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Alex Griffith The Chronicle In an election marred by technical difficulties and few candidates, undergraduates selected next year’s Duke Student Government committee vice presidents and senators, along with class council members. A total of 1,518 students—23 percent of the student body—voted in the vice presidential portion of the election. In the only contested vice presidential race, sophomore Tara Bansal defeated sophomore Annie Adair for vice president for academic affairs, winning 60 percent of the vote. The election ran from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. after being delayed three hours because of a University Center Activities and Events listserv malfunction, said DSG Attorney General Max Fischer-Zernin, a senior. “The listserv is updated regularly to ensure that everybody is on it,” Fischer-Zernin said. “Last night, it was supposed to do an automatic update, but the update failed so this morning a manual update started.” The manual update, which started at 7 a.m., coincided with the release of the DSG ballot and prevented the ballot from being sent to the vast majority of the student body. By 10 a.m., however, the ballot had been See DSG on Page 6

he Duke Annual Fund hosted a Chapel Climb for the Class of 2015 Tuesday afternoon. The Chapel Climb is part of a series of campaign events by the Duke Annual Fund to secure donations and allow seniors to celebrate their final semester together as a class.

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Durham celebrates national championship “This is a truly magical season with an incredible group of guys, and I hope you enjoyed the journey with us” Will Walker The Chronicle

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Members of the Duke men’s basketball team attended a celebration of their accomplishments at the American Tobacco District Tuesday.

The city of Durham celebrated the men’s basketball team’s accomplishments at the American Tobacco Campus Tuesday. The event featured speeches from head coach Mike Krzyzewski, President Richard Brodhead and senior captain Quinn Cook. The speakers discussed special moments in the basketball team’s journey to its fifth national title and thanked the Durham community for its continued support of Duke. “This is a truly magical season with an incredible group of guys and I hope you enjoyed the journey with us,” Krzyzewski said. Krzyzewski then shifted his focus to acknowledging his championship team’s success despite the challenges they encountered this past season.

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“When I say the word amazing, I can’t help but think of our guys. To go through our schedule and win 35 games was absolutely incredible,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought as the [NCAA] tournament went along we were the best team in the country.” Although he lauded each of his players’ unique strengths, Krzyzewski noted that the influences of senior leadership and freshman determination were key to the Blue Devils’ success this season. In particular, he acknowledged Cook and freshman Grayson Allen, whose 16 points in the national title game were crucial to Duke’s comeback victory. “I said [to Cook], ‘I want you to take on a role that you don’t think you should have, but will be the most important role on the team— to be a leader to the freshmen and help them feel comfortable on the court,’” Krzyzewski said. “You, my son, were the guy.” Krzyzewski gave similar praise to Allen, who seemingly saved his best game of the year for last. See Basketball on Page 12

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In Tuesday meeting, GPSC elects exec. members In the event that the presiding officer refuses to vote, it goes to a revote. In the revote, Shi was elected. Later in the meeting, Dai said that she as a representative could have voted, and this would have decided the vote. The issue will be taken to the judicial committee. Patricia Spears Stephanie Reist, a fourth-year Ph.D. The Chronicle candidate in Romance Studies was electAfter failing to meet quorum at ed Executive Secretary. Reist is currenttheir meeting April 7, the Gradu- ly working abroad, but incoming Presiate and Professional Student Council dent Abigal LaBella—a fourth-year PhD elected some of their executive posi- candidate in Genetics and Genomics— tions Tuesday. said Reist is committed to remaining in Rachael Rothender, a second-year Durham next year. Ph.D. candidate in French, and Jon Hants Williams, a fourth-year student Wright, a Masters in Engineering Man- in the School of Nursing, was elected agement student, were director of operations. elected co-directors of This position manages n order to fix the prob- the GPSC house as well student life. Wright previously lem you always have as the food for meetserved on the student ings. life committee and will to look at the structure, and Lanair Lett, a firstgraduate in December. the structure has some very year masters student in He plans to do most of big cracks that need to be biostatistics, was electthe social event planed director of comning prior to his ma- fixed. munity outreach after triculation. — Dustin Pickett being nominated from Yuqian Shi, a fourththe floor. year Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry, Due to time constraints, it was dewas elected director of communica- cided that an electronic meeting will be tions. He ran against Rui Dai, a second- held next week. Quorum will be made year MD/Ph.D. candidate, and in the up of all who receive the election matefirst vote, there was an exact tie. rials, regardless of how many votes are Part of the GPSC bylaws stipulates received. that in the event of a tie, the presiding Courtney Ramsey, a representative officer may vote to break the tie. The from the School of Nursing, voiced presiding officer was Attorney General concerns that representatives from the Paul Escajadillo, a second-year MBA stu- nursing school will be abroad during dent, who said he would recuse himself the voting period and will be unable to Emma Loewe | The Chronicle since he worked with Dai on the Judicial The Graduate and Professional Student Council convened Tuesday to continue electing See GPSC on Page 12 candidates to the organization’s remaining positions. Committee.

