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Administrators testify in sexual assault lawsuit against Duke Claire Ballentine and Frances Beroset The Chronicle Hearings for an ongoing civil suit filed by sophomore Ciaran McKenna against the University continued Monday and Tuesday with testimony by administrators from student affairs.

McKenna—a men’s soccer player—was suspended for six semesters in January after being found responsible for sexual assault by the Office of Student Conduct. He is currently suing Duke on the grounds of a breach of contract, common-law fairness violations and negligence.

A three-person panel, convened in July 2016 by the Office of Student Conduct, found unanimously that McKenna was responsible for violating sexual misconduct policy because the victim had not verbally consented. However, the first panel was not unanimously convinced that the alleged victim, who is also a student, said “no” to the sexual encounter—although she claimed that she had.

McKenna appealed the decision, and the appeals panel found that there was procedural error in the first panel, which did not use the

Chronicle File Photo Sophomore Ciaran McKenna, a men’s soccer player, filed a lawsuit against Duke, alleging that the University mishandled a sexual assault case against him.

appropriate “reasonable person” standard to decide the case. The issue was then returned to the Office of Student Conduct. A second panel, convened in November 2016, found that the alleged victim had not given consent, and that she had also explicitly said “no.”

At that point, McKenna appealed to a second appeals panel, which decided not to overturn the decision. McKenna was then suspended in January.

During his questioning on Monday, Stephen Bryan—associate dean of students

and director of the Office of Student Conduct—repeatedly stated that he followed the policies laid out by the Duke Community Standard and that he did not recall the specifics of his office’s responses to McKenna’s particular case.

Jay Ferguson, one of McKenna’s lawyers, suggested that Bryan convened a second panel because at least one member of the original three-person panel did not believe the alleged victim was credible—and that Bryan had decided to start a new panel in the hopes of it being less favorable toward McKenna. Bryan denied this.

“You are trying to imply that my motivation for going forward with the hearing was as if I’m out to find the student responsible,” Bryan said. “That is not my role. My role is to do what is fair to all parties.”

Ferguson also implied that Bryan had departed from the policies laid out in the University’s student conduct handbook by convening a second panel, and repeatedly asked Bryan to point to the place in the handbook that says a new panel can be convened after an appeal.

“I’m asking you to admit that in these See SEXUAL ASSAULT on Page 4

Duke aims for another statement win at Virginia Brian Pollack The Chronicle In winning their fifth straight game Saturday against Clemson, the Blue Devils narrowly escaped by putting up only 64 points—a season-low.

But if Duke is to push its winning streak to six facing the stingiest defense in the nation, it might have to make a number in the low 60s stand up again.

Thanks to their recent five-game surge, the No. 12 Blue Devils now sit just one game back of first place in the ACC standings as they head to Charlottesville, Va., to take on No. 14 Virginia Wednesday at 9 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena. Both teams sport 8-4 conference records and are currently tied for the last doublebye position in the ACC tournament,

giving Wednesday’s clash no shortage of postseason implications with just six regular-season games remaining.

For a Duke squad that looked lost a few weeks ago as it dropped three of four games, the return of head coach Mike Krzyzewski has sparked a team that is now playing some of its best basketball of the season entering the home stretch.

“These last couple weeks, we’ve grown a lot,” Krzyzewski said after Saturday’s win. “I’m not saying we’re this great team, but we’re a team, we’re getting better and we’ve been really very tough.

We’ve been very tough, so hopefully we can keep that going.”

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Brodhead looks back on time as president with new book Claire Ballentine

year. For me, the challenge has always been to find totally new ways to makes points that have enduring qualities. So this year, I was in England for the Brexit vote and all the stuff about immigration, so that’s when I got the idea to do the talk about citizenship and what that word means and what it means to think of yourself as a citizen of Duke. That was very interesting for me to try to spell that out. The whole point of these talks are, I don’t think of them as saying things I already understand, I think of them as struggling to put something that’s important to the University such that it might get some purchase on the minds of the people listening.

The Chronicle With his time as president of the University winding down, Richard Brodhead has compiled some of his past speeches at Duke ceremonies, community forums and faculty meetings into a book called “Speaking of Duke.” The Chronicle’s Claire Ballentine sat down with Brodhead to discuss the inspiration behind the book and his favorite speeches throughout the years.

The Chronicle: Why did you decide now to write this book?

Richard Brodhead: The idea was actually brought up to me whether at the end of my presidency, Duke and I might wish there to be a book of major writings and speeches during my presidency. And of course, you do it at the end because that’s when you have the chance to look back. I did a book at the end of my deanship at Yale called “The Good of This Place.” That’s sort of the corresponding version, but since the president’s job is way bigger, this has more scope than that.

TC: Is it typical of presidents to write books like this at the end of their tenures?

RB: I would say some do and many don’t.

As I look at this book, the book is mostly major talks, so something that’s very striking to me is that I can remember what faces were in the room when I gave each of these talks.... These talks are all kinds of things—the day of the noose [incident], that talk is in there. Talks to the Academic Council about Duke’s emerging international vision. So it just covers lots and lots of subjects. I work very hard at these things, so it’s kind of fun for me to look back at them.

TC: How did you choose which ones to include?

Special to The Chronicle “Speaking of Duke,” a collection of speeches from Richard Brodhead’s time as president, will be released in April.

RB: How many talks do you think I’ve given while I’ve been president? Probably 1,000. Many of those are done without any text. I don’t like to speak from text, I like to think out what I’m going to say and then speak as if to the people in the room. These are ones where there is a text or where a speech could be turned into a text. But you want ones that show some range of issues and some evolutions over time.

TC: How do you typically go about preparing for a speech you’re going to give?

RB: It really all depends. The ones that I’ve always really agonized over have been the ones for the arrival of the freshman class because I figure this could either be a meaningless

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moment or a meaningful moment. If you have the chance to speak to everyone all at one time in such a solemn place, you really have a chance to make people think what’s at stake the day you start upon your new life as a college student. So it’s ludicrous how much time I’ve spent on those through the years.

Plus they can never be quite the same. The graduation ones too.

TC: How do you make sure each are different each year?

RB: Well, you have to make them different, if only because someday someone might make a book! But there are points you want to make that are so important that you can’t skip the point just because you made the point last

TC: Are there any particular speeches that stand out to you as your favorites?

RB: I think that you could say you’re going to find my favorites in this book. You’re not going to publish 13 baccalaureate speeches or 13 convocation speeches. I wanted something from every year I was in office.

But the book isn’t a thousand page chronicle either. So there was the need to blend some selectivity with some representativeness. It tries to touch everything that was a big issue while I was president and that’s not just Duke issues but national issues and issues of higher education.

TC: As you were going back through your older speeches, could you tell how your ideas and writing had evolved?

RB: To some extent, I could. The very first one in the book is a little talk I gave the day I was unveiled as the new president at Duke.

And looking at it, I totally love that talk. But in general, I like the later ones better than the older ones, I don’t know why. Maybe because See BRODHEAD on Page 4

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Lemur Center announces Juniors create online forum for arrival of three new infants discussing race, identity issues Nathan Luzum

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Feeling down about school, your love life or politics? Here’s something to cheer you up—the Duke Lemur Center has three new babies.

Warble—a pygmy slow loris—arrived Jan. 18 as the most recent addition. She joins Gothicus, a Coquerel’s sifaka that was born via cesarean section Jan. 6, and Furia, another sifaka born Jan. 10. This is just the beginning of the lemur birth season, which typically lasts from the beginning of the calendar year to the end of summer.

