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“People will tweet ‘Oh what a play!’ And then you’ll say, ‘Wait, what play?” Kirby Wilson The Chronicle Duke’s change to an Internet streaming service for campus televisions has been met with criticism from many students. Late last year, when DirecTv announced it was shutting down its Internet Protocol television platform, Duke was forced to change the way students watch television. After a review of various options, the administration settled on Philo, an Internet streaming technology run through Roku devices. From November to February, every television on campus was transitioned to the new system. In the estimation of many students, the change has been rocky. Or perhaps more accurately, it has been pixely. “It’s awful,” said senior Matt Grossman. “It’s worse in every possible way than what we had before.” Grossman said he has struggled with the new technology all semester. He noted that the lapses in the Internet connection that runs the televisions have made some

Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Students have criticized the new Philo internet streaming service for its delay of live events, such as Duke basketball games.

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Requests for admissions records increase Gautam Hathi Health and Science Editor Students are taking advantage of the ability to look into their admissions files—both at Duke and across the country. After The New York Times reported on a successful attempt by students at Stanford University to obtain admissions records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in January, the Duke Office of the University Registrar has received more than 50 requests to review admissions files. Some peer institutions have also seen an increase in records requests, with Stanford seeing more than 2,500 requests in a little more than two months. In response to this increase, Stanford has begun destroying the records of students who have not filed requests. At Duke, the registrar’s office is taking steps to process re-

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle The admissions office has had to balance the need to respond to FERPA requests with work on the upcoming release of admissions decisions for regular decision applicants.

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quests in the order they are received, though University Registrar Bruce Cunningham noted that FERPA allows 45 days to fill each one. “This is a very busy time for both the Office of Admissions and for our office, so these requests are creating a demand on resources at a time when it is difficult to dedicate those resources to this,” Cunningham wrote in an email Wednesday. When students wish to review their files, they send their requests to the registrar’s office, at which point Cunningham requests access to them from the admissions office. He noted that the admissions office has been handing over records “pretty quickly.” Although the registrar’s office has so far only allowed students to review their records in person, Cunningham noted that the office has not decided whether it will give copies of

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Cash, credit or mobile app: the rise of Venmo “Once everybody on campus starts using Venmo, you’re going to need to get a Venmo yourself” Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Paying your friends back has never been so easy—or entertaining. Venmo—the latest application to blow up on the social media scene—is a mobile wallet that allows users to instantly transfer money to each other with only a smartphone and a bank account. The moneysharing system has become increasingly popular on college campuses for its accessibility and social dimension. Many see Venmo and services like it as having the potential to revolutionize the way people use money in their daily lives. “Cash is fine but not everyone will have the correct amount of cash on them when paying for stuff,” said freshman Helen Lu, a Venmo user. “With Venmo, there are no more IOUs or waiting for someone to remember to pay you back.” Venmo—which was developed in 2009 by Andrew Kortina and Iqram MagdonIsmail—was designed to “enable anyone with a mobile device to send and receive payments via text message,” as stated in its 2009 executive summary. This vision has come to fruition for many Duke students, who find it easier to use Venmo than to pay with cash or credit card, especially when paying a friend back for food or splitting a bill and cab fare. “I mostly use it on the weekends when my friends and I go out or order food,” said freshman Daniel Schlabach. “It’s just

a lot easier to deal with than getting cash from an ATM and then carrying it around or writing a check. You can send exact amounts to people and have it go straight into your bank account.” Venmo is in some ways self-propagating, in that after awhile, not having Venmo can actually become an inconvenience, said David McAdams, professor of business administration at the Fuqua School of Business. “It’s called a network effect when the value of a service increases as more people use it,” McAdams said. “Once everybody on campus starts using Venmo, you’re going to need to get a Venmo yourself.” Senior Daniel Stublen noted that transactions are more difficult when his friends don’t have Venmo. “My friend from home, who doesn’t go to Duke, visited and did not have Venmo so it was more difficult to go to restaurants and split bills,” Stublen said. Social life of money A unique aspect of Venmo’s moneysharing service is its social news feed, whereby people can see what friends and other students are paying for and to whom. Bringing this social dimension to money was part of Venmo’s innovative business model, noted Nikhil Joseph, an analyst at Mercator Advisory Group. “It appeals to millennials and young people,” Joseph said. “Before Venmo no one thought that people actually wanted to share what they’re paying people for, but clearly there’s interest in the market to do that, and people use that in their own way.” Some marketing analysts such as fifthyear Ph.D candidate at Fuqua Avni Shah

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Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Venmo, an app which enables anyone with a mobile device to send and receive payments via text message, has become increasingly popular among Duke students.

believe that the social media dimension of Venmo might comfort fellow spenders. “Instead of struggling with your decisions and wondering if I should have paid for that or not, I can look at Venmo and see that other people are also buying these other things. Overall, it lightens the load for people,” said Shah, who will begin as an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto this summer. On campus, however, frequent Venmo users’ reactions to the social feed were more tepid.

Freshman Kelsey Graywill noted that she very infrequently looks at the feed, calling it “inconsequential.” Many students, Graywill included, also noted that they would much rather have their monetary transactions be kept private rather than public. “I don’t see a reason for it to be published and I’ve already got enough of my information on the Internet,” she said. “Why put my transactions between my See Venmo on Page 4

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continued from page 1 Duke basketball games unwatchable. He said during one particularly bad game, the television lost Internet connection 32 times. Hamid Ali, Pratt ‘12, who has watched basketball games on campus through the service, said his experience with Philo has been frustrating because of the unreliable network. “People will tweet ‘Oh what a play!’ And then you’ll say, ‘Wait, what play?” he said. Joe Gonzalez, the dean for residence life, said he and his team are trying their hardest to address the concerns of students. He noted that the Office of Information Technology is monitoring to make sure Duke’s Internet network can handle the transition. “The Duke Internet is robust enough that it should be able to handle [the change to Philo] without any incident,” he said. Tristan Haas, a sophomore member of Fix My Campus, said the group is working with administration to make Philo more functional. He noted the Roku devices are running continuously, which can cause delays. To combat this, Housing, Dining and Residence Life is designing a process to automatically refresh the system to avoid glitches, he said. Junior Mike Zhu said his problem with Philo has less to do with the occasional glitch and more with the fact that the system was put into place overnight, without warning or instructions on how to use it. Gonzalez said an email was sent to students through various residence coordinators that provided both warning of the transition and user instructions. “It’s hard to know how well [those emails] caught the attention of the students,” he said. Junior Mayank Dubey said he is particularly frustrated that Philo lacks a function

that allows for users to check what is showing on other channels without changing stations. Grossman said he could relate to this frustration, adding that the hardware is difficult to manage. “Roku is so much harder to control,” he said. “The remote doesn’t do anything. You can’t turn it on and off. You can’t adjust the volume. You can’t change channels.” Gonzalez said further communication with the students about how to use Roku is necessary because it can stop some of the problems students have been having with individual machines. “Our Rokus only deliver Philo content,” he said. “That’s all they do. Some students have played with [the Roku] how they would at home and that has disrupted the service.” This change is the next step in the move away from traditional cable services toward television streaming, which commenced in 2011 when all televisions in East and West campus common rooms were switched to high-definition television delivered over the Internet and dorm room cable services were cut. Many students agree that despite the rough start, streaming is the future of television. Ali said when he visited campus recently, he was surprised to see the change. He noted that when he got to Duke as a freshman, the University did not yet have highdefinition television or wireless Internet throughout campus. “[Philo is] cool tech,” he said. “It’s kind of ironic that Duke has gone from being in the dark ages to having this super advanced tech that not a lot of schools have.” Dubey said he has hope for Philo, but he does not believe streaming services have yet caught up to the user experience offered by cable. However, Dubey was able to find a silver lining amid all of the frustration. “It’s pretty cool that you can play Angry Birds,” he said.

