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‘WE’RE DONE WITH DEMANDS’ Administrators announce committee, reject newest iteration of protestors’ demands

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Editor’s Note: A full list of protestors’ latest demands can be found online, along with the latest updates from the ongoing sit-in.

Protestors announced Wednesday that President Richard Brodhead’s response to their demands was “too vague” and said the sit-in would continue.

Brodhead sent an email to the Duke community at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday announcing the University has committed to engage an independent expert to review Duke’s grievance and complaint procedures and plans to initiate processes to raise the Duke minimum wage above $12 per hour. Protestors responded at 7 p.m. with a list of conditions—which modified their initial demands—that they said the University must meet before occupiers leave the Allen Building.

Although none of the sit-in students spoke at the press conference, their supporters outside presented the modified conditions.

“While we are pleased that the administration has returned to the table, we believe actions are too vague, noncommittal and non-comprehensive to be sufficient for exiting the building,” said Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. student in environmental policy.

Provost Sally Kornbluth, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for

Jesús Hidalgo and Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Eight students remain inside the Allen Building after protestors said potential compromises offered by administrators, including a new University committee, are insufficient.

student affairs and dean of students, sent an email to the occupying students following Brodhead’s email, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email.

The email noted that the administrators would continue negotiations—if the students leave Allen.

“We offered to negotiate if they left the building,” Schoenfeld wrote. “That didn’t happen, so we’re not negotiating and we’re done with demands.”

The email from Kornbluth, Moneta and Wasiolek noted that they hoped the sit-in students would take Brodhead’s email as “further evidence of our good faith effort

to address the concerns you and your supporters have raised.”

“As we’ve said and must note, current litigation limits our ability to address other issues on your list,” the email reads. “But, we believe that we’ve taken a substantial step See DEMANDS on Page 4

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Grayson Allen posted the highest year-to-year increase in points per game in ACC history as a sophomore and announced Wednesday that he will return for his junior campaign.

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A year ago Wednesday, Grayson Allen poured in 16 points to help the Blue Devils storm back to beat Wisconsin and win their fifth national championship.

After one of the best seasons by a Blue Devil sophomore in program history, he could have left for the NBA to join former classmates Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow and Tyus Jones.

But instead, Allen will return for his junior season, Duke announced in a press release Wednesday. The Blue Devil guard was a first team All-ACC pick last season after posting a meteoric rise in scoring, averaging a teamhigh 21.6 points per game on 41.7 percent shooting from beyond the arc, 4.6 rebounds and 1.3 steals per contest.

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waters and still return to Durham, but instead decided that he was not ready to leave the Duke program.

“I talked with my parents and prayed about this decision, and I had the feeling that it was right,” Allen said in the release. “I love Duke and I’ve made relationships with my teammates that will last forever. Coming back next season to play with them is important to me. Earning a Duke degree has always been a dream of mine, so I’ll also be working to get closer to that goal.”

Allen’s 17.2 point per game increase in scoring from his freshman to sophomore seasons set a new ACC record. He topped 20 points in 19 of Duke’s 36 games—including four efforts of more than 30 points—and was held to fewer than 10 points just twice.

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Tour guides prepare to navigate protestors during Blue Devil Days Abigail Xie and Adam Beyer The Chronicle Student tour guides will continue to lead their groups past protestors in front of the Allen Building during Blue Devil Days Thursday and Friday.

Senior Dylan Eiger, head tour coordinator for the University’s tour guide program, sent an email—which was obtained by The Chronicle—to guides Sunday with instructions for how to handle student protestors outside Allen who could potentially disturb their tours.

The protestors are supporting eight students staging an Allen Building sit-in to improve the conditions of workers at Duke.

The sit-in began in response to an incident in which Executive Vice President Tallman Trask hit contract parking employee Shelvia Underwood with his car and allegedly used a racial slur.

Tour groups typically start at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and make a stop in front of Allen. During Blue Devil Days—Duke’s admitted students weekend—prospective students will also

go on tours of West Campus. guides should refrain from providing “While we all have very different opinions personal opinions on the protests if asked and feelings about these recent events, this by prospective students or families, but is a very sensitive topic for the entire Duke that they should not be concerned about Community and we should strive to provide avoiding the protestors on their tours. our visitors with an honest and objective “In fact, we believe that it’s great so that account of prospective students what is actually and parents realize e should strive to provide happening on Duke students are campus,” Eiger our visitors with an honest active and have a wrote. voice on this campus,” Eiger wrote and objective annount of what is he wrote. that protestors actually happening on campus.

He wrote that the have made event is a reminder “inappropriate” — Head Tour Coordinator Dylan Eiger of the importance of statements to tour guides remaining some groups near up-to-date about the Allen Building, and that the tour guides campus events—noting that Duke professor should “remain as professional as possible” in Paul Modrich recently won the Nobel Prize the event that their tours are disrupted. in Chemistry and Vice President Joe Biden One of the protest coordinators, senior visited the University in March.

Stanley Yuan, a member of The Chronicle’s The email instructed the student guides editorial board, noted in an email that to “know their facts” by reading The the protestors are not aware of any active Chronicle’s reporting of the incident in disruptions of tours caused by Duke Students which Executive Vice President Tallman and Workers in Solidarity, the group organizing Trask hit a contract parking employee with much of the protest movement. his car and allegedly used a racial slur.

Eiger noted in his email that the After the University’s regular decision

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Rachel Chason | The Chronicle Admission tour groups watch Friday’s protest on West Campus. Several tours will be given Thursday and Friday as part of Blue Devil Days.

results were announced March 24, Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag noted that he felt previous events on campus, such as the November community forums, did not have a noticeable impact on admissions. He added that this year there was an increase in applications from students of color.

“Students are looking for active campuses where students are engaged,” Guttentag said. “I don’t think that there are students that would apply and then decide not to apply because of a single event.”

One potential Duke student echoed that sentiment.

“It doesn’t necessarily turn me off to the school,” said James Gurney, an admitted student. “I think it’s good that students care about issues and are willing to take a stand— this is probably influenced by the fact that the first college I toured was Berkeley, so this is kind of like a dose of home.”

Eiger did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Guttentag did not respond to a request for further comment.

Amrith Ramkumar and Likhitha Butchireddygari conttributed reporting.

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, noted that administrators are insisting students leave the Allen Building before negotiations continue.

DEMANDS from page 1 forward on behalf of Duke’s employees.”

Brodhead wrote in his email that the guidelines for contractors and their employees would be reviewed to ensure they “reflect Duke’s core values of civility, fairness and respect.” He added that the University hoped to “raise awareness of processes for the recruitment and review of senior administrators.”

To ensure these changes are implemented, Brodhead wrote he would appoint a steering committee with the advice of Duke faculty, staff and students.

He wrote that the recommendations of the committee would be made available to the Duke community.

Purifoy, Felicia Arriaga, a Ph.D. student in sociology, and Bennett Carpenter, a graduate student in the literature department and columnist for The Chronicle, read a list of demands that are conditions for students to voluntarily exit the Allen Building.

The full list of updated demands can be viewed below.

The first condition called for the University to hire “competent, outside employment counsel” approved by DSWS to annually investigate Parking and Transportation Services, the Duke University Police Department and the Office of Institutional Equity. They also demanded the University hire an independent consultant to conduct annual investigations of working conditions.

As a second condition, DSWS

demanded that the University make wage data publically available and raise the minimum wage to $12.53 per hour—a standard set by the Durham Living Wage Campaign—by the end of the year and to $15 per hour by July 4, 2019.

The speakers said that the sit-in students would voluntarily end their occupation after the two conditions were met, but only if further negotiations commence within one week of their leaving.

The protestors noted that three of the original seven demands could be negotiated after the students exit the building. They had previously stated that the sit-in students would not leave until all of the demands were met.

The first of the three negotiable demands is the termination of Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh and Carl DePinto, parking and transportation services director. The second is an overhaul of Duke’s employment standards for contracted workers to make sure there is equity between contract employees and regular University employees. The third is transparency and community input in the recruitment and selection process of Duke administrators.

One of the original demands—that Trask should pay Shelvia Underwood for legal and medical fees—was removed.

Protestors said they recognized that this demand should be adjudicated through current litigation.

Although Brodhead wrote in his email that the University will aim to “raise awareness of processes for the recruitment and review of senior administrators,” protestors said this was too vague.

Brodhead discussed hiring an independent expert in his email, but students said that they needed to receive firmer commitments before the sit-in

students leave the building.

