December 3, 2015

Strategic planning update

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Brandon Ingram, Matt Jones lead No. 7 Duke past Indiana

Sarah Feng The Chronicle Although physical health problems are accepted as reasons to submit a ShortTerm Illness Notification Form, it remains unclear whether STINFs can be used for mental health illnesses.

Students at the Duke Tomorrow forum Nov. 20 demanded the option to cite mental health on a STINF. Although the demands specify that the “mental health trauma” covered by the STINF can be caused by “racial incidents on campus,” many have considered the usefulness of this option for other mental health illnesses. In light of these demands, academic deans will be reevaluating the entire STINF program next semester and in Summer 2016.

“From the perspective of our academic deans, we consider diagnosed mental illness like any other medical challenge that can leave students incapacitated at See STINF on Page 3 Lily Coad and Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Swingman Brandon Ingram and veteran Matt Jones posted career-highs and combined for nine 3-pointers Wednesday night.

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Special to The Chronicle Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity, did not clarify whether mental health illnesses justify STINFs.

Freshman Brandon Ingram struggled in Duke’s first three marquee matchups of the season, but the swingman rose to the occasion under the bright lights Wednesday.

After a back-and-forth first 10 minutes, No. 7 Duke pulled away from Indiana to win comfortably 94-74 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Ingram poured in 18 of his gamehigh 24 points—a career high—in the first half, showing for the first time in his young career the ability to take over a game in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

“Shooters keep shooting, so if I’m knocking one down, then I’ll just keep

shooting and if my teammates find me, I know they have trust in me that I’ll knock the shot down,” Ingram said.

The Kinston, N.C., native made seven of his eight shots in the opening 20 minutes, including a career-high four 3-pointers.

The last of those triples—a corner trey set up by a Grayson Allen drive on the fast break—gave Duke (7-1) a 28-26 lead, the first basket of what became a 7-0 spurt out of the under-eight media timeout during which the Blue Devils seized control of the game and never looked back.

Led by Ingram and junior Matt Jones—who scored a career-high 23 points—Duke drilled 11-of-24 3-pointers, helping the Blue Devils survive a 10-0 Hoosier run early in the first half.

At first, the Hoosiers left Jones alone to key on Duke’s other perimeter weapons. That proved

to be a mistake as the DeSoto, Texas, native knocked down five 3-pointers on his way to a career-high 19 shot attempts. “[Duke assistant coach] Jon Scheyer was on him: ‘Shoot it, shoot it,’” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He shot it 11 times, 11 threes. He made five of them and worked his butt off defensively.”

Ingram and Jones stole the spotlight with their hot shooting, but senior forward Amile Jefferson quietly stuffed the stat sheet Wednesday, coming close to recording the first Blue Devil triple-double since Sheldon Williams accomplished the feat in 2006. The Philadelphia native finished with eight points, 11 rebounds and a a career-high eight assists.

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Kornbluth circulates document outlining strategic planning goals Frances Beroset The Chronicle The Strategic Planning Steering Committee is in the process of setting a new path forward for the University.

Provost Sally Kornbluth sent an email to all students Nov. 19 with a six-page document outlining four goals for the University and its graduate and professional schools. The goals include “bolstering intellectual communities,” increasing diversity, connecting global and local involvement and leadership and supporting Duke faculty. According to the document, the goals represent possible areas of emphasis for Duke’s next strategic plan, which will define and explain the University’s long-term goals.

Since January, the Strategic Planning Steering Committee has been having conversations with faculty and students. This past summer it wrote the framing document which was released in November. During the next several months the office of the provost and the committee will continue to invite and collect feedback and work on developing a more specific plan, which is scheduled to come out next fall and be approved by the Board of Trustees in February 2017.

The two most recent strategic plans include “Making a Difference” and “Building on Excellence”, which were published in 2006 and 2001 respectively.

Susan Lozier, chair of the steering committee and Ronie-Richelle GarciaJohnson Professor of ocean sciences, has been working at Duke for 23 years.

“I’ve been at Duke since 1992, and almost from the very beginning have been very involved in university issues,” Lozier said.

“So I teach and do research, but I’ve seen

Jim Liu | Chronicle File Photo The four primary goals of the ongoing strategic planning process—including increased diversity and faculty support—were originally presented to the Academic Council Oct. 22.

the changes over these past 23 years. And Duke has made remarkable strides. I’m an oceanographer but I’m very interested in history. ... Sometimes looking at the past makes you interested in the present. You get a real sense of ‘things can change.’”

The committee began with a sense that Duke needed to continue to improve in connecting student activities to academics and in improving diversity, particularly faculty diversity, Lozier explained.

“We recognized that we’ve made great strides in creating a more diverse student population, both undergraduate and

professional/graduate, but we really need to work a lot more on making it a more inclusive environment,” Lozier said. “The pace of diversifying the faculty hasn’t kept pace with the students.”

Lozier said the two goals that came mostly out of student and faculty conversations were the goals of deepening local involvement and developing more programs for graduate students. Duke has more graduate students than undergraduates, Lozier said, but “a lot of that innovation that we’ve had for our educational programs has been primarily focused on undergraduates.”

The framing document discusses the possibility of an increased focus on opportunities for graduate students as part of a goal to expand “intellectual communities” at Duke. This could include increasing collaboration between undergraduate and graduate students as well as opening up opportunities currently only available to merit scholarship students.

Students and faculty also expressed a desire for increased engagement and involvement with communities around Duke, Lozier noted.

“The other thing that really emerged is a very strong interest in engaging with our local community—meaning Durham, the Piedmont and the Southeast, and thinking about how the research at Duke can be amplified and enriched by what’s going on at other universities here, what’s going on in nonprofits and in governance,” Lozier said. “We’ve had strong really innovative programs globally, but we also want to think about what we can do locally—moving beyond community service engagement and thinking more about how Duke’s research can play a role.”

Lozier will continue to play a large role in the process as chair of the steering committee. She explained that the committee will now consider how the University might implement some of the goals listed in the framing document.

“The greatest challenge right now is that the framing document really listed aspirational goals, so the challenge right now is what do we do to meet those goals.” Lozier said. “We said to people ‘Where should Duke be? What kind of university should Duke be in ten years?’ ... We’re having more meetings and talking to people... we’re just thinking about what we want to do to get there.”

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STINF from page 1 times and functional at other times,” said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. “Students with diagnosed mental health challenges should and do utilize these support structures to get the support they need.”

According to the the University’s Academic Policies and Procedures website, a STINF can only be submitted for an incapacitating illness or injury for which a student is, “hospitalized, under medical care for a short-term condition or otherwise sufficiently debilitated as to be unable to perform basic academic tasks.”

Although mental health illnesses are not excluded from the STINF, they are not explicitly included either, which causes confusion about if a STINF should be used for mental health illnesses.

