Lacrosse and false accusations before you can access any information about reporting and on-campus resources for victims. I can’t think of a better way to send the message to victims, “We won’t believe you.” And we still ask why reporting rates are so low. Of course, the false accusation isn’t the only narrative that pervades public depictions of sexual assault. There’s the stranger in the bushes. The brutal gang rape. The “perfect” victim. Once you start looking for these tropes, you can’t miss them. Just turn on the TV. While there’s nothing wrong with these narratives and

But we run a risk when only one story, or type of story, gets shared, or when our focus on a story supplants our focus on an issue. We often obsess over a single anecdote, failing to broaden our perspective and take in the magnitude of an issue. After all, stories are stimulating. Statistics are stale. In this way, our obsession with the individual comes to obscure a problem that is systemic in nature. In our voyeuristic – even pornographic – pursuit of stories, we lose sight of the greater issues at hand. If your entire understanding of sexual violence hinges on a story – be it an episode of “Law and Order: SVU”, something you heard at “Me Too Monologues” or Common Ground, or even the experience of a friend—I’d like to offer you a challenge. Go beyond the single story. Do not become reliant on unreliable or rumors-based journalism. Instead of publicly picking apart the details of a single story, finding any faults you can, choose to revolutionize the framework through which you understand sexual violence. Conceptualize sexual assault not just as a series of isolated stories, but a network of violence used to facilitate oppression on our campus and around the world. It is only in doing so that we can do justice to all stories— and to the individuals behind them. Katie Becker is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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stand motionless. I do not jump. I do not move. Breathing is even questionable in this moment. I suspend my arms in the air and await the fate of the ball as it approaches the hoop. The ball doesn’t go in, and I drop my arms and let out a large “awwwwwww.” A fleeting moment of grief takes over the student section. Seconds later, Duke steals the ball back and we are finally in the lead. I jump. And yell. And embrace friends nearby. I don’t know the girl to my left, but I embrace her, too. There’s nothing but happiness that fills the student section now. These actions occurred only a few minutes into the Duke-Syracuse basketball game. It took only a few minutes inside Cameron Stadium to transform me into a mimetic body—an imitated body. But I’m not the only one imitating people around me. Height is a barrier—my barrier happened to be over 6-feet, at least it appeared to me—for many students during games, and, as a result, students aren’t able to see much of the game. Or the ball. Or the players. Though we cannot see much of anything, the actions many of us engage in stem from peers around us. They act, and milliseconds later, we follow. It’s this unspoken rule that guides us beyond our impaired faculties in Cameron Stadium. Taller students have some difficulty too, at least that’s what I’m told. They have to negotiate their limited space to make room for their longer limbs. Despite this inconvenience, hundreds of students camp

Leena El-Sadek (DIS)EASED (RE)PRESENTATION hours—and weeks—before a game, sacrifice their energy and voices, and lose significant study and sleep time. So why do it? Why pick Cameron over that comfortable couch in a dorm’s common room? My mom asked me this every time she called me when I tented for the Duke-UNC game. Unfortunately, our human language cannot accurately encapsulate this full-body and sensory experience that leaves a mark on all of our lives. We don’t want to see the game. We want to feel the game. We want to engage in a crowd that exudes energy to feed our spirits and make us feel alive in a way few other things can do. We want to, just temporarily, surrender our personal battles to join a larger battle that’s unanimously supported. We come as we are—with our different backgrounds, majors, histories and faiths—and collectively pour our support and love into a team, which is also comprised of diverse individuals. It’s this unwavering unity and love that is missing in our world, and I cannot help but wonder how different the struggles of racism, classism, sexism, faithism would be if our actions in Cameron can leave Cameron. Our different backgrounds at Duke will undoubtedly take us all over the world, and we as students are best posed to spread this relentless spirit. It does not matter which degree or major you have under your belt. Work in your field as passionately as you worked at Duke and look around and ask, “Who is not here? Who is not being served by my work? And how can I change that?” You are privileged to get a formal education from Duke, but realize that there is a parallel education outside of our classrooms that is teaching us how to critically and meaningfully engage with the world outside of this campus. Panels are created with our esteemed professors to discuss how we can move forward after recent events impacted members on our campus, such as the shootings in Ferguson and the adhan reversal. Departments bring in experienced scholars to examine the healthcare system, affording us the ability to create informed decisions before we vote. Conversations with dorm-mates offer us personal insight into some of the challenges students and friends are facing. With these interactions, we become empathetic and more proactive to marginalizing language and actions. Your Duke experience is about using both this parallel education and this classroom education to ensure that we move the world forward. We are people before our careers, and you can advocate without becoming an activist. Similarly you can speak up against hateful language and discrimination without thinking if this fits into your role. Just as Jahlil Okafor rarely leaves his team hanging, do your part so that “other” group isn’t fighting the fight alone. Leena El-Sadek is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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