March 5, 2015

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A “Year of Readiness” at Duke?

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‘a significant issue everywhere’ LAST COOK IN Alcohol: As collegiate alcoholism programs become nationally, Duke takes a THE KITCHEN more prominent unique approach Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Initiatives to assist students in recovering from alcohol addiction are becoming increasingly common in universities throughout the country.

The Association of Recovery in Higher Education provides education, support and resources for college students with a history of alcohol abuse through Collegiate Recovery Programs on 135 college campuses. The goals of these programs are to provide support, prevent relapse and promote improved academic performance. Although there is no official Collegiate Recovery Program at Duke, Counseling and Psychological Services and Student Wellness Center provide options for students battling alcohol reliance.

“This is a significant issue everywhere,” said Jeff Kulley, associate director for clinical services at CAPS. “It’s significant See Alcohol on Page 3

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Researchers look ahead to NIH funding increase Matt Pun

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Starting the game on a 12-0 run, Duke looked like it might have a much more comfortable win against Wake Forest than it did in Winston Salem, N.C., two months ago.

After three minutes of Grayson Allen, it was all but certain.

The freshman came off the bench at the 13:37 mark in the first half and scored 11 points in a 2:59 span to put the Demon Deacons down 26 as the WAKE 51 Blue Devils cruised to a 94-51 vicDUKE 94 tory at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Senior Night. The 6-foot-4 wing capped off his run by drawing a foul on a corner 3-pointer and converted the free throw to put Duke up 31-5 just 10 minutes into the game.

After years of flat budgets and funding cuts, Duke researchers are looking ahead to possible increases in the National Institutes of Health’s budget for 2016.

President Barack Obama has requested a $1 billion increase in the NIH’s budget for the fiscal year 2016, which will translate to a 3.3 percent increase in funding. This comes after the 2013 budget sequestration slashed the NIH’s funding by 5 percent, with little to no increase in the years since.

“In general, the NIH budget has been in a period of stagnation,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations. “The president’s budget request for 2016 is larger than we’ve seen in years.

Obviously there’s a long way to go, but Duke, the other research universities and our advocates in Washington will be making a very strong case for why it’s important to the entire country.”

Obama’s request for a 3.3 percent increase in 2016 comes after the budget passed Congress for 2015 kept NIH funding flat, continuing cuts in many research pro-

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Some programs, however, did see small increases in funding. Areas that received more money in 2015 included Alzheimer’s research, Obama’s BRAIN initiative and a new pediatric research program. In total, $150 million added to these programs, which is 0.5 percent more than the programs received last year. The budget also allocated a separate $238 million fund for Ebola research and vaccine development.

Barton Haynes, director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, received a grant of nearly $30 million from the NIH last year in pursuit of an experimental HIV vaccine.

“I have lots of grant money because of a competition that started to change the HIV vaccine field,” Haynes said of the grant, first awarded in 2005. “My funding comes from a very special need. The government decided to solve a particular problem, which is why I’m in this unique situation.”

The request for the $1 billion increase for 2016 will also be targeting Alzheimer’s and brain research, as well as funding research into antimicrobial resistance and See Research on Page 4

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DSG offers compromise to housing quota guidelines Alex Griffith The Chronicle The Duke Student Government Senate passed a resolution to counter the administration’s newly enforced quota guidelines for selective living groups.

In a meeting Wednesday, the Senate passed a resolution stating that DSG supports housing requirements based on the number of group executives living in section and meeting Residential Group Assessment Committee requirements. The resolution, written by President Lavanya Sunder, a junior, and Vice President for Residential Life Zach Gorwitz, a sophomore, is meant to counter the administration’s proposal which says that 30 percent of a selective group’s section must be composed of upperclassmen.

Gorwitz explained that he expects administration to consider and be willing to negotiate over the new resolution.

“We expect the administration to be receptive to our proposal,” he said. “We took their considerations of community and good conduct into account, and tried to put together a counterproposal that ensured [those things] would exist, but in a way that was more conducive to how living groups currently operate on campus.”

The resolution states that groups should be able to avoid the housing requirements by having three out of seven members of a group’s executive board live in section. The executive board would be defined as the president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, historian, new member chair and standards chair.

This move is intended to address administra-

tion’s concerns about a lack of community and concerns about poor conduct among younger members of groups.

In order to bypass administrative requirements, groups will also have to meet RGAC requirements, which are organized in a quotapoint system. A minimum of 80 out of 100 points must be earned—30 points can be awarded based on minimal damages to facilities, 20 points are awarded for holding at least two community service events per semester, 20 points are awarded for holding public events, 15 points are awarded for holding a facultyrelated event and maximum of 15 points will be awarded for conduct. In addition, groups can earn an additional 10 points for electing and training an identity representative.

Group punishment is also addressed in the proposal. The administration guidelines, which currently state that if a group fails to reach the quota in two out of three years, that group will be removed from campus. The DSG resolution proposes a more holistic look at groups who are facing discipline in front of the Approval and Removal Committee, which is responsible for selective living group discipline. Under the resolution, groups which are exemplary in every regard but fall one senior short of the quota would likely not be kicked off of campus but would face a smaller punishment, such as the docking of funds.

The Senate also passed a budgetary statute allocating around $6,000 for an off-campus bus service which will run to different locations around Durham on weekends. The service, which will run two buses to places like downtown and Southpoint Mall, was proposed by senators for Durham and regional affairs Jessica Reese, a junior, and Gwen Geng,

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL As described in the Faculty Handbook, regular reviews of senior administrators of the University are required, and are administered through the work of a committee that is charged with conducting the review and submitting a confidential report to the President. Typically these reviews occur in the fourth year of the administrator’s five-year term. President Brodhead has convened the committee to review Vice President and General Counsel Pam Bernard, who has served in her post since 2006 and was last reviewed in 2010. Tim Walsh, Vice President for Finance, is chairing the committee; other members are: Marion Broome (School of Nursing), Carolyn Carpenter (Duke Hospital), Peter Kahn (Trustee), Nina King (Duke Athletics), Barak Richman (Law School/Fuqua School of Business), and Mike Somich (Internal Audits).

An important part of the review process is the gathering of input from the University’s many constituencies. Comments on performance and suggestions for the future are important to the committee’s work.

