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Car flips over after on-campus crash Sexual misconduct policy reorganized Claire Ballentine The Chronicle

calls on Saturday night. Of the four alcohol-related calls, two occurred on East Campus and two on West.

Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Endo was unable to disclose personal

Duke’s sexual misconduct policy has been refined to make it clearer and easier for students to utilize.

The changes—announced Aug. 14 in an email from Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, to all students—include adjustments to the policy and clarifications to terminology.

Several on-campus organizations gave input that was used to make the refinements, including Duke Student Government and the Graduate and Professional School Student Council.

Administrators and DSG members said that the aim of the changes is to make it easier to understand how sexual assault complaints are handled.

“We tried to relate [the information] in a way that was logical,” Moneta said.

“It’s a clear and cleaner way of laying it out.”

Information for complainants and respondents is now listed in the beginning of the policy so students can find it more easily, Moneta added. He said the refinements also more clearly state that the policy applies to graduate and professional students and includes gender neutral language.

The policy now includes more examples of sexual misconduct and clarifies issues of confidentiality, said Howie Kallem, director of Title IX compliance. He noted that definitions

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Gautam Hathi | The Chronicle Two cars collided at the intersection of Towerview Road and Science Drive Sunday afternoon.

Staff Reports The Chronicle A car accident occurred early Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Science Drive and Towerview Road, causing a car to flip over. No injuries were reported.

The car, which was a red Honda CR-V,

was traveling down Towerview Road when it collided with a black car turning from Science Drive onto Towerview Road. “[The red CR-V] came zooming through the red light and just took the front part off our car,” said Eryn Dennehy, a passenger in the black car, a Honda. Dennehy and her mother were the only ones in the black car and are not affiliated with Duke.

The driver of the CR-V declined to comment.

Police, emergency medical services and a crowd of onlookers gathered at the scene.

The head officer at the scene said that no official information would be released until Monday.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

Alcohol EMS numbers spike Saturday Samantha Neal and Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Four alcohol-related calls to Duke Emergency Medical Services occurred during this year’s orientation week—two fewer than last year.

Since Aug. 18, there have been 19 EMS

calls—four of which were alcohol-related, said senior Chris Endo, director of Duke EMS. Last year, there were 20 EMS calls during orientation week, with six of them alcohol-related. Before Saturday of this week, there had been only one alcoholrelated EMS call, Endo said, but that number spiked significantly with three

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C2 no more: PTS makes bus routes more efficient someone came in with great ideas from an administrative point of view by saving time and buses, but I think they forgot about the students.”

Students also commented on the inconvenience posed by a new route that does not go to West Campus.

“I liked it when all buses at some point used to go to the West Campus bus stop and the East Campus bus stop,” said sophomore Dev Dabke. “I also don’t understand the motivation for creating two new bus lines with two new schedules because it’s just one more thing to figure out.”

The new bus routes and schedules can be found on the PTS website.

Alex Griffith The Chronicle Duke Parking and Transportation Services has altered Duke’s bus routes in an attempt to make it easier for students to get around campus.

The new routes include a weekday route from West to Central Campus— the C4—and another weekday route— the C5—connecting East to Central Campus. These two routes will replace the now-discontinued C2 bus service, which used to take students between all three campuses. The Central Campus Express bus will connect the three campuses at night and on weekends.

Additionally, the C3 bus, which connects East Campus and Science Drive, will run continuously during weekdays instead of only running during class changes.

“PTS had looked at bus routes and decided to switch them around,” said junior Annie Adair, Duke Student Government chief of staff. “They had analyzed that there was room for more efficient routing.”

PTS Director Carl DePinto was behind the changes and sought to increase the efficiency of the existing system.

“We’ve worked to analyze as much Duke transit passenger information as we can in order to modify routes to best benefit the Duke community,” he said in a brief statement. “We believe this to be a positive outcome for the Duke community based on discussions around student class schedules for the new academic year.”

The last time changes were made to bus routes was in 2011, when the C1 Express route was added. The C1X upset some students by bypassing stops on Campus Drive, but PTS did not make any changes to the route. This time, however, student interests were accommodated in the form of the C5 route after DSG reached out to PTS. The C1X route has also been eliminated.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The Central Campus Express bus running on weekdays in addition to weekends was one of the many changes made to streamline transportation to and from Central Campus.

Buses that formerly served the C1X route will now serve the C1 route.

The new bus system initially did not include the C5 route connecting Central and East on weekdays, explained DSG President Keizra Mecklai, a senior.

“The alternative that PTS mentioned is that students who live on Central could walk out to Campus Drive and catch the C1, but a big concern with that was that if C1s are full then it will make a huge difference in travel time for students living on Central,” she said. “It was a big priority for DSG to think about inequalities in housing for students, and we didn’t want to further entrench those inequalities by making travel times longer.”

Mecklai then met with DePinto and Alison Carpenter, PTS transit planner and transportation demand manager, to discuss accommodations for students on Central.

“I mentioned that despite the fact that their routes might represent high efficiency, we have students who live on Central who have classes on East Campus

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and that it would be important to provide buses to make their travels as convenient as possible,” she said.

Adair, who lives on Central Campus, helped Mecklai come up with alternatives to the initial PTS plan in order to make room for a bus to move students from Central to East Campus.

Possible alternatives included changing a C4 into a C2 during the day. However, since the C2 runs on a 35 minute loop, some students would have had to miss class time or go out of their way while waiting for or riding the bus.

“We all talked and figured that the best option would be a C5 which would connect East and Central,” Mecklai said. “Though it wouldn’t be on a class change, students won’t have to go excessively out of their way to get to class on time.”

Student responses toward the new routes were mixed.

“I think Duke is going to have to adapt and change like they already have,” said junior Lorenzo Babboni. “I think

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Harris-Perry ‘profoundly better than expected’ Adam Beyer The Chronicle Orientation week closing speaker Melissa Harris-Perry urged freshmen to be “ignorant, silent and thick” Saturday evening.

Harris-Perry—presidential endowed professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University and host of the weekly MSNBC show “Melissa Harris-Perry”—gave advice emphasizing humility, vulnerability and the importance of listening during in an interactive address to freshmen in the newly reopened Page Auditorium. She also instructed students to continuously ask the question “So, what? What difference does that make?”