“I see the website, and I feel like nobody really knows what to do with mental health,” sophomore Luul Lampkins said. “It’s just a tricky topic for a lot of people, so I never feel that mental health problems will fall into that category which could be used for the STINF.” On the other hand, Lisa Beth Bergene, associate dean for East Campus, noted that the ambiguity on the website maintains some confidentiality about the student’s condition.

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“I have faith that most students would not abuse STINF both because I think students understand the trust that must exist between students and faculty but also because there is a real consequence to submitting a STINF under false pretenses,” Bergene said.

According to the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment, more than 30 percent of all college students reported feeling “so depressed that it was difficult to function” at some time in the past year.

While Duke provides support to students with mental health illnesses, Bergene said that there is more that can be done.

She explained that a lot of effort is put into support mechanisms, such as Counseling and Psychological Services, the Women’s Center, Student Health and the Student Disability Access Office, who are constantly following up and checking in on students who have expressed concerns. Bergene also added that the area with most potential for improvement is to create a culture of care within the community.

Recently, a number of student groups have been created to address mental health, such as Peer for You, You’re Not Alone and the Me Too campaign. As reported in a Chronicle article last fall, CAPS referrals in the last 10 years have increased by more than 50 percent although the total number of hours treating students has remained relatively constant. Duke Student Government has also partnered with CAPS to increase student awareness of mental health resources on campus and improve student access to these resources.

“The most important part right now is to let people who have mental health problems feel comfortable talking about it and actually going out to use these resources that Duke has provided,” Lampkins said.

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specific when it is sent to me,” Bergene said.

“I wouldn’t want the student to be required to disclose the nature of the illness, whether it be mental or physical, due to the concern of the student’s privacy.”

Lampkins added that she has spoken to other students who agree that they would not feel comfortable using a STINF for a mental health illness.

“It’s not very tangible and there’s no way to prove [a mental health condition],” she said. “People feel that you could just say that everyday.”

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recess editors Why we didn’t get fondue Georgia Parke ........... indiana is sweet

Elizabeth Djinis honestly still confused Ian Jaffe........................not even here Dillon Fernando ..... crying in public so Jesús Hidalgo ............in another room Natalie Huffman ......... i was on Twitter Jessica Williams .......... watchdogging Christy Kuesel ... finals week, finals life Lucy Zhang ... i was being edited kay?!

Georgina Del Vecho.staring at the wall Amrith Ramkumar ...... Shoots instead Tom Vosburgh .............................i did

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With every editor’s note, I struggle with coming up with a topic. I struggle with finding the time to write it. I struggle with making my note somewhat meaningful for my fan base of two, that reads these—one fan being my mother, the other an Internet troll. It has come to that point where I’m desperate for filling the word limit, because as of 2:47 a.m. Tuesday morning I am facing fatal writer’s block.

So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to think of some of the first things that pop into my head that are artsy related (because if you’re just reading us for the first time on our last issue of the semester, Recess is the arts and media section of The Chronicle) and write about them. In the spirit of the holidays and Oprah withdrawal, it’ll be a segment I like to call “Dillon’s Favorite Things,” except I promise you that you will take home absolutely nothing from this experience.

Louis CK: The man is comedy legend.

What I love about Louie is that he really doesn’t have a filter and just sort of says the weird and crazy stuff people wouldn’t dare think about on stage. He’s also sort of the inspiration for this note because I was watching his stand-up while trying to think about what to write. Louie is so edgy (how edgy is he?) that some of his jokes out of the context of his standup just sound obscene, absurd and sometimes offensive to people who are easily offended (read Duke students).

However, he has honed his craft to the point where he successively builds jokes upon jokes in a way makes the audience laugh at a thematically similar but less obscure topic and slowly progresses to his questionable material. My favorite set of his is the “Saturday Night Live”

monologue he did earlier this year, where he manages to make sensitive issues such as racism, the Middle East and child molesters downright hilarious.

YouTube it. Truly, a man I admire.

Katy Perry: Say what you will about Katy Perry, but I am obsessed with her. Yes, she may use her sexuality as one of her assets. Yes, her music is so mainstream it hurts. Yes, she may have pissed off Taylor Swift. But at the end of day, that’s what makes her my heroine. Perry’s catchy tracks on the album “Teenage Dream” pretty much ruled the radio stations while I was in high school. Her music brings back memories that I cherish

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forever—and yes, to that internet troll that criticized my sentimental playlist, I am special. The summer after high school, my friend and I spontaneously drove three hours to see her perform at a sold-out concert in Chicago after we decided to buy some sketchy tickets from Craigslist. Judge me, but this is the part of me that you’re never going to ever take away from me.

Forrest Gump: This is one of the few movies that makes me cry. That line at the end of movie where Forrest talks to Jenny’s grave about their son being so intelligent and making Forrest proud brings me to tears every time. I didn’t really care too much for Jenny. I get it.

She was finding herself. She was a lost

soul. She needed to make mistakes to find out what she really needed in her life. However, without a doubt, each time she rejected Forrest, I grew to hate her even more. Sort of like Claire Underwood in the latest season of “House of Cards.” Coincidence?

Michelle Obama’s arms — ‘nuff said.

“Beauty and a Beat” by Justin Bieber ft.

Nicki Minaj: Let me make this clear—I hate Justin Bieber as a public figure, but I’m totally in love with his newer stuff and this gem. For some reason, this is one of those songs which makes me want to move my chest like the motion of the ocean. Every time I listen to this song, I pause for a little bit, and dance (or mentally dance if there are people around). Not only does it just have an electronic rhythm that just makes me want to move, it has my bae Nicki Minaj on the track. I swear, every song that Nicki has guest verse on, she just elevates the bad-assery of the song. My guilty pleasure song.

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Handel’s ‘Messiah’ relocated to Page after 82 years in Chapel Jessica Williams The Chronicle

Although construction on the Chapel seems like it’ll never end, it will not get in the way of all of Duke’s traditions; the Duke Chapel Choir will perform Handel’s “Messiah” in Page Auditorium this weekend. After 82 years of “Messiah” at Duke, this year is the first in which performances will take place outside of the Chapel.

With beautiful music and Christmassy vibes, the “Messiah” will again be a great start to the holiday season— regardless of its location.

“The ‘Messiah’ is a history of the prophecies about Christ’s coming to Earth, the story about what he did on Earth, and about his death and resurrection. It continues into a description of the world at the end of all time,” said Rodney Wynkoop, the director of Chapel music and the conductor for “Messiah.”

First conducting the “Messiah” in 1989, this year will be Wynkoop’s 26th production of the show. Although the “Messiah” has been performed at Duke for decades, it has not lost its emotional and artistic appeal; hundreds of Duke students and outside community members pack “Messiah” concerts each year. Each show is three hours long, with a fifteen-minute intermission.

