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Jaime Gordon The Chronicle Fay Wells, Trinity ‘99, is a Duke alumna who currently resides in Santa Monica, Calif., and works as senior vice president of strategy at a multinational corporation. On Sept. 6 at approximately 11:15 p.m., Wells’ neighbor called the police saying that two Hispanic individuals were burglarizing Wells’ apartment. The people in question were Wells and a locksmith opening her own door. She went on to write about the incident in an article for The Washington Post that has sparked conversations across the country. The Chronicle’s Jaime Gordon sat down with Wells to discuss the event, her experience as woman of color and relations both at Duke and around the world.

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Fay Wells: I locked myself out of my apartment on my way to play soccer. I noticed right away, but I didn’t want to miss my game, so I decided to deal with it when I got back. After the game, I called a locksmith. The locksmith came and opened the door, and then I went into my See WELLS on Page 8

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Adam Beyer The Chronicle Although students have pushed to ban the app Yik Yak from campus, administrators have refused to take action against the forum.

A number of students have expressed concern that Yik Yak has become a conduit for anonymous offensive messages. During the first community forum Nov. 13 to address recent racist and homophobic events on campus, President Richard Brodhead said he did not know if he had the ability to shut down the location-based anonymous forum on campus in response to student requests that he do so. At least half a dozen universities have blocked the app from their campus wireless networks, including Augustana College in Illinois, Saint Louis University, Utica College and Norwich University.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, ruled out blocking the app at Duke and

noted that doing so would not be effective.

“Since it can always be accessed via cell signal, no institution could truly eliminate it from their campus,” he wrote in an email.

“For any institution to seek to silence it plays right into [Yik Yak’s] hands...since what they seek is notoriety.”

After several complaints, the College of Idaho asked Yik Yak earlier this month to place a geofence around its campus so that the app would be inaccessible to its students.

The app declined the request, according to The Washington Post. The app prevents users who are under 18 from posting by placing geofences around middle and high school campuses but does not geofence college campuses, explained Olivia Borger, Trinity ‘13 and a communications associate for the company.

She noted that the app is working to enhance protective measures.

“Encouraging a positive, constructive, and supportive community environment on Yik

Yak is a top area of focus for us!” she wrote in an email. “Today, we have a number of safeguards in place like filters, pop-up warnings, in-app reporting, moderation, and suspensions.”

Yik Yak does cooperate with law enforcement agencies. When issued a warrant, court order, subpoena or in an emergency situation, the app can disclose the user’s IP address, GPS coordinates from where the message was posted, the time and date of the post and other data including phone numbers, according to the Yik Yak website.

Moneta noted that the University only contacts Yik Yak when there is a legal reason to do so.

Yik Yak is not the first form of anonymous communication to appear on college campuses.

Matt Ivester, Trinity ‘05, launched JuicyCampus.com in 2007 as an online gossip forum with pages for colleges across the See YIK YAK on Page 8

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Campaign Stop 2016 website showcases Duke’s political opinions Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Keeping up with Duke opinions about the 2016 presidential election has become easier thanks to a new faculty and student project.

The Office of News and Communications recently launched a year-long initiative called Campaign Stop 2016, a website that features the Duke community’s thoughts and opinions on the 2016 election.

The project includes Democratic and Republican undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members. Keith Lawrence, executive director of news and communications, explained that the project’s main goal is to highlight what people on campus have to say about the current political atmosphere.

“We feel like Duke has a lot of resources that can contribute to public understanding, and that’s what we wanted to take advantage of,” he said.

Lawrence noted that the project’s main platform is the website but that it also includes social media and podcasts.

The site includes sections dedicated to national issues and foreign affairs as well as columns written by students and experts in various fields.

A main focus of the initiative is to include students in the political discussions, Lawrence explained. Currently, 38 student bloggers contribute to the website and many are involved in producing the site, he said. Several students have also interviewed faculty members for features on the site.

“We’re really trying to highlight our students,” Lawrence said. “We invited them to play a significant role.”

For instance, Lawrence explained that

junior Madeleine Roberts had the idea for a feature called “Throwback Thursday” in which students interview faculty members about their political involvement when they were in college. Now, she is in charge of running that feature.

Junior Adam Lemon, one of the writers for Campaign Stop 2016 and president of Duke College Republicans, noted that the project captures a wide range of student

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“It’s impressive to see the comprehensive and diverse nature of the student writers, as nearly every major person involved in the political realm here on campus is involved,” he wrote in an email.