“This is the question I want you to ask over and over again every day of college because you will be bombarded with information, you will learn so many things,” she said. “We tend to think that what we want are definitive answers, what we want is certainty. But I actually want to suggest that we don’t want certainty. We want meaning.”

Harris-Perry suggested that this question will help give meaning to students’ time at Duke.

“What difference will you make?

What difference will it make to anyone in the world that you are here? How will Duke be different because you are here?” she asked. “Asking the question won’t make you snarky, it should make you earnest.”

Harris-Perry received her Ph.D. in political science from Duke in 1999 and is the author of two books about race and gender in American life. She is also the director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race and Politics in the South and executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute.

“Duke is important to me because here I was taught how to answer my life’s calling, which is to be a teacher and professor,” she told the nearly full auditorium.

As closing speaker of orientation week, Harris-Perry filled the role historically occupied by Maya Angelou, who Harris-Perry considered a mentor before Angelou passed in 2014. She explained that once, during her time as an undergraduate at Wake Forest, she told Angelou that she would have to drop her class due to an illness.

Instead of disappointment, she said Angelou reacted with concern and offered her a job answering fan mail.

“She invited me in, not to become a student in her class, but her student.

She became my beloved mentor,” HarrisPerry said. “You worshipped her because of her humanity.”

She noted that while she was not as good at giving advice as Angelou, she would try to channel her.

“We knew it would be a risk to bring her, but she was phenomenal,” said Jordan Hale, director and assistant dean for new student programs.

“I couldn’t be happier. I think she honored [Angelou] while at the same

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle MSNBC personality Melissa Harris-Perry surprised some students with her orientation week closing speech. Harris-Perry was a student of Maya Angelou, who addressed incoming classes from 1989 until 2013.

time telling her own story.”

After her talk, Harris-Perry fielded questions from the audience on topics ranging from social justice on college campuses to the misuse of alcohol. She encouraged students looking to make change in the world not to overlook their own school by questioning internal issues such as the University’s employment practices.

“It was profoundly better than I expected,” freshman Cullen Tyndall said. “A lot of what she said hit home in a lot of ways.”

The event was co-sponsored by Delta Gamma Sorority, which helped bring Maya Angelou to speak to the freshman class for the first time in 1994.

Senior Candice Nelson, who said she “snuck in” to hear Harris-Perry, said the message allowed her to both reflect on her time at Duke and look ahead.

“I thought she brought up some interesting points I had never considered,” Nelson said. “It made me think of ways I could make the most of my last year here.”

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Provost Kornbluth ready to put plans into action Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Duke’s 54 majors, 52 minors and 21 certificate programs can make getting familiar with the University’s academic environment overwhelming.

Few understand that better than Provost Sally Kornbluth, who is starting her second year as Duke’s chief academic officer after spending eight years as vice dean for basic science at the School of Medicine.

Kornbluth said her first year as provost was focused on learning about the “incredibly complex maze” that is the University’s academic structure, but now she is ready to start making her mark. Near the top of her list of priorities is simplifying the curriculum to give students a clearer path to what they wish to study.

“It has taken me a year to learn about all of the many offerings, so I can imagine when freshmen come in, they’re pretty overwhelmed by the options,” Kornbluth said.

Overseeing the updates to the University’s advising system—which are being led by Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education—is another project Kornbluth hopes to focus on in year two.

She aims to complete a draft of the next strategic plan—Duke’s first since 2006—by summer 2016 and implement the recommendations of task forces on faculty diversity and master’s degrees.

“In a lot of ways, year one was planning and preparatory to the things that we really have to deliver on this year,” Kornbluth said.

Although Kornbluth is not directly involved with the ongoing Arts and Sciences Council review of Curriculum 2000, she is “watching with anticipation.” She noted that she hopes to see a simplification of the Trinity curriculum and more opportunities for students to “go more deeply” and take more risks academically.

Specific examples Kornbluth provided to achieve those goals were increasing the number of pass/fail courses and implementing a week-long academic experience during Spring Break—which is being discussed as an ungraded course to deepen student interest in a topic.

Rather than adding more interdisciplinary programs, the priority should be finding notable connections between existing programs such as Bass Connections, DukeEngage and Focus and the University’s curricular offerings, Kornbluth explained, noting that Bass Connections was recently aligned more closely with Duke’s institutes and centers.

Kornbluth herself is working on a connection between the School of Medicine and the University’s other academic programs as part of a “quantitative sciences push” she hopes to initiate.

Activities related ear one was to data analysis planning and and medicine are already preparatory to the things taking place, but that we really have to discussions are occurring with deliver on this year Dr. A. Eugene — Provost Sally Kornbluth W a s h i n g t o n , chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, “to bridge from the campus to the medical side,” Kornbluth said. “[Kornbluth] has just been an exemplar of the kind of leader that I would want to partner with to drive crosscampus initiatives for a host of reasons,” Washington said.

“One, because she’s just so bright, insightful and smart, two, she knows our enterprise having been dean, and now she also knows the campus side. I feel like I have a great partner there.”

Details about the initiatives cannot be made public yet, Kornbluth explained, but she said that multiple announcements will be made in the coming months.

In addition to focusing on the academic landscape, Kornbluth is heavily involved with the many moving parts in the University’s administration. She has worked closely with Washington, Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Denis Simon, executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, since their recent arrivals, but is also part of several ongoing searches.

Duke is currently looking for a new dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, new dean of the Divinity School and new director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

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“The careful selection of leaders makes so much of a difference,” Kornbluth said. “Someone really good can have a fantastic impact, and someone not so good can make things a lot more difficult. I’m highly motivated to find the absolute best person for all of these positions.”

Although she has several of her own ideas entering year two, Kornbluth is hoping to continue using input from students and faculty to inform decisions about the future academic landscape, adding that she wants students and faculty to feel comfortable approaching her when they have ideas.

“My job is to create a fertile environment and help catalyze new directions, and only on rare occasions to step in with Chronicle File Photo specific top-down initiatives,” Kornbluth said. “In general, we Provost Sally Kornbluth enters year two as Duke’s chief really want to leverage the enthusiasm and expertise of our academic officer. faculty and students—that’s where the new ideas come from.”