“It’s the most well-known production (of ‘Messiah’) in this part of the country,” said Wynkoop.

A tradition for people outside of Duke as well as the Duke community, many families come to “Messiah” as a start to their Christmas season. To make a production so beautiful and meaningful, though, the Choir puts in a lot of hard work.

“We have rehearsal every Wednesday, to go through the anthems that we sing on Sundays. And then, starting pretty early, Dr. Wynkoop will include some movements from ‘Messiah.’ This week we will have two dress rehearsals that are solely ‘Messiah,’” said Judith Leng, a senior that has sung in the Duke Chapel Choir for all four years as an undergraduate.

In addition to regular practice for “Messiah,” the Choir this year has had to adjust its performance to adapt to the new venue. The acoustics in Page Auditorium are different from those in the Chapel, so Wynkoop has worked with the singers to adjust their sound to the space.

“The advantages of doing it in the Chapel are that the sound one makes in the Chapel; it takes a relatively long time to dissipate and to disappear, as the sound is being reflected off of hard surfaces. It tends to sound more alive. It has a way of tying the music all together and making it flow,” Wynkoop said.

Moving out of the Chapel for a year isn’t all bad, though; the Choir has been flexible during the change, and Page may actually provide better visibility for the performances.

“The Chapel has more space, and can hold more people; but there’s those huge columns where if you’re late for a performance, you can’t see it but you can hear it. Page has a pretty good setting in terms of that because it’s open and has a balcony so you can see from above,” Leng said.

Performances of the ‘Messiah’ will be Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5 at 2:00 p.m. and Dec. 6 at 3:00 p.m.

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he most common reaction is for people to come up to me aftwerwards and tell me they had no ide it would be that amazing.

— Rodney Wyknoop With positive and negative aspects to both venues, audiences this weekend will be left to judge which they prefer. The audiences will be much smaller than previous years, though; while the Chapel can fit 1400 people, Page Auditorium can only hold 1100 to 1200. Even with a smaller audience, the “Messiah” will have just as great of an emotional connection to both the singers and the spectators.

“I have some attachments to this piece, and I think most of us do after singing it for a long time. One of my friends who graduated last year looked at which grad schools do performances of “Messiah” in the winter,” Leng said.

A winter tradition not to be missed, the “Messiah” will be performed three times this upcoming weekend.

Although not in its traditional venue, the concert will include the great music and meaningful themes that made it so important to Duke in the first place.

“The most common reaction is for people to come up to me afterwards and tell me they had no idea it would be that amazing,” Wynkoop said.

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Mural spruces up Bryan Center Greenhouse Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle

Whether the new mural of the Durham skyline in the Bryan Center, the ever-changing graffiti in the East Campus tunnel or the Nasher Museum of Art’s tenth anniversary Artstigators buses, you may have noticed several art pieces popping up around campus this year. But the newest work of art on campus may not have caught your eye— yet. Located in the Bryan Center Greenhouse, the newest mural on campus is off the beaten path for most Duke students—and for a reason.

“The mural location was selected precisely because the BC Greenhouse is off the beaten path,” said Chris Roby, the executive director of the University Center Activities and Events (UCAE.) “We hoped that bringing life to the space with cool art and more comfortable furniture would get students’ attention and lead them to explore the amazing student resources that seem hidden, but are really at the heart of West Campus. Our goal was to take a non-inviting

space and make it lively and fun.”

The mural was painted by Josh McBride, a local Durham artist whose work has been featured throughout the United States. He previously painted the mural of the downtown Durham skyline in the BC next to Griffith Theater.

“We wanted a mural that would make sense in the BC Greenhouse. We thought a ‘junglelike’ feel would look good and complement the space,” Roby said.

Several students, as well as the advisors for Small Town Records, Duke Student Broadcasting and Freewater Productions, were able to provide input on McBride’s design, Roby added.

“The Greenhouse is the entrance to the creative work space and studio for several student organizations,” said DSB president Grace Oathout, a senior. “We wanted the entrance to reflect the type of work happening inside.“ This mural was not created for the sole purpose of livening up the Greenhouse space--its creation signals the beginning of something even bigger.

“We are excited to launch DukeCreate media

production workshops in the BC Greenhouse next Spring,” said Amy Unell, Career Center alumna-in-residence and Artstigators leader.

“This will give students the opportunity to learn production skills from professionals, utilize the production studio, meet other students interested in media and further their creative interests outside of the classroom.”

Oathout noted the excitement already present among student groups looking to use the space.

“All of the student organizations in the Greenhouse would love to transform the already incredible space into a welcoming hub for creative-minded students,” Oathout said. “We are so pleased with how it turned out and can’t wait to see what else we can do to transform the studio space students already love using.”

So whether it’s this semester or next, whether it’s to enjoy a lively space or whether it’s to participate in the exciting new workshops taking place, stop by the Greenhouse to enjoy this new student resource and expand your artistic horizons.

Special to The Chronicle The Greenhouse beneath the Bryan Center now features the mural above, by local Durham artist Josh McBride.

REVIEW: ‘Spotlight’ shows journalism in and out of the newsroom Elizabeth Djinis The Chronicle

“Spotlight” has been heralded as the new “All the President’s Men,” a movie dramatizing the journalism industry at a time when journalism is not always afforded the kindest sentiments.

It has a 98 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so audiences clearly have positive things to say about it. And it seems like every day, my Twitter feed reveals another article about “Spotlight.”

I am here to add to the chaos.

From the movie’s opening scenes, “Spotlight” makes it clear that it is an understated film.

The neutral gray, blue and white palette of The Boston Globe’s offices, filmed in an abandoned warehouse remodeled to look like the newsroom, is true to life. However, the real artistry lies in how the investigation slowly unfurls itself. Instead of a shocking twist, “Spotlight” takes you along with the reporters of the Spotlight team, The Boston Globe’s investigative reporting corps. Although they seem to know there is more to the story from the get-go, they have to get all the facts before they can discover the whole truth.

What “Spotlight” becomes is a portrait of a newsroom in transition. The arrival of a new editor, Martin Baron, formerly of The Miami Herald and now at The Washington Post, throws the newsroom into panic—will there be more cuts? How will he change the paper’s coverage? Tackle the Catholic Church?

But Baron’s soft-spoken, determined manner, expertly portrayed by Liev Schreiber, allows the more aggressive reporters and editors to excel under his control.

The scenes in “Spotlight” outside of the

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ‘Spotlight’ has an ensemble cast including Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo.

newsroom are where the movie really shines.

The movie’s most tense scenes are often between reporters and the people they cover.

Toward the end of the film, Spotlight editor Walter “Robby” Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, urges his friend to confirm sensitive information. His childhood friend is torn, and in that moment, the audience sees the difficulty in being a journalist entrenched in a community: how do you treat your friends when they are also your sources?