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Special to The Chronicle Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, center, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Duke-NUS Medical School in 2009.

Special to The Chronicle During the summer of 2011, President Brodhead spoke to the first graduating class of the Duke-NUS Medical School.

The Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School celebrated its anniversary Tuesday, marking 10 years to the day since it began operation. The four year program, modeled closely on the Duke University School of Medicine’s curriculum, has matriculated over 30,000 students from around the world and is affiliated with more than 80 global research institutes. The school was founded with the goal of becoming the top medical institution in Asia, and in the past ten years has acquired a number of accolades that has made it one of the highest-caliber schools in Singapore. “The school has surpassed my every expectation,” said Pat Casey, senior vice dean of research and one of the founding members of Duke-NUS in an online statement. “I would not have predicted we would be the size we are today nor have the scope of activities we do.” As the school enters its second decade of operation, school administrators hope to further collaborate with local health systems and promote Special to The Chronicle even greater success in the region and around the The medical students pictured above comprised the inauguworld. ral graduating class of the Duke-NUS Medical School.

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE Reviews of senior administrators of the University are performed on a regular cycle and are administered through the work of a committee that is charged with conducting the review, summarizing input, and preparing a confidential report. Typically these reviews occur in the fourth year of the administrator’s five-year term. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has convened a committee to review Vice President for Finance, Tim Walsh, who has served in his post since 2011. Tom Nechyba, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, is chairing the committee; other members are: James Anton (Fuqua School of Business), Kelly Brownell (Sanford School of Public Policy), Scott Greenwood (Duke University Alumni Association), Kate Hendricks (Office of University Counsel), Billy Newton (School of Medicine), John Noonan (Facilities), and Ann Pelham (Trustee). An important part of the review process is the gathering of input from the University’s many constituencies. Comments on performance and suggestions for the future are important to the committee’s work. The committee invites you to share your thoughts by email or letter, or communicate orally to any committee member. Communication should include the nature of your interactions with Mr. Walsh and his team in order to understand the context of your comments as fully as possible. The committee will discuss responses and a summary will be included in the written report to the EVP. The committee will hold all communication in strict confidence. The Committee would appreciate receiving your thoughts by May 1.

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continued from page 1 distributed to all eligible voters. “The constitution requires that there be a 12 hour voting window, so by sending the ballot out at 10 a.m., we were totally fine because the election ended at 10 p.m.,” Fischer-Zernin noted. Another issue with the UCAE listserv was that the sophomore and junior ballots were switched, so rising juniors were briefly voting for senior class officers and vice versa. “Only 32 people were affected [by the mix-up],” Fischer-Zernin said. “For those 32 people, we had them email UCAE with their votes to be entered manually.” By 10 a.m., all ballots were legitimate and there were no issues reported by individual voters from that point forward. A final error, however, excluded the name of one of the sophomore candidates for equity and outreach senator, rendering that part of the ballot invalid. “With the help of the East Campus Council, we will be doing a special election for the incoming sophomore equity and outreach [Senate position],” Fischer-Zernin said. The special election will be held from noon Wednesday, April 15 to noon Thursday, April 16 to ensure that word gets out about the unscheduled election time. Fischer-Zernin said he felt that the low voter participation rate of 23 percent can be explained by several factors. “The low voter turnout is not particularly surprising,” he said. “This vote is for many seats, and each [seat] has much less to spend on campaigning, so there was far less buzz when compared to a DSG Young Trustee or presidential election.” He compared this election to a United States Congressional midterm election, which generally sees substantially fewer vot-