OPEN ROMANCE STUDIES COURSES - FALL 2015 ITALIAN 584S Boccaccio Studies

Boccaccio’s Women

Prof. Eisner T 4:40-7:10 Dante had his Beatrice and Petrarch his Laura, but Boccaccio was interested not only in one particular woman, whom he sometimes called Fiammetta, but also in women as a group. We will investigate Boccaccio’s exploration of this theme in a range of works, including the clever and occasionally cruel women featured in his Decameron; the distraught lover of Europe’s first psychological novel, the Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta; the many nymphs that populate the Ameto and the Nymphs of Fiesole; the lives recounted in his Genealogies of the Gentile Gods and On Famous Women; and his manipulation of misogynistic discourse in the Corbaccio. By situating Boccaccio’s works in the literary tradition of Ovid, Dante, and Apuleius, we will examine how he engages discourses of gender and sexuality in new ways.

All readings will be available in English. CL-LIT 584S.01, MEDREN 618S.01 ALP CCI R ITALIAN 590S-1

Love, War, Corsairs, Empire

Prof. Finucci W 4:40-7:10 The Mediterranean has always been imagined as a crossroads between East and West, North and South, as well as a multicultural area uniting (or dividing) Europe, Asia and Africa, the center as well as the border of Western civilization.

It is where antiquity was located, where cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism were first played, where the Catholic West met (and sometimes fought) with the Judaic-Islamic East, and where food, commerce and climate gave unity to otherwise divided identities. We will try to identify the modes by which the Mediterranean was represented in the long early modern era through plays (i.e., Othello; The Jew of Malta; The Sister; The Bagnos of Algiers), films (i.e., Harem Suare); travel narratives (i.e., Coryate, de Busbecq, bin Qasim); novellas (i.e., Boccaccio, Cinthio); costume books (i.e, Vecellio; De Bruyn); operas (i.e, L’italiana in Algeri); and stories of conquest and of slavery (i.e., Cervantes, Pamuk, Scetti, Hasleton). CL-MEDREN 690S-2.01, LIT 590S.02, HIST 590S.01 ALP CZ CCI EI

PORTUGUE 390S.02

Introduction to Brazilian Global Portuguese Literature

Prof. Aidoo TTH 11:45-1:00 This course will offer a survey of important works of literature from the Portuguese speaking world. Selected literary and cultural texts will serve as vehicles for a deeper understanding of Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Literary materials will be taken from several genres and periods with special attention to contemporary writings. Other media such as film and music will also be included. Conducted in Portuguese.

ROMST 201

Europe in Theory

Prof. Dainotto MW 11:45-1:00 If the OED is correct, and a continent is “a continuous body of land on the earth’s surface” then Africa or America are certainly continents.

But what is Europe whose land mass continues without geographical separations into Asia?

Should we not speak of one Eurasian continent?

Yet despite the absence of geographical markers separating it from Asia, the idea of Europe as a political, moral, and cultural identity is today common sense. We will look at the construction of such identity throughout history, ending with the European Union, at a moment in which integration of “Eastern” countries such as Turkey or Russia remains a hotly debated issue.

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The Problem of Love

Prof. Aidoo TTH 3:05-4:20 This course explores the historical development and connections between race, class and gender in Brazil. Through an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon works from anthropology, literature, history, music, and film we will examine the past and present day conditions of Afro-Brazilians and Brazilian race relations. Topics will include slavery, urban development, sexuality, social activism, and cultural production. Conducted in English.

Prof. Eisner TTH 10:05-11:20 Love causes problems. It can inspire passion or madness; foster alliances, destroy friendships, provoke war, broker peace. It impacts communities and raises fundamental questions about life. Exploring amorous discourse from two millennia –Plato’s erotic ascent, Virgil’s deceived Dido, Ovid’s rules of seduction, Boccaccio’s legitimation of female desire, Michelangelo’s homoerotic poetry, Leonardo’s sublimated impulses, Foscolo’s tragic obsession, comic uncertainties of Svevo’s modern lovers, and love from afar in Montale—we will see what changes, what persists, and ultimately come to understand what we mean when we talk about love today.

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Race, Class, Gender in Brazilian Culture

Cinema, History, and Culture in Brazil

Prof. Furtado WF 3:05-4:20 Major topics of Brazilian culture and history since 1960.

The course is taught in Portuguese but most readings will be available in English and Portuguese. Attention will be given to written and spoken language development. Topics include the radicalization of politics in the 1960s, military dictatorship and the return to democracy, problems of marginalization and criminality in the contemporary city, the ascension of Lula (who was a factory worker and union organizer) to the presidency, and the fascinating phenomenon of the “rolezinhos,” in which massive numbers of youth from poor and predominantly non-white neighborhoods peacefully occupied the shopping malls of the socio-economic elites.

We will approach these topics using cinemaa as our primary texts. We will therefore deal simultaneously with topics in the history of contemporary Brazil and the history of Brazilian cinema. Secondary readings will come from a variety of sources including journalism, history, essays, and several works of literature, such as short stories by Rubem Fonseca, a crime-fiction writer who was once the police commissioner for the city of Rio de Janeiro. C-L: AMI 290S.02, LATAMER 390S.01, LIT 390S.03 ALP CCI FL

Policing Latinidad

Prof. LeBron TTh 11:45-1:00 How does the criminal justice system make itself felt in the everyday lives of Latinas/os?

From border enforcement, to stop and frisk, to the phenomenon of mass incarceration, many Latinas/os find themselves and their communities enmeshed within a dense web of surveilleince, punishment, and detention. This interdisciplinary course will examine the historical, political, economic, and social factors that have, in many ways, criminalized Latinidad and/ or rendered Latinidad illegal. We will examine how race, class, education, gender, sexuality, and citizenship shape the American legal system and impact how Latinas/os navigate that system.

This course will pay special attention to the troubled and unequal relationship between Latinas/os and the criminal justice apparatus in the United States and how it has resulted in the formation of resistant political identities and activist practices.