They added that the “steering committee” Brodhead announced was insufficient and that a number of University task forces have not yielded tangible accomplishments.

“Task forces are where demands go to die,” read one sign held up by the occupying students.

The University’s task force on bias and hate issues, convened after the first community forum last November, is scheduled to issue a report in mid-April.

The sit-in began last Friday in response to allegations of discriminatory behavior in PTS and revelations that Trask hit contract employee Underwood with his car and allegedly used a racial slur as he drove away in 2014.

Speakers also addressed the fact that occupiers were on the Allen Building’s balcony despite administrators telling the sit-in students earlier in the day that they were not allowed to do so, and that previously-granted amnesty would not cover being on the balcony. Purifoy said, however, that the administration should not be allowed to impose conditions on the “unconditional amnesty” they had granted earlier.

Schoenfeld wrote that the “balcony” students have been using is actually a roof and that the University already prohibits access to “roof areas.” Being on the balcony is not “explicitly covered” by amnesty, he added.

Students did not publicly check off any demands from their list after Brodhead’s email. The only two demands currently met have been unconditional amnesty last Sunday and a public apology from Trask last Monday.

Gautam Hathi and contributed reporting.

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Recent events have once again rendered Duke’s campus turbulent and fraught with strife. Protests against what many students consider a lack of accountability on the part of the administration have divided students into several camps—for every protester at the Allen building, there seems to be an equal and opposite counter-protester posting aggravated comments on Yik Yak. No matter your position on the matter, the discussion is inescapable.

I am all for student advocacy, but it breaks my heart that even in these times of heightened awareness and sensitivity there exists a great, unspoken injustice that I observe every week as I perform my job as an editor for The Chronicle.

The injustice that I speak of is none other than The Chronicle’s refusal to use the Oxford comma due to its staunch commitment to Associated Press style.

You might casually skim an article about Craven’s newest pest infestation and notice a blank space where a comma should lie at the end of a list, separating adjectives, or resolving ambiguity. Rather than inserting a natural pause at the end of three or more listed ingredients, you might read about Saladelia’s new fudge brownies, pasta salad and lavender soda.

Disgusted, you’ll think that somebody legitimately thought it was a good idea to put lavender and sugar on rotini with some mayonnaise and spices before you realize your mistake, and that these are in fact two separate items. Nobody needs that emotional strain in their life, and it could be easily prevented by the use of our friend, the Oxford comma.

I don’t mean to turn you against The Chronicle, partially because it’s not

the one at fault and partially because I don’t want to lose my job. Instead, I cast the blame of this great, unspoken tragedy at the bastard-journalists of the AP. These ivory tower blue bloods dictate writing policy from the comfort of fancy chairs in stable jobs.

Who are these so-called “reporters” to tell Carly Rae Jepsen how to divide her sixth and seventh “really” when she is professing how much she really, really, really, really, really, really, really likes somebody? From what source does the AP derive its authority to declare the comma separating “natural flavors” and “caffeine” at the end of the list of ingredients on a can of Coke grammatically incorrect? Do they have some divine right to dictate how we choose to address a group of three or more people? I, for one, feel violated when the AP tells me that I love my parents, my dog Daisy and my cat Zucchini, creating ambiguity that makes me appear to deny the kinship of my wonderful family and claim to be the product of interspecies canoodling.

But this battle is much bigger than Carly Rae Jepsen, the Coca-Cola Company, and myself. This isn’t just about grammar—this is about the right to self-determination. The failure to acknowledge the Oxford comma is yet another manifestation of the Big Guy exerting a political and grammatical hegemony over small, independent organizations and governments such as The Chronicle and Puerto Rico.

But what can we do to end this madness? We must look to the example of countless past revolutionaries who have fought and died for their beliefs, and draw inspiration from their convictions and actions. The Founding Fathers of this great nation

The Chronicle of the United States of America boldly declared their independence from an empire that taxed them unduly and unfairly, and they threw a bunch of tea in the water to show that gosh-darn King just how serious they were. So too must we extract ourselves from the influence of the Associated Press and declare our right to put commas wherever we see fit.

As a single organization, we at The Chronicle are powerless to stand up to the imperialistic media behemoth that is the Associated Press. If we unite together, however, we can stand up to them and their subjugation of the freedom of the press, one of the most cherished and valued rights granted by the Bill of Rights. And so I ask you my friends, my fellow students, and Chronicle readers of all walks of life: continue to use the Oxford comma whenever and wherever you can. In this act of civil disobedience, you fight not only for grammar that makes sense, but also for freedom of expression, self-determination of government, and human dignity.

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Full Frame celebrates 19th year with fresh crop of films Jessica Williams The Chronicle The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will take place this weekend, from April 7 to 10. In its nineteenth year of bringing Durham nonfiction cinema, this year’s festival will include over 100 films from around the world.

“We want to show a broad weight of work, but always new work and work that is relevant,” said Full Frame director Deirdre Haj. With four categories of films—New Docs, Invited Program, Thematic Program and Full Frame Tribute—Full Frame presents both shorts and features. The Thematic Program this year will focus on “Perfect and Otherwise: Documenting American Politics,” and the Full Frame Tribute will center on filmmaker Kirsten Johnson. Many films at Full Frame will be making their world or North American premieres.

“We’re well-known internationally, so Full Frame is where a lot of filmmakers choose to premiere in the U.S.,” Haj said.

Telling stories from inside the U.S. and from abroad, documentary filmmakers have adapted over time to use more tools made available by increasing technology.

For example, four of this year’s films use animation.

“The field is getting wider—people are playing with all these different tools to tell their story,” Haj said.

Full Frame will be held at multiple locations in downtown Durham, including the Carolina Theatre, the Durham Convention Center and the Full Frame Theater. Although passes to Full Frame have already sold out, individual tickets are on sale online and in the last minute line.

Here are a few of the films making their world premiere at the Full Frame:

“Raising Bertie” Directed and produced by Margaret Byrne, “Raising Bertie” centers on the coming-of-age stories of three African American boys in Bertie County, North Carolina. Following their lives over six years, the film hopes to educate viewers about rural child poverty.

“The Ballad of Fred Hersch” This film portrays an influential, contemporary jazz pianist Fred Hersch and how his story influences his work. Despite tribulations he has faced as an AIDS survivor, Fred Hersch continues to be a world renowned jazz pianist due to his improvisation.

“I, Destini” Created by Duke MFA graduate Nick Pilarski, “I, Destini” is an animated documentary short focusing on a youth in Durham. Addressing issues such as race relations, the short tells the story of Destini Ridley and her experience with having an incarcerated loved one.

“Forever, Chinatown” “Forever, Chinatown,” a film by James Q. Chan, describes the life of artist Frank Wong and his experiences living in San Francisco’s Chinatown, starting in the 1940s. In order to document his experiences growing up and living in Chinatown, Wong created seven miniature dioramas—mostly the size of shoeboxes—between 1945 and 1993.

“Off the Rails” This film documents the life of Darius McCollum, a man jailed 32 times for impersonating New York transit workers, due to his love of transportation and his Asperger’s syndrome. “Off the Rails” tells the story of a unique individual and also comments on issues within the justice system.

Special to The Chronicle Passholders can watch Full Frame films at various downtown Durham locations, such as the Carolina Theatre and the Durham Convention Center.

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Theater studies ‘BOB’ brings White Castle humor to Sheafer Christy Kuesel The Chronicle This weekend, Sheafer Theater offers students a show with road trips, Girl Scouts and White Castle.

The Theater Studies Department brings “BOB: A Life in Five Acts” to Duke this month. “BOB” follows the story of a man named Bob, who was born in a White Castle bathroom. Bob is taken in by a waitress, and the pair go on a road trip across America. Along the way, Bob meets a variety of interesting characters who all influence him as he grows from a child to an old man.

“Bob is a very simple man, and he meets very out of the ordinary characters,” said Ellen Hemphill, the play’s director and an associate professor

of the practice of Theater Studies.

Since “BOB” features so many characters, every actor in the play except sophomore George Lucas, who plays Bob, is a member of the chorus. Many actors play multiple characters.

“It really contributes to the energy of the piece. You’re never bored. You’re constantly switching personas, and all of the characters are really big,” said junior Lauren Sibley.

Sibley is a member of the chorus and plays Vera Ponchatraine, a snooty Girl Scout, a waitress and Jeanine Bordeau, a waitress at White Castle and Bob’s adoptive mother.

“BOB” also deals with the idea of what makes someone great, and what being great actually means. Bob has longed to be a great man from a very young age, but he is unsure as to what being great

actually means.

