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Talk at local children’s libary focused on early childhood education and workforce equity Sarah Kerman The Chronicle

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle President Obama spoke about early childhood education and workforce equity at a local children’s library in Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday.

T-Pain to perform at Virginia Tech on same day as LDOC University Editor Despite being booked for a show just hours earlier, T-Pain will still be headlining this year’s Last Day of Classes concert.

Concerns about potential conflicts in TPain’s schedule began circulating through Duke’s social media channels—including the All Duke group on Facebook and with anonymous questions on Yik-Yak—Wednesday afternoon. This speculation followed an April 6 post from the Black Student Alliance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University announcing a T-Pain concert on April 22, the See T-Pain on Page 4

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Victor Ye | Chronicle File Photo Students celebrated at the Last Day of Classes concert last year.

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Duke joins national initiative to combat antibiotic resistance “We have seen some reductions in resistance. But it takes a whole village.”

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.—President Barack Obama held a private town-hall discussion addressing obstacles facing working-class families and women at a local children’s library Wednesday afternoon.

The wage gap between women and men and equal access to education and healthcare were the primary topics discussed at the talk, which took place at ImaginOn, an educational library and children’s theater. In addition to presenting his own opinions, Obama

President Barack Obama’s calls for national efforts to fight antibiotic resistance are being met by researchers and physicians in Duke hospitals.

Obama recently announced a five-year proposal to combat the issue of antibacterial resistance, requesting double the funding from Congress amid nationwide attention. The Antibacterial Resistance

Leadership Group—funded by a $62 million grant from the National Institutes of Health—leads the fight against drug-resistant bacteria at Duke. Although the issue has been growing over the last several decades, antibiotic resistance’s impact on health has now reached a crisis point, said Dr. Vance Fowler, professor of medicine and one of two principal investigators in the ARLG. “On a general scale, antimicrobial resistance really does pose the specter of a post-antibiotic era, for which there are literally no antibiotic treatments,” Fowler said. “Many doctors have encountered some patients like that already.”

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DSG approves budget for 2015-16 academic year Alex Griffith The Chronicle Duke Student Government approved the budget for the 2015-16 academic year after several hours of debate in a meeting Wednesday.

The budget—which is funded by $470,000 from student activities fees—pays for the expenditures of many student groups. It is written by the Student Organization Funding Committee after it hears the funding requests of around 100 groups. DSG Senate approved the budget unanimously after hearing several amendments.

“Relatively speaking, this year was a light year [for the budget process],” said Executive Vice President Abhi Sanka, a junior. “In previous years, we’ve had groups physically come in during public forum and make claims as to why they should have their allocations changed.”

The Senate voted on several amendments to the budget, most of which received unanimous or nearly unanimous approval.

Some amendments, however, were debated on the floor. Fix My Campus—which received DSG affiliate status earlier this year—had requested an additional $10,000 to be put into the DSG legislative discretionary account for its use throughout the year. This request was turned down by SOFC. The denial of funds occurred because FMC provided a lump sum request instead of an itemized list. FMC also receives less oversight than other groups because its decision-making process is less transparent than that of the DSG Senate, SOFC chair Davis Treybig, a junior, explained.

Junior JP Lucaci, vice president-elect for services and FMC director, and senior Cameron Tripp, senator for residential life and FMC

project director, appealed the decision. They explained that FMC asked for a lump sum because its costs come up randomly throughout the year as students request that things be fixed around campus. They also argued that FMC is held accountable by the almost 3000 students who submit requests through its Facebook group.

The Senate ultimately approved the appeal, and FMC received the lump sum. This was possible in part because the DSG newspaper program received no new funding as it had enough roll-over from this year to cover next year’s expenses.

Another notable approved appeal included Latent Image, which publishes an annual photography journal. They received approximately $8500 after their appeal, up from the original $4500 allocation.

In other business: SOFC approved several group funding requests: the Duke Consulting Club received $2850 for an interview workshop; FORM Magazine received $2320 for a party for a magazine release; Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority received $3420 for a charity gala; and the Duke Dance Council received $4422.35 for their fall showcase in August.

Additionally, SOFC approved three new groups: GenFKD, which will work to make economic and financial news more accessible to students; Girls Engineering Change, which will work to eliminate gender barriers in STEM fields; and Soccer Sin Fronteras, which will help underprivileged students in the Durham area develop their soccer skills.

Shepard Moyle, Trinity ‘84 and president of the Duke Alumni Association Board of Directors, spoke to the Senate about the alumni network’s recent activities. These include work on a social network for Duke graduates and

students similar to LinkedIn, efforts to connect minority graduates to minority groups on campus and the creation of a new alumni and visitor center.

The DSG Research Unit presented the results of studies that it had completed. The first pertained to community and infrastructure in independent houses compared to selective houses. It found that selective and greek houses reported stronger community than those in independent houses. Additionally, Keohane and Wannamaker dorms had the highest ratings for amenities and infrastructure. Crowell and Craven had the lowest ratings.

DSGRU also presented a study about race and selective groups’ recruitment, which found that white students are overrepresented in Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association and selective living group rush. The study also found that the odds of white participants receiving a bid after completing recruitment was higher for both IFC and Panhellenic Association.

Finally, DSGRU reported on two studies which it was unable to complete this year: one about equity in freshman meal plans, which was not completed because of the administration’s questions about student access to financial information, and another about curriculum review, which was set aside because a faculty-led review is already underway.

The Senate also passed a budgetary statute to allocate $10,000 from the surplus fund for a new kiln for the Arts Annex. The statute was introduced by Vice President for Services Billy Silk and Director of Arts Advancement Pranava Raparla, both juniors.

Another budgetary statute was passed allocating $3000 to fund t-shirts for the class of 2017’s academic homecoming. The class of 2017 did not receive t-shirts as is tradition

Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File Photo The DSG Senate debated several amendments to the annual budget, most of which received unanimous or nearly unanimous approval.

because academic homecoming was not held this year. The statute was introduced by Vice President for Academic Affairs Ray Li, a senior, and Senator for Academic Affairs Kavita Jain, a sophomore.

Senator for Durham and Regional Affairs Nick Andrade, a junior, introduced a modification to SOFC by-law which will change the election process for the SOFC chair. The amendment will be heard again next week for its second reading.

Modifications to judiciary, senate and executive by-laws were tabled until next week.

The three proposed modifications were introduced last week by Associate Justice Nikolai Doytchinov, a senior, and Executive Vice President-elect John Guarco, a sophomore.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in 25 patients will acquire an infection as a result of their hospital stay. Urinary tract infections, skin infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, respiratory pneumonia and surgical site wound infections are commonly seen today in hospital patients and are becoming harder to treat due to increasing antibiotic resistance.

Hospitals and health systems such as Duke are beginning to implement a number of different strategies to combat this growing problem.

One such strategy is antibiotic stewardship, which relies on doctors to be more judicious in their prescriptions and eliminate unnecessary antibiotic use. The Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network leads the University in promoting antibiotic stewardship in hospitals throughout the region.

“The reality is that treating with antibiotics is an educated guess, at least until you get a culture test back and you identify the bacteria,” Fowler said, adding that doctors still never withhold antibiotics from a patient who truly requires them.

