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Heather Zhou The Chronicle In response to student concerns about lack of faculty diversity at Duke, the University has opened a search for a vice provost for faculty advancement.

Provost Sally Kornbluth announced the search for the new vice provost, whose main responsibility will be promoting “diversity and inclusion” on campus, in a community conversation Nov. 13. A faculty report on diversity released in May found that the percentage of non-White faculty remains low, but has seen a modest increase in the past decade—the percentage of Black faculty increased from 3.8 percent to 4.4 percent, and the percentage of Hispanic faculty from 1.8 percent to 2.6 percent.

The 53-page report noted that the University’s success in hiring female and black professors has been uneven, and

its percentages of female and Hispanic professors are lower than at other schools ranked in the top 20. The report called for increased diversity in faculty searches and the creation of an inclusive environment for retention.

Kornbluth explained in a Nov. 19 Academic Council meeting that the new provost will be responsible for ensuring plans to improve diversity are executed.

“Obviously, there are reasons why a [faculty hiring search] fails or doesn’t work, but easy answers are not going to be acceptable,” Kornbluth said.

Some faculty members noted that multiple factors may be the cause of lack of faculty diversity. “[Faculty hiring] is a very complicated issue,” said Amy Anderson, instructor in the Program in Education. “For example, in the education program here at Duke, there is no tenure track, but only Professors of the Practice and instructors, and that leads to

some challenges in diverse hiring.’’

She explained that the lack of tenure track in the Program in Education causes less security among faculty, so it is possible that a potential Black faculty candidate might be attracted to other institutions that offer tenure track in their programs of education.

“It’s great that they are announcing this new position as long as it’s not lip service,” Anderson said. “An institution has to identify its goals and put resources towards that direction.”

The announcement of the new position is the latest in a series of administrative efforts to improve diversity. Early efforts to improve faculty diversity focused specifically on Black faculty—notably through the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative, which doubled the number of Black faculty at Duke in the 10-year span from 1993 to 2003.

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Tuesday’s Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting became heated at times as the council discussed the work of the Diversity Committee.

Last week, several students called for the resignation of GPSC President Abbe LaBella, a Ph.D. student in genetics and genomics, in a guest column published in The Chronicle for “misrepresentation of statements made by university and student leadership.” Leaders of the council’s Diversity Committee began their presentation Tuesday with a statement clarifying that they did not call for LaBella’s resignation and that she has not hampered their work.

Some students expressed concern with the pace of the Diversity Committee’s work—which leaders say has been focused on creating a survey to gauge student interest in a mandatory diversity training course for graduate students.

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Mariam Sulakian | The Chronicle Ben Reese, vice president for institutional equity, discussed diversity issues at Tuesday’s GPSC meeting.

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Duke profs combating obesity trends in America Vir Patel The Chronicle Researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute have bulked up on more effective strategies to fight obesity by studying the factors that affect food choice and weight gain.

The November issue of the healthcare journal Health Affairs included publications by Eric Finkelstein, research professor of global health, and Mary Story, professor of community and family medicine and global health. Finkelstein’s article presented a longitudinal study of food and beverage consumption by adolescents and children across the United Kingdom, a survey that he believes may provide actionable evidence to inform policy makers and help with health industry reform. Story’s research— which was split into two publications— outlines trends in American eating habits and includes suggestions to improve the country’s diet.

“It’s not that our [results] were surprising, but in our world evidence is everything,” Finkelstein said. “Without data or evidence, it’s very hard to make a compelling case. We feel as though now we have good evidence, so when school administrators or policymakers want to make decisions, they can cite this study.”

Finkelstein’s project was based on a previous study in The New England Journal of Medicine that examined factors contributing to obesity in adults. Although those results provided substantial information about high-risk foods for adults, Finkelstein noted that the food industry and school administrators were hesitant to implement changes to

Special to The Chronicle Professors Mary Story and Eric Finkelstein published articles in the journal Health Affairs last month focused on the food industry and eating habits.

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“The key challenge [in these studies] is getting unbiased estimates,” he said. “For our study, we looked around the world to find the best data that would allow us to look at changes in consumption and how those changes affect changes in weight. Our dataset was really the best that we could come up with that had [long-term] data on kids’ weight change over time and food consumption change over time.”

Both Finkelstein and Story found that college-aged students tend to be at a higher risk for weight gain than the general population. The transition to a

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college environment marks an increase in food consumption and a gradual decline in physical activity, Finkelstein said, though other factors also play a role.

Many colleges across the country, however, have been at the forefront in seeking healthier alternatives in their areas, Story explained.

“A lot of changes have come from young people demanding more healthy foods, more locally grown foods, more vegan and vegetarian options, more ethnic foods,” she said.