This is the tension of “Spotlight.” As much as this movie is about Boston, it is also about The Boston Globe and journalism. Journalism is a craft that is significantly changing in the digital age, and yet hoping to stay true to the same overarching ideal: to ferret out the truth.

The main reason I was excited to see the film was so my family and friends would finally get what I did each day as a reporter. Admittedly, I am often not chasing down the Catholic Church, but the vibe is similar. But when my parents walked out of the theater, they didn’t say “Wow, now we get it” or “Gee, how exciting.” (I’m not sure why these were the token responses I had in my head, but go figure.) Instead we all sat in the car in silence for a while, until my brother finally said, “So not light holiday fare, huh?”

My parents both nodded, “That was intense.”

I was stunned. The movie had been entertaining to me. It was fast-paced and fascinating to watch it all play out, but intense had not come to mind. Yet Catholic priests high up in the order were found to be molesting children. Was that not the definition of intense? So I had to ask myself, was I completely desensitized to tragedy in my role as a reporter?

And if so, what did that mean for the Spotlight team and for audiences everywhere?

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Culture Mill brings Berlin to Durham at the Carrack Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Durham residents will soon have the opportunity to experience groundbreaking performances from halfway across the world.

“Berlin // Durham,” taking place from Dec. 17 through 20 at the Carrack Modern Art on West Parrish Street, is a produced by Culture Mill, an artist-driven nonprofit organization that looks to push the boundaries of dance and the performing arts. Tommy Noonan, co-director of Culture Mill, said the organization serves artists, pushing performance, dance, and performing arts and experimenting and creating more disciplinary works and collaborations.

“The audience generally searches for meaning, and we’re really interested in trying to have something that can resist that urge, and instead offer a really profound moment-to-moment experience,” Noonan said.

The weekend at the Carrack will feature two performances: “La Mula” and “What Doesn’t Work.” “What Doesn’t Work” was directed by Noonan himself and was created in 2013, when Noonan lived in Berlin. Noonan described “What Doesn’t Work” as a piece focusing more on experience than pointing to a particular set of ideas.

Noonan said he received inspiration from free jazz music and the relationship of the instruments in the style. After spending time listening to the music, he took the sounds he heard and transformed them into dance.

“The instruments interact, and there’s this kind of chaos that ensues, and at the same times there’s total logic that emerges,” he said.

The piece will be performed by Noonan and his wife and co-director Murielle Elizéon, as well as Anja Müller, one of the residents at Culture Mill.

Müller hails from Berlin and is both a dancer and a choreographer. Her piece was inspired by five muses—Dennis Deter, Jochen Haker, Hermann Heisig, Alma Söderberg, and Hendrik Willekens—as she spent time with each of them while crafting her piece.

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Müller will also be performing her own piece, “La Mula,” Dec. 17 and 20. “La Mula” reflects on Berlin and the artistic Underground themes within the city. Müller said that more artists have recently come to Berlin, but there is not enough funding to support their endeavors. The performance is centered around a character described by Müller as “a girl from the streets,” who wants to be famous but cannot achieve her goal.

“It’s like this person who really wants something, but it’s just

not there,” Müller said.

“La Mula” combines singing and dance into a small musical.

Müller primarily performs the piece by herself, with additional help from musician Jochen Haker.

Müller got to know Noonan when she worked with him in Europe and was invited as a resident to the Culture Mill. Currently, Müller is enjoying being able to work on experimenting without feeling pressured to release a final product.

REVIEW: Arca’s sophomore album ‘Mutant,’ not just for aliens Lucy Zhang The Chronicle Alejandro Ghersi, better known as the electronic music producer Arca, recently released his second studio album Mutant, representing a wide range of experimental electronic elements across the songs. Ghersi’s music incorporates an almost jagged-like quality, particularly noticeable in the song “Mutant.” Few notes hold complete consistency, instead opting for a constant vibrating status between two pitches. The tempo avoids the

constant and expected changes that are iconic of classical and other types of music, instead choosing to fluctuate on Ghersi’s whim. However, the presence of almost haunting melodies seems to emerge from the incomprehensible clutter of sounds, hinting at a paradoxical order within disorder.

Mutant does not fail to accomplish that. It is an ambiguous amalgamation of songs full of unconventional instrumentation and sounds.

The beginning several songs create a chaotic, uncontrollable atmosphere of unsteady beats.

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eerie and beautiful atmosphere with the gentle piano notes that could pass off as a solo piece.

The following track, “Umbilical,” is a jarring contrast from “Else,” repeating the same sounds at unpredictable times. The song seems to build a frenetic energy with no calming release.

Towards the end of the album, the tracks continue to contrast one another to drastic extents. “Soichiro,” the penultimate song named after graphic artist Jesse Kanda’s middle name, provides no room for rest. Rather, it overwhelms the listener to a deluge of surreal sounds, switching between grand amounts of music to only a few sources of sound interacting with each other in an alien-like manner.

The final track, “Peonies,” makes itself utterly incomprehensive, perhaps the most extraterrestrial quality. Unlike “Soichiro,” it does not waver between harsh and playful tones, but rather gives off an aura of calm myster y, where the listener fails to know whether it is a threat or a friend. Regardless, the music is relentless, forcing the listener to sit through the entire musical experience. Fitting of its title and album cover art, Mutant ends on a deceptively placid note, as though keeping a secret of what lies beyond earth—a secret only disclosed within the unner ving yet all consuming tracks.

Ghersi, a Venezuelan record producer and mixing engineer, released his debut album Xen in 2014. However, his career in music began earlier.

In 2012, Ghersi released several extended plays and assisted in producing songs for Kanye West’s album Yeezus. Arca’s music was characterized as ambiguous and in an interview with The Guardian, he stated that he wanted his audience to be actively confronted and unnerved by his music. Mutant is living proof that this is still the case three years later.

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As a tenured or tenure-track professor, I support the Duke contingent faculty union.

Dear President Brodhead and Provost Kornbluth: We are writing as tenured and tenure-track faculty to voice our support for our colleagues in Duke Teaching First who are forming a union with SEIU Faculty Forward.

More than 40 percent of all faculty members at Duke are off the tenure track. Over the past 10 years, Duke increased its tenure track faculty by 11 percent, but expanded its nontenure track faculty by 67 percent. While Duke makes significant investments in building projects and a new campus overseas, the university spent only 9.5 percent of its total expenditures on salaries for teachers in 2013.

Duke relies on non-tenure track faculty to teach a steadily increasing percentage of its courses. It is time to offer our “contingent” colleagues fair working conditions. The university needs their work, and has the resources necessary to raise standards. Non-tenure track faculty are a vital part of Duke’s academic community, and play vital roles in many university programs. Our colleagues need and deserve greater job stability, decent pay, and health insurance.