In addition, the project also provides a platform for faculty members’ insights into the 2016 election.

Peter Feaver, professor of political science

and public policy, noted that Duke has many faculty members with expertise on the top issues in the election.

“This is a place to bring that expertise together and showcase it,” he said. “It’s a way to make sure there’s a Duke brand on that expertise.”

Feaver and Bruce Jentleson, professor of political science and public policy, currently host a podcast for the website that discusses foreign policy issues such as the situation in Syria, the Islamic State group, and terrorism.

Jentleson noted that the podcast often involves disagreement between the two hosts, but that he believes their discussions show how issues can be debated in a respectful way. “[The campaign] demonstrates an effort

by Duke to engage with society,” he said.

Another goal of the project is to provide a place for outside media outlets to turn to for student and professor opinions, Lawrence explained. He said he hopes that reporters who are looking to interview students might use the website for this.

Lemon added that the website also provides a convenient location for media organizations to gauge the current opinions at universities across the country.

The feedback for the project has been mostly positive so far, Lawrence noted, although he said he hopes to do more marketing and outreach. The project is working to market to the Duke community and anyone else who is interested in politics, he said.

Lemon said that he thinks the project will soon have a significant impact on campus.

“I can guarantee you once the ball gets rolling and election season kicks into high gear that Campaign Stop will be an integral part of Duke’s 2016 experience,” he said.

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in place, we don’t know how the food travels,” committee member Julia Leuchtenburg, a sophomore, said last week.

A strength of the restaurant presented last week was that the kitchen is very flexible about accommodating allergies and dietary needs, which would be necessary if the restaurant was added to the MOP program.

Additionally, the delivery menu would remain the same as the in-restaurant menu except for the removal of enchiladas, which would not travel well, according to the presentation last week.

Regardless of these strengths, Medine added that, in addition to the questions surrounding Don Marcelo’s delivery, the MOP program already offers students a Mexican option in chain restaurant Tijuana Flats, though the vendor will be evaluated at the end of the year.

“With Tijuana Flats on the program, we have another option for this year,” Medine said. “Don Marcelo’s may not be necessarily ready for delivery due to their lack of understanding for what that process entails.”

The committee also reflected on the food truck program, which added Mixed Korean Truck in October—an addition appreciated by students, the committee said.

However, several issues with Chirba Chirba—which serves dumplings and operates on Mondays and Wednesdays— have arisen, DUSDAC members explained.

Reports of employees dismissing students to the back of the line after not having the PIN set up on their DukeCard and students receiving raw food were among the concerns discussed Monday.

Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee presented an overview on the progress it has made on choosing Merchantson-Points vendors and reflected on student feedback for current dining options at its meeting Monday.

The committee also made its final decision about adding Mexican restaurant Don Marcelo’s to the MOP program, deciding not to add the eatery after its presentation last week. The main reason for the decision was that Don Marcelo’s was not ready to serve the Duke community, multiple committee members said.

“One of the overwhelming impressions I received is that Don Marcelo’s is not experienced in delivery and does not want to directly join the merchants-on-points program,” said DUSDAC member Julia Medine, a sophomore.

Committee members subsequently stated that during the Don Marcelo’s presentation, no food samples were provided, so the quality of the food and options for dining were hard to evaluate. In addition, the restaurant— which is located at Erwin Terrace near Sushi Love—did not have a delivery service currently in place. Presenters estimated that it would be approximately 20 to 25 minutes between the time a student places an order and the time that the order is delivered.

Committee members last week questioned Don Marcelo’s ability to deliver, particularly when the restaurant failed to bring any sample food for the committee In other business: to try.

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Campus with the first floor of the new West Union opening in February and its other vendors opening next Fall. After the West Union opens, students will not be able to use Marketplace equivalency at Penn Pavilion and will only be able to use it at Skillet Southern Cookery in the West Union.

“Penn Pavilion is a very popular destination for breakfast,” said Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey. “The Skillet will be taking on what is considered traditional food—a breakfast with a hot bar

and a daily special will be offered. Omelets to order and a la carte items such as eggs benedict will be available for students to chose from.”

The concept of having more grab-andgo options, however, raised some concerns among students.

“It should also be taken into consideration that students currently enjoy making their own yogurt parfaits at Penn Pavilion rather than having a pre-made option,” said DUSDAC member Joshua Furth, a sophomore.

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With 9:25 remaining in Sunday’s game, graduate student Marshall Plumlee blocked an attempted runner by Utah State forward Lew Evans. Plumlee collected the ball over his head and fired an outlet pass toward halfcourt.