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are committed to fulfilling those requests. There is work involved in fulfilling these requests, since we need to handle each recontinued from page 1 quest individually,” he wrote in an email records to alumni or students who are not Wednesday. “This is unfortunately occurcurrently on campus. FERPA states that the ring at the busiest time of the year for us University must give students copies of re- as we prepare to provide decisions to over cords or make “other arrangements” if “a fail- 28,000 regular decision applicants.” ure to do so would effectively prevent the stuFor Stanford officials, this time-condent from obtaining access to the records.” suming process had been even more cum“We’re currently exploring how we will bersome because 400 of the roughly 2,800 handle requests for students who are away requests came from alumni, said Lisa from campus,” he wrote. “We have not yet de- Lapin, assistant vice president for univercided how these will be handled.” sity communications. There are currently Cunningham expressed concern about about 16,000 students at Stanford. the resources his office and the admissions of“Since the major influx of requests, we fice have had to dedicate have returned to our previous practice of not to responding to FERPA ur major concern is retaining admissions ofrequests. Each record must be reviewed individthe amount of staff ficer notes.” Lapin wrote ually and material from in an email Monday. recommendations letters time it is taking to process “Historically, Stanford must be removed before these requests and pull to- did not keep them. But the record is released to gether the records. when we transitioned to students, creating a lot of digital admissions, the extra work at a busy time — Bruce Cunningham notes were part of the of the academic year. digital files. We will no “Our major concern is the amount of staff longer retain them, as they are not of use time it is taking to process these requests and to the university and there is no requirepull together the records. Unfortunately, for ment to keep them.” both offices this involves utilizing staff time The admissions offices at Yale Univerthat could be devoted to other tasks,” he sity’s Law School and undergraduate colwrote. “FERPA grants this right of review to lege have also adopted a policy of deleting students, though, so it’s important that we records, according to a March article by make these records available to students who the Yale Daily News. FERPA does not rerequest them.” quire educational institutions to maintain Dean of Undergraduate Admissions records unless they have been requested. Christoph Guttentag expressed similar When asked if Duke would delete adconcerns. He noted that the admissions missions files, the registrar’s office deoffice has had to balance the need to re- ferred comment to the undergraduate spond to requests with work on the up- admissions office. The undergraduate coming release of decisions for regular admissions office deferred comment on decision applicants. whether it would delete records until after “We understand the interest some stu- undergraduate admissions decisions are dents have in seeing their records, and we released due to the high current workload.

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continued from page 2 personal circle of friends out there too?” Many users, however, think the benefits of Venmo outweigh the privacy concerns. “I don’t mind the public aspect of it mainly because I wouldn’t use Venmo for something really sensitive, and if I did I’d lie in the description of what the payment was for,” freshman Parmida Mostafavi said. She added that within the settings of the application, users can control how much information they want to be available to the public. Venmo’s social feed can actually serve an entertainment value, Mostafavi said. “I’ve seen people put stuff like sex or blowjobs or drugs on there,” Mostafavi said. “But I don’t think anyone takes these seriously. They’re actually pretty entertaining, to be honest.” Dark side of convenience Despite the benefits Venmo provides, it has come with its criticisms. Shah, for example, added that Venmo might contribute to poor budgeting by college students. “It makes paying not seem as real,” Shah said. “When I think of my phone I think of something I can communicate with. It doesn’t seem to be painful to pay, like it would be if I had to hand over cash, and I think it might lead to overspending because the money is less salient.” Schlabach said some students and friends of his choose not to use Venmo because they are concerned about the security of using a mobile payment system, such as if Venmo were to face a massive data breach and financial information be stolen. Matt Tatham—an analyst at Experian, a firm that provides fraud prevention ser-

vices— noted that balancing convenience and security is harder than ever. “What we’re seeing as technology comes out into the open space is that fraudsters are way ahead,” Tatham said. “They are always going to be the first adopters of a new platform, trying to find ways to steal money, so any company in that space has to have the right fraud measures in place to authenticate the consumer, and that’s tough.” That being said, Ben Zhao, professor of computer science at University of California Santa Barbara, said that Venmo is ultimately more secure than even credit card companies. “From a technical standpoint, it’s not that hard,” Zhao said. “There’s no actual currency going through your smartphone. In that sense, its much more secure than, for example, using credit cards, where your information and account numbers and codes can actually be skimmed from the machine.” Zhao also added that Venmo could be trusted to protect its users because it’s in the company’s interest to do so. “When the target is so obvious, it’s oftentimes a less worthwhile target,” Zhao said. “Venmo has all the incentive in the world to secure account number information, and anyone dealing with financial transactions will feel the need to encrypt and triple-lock their data.” Despite Venmo’s current success, Zhao noted that it is unlikely Venmo will continue to thrive as established firms like Facebook and Apple develop similar services. But although Venmo’s future might be uncertain, Zhao is confident that mobile payment systems will undoubtedly continue to grow in the future. “We’re all mobile and we want access all the time,” Zhao said. “Money is no exception.”

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Courtney Barnett charms with simple humor Eliza Strong The Chronicle My first impression of this album is that Courtney Barnett is someone I’d like to be friends with. If she is anything like her music, I imagine someone who is friendly, unassuming, and relatable, with a quirkiness and edge that sets her apart from the rest. Barnett is a guitarist and singer-songwriter hailing from Melbourne, Australia whose music is simple, humorous and nonchalantas Pitchfork paraphrased John Cage, “Barnett has nothing to prove and she’s proving it.” Her influences are primarily 1990’s grunge rock with some 1960s psychadelia thrown in, but her overall style is difficult to categorize because it is so singular. She isn’t trying for the ‘hit record of the summer,’ nor is she copying other artists or resorting to cheap hooks to draw in listeners, which is what makes this record so instantly likable. It’s produced just enough to sound well mixed and professional, but no more, such that the music is good all by itself, with no frills or auto-tuning. Courtney Barnett’s debut album, with the quirky title Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, follows two EPs called The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas. The narrowminded reader might dismiss her here— music with titles this odd is probably equally strange. It’s true that Barnett’s sound is unique, but in the best possible sense. Her work is fresh, self-confident and honest. Listening to the album, one gets the sense that she might be singing her twitter feed aloud. Lyrically, it’s stream-of-consciousness snapshots of her life, but manages to be consistently fluid and pleasingly clever. Barnett chooses simple subject matter

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and all her words with clever exactitude, breaking from topical, expected songs about love, heartbreak, etc. that new artists so often resort to. As such, her sound is easy and not at all forced. Highlights include: watching a guy decide to play hooky en route to work, a swimmer faint in a bid to impress the person in the next lane, and contemplating a washed-up seal corpse in the context of man’s slow destruction of the environment. One of the most striking features of the record is its cohesiveness as it rolls in and out of a wide range of influences and inventiveness. Barnett slips from gorgeous

crooning into almost speaking her lyrics over background music, and her guitar playing similarly spans everything from bare acoustic strains to heavy distortion. The backbone of “Small Poppies” draws on psychedelic rock references with a laid-back, lazy guitar. The emotional gravitas that Barnett conveys here is as powerful as that of classic female rock soloists like Janis Joplin or Patti Smith, grounded in a half-lidded haze that sets a completely chilled-out, cool mood. Barnett transitions to something quite different, but no less her, with “Depreston.” Here, she tells a compelling narrative, almost

like a diary entry or an indie documentary, that follows a house-hunting couple through California suburbs. The song is as familiar as a close friend, as Barnett sings, “You said we should look out further/ I guess it wouldn’t hurt us/ we don’t have to be around all these coffee-shops/Now we got that percolator, never made a latte greater/ I’m saving 23 dollars a week.” The track is pensive and deep without becoming preachy; she isn’t telling us her feelings, just what happened to her in a day. It’s hard to realize just how refreshing that kind of straightforwardness is until you’re listening to it, but imagine something like asking someone how their day was and them telling you what they did and their impression of the world, versus someone who whines over how depressed it made them. The effect is refreshing, and also makes one realize how much of the latter pervades music these days. “Kim’s Caravan” is the emotional climax of the album, sounding like the background music you’d want if you were thinking about exactly the subject matter she addresses— mortality, environmental responsibility and human culpability for earth’s degeneration. As ever, she isn’t preaching, just quietly considering, over guitar that fades in and out with strung-out power chords played with unapologetic ease. “Don’t stop listening/I’m not finished yet/ I’m not fishing for your compliments,” Barnett sings on “Debbie Downer,” and it seems like she’s speaking directly to her listeners. Indeed, this record is the start of a promising career, though Barnett doesn’t seem to care whether other people think so. She’s just going to keep cataloging her life and expressing it by making great music, and however it is received, what she produces will be completely hers.