“Lorises aren’t lemurs, but prosimians are closely related to lemurs,” wrote Sara Clark, director of the communications at the Lemur Center. “They’re the most endangered of the non-lemur prosimians, in part because of the illegal pet trade, which has a devastating effect on wild populations.”

The first infants born this year have been exceptional for several reasons, Clark noted.

When Gothicus was born, he had the lowest birth weight of any surviving sifaka born at the Lemur Center.

“He was only 76 grams, so we had to handfeed him around the clock for almost a week,” she said.

She explained that despite the circumstances surrounding his birth, Gothicus is now healthy and thriving.

Furia, named in reference to the winter storm passing through Durham when she was born, is the granddaughter of a lemur celebrity. Furia’s grandfather Jovian became famous for starring in the children’s television

Courtesy of Duke Lemur Center The three infants born in January are named Warble, Furia and Gothicus.

show “Zoboomafoo.”

“All of our lemurs follow a specific naming theme for each species, so our sifakas tend to have names of Roman emperors, rulers or so on,” Clark said.

She also noted that different species of lemurs give birth at different times of year.

Typically, the birth of sifakas begins the birth season each year. There are also other pregnant lemurs currently.

“We have a few lemurs that were confirmed pregnant by ultrasound—one is a blue-eyed, black lemur, and one is a mongoose lemur,” Clark said. “They should deliver in March.”

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website has writers, photographers and a technology team. The site’s main feature is its discussion forum, which requires a Duke NetID to login. Users can then select an alias in order to ensure anonymity.

The forum attempts to strike a balance between the strong opinions of people who use Facebook to have conversations and the unrestrained nature of dialogue on Yik Yak, Opsahl-Ong said. The problem was that Facebook and Yik Yak are two extremes—one clearly identified you as the poster, making your opinions public, while the other ensured complete anonymity, allowing users to say whatever they want with few consequences.

“We wanted something that would let people who were less comfortable

A new website aims to foster conversations about complicated topics such as race and identity among Duke students.

Akin, which was created by several students, launched two weeks ago and features articles about identity and an anonymous, online forum accessible only to students. Junior Giselle Graham and several of her friends created the concept in collaboration with Duke’s Innovation Co-Lab. “We’re basically lending this as a tool for Duke students to be able to converse about and try to understand identity issues,” Graham said.

Graham explained that she came up See AKIN on Page 4 with the idea during her sophomore year in the wake of several recent racist and homophobic incidents on campus.

She said she noticed that conversations that sprung up after these incidents were often unproductive or one-sided, as many students discussed their thoughts among their social groups, which tend to consist of like-minded people.

Graham and co-founders—Lisa Guraya, Krista Opsahl-Ong and Maya Patel, all juniors—explained that working on the project was an organic process as they were already accustomed to discussing the oncampus race and identity problems among each other.

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The website’s name signifies that its users all In addition to the four cofounders, the have common ground and are “akin.”

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SEXUAL ASSAULT from page 1 policies and procedures, there’s not one word that talks about Duke’s ability to have a second hearing on remand with a new panel,” Ferguson said. “There’s nothing in the policies and procedures whatsoever that talks about having a brand-new hearing.”

In response, Bryan pointed out that the handbook provides principles to follow, rather than extreme details.

Bryan admitted that he had met with the alleged victim before making his decision. Ferguson asked if she “urged” him to convene a second panel after McKenna’s appeal. Bryan disagreed with Ferguson’s characterization of the alleged victim’s motivations and said she was “willing to move forward with the case.” He also said that he met with McKenna and Coleman but would not comment on their motivations.

Tim Bounds, senior director for strategic operations, and Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, testified Tuesday on the procedures for handling sexual misconduct allegations at Duke.

Ferguson and Emilia Beskind, another lawyer for McKenna,

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questioned Bounds—who chaired both appeals panels—about his role in the appeals process. Their inquiries focused on grounds for students to appeal a decision. As late as April 22, the student conduct guide gives three reasons for an appeal: a procedural error, new information or that the initial finding had no plausible basis.

(The current guide only lists two reasons for an appeal— procedural error and new information).

Bounds said that when the first appellate board reviewed the case, they found a procedural error in that the initial panel “did not address the reasonable person standard” in their findings. Beskind asked Bounds if he considered reviewing whether the finding had a plausible basis in the record, instead of just focusing on the procedural error.

“We could not go forward to address the plausible basis standard because from the letter, it wasn’t convincing they had used the reasonable person standard,” Bounds said.

Beskind argued that the appeals board remanding the case with instructions to use the reasonable person standard would not have changed any of the testimony in the first panel.

According to her argument, this meant that the original panel’s finding—which was less harsh than that of the second panel—

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could still have been valid.

McKenna’s lawyers then questioned Wasiolek about OSC procedures and about conversations she had with OSC Director Stephen Bryan regarding McKenna’s situation.

Ferguson asked if Wasiolek condoned all of Bryan’s actions, to which Wasiolek said yes.

Ferguson also asked about the formation of a new panel to evaluate McKenna’s case. Wasiolek said that a member of the original panel could not have participated again because she did not work for Duke any longer. Jerrica Washington, a student involvement program coordinator, is no longer listed on the official Duke Directory but was on the initial panel.

Ferguson asked if the member was still in the country and Wasiolek said yes, but that she would not be eligible to sit on a hearing panel at that point.

Of particular importance to Ferguson was McKenna’s six-semester suspension. Last week, McKenna’s lawyers filed a preliminary injunction in order to reinstate him at the University until the end of the case.

Wasiolek said that Duke is opposing the preliminary injunction because McKenna had been afforded all the processes and procedures available to him.

“To basically have the rug pulled out from under [this policy] basically means that a lot of this is for naught and that there’s no real teeth in our process,” Wasiolek said.

Judge Orlando Hudson will continue to hear arguments Wednesday.

LEMURS from page 3 She added though that it is possible for a sifaka infant from an out-of-season breeding to be delivered in May. The number of infants born at the Lemur Center this year should be similar to the number born in years past, Clark noted.

The Center aims to birth 10 to 15 infants each year.

“We don’t breed all of these species each year,” she said. “We do follow the Species Survival Plan for each species, so breeding is very carefully controlled by an organization that is made up of not just us but also a lot of other member zoos and facilities.”

Clark explained that a team of experts chooses the best pair of lemurs to mate based on a variety of genetic factors.

Depending on where the two lemurs are located, they may breed at the Lemur Center or may have to travel crosscountry to meet.

“You don’t want to have a lot of lemurs that are really similar genetically,” she said. “You want the most diverse genetic population that you could have.”

The birth season will likely last until dwarf and mouse lemurs give birth in the late summer.

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TC: Who do you think the primary audience of the book will be?

RB: I hope it’s read by people outside of Duke, but I hope it’s read by people in the Duke community too. When I step down as president, 40,000 of the people with Duke degrees will have gotten Duke degrees while I was president, so in a way this is a kind of an oral history of their time. It’s amazing to think about.

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talking about race and identity/political issues have a space to learn and speak their mind without being able to say completely random things with no consequences,” Opsahl-Ong said.

The forum has guidelines listing rules for users submitting comments. Posts are removed if they are factually incorrect, contain hate speech or are irrelevant to the topic of discussion, the website reads. Current topics on the forum include “political correctness,” diversity in the Selective Living Group and Greek life rush process and how President Trump will impact Duke’s campus. Across all topics, there have been 16 replies, at least 16 users and hundreds of page views, according to statistics on the website.