The committee invites you to share your thoughts by email or letter, or communicate orally to any committee member. Communication should include the nature of your interactions with Ms. Bernard and her team in order to understand the context of your comments as fully as possible. The committee will discuss responses and a summary will be included in the written report to the President. All communications will be kept in confidence by the committee.

The Committee would appreciate receiving your thoughts by March 25.

Thank you in advance for your participation in this important process.

Tim Walsh, Chair Bernard Review Committee Box 90030 Durham, North Carolina 27708 admin-review@duke.edu

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a freshman.

“I was talking to some of my friends and peers about our lack of transportation,” explained Reese. “It’s kind of a cumbersome process to go through WeCar and figure out who pays for what, and I noticed how much was left in the surplus [fund] and I wanted to do something for students with that money.”

The service has been approved by Parking and Transportation Services and is integrated with the TransLoc transit tracking app.

In other business: Student Organization Funding Committee approved several group funding requests—$4,750 for the Students of the Caribbean Association and their Caribana cultural festival; $3,540 for the Marine Science and Conservation Leaders group, which is leading an open field trip to the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C.; $5,176.02 for the Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, which is

holding a dinner for Latino Student Recruitment Weekend at the Washington Duke Inn; $6,635 for the Duke Jewish Student Union, which is holding an open bar-mitzvah for a student who has never had one; $2,088.25 for the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, which is holding a Korean arts showcase; $16,875 for duARTS, which is holding a convention for Duke grads involved in the arts, including a gala at the Penn Pavilion; $2,144 for Defining Movement’s spring dance showcase; $3,375 for Blue Devils United’s Lavender Ball, an open formal for the LGBTQ community; and $4,554 for the Asian Student Association, which is holding a social awareness workshop and a storytelling and poetry performance.

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continued from page 1 at Duke because of they way drinking occurs among subgroups and how drinking with the purpose of intoxication is normalized.”

Students with alcohol dependencies represent a portion of the student population at Duke, said Dan Perry, alcohol and drug senior program coordinator at the Wellness Center.

“Looking at the national data, combined with my perspective, I would say that somewhere around 10 percent of Duke students will likely meet the criteria for a substance use disorder at some point in their lifetime, if not now,” he wrote in an email Monday.

Most college students that develop issues with alcohol began drinking younger than most of their peers, Kulley said, With many showing signs of alcohol abuse in high school.

He said the problem of alcoholism usually takes four years or more to develop.

Students who come to CAPS worried about their dependency on alcohol would first meet with a staff therapist for an initial assessment, said Kulley. During this appointment, the therapist would address the students’ concerns and describe possible treatment options.

“We operate from a standpoint of identifying with students’ worries about consequences,” said Perry. “We work with them in terms

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of where they are and what their motivation to make changes is.”

Students with alcohol abuse issues could choose to receive support from the Wellness Center and local Alcoholics Anonymous communities.

The Wellness Center hosts two AA meetings a week, said Tom Szigethy, the associate dean and director of the Wellness Center.

Kulley, however, noted that students often prefer AA programs in Chapel Hill because they can get out of their home area and meet new people.

The Wellness Center also offers a program called BASICS, which can confidentially screen for potential Substance Abuse Disorders. In addition, the Center’s website has short anonymous screens that can be used to determine a student’s dependency on alcohol.

In extreme cases, CAPS would refer students to the Child Development and Behavioral Health Clinic on campus, Kulley added.

“They are equipped to handle higher levels of severity,” he said. “This is ideal for students who need to engage in a program for a longer time period.”

Despite these resources, the nature of drinking in a college environment often exacerbates alcohol dependency among students, and poses challenges for recovery, Kulley said.

“It’s hard for students to believe ‘I need to stop drinking’ when they look around and see others drinking similarly,” he said. “It seems

normal, just a college thing.”

Kulley added that most students continue to drink in college, and don’t take action to recover until they face truly negative consequences—like losing jobs or relationships.

The negative connotations surrounding alcohol dependency can make students afraid to seek help, Perry said. He also attributed some of the difficulties surrounding recovery to the misperception that drinking is central to college life.

“If you were a diabetic and could not eat sugar, how would you feel if you lived somewhere that had a cultural norm of making sugary food the center of social events?” Perry said.

Exposure to alcohol at Duke is especially high because of the high percentage of students who live on campus, the prevalence of social events centered around Greek life and the popularity of sports, Kulley said.

“Duke definitely has a party culture where it’s cool to binge, but I don’t see Duke as being special,” sophomore Chris Hong said.

In state universities that have less people living on campus, students don’t have the same level of exposure to alcohol, Kulley said. These institutions also often impose stiffer penalties because of the need to comply with state laws.

To alleviate these challenges to recovery, Kulley recommended that students get involved with alternative social scenes and join recovery communities, noting that it is nearly impossible to fix a problem while remaining

in the same circumstances where the problem developed.

“It reminds me of a saying: if you hang out in a barbershop, eventually you’re going to get your hair cut,” he said.

Some students on campus use alcohol as a means of unhealthy stress relief, said sophomore Rachel Beck.

“I’ve heard people say things like, ‘I need to get smashed. I’ve had such a hard week at school.’ I hear people talking about alcohol multiple times a day,” Beck said.

Responding to Beck’s comment, sophomore Zarah Udwadia said using alcohol after a hard week is common among all universities.

“I don’t think that it’s unique to Duke though,” she said.

Perry emphasized that challenges could also be lessened by bringing forth a campus wide understanding of the true nature of alcoholism and finding compassion for those with this issue. “[This would] alleviate fear and the need for secrecy, which I think, will lead to young people in recovery feeling more included in the Duke community,” Perry said.

Even though alcohol addiction is an issue, the majority of students at Duke do not suffer from addiction issues.

“We’re talking about a minority slice of the pie,” said Kulley. “It’s a bigger slice of the pie than we would want it to be, but it’s definitely not the norm.”

ty and outreach John Guarco, a sophomore, and senator of facilities and environment Jared Katzen, a freshman.

The Senate also passed a resolution condemning the murders of Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. The resolution also urged the investigation to proceed responsibly and with justice and expressed support for the Chapel Hill community. The resolution was proposed by Guarco and senator of eq-

uity and outreach Madhav Dutt, a freshman.