Despite slight improvements in campus options and increased public awareness of obesity over the past few

years, one of Story’s publications outlined how the American diet has improved only modestly over the last decade.

“Overall, when you look at Americans as a whole, in terms of fruits and vegetables and whole grains, almost 98 percent of people in the United States don’t meet their recommendation,” Story said. “It’s pretty dim. When you really look at the American diet, I’d give it a D.” In light of their data, Finkelstein and Story were able to offer recommendations for policy changes that could address dietary issues in the U.S. Finkelstein’s current research focuses on incentive strategies for healthy behaviors—such as implementing subsidies for health insurance and rewards for maintaining healthy weight or fitness goals or quitting smoking.

“We found that using reward schemes with different behavioral economic principles actually increases weight loss and extends the duration that people don’t gain weight as well as maintain physical activity and smoking cessation,” he said. “I certainly believe there’s a place for thoughtfully designed incentive and reward schemes to help people engage in these healthy behaviors.”

Story also described how a more effective calorie labeling strategy could help combat poor eating habits for college students in particular.

“Most college students need about 2000 calories a day,” she explained. “If you saw that something was labelled as 1800 calories, how would you react?

More calorie labeling could help consumers eat healthier and might also motivate companies to make their products healthier.”

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DSG passes resolution in support of recent student demands Samantha Neal The Chronicle As conversation on campus about recent racist and homophobic incidents continues, Duke Student Government passed a resolution in response to student demands and in support of inclusivity and diversity.

The resolution passed 45-9 with two abstentions. As a result, DSG pledged to fund a diversity education module for the presidents of student groups and supported the addition of a “diversity requirement” in upcoming revisions to the academic curriculum. Junior Ilana Weisman, vice president for equity and outreach, presented the resolution, which also included demands from groups such as Concerned Students 1969, Asian American Alliance, Mi Gente and Blue Devils United. Weisman noted that the resolution supports but does not endorse specific demands.

“We want to toe the middle ground between not yelling at the administration while supporting students,” Weisman said.

“As a whole, we supported the demands listed, but not necessarily the mechanisms used to accomplish these goals.”

The resolution offered support for a number of student demands from the Demands of Black Voices, including the renaming of West Union to Abele Union, revisions to orientation week programming and measures to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus.

The resolution did not include support for the optional reporting of standardized test scores or “living wages and rights for staff and adjunct faculty.”

Although DSG supported greater emphasis on mental health, the creation of a separate STINF for mental health reasons was not supported because they thought it might further stigmatize mental illness.

“There is a reason we are not unilaterally supporting all of the demands on the table, and that’s because we don’t think they are the best fit for the student body,” Weisman said.

Despite the passage of the resolution, senior Bryan Dinner, vice president of social culture, advocated for maintaining free speech and noted that more must be done to solve these issues.

“It takes action, not empty rhetoric like [this resolution], to realize that hate is wrong,” Dinner said.

Some of the initiatives supported

by DSG included ones already in progress, such as the conversion of single occupancy bathrooms to gender neutrality and allowing gender and pronoun self-identification in University records.

Although the vote was ultimately cast by roll call, senators discussed voting by secret ballot due to the sensitive nature of the resolution. In response, DSG president Keizra Mecklai, a senior, noted that conversations about these campus issues are intended to produce feelings of discomfort.

“If we don’t have the confidence to vote on something that is of this much importance to the students with our names on the line, then we are not doing our job correctly,” Mecklai said.

This resolution is the second recent piece of legislation passed by DSG in response to heightened campus tensions. Following the racially charged

Julia Li | Chronicle File Photo DSG focused on recent acts of discrimination on campus Wednesday after addressing the newspaper readership program and RGAC in previous meetings.

incidents last spring, DSG passed a resolution and statute funding a Social Justice Fellowship, which is designed to fund student projects that create spaces for discussion and community engagement. In October, Weisman said the fellowship would be ready to fund project submissions at the end of the Fall semester.

to approve prospective living groups, review existing groups, put groups on probation, revoke a section’s housing and make changes to a group’s space and housing circumstances. The committee will only apply to selective living groups and not independent housing.

The cabinet also presented projects that each member had worked on throughout the semester. Some of these In other business: initiatives included pre-orientation The Residential Group Assessment programs for engineers and queer Committee program was approved. The students and the creation of an interfaith reinstated program will have the power prayer space in Keohane 4B.

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BACKCOURTS BRACE FOR BATTLE

Blue Devils look to continue success in ACC/Big Ten Challenge against elite Indiana guards Brian Pollack The Chronicle Each of the past three years, the Blue Devils have made an early-season statement with a big win against a ranked opponent coming off of a Final Four appearance in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

Two losses last week by Indiana will force that streak to end, but senior Amile Jefferson would still like to make it a perfect 4-for-4 in his last go-around.