Before receiving and interpreting the culture tests, many doctors treat patients with broad-spectrum antibiotics like ampicillin, which can allow resistant bacteria to flourish. Improving diagnostic tests to reduce the amount of time broad-spectrum antibiotics are used on patients is part of the multipronged approach employed in the Duke Regional Hospital, explained Dr. John Boreyko, clinical pharmacist at the DRH and co-director of its antibiotic stewardship program.

“We have seen some reductions in resistance,” Boreyko said. “But it takes a whole village.”

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Other strategies include promoting handwashing and hygiene within the hospital and isolating patients who have drug-resistant infections to prevent them from spreading.

Part of the difficulty lies in changing the attitude that patients have had for decades, added Boreyko.

“We’re just so ingrained in our belief that if we don’t feel well, we need an antibiotic,” he said. “We have to start asking when we go to see a doctor—do I really need this antibiotic that could cause more harm down the road?”

Even outside of hospitals, communities around the nation are increasingly affected by “explosions” of diseases like MRSA, Fowler noted.

Antibiotic resistance has also proven deadly on a global scale. The rates of infections like multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and malaria are already climbing in countries with less advanced health systems, according to reports by the World Health Organization.

A recent study commissioned by United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron predicts that, if left unchecked, antibiotic resistance will be responsible for 10 million deaths worldwide and will cost the world $100 trillion by 2050. The presence of drug-resistant bacteria in human populations, along with a reduction in the number of effective antibiotics and the slow pace of new antibiotic discoveries has led to what Fowler calls “a perfect storm.”

Obama’s proposal to combat antibiotic resistance has received nationwide support from doctors and researchers. The proposal features a $1.2 billion investment that will go toward the discovery and evaluation of new antibiotics and diagnostic techniques, increased monitoring of hospital antibiotic use and support for antibiotic stewardship programs.

“This is clearly an issue that’s starting to garner the attention it deserves,” said Dr.

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Anthony So, public policy professor and director of the Program on Global Health and Technology Access. “But one has to wonder whether the $1.2 billion that’s proposed will be sufficient, if we are to address the full scope of this problem. The national strategy will be a useful starting point though.”

Fowler added that, as a researcher, he is also thrilled that the issue has reached international prominence.

“I’m glad to see that it’s in the limelight, and I’m very glad to be at Duke where we can be a part of the effort to combat it,” he said.

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continued from page 1 same day as LDOC. Although there were rumors that the artist would be canceling his appearance at Duke, the LDOC committee confirmed that he is still set to perform at this year’s concert.

“We would like to assure Duke students that we have a contract with T-Pain,” said LDOC Committee Co-Chair Anton Saleh, a sophomore. “From our end, he is coming to Duke––he is contractually obligated to be at the show playing his set.”

The LDOC committee was not made aware of the same-day appearance at Virginia Tech at the time of booking, Saleh explained. He added that Duke was first to book the artist.

“When you book a show you ask if there are any other prior arrangements,” Saleh said. “It’s an expectation that an artist will play one show a day and that there would be nothing even remotely conflicting.”

Both Saleh and fellow LDOC committee co-chair David Soled, a sophomore, were made aware of the potential conflict through a separate Facebook post about two weeks ago but decided to try and resolve the matter before it became public, Saleh said.

Saleh emphasized that the LDOC committee is working to ensure that T-Pain will be at Duke to play his set. He added that both T-Pain’s manager and agent are more than confident that T-Pain will be able to perform at both places.

“We immediately brought it to our advisors that day and have been working with [T-Pain’s] management ever since,” Saleh noted.

T-Pain is currently set to perform a 30 minute set for Virginia Tech students at 6:30 p.m. and then begin his hour-long, headline LDOC performance at 10 p.m. Hip-hop singer Jeremih, American indie pop band Misterwives and Spencer Bruno, a Duke junior and DJ whose stage name is Spencer Brown, will also perform at the event.

In a tweet Wednesday, T-Pain announced that he will be taking a private jet from one show to the other.

Saleh added that after seeing T-Pain’s schedule for the day, he feels confident that the artist will be on time for his performance at Duke.

“We can only control what [T-Pain] is here for and that he’s here for our performance,” Saleh said. “We have no control over what artists choose to do during the day. As long as he makes it here to play our show, that is all we are concerned about.”

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Despite its trouble passing through Congress, Obama lauded the controversial Paycheck Fairness Act because of its capacity to address income disparity between men and women. This proposal would make it legal for employees to share compensation data in an effort to better inform employees who suspect they may have been discriminated against.

“When women succeed here in America then the whole country succeeds,” Obama said.

To illustrate his personal connection to the gender wage gap, Obama discussed his experiences watching his grandmother navigate challenges of being a female income earner. Despite being the primary wage-earner in his family, he said she was compensated unfairly compared to men in similar positions, one of the many anecdotes he used to inspire the crowd during the discussion about wage inequality. He then transitioned from discussion of past wage discrimination to modern economic challenges that must be addressed by referencing his two teenage daughters.

“I’ve got two daughters, I expect them to be treated the same as somebody’s sons who are on the job,” he said.

The conversation about equality of women in the workforce resonated with many in the audience of approximately 200, including Deidre Coleman, a Charlotte mother of a four-year-old girl.

“Hopefully by the time [my daughter] is out in the world, everything will come to fruition and she will be able to get equal pay for her equal education,” she said.

One of the main challenges Obama acknowledged regarding equal wages was the lack of representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math—commonly known as STEM—careers. He cited better access to educational opportunities as one way of overcoming the issue.

Obama noted that access to early childhood education could expose students to STEM fields from a young age. However, he pointed out that the average cost of childcare in North Carolina is $16,000 per year, which can mean access to quality care is cost-prohibitive for many families. When students do not have access to early childhood education, they are already entering elementary school at a disadvantage, he said. One of his goals is to reform the current tax code to give more families access to early childhood education, despite skeptics that doubt how realistic such initiatives would be given current federal budget constraints.

“We know [education] is the smartest investment we can make as a society,” Obama said. “People say, well that’d be nice if we could afford it. But the truth is if we closed a few corporate tax loopholes that are not contributing to the economy right now, then we could afford it.”

Issues related to the cost of higher education also arose during the discussion, with Obama pointing to the availability of online learning options, improvement of loan counseling prior to borrowing and better academic support systems as potential initiatives to address increasing costs. He highlighted the state’s historic emphasis on higher education and called on legislators to renew that focus.

“North Carolina did better economically than other parts of the mid-Atlantic and Southeast because of the Research Triangle and emphasis on education,” Obama said.

The passage of the Affordable Care Act—which mandated large employers to offer health insurance to their employees—was another positive Obama cited when the topic of discussion shifted to healthcare. He lauded Microsoft for refusing to collaborate with companies that don’t offer paid sick leave for their employees while acknowledging the future progress needed in that area of economic policy as well.

“Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, in this country,” he said.

Even for those who work in more affluent industries that provide more robust benefits, Wednesday’s discussion showed that policymakers and businesses still have more work to do. Among them was Christine Nelson, a public defender who attended the event.

“In terms of empowering women, even in the legal field where it’s a male dominated field, it’s important that people are working for us to make sure that we’re seen as equals,” she said.