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A case for French music performer Stromae Daniel Stublen The Chronicle

Racine carée (“Squared Root” in French) is the most recent album by Belgian musical performer Stromae. Released in August 2013, Racine Carrée took Europe by storm, quickly jumping to the top of the charts in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Students who’ve studied abroad since the album’s release are sure to have heard hit singles like “Papaoutai” (Papa, where are you?) and “Tous les mêmes” (All the same) in clubs and on the radio. In the United States the album has not had as strong of a presence, most likely due to its exclusively French lyrics. However, he has done multiple remixes with English-speaking performers like Kanye West, Will.I.Am and Angel Haze. This summer, however, he’s going coast to coast on the American leg of his international tour. The album title Racine carrée alludes to his dual background: his father was a black Rwandan and his mother a white Belgian. Stromae, whose real name is Paul van Haver, grew up in and around Brussels, Belgium with his mother and four siblings. His father left the family and returned to Rwanda when Stromae was a small child and was killed there during the genocide in 1994. Stromae grew up in and around Brussels, Belgium with only his mother and four siblings. Stromae started rapping in high school, and did a brief stint in film school before moving full-time into the music industry with a small rap group. He quickly gained notoriety as a solo artist with his hit single “Alors on danse” (So we dance) off his first album in 2010, Cheese. Stromae comes from the inversion of the word “Maestro.” This inversion is a historic linguistic practice in French, but is most common among French youth who call it Verlan, which is itself the inversion of “L’envers” (Inverse). Stromae also has also utilized YouTube since his early career to give his fans a look inside his creative process. These short “lessons” are sort of experimental self-interviews, and often quite humorous or absurd. But Stromae reveals more than just his silly personality. He also goes through the technical process of making beats and melodies for his songs, often solely with his laptop. These videos have garnered millions of views and, much to the joy of his fans, he performs some “live lessons” during his concerts. He calls himself not a musician but an “interprète” (performer), meaning he puts as much work into the planning of his live shows as his time in the recording studio. There are a few notable tracks off of the album that you’ll be sure to hear at his concerts or maybe even on the radio: “Ta fête” (Your Party) is a shortening of the French expression “Faire ta fête” (Get on your case). This song might be the least political, but has an almost hypnotic trumpet refrain. In the song, Stromae breaks down all the people that will get on your case as you go about your daily stressful life, such as your family and “the Judge,” most likely a metaphor for “the system.” “Papaoutai” is the breakout hit of the album and probably the most personal for Stromae as he calls out for his father and demands to his mother “a thousand times” where he is hiding. When he performs the song live, he mimics his character from the music video, a plastic mannequin who is supposed to represent

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the idyllic father-son relationship. “Moules Frites” (Mussels and Fries) has tons of play-on-words about this “national dish of Belgium.” If there is one reason to learn French, it is to understand the extended metaphor of cunnilingus hidden in this song. The refrain goes “Paulo aime les moules frites, sans frites et sans mayo” (Paulo likes mussels and fries, without fries and without mayo.) While this might sound benign, after you understand that “moules” is a French euphemism for vagina, and “mayo” is a hominem of the French word for bathing suit, the hidden naughtiness is revealed. This tone continues with lines such as: “Avant qu’il passe à table, il boit toujours un verre de blanc, pour oublier l’exécrable, sûr, et si âcre goût de l’océan.” (Before he eats his mussels and fries, he always drinks a glass of white wine, to forget the appalling, certain, acrid taste of the ocean). While showcasing Stromae’s lyricism, the song still highlights his penchant for political themes as it takes a tonal turn at the end with Paulo’s untimely death caused by an STD.

“Tous les mêmes” is sung from the perspective of a woman. She decries the typical faults of men like their “macho” bravado and their habit of leaving when things get tough. This latter sentiment is expressed through lyrics like “Rendezvous sûrement aux prochaines règles” (Show up during my next period), and “Tu sais la vie, c’est les enfants… oui pour les faire là tu es présent mais pour les éléver il y aurait des absents” (You know life is about children…yes to make them you are present, but to raise them you are absent). When this song is performed on stage, Stromae actually takes on the dual persona of a man and woman, with a big hair piece on one side. “Formidable” (Fantastic) is a story about a break up, sung from the perspective of a drunk man on a street. In the song he drunkenly tries to explain relationships to a child he meets on the road with the classic line of “If mom is being an ass it’s because she’s afraid of being a mom, and if dad cheats on mom, it’s because mom’s getting older.” He performs this song live as if drunk, and also did a hidden

camera video on the streets of Brussels where he stumbles in front of trolleys and even gets stopped by the police (who say they’re fans and offer to take him home). His music is almost completely electronic, with lots of fast, steady melodies full of bass. Unlike most of the other mainstream pop performers, his topics go much deeper than general topics such as love or women. He focuses on issues closely related to his childhood, such as abandonment, racism and disenfranchisement. While he does utilize long refrains, these act as a sort of dance break to the clever verses on songs like “Humain à l’eau” (Human in water) and “Formidable” (Terrific). In fact all of the songs on Racine carrée have something unique. Because the translations lose the rhyme and meter, most of the cleverness and aesthetic are lost to the Anglophone listener. But having just performed last week at SXSW and performances scheduled this summer at Bonnaroo, as well as in Los Angeles, Boston, New York and Miami, Stromae may become the next big artist in North America.

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Kendrick fights internal struggles in his latest release Gary Hoffman Recess Managing Editor Maturity is a fickle thing. Once attained, it helps reveal character flaws and hypocrisy, leading to a constant cycle of growth and reflection. Kendrick Lamar deals with this internal struggle in his latest masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly. Throughout the album, Kendrick presents a self portrait of raw emotion, describing his realization of inconsistencies and flaws in character that come about as a result of his rise to power and ever increasing influence. Both lyrically and musically, To Pimp a Butterfly is an incredibly innovative and creative work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling in popular music. For those who are not aware, Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton, California. Although he gained attention with his fourth mixtape, Overly Dedicated, his second studio album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, is what propelled him to fame. Widely touted as a modern classic, it chronicles a section of Kendrick’s life while growing up in Compton. Since its release in 2012, Lamar has remained relevant through a slew of guest verses. To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick’s long-awaited third studio album. While the lyrics could be analyzed for every piece of wordplay, reference and allusion, this type of listening misses the point of the album. Music is meant to be felt, which Kendrick makes easy through detailed internal storytelling and variations in delivery and technique. His most dramatic voice is shown in the second half of “u,” as he hectically rasps and stumbles over his words while drinking alone in a hotel room. The delivery perfectly compliments Lamar’s dialogue criticizing himself for leaving his

verse. Throughout the album, tracks similarly use elements of different genres to create a really distinct sound. Kendrick brings in a slew of collaborators to mold this style, including Flying Lotus, George Clinton, Ronald Isley and Snoop Dogg. Many different producers are also credited, but the heavy use of Terrace Martin and Sounwave, who usually work with Kendrick, keeps the sound cohesive. Interestingly, there is only one guest verse on the whole album. It comes from Rapsody, and she delivers a stellar verse at the end of “Complexion (A Zulu Love).” Even though Kendrick brought together an incredible quantity of eclectic artists, after collaborating they still produce a consistent, cohesive project. With each listen, To Pimp a Butterfly reveals new layers to Lamar’s complex inner dialogue. Throughout the album he expounds upon his experiences with race, fame and spirituality in the context of our society. With these really grand thematic concepts, Kendrick still keeps the mood personable and not pretentious at all. Part of this comes from Lamar telling personal stories that culminate in lessons he has learned from individual experiences. Rarely does he voice how he believes other people should think or act. Most of his criticism is directed, sometimes tragically so, at himself. While most of the ideas are not completely developed and closed, part of the resolution by the end of the album comes from Kendrick coming to terms with his mortality. He suggests that respect for yourself and others might help society’s problems, but he admits he is not sure. Overall, it seems Kendrick is saying that he is not perfect and is still trying to understand the confusions, conflicts and paradoxes of our world. The album is the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one.

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hometown to pursue fame. The album is filled with these pieces of raw emotion, ranging from this meandering self hate to technically flawless shows of confidence in tracks such as “King Kunta” and “Hood Politics.” The production and instrumentation accompanying these verses is interesting and creative throughout. While it takes heavy influence from soul, funk and free jazz elements, the music is undoubtedly modern.