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SPANISH 410

Nature, Body and Mind: Chocolate and Tobacco in the Hispanic World and Beyond

Prof. Vilches WF 1:25-2:40 In ancient Mesoamerica the rituals of chocolate and tobacco existed in a universe of plants, animals, insects, and nutrients. This ecological order was at the heart of a cosmic view linking gods and humans through the cycle of seasons and the movement of celestial bodies. This course traces the parallel understandings that chocolate and tobacco generated as they penetrated into colonial culture, traveled to the Old World, and entered western scientific knowledge.

Materials include ancient Maya and Aztec art, as well as Spanish primary sources on natural history, literature, travel accounts, and medicine. The course also includes a selection of rare books from the Rubenstein Library. CL-MEDREN 458 ALP CCI FL SPANISH 490S-2

Latino/a Autobiography and Memoir

Prof. Milian TTh 4:40-5:55 This seminar considers cultural and intellectual approaches to the construction and emergence of individual self-awareness and self-reference, exploring a variety of representations of the autobiographical voice, textual authority, and the boundaries between fact and fiction. These acts and discursive manifestations of individual life experience will be studied from the sociocultural and political modes of the U.S. Latino and Latina category. Accordingly, we will ask: In what ways do the stories of Latino and Latina cultural workers reconstruct factual and fictional modes of their subject formation and distinctive moments in U.S. society? And what do these articulations alter in relation to “unifying” values, traditions, and sociopolitical memberships? Of particular concern is how these cultural producers live and literarily represent both the America and the Latin/o America of their time. Through autobiography, memoir, literary criticism, theoretical readings, as well as visual and poetic approaches to subjectivity, we will interrogate how self, place, and “community” are negotiated. For our critical purposes, we will also deliberate on the following concerns: How is “Latino” or “Latina” lived experience theorized, and do these personal accounts introduce new forms of knowledge? What connections can one find between the shifting autobiographical (“Latino/a”) “I” and the larger social world “out there”? Do the social and discursive spaces of these works provide points of agreements on “Americanness” as much as “Latinoness”? CL-LSGS 490S SPANISH 590S

Sex and the City: Modernzation, Gender Relations, and Literature in 19th Century Madrid

Prof. Sieburth MW 4:40-5:55 Why was the prostitute the central symbol of the nineteenth-century city? What does shopping have to do with sex? In the nineteenth-century, premarital sex banished a woman from respectable society forever. This is no longer true, so why is a woman who has multiple sexual partners still labeled a “slut”?

Today we use machines from the moment we wake up until we go to sleep. How did people react to the mechanization of society in the nineteenth century?

The new city was teeming with crowds and new places to hang out, like coffeehouses. Men found the city to be a source of all kinds of new pleasures. So why were they also scared of it? These are some of the questions we will be considering through literature about 19th-century Madrid, exploring the similarities and differences between the social interactions and anxieties of that time and what they have to tell us about those of our own society and the Duke campus.

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Duke librarian doubles as scrabble whiz Claire Ballentine The Chronicle For Duke librarian Hannah Rozear, playing Scrabble is more than just a rainy day activity.

Rozear, librarian for institutional services at Perkins Library, recently placed fifth in her division at the North American Scrabble Championship in Reno, Nev. The event—which ran from Aug. 1-5—featured approximately 350 players from around the world and included prize money for the winners.

“I was hoping to come home with number one, but I wound up with fifth place,” Rozear said in a recent Special to The Chronicle conversation.

Rozear was the top seed in her division of the Hannah Rozear, librarian for institutional services, competed at the North American Scrabble Championship. competition before being upset by the No. 8 seed,

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(*NEW) AMES 236 Graphic Asia: Visual Storytelling & Global Asian/American Networks W 3:05 5:35 explores the particular status of the graphic novel (encompassing all manners of earlier word-image texts; mainstream, alternative, and web-based comics; Asian traditions of manga, manhwa, manhua) and the role of the graphic artist in the changing epistemologies, histories, and formations of Global Asian/Pacific/American networks. X-listed AMI 236, ICS 264 Professor Eileen Chow

(*NEW) AMES 319S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain TH 3:05-5:35 Learn about the Culture of Southern Spain! Course Includes: Music & Dance Performances, Poetry, Philosophy, Mysticism, Religion, Art & Architecture, and Languages and Cultures (Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew) X-listed ROMST 319/519, REL 214S/519, JEWISHST 319S/519, AMES 519S. Professor Ellen McLarney

(*NEW) AMES 325 Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform T 3:055:35 Understand Religious Revival and Reform in the Muslim World: Islamism, Salafism, Wahhabism, Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ennahda in Tunis, FIS in Algeria, Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon, ISIS and Al-Qaeda. X-listed REL 372, AMES 625. Professor Ellen McLarney

AMES 382 Orhan Pamuk and World Literature WF 11:45-1:00 This seminar examines the Istanbul novels of Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk as an introduction into the culture and politics of the Middle East. We will be analyzing themes of identity and subjectivity, secularism and Islam, the Ottoman past and Turkey’s present as well as aesthetic relations between writing and objects. We will also be comparing Pamuk to authors of world literature from Borges and Kafka to Eco and Rushdie. Pamuk’s forthcoming novel of Istanbul, A Strangeness in My Mind, will be published in Oct. and students will have a chance to meet the author when he visits in Nov. 2015. Professor Erdag Goknar

which dropped her to the fifth through eighth place consolation games. Still, she said that her overall performance—she accumulated 22 wins and nine losses—resulted in an improvement to her overall scrabble rating, a figure based on a player’s scores at various tournaments that determines which division players can compete in.

“If I go again next year, I would be in a higher division playing for more money and playing better players,” Rozear said.

During the competition, participants had 25 minutes to score as many points as possible using the letters they randomly selected. They played a minimum of 31 games and based their strategy on finding ways to score a “bingo,” a seven-letter word, which awards the participant an extra 50 points.

Rozear said that the championship this year used a playoff format instead of the traditional scoring method involving wins, losses and overall points scored, a change that left many participants dissatisfied. If the old format had been used, she would have taken first place in her division and the $1,100 prize.

Despite the disappointing result, Rozear noted that she enjoyed being around her fellow competitors, many of whom have their own custom equipment and spend up to 10 hours a day practicing.

