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Vincent Price’s large paycheck will likely get even larger when he starts his term as president next year.

Duke’s next president is currently the provost at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is one of the highest paid provosts at elite private universities nationwide, according to The Chronicle’s analysis of records filed with the Internal Revenue Service. It’s likely that Price’s upgraded title at Duke will come with an improved pay package. As a result, Price could be paid even more than he is in Philadelphia when he arrives in Durham.

“We don’t discuss compensation,” said Micheal Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“In general, and we’ve said this before, the University and the Board seek to be competitive with the marketplace and have compensation that will attract and retain the best talent.”

John Burness, visiting professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy and former senior vice president for public government affairs and public relations, explained that University officials’ compensations are set by the Board of Trustees based on outside evaluations of compensation for similar positions.

“One would assume that in the case of the president they would take a look at what compensation is for presidents at like-minded institutions and somewhere within that range would be how it would be determined,” he said. “That’s how traditionally it has been done.”

President Richard Brodhead’s total compensation from the University was $1.3 million in 2013-14, more than double the $500,000 he made during his first year at Duke. However, Brodhead’s seven-figure payday was actually below average among a group of 10 private peer institutions, according to The Chronicle’s analysis. The highest paid university president among this group was See PRICE on Page 4

Kennard, Jefferson and Tatum outscore Florida Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle NEW YORK—With 4:35 remaining in the first half, the Blue Devils executed one of their best possessions of the game, whipping the ball from side to side until sophomore Luke Kennard hit forward Amile Jefferson under the rim for an easy dunk.

After a sluggish start to the game, the masterful display of ball movement was just what Duke needed on its way to a seventh consecutive victory.

The fifth-ranked Blue Devils overcame a slow start to top No. 21 Florida 84-74 Tuesday evening in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Duke started the game just 4-of-13 from the floor, but Kennard and Jefferson led the way once again with 53 points combined.

Freshman swingman Jayson Tatum also came off the bench to post 22 points in his

second game of the year.

“Luke kind of took the game over. We had a good thing going there,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “All of our guys went to him and then Jayson had a thing going. Even one time, I called something for Amile and Amile said go to [Jayson]. That’s the kind of kids I have and he made a better decision than I did.”

The victory marked the first time since Jan. 20, 2001, that three Duke players scored at least 22 points in the same game.

Coming off of career-high scoring performances in the Blue Devils’ last outing against Maine, Kennard and Jefferson carried Duke (9-1) in the first half and combined for 31 points on 14-of-18 shooting.

Jefferson bested his performance Saturday with a new career-high with 24 points along with 15 rebounds to notch his fifth doubledouble in his last seven games.

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Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Graduate student Amile Jefferson set a career-high in points for the second straight game with 24 and matched career-highs with 15 boards and four blocks.

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Remembering Brodie: Community mourns former president

Chronicle File Photo During his tenure, Keith Brodie increased diversity on campus and helped strengthen athletics at Duke.

Adam Beyer The Chronicle Members of the Duke community gathered to remember the life and legacy of former President Keith Brodie at a memorial service Monday.

Brodie, who was the University’s seventh president, passed away early Friday morning at the age of 77. President Richard Brodhead eulogized Brodie, addressing a full Chapel to praise his contributions.

“The Duke we take for granted was made by the work of actual people, and the role of Keith and his presidency of

making Duke the one we can now take for granted is something we celebrate today,” Brodhead said in his remarks.

Brodie led important changes to the University, including an emphasis on diversity. The percentage of black students was four percent before Brodie became president in 1985 and nine percent when he stepped down in 1993, Brodhead said.

The number of undergraduates receiving scholarships went up dramatically as well, from 20 percent before he began to 40 percent when he left the post.

He also worked to better integrate the hospital and University communities and to bring athletics to Duke. The University had never won a national

championship until Brodie’s time as president, Brodhead noted, when the men’s soccer team won in 1986.

“Terry Sanford helped tear down the walls that held this University back, but it was Keith Brodie who helped propel out into the newly vacant spaces that helped this place become the great University it subsequently became,” Brodhead said.

Brodie received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, before attending medical school at Columbia.

A psychiatrist by training, he worked at Stanford before becoming chair of Duke’s department of psychiatry at age 35. Brodhead credited him with being a major part of the shift in that field away from talk therapy and toward a scientific understanding of mental illness.

Even as president, Brodie maintained a private persona, Brodhead said, adding that he was a confidante and source of advice for many members of the Duke community. He was devoted to his family—choosing to live offcampus instead of on-campus like other presidents typically have.

“I’ll do anything you make me do during the day as long as I can sleep in my own bed at night,” Brodie was known to say.

Bishop William Willimon, professor of the practice of Christian ministry, delivered the memorial service’s sermon.

It centered around Colossians 3:12-17, a passage urging people to be kind, humble and filled with compassion. All of these were traits Brodie embodied, Willimon said.

“The greatest tribute to Jesus Christ is a life well lived, a life that’s turned not inward but rather outward toward others, and that’s no small achievement in this culture,” he said during the sermon.

Even as he juggled his presidential duties, Willimon said, Brodie continued to teach— inspiring many students to pursue the medical field. The seventh president filled in as a parental figure for many students and was a good father and grandfather to his own family. Above all, however, Willimon celebrated Brodie’s intelligence.

“If this were a eulogy, I would celebrate Keith’s cerebral cortex,” he joked, noting Brodie’s knowledge extended from neurobiology to avant-garde art to the Durham Police Department.

Brodie despised goodbyes and was adept at removing himself from events quickly and quietly, Willimon said.

