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Will Walker The Chronicle In the wake of Stanford University’s recent modifications to its financial aid policy, Duke administrators cite its endowment as a justification for not keeping up. In March, at the conclusion of its admissions process for the Class of 2019, Stanford announced an expansion of its financial aid policies that will cover tuition costs for families with an annual income less than $125,000. This expands the policy from the previous threshold of $100,000. Under the new policy, households with an annual income less than $65,000 are not expected to contribute toward the cost of attendance. Stanford previously used the $60,000 barrier to determine when it could offer zero parental

Nicole Savage | The Chronicle Former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney discussed the 2016 elections and foreign policy with Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy, at the Fuqua School of Business Wednesday evening.

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Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney discussed the 2016 elections and foreign policy Wednesday Sydney Sarachek The Chronicle Having correctly picked the Blue Devils to take the title and finishing in the top 0.1 percent of NCAA tournament brackets, Mitt Romney’s timing could not have been better. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, spoke to a full crowd at the Fuqua School of Business Tuesday night. The discussion—A Conversation with Governor Mitt Romney—was hosted by Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy and director of Duke’s Ameri-

Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Unlike Stanford, Duke only offers a tuitionfree education to students whose parents earn less than $60,000.

can Grand Strategy Program, and focused on the upcoming 2016 election cycle and foreign policy. “I think that the President’s foreign policy has been disastrous for America and for the world,” Romney said. President Barack Obama’s decisions have affected even those outside the United States’ borders, Romney argued. He added that Obama is incorrectly of the opinion that Russia is not America’s geopolitical adversary as evidence of his shortcomings in that area. The discussion was received by an audience comprising all facets of the Duke community—including both undergraduate students and faculty. The tickets sold out, with several people occupying standing-room only areas to hear Romney’s thoughts. “It’s often felt as though members of the Republican Party don’t have as good of a

reception on campus, so I thought it was refreshing to see Mitt Romney here,” said Pi Praveen, junior and chair of the American Enterprise Council. During his discussion, Romney talked about some of his shortcomings in the 2012 presidential race, but particularly focused on what the Republican Party should do to prevail in the 2016 election. “I don’t spend a lot of time going back and trying to rehearse what I would have done different piece by piece, instead I look forward to 2016,” he said. The Republican Party’s greatest challenge is to appeal to minority communities, Romney said. He noted that one reason Republican candidates have had trouble connecting with minority voters is that they do not vote heavily in Republican primaries, so candidates do not tend to focus on those See Romney on Page 12

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Duke alum Andrew Barnhill to launch state senate bid Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Less than two years after Andrew Barnhill was the University’s student speaker at commencement, he is launching a campaign for state senate. Barnhill—Divinity ‘13, the student speaker at Duke’s 2013 Commencement Ceremony––is in the process of planning to officially launch a campaign for the North Carolina State Senate. The alum has begun to host meet-and-greets and more formal fundraisers across the state and nation to prepare for a public campaign announcement that he said will likely take place in the late summer to early fall. A Democrat, he will be running for a seat in North Carolina’s District Nine, which serves the Wilmington area. Though Barnhill was involved in public service prior to coming to Duke, he emphasized the influence of his Duke career on his political development. “The sort of liberal arts education I got at Duke pushed me to think about the world through different angles,” said Barnhill, who focused on the intersections between religion and law in his studies at the Divinity School. “Duke is serious about the concept of interdisciplinary and certainly for me, doing graduate work in two different disciplines––that was something I lived out every day.” Since graduating from Duke, Barnhill has had various roles in organizing political committees at the local level, he currently serves as State Director of the New Leaders Council, a non-profit orga-

nization that provides civic education to train future leaders. Barnhill acknowledged he will be one of the younger candidates to have run for the position. He said that he chose to enter at this timing because he feels urgency for an effective leader to step up, and he believes he can do the job. “North Carolina needs new leadership, and it is going to require a new generation to provide it. It is no accident that two of the most closely watched State Senate seats were filled by a 32 year old and a 29 year old, respectively,” he wrote in an email April 8. Though Barnhill acknowledged the role of the new generation in state politics, he noted that this new generation draws inspiration from past leadership. He emphasized the role of former governors Jim Hunt and Terry Sanford— president of Duke from 1969 to 1985— as personal inspirations for his political message. Amid state and nationwide discussion of the merits of a liberal arts education, Barnhill said the ability to consider issues from a wide range of perspectives is very important to his work. “When you’re in elected office you’re having to deal with multiple, very different issues that somehow coalesce and affect one another on a daily basis,” he said. As a Divinity School student, Barnhill’s research with the Kenan Institute for Ethics focused on community organizing and the role of faith-based organizations in public life. Barnhill said that learning about religion is important for politicians. “In North Carolina, we are a very culturally religious state,” he said. “Coming

to understand that was a significant part of my political growth.” Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy sciences, taught Barnhill when he was a Duke student and noted that some of Barnhill’s research interests at Duke have become national topics of conversation. “In his work in my course, he manifested a strong interest in public problem-solving,” Fleishman wrote in an email on April 7, adding that Barnhill’s fascination with the workings of public university and college boards foreshadowed some of the major problems that have recently erupted in many states’ public university governance. In his campaign, Barnhill said he plans to focus on implementation, rather than ideology. He expressed discontent with the handling of a recent North Carolina General Assembly redistricting proposal, noting that it drew lines based on ideological affiliation rather than what was most practical. Barnhill’s plans include efforts to reverse the trend to nationalize the conversation about local politics, promote incentives for small businesses, strengthen the public university system and express caution with drilling policies that hamper the environment. “What we’ve seen in North Carolina is a dramatic departure from the more pragmatic governing style,” Barnhill said. “We need to spend far less time on ideological pursuits and far more time on finding solutions to North Carolina’s problems.” Barnhill said his announcement will likely come after the gubernatorial candidates officially launch their campaigns. “The public is deluged with campaign

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ads and materials for almost an entire year,” he said. “We don’t want to extend that public campaign period any longer than the public can expect to handle.” In the meantime, Barnhill said he plans to focus his efforts on fundraising. He noted that a large portion of fundraising takes place prior to a candidate’s official entry into the race, as quarterly filing reports with the state legislature are used as a metric for how campaigns are doing. Though Barnhill said that campaign fundraising is currently his main focus, he also recognizes that public outreach is important in the months to come. “I think a lot of people don’t pay attention very closely to what goes on in our state legislature,” he said. “Part of our campaign is about educating the public.”