Grayson Allen caught it mid-stride right as he crossed the center line with 9:23 on the clock. Three Aggies raced after him, trying to prevent the inevitable. Trace Cureton got closest, trying to undercut the Duke sophomore as he readied for take-off, but ultimately—and perhaps wisely—got out of the way.

Allen needed just two dribbles to cover the 47 feet to the rim, then exploded to slam the ball home with his right hand, giving Duke a 7140 lead with 9:21 left and adding to a growing list of crowd-exciting one-handed jams.

“When I’m on the break, my mentality is just attack until someone stops me,” Allen said. “If I’m not stopped, I’m going to dunk it.”

The sophomore’s reputation as a highpowered dunker predates this season.

Allen jumped over former teammate Jahlil Okafor to win the slam dunk contest at the McDonald’s High School All-American game, and he put the exclamation point on Duke’s Final Four victory against Michigan State with an emphatic stuff along the baseline after corralling his own miss.

But now that he has emerged from the bench and established himself as Duke’s go-to scorer, Allen is putting his

Photo Illustration by Matthew Conley | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen has shown off his dunking prowess early in the season, including this one-handed slam against Siena in the season opener.

athleticism on display with regularity. He victimized Siena with a pair of dunks in Duke’s season opener and went coast-tocoast against Bryant for another.

In all three cases—and again Sunday against the Aggies—Allen found open space ahead of him, picking up the necessary steam to soar past his opponents. With a style predicated on relentlessly driving and looking for contact, Allen fights for every inch on his path to the basket—when he encounters less resistance, the dunks come.

So far this season, the only team seemingly

capable of stopping Allen has been Kentucky.

The Wildcats’ length met the Jacksonville, Fla., native as he drove through the paint Nov. 17 in Chicago, turning his shot away all evening and not allowing him any extra room to operate.

Allen said he tries to draw defenders to him on the fast break and will kick the ball out for a transition three if his path to the basket is blocked. So far, opponents have struggled to do that.

“Plan A is dunk,” Allen said. “Plan B is make a move.”

Both Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow were selected within the top 10 picks of the 2015 NBA draft.

Both were coached by the legendary Mike Krzyzewski and adored by the Sameer Pandhare masses at Duke.

Heck, the two even lived on the same floor of Wilson Dorm on East Campus.

But the situations they find themselves in this season could not be any more different. For two of the Blue Devils’ national championship winning freshmen from a year ago, the stability of the organizations that selected them may be much more important than where their names ended up on the draft board.

When Okafor was selected third by the Philadelphia 76ers, many envisioned the skilled center putting up monstrous stats on a nightly basis for a team that would lose often. Most of that has come to fruition—the rookie has averaged 17.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game and sure enough, the 76ers sit at 0-18, tied for the worst start in NBA history.

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Eight Blue Devils garner All-ACC recognition Staff Reports The Chronicle Led by safety Jeremy Cash, kick returner DeVon Edwards and center Matt Skura, eight Blue Devils received All-ACC honors, the conference announced Monday.

Cash, Edwards and Skura were named First Team All-ACC selections. Duke was wellrepresented on special teams with kicker Ross Martin and punter Will Monday each landing on the Third Team All-ACC, joining linebacker Dwayne Norman. Offensive linemen Casey Blaser and Lucas Patrick earned honorable mention honors.

After being forced to sit out the first half of Saturday’s win against Wake Forest due to an ejection for targeting that carried over from Duke’s Nov. 21 loss to Virginia, Cash picked up seven tackles after halftime to give him 101 tackles this season, surpassing the 100-tackle threshold for the third consecutive season. The Miami native was the leading vote-getter in the secondary.

An explosive player on special teams,

Edwards returned three kickoffs for touchdowns during the regular season and also racked up 93 tackles from his rover safety position, good for third on the team. If the Covington, Ga., native takes a kickoff to the house in Duke’s bowl game, he would tie the national record for career return touchdowns with seven.

Heading into the season, Duke was tasked with replacing standout offensive linemen Laken Tomlinson and Takoby Cofield as new starting quarterback Thomas Sirk took the reins from Anthony Boone. The steady presence of Skura eased that transition, as the captain helped the Blue Devil front allow the fewest sacks in the ACC per pass attempt. Thanks to the emergence of Blaser at right guard and Patrick at left guard, Duke opened up consistent lanes for its stable of running backs, as well as Sirk and backup Parker Boehme in short-yardage situations near the goal line. The Blue Devils ranked seventh in rushing offense during the regular season.

