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University Editor For Old Duke, students will be making their way downtown, walking fast as faces pass and they’re homebound—with Vanessa Carlton as the concert’s headliner. Carlton will be this year’s main act, while Blank 281—a cover band of Blink 182 that performed at the Last Day of Classes concert two years ago—will be the event’s opener. The annual throwback concert put on by the Campus Concerts committee of Duke University Union, Old Duke will be held April 10 at 5 p.m. in Keo- Vanessa Carlton hane Amphitheater, and will feature free tank tops, a photo booth and a giant parachute. The line-up was announced Monday afternoon via the DUU Facebook page—several weeks after it is typically announced. “We wanted to bring someone that people would be excited about, and would remember their songs, and we remembered that Blank 281 were really successful
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Every Friday afternoon, the continuous clanking of billiard balls can be heard echoing down an empty hallway in the Kilgo quadrangle. The sound, combined with amplified EDM, cheering and laughter, comes from the room of Tyler Glass, a junior and a resident assistant in Kilgo. Glass furnished his single room this year with a 1979 Brunswick bumper pool table that has been in his family for multiple generations. The octagonal version of pool pits two competitors on opposite sides of the table to
Uni. stands against Ind. religious freedom law In light of the Final Four in Indianapolis, Duke’s statement reaffirms the University’s solidarity with LGBTQ individuals Emma Baccellieri News Editor With Duke headed to the Final Four this weekend, the University’s eyes are on all things Indianapolis— including Indiana politics. The University issued a statement Monday on the state’s new religious freedom law, which allows businesses to refuse services to anyone whose personal choices contradict the religious beliefs of the proprietor. Signed into law last week by Governor Mike
Pence, the legislation has been widely criticized as anti-LGBTQ. Duke’s statement—issued by Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations—expresses concern about the effects of the law and reaffirms the University’s solidarity with LGBTQ individuals. The statement follows a similar one made by the NCAA last week. “Duke University continues to Mike Pence stand alongside the LGBT community in seeking a more equal and inclusive world, and we deplore any effort to legislate bias and discrimination,” See Indiana on Page 4
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PayPal cofounder urges students to be innovative “Every moment in the history of business and technology happens only once” Alex Griffith The Chronicle Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel spoke on campus as part of the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative Monday. Thiel—the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, also known for being the first outside investor in Facebook—spoke about his experiences in entrepreneurship and the changing nature of startup companies. A Stanford alumnus, Thiel has also supported young entrepreneurs through his foundation’s Thiel Fellowship, formerly known as the 20 Under 20 Fellowship, which gives students money to put off college and start businesses. His speech Monday focused on the interplay between competition and capitalism, as well as how to create a niche for rising entrepreneurs. Thiel explained that entrepreneurship is difficult to define and even harder to teach. “Every moment in the history of business and technology happens only once,” he said. “The next [Mark] Zuckerberg won’t be in social media and the next Bill Gates won’t be designing operating systems.” Thiel explained that he believes an aspiring entrepreneur should be able to mention something that few people agree with them on. Key developments in business come in new fields with small
markets, he said. Rather than aiming for a small share of a large market with many factors and competitors preventing profit, entrepreneurs should aim for large shares of small markets as a more effective way of doing business. PayPal, for example, went from owning zero percent of its market to 40 percent in under six months when it was founded in 1998, at a time in which online payment was still a small business. Thiel also expressed his belief that the current culture is preventing many technological advances due to a hostility to science—which manifests itself even in Hollywood films about destructive robots and apocalyptic computers. This is preventing the pairing of globalization and technological growth, which he said often go hand in hand. He closed his talk by asking the audience, “How can we go around developing our so-called developed world?” A question and answer session—facilitated by Eric Toone, vice provost and director of the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative—featured questions submitted on social media and by email. Questions ranged from how PayPal plans to address Facebook and Apple’s recent forays into online payment to broader topics, including the problem of group polarization in entrepreneurial circles and innovation in government and citizenship. One questioner asked Thiel what he thinks universities need to be doing in order to facilitate innovation and research, particularly in relation to his belief that some of the best innovation occurs outside of a college setting. Sometimes research doesn’t translate
Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel spoke to students as part of the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative in Gross Hall Monday evening.
to products and innovation, he said, pointing to theoretical and esoteric research which is often not grounded in an immediate consumer good. Thiel also discussed how storytelling and advertising are related. He explained that if a business can be successful in a single “channel,” that will be enough, and that oftentimes businesses try to spread themselves too thin and fail to reach any consumers well. He also emphasized the need for businesspeople in Silicon Valley, highlighting the fact that researchers and
engineers often believe that their products will sell themselves and fail to find a channel through which to reach consumers. Student responses to the sold-out talk were positive. “What I wanted to know is why a guy as educated as he is would go for something so different in his 20 Under 20 Fellowship,” said Shreya Vora, a junior. “Would these ideas of dropping out of college work outside [of a certain elite background]? I’m not entirely sure, but I thought he had some good points.”