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The very first track, “Wesley’s Theory,” is a perfect example of this combination. While bassist Thundercat, who is featured heavily throughout the album, keeps the bottom funky and weird, gothic harpsichord and other dark synths menace over the soulful vocals. The very next track features a jazz combo including Robert Glasper on piano and Terrace Martin on alto sax that provides fast swing to complement Kendrick’s frenetic

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Reviewing The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Dillon Fernando The Chronicle

If you’ve been fighting 30 Rock withdrawal, Tina Fey has something to fuel your comedy dependence, a new Netflix series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Now let’s be real, nearly everything Tina Fey has written is comedy gold. From Mean Girls to her tenure on Saturday Night Live, Fey has a knack for delectable, situational and ironic comedy that is simply gutbursting. If you couldn’t tell, I am a total Tina Fey fangirl, and so it was expected that when I heard that Fey was coming out with a new show with 30 Rock executive-producer Robert Carlock I totally soiled myself in excitement. Clearly, my expectations were high for this series, and the truth is, they were met--sort of. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt features The Office star Ellie Kemper as the plucky, innocent, and determined Kimmy Schmidt. After being liberated from a religious cult that held Schmidt and three other women in an underground bunker, Schmidt tries to make a new life for herself in New York City. She rooms with the fabulous Titus Andromedon, a struggling actor and singer, played by Tituss Burgess, who is known for his stint on 30 Rock as Angie Jordan’s hair stylist DeFwan. In the city, she works for wealthy socialite Jacqueline Voorhees, played by 30 Rock’s Jane Krakowski, as a nanny for her son and step-daughter. With a cast this comedically vetted, only hilarity could possibly ensue. From watching the preview, my main concern was that the series would be about this overly happy, Barney incarnation navigating the mean streets of New York. However, the fact is that Kemper’s portrayal as a woman with the mind of a naive and feisty 8th grader is successful and develops throughout the season. She is sweet and loveable but has her moments of grit and assertiveness. Kemper’s portrayal of Kimmy greatly differs from her character Erin on The Office, who was mostly a flat, absent-minded, genial character. On the show, Kemper creates an interesting dynamic and foil to the highmaintenance Jacqueline as well as the more dramatic Titus. As far as the comedy goes, the situational comedy is truly on-point and satirically mellow. Points of the show comprising of nothing more than saucy one-liners are gutwrenching and mostly come from Titus and Jacqueline. Kimmy’s naivety provides a lot of humor where a viewer will probably think, “well, that’s nice and cute.” It’s not really the same quirk that the perpetually frustrated Liz Lemon has on 30 Rock—humorously reacting to the chaos around her. In Unbreakable’s defense, it doesn’t necessarily carry the outright premise of criticizing anything in particular—say NBC as in 30 Rock. Unbreakable has all the smiles of Family Matters with dark, sardonic soul characteristic of Fey’s work. However, it takes a certain sense of humor to appreciate this series. If you’re looking for a Chris Rock or Seinfeld type of comedy, this series probably isn’t up your alley. However, if you’re a fan of Parks and Recreation or New Girl, this is the show for you. Also, something pretty remarkable about this series is the amount of diversity featured. Titus is a gay, black man who is not afraid of being himself and who attempts to pursue his dream of the lime light. Jacqueline is a closeted Native American trying to make it in a predominantly white society. Dong is an uberly smart, Vietnamese immigrant who is Kimmy’s GED classmate and love interest. One of Kimmy’s fellow mole women is a Latina. However, in spite of all of this diversity, each individual personifies a stereotype to an extent. Titus is sort of this over-the-top, flamboyant gay man; Dong has illegal immigration problems and very prevalent English problems; Jacqueline trivializes her heritage, and the Latina, who refuses to speak English, was a cleaning lady prior to being locked up in the bunker. While many have taken to the Internet to criticize the portrayal of these stereotypes and even consider them careless inclusions for cheap laughs, I couldn’t disagree more. The fact of the matter is that despite all of the embodiments of these stereotypes, many characters have a redemptive quality about them that proves that the intention of these traits was for satire and social criticism rather than racist portrayals. Some have argued that some of the plot threads are not held to a well-known issue in any demographic minority in America. However, to say such a thing is to generalize the experiences of so many Americans. The intention of a stereotype does not necessarily translate into its effect. Nevertheless, Unbreakable succeeds in providing a light-hearted medium to work-out and giggle at some of society’s evident problems dealing with race. So if you are looking for the next binge series on Netflix, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt should definitely be your next choice. While the comedy hones on a specific breed of humor, it is definitely a series that will give you chuckles somewhere down the road. And if you enjoy Jon Hamm and his gloriousness, well, he’s in there, too—an added bonus.

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Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer Justise Winslow went to the Final Four in Houston in 2011 and watched Connecticut cut down the nets. With two more wins in his hometown, the freshman can advance to Indianapolis for the opportunity No. 5 to do the same. Utah Top-seeded Duke vs. can move one step No. 1 closer the Final Four Duke with a win against fifth-seeded Utah FRIDAY, 9:45 p.m. at 9:45 p.m. Friday NRG Stadium at NRG Stadium in Houston. The winner will face either No. 2 seed Gonzaga or No. 11 seed UCLA Sunday for the South region championship. Winslow said Tuesday that he is looking forward to playing in front of friends and family, but knows the trip has a much greater purpose. “We won the first two games, took care of that business, and now I get to go home to Houston, my hometown, so I’m very excited about that,” Winslow said. “But at

With Winslow locked in on both ends of the floor and freshman center Jahlil Okafor dominating the paint, the Blue Devil cruised to a pair of lopsided victories. The freshmen have ramped up their energy and communication in the postseason at the urging of teammates and coaches alike. “I’ve been trying to put myself on another level since the tournament started,” Okafor said. “Coach pulled me to the side during our shootaround [before the San Diego State game] and showed me some film of when I’ve been great this season. He told me to bring the emotion back because it gets my teammates going. He showed me some clips from like the North Carolina game, clips from the St. John’s game. Some of it is natural—I have a lot of emotion going into the game—and some of it is trying to get my teammates going.” Although the school’s basketball nickname is the Runnin’ Utes, Utah (26-8) picks its spots on when it wants to run —head coach Larry Krystkowiak’s squad did not have any tr ansition points in its first-round win against Stephen F. Austin. Utah ranks 332nd in basketball

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the end of the day, it’s a business trip. It’s about getting Duke two more wins.” The play of the 6-foot-6 swingman helped Duke (31-4) stifle runs by Robert Morris and San Diego State in its first two NCAA tournament games last weekend in Charlotte, N.C. After the Colonials cut a 20-point Blue Devil lead to 10 in

the second half, it was Winslow who had a hand in eight straight points to regain control of the game. Against the Aztecs, the freshman posted 13 points and 12 rebounds for his sixth double-double of the season and added a few more highlight-reel rejections to his growing collection.

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Blue Devils to take on Maryland in Sweet 16 Sameer Pandhare Beat Writer After Maryland decided to leave for the Big Ten following the 2013-14 regular season, the Blue Devils figured it would be a while before they would face off against their longtime ACC rival. Just one year later, fourth-seeded Duke heads to Spokane, Wash., to take on the No. 4 top-seeded Terrapins Duke for a spot in the Elite vs. Eight Saturday at No.1 Maryland 4:30 p.m. at Spokane Arena. The Blue SATURDAY, 4:30 p.m. Devils advanced to the Spokane Arena West region semifinals following a narrow victory against 13-seed Albany and a 64-56 win against fifth-seeded Mississippi State. “It does feel like another ACC battle, perse, from the standpoint of their longevity in the league,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “This team has just done a great job of just staying right there. There’s nowhere else to be and nothing else matters until we get after things on Saturday.” Despite entering the tournament as a fourseed with 10 losses, Duke (23-10) finds itself in

the Sweet 16 for the fifth time in the last six years. The Blue Devils have been spearheaded in their first two contests by the duo of freshman Azura Stevens and redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell, who have combined to average 35.0 of Duke’s 59.0 points per game in the postseason. With Stevens creating a mismatch with her size and versatility and Greenwell heating up from beyond the arc, the Blue Devils were able to stave off their pesky opponents in the opening weekend. “We’re gaining a lot of experience quickly now, but we’re definitely a young and exciting team,” McCallie said. “Only Elizabeth Williams has any amount of experience when it comes to postseason play.” But waiting for them in Spokane is red-hot Maryland, which enters the tournament on a 26-game winning streak. After making a run to the Final Four a year ago, the Terrapins (32-2) have had another great season led by guards Laurin Mincy, Lexie Brown and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough along with the interior presence of Brionna Jones. The ability of the trio of guards to penetrate the defense and kick to open shooters has fueled Maryland’s prolific offense—which ranks sixth in the nation at 80.2 points per game. The Terrapins have also flashed their ability to heat up from beyond the arc as evident by their

12-of-20 shooting performance from deep in their second-round victory against previously undefeated Princeton In contrast to Maryland’s guard-oriented lineup, Duke will look to take advantage of its size in the paint. As the tallest team in the nation, the Blue Devils have relied on big bodies down low to carry the load thus far in the tournament and the team’s 13.5 rebounding advantage was crucial in its opening weekend victories. In the second half of Duke’s win against Mississippi State, it was the interior passing between the Blue Devil post players that allowed the team to get going offensively. “Our attack mode was very good against Mississippi State,” McCallie said. “Defensively, it’s going to be really important that we’re well rested and ready to take on some serious penetrators—Maryland likes to kick and create and shoot gaps.” Duke’s chances at pulling off the upset Saturday will come down to two major factors— limiting turnovers and feeding its All-American center, Williams. The Blue Devils’ 44 turnovers in the first two games have allowed their opponents to feast on easy layups in transition and stay in the game. Against the speedy Terrapin guards, unforced See W. Basketball on Page 12