“It was cool to be among people who were still talking about Scrabble even after the games ended,” she said.

Rozear’s strategy for the competition involved studying words that are high probability bingos and keeping letters on her rack that she knew she could use to make a bingo.

She always hoped to draw a blank tile—the most valuable piece because of its utility in creating bingos—and tried to track the tiles that had been played.

Also important, she noted, is making smart challenges, which can be submitted when a player believes his or her opponent has played a word not in the dictionary.

“It’s a game of bluffing,” she explained. “You’ve got know how to play fake words and get away with them, and you’ve got to know when to challenge.”

Several of her wins were achieved through playing fake words that she wasn’t challenged on, Rozear said.

Rozear prepared for the tournament by playing in tournaments through the Triangle Scrabble Club and competing against her father-in-law, Marvin Rozear, associate professor emeritus of medicine in the Department of Neurology, multiple times per week. In addition to memorizing hundreds of words per week, she also plays online Scrabble to sharpen her skills, often practicing on her walk to work using her phone.

Although she did not begin competing in tournaments until 2005, Rozear said she has always been surrounded by the game. Her parents played Scrabble each night for as long as she can remember.

She plans to continue competing in tournaments locally during the fall and aims to keep her rating up so she will be able to compete in nationals in Indiana next year.

“I would like to continue to get gradually better and keep playing in as many tournaments as I can afford,” Rozear said.

Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting.

(*NEW) AMES 423S Sex & Violence in Mod Arabic Literature Anti-colonial struggles of the mid-20th century brought Arabs independence from European rule, but at a high price. Since then, the region has endured dictatorships and civil wars and most recently the revolutions of the Arab spring. This course will trace the ways in which Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Algerian and Iraqi writers have responded to their people’s experiences of trauma. Professor miriam cooke

AMES 620S Critical Genealogies of the Middle East: An examination of the canon of Middle East Scholarship M 1:40 – 4:25 The course will offer in-depth investigation into the theoretical traditions that inform interdisciplinary Middle East studies (specific foci include literary and cultural theory, Islamic feminism, postcolonial theory, visual studies, and deconstruction, among others). Professor Shai Ginsburg

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Special to The Chronicle Rozear memorized hundreds of words per week in preparation for the enormous Scrabble event.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshmen were kept busy Tuesday through Friday with orientation activities, but Saturday saw a rise in alcohol-related EMS numbers.

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“Honestly the number of transported students to the hospital for alcohol poisoning only informs us that students are watching out for each other and calling for help, when necessary,” wrote Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center, in an email.

Three of the four alcohol-related calls resulted in the students being taken to the hospital—both of the East Campus incidents and one from West Campus. Six students were transported during last year’s orientation week, and two were transported during orientation week in 2013.

Not all alcohol-related EMS calls result in transporting the student to the hospital, Endo explained, adding that both Duke EMS and Durham County EMS assess the situation at the scene before deciding whether or not to transport.

Rather than using the number of students transported to the hospital as a measure of alcohol use during the week, administrators prefer to look at the average blood alcohol content of those students, Szigethy explained. He noted that the average BAC of transported students has decreased over the past three years.

“This means that students are calling for help earlier in the night and therefore stopping the high-risk behavior,” Szigethy wrote.

Alcohol-related calls are actually the minority of the calls Duke EMS responds to, Endo said. Miscellaneous injuries, allergic reactions, cardiac and respiratory problems and other forms of trauma make up the remainder.

Duke EMS only responds to off-campus calls in rare circumstances—but this does not necessarily mean the overall number of calls was much higher than the number of calls Duke EMS responded to, Endo said.

Some freshmen have attributed the low EMS numbers before Saturday to the hectic schedule of the first week, which made opportunities to drink rare. More mandatory programs were added to orientation week this year, wrote Jordan Hale, assistant dean and director of new student programs, in an email.

“I think that the biggest deterrent was a combination of having a ton of activities like the Target Run and Brodie Gym Carnival, as well as people being more cautious about how much they drank and being smarter about it,” said freshman Alex Cherches. “I’m fairly sure that True Blue and AlcoholEdu had a minimal impact on the lower EMS numbers.”

As in previous years, freshmen were required to complete AlcoholEdu and attend True Blue during orientation week.

Duke EMS has also worked with resident assistants to provide step-by-step instructions for dealing with alcohol-related incidents, Endo added.

Editor’s note: The Chronicle spoke with Endo in person and by email.

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Numerous issues involving sexual assault have affected campus lately, most recently the assault of a female student by a taxi driver early Thursday morning. In addition, a sexual assault claim involving Alpha Delta Phi

used in the policy were updated as well.

“It now clarifies what kinds of misconduct are covered and who is covered,” Kallem said.

In addition, cross references to other universities’ policies that might apply were added, Kallem noted. He said that

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Kallem explained that the refinements were made after the administration received feedback from DSG, GPSC and faculty members that aspects of the policy were unclear. Their suggestions were incorporated before the revisions were presented to a larger group within student affairs that included Moneta, Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president of student affairs and dean of students and Zoila Airall, assistant vice president of student affairs for campus life.

Ilana Weisman, DSG vice president for equity and outreach, said that she spent time last year looking at the policies and trying to find ways to clarify them.

“There was a lot of jargon in it that survivors aren’t going to want to parse through,” she said.

— Weisman

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These refinements come less than a year after Duke revised its policies and practices in July 2014 to include more strict definitions of sexual misconduct and consent as well as details about investigation and hearing procedures.

Graduate and professional students were then included under the policy as well. The changes were summarized in a website outlining Duke’s commitment to addressing sexual assault which launched before the start of the 2014 fall semester.

However, Moneta noted that this time the policies were not changed as much as the layout was adjusted.

Kallem added that the policy is now more of an educational document, instead of a list of consequences, which informs both complainants and

respondents about the process involved in a case of sexual misconduct. He said that this approach is intended to illustrate that the hearing process should be fair and balanced.

“We’re hoping that as we make the process more understandable, it will make it more accessible and that people will be more likely to use it,” he said.

The refinements will assist victims of sexual assault, Weisman said.