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continued from page 1 navigate each of their five balls around several wooden pegs and into a single hole, usually bumping off the walls or pegs to reach the destination. At first, the cue ball game tucked away in the RA’s room garnered attention and gameplay only within Glass’ friend groups from Project WILD or former Pegram residents. Early this academic year, the group started the tradition of holding Bump Fridays and organized several small tournaments among themselves, including the 2014 World Championships of Bumper Pool, Pizza Bump Rodeo and the Larry Moneta Invitational. But interest soon spread through various networks throughout the year to reach more people. This came to a head when Glass and his friends organized a 128-person tournament— Bump Madness, their largest tournament to date—this semester, which is currently being played out over the course of several weeks. “That’s been a really nice mesh of having new people learn about the game through this big tournament that we wanted to hold,” Glass said. Glass and his friends recently chartered an official student club dedicated to playing and spreading knowledge of and interest in bumper pool. The group, Duke University Bumper Pool or “Le Bump,” is in the process of securing funding from the Student Organization Funding Committee to set up a bumper pool table in a public space at Duke where they would be able to hold larger tournaments.
But for the time being, the culture of the group centers on fostering camaraderie and unwinding in a small setting through a love of the game. “A big part of the bumper pool scene is just hanging out in Tyler’s room and eating pizza and playing bumper pool and sharing in friendships,” said junior Will Victor, the club secretary and “unofficial mathematician.” Bumper pool bracketology Since the beginning of the year, incorporating a mathematical component to the game of bumper pool has been a major part of the group’s development. Junior Kaighn Kevlin, vice president of Le Bump, said they started recording every game played in a spreadsheet to keep records, but soon began to think about creating rankings. Kevlin said he attempted to create his own systems, which were “pretty bad,” but after speaking with his online game-playing brother he decided to try the Elo system, which is also used for chess ratings. “It’s pretty simple math, but the idea is if you beat someone that’s really good, you’ll go up a lot,” he said. “If you lose to someone really bad, you won’t go up a lot. So the idea is that everyone reaches a true rating and things separate out.” Junior Mehul Mehta, who has worked with NFL and NBA rankings in the past, acts as the group’s statistician. He has used his experience to apply a similar rankings system and update standings after every game played. Mehta ran a simulation of the March tournament to give expected outcomes for all 128 players and provides updated simulations to the event’s Facebook page following each round.
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tifying particular strategic moves,” Victor said. “Once [moves] have a name associated with them, more players start using them.” Glass said that strategy has evolved throughout the year, with players becoming more aggressive in making difficult moves instead of focusing on playing defensively and limiting their adversaries’ opportunities. He calls this “New Age” bumper pool, one of many terminologies that have come out of the constant game play. Legends and lore “It’s pretty young, so people figured After several months of continual out a lot of the strategy recently,” said play, the bumper pool community has sophomore George Smith. seen the outgrowth of Other terms listed various traditions and on the group’s Wikia t’s such an easy place side projects. include strategies “The goal was to be to congregate... [with] such as the “wide as over the top as pos- a constant chill atmoangle bump”—a shot sible and to make it as taken off the center ridiculous and as fun sphere. It’s a real commupeg from a side anand as outrageous as nity. gle—and “pulling a we could,” Victor said. Katsis,” which origi— Emma Arata nates from an instance “Part of the fun of bumper pool is getting that junior Alex Katsis super excited about something that failed to advance in a tournament afmaybe isn’t super important.” ter shooting multiple balls that were The hype surrounding gameplay bounced back out of the pocket. Hoisted on Glass’ wall is also a small started with the adoption of the Elo rankings, Victor said, adding that play- broom intended to be used tauntingly ers continued to try to one-up each in the event that one player “sweeps”— other’s additions to the game by cre- or shuts out—his or her opponent. ating a Wikia page, writing player proThe winner of the tournament has files and eventually making a video to yet to be named, and he or she will spread interest in the tournament. win a miniature replica NCAA tourBut in addition to the jocular off- nament trophy painted with bumper shoots of the bumper pool craze, the pool imagery. But after the tournament players take the sport seriously and concludes, fans of the game have little have developed a slew of strategies, doubt that the excitement will carry on. “It’s such an easy place to congremoves and terminology to describe the gameplay among themselves and for gate… [with] a constant chill atmothe benefit of newcomers. sphere,” said senior Emma Arata. “It’s “One major part of strategy is iden- a real community.” “[We have] lots of people interested in analytics stuff,” Mehta said. “We liked [Elo] because we felt like it was dynamic.” The 128-person March bracket was organized into 16 pods of eight people to streamline gameplay in the singleelimination tournament. As of Thursday, 82 games had been played in the tournament, and the previous Friday alone saw 140 general games that began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 1 a.m. Saturday.