“Keith has left us,” he said. “His quiet, unexpected parting is our grave loss.”

Chronicle File Photo Brodie served as the University’s seventh president from 1985 to 1993.

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DSG steering committees work Lending a hand: Students 3D print arm prosthetic to connect students, admin Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Duke Student Government hopes to tackle student issues by creating coalitions of student leaders and administrators.

DSG started “steering committees” this year to bring together student leaders and administrators in discussing matters such as residential communities and intellectual engagement. Chief of Staff Kushal Kadakia, a sophomore, said that DSG’s Executive Board is aiming to engage directly with student groups about issues that impact the daily lives of students.

“One of the big things that [the Executive Board] talked about was the need to restore our position, or rather Chronicle File Photo reaffirm our position, as a bridge between the needs of students and the resources Chief of Staff Kushal Kadakia (center) said DSG wants to form closer relationships with of faculty,” Kadakia said. “Part of that is student groups. by institutionalizing and formalizing more meetings between different student groups the November meeting on intellectual and administrators.” engagement and said she felt the meeting The steering committees are rotating was productive. However, she added that groups that meet each month for discussions. although the meeting was well-organized, In October, the topic was “Construction and the discussion focused too much on the Communities,” which brought together socioeconomic aspects of intellectual student leaders of residential life with Larry engagement, limiting the time spent on Moneta, vice president of student affairs. other related topics.

In November, the group—which included “An hour and a half is not enough the presidents of majors unions and time to cover all the problems that result organizations like Duke Conversations— in a lack of intellectual engagement talked about intellectual engagement with on campus,” Wang said. “I just felt like Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of that there was more that we could have undergraduate education. talked about.”

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Evi Alexopoulos The Chronicle Two Duke students are pushing the boundaries on modern medical technology by using three-dimensional printers to develop a new kind of prosthetic.

Seniors Richard Beckett-Ansa and Henry Warder are the co-founders of Duke’s eNABLE chapter, a volunteer group that develops prosthetic tools using 3D printing resources. Students working with the club are currently developing two specialized prosthetics, one of which will go to Wake Forest

resident Kaylyn McGuyrt. Unlike a typical prosthetic hand, Warder explained, the prosthetic that eNABLE is developing has more mechanical features, including exchangeable tools on the prosthetic that perform different functions.

“The potential is just absolutely unreal,” Beckett-Ansa said. “I think that’s what drives me.”

The 26-year-old McGuyrt is a cake decorator for Sweet Traditions, a bakery in Wake Forest. Since she lost her arm in an ATV accident more than a year ago, McGuyrt said she has tried three different prosthetics, only one of which can be See 3D PRINT on Page 4

Courtesy of Duke Photography Duke’s eNABLE chapter is a volunteer group that develops prosthetic tools using 3D printing resources.

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PRICE from page 1 Columbia University’s Lee Bollinger, who took home a grand total of $4.64 million in 2013-14. Number two on the list was the University of Pennsylvania’s Amy Gutmann, whose total compensation during the same period was $3.43 million.

The University of Pennsylvania apparently favors paying its officials well, since Price also receives a paycheck that is above his peers. In 2013-14, he made a total of $880,713, more than any other provost at an elite private research institution in Duke’s peer group.

In fact, Price’s current total compensation is greater than that of several university presidents in the same group, The Chronicle’s analysis found. Peter Salovey, president of Yale University, and Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, both took home less total compensation in 201314 than Price did as provost at Penn. Peter Lange, who was Duke’s provost in 2013-14, earned a total of $639,929 during that time period.

When Price is inaugurated as Duke’s president, his pay will probably be more than it is in his current position.

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“The president would likely be paid more than a provost, let’s put it that way,” Burness said.

Price may earn less than what Brodhead currently makes, however. The Chronicle’s analysis found that new university presidents in Duke’s peer group on average make 12 percent less during their first year in office than their predecessors did during their last year in office. All of the new presidents in Duke’s peer group who took office after 2010 made more than 20 percent less in their first year than their predecessors did before leaving.

When Richard Brodhead began his term at Duke in 2004, he made about 2 percent less than Nannerl Keohane, Duke’s previous president, did during her last year at the University.

Burness noted, however, that pay is rarely a key factor in whether a university recruits a particular candidate as president.

“Having watched several presidential searches at different institutions over time, the compensation is very rarely a big issue,” he said. “The issue is whether they find the right fit and does the person they’ve selected want the job. The compensation sort of sorts itself out. It’s not variable number one, it might be variable number four.”

DSG from page 3 Wang suggested that meetings on how to increase intellectual engagement should happen more regularly.

Senior Cassie Yuan—president of the Biology Majors Union, who also attended the meeting on intellectual engagement—noted that simply discussing the issue is not enough.

“We made progress,” Yuan said. “It’s good to get some ideas flowing. But ultimately it’s not about the meeting being productive or not, it’s just about how much we can change about the system.”

Senior Sophie Jamal, president of the International Association, who attended the October meeting on residential communities, noted the meeting inspired real change in her group. She explained that because of the meeting, IA held a joint workshop with DSG, the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council to help first-year students from outside the U.S. learn about Greek organizations’ recruitment processes.

“My overall thought was that it was a helpful discussion and that it has a lot of potential to turn into real programs if the people who attended the meeting are willing to take it one step further,” Jamal said.

Despite noting that she thought that the October meeting was productive, senior Angie Shen, who represented the Center for Multicultural Affairs, added that the gathering was not about administrators hearing feedback from students. She said that Moneta did not seem interested in student input.

“It was a very one–sided thing,” Shen said. “We would ask him questions, but the purpose of the meeting was not to get input from students. It was for us to get input from him.”