“These standards are going to make survivors more comfortable coming forward,” she said.

She noted that the refinements will hopefully increase the number of students who report sexual assault— which happened the last time the policy was revised—and that once

fraternity—for which no charges will be filed—was raised during the spring semester. In 2014, Duke student Lewis McLeod was found responsible for sexual misconduct by an undergraduate conduct board hearing. He filed a preliminary injunction against the University and is now suing Duke for his diploma. The trial is scheduled to begin in Feb. 2016.

To further reduce issues of sexual assault, the University is launching several new initiatives. These include an online training called “Not Anymore” as well as expanded PACT— Prevent Act Challenge Teach— training and an increased number of internships at the Women’s Center, Weisman said.

Moneta noted that while the refinements will help clarify the policy, the adjustments are not as critical as these programs.

“Far more important is our continued effort to educate and prevent,” he said.

DUKE – UVA – VANDERBILT PARTNERSHIP FOR LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES Fall 2015 Courses

Duke University, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University are partnering to offer courses in languages not often taught in the Western academic curriculum. Classes are taught to students on all three campuses through telepresence classrooms, and the courses will also count towards the foreign language requirement at the respective universities.

Tibetan Duke/UVA/Vanderbilt Partnership

K’iche’ Mayan

Creole Duke/UVA/Vanderbilt Partnership

Tibetan is the language of a vast region at the heart of Asia and is used in China, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Mongolia. In addition, Tibet is home to Tibetan Buddhism, which is itself the source of one of the world’s richest contemplative traditions. Learning Tibetan gives students the ability to explore this uniquely rich and diverse culture in today’s Asia, as well as learn about Buddhist philosophy, contemplation, and other forms of knowledge. Tibetan 101 and 203 offered every fall; Tibetan 102 and 204 offered every spring.

K’iche’ is a Mayan language spoken by about a million

Haitian Creole, often called simply Creole or Kreyōl, is a language based largely on 18th Century French, some African languages, as well as languages, such as Arawak, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish, and Taino.

It is spoken in Haiti, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Ivory Coast, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, parts of the United States, and Venezuela.

TIBETAN 101: Elementary Tibetan I (FL) MW 10:00 – 10:50; TTh 10 – 11:15 am TIBETAN 203: Intermediate Tibetan I (FL) MW 12:00 – 12:50 pm; TTh 12:00 – 1:15 pm [Note: graduate students enroll under TIBETAN 701 or 703]

people in the western Highlands of Guatemala; it is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. The K’iche’ language has played a central role in the Mayan cultural revitalization movement and has a long literary tradition including such works as the Popol Wuuj (Popol Vuh) and Rabinal Achi.

K’iche 101 will be offered every fall; K’iche 102 every spring, with intermediate level courses beginning in 2016.

KICHE 101: Elementary K’iche’ I (FL) TTh 4:00 – 5:15 pm [Note: graduate students enroll under KICHE 701]

Creole 101 and 203 offered every fall; Creole 102 and 204 offered every spring.

CREOLE 101: Elementary Creole I (FL): MWF 3:05 – 4:05 pm CREOLE 203: Intermediate Creole I (FL): MWF 1:40 – 2:30 pm [Note: graduate students enroll under CREOLE 701 or 703]

For questions, please contact Dean Ingeborg Walther (waltheri@duke.edu).

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O-Week Concerts 2015

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The Pitchforks performed at Sunday’s annual a cappella concert in the recently reopened Page Auditorium.

Alex Deckey | The Chronicle This year’s orientation week featured a concert in the gardens Wednesday exclusively for freshmen featuring three in-state hip-hop artists.

Duke Dance Program

open house

Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 5:00 p.m.

The Ark Dance Studio, Basement, East Campus Come and meet the dance faculty and then join us in an open African Dance class at 6:30 pm. Refreshments served!

auditions for repertories

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle All eight of the University’s a cappella groups performed Sunday evening, including Rhythm and Blue, pictured here.

Wednesday, Aug. 26 4:40 pm - Ballet Repertory with Tyler Walters @ The Ark

Thursday, Aug. 27 11:45 am - Flamenco Repertory with Carlota Santana @ The Ark

7:45 pm African Dance Repertory with Ava Vinesett @ The Ark

7:45 pm - Modern Repertory with Andrea E. Woods @ The Ark

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Congratulations to the newest members of the Bass Society of Fellows

Lee Baker, PhD

Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Gary Bennett, PhD

Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Rob Mitchell, PhD

Marcello Lotti Professor of English

Philip Stern, PhD

Sally Dalton Robinson Associate Professor of History

Honored for their excellence in both undergraduate teaching and scholarly research

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elcome back to campus and to another FDOC from Editorial Board! In addition to the second largest ever admitted class, this year brings a great deal of change to campus, and we are excited to critically examine the stories that unfold. For those who have taken their fingers off the pulse of campus news, today’s editorial presents a small selection of what lays ahead in addition to some summer events you may have missed.

In University leadership, several positions are in flux this year. The former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Tom Katsouleas, officially left his position two weeks ago to become the vice president and provost of the University of Virginia. Provost Sally Kornbluth noted she hopes that Pratt’s next dean has a focus on hiring faculty interested in collaborating across schools. On that note, administration announced in mid-May that Valerie Ashby would become the next dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Dean Ashby comes from the position of chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In related Duke-UNC news, both universities and their medical schools are being scrutinized for an alleged no-hire agreement regarding their

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faculty. The upcoming legal case has the potential to rock both the University and its Health System along with key administrators and others at UNC Chapel Hill. The class action lawsuit filed June 9 by Dr. Danielle Seaman, an assistant professor of radiology, on behalf of all faculty, physicians, nurses, and skilled medical employees who have worked at Duke and UNC since 2012. Both uni-

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versities face what looks like a compelling body of evidence that raises questions about anti-trust laws, the relationship between the two university health systems and how such a no-hire agreement could have been allowed if it proves to be the case.

Moving to the academic world, the sociology department will begin offering its new minor in medical sociology this year. Introduced in June, the minor is intended to help pre-health students view medicine from a patient’s perspective, giving them an often neglected view in pre-health curricula. Additionally, Curriculum 2000’s revision is still underway entering its second exciting year ,which focuses on faculty and discussion-driven drafting of concrete proposals after last year’s di-

agnostic work that reviewed the old curriculum.