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DSG hears first reading of 2015-16 annual budget Alex Griffith The Chronicle Duke Student Government heard the first reading of the annual budget for the 2015-16 academic year during a meeting Wednesday. The budget will provide the main source of income for many student groups over the next school year. It is funded by a portion of the activities fee collected from each student as part of tuition and fees. The budget is written by the Student Organization Funding Committee after it receives requests from student groups for certain amounts of money and has hearings for each group. “We met over the span of two weeks for about thirty hours total discussing all of these budgets and having groups come in for hearings,” SOFC chair Davis Treybig, a junior, said. “After that initial round of hearings, I went through this past weekend and saw that we were around $40,000 over the budget and then we spent more time getting it down to the final $470,000 figure.” Groups have to submit very detailed proposals outlining their expected costs over the upcoming year. Expenses which are typically funded by SOFC include groups’ capital expenditures, a select few private group events and recurring annual expenses. Examples of capital expenditures include the purchase of a new camera for a photography club. Recurring annual expenses are often transportation and competition costs. However, not all of these things can be funded due to the limited amount of money SOFC has to spread around roughly 100 student groups. “The hardest part is that it’s hard to cut groups when [their requests] are really valuable things,” Treybig said. “Ideally we could

fund everything, and there’s a lot items we wish we could fund but we just can’t due to a lack of money.” The extreme variation between groups’ requests also makes it hard for SOFC to make decisions which it feels are in the best interests of every group. “It’s hard to feel like we’re being truly consistent because so much of it is subjective,” Treybig said. “We try as much as we can to make it a fair allocation, but it’s impossible to be totally fair.” This year’s budget will be higher than usual, at around $470,000. This is due to the dechartering process which occurred in the Fall and put money allocated to inactive student groups back into the programming fund. The money collected through the process, about $120,000, will be spread out over the programming funds for the next three years. The 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years will receive an additional $30,000 towards their budgets and 2017-2018 will receive an extra $60,000. The budget will be debated and voted on next week. In other business: The Student Organization Funding Committee approved $2,784 for Mi Gente’s Mezcla showcase during the Latino Student Recruitment Weekend. SOFC also recognized three new groups— the Duke Film club, which will provide a forum for the viewing and discussion of films; YOUnite, a lobbying group for young people in North Carolina and beyond; and WHO Speaks, a group intended to create a community to discuss the complexity of women’s body image. The DSG Research Unit presented its first data findings. In the first presentation, three

DSGRU members spoke about patterns in SOFC funding. They found that in general, technical and rental fees were the most likely items to be covered by SOFC while food and transportation were less likely to be funded. In addition, cultural groups receive 80 percent of their funding requests while greek organizations only receive around half of their requests. DSGRU director Kshipra Hemal, a junior, also spoke about a DSG demographic survey undertaken earlier in the year. Findings included that that the ratio of Trinity to Pratt students in DSG is higher than in the Duke student body, that males are overrepresented in DSG and that around a quarter of DSG members are public policy majors. The DSG Senate passed several budgetary statutes allocating money from the programming fund—$550 for a Defining Racism panel and dinner which will address issues of race and ethnicity around campus, introduced by senators for equity and outreach Alice Reed and Riyanka Ganguly, both freshmen; and $1,470 for a poster project to raise awareness of gender violence on campus, also introduced by Reed. The DSG Senate also passed a budgetary statute allocating $7,200 from the legislative discretionary fund for a food truck fair April 10 to try out new dining options for the 201516 academic year. Several by-law modifications were also introduced for a first reading by senator for equity and outreach and executive vice president-elect John Guarco, a sophomore. They will be debated and voted on next week. Guarco, in conjunction with associate justice Nikolai Doytchinov, a senior, introduced a change to the judiciary by-law which would allow former justices go through a reappointment process rather than re-applying. This

Lesley Chen-Young | The Chronicle Members of the DSG Research Unit presented their data findings on SOFC funding requests Wednesday.

would make it easier for current justices to maintain their position in the next school year. Guarco also introduced changes to the senate by-law, which would make slight changes to the senator attendance rules and clarify the role of the executive vice president and president pro-tempore in appropriate situations. Additionally, the changes would slightly modify the nature of the statement of Legislative Intent written by each incoming senator at the beginning of their term. Finally, Guarco introduced a modification to the executive by-law which would enable more cooperation between senators and the executive vice president in the construction of the executive agenda. The modification would also increase the role of the executive vice president in the senator review process.

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Duke breaks losing streak, wins back-to-back at DBAP Brian Pollack Beat Writer Something about the Durham Bulls Athletic Park just bodes well for Duke. The Blue Devils snapped their seven-game losing streak with a pair of midweek wins against two Atlantic Davidson 6 10 opponents at DUKE 10 the DBAP. With Tuesday’s 10-6 win Richmond 4 against Davidson and Wednesday’s 7 DUKE 7-4 triumph against Richmond, the Blue Devils improved to 6-1 at the DBAP this season. A trio of freshman southpaws took care of a potent Spider offense Wednesday night— with Chris McGrath, Luke Whitten and Mitch Stallings allowing just four hits through a combined eight innings pitched. Richmond entered the game ranked third in the nation in scoring at 8.3 runs per game and had eight of its nine starters batting .280 or better, but the Duke rookies kept their composure and consistently attacked the Spider batters in the strike zone. “I told our guys this in the meeting—I think it was one of our best-pitched ballgames of the year,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “You look

Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File Photo Freshman Chris McGrath paired with two other Blue Devil rookies to hold the Spiders to four hits through eight innings Wednesday.