A bench-burning statute was passed to withdraw $1,500 from the surplus fund for the reconstruction of benches burned after the men’s basketball team’s victory over the University of North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The statute was proposed by Gorwitz and Vice President of Social Culture Tucker Albert, a junior.

The Senate passed a statute to allocate $720 to a Duke Vans service which will run to

a nearby pharmacy on weekends. The statute was introduced by Vice President for Services Billy Silk, a junior, and senator for services Priyanka Venkannagari, a sophomore.

Finally, the Senate passed a statute dictating the Spring election timeline. The statute states that vice presidents will be elected on Tuesday, April 14, and that a referendum for Senate reconfiguration will occur on Tuesday, March 31, should the Senate approve constitutional changes.

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On Sunday night before bed (as I do most Sunday nights before bed), I watched the Internet’s consensus on what the best sketches were from the previous evening’s Saturday Night Live. The host was Fifty Shades of Grey star and Melanie Griffith/ Don Johnson progeny Dakota Johnson, who I had never seen in anything prior to the episode. For someone currently headlining one of the biggest movies of the year thus far, Johnson seems curiously averse to the spotlight. Her monologue was jittery—not uncommon for hosts who are not familiar with the rhythm of live sketch comedy and understandable given the barrage of hacky Fifty Shades jokes she had to make—and her cadence throughout the night was a curiously embarrassed mumble.

All in all, Johnson gave the impression that she would rather be anywhere than Studio 40H. Strangely, I loved it all.

Even though she acted like she was being forced to host at gunpoint, I found Dakota Johnson utterly charming. The more sketches I watched, the more and more I tuned into her wavelength. She is a very adept comedic actress; her nervous energy is less of an affectation or tic than a product of her genuine self. This, combined with her hilariously uncomfortable, yet identifiable, red carpet spat with her mother at the Oscars, has led me to view Johnson as more genuine, in a sense, than many other celebrities. Johnson has been accused in many publications of lacking charisma. I would argue that she has more and a better kind of charisma than the Julia Robertses and Brad Pitts of the world.

“Charisma” is a popular yet nebulous buzzword we associate with celebrities.

Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence and Ryan Gosling have attained mega-stardom with their “boy/girl next door” personas. Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson and Denzel Washington have parlayed their inherent gruffness

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and action hero endeavors into status as beloved cultural figures. Possibly the best (and most intense) example of “charisma” is Beyoncé, whose universal proclamations of awesomeness have spawned a horde of cultish followers devoted to Queen Bey. All of these people promote what I will henceforth refer to as “aspirational celebrity.”

Aspirational celebrity is a phenomenon as old as pop culture itself, in which fans of a cultural figure gravitate toward said figure as a role model. This primarily manifests itself in two ways—physical aspiration and internal aspiration. Physical aspiration is exactly what it sounds like: the desire to emulate a celebrity by changing their appearance, such as the popularity of the “Rachel cut” during Jennifer Aniston’s tenure on Friends. Internal aspiration centers itself around the emulation of a celebrity’s public personality, like Chris Pratt’s affable goofiness being set as a paragon of masculine ideality. Most celebrities could be categorized into either of these categories, and many blur the lines between the two.

However, there remains a problem with aspirational celebrity in that it is an inherently shallow exercise in vainly projecting ourselves onto false idols.

We are lucky to live in an age where most of our venerated pop culture icons project a benevolent image, chock full of empowerment and outward friendliness (a far cry from the Paris Hiltons and K-Feds of yore). The issue lies with the word “image.” Most celebrities play a character for the public eye, one that plays up their salient traits to craft themselves into an easily digestible package. When we think of Chris Pratt, for example, we immediately associate him with “funny,” “charming” and “relatable.” When we think of Taylor Swift, we think of “assertive,” “feminist” and

“kind.” This is an excellent way to package a celebrity’s brand—what better than to be instantly connected with such positive adjectives?—but it gets a little stale after a while.

To me, the most interesting and relatable celebrities are the completely idiosyncratic or the more obviously fallible. Kanye West, for all of his public rudeness and crudeness, is quite possibly the most unique and interesting celebrity on the planet. He is ambition embodied, with a fascinating array of successes and failures that encapsulate the enterprising human spirit. West is not afraid to take risks, whether it be in music, fashion or in his personal life, and everything he does can be scrutinized endlessly. Another fascinating subject is Emma Watson, who takes the “girl-next-door” persona, combines it with the “do-gooder” persona, and backs it up substantially with concrete commitments to raising awareness on human rights and participating in philanthropic causes. No other celebrity in our recent lifetime has done as much to promote these agendas, and her eloquence in articulating her aims has led to skyrocketing levels of interest in the United Nation’s outreach programs. They both have unique charisma in spades.

And then we come back to Johnson, who outwardly lacks West’s ambition or Watson’s precociousness. What she has is normality. The impression one gets from Johnson is that she is not afraid to show her entirely human insecurities, even with her own profession. Her shyness and nerves are endearing. For, as much as we love celebrities who we would want to be like, we would do a great service to ourselves if we appreciate the celebrities who are already just like us.

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Rundown of the Oscars: A night to not remember Adam Schutzman The Chronicle Following last year’s solid hosting performance from Ellen DeGeneres and major awards for a diverse range of actors, directors and films, this year’s Academy Awards were destined to fail. That’s not to say that Neil Patrick Harris didn’t attempt to relieve some of the tension right off the bat, even opening with, “Today we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest.

Sorry, brightest.” Though cheeky, the joke highlighted a fundamental flaw in this year’s bevy of candidates.

Nonetheless, the opening number involving Harris being inserted into former classic films reminded viewers of the seasoned Tony-hosting veteran Harris really is. Unfortunately he just did not seem equipped for this year’s Oscars.

Several of his jokes fell flat, including one bit where Octavia Spencer was supposed to be guarding his “predictions” for this year’s awards. Even David Oyelowo shook his

head in disapproval when Harris attempted to prove that British people sound funnier when telling jokes. Harris also didn’t seem to read the room right or improvise well, skills which are essential for any host. Following an award for Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 and a heartfelt speech about suicide in our country, Harris quipped, “It takes a lot of balls to wear that dress” in reference to the ball-covered attire worn by director Dana Perry. Clearly, timing was not on his side.