“The major themes would be…what you think makes you great and what really makes you great,” Hemphill said.

“Is it success? Is it money? Is it love? Or is it coming to terms with yourself and who you are?”

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, the playwright of the show, came to visit some of the rehearsals early in the process and gave feedback to actors.

“To see the person that this was stemming from, that was really neat,” Sibley said.

“BOB” is unique from many shows at Duke in that it incorporates video elements into the play. The set allows for video projection onto many surfaces.

The audience might see a house or a table or chair digitally projected onto the stage.

“There are many, many aspects of images throughout the piece that are either foreshadowing or memory or create mood,” Hemphill said.

The set also combines lights, sound and video. The stage is meant to simulate America and is shaped like an outline map of America.

“It’s a very complicated play and very tech-heavy,” Sibley said. “Putting the pieces together has been a challenge, but definitely one that I think will pay off.”

“BOB” also features original compositions by composer Allison Leyton-Brown. While the original script does not call for music, Nachtrieb leaves room for directors to experiment with music and dance.

The show presents new opportunities

for students like junior Cuquis Robledo.

Robledo, who has a disability, makes her first appearance in a Theater Studies production this semester and has found the environment to be inclusive.

“I feel like they’re really good about making sure that I’m safe on stage and that I’m feeling included,” Robledo said. “It’s been a really good experience so far.”

Robledo, who believes that she is one of the first disabled students to perform in a theater production on campus, hopes that more disabled students will be encouraged to act in the future.

“I think now there’s more talk about wanting more people with disabilities to act and be portrayed as regular everyday characters,” Robledo said. “I hope to see more of a push in that direction.”

“BOB” is perhaps one of the more lighthearted pieces that the Theater Studies Department has produced. The piece prides itself on being quirky and larger than life, but also deals with issues that Duke students can relate to, namely how to find happiness and discover one’s true self.

“He [Bob] has such a complicated life path, and it keeps on being interrupted and changed by all the experiences he has, and I think that’s something a lot of Duke students will be able to relate to,” Lucas said. “You’re going to encounter challenges along the way…

Not everything will unfold the way you want it to, but in the end, it will usually turn out okay.”

The show runs April 7-10 and April 1417. Tickets are available at the Duke Box Office or online at https://tickets.duke.edu/.

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Tales from South By Southwest Sid Gopinath and Aditya Joshi The Chronicle At first, it was just another out-there idea.

What if, somehow, the two of us could go to the South by Southwest film festival over Spring Break? We would get the chance to meet some of our heroes, see movies and hang out in Austin, Texas. Or, even better, what if we could write about our experiences and maybe even film parts of it? It certainly didn’t seem plausible.

Just for kicks, we searched around Duke for some funding that would allow this to happen. As you might imagine, it’s not easy to find funding for two, $700+ tickets to a film festival in Austin, Texas. Unsuccessful, we tried a last-ditch effort by working with Recess editor Georgia Parke to apply for a press pass provided by the festival. If anything, it would be even better to cover it for The Chronicle rather than just write a few pieces for a personal blog. This would hopefully give us a rigorous schedule, actual accountability and an opportunity to do true press coverage.

The thing is, we just never expected to actually be given a press pass by SXSW. But then, like other absurd “what if” ideas, like, say, Matt Damon buying a zoo, it actually came to fruition. Thankfully, unlike Cameron Crowe’s subpar movie, our idea had promise.

When the email came a few weeks before break, our alternative plans went flying out the window, and our planning kicked into hyperdrive. Upon checking the SXSW schedule, we realized that there were dozens of celebrities to potentially interview, hundreds of screenings to attend and thousands of people with whom to network.

We were inundated with options.

After scrambling to find a way to get to Austin, asking around for places to crash for a week and narrowing down our desired events, we were ready to go. With the cooperation of

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Duke Student Broadcasting, duARTS and the Duke Chronicle, we flew down to Austin with three cameras, five microphones and a variety of accessories, ready to document our experiences at the festival for a week.

On our first day at the festival, we realized that Austin was really all that everyone had told us it would be. By that, we mean that it was hot and had a ton of good food.

Not to sound cliché, but there was a certain energy in the air. This was a week of new films and unique experiences, and everyone seemed to know it. It was an energy that felt very much like being in a room with musicians as they create new music together—electric, nervous, hopeful.

As members of the press, we certainly felt this infectious electricity. We also felt like a distinct entity, separate from the other festivalgoers and, more so, the filmmakers. If there was a negative, though, it was the only one. As it turns out, being a member of the press can open a fair number of doors.

As writers for a small student newspaper, we were only put on the waitlists for most red carpet interviews. Fortunately, bigger and more recognizable news companies consistently dropped out of red carpets, allowing us the once in a lifetime chances to interview actors and filmmakers about how students could get into the industry or what being in their shoes is like.

On top of that, we got into extra events and were able to organize interviews with directors and actors, some of whom were showing their films for the very first time ever.

From the beginning, we had no intention to review these films or events. No one at Duke wanted to read a review from us about a festival film. And, if they did, there were other news outlets that would probably do that better and more quickly than us anyway.

So, then, what could we provide? We settled on writing about our impressions and, more importantly, the lessons that we learned from the festival and the filmmakers who were present. We made it a point to ask about transitioning from being a student to being a filmmaker in most of our interviews. So, after some talk, we have distilled these lessons into the following list for you.

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we had traveled across the country and walked around Austin with tons of luggage strapped to our bodies. The strength of that creative spark overtook him when he founded SXSW almost 30 years ago, and hopefully, it will overtake everyone trying to make it in this industry.

Lesson #2: Just Ask The fact that we have an experience about which to write this article is in itself a testament to the power of just “giving it a shot.” It doesn’t matter how absurd your proposition is or how much fame and success the person you’re requesting something from has had, because the absolute worst anyone can say is no. This applies to all walks of life, but we were shocked at how much a simple email to the right person could help us out and give us totally unforeseen opportunities. We got to sit down to talk with Gillian Jacobs and Mike Birbiglia for 20 minutes! We interviewed Don Cheadle on the Red Carpet! Journalism badge aside, we were really just 21-year-old fanboys masquerading as reporters who managed to ride a wave of irrationally confident emailing into one of the best weeks of our lives. You too can manage to have opportunities you had no clue were feasibly possible with just a simple request.

Lesson #3: Success is Relative One of the things we talked to the cast of “Don’t Think Twice” about was the idea of success, and getting older affects their perception of success. Something we learned is that even the most famous and successful actors still have insecurity and doubts. Despite the fame and money, they just want to be able to continue doing what they love.

Gillian Jacobs summed this up really well in saying, “The sickness of this business is that you never feel successful. You always feel like the looming pressure of what you haven’t achieved or what people told you you couldn’t do or are not allowed to do.”

Don Cheadle echoed that sentiment, saying that every time he finishes a job, he thinks “Oh, I’m unemployed.”

That said, the real lesson was that you don’t necessarily have to achieve what people tell you you have to achieve in order to be successful just to be happy and fulfilled. The entire DTT cast made a point to emphasize that even working on some of the most successful projects of their careers or reaching one of the many “checkpoints” in the life of a comedian failed to live up to the experience of their first improv performances or one man shows.

Even if you don’t feel this advice applies to you in the context of the film industry, it’s still valuable to acknowledge. Aditya has written in the past about the pressure to conform to certain standards of success we feel imposed on us by the Duke community at large, and how that can be frustrating when placed alongside our creative aspirations. To hear those like Jacobs and Cheadle, who have both Sid Gopinath | The Chronicle achieved tremendous success in their fields,

Lesson #1: Passion is Essential At the very first red carpet we went to, we had the opportunity to talk to Louis Black, the founder of SXSW and the director of the documentary, “Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny.” When we mentioned that, for Duke students, the idea of committing to a career in independent filmmaking was extremely difficult, he gave us an extremely passionate response. Essentially, he drilled home the idea that nothing is too hard if you’re driven by a passion for your creation. If you’re driven by love and passion, nothing is more satisfying than putting in that work. Hearing him talk about filmmaking in this way took all the stress of travel out of our systems and reminded us why

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discuss the importance of personal fulfillment outside of the bounds of industry standards was eye-opening, to say the least. Maybe we’ve been thinking about future success all wrong?