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at the fact that they had the double and the home run back-to-back—those are really the only two good at-bats they had, and that doesn’t take anything away from their team. I think they have one of the best offensive clubs we’ve played to this point—the numbers suggest they have one of the best offensive clubs we’ve

played this year.” The Blue Devils (21-13) struck first against Richmond (17-9) thanks to some spotty play from the Spider defense. Captain Andy Perez led off the bottom of the first with a four-pitch walk and quickly moved to third on a stolen base—his 26th of the year—and a wild pitch.

Fellow senior Mike Rosenfeld drew another walk two batters later and tried to steal second. The ensuing throw from catcher Aaron Newman skipped into centerfield, allowing Perez to score the game’s first run. Duke tacked on another run in the frame when—following a Jonathan Lloyd single—Newman struggled to hold onto the throw from the leftfielder with Rosenfeld barreling down the third base line. Richmond’s high-octane offense finally got on track in the third inning after mustering just one lone walk in the opening two frames against McGrath. The Alpharetta, Ga., native recorded a strikeout to start the inning, but four straight batters reached base after that as a 2-0 Duke lead quickly became a 4-2 deficit. The Spiders plated their first run on a double off the Blue Monster in left field from senior Michael Morman. They took the lead on the very next pitch, when third baseman Matt Dacey blasted his eighth home run of the season—a towering three-run shot over the fence in dead center field. The Blue Devils retook the lead in the sixth, although they didn’t have to mash the ball around the park to do so. Duke drew seven consecutive one-out walks against three Spider pitchers—starter Justin Garcia issued the first two, and the ensuing five came from relievers See Baseball on Page 9

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Blue Devils look to send out seniors on a high note Jacob Weiss Beat Writer The Blue Devils have yet to defeat a ranked ACC opponent on the road this season, but are hoping to change that come Thursday. Fresh off a 7-0 sweep of Boston College this past weekend, No. 6 Duke looks to continue its hot end to the season No. 6 with wins against No. Duke 16 North Carolina and vs. Florida State. The Blue No. 16 Devils will take on the UNC Tar Heels Thursday at 3 p.m. in Chapel Hill, Thursday, 3 p.m. Cone-Kenfield Stadium N.C., and then host the Seminoles Sunday Florida at noon. State “We are certainly vs. looking to build on the No. 6 momentum from last Duke weekend,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “It SUNDAY, noon is going to be a tough Ambler Tennis Stadium match—I think UNC is a great team, probably a top-five or top-sixin-the-country-caliber team.” Playing No. 1 singles for the Tar Heels will

most likely be No. 15 Brayden Schnur, who is 14-5 this year and has only lost 10 matches in his two-year career. The 6-foot-4 sophomore will have the honor of facing No. 11 Nicolas Alvarez, Duke’s freshman phenom. On court two, North Carolina will likely start No. 24 Ronnie Schneider to challenge No. 42 Jason Tahir. Although the Tar Heels have started both Brett Clark and Jack Murray in the third slot, one of the two will play No. 58 Raphael Hemmeler at No. 3 singles, and the other will play Bruno Semenzato at No. 4 in Thursday’s contest. Crucial to the Blue Devils’ success against North Carolina—as well as Florida State—will be securing the doubles point. Duke (19-3, 6-2 in the ACC) started strong with its doubles play, earning 14 total doubles points through 17 matches. The Blue Devils suffered a streak of three straight doubles points lost but managed to fight back for the overall victory in two of the three matches and have won the doubles point in both of their matches since. “For the last two weeks, we have spent a lot of time on doubles,” Smith said. “It has certainly been coming around, and it showed this past weekend [against Boston College]. We are definitely in a better spot regarding our doubles lineup. Both UNC and Florida

State have great doubles, so it is going to be a big point.” North Carolina (16-8, 5-3) will most likely play the teams of Esben Hess-Olesen and Oystein Steiro, Clark and Robert Kelly and Murray and Schneider, and the Seminoles are likely to start Benjamin Lock and Marco Nunez, Cristian Gonzalez Mendez and Michael Rinaldi and twin brothers Terrance and Terrell Whitehurst. Florida State is 17-6 overall this season—5-3 in the ACC—and has yet to defeat a ranked team. Overcoming the No. 6 Blue Devils in Durham will be difficult, but the Seminoles have their eyes set on upset. “It is our last home match of the season, it is going to be Senior Day,” Smith said. “Florida State is a really good team, so it is going to be an exciting day of tennis.” The Florida State lineup that will attempt to spoil the day for Duke seniors Chris Mengel, Hemmeler and Tahir has won five of its conference matches in the last six opportunities, with a narrow 4-3 decision to Notre Dame as its only loss. The squad enters the weekend fresh off a 7-0 defeat of Miami but will face N.C. State Friday before challenging See M. Tennis on Page 9

Carolyn Chang | Chronicle File Photo Senior Chris Mengel and Duke will battle rival North Carolina before taking the court in Durham for Senior Day against Florida State.

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It certainly doesn’t seem like it, but here we are at the end of the year. And somehow, over the smell of construction and lacking food options on campus, we can smell summer just around the corner. This will be the one. The summer of hope and love and job opportunities and cruising around the city/suburb with the windows down and hands hanging out. But let’s be honest. It’s not summer without a playlist to accompany those long drives and bonfire-filled nights. So, in the style of our inspiration, role model and past Recess Music Editor, MC Bousquette, we are going to present you with a playlist to help your summer along. Sid: “Hold No Guns” by Death Cab for Cutie. This song off of Death Cab’s latest is quiet, sparse and beautiful. After the energetic, thick sound from much of the rest of the album, this is the perfect track to take a breather. In fact, the first few minutes of summer feel just like this song: a breath of fresh air before the deluge of work, activities and social events. Drew: “Ice Cream Cake,” by Red Velvet. I’ve been getting a lot more into K-Pop recently, and this single from the relatively new group Red Velvet shows why it should be so much more of a thing stateside than it is. As with a ton of K-Pop songs, “Ice Cream Cake” sounds like five different songs at once—schoolyard chanting here, dubstep breakdowns there—but it coheres into a perfect sugar rush of the song. The harmonies here are about as on point as you’ll find these days, and overall it’s a great earworm of a song. Drew: “Just a Picture,” by Kyle feat. Kehlani. “Just a Picture” is a strange fusion of B.o.B.-style rapping, Ronson-lite funk,