Today, non-tenure track faculty at Duke have no proper representation, no way to express their interests as a group. To improve their working conditions, they need a place at the negotiating table. This is why they are now mobilizing to form a union.

We, tenured and tenure-track faculty at Duke, strongly support our non-tenure track colleagues’ efforts to unionize. We appreciate their contribution to teaching our students, and realize that, without their hard work, Duke would not be able to fulfill its educational mission. We call on the administration to respect our colleagues’ right to form a union with SEIU Faculty Forward.

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INGRAM ARRIVES, OWNS THE BIG STAGE Brian Pollack The Chronicle

Patience is not something college basketball does well nowadays. With the one-and-done system entrenched as the path for top-flight players, just a few dozen games are all hyped-up high school talents get in the college game before they are off to sign multi-million dollar contracts in the professional ranks.

With such a short window, it’s almost expected, or even taken for granted, that every five-star recruit will instantly blossom into a star. Every night, it seems, 19-year-old freshman Ben Simmons puts up a stat line at Louisiana State that looks like it came out of a video game.

Duke, lately, has been a prime example of this—spoiled by the immediate successes of elite prospects like Austin Rivers, Jabari Parker and Jahlil Okafor— but this year, things haven’t quite followed the script.

The Blue Devils brought in a trio of five-star recruits—Brandon Ingram, Derryck Thornton and Chase Jeter—to replace Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow, who departed for the NBA. Each of them, plus four-star guard Luke Kennard, was hailed as a top-25 recruit but has had his fair share of struggles

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram made seven of his eight shot attempts in the first half Wednesday on his way to the first dominant performance of his young career.

in the early going. Each one of them has been shuffled to the bench and suffered through poor performances, leading many to ask the tough but pressing question—when are these talented rookies going to start living up to their billing?

Brandon Ingram answered that question Wednesday night.

Ingram turned in his best performance of the young season Wednesday, torching

Indiana for a career-high 24 points on 10-of-15 shooting in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, and leading the No. 7 Blue Devils to their 15th win in 17 tries in the interconference battle.

Right from the opening tip, it was evident Ingram—tabbed as the No. 3 recruit in the Class of 2015—had brought his A-game. He drilled a 3-pointer on Duke’s opening possession, and followed that up a minute later with

a long two-pointer with his toe on the 3-point line. The next time down the floor, Ingram drained another triple and in the blink of an eye, he was up 8-4 against the Hoosiers with barely two minutes off the clock.

“When he hit his first one, I could tell he was really into the game,” Kennard said. “I was like, ‘Oh, he’s about to go off’, and he did. He’s just a great player. We’re excited about how he played. It might’ve been his best overall game this year.”

It turned out that Ingram was just getting warmed up in that opening sequence. With his team trailing by four midway through the first half, Ingram knocked down a jumper to push himself into double-digits. Then came another 3-pointer, already his third of the night in as many attempts—he finished 4-of-6 from downtown.

With the Indiana defense unable to slow him down, a media timeout forcing a stoppage in play was about the best Hoosier head coach Tom Crean’s squad could get. But coming right out of the under-eight timeout, Ingram splashed home another trey and drove to the hole for a layup on back-to-back to complete a personal 10-2 run that transformed a 24See INGRAM on Page 12

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Cash tabbed ACC Defensive Player of the Year Brian Pollack and Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Duke safety Jeremy Cash picked up his third all-conference recognition Monday. On Wednesday, he earned an even bigger honor.

Cash was tabbed the ACC Defensive Player of the Year Wednesday, the first Blue Devil to win the award since it was created in 1993. The redshirt senior garnered 19 first-place votes, six more than second-place finisher Shaq Lawson of Clemson.

“It’s a really humbling experience because it’s a true testament to all the hard work that we’ve put in as a program,” Cash said during a teleconference Wednesday afternoon. “There’s so many different people along the way that have helped me become the player and person that I am today. It’s been a long journey over the course of these four years, and like I said, a lot of work has been put into it and it’s just finally being able to pay dividends.”

The Miami native totaled more than 100 tackles for the third straight season, playing near the line of scrimmage in defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ 4-2-5 defense. Cash has amassed 101 tackles through the team’s first 12 games—a figure second on the team

to Dwyane Norman’s 104 takedowns—and his 333 career tackles place him 12th on Duke’s all-time list.

As a strike safety, Cash flew into the backfield all season long, racking up 18 tackles for loss—which ties him for 10th in the nation overall and is tops among defensive backs. He also recorded 2.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.

“A lot of that starts with film study and being able to dissect plays before they occur,” Cash said. “If you take the time to just sit down for maybe an hour or so and watch film, you’d be able to understand and realize a lot of tendencies that different opponents offenses run. When the time occurs, you’re just able to make the play before anyone else can.”

Cash held a press conference in January to announce he would return to Durham for his redshirt senior season. Five double-digit tackle games later, the strike safety has cemented his place in the ACC history books.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound senior will have one more opportunity to add to his alreadystuffed season box score when the Blue Devils participate in their fourth consecutive bowl game. Duke will learn its postseason destination later this week.

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Strike safety Jeremy Cash became the first Blue Devil ever to win the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year Award Wednesday.

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backcourt. Senior Mikayla Bailey is an accurate spot-up shooter who has made 19-of43 attempts from beyond the arc this year— good for 44.2 percent—and sophomore Carlie Wagner averages 18.6 points per game.

All three guards average at least 30 minutes per game and will keep the pressure on Duke’s young ball-handlers to stay disciplined on defense throughout the contest.

“We have to be aware of their go-to players,” redshirt sophomore guard Rebecca Greenwell said. “We know who their scorers are. Everyone on their team can really shoot the three, so we’re just going to try to key in on those main players and I think the games we had in Cancún really prepared us for that.”

The Golden Gophers’ strong suit is their guard play, but their lack of size will make it difficult for them to match up with the Blue Devils in the post. Duke is outrebounding

its opponents by an average of 12.9 boards per game so far this season, sparked by a strong start to the year for sophomore forward Azurá Stevens.

The Raleigh, N.C., native was named MVP of last weekend’s tournament and is averaging a double-double with 18.9 points and 10.0 rebounds this year. Standing at 6-foot-6, Stevens is a matchup nightmare for most teams, and Minnesota may have similar problems defending her with nobody in its main rotation taller than 6-foot-3. Former Golden Gopher Amanda Zahui B. would have presented a stiff challenge, but the 6-foot-5 center departed for the WNBA after a standout sophomore season in 2014-15.

McCallie remarked several times early in the season that there needed to be other contributors on the boards besides Stevens, and the Blue Devils finally began to capitalize on their

frontcourt depth last week. Forwards Kendall Cooper and Oderah Chidom both had doubledigit rebounding games in the tournament, and Greenwell led the team in rebounding with seven Saturday against Texas State.