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continued from page 1 when they came back for LDOC and we thought they’d be a good opener,” said DUU Campus Concerts Chair Harli Grant, a senior. “Vanessa Carlton, we were excited about—people listen to her music all the time, and then also she’s a female—which we rarely end up hiring female artists. Most of the performers that come to Duke are males.“ In years past, the line-up has generally been announced sometime in February. The delay in this year’s announcement occurred due to a merging of DUU committees, Grant explained. The committees were merged to make essentially ev-
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erything easier, ranging from budgeting to artist selection, she said. However, instead of having a committee solely responsible for the planning of Old Duke, the committee also had to organize the End Zone and K-Ville concerts. She added that logistical issues prolonged the K-Ville planning process, further delaying the time before the committee could move forward with Old Duke. Grant added that the event provides another opportunity for Duke Students to get together and do something at the same time. “With the elimination of Tailgate, et cetera, there’s a lot less events on campus where the whole student body does come out and hang out together, and I’m just excited to see that,” Grant said.
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The NCAA, which is headquartered in Indianapolis, released its statement on the law Thursday. “The NCAA national office and our members are deeply committed to providing an inclusive environment for all our events,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in the statement. ”We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees. We will work diligently to assure student-athletes competing in, and visitors attending, next week’s Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis are not impacted negatively by this bill. Moving forward, we intend to closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce.” The NCAA announced Final Four sites for 2017-2021 in November. Lucas Oil Stadium and Indianapolis were selected to host the event again in 2021.
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Brian Pollack Beat Writer The road wasn’t very kind to the Blue Devils, but fortunately they are returning home. After getting swept in a three-game series by Boston College this weekend, Duke returns to Durham to host Campbell Tuesday evening at Jack Coombs Stadium with first pitch slated Campbell for 6 p.m. The weekend series against vs. the Eagles—played Duke in Newark, Del., due to extreme weather TUESDAY, 6 p.m. accumulation in the Jack Coombs Stadium northeast—followed a 10-game homestand in which the Blue Devils posted a 7-3 ledger. Duke was not able to translate its home success to road victories, but it was competitive in each of the three games. Uncharacteristically sloppy defense and a bit of wildness on the mound couldn’t overcome bats that were just a bit too sluggish in the harsh weather and dropped the Blue Devils to four games under .500 in ACC play. “Overall, we didn’t play the type of consistent defense we had played until this past weekend, and we gave a Boston College team that was playing well extra offense, and they did a good job of taking advantage of it,” head coach Chris Pollard said on the weekly Duke Baseball Show. “Friday, the seven walks was the most we had all year. It’s not a train wreck, per se, but it is a fender bender and you
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don’t want to make a habit of doing that. We gave them extra offense with that and some plays that we would usually make.” If Duke (19-9) is to move past the weekend and pick up its 20th victory of the season, it will have to do so against a Camel squad that has followed a similar season trajectory to the Blue Devils this year. Campbell (20-8) is also coming off the wrong end of a weekend sweep—scoring just five runs in three losses to Radford—but otherwise has enjoyed a fine season in head coach Justin Haire’s first year at the helm. The strength of Haire’s team lies with a stacked lineup that is averaging nearly six runs
per game and bats a strong .295 overall. The Camels feature six regulars hitting better than .300—all of whom are upperclassmen—with four of those six posting on-base percentages higher than .400 to go along with it. The big bopper for Campbell is junior Cole Hallum, a Bakersfield College transfer who ranks third in the country with nine homers. Hallum’s 32 RBIs and .683 slugging percentage are both in the top 30 in the nation, but the tablesetters that hit before him in the lineup make everything go for the Camels. Campbell likes See Baseball on Page 7
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Duke faces quick turnaround at Davidson Jake Herb Staff Writer Taking a break from the ACC gauntlet, the Blue Devils face off against Davidson Tuesday in a battle of North Carolina schools. The 6 p.m. matchup will be played in Davidson, N.C., and marks the 13th meeting Duke between the two vs. programs. Duke holds a lopsided 12-0 advantage Davidson in the series, having pulverized the Wildcats TUESDAY, 6 p.m. 21-2 in the pair’s only Richardson Stadium game last season. However, Tuesday’s contest poses a unique challenge for the fifth-ranked Blue Devils, as the team is faced with a strikingly quick turnaround after Sunday’s bout against thenNo. 7 Syracuse. After escaping the Orange’s upset bid at home on a last-second turnover, Duke will need a sharp, focused team