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and Mario Kart synths that I haven’t been able to get out of my head for weeks. Kyle is pretty inessential, but Kehlani steals the show with her sweet cooing. The new Jason DeRulo song, “Want You to Want Me,” is blowing up the charts right now, but this is the R&B-funk hybrid that deserves to be blasting on every radio station this summer. Sid: “The Wolves and the Ravens” by Rogue Valley. I may be partial to this one as Rogue Valley hails from my beautiful home state of Minnesota. The band created four albums, one for each season, and this song is from their “winter” album. Despite this, nothing reminds me of quiet summer drives or sitting with friends by the lake more than this reflective, acoustic song. Drew: “Vena Cava,” by Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. “Vena Cava,” the opening track on singer-songwriter Aly Spaltro’s new album “After,” is a lot more contemplative and low-key than most of these other songs, but I tend to gravitate towards more cerebral, down-tempo artists during the summer like Fiona Apple and FKA twigs. “Vena Cava” hooks me with its acoustic verses and searing lyrics, but it has a mosh pit of a chorus that really cements it as an essential song. Spaltro’s performance is anything but breezy, yet it deserves to be played no matter the season. Sid: “Can’t Deny My Love” by Brandon Flowers. My, oh my, I love Brandon Flowers. Somehow, Flowers manages to take the best parts of The Killers’ sound and infuse his own, gospel-filled sound into it on this upbeat, anthemic single. Drew: “SuperLove,” by Charli XCX “SuperLove” is the oldest track I picked, but its breezy disco sounds timeless. Charli XCX can do no wrong in my book, and this song

is arguably her best—certainly her catchiest in a long string of catchiness. It’s got this 80’s mall aesthetic that I respond very well to (see also “I Really Like You” by Carly Rae Jepsen, which was this close to making this list) and I find myself humming this at all times of the day. Sid: “Fred Astaire” by San Cisco. I’m not from California, but this song is what I imagine the so-called best coast feels like. Fun, upbeat and extraordinarily danceable, this is a song to jam out to on the beach or shout out the windows on empty highways. At one point, someone pointed out to me that the message of this song is actually rather sad. And maybe that’s the beauty of it. Even when it is sad, it still manages to sound pretty darn happy. Drew: “Trap Queen,” by Fetty Wap. At the risk of hyperbole, “Trap Queen” is the greatest song in the English language, a masterpiece on the same level as Sandburg and Woolf. I’ve loved the work coming from artists like Young Thug and Future the past several years, and Fetty Wap uses AutoTune to contort his voice into even odder sounds than his predecessors—all in service of a delightful, gender-positive ditty! The part of the chorus when he wails “YAAAAAAA” is the best thing ever. Sid: “Banana Pancakes” by Jack Johnson. Summer isn’t all sunshine, all the time. But, despite the lyrics, this certainly isn’t a rainy-day song either. This quintessential Jack Johnson song is perfect for cuddling up with loved ones and enjoying the absence of homework and the quickly approaching future. And, hey, if that’s what my summer looks like, I won’t be too upset. - Sid Gopinath & Drew Haskins

Edgefest transforms the library into artistic oasis Melissa Letzler The Chronicle The Arstigators, Duke University Libraries, Spoon University-Duke and the Bite hosted a celebration of creativity this past Thursday evening in The Edge, the recently refurbished first floor of Bostock Library. Held between 5 and 10 p.m., the event showcased campus arts and the Edge’s spacious design and unique characteristics that provide a comfortable location for thought and connection.

The Edge stands out with its writeable walls: nearly all its periphery and support columns covered in dry-erase board material. In the words of freshman Quinn Steven, the Edge truly is “a collaborative study space.” Laura Bey, assistant director of undergraduate and medical school programs for the Duke Global Health Institute, foresaw The Edge as an opportunity to showcase personal art and expression. Upon hearing about the library’s new facilities, Bey planted a seed in her library friends’ minds, which they ran with to create EdgeFest. The Edge’s walls reminded Bey of masalas, Tibetan sand paintings. More-

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over, Tibetan painters slave timelessly away at their paintings, immersing themselves in the work. When finally completed, they take a brush and wipe the sand clean. Instead of using the free wall space to crunch formulas or layout papers, as students often do, Bey proposed students fill the Edge’s walls with art, doodles and random thoughts, with full knowledge they would be wiped clean indiscriminately at the end of the day. Most of the wall space was free for individual student use. Students of varying artistic abilities decorated and colored on the walls which were labeled: “RESERVED: FOR OPEN USE.” The atmosphere created by free speech and drawing was contagious. The Library Staff did reserve certain walls for campus and university groups. The David M. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, located on the third floor, depicted colorful and intricate drawings of old medicine book covers. With their evocative imagery, the medicine book covers told stories of loss, recovery, triumph and, occasionally, sexuality. Rubenstein’s Head curator, J. Andrew Armacost, chose medicine books because of their visual appeal and comparatively easy-to-draw patterns, although, according to Armacost, he had been working all day. Student groups also received sections of wall space. Duke University Arts Union filled a large rectangle, gathering a large crowd by handing out coffee mugs, laptop decals and other promotional giveaways. Duke Feminism decorated their large column with varied definitions of feminism. The Standard, a student magazine, filled a large rectangle with an eye-catching display. The event was advertised widely on Facebook and other social media, arguably contributing to the amazing turn out. Food provided from popular names like Monuts, Fosters and the Cupcake Bar drew a large crowd. The line for food extended through the lobby and out the door. An hour into Edgefest, a series of performers took to the floor in the Edge’s “lounge,” its most spacious room, which has numerous chairs, tables and couches for listeners to sit. Inside Joke started the show, performing several sketches that created a jovial atmosphere using their usual cutting satire and references to pop culture. Also featured at EdgeFest were the #BusStopGuy, Duke University Improv, the cup stacking champion Rachel Nedrow, student a capella groups and many more student artists. Through the diversity of many different artistic mediums, EdgeFest provided a respite from the intense scholasticism typically associated with libraries.