“Coach P gets onto us about trying to have two people in double-figure rebounding, and she gets onto me personally a lot about that,” Greenwell said. “The past few games, especially in Cancún, I tried to key in on offensive [and] defensive rebounding, so [I’m] just trying to carry that into tomorrow too.”

Offensive rebounds often lead to kick-outs to shooters, and Duke’s young backcourt has made major strides from the perimeter since its Nov. 18 loss to Texas A&M. Freshman Angela Salvadores came off the bench to score a career-high 13 points Nov. 22 against Army and made her first three starts in the Cancún Challenge.

Salvadores’ classmate Haley Gorecki shot 7-of-13 from beyond the arc during the tournament after missing the game against the Black Knights with a hurt ankle. She could be another reliable shooter alongside Greenwell in the backcourt and provide valuable scoring off the bench for the Blue Devils.

“She is an excellent player and a consistent scorer,” McCallie said. “That ankle injury slowed her down, [but] she’s feeling a lot better, and we’re very excited about her on both sides of the ball, defensively and offensively.”

Thursday’s game will be one of seven games on the last day of the ninth annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge, which is similar to the men’s version of the event that wrapped up Wednesday. The ACC has never lost the challenge —boasting a 6-0-2 mark—and a Duke win against the Golden Gophers would help the conference continue its run of dominance for another year.

smooth 7-of-8 shooting by halftime, and was well within reach of his careerhigh of 21. He eclipsed that mark at the 9:21 mark in the second half, finding the soft spot in the Indiana zone defense and rising up from just inside the free-throw line to swish home yet another shot.

That particular jumper captured exactly what can make Ingram such a difficult threat for opposing defenses— his 6-foot-9 stature, coupled with a guard’s skill set, is an almost impossible combination to defend. He beat the Hoosiers from just about every spot on the floor Wednesday—pouring in buckets by shooting off screens, creating his own shot off the dribble or getting to the rim with a drive.

“He can have one of these games every game, I think. He can shoot the ball unbelievably,” senior Amile Jefferson said. “At his size and his length, he can almost get a shot off on anybody, so it’s no pressure for him. He shoots freely because who can block his shot? If there’s a guy out there who could block his shot, he’s too slow to stay in front of him. There’s not a lot of guys like him out there.”

After scoring in double-digits just once in his five games before Wednesday, Ingram said he was relieved to see his shot finally start falling. He

has found other ways to contribute with his scoring lacking—his six rebounds Wednesday were second on the team, and his length at the top of zones has been tremendously effective when Duke chooses to mix it up defensively—but his offensive outburst could be the best sign for the Blue Devils moving forward.

“I think he’s someone who’s going to get better every game, or we’re at least pushing him to get better every game,” graduate student Marshall Plumlee said.

“Talent-wise, it’s all there, and I’m really proud of how he led our team tonight. It doesn’t come as a surprise to us because we know he’s capable of having nights like he had tonight.”

Hank Tucker The Chronicle The Blue Devils had their best week of the season during Thanksgiving in paradise, and they look to build on their momentum after returning home.

No. 14 Duke welcomes Minnesota to Cameron Indoor Stadium for an ACC/ Big Ten Challenge matchup Thursday at 7 Minnesota p.m., after winning the vs.

Mayan Tournament at No. 14 the Cancún Challenge Duke convincingly last week.

The Blue Devils won THURSDAY, 7 p.m. their three games in Cameron Indoor Stadium Cancún, Mexico, by an average of 31.7 points per game and held both Iowa State and Texas State to fewer than 50 points.

“It’s just a great feeling to play well together defensively and we’re just starting to get a feel for that on our trip,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We’d like to bring it to Cameron, the kind of defense that we’ve been playing— forcing bad shots, really shot-contesting, limiting them to one bad shot—so hopefully we can do that against a very good Minnesota team.”

The Golden Gophers (4-1) have a lot more offensive firepower than the teams Duke (6-1) faced in Cancún, though, averaging 85.0 points per game. Redshirt senior Rachel Banham is fifth in the nation in scoring at 25.0 points per game and became the Golden Gophers’ all-time leading scorer Nov. 28 in an overtime loss to Auburn. The Lakeville, Minn., native is shooting 46.5 percent from 3-point range this season and 86.4 percent from the free throw line.

Banham is the focal point of Minnesota’s offense, but she has some help in the starting

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram grabbed six rebounds to go with his 24 points Wednesday.

INGRAM from page 11 20 deficit into a 30-26 advantage.

“Before, my shots weren’t falling, but tonight, my shots were falling,” Ingram said. “We were knocking down shots at the beginning and as a result, we kept pushing. My teammates kept on finding me and we found everyone else and we just kept knocking shots down.”

Thanks to those two scoring bursts, Ingram had notched 18 points on a

Jack Myhre | The Chronicle Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell and the Blue Devils wil go up against another highscoring backcourt when Duke takes on Minnesota Thursday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Brandon Ingram made four of his six shots from beyond the arc against the Hoosiers to help pad the Blue Devil lead.

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Lily Coad | The Chronicle Senior Amile Jefferson flirted with a triple-double Wednesday against the Hoosiers, collecting eight points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.

collecting 19 offensive rebounds—six of which were Jefferson’s—that produced 26 second-chance points.

Thanks to a 10-0 spurt, Indiana led for the middle of the first half, until a pair of Ingram triples reignited the Duke offense and the Blue Devil advantage soon extended back to 13 points late in the first half. But in the final 1:03, Indiana’s Nick Zeisloft and Collin Hartman dropped in corner 3-pointers to keep things interesting.

With Duke leading by nine at intermission, Krzyzewski was bumped by an Indiana player as the teams jogged past each other to head to the locker room.

Krzyzewski appeared to take exception and spoke with Indiana head coach Tom Crean before leaving the floor, but downplayed the incident during his postgame press conference.

M. BASKETBALL from page 1 looks at Duke all night, attempting to confuse the Blue Devil offense. But Duke was consistently able to break down the Hoosiers off the dribble, and Jefferson found open teammates operating from around the free-throw line.

“For whatever reason, Amile became like a point guard,” Krzyzewski said. “[To handle the defensive switches] you need alert players, and Amile in that position as the big guy or the second big guy, he’s in a position to make plays. And he made them.”

Jefferson made plays with the ball in his hands, but also teamed with Jones to deliver the hustle plays that kept possession after possession alive.

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Duke’s 9-0 spurt was a near-repeat of Sunday’s game against Utah State, when the Blue Devils blitzed the Aggies with a 15-0 run. By the time Indiana’s offense finally came alive, it was too late to mount a comeback against a balanced Duke offense that dished out 18 assists and had four players reach double-figures.

“We didn’t get enough pressure on them to put them in enough uncomfortable situations,” Crean said.