Martin turned in another stellar season aiming between the uprights, breaking the school record with 23 made field goals

on 27 attempts. The Solon, Ohio, native’s first miss did not come until he missed two in Duke’s four-overtime win at Virginia Tech Oct. 24. Monday’s selection marked Martin’s fourth consecutive All-ACC honor, following honorable mention selections as a freshman and a sophomore and a thirdteam landing spot in 2014.

Although he did not duplicate his 79-yard effort from the Belk Bowl in 2012, Monday averaged 43.6 yard per punt for Duke and pinned opponents inside the 20-yard line 20 times. The Flowery Branch, Ga., native joins Martin as a four-time All-ACC selection as the duo have revamped a Blue Devil kicking game during their careers in Durham.

Like Cash, Norman eclipsed 100 total tackles for the season Saturday against the Demon Deacons. The senior made a smooth transition from safety to linebacker, helping ease the pain brought by the loss of redshirt senior Kelby Brown to an ACL tear in August. Norman’s 104 tackles led the Blue Devils, and he ranked fourth in the ACC in tackles per game.

Duke will learn its bowl fate Sunday.

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash was the leading vote-getter in the secondary as he picked up his third all-conference honor.

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76ers organization has assembled a team comprised of many low-cost options, with the seldom-used Carl Landry the only player older than 24. On Philadelphia’s 16-man roster, Landry is the only player to enter the league prior to 2012.

Without any sort of guidance of how to carry oneself and deal with life as an NBA player—which consists of more than just a couple classes, two games per week and celebratory trips to Shooters—Okafor has undoubtedly struggled with a transition made all the more difficult by playing for a historically bad team.

Now this isn’t meant to excuse the rookie’s actions and Okafor realized this himself in his latest apologies on Twitter.

Learning to handle losing on and off the floor is an important part of every NBA player’s development. The 6-foot-11 center did not have to experience that much during his one year in Durham or on the high school circuit, which makes the transition especially challenging for a 19-year old. Following the release of the video to TMZ.com last week, the media began to scrutinize Okafor even more than when he was at Duke, which should be a wake-up call for the rookie moving forward.

Compare this to Winslow, who slid on draft day into the arms of Pat Riley’s Miami Heat at No. 10 after experts felt the former Blue Devil could be picked as high as fourth. Waiting for Winslow was Dwyane Wade—a once-dynamic athlete who has brought home three championships during his 12-year career.

As a lifelong Heat fan, I knew the moment NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced the pick that Winslow had found a place where he could mature

Chronicle File Photo Former Blue Devil Jahlil Okafor has been in the news for off-court issues in the past week.

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So many times, the tutelage of veteran players around a young guy can shape the course of a career. Take a look at the struggles Rajon Rondo has had since he left the leadership of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen in Boston or the success Kawhai Leonard has had with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili in San Antonio.

But looking around Okafor on the 76ers roster, there is barely a veteran presence in sight.

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as both a player and an individual. With a support system around him including Wade, Chris Bosh, former Blue Devils Luol Deng and Josh McRoberts and, of course, Riley, Winslow has had little trouble adjusting to the bright lights of Miami, even as his game continues to develop on the floor.

If you think a stable organization isn’t important, take a look at the case of the great Kobe Bryant, who announced that he would retire at the end of the season Sunday. After the passing of legendary owner Jerry Buss—who won 10 NBA titles in 34 years at the helm— the Los Angeles Lakers finished last in their division in consecutive seasons— with an average of just 24 victories—as Bryant’s career slowly began to fade.

The past two offseasons presented consecutive disappointments when the Lakers’ front office was unable to land marquee free agents as Buss’ children share control of the franchise, leaving Bryant with little supporting cast as he begins his swan song.

Although Okafor and Winslow have only played about a quarter of a season in the NBA, both players have the talent

Chronicle File Photo Justise Winslow landed in a good spot in Miami with veteran mentors in Dwyane Wade and Luol Deng as he adapts to the NBA.

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Balancing the books on divestment

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ast month, the University’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility hosted a public forum to discuss with students the transparency and management of the University endowment. A central question regarding any major university’s endowment is how socially responsible its investments are. On the one hand, ACIR maintains the growth-driven interests of endowment management and that divestment may seem initially appealing but is nonetheless a complicated movement. On the other, Divest Duke voices student opinions from a national movement that divestment is both possible and effective as part of approaching a sustainable future.