Lesson #4: Storytelling is Powerful The final lesson we took away from the festival is that, quite simply, storytelling is powerful. The stories some of these films told were not ones that we would find on the big screens across the country, but this is what made these stories so beautiful in many ways. They were able to touch on sensitive issues in compelling ways. For example, “A Stray” was able to address the debates about refugees in America by telling the story from the perspective of a Somalian refugee living in Minneapolis, Minn. Director Musa Syeed discussed how he was able to draw in his experiences as a Muslim while also furthering the cause of diversity in the film industry.

“I hope that this can open the door for more films like this about the community and for members of the community to also tell their own stories,” Syeed said.

These films used storytelling as a tool to comment on important social issues. As filmmakers, and as artists in general, we all can use our craft to advance causes near to our heart without sacrificing the artistry of our work.

So, now, here we are on the other side of a once in a lifetime experience. We learned a lot. We were able to cover the festival for The Chronicle. We got to chat with screenwriters and actors and tons of excited film fanatics like us. However, more than anything, we just feel grateful that we were able to be at SXSW for a week. It was a week like none other.

If the festival is any indication, the future is bright for independent films. Perhaps more importantly though, the future continues to be bright with potential for student filmmakers and student artists. And that might be the most exciting part.

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Q&A: Local singer Skylar Gudasz talks new album Kirby Wilson

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TC: Some of your songs, like “Kick out the Chair,” with its grand, dramatic piano and building instrumental section, have an almost theatrical cadence to them. I’m a theater kid.

SG: Oh really? Me, too! That was my major.

Local artist Skylar Gudasz released her first full-length studio album, “Oleander,” at Cat’s Cradle last Friday. As a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill alum now living in Durham, Gudasz has hometown roots. She is best known for her smoky voice and distinctive sound. The Chronicle’s Kirby Wilson spoke with Gudasz on the phone about her first album, the meaning behind her lyrics, and what it’s like being a local artist.

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The Chronicle: The thing that really stuck out to me about “Oleander” was your focus on travel. In song after song, you sing about transportation. Why was this theme so important to you?

Skylar Gudasz: I feel like distance and travel are definitely a huge part of the record.

Partly that is because I was doing a lot of traveling. I was just starting to tour and really go around the world at the time I was writing those songs. That was weighing on my mind, what was so compelling about traveling and being as far as possible from everything you know and why that was something I wanted.

So that was definitely something i wanted to explore. And that idea of exploration, to take the cue from the song “Ships,” I was very taken for a long time about the Antarctic explorers. What would make them want to go so far from home?

TC: It’s funny that you mention distance as well, because you depict some pretty brutal, yet very relatable relationships. I was particularly interested in how you focused on the nonromantic side of love in “I’ll Be Your Man” and “I Want To Be With You In The Darkness.” Why does that side of intimacy pique your curiosity?

SG: I think that relationships are multifaceted. I think it’s rare that you have a relationship that’s strictly platonic or exactly one thing or the other. And that [platonic] relationships are just as fulfilling and just as wrought with complexity as a romantic relationship can be. Especially living in the patriarchy, women especially, even though we are living in 2016, there is still this huge underlying pressure for women to get married and be defined—and it is true for men, too—by their relationship status.

That’s really not a truthful depiction of what people’s complete lives are.

TC: You grew up in Virginia, went to UNC Chapel Hill and live in Durham. How has living in the South, and perhaps more specifically, the Triangle influenced your music? You sound like a feminist. Has it been hard to be a musical feminist in the South?

SG: I’d say definitely not in the Triangle.

There are so many awesome outlets for the arts down here. I think it’s probably equally hard and easy to be a feminist anywhere. And like I said when I said patriarchy, those are things that are just ingrained in the way our society is. Institutional oppression is across the board. I don’t know if that’s specifically being in the South. I’m sure if I had more coffee, I could talk about it.

TC: Wow, cool! So has Broadway influenced your songs at all?

SG: Surely! I mean I did all kinds of theater and some musicals and definitely showtunes are a big part of my musical education.

TC: What was the first song on this record that you wrote? The last? Which did you find hardest to write?

SG: “Kick Out The Chair” was the first song. The last song was “I’ll Be Your Man.” “Kick Out The Chair” was the hardest to write. I struggled with the middle part. I think it can be easy to start a song and then reign it in. I, like many artists, I’m sure, can be good at starting songs, but committing to an ending is more difficult.

Special to The Chronicle Local Durham artist Skylar Gudasz debuted her album, “Oleander,” last Friday at Cat’s Cradle.

TC: Who are your biggest currentlyrecording influences?

SG: I really love Laura Marling. Kurt Vile I’m a fan of, though I sort of don’t know why. I’m very compelled by the tones on his last record, and I loved all the sounds that he captured. Lyrically, he’s not always there for me. Lucinda Williams is amazing and continues to do fantastic work. Gillian Welch is another current recording artist that leaves me floored every time she releases new work.

TC: Side note: are you a vinyl fan?

SG: Oh, absolutely! How about you?

standing with you onstage.

SG: I know! if it were financially viable, I would totally have 30 people onstage. We’ve got a pretty typical five piece rock band with bass, keyboard, organ, electric guitar and drums. And we’re gonna have a violinist and cellist, as well.

TC: Are you going to bust out the flute? I read that was your main instrument.

SG: Oh no, the secret is out! [Laughs]

TC: If you could open for one artist, who would it be?

SG: Oh, man! That’s so tough! That’s a question I should definitely have an answer to. I don’t know because I’m caught between the artists I’d most like to hang out with backstage, and then there’s also the person who’s my biggest hero, but then I don’t want to meet my heroes...You know what?

This is crazy and totally gonna mess up my indie rock cred, but I really think opening for Adele would be awesome.

I feel like her fans would be totally insane and she would also be like a mom backstage.

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TC: Yeah, definitely! And that’s big on the campus, so I think people will be interested to know that.

SG: Definitely, definitely. Actually, my record player is in the back of my car right now. I need to go get it fixed. I’m a huge vinyl fan. “Oleander” isn’t out on vinyl yet, but it’s going to come out on vinyl.

TC: ...Speaking of genre, this record is sort of hard to pigeonhole into one genre. There are classical ballads, twangy beach bum overtones, and even on “I’m So Happy I Could Die,” there’s a little hip-hop percussion.

SG: Yep, that’s totally a drum machine.

TC: Yeah, so when so many artists try to stick to one sound, why do you find that less appealing?

SG: That’s really interesting. I don’t really have an answer to your question, but that is something I think about a lot.

Because you have artists who will make a record and people will totally get into that record, and then they’ll make the next record and people will get mad at them for sounding completely different. And I totally get that as a fan, but then I think about it from the musician’s perspective.

They’re just on the artistic journey and they’re just trying to experiment with what sounds true to them.

TC: What kind of backing band can the Friday Cat’s Cradle audience expect? When I hear “Oleander,” I picture...30 people

Ruici Ong is a Trinity senior. More of her work can be found on Facebook at “Duck Academy.”

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StreetMed hits its groove in second year on campus Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle On April 5, 2016, something unprecedented happened on Duke’s campus: Street Medicine, Duke’s premier (and not to mention only) urban dance group hosted its first ever hip-hop dance showcase, dubbed Unleashed.

Instead of focusing solely on showcasing the talents of the group’s members, the event incorporated hip-hop performances from other dance groups at Duke such as Defining Movement, Duke Chinese Dance and Momentum Dance Company, as well as groups from other schools including University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s groups Kamikazi and Moonlight. Although StreetMed’s members performed a total of four original sets during the event, over 100 presenters contributed to Unleashed.

“Unleashed is the only showcase so far that focuses purely on hip-hop dance and urban dance fusion,” sophomore Albert Zhu, one of StreetMed’s current copresidents, said. “What Unleashed has that makes it different from others is that it’s really more of a showcase of hip-hop dance choreography, what it does for dancers and what it does for our members, rather than a showcase of our team specifically.”

StreetMed hasn’t always orchestrated such large showcases, however. The group was founded in the spring of 2014 by senior Tim Luu, senior Ray Liu and Rebeca Holmes T’15. According to Zhu, the group started off less as a formal dance company and more as a group of people who enjoyed dancing and met once or twice a week to practice the art form.

Katherine M. Zhou | Special to The Chronicle StreetMed only began two years ago, but since then they have developed a steady fan base.

“We started out as a few odd stragglers with zero name on campus—for some time, people thought we were an organization for pre-meds,” junior Eufern Pan, StreetMed’s other current co-president, said of the organization’s beginnings. “Now we are a strong 22-member team who has been invited to perform at multiple venues on and off campus.” “[The team] was committed, but dance and the team didn’t take first or second place as far as many of their priorities were concerned,” Zhu said. “However, with this year, individuals on the team and the team itself as a collective became more passionate—about dance, about honing their craft and about using dance as a medium to express themselves.”