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My journal is full of observations, doodles, quotes, autographs, snippets of writing, taped-in ticket stubs, folded foreign currency, post-it notes, postcards, metro cards, discarded brochures, worn wristbands, half-stuck stickers, clippedout magazine recipes, discarded photos and lists—lists of what I did with any given day, what I’ve watched in any given week, what I’ve read in any given month.

My journal is an obsessive, compulsive daily act of literature. Obsessive because my habit now spans three journals full of collected details and moments.

Compulsive because I journal almost daily; if I have nothing thoughtful to put down, I’ll put down food I ate, the weather that day and any memorable conversations.

I belong to a lineage of obsessive, compulsive memory-keepers. Half of my parents’ garage is filled with boxes of photos, documents, scrapbooks and trinkets that various deaths in the family have bestowed upon us. A journal that my great-great-grandmother kept while dying from tuberculosis that begins with how-to’s for her about-to-be orphaned children (“how to mend a broken bone,” “how to make a stew,” “how to treat a fever”) and devolves into her copying of hymns about the coming of death (“Shall my soul ascend with rapture / When the day of life is past”). A will from a few-greats uncle that outlines the fates of his slaves along with his property. A book of hair with clipped small clumps from the first and last haircuts of distant family members whose names I don’t

recognize or remember.

Last weekend, I attended the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in downtown Durham. One of the films screened on the first day was Kings of Nowhere which takes place in a Mexican village that is partially flooded after the government builds a new dam. Over 300 families used to live in the village, but now only three families remain. The documentary follows these three families as they navigate their own ghost town. In one scene, a man rows through the town in a small boat, gesturing towards vacant buildings. He speaks of the histories submerged under the water, sharing anecdotes about the various families that used to inhabit the town. It feels like he is speaking to himself in some private ritual of remembering, but I know there is a documentarian sharing the boat with him, quiet with bated breath while holding the camera. Watching Kings of Nowhere, I was struck by how dependent the movie was on memory. Characters recalled not just what the village used to be, but who they used to be. The movie didn’t impose any single historical narrative on the village, but opened it up to all of the memories it contained.

Memory used to be thought of in terms of architecture: our brain consolidated an experience into memory by strengthening the connections between neurons as if creating bridges across synapses for neurotransmitters to travel across––the stronger the bridge, the stronger the memory. But recent research in the field of neuroscience

The the Chronicle suggests that instead, the consolidation of memory more closely resembles how we draw constellations in the sky: certainly there are familiar patterns we trace over and over, but every single time we look up to the sky, we are able to connect the dots in new ways, to make new memories. This suggests that memory is more ephemeral than stable, a re-lived rather than a revisited experience.

When I first became Editor of Recess, I made a list of possible topics that I could write about: graffiti on the East Campus tunnel, jazz at the Mary Lou, why You’ve Got Mail is my favorite chick flick. Over the last year, I’ve written about none of these. In fact, despite being the editor of the arts and culture section, I’ve written remarkably little about art itself.

Instead, with each Editor’s Note, I have felt like a documentarian of my own mind, putting my journal up for public display. I attempted to collage quotes, ideas and questions from any given week into a coherent narrative. Looking back at my journal, at the raw material from which I attempted to make these Editor’s Notes, I want to re-write every single one from the vantage point of the present, knowing I would map out these questions in new ways. But I suppose part of leaving The Chronicle and leaving Editor’s Notes behind is recognizing that I am no longer obligated to funneling my disparate thoughts into an easily contained story; I can just let them be.

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Villagers release intimate third album, Darling Arithmetic meaning—he is telling listeners what it feels like to finally be open about his sexuality, to open himself up to a relationship and to produce a record like this, in which he has laid his soul bare without the filter of a full band.

“Courage—it’s a feeling like no other, let me tell you,” he croons, sounding tentatively confident, yet haunted by a long history of introverted torment over his identity, something even harder for him to confront than heartbreak.

The record gathers momentum in subsequent tracks, developing confidence alongside O’Brien himself.

“Everything I Am Is Yours” speaks not to a subset of the population but rather to the universal human experience of giving oneself to another completely and risking the pain of relationships.

It is beautifully honest and completely relatable, carried on a current of accepting lamentation for love lost.

O’Brien’s lyrics occasionally wax sentimental, especially on this track, but elsewhere he shows genuine songwriting chops, as on “The Soul Serene.” He sings fantastically crafted lines like, “As I try to figure out what it all means/ And I find chameleon dreams in my mind” and “Took a little ride on the carousel/ When will it end? I can never tell/ Keep spinning to the soul serene.”

This and “Hot Scary Summer” are emotional exhalations, which seep directly from O’Brien’s guitar and lush vocals through the skin and into the bones. Even without lyrics, these songs would be able to tell their story

Eliza Strong The Chronicle “How did I get here?/ Am I ever gonna get back?” asks Conor O’Brien, subtly addressing just how much he has risked—emotionally and professionally— with his new album, Darling Arithmetic, a significant and brave move for the artist to have made.

Released Apr. 10th, this marks Villagers’ third record. The album’s style, performed and produced by O’Brien alone, is a surprising move for the group. Villagers began as a solo act with Becoming a Jackal, released in 2010, and expanded to a well-received, dynamically realized collaboration for 2013’s {Awayland}. Instead of exploring the musical potential of the full band further—which {Awayland} seems hardly to have plumbed the depths of—O’Brien reverted back to an inward-facing album.

Darling Arithmetic is a subtle, muted and soothing exploration of O’Brien’s emotions as he navigates coming out and finding peace with himself in the wake of a turbulent, painfully secretive relationship. While he hasn’t taken the band in the prescribed, expected direction, the album is both intimate and unpretending, and has a natural quality to it that makes it feel not contrarian but inevitable.

“Courage,” the aptly named and chosen first track, starts off with these words: “It took a little time/ To get where I wanted/ It took a little time/ To get free/ It took a little time to be honest/ It took a little time to be me.” O’Brien’s words are loaded with

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of contemplation, joy and anguish. His words enhance the emotive power of his melodies, with dreamy images like “steady sunlight” and admissions of discomfort like “something tells me all is not as it seems.”

“Dawning On Me” is mixed perfectly, with just the right combination of tinkling piano, softly treading percussion and strumming, complex acoustic guitar to generate a stunning arrangement. This

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song sets up one of the most important elements of Darling Arithmetic, which is a skeletal, unadorned style that not only looks good on O’Brien, but is the only way he can properly convey his message.

This record needed to be spartan in order to give the depth of O’Brien’s emotions and experiences space to expand and breathe. “Darling Arithmetic,” the title track, exhibits this most impressively and is perhaps the quietest and saddest on the album. “If ours was a dream/ A phantom, a sacred scheme/ Then how did it end so quick?” he sings with throattightening gravitas. It is one of the truest,

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“Little Bigot” picks up the tempo, and, without it, this record might have fallen flat into soft self-pity. There is a sense of an emotion other than grieving reflectiveness, but it’s difficult to place just what that is. It has a touch of anger, of hot emotion, that emerges through lyrics as well as song structure, giving the impression that O’Brien understands introspection and heartbreak don’t all happen alone behind a rain-soaked window.