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ers than a presidential election. In addition to Bansal, the other elected committee vice presidents were sophomore Tanner Lockhead for Durham and regional affairs, sophomore Ilana Weisman for equity and outreach, sophomore Michael Norwalk for facilities and the environment, sophomore George Mellgard for residential life, junior JP Lucaci for services and junior Bryan Dinner for social culture. Rising seniors elected Nandita Singh as class president and Ben Lee as class vice president. In addition, they elected Brian Hopkins as senator for academic affairs, Jay Ruckelshaus and Jay Sullivan as senators for equity and outreach and Nicholas Andrade as senator for Durham and regional affairs. Rising juniors elected Kavita Jain as class president and write-in candidate Krista Niemeier as class vice president. They also elected Jain and Jessica Tanner as senators for academic affairs, Zoe Bakker as senator for residential life and Mitchell Grant as senator for services. Rising sophomores elected Luke Duchemin as class president and Amir Williams as vice president. They also elected Jonathon Gillespie and Taylor Panzer as senators for academic affairs, Sean Gilbert and Liz Brown as senators for Durham and regional affairs, Jared Katzen as senator for facilities and the environment, Lizzie Speed and Diane Hadley as senators for residential life and Dylan Gambardella and Shivani Shah as senators for services. Rising sophomores had the highest level of participation in class officer and senator elections, with 845 student votes compared to 316 rising junior and just 250 rising senior votes. The total number of voters for these positions—1,411—is fewer than the number of voters for committee vice presidents because students were not required to vote for both committee vice presidents and classbased offices.

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winslow declares for nba draft Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer

The latest Duke roster domino fell Tuesday as Justise Winslow decided on his future as a Blue Devil. The Houston native officially cast his hat into the ring, joining classmate Jahlil Okafor in declaring for the 2015 NBA draft. In his first and only season in Durham, Winslow posted 12.6 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, and victimized opponents with emphatic blocks all season long. Considered a likely one-anddone since the beginning of the season, he rocketed up the draft boards with his performance in the NCAA tournament, averaging 14.3 points and 9.3 rebounds per contest. At 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, his ability to drive the lane and finish through contact was on full display in the national semifinal against Michigan State, when the freshman poured in 19 points and went 9-of-11 from the charity stripe. “This year at Duke University, my dreams and aspirations have literally come true. Since I was a kid in third grade playing for the Houston Jaguars, I envisioned one day playing at the collegiate level and winning a championship. If you fast forward 10 years and my dream became a reality,” Winslow said in a team press release.

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Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Freshman Justise Winslow helped Duke cut down the nets in Indianapolis, but will forgo his remaining eligibility after declaring for the 2015 NBA draft Tuesday.

“The friendships and relationships I’ve formed with those a part of the Duke and Durham community have been even better than winning the National Championship. With that being said, my family and I have decided that I should declare for the NBA draft this year. Considering the success and growth that I have experienced over this past year as a player and as a person, I believe it is time to take the next step on my career path and play at the highest level.”

The swingman hit a funk early in ACC play, scoring in single-digits in three straight games in January before being shut out entirely at St. John’s Jan. 25 while battling a nagging shoulder injury and a fractured rib. From there on out, though, Winslow was consistently productive, reaching double-figures in 19 of Duke’s final 20 games and recording seven doubledoubles. Winslow’s resurgence coincided with

more minutes for the freshman at the power forward position, a change that became permanent when Matt Jones moved into the starting lineup for good Feb. 21 against Clemson. With his size and athleticism, Winslow was able to hold his own on both ends of the floor. “We’re very happy for Justise and his family,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the release. “He had a sensational year, both on and off the court. He was an amazing factor for our success in winning the national championship. From everything we have found out, Justise is projected to be a high lottery pick and we believe that to be true. This is a great time to take advantage of this opportunity. We’re behind him all the way and love him and his family.” With the departures of Okafor, Winslow and senior guard Quinn Cook, Duke’s 2015-16 roster will lose three starters and 55.8 percent of its scoring. Both of those figures could go up if freshman Tyus Jones decides to join his classmates in leaving for the NBA, a choice the Apple Valley, Minn., will have to make soon. Rice transfer Sean Obi and incoming freshmen Luke Kennard and Chase Jeter will offset the loss in bodies, but Krzyzewski will have to repackage the defending national champions around a new arsenal of weapons. DraftExpress.com had Winslow listed as the No. 5 pick in its latest mock draft.

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Duke takes on Stony Brook in rare midweek clash Alex Serebransky Beat Writer It may be almost two months later than anticipated, but Duke will finally get the opportunity to play Stony Brook. After the scheduled game between the two teams in February was cancelled due to inclement weather, the No. 6 No. 6 Blue Duke vs. Devils head to Stony Brook, No. 16 N.Y., to face off Stony Brook against the No. WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. 16 Seawolves Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. The rescheduling gives Duke a rare midweek game, coming at a difficult time in the semester for its players. “Originally, this game was scheduled for February,” head coach John Danowski said. “Because we rescheduled, because our flights were canceled, there was nothing we could do about that. This