In just over two years of existence, the group’s evolution is obvious. StreetMed has become much more prominent on and off campus, especially with the launching of Unleashed this year. This rapid progression could possibly be contributed to the recent emphasis that has been placed on not only dancing well, but on creating a sense of community within the group.

“As a leader of the group for the past two years, one of [my] biggest goals has been to create a strong-knit family,” Pan said.

“Thus, nothing makes me happier than the fact that my babies love coming to practice, that they’re proud and happy to be part of the fam and that as individuals with no dance experience, StreetMed has provided them not just dance but a community.”

The members’ passion not only for dance but for the StreetMed community shows in their performances and in the recognition the group has gained in its short life span. The team is not just a group of people who dance together—they’re a family.

“I’m so honored and blessed to have such a wonderful family and to lead a team with members so willing to give their all,” Zhu said. “Their passion fuels both me and themselves ever forward, and I admire that about them all.”

Unleashed represents a big milestone in StreetMed’s short history, but the group is not stopping there. Although the team already collaborates with groups both at Duke and beyond, including co-hosting workshops with dancers from UNC and North Carolina State University, even more expansion lies in their future.

“The goal for StreetMed isn’t necessarily to be regarded as the ‘best’ group on campus,” Zhu said. “What I’d much rather have is for StreetMed to continue a tradition of valuing growth both on the individual and the team levels...what that entails is for Street Medicine in the future is continuing to expand our presence in the community, participating in showcases in Virginia (such as Coalescence) and competitions such as Prelude Carolinas, and conducting more workshops and other events that serve to continue our main goal of spreading hip-hop dance culture throughout Duke, especially to those who have little experience but are willing to try.”

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The Blue Devils looked poised for the win with a 3-0 lead and oneset advantage on three singles courts, but the Wolverines reeled off two comeback wins to help tie the score— forcing all eyes to court one for the deciding match.

With the team scored knotted at three apiece, No. 25 Beatrice Capra and No. 16 Ronit Yurovsky had just started their third set after splitting the first two 4-6, 7-6.

Yurovsky eventually pulled through and clinched the three-hour match on court one, leading MICH 4 No. 11 Michigan DUKE 3 to a 4-3 win against No. 8 Duke 6-3 by outlasting Capra in the final frame Wednesday at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

“The match came down to two really good players left on the court,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “[Capra] played better than she did in the win against Notre Dame, and she didn’t give [Yurovsky] any free points. Every point she won, she really had to earn.”

Capra was off to a strong start in the first set after breaking Yurovsky’s serve to claim her first lead of the match 3-2 and took the first frame 6-4. The Blue Devils’ top singles player nearly clinched the match for the home squad after earning a 5-3 advantage in the second set, but could not hold on.

Motin Yeung | The Chronicle Beatrice Capra fought a tough three-setter but lost the decisive match to Ronit Yurovsky as Duke dropped a 4-3 decision to Michigan Wednesday afternoon.

Yurovsky fought back to win the next three games and force a tiebreaker, which she rolled through 7-4 to stay in the match.

Capra’s frustration and fatigue were evident as the third set began. The Ellicott City, Md., native was charged with a time violation because she was not back on the court after the break, forcing her to forfeit the first point of the game. Both Capra and Yurovsky kept play at the baseline for the next hour, unable to muster the energy to

make a move to the net through the next nine games.

“That was a really physical match for Beatrice,” Ashworth said. “A lot of points were really long, and she had to move a lot. She definitely still gave herself opportunities, and that’s all you can ask for.”

Two hours earlier, the Blue Devils (15-4, 8-2 in the ACC) were off to a quick start through doubles play and the first two singles matches.

Duke grabbed the early lead on

court two with freshman Kaitlyn McCarthy and sophomore Samantha Harris dispatching Mira Ruder-Hook and Alex Najarian 6-3 to open doubles play. Alyssa Smith and Chalena Scholl dropped their match on court three 4-6 to Yurovsky and Sara Remynse, but Duke’s top duo of No. 19 Capra and Ellyse Hamlin battled through an even match with Kate Fahey and Brienne Minor.

Capra and Hamlin forced a tiebreaker, then Capra drove a forehand between Fahey and Minor to clinch the match 7-6 (7-5), and the doubles point.

Harris sped through her singles match on court four against RudorHook with little difficulty, giving her only one game in the 6-0, 6-1 victory.

Freshman Jessica Ho was not far behind on court six, picking up a 6-2, 6-1 victory thanks to decisive play in the second stanza.

Duke was also up by a set on courts one, three and five, but Scholl and Makarova began to struggle after a win on court two gave Michigan (13-4) the spark it needed.

Minor fought back from a 3-0 deficit against McCarthy on court two to claim the first frame 7-5. McCarthy could not recover as Minor found her momentum, and the Wolverine put her team on the board with a quick 6-2 victory in the second stanza.

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Blue Devils gear up for top-ranked Notre Dame Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle Through a pair of ACC games, the Blue Devils have experienced the emotional roller coaster that has epitomized their season to date.

But after splitting a pair of overtime decisions with Syracuse and North Carolina at home the past two weekends, Duke now hits the road for arguably its toughest test of the season.

For the third time in as many weeks, the Blue Devils will take on a ranked ACC opponent, this time visiting No. 1 Notre Dame at noon Sunday at Arlotta Stadium in South Bend, Ind. Although No. 13 Duke hung tough with the Fighting Irish last season—going 1-1 No. 13 against Notre Dame in Duke 2015—the Blue Devils vs. will have their hands No. 1 full with this year’s topNotre ranked squad, which Dame is also the third-best SATURDAY, noon defensive unit in the Arlotta Stadium nation with just 6.6

goals allowed per game.

After a heartbreaking 17-16 defeat to the then-No. 15 Tar Heels last Friday, Duke will need to collect itself if it wants to pick up a critical win with just three games remaining before postseason play begins.

“You have no choice [but to move forward],” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “In life, you get knocked down. We got knocked back and we have no choice but to get up.”

With a deep and talented offensive unit, the Blue Devils (7-5, 1-1 in the ACC) have had no problem scoring—ranking second in the country with 14.5 goals per game, led by 51 points from senior midfielder Myles Jones.

But the defensive end of their game has been an entirely different story.

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Goalkeeper Danny Fowler and the Duke defense allowed 17 goals in a loss to North Carolina last Friday, and will need to tighten up if the Blue Devils hope to defeat top-ranked Notre Dame Saturday.

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Blue Devils ready for top-10 bout with Wake Forest Delaney King The Chronicle The season may be winding down for the Blue Devils, but the competition is heating up.

Duke faces No. 6 Wake Forest Saturday at Leighton Tennis Stadium in WinstonSalem at 3:30 p.m. in the second of two straight top-10 Duke contests, with No. 1 North Carolina vs. just around the No. 6 corner April 17. The Wake last time out, the Forest Blue Devils found SATURDAY, 3:30 p.m. themselves on the Leighton Tennis Stadium wrong side of four three-set singles matches in their 6-1 loss to No. 3 Virginia.

Duke started strong in singles play after dropping the doubles point when senior Josh Levine defeated No. 88 JC Aragone 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), to even the day’s score at one. But the Cavaliers fought their way to victory on all of the remaining singles courts to claim the day.

“The Virginia match did give us a lot of confidence, even though we lost 6-1,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “It definitely gave all of our guys a belief, knowing that we can play with anybody.

That’s really the first step, and now the second step is closing and finishing those matches and those sets off.”

The Demon Deacons (24-4, 8-1 in the ACC) have dominated all season and finished the month of March having conceded just six total points to their opponents. Wake Forest enters Saturday fresh off an upset win against

Han Kang | The Chronicle Freshman Catalin Mateas will face the highest-ranked opponent of his young career when Duke takes on No. 6 Wake Forest Saturday.

the top-ranked Tar Heels April 3, bouncing back from a 3-1 deficit to notch the 4-3 victory.

No. 13 Skander Mansouri and No. 24 Petros Chrysochos lead the lineup for the Demon Deacons. Chrysochos enters Saturday riding a nine-match win streak, and Mansouri lost his first conference matchup of the season against North Carolina’s then-No. 46 Brayden Schnur.