O’Brien rounds off the record nicely

with “No One to Blame” and “So Naïve,” which are both undeniably pretty. This record could not have been any longer without repeating itself; O’Brien has edited himself well, rendering this a lovely, deep breath before whatever might be in store next. {Awayland} scratched the surface of Villagers’ capability for lush, unforgettable sound and Darling Arithmetic demonstrated O’Brien’s eloquent immersion into intimacy between himself and his audience—one can hope that a subsequent record will find some sublime balance between these two.

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Tim Campbell The Chronicle As the school year comes to a close and the massive speed bump of finals looms before the summer, exam season seems to put a damper on everything. Everything, that is, besides your desire for coffee and a good study space.

If that’s the case, spend no more time looking for a corner of Perkins or cup of sub-par coffee, because right off campus the newly opened Ninth Street Coffee House and Juice Bar is open for business, offering caffeine, ambiance and more.

Ninth Street Coffee House is the latest in a series of tenants that previously operated in the space, which is close to the corner of 9th Street and Perry Street.

The last iteration of the coffee house, Market Street Coffee House, closed last December. However, in no time at all, the location was renovated and opened for

business.

This time around things are looking different, thanks to renowned chef Lindsey Williams, who decided to reopen the shop after hearing about Market Street Coffee House’s closure. Williams, a celebrity chef from New York, has had an interest in Durham for many years— ever since he began visiting about 30 years ago.

In particular, Williams has been interested in Durham’s unusual mix of influences that gives the city its reputation.

“Durham has a lot of character,” Williams said. “I’ve always loved 9th Street – it’s very cool. It kind of reminds me of the West Village in New York. I’ve always wanted to open up a restaurant or something down here, and when the coffee shop came up, I was like, ‘Very nice.

That would be very cool.’”

Even before he decided to open up a new iteration of the shop, Williams was interested in the location.

“The place had so much potential,” he explained. “It’s a kind of interesting and weird space, and when I found out it was available I decided I wanted to reinvent it.”

And that is exactly what he did. Ninth Street Coffee House’s interior decor is completely different from Market Street’s—now, it is old-fashioned and artsy with a refurbished and polished look that makes use of the light, with an open upstairs and darker basement areas. The seating areas have also been made more comfortable and welcoming to encourage people to come in for drinks and stay for a while.

“I’m a coffee shop junkie,” he confessed. “I love the conversations, the network that they promote. It’s not just about working and studying—it’s a place for relaxation, hanging out, going on dates.”

While they’re already offering locallyroasted, organic coffee from Larry’s

Coffee in Raleigh, Williams says that Ninth Street Coffee House is looking forward to adding a full juice bar soon as well as healthy smoothies to round out the drink menu.

Williams was also quick to emphasize how much he enjoys the close proximity of Ninth Street Coffee House and Juice Bar to Duke.

“When Duke students come by, I really just enjoy their presence,” said Williams.

“It’s great to see them work hard and go through their process—they’re grinding really hard, and I enjoy being able to provide a space for them to come by and study.”

With that being the case, the timing of the shop’s reopening couldn’t be more fortuitous. Food points don’t last forever, and as the curtain begins to fall on another academic year here at Duke, Ninth Street Coffee House and Juice Bar can be added to the list of places to go off campus before leaving for the summer.

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Exhibition explores identities of hyphenated Americans Dillon Fernando The Chronicle Duke takes pride in its efforts to foster diversity.

Although much can be criticized about the way diversity on campus is embraced, one cannot deny the attempts our university has made to accommodate a diverse student body. Despite this, what are often lost are the perspectives of those students who struggle to reconcile their minority heritage with being what is socially considered “American.” These stories and perspectives offer insight into the extent that the so-called melting pot of American culture pressures these students to conform.

Ethnic minorities, whom senior Angela Zhang calls hyphenated Americans, endure such cultural dissonance.

Whether being Asian-American, African-American, Mexican-American, etc., Zhang’s senior thesis project

The Hyphenated American captures the struggles and facts of life that many hyphenated Americans deal with regularly.

Zhang’s exhibit features 18 perspectives (including her own) incarnate through a series of photos and objects accompanied with quotes. Each photo-quote combination focuses on an individual’s story of reconciling both heritage and American culture and seeks to expose what it means to truly be American in America. The visual art piece contemplates issues such as participants feeling obligated to obtain a certain degree to support their immigrant parents and participants feeling the need to use chopsticks out of cultural habit.

Zhang’s inspiration for this piece came from her exploration of a self-composed Program II major and her own personal experiences. Zhang’s major investigates how mass media and cross-cultural

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perception affects the way a country creates policies, influences politics and provides a medium for the cultural perception with respect to “the other.” While taking a class on immigration, Zhang interviewed her father about the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and started delving into her parents’ own quest to fulfill the American Dream. She also recognized that in her experience being Chinese-American, she was always trying to find the balance between being ethnically Chinese but living as an American.

“When I go back to China, I look American. I dress American. I don’t have an accent, but I lack a lot of vocabulary, so right off the bat it is very obvious that I will also stand out there. So where do I really fit in?”

Zhang explained. Zhang decided to use visual media to see how other “hyphenated American” students at Duke “straddled the hyphen.”

By focusing primarily on photography as her visual medium, Zhang contrives a representative image that captures a particular nuance of being a hyphenated American in each student’s life. The purpose of the images is not to show how individuals might be stereotyped by society, but instead, the collection features how culture affects participants’ selfexpression.

Discussing the process, Zhang elaborated, “I sat down with them and talked about their experience: where they were from, where their parents were from, how they identified, how they felt conflicted between their two halves, or when those two halves were in resonance together. Then we picked an image that reflected their experience...most of the time, I would photograph it…It’s mostly a collaboration that I capture through photographs, and I let them write a short narrative about how that image pertains to that experience.”

Being a hyphenated American myself, I decided to pay a visit to the exhibit. The beautiful layout of the exhibit guides you through the perimeter of the Reynolds lobby with an accompanying pamphlet.

As I began to take in the various featured stories, I remembered that Zhang told me that what was on the wall was a catalyst to provoke further curiosity and thought. The pamphlet adroitly filled in the gaps and made each image and quote into an individual, a story, a struggle, a misunderstanding.

Not to spoil the exhibit, but the one photo-quote combination that truly resonated with me was Frank Cai’s, “Every time I see my relatives, I feel like it’s a first date.” The photo was a blurred scene of Cai looking into the mirror buttoning up his nice, striped dress shirt.

While some hyphenated-Americans find it difficult to reconcile and maintain their cultural heritage, I have found that I have attempted to shed myself of my Sri Lankan heritage. I’m not truly American. I’m not truly Sri Lankan. And I’m surely not Indian. As a result, the only option I seem to embrace is to assimilate into American culture. However, because I haven’t lived in a household that is authentically what is considered the standard degree of being American, I’m left as a somewhat naive participant in this culture. Floating in this limbo, when I do meet my family in Sri Lanka it is so mentally stressing to impress and mutually click with a family whose only perception of me is the American nephew/cousin—just like a first date.

Zhang made it clear that the purpose of this exhibit is not a call to action, but instead to promote a greater dialogue on campus about these multifaceted experiences.