After meeting with Divest Duke members and taking in ACIR’s public positions, we believe the intentions of the divestment movement are reasonable and certainly noble, but its choice of means invites too many problematizing questions to justify constraining our endowment’s investments.

Divest Duke and advocates of the status quo approach the endowment with fundamentally different expectations of its purpose, and their discussions therefore lack productivity.

Though we wrote last year strongly in favor of increased transparency, we recognize the practical argument that the vast majority--almost all--of the endowment’s investments are either legally

confidential or so frequently shifting as to make periodic disclosures pointless. In terms of divestment, we agree with Divest Duke that withdrawing financial investments from fossil fuel companies would make a political statement. We turn, however, to the response of Harvard President Drew Faust to the divestment movement where she says it is prudent to “be wary of steps intended to instrumentalize our endowment in ways that would appear to position the University as a political actor rather than an academic one.”

Editorial Universities should presume against taking political stances with their endowments because of their strictly academic raison d’etre. Facilitating high quality scholarship on environmental science and sustainable energy research is among the best ways universities can contribute to a sustainable future, particularly with the policy focus of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The “either or” of the situation is ultimately that a university’s academic purpose is distinct from its endowment’s more business-savvy purpose.

Further, while it is true that Duke divested from South Africa and Sudan in 1986 and 2008, respectively,

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we think it inappropriate to politically equate fossil fuels with apartheid and the gross human rights violations of the Sudanese government in Darfur, as ACIR chair and Brainerd Currie professor of law James Cox pointed out in Monday’s forum. The better mode of political expression against fossil fuel companies than voting with our feet against the massive energy lobby is to work with professors who are field experts and innovators in providing effective and economically preferable solutions for down the road. While we understand the passion of students in favor of divestment on account of the environment’s importance and the harm fossil fuels are causing, we believe the harder road of building long-term solutions in science and business will do more for a sustainable future than a political statement that treats university endowments as a means to their ends.

Professor Cox and ACIR have had a positive and communicative relationship thus far with Divest Duke, and we believe both parties have hashed out their platforms over the years. ACIR should continue to be open to all criticisms of how socially responsible our endowment’s investments are even as it holds its ground on the purpose of the endowment. Divest Duke, in turn, should reconsider its approach to engaging fossil fuel companies but certainly continue advocating for a sustainable future.

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t was the night before Thanksgiving break. Taxis and Ubers were all over campus, and Dukies could be seen dragging their luggage out of dorms throughout the day. I had just pulled through a heavy week of exams, papers and limited hours of sleep, so I had barely even realized that our break was impending.

I packed my bag while Skyping my parents. Ever ything was normal. They

going to come home!” I sobbed. Meanwhile, my Dad begged me to calm down telling me that the plane never leaves anyone behind (not sure if this is true; I think he was just trying to comfort me) and that we could find a new ticket home if I couldn’t get on this flight. Meanwhile, my mom heard my Dad asking if I was alright and telling me everything was okay and made the dramatic assumption that I had been in some sort of

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gave me the latest scoop on our family and friends, asked me what I wanted for dinner when I landed and begged me to get more sleep. I casually asked them to remind me of my flight number when we all came to a horrifying realization: thinking that someone else in the family had done it , no one ever booked my plane ticket. What followed was a frantic session of calling American Airlines and finding out the dramatic distinction between putting a flight on hold and booking a flight. Whoops.

For a while, it looked like I would be stranded on campus over Thanksgiving.

Luckily, after aggressively engaging in a click war on the American Airlines website, we were able to snag the last ticket home.

Relieved, I went to bed dreaming of mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.

When I went to my friend’s car early the next morning, we found ourselves staring at a layer of ice from the frozen morning dew all over the windshield. Without an ice scraper, we were temporarily powerless until someone grabbed Tupperware from the trunk and resourcefully scraped the ice off. By the time I rolled up to RDU at 4 a.m., I had a rude awakening about the holiday season at the airport. It was packed like I’d never seen before. Without realizing that I still had a respectable chunk of time left to get through security, I panicked. As I ran around the airport trying to find the end of the line, the line seemed to form alongside me. I called my Dad, running alongside the airport line, dragging my luggage and sobbing into the phone. It was probably quite the sight.

“I’m not going to come home! I’m not

terrible accident. (It was 4 a.m., so cut us a little slack). In the background, I could hear my mom crying and panicking.

Like I said, not pretty for the Raos.

The story ends with me speeding through security and sitting in my seat right on time. The lesson? Make sure you actually book your plane ticket, keep an ice scraper in your glove compartment and get to security unreasonably early.