Mansouri will likely face No. 26 Nicolas Alvarez on court one, while Chrysochos takes on fellow freshman Catalin Mateas on court two. Mateas will face the highest-ranked opponent of his career Saturday in Chrysochos,

having battled to a 7-6, 6-4 win against then-No. 41 Aron Hiltzik of Illinois Jan. 29.

Court three will likely pit Duke’s Vincent Lin against Jon Ho. Lin will hope to break a two-match losing streak in the contest, dropping three tiebreakers in the two losses. At the end of the lineup, Wake Forest’s four, five and six players have shifted around in the lineup throughout the season, but have all racked up doubledigit wins—a testament to the team’s considerable depth.

“Wake’s really good, they just beat UNC—the number one team in the country—at UNC, and they’re just

really good top to bottom,” Smith said.

“They’re extremely deep—their seven, eight, nine guys are very good—they have a very good team, but I just think it’s a great challenge for us, and we’re looking forward to it.”

By the end of next weekend, Duke (11-11, 4-5) will have faced three top10 opponents in four matches, but Saturday’s contest provides a bit of relief as the only competition of the weekend.

The Blue Devils have played two matches per weekend—Friday and Sunday—since ACC play began March 6. “[Only playing Saturday] just gives us a little bit more time—it gives us a longer practice week,” Smith said.

“We’ve had two matches a week for awhile, so the guys get a little bit healthier and we get to work on a couple more things at practice, and it’s also nice just to know that we can go all out for one match, and we don’t have to worry about the second half of the week.”

After the Wake Forest contest, Duke returns to a two-match weekend to welcome Clemson Friday and North Carolina Sunday in the squad’s final regular-season matches. The Blue Devils went 2-5 to open the conference season but have recently hit their stride, winning three of their last four contests by a margin of at least three points.

“We’re playing a lot better than we did a couple weeks ago—our team’s in a better place than it was a couple weeks ago—and we’re just looking to finish strong,” Smith said. “That’s kind of been our goal from the very beginning, to maximize our potential by the end of the year and play our best tennis at the end of the year.”

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Kelsey Duryea and Claire Scarrone— anchors of a top-20 Blue Devil defense—along with midfielder Maddy Acton, will all be Boston honored during the College annual Saturday’s vs.

Senior Day when No. 13 No. 13 Duke takes Duke on No. 17 Boston College at 1 p.m. at SATURDAY, 1 p.m.

Koskinen Stadium Koskinen Stadium for its last home game of the regular season. The Eagles enter the contest boasting one of the top scoring offenses in the nation, averaging 12.3 goals per game. “[The seniors] had a really lasting impact both on the field and off the field in terms of their leadership and experience,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “I think that for our kids,

Senior Day is always special, and I think more importantly just how important this Boston College game is both in the context of the regular season and our postseason hopes.”

Recently, the seniors have been the ones stepping up for the Blue Devils (8-5, 3-1 in the ACC) as they trudge through the gauntlet of ACC play.

Faced with an 11-5 halftime deficit against No. 4 Syracuse, Acton took charge, firing in four second-half goals to register a career-high six tallies on the day. Although Acton’s performance came in a losing effort—the team closed the deficit to two, losing 14-12 Sunday—Duke proved that it could find ways to still put the ball in the net even when two of the team’s top scorers were shut down.

The Blue Devils’ leading goal scorer, Kyra Harney, was virtually absent throughout the loss to the Orange, as she was continuously shadowed by an opposing defender. The decision made by the Syracuse defense came on the heels of a four-goal showing from Harney in an 11-8 victory against No. 15 Virginia Mar. 26. But Acton made sure

that Duke would not go down quietly, and the Sudbury, Mass., native hopes that the momentum from her career day will carry through to her last regular-season contest at Koskinen.

Against a high-scoring Eagles squad, the Blue Devils may need a repeat performance from Acton if Harney is swarmed once again by the defense.

But it will not be easy, as Boston College (6-5, 1-4) likes to control the ball on offense as it has attempted nearly 100 more shots than its opponents.

The Eagles are not efficient, though, scoring on only 45 percent of their attempted shots. Much like the Syracuse offense, Boston College has multiple weapons, with five different players already having registered at least 20 points this season.

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lack of communication, but we’re working on improving all three areas. If we can get a little bit better—we don’t have to get a lot better—we’ll be more competitive.”

Unlike the Blue Devils, Notre Dame (7-1, 2-0) has put together a strong defensive group led by goalkeeper Shane Doss. Backed by their upperclassman trio of defensemen—Jack Sheridan, Edwin Glazener and Matt Landis— the Fighting Irish have limited opponents to just 29.1 shots per game and forced 72 turnovers.

With three years of past matchups against Duke, the Notre Dame back line will likely be ready for the Blue Devils’ offensive arsenal. A series of offensive adjustments from Danowski could, however, throw a wrinkle into the Fighting Irish’s plans come Sunday.

“Those guys know what the task at hand is and it comes down to execution,” Jones said. “We can give them a quiz and they’ll know everything, but when it comes to on-field execution, that

help him protect the Duke net.

“For the first couple of practices after the [North Carolina] game, we had our defense camp where we got back to basics,” Jones said.

“We started from scratch, made sure everyone knew the fundamentals—the simple pieces of our defense—so that we can put [them] together and make it a whole piece.”

With veteran defenders—including seniors Jamie Ikeda and Chris Coady—the Blue Devils have the parts to make up a productive unit. Yet, their on-field performances thus far have not shown signs of being the experienced group that Duke needs.

“Defensively, we need to get better,” Danowski said. “I don’t think we’re that far off. I think it’s a multitude of different things, whether sometimes it’s an individual getting beat, sometimes it’s decision-making, sometimes it’s

on-field performance is what we’re looking for [from ourselves] this week.”

Even though Sunday’s game represents a major opportunity for Duke to get back on track, the Blue Devils’ head coach does not feel as if it is a must-win in what has very much been an up-and-down season for his team.

“It is what it is,” Danowski said. “It’s Duke-Notre Dame—they got us pretty good here last year at home and we played pretty well [against them] in

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What’s in a demand?

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hen the sit-in of the Allen building began, Duke Workers and Students in Solidarity issued seven demands of the administration.

Over the course of the next several days, the protesters elicited a public apology from Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, as well as received amnesty for those sitting-in. Given the current negotiation impasse initiated by the administration on Monday, we turn now to scrutinize the demands issued by students through their original issuance and the clarifications announced yesterday evening.

The first unanswered demand calls for the immediate termination of three administrators: Tallman Trask, Parking and Transportation Services Director Carl DePinto and Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh. The grouping of these administrators unfortunately confounds two separate though related issues in the allegations against Trask and a wider hostile and discriminatory culture at PTS. We agree that the call for Trask’s dismissal and reparations to Shelvia Underwood ignore due process in the current civil litigation. But without further investigation, termination from the University is premature and a dangerous precedent, but we fully support independent investigation and adjudication under University policies. We urge protesters to continue seeking light shed in these matters and to be

“The administration has bent over backwards for these protestors. They had a perfect opportunity to kick them out when they went out on the balcony that was clearly off limits, but didn’t.

It’s about time they get rid of them.”

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willing to commit to whatever conclusions come from such processes.

A call for a $15 per hour minimum wage, even implemented over time, ignores the current national debate and far-from-settled discussion in academia over the benefits of a living wage. It also fails to account for Durham’s own living costs. It further fails to understand that state- or city-wide minimum wage increases are different economically than raising the wage floor at Duke alone. We recommend the protesters shift the

Editorial focus of this demand toward transparent review and revision of Duke’s employment standards. Currently, most Duke employees are subcontracted and do not receive the $12 per hour minimum wage that only approximately 400 employees earn. We encourage protesters to seek change in Duke’s negotiations with these contracting companies and the administration to recognize the power it has in subcontracting thousands of workers on campus.

The sixth demand listed asks for transparency and “community input” in hiring administrators. Not only does the demand fail to define community input, but it overlooks the role of the students every year who

participate in the Board of Trustees and in consulting administration itself in shaping the direction of many different parts of the University. If more students are to be consulted, we propose students learn the distinction between different administrators and their roles between academic leadership and University administration.

However, we recognize that Duke’s lack of transparency, especially regarding a comprehensive organizational chart, makes this difficult for students looking to learn more about the workings of our university. The creation of a more transparent system would pave the way for important changes, including the shorter-term appointment of investigators into PTS, the Duke Police force and Office of Institutional Equity for their handling of Underwood’s case and the claims of other former and current PTS employees under DePinto.