No. 7 Duke plays host to the Hoosiers at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium as one of Indiana the final matchups in the three-day intervs. conference battle.

No. 7 Since the inception Duke of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge 17 years Wednesday, 9:15 p.m. ago, the Blue Devils Cameron Indoor Stadium have posted a 14-2 record—the best mark of any team in either conference.

Last year, freshman Tyus Jones’ 22 points sparked Duke to an upset victory on the road against then-No. 2 Wisconsin, setting the stage for a special season. But this time, the Blue Devils will look to their upperclassmen for production under the bright lights, led by Jefferson, who has nearly doubled his production from a year ago and is averaging a double-

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Grayson Allen has gotten off to a strong court in the Duke backcourt this year, but will have to contend with Indiana’s talented starting duo of James Blackmon Jr. and Yogi Ferrell Wednesday.

double this season.

“A guy that’s been really good for us, been really consistent all year long, is Amile Jefferson,” Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel said during his radio show Monday. “He can be a big key because he gives us the ability to switch a lot of ball screens. That’s going to be key, because he’s the guy that can be on multiple guys.

Offensively, you saw against Utah State, he showed when we get him the ball down

there he can score and he’ll have an opportunity, we feel like, to do that again Wednesday night against Indiana.”

Although Duke (6-1) is riding a fourgame winning streak and coming off one of its most complete performances of the season Sunday against Utah State, Indiana (5-2) limps into Durham after a rough Thanksgiving at the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. The Hoosiers dropped a pair of games to unranked opponents—falling by

four to Wake Forest in their opening game before losing by three to UNLV later in the tournament—and committed a combined 35 turnovers in the defeats.

Indiana got back on track Monday with a resounding 112-70 victory against Alcorn State and remains a veteran team loaded with offensive firepower. Head coach Tom Crean’s squad returns a pair of All-Big Ten guards in the backcourt in senior Yogi Ferrell and sophomore James Blackmon Jr. to lead a high-octane offense that is averaging 88.3 points per game and boasts four double-digit scorers. The strength of this Hoosier team is its perimeter play, but freshman center Thomas Bryant has stepped into the starting lineup to provide a strong interior presence with 12.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.

Despite his slight 6-foot, one-inch, 180-pound stature, Ferrell is tied with Bryant for the team lead in rebounding to go along with his 15.0 points and teamleading 6.7 assists per contest. A 41.6 percent shooter from beyond the arc a year ago, Ferrell has continued to be a dangerous scoring threat while setting up his teammates for plenty of open looks— Indiana is averaging more than 11 treys per game and hitting from deep at a 45 percent clip.

“Transition defense is going to be huge. Indiana really, really pushes the See M. BASKETBALL on Page 5

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Duke looks for revenge, Final Four win against Seminoles Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle The Seminoles put an end to the Blue Devils’ season in 2014 with a 2-0 victory on Halloween. Thirteen months later, head coach Robbie Church’s team will look to make the defending national champions pay for leaving it out of postseason action for the first time in 12 years.

With a berth in the NCAA tournament title game on the line, third-seeded Duke will take on top-ranked and defending national champion No. 1 Florida State Friday FSU at 7:30 in Cary, vs.

N.C. in the Final Duke Four semifinal. The Blue Devils and Seminoles tied 0-0 Friday, 7:30 p.m. after 110 minutes WakeMed Soccer Park of action Sept. 20 in their conference opener, but now it is do-or-die time for both squads— if the score remains tied at the end of

two overtimes this time around, penalty kicks would decide who will return to the WakeMed Soccer Park Sunday for the College Cup final . “[This game] is going to be totally different. Florida State didn’t have four starters and another player was injured so they’re a completely different team,” Church said. “Over the last month, all of them are back and they are a very good group of players. They are the best team we’ve seen all year. But we’re excited because they’re the defending national champions and the best team around.

An offensive key [against the Seminoles] will be ball possession and scoring on our opportunities. Defensively, we’ve got to stay nice and compact. So let’s play them and see where we are.”

Duke (13-5-5) enters Friday’s game averaging 2.5 goals per contest in the NCAA tournament and 1.91 scores throughout the entire season.

Two freshmen attackers have made an immediate impact in the team’s offense

this year,as Kayla McCoy and Taylor Racioppi are tied as the team’s leading scorers with seven goals apiece. Two other underclassmen, sophomores Ashton Miller and Imani Dorsey, have combined for 10 goals and eight assists and juniors Toni Payne and Christina Gibbons have found their teammates nine times this year as well.

“I think it will be great for us having so many fans and local families coming out to support us,” junior centerback Rebecca Quinn said. “That’s always a huge thing for us, even just feeling this week around campus. Having people coming up to us saying that they are supporting us, following us, rooting for us has been really good for the team. It’s great motivation.”