The real lesson is how important it apparently was for me to get home. The reality is that Thanksgiving is a relatively short break, and that I will be going home again in less than two weeks. Still, I was on the edge of tears several times throughout this saga. I don’t think it was the mashed potatoes or the cranberries that I was upset about missing. It was the chance to be together with my family.

College is actually really weird in the sense that you spend 18 years of your life in the constant care and protection of your parents. Then, one fine day, you’re dropped off at a remote location, hours away, and build a whole new life. At least, that’s how it worked out for me. It honestly surprised me how badly I wanted to go home given that I almost didn’t realize that we had a break coming up and how happy I am at Duke. I underestimated that power ful drive to go home and the need to be with my family.

So I hope that everyone got to see their parents and siblings or see their friends and eat lots of delicious Thanksgiving food. I know that I did.

Shruti Rao is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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ust a day after Thanksgiving, Americans witnessed yet another mass shooting on our country’s soil, this time at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Three people were killed, another nine were injured and the gunman was later revealed to be 57-yearold Robert Lewis Dear Jr. President Obama issued a statement condemning the attack

to preserve their body parts.”

“We shouldn’t be [funding] an ongoing criminal enterprise.”

“No more baby parts.”

The first two quotes, by Presidential candidates Chris Christie and Ted Cruz, were spoken at the Republican debates in September and met with resounding applause. The third quote the Colorado

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Giving a little bit

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y the time I had learned about Cyber Monday, it was already three in the afternoon, and most retailers had been raided heavily for hours.

I didn’t realize that the physical consumer gorging of Black Friday now formally precedes an online one, but I guess it makes sense. If discounts are enough to make people get up at four in the morning, then discounts you can get whilst wrapped in a comforter must be the stuff of dreams.

You’d think that two pseudo-holidays

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and insisting, “This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal.” When I heard about this horrific event, though, it indeed felt very normal. In 2015 alone, there have already been 351 mass shootings and so the fact that this sort of event happened is depressingly not that surprising.

What particularly struck me about this act of violence was the perpetrator’s target. While we do not know the full details of why this tragedy happened, the fact that it occurred at Planned Parenthood is no coincidence.

The organization has long since been a verbal target of political and religious leaders alike and recently witnessed a string of terroristic attacks. Particularly in these last six months, politicians—especially presidential candidates—have explicitly and brazenly used Planned Parenthood as a political punching bag to rile up voters and appeal to the party’s base. This is not just meaningless rhetoric meant to grab votes—the hostile language surrounding women’s reproductive health and the legal right to abortion has a very real and damaging impact.

This past summer, the dubiously named Center for Medical Progress released secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the procurement of fetal tissue for medical research. Though the practice is completely legal, C.M.P claimed these videos proved the women’s health organization was illegally harvesting fetal organs—and Republicans pounced. Conservative lawmakers and every Republican presidential candidate called for the government to strip Planned Parenthood of its $500 million in federal funding, despite the fact that federal dollars do not go towards abortions anyways.

Even after Planned Parenthood was presented testimony that the videos were edited, and announced it would halt the donation of fetal tissue entirely, the controversy raged on and has been touched upon by candidates time and time again. “[Hillary Clinton] believes in the systematic murder of children in the womb

shooter allegedly uttered as he was taken into police custody. Words matter, and poisonous ideas can quickly turn into lethal action. So when politicians carelessly paint Planned Parenthood—an organization that provides life-saving preventative care and health services to millions of women—as some sort of monstrosity for their own political gain, the hatred they spew matters.

Dear’s actions are his alone, but it is foolish and irresponsible to think that the beliefs that drove him to murder exist in a vacuum. A toxic political climate and the demonization of opposing sides enable radicals like Dear to feel justified in their extremism.

As I write this, several GOP candidates have publicly condemned the shootings, but none have outright acknowledged the role of anti-choice rhetoric and smear campaigns in motivating radicals like Dear. In fact, candidates seemed keener on lambasting Democrats for demonizing Republicans and supposedly politicizing the shooting. But one cannot politicize an inherently political event.

Duke’s own Professor Allen Frances published a particularly thoughtful piece this past week about the hypocrisy of “rightto-life” advocates who claim to believe in the sanctity of human life “from conception to delivery, while simultaneously showing callous indifference to life once it has taken its first extra-uterine breath.”

If someone claims to be “pro life,” then that should encompass life at all stages.

That includes the lives of those who died in the Colorado shooting, which many probirthers were quick to mock on social media.