Wang and Yuan both said they felt the meetings were attended by a diverse group of people. Kadakia noted that achieving diversity in the meetings would always be a challenge, given the limits on committee size.

He added that he hopes to improve and expand the steering committee programs as part of a larger DSG goal to connect with Duke students.

“If I could sum it all up in terms of re-engagement, our goal is to do what DSG has always been doing, which is to serve and advocate on behalf of students,” Kadakia said. “I think a few of these initiatives just help us improve that and increase transparency and dialogue on really critical issues.”

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used functionally. She added that she has difficulties with certain job-specific tasks, such as using a rolling pin or opening large fridges.

“They’re really sweet. They’re very accommodating,” McGuyrt said of the eNABLE team. “I’m excited to see the final product.”

Red Hat, Inc. an open-source software company, played a key role in helping Beckett-Ansa and Warder fund the prosthetics that they have worked on so far. Red Hat recently awarded Duke’s Open-Source Pedagogy Research-Innovation program a $180,000 grant, some of which was allocated to eNABLE. Currently, eNABLE is hosted in the Duke Innovation Co-Lab, which provides them with space and over 60 3D printers to use in their work. With 40 Ultimaker 2 printers alone, the Co-Lab is home to the highest concentration of these consumer 3D printers in the world—even more than the factory that assembles them, Warder noted.

“They just line the walls,” Beckett-Ansa said. “It’s insane.”

Before starting Duke’s eNABLE chapter, BeckettAnsa and Warder had already developed significant 3D printing experience. In 2014, Beckett-Ansa worked at the University of Virginia’s biomedical center and with its local eNABLE chapter, inspiring him to seek out a chapter for Duke. He soon began to collaborate with Warder, who first got involved in 3D printing through Duke Makers, the University’s 3D printing club, and who had worked with a nonprofit prosthetics program in Ecuador with DukeEngage.

Duke eNABLE’s current projects focus on building hands with functional attachments, Warder said. Looking forward, both he and Beckett-Ansa said they hope to continue their work in other limbs, such as legs.

As the field of 3D printing rapidly advances, especially in its applications to robotics and medicine, Duke and its students continue to invest in this technology.

“If it’s come this far in 10 years, I’d love to see where it’s going to be in 10 years,” Warder said.

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2016 has been insane—but there’s no sense in rehashing it, because a) it’s already been talked about at length, and b) I have a word count.

Luckily music has still been great.

As hard as it is to distill all this year’s releases into a list, here’s an attempt at a top 11.

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Danny Brown—“Atrocity Exhibition”: inspired by Joy Division and loaded with top-tier production from Paul White, “Atrocity Exhibition” is Brown’s strongest album yet, as he delivers horrifying bars about addiction, poverty and mental illness over haunting beats that cover a huge range of genres.

10. Pinegrove—“Cardinal”: New Jersey Americana-punk newcomer Pinegrove’s major-label debut is one of the warmest, friendliest albums of the year. With traditional punk instrumentation—and a country twang and occasional pedal steel—the band issues a strong statement: friends matter, and make sure they know that. It’s a simple message from a simple band, and it’s all the better for it.

9. Weyes Blood—“Front Row Seat to Earth”: in Natalie Mering’s fourth album as Weyes Blood, hazy 70’s softrock instrumentation supports Mering’s fragile and elegant voice as it yearns for more time in “Seven Words” and more face-to-face interaction in “Generation Why.” Psychedelic and hauntingly quiet, it manages to perfectly channel a bygone era, like the next album in this list.

8. Whitney—“Light Upon the Lake”: I worked in the mountains this summer, and let’s just say that it is my biggest regret that I didn’t get into this album until September. Simple melodies and an incredibly short runtime make it a breezy affair anchored by catchy riffs and perfect horn arrangements—even if the lead singing can be a little grating.

7. Car Seat Headrest—“Teens of Denial”: Will Toledo’s Bandcamp side project blew up more than he could have imagined this year, and even though it might not stack up against self-released opuses like “How to Leave Town” and “Twin Fantasy,” the songwriting covers all of Toledo’s bases, from majestically self-deprecating epics like “The Ballad of the Costa Concordia,” to throwaway jams about social paranoia like “1937 State Park” and “Destroyed by Hippie Powers.”

6. Young Thug—“JEFFERY”: Even though the attempt to rebrand himself by his given name might not have held up, Thug’s millionth mixtape is easily his best. An ode to his heroes, musical and otherwise, it’s his most focused

editor’s note release since his album “Barter 6,” and his vocal contortions go far beyond previously charted territory, which is saying something. Easily his most romantic album, he goes so far as to say that he wants to share his lean with his girl. So generous.

5. YG—“Still Brazy”: In his second album, Compton rapper YG’s gangster masterpiece is a collage of boasts, retro G-funk beats and new forays into social commentary, a territory previously neglected in his earlier releases. YG’s focus on Compton guests makes the album feel hyperreal, as if YG needs any help with that after being shot in the studio in 2015. Also, there’s “Fuck

Donald Trump” (even if it was remixed and somewhat neutered after a visit from the Secret Service back in the spring).

4. Kanye West—“The Life of Pablo”: Waves don’t die.

3. Angel Olsen—“MY WOMAN”: In a departure from her earlier folk, Olsen’s third album is by far her strongest. Songs vary from the harshly endearing garage rock “Shut Up Kiss Me” to the lounging “Heart Shaped Face,” with the sprawling “Woman” and “Sister” bridging the gap. Olsen’s Pat Benatar-aping voice takes center stage and enthralls with its incredible power and range, even if it isn’t particularly refined.