Following up on the ADPhi case that developed in the Spring semester, the Durham Police Department has concluded its eight month investigation.

Ultimately, the office of Durham’s District Attorney announced that no person subject to the investigation would be charged with any criminal offense. At Duke, the fraternity remains suspended, and with upcoming sexual assault policy revisions, we have to ask how our view of these cases will shift with policy.

Close on the heels of the ADPhi case, the Interfraternity Council will establish a task force this year that will turn inwards to examine the role of Greek life in campus sexual assault, the results of which are sure to be interesting given that 46 percent of those who reported being sexually assaulted reported their assailant was Greek-affiliated.

We have only grazed the surface of recent campus happenings and much more lays ahead in terms of CAPs improvements, campus construction work, the Duke-UNC lawsuit, and sexual misconduct policy revisions. Good or bad, we welcome the opportunities for discussion those events will bring.

Editor’s Note: This editorial was written by members of staff rather than The Chronicle’s independent editorial board.

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elcome freshmen! After years of hard work, you’ve finally made it to Duke’s vaunted spires. Here at The Chronicle, we know you might be feeling a little intimidated; it can be difficult as a newcomer to make sense of the complex social norms and traditions on campus. That’s why we have put together this handy guide to get you started out right.

ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS: You’re in a totally new place filled with people well used to this environment. You’re going to get lost, and it’s natural to feel awkward asking for directions. But you shouldn’t feel intimidated asking for help because most Dukies will be fully welcoming and understanding. Just make sure

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FINANCIAL AID: Those of you on financial aid may notice your aid appearing to jump up and down in value from semester to semester, seemingly without regard to your demonstrated need. This is because of the complex process by which aid is determined. First, Duke takes your family earnings report and checks it against the previous year’s. Next, they factor in inflation for the intervening period. This paperwork is filed in triplicate with Duke Payroll and photocopied before being returned to FinAid having been spritzed with Payroll’s verification scent. After this step is complete, the Board of Trustees meets to determine how much of the endowment to invest in Congolese proxy

SATIRE, PROBABLY that before you ask any upperclassmen anything, you first say the words “My name is Margaret Rennert, and I am the governess of an outer colony of the Empire. I have journeyed for some time to reach this place and have business here to which I must urgently attend. If you so allow, I would seek to learn the whereabouts of my charge.” Say this each and every time you meet an upperclassman, and you’ll get all the help you need.

RELIGION: For the most part, religion is not a big part of the public life at Duke. As you probably already know, Duke is “officially” a Methodist university, meaning that it worships the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli. In practice this has no ramifications for your life at Duke except that each new moon every student must make a sacrifice of three calves to the god Huitzilopochtli. Remember: you don’t want to be that freshman that only leaves out two blood-drained calf corpses for Huitzilopochtli to devour in preparation for battle against his four hundred jealous brothers while defending his mother Coatlicue. Classic freshman fail.

DATING: So you’ve found someone special – good work. At Duke, if you want to begin a romantic entanglement, you must bring your intended partner to the Duke Quantum Electronics Lab. Once you have both completed the proper paperwork, the science people will put your relationship into a quantum superposition. This will force your involvement to become simultaneously a casual recurring hook-up and a romantic relationship. It is important to remember never to try to clarify with your partner exactly the nature of your relationship. Doing so will invariably cause a collapse in the wave function and induce your partner to end the involvement altogether. If this does happen, the correct Duke thing to do is to swallow the longing and heartache, hold them in the pit of your stomach forever and become a cold and distant person. This is a traditional Duke coping practice, dating back to the days when the university was an embattled Pelopon-

forces for the coming fiscal year. Once this has been decided, your aid paperwork is buried in a peat bog and a man in a room presses a button on a random number generator which decides your aid total.

MAKING FRIENDS: You’ll find that Duke people are some of the friendliest people around, but we understand that early on it can be hard knowing how to correctly talk to your fellow students. A correct social interaction at Duke should go like this: “Hello fellow student how are you” “I am good ugh I have [x] assignments due in [y] hours plus this stupid lab that will take [z] hours right now how about you?”

“Ugh yes I have [x+1] assignments due in [x-1] hours plus this stupid project partner meeting that will take [y+2] hours right now.”

“Damn that is much okay I must leave now let us hang out at some time” [lie] “Yes” [lie] As you can see, the first student won this conversation because she has demonstrated herself to be the busier and therefore better person. The student that wins the most conversations each year is sent to an all-expenses-paid dinner at Le Bernardin restaurant in New York at which President Brodhead will stand behind the winner’s chair and once a minute whisper “remember, you are dirt” into their ear to remind them of their ultimate human fallibility.

That’s all for this installation, but be sure to come back weekly for more. And remember – once finished, the proper thing to do with any copy of The Chronicle is set it on fire and leave it in a trash can outside your dorm. This is to ward off the angry ghosts of lung cancer victims that haunt Duke’s campus.

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oday marks the first day of classes for the Class of 2019. Now that I’m a year removed from the excitement of that first day, I would like to share my takeaways from freshman year in the hopes that you will cherish your first year here as much as I did.

1. Be more than an “excellent sheep.”

I first encountered this term my freshman O-Week and, intrigued, tracked down its source: disillusioned ex-Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s scathing critique

Odendahl-James, Duke’s humanities advisor. I replied and set up a meeting with her. We talked about my interests for over an hour, and she followed up with a threepage-long email connecting me to a Bass Connections project on genocide and an initiative called Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum. Duke also has specialized advising for other disciplines such as the sciences and global and civic engagement.

6. Set concrete goals. Last year, I

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started setting goals in different spheres — relationships, wellness, academics, extracurriculars, family — and tracked my progress on a poster mounted on my wall.

Whether it’s learning to code, practicing intentionality with a developing friendship or shaving seconds off your 5K time, concrete goals motivate you to achieve measureable progress.

7. Read for pleasure. Whether it’s a little poetry before bed, the latest bestseller, that classic work of literature you’ve been meaning to read or a seminal nonfiction work in a field of interest, reading serves not only as a respite from your busy life at Duke but also as a way to expand the frontiers of your own knowledge.