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Junior Megan Clark is a two-time All-American and is on pace to be one of Duke’s greatest pole vaulters in program history Ali Wells Beat Writer Junior Megan Clark began the 2015 season with two goals in mind: breaking the 4.60-meter barrier and finally making it to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. Claiming the silver at the indoor national championships March 14 was an unexpected and welcomed bonus, but Duke’s star pole vaulter is focusing on the process of improving rather than on meet outcomes this season. “Coach [Wilbourn] and I decided last summer that we were going to work towards ‘project four-60’, as we are calling it,” Clark said. “That and getting to Eugene. Hopefully this year is the year. I’ve shifted a lot from an outcomes mindframe to a process mindframe.” And her change in mindset is already paying off as she is overcoming many of the hurdles of her early collegiate career. Clark arrived at Duke with high expectations for herself but knew she had a lot of work to do. Moving to Georgia—a weaker state for pole vaulting than her former home state, New York—for her senior year of high school, she claimed the state title but picked up a few bad habits in the process. For much of her first two seasons as a Blue Devil, she took off “under”, meaning she took off too close to the pit, and the bending of the pole lifted her off the ground rather than her own jump, which can have dangerous consequences. Many pole vaulters have suffered back injuries with this takeoff, and although Clark has stayed healthy, she suffered a handful of scares with poles breaking mid-jump. During her freshman and sophomore seasons, she snapped four poles in big competitions—including the Pan America Championships in Colombia in August 2013 and the 2014 NCAA East Regional Championships. When the fourth pole snapped and cost her the opportunity to advance to the national

personal best and program record—14 feet, 5 ¼ inches—which she had set at the 2014 Indoor ACC Championships, claiming the silver to wrap up a sophomore indoor season highlighted by personal best marks at nearly every meet. She also opened the 2014 outdoor season with another program record, clearing 14 feet, 7 ¼ inches at the Carolina Relays. “That was a crazy season because I PRed every week of indoor season but two,” Clark said. “The goal was 14 feet. Coach and I had no idea I was going to jump higher that soon. It was awesome because I qualified for NCAAs only three weeks into the season, so it was pretty relaxed after that.” Heading into the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships March 14, nearly a year since her last personal-best vault, Clark’s main concern was ending that drought. “I hadn’t PRed since the first week of outdoor last season, so it had been 51 weeks,” she said. “I really wanted to jump higher. That was the goal, and I had no idea how I was going to place.” She made steady progress through each height, clearing two of her first four heights on the opening attempt and gaining confidence. And when the defending national champion, Kaitlin Petrillose of Texas, and event-favorite Demi Payne of Stephen F. Austin were not able to clear their opening heights, Clark realized she had a shot at the title. “I thought, well, the door is open,” she said. “I started making first attempts and competing to win.” After clearing her three final heights on her first attempt, including a new program record of 14 feet, 9 inches, she secured the silver. Sandi Morris of Arkansas won the event with a clearance of 15 feet, 1 inch—4.60 meters, Clark’s goal for the season. With first-team All America honors indoors, Clark enters the outdoor season poised to achieve her two goals. “Project four-60”— four meters and 60 inches—is well under way and could give Duke’s best pole vaulter since Olympian Jillian Schwartz her long-awaited ticket to Eugene.

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championships in Eugene last outdoor season, Clark looked into switching pole brands and learned that the poles she had broken were made from a faulty batch of carbon. On new poles this season and with many hours put into improving her takeoff technique, she is vaulting with confidence and a new attitude. Clark has not been concerned about outscoring the competition this season. She just keeps thinking about what it will take to clear the next height. “Freshman year we all come in and want to be the best, but I’ve realized over time that it’s not really about winning meets,” Clark said.

“It’s about getting better. And if I get better and focus on my technique, focus on the process, I’ll win meets.” She showed steady improvement throughout the course of this indoor season. Opening the season with a win at the Carolina Cup in January with a clearance of 13 feet, 3 ¾ inches, Clark jumped a foot higher a month later at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet—clearing 14 feet, 4 inches and recording the nation’s then third-highest vault. She secured her first conference title Feb. 27 with a mark of 14 feet, earning her third ACC Field Performer of the Week honors. But she was still short of her indoor

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Duke faces road tests at Clemson, No. 8 Virginia Delaney King Staff Writer

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After a successful pair of matches at home, the Blue Devils look ahead to a another weekend of conference play—this time on the road. No. 4 Duke will square off against Clemson Friday at 2:30 p.m. and then travel to Charlottesville, Va., to play No. 8 Virginia—the only undefeated ACC team remaining—Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Blue Devils’ most

recent away match came March 8 with a loss to Virginia Tech, but the squad holds an overall record of 3-1 away from Durham. “It’s been a little while since we’ve been on the road, but it’s nice,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We’ve played well on the road this year as well... and it’s always nice to play in some hostile environments—it’s good for the guys.” The Tigers (10-9, 1-4 in the ACC) welcome the Blue Devils to Clemson, S.C., as the first of four straight conference matches at home. Clemson enters Friday off a staggering 6-1 loss to Florida State, managing to clinch the doubles point before falling at every position in singles play. The Tigers will look to gain momentum early from strong doubles play, as the squad has won the doubles point in all but one of its five conference matches. Duke (16-2, 3-1) surrendered the

doubles point in its most recent match Sunday against Wake Forest. Despite a Blue Devil win on court two, the court one duo of Nicolas Alvarez and Raphael Hemmeler—ranked 11th nationally—lost their second match in a row before Chris Mengel and Bruno Semenzato suffered their first conference loss of the season to put Duke down 1-0 in the match. Although the Blue Devils managed to pull off the 4-3 win against the Demon Deacons, getting an early advantage Friday would help shift momentum into Duke’s favor. “We split our doubles points this past weekend, and it’s certainly been a focus for us this week,” Smith said. “We’re just trying to get a little bit better at every position.” The Blue Devils have historically dominated the Tigers, claiming the seven See M. Tennis on Page 12

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Former Blue Devils participate in Duke Pro Day Nick Martin Beat Writer With the NFL draft roughly one month away, Duke fans may hear several familiar names called by Roger Goodell come April. Ten former Blue Devils participated in Duke’s annual Pro Day at Pascal Field House Wednesday. The group was headlined by guard Laken Tomlinson and receiver and returnman Jamison Crowder, both of whom are expected to hear their names called come April’s NFL draft. But the workouts also featured a slew of other former Duke starters hoping to boost their draft stock in Anthony Boone, Takoby Cofield, Jordan DeWalt-Ondijo, David Helton, Dezmond Johnson, Josh Snead and current free agent Conner Vernon. At February’s NFL combine, Crowder was called back twice on his first 40-yard dash attempt and would clock in at an official time of 4.56 seconds. Knowing this was not the top speed the 5-foot-9 speedster could hit, Crowder used the ensuing weeks in Durham to work on improving that number before Pro Day, and it showed Wednesday. Crowder said that his goal heading into the day was to hit 4.4 seconds and that he would take anything lower than that. Although the times were unofficial as of Wednesday night, Duke athletics and ESPN reported that Crowder ran both his 40-yard dash attempts in 4.39 seconds. “At the combine, I felt a little disappointed with some of my times,” Crowder said. “I’d be happy, overjoyed [if I ran a 4.39.] I’ve got to keep grinding, but if that was it, I’m definitely satisfied with that.... I knew I was faster than what the combine numbers were, so I just kept

training and just knew I had to come out here and prove it today.” four team visits slated for the coming weeks, including meetings with the New England Patriots Friday and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers April 1. But Crowder was not the only one to garner the attention of the scouts Wednesday. Former defensive end Jordan DeWaltOndijo came into the day as one of the players who possessed the natural athleticism to play at the next level but had struggled to stay healthy during his four years in Durham. But at Wednesday’s showcase, DeWalt-Ondijo— who had packed on another “solid” 10 pounds since graduating with a political science degree in December—put that potential on display. Weighing in at 240 pounds, the Prairie View, Texas, product still managed to outrun some of the offensive skill players, clocking in with unofficial 40-yard dash times of 4.59 and 4.54 seconds. DeWalt-Ondijo has spent the past four months working out with Johnson, a fellow defensive end, in addition to working 40 hours a week at a commercial real estate business in downtown Durham. He was allotted three hours each day to come work out at the Duke facilities with head football strength and conditioning coach Noel Durfey. “The process has been fantastic,” DeWaltOndijo said. “During my four years here, I had—not really an issue—but I needed to pick up weight. I did that, got myself to about 240 [pounds].... It’s been a lot easier to pick up weight and to get my body in shape.” On the other side of the line, Tomlinson continued to solidify his draft status, as the Jamaica native ran unofficial 40-yard dash times of 5.15 and 5.17 seconds—improving upon his

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NFL combine time of 5.33 seconds. “It feels better to get better numbers than what you had in the combine, so that’s what I wanted to do today and I did it,” Tomlinson said. “It went perfectly and the way I expected it to.” Tomlinson has yet to attend any visits with teams, but has some set up for the coming weeks, but did not say which teams had reached out. Wide receiver Issac Blakeney—who finished the season with 47 receptions for 559 yards and seven touchdowns—ran unofficial 40-yard dash times of 4.62 and 4.63 seconds. Although Blakeney’s draft status is still up in the air, his athleticism may be enough for a team to use a late-round pick on the man the Blue Devils nicknamed “Freak.”