2. Sturgill Simpson—“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth”: After his psych-country “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” it only makes sense that Simpson would incorporate horns into the mix, right?

Featuring guest spots from the Dap-Kings throughout, Simpson’s latest, dedicated to his newborn son, is an incredible mix of soul, country and psychedelia that even goes so far as to cover Nirvana’s “In Bloom.” A song cycle, the album runs together seamlessly and flies by.

1. Frank Ocean—“Blonde”: The rumors of Frank Ocean’s death were greatly exaggerated. The follow-up to 2012’s “channel ORANGE” is even better than could have been predicted, and is a stark testament to the end of a relationship. The instrumentation is far more stripped-back than his prior work, allowing Ocean’s voice to take center stage, which, of course, he owns. From the soul of “Self Control” to the pure pain of “White Ferrari,” every song— except maybe “Facebook Story”—is compelling and affirms that Ocean is maybe the most important young songwriter alive today.

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Forty years of The Regulator Bookshop, a day at a time Will Atkinson The Chronicle

Shortly before the American Revolution, a group of farmers in central North Carolina organized in protest of unfair taxation by colonial officials. They brought their fight to the governor in the form of a petition. He did not respond kindly.

A battle ensued between the farmers and colonial troops, ending in the shooting or hanging deaths of most of the farmers, who called themselves the “Regulators.”

This tidbit of local history may have gone forgotten were it not for a couple “long-haired pseudo-radicals” fresh out of graduate school. Having just finished their studies at Duke, Tom Campbell, Trinity ‘70, and John Valentine, Trinity ‘71, saw a need for a local bookstore in Durham.

When deciding on a name for the shop, they looked to the story of the Regulators for inspiration. It was obscure, it was rebellious and, put simply, it sounded cool. And so The Regulator Bookshop opened its doors Dec.1976.

“It seemed like something we’d do for a few years at most,” Campbell said.

The Regulator celebrated its 40th anniversary Saturday. For the occasion the two former hippies donned suits and conservative haircuts, but the bookshop remains just as committed to the spirit of independence embodied by the original Regulators as when it began.

Housed in the heart of the Ninth Street shopping district just two blocks from Duke’s East Campus, The

Regulator has established itself as a cultural institution for Durhamites and Duke students alike.

On Saturday, Ninth Street was bustling with foot traffic for the coffeehouses, diners and boutiques that, along with The Regulator, make up one of the most dense concentrations of local businesses in the Triangle. But when co-owners Campbell and Valentine started the bookstore in 1976, setting up shop in that area was something of a gamble.

“We were like pioneers,” Campbell said. “If you study the settlement of the west, often the very first people who go someplace didn’t make it. We were the first.”

Neither Campbell nor Valentine had any experience in business. With the help of generous loaners, the addition of a third partner, Helen Whiting, and a fair share of sweat equity, The Regulator “hung on” for a couple years. Soon, other businesses caught onto the low rents and accessibility of

Ninth Street, making it an incubator for independent business.

Since then, The Regulator has weathered the tides of the book market, from the advent of new technology to the dominance of chain retailers. In an age where the majority of reading occurs online, Campbell explained the appeal of The Regulator.

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Will Atkinson | The Chronicle Independent bookstore The Regulator, run by Duke alums Tom Campbell and John Valentine, celebrated its 40th anniversary Saturday.

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Fear not, wonderer of the funny: niche comedy spots are still left to be filled, and one group attempting to fill them is Inside Joke. Branded as “Saturday Night Live”-esque by outsiders and insiders alike, Inside Joke is Duke’s most prominent (and only) sketch comedy troupe.

Founded in 2000, the group has made itself stand out on campus by writing and per forming original content live in addition to producing short video sketches.

As a result of the conventions of sketch comedy, Inside Joke is endowed with the power of both the script and the stage–a marriage that other comedic outlets on Duke’s campus don’t necessarily benefit from. Peyton Dilweg, a junior and co-president of Inside Joke, expressed this notion as a characteristic of the troupe that allows them to distinguish themselves against the rest of Duke’s comedic sphere.

“I think the biggest thing is mostly that it’s scripted and that it’s live. Department Of is writing, they do writing like we do, but it’s not a per formance. And then with DUI, it is a per formance, but it’s improv, so we kind of combine all the greatest elements of comedy,” she said.

Tr ying to blend all of those elements of comedy together, however, can be a taxing labor of creation. Improvisational groups have the expectation that their show may or may not have jokes that work in the moment and written publications don’t have to worr y about the theatrical aspects of comedic per formance. But sketch comedy bears the weight of sharpened jokes, rehearsed movements and nearper fect execution–a fact that Dilweg doesn’t automatically see as a hindrance.

“There’s something special about feeding off the audience and feeling out a certain comedic moment,” she said.

Indeed, Inside Joke feeds off of the energy from its audience, as evidenced by its show on Sunday. From asking the audience to “get on their feet” and “make some noise” at the beginning of the show to incorporating upbeat, contemporar y music into transitions between skits, Inside Joke ensures that their spectators are constantly engaged.

The show doubled as Inside Joke’s last per formance of the semester and a showcase of the group’s newest members–aptly titled “Milk That Cow: Unpasteurized Newbies.” While there has been criticism of selective groups on Duke’s campus for their exclusivity or lack of diversity, the sketch comedy troupe’s newest batch of members is relatively diverse–a fact that Lee Evans, a freshman and newcomer to Inside Joke, pointed out as overwhelmingly advantageous to the group.

“I think we [Inside Joke] have a really diverse freshman class, just in terms of life backgrounds and perspectives, and these all contribute to different styles of humor that are all funny,” he said.