HOUSTON—Teams with only eight scholarship players are not supposed to make the Final Four. It’s hard to call Duke’s run to the 2015 Final Four improbable. With the amount of talent the Blue Devils boast, including ACC Player of the Year Jahlil Okafor, the top-five ranking the team has maintained all season and its No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament’s South Region, the fact that Duke is heading to Indianapolis is not inherently surprising. But midway through the 2014-15 campaign, the Blue Devils suffered two off-court losses that most believed would hamper them heading into the postseason. First, it was the transfer of sophomore forward Semi Ojeleye to Southern Methodist in December. In the heat of ACC play, Duke shocked the college basketball world with the dismissal of junior guard Rasheed Sulaimon—the first player head coach Mike Krzyzewski has kicked off the Blue Devil team in his 35 years at the helm. All of a sudden, the team that came into this season having nothing but depth had anything but. The Blue Devils had to rely on every single scholarship player to serve a role in the team’s rotation. This meant Duke had to place an even heavier burden on its four freshmen, who were still adapting to the pace and physicality of the college game. But right after Sulaimon’s dismissal, days before the Blue Devils were slated to play undefeated No. 2 Virginia on the road, Krzyzewski gave the team a message at practice that would steady them for the rest of the season. Eight is enough. “We all bought in and believed,” senior guard Quinn Cook said. “He’s the greatest, so anything he says we believe and we trust.” Shorthanded, Duke went up the road to Charlottesville, Va., and shocked the then-unbeaten Cavaliers with a late shooting barrage, taking home a 69-63 win. The Blue Devils never looked back, winning 15 of their next 16 games to earn a spot in the Final Four for the first time in five years. This isn’t to say that having a small rotation is a problem in itself. Krzyzewski
performance to return home unscathed and begin preparation for Boston College four days later. “The challenge for us is going down there midweek in a game sandwiched between two huge ACC games,” Kimel said. “It’s a short turn around for us too, so there is an emphasis on staying focused and getting our scouting report down in the short time we have to prepare.” Anchoring the Blue Devil front line against Davidson (3-5) Tuesday will be senior attack Kerrin Maurer. Maurer—the centerpiece of Duke’s offense—has put together an outstanding senior season thus far, notching a team-best 44 points through the first 11 games and 43 draw controls. The senior attack has been a menace in the scoring circle throughout her career, amassing a staggering 250 career points through her three and a half seasons with the Blue Devils. The mark ties former Duke player See W. Lacrosse on Page 7
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Caroline Cryer for the third highest career point total in program history. Maurer’s impact on the field comes down to more than just scoring, though. She spreads the ball around—registering an average of 1.82 assists per game—and brings a fire to her game that makes her teammates better. “What’s great about Maurer is that she helps us all over the field,” Kimel said. “It has a lot to do with her maturity. Once you become the focus of another team’s defense, you learn how to make the whole team run more effectively. I give Maurer a lot of credit. She makes the team better as a unit rather than trying to work for herself.” The showdown with the Wildcats will also give the Blue Devils (10-1) a chance to work on minimizing turnovers, a facet of the game Kimel’s squad has struggled with as of late. In Duke’s 13-10 loss to then eighthranked Virginia, seven second-half turnovers ultimately sunk the Blue Devils’ comeback hopes by preventing Duke from stringing together scoring possessions. Against Syracuse a week later, careless turnovers early on kept the Orange in the game and allowed them to challenge for the lead until the final whistle. Proper ball handling will only become more important as the season rolls on, making Tuesday’s matchup against Davidson an invaluable opportunity for the Blue Devils to refine their skills before facing Boston College next Saturday. “You play better opponents, ACC caliber opponents, and they are capable of making you pay for your mistakes,” Kimel said.
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“During the past few game, there have been times where we have not looked poised and times we have made poor decisions. But, those are two things that are within our control to fix, and we just want to get better.” Providing Duke with a one-two punch behind Maurer on the attack will be the freshman duo of Kyra Harney and Maddie Crutchfield. The only two freshman starters for the Blue Devils, Harney and Crutchfield have been the X-factors in more than one game this season. Against Syracuse, Crutchfield recorded three points—two goals and an assist—in addition to three caused turnovers. The effort was just enough to lift the home team past the Orange and lock up Duke’s 10th win of the season. If the Blue Devils fall behind against Davidson, the firepower of Duke’s freshman might be the key factor in the game. “Harney is a super attacker,” Kimel said. “She has super vision, great hands and makes plays. You can say the same about Crutchfield except that Crutchfield gets it done all over the field. It’s still a learning process for the two of them, but they practice hard every day and prove that they deserve to be on the field.” Tuesday’s matchup also holds a special significance to Kimel who began her coaching career with the Wildcats. Currently in her 19th season at Duke, the five-time ACC Coach of the Year still is struck by nostalgia each time she returns to her old stomping grounds. “I love going to Davidson,” Kimel said. “I have so many memories from the year and a half that I spent there. The school is tucked away in this great little town and every time I drive down Main Street, I’m struck how it all looks like a little utopia.”