8. “Live the questions now.” Before my freshman year, I read Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, finding inspiration in his words: “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers . . . because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

9. Call home. Your family support system can carry you through the challenges of your first semester away. Your parents have been in your shoes if not on a college campus then certainly in emerging adulthood. They love you and miss you and want to help you.

10. “Your playing small does not serve the world.” Marianne Williamson’s ethic holds true for life at Duke. Here, it’s surprisingly easy to coast, studying what you already know you’re good at, doing the same activities you did in high school, surrounding yourself only with people who are similar to you. Seek out difference, not comfort. Listen to perspectives that challenge your own. Emerge changed for the better.

Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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he 2016 election, despite what mainstream media and a cacophony of candidates giving stump speeches will indicate, is still more than 14 months away. Yet anything anyone can bother to talk about is Donald Trump’s desire to build a wall with a door in it or Hillary Clinton’s emails. With the rapid influx of money into politics and an electorate still frustrated with the direction where the country is headed both on the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum, 2016 is shaping up to be a unique election cycle.

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Matthew King of elite higher education in the United States. In Excellent Sheep, Deresiewicz argues that many college students are “smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.” Now, whenever I find myself doing something because everyone else is doing it or because it’s the prestigious thing to do, I ask myself, “Am I being an excellent sheep?”

2. Email is powerful. Before email, students had to track down professors in obscure corners of the university. Now, we can use email to ask a professor a question, schedule an appointment during office hours or propose a FLUNCH. If you want to talk Duke policy with administrators, you can find them on email as well.

I know from experience that Dr. Moneta, Dean Baker and President Brodhead are responsive and eager to speak with undergraduates.

3. Learn a new skill. At no other time in your life do you have the chance to learn so much with so little risk. At Duke, you can pick up ballroom dancing, get comfortable behind a camera, start blogging through the first-year media team or learn to arrange music with an a cappella group.

4. Make time for wandering. It pays to leave space open in your schedule. This is for two reasons: First, at a place like Duke, incredible things are constantly happening, and second, it’s good to have some time to yourself when nothing is happening. Thanks to foreign policy speakers with the Program in American Grand Strategy (AGS), world-class artists through Duke Performances and senior distinction projects in the theater department, my Duke education is considerably richer. Still, on some days, you won’t want to be so busy; my favorite places to escape the hubbub of campus life are the bamboo grove in Duke Gardens, the Thomas Room in Lilly Library and the rooftop garden on top of Environment Hall.

5. Seek advice when you need it. Last fall, I received a blast email from Dr. Jules

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about today. For some strange reason, despite the recognition by many Duke students of the importance of elections like these, we either don’t care that much about politics or seldom get involved in the political process.

That troubles me even when it makes some level of sense.

Now let me make a quick distinction. When I say care about and being involved in politics, I am not referring to individual passion for issues like human and refugee rights or education; rather, I am talking about the actual political and social structures and processes that affect and impact those issues from a local to international level.

I know for certain we care, but it is a question of how we show that care in our daily lives.

I do not think one could go anywhere on social media at Duke without seeing a peer post some article or news clip about an important issue facing the nation or world. Often times, it is a liberal viewpoint on a particular issue, and I almost always agree with the premise of the post or comment from the author. But it seems like for many at this school and amongst the broader community of college students, their activity on those issues stops at the social media post.

Even though likes on Facebook and re-tweets are nice for self-esteem, unless they’re part of some coordinated effort to build a collective voice, they serve you more than they serve the issues you write about. Social media activism is really a passive activity unless coordinated and purposeful. The political process and the formulation of policy from a local to a federal level are far more active. If we want to make a difference in the issues we care about, we have to go a step further than posts on social media, volunteering or working for non-profits or schools.

Durham has an amazing community organizing group called Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods). This past year, I have attended two of CAN’s community gatherings where local political leaders, organizers from churches and community groups and other engaged citizens can attend and see where progress is being made in affordable housing, education and policing among other issues. CAN gives a collective voice to Durham citizens involved in the process and can be a powerful microphone for change.

Perhaps city leaders would make some of these changes on their own volition. However, one cannot under-

state the role of CAN here in creating a more democratic community in Durham. By organizing and pushing for specific policies and changes to the city to increase the dismal amount of affordable housing in the revitalized downtown area or have better community policing, CAN becomes a conduit for change through which average citizens can become active participants in the political process. The work CAN does often goes unnoticed

by Duke students, but it is fundamental to building coalitions for change in places like the schools we volunteer in or downtown by the restaurants we

frequent.

My message today is simple. This year leading up to 2016, find a way to get involved in the political process.

At least make an educated vote in your hometown or here in Durham. Consider volunteering for a national or local campaign or get involved with a nonprofit lobbying local officials or the federal government to change policy, attend a rally or protest down by the NC Statehouse.

It is so easy to remain disengaged with all that happens at Duke, but there are opportunities right on our doorstep to make a difference through the political process and to become an engaged citizen. As we grow, the mantle of leadership for this nation and this world will fall to us. I want to say that, by the time I leave, I left my community a better place and did all I could to make the lives of others better.

That notion is idealistic, I know, and it won’t get you into medical school or that consulting job you’ve suddenly decided you wanted, but it will do something. It will build more active engagement in politics and the future of our communities and develop the publics of accountability that give power to those without wealth or status and allow the democratic system we inhabit to include people of all races, religions and sexual and gender identities, rather than serve the fancy of those who hold power.

The reality of this nation is that state force is wielded against black and brown bodies without remorse.

Income and structural inequalities will continue to harm and oppress low-income communities and families.

Women aren’t just paid less than men, they’re still treated as objects – just go to Shooters for evidence of that or read a wonderful column by one of my fellow columnists on the subject.

These realities are our history and our present. But we can only build our future by being active leaders in forming it, not by sitting on the sideline or posting on Facebook. Translate your passions into action this election season and make it into a lifetime of service. If you don’t get involved now, you have no stake or role in the outcome.

Our ability to govern democratically is not a given, but rather it is a constant struggle to build on progress, repair past and current injustices and strive for a better future.

Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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