“It really provides a space where people can comment anonymously so they don’t feel like what they say is going to get attacked because they are of a certain affiliation,” Guraya said. “They can say their opinion and, most importantly, learn from other people with different perspectives and different backgrounds.”

In addition to the forum, the team in charge of the site has produced 13 media pieces so far including articles, podcasts, videos and a series of photographs.

The project’s name has significance to its work as well.

“It stems from the idea that we’re all human, and we all have a common ground,” Opsahl-Ong said.

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I grew up on a cul-de-sac—a street that stretches into a spoon shape, the end rounded like the mouth of a river—and for that, I consider myself lucky. The deadend was designed to limit residential traffic and children-at-play casualties, but for my corner of the neighborhood, it was the anointed (and preferred) rendezvous spot.

My neighbors and I would spend afternoons riding our bikes within the dizzying confines of the cul-de-sac’s curvature, melting like popsicles in the sickly summer heat. When that became banal, we would hunch over the asphalt with chalk pressed into our palms and draw bike paths that covered the entire stretch of the street. We drew intersections, grocery stores and a gas station for added effect. We lovingly christened it “Kid’s Town” and rode within its chalked outlines until the rain would come and wash it away.

Our parents liked to sequester themselves to a single driveway, clutching beers, gossiping noisily about whichever adult was missing from the festivities that day and watching our various antics from afar. Brisk evenings were usually reserved for watching scary movies on a clunky VCR-player in the swelling darkness, folding chairs pulled haphazardly around the television in a make-shift, movie theater set-up.

There were eight houses that rested on our street. While the adults were all relatively the same age, the kids varied in maturity–often, we’d self-segregate into different age cohorts, older versus younger. My clique contained my older sister Pheiffer and our neighbors, Sydney and Blake. Sydney lived across the cul-desac and was decidedly the most eccentric of our group. Once, after we mashed in her doorbell repeatedly to request her presence outside, she answered the door in

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nothing but a t-shirt and a pair of Barbie underwear, her demeanor nonchalant and unbothered.

Blake, who lived directly next door to me and was the oldest of our bunch, was the ringleader. When bad weather or boredom would force us inside the walls of someone’s home, it was always in Blake’s house that we’d find ourselves. We’d crowd around his Macintosh computer to giggle at YouTube videos and play Super Smash Brothers for hours on the floor of his basement. Before games like Cards Against Humanity existed, Blake showed us how to make Apples to Apples as crude and ridiculous as possible— our sense of humor was absurd but we were unquestionably creative. I resented when dusk would fall upon the windows of Blake’s house because the darkened rooms indicated my need to return home for dinner and compulsory family time.

I’d collect my shoes, call a goodbye over my shoulder and count the hours until I could see my neighbors once again.

Our cul-de-sac was electric. Relentless excitement hung in the air like the oxygen which sustained us, and we clung to every moment spent on the prickly asphalt that poked and burned our feet. I moved away from the cul-de-sac when I was roughly eleven years old, but I returned infrequently with my family for special occasions. Our street was undeniably different—others had come and gone since our departure and the younger cohort was now in the throes of high school angst—but it still felt like I was home.

Or whatever semblance of home the culde-sac represented for me, because clinging to and idealizing the past isn’t necessarily admirable (no offense, Jay Gatsby). I remember a particularly awkward return to our street for a Fourth of July celebration, the sweltering summer atmosphere not

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Pheiffer and I approached Blake’s mom and eagerly asked her where he was–we could hardly wait to share memories and laugh about inside jokes over a riveting round of card games. She directed us to their basement, and when we descended the stairs we were met with five different gazes. Blake had invited his friends over to hang out and they were sprawled across his couch, smoking cigarettes with heavylidded eyes.

I recoiled, upset that our once sacred space was being overrun by people who couldn’t begin to appreciate its significance. We murmured hellos and quickly followed them with goodbyes, fleeing the scene before we could realize how much it bothered us. We weren’t children anymore, no longer forced to be friends and get along because of proximity and convenience, and it hurt. We had diverged on radically different paths, some for better and some for worse, but the culde-sac didn’t bring us back together like I always thought—or hoped—it would.

I can’t feel resentful, though. In life, we are rarely provided with places that are so overwhelmingly formative to our existence (educational institutions excluded) that impact and change us so deeply. I’m mostly writing this because Blake died two weeks ago. He was 21 years old. I read his obituary online in one of my classes, and when I saw a picture of us as children attached in the photo gallery, I could barely restrain my tears. I used think about the cul-de-sac every now and then, but I’ve been relishing in my childhood every day since he died. Our corner of the earth might have faded and changed after I knew it, but I’ll always have our cul-de-sac in my memories. And for that, I consider myself lucky.

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The real reason why everyone is obsessed with Cook Out Will Atkinson The Chronicle

My high school, situated in the heart of Cary, N.C., regarded itself as the last bastion of the American high school experience.

In the midst of a rapidly developing area, the overriding spirit at school was one of intense pride in our roots and veiled indignation toward our changing surroundings—so much so, in fact, that we decided to tack on a giant “THE” in front of our name, Ohio State-style, as if to remind the countr y clubs and Northern transplants who was here first. Even with a diversifying student body, our core values remained stubbornly grounded in traditional Southern ideals. We loved Friday night football (even if we rarely won), we loved our troops and, above all, we loved America.

The school found its spiritual kin in Cook Out, which boasted a location just a mile down the road from campus. It was not uncommon after lunch hour to see half a class wielding take-out trays and sipping from redstriped Styrofoam while staving off milkshake-induced food comas.

Like the high school whose business helps keep it running, Cook Out consciously embodies the tropes of Southern identity. Founded in Greensboro, N.C. in 1989, the fast food chain didn’t set foot outside its native state until 2010. The sprawling

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Austin Peer | The Chronicle Fast food restaurant Cook Out, founded in N.C., has provided hungry Duke students with fried food and milkshakes for decades.

menu features regional favorites like vinegar-based barbecue, hush puppies and sweet tea. Wrappers and containers are even marked with verses of scripture.

I didn’t expect the Cook Out craze to carry over when I moved to Durham—Duke, after all, is hardly representative of the South. (And it appears the restaurant’s loyalties lie elsewhere.) But at a place like Duke, the restaurant’s brand makes Cook Out a novelty for out-of-state students eager to adopt the quirks of their new

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home. This experience usually comes at the cost of comparison with one’s own local chains, as anyone who’s had to listen to someone sing the praises of In-N-Out can attest.

Cook Out’s biggest fans at Duke, however, are the in-state students who grew up in high schools just like mine. First-year students Clayton Delp of Fuquay-Varina and Ethan Ready of Chapel Hill both described experiences with the restaurant that mirror those of most kids from North Carolina—impromptu late-

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“People are just generally very defensive about their regional fast food chains. That’s something I’ve noticed at Duke,” Delp said. “Coming from North Carolina, I almost think of [Cook Out] like part of the state, and so there’s sort of this state pride wrapped up in my love for Cook Out.” See COOK OUT on Page 10

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The corridors of the East Duke building were alive Saturday evening. Students lay sprawled across the floor in what loosely resembled a line and loud chatter hung in the air, jumbled and indistinct. It was the second night of programming for Me Too Monologues, an annual show centered around identity that is written, performed and produced by members of the Duke community. The students had been waiting in line for nearly an hour to secure an enviable seat in the Nelson Music Room, which would surely be packed by the end of the night.