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errors could put the Blue Devils in a deep hole early. Senior Ka’lia Johnson will be most responsible for helping Duke take care off the ball and will need to play a smart, balanced game—facilitating the offense and attacking when necessary. But Duke will also need a great performance from its other senior—Williams. After knocking on the door of the Final Four twice during her career without breaking through, the center has one final chance to reach the promised land this weekend. In the first two games of the tournament, the All-American has averaged just 10.5 points per game on 7-of-21 shooting. As the Blue Devils’ anchor on defense, Williams will be the x-factor by altering Maryland’s shots in the paint. “Even though we’re traveling further away, we still have to remember what things we’re good at and what things we need to continue to do,” Williams said. After pushing past a season full of adversity—including injuries, a departure and one of the toughest schedules in the country— and surviving an opening round scare, Duke knows it has another uphill battle heading its way in Spokane this weekend. But that seems to be just the way it likes it. “When you think about what we’ve lost and

most recent matchups and winning the last four via 7-0 shutouts. But with the impending contest against the Cavaliers looming in the wake of Friday’s match, the team could easily become distracted and overlook an otherwise relatively unthreatening opponent. “The biggest thing is that we’re fully focused on [Clemson],” Smith said. “It’s a big weekend—obviously Virginia’s on Sunday, and it’s easy to get excited for that match— but we’re just taking one match at a time and making sure we’re ready for Clemson. They have some good players, and they’re going to be tough—especially at their place.” After Friday’s match, it can set its sights on one of its toughest matches of the season. Virginia (12-3, 5-0) boasts two singles players in the nation’s top 10 and five in the top 125. The Cavaliers’ last conference loss came April 23, 2006, against the Blue Devils in the ACC tournament. Since then, Virginia has emerged victorious in all 13 matches against Duke—not to mention every other conference opponent. “They’ve been the standard in the ACC for awhile,” Smith said. “They’ve been the team to beat—they haven’t been beaten

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what this team has gone through, we’re really proud of who we are,” McCallie said. “We want to be the dog. We’re not worried about top dog or underdog. If you’re out in Vegas, you’re probably not betting on us, but the reality is that’s life.” With a win Saturday, the Blue Devils would advance to the Elite Eight to take on the winner of Gonzaga and Tennessee Monday at 9 p.m.

Blakeney put his athleticism on full display in the penultimate session of the afternoon, as Boone threw to all receivers on hand. Head coach David Cutcliffe came onto the field to help run the throwing sessions, which included Boone, Crowder, Blakeney, Vernon and Snead. “It felt like a regular practice,” Crowder said. “That’s how we practice up here at Duke. Every day you want to go out there and compete at a high level and practice up-tempo, because you practice how you’re going to play. It was fun, I really enjoyed it.” The players will spend the coming months visiting and working out with various teams before the 2015 NFL draft, which is slated to run from April 30 to May 2 in Chicago. This story has been abridged for print. To read the full version, visit dukechronicle.com.

in the ACC for awhile—and they’ve got another great team this year. I think they’re one of the top three teams in the country, and it’s going to be a fun challenge, but I think we’re certainly prepared this year— we’ve got the players—and we’re looking forward to a fun match.” In last season’s episode, the Blue Devils dropped three singles matches in a row before junior Josh Levine gave his team hope with a three-set defeat of Justin Shane. The Cavaliers won the final two matches, both decided by final-set tiebreakers, leaving the match decided in Virginia’s favor with no reason to enter doubles competition. Duke’s lineup Sunday will likely feature four players who competed in last year’s match against Virginia—Levine, Semenzato, Hemmeler and Jason Tahir. One member of the lineup who is guaranteed a first glimpse at the Cavalier squad is No. 11 Nicolas Alvarez. The freshman holds a 10-2 record in dual competition but has played in just two conference matches all season. “Nico’s the new guy in the lineup. Everything’s new for him, and he’s doing a pretty good job against players he doesn’t know,” Smith said. “Other than him, we’re a very veteran team, and we face Virginia one, two, sometimes three times a year, so we know their players—they’re really tough— and it’ll be a good challenge.”

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statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted tempo statistic, but the Runnin’ Ute backcourt will provide a stiff challenge for the Duke tandem of Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones. “Utah is solid. They’re one of the top 15 teams in the country and have been the entire season,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They have two guys who, if everybody went early and there was a draft, they have two first-round picks.” One of those players—point guard Delon Wright— has the keys to Krystkowiak’s offense. The senior does a little bit of everything, leading Utah in scoring, assists, steals and free throws made and ranking second in rebounding and blocks. At 6-foot-5, Wright is a matchup nightmare in the pick-and-roll game, able to drive and finish at the rim but also able to see over smaller defenders to set up his teammates. Duke struggled to stop ball-screens—a major part of the Utah offense—in January losses to N.C. State and Miami but has tightened the screws defensively since then. If the Blue Devils pay too much attention to Wright, though, his teammates will make Duke pay. The Runnin’ Utes led the Pac-12 in three-point shooting this season at 40.8 percent. Guards Brandon Taylor and Jordan Loveridge join Wright as doublefigure scorers, and each shoots better than 43 percent from beyond the arc. With his size, vision and play-making ability, Wright’s skillset parallels that of another player the Blue Devils have already seen three times this season— Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant. The senior exploded for 23 points and 12 assists in the Fighting Irish’s 77-73 win Jan. 28, but was held to just seven points by Cook Feb. 7 in Durham. In the rubber match in the ACC tournament semifinals, the Blue Devils again keyed on Grant, and although the senior didn’t carry his team to victory, he chipped in 13 points and seven rebounds in the Notre

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his week, the Black Student Alliance launched a social media and poster campaign called #WhatWeNeedFromDuke. Displayed at the BSA’s office, around campus and online, the campaign publicizes offensive Yaks that have been posted and emphasizes how students have to deal with racism and discrimination. The resulting social media turmoil of this past week is a combination of this campaign’s impact and Yik Yak’s frenzy of activity ranging from criticism of the campaign, questions about race dialogues on campus and more Yaks of the type that make their way into the campaign itself. In a previous editorial, we discussed Yik Yak and the implications of having such a popular anonymous social media platform on our campus. We noted that the anonymity of Yik Yak might “empower individuals” as a non-judgmental outlet for insight. However, along with this sense of empowerment and freedom came a cautionary warning for students to not allow cyberbullying and derogatory comments to dominate the discourse. Unfortunately, this week has demonstrated some of the lows achievable on Yik Yak, and the platform has been a dysfunctional forum for racist rhetoric and speech about racist rheto-

ric, reflecting the state of race related dialogue at Duke. Although the issue is multifaceted, we draw attention to two main points—first, the problem of racially charged and starkly racist remarks made by members of our community, optimistically a very small segment of it, and second, how anonymity through Yik Yak is counterproductive to fruitful discussion. We must acknowledge that racism—both blatant and subtle—exists in the rhetoric of these Yaks. From overt remarks on intellectual inferiority or physical ugliness to attempting to suppress the speech of people of color—by shifting blame from the racist remarks to the “over emphasis” of discussions on race—many Duke students are perpetuating a culture of racism. It takes only a glance at BSA’s campaign to see the self-evident discrimination within the rhetoric. Furthermore, the anonymous medium in which these discussions occur does not allow for true, productive conversation. The vitriol being expressed is even more harmful when names are stripped from the comments. In addition to the remarks themselves, equally concerning are the students who stand behind them by voting

onlinecomment The state is dominated by UNC and NCSU fans, the number of Duke fans in the state pale in comparison.