seemed to be the best date at the time…. We expect [our players] to be studying on the plane, we expect them to be studying in the hotel, on the buses. That wouldn’t be unusual for a trip like this and for the weekend.” The Blue Devils (8-4) head into Wednesday’s matchup coming off a much-needed win against then-No. 6 Virginia Sunday that snapped a threegame losing streak and gave them the fourth and final spot in the ACC tournament. The team will look to continue building its momentum before the start of the tournament April 24. “[The ACC tournament] is everything,” Danowski said. “The ACC tournament is something that every athlete at Duke—no matter what you play—you want to be part of that. You want a chance to win an ACC championship.” Stony Brook (10-3) will be no easy matchup for Duke, though, as the Seawolves boast the fifth-best scoring See M. Lacrosse on Page 9

Nicole Savage | The Chronicle Goalkeeper Danny Fowler notched a career-high 18 saves his last time out and will need another strong performance against Stony Brook’s fifth-ranked offense.

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The Blue Devils will face their toughest match to date against a powerful North Carolina squad that will test their mettle heading into the ACC tournament. No. 23 Duke will face the undefeated No. 1 Tar Heels at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center in Chapel Hill, N.C., We d n e s d a y No. 23 at 3 p.m. The Duke Blue Devils vs. are coming No. 1 off two big North Carolina wins against Florida State WEDNESDAY, 3 p.m. Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center and Clemson after having their eight-game winning streak snapped with a two-game skid. “[North Carolina is] in your face a lot with their energy. They’re pumping fists and getting excited,” head coach Jamie Ashworth told GoDuke.com. “It doesn’t matter who their opponent is. They play the same every single match. When you do that, you have great results. It doesn’t matter who they’re playing. They play with the same intensity and the same focus.” North Carolina (24-0, 12-0 in the ACC) outlasted No. 12 Virginia 4-3 last week, and enters with its best players

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riding streaks of their own. Sophomore Jaime Loeb—the sixth-ranked singles player in the country—won her doubles match and then her singles match in straight sets to even the match after Virginia pulled ahead on court two. Rookie Cassandra Vasquez, who was inserted into the lineup in place of Ashley Dai, clinched the match with a 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) thriller. The Tar Heels will be hard to bring down, as they have won 12 of their matches via shutout and own 10 victories

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against opponents currently ranked in the top 25. Loeb is joined in the top 25 by 15th-ranked Hayley Carter and 25thranked Caroline Price. Loeb has a 22-3 overall season record and has played at the top singles spot for most of the year. Price leads the Tar Heels in wins with 32, most of them coming on court three. “We see each other so much. There’s not a lot of unfamiliarity between the two teams,” Ashworth said. “We’ve had so many of our girls play so many different of their players, and vice versa, so a lot of our match tomorrow is just going to come down to confidence and belief.” Against Clemson last weekend, the Blue Devils (14-7, 9-2) started slow, as Ashworth tinkered with the doubles lineup following the return of a healthy Chalena Scholl. The sophomore had been rehabbing an injury for most of the season, but she got her first wins of the year—an 8-7 (7-5) doubles win with senior Annie Mulholland and a 6-1, 6-4 victory against the Tigers’ Daniela Ruiz. Senior Ester Goldfeld also got back on track against Clemson with a straightset victory after losing two of her past three singles matches heading into the weekend. The No. 37 player in the nation will look to lead Duke against a powerful North Carolina squad.

With only three matches left in the regular season, the Blue Devils have a chance to climb into the No. 2 slot in the ACC, currently sitting a half-game behind Miami. The Tar Heels only have Boston College remaining on their slate after they play Duke before the ACC tournament, making Wednesday’s match a pivotal late-season contest for the Blue Devils if they hope to make up any ground on North Carolina. Duke’s own firepower will come to play Wednesday, with Goldfeld—who reached 100 career wins earlier this season—leading the charge. Goldfeld, Mulholland, redshirt senior Rachel Kahan and freshman Samantha Harris have all recorded six or more wins in the Blue Devils’ 11 conference matches this season. With a stable of accomplished players and a deep bottom half of the roster, Duke feels ready to hand its in-state rival its first loss of the year. “Our girls believe they can win. They’re not hoping they can win, they believe,” Ashworth said. “When you have that, anything can happen. It’s like any other sport against North Carolina. The rankings don’t matter. It should be a good, tight match either way. It should be fun.”