Sure, Harris had some high points throughout the night. A stint in which he mimicked the most recognized scene in Birdman—walking onto the stage in his tighty whities and past a much appreciated Whiplash-referencing cameo from Miles Teller—was easily one of the funniest bits of the evening. A sly joke about John Travolta’s pronunciation skills worked quite well, too: “Benedict Cumberbatch: the name you get when you ask John Travolta to announce Ben Affleck.” But, overall, Harris’s performance felt lackluster, unoriginal and, at times, offensive.

From a musical standpoint, the night was

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on fire (albeit way over the projected time).

“Everything is Awesome” performed by Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island was absolutely bonkers in the best way possible.

Common and John Legend’s emotionally charged “Glory” brought Chris Pine to tears and the audience to its feet. We even learned that Lady Gaga doesn’t have to stutter “p-p-ppoker face” and can actually sing beautifully with her mash-up rendition of songs from The Sound of Music. If any songs fell flat, it would have to be Adam Levine’s “Lost Stars” or Jennifer Hudson during the “In Memoriam” section.

When it comes down to it, the greatest aspect of the 2015 Oscars was the impassioned speeches of the winners. J.K. Simmons kicked it off with a perfect message for people today in the Internet age: “If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, don’t text. Don’t e-mail. Call ‘em on the phone.” Patricia Arquette followed

up by calling for wage equality for women in the United States, causing Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez to stand up and fervently applaud. Common and John Legend’s win for “Glory” from Selma led to one of the most powerful speeches of the night as they spoke about the continued struggle for civil rights equality and justice in this nation. Graham Moore, who won Best Adapted Screenplay for Imitation Game, pleaded for everyone to “Stay weird; stay different.” The victories became a platform for activism to an extent that the Academy has never seen before.

By the time Alejandro González Iñárritu won Best Director and Birdman took home the Best Picture trophy, the show had dragged on for what felt like the 12 years it took to make Boyhood. In the end, it’s a shame to say that even in a year of such strong pictures, the Oscars fell disappointingly flat.

Here’s to next year and the potential of John Oliver hosting. He’s got my vote.

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Clarkson matures on her latest album: Piece by Piece Dillon Fernando The Chronicle

The Kelly Clarkson we’ve known and loved has matured—and so has her music.

The Grammy award-winning artist’s newest album Piece by Piece diverges from the rock vibe her albums have traditionally radiated.

Developing this album during her pregnancy and after her recent marriage, Clarkson— known for her rock-smashes such as “Since U Been Gone” and “Miss Independent”— moves away from powerful anthems about a confused and heart-wrenching love to songs with more reflective lyrics. The beginning of this transition was well-noted in her previous album Stronger which features a song of selfempowerment with the same title.

Her first single off of Piece by Piece, “Heartbeat Song,” is constructed in a typical style: a catchy hook, an electric guitar lingering in the background, a display of Clarkson’s range. This first song not only offers long-time fans something familiar, but also introduces listeners to a heavier use of synth and electric beats than usual.

Written by Sia, Clarkson’s song “Invincible” continues the trend of selfempowerment songs. Sia’s ceiling-scratching notes are prevalent throughout, yet something about the pace and the cadence of the lyrics makes the song seem as if it came out of a Disney film, leaving something to be desired.

The remainder of the album shifts to more introspective and thoughtful songs (to the extent the popular music is introspective or thoughtful). The song “Someone” features odd, whispery singing and an escalation to higher octaves, much like a Katy Perry single. Clarkson adds a techno-heavy song

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“Take You High” that electronically breaks her voice in a way that after the first few runs of the chorus, becomes quite irritable—but if that’s your cup of tea, drink up.

An aspect of the album that truly resonates with me is Clarkson’s more sentimental pieces. The song which is the namesake of the album has a delightful melody that conveys how Clarkson’s new hubby and his love for their child has allowed her to regain trust in fatherhood after a falling-out with her own father. The song “Tightrope” with its lurching rhythm and delicately climbing melody creates an ethereal, soul-touching, eat-a-tub-of-Ben-and-Jerry’s-while-sobbing type of song. “Run Run Run,” a duet with John Legend, is a very soulful and chilling ballad that fleshes out the more delicate and technically talented nuances of her voice.

After noting that few people like Legend were willing to collaborate with her, Clarkson managed to show the rest of the industry what it has been missing out on.

Melodies such as “Dance with Me” and “Nostalgic” are clearly inspired from retro 80s and 90s dance anthems. These tracks at the end of the album are a beautiful integration of electronic chords and the vibrancy listeners have come to expect from Kelly Clarkson.

What Piece by Piece succeeds in is controlling Clarkson’s powerful glassshattering vocals to only certain instances within a few songs. While this album has its fair-share of pop anthems, the beauty in this album is found in the more vulnerable moments—where Clarkson’s voice is raw and purposely emotional. This eclectic fusion of pop, electronic and piano presents audiences with a different voice: a more confident and emotionally mature Clarkson.

Never Shout Never revamps some old favorites Georgia Parke The Chronicle I once asked an honest, musically aware friend if it would ever be respectable to like Never Shout Never. His immediate text response: “No.” This didn’t stop me from listening to their deep-feelsturned-to-rhythm tracks on runs or while composing dry academic papers, but was enough to prevent me from bringing the topic up with anyone again, friend or otherwise. Whereas other alternative rock bands like Panic! at the Disco or even Fall Out Boy can claim some more musical legitimacy in their songwriting and varied fan base, Never Shout Never has remained stuck in its rep as an angsty, but cute, teendom favorite.

But their latest album, Recycled Youth (Volume One)––their ninth and a covers album of previous Never Shout Never songs––is a step toward being taken more seriously. The album manages to pull old tunes together in a meaningful way under a cohesive blanket of melancholy.

Whether or not someone is familiar with the often peppy sound of their past albums, Recycled Youth has a noticeably sad vibe. The darker and lower versions of the songs, especially on “On the Brightside” and “Robot,” smooth over some of the screechy factors in lead singer Christofer Drew’s voice that kept other catchy songs like “I Love You 5” and “First Dance” cringe-worthy. And even though the album takes songs from several different albums, Never Shout Never’s new style collects their songs in a light they should have been in all along.