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up messages meant to silence and hurt. This passive show of solidarity shapes the tenor of the discourse and reveals poor judgment of some members of the Duke community about race. Anonymity bolsters the confidence of cowardly racism. The apathy and disinterest of the student body is apparent in the desire to constantly shift conversation away from a matter as important as race solely because it is uncomfortable. Students and the broader Duke community should be actively concerned about the conduct of its constituents. It should not be passive or in any way allow racism to carry on in whatever pockets or regions of Duke it occupies. Take this moment to educate yourself. Do not underestimate the impact of an up vote or of commentary derailing the issue of race at hand due to apathy or discomfort. Although it should not fall upon the backs of those burdened by racism to also explain its effects, some students have graciously provided access to their experiences. Do not allow ignorance or apathy to perpetuate the problem. Engage fully with the issue—be accountable, be present and treat the discussion with the respect it deserves.

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recently said goodbye to my pre-major advisor and hello to my new major. I may not be the first person to ever declare Public Policy as a major but I believe congratulations are still in order. After all, it’s not every day you declare your college major, unless you started off as a pre-med. Before you roll your eyes, condemning this column as another futile complaint of being put into a box or forced on a singular career track with no hope of readjustment, fear not—I like being put in boxes. Instead, I wanted to address a few logistics my pre-major advisor tried to convince me were vital to graduating. Something about requirements and natural sciences but I wasn’t really listening. I feel mildly confident in my ability to meet whatever academic benchmarks my institution has so rudely imposed on me. What concerns me more are the

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and passing students, recent Duke alerts complicate the issue. The armed robber already has a leg up on you, and being naked in the middle of a field will not help your case. If you refuse to waste study time frolicking outside, there’s a more convenient alternative. The fourth floor library stacks offer unparalleled seclusion. The stacks don’t usually hold books assigned for class so you know Duke students won’t be there. Driving around the traffic circle backwards. This is probably the rocks for jocks equivalent of the UGRs—cars for frat stars. Whoever thought this would be a cool requirement to add, probably rebels by jaywalking. Most of our parents accidentally completed this requirement for us during orientation and every subsequent visit they made to Duke afterwards. If it took you a few tries at the DMV to finally post

Kyle Harvey Golden boy requirements you can’t find on ACES. My advisor seemed unsympathetic to my desire to create a long-range plan for completing Duke’s unofficial graduation requirements. Doming. This requirement warrants immediate explanation so your dirty minds don’t jump to something expletive in nature. What’s wrong with you people? Our beloved Baldwin Auditorium sits at the head of East Campus, and is conveniently dome-shaped. After conferring with Alumni, accessing Baldwin through adjacent dorm Pegram seems like the best strategy for safely reaching the top. What concerns me are the prerequisites in athleticism necessary to not die. Furthermore, I would appreciate more support from the school as students try to fulfill a requirement that might very well be outside their comfort zone. Alas, past students have been met with trespassing charges and housing revocations. Duke can be cutthroat. Sex in the Gardens/Stacks. The gardens and stacks are traditionally two separate requirements but this reeks of overcompensation. This one is expletive in nature—literally. Despite the romantic allure of consummating on a rose-petal bed—which in reality is soggy grass—ambitious students still face the decision of scheduling day or evening courses. Although the privacy of darkness seems preferable to sharing the special moment with young families

“LICENSE!” on your Facebook page, maybe take this one slow. Tunneling. Mysterious tunnels run under both West and East Campus and it has been a longstanding mission of Duke students to plunder whatever treasure Dick Brodhead is hiding there. Old accounts of stacks of plates being found under the Marketplace fire the imagination to what the brave adventurer might discover. Sure, there’s been dissenting warnings of high voltage equipment but isn’t that just what Dick Brodhead wants us to think? If we have major advisors, global advisors and career advisors, I think it’s high time Duke assigns us unofficial advisors. In fact, I’m somewhat distraught how unaccommodating the Duke administration has been with such requirements, taking disciplinary action and issuing citations. These students just want to graduate! Sitting with my advisor, planning out every course I would take for the following four semesters, I feared for the day my what-if report becomes my what-was report. Duke has some great natural science courses I can take to fulfill their requirements, but I have a few requirements of my own before I graduate. I’m coming for that treasure, Brodhead. Kyle Harvey is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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learned two things about Yik Yak this past summer: first, that it existed and, second, that my home Yak feed was awful. It was a bunch of high schoolers complaining about high school problems, and a bunch of college kids complaining about how the Yak scene at [insert college here] was infinitely better than the one in the 727. When I finally returned to Duke’s campus this spring, I was blown away by how quickly my Yak feed would refresh. I saw hundreds of jokes, thousands of yaks and my yakarma started taking off. I’ve been waiting for a while to see what the next Duke scandal would be and it’s been right here all along: A Yik Yak race war. Generally, the Yik-Yak culture is students making quick and easy jokes about campus life to try to increase their yakarma. But, its anonymous nature and use of an online fo-

dation and targeted attack has no place on Duke’s campus. It is unclear whether the white individuals were students at Duke University but that is irrelevant—the continuation of hateful comments on Yik-Yak shows that many on this campus still hold on to the kind of prejudices that could lead someone to doing what those students did. Yik Yak makes it difficult to respond to these opinions because it blurs the lines and makes it difficult to distinguish trolls from legitimate opinions. The people who are sharing legitimate concerns tend to phrase their questions about things like privilege and what constitutes racial prejudices moderately, while the trolls tend to use incredibly obnoxious, emboldened language. Regrettably, the latter is often used as examples of why the former shouldn’t share their opin-

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y babysitters in elementary school were a series of undergrads from a local university. To five-year-old me, they were ancient. Eighteen, even! Legal adults, so potentially married—or about to be—definitely with a linear life-plan ahead. I mean, they showed up at my house, alone, in a car, with their very own beepers—keep in mind this was 1998. Their independence was terrifyingly thrilling. Even as a freshman at Duke, I looked up to seniors and thought of them as impossibly wise. They’d not only navigated T-Reqs and West Campus—they’d traveled the world. They seemed to know what

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rum has allowed people to post extremely derogatory things that they would never say in person and for the Yak scene to be a pretty inhospitable place. I’m all for the freedom of speech, and I think that people should be able to share whatever opinion they want even if it goes against the majority consensus. The New York Times recently did a piece on how college campuses have increasingly become safe spaces, sensitive spaces and how sharing opinions that are different from the norm is discouraged. Concerning social issues especially, progressives tend to be particularly vocal and dominate the conversation whilst conservatives tend to argue that they don’t feel like their opinions are given proper respect. However, the current arguments were prompted by a group of drunken, white, male students singing a traditional SAE song directed at black students walking by that includes extremely derogatory comments such as “There will never be a n***** in SAE; You can hang from a tree but you’ll never sign with me.” That kind of harassment, intimi-

ions. It’s a cycle of the extremists making the moderates unable to use Yik Yak as a forum to ask questions and share their opinions. The question remains: why is this form of social media being used for discussions about race anyway? People have become emboldened by Yik-Yak’s anonymous nature, and they are saying things that they would never publicly say at a discussion about race in person. An article in the Chronicle written earlier affirmed that Duke would make no move to censoring the social media app when Larry Moneta said in February that “the best way to deal with [offensive material] is to bring forward more information.” This is exactly what’s been happening. So the only way that our Yak feeds will be free is when trolls stop flaming. I think we need to decide whether or not Yik Yak is the appropriate place for serious conversation. If this kind of insensitive flaming continues, then Yik Yak might go the way of CollegiateACB.

they were going to do after graduation. They effortlessly balanced a distraction-filled world that moved too fast and even remembered to pay their cool grownup off-campus utilities bills on time. At the time of this column’s publication, I am 22.01 years old. Older than my babysitters were. Older than the age I once froze as the symbol of adulthood. Older than the protagonists of most of the books and movies we grew up with. Older, even, than 21, which was the oldest foreseeable age I could mentally project to for the last 21 years. I pay my off-campus utilities bills on time—it feels a lot less cool than I thought it would. I navigated T-Reqs, West Campus and a handful of countries during my time here—an accomplishment that was far from effortless. And at some point I became the Self Assured and Cool Senior I once idolized—I capitalize letters for irony, okay?. The issue, though, is that I’m at a crossroads with a lot less closure than I thought I’d have. I look back on freshman year and laugh at how naïve I was, when I made my decisions based on FOMO alone. I’m savvier now, more independent. I was dumb back then though, so that’s not saying much. I know that if four years have molded me to this extent, I must still be incredibly plastic. We all are. We’ve changed so much but we’re still just nuggets. I still have plenty of mistakes to make—I’m confident I’ll find a billion more ways to screw up. I’m definitely feeling 22, but I was way off about what 22 would feel like— for the record, so was Taylor, since I’m not happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. I have a plan, but I also have a habit of changing my mind. I wish someone had told me years ago that at 22 I’d be totally fine with that. I’m about to graduate and join the real world, Kimmy Schmidt style. I’ll work, get my own place and leave behind an apocalyptic cult—not such a ridiculous comparison considering we routinely chant around sacrificial bonfires after major sporting events. And suddenly, as if I have any credibility answering something so auda-