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offense in the nation, averaging 14.7 goals per game. The potent offense—led by junior Brody Eastwood, who leads the country with 51 goals on the year— could cause trouble for a Blue Devil defense that has lacked consistency this season. Although its offense may be the strength of the team, Stony Brook also has a stout defense that ranks tied for 23rd in the nation in scoring defense, allowing an average of 9.5 goals per game. Duke is coming off of one of its better team performances of the year, especially on defense, limiting the Cavaliers to just eight goals Sunday. A key to that success was the play of redshirt freshman goalkeeper Danny Fowler, who corralled a career-high 18 saves in his first victory as a starter and will look to continue his improved performance Wednesday. “[Fowler has] only played three games,” Danowski said. “The first two were a little rough, but he was certainly much better last week [against Virginia.]” In addition to the emergence of Fowler in goal, sophomore attackman Jack Bruckner is also coming off the best game of his career, after registering seven goals against Virginia. Both Blue Devils received ACC Player of the Week honors for their efforts against the Cavaliers. Star midfielder Myles Jones also broke a mild mid-season slump against Virginia, giving the Blue Devils five points on two goals and three assists. Steady production from the junior will be key not only against Stony Brook, but also moving forward into the postseason. “I think Myles had a great week of practice last week and also the guys around him are playing better,” Danowksi said. “And that’s a big part of what we do. Nobody is responsible for carrying the load— it’s everybody.” The improved performance of several individual

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players helped Duke defeat Virginia, but the squad must now translate that success into another cohesive 60-minute performance from both its offense and its defense against the Seawolves. If they can keep their intensity up, the Blue Devils will look to add another win before they close out their regular-season slate Saturday against Marquette. Nick Martin contributed reporting.

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reading ahead for summer reading

t the beginning of this month, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel was chosen to be the Class of 2019’s Common Experience summer reading book. But for every glowing review of this annual shared experience, there are too many other stories of incompetent FACs, halfhearted discussions and the many students who neglect to read the book altogether. Today, we look at the on-campus events centering on summer reading and how they can be improved. First, in examining the program’s objectives, we see a shared intellectual experience that provides freshmen a common topic to discuss, more thought-provoking than “Where are you from?” Further, the book choice is meant to prepare students for Duke’s intellectual inquiry through difficult questions that ask how they will engage others in the new social and intellectual crowd of Duke’s student body. So to these ends we suggest a new summer reading program wherein each class of students at Duke reads a single book every summer and orientation events are expanded beyond FAC circles and the author’s visit. We believe there is potential for the program to facilitate wider interaction between new freshmen and upperclassmen and faculty

members, chipping away at some of the intellectual distance between East and West Campus. Thoughtprovoking reads have multiple layers of meaning and perspectives for interpretation that students and adults at different levels of experience can help unpack. Further, upperclassmen have a much better grasp of how a book choice relates to Duke’s student body, be it through a lens of immigration, sexuality or wealth. Related to this, the heavily criticized FAC program must be supplemented by activities of a wider scope, at least as far as summer reading goes. The visit of the author is a fantastic event accompanied by orientation week’s FAC chats, but these cannot be the capstone to the reading, passively concluding the book’s journey in an auditorium. Some potential activities aimed at leveraging the book into campus connections are inter-class cocktail parties, faculty debates, a library party or open-air lemonade socials. As an added plus, these events would allow incoming freshmen to meet professors and administrators in the context of academic inquiry, maybe breaking ground for further traditions of academic exchange—picture intellectual tweed jacket wine parties with professors, similar to Monday’s poetry reading.

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Finally, touching on the book selection process, although we have seen the unique contributions of recent books, like Let the Great World Spin, that are intellectually accessible but still challenging, the line has to be skirted between being thoughtprovokingly novel and alienating students. The reading should stress a diversity of narratives without moving completely outside of any student’s reasonable intellectual interest. When we look at the past selection of Eating Animals, we see an overly narrow choice—one that questions one perspective a little too ferociously without allowing for each student to interpret the book according to their intellect and find meaning in their lives to bring to conversations. It would also be worthwhile to consider books—like College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be—which are aimed at letting students pedagogically engage universities and liberal arts educations, topics we should all be invested in and up for discussing. Duke’s summer reading program has so much potential for its own growth and efficacy as well as for laying the groundwork for other academic traditions. The current one-and-done system has value but also has lots of room for growth, especially in terms of making deeper impressions on students.