Since the beginning of the season, Church has regularly praised the role of his squad’s defense, an aspect of the game in which Quinn and her teammates See W. SOCCER on Page 5

Melanie Park | The Chronicle Goalie E.J. Proctor leads Duke into a Final Four showdown with Florida State after a few huge penalty kick saves in the team’s Elite Eight win.

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Thornton came off the bench and had one of his worst games yet—shooting just 1-for-9 from the floor in 19 minutes.

The calendar just flipped to December, and conference play is still weeks away, but Wednesday will be another test for the young Blue Devils in a high-stakes environment.

“As a player, you want to play against the best and you want to be in big games,” Capel said. “Certainly anytime the ACC and the Big Ten lock up, it’s a big deal because it’s two of the better conferences in college basketball. You get a chance to see where your team is…. It definitely is [a point of pride]. We tell our guys that you come to Duke to play in games like this.”

ball, and they attack. They have two or three guys that can push the break and lead the break and get out in transition,” Capel said. “They’re older, they can really shoot the ball, they’re really good offensively—explosive. It’ll be a big challenge for us.”

For the Blue Devils, Wednesday represents another chance to pick up a win against a marquee opponent and further distance themselves from their lone loss of the year against new No. 1 Kentucky. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski is still fiddling with his starting lineup and has varied his defensive schemes more than usual, including deploying a 1-3-1 zone against perimeter-oriented opponents.

Duke will need its trio of freshmen guards—Brandon Ingram, Luke Kennard and Derryck Thornton—to hold their own on both ends of the floor against the Hoosiers’ experienced backcourt if it hopes to push its winning streak to five. After a slow start to begin the year, Kennard exploded for 22 points against the Aggies Sunday on 4-of-5 shooting from downtown as the Franklin, Ohio, native showed off the smooth lefty stroke that made him a prolific scorer in high school.

Capel noted that both Ingram and Thornton have shown flashes of their elite talent thus far, but are still very much in the process of adjusting to the college game. The 6-foot-9 Ingram has started to rebound after a sluggish start to the year and made his way back into the starting lineup Sunday. Aftersudoku_510A three straight starts,

playing with is always huge for backlines that do well and have stingy defenses,” Quinn said. “E.J. [Proctor] is one—a huge motivation. She knows when people are having a hard game and when not and she’s able to bring us back from that.”

The Seminoles (18-2-4) took home their third consecutive ACC crown Nov. 8, when they defeated top-seeded Virginia 7-6 in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 two-overtime draw.

Quinn and the other Blue Devil defenders will look to control senior attacker Cheyna Williams and freshman midfielder Megan Connolly, who have combined for 19 goals and 17 assists this year. Williams and Connolly have netted five of the team’s 15 goals in the NCAA tournament and have weapons alongside them in Icelandic forwards Elin Jensen and Berglind Thorvaldsdottir—who have totaled 15 goals and seven feeds together and have found the back of the net four times in the NCAA tournament.

Connolly and Thornvaldsdottir did not play against the Blue Devils Sept. 20 as they had international duty with their national teams.

Defensively, Florida State has blanked

W. SOCCER from page 4 have posted impressive numbers. In their last 10 games, the Blue Devils have allowed only four goals and opponents have totaled just 15 scores the entire year.

Goalkeeper E.J. Proctor—who received National Team of the Week honors from TopDrawSoccer.com this weekend—has delivered 10 solo shutouts and registers 72 saves so far. The sophomore from Wilson, N.C., stole the spotlight Friday, when Duke defeated top-seeded Stanford 3-2 in a penalty shootout in the Elite Eight. Proctor collected seven saves that prevented the Cardinal from breaking the 1-1 tie after 110 minutes of action and then made two monster stops in the penalty-kick lottery that qualified Duke for the Final Four.

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s first-year students begin to consider housing options for next year, they have doubtless heard of the very different residential experiences of those who choose selective living groups versus those who choose independent housing. This time last year, we pointed out on the lack of agency independent students have over their residential communities compared to affiliated students. The reasons we cited then continue to contribute to the weaker sense of community in independent houses, but a themed independent community set to begin next fall offers hope. Located in Edens 1A, the Visions of Freedom living-learning community is a philosophy, political science and political economy-themed house. In addition to bringing together students with similar academic interests by extending the East Campus FOCUS program, students in the LLC will be encouraged to take a house course together and receive funding to invite guest lecturers, go on house trips and participate in faculty outings and mentorship opportunities.

Theming houses academically or otherwise is an innovative way to build stronger independent residential communities along the lines of shared interests, values and identities. While the Visions of Freedom living-learning community

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is academically-themed, other existing communities like LangDorm and Smart Home center on language and sustainable living.