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cious, I’ll routinely get asked the question: “What do you do?” Answering that question is the part I’m most nervous for. If you could summarize senior year in a question, it’s Tell Me About Yourself. In the job-seeking process, that question became fun to answer. We’ve spent years—a lifetime, so far—forming the answer to that question. We’ve developed hobbies, honed skills, tried to be well rounded—whatever that means—and worked hard to be interesting. I’ve just gotten good at telling my story. So why is it that after graduation, “Tell Me About Yourself” becomes “What Do You Do?” In the

real world, “What Do You Do” has a concrete answer that comes on a business card. Real adults don’t characterize themselves with stories, they self-identify with a word or two describing their profession. Yet I just spent a good part of this year perfecting my ability to articulate something richer, more permanent and more personally relevant. I wish someone had told me a few years ago that at 22 I’d somehow know how I want to be but not what I want to be. That I’d not be sure what I want to Do With My Life, but I’d still have a job I’m really excited about. And most importantly, I wish someone would’ve told me that at 22 I’d be okay with all of this. According to a survey on the Career Center website, over 25 percent of Duke students going into the workforce in 2012 went into finance or consulting. There’s a stigma on this campus for some of these jobs—that people who choose them are buying time or selling their souls or in some way passionless for pursuing them. I think we’re all still too nugget-y for accusations like that. If you already know how you’re going to Make The World A Better Place, power to you. But if you’re with me, you look ahead and see plenty of time, a profound lack of legitimate skills, lots of learning to do and mistakes to make and a lot of opportunities to develop a story rather than the words on a business card. Suddenly, what we do immediately after graduation matters less than how we choose to live our lives and define ourselves. I’m ready for the polished selfimportance of walking around with business cards. I’m almost ready for a new city, a new playground to explore. But I want to live in this moment forever—a moment full of possibility, unknowns, self-reflection, existing at the top of our worlds. To hold on to the ability to tell my story for as long as possible and not switch just yet to a card. I’m only 22, after all. Elissa Levine is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting courses for area studies during Fall 2015 For more information please contact 668-2603 AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East Wed 3:05 -5:35 The course aims at introducing the students to the politics, cultures, and socioeconomic concerns of the contemporary Middle East. What are the ideological, political, and cultural trajectories of future American and European relations with Turkey, Israel, and the Arab countries, will be exposed to a wide variety of texts and films, from Morocco to Iraq and the Gulf States. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad (*NEW) AMES 219S Civil Society and Civic Engage in the Arab World TH 1:40-4:10 Why does civil society matter in the Arab world?

What type of civil society is good for good governance? Explore civil society and civic engagement in the Arabic speaking word through documentary films, case studies of Arab NGOs, meeting with experts, Duke Engage Cairo, Beirut and Lebanon. This is a writing course with Service Learning component. Professor Mbaye Lo

(*NEW) AMES 236 Graphic Asia: Visual Storytelling & Global Asian/American Networks W 3:05- 5:35 explores the particular status of the graphic novel (encompassing all manners of earlier word-image texts; mainstream, alternative, and web-based comics; Asian traditions of manga, manhwa, manhua) and the role of the graphic artist in the changing epistemologies, histories, and formations of Global Asian/Pacific/American networks. X-listed AMI 236, ICS 264 Professor Eileen Chow AMES 251 Indian Cinema TTH 3:05-4:20 https://youtu.be/xS-TVE6QJEE 75 Years of Indian Cinema, from Sant Tukaram (1936) to Alms for the Blind Horse (2011), viewed from the perspective of Indian aesthetics. Films by Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mani Kaul among others. Special focus on the range between high contrast and minimalist cinema. Readings in Ananda Coomaraswamy. Beginning video exercises. X-listed LIT 211 Professor Satti Khanna. AMES 316S Breakdancers, Vocaloids and Game TUTH 1:25- 2:40 From breakdance crews in Seoul, video game teams in Shanghai, and skateboarders in Tokyo, youth cultures flourish and travel throughout East Asia and outwards across the Pacific Rim. This class tackles theories of youth identity while paying close attention the ways kids in Asia have changed their societies and reflected back larger political and economic issues. We’ll be thinking about how style, media, body practices (like breakdancing), concepts of romance and sex, and global communication are incorporated into the daily lives of young people and in turn make them a powerful and heterogeneous cultural force. X-listed CULANTH 316S Professor Dwayne Dixon (*NEW) AMES 317 Martin Luther King TU 4:55-7:45 Perhaps more than any other figure in 20th century America, Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr., is usually presented as an iconic solitary figure who floats above history and represents the fulfillment of the American “Dream.” This course charts a different path, insisting that King has to be read as a situated historical figure who must be engaged within multiple contexts of the segregated American South, a decades long struggle against racism, and also a global discourse of anti-colonialism. The course also examines where the prophetic tradition stands today, and what today’s religious leaders from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have to say about the contemporary issues of racism, poverty, militarism, and environmental destruction. X-listed AAAS 249, PUBPOL 253, REL 234 Professor Omid Safi

(*NEW) AMES 319S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain TH 3:05-5:35 A course on the cultural flourishing from the contact— and sometimes clash—of Islamic, Jewish, Christian, European, Arab, and African civilizations in southern Spain. Poetry, music, philosophy, architecture, mysticism, literature, language, and religion at a crossroads of civilization. A consciousness that continues to permeate life in contemporary Spain, in the Arab world, and in the Jewish diaspora and beyond. X-listed REL 214S, JEWISHST 319S, AMES 519S Professors Ellen McLarney and Laura Lieber (*NEW) AMES 325 Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform T 3:05-5:35 The revival of Islamic commitments—both spiritual and

political—across the Muslim world, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and beyond. Religious revolutions, political parties, social movements, media, and cultural production (literature, film, art, graffiti, poetry, music, and rap). Textual and technological dimensions of the revival, in its theological, intellectual, literary, visual, auditory, and digital aspects. Salafism, Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, Ennahda in Tunisia, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, as well as ISIS and al-Qaeda. X-listed REL 372, AMES 625 Professor Ellen McLarney

AMES 332S Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative M3:05-5:35 Is “tell me a story” an universal imperative?

Seminar examines storytelling practices across a broad span of histories and cultures, and the creation of storyworlds through multiple media, genres, and platforms. Topics include comparative oral traditions, Medieval story cycles, serial tales, textual poaching and fanfic, alternate reality gameworlds (ARG), social media, transmedia storytelling and transcultural fandoms. Seminar will also engage in an extended collaborative project with Story Lab at FHI. X-listed AMI 338S; ICS 333S Professor Eileen Chow

(*NEW) AMES 390S Special Topics: Material China TU 4:40-7:10 How do smartphones change our relationships? How do food and

eating make us rethink nationalities? How does technology affect religious beliefs? By putting “material objects” at the center of our inquiry, we will tackle various sociopolitical and cultural issues affecting contemporary China, as well as China’s rapidly growing material presence in global contexts— especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Professor Yasmin Cho

(*NEW) AMES 423S Sex & Violence in Mod Arabic Literature Anti-colonial struggles of the mid-20th century brought Arabs independence from European rule, but at a high price. Since then, the region has endured dictatorships and civil wars and most recently the revolutions of the Arab spring. This course will trace the ways in which Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Algerian and Iraqi writers have responded to their people’s experiences of trauma. Professor miriam cooke

AMES 475S North Korea TH 11:45-2:15 Critical examination of the political and economic with social, cultural, and religious dimensions of

North Korea. Topics includes North Korea’s leadership, religious aspects of the North Korean Juche ideology, the daily lives of its citizens, religious traditions, the Korean War, nuclear development and missiles, North Korean defectors and refugees in other Asian countries, human rights, international relationships, and unification. X-listed REL 411S Professor Hwansoo Kim

AMES 620S Critical Genealogies of the Middle East: An examination of the canon of Middle East Scholarship M 1:40 – 4:25 The course will offer in-depth investigation into the theoretical traditions that inform interdisciplinary Middle East studies (specific foci include literary and cultural theory, Islamic feminism, postcolonial theory, visual studies, and deconstruction, among others). Professor Shai Ginsburg

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