“The reason it is the Hyphenated-American, single not plural, is because it showcases the diversity and the cohesiveness of everyone. The experience of living with this hyphen is so prevalent in my life. Not only do immigrants coming into America shape what it means to be American, I feel that there is a pressure to assimilate into American society.”

Truly, this exhibit is not only a much needed exposition into the lives of so many Duke students, but also a refreshing approach to promoting with greater efficacy, the stories of diversity on campus.

The Hyphenated American is currently on display in the Reynolds Theater lobby until mid-May.

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Jones joins Winslow, Okafor in NBA Draft Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor made a joint decision to commit to Duke and head coach Mike Krzyzewski. After winning a national title as freshmen, both have now decided to move on to the pro ranks.

Six days after Okafor and one day after fellow freshman Justise Winslow declared for the NBA draft, Jones announced Wednesday morning that he would follow in his classmates’ footsteps and forgo his remaining three years of eligibility in Durham.

“Coming to Duke was a dream of mine and being a part of such a special team was amazing,” Jones said in a press release. “I knew coming in I would be a part of a great team, but I never envisioned I would be a part of such an incredible family. That is what has made winning a national championship such an amazing experience. I am faced with the tough decision of returning to a

Brianna Siracuse | Chronicle File Photo Freshman Tyus Jones will enter the 2015 NBA Draft after averaging 11.8 points and 5.6 assists in his sole season in Durham.

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With the support and guidance of my family, my coaches, my teammates and Duke University, I have decided to start my professional career. Even though I am

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entering the NBA Draft, I will forever be a Duke Blue Devil.”

The Apple Valley, Minn., native capped off a stellar freshman campaign with a 23-point performance in the

national championship game against Wisconsin, including 19 in the second half that helped the Blue Devils come from behind and pull away from the Badgers down the stretch. Jones hit multiple clutch shots—he scored six of Duke’s final 10 points, including a dagger 3-pointer from the top of the key with less than two minutes remaining—and earned Most Outstanding Player honors for his heroics.

It was the latest in a string of clutch performances by Jones, following lategame takeovers against Michigan State, Virginia and North Carolina. The 6-foot1 floor general finished the season with 11.8 points per game and also handed out 5.6 assists per contest. Jones thrived under the guidance of both Krzyzewski and senior Quinn Cook, combining with the captain to form one of the most lethal backcourt combinations in the country and the latest in a lineage of two-point guard lineups to cut down the nets at the See Jones on Page 12

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Willoughby to Ohio State Duke crushes Seawolves Kicker Jack Willoughby will close his career kicking for the defending national champions

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Ethan Andrzejewski Staff Writer Just like projected NFL Draft picks Laken Tomlinson and Jamison Crowder, another graduating Duke football player plans to continue his career with a new team.

The Blue Devils’ kickoff specialist last season, Jack Willoughby, will be suiting up for reigning national champion Ohio State in the fall. Willoughby made an unofficial visit to Columbus and met with head coach Urban Meyer Sat., April 4 en route to Indianapolis to watch Duke men’s basketball play in the Final Four.

“I made a list of every team in the country that I would want to play for in the big conferences and then started to narrow down based on who had a senior kicker graduating or who could use someone like me to step in and compete for kicking duties,” Willoughby said. “I reached out to a bunch of coaches and ultimately Ohio State was the best fit from a football and an academic standpoint.”

The Princeton, N.J., native chose Ohio State in part because of the possibility of winning the job as the team’s primary field goal kicker in addition to being the kickoff

Darbi Griffith | Chronicle File Photo Former Duke kicker Jack Willoughby will use his final year of eligibility at Ohio State.

specialist. Ohio State started freshman kicker Sean Nuernberger last season, who made just 13 of his 20 field goal attempts and never attempted one over 50 yards.

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It may have come later in the season than anticipated, but Duke was finally able to earn a victory against Stony Brook.

After their originally scheduled matchup in February was cancelled due to inclement weather, the No. 6 Blue Devils defeated the DUKE 17 No. 20 Seawolves 17-11 Wednesday at STONY 11 Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. Duke utilized an 8-0 run spanning 12 minutes in the first two quarters to gain their ninth victory of the season.

It was a back-and-forth start to the game, with both teams exchanging goals early. Stony Brook led 3-2 with five minutes remaining in the opening quarter, but the Blue Devils used a barrage of goals to go up 6-3 after the first period.

Duke (9-4) picked up right where it left off in the second quarter, winning the first three faceoffs and scoring two goals off of them to bring the score to 8-3. The offense continued to pick the Seawolves (10-4) apart with two well-executed goals by junior Case Matheis and sophomore Jack Bruckner that pushed the team’s lead to 10-3. Stony Brook finally ended the Blue Devils’ 8-0 run with 5:19 left in the second quarter, as junior attackman Brody Eastwood ended the 15-minute scoring drought with a pair of goals.

Nicole Savage | Chronicle File Photo Freshman Justin Gutterding put forth five points in Duke’s win at Stony Brook.

Although the team’s offensive execution was practically flawless during the 8-0 run, the dominant stretch was fueled by a perfect performance at the faceoff X. During the run, brothers Kyle and Jack Rowe won a combined See M. Lacrosse on Page 13

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“Ohio State had a senior kickoff specialist last year, who graduated. He was great for them and has left big shoes that I’m excited to try to fill,” Willoughby said. “They also have a talented young field goal kicker who was a true freshman last year and will be back for his sophomore year. But I know that Ohio State is very committed to winning and to putting the best players on the field, so I know that I’ll get a fair chance to compete to kick field goals. If I’m that best player, then I’ll play and if I’m not, then I won’t play. That’s all I can ask for.”

After beating Alabama and Oregon to win the inaugural College Football Playoff, the Buckeyes enter the upcoming season as the preseason favorite to win the national championship again. They return star running back Ezekiel Elliot as well as three quarterbacks—Braxton Miller, J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones—all of whom found themselves on Heisman watch lists at some point last season.

Willoughby expressed his excitement for competing for a national championship and the culture change he expects transitioning from a program on the rise to one of the most storied programs in college football history.

Instead of the 26,000 fans at Wallace Wade Stadium, he’ll be kicking in front of NFL-size crowds.

“It’s something that you can [try to] mentally prepare for, but until you step out on the field with 108,000 people in the crowd, you probably don’t really know what you’re stepping into,” he said.

Before deciding that he wanted to make use of his fifth year of eligibility, the economics

and statistics double major and Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship recipient went through consulting recruitment and was offered a position at McKinsey & Company in New York City. He will be deferring his offer and instead earning a one-year master’s degree. The senior indicated that he had overwhelming support throughout the process, which made his decision much easier.

“My parents have been very supportive throughout the whole thing,” Willoughby said. “Also, Alex King, who did a similar thing a few years ago, transferring from Duke to Texas to punt, was really supportive and helped me get my feet on the ground. And then I can’t speak enough about how supportive [Duke head coach David] Cutcliffe has been and the whole Duke staff with letting me continue to work out and use the facilities and speaking on my behalf.”