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continued from page 6 to push the issue on the basepaths—ranking third in the country with 67 stolen bases—and has three speedsters who have racked up at least 10 thefts without being caught more than twice. One of those speedsters is junior Cedric Mullins—a top all-around threat in the outfield who boasts a .321/.353/.536 slash line at the plate and is the team leader in runs scored, triples and extra-base hits. Although Campbell poses a strong threat in the batter’s box, the strength of the Duke team for most of the season has been a consistent and effective pitching staff. Senior Sarkis Ohanian and freshman Mitch Stallings have repeatedly turned in standout performances for Pollard out of the bullpen all year long— both hurlers have logged more than 20 innings and recording an ERA less than 1.60 during the first half of the season. This weekend was no different, with Pollard turning to his pair of relief aces in Saturday’s contest and then again in Sunday’s finale. Ohanian and Stallings combined to throw 6.2 dominant innings in relief of starter Luke Whitten Sunday, fanning seven and not yielding an earned run even after both threw 1.1 frames a day earlier. In midweek games, teams typically piece innings together with an array of relievers, elevating the need for shutdown performances like Ohanian and Stalling’s against the dangerous Camel lineup. “[Stallings] is tough. He’s resilient, and he has an arm that does respond quickly. He and Sarkis both [do], which makes them guys that are very well-suited to pitch in the bullpen,” Pollard said. “You need guys in the pen that
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can bounce back and pitch on a day’s rest and sometimes on no rest. That’s one of the reasons we have those guys in those roles. I can’t say enough about how well those guys are doing to bridge gaps and keep us in games late.” With the duo of Ohanian and Stallings having logged significant innings during the weekend, it’s unclear if they will be available out of the pen Tuesday against the Camels. That gives the rest of the Blue Devils a real opportunity—both on the mound and at the plate—to step up and right the ship as Duke crosses the halfway juncture on its schedule. “Now we’ve been punched in the mouth, really for the first time all year,” Pollard said. “This will be a great opportunity for us tomorrow to see how we respond to that.”
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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle The Blue Devils have advanced to the Final Four with only eight scholarship players—four of them freshmen—in the tournament.
is very comfortable coaching teams with a short bench in the NCAA tournament. Just nine players saw the court for Duke in the 1991 national championship game, and only eight played more than one minute. The Blue Devils played just eight players in the 1992 national championship game, seven players in the 2001 national championship game and eight in the 2010 national championship game. But having only eight scholarship players on your roster is very different from electing to play with a short rotation. The loss of two players during the season meant that the team had no safety net should a player go down with an injury. When Okafor sprained his ankle against North Carolina Feb. 18, the Blue Devils used just seven players against Clemson. With so little depth, the Blue Devils could barely practice. Walk-ons Nick Pagliuca and Sean Kelly and transfer Sean Obi became essential just to play fiveon-five. Contact drills were no longer an option when combined with the wear and tear of a grueling season and the added injury risk. Krzyzewski said before the NCAA tournament that Duke hadn’t practiced for more than an hour in the past two months. Sulaimon’s dismissal thrust freshman Grayson Allen into a spot in the rotation. Allen had played 10 minutes in a game just four times before the Blue Devils traveled to Virginia—sometimes he wouldn’t see the floor for the entire game. Early in the season, Allen was Duke’s most mistake-prone player, which often led to quick exits even when he did see occasional minutes. Forced to play in meaningful conference game, the Jacksonville, Fla., native gained immense confidence and exploded for a career-high 27 points on Senior Night against Wake Forest. “We have eight guys. Come on. Four of them are freshmen. It’s the youngest team I’ve ever had,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s not somebody hiding in the locker room that’s going to come out and appear.” With just eight scholarship players, Krzyzewski no longer had a choice about who played in games. But not only did the Duke head coach work with what he had— he made the Blue Devils’ eight man rotation far tougher than the 10 players the team had to start the season. If there’s one thing Duke has proven this season, it’s that strength in numbers is overrated. This team’s focus and belief is what has pushed it through the adversity and on to Indianapolis.
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In Liberia, villagers claimed that Ebola was “only a rumor” and a crowd, angered at the sudden quarantine of patients, stormed a clinic to release them, shouting, “There is no Ebola.” In Nigeria, a prominent professor of ophthalmology claimed that drinking a concoction made from a plant popularly known as ewedu can help pre-vent and even cure Ebola. Throughout the continent, fear about Ebola has sometimes outpaced the truth. Julian Rademeyer, the editor of the fact-checking site Africa Check and author of the book Killing for Profit, will discuss how the falsehoods have spread and how fact-checkers have worked to debunk them.
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s the countdowns to LDOC and Old Duke begin and the semester wraps up, bookbagging and the question of Fall semester’s classes come knocking for all but our seniors. Whether your choices have the freedom of a budgeted free semester or the constraints of an engineering major, all of us have to eventually pick electives that take us into humanities or social science departments like English or political science. Today, we look to help students be cognizant about their course choices through the tension between traditional disciplinary canons and the innovative perspectives of the “multicultural” academic camp. In many ways, class selections is a process of choosing what knowledge is most worthy of our time and effort. In an article he wrote while still Dean of Yale College, President Richard Brodhead addresses a particular clash of paradigms in the humanities, attempting to reconcile traditionalism and multiculturalism. He characterizes the traditional canon as the consensus of universally excellent works and the multicultural counter as the incorporation of fresh and underrepresented voices
to more accurately reflect human experience and the human fabric of society. Brodhead concludes with the limitations of both curricular paradigms and an emphasis on careful thinking about how bodies of knowledge are created for students. For traditionalist courses, we harbor concerns of the discouragement of spaces for the stories that were often marginalized or silenced. For example, not until the late twentieth century did the importance of female and minority writers like Toni Morrison and Richard Rodriguez start to be seen as approaching the contributions of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. The traditional curriculum intentionally or incidentally dwarfed any shreds of multiculturalism in the name of meritocracy and the status quo. Offering a fix, multiculturalism emphasizes the way these writers from the outside can “substantially change and enrich the terms” by which we understand and interpret the traditional canon. On the other hand, overemphasis on multiculturalism risks diminishing or censoring traditional works that really have earned their place in
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the pantheon of a discipline. A scholar with dazzling knowledge of a relatively obscure author like Nella Larsen brings something to academia but is incomplete without an understanding of William Faulkner as Larsen’s estimable contemporary. The takeaway is to blend the traditional and the multicultural. Treating the two as competing is the wrong approach, and we should take classes that emphasize co-emphasis and, for example, see the work of the classical canon in the light of and in terms of innovative multicultural work that can be a lead-in to a future “traditional” paradigm. As curriculum changes are discussed by faculty, we would point out the lack of student discourse on what Brodhead brings in his article and call for more guidance on understanding canons of knowledge and the foundations of traditionalism and multiculturalism. As we pick classes, we are crafting the way we orient ourselves in the world and should aim for an education that recognizes a diversity of voices. Perhaps the biggest lesson here is that the more we learn, the more we realize how much there is still out there to learn.