What started out as a single, highly-attended show at its commencement in 2009 has become a five-show, two-weekend production with over 2,200 attendants–nearly a third of the undergraduate population at Duke. Me Too Monologues was conceptualized by Duke alumna Priyanka Chaurasia as a platform for the voices that have ostensibly been hushed or ignored on Duke’s campus. Though it has gone through multiple changes and rebirths, the production’s purpose has remained constant.

“Our goal is to always feature as many marginalized voices as we can,” said senior and current executive producer Raina Kishan.

Me Too Monologues is perhaps the most unique theater-going experience available on campus.

Every monologue performed onstage is written and submitted anonymously by Duke students, but they aren’t the ones reciting their stories–instead, the monologues are acted out by their peers, creating a disconnect between the material and its portrayal.

However, as noted by senior and theatrical director Lauren Rosen, the incongruity is a part of the show’s allure.

“The beauty of [Me Too Monologues] is that when we pair our actors with the stories, we try to turn someone else’s story into something that’s really natural for that actor,” Rosen said. “The idea of Me Too is to sort of convince the audience that the person delivering the story really owns it.”

When it began, Me Too Monologues was mostly comprised of pieces that explored race, ethnicity and culture. As the show expanded, so did the subject material–this year’s production had monologues that dealt with the likes of mental illness, racial epithets, feminism, religion and drug use, a testament to its growing diversity.

“The show really changes based on the pieces that we get. Me Too is really in conversation with itself,” explained senior and executive producer Sydney Speizman. “People feel empowered when they see stories that they really relate to in the show and so then they feel empowered to write their own. That’s how the show is able to evolve so much.”

Evident of the fluid nature of Me Too, the tone of this year’s show is undeniably entangled with the politics of the recent election cycle. Rosen noted that this was a large departure from the attitude of the previous year’s show.

“Last year, there was a lot of discontent with Duke.

We had a lot of institutional critiques, in terms of the social and political climate,” Rosen said. “This year, it seems like people were more likely to discuss the social and political climate of our country.”

While the monologues were submitted mere weeks before the election of President Donald Trump, they’re still undeniably tinged with the anger and fear that arose from his campaign. The show opens with a monologue about the fierce difficulty of being a Muslim-American and another monologue mentions that we had a presidential candidate who would rather “build walls than bridges.” “[Me Too] feels very real and very relatable, and it’s just so relevant,” Speizman said. “Something that’s very powerful is that hearing these personal narratives about these issues that we see on a macro level in the news makes them more accessible and helps people understand them better.”

Still, though, overtly political pieces were not the cornerstone of Me Too’s current run.

“The political climate is definitely a center of our show this year. The pieces directly call out the huge issues in our country,” Kishan said. “But it’s also not See ME TOO on Page 10

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COOK OUT from page 7 Underpinning Cook Out’s appeal is its commitment to value. In what could be a case study of the accomplishments of the capitalist age (or the ills, depending on whom you ask), a customer can order a threecourse, thousand-calorie permutation of burgers, quesadillas, fries, sides and drinks for a terrifyingly low $4.99. Dubbed the Cook Out Tray, this is undoubtedly the most popular item on the menu.

Perhaps more than any sense of regional identity, this affordability makes Cook Out especially attractive to college students on a budget. The fact that the value applies to a diverse menu including upwards of forty different flavors of milkshake means that anyone can find something to love at Cook Out. “Whatever you’re in the mood [for], you can find it at Cook Out,” Ready said. “Whatever you want, you can find it there, and it’s really cheap.”

As a result of this value, Cook Out makes food that straddles a fine line between delicious and disgusting.

Like Waffle House, its closest aesthetic cousin, much of Cook Out’s appeal lies in its frugal, no-frills approach to fast food.

While lesser fast food chains might cloak their products in a veneer of health-consciousness or renovate their bathrooms in an attempt to pass as “nice,” Cook Out keeps things plain and simple. A nondescript menu greets customers in the drive-thru line. A large iced tea isn’t just a large iced tea; it’s a “HUGE ICED TEA,” just to clear any notions that this

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stuff might somehow be good for you.

Instead of windows, the restaurant’s sides are lined with metal mirrors, a wise measure that forces customers to confront their own reflection before proceeding with their order. (When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back.)

Because nearly every location is identical, the Cook Out experience only varies insofar as your choices off the menu do. When you pull into a Cook Out, whether at lunch or at 3 a.m., you know exactly what to expect. You know a Cook Out Tray will hit the spot, you know it will in all likelihood leave you writhing in pain for the next five hours and you know you will regret nothing.

That this form of high-calorie indulgence comes wrapped, both physically and figuratively, in an old-fashioned patriotism that’s inseparable from the state the restaurant calls home explains why locals and Duke students alike will continue to flock to Cook Out for years to come.

Recently, Cook Out’s commitment to its brand seems to have paid off.

If Google Trends is to be believed, nationwide interest in the chain has nearly doubled in the last five years, and locations have opened doors throughout the Southeast.

But to anyone from this area, Cook Out will always be a uniquely North Carolinian brand. By clinging to sometimes outmoded traditions of its region, the fast food chain has perhaps unexpectedly staked itself out as a modern success story, an essential element of the Carolina experience.

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Austin Peer | The Chronicle One appeal of Cook Out is that it provides cheap food for college students on a budget.

ME TOO from page 8 the biggest part of the show. In the end, Me Too ties back into Duke. It has the features of huge political issues but it’s still about our campus.”

Many of the pieces, such as those that dealt with being a student on Duke’s campus or being a feminist, garnered head nods and emphatic snapping from the majority of the students in attendance. But some monologues were not as universal, and perhaps only resonated with a smaller fraction of the audience because of their highly personal nature. As Rosen points out, though, this only serves to normalize and underscore such narratives.

“When you hear stories that you’ve never heard before in the same production as stories that you hear and see and live all the time, those more isolating topics become more relatable,” she explained.

Kishan mirrored the sentiment. “The monologues target specific identities but they all have these small issues that everyone can relate to,” she said.

Fundamentally, Me Too Monologues strives to provide a space for Duke students to both speak and listen, fostering a discussion between the

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production and the audience as well as an internal conversation that will irrevocably follow. At least one piece is guaranteed to stir you or move you deeply, and perhaps present you with perspectives and voices that you haven’t been exposed to enough in the past.

“The ultimate goal is to be able to facilitate and create empathy through stories and be able to start conversations on campus,” Speizman said. “My goal was to tell as many stories as possible. We touched on a lot of topics that we haven’t even covered in years before.”

Such empathy and conversations are important, because when the lights go down and the actors leave the stage, the stories and struggles remain–and it’s crucial that we continue to uplift and value them as much as Me Too Monologues has.

Me Too Monologues is entering its second and final weekend of programming. The show will be per formed Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Nelson Music Room, located in the East Duke Building. Me Too Monologues also has a newly launched podcast, which can be found on their website and in the iTunes store.

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WR Johnathan Lloyd drops baseball to focus on gridiron success Ben Feder The Chronicle After a breakout fall season, one of Duke’s few two-sport athletes will stick to only one sport in 2017.

And the scary part for opponents might be that it was only his first year at his new position.

After freshly-converted wide receiver Johnathan Lloyd’s standout 2016 season, he will no longer be playing baseball, a sport he starred in during high school. Although Lloyd saw playing time as a freshman on the baseball diamond, his steady rise up the depth chart last fall on the gridiron following two position changes led him to stick to one sport.