It includes the lives of the 2.8 million women and men who rely on Planned Parenthood for affordable healthcare. And it includes the lives of those who continue to risk their safety to provide these services amidst the threats of domestic terrorism that this past week proved all too real.

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would be enough, but thanks to my grandmother, I also learned about a third: Giving Tuesday. While lacking in alliteration and altogether antithetical to the consumerism that defines this time of year, Giving Tuesday stands out. Given that I’m usually the last one to these sorts of parties and that the namesake is fairly self-explanatory, the meaning behind Giving Tuesday should be fairly obvious.

Nonetheless, this new holiday is, in the words of its founders, about “a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.”

While the Internet might still be (rightly) infatuated with videos of Frank Beamer hitting the dab, it is Giving Tuesday that should take the center stage after a week of turkey comas and Wal-Mart riots.

My grandma often says that true happiness comes from giving, and while riding Chicago’s L-Train yesterday on my way to the airport, I found myself time and again thinking about just how much a little extra can mean.

Somewhere between Rogers Park and downtown, I found myself sitting next to a woman no older than 30. Bundled far more appropriately than I for the windy weather, she was texting feverishly back and forth with, presumably, her boyfriend or husband. I shouldn’t have been spying, and as soon as my eyes began to wander, I regretted it. After badgering her recipient about scheduling a much-needed doctor’s appointment, she wrote, “Good luck today.

Let me know if you find a job.” Before I pried my eyes away, she added, yet again, “Good luck :-).”

That struck me. There was something poignant about that text message— something that illustrated real need. It probably read on her face, but it seemed like finding that job wasn’t just a matter of time, but rather a matter of if. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s passed someone begging for change on the subway, and more often than not those people are met with an

averted gaze. In this case, I had taken an uninvited peek into the life of the woman next to me, and the more I think about it, the less surprised I am at what I saw.

As a senior with only a semester left at Duke, employment is something that rarely escapes the minds of my peers. Many have their postgraduate prospects locked up, and those that don’t greet the topic with some combination of trepidation, excitement and introspection. Above all else though, there is surety—a surety that

ultimately, somewhere, there will be a job.

I knew that this isn’t normal—that the jobs Duke graduates are inevitably assured of will remain out of reach for millions of Americans who’ve been hunting for them.

But so too are the Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays. Every now and again the Duke bubble pops, and more often than not leaving me feeling like I just got bubble gum all over my face. Not yesterday, though.

Reading those text messages, upsetting as they were, left me thinking sharply about how to take a pinch of my opportunity and send it back someone else’s way.

Giving Tuesday seems like a good place to start. Coming off a miserable attempt at a mustache for Movember, my conviction in the power of giving has been renewed this new holiday. It doesn’t have to be a fourfigure check to be effective, and that’s the beauty. Whether its facial hair or a few cents, philanthropy can be fun, easy and effective.

Over the past year and a half, several of my close friends have helped found and operate the Food Recovery Network, a campus organization that reclaims the leftover food from Duke eateries and delivers it to food banks throughout Durham. What started out as a modest project has now grown to deliver almost 43,000 pounds of food this semester alone. Maybe a simple service organization doesn’t pop on the resume the same way Campus Enterprises does, but providing thousands of meals for the needy is about as lofty a goal as I could conceive.

I’m not trying to be a preacher, if only because I know I wouldn’t be a good one.

But I guess the point is this—Duke students are in a unique position to give, and in so many different ways. All it takes is a popped bubble and some elbow grease.

So on this most unofficial of holidays, give a little bit. We’re all in a damn good position to do so.

Caleb Ellis is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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YIK YAK from page 1 country. It quickly generated controversy and legal inquiries—including a letter from the Attorney General of Connecticut—for posts targeting individual students.

Ivester shut down the website in 2009 due to the effect of “historically difficult economic times” on its advertising revenues, and wrote that if not for the lost revenue the website would be “thriving,” according to an article in The Chronicle from February 2009.

Duke administrators did not move to restrict the popular forum, but were nonetheless happy to see it shut down.

“Whatever short-term pains it has caused can be replaced by the next foolish look-alike,” Moneta said at the time. “In the long run, it’s meaningless—for each one that comes, one goes. But hopefully it’ll diminish the next.”

Subsequently, two graduate students at Johns Hopkins University and Wesleyan University started CollegiateACB, promising a safer website with features that would ensure internet searches could not find posts discussing individual students.

According to an article in The Chronicle from March 3, 2014, Duke was the secondmost active forum on the website, with more than 900 threads and 7,000 comments. The University’s forum experienced a surge in posts after The Chronicle profiled a student adult film actress, in 2014.