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he chapel, normally the subject of an inordinate quantity of Instagram posts, has come under even closer iPhone-filtered scrutiny than usual in recent days. Sure, the weather has finally improved and the trees are in bloom, so even the tritest of “Gothic Wonderland” posts are bound to garner more likes than usual, but other factors are at play. More specifically, prospective students have begun to arrive to campus in droves. I have seen countless high school students and their parents with University Store bags at their side pause in front of the most iconic building of our campus to take a photograph. Peering down at their phones, they pick a filter—Hudson and Mayfair generally work best for me—and post it online faster than you can say “throwback Thursday.” Kids these days
but I wondered why I had been so quick to minimize the seriousness of a complaint so relevant to their particular situation. Complaining about the parking situation at a university with a Nobel prize winner on the faculty and a men’s basketball team competing in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament is much like complaining about Siri not recognizing your pronunciation of “onomatopoeia”—griping about minor problems with something great does not acknowledge the grand scheme of things. After initially scolding myself for doing something besides singing Duke’s praises in front of a prospective student, though, I realized airing my grievances to her and her family really wasn’t such a bad idea. All to often when speaking with po-
Tom Vosburgh the struggle and their technology. These photos aren’t realistic. The blue of the sky is a little bluer, the stones of the chapel’s spires a little more defined and our emblematic crane conveniently cropped out of the frame. At the same time, perception is reality, and for many admitted students those enhanced images of campus were what they fell in love with when applying to colleges. So enamored with what they imagine Duke could and should be, they can neglect to examine what it actually is. Us current Dukies are equally at fault for perpetuating the existence of this façade, though. Just two days ago I encountered the family of a high school junior lost in the Bryan Center. Figuring I could wait another two minutes for my morning coffee, I approached them and asked if they needed help. The father, a man in his late 40s with greying hair and a thick New York accent, requested directions to the admissions office. “Sure, you just walk around the chapel and then all the way down the road to the traffic circle, and it’ll be on your left,” I told him. It’s kind of a long walk, but parking here is ridiculous so I wouldn’t risk driving.” I stopped myself. “Not that the parking is that bad. And let’s be real, Duke is awesome.” We made a few more minutes of small talk before parting ways, but that moment of the exchange stayed with me for the rest of the day. Sure, complaining about parking was petty—in my defense, I had just taken the last spot in the Allen lot after five minutes of circling around it like a vulture—
tential classmates I catch myself glossing over my school’s flaws and exaggerating its perks. Tenting becomes “one of my favorite parts of freshman year” instead of “six weeks of hypothermia resulting in mediocre seats”, and relations between Greek and independent students are said to be “honestly not that big a deal” instead of “a regular subject of campus debate.” I want pfrosh to sign on the dotted line and come to love Duke as much as I do, but sometimes I feel this desire corrupts my ability to give truly helpful information about this university. Just because I like Duke doesn’t mean I should feel obligated to bend the truth about it. Duke’s problems are real, and its elite status alone is not enough for me to downplay them. This spring, I’m hoping to be a little more candid than usual when interacting with prospective students. While I can only hope I’ll be more upbeat than I was with a potential member of the Class of 2020, I nonetheless want current high school seniors to know what they’re getting into. Like any other institution, Duke has its problems, and admitted students should be made aware of them—there is a time and place for Instagram filters and rose-tinted glasses, but the process of selecting a college is not one of them. Everyone here for Blue Devil Days knows about the Duke chapel, but perhaps it’s time for them to see the Duke crane as well. Tom Vosburgh is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” - Aleister Crowley This is a true story. Trust me—they have pictures. Every year just after Christmas, the monks and priests of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem get together to clean it. The church, which allegedly stands over the location of Jesus’s birth, honestly feels like it could use a good cleaning. It lacks the grandeur of its equally famous counterparts—there are no soaring frescoed domes or shiny marble floors. The columns are discolored. The nondescript stone floor has holes that allow you to see down to the old mosaic below. Over a thousand years old, it is in the joint control
The dome is built to surround, and apparently protect, a single, rectangular spot on the floor. It looks like a picture frame on the ground, with the marble floor opening to reveal a rectangle of dirt beneath it. The man tells us with veneration that this is Jesus’s footprint. How could you wonder at anything, I thought, if you allowed yourself to believe that two thousand year old dirt contained the footprint of Jesus? Why not assign convenient histories to every inch of space you saw, invent happy explanations for events that made you uncomfortable, immerse yourself in a world designed just how you wanted it and tell yourself that the fact that it felt better was actually the feeling of truth revealing itself to you, that the relief the invention brought was God