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TB. For most people, these letters carry little significance. For the members of Duke University Bumper Pool, they are the sexiest type of booty call: “Down To Bump,” a call to arms—and pool cues—meaning let’s play some bumper pool. Bumper pool is a niche type of billiards involving an octagonal or rectangular pool table fitted with cushioned obstacles, called bum-

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our shared interest in the game. Bumper pool teaches another important lesson: when work is stressful, it can be more productive to focus on something else. Part of the bumper pool community’s charm is that players make a big deal out of a simple game. The Bumper Pool Wiki features a long list of game-related terms coined by members, such as “Bump for Glory”, which refers to the situation when a player scores his or her final ball by playing

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The grab bag pers. Thanks to Duke University Bumper Pool (DUBP), or “Le Bump,” one of Duke’s newest student groups, bumper pool is a growing pastime on campus. Members gather at all hours of the day in resident assistant Tyler Glass’s room to practice and boost their official bumper pool Elo rankings. My introduction to the bumper pool community came from the Bumper Pool Wikia page, which includes ranked player bios, the official Bump Playlist and a number of promotional videos. A friend convinced me to participate in Bump Madness, the 128-person bumper pool tournament held concurrently with the NCAA tournament. I played my first games in preparation for the first round. I went on to lose in the tournament, but it didn’t matter: it was love at first bump. Bumper pool is addictive for many reasons. One is the game itself—bumper pool offers the perfect level of challenge so it is possible to improve quickly, yet rewarding to master. Since new members are constantly joining, novice players can always find opponents of a similar level. Games take about 10 minutes or less, so it’s a manageable time commitment—and not to mention the table is located in Kilgo! I like to joke that bumper pool is one-half strategy, one-half skill, and one-half luck—which adds up to more than one because bumper pool is more than just a game. It’s a community that transcends affiliation, where people from all social groups find common ground. Outside of Cameron, such inclusive social spaces are rare, yet among the bumper pool community everyone is welcome to play and become ranked. Every time I have met someone new while playing bumper pool, we have introduced ourselves and enjoyed a short conversation inspired by

off of a bumper. A common group activity is Pizza Bump Rodeo, where players eat homemade pizza and play high quality bumper pool. This weekend will be the Inaugural Bumper Pool Formal, where ranked players are eligible to invite a date to participate in an evening of formalwear, dinner, and a couple’s tournament. DUBP eschews tradition and shows you don’t need to be part of any selective social group to belong to a community. When I applied to college, I imagined myself participating in unusual college traditions like an annual 8-mile unicycle ride to get donuts. As much as I love Duke, I was disappointed to find that it would probably seem strange if I were to start riding a unicycle to class—and not to mention dangerous, given the hills between West and Central. Bumper pool is the first time I’ve found an activity so quirky that has seeped into the mainstream. Hearing more people talk about bumper pool gives me hope that more Duke students will learn to act less serious, have more fun and embrace being different. Truth be told, I don’t want everyone to go out and try bumper pool, because if they did, it would be too crowded for people to play. But I do encourage everyone to find a community within Duke—preferably centered on a nontraditional activity like unicycling or bumper pool—where acting silly is encouraged. Find your own beautiful microcosm of Duke where you feel like you belong, and embrace it. Introduce your friends to the community and watch the group grow. Remember that it’s not just the academics at Duke that bring us here, but the people. Rachel Anderson is a Trinity junior. This is her final column of the semester.

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counting down and looking back

eady, Set, Go! 13.1 miles left. Billows of confidence from the crowd start to fill the starting line. I begin to waver. This isn’t me. I’m not really a runner. Someone bumps me, and I turn around to a child in a wheelchair. I find out he has cerebral palsy. Thirteen years ago, I’m in the third grade. Billows of confidence fill my classroom as we begin our annual oral speech exam. I began to waver. This school isn’t for me. They’re placing me in speech therapy for the third year because they think that my Arab tongue rolls my “rs” a little too much and my “ths” a little too thick.

ceiving the assistance they deserve. Five. My body is slowing down. People are passing me. I think about slowing down for the next two miles, but then the course suddenly swirls down a hill to a crowd of blue posters. For about a quarter of a mile, I pass dozens of posters of soldiers who have lost their lives. I don’t want to dwell on this reality again so I speed up. People often do this. Speed up to ignore, to forget. Five years ago, Duke believed in me and offered me admission. I entered with a fire to wreak good everywhere I go. Now? Well now I imagine the problems are bigger than I thought.