Evans, who cites Dave Chappelle and Robin Williams amongst his comedic influences, spoke on the inclusiveness of Inside Joke as well as its encouragement of authenticity.

“One thing I really like about Inside Joke is that people just expect you to be yourself,” he said. “You don’t have to be this hyperbolized, super-funny version of yourself or come up with something funny every time you come in [to a meeting].”

All of the newcomers seemed to fit into Inside Joke’s existing dynamic like missing jigsaw pieces, a testament to the effectiveness of the

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For hardcore Hip-Hop fans, hearing that rapper Victor Vazquez,―also known as Kool A.D. from musical group Das Racist, is now writing fiction novels is like receiving a birthday gift but not on your birthday. One makes the assumption that his superior lyrical ability will translate into stellar prose.

“OK,” his first novel, is not an excellent debut despite some of its strengths.

Readers accustomed to traditional literary standards of excellence must proceed to reading Kool A.D.’s “OK” with caution.

The novel follows the protagonist Muhammad X,―newlywed and a Muslim convert, through a random journey of self-reflection and analysis of his world in the fogginess of a narcoticsinduced high. Like the author, X is also a rapper. This is not only significant to the plot, but it also explains X’s mode of expression. In fact, he narrates his life as if he was in the recording studio rapping a freestyle. The novel flows with a randomness that initially charms the reader into X’s reality. Throughout the tale, X narrates in African American Vernacular English, Arabic, Spanglish and even ends a chapter with the surprise of a smiley face emoticon. Initially, the artistic choice to experiment with language is a liberating, radical choice.

In some ways, Kool A.D.’s consistency with his choice of language challenges common prejudices of the well-read and educated, who are less-inclined to perceive speakers of African American

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Vernacular English or Spanglish as critical thinkers like themselves.

Unfortunately, as the novelty of Kool A.D.’s unconventional writing style wears away, the experimentation with language and style contributes to the story’s detriment. The story never fully develops into coherence. As a result, the use of “thru” and the unique capitalization of words becomes more of an annoyance. When X haphazardly flies on carpets, smokes marijuana and makes love with his wife within the span of one paragraph, an alienated audience ignores the few pleasant moments of complex and nuanced storytelling.

Only tiny threads of connectivity attach seemingly unrelated episodes to each other and urge a hopeful reader to continue on X’s hazy journey.

Despite its fatal flaw, “OK” includes insightful nuggets of philosophical and social commentary. It remains culturally relevant throughout the entire story.

Chris Rock’s “Top Five,” Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Bob Marley are some of the many cultural references that draws in the reader throughout all the chaos. Additionally, X’s theological and philosophical views normalize Islam during a time where the religion is stigmatized. The novel is the epitome of multiculturalism and shines as a depiction of “America the Melting Pot” without denying structural issues that continue economic exploitation and disenfranchisement of minorities.

Although “OK” fails nobly in its entirety, even with its redeeming qualities,―there are entertaining elements of the prose that initially draws in the reader to

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Rapper Victor Vazquez, known as Kool A.D. released his novel “OK” earlier this fall.

ponder on complex philosophical and societal issues. Its poetic quality can be appreciated, especially when considering the lyrical talent of the author. This does not mean that the novel escapes alienating even the most open-minded

audiences. Devoted Kool A.D. fans will end the novel disappointed to have read it sober. X details his life under the influence through most of the story.

Perhaps, to understand him, it would be best to do the same.

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Childish Gambino stuns with more visceral sounds Aaron Paskin The Chronicle

On Donald Glover’s first album as Childish Gambino, he talked about a lesson he learned as a kid. After confessing his feelings to his summer camp crush, the girl betrayed his trust and told her friends, who immediately laughed at him. Glover recalled, “I told you something. It was just for you and you told everybody. So I learned cut out the middle man, make it all for everybody, always.” On his third effort “Awaken, My Love!”, the lesson finally hits home.

In the years since his acting debut on the NBC sitcom “Community,” Donald Glover has released three albums under the stage name Childish Gambino and has expanded his acting and directing career. His most recent record, “Awaken, My Love!”, is an abrupt shift in sound and a stunning representation of the growth Glover has experienced from his accomplishments.

“Me and Your Mama,” the lead single and opener of the album, begins with a hip hop slow jam beat not unlike earlier Gambino songs.

However, the similarities with “Camp” and “Because the Internet” end two minutes into this first song, when the music explodes into an epic rock piece with blues rock guitar and impassioned singing. Gambino belts out pleas for his love interest to “let me into your heart”. It’s a stark shift from his earlier works, not only musically, but also lyrically: what used

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to be superficial themes of sex appeal are now cries of love and romance.

“Have Some Love” follows, a raw Funkadelic tribute that preaches “have a word for your brother, have some time for one another, really love one another, it’s so hard to find.” The song introduces the album’s theme of combating and coping with racism and hate.

The funk continues with “Boogieman” and “Zombies,” two metaphors for how the white majority both fears and consumes AfricanAmericans and their culture. Glover feels like he is being preyed on as the “Zombies” sing “we’re coming out to get you, we’re all so glad we met you, we’re eating you for profit, there is no way to stop it.” The sentiment—and not to mention the funk—is reminiscent of Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly,” and while these two songs are almost too musically and thematically similar, they certainly work on their own.

“Riot” is a short rock song that closes out the album’s first act and ushers in the second act with “Redbone,” perhaps the album’s best track. The slow jam features Childish Gambino doing his best Prince impression while warning his audience to “stay woke.” The Black Lives Matter slogan parallels the anxiety captured by the song’s instrumentation.