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Drew Haskins Local Arts Editor Soko is a French singer and award-nominated actress. Local Arts Editor Drew Haskins interviewed her in light of the release of her critically-lauded second album, My Dreams Dictate My Reality, recently released on Because Music. The Chronicle: What are your influences for your new album? Soko: Mostly my dreams. I’ve had really crazy heavy dreams my whole life, and it’s been very haunting and dark, and instead of being afraid of it, I wanted to transform all of these fears into music that makes me feel happy and safe and honor these dreams. TC: Why did you title the new album My Dreams Dictate My Reality? Soko: Because that one tiny sentence has so many reasons to be true in my life. I made most of my big life changing decisions in my life after dreaming about it, moving to LA the day after I had a dream in which I was living there and happy. When I was a kid, I had horrible nightmares, and each time I would, someone around me would die. So I thought I was responsible and killing people with my dreams in real life…so I grew up with that heavy guilt. I actually do list things to do before I die since I’m a kid, and the goal is to cross things off the list and do every single thing I’ve ever dreamt of in this lifetime. TC: How do you want people to listen to this album?

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Soko: On vinyl, on big speakers! Side A … waking up and drinking coffee and getting upbeat confidence for the day. Side B…laying on the big furry carpet on big speakers with low light, and drifting in and out of sleep.

personal, and I definitely struggle with trying to be a responsible adult and live a “normal” life and not live like a teenager all my life…but it’s hard. And about feminism, that is just in my genes, so that always just pours out of me.

TC: There are strong themes of feminism and stunted adolescence throughout the album. What inspired you to sing about this?

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Soko: I always like collaborating. I’ve done a lot of that lately and I don’t want to spread myself too much in other people’s projects and really just focus on making my next record. I definitely do want to make more music with Anton Newcombe from BJM. He’s a genius! TC: You are also an award-nominated actor in France! Do you plan on continuing acting along with your music in the future? Soko: Yes, of course…as soon as time allows. I have four feature films booked for this year. I just hope I can juggle doing it all.

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the short-term memory that EDM listeners have. It’s a constantly recurring cycle that leaves many music fans pining for something fresh and unique. This is where the Durham-based electronic and indie pop music duo Sylvan Esso––consisting of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn––comes in. Formed two years ago, their first eponymously titled album was a result of the already compatible vocals and instrumental wizardry put forward by Meath and Sanborn respectively. I’d heard only two of their most popular songs earlier but decided to make the journey to Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro to watch them live with some hesitation. The day of this pilgrimage began with a customary

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Many frown upon electronic music: most of the sounds are made with synths and a barrage of tuning options. Although the virtual nature of this genre affords an unparalleled degree of musical complexity, it seems to have resulted in a significant portion of electronically produced music sounding freakishly similar. The combination of a catchy beat and “drop,” a big-label artist name and a sensual autotuned female vocalist is guaranteed to capture the charts. These songs come and go in tandem with

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listening session of their entire album. As a result of this, I knew what to expect: a less perfected and tuned version of what I’d heard on my headphones. Tickets in hand, my friend and I arrived at Cat’s Cradle, only to find out that the venue was actually a field a few blocks away. It seemed like they’d shooed the crowd away from their prime location, sending us to the Carrboro Town Commons, a patch of green and wood canopies that doubled as the local farmer’s market. The ticket said the show would begin at 6 PM, so I made the classic mistake of arriving at a rather safe time of 5:40. We sat around as about 50-100 people strolled about leisurely, barely occupying a fifth of the available space. The stage was a mesh of aluminum and black metal, strikingly awkward in the still sunny Friday eve. A lone man whose name I didn’t hear crooned a few songs and then gave way to a pretty lady who walked up sheepishly with her own guitar, perching herself lightly in front of a synthesizer. We hummed and clapped along as more and more people began pouring in: a mixed crowd of college students, inked-and-pierced up hipsters and collegegoing inked-and-pierced up hipsters. I gradually understood why they’d chosen such a large venue. The sun set in synchronization with the end of this artist’s performance. I found out her artist name was Flock Of Dimes and that she had spent the last month or so touring along with Meath and Sanborn. The now burgeoning crowd shrieked in unison as Flock of Dimes called in the main course for the night. The lights in the back suddenly lit up, a tilted square of bright purple with lines projecting outward like waves, also purple. Flock of Dimes had announced that the crowd was over a thousand people strong, a pleasant surprise. I watched excitedly as two figures pranced onto the stage, thrusting their arms in the air enthusiastically. Meath addressed the crowd with an electric energy, thanking everyone for coming out. They began with “Could I Be”, one of their more famous tracks. Meath’s voice was what really stood out: somewhere between Amy Winehouse and Florence Welch, she hit highs and lows with a bone-chilling quiver in her tone. As she enchanted everyone with her fascinating vocal range, her electro sidekick was doing his job adeptly and with focus, looping her voice and mixing things up in the background. Sanborn really came into his element when “Uncatena” came on (drop everything, except this article, and listen to this). The volume rose many decibels, and he did a little jig with his skinny-jeaned legs: magic ensued. Existential-crisis inducing waves of bass reverberated through the Town Commons as we swayed as one. People danced and sang along as the air hung heavy with smoke. This wasn’t the electronic music people had written off so easily: this was something unnervingly original and stimulating. Part-folk, part-electro, partpop, Sylvan Esso captured each and every one of the audiences’ hearts as it went from one song to the next. “H.S.K.T” displayed their ability to produce beats that literally forced you to move, while “Hey Mami” showcased the perfect chemistry their sound and script had. My personal favorite was “Play it Right”, because Sanborn fooled around with the instrumentals on the spot, grinning as he fiddled with the knobs and dials. Meath took a brief hiatus from her serenading to tell us that there was a full moon that night (an announcement that endeared her to the crowd even more). Everyone turned away from the stage in unison and exclaimed in wonder. They left the stage after their last song but gave in to the crowd’s chants for “one more”, coming back and free styling with some remarkable mixing. My expectations were definitely surpassed. The concept of tortured artists pouring away their souls into melody is rarely a quality attributed to electro-pop. Amazingly, Sylvan Esso managed to evoke something deeper, asking and answering personal questions through song. I’ve come to notice that a telltale sign of a successful concert is a dearth of usable bathrooms. This event was no exception. As I discreetly tried to empty my bladder behind a secluded shed in the corner of Carrboro Commons (an unofficial alternative toilet that concert-goers had established), Sylvan Esso’s music resounded all around, leaving me beaming and thankful I’d traveled all the way from Durham to hear this homegrown powerhouse of creativity and pleasure.