And has been the case since Lloyd arrived in Durham as a high school quarterback, the coming months will be a new experience for the redshirt sophomore.

“I’ve always played both [baseball and football] up until this point, so I don’t know what it’s like not to play one,” Lloyd said.

Although the former outfielder did not play very much last year for the baseball team, Lloyd had a supporting role on the team as a freshman. Lloyd started 10 games—seven in the outfield and three as a designated hitter—and hit .243 in 37 plate appearances. But as Lloyd changed positions once again on the football field, he devoted more time to his fall sport.

Despite starting the 2016 season listed as a reserve wide receiver, Lloyd soon became one of starting quarterback Daniel Jones’ favorite targets, finishing with 34 receptions for 301 yards and

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Come back to Cameron More than a month ago, long before No. 8 North Carolina lost in front of an electric crowd at Cameron indoor Stadium Thursday night, I walked into Cameron to see the Blue Devil women’s team face a different eighthranked opponent.

I didn’t expect an atmosphere like that of a DukeNorth Carolina men’s game, of course, but I expected a decent crowd worthy of a matchup between two top-15 teams. I was in for a surprise.

The official announced attendance at the Blue Devils’ narrow 58-55 win against Louisville Jan. 2 was 3,309—a little more than one-third of Cameron’s capacity—and even that seemed very generous. I’ve seen better crowds at local high school games. More fans showed up to every single Duke women’s basketball home game last season, even a random New Year’s Eve blowout against UNC Greensboro, than that game against a top-10 team.

The reason for all the empty seats is obvious. The Blue Devils had a tumultuous, injury-riddled season in 2015-16, losing 12 games and missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994, and it got even worse in the offseason.

Star forward Azurá Stevens transferred to Connecticut and starting point guard Angela Salvadores left after just one year to play professionally in Spain. Shortly afterward, the athletic department began an internal investigation into

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Khloe Kim | Chronicle File Photo Johnathan Lloyd developed into one of Daniel Jones’ favorite targets last season despite only recently transitioning to the wide receiver position.

three touchdowns. Lloyd was second on the team in both yards and receptions, and tied for first with tight end Erich Schneider for touchdown grabs.

Lloyd initially caught head coach David Cutcliffe’s eye with his blocking skills, an often-undervalued part of a wide receiver’s skillset. Although he had limited practice time at the position, Lloyd believed it was an opportunity to get on the field, where he could then showcase his talent.

“He’s such a good natural athlete.

When you combine that with the way that he works and his toughness, he was able to really improve and make

Khloe Kim | Chronicle File Photo Lloyd will no longer play baseball and instead is focusing this spring on leading a deep Blue Devil wide receiver contingent.

everyone around him better,” wide receivers coach Jeff Faris said. “Day by day, he kept climbing and climbing [up our depth chart] and ended up being one of our best guys.”

Coming out of high school, other programs were well aware of Lloyd’s talent—but at a different position.

Although he was not recruited to play a specific position, Lloyd starred as a dualthreat quarterback at Southern Alamance, amassing more than 8,500 total yards with 88 touchdowns. The Graham, N.C., native was one of the Blue Devils’ most soughtafter recruits, as he held offers from traditional football powerhouses such as Notre Dame, Ohio State, Clemson, Florida and South Carolina.

Even with his clear talent, Lloyd redshirted like most of his peers his first year, then transitioned to defensive back in the offseason, where he played sparingly before moving once again to slot receiver.

An increasingly important position as more teams try to spread out opposing defenses and get the ball to playmakers in space, slot receivers have to possess a unique blend of quickness, toughness and a thorough understanding of the team’s offense.

Yet Lloyd managed to succeed quickly, drawing on his time playing all over the field to adapt once again.

“You go back to receiver, and I played quarterback, so I’m thinking, ‘Now the defensive back is going to do this.’ Then I go to defensive back and I’m [thinking], ‘The quarterback is going to do this and See LLOYD on Page 13

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Han Kang | Chronicle File Photo Head coach Joanne P. McCallie received heavy criticism last offseason, but her team has beaten five top-20 foes in 2016-17.

M. BASKETBALL from page 1 dropped three of their last five contests, including a double-overtime nail-biter to rival Virginia Tech Sunday. Allowing just 55.1 points per game, Virginia leads the nation in scoring defense and has allowed just one opponent to eclipse the 82-point mark—Duke’s average offensive output.

Head coach Tony Bennett’s packline defense forms the linchpin of the Cavaliers’ system, with a focus on protecting the paint that forces opponents to hoist up contested jumpers deep in the shot clock. Virginia lacks a dominant post presence to block shots, but makes up for it with a deep rotation of players well-versed in help defense at different positions. Ten Cavaliers are averaging double-digit minutes, keeping opposing offenses out of rhythm and limiting them to less than 40 percent shooting from the field and just 31.6 percent from beyond the arc.

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The Blue Devils, however, have been on fire from long range recently, shooting 43.5 percent from 3-point range on nearly 25 attempts per game during their winning streak. Sophomore Luke Kennard and junior Grayson Allen have primarily fueled Duke’s perimeter hot streak, but strong stretches of play from freshmen Jayson Tatum and Frank Jackson have made the Blue Devil attack more multi-faceted than it was earlier in the season. “[Luke] is just a dynamic player. He plays with an edge,” graduate student Amile Jefferson said. “And we have so much talent on the floor, it’s not like you can help off. You can’t help off Grayson, you can’t help off Matt [Jones], you can’t help off Jayson. It gives him space.”

Led by London Perrantes and Marial Shayok, Virginia’s backcourt is more than capable of frustrating Duke’s guards and forcing turnovers or bad shots. Allen and Kennard combined for just 15 points on 4-of-12 shooting in last year’s matchup, which the Blue Devils won 63-62 at home on Allen’s controversial buzzer-beater.

A four-year starter, Perrantes drives the Cavalier offense with his on-court savvy and knockdown shooting ability, and he leads the team with a careerhigh 12.6 points per game. He teams with Shayok—who was inserted into the starting lineup near the beginning of ACC play—and fellow veterans Devon Hall, Isaiah Wilkins and Jack Salt to give Virginia one of the most experienced starting lineups in the conference.

Although the Cavaliers play at a very deliberate pace and average fewer than 70 points per game, their offense is ranked 17th in basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency metric. Virginia leads the ACC with a 49.2 field goal percentage, and a bench filled with capable scorers like rookies Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome helps to offset the lack

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Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Junior Grayson Allen hit a buzzer-beater to knock off Virginia and its pack-line defense a year ago.

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AMILE JEFFERSON: 11.3 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 1.5 bpg JAYSON TATUM: 15.6 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 1.6 bpg MATT JONES: 8.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 1.7 spg LUKE KENNARD: 20.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 45.9 3FG% GRAYSON ALLEN: 15.9 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 4.0 apg

of an offensive superstar.

Two years ago, Duke used a road comeback against a previously-undefeated Cavalier squad as a springboard to the program’s fifth national championship later that spring. This year’s team has a long way to go to reach that point, but the Blue Devils are hoping to pick up another big win in Charlottesville as they continue growing together as a team.

“It’s good for our group, because we had so much adversity early on. Now it’s

Bre Bradham | The Chronicle Junior Lexie Brown’s play has steadied the Blue Devils, who have not lost yet at home this year and have only one home contest remaining.

of a defensive-minded coach, has implemented an active matchup zone that has shut down some of the best frontcourts in the nation. The zone has fueled the Blue Devils’ top-ranked scoring defense in the ACC and helped them hold 21 consecutive opponents to fewer than 70 points.