Take “On the Brightside,” for example, the lead track. It slows down the original

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and gives it heavier instrumentation, violin and piano standing out instead of the original’s constant guitar. “Here Goes Nothing,” jumps on pop’s recent synth bandwagon, also toning down the guitar and Never’s trademark ukulele. It starts out almost ballad-like, with heavy beats sounding of Cartel, and drags its intense harmonies through the whole thing. “Lost at Sea” is also more dramatic in its precise harmonizing as opposed to the a cappella chants in the version that appeared on their album “Time Travel.”

“Sweet Perfection,” meanwhile, flips in the opposite direction; it’s a stripped

down but happier version of its original, which was too heavy on drums and too rushed to fit with its obvious but gleeful lyrics, “And oh, sweet perfection / Won’t you hear my one confession? / I’ve been lost, but dear, I’m found.” “Trance-Like Getaway” also takes on a new meaning in Recycled Youth, becoming less of an echoey meditation and more of an acoustic one.

It also adopts an andante pace to let you soak in the words, a feeling that’s pervasive right to the end of the album.

There are no fast tracks, no dance tracks.

Never Shout Never seems to want you to listen and be still this time.

The album overall seems smarter, more calculated and with a more appropriate sound for the way the songs are written. Lead singer Christofer Drew has said that there are plans in the works for two more of these revamps, with fan favorites taken into account.

“The way I see it, a song is never completely finished,” Drew told the St. Louis PostDispatch. “We just wanted to do our favorite songs and do it better than the original recordings. And this is sliding us into the new material.” The album is not terrific, and it’s not classic, but Drew is right in one sense— it’s the better way of doing what Never Shout Never has already done.

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A ‘YEAR OF READINESS’ AT DUKE? Zac Elder Staff Writer The Big Ten is considering a proposal that would prevent athletes from participating in men’s basketball and football in their first year at college.

Although Duke is a member of the ACC, Big Ten officials have been gauging interest in such a proposal from other athletic conferences around the country. If accepted by the ACC or NCAA, the proposal would present new challenges for the Duke athletic department. “[The proposal] may not be appropriate or necessary for every student athlete in the sports of basketball and football,” said Brad Berndt, Duke senior associate director of athletics and student services. “In general there may be more under-prepared students from those two sports around the country, but overall there are many good students— well-prepared, well-adjusted students that participate in football and basketball.”

The Diamondback—the student paper at the University of Maryland—originally broke the story that Big Ten officials were circulating the report, entitled “A Year of Readiness.”

Although the document is not yet public, The Diamondback obtained some of the report’s findings and recommendations.

Football and men’s basketball are the only two collegiate sports with nationwide graduation rates lower than 75 percent, according to the report. Between 2009 and 2013, football and men’s basketball ranked

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last among the 38 sports listed in the Academic Progress Rate, a team-based metric used by the NCAA that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete every term.

Athletes in these programs make up less than 19 percent of all Division I collegiate athletes but account for more than 80 percent of academic infractions, according to the report obtained by The Diamondback.

The NCAA prohibited first-year athletes from competing in any collegiate sport until 1972. College coaches, administrators and athletic officials around the country are now rethinking this rule change and questioning the balance between athletics and academics

at major universities. ACC commissioner John Swofford said recently that now is the time to vet the issue of first-year eligibility for college athletes.

The Duke athletic department has yet to produce an official statement concerning the Big Ten’s proposal.

The proposal’s potential financial impact is still uncertain, Chief Financial Officer of Athletics Mitch Moser said.

In 2014, Duke’s football and men’s basketball programs generated almost $17.5 million in profit, according to a Durham Herald Sun report. Many athletic teams at Duke lose money every year and are subsidized by the

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“Part of the turnovers was us,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “[Codi] MillerMcIntyre pushes the ball better than anybody in the league, so we went to our 2-2-1, threequarter court [defense] mainly so that when we got it, we could get it on the run.… They never really got transition and that’s a big part of their game.”

Everything seemed to be going the Blue Devils’ way, and with the clock winding down, point guard Tyus Jones pulled up from well beyond the arc to drain a triple and draw the foul, sending his team into the locker room with a 37-point lead.

Allen had a quieter second half, scoring nine more, but sophomore Matt Jones picked up the slack, scoring 11 of Duke’s first 13 points in a little less than four minutes. The guard tied his career high of 17 points on 7-of15 shooting.

“The way they were playing us, it was an opportunity for me to have openings, and I just tried to take advantage of it, and ultimately we got the win,” Jones said.

On a night of career highs for Allen and Jones, freshman Jahlil Okafor scored fewer than 10 points for the first time all year, but the Blue Devils didn’t need a big night from their star freshman.

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Jennie Xu | The Chronicle Freshman Grayson Allen scored a career-high 27 points on 9-of-11 shooting in Wednesday’s win against Wake Forest.

“He does it in practice every day,” senior Quinn Cook said of Allen. “For him to get that game confidence makes us a different team because [opponents] have to get ready for a quick scorer who can come off the bench. He brings a definitely different dynamic to our team.”

After taking a four-minute breather, Allen came back scoring at a slower pace—but only slightly. In the final five minutes, he scored off free throws, jumpers and even a tip-in to break his previous career high of 18 points before the halftime horn sounded. The freshman had outscored the Demon Deacons 19-15 at that point and finished the night with 27 in 24 minutes.

Although Allen’s scoring helped the Blue Devils (27-3, 14-3 in the ACC) build a 20-plus point buffer that they would keep the rest of the game, all eight Duke players who saw firsthalf playing time got into the scoring column.

Moreover, the Blue Devils—who average 7.1 steals per game—had nine in the first half and forced Wake Forest (13-17, 5-12) into 15 turnovers in the period.

“revenue sports” to continue competing. The entire Duke athletic department recorded a profit of $146,196 in 2014, according to data filed with the Department of Education.

The proposal for an enforced year of ineligibility would provide more athletic scholarships to men’s basketball and football programs. But universities would likely have to pay for the additional scholarships— around $66,000 per year for each additional scholarship at Duke—without any help from the NCAA, Moser said.

Duke’s football program voluntarily redshirts many of its freshmen, declaring them ineligible for a year of competition. Most recruits are not physically ready to compete at the Division I level, so they sit out from competition their first year. Of the 18 Blue Devil freshmen that received scholarships for the 2014-15 season, 13 redshirted. Fifteen of the 20 scholarship recipients in the 2013-14 recruiting class redshirted their first year.