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ast week, hundreds of high school seniors received their letter of acceptance to Duke—a formal validation of all the exorbitant work they’ve invested into their burgeoning academic careers. The excitement of those admission letters, which is understandable, represents hundreds of unique stories, all of which will soon culminate in the incoming Class of 2019. By the time most wide-eyed prospective freshmen had finished reading their letters, The Chronicle had already managed to publish and profile the admission statistics for the incoming class. More closely resembling a financial statement, our student daily reaffirmed the fact that Duke is staggeringly selective. At 9.4 percent acceptance rate for regular decision applicants, admission to Duke remains as competitive as ever—though that .4 percent increase from last year finally appears to offer some wiggle room. Duke hardly stands alone in the effort to shave off acceptance percentage points and boost matriculation rates. There is little question that the Ivy League’s increasing emphasis on admissions selectivity encouraged other high profile universities to follow suit. The popularity of the Common App has similarly made the admissions process a sort of frenzy. Regardless, the trend in higher education—and particularly that of elite universities—has been to make earning a golden ticket that much more difficult. Because that incentive doesn’t hurt universities, one begins to
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of the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic denominations. All of them join in the cleaning. But here’s the thing—apparently, to clean or repair a part of the church is to own it. I don’t know who thought up this idea, but I do have theories. Maintenance workers of the world unite? On Dec. 28, 2011, during the annual cleaning, a fight broke out between the monks. Apparently it started when one got a little overeager with his sweeping territory. One hundred men in traditional black robes began beating at each other with brooms. Again, there are pictures of this event. They’re everything you’d want them to be—action shots, slightly blurred, crowds of black-robed men broken up only by brooms in the air at all angles. A lot of people think this is funny. I think this is funny. I also think it’s kind of beautiful. How incredible would it be to be one of those monks, believing that with every push of your broom you were winning more square feet of the holiest place on Earth for the holiest people. Saving souls by pushing a broom. I wish I had that power. “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” George Bernard Shaw This story is funny, and it’s beautiful, and it’s also sad. Obviously it’s sad because it’s the least subtle allegory in the world. Trade the square feet for square miles and the brooms for guns and you have the story of this country. But that’s not really why it’s sad to me. I’m too far removed from that conflict for the analogy to really sting. This story only got sad to me three months later, when I myself was visiting Jerusalem on a school trip. A guide led our group to the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives. The shrine is a grand complex, with four great walls surrounding a dome in the middle. As is typical of Israel, everything is tan, ornate and old.
speaking to its validity? I exited the shrine. From this spot, high on the Mount of Olives, you could see most of thousand year-old, ornate, tan and gold, holy-to-the-inch Jerusalem. That was indeed the story of this place. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein I looked out over the rows of tan tombs that surround the city—old Jews wanting to be as close as possible to the gates of Jerusalem for the rapture. I saw the church spires and mosque minarets and the golden Dome of the Rock. And I just kept thinking: 6,000 years. The history conveyed in the Bible makes Earth 6,000 years old. 6,000 years old because we couldn’t imagine – who could imagine – 4.5 billion years. And we said that this tiny barren desert was the center of all the universe and then that this planet was the center of all the universe and then that the sun was the center of all the universe because we couldn’t imagine—really, who could imagine—100 billion galaxies, with 300 billion stars just in our own. And we told these stories, so many stories, about seven days and floods and gardens because we couldn’t imagine that one big explosion, that one single Let There Be Light, caused by who knows what that created all the ingredients for these 70 sextillion stars and for the love a human mother has for her child. And I stand looking out at Jerusalem, thinking about those brawling monks, and suddenly it’s not a sitcom and not a poem and it’s just…sad. How sad we humans are, I think, that our imaginations aren’t big enough to imagine how incredible the universe really is, and that our stubbornness is too big for us to change our minds once we’ve figured it out. Ellie Schaack is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
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wonder: at whose expense? In many ways, one marginalized group may be the largest applicant demographic of all: American public school students. While Duke has consistently hovered around a split 65 percent public schools and 35 percent private, international and other secondary educations, the Class of 2018 saw the number of public school students decrease by five percent . In as calculated a game as college admissions, that chunk is particularly notable. The decision of top universities to embrace the Common App is likely the biggest reason that application rates have seen record highs. The actual time commitment of applying to so many colleges—particularly those that are a reach—made the application process more cumbersome. Reducing that process to a checklist certainly shrinks the barriers to applying to elite schools, and appeals to the “what if” nature in all of us. However, the likelihood that all these new applications proportionately represent private and public schools are slim. Though the exact numbers aren’t available, an increase in applications probably pits more public school students against one another. It’s worth noting that at 23 percent, the number of private school student comprising the Class of 2018 is nearly two and a half times the number of private school students in the United States. On one hand, that makes sense. More often than not private schools emphasize their college preparatory nature, as well as their ability to help capable students matriculate to the best universities. That