I watched more Duke women’s basketball last season than almost

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JACK SALT: 3.8 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.5 apg ISAIAH WILKINS: 7.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 1.5 bpg MARIAL SHAYOK: 9.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 1.0 spg DEVON HALL: 8.5 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 40.0 3FG% LONDON PERRANTES: 12.6 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 3.9 apg

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2016-17 season) Neither frontcourt has done DUKE UVA much scoring lately, so this 69.3 PPG: 81.9 mostly comes down to defense 55.1 PPG DEF: 68.0 FG%: and depth. Virginia has a slight 48.1 49.2 3FG%: 37.6 39.5 edge there, mostly because FT%: 74.7 70.8 of its pack-line unit and topRPG: 33.3 37.3 ranked scoring defense.

APG: 14.0 15.1 Virginia has one of the best 4.3 BPG: 4.5 point guards in the country in SPG: 5.1 6.1 Perrantes, but Luke Kennard 11.8 10.0 TO/G: and Grayson Allen have been The breakdown sensational on the perimeter The Blue Devils and Cavaliers have played for the Blue Devils during their nail-biters in their last two meetings, and this five-game winning streak. one should be similar. Duke’s offensive talent Although Frank Jackson individually will test Virginia’s defense, and has been solid for Duke, ultimately stars on both teams will likely end Virginia consistently plays up deciding this one down the stretch in the five reserves and freshmen second half. The winner will be tied for second Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome have place in the ACC if UNC beats N.C. State. already made several big OUR CALL: Duke wins, 66-63 shots this season.

W. BASKETBALL from page 11 player mistreatment in head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s program.

But after a five-week investigation, Kevin White, vice president and director of athletics, announced that McCallie would remain the team’s head coach.

That didn’t stop McCallie from receiving another wave of criticism for an interview she did with me last summer about the fallout from the investigation.

She was defiant and at times dismissive of the issues that derailed Duke’s season last year, but the overarching message from that day was clear. McCallie was intensely loyal to the players that remained on her team, she felt they were loyal to her and she didn’t really care what anybody else thought about her program.

Duke’s players have responded to that loyalty from their coach, even if they have not received the same loyalty from the fans.

In case you stopped watching, you should know the Blue Devils are unbeaten at home this year with five wins against top-20 teams. Junior guard Lexie Brown is a legitimate All-American candidate and Rebecca Greenwell is an excellent secondary scoring option.

Duke plays well together and has looked like a well-coached team.

McCallie, always considered more

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anybody. I saw a lot of stagnant offense and unforced turnovers, and the pieces didn’t all fit together. But Brown has changed everything this year, giving the Blue Devils the poised and talented ballhandler they desperately needed.

So, if you are choosing not to support this team because of a petty vendetta against the head coach, you’re fighting a losing battle. Most coaches of top-15

February and it seems like everything’s coming together,” Jefferson said. “All those things that happened to us earlier in the season have made us a stronger team. Now we have Coach back, and he’s at his highest level. He’s the best he’s been since I’ve been here. It’s great for our group to be in this position we’re in, but the league never lets up.”

Hank Tucker and Meredith Cash contributed reporting. teams sign contract extensions, not letters of resignation, though I certainly wouldn’t blame McCallie for jumping ship for a lucrative offer elsewhere after the way she has been treated in Durham.

I have lived in Durham long enough to remember when a lot of people cared about Duke women’s basketball. People cared when the Blue Devils were six seconds from a national championship in 2006, and people cared when Duke went unbeaten in the regular season a year later in head coach Gail Goestenkors’ last year at the helm.

The Blue Devils sold out Cameron Indoor Stadium 16 times from 2003 to 2013 but have done it just once since then, as attendance gradually dropped in recent years before falling off a cliff this season.

Duke is not as good as it was a decade ago, but the Blue Devils are much better than they were a year ago, and it is time for the fans to come back.

There is still time to buy into this team’s success. Senior Day is Sunday afternoon against No. 16 Miami with Duke looking to close out an undefeated regular season at home, and if the Blue Devils win that game, there is a good chance they will get two more home games as a top-four seed in the NCAA tournament.

If you don’t believe me, show up Sunday and see for yourself.

Duke’s players deserve that respect.

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Juan Bermudez | Chronicle File Photo Daniel Jones and company are hoping for more consistency on the edge after only one wideout had 35 or more catches last year.

LLOYD from page 11 that,’” Lloyd said. “Now, I’m at receiver knowing what I would do at defensive back to try to stop myself.”

With more time on the field, it was clear that Lloyd was growing into his role in the offense during the course of the season, which was highlighted by a key 20-yard touchdown grab at then-No. 7 Louisville that showed Jones’ trust in the first-year wide receiver.

Now with several more months to focus on learning the finer points of the position, Lloyd knows he still has a long way to go to become even more reliable for a team reeling from a 4-8 season. “[I plan to work on] route running, creating separation, just little things like that,” Lloyd said. “I just want to be

a leader and help this team. I’m getting older—I’m going to be a redshirt junior next season—so [I am] just trying to help these guys.”

Early in the offseason—the Blue Devils started spring practice Feb. 4—Faris has been impressed by the strides Lloyd has taken to accomplish his goals. He is part of a deep wide receiving corps featuring sophomore T.J. Rahming, redshirt junior Quay Chambers, redshirt sophomore Chris Taylor, redshirt freshman Aaron Young and a number of other underclassmen hoping to separate to lock down a starting spot opposite Rahming.

So far this spring, Lloyd’s experience is setting him apart.

“He has been phenomenal for our room [and] holding guys accountable,” Faris said. “He’s really our leader.”

There should be more opportunities available for Lloyd in the passing game next year, even with Rahming entrenched as the Blue Devils’ top receiver. Offensive coordinator Zac Roper even decided to open up the playbook for Lloyd later in the season, when he took an end-around, run-pass option against North Carolina in the red zone. On the play, Lloyd escaped a major loss of yardage with a pump-fake that fooled the entire Tar Heel defense.

But Lloyd is more than happy just to remain at slot receiver, as long as he is on the football field with his baseball career now in the rearview mirror.

“I’ll play any role they need me to, but I feel like I’m more than just a blocker, and I know I have the skill and the ability to get open and make plays when I touch the ball,” Lloyd said. “I want to be that guy, so it doesn’t matter whether I’m on the slot or the outside.”

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Juan Bermudez | Chronicle File Photo Lloyd could see his role expand next year to include more end-arounds and play on the outside because of his versatility.

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arlier this month, The Huffington Post published a contributor piece shared on social media as “I was afraid of Muslims until I started dating one.” In it, the author describes her transformation from being born and bred to fear Muslim men and society to her growing realization—after she began dating a Muslim man—that not everything was as she expected it to be. While her journey turned out positively, it was nonetheless reductive. Today we argue that allyship must not depend on personal and familiar connections, but must come from a place that is deeper in recognizing the common threads that connect struggles against marginalization.

While personal connections may seem an intuitive foundation for changing an opinion, such a starting point can do more harm than good. Firsthand experiences certainly corroborate more open worldviews, but they are no substitute foar an already open mind. Many marginalized groups are right to point out how frustrating it can be that accomplishments by community members and political activism over decades highlight biases that many others will recognize only after a personal connection to the issues.