Transparency would place burden on administrators to work with students, rather than seemingly against them. However, as members of our community, even when urgency drives us toward change, we must be precise in our language and reasonable in our negotiations especially with respect to popular but complicated issues like wage floors. That change is required as Duke continues to strive to be a welcoming and open environment is undeniable, but we urge students to stay grounded in the facts and to understand the processes at work.

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ollege is the time when the boy you are meets the man you are going to be.”

When Dr. Sparky Reardon—longtime Dean of Students at Ole Miss—told us that at the Interfraternity Council New Member Reception a few weeks ago, it got me thinking about how you can figure out the man you are going to be. He suggested that this room full of young men go learn their Fraternity’s creed and ritual and go preach it.

And there is a great deal to be taken from each of our Fraternity’s founding documents and ideals. But to meet the man you are going to be, you have to come to define your own creed.

As I sit here and write this, I am well aware of how lofty

tomorrow; it determines what you will be able to do, not what you will do.

The easiest way to close doors on yourself is to neglect keeping them open.

3)A Fine Courtesy is a Fortune in Itself Admittedly, I’m stealing this quote from Orison Swett Marden, a late 19th and early 20th century American inspirational writer. But take a minute to think about the people you most like to be around. Are they the ones that mope and complain and find fault, or the ones that smile and express interest in you and are genuinely happy to see you? My favorite line from any book is when Lee says in East of Eden, “Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.” I like to broaden

Max Stayman THE THREE HAVES and pretentious it seems. Nonetheless, I think a creed is supposed to be a high ideal after which you strive, and, by definition, of which you often fall short. In that mindset, I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to figure out my own creed. My remaining days at Duke are running low—if Sparky is right, I better meet this new Max soon.

With that said, here is in no particular order the Spring 2016 version of the Max Stayman Creed: 1) Take Care of Your Business Having been around Duke football for the last two years, this is something I’ve overheard from Coach Cutcliffe a million times: take care of your business. I also heard it growing up. Absolutely go have fun, but take care of your business first.

If you say you are going to do something, do it. If you say you are going to be somewhere, be there. If people can’t rely on your actions, they’ll never put any weight behind your words.

2) What you do today determines what you will be able to do tomorrow.

My grandfather used to always tell me this growing up, and probably at too young an age. I doubt what I did in elementary and middle school had much effect on my later life. Nonetheless, his repetition laid the groundwork.

It’s much better to decide between multiple options than it is to regret not having an opportunity. And remember, keeping options open today doesn’t preclude anything

that, too, to mean that the primary goal of interactions with other people is to make them feel good about themselves.

Of these four elements to my Creed, this is by far my weakest area. And yet, each time I fall short I’m reminded of its importance.

4) Remember From Whence You Come It is really easy, especially at a place like Duke, to get caught up in where we’re going. What’s our next class?

Our next job? Our next network? But that environment makes it even more important to remember from whence we come. We all come from somewhere—a family, a home life, a school, a social group and a cultural tradition. Don’t forget that you are inextricably linked to them.

No matter what you make of yourself on your own terms over the rest of your life, that will be from whence you come—henceforth and forever more.

5) The last time I turned down a whiskey, I didn’t understand the question Not only am I skeptical of people who don’t drink whiskey, I don’t trust someone who isn’t able to let loose and have a good time every once in a while. My Fraternity’s Creed asks us to “endeavor to retain the Spirit of Youth.”

However you choose to do that, make sure you do.

Life is too short to always take care of your business.

Max Stayman is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays online.

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ur time is marked by heated cultural debates over samesex marriage and transgender rights, abortion and assisted suicide. At the heart of those debates are underlying conceptions of reality, which means that a true engagement with any of them begins only at the level of first principles. Once first principles are in place, determining one’s positions becomes largely a matter of drawing conclusions.

Throughout the year, this column has emphasized that the human person is

product of postmodern “critical theory.”

Transhumanism seeks to deconstruct and reduce all societies and social structures to narratives of oppression and identity categories, pitting groups against each other through power struggles and victimhood. It furthermore presents as solutions narratives of “progress” achieved through “revolution,” which form “right” and “wrong” sides of history as if history were a coherent narrative oriented toward a progressive paradise.

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SHORT AND SWEET both purport to outline an “atheistic humanism” but share the same fundamental shortcoming: they do not present a tenable conception of reality. Bentham, Marx and Nietzsche—avowed atheists, yet ironically religious in their hopes of worldly utopias— ignore questions of metaphysical or moral truth. They do not address, much less answer, the questions of how our contingent being originated and is sustained or why we or anything else exists at all.

Atheistic humanism views reality not as ordered but as plastic. No external morality or objectivity exists—only matter—so we are left to design our individual subjective utopias.

The atheistic humanist thereby constructs his own “self-identity” and the meaning of his reality, neither of which may be subjected to an external moral assessment. In a literal way, the atheistic humanist makesthe self a creator, not a creature.

But man cannot plasticize reality. We receive reality and, although we can work marvelous wonders within its ordering, we do not create it. By arrogating to ourselves the role of creator, we lie, committing the fundamental Edenic error of attempting to define reality—right and wrong—for ourselves. The two major atheistically humanist ideologies of the 20th century, Nazism and Communism, show vividly that masquerading as creators results in division, misery and death.

Contemporary debates may seem less extreme, but the ultimate stakes are no less high. What is the reality of a human fetus? The unequivocal fact is that a human zygote from conception is a new and discrete human being with all of the biological and DNA information it will have for the rest of its life. As with all human life, the fetus must be respected, protected and nourished. Treating the fetus otherwise ignores the underlying reality or rejects the dignity of human life.

What about male and female sexual complementarity? The moral realist recognizes and embraces the self-evident and given reality of that procreative union and places it at the core of family life. The atheistic humanist views sex and gender as conditions that may be modified and expressed according to one’s subjective preferences.

On the level of first principles, positions on life, sexuality, gender identity and many other social issues are thus driven not by “phobias,” “biases” or “bigotry” but rather by one’s conception of the meaning and structure of reality. This column has consistently argued that the human person is made in the image of God, is endowed with inestimable dignity and participates in an ordered reality that has an objective meaning and structure. When we recognize those truths, we also see that Aristotle was correct: happiness flows from realizing our nature, not remaking it.

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t Duke, 12 dollars is six dollars and sixty cents less than what it costs to swipe into Marketplace for dinner.

12 dollars is approximately five loads of laundry, washed and dried.

12 dollars is a hat at the bookstore.

Six hours parked in the BC lot. One ABP salad with a cappuccino.

12 dollars is two dollars more than a Devine’s cover charge and at least 10 dollars less than what it costs to Uber to the Raleigh-Durham airport.

Wills Rooney a contingent being: we are neither selfgenerating (we all are born and do not bear ourselves) nor self-sustaining (we all die).

We are creatures—created beings—not creators, and from that simple proposition flows a perspective of reality that provides coherent, consistent and reasonable answers to the many pressing questions of our day.

That conception of reality has its origins in the timeless wisdom of classical philosophy, especially Aristotle. It understands existence as having an objective structure that is external to the human person and intelligible to the human mind. Within that objective structure, every existing being has a “telos,” or purpose, which is understood from the essence or nature of the being.

When a being fulfills that purpose, it “perfects” itself or flourishes, just like a flower in full bloom.

The Aristotelian perspective, called “moral realism” for its grounding in reality, has been elaborated over the centuries, particularly by Christian philosophers who have recognized that existence is contingent and sustained by the noncontingent source of reality, whom we call God. The structure and telos of existence reflect the “mind” of God, who sustains all being in existence and by whom and to whom all being is ordered.

The human person participates in the mind of God in a special way by virtue of our capacities to discern reality, to deliberate on matters of truth and to choose accordingly. Indeed, reality is truth; truth is good; and in goodness lies human happiness. When the human person acts in harmony with reality and thus truth, the person becomes more fully human—that is, more fulfilled in his or her universally shared human nature.

The two major competing perspectives of reality that inform public discourse today are posthumanism and transhumanism.

Both are materialist philosophies that reject the existence of God, an external moral order, and any objective meaning and dignity to human life. To overcome the inevitable nihilism resulting from the elimination of God, they look ahead toward humanistic utopias of technocracy and autonomy.

Posthumanism has its origins in the deterministic empiricism of John Locke and David Hume and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

It envisions a technocratic order where humans will have advanced themselves beyond the natural limitations of the world and the human body—a post-human world, if you will—where science and technology provide the hope of making even death a thing of the past. For posthumanists, life takes on meaning only insofar as it is useful and oriented toward a utilitarian social order.