“California” is the record’s one misstep, as its upbeat nature and lack of deep meaning break the flow that was beginning to develop so well with “Riot” and “Redbone.” The album gets back on track with “Terrified,” yet another strong demonstration of tone

as Gambino channels his fear. It’s not panic, though; this is an underlying and consuming fear that has been haunting him for so long and is now surfacing. He contextualizes this fear in the brilliant “Baby Boy”, begging the hardships of being an AfricanAmerican person in America not to “take my baby boy,” “my pride and joy.” It’s the best example of Gambino’s “make it all for everybody, always” motto; his message is directed at his son alone, but he wants it to be heard by all.

“The Night Me and Your Mama Met” continues the experimentation with an epic guitar solo that echoes John Frusciante. More importantly though, the track is the best example of what Gambino has learned and executed in “Awaken, My Love!”.

This renaissance man has figured out how to make his music speak like his words, crafting a completely instrumental piece that is romantic, fateful, nostalgic, and more complex than many of his songs with words.

The track leads into the finale, “Stand Tall,” in which Gambino finds resolution with his fear in advice he received from his parents: “Keep all your dreams, keep standing tall.”

“Awaken, My Love!” is ambitious, drawing from many inspirations and successfully delivering a powerful message. Though its second half may be stronger than its first half, Glover’s third LP demonstrates that he has graduated from the one-dimensional lyrics and beats of his earlier albums and has mastered the art of capturing tone and speaking through music.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Childish Gambino’s third album “Awaken, My Love!” showcases his growth as an artist.

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For those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings and those awkward encounters with homophobic drunk uncle at the dinner table, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Recess has you covered for your winter break work detox with these holiday picks: “Fair ytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)”

by The Pogues Perfect for spending Christmas Eve passed out at a pub—Will Atkinson “Christmas in Hollis” by Run-D.M.C. It’s always the right answer—Nina Wilder “Santa Baby” by Eartha Kitt I’m Santa’s other woman—Christy Kuesel

“Christmas Tree” by Lady Gaga Had that one locked and loaded—Drew Haskins “Welcome to the Christmas Parade” a Mariah Carey/My Chemical Romance mashup The alternative to every basic white girl’s favorite Christmas song—Kirby Wilson “(Do it on My) Twin Bed” by SNL It’s on my bucket list—Dillon Fernando “Mistletoe” by Justin Bieber An underrated classic—Georgina Del Vecho “Jingle Bells” by Basshunter This is a hip re-working of a Christmas classic brought to you by the man who made a song about DotA—Tim Campbell

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REGULATOR from page 6 I very often end up having all kinds of amazing conversations with people—very often people I don’t really know,” Campbell said. “That kind of interchange you can’t get on the Internet, you can’t get in a chain store as easily. This is a place where people feel comfortable to let their guard down and explore some.”

Valentine added: “Some of the best things that happen here are things that are unscripted.”

These unscripted moments have given life to The Regulator for the last four decades.

Valentine compared daily work at the bookstore to a Kroger checkout line, where often the motto is scan, scan, scan. Sometimes, though, the unpredictable—whether a deep conversation about a book, a question from a curious child during a reading or a moment of absurd comedy— breaks the mundane.

Beyond providing a space for spontaneous conversation, The Regulator makes reading a physical, tactile activity worth spending a few hours on. When people spend their entire day looking at a screen, Campbell explained, going to a bookstore acts as a much-needed respite. Much like vinyl record stores, The Regulator provides a home for a counter-revolution of sorts against the digital age.

“People hunger for new stuff that’s good stuff,” Valentine said. “They like the print.”

The co-owners reported that, as a result, The Regulator has only continued to flourish in the last few years. Customers who shopped there when the store began now bring kids and grandkids–a fact that was evident at the anniversary celebration Saturday, when small children and their parents joined grad students and senior citizens for a rendition of “Happy Birthday” in the shop’s basement, next to a wall of newspaper clippings chronicling a storied past.

Looking ahead, Campbell summed up the shop’s outlook: “a day at a time, a week at a time, a year at a time.” This philosophy has served The Regulator well for forty years—here’s to forty more.

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audition process. The show didn’t include any video sketches and was instead an entirely live per formance–a seemingly daunting task, but one that the freshmen pulled off with ease. Weaving between skits about Michelle Obama’s muchdesired presidency, pilot Chesley Sullenberger attempting to land a plane in a swimming pool and a dating app made by the NSA, the newbies were a forceful presence throughout.

Hard to deny is the absurdity and wackiness that Inside Joke brings to the stage, which Dilweg believes is the group’s principal identifier. While this aspect of the comedy may make Inside Joke a little less accessible to certain show-goers, it’s an ostentatious brand that provides a degree of charm and appeal to those who appreciate it.

“There’s something about people who are unapologetically weird that you just feel comfortable being weird around them,” Evans said. “I think that’s what it’s all about. Just letting your weird side out.”

As for what to expect from Inside Joke next semester? Dilweg’s reply was simple: “More absurdity.”

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Freshman Jayson Tatum shows off his full arsenal at Madison Square Garden Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle NEW YORK—With a little more than 6:30 remaining in Tuesday’s game against Florida, Jayson Tatum created space with a step-back move and faded away over a Gator defender, swishing his fourth field goal of the night with ease.

Less than 45 seconds later, the 6-foot8 forward returned to the same spot at Madison Square Garden for another isolation play in the mid-post area on the right side of the floor. Tatum took two dribbles, stepped back, faked to his left to get away from Florida’s Canyon Barry, turned back toward the middle of the paint and drained another jumper.