“When you get caught over-helping on a really good passing team, which they are, that creates problems.

Duke plays its final game before taking a respite for final exams Saturday against Buffalo at 5:15 p.m.

Between the defensive lapses late in the half, the bump and other aspects of a game that got a little chippy at times, the Blue Devils had plenty to think about at halftime. And once again, they channeled those thoughts to deliver a game-sealing tear to begin the second half.

Duke rattled off a 9-0 run to begin the period, doubling its halftime lead to 60-42. On the defensive end, the Blue Devils held Indiana without a field goal for the first 8:29, throttling any hopes of a comeback.

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n Nov. 18, members of the Black Justice League at Princeton University occupied the office of the university’s president as part of a wave of college protests against racism last month.

Among other items, the group demanded that Woodrow Wilson’s name be removed from memorialization on campus, including from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. These demands come on the heels of a nationwide push to rectify and appropriately reassess the legacy of historical American figures and how they have been honored with namings on college campuses throughout the country.

Although the deliberations about racial and other negative aspects of institutional histories are important especially given current campus climates, it is vital that we exercise caution in moving to strip the entirety of any figure’s efforts from being recognized.

This push to rename buildings on college campuses is nothing new; we can draw parallels to the Princeton case with similar efforts at Duke and other schools. Last year the Board of Trustees renamed Aycock dormitory on East Campus after student leaders pointed out

that former North Carolina governor, Charles Brantley Aycock, who had no clear ties to Trinity College as a student, professor or donor, was a prominent leader in the white supremacy movement in the early 1900s. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Board of Trustees voted to rename Saunders Hall, named after a former North Carolina Secretary of State, to Carolina Hall because the building

Editorial was dedicated to Saunders in 1920 for his role as head of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.

At Amherst, the vast majority of students favor removing Lord Jeff, after Lord Jeffrey Amherst, as the school’s mascot for his support of killing Native Americans with smallpox-infected blankets, yet support for renaming the whole university is unsurprisingly less strong.

Despite the genuine concerns raised by student activists, we still caution this momentum in the politics of memorialization on college campuses. It is imperative to consider both the achievements and failures of these prominent figures in their historical contexts. Some failures

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are more egregious than others, and some achievements are more integral to the university’s founding and therefore warrant recognition.

While questioning John C. Calhoun’s name at Yale is more sensible given his racism, which was exceptional even in the 1800s, it is harder to believe that Woodrow Wilson’s mark on Princeton, the United States and world events are equally troubled by his views from antebellum Virginia. Still, revisiting the legacy of figures often only celebrated for their accomplishments is not only still a worthwhile exercise but should be encouraged so as to not pretend universities and other institutions are ready-made.

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fter the sheer exhaustion of completing my final run of midterms and papers, I should have been absolutely ecstatic to return home for Thanksgiving break. But the thought of exchanging pleasantries and maintaining false pretenses filled me with a sense of quiet dread. I couldn’t help but think after the millionth rendition of

that contrary to what it may seem, feelings of doubt and self-esteem still plague you once you are in college. So I felt like a failure because I thought that perhaps the problem was me, that I was the only one who felt like college wasn’t the most fun experience of their life.

At this point, bottling up my feelings and presenting a strong face to the world

Gloria Zhang PEER FOR YOU SERIES “How’s college going? It’s great! Thanks for asking,” that all I wanted to do was run away from everything.

At Duke, we talk a lot about the phenomenon of effortless per fection and the struggle of showcasing our vulnerabilities. But here I was, five hundred miles away from school and still unable to tear down the walls of super ficiality that I had built for myself. Why couldn’t I turn it off and be honest even to my closest family and friends? Perhaps it stemmed from this profound sense of failure I felt—that I had gone to such a great university like Duke and been offered so many incredible opportunities in life and still wasn’t having the time of my life.

Like so many people, I had imagined college to be a picture per fect world where I would meet wonder ful people, go to parties and have the adventures of a lifetime. And I have. But at the same time, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed by the super ficiality that pervaded most of my conversations. I kept thinking, “Is this it?” I hated the fact that people felt the need to play the game of who is doing what with the least amount of work; it colored all my interactions with people and left me super disappointed in Duke.

But at home, talking to family and friends, I was still reluctant to let go of selling an image of a per fect Duke and a per fect me. On campus, we talk a lot about the importance of showcasing our vulnerabilities to others, of being honest of what we are feeling, but I never really realized how hard that is. Because to truly admit you are feeling unhappy to people means admitting that all those per fect Instagram and Facebook photos that you have constructed are somewhat of a lie,

has become such an automatic response that I don’t even know if it’s possible for me to stop. Duke has conditioned me to be so okay with pretending to be fine that I have long stopped fighting the culture of effortless per fection. But recently I have been thinking a lot about what it means to be happy. And at this present moment, I think I am somewhere in between, caught amid thoughts that are weighing me down and a desire to present to the world that I am happy—that I love my life. I am slowly coming to the realization that I am unhappiest when I need to maintain a façade of per fection and constant happiness.

I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that maybe college won’t be the best four years of my life. That maybe it is okay to leave Duke and remember it in all its unabashed glory, that accepting the fact that college is a combination of both good and bad moments is me learning to be honest with myself and growing up.

So here’s to those nights I felt alone, was scared, cried on my own and truly felt vulnerable—because they taught me to grow and were all just as much a part as my college experience as my happier moments were too.

So the next time I go home, I’ll tell you the truth. “College is great! But it’s also hard and sometimes I struggle with feeling lonely and like I am not sure with what I am doing with my life. But I wouldn’t trade it for any other experience.”

Gloria Zhang is a Trinity junior. This column is the final installment in a semesterlong series of biweekly Thursday columns written by members of Peer for You. Message a peer responder anytime and receive a response within 24 hours.

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riting a column is tricky business.

I decided to apply for a spot with The Chronicle on a whim. In fact, when I first signed on, I only had one column on my mind. I admit that I basically used my first column as a channel to come out as gay as casually and quickly as possible (little did I know at the time that just a few months earlier I had come out on the Duke Debate Facebook page in drunken splendor: “it seems every debate party I come out to more and more

would have said that drinking Kool-Aid would have been a big step up for me given my somewhat concerning soda addiction at the time.

Despite the retrospective missteps and outlandish commentators, I believe that writing a column, even if just for one semester, can be one of the most rewarding extracurricular experiences a student can have while at Duke, and I would encourage any readers interested in a position to consider it seriously. While often nerveracking and stressful, being forced to write

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f given the choice between doing something fun with friends that doesn’t involve alcohol or going out, over 85 percent of Duke’s freshman class responded that they would prefer the option that doesn’t include alcohol.

Surprising, isn’t it, at a school that had four alcohol-related EMS calls during O-week this year?