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continued from page 4 James Lively and Dan Martinson. The seven straight free passes gave the Blue Devils four runs, and they pushed one more across thanks to a Rosenfeld sacrifice fly that extended their lead to 7-4. “You don’t have that happen a whole lot. But when that happens, you’ve got to be willing to take what they give you,” Pollard said. “It was a good job by our guys of not getting out of the zone right there. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen seven in a row. I’ve been doing this for a long time—that’s a lot.” Against Davidson, the Duke bats woke up from their recent slumber and piled up 10 runs on 12 hits. The Blue Devils fell behind 2-0 before they ever went to bat but responded immediately with a three-spot in the bottom of the first—highlighted by a leadoff homer from Perez—and three more runs across the next two frames. Aside from Perez, most of the offense Tuesday came from freshmen. Pollard started

seven rookies versus the Wildcats, and four of them collected multiple hits. The quartet of Lloyd, Max Miller, Peter Zyla and Ryan Day combined for five runs and four RBIs. Day also contributed on the mound, picking up the win with three scoreless innings in his first career start. Lloyd—who doubles as a cornerback on the football squad—earned his first career start in left field Tuesday night, and his three-hit performance merited him a spot in the lineup again Wednesday. The Graham, N.C., native pointed out Duke’s success at the DBAP and expressed hope that the team can continue its strong midweek play when it takes on No. 5 Louisville Friday. “We like playing at [the DBAP]. It’s a pro park—one of the nicest. It just brings a lot of energy when you get to play at a stadium like this, so we always get up to play here,” Lloyd said. “We had been taking it on the chin a little bit, and it just felt good to get back in the winning column and give us some momentum and confidence when we head back into conference play against Louisville this weekend.”

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everyday fight against discrimination

n yesterday’s editorial, we discussed the Duke administration’s response to the noose incident. For many students, constant racism is a daily reality. Racism and micro-aggressions often take different forms, moving in and out of campus dialogue. Why does it take an event as abhorrent as a noose for us to have last week’s conversation? Part of the issue is the recent history of Duke and its scandal-focused culture. Since the 2006 lacrosse case, every piece of bad news is sensationalized to a “scandal,” whether it truly is or not. The model has become reactionary: Where a “scandal” occurs, a response is formed by students and the administration and, eventually, the University redirects its attention elsewhere. The loose narrative of this script is followed to the point where students are annoyed that “yet another scandal” has occurred. This has created a hostile environment in which to discuss the issues underlying the scandals. Many students become desensitized to the reasons why the scandals are problematic in the first place and ignore the hurt and genuine emotion other students are often feeling. This lack of validation can emotionally ex-

haust students, faculty and administration who are dealing with the incident themselves and addressing it with the community. The issues that marginalized members of the community face on a daily basis are already significant. At Tuesday’s faculty-run discussion of the history of lynching and racism, sociology department chair Eduardo Bonilla-Silva described trends against people of color in ID requests from University police, invalidating banter about affirmative action’s role in their admissions and the offhanded brushing off of racist acts as jokes. There have also been past issues with our own faculty members. In many ways, constant smaller acts of racism drain students just as overt acts of racism do. It is often easy to deride the egregious forms of racism while ignoring the more elegant structural forms that are ongoing. So how can we begin to address these issues? The first step is to change our approach by altering the lens through which we view these issues. Our campus is segmented in a number of different ways, and social groups often become homogenous. We encourage students who are not hurt to look toward the other side

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and imagine another perspective. Settling for asking for more dialogues and conversations to be held is a weak response when the Black Student Alliance and the Center for Multicultural Affairs regularly hold conversations on race and other issues. A common follow-up concern is that students who are not typical attendees would be received antagonistically. Without dismissing these feelings or concerns as invalid, we suggest that students look to understand that some black students do not feel comfortable as soon as they step onto campus. The ability to avoid uncomfortable spaces is a privilege often not afforded to marginalized groups. Being uncomfortable is a critical component of learning. Students need to attend the conversations and dialogues that are already occurring and to continue to educate themselves in other fashions within their regular circles. We also need to make sure to challenge racism in all of its forms, especially the micro-aggressions that occur every day. Many of us are more than capable of engaging these issues, and the cost to do your part is small compared to the benefits reaped for our community.