He looked to the corner at former Blue Devil and NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving and simply nodded.

After showing glimpses of his potential in his season debut Saturday against Maine, the five-star freshman made it clear Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in front of an electric crowd and plenty of NBA scouts that he has arrived.

“I was excited. I was in the moment and my teammates got me hyped,” Tatum said.

“I heard Kyrie talking to me, so it was just a good moment.”

Tatum was one of three Duke players to register double figures in the Blue Devils’ 84-74 win against Florida Tuesday night.

The St. Louis native poured in 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting from the field, shooting a perfect 8-for-8 at the charity stripe and collecting eight rebounds.

But after starting against Maine,

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Freshman Jayson Tatum scored 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting and added eight rebounds, sparking the Blue Devils in the frontcourt alongside Amile Jefferson.

Tatum came off the bench Tuesday and struggled to finish over Gator shot blocker John Egbunu.

The first three times the McDonald’s AllAmerican ventured into the paint, Egbunu forced two misses and a turnover—part of an early trend as Duke struggled to get its offense in gear.

“His first couple minutes he didn’t play well,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I took him out and said, ‘You have to play like you can play.’”

After Tatum re-entered the game with 8:56 left in the first half, he looked like a different player. Although he made an impact Saturday and even in his first few minutes

Tuesday with his defense and rebounding, the St. Louis native looked like the player the Blue Devils had raved about in the preseason before he suffered a foot sprain.

Tatum quickly made a layup to get into the scoring action, and sparked Duke’s 21-10 spurt that changed the game with a pair of steals and rebounds as graduate student Amile Jefferson and sophomore Luke Kennard continued their recent tear.

After Tatum finished through contact on a tough layup with two seconds left in the first half, the entire Blue Devil squad celebrated on the court, recognizing the player they had seen all summer was back.

“That’s Jayson Tatum right there,”

freshman guard Frank Jackson said.

“That’s what he’s done his whole life so we’re excited and ready for him to get back [to 100 percent].”

Even with his strong finish to the first half, Tatum finished the period with six points and four rebounds—rather pedestrian numbers for a scorer of his caliber.

But he showed why he is so dangerous as a 6-foot-8 swingman who can rebound inside but has a lethal mid-range game in the final 20 minutes. When Florida threatened to get within a few possessions midway through the second half, Tatum ripped off eight points in a row on free throws, a layup and the two mid-range jumpers to slam the door.

Although he is still learning how to play off the ball, Tatum gives the Blue Devils yet another weapon with his skills as an isolation player as Duke tries to incorporate him and classmates Marques Bolden and Harry Giles into the rotation in the coming weeks.

“This is a team that’s still finding out who we are, but is doing an amazing job of playing here and now,” Jefferson said. “That’s what Jayson did. He came ready, he came prepared and he just let it out. He’s such a special player, a great talent and we’re going to depend on him for games.”

Because of a foot sprain suffered during practice in October, Tatum is still not at full strength. He was cleared to practice just last week and with Duke already hampered by injuries to numerous players, the transition back to game shape is a difficult one.

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Chronicle File Photo Elizabeth Williams was a four-time All-American center and anchored Duke in the paint from 2011-2015.

For the first time in almost nine years, a Blue Devil jersey will be added to the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Duke will retire four-time All-American center Elizabeth Williams’ No. 1 jersey at halftime of its game against No. 15 Kentucky Dec. 29, the team announced Monday.

Williams was the first player in ACC history to become an AP All-American four times and averaged 14.4 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per contest during her illustrious career from 2011-2015.

“For me to sit here and say that my jersey is going to be retired is so surreal. It’s really difficult to put into words what it will mean to have my jersey hanging in the rafters among Duke basketball legends,” Williams said in a release. “This may be a basketball achievement, but its meaning extends

far beyond the lines of a court. From the nine-year old awkward basketball player to the young woman in her second year of professional basketball, I thank any and every one that made my dreams possible and led me to this moment.”

The Virginia Beach, Va., native will join Alana Beard and Lindsey Harding as the only Blue Devils to have their jerseys retired.

Harding’s jersey was retired in January 2008.

J.J. Redick was the last men’s basketball player to have his jersey retired in February 2007.

The 2015 National Defensive Player of the Year, Williams was selected fourth in the WNBA Draft and has played for the Connecticut Sun and Atlanta Dream.

She was named the 2016 WNBA Most Improved Player.

Williams was a four-year starter in the paint for head coach Joanne P. McCallie at Duke and wasted no time making her mark as a See WILLIAMS on Page 13

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Blue Devil star Justin Bellinger doubles as part-time DJ Ben Golbin The Chronicle Justin Bellinger may be a star infielder for the Blue Devils, but several of his hits come away from the diamond.

While many of his classmates and teammates choose to spend their free time on other extracurriculars or relaxing, Bellinger prefers to use down time pursuing another passion—making music. The junior from Weston, Mass., is a student-athlete and a DJ, with the latter being his preferred method of winding down at the end of a long week.

“I do most of my music stuff in my spare time, mostly just messing around,” Bellinger said.

But Bellinger’s efforts and productions appear to be more than just “messing around.”

The 6-foot-6 first baseman makes a wide range of music—including hip-hop, original material and electronic remixes and mashups—all of which he posts to his SoundCloud account using the moniker “DJ Collision”.

“I’m not really set in one area—I like to move around,” Bellinger said. “I mix it up, do a couple of different genres, really just whatever I’m feeling at the moment.”

The effort Bellinger puts into making music has earned him numerous chances to show off his work, most notably a performance this year at Duke’s annual Phultra concert opening for Trademark.