Linebacker Zavier Carmichael was one of the five freshman football players who did not redshirt for the 2014-15 season. Carmichael played in all 13 games, recording 20 tackles and two interceptions while also earning a 3.8 GPA in his first semester, taking classes in philosophy, writing, chemistry and public policy.

“I wanted to be redshirted because I didn’t see myself as prepared to take the next step into college, but the coaches thought otherwise,” Carmichael said. “Most [firstyears] want to play, but I wanted to gain some See Year of Readiness on Page 9

Despite the dominant performance, Duke faced a few scary moments when both Amile Jefferson and Justise Winslow left the game briefly with ankle issues. Both returned, and Krzyzewski noted that the team trainer said the injuries did not appear to be serious. And despite the injury, Winslow stuffed the stat sheet, scoring 13 points and recording seven rebounds, six assists and six steals.

Playing his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Cook made sure not to miss out on the action. Duke’s lone scholarship senior knocked down a corner trey during the opening 12-0 run, sank a crowd-pleasing upand-under down the stretch and finished the night with 13 points on 3-of-7 shooting from long-range.

After defeating the Demon Deacons by just eight points in their first matchup Jan. 7, Cook’s teammates wanted to make sure they gave their captain a resounding send-off.

“We just knew we owed Wake Forest,” Matt Jones said. “We played them earlier in the year and did not have a great defensive game, or a great game period, so we just tired to redeem ourselves.”

Duke will close the regular season Saturday at 9 p.m. in Chapel Hill against No. 19 North Carolina.

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This mistake was never made in the online edition. The Chronicle regrets the error. White did not explicitly mention sexual assault in his statement.

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more weight because I am undersized at my position. But I’m happy that I played this year because I made contributions to the team.”

Division I men’s basketball is a much different landscape.

One-and-dones—players who leave for the NBA after their first year on campus—have become a staple of the college game.

This season, Duke starts three freshmen—Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow. Okafor is a player-of-the-year candidate, and Jones and Winslow are candidates for the allconference team. Jabari Parker led the ACC in rebounding and finished second in the conference in scoring as a freshman last season and was selected as the second overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft.

Austin Rivers won all-ACC honors and knocked down a game-winning 3-pointer against North Carolina in 2012 in his only season in Durham. Like Parker, Rivers also left Duke after one year and was selected in the first round of the NBA draft.

The “Year of Readiness” proposal would not only change the makeup of Duke’s basketball program, but also provide some implementation challenges.

Duke limits its undergraduates to nine full semesters of enrollment. That means if an athlete takes a redshirt year, he or she must either take a semester off or enroll in a oneyear graduate degree program to remain eligible for a fourth and final year of competition. Duke would have to reconcile

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The court of public opinion, however, has done so anyhow. Today, we assess the current culture, its failings and the measures needed to provide both the respondent and claimant with the respect and privacy deserved.

The circuit of public discourse that has arisen from the present sexual assault allegations proves to be one that further perpetuates a culture where claimants do not feel safe coming forward. The reasons for not reporting a claim to the Office of Student Conduct are many: on one hand is the fear of public backlash. Duke’s culture is one in which certain institutions—in particular its basketball team, which is integral to the University’s image—wield significant socio-cultural clout among students and administrators alike. Against such monoliths, a victim may well be intimidated into silence in fear of the backlash he or she may receive for accusing so glorified a campus figure. While cases are supposed to be held under strict rules of confidentiality, past experiences like the on-

going Lewis McLeod case breed the right perception that such privacy and protection from public backlash is too often a foregone luxury.

Even more, the immensely traumatic nature of sexual assault must not be underestimated. For an experience so sensitive and deeply personal, victims may understandably prefer not to enter so vitriolic a perceived court of public scrutiny and scandal.

The hesitancy to report to the University’s formal judicial process further, and most problematically, indicates, a conduct system without the students’ full trust. The system is rife with flaws, as noted in a previous editorial, which discusses the problematic irregularities in the case of a student accused of sexual misconduct. Given such precedence and perception, the system is shrouded by questions of whether the process pays justice to both the accuser and accused.

Thus, it is crucial to reconsider how sexual assault is handled as it has been considered to be an “arbitrary, subjective decision.” If both sides feel wronged in the process, our judicial system is in great need of amending in order to keep our campus safe and provide both the respondent and claimant with control in the process.

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We must foster a conduct system and culture in which students feel comfortable coming forward. The first step is reviving students’ faith in the integrity of the process. Yet, creating a safe environment will also require greater emphasis on preventive measures rather than the fallout. In the case of the current allegations of sexual assault against former Duke basketball player Rasheed Sulaimon, there is incomplete information and questions that have yet to be answered. Yet, these allegations remind us to be aware of the culture we embody and the part we take in the discovery of further information.

Our students determine the content and palpable qualities of Duke’s campus culture. Our day-to-day conversations and the sentiments we permit to be expressed around us with the air that we breathe create the atmosphere we live in. Safety, acceptance and kindness should dominate our Duke community and saturate every sub-community founded on a premise of acceptance and inclusion. We encourage the students to cultivate an environment that withholds judgment and encourages a safe space for students to come forward with any fears or concerning matters without the fear of fallout.

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few months ago, I spent a weekend in Paris while abroad in Europe for the semester and figured it might be good to do some research on the city before my trip. I’m sure you could imagine my excitement after finding “Rugrats in Paris” on some totally legal websites online.

Anyways, watching the move again more than 10 years later gave me an entirely new perspective on one of my favorite childhood shows. What once began as a show about five white babies hanging around a suburban neighborhood, seven seasons prior, “Rugrats” was now teaching kids about new cultures, interracial marriages, nuclear families, and even defying gender norms.

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Looking back over the nine seasons, it seems like over time there had been a conscious effort to broaden the diversity of the cast and plot to better represent our society. While I wouldn’t necessarily define Rugrats as revolutionary, even its beginnings were quite progressive, and that’s beyond the fact that Chuckie was a ginger....

Feminism and gender bending ran rampant—in all the best of ways of course—throughout the main characters. To start off, Didi Pickles, Tommy’s mom, has the more stable income in the family, while her husband, Stu, is free to pursue his less predictable dreams of becoming an investor. Meanwhile Angelica’s mom Charlotte plays the role of business executive and imparts values of independence and strength on her daughter.