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12 dollars is the minimum hourly salary of most Duke employees: the people who do the work that nobody notices but everybody needs. The people who drive the buses we ride and prepare the food we eat.

Today, a sign hangs on the Allen building in front of scattered tents, outlining a list of demands. Last among them is the demand for a living minimum wage for Duke employees and sub-contracted workers. It asks for $15 per hour.

It is no secret that Duke, as an institution, is exceedingly wealthy.

The cost of a year of undergraduate tuition, room and board will climb 3.8 percent next year to reach $65,703, exactly $65,691 more than twelve dollars.

From Duke’s $2.3 billion operating budget for 2015-16, $494 million is being funneled towards projects like the new Student Health and Wellness Center, a new engineering and physics facility, renovations to the R. David Thomas Center, the West Campus Union, Perkins Library and Wallace Wade Stadium. While I am sure these facilities will be beautiful when finished, I will experience them for a short time. I can’t help but feel like administrators missed the age-old memo that you shouldn’t make another mess until you clean up the one you already made. Many students have expressed that it feels as though all of West Campus is under construction, undergoing a lengthy transformation towards a polished finish they will be unable to enjoy.

Duke students are charged $5 for every hour after they fail to return a computer charger to the Link at the specified time.

If students forget their DukeCard upon entering Wilson Gym, they must pay $5.

A friend of mine was recently towed out of a parking lot for which she had a valid pass, and even when she presented this pass, she was still forced to pay $160 for the trouble of being towed.

These absurdly rigid policies make me feel like a monetary resource, intended to be extracted and squeezed until I can be of sufficient use to my University.

A friend of mine was recently notified that his fraternity’s section on Central Campus would be promptly torn down this summer. HDRL sent a short email the day before the news became public, notifying him where future residents would be relocated. This seems like a rather abrupt way to alert a group of people that they will be permanently uprooted; it suggests that the institution views them as little more than temporary residents occupying Duke’s space. As though they have formed no attachment to the place they lived. As though they have put down no roots in their process of evolution in that space.

My Central Campus apartment is ridden with mold, rusty ceilings and a Wills Rooney is a Trinity senior. His column shower that never properly drains. runs on alternate Thursdays.

I am not the first to note that Duke’s

administration—notably the Board of Trustees—seems shockingly disconnected from the interests of students when it comes to handling Duke’s finances.

They make decisions without adequate representation of students’ perspectives and then frame these actions as resolute and non-negotiable.

I would never pretend I am qualified to make decisions about how the administration should allocate funding, but I find it deeply unsettling that Duke does not feel compelled to adapt a policy

of financial transparency. It is impossible to find specific details about Duke’s budget because the University never releases such information.

I want to know who decides where to channel Duke’s money and why certain projects are chosen. If I’m going to be told by an administrator that installing security cameras outside residential buildings—a safety need I have written about previously—is an expensive long-term undertaking, I would love to know why the Bryan Center more urgently needed a new glass door. If Central Campus apartments cannot have dishwashers and freshmen must pay upwards of $16 for meals they’re required to eat, please at least tell me how and why this is the case.

In 2013, a sign that read “Transparency Now” hung upon Allen building, at the very spot where a banner now sways in front of protesters. Although peer institutions like Yale and Dartmouth have adopted investment disclosure procedures, Duke feels no need to assume any sort of endowment transparency.

Without transparency, suspicion undoubtedly arises about how and where Duke’s money is being spent. With an open policy, there might be less confusion and anger. We could all engage in more productive debates if we knew where to focus our attention.

One tweet released during this weekend’s protest reads, “I am an alumni, and I will not be giving to Duke.”

For several years, students have been donating less upon graduation. While 69 percent of seniors donated in 2009, that number receded to just 40 percent last year and is projected to be even lower for the class of 2016.

Of course, most students want to give back to the institution that afforded them countless opportunities for growth, challenge and laughter. I will always be grateful for the experiences I have had here and want to invest in my University’s continued success. However, donations are a privilege, not an assumed right.

We, as members of the community, should not feel as though we are merely transient financial vessels—especially when we cannot be told where our money goes. Duke’s talented community is the reason the school remains so renowned.

Students, faculty and employees alike should be valued as an end in themselves rather than simply as a means to an end.

I would like to believe the administration has reasons for the decisions it makes. I want the school to prove it to me. So convince me, Duke.

Until full transparency ensues, I will keep pushing to find out exactly why employees cannot be paid more than $12.

Carly Stern is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle With Allen’s decision to stay at Duke, swingman Brandon Ingram and center Marshall Plumlee are the only two Blue Devils leaving head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad.

GRAYSON ALLEN from page 1 Krzyzewski said in the release. “Following the season, he put a lot of thought into an important decision that will impact the rest of his life. In the end, he chose to remain at Duke, where he will pursue an undergraduate degree and develop even more as a man and basketball player. Grayson’s passion and commitment to our school and his teammates have been very apparent in our discussions with him.”

Allen helped Duke capture the national championship with a breakout performance in the title game against the Badgers. The Jacksonville, Fla., native should have an excellent chance to get back to the Final Four next season, joining Amile Jefferson— expected to return under a medical

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hardship waiver for a fifth season—and a highly-touted incoming freshman class that includes No. 1 recruit Harry Giles and No. 2 recruit Jayson Tatum.

Allen’s aggressive style of play helped him get to the free-throw line often last season, where he shot 83.7 percent. His relentless drives to the basket drew the ire of opposing fans, which only escalated after the 6-foot-5 guard was issued a reprimand by the ACC in late February for tripping Florida State’s Xavier Rathan-Mayes.

“On the court, Grayson is a warrior, as I’ve said many times,” Krzyzewski said. “He has untapped potential, both on and off the basketball court. I have loved coaching Grayson and I’m going to love coaching him next season.”

Freshman Brandon Ingram—Duke’s second-leading scorer last season— announced Monday that he would enter the NBA draft.

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leans on its No. 16 scoring defense, despite allowing 14 goals—a seasonhigh—Sunday. With nearly a full week of rest after the match against the Orange, the Blue Devils have done a lot of work in practice to shore up the holes exposed in the loss.

“We played a little timid in the first half, and we came out after halftime with a fire underneath us,” Duryea said. “Just playing with that and not letting that ever waver is something that’s really big for us and I think in the games that we’ve really had success in, we’ve really come out from the very first whistle stopping the other offense or making a good [defensive] stand.”

For Duke’s back line, it all starts with Duryea, who has blossomed into one of the nation’s elite goaltenders in her last year of eligibility. In potentially her last home game, expect the Beverly, Mass., native to be on the top of her game. Supplemented by star defenders Scarrone and Isabelle Montagne, Duryea is also surrounded by one of the more talented defenses in the country.

“I think that this year I’ve kind of come full circle. As a freshman, I was really inexperienced and kind of naïve.

I kind of just went in there and played my possession. I didn’t really know the defensive system. I didn’t know what the defenders were supposed to be doing,” Duryea said. “As the years went on, I tried to take on more responsibility as part of the defensive unit, and this year, I think I’ve been able to play my position while also being able to play a role as part of the unit.”

As McCarthy and Minor shook hands, Scholl and Makarova found themselves headed for third sets. Scholl had dropped the second frame 0-6 and Makarova fell 1-6.

Scholl battled back to try to stave off the Michigan comeback, overcoming a two-game deficit to tie the third set 4-4. But she could not get the upper hand and dropped the set 5-7. Makarova’s 2-6 loss in the third set tied the team score.

“We let off the gas and relaxed a little. Some people thought that other people were going to take care of it and that they didn’t have to, and we can’t afford to do that,” Ashworth said.

“Michigan fought back and competed really well. Michigan is a really good team—they won our conference basically since they beat us, [North Carolina] and Virginia.”

The Blue Devils will have a few days to regroup before resuming conference play against Boston College (8-10, 3-8 in the ACC) Saturday at noon.

Two Eagles’ players rank in the ITA top 100—No. 80 Asiya Dair and No. 89 Lexi Borr. Boston College has surprised some ranked squads, including an upset of then-No. 19 Clemson 5-2 March 4.

But the Blue Devils could be their own worst enemies Saturday if they do not maintain their focus throughout the entire match. “[We have to focus on] playing with blinders on and understanding that the best thing you can do for your team is taking care of business on your court and not worrying about what someone else is doing four courts down,” Ashworth said.

Look who’s graduating!

Only 37 more days, Class of 2016.

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