Administrators expressed disgust at the content of CollegiateACB, but struggled to find any possible recourse. In 2011, the Panhellenic Association petitioned to have Duke removed from the site, which featured many posts attempting to “rank” sororities and fraternities.

“It has affected our chapters on a collective level,” then-Panhel President Jenny Ngo, Trinity ‘12, said in an April 2011 interview with The Chronicle. “It fuels a social hierarchy that leads to competitiveness between our sororities.”

Duke Student Government tried addressing the problem in 2010 with an online forum called Blue Devils District that required a NetID to log in and was not anonymous.

CollegiateACB’s founder Tim O’Shea sold the site in early 2014 due to the negative media attention and to pursue other ventures. The site can no longer be accessed.

Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, encouraged students affected by targeted posts on Yik Yak to seek help.

“Many individuals, including RAs, RCs, and colleagues in DukeReach and CAPS and across Student Affairs, stand prepared to support students who find themselves troubled by posts they read on Yik Yak or on any other social media,” she wrote in an email.

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I had taken my shoes off when I heard a loud voice outside and what I thought was a small dog. I cracked open my door to find a large brown and black dog. I was kind of confused, so I walked back inside and locked the door. I looked through the window and there was a man at the bottom of the stairs with a gun pointed at me. I said very loudly, “What’s going on?” He said, “Come outside with your hands up.”

I went outside and saw that there were tons of police officers. No one answered me when I asked what was going on. I really thought they were going to kill me and I had no idea why. They asked if there was anyone in the apartment with me or if I had any weapons and then proceeded inside even after I said no. I told them, “I don’t want you in my apartment, I don’t think you have the right to do that,” but they still went inside.

After they searched my apartment, they verified that everything was okay and let me back in.

I don’t believe that if I were white, their response would have been this extreme. At first I was just confused, but once I realized sort of what was happening, I was angry. I had a really hard time. When I asked my neighbor about why he called the police, he told me to go f*** myself. Afterward, I told a few people [about the incident], then posted an excerpt on Facebook and eventually went on to write the Washington Post article.

TC: How did other people of color in the Santa Monica community respond to the incident?

FW: In the days following the event, I just reached out to so many groups saying, “What do I do?” The group that was the most active and the most supportive was the Santa Monica Coalition for Racial Justice.

They immediately were 100 percent behind me, as there have actually been many other incidents with Santa Monica law enforcement aggressively policing people of color.

TC: What were race relations at Duke like when you were there?

FW: I think that they were similar to how they are now. Duke was very segregated in some ways. African American students hung out with African American students, Asian students hung out with Asian students, and so on. Of course, there was always some overlap and some mixture, but it was all very separate. Back in 1997, we had this event called Race Day that was all about discussing issues of race and ethnicity on campus. At that event, they gave out this t-shirt and on the back it said “Desegregate Duke.”

TC: Have you heard about recent racist incidents at Duke? Do you think the racial climate has improved since you graduated?

FW: I have heard about a number of them, and they’re very disheartening.

Sometimes, it feels like we’ve come a long

The Chronicle way as a country, but not very far as people living together. It’s unfortunate that these things happen, but I think they are only really indicative of things in the larger society. It makes me very sad. Unfortunately, I think that some things haven’t changed.

TC: Generally, what has been your experience as a person of color who attended elite institutions?

FW: I’m a senior executive in tech, and I am one of the few people I see like myself in many meetings. I will go to venture conferences and there may be one or two people of color and one or two females. Because of this lack of diversity, I believe I experience a fair amount of microaggressions. It’s really interesting because it usually occurs when people find out that I went to Duke or Dartmouth. I get comments like “Oh! You must be really smart!”, “Wow! That’s great” or “You’re a vice president? That’s amazing.” There’s just a lot of extra testing that my colleagues who don’t look like me don’t get. I have to prove myself many more times than someone who has the same credentials but is of a different race.

TC: Do you have hope for the future of race relations in our nation and here at Duke?

FW: I am hopeful because I have to be hopeful. It is nearly impossible for me to believe that as people get smarter, learn more about each other and have more experiences that [they] can continue having the same prejudices. Sadly, I don’t know what it’s going to take. There are so many stories with endings worse than mine. In addition to hope, there needs to be a few other things. Specifically, I think about humanity and accountability.

Humanity entails people realizing how their behavior affects others. Also, I think there has to be accountability for people’s actions and what they’re doing in addition to just hope.