In fact, the more we asked freshmen

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people, in a few months I think the whole world will know”—it seems I was right about that one).

Every couple of weeks after publishing my Biblical defense of gay marriage, I would pull a late night with an impending deadline and no clear topic in mind. I asked myself questions that most novice columnists struggle with. I wondered what in the world I was qualified to write about, why anyone would ever care about what I had to say and, most hauntingly, what would happen if one day I looked back on a column and realized I had made a huge mistake.

As it turns out, over the course of 25 columns, I have made more than just one mistake. In one of my more shameful moments, I literally used the Merriam-Webster dictionary to define “hypersensitivity.” In another column I quoted a catchy yet horrifying Robin Thicke song in my headline with the hope of attracting a few extra readers. Other slipups have been more substantial. After the “Fun Home” campus controversy, I sarcastically oversimplified a fellow student’s moral compass with a writing style all too easy for a columnist on a campus of mostly like-minded peers.

Without a doubt, my biggest regret as a columnist comes from my final publication of 2014, in which I shortchanged my actual arguments with the sensationalized and temporally insensitive title of “All Lives Matter.”

But even in these mistakes I have learned that the true value of columns springs from the conversations that they can stimulate, whether the opinions themselves prove reasonable or illogical over time. I can only hope that my words have spurred meaningful discussions on campus. If nothing else, I can at least guarantee that they have inspired some truly entertaining virtual comment threads. Comments posted to columns written before this August were lost when The Chronicle revised its online interface, but I will never forget the lively and ever-sage comments posted by the likes of “Brendan the Boob,” “Gertrude Higgins” and “Come Honor Face.” I believe one of these suggested that I drank a bit too much of “the KoolAid” at a Common Ground retreat; had I been allowed to respond, I probably

an editorial every other week comes with worthwhile benefits. Comparing my early columns to my more recent, I can conclude that being a columnist has sharpened and improved my writing. Even more valuable, I think, is the way that my columns have allowed me to think critically about a wide range of topics, from the causes and effects of climate change to the national political atmosphere surrounding debate on gun control. I admit that I have perhaps written one too many columns about my struggle to reconcile my progressive values with my conservative background—my sincere admiration goes to any who were able to read through all of these manifestations of my many political identity crises. On a lighter note, my column has given me the opportunity to reflect on my experiences, both at Duke and beyond. My three favorites were inspired by my weeklong backpacking journey in freezing Pisgah, my fond memories of “Star Wars” growing up and my deteriorating perception of the Donald, who I once looked to as an idol (but give me a break—I was in fourth grade).

More than anything, my column has reminded me that few modern disputes can be fairly made as simple as can be conveyed in 900 words or fewer. Rather than try to put this final thought in my own words, I will quote my favorite philosopher, John Stuart Mill, one of the greatest liberal minds ever to grace this beautiful earth: “The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors . . . If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is someone to do for us what we otherwise ought.”

With graduation on the horizon, I feel ready to bring my Duke experience to a close. Writing this column has been a privilege. My sincere thanks goes to all readers and commentators, whether you have more often agreed or disagreed with my opinions, for engaging with my opinions and for making this column worthwhile. Above all, thanks to my family and friends, who have always been my truest source of inspiration.

Brendan McCartney is a Trinity senior.

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about their experiences with the drinking culture here at Duke, the more a striking disconnect became evident: at a school with serious alcohol abuse issues and rampant drinking, many students are dissatisfied with this social scene and feel pressured to go along with the crowd. Freshmen responded anonymously with statements like “everyone feels that they need to fit in, especially during o-week, and the way to validate yourself is by drinking.

Breaking this misunderstanding would be physically and socially beneficial for everyone” and “I feel like there is a social scene that can only be accessed by drinking. Though I’m not planning to join it, it still feels like there’s some big important thing that I’m not doing.”

As a part of a group project for “Alcohol: Brain, Individual, and Society” taught by Dr. Amir Rezvani, we surveyed more than 10 percent of the freshmen class and found other surprising statistics on freshmen drinking: • More than 50 percent of freshmen drank less frequently than once per month before coming to Duke • More than 30 percent of freshmen still do not drink • 27 percent of freshmen said they did not feel that TrueBlue, AlcoholEdu and other alcohol-related programming adequately prepared them for Duke’s drinking culture Bothered by the notion that students feel compelled to go out just because everyone else was, our group met with Dr. Lisa Beth Bergene, the dean of East Campus, to talk about ways to practically implement our results.

Dr. Bergene discussed how a lack of authenticity in relationships and the need to fit in are what ultimately lead to unsafe freshmen drinking.

Following our meeting, our group decided to flyer at the East Campus bus stop one early morning and handed out 200 flyers to students with these drinking statistics, prompting them with questions such as “how much depth am I creating in my relationships when I go out?” and “how many of my friends know what the most important thing to me is?” The goal of spreading this information was to inspire students to take the initiative to organize fun activities that promote bonding and

deep relationships rather than take the easy route and go out if they don’t want to. Although alone it is not a solution, we hope that greater awareness among freshmen of the ubiquity of seeking friendships and wanting to fit in during their first year in college will help students realize that they are not alone in these struggles. In fact, about 85 percent of other students were thinking

the same thing last Friday night, but few had the courage to voice it.

The issue of unsafe freshman drinking has long been acknowledged on campus, and programs like Devils After Dark, AlcoholEdu and the Wellness Center have been implemented in an attempt to remedy it. Yet, many who stopped by our table were pleased to see something else being done about it. A member of the housekeeping staff told us of how her daughter was an alcoholic and reminded us of the importance of preventative measures. Professors lingered, asking questions and expressing a desire to see a safer transition for freshmen students.

The truth, however, is that, as students, the solution lies within us. It lies within the student who doesn’t want to go to Shooters on Saturday and, instead of pretending he or she does, organizes another fun event in the dorm. It lies within you as you are talking with your friends to take the initiative, to really get to know someone on a deeper level. It lies within us to challenge ourselves and those around us to be more authentic people, better friends and a more supportive, accepting community.

One other remedy that the administration has implemented in the past has been Dr. Amir Rezvani’s course, “Alcohol: Brain, Individual, and Society.” This class prompted our study and corresponding implementation.

Throughout the semester, we have learned of the dangers of and the science behind addiction and alcoholism, and we have been inspired to apply what we have learned to the broader Duke community. This class embodies what Duke prides itself on: collaboration of different majors, years and social groups; involvement with the broader community of both Duke and Durham; interdisciplinary learning; and a positive benefit on Duke’s social culture. This next year, Duke has elected to end this course offering due to lack of funding.

To voice your disagreement with this decision, please petition the chair of the Psychology and Neuroscience Department to make sure the administration knows that we still need classes like this at Duke.

Diana Evans, Jaime Park and William Harris are all Trinity juniors.

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