Willoughby walked onto Duke’s team as a freshman after earning all-state recognition as a soccer player at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He beat out All-ACC placekicker Ross Martin with three games left in the 2013 season as the kickoff specialist and will be remembered for successfully kicking an onside kick at the end of the first half of the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl against Texas A&M. Willoughby went on to play in all 13 games of his senior season, starting 12 and winning the kickoff role in the middle of the first game. In the regular season, he averaged 65.4 yards per kickoff with a 4.01-second average hang time and, in 69 total kickoffs, had 20 kicks returned short of the 20-yard line and 25 touchbacks. He also kicked and recovered a surprise onside kick against Wake Forest and made three tackles on the season.

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Brianna Siracuse | Chronicle File Photo Rookie Tyus Jones will jump to the NBA, joining classmates Justise Winslow and Jahlil Okafor in making the decision to play professionally after one year at Duke.

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“Tyus could not have done a better job for us this past year,” Krzyzewski said in the release. “We’re so very happy for him and his family to have the opportunity to declare for the draft. He is projected to be a first-round pick. He’s going to get a lot better, but people have already seen him and know how he handles himself, especially in pressure situations and in the biggest games. He comes through like a champion! I loved coaching him,

and I believe he’ll be an outstanding professional. At this time, I think it is so appropriate for him to take advantage of this opportunity.”

Jones’ departure leaves Duke without a true point guard entering the offseason, though Krzyzewski and his staff are heavily pursuing 2016 five-star floor general Derryck Thornton, who is considering reclassifying to the Class of 2015. The Blue Devil coaches will visit the Chatsworth, Calif., native Monday at his school Findlay Prep in Las Vegas.

Jones is slated as a late first-round selection by DraftExpress.com, pegged No. 21 in the website’s latest mock draft.

Announcement of Nominees and Recipients Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty and staff, who have been recognized for their leadership and service! Mark your calendar: award recipients and nominees will be celebrated at IN THE SPOTLIGHT on April 16, 2015, at 4 pm at the Arts Annex. The event is open to the Duke community.

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nine straight faceoffs—a streak that was broken only after a violation by Jack. With such an outstanding display at the faceoff X, Stony Brook barely had the opportunity to get going on offense.

Duke looked to be in control after that, but it let the Seawolves right back into the game at the end of the second quarter. The Blue Devils’ seven-goal advantage quickly shrunk to two, as Stony Brook closed the half on an impressive five-goal run to head into the locker room trailing just 10-8.

“When it was 10-4 and they made that run, it didn’t surprise me,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “They’ve got some really talented players and they’re very well coached.”

Whatever momentum the Seawolves had heading into halftime didn’t carry over into the second half. Duke was able to reassert itself in the third quarter, winning the session 5-2 to take a 15-10 lead heading into the final period.

Stony Brook looked to get back into the game, scoring early in the fourth to make the score 15-11, but the Blue Devil defense was razor-sharp for the remainder of the quarter, holding Stony Brook scoreless for the final 14 minutes despite the fact that the Seawolves held possession for most of the rest of the game.

Goals by junior midfielders Deemer Class and Myles Jones—who both finished the day with three goals and two assists—allowed Duke to extend the lead and finish the game with a final score of 17-11.

The victory marks the team’s second in a row following a three-game losing streak and featured impressive performances in several areas. The Rowe brothers were completely

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Bruckner continued his strong play on offense—adding another five goals following a seven-goal performance against Virginia— and Matheis looks to be back to his best after scoring three goals and adding three assists.

The team’s defense, barring its minor meltdown at the end of second quarter, was solid throughout the game, limiting Eastwood—the nation’s leading scorer who began the game with 51 goals—to just two goals on the day.

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he tumultuous events of this past year have prompted a wave of student activism on campus, an increase that asks for a close assessment of student activism at Duke. An event held last week, titled “What is Wrong with Duke’s Activist Culture?,” examined the flaws of Duke’s activism scene, focusing on advice in the spirit of more effective activism. This inwards analysis is timely and important for addressing Duke’s recent scandals but, also, raises questions about our student activism.

Whenever we discuss the efficacy of activism on campus, we should keep in mind significant qualifiers. Duke students face substantial challenges when trying to change the status quo. Unlike society writ large, the University is a place of constant flux. The ebb and flow of students makes mustering and maintaining momentum from year to year extremely difficult. These institutional constraints complicate preserving longterm memory.

These issues are especially important as our attention spans shrink. Issues come and go with alacrity as outlets vie for our attention on the Internet and television. The news cycle, with its exhausting frequency of “Duke scandals,” diminish-

es the engagement of students as they echo past problems and activist movements for race, campus sexual assault and identity every few years.

What is happening now has most likely already happened before, but activists must overcome this fatigue and encourage students to react and feel for these issues freshly.

Further, as campus activism has increased, so has ambiguity about what qualifies as “activism.”

Some people use the term without fully diving into it and its background scholarship and, then, there are others who set the bar too high, intimidating other students with hardline positions that alienate them as either fully for the cause or as a part of the problem.

To explore the former, there is a kind of soft activism that has crept into activist culture. Social media has proven itself to be a potent tool for social change, but it can also siphon sincerity from a movement. Sharing articles, photos and changing one’s profile picture are all well and good, but activism they do not make. Effective student activism needs to go beyond the checklist activism of social media and make hearts-and-minds change in others.

Yet, despite these challenges to progress, we

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have made significant strides because of the efforts of our fellow student activists, past and present. The list of achievements is long. From changing the sexual misconduct policy to sparking conversation about race relations and policy brutality, from renaming Aycock to showing solidarity with Duke’s Muslim community, Duke student activists have managed to make sure progress on long-term issues that cannot be easily fully resolved in a four year career.

So what can we, as students, do to become better activists? In our short time here, we should look to follow through more often, asking how often our conversations and campaigns translate into real effects on others. We also should not have unrealistic expectations for ourselves, given the constraints of our limited time here and the pressures of completing our college education. Overall, we believe we are now better prepared as student activists and engaged citizens than in prior years. There is a silver lining in national media coverage as we turn inwards and question where we stand on contentious issues. Through criticism, from without and within, we have become better advocates and activists.

The fair skin obsession

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spent this past weekend at my cousin’s beautiful, four-day Indian wedding in sunny southern California. People who know me have probably realized that I’m sort of obsessed with my family. Well, I’m probably more than sort of.

So, I was anxious for the weekend and it definitely didn’t disappoint.

This wedding was legit. There were video drones, open bars, English speaking Brahmans, a lion and open bars. Somehow, between seven outfit changes in those four days, we thought it might be fun to spend some free time hitting the hotel pool. After spending the past four months in the brutal North Carolina winter, I was craving some Vitamin D. However, I quickly found out that some of my cousins weren’t feeling the same urge.

further perpetuates this idea.

In 1978, Unilever launched Fair & Lovely cream, a line of whitening cleaners that many blame for worsening this obsession. What is even worse is the fact that there are dangerous effects that these products can have on your skin due to ingredients like steroids, hydroquinone and tretinoin. These chemicals have been known to potentially cause skin cancer, liver damage, mercury poisoning, and permanent pigmentation.

However, these products only exist because there continues to be a strong demand for them.

Fair skin is more than just an obsession; it’s a fixation. It’s also important to note that while there is a misconception that lighter skin is associated with

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So many of my cousins, both males and females, wouldn’t even consider going outside and risk getting dark, especially not days before a wedding. At this point, I wasn’t even surprised. This thought that fair is better and dark is lesser has been engrained in many young Indians since childhood. It’s disgusting.