Fundamentally, these common interests provide a basis for interaction that lottery-placed blocks lack when individuals are thrown together. But more importantly, themed houses would grant students the agency to select into a community they feel at home in, selected in a different way than rush. This promotes greater buy-in as

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While SLGs do not all have themes or explicit tenets, newcomers make a greater effort to form relationships within these communities. Part of this is due to the exclusivity of SLGs. While members can ground some sense of group identity in the intentional selectivity of the process.

Without the norms of shared membership in a community, students also lack assurance that their gestures of friendship will be reciprocated.

Lastly, an itinerary of engaging events and programming is key to providing the shared

experiences on which community is reinforced.

Whereas SLGs have funds and the organizational drive to maintain memorable traditions and plan events, independent students may find themselves settling more than they would like for free food in the common room.

Alternative independent housing models like living-learning communities and themed houses have the potential to exist between SLG and loosely independent communities. Meaningful events like house outings and faculty dinners provide settings for students to get to know each other and bond over their interests. With living-learning communities, students can find abundant mentorship opportunities amongst older students who are on similar academic or career paths as them. The community modeled in Visions of Freedom has great potential for growth, not only in the number of students it hosts, but also in expanding to other academic areas and themes. FOCUS sequels are on way of giving continuity to student-student and studentfaculty relationships that begin in the first year. The pilot living-learning community is an exemplary step in the right direction for making Duke’s residential experience an inclusive and fulfilling one for all students.

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ike many of you, I remember the day I got into Duke with special clarity. The jumping, the crying, the overjoyed shouting from my mom and sister. All the blood, sweat and tears, the hundreds of hours I spent memorizing Latin conjugations and working through calculus problems, the car rides sitting in traffic on the way home from varsity tennis or Relay for Life or the local homeless teen shelter...

It was all worth it for this, the offer to become a Blue Devil. Yet, as the calls came rolling in

Imposter phenomenon is the voice in the back of your head that whispers, “I don’t know how I got into Duke. Sure, I’m a good student, but I don’t belong here.” That example is Dr. Gary Glass’s favorite to tackle. Glass, a CAPS psychologist, met with us to discuss instances of imposter phenomenon he frequently encounters in Duke students and explained with a chuckle, “I sit down students who tell me they feel like they don’t deserve their spot at Duke and I say, ‘Tell me—exactly what tactics did you employ to

Katie Hammond GUEST COLUMN from relatives and friends, my perception of my acceptance began to change. “Congratulations,” aunts and uncles and grandparents would say, “We’re so proud of you.” “Thank you,” I would reply, nodding bashfully into the phone, “I’m just so lucky.”

And that was where it began for me. With a single word, “lucky,” I began to externalize my success—to diminish all the hard work I’d put in by attributing it to chance instead. Suddenly, almost inexplicably, I began to question whether or not I deserved my spot at Duke. This is a mechanism I hear from classmates with a startling frequency. Too often, a friend says, “I’m shocked I got an A on that test… I must have gotten lucky and studied all the right things.” Or “I bullshitted my way through that interview. I honestly can’t believe I got the job.”

Over the course of the semester in Professor Rachel Seidman’s Women in the Public Sphere seminar, my classmates and I began to recognize these behaviors in fellow women on campus, and together we discovered this condition has a name: the imposter phenomenon.

Imposter phenomenon is often described as a person’s inability to internalize his or her accomplishments. It’s unwarranted self-doubt that manifests itself in thought processes where an individual worries that they only achieved success because they’ve gotten lucky, and at some point they’ll be “found out” or exposed as a fraud. Research shows that imposter phenomenon predominantly affects women and people of color.

Why should we care? Imposter phenomenon rears its ugly head every time you doubt yourself in lecture and don’t raise your hand, even when you know the answer. It not only prevents you from participating, it robs your classmates of your insights and the chance to hear from a wide variety of perspectives.

deceive Admissions?’ And of course, they can’t answer that question.”

When we first started this project, our goal was simply to raise awareness for imposter phenomenon, hopefully to help dissipate the inadequacies students on campus feel by illuminating why so many have these feelings in the first place. But as our research progressed, and as recent displays of racism and homophobia unfolded on campus, we realized that imposter phenomenon is one piece of a larger problem plaguing our campus—the idea of belonging, and why so many people feel as though they do not.

We want to be very clear: imposter phenomenon is not an individual condition.

It’s not just in your head. It’s not just a Duke problem. Rather, it is symptomatic of a larger problem on our campus and at schools everywhere. Imposter phenomenon is indicative of an environment that fosters feelings of inadequacy and perpetuates the narrative that there is some correct version of a Duke student, and that not everyone fits that mold.

We’ve composed a video of students on campus and their experiences with imposter phenomenon.