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Don’t feed the trolls, feed the yaks

ometimes it’s hard for me to remember Duke before Yik Yak. When Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social app, splashed onto the scene at the beginning of this year, I didn’t know what to make of it, and I certainly didn’t expect it to become the force that it is. The rise of Yik Yak followed the fall of Collegiate ACB, a site whose posters consisted primarily of porn star stalkers and people inexplicably obsessed with ranking and re-ranking Greek organizations very few of us cared about in the first place. Over the past year, Yik Yak has become a linchpin of campus culture, pe-

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Eleven. The first two miles are over quickly. I run next to a man wearing a “Black men run” shirt, but he quickly speeds off. I find a girl at mile three with similar sun-kissed skin as my own. We have an unspoken promise to pass this hill together. Eleven years ago, the first two years of the Iraqi invasion are quickly over. The death toll is nearly half a million now. And what about all those other countries? Their deaths don’t really matter either. Pakistan. Syria. Yemen. We have drones now. But a faceless death is still a death. Nine. If this were a 5k, it would be over by now. A bit over nine weeks ago, Razan Abu-Salha was training for this half marathon. I see a “#OurThreeWinners” shirt at the finish line. Families and friends of Razan, Yusor and Deah ran the race in Razan’s name. I smile as I see the families yelling out runners’ names as they cross the finish line. Around the same time Razan was training, Political Science Professor Carol Swain at Vanderbilt University writes that Islam “poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored.”[1] I cringe at the power Swain has in influencing subtle or unconscious bias. But I know she’s not the only one. If only we can all mirror the inhibited love Razan, Yusor and Deah had for humanity and the love their parents had for us at the finish line. Seven. I’ve been running for an hour now. We pass Shaw University and the marching band welcomes us with thunderous music on top of the aging bridge. Runners are dancing, but I wonder if they know that this historically black university is home to Ella Baker and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) meetings. They probably don’t even know what SNCC is. Seven years ago, the U.S. elects its first mixed race, Caucasian and African-American, president, Barack Hussein Obama. Some use the president’s platform to preach post-racial ideologies. We’re anything but that. The 2013 Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee reports that one in three black men will go to prison compared to one in seventeen white men. Moreover, current Mississippi governor Phil Bryant has opposed expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. His time in office is spent attacking rather than collaboratively seeking solutions to mitigate his state’s problems. By withholding these essential services, Governor Bryant and several other state leaders are preventing hundreds of individuals, black but also others, from re-

Three. The only thing pushing me forward is knowing that I’m not struggling as much as the guy to my right. He’s running the full marathon. Three months ago, 11 people were killed during the Charlie Hebdo shootings. Vigils, discussions and marches erupted all over the world. During the same week, Boko Haram killed hundreds in Nigeria. The media coverage was not proportional to the Charlie Hebdo coverage. It is similar to how disproportional it was to the Kenya murders this week. Is there an inverse relationship between color of skin and importance of death? One mile. They fooled me. I waited for the mile 12 sign, but it never came. People begin cheering, and I realize I’m only a couple of blocks away from the finish line. I begin to pick up my pace, but a guy with a long beard steps out in front of me. I realize he’s the same guy I passed as he was walking up the hills. How is this fair? I run the 13 miles, I conquer the hills and I never stopped. On paper, however, it looks like he beat me. Life isn’t fair. One month till the Duke finish line. They fooled me. I waited for the final semester email, but it never came. Faculty and family begin cheering, and I realize I’m only a couple of weeks away from the finish line. I begin to pick up my pace, but certain powers step out in front of me. Some people step out in front of me. I realize that I know these people. The America I come from is not the America they come from. I ran the same race, I conquered every hill and I never stopped. On paper, though, it looks like they beat me. Life isn’t fair. I ran every mile of the Rock’n’Roll half marathon determined to push my own boundaries. As I crossed the finish line, I found myself asking, “Is that it?” I was thrilled to be done but felt that this journey that I’ve been training for exceeded the miles I could ever run. People run marathons in which the boundaries placed on them are not self-imposed. Marginalization exists at the expense of advancing someone’s personal agenda. Dehumanization exists simply because a particular person or community has no place in the larger narrative. Inequality exists because we fail to recognize the long-standing effects of our socially constructed policies. I want to conquer those hills. I want to finish those miles. And maybe just then, I’ll run and feel like a winner.