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hen I was in tenth grade I wrote a great poem about autumn leaves. In retrospect, I think we’ve all written a “great” poem about autumn leaves. Anyway, the entire stupid tenth grade competed to have his or her poem chosen by an unknown publisher with poor taste to be recited on some random occasion that no one wanted to go to anyway. If I sound bitter, you’re mistaking an objective recollection for bitterness. And no, my poem was not chosen. Neither was my National History Day project or my science fair project or my trombone playing. I sucked at trombone but some recognition wouldn’t have made me any worse. The point is—and I hesitate to disclose this at risk of having my admission rescinded—I have never won an award. So yeah, what if I do have three participation trophies on my dresser—they still

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have come to impart second-rate wisdom. These victors on the podium must have missed the memo because second place is pretty sweet. No neck cramps from gold medals, no unsanitary high-fives. You can pat yourself on the back for doing a good job, while the guy who did the great job is too busy waving a trophy in the air. If there’s one thing Duke students aspire to more than exuberant wealth, its recognition. I suspect some Duke students might even trade a salary bonus for an employee of the month plaque. There’s one thing money can’t buy— validation. Often times, getting formal recognition creates an alternate source of self-worth separate from what we’re getting recognized for. As if it’s receiving the paper that says “number 1” that makes you number 1. The danger in first place is you develop a dependence on

Kyle Harvey Golden boy look gold. This may be a foreign concept to a student body whose middle name is Valedictorian and enters shoe-lace tying contests just to say they’re the best at it. However, even the overachievers with a gold-plated room dedicated to their honorable distinctions have to sing a different tune when they come to Duke. The song’s called average. A wise man once said, “If you ain’t first you’re last.” Sounds like a pretty convenient adage for the guy who’s in first place. Us second and third placers take it to heart though. A common complaint is that you can’t be the best at anything at Duke. When the legendary pianist down the hall crushes problem sets during his snack breaks, you might rightfully hesitate to brag that calculus is your strong suit. All of a sudden, the strengths and skills you defined yourself by before become baseline expectations, leaving you as the baseline Duke student with no unique contribution. If you’re not the best at something, what’s the point? That’s why I, as a long time numero duo, awardless, non-distinct, unrecognized student

someone telling you you’re the best and devalue the worth of giving yourself a pat on the back. It’s human to want to be appreciated for your skills and contributions. Its foolish to seek it out in the forms of ribbons and accolades. So if you’re struggling with being average, which the average duke student is, than take solace that there is opportunity in average. An opportunity to feel what it’s like to advance from fifth to fourth place because of hard work. An opportunity to develop a sense of self outside of your accomplishments. An opportunity to not be perfect. Any day now, when I finally win my first award, I’ll wave it in all your faces so you know I’m better than you. I shouldn’t, but I will. It’s a shortcut to feeling good about myself that undermines all my valiant efforts that aren’t recognized. I should be able to write a great poem about autumn leaves without an unknown publisher with poor taste telling me it’s great. If I sound bitter, it’s because I am. Kyle Harvey is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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urham winter mornings are bitingly cold. I wonder if that’s why I gave the homeless man on Ninth Street some money. He looked up from the sidewalk as I walked down ninth street, just another big man bundled up in a bigger jacket. I couldn’t see much of his face, just a grizzled old beard and his eyes. A small glimpse of blue. But as I got closer to him, I felt myself shrink. I was afraid, you see, that he would ask me money, and then pretend I had no cash. I grew up in a city where it was easy to become hardened to the homeless. When you walk daily past people after people, kneeling on street corners with clumsilymade signs, it begins to seem normal. Empathy slowly trickles away. Undeterred, the man called to me. “Miss” he said, “have some change? I intended to stride on, as I have done so many times in the past. Instead, I surprise myself. I stop and open my wallet, pull out what’s on top.

ers exonerates me from having to act. I can’t help – so why should I? Perhaps this way of thinking is utilitarian, rational and comforting. It is still, for me, a sad way to live. To say that I cannot do anything to contribute to service is incorrect. I have simply chosen not to. It helps to be a poor college student. It helps to have that cushy fallback. Yet if I am honest, how much of it has to do with no money, and how much with the unwillingness to give up a caramel latte for the week? To exonerate myself in these moments when a human being implores me for some avenue of help is to act dishonorably and hypocritically. If I am to walk on, I must say I chose to. Sometimes I am haunted by the memory of a cold night in Toronto, while walking on the streets. Even under four layers of clothing, I could not feel my bones. Ahead of me were two young

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remember feeling weirdly alien with the word Duke across my chest as a freshman. I had stumbled upon some world I wasn’t made for, where people painted masterpieces on plastic coolers and put fried chicken on their waffles like that made any sense at all and said hello to me on the street without an ulterior motive. They even understood how basketball worked—like, fouls and everything—and came in knowing Miles from Mason from Marshall. It was all intimidatingly foreign. I can tell you the exact moment Duke started making sense for me. On Feb. 8 2012,

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“Here,” I said awkwardly. We stared at each other for a moment. He nodded. Then it was over. We walked away. I haven’t seen him since. I wondered about this incident for a while after it happened. Why, after adopting a flight-orflight stance in the past, had I given him money? Why this time? Was a moment of altruism that could make me feel better? A guilty apology? A way to exit the situation? I tried to think of the last time I had donated money to any cause without being prodded, and to my dismay, I came up blank. I had nodded in class when the roots of homelessness had been deconstructed and agreed that it was a complicated issue that required action. Yet when it came down to the moment of reckoning, I had consistently turned away. I had found excuses for in inaction. I had found a way to live without feeling guilty. There are the familiar arguments on why people don’t often donate money to pan-handlers. You don’t know where you’re money goes. It doesn’t help them find a job or be self-sustaining. Yet in spite of these arguments, which often lie on heresy, very few of us will go around the neighborhood with food packages and resolutions to help. There are many, of course, who do step up. Whether they run soup kitchens, like Durham’s Urban Ministries, or programs that help the unemployed find employment, like the group Community Empowerment Fund. A general consensus is that helping the homeless is a task that should be left to the experts. The truth may run deeper than that: leaving the job to oth-

men, heaving boxes of food and blankets on their shoulders. They were quick and methodical-they did not have the branding of a non-profit on their clothes. Street by street, they went, leaving little white packages for those shivering on the curb. I watched them for a while, admiring. What heroes! I wished I could do the same. And then I saw their faces and how they young they were, still in their teens. They were just two young boys who had bought some supplies. They had stopped the mentality of inaction. There are now 758 homeless people in Durham County, according to the North Carolina Coalition for Homelessness. 108 of them are children. The compelling image of children on the streets only serves to disabuse the idea that all those without homes are responsible for their situation. A home is just a place, and places can crumble no matter where we live. As the months grow warmer, I think of the biting Toronto cold, and the two methodical men. I try to focus less on my helplessness, more on the small things I can do when confronted with people who are in bad situations. There exists an opportunity, in those moments, for something to happen. Some kindness, some change, some kind of recognition, at least, of the connection of human to human. If I will not give money, I can give time. If I will not give time, I can stop avoiding eyes. I can do something. Anything but nothing.