Relying on connections often unnecessarily compartmentalizes struggles against bias by limiting

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the scope of understanding, exemplified in how someone might support their close “gay brother” but not the politicized and distant “criminal illegal immigrant.” Also troubling this paradigm is the number of outgroups that find themselves on the margins of American society. Relying solely on stories which are relatable or zero degrees of separation away leaves a great deal to be desired. Diversity comes in many more forms than any one person is able or likely to encounter. So while intimate experiences may be

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helpful, they are not enough.

A view of allyship formed by personal connections comes at the cost of tokenizing histories and placing the burden of education on individual persons.

Literature, movies and carefully chosen Internet resources are far better tools for dispelling implicit bias. Additionally, there are events like the Muslim Students Association’s annual Islam 101 student panel that are open forums for discussion freely offered by the oft misunderstood community.

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that has been directed at Muslim-Americans in recent years and decades. Survivors of sexual assault, women, transgender people, immigrants and members of the LGBT+ community are marginalized and caught up in issue areas that relate deeply to their rights. All too often, sympathy derives from the ability to say, “My sister and mother do deserve better!” or “I know an undocumented student.” Without losing enthusiasm for these important policy debates, it is important to inspect the roots of our support. Allies must not say without warrant that they can relate to the struggles that are happening. Rather, it is that they cannot relate but stand in support nonetheless.

Empathy for struggles against marginalization must not be contingent on personal experiences but built upon mutual understanding and support.

“Show kindness to … the near neighbor and the neighbor farther away.” The full verse of this quotation from the Qur’an emphasizes the virtues of humility and outward generosity in everyday life. We ought to treat with kindness all those who we come to know, regardless of whether they are familiar or alien to us at first. The lottery of birth that draws distance between yourself and someone who is Other should have no bearing on how you can recognize how they too are situated and how we can all care for and about one another.

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n anonymously signed letter—later discovered to have ties to the FBI—was delivered to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a bone-chilling message: “King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is.”

The letter, known to many as the FBI’s “Suicide Letter,” was an attempt to silence the civil rights leader making strides against the grave injustices of the 1960s. Decades later on the advent of Black History Month, Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced on the Senate floor after attempting to read — ironically enough — Coretta Scott King’s letter about Senator Jeff Sessions, written in 1986.

Republicans immediately rebuked Senator Warren for violating rules against impugning other senators when she read the following lines. “Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.”

The public showed an outpouring of support, spawning social media campaigns with hashtags like #ShePersisted and #LetLizSpeak. Despite these

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kind of fierce censoring campaign where attempts to stifle all forms of free and constitutionally protected opposition happen on senate floors and social media feeds. Donald Trump has repeatedly gone on the record to delegitimize credible news outlets which offer criticisms of his administration and state officials who bar flagrant violations of civil liberties. He has even challenged the legitimacy of our democratic voting process by calling for an investigation into “millions of illegal voters.”

This demonstrative approach to any kind of disagreement that would come in the way of Trump and his team halts progress in its steps. Those who doubt the power and massive presence of our new president will feel it in an early morning tweet or midweek press conference, or may receive equally uncouth aspersions by his press secretary, Sean Spicer. After the heated senate debate, Spicer went on to say that if Coretta Scott King were still alive, he would “hope that she supports Jeff Sessions.”

This deliberate attempt to silence the voice of an activist who wrote her opposition down on paper

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speaks to the surreal lack of competence displayed by the Trump administration.

No further surprises should come from future confirmations, overtly aggressive responses to the public via Trump’s Twitter account or the silencing of government officials who openly oppose controversial legislation. The beauty of our democracy is that opposition is allowed—if not openly welcomed—so that conversation can turn into solutions capable of manifesting into action.

How are we to reach positive action if our voices cannot be heard over leaders telling us to remain still and to remain silent?

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efforts, Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, constituting another blow to Democrats across the nation which came on the heels of Betsy DeVos’ confirmation just a day earlier. The news of these confirmations, as well as the senate’s silencing of Warren’s appeal, should come as no surprise. Our nation’s history of silencing opposition has been revitalized with this new administration.

In his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that the forgotten people of America will not be forgotten any longer. Many questioned exactly who these forgotten Americans were. From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the relocation of Asian Americans to internment camps in the mid-20th century, our history of the forgotten seems to pass unnoticed as this new administration is ushered in. The administration plays a dismal appeal with minority communities.

If Senator Warren’s silencing is any indication, the state of our democracy is being molded into a

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oward the end of my 24 consecutive hours on the walkup line for last week’s basketball game, I was approached by a student with a clipboard who delivered a short speech about Duke Energy’s proposed natural gas plant. She introduced herself as a representative of the Duke Climate Coalition (DCC) and asked me to sign a petition opposing the construction of the plant. I was on board after talking about it for a moment, as were many of the students waiting in line around me. As she left, I found myself harboring some reservations about the petition, which I would like to publicly elaborate on as Duke’s natural gas plant continues to be a topic of campus conversation.

To be clear: I do not wish for this column to be interpreted or used as a detraction from the work of the DCC or climate activists in general. Protecting our environment while maintaining our quality of life is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our species today, and this group is diving into it headfirst. This

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deserves great respect. Nevertheless, I find myself confused by the choices many selfdescribed “environmentalists” make on a daily basis. We can—and should—worry about whether or not campus eateries have biodegradable packages, care about how much of our waste is recycled and prefer clean energy to fossil fuels. However, this should not be to the neglect of other ways we cause damage.

The principal component of natural gas is methane, the simplest hydrocarbon.

Pound per pound, methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide but its lifetime in the atmosphere is considerably shorter. In other words, if we were to cut our methane emissions sharply in the near future, we could expect to see a much quicker change in climate than if we were to cut our carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent amount. If we want to dodge the rapidly approaching 2-degrees-above-pre-Industrial levels threshold, investing more heavily in methane emissions reduction is critical.

Surprisingly though, the leading source of humanity’s global methane emissions is not natural gas, but our livestock.

In the United States, methane emissions attributable to animal agriculture are roughly equal to those from natural gas use. The contribution to global warming that results from these gases is still relatively small when compared to carbon dioxide emissions. But I would argue that unlike most sources of carbon dioxide emissions (and perhaps even natural gas use), animal agriculture—at least at its current scale—is completely unnecessary, if not harmful to humanity’s well-being.

Any environmentalist worth their salt knows that a diet mostly comprised of plants is orders of magnitude more efficient than a diet heavy in meat. This is not just in terms of methane produced, but also considering other emissions, deforestation, and land and water use.

While claims that a vegan or vegetarian diet are a sort of silver bullet for health are exaggerated, studies show that they are vastly healthier in terms of balance than a typical American’s diet, and certainly are not unhealthy. It has been estimated that current worldwide food production could meet the needs of ten billion people, which is three billion more

than our current population, and that the U.S. alone feeds enough food for 800 million people to animals each year. And while the bottom billion are starving, per capita meat consumption is projected to increase worldwide, particularly in emerging economies.

To put it mildly, we would do just fine—nutritionally and ecologically— with a vastly smaller meat and dairy industry. Furthermore, we could make the transition very quickly just by diverting some of the animal feed directly into the human food supply. On the other hand, it’s usually much harder to create and implement solutions that would produce changes of the same scope in the energy and transportation sectors. Yet it seems environmental organizations focus their efforts primarily on reducing pollution from those sources to the neglect of animal agriculture.

DCC’s campaign against the proposed plant rests chiefly on the argument that substituting one natural gas for another on a societal level will simply not do enough

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he second semester officially begins, and with it, a process known as Rush.