We are hosting an open, candid discussion on this subject; please join us Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Women’s Center. We hope this is just the beginning of an ongoing dialogue.

We, the students of Women in the Public Sphere, want to fight back against these harmful ideas, and we need your help. Let’s reconstruct this narrative; let’s start a conversation and redefine what it means to be a Duke student.

Let’s start here: We all belong.

We want to hear from you! Use our hashtag #WeAllBelong to share your stories, experiences, and ideas about imposter phenomenon.

Katie Hammond is a Trinity sophomore.

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t’s the week after Thanksgiving, the second day of December and the first week of Advent, which means, by all standards, the Christmas season has begun. The colorful lights, adorned trees, jolly music and festive cheer make the Christmas season the “most wonderful time of the year.”

Every November and December, retailers hope that the Christmas season will also be the most wonderful financial time of their year, yielding strong

often observed, that man and God are totally compatible and “co-inherent.”

For the materialist or utilitarian, who sees no transcendent meaning in life, the idea of self-gift is nonsensical. Social sciences may try to account for giving in reductive terms of “rational self-interest” or “reciprocal altruism,” in which we “love” because we expect some material gain in return. That gain may arrive in a reciprocated gift (we give to get), a “good feeling” (though missing is a

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took the time this past week to twice review the Community Forum on Race hosted by President Brodhead, Provost Kornbluth and Dean Ashby, as well as the subsequent “Demands of Black Voices” followup. The battle between students behind the demands and Duke administration has been a total embarrassment and betrayal to the University. Duke students have watched as both President Brodhead and the protestors toss

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earnings to finish the fourth quarter with a healthy bottom line. Shoppers flock to stores or scour the web to buy new things at great prices. Most people, however, are not buying for themselves. The economic prosperity brought by the season is the result of a zeal more for giving than for consuming. Even though the West has over-commercialized Christmas, retailers succeed by responding not to a selfish “self-interest” but to the innate human desire to give.

Psychological and sociological studies confirm that, when we give to others, we feel better. Gift-giving provides the glue that bonds our society and counteracts the fragmentation of individualism.

Humans are happy when we give things to others and happier still when we give ourselves to others. But why do humans enjoy giving? Why is it “more blessed to give than to receive?”

The answer is grounded in an important truth. Made in the imago Dei, the human person is designed to love— to will the good of another for his or her sake—because God is love. God has no need for creation, as creation can add nothing to his infinite existence. Yet we still exist, and not by our own selfsufficiency, of course, as we are born—we do not bear ourselves—and we will die.

God gratuitously sustains us—he “loves” us—into being for our sake, not his.

Because we are made through love and to love, we are, necessarily, “relational” beings. We thrive when we are in healthy relationships, both with God and each other. That relationality drives the human person’s yearning to give. Saint John Paul II often spoke of the “Law of the Gift”—as we give of ourselves in love to others, we become more human. The more one gives, the more one “is”—the more fulfilled and happier one is.

At Christmastime, we celebrate the ultimate gift—the self-gift that God has given to humanity. Through the Incarnation, the name of the event that is Christmas, God gave himself to humanity by “becoming flesh” in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The gift of the Incarnation demonstrates two points: that giving of ourselves is true to our nature as the imago Dei and thus a genuine and proper source of joy; and that our relationship with God is animating, not oppressive.

On the first point, God, through Christ, would ultimately assume upon himself the burden of mankind’s sin through the Crucifixion and defeat that sin through the Resurrection, demonstrating the redemptive, life-giving power of God’s selfgift. On the second point, God became man without diminishing divinity or humanity— through the hypostatic union, he was both fully man and fully God. In Christ, God confirmed, as Bishop Robert Barron has

meaningful explanation for why we feel joy when we give) or a greater likelihood of evolutionary survival.

But a gift to another for the sake of the other? That would be irrational to the homo economicus, who thrives by maximizing self-interest in terms of wealth, power, pleasure and, especially popular today, “absolute personal autonomy.” Christmas stands in opposition to homo economicus and provides an annual reminder that humanity flourishes by embracing the Law of the Gift. Even a Harvard Business School paper agrees. Psychologists and business professors surveyed relevant literature and concluded that those who give because of economic incentive or self-interest find less happiness in giving and are less likely to give again than those who give out of love.

Another popular view in the secular world is that humanity must say “no” to God to say “yes” to mankind. To be truly “free” and “autonomous,” this view asserts, we must throw off the oppressive yoke of the divine and “deify” ourselves.

Christmas says, “Au contraire.” To say “yes” to mankind and to find our deepest fulfillment, we must join ourselves to the divine on the model of the Incarnation and in the manner of divine self-gift.