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Isabella Kwai is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

in the GA common room, I watched as Austin Rivers made a miraculous game-winning three against UNC at the buzzer. And suddenly people I barely knew were crying and hugging me and then I was on West and there were people climbing trees and we all stood there and chanted and waited for the bus to come back together. We cried as the players emerged and we basked in the glory of the moment and I followed Austin Rivers to his car, filming it all on my phone as if that were a totally normal thing to do to a stranger. We were thrown together into something bigger than ourselves, and while at the time I didn’t fully understand what was happening, it was emotional and memorable and addictive. We were celebrating something we all had in common, an accomplishment by classmates who also wore the word Duke on their chests. I think we’re onto something with this basketball thing. Nothing else can get everyone out of their common rooms and sections and off-campus houses and into a single space where every breath is taken in unison as we watch. We hurt if one of our players so much as trips—we’re insulted by bad calls. We gasp, sigh, jump, cry, and cheer together and by the time the game ends we’ve collectively been through so much that we feel inextricably connected to the outcome. I personally didn’t do anything to impact our national championship game. But the players and I wear shirts with the same word on the front so I don’t say they did it—I get to say we did it. You guys, we did it. And that “we” right there is my favorite thing. Find me something that feels better than everyone, already together in Cameron, making their way onto the court for the final two minutes of the game in order to be closer together. Find me something more meaningful than going through the emo-

tional rollercoaster of heartbreak and celebration of a championship game alongside a few thousand of your closest friends and classmates. Seniors, find me something more satisfying than hanging a fifth banner with our graduation year on it. What makes our fandom of Duke basketball different from anything anywhere else is how those feelings then leak out of Cameron and spill into a myriad of other moments. As much as we like to pretend we aren’t a cohesive student body, with the organizations we align ourselves with and parties

with lists and creepy frat emails and who you mix with or block with or know, there are times when I look around and feel that same sense of togetherness permeating our campus. As we rallied together after a noose was found on campus. When we sit in silence at Me Too Monologues to absorb some of the pain of one our classmates. That unstoppable LDOC feeling of community. When it’s just so beautiful outside that everyone drops what they’re doing to bask in the gardens. It’s a special kind of we’ve-done-thisbefore togetherness where we look around thinking: let’s live as connected as we feel right now, forever. That’s what a national championship does—it pulls us tighter. Tighter to Duke, to each other, to the legacy we’re leaving behind. I’m very rarely the most emotional person in the room. I’m more of an empathetic crier— rarely the one to take the initiative to get the crying started but make eye contact with me with tears in your eyes and I’m done. I’ve never met Quinn Cookhe doesn’t know who I am. But right now there’s a photo of him all over the Internet with his eyes welled up and well, just like that, it keeps happening to me too. Only here could I feel so connected to someone I don’t actually know. I laid down on the grass on Monday night after the game and stared at the sky, hearing only sounds of celebration and seeing only a handful of stars. I felt everything and nothing and knew I didn’t have to say a word to the thousands of people celebrating around me to know they were on the same page. Though neither Duke nor basketball made much sense to me as a freshman, it’s so very clutch that I now derive so much happiness from the overlap. 2015, we did it. Now let’s live the next month like we just won a national championship. Elissa Levine is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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continued from page 1 groups until late in their campaigns. “When we have a nominee, he or she only has a few months to run off and let the minority community know that we are interested in your vote too, and then [the voters] say, ‘well where have you been the past two years?’” Romney said. In order to gain a greater and more diverse following, the Republican Party needs to make is clear they do not only represent the wealthy, Romney said. He noted that the Democratic Party routinely portrays itself as the party for the poor and middle classes while casting Republicans as for the rich. “Nothing could be farther from the truth in my opinion,” he said. “The rich, by the way, will do fine under any leadership—Republican or Democrat.” In addition to discussing the 2016 campaign, Romney discussed Obama’s foreign policies, including his platform in the 2012 election and current stance. “I happen to think that the overall foreign policy posture that the President represented in 2012 and continues to rep-

resent is at odds with the interests of America today,” Romney said. Romney gave his thoughts on growing global security threats—focusing on his disagreement with the preliminary deal involving Iran’s nuclear power reached last week. Some think that as a result of the final deal, U.S. and international sanctions on Iran will be removed with the expectation that the country will comply with restrictions on its nuclear program. “Our greatest threat, as I said [during the 2012 campaign], is a nuclear Iran,” he said. Romney cited long-standing tensions between the the U.S. and Iran as his rationale for being skeptical of the deal. “They chant death to America everyday,” Romney said. Even though the preliminary deal was widely celebrated by news outlets, Romney remains doubtful that the Obama administration got the better end of it. “There is no question in my mind that any deal with Iran will be celebrated by the mainstream media,” he said. “Iran will look like they are good guys now, and everything will be rosy for a while. I just happen to think this deal is not the deal that it could’ve been.”

The threat of the Islamic State group will be the most critical foreign policy issue in the next presidential election, Romney predicted. As for who he sees taking on that challenge, Romney said he believes there are approximately 15 great candidates for the Republican Party in the 2016 election. At the conclusion of the discussion, some in the audience left with a new perspective on the man who lost the 2012 election. “I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Governor Romney, especially when he was running for presidency,” freshman Aateeb Khan said. “But coming here—it was just good to listen to someone with as much influence in the political culture as he’s had.” The talk was part of the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture Series and was co-sponsored by Duke’s American Grand Strategy Program, the Office of Global Strategy and Programs, the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. Past speakers through the program include CNN host Fareed Zakaria, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and retired four-star Army Gen. David Petraeus.

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