I’ve heard both my grandparents and many of aunts and uncles constantly reminding my siblings and cousins that they shouldn’t get dark, but my grandparents hardly ever said why.

If there was any sort of explanation, it was something along the lines of, “it just doesn’t look good,” or “why would you do that to yourself?”

Fortunately for my siblings and me, my parents never enforced these white standards of beauty on us from a young age.

Sadly, this problem definitely isn’t something constrained to my family either. Just this past weekend while waiting for Holi to start on Clocktower Quad, I overheard a group of south Asian women hoping that they wouldn’t get “too dark,” waiting outside for the festivities to begin. It was a beautiful day outside and no one should feel so afraid of becoming dark that they aren’t able to enjoy themselves.

It has been well documented that Indian society perpetuates these outlandish white standards of beauty, which stretches back through colonization and also has strong connection to the rigid caste system. Light skin was associated with higher social standing, and Bollywood only

intellect or beauty, there still exists a clear connection between skin color and status through a wide prejudice against those with darker skin.

When Nina Davaluri was crowned Miss America 2014, many Indian-Americans and others were outraged by the amount of racism she faced by members of the American population. However, few outwardly recognized that Davaluri would likely never have won a pageant in South Asia since she is far darker than the currently distorted standards of beauty in the region.

But, America is far from off the hook when it comes to spreading white standards of beauty.

There is a problem when young, south Asian girls that want to dress as a princess have the options of Jasmine or Jasmine. I mean until this month, the only remotely Indian emoji was a dude in a turban.

So often, I’ll hear Caucasian-Americans tell my Indian family members “it’s so funny that you don’t want to get darker, and we just want to get darker.” Here’s where I’m calling bullshit. You want to get tan, but you don’t want to get dark. And yes, there is definitely a difference. Young Indian girls are obsessing over their skin because society is obsessing over their skin. And I just want to hit the pool with my family.

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

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recalculating

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uring convocation my freshman year, President Brodhead said, “If there’s one thing you can expect for certain, it’s uncertainty. Learn to love it.” I sat there and thought, “Wow, that’s so brilliant,” without fully soaking in that his advice would actually require some form of action from me.

It’s one thing to say, “We must replace our fear of the unknown with a curiosity for it,” and nod our heads in agreement. It’s another thing entirely to actually bring ourselves to do it.

Which is why, despite such spot on advice, I entered into undergrad trying my best to stick to the plan I had created for myself. I came to Duke the way I imagine a lot of us did—with proud affirmations of my success and potential. “You are great and Duke is great and you are going to learn great things about how to save the world and then you are going to go out there and do it!” Simple enough, right?

I didn’t realize that there were all these things

at convocation.

We live in a #YOLO, #NoRegrets generation with Facebook and Twitter displaying only the happiest moments of everyone’s lives. We go to school on a campus where effortless perfection runs rampant and everyone paints the picture that they have it all figured out. The expectations I created for my Duke experience did not seem like some ridiculous fantasy when they had been made to seem the norm by everyone around me. Of course I was going to enjoy every minute of the social scene, fall in love with every one of my classes and teachers, maintain the perfect body, meet the man of my dreams and get my dream job before graduating. All par for the course, right?

So when I didn’t achieve this level of excellence, I felt both that I was a failure and that I had been failed by some greater system.

In figuring out how to deal with these sometimes painful emotions, I have come to two conclusions.

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oving into my dorm room freshman year, an exceedingly large and overwhelmingly empty double in Wilson, I remember someone—an RA, a FAC or maybe my dad—telling me “welcome home.” And I remember glancing around at the eclectic furniture around me, my family who would soon leave to drive back north to what I had always considered home, and the empty bed that would soon house a girl I had never met, and I wondered what my new home would look like.

How would I make these bare bones into a place worthy of such a title?

As a graduating senior, I’ve done a lot of reflecting on my past four years in the gothic wonderland. Mostly because, frankly, everyone is chockfull of sap these days, and you can’t make it to this point—late April and bogged down in final papers and preparations for LDOC—without all the reminiscing. So in light of the sap, I’ve started thinking about what going home really means.

Transitioning to a new place and moving away for the

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it’s called a “victory lap”

adding it all up

in the middle, that saving the world was somewhat complicated and that the roadmap I had so clearly laid out for myself actually involved a whole lot of unknowns between point A and point B. Not only that, but Duke was this high speed environment pushing down the accelerator a bit further than I was ready to handle. As a result, I missed a good number of turns, forgot to use my blinker every now and then and may have gotten into a fender bender or two. My life here did not go according to plan. It was the first time things honest to goodness did not go exactly according to plan.

Of course, in the moments themselves, I viewed each of these missteps as terrible things. I was supposed to have full control! My route was supposed to look a specific way. I had put the address in my GPS and it was dictating to me its ideal route in that calm and soothing British accent, but these crazy roadblocks and confusing signage kept popping up out of nowhere. My entire Duke career can be summed up in one word: recalculating.

Because of this, I have struggled to make sense of my time at Duke. In many ways, it has looked nothing the way I thought it would. This may seem like a strange thing to say in my final column. Usually these pieces tend to be about all the wonderful memories Duke has given people, the happy ever after, the tie it all together synopsis of our time here. But that seems just a little too all-or-nothing for me. I made a promise to keep this column nothing short of honest. And the honest answer is that my Duke experience had brought me the highest highs but also the lowest lows.

I think a good number of the lows boiled down to lofty expectations—clear set routes from which I was not planning on deviating. It’s hard not to have high expectations for college when people tell you over and over again, “College is the best four years of your life.” It’s even harder not to have high expectations when going to a fantastic school like Duke, having given up so many hours of our lives studying and working towards getting in. You feel like you deserve so much and that entitlement—which is what it is—is dangerous. Particularly when you don’t leave room for the uncertainty Brodhead so keenly warned us of

First, there is a huge difference between failure and disappointment. Second, psychological studies show that we tend to feel loss more deeply than we do gains of an equal size. When you are focused on the five things you expected and are lamenting over the one or two that didn’t go your way, it is incredibly easy to forget the 15 things Duke gave you that you never in a million years could have even imagined happening.

Uncertainty does not have to be a negative. Often times, the plans and expectations we have are actually limiting us without our realization. Every moment of recalculation along our journeys could actually be a moment where things reach a whole level we could have never dreamed. For example, a running injury that kept me from participating in club sports forced me to find different extracurriculars, which led me to Me Too Monologues and revealed my passion for writing. Suffering from an eating disorder led me to meet a psychologist who has now become one of my best friends and mentors for life and was instrumental in helping me down the road when I ran into an even greater struggle. Having to take an extra semester allowed me to share an apartment with the most inspiring and explorative friends I have ever had and accept myself in a way that allowed me to begin defying the parts of me that were always looking for approval.

It has taken me a while to get over the expectations that did not come to fruition during my time at Duke. What has helped me most has been recognizing just how much benefit I had received from the detours I had never intended to take. With time and perspective, I have come to recognize that Duke has given me far more than I asked for. Because without the uncertainty and the roadblocks and the recalculations, I never would have even known to ask for them in the first place.