In the words of Saint Irenaeus, an early Church father, “the glory of God is a human being fully alive,” not one who is oppressed. Christmas teaches that the spiritual life nourishes our wellbeing through a compatible, co-inherent relationship between the human person and God. In a culture that prizes “having more” instead of “being more,” the Law of the Gift is counter-intuitive, and the phenomenon of “gift-giving” is puzzling. Indeed, we can recognize that sentiment at Duke where utility, GPA, social affiliation, identity and career tracks control most relationships and perspectives. Time is currency and not to be spent without a tangible return on investment.

But Christmas, in showing us why we give and why we thrive on giving, reveals how much richer life is supposed to be.

This year, throw off the life-sapping yoke of materialism and embrace the authentic joy of giving that makes the Christmas season “the most wonderful time of the year.” View every purchase for another not as an exchange of utility but as an expression of the divine act of self-gift.

Accompany every material gift with the much greater gift of our love—our desire to promote the good of the other for the sake of the other. Then, and only then, will we discover the true gift of Christmas.

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fundamental academic values like facts, peaceful discourse and dissent out the window for politics.

Let’s begin with the protestors, whose tactics, portrayal of evidence and goals are all somewhere between problematic and unpalatable. On video, one can watch as protestor after protestor hisses demands and hurls insults at the President, Provost and Dean—often interrupting them, sarcastically showing them up and referring directly to them by last name only. In perhaps the most telling example of rudeness, the moderator of the “Demands of Black Voices” forum refused multiple times to allow President Brodhead the chance to engage the audience with a question he had. A more radical group, Duke Enrage, warns on their Tumblr page, “Remember, we hold power in this movement and we are here to use it. Expect us.” Both the Concerned Students and Duke Enrage protestors have clearly chosen the path of Malcolm X over that of Dr. King; remember, it was MLK who dreamed of change and Malcolm X who demanded it. This decision will prove disastrous for their cause—while bullying and intimidation excites the truest believes in their revolution, the Concerned Students have turned off many sympathizers from more moderate corners of the Duke community.

The second major issue with the Concerned Students movement is their continued insistence that the noose incident last spring demonstrates racial hatred on our campus. That week still plays back strongly: fear and confusion captured the campus, with many wondering why a Blue Devil would do something so hurtful. In subsequent months, federal investigators and Duke itself determined that “ignorance and bad judgment,” not racism, were the prime motivators behind the noose. I remember vividly the chill amongst some friends on that day; however, feelings, no matter how strong, do not entitle anyone to facts. Like in a courtroom, it’s crucial for people to turn the page on issues of intense passion and personal importance when the facts do not justify the allegation—for the Concerned Students, it is far past time to drop the noose as evidence in these race based conversations.

Lastly, it’s hard to even believe anymore that the goals of Concerned Students and Duke Enrage are to improve the campus for minority students. Instead, their goals seem to be a bizarre mix of socialistic nirvana and showing up the administration. Amongst the Concerned Students goals is unionization for faculty, increased wages for (specifically) “black and brown” labor, recognizing illegal DAPA and DACA aliens and a racebased quota system for faculty. They’ve also demanded that President Brodhead and other high level administrators sign specific documents admitting guilt to specific failures by specific times, or else. Duke Enrage goes further, publishing a document titled “To Hell With Your Taskforce!” that reads like a page straight out of Regina George’s “Burn Book.”

President Brodhead’s betrayal of academic values is more shrouded in his plump desire to do the politically convenient. In the videos of both forums, I couldn’t help but giggle as the President continuously repeated two key points (paraphrasing both). The first point he continually condescended to the Concerned Students was that (paraphrasing) “in academia, we don’t rush to judgment but rather take time to review the facts before making a decision.”

This preach of patience comes from the same person who, during the Duke Lacrosse Scandal, infamously and incorrectly insinuated that the players were guilty of rape; prematurely fired coach Mike Pressler only to later have his own appointed committee reveal no wrongdoings by the coach; and, suspended a lacrosse player in two days without due process for a private, unrelated email parodying American Psycho.

President Brodhead has shown that, when the wind blows, he’s as limp and flaccid as they come; he has no business lecturing the Concerned Students on patience under pressure.

The second point the President made in the forums is that (paraphrasing) “free speech is an absolute necessity in any faculty of higher learning.” A responsible statement when viewed in a vacuum, this is yet another example of the hypocrisy of our President. Late last spring, the esteemed James B. Duke Professor of Political Science Jerry Hough came under fire from campus and national liberal activists when he commented that his observation of more “American” names by Asian students versus the “strange” names of some of his black students suggests a greater desire for American assimilation amongst Asians than blacks. Hough’s comments also have a historical basis of truth—my relatives changed their names to be more “American” when they immigrated here, making integration easier.