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rused by students, faculty and administrators alike. Indeed, last weekend I was at a meeting for planning an oncampus event, and one student commented, “Let’s hope we don’t get torn apart on Yik Yak!” The fact that Yik Yak would even manifest itself as a consideration in such a setting is indicative of the influence the app has on the student body. Over the past year, the app has received its fair share of challenges on campuses across the country. Although use of the app is restricted by a geofence at most elementary or secondary schools, some college campuses have also been under pressure to ban or at least try to ban the app. In a year where so much national dialogue has revolved around race, Yik Yak has become an avenue all over the country for people to express their bigotry without fear of social consequences , including here at Duke. The app has also become a site for misogynistic and homophobic speech on campus with rape jokes and threats made all too frequently, particularly in light of the charges brought against members of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and against Rasheed Sulaimon. Yik Yak users love a good scandal, and often their commentary is hurtful more than it is constructive. As a person who cares about social justice on this campus, I know that I should probably hate Yik Yak. I’ve seen things on there that make my skin crawl; I won’t repeat them here because they don’t deserve publicity. At times, Yik Yak has made me feel thoroughly disappointed in my peers and in my school, and I’ve considered deleting the app once and for all. There’s something intensely disturbing about anonymity; when you don’t know who said something, everyone you see becomes a possible culprit. It’s not pleasant walking across the quad, looking at your peers, and thinking, “Could you be the one who posted the racist joke or who blamed the girl for getting raped?” I also know what online harassment feels like. When I started writing this column, I never expected to encounter the amount of anonymous vitriol and hate that I’ve faced. I’ve been particularly disturbed by the animosity directed at my identity as a woman and my writing on sexual violence. I’ve received comments that are upsetting, infuriating,

even scary. People truly will say anything behind the guise of anonymity, and that anonymity seems, in fact, to encourage provocative “troll” behavior. I should hate it, but I don’t. True, there have been times this year when Yik Yak threatened to tear our campus apart. But there have also been moments where it brought us together. Why do I defend Yik Yak? I believe that Yik Yak allows for anonymous expression in a way that many of us crave. I know I can always count on Yik Yak for a good laugh often from a joke that resonates with my identity as a Duke student. I’ve experienced those moment where I read something

on Yik Yak, no matter how trivial, and thought, “Yes! Someone else has experienced that too!” But it’s deeper than that. In many ways, Yik Yak is popular for the same reason that Me Too Monologues is popular. It may seem odd to pair the two together, but they accomplish similar goals. They allow us to express that which we are afraid to share in other spaces, and they provide avenues to receive affirmation and encouragement from peers. In some instances, Yik Yak has functioned in ways similar to the Duke Facebook page You’re Not Alone or the student-run service Peer For You. Whether students shared stories of relationships gone wrong, tales of homesickness during O-Week or personal struggles with mental health or violence, responses on Yik Yak brought people together. People offered words of encouragement, directed their peers to appropriate resources and shared their own stories, all of which they might have been scared to do if they could have been identified. In this way, Yik Yak has provided an online snapshot of campus culture, documenting our joys and our jokes and our pains and our prejudices. Yik Yak is differentiated from other popular gossip sites in that not only do community members produce the content shared but they also regulate it. This allows for immediate responses to hateful language or content targeting specific individuals. With five down votes, the content is gone often faster than if the app administrators were to remove it themselves. I don’t want to understate the potential of such content to do real harm even if it is only available for a fleeting moment. That said, the app offers an opportunity for the campus community to make clear its standards and send a message that we won’t tolerate hateful speech in our community. It looks like Yik Yak is here to stay, but it doesn’t have to be the enemy. In the next academic year, I urge campus leaders and activists—Yaktivists?—to embrace Yik Yak as a tool for making campus a safer and more inclusive space. We don’t have to let the trolls win. We can yak back. Katie Becker is a Trinity sophomore. This is her final column of the semester.

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Trying to Get By: (Not) Making Ends Meet

Philip Catterall | The Chronicle Students from the Center for Documentary Studies presented short videos they produced over the course of the semester featuring low-income workers from North Carolina at the Sanford School of Public Policy Tuesday evening.

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“One of the great plays that will go down in the history of the NCAA is the play Grayson made [against Wisconsin] to get a loose ball. It would have made the guys who drive in NASCAR proud,” Krzyzewski said. “He looked at the bench and said ‘Let’s go!’ and it was like a chain reaction. And then we won.” Cook then offered a few words to the gathered crowd. The captain emphasized that the Blue Devils achieved their goal of hanging a fifth national championship banner in Cameron Indoor Stadium, but that the team approached the pursuit of the national title as an opportunity to enjoy a unique experience together. “After we won the national championship, I went up to Coach K and said ‘That’s five,’ and he said, ‘No, that’s one for us,’” Cook said. After cracking a few jokes to the crowd, Brodhead shared “one of the great Coach K quotes.” “’Well you’re a teacher, Dick. And you know that when you have great kids, they bring the best out of you as a teacher,’” Brodhead noted. As the ceremony came to a close, Krzyzewski thanked his team for giving him such a memorable season. “This has been my most joyful season, whether we won the national championship or not,” Krzyzewski said.

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