In the Finster household, Chaz plays the role of single father, who is very sensitive and rejects the common traits assigned to masculinity. Finally, traditional gender roles meet their death in there DeVille family where Betty DeVille, the matriarch, clearly plays the more traditionally masculine role in her marriage, while her husband, Howard, performs roles traditionally taken on my women, such as cooking and cleaning.

An episode entitled, “Clan of the Duck,” in Season 4 (1997) tackles many of these issues in a mere ten minutes, including female empowerment, gender fluidity and male privilege. In this episode, Betty Deville takes her daughter, Lillian, to a Mommy & Me Female Empowerment class to learn “tumbling, jumping, and a ‘let’s take control of the Senate’ sing-a-long,”—I just love re-watching kids shows and laughing at these one-

liners thrown in for the adults. Meanwhile, Chuckie and Phil are outraged that they aren’t given the freedom to wear a dress like Lillian, and are instead forced to pull down their pants every time that they wanna use the potty—if only they knew how easy they have it. Eventually, Phil and Chuckie end up at the park in some pink duckie dresses and are literally fought over by boys, who mistake them for girls, offering ‘dummy worms’ and chocolate. However, Chuckie and Phil soon learn that this “free” candy comes with an expectation to play with these “nice” boys, definitely something they didn’t sign up for. Soon enough, Phil and Chuckie’s secrets are revealed and the boys that were once offering them candy transform into angry bullies.

The episode ends with Phil and Chuckie finding some Scottish babies in the park, where they form solidarity and find acceptance with their new skirt-wearing friends. Without blatantly stating much at all, we were learning so much at such a young age, in this case, about the ridiculous societal constructs that have become so ingrained in our world.

However, the Rugrats did more than just defy gender stereotypes. In season 2 (1993), after almost two full years of an entirely white cast, the producers introduced some new neighbors down the street, the Carmichaels. They were an affluent African-American family. Dr. Lucy Carmichael, the matriarch, is a Harvard-educated doctor who further strengthens the presence of strong female roles in the show, while her husband, Randy, is a writer for a children’s show. Their daughter Susie would go on to be a main character in the show. But, oh wait, there is more.

After teaching the American youth about Christmas for three seasons, in 1996, Rugrats introduced Tommy’s Jewish grandparents, Boris and Minka. “A Rugrats Passover” aired in April 1995 and was soon followed by “A Rugrats Chanukah” in December of the same year, which was actually the first ever-televised animated Hanukkah program. To this day, I think I learned more about Jewish traditions from “Rugrats” than any class in both high school and college.

Finally, let’s head back to “Rugrats in Paris”— Spoiler alerts ahead, but if you haven’t seen it, I’m sort of questioning your childhood choices. Chuckie may have been the one to leave the movie with a new mommy and bring his new stepsister, Kimi, into Season 7 (2001), but we left with a more normalized view of interracial marriages (Kimi’s mom is Japanese) and nuclear families in general.

So, if Rugrats were still around today, what else would they cover? Who would they add to the fold and would they continue to push the envelope? I’d like to think so.

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

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The farce of Duke’s hook-up culture

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ould you believe me if I told you that the “hook-up” culture we all believe to be so present at Duke is actually a farce?

I understand if you have a hard time believing me at first—all it would take to find evidence suggesting otherwise is a quick trip to Shooters or a skim of the infamous Rolling Stones article “Sex and Scandal at Duke”. Janet Reitman wrote in this article of a Duke with “sex as a sport, as a way of life, as a source of constant self-scrutiny and selfanalysis.” But how true is that claim, really?

Believe it or not, dating actually does occur on this campus. According to the Duke Social Relationships Project, a four-year study from 2007-2011, close to a quarter of students were dating someone locally, either on campus or nearby, with an additional 12 percent in long distance relationships.

The study also showed that— of the two-thirds of Duke students not in committed romantic relation-

ing women’s choices. I do not think women are encouraged to explore their sexuality enough.

I have appreciated efforts like One Sexy Week bringing in speaker “I Love Female Orgasm” and Me Too Monologues including hilarious pieces on vibrators and “tickling your taco” in their production over the years. I want to make it clear that this article is not anti-hooking up, it’s anti-hooking up for the wrong reasons.

I have witnessed a rather peculiar trend during my time at Duke—a noteworthy number of women appear eager to engage in hook-up culture as underclassmen and become jaded as upperclassmen.

It is as if they were so set on trying to figure out the social culture and how to fit into it that they didn’t pause to think about whether or not it was something they wanted to conform to in the first place. And they end up feeling unfulfilled.

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A defense of civic engagement and awareness

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thank my parents very, very often for giving me the opportunity to be born on United States soil—to be a citizen in a country that appreciates my voice and position as a member of the community and nation. The United States I know and love is a unique network of families, schools, town halls, places of worship, neighborhoods and state capitols. We are not defined prima facie by our incomes or wealth or the businesses that we grow. We are instead defined by the community that our businesses enable us to build and support. We are driven by a constant hope for something bigger and better, not only for ourselves but also for our compatriots.

My dad came here to get a world-class education and en-

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ships— only a little over 50 percent had hooked up with someone in the previous six months. Furthermore, the 2014 Duke Inquiries on Social Relationships Study showed that 75 percent of respondents wanted to be in romantic relationships.

It seems Duke’s “hook-up culture” is more smokescreen than anything. Yet somehow, that smoke has managed to find its way under the cracks of our doors, filling our rooms with a smoldering scent that leads us to believe any potential for real dating on this campus has gone up in flames. We act accordingly, despite the fact that this perceived norm does not accurately reflect reality.

Rolling Stone’s Reitman quotes a female student saying, “People assume that there are two very distinct elements in a relationship, one emotional and one sexual, and they pretend like there are clean lines between them.” Hook-up culture is portrayed as “random” to downplay the emotional aspects of sex. It is often more about the accomplishment of having scored a partner than connecting with them or receiving any sort of emotional benefit from the interaction. Behaviorally, it is as if we flipped the spectrum of intimacy. Have you ever thought about how strange it is that in the context of hookup culture, holding hands has become a stronger expression of affection than sex?