Whether you agree or disagree with Hough’s comments, they certainly are a legitimate critique at the intersection of linguistics, race and assimilation, deserving of academic debate. Not so, says President Brodhead; through University VP of Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld, the Administration refused to defend Hough’s right to comment: “The comments were noxious, offensive and have no place in civil discourse.” These comments incited calls among some for “cultural re-education” and “sensitivity training” for Hough. Many students fear the day when we must be “re-educated” for having contentious thoughts that may make others feel uncomfortable. Here at Duke, it’s President Brodhead’s duty to sustain an environment inviting to discourse; we don’t have the confidence in his ability to do so.

The result of the past two weeks has set up a climactic battle for the soul of campus, and the stakes could not be higher: Free speech and the rights of individual students are at risk. Our campus, like others, has now become ground zero in the fight over free speech, and the issue will be at the forefront of both the Young Trustee and DSG Presidential elections next spring. If we truly yearn to be an institution of higher learning, we must be comfortable with different ideas and being offended. Going forward, I hope we promote an environment conducive to robust and sometimes contentious debate rather than the numbing sameness of politically neutral “speech.”

Max Schreiber is a Pratt senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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President Nannerl Keohane’s Women’s Initiative in 2003 and Provost Peter Lange’s 2003 Faculty Diversity Initiative. More recently, President Richard Brodhead announced his President’s Diversity Initiative in 2012, requesting that each senior administrator set three goals each academic year and report back on the progress.

The faculty report released in May after 14 months of study found that despite these efforts, percentages of Black, Hispanic and female faculty are low.

With the national spotlight focused on race relations at schools across the country, increased attention is being paid to the importance of faculty diversity.

At Yale University, a five-year, $50 million initiative aimed at increasing faculty diversity was launched in early November—following a campus-wide call to increase faculty diversity in October and protests following a faculty member’s comments about offensive Halloween costumes. The funding will support half the salary of any hired candidate who brings diversity to a department.

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human capacity that is necessary to the success of this initiative,” Karen Anderson, Yale’s associate provost for academic resources and faculty development, wrote in an email.

However, according to the Yale Daily News, students and faculty members noted that the lack of faculty diversity goes beyond hiring.

The low number of minorities in the pool of prospective professors and the university’s inability to retain faculty of color all contribute to the problem.

Statistics on faculty at Yale and the University of Missouri, which has also been a scene of race-related protests, also indicate low levels of faculty diversity.

A faculty head count performed in fall 2013 showed that 2.8 percent of Yale faculty members are Hispanic, 3.5 percent are African American and 9 percent are Asian. Missouri, on the other hand, reported 3.25 percent Black/African American faculty and 3.12 percent Hispanic/ Latino faculty as of Fall 2014.

Amid the controversy surrounding student protestors at Missouri, a Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative has been launched, and the university is having a national search for a new vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity.

ily done much. You’re talking about the potential of having a survey now just to see whether or not you’d like a potential training course to be a possibility. That makes no sense to me...it’s just really confusing to me what you’ve done,” said Matthew Bunyi, chair of the Graduate Student Muslim Association and a master’s student in the Sanford School of Public Policy.

He noted that the committee had not reached out to his organization and questioned the ability of GPSC to choose representatives for the new Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues created by President Richard Brodhead to consider recent student demands.

Kwabena Badu-Nkansah, a third-year Ph.D. student in cell biology who serves on the Diversity Committee, clarified that the survey was meant to show administration that race relations on campus are a serious problem.

“We knew it was a serious problem when they hung a noose,” Bunyi responded.

Members of the committee acknowledged that progress has been slow.

“We haven’t necessarily hit the ground running,” said Rashmi Joglekar, a second-year Ph.D. student in integrated toxicology and environmental health.

“I think these are conversations that need to happen more. This is very much the beginning.”

Deans from several graduate schools have also begun to consider whether mandatory diversity training would be effective, Joglekar explained.

Colleen McClean, one of the original authors of the letter calling for Labella’s resignation, a member of The Chronicle’s Independent Editorial Board and a fourth-year MD-Ph.D. student, blamed the problem on GPSC executive board members, noting that she felt they did not fully support the committee. One of the main problems McClean cited was communication.

“This miscommunication is perhaps largely because executive members in GPSC have meetings that they do not invite others to, and then they interpret the words of administrators back to the students doing the work,” McClean wrote in an email after the meeting.

LaBella noted that she hoped “personal conflicts” are subsiding and that GPSC can make progress on adding diversity training in the graduate and professional schools.

“Emotions run high, and we just need to sit down face to face and get everyone on the same page because we all think that diversity training is really important,” she said.

In other business: Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity, addressed the council about the administration’s actions in light of recent racist and homophobic events on campus. He noted that he personally would not be in favor of a mandate for all students or faculty members to receive a diversity class because of the importance of openness and worries that a mandate would create resistance.

The assembly also discussed the Young Trustee