Sometimes we initially reject the gifts we are given because they don’t look the way we expect them to look. Luckily, they tend to stick around long enough for us to recognize their value.

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first time are tough. Mom is far away, and the culture, the food—looking at you, Marketplace—and the people are all different. And oftentimes, it doesn’t feel quite as warm and welcoming and easy as the place we left behind.

But it gets easier. Because eventually we learn that home isn’t really a single location. When the calendar shifts, spring’s influx of inchworms vanish with the summer humidity and people ask if you’re going home for the summer. Sure I am. But, so too do I go home as August rolls around and the new school year starts.

In my 4 years here at Duke, home has come to refer to a lot of different places: my house off-campus, my family’s house back in Connecticut, my little apartment in Paris, a tiny room tucked away in the medina of Rabat, an equally tiny dorm in Edens and that second floor room in Wilson.

But I’ll say that, at risk of sounding like one of those graduating seniors full of sap, home was never just a dorm, a house, an apartment or any single location.

I was lucky. Wilson became home quickly, and really, I never left it. I live with, hang out with, spring break with, Myrtle with, laugh with and laugh at the same people that I so awkwardly met those first few days as a freshman. Home was and is the people I share it with.

Home isn’t just Duke.

It’s a leaking tent in the middle of K-ville. It’s running barefoot across the quad to burn benches after Austin hits the buzzer beater. It’s sharing snacks holed up in Perkins during midterms. It’s sunny afternoons on the plaza echoing with lies like “I’ll get work done” on a coveted swingy bench.

And it’s where we journey. Friends and family we make as we study abroad, do Duke Engage and drive through the night to Indiana to celebrate a national championship.

Home is the people we create it with and share it with. It is the community with whom we stand in solidarity outside of the chapel protesting. It is the crazies in the student section screaming our voices hoarse and storming the court together.

So to my fellow seniors, I remind you that while we can be sad to leave behind all these little slices of home we’ve created here, we have many more cities to explore, worlds to open and homes to create. Home is not stationary. As our classmates scatter, so too do the possibilities. My roommate put up with me for four years of college, and I’ll be damned if she doesn’t have a spot on the floor of her cardboard box in Manhattan for me. Home is where we find each other.

And to those with a little more time in this gothic wonderland, I encourage you to find your little pieces of home.

Let them be scattered, unique, tucked in an unexplored corner of the gardens, sitting on top of your dorm’s bench late into the night, in the car with the windows down on the way for spontaneous Cookout. Wherever you find them, fill them with people. Sprint out into the chilly February air to burn benches and hug strangers. If you’re lucky, years later you’ll be jumping and screaming together, celebrating another championship.

Shout out to each and every one of you who has made this gothic wonderland such a beautifully crazie place to call home. Particularly those of you who taught me what it means in the first place.

Julia Janco is a Trinity senior. This is her last column.

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THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Introduced by Prof. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (AMES) / Q&A to follow!

April 16 - 20 EXHIBITIONS

Autogeography. Tracy Fish, MFA|EDA ‘15 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 17. Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building). Free.

The Evolution of Wonder. Matthew Cicanese, MFA|EDA ‘15 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 18. Power Plant Gallery - ATC. Free.

Docu{rithm}. Aaron Kutnick, MFA|EDA ‘15 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 18. Power Plant Gallery - ATC. Free.

As a Matter of Things. Haodong Li, MFA|EDA ‘15 Thesis Exhibition.

Thru April 18. Power Plant Gallery - ATC. Free.

Veiled Rebellion: Women in Afghanistan. Photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s images capture women’s lives in all areas of Afghan society.

Thru Apr 18. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Quiet Title. Alina Taalman MFA|EDA ‘15 Thesis Exhibition. Thru April 18. SPECTRE Arts. Free.

Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne. An exhibition of both iconic and lesser-known works from some of the most significant and compelling artists of the last 50 years. Thru Jul 12. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 196775. Drawn primarily from the Nasher Museum’s collection, this show examines an extremely fertile period of experimentation and productivity in the United States and Great Britain. Thru Aug 30.

Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

EVENTS

April 17 VFF: Grand reopening of the DiVE after the NSF-sponsored hardware update. 12pm. to 1:00PM LSRC D106 (Map) MFA|EDA 2015 Thesis Exhibition - Performance by Matthew Cicanese. 5pm. Full Frame Theater. Free.

Studio Ghibli Discussion w/ Prof. Eileen Chow: Friday, April 17th in White Lecture Hall

(Isao Takahata, 2013, 137 min, Japan, in Japanese w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray)

Legendary Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata revisits Japan's most famous folktale in this gorgeous, hand-drawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. From the studio that brought you Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Wind Rises comes a powerful and sweeping epic that redefines the limits of animated storytelling and marks a triumphant highpoint within an extraordinary career in filmmaking for director Takahata.

Nominated for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Feature!

Cali,Animated Colombia

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Introduced by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (CLACS) / Discussion to follow!

MFA|EDA 2015 Thesis Exhibition Reception for Matthew Cicanese, Aaron Kutnick, & Haodong Li. 6pm. Full Frame Theater. Free.

Duke Chorale — Rodney Wynkoop, dir. Celebration Concert. 8pm.

Biddle Music Bldg., Fountain Area. Free.

Duke Jazz Ensemble — John Brown, dir., with guest artist Ron Carter, bass. 8pm. Reynolds Industries Theater. $10 gen. adm.; $5 sr. citizens; students free.

April 18 Sketching in the Galleries. A brief lesson and demonstration of various ways to respond to visual art by creating your own sketches. All levels welcome! 10am. Nasher Museum. Free with admission.

MFA|EDA 2015 Thesis Exhibition - Screening for Anna Kipervaser.

6pm. Carr 103, East Campus. Free.

Duke Opera Workshop — Susan Dunn, dir. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium.

Free.

April 19 Duke Opera Workshop. (See April 18) 3pm.

Duke Collegium Musicum — Roman Testroet, dir. 15th and 16th Century Polyphony. 8pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

April 20 Art With the Experts. Curator Marshall N. Price on Colour Correction.

7pm. Durham County Library Main Branch. Free.

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All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

(W) = Richard White Auditorium. (ED) = East Duke 204B. All events subject to change.

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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

4/20

Los Hongos (Colombia) Reel Global Cities Film Series ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

(Oscar Ruiz Navia, 2014, 103 min, Colombia, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) Street artists Ras and Calvin are good friends and partners in crime. With limited prospects but big ambitions to alter their local surroundings for the better, the two young men traverse Cali on bike and skateboard, scouting for surfaces to decorate with whatever paint they can scavenge. Inspired by news of the Arab Spring uprisings, they dream of collaborating on a vast mural that will express solidarity with Egypt's student demonstrators, echoing the sentiment "We will never be silent again." But will Ras and Calvin ever get the chance to have their voices heard?

“Like a love letter to his hometown, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s second feature, Los Hongos, provides a snapshot of present-day Colombia, exploring issues of religion, love, art and class through the unclouded eyes of the young protagonists.” -- Sound on Sight Sponsored by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Center for European Studies (CES), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC), the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS), the Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “Partnership in a Global Age”.

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