Let me be clear: If casual sex is really what you want, all the more power to you, particularly for women. We live in a society that takes far too much liberty dictating gender roles and constrict-

do” embodies this issue. The author writes about engaging in her first “casual sex” experience. After having lost her virginity in the “ideal way” to a long-term boyfriend, she felt it was now time for her to “play it like one of the guys” since that’s what she had been led to believe an “empowered woman” would do. The author writes, “But this didn’t feel the way it was supposed to feel. This didn’t feel casual or carefree—it felt like a big fat mistake... I [had] let him objectify me and I [had] let myself think I wanted it that way.” She soon comes to realize that the definitions of “fun” and “empowered” she was pursuing were not ones she had come to by her own terms. What she actually wanted was different from what the dominant narrative of hook-up culture told her she was supposed to want.

I feel as though those of us begrudgingly caught up in the hook-up culture often act the way we do because we have been socialized to think of it as “just the way things are”, in a very all-or-nothing way. Either I engage in the hook-up culture and get some sense of romance and emotional connection, or I reject it and get nothing at all. And quite frankly, it doesn’t have to be this way. Don’t be fooled by the smokescreen—there is no fire.

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ter into a booming job market, giving back to his new home along the way. But I do not believe that America’s single, most prominent pull to immigrants is its identity as the “land of opportunity for all.” The identity centered around the ideal of prosperity often, and quite unfortunately, overshadows this land’s identity as being home to a thriving civil society that holds far more potential for participation, representation and leadership than those in many other countries around the world.

In the almost three years that I have been at Duke, I have gotten to know friends and classmates who are on their respective career and ambition tracks, entering Duke through one door and leaving out the other without taking the time to become active, contributing members of Duke’s vibrant cultural or political communities. We live our experience at Duke as it comes, most of us never stopping to consider how we might shape that experience through a position on organizations like Duke Partnership for Service, Duke University Union (LDOC, anyone?), or Duke/Engineering Student Government.

I am afraid that what we are today, at the micro-level, will be what we are tomorrow at the macro-level. I’m afraid that we will forget our lessons on American history and civics, and that our roles as members and stakeholders in this American community are far more important to our sense of self than our positions as employees or executives at some company. We will pay fleeting attention to electing and lobbying the governors, congressmen and women and senators who will draft legislation affecting our children’s education and job opportunities and the taxes we pay our government. We will exist in our society without truly being there or aware.

But I hope to once again see an America where teenagers will be as excited to turn 18 as they are to turn 16 or 21, an America where more and more Duke students and American citizens will vote for and hold their leaders accountable to realize the policies they promise for a new and improved society. As dysfunctional as we think Duke Student Government, Congress or the Executive branch might be, we should remember that there are leaders within those institutions fighting to change policies on ultimately impactful issues. I know that each and every one of Duke’s students who did not vote in November’s midterm elections or this past Tuesday’s student body elections has an opinion on everything from America’s involvement abroad and its oil and gas boom, to bringing back Duke’s tailgate and the LDOC of yore. I look forward to a time when my generation complements its professional ambitions with equally ambitious dreams to also serve its community and country as informed leaders. I envision us not as passive commentators engaging in armchair discourse, protests and marches but as active members of society who go out into the field to communicate and work effectively with one another.

While it can seem, sometimes, that what goes on in the way of politics and policy has very little to offer us in our dayto-day lives, I believe that elected officials and their policies truly have the power to improve the country. Every student here wants to change the world in some way, and every citizen is blessed with access to civic engagement as one of the most direct channels to forward that change.

Pi Praveen is a Trinity junior and president of Duke Political Union.

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continued from page 1 Obama’s newly announced Precision Medicine Initiative.

Although the new NIH budgets have stopped making cuts to program funding, researchers still find themselves competing more for grants.

“It is still a challenging time for biomedical researchers, because there are far more worthy projects and proposals than there is funding to support them,” Schoenfeld said. “Research activities have been growing, but funding available from the NIH has not been growing at the same rate.”

One of the consequences of the overall stagnation in research funding over the past several years has been the pressure put on new scientists entering the field, Schoenfeld said.

“It has a ripple effect by discouraging people from going into basic research,” he explained. “How do you measure the impact of something that doesn’t get discovered? It’s a liability not only for this institution but for society.”

The average age at which principal investigators receive their first research grant from the NIH has been Eric Lin | Chronicle File Photo increasing for decades. It currently is 42 years of age, President Barack Obama has requested a $1 billion increase in the NIH’s budget for the fiscal year 2016, which translates to a a number that the NIH is looking to reduce in 2015, 3.3 percent increase in funding. according to the spending agreement reached by Congress. While Haynes currently receives the highest amount of NIH funding of anyone at Duke, most faculty are trying to get small to mid-sized grants in a time of what he called research austerity.

“Our people are competing relatively well, but we’re trying to get [more] support for our young people,” 2015 von der Heyden Fellow Haynes said. “My hope would be that there’s increased funding for young scientists to get individual grants, to allow more fundamental and basic research to continue.”

TuE, MarCH 3 WEd, MarCH 4 Steve Harward, a sixth-year graduate student in neuLSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) Duke Lemur Center, Beach robiology, has a three-year fellowship through the NIH. Duke University House Classroom Though finding funding can pose issues, he said, Duke 4:45 - 5:45 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm (Reception to Follow) works to provide graduate students with the knowledge “ The Curious Case of the required to work the system and get the necessary mon“Par tnership in Practice: Disappearing Mouse ey.

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“Madagascar Rediscovered: Haynes also emphasized the importance of funding Myth, History, and Science” student research, which he said contributed to the overall environment at Duke.

“Basic research funds, primarily driven by NIH, make a wonderful college atmosphere here where students can contribute as much as faculty, so it’s very important All events are free and open to the public. for society and our educational environment,” Haynes Learn more: global.duke.edu/lemurs said. “We’re just hoping and waiting to see if the president’s new budget will fare well.”

Schoenfeld said that the University will continue to push for increased research funding. Duke’s federal relations team has been working to support the proposed 2016 budget increases. It also works with faculty on campus and with Congress to articulate the importance of research and research funding, Schoenfeld explained.

“We educate and inform other advocates who we hope will make the case for basic science research,” he said. “The entire country has a stake in the continuation Better Ingredients. of science and research.”

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