Students have fretted about Rush being a life or death process for years, but this is the first year in which their cries and complaints are actually justified. The need for every existing Greek and non-Greek organization to replenish its forces, combined with the lack of a central monitoring authority such as the IFC (which used to do an excellent job of ensuring that no dangerous or illegal activities occurred at any rush events), makes this year’s Rush particularly dangerous and competitive.

For the first time in its history, DSG conducts a formal rush of its own. Previously, DSG only engaged in an informal process known as “dirty rush.” This meant that the Executive Board befriended people similar to them and either rigged the elections in their favor or made them “senators-at-large.” Truly patronage at its pinnacle!

After inducting its new members, DSG meets in the Chapel and decides to overturn every FOAC and SOFC recommendation and debate several small budgetary statutes, as is tradition. Despite knowing that the meeting won’t end until 2 a.m., Duke’s Finest are in high spirits. The Weis-man,

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months for an appointment, it takes two years.

Fortunately, only about 100 students were EMS’d this year! (Though technically, the majority of students probably should have been but weren’t—as not everything has changed since the Fall of Trask.)

However, one positive change was that social life has finally been brought back to campus. The combination of student conduct being officially abolished by IFC and the quarantining of Duke by the Durham Police Department, North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement branch (which has the ironic acronym of ALE) and various homeowner’s associations of Durham makes the hosting of large non-dry events on campus semi-feasible for the first time in years. Party monitor shirts are burned for warmth, punch bowls abound in the open and miles of funnels span the various dorms on West and Central. Every student who complains about noise during “quiet hours” is forced to board the Robertson Express and exiled to UNC. On East Campus, all notions that the concept of a “dry campus” being able to even exist outside of the state of Utah have been completely dispelled.

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to reduce emissions to a sustainable level, and they are absolutely correct. But after doing the math, I estimated that the carbon dioxide emissions from the natural gas plant could be balanced out by as few as 50,000 Americans going vegan (about 0.02 percent of the nation, or 1/5 of Durham’s population). If DCC chose a less dramatic course of action, such as going vegetarian or just moderately reducing meat consumption, the group would need more people to join efforts in order to balance the carbon budget.

Of course, I’ve neglected other impacts of natural gas (most notably that of fracking, a rather destructive process used to extract most natural gas), but I’ve also neglected the habitat loss and pollution that would be averted by reducing meat consumption.

In fact, I have barely scratched the surface of the environmental damage caused by our livestock with the details above.

I’m always interested by fancy mathematics, but conservation really boils down to a simple cost-benefit analysis: avert the most environmental destruction with the least effort. My answer was to give up meat, followed by dairy and eggs. It was much easier than I expected, and I think it’s much simpler than switching to a hybrid or converting the global power grid to wind and solar.

Reducing our consumption of animal foods is the quick and easy way to protect our environment. All of the students who signed the petition last week in Krzyzewskiville obviously have no problem pressuring Duke University and Duke Energy to abandon their plans for a new natural gas plant. But will they pressure themselves to give up eating meat for the same goal? For most of them the answer is “no,” at least for the near future. This choice is puzzling to me, to say the least.

Forgive the pun, but eating more plants seems to be the low-hanging fruit when it comes to saving our planet. We should pick them before it’s too late.

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in an act of astounding magnanimity, ordered enough Enzo’s pizza for the entire Senate (with discretionary funding, of course). Other than this, several major plans and reforms were discussed and then promptly tabled indefinitely.

Far away from West, Kappa Alfafa Order has its first Chapter meeting of the semester. Despite already having the most territory and members of any Greek organization on campus, the Order desires further conquest. Kappa Alfafa is unique among student organizations though, for it does not consult The Chronicle for advice. When an important decision needs to be made, it consults its spiritual founder. After performing their opening rituals, always so meticulously carried out, the members of the Order select a freshman (pre-closed since September) to be the vessel.

This soon-to-be-pledge drinks the ceremonial concoction and briefly passes out. A few minutes later, he arises with incredible energy and screams a terror-inducing yell. With a Southern drawl slower than molasses, he rants about the good ole days of Duke and announces that “THE YANKEES MUST BE DESTROYED!” After contemplating this oracle response during an hours-long dipping tobacco session, the brothers conclude that the Ghost wants them to oust the Northerners from Duke. They begin planning the extermination of all Duke students who are from the Tri-State Area, starting with the most obvious targets: the Duke lacrosse team and the Brotherhood of Snew (essentially the same organization).

The Brotherhood of Snew, unaware of the danger which awaits them over the coming weeks, holds its first Rush event. The organization officially has many members due to an unusually large fall pledge class (because the organization is becoming more inclusive and definitely not because it needed to wait to officially register its previous year’s pledges due to sanctions). On a completely unrelated note, Skittles have completely disappeared from shelves at all stores for miles around Duke’s campus.

Meanwhile, Duke’s new Student Health Center is being pushed to the max. Many organizations know they will not survive in the spring, and thus many take extreme measures to acquire new members and to sabotage other organizations. For example, Chips contacted several Duh Tuh Duh rushees and, posing as Duh Tuh Duh members, told them that they would be having a mandatory Rush event that night in Alaska. The rushees, only able to endure in the comfort and safety of the Duke Bubble, did not return from the barren tundra.

Additionally, the stress brought on by the upcoming rush has increased the calls to CAPS a hundredfold. Now, instead of having to wait two

and the gas station near East have been struggling immensely to keep up with demand. While many assume the Keeper of East is merely being lazy in his responsibilities, he actually has a strategy in mind. If he can gain the trust and loyalty of the first-yearlings, he may have the numbers to finally gain control of the University. Unfortunately, his optimism has blinded his ability to see that he has enemies in his ranks, and they are growing. The RAs and RCs have just about had enough with the leniencies he has taken in enforcing Duke’s Housing and Residential Life policies. It is difficult enough that he is allowing alcohol on East, which constitutes the first time alcohol has been on East since it became “dry.”

Now, he is even allowing refugees from the schools destroyed by UNC to find shelter at Duke. Duke’s housing policy on overnight guests used to be rigorously enforced, but no longer.

Sir Guarcamole has turned East into a sanctuary campus, with students from what were formerly known as Wake Forest, Davidson College, and N.C. State living in tents on the main quad. The RAs and RCs plan to remove him once and for all after Rush, right after the hectic process ends yet before the burdens of extracurriculars and summer internship applications resume.

And what of Anniekin Liewatcher? Not much has been heard from her since she was ousted from DSG. Many assumed that the army she was building would be used to reclaim her rightful place on the throne. However, like Richard Nixon in 1960, she did not want to cause further chaos by challenging a fraudulent election result. She quietly disbanded her forces and is now living off-campus, where she can reside in relative peace in a high-rent apartment, perhaps writing her memoirs. Queen Ban-all relishes that she has one less threat to deal with. Little does she know that a small but zealous faction is plotting to put an end to the debauchery at Duke University.

After a long period of uncertainty, it seems that there is once again hope that the prophecy may be fulfilled. There have been whisperings that the most powerful of the basketball players are healing well and almost ready to quash the enemies of Coach K and the university (despite several severe setbacks). However, nobody is sure exactly how Coach K plans to reunite the Three Campuses, or whether he can actually do it himself. While he is expected to serve for at least five more years, he is an aging elder. Some are beginning to believe he may simply support the candidacy of another, then retire to the countryside. Time will tell.

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