benefit is almost formally married to the cost, and it reflects in admission rates. However, the increase in competition means that more students are fighting for the same number of spots. Given recent statistical trends and the emphasis of many private schools on college preparation, the average public school student seems more likely to be fighting the rising tide. By good fortune, the public high school I attended had a college counseling office that offered every advantage they had to make students’ dream schools a reality. Yet, budget cuts in my senior year threatened even the existence of that office and all the services it offered. The reality is that some public high schools don’t even have a specific college counseling office. For many private schools, the college counselors are as irreplaceable a part of the staff as the teachers, meaning they are not an expendable part of the budget. By no stretch is this meant to be an indictment of private or public schooling, nor the integrity of the admissions process. The advantages and disadvantages are inherent. Nonetheless, the college admissions process has become an industry in and of itself. ACT and SAT prep, essay tutors and private counseling can cost families thousands of dollars. The driving force behind that business happens to be admission competition, and so long as Princeton Review ACT courses fill up, there are no signs of that slowing down. Considering that the quality and character of incoming Duke students remains high, there is little incentive to change this system, and perhaps there shouldn’t be. However, recognizing the size of the industry that college admissions has given birth to means recognizing that those services are attainable at a cost not everyone can afford. Reporting application rates boosts the profile of any university, but it doesn’t change the fact that more and more qualified students are pitted against one another. When the hair-splitting factors to determine acceptance are increasingly available based on cost, it is public school students who most likely suffer. A public high school education is something I’m proud to possess, as will the private Duke degree I’ve convinced my parents I’ll be able to earn. Yet, each year that the new crop of Dukies is announced I can’t help but wonder if I was one year away from losing out to a kid who could afford a fantastic experience that I couldn’t. Caleb Ellis is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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March 31 - April 6 EXHIBITIONS
Plateau. Aaron Canipe, MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 1. Power Plant Gallery. Free.
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ENRON
A play about the biggest financial scandal in American history. And dinosaurs.
Tracing Sycamore. Windrose Stanback, MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 1. Power Plant Gallery. Free. Thoroughly Known. libi rose (striegl), MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 1. SPECTRE Arts. Free. Queer Home. Mendal Diana Polish, MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition. April 3 - 5. Boiler Room @ Full Frame Theater. Free. Area 919: Artists in the Triangle. A survey of noteworthy work by artists who live in the Triangle and contribute to a vibrant and innovative local artist community. Thru Apr 12. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free. From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration. Andrea Patiño Contreras’s multimedia exhibit explores Lynn, Massachusetts, a hub of refugee resettlement. Thru April 13. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Autogeography. Tracy Fish, MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 17. Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building). Free. Veiled Rebellion: Women in Afghanistan. Photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s images capture women’s lives in all areas of Afghan society. Thru Apr 18. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne. An exhibition of both iconic and lesser-known works from some of the most significant and compelling artists of the last 50 years. Thru Jul 12. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.
EVENTS
March 31 Voice Master Class with Risa Poniros. 5pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free. April 2 EdgeFest. A day of Artstigation on the walls of The Edge with free food from Durham’s hot spots, mocktails, music, and live entertainment. 9am, The Edge. Free. Curator Talk. Marshall N. Price on “Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75.” Cash bar and reception. 7pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free. Enron. By Lucy Prebble. A blend of documentary-style realism, savage comedy, magical absurdism and epic spectacle worthy of a Greek Tragedy, Enron is a narrative of greed and loss that casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself today. 8 pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 General Public; $5 Students/Sr. Citizens. (See ad on this page.) Find Your Muse: exclusive student party. DJ dance party, free food and soda, a bar on flex. 9pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free. April 3 MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Reception / Exhibition / Screening for Ava Lowrey. 7pm, The Carrack Modern Art. Free. Enron. (See ad on this page.) 8pm. April 4 MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Reception / Exhibition / Screening for Mendal Diana Polish. 6pm, Full Frame Theater. Free
Duke University Department of Theater Studies presents
Enron by Lucy Prebble
directed by Talya Klein
Enron. (See ad on this page.) 8pm. April 5 Enron. (See ad on this page.) 2pm.
SCREEN/SOCIETY
All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. (ATC) = Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. All events subject to change.
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About Elly (W) Iranian FIlm
4/1
Spark of Fire Cine-East: East Asian Cinema
4/2
Sleep Dealer AMI Showcase East Duke 204B ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule
April 2-4 and 9-11 at 8 pm April 5 & 12 at 2 pm Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus General Admission $10, Students and Senior Citizens $5
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