But he says more of the motivation for

his music comes from his teammates, who often ask him to play his music for them to unwind. “[My teammates] love it. They’re totally into it.... I always come in playing something new and have them check it out,” Bellinger said. “We have some guys on the team that are really into some of the songs I make, like, ‘Put that one up on SoundCloud, come on,’ and I’m like, ‘It’s not done guys, it’s not done.’”

Although he mostly focuses on baseball, Bellinger is no rookie in terms of music production. He uses Ableton Live as his digital audio workstation (D.A.W.), a MIDI piano that he plugs into his computer and basic audio interfaces to connect microphones.

In addition, he uses various plugins that act as virtual instruments, as well as Novation Launchpad, Nocturn and different synthesizers and controllers.

Bellinger is coming off of a strong sophomore campaign in which he led the team with a .336 batting average and .571 slugging percentage as Duke’s best power hitter. The Blue Devils went 33-24 in Bellinger’s breakthrough season and made the NCAA tournament for the first time in 55 years, with the team going 23-9 after head coach Chris Pollard inserted Bellinger into the heart of his lineup.

Because of his value to the team, Bellinger mostly focuses on his music during the offseason.

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on a Saturday or Sunday, I might pump out a song and have a couple of guys over to hang out and play some music,” Bellinger said. “But it’s really hard to find time to do that. During the season, it’s much harder, so coming into the spring I usually shut down the music almost completely.”

He also is not alone on the team in terms of his passion for music.

Junior reliever Luke Whitten is a talented pianist and singer and often collaborates with his friend and teammate.

“Sometimes I’ll have Luke come over and he’ll come in with an idea, like

‘Hey, we should do this,’” Bellinger said.

“He’ll tell me to mash up these songs, check out this chord line…he gives me ideas that show we have some musically talented guys.”

As if making music were not enough, Bellinger’s creative abilities manifest themselves in other ways as well.

The junior is a visual arts major and enjoys the creativity that comes with his studies.

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 With the graduate student anchoring the Blue Devils down low, Kennard caught fire from deep in the second half as he connected on five 3-pointers to prevent Florida (7-2) from making a run and finished with 29 points on 16 shots. For much of the first half, the sophomore was the only player Duke could rely on for offense, scoring off of screens and an array of dribble moves.

The Gator defense was aggressive to start the game and Florida’s length down low impacted a handful of Blue Devil drives to the basket. At 6-foot-11, redshirt junior John Egbunu made his presence felt, blocking three shots in the first 20 minutes.

But the Blue Devils began to find their way down the stretch with a 19-6 run spearheaded by Duke’s leading scorers alongside junior Grayson Allen—who struggled shooting but had a careerhigh eight assists—and senior Matt Jones.

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“Elizabeth has impacted Duke women’s basketball and Duke University in a remarkable way,” McCallie said in the release.

“Her talents, work ethic, and academic focus combined with her enormous individual success on the court separate her from so many other student-athletes across the country.... This truly is the highest honor possible and certainly well-deserved.”

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then getting up a good shot,” Jefferson said.

“Whether it was Luke, whether it was Jayson, whether it was [Grayson] penetrating and finding somebody, our guys did an amazing job of never splintering.”

Duke will next take the court Saturday for a matchup against UNLV in Las Vegas and have another opportunity to shake the rust off some of its players returning from injury. Freshman Marques Bolden played in his second game Tuesday but played only two minutes in the first half after picking up two quick fouls. Bolden played 12 minutes against Maine Saturday.

After the game, Krzyzewski said that the Blue Devils hope to add five-star freshman Harry Giles to the mix before Christmas— Duke takes on Tennessee State Dec. 19 and Elon Dec. 21.

“Harry’s practicing—he hasn’t had as much contact yet,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re hoping before Christmas—those two games.

I’d like to see what he does during the exam period with a little more contact and then we’ll go forward with that.”

lane twice and crashing the boards to help spur the Blue Devils in transition. Although the freshman missed a few looks at the basket on offense, Tatum drew the attention of the Florida defense and helped space the floor for Duke as the team began to move the ball and generate much better looks.

“We actually said at halftime that his steal and pressure kind of turned the game around and it turned him around too,” Krzyzewski said. “He had a great block that time and he had eight defensive rebounds.

That was a big turning point for us and he did it defensively for us.”

Coming out of halftime with a 10-point lead, Krzyzewski opted to start the five players that spurred Duke’s late first-half run.

The Gators quickly cut the Blue Devil lead to six, but Kennard’s hot shooting kept the Gators—who allowed a season-high in points—from getting any closer.

The sophomore continued to feast on open looks as Florida’s defense struggled to track the guard behind the 3-point line.

“It starts with the movement we have on the offensive end,” Kennard said. “We have a lot of scorers, a lot of playmakers and if we move offensively, it’s just a thing where it’s tough to guard. It’s basketball—guys lose their man if we drive, if we move a lot and they’ve got to help.”

Although the Gators continued to hang around as they cut the lead to 61-54 with 8:10 remaining, Tatum shut the door on a Florida comeback.

After another Kennard triple, the St. Louis native scored eight consecutive points to put the game out of reach, culminating with a fall-away jumper that left the forward nodding at former Blue Devil Kyrie Irving on the sidelines.

“Every time they made a play, we did a great job of coming back and taking the air out of the ball—using 20 seconds and

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his past Saturday, The Loyal White Knights of the KKK planned to make their presence strongly felt in the state of North Carolina.

Their grand march, intended to be a celebration of the election of Donald Trump and a reassertion of white supremacist ideals, was instead relegated to a small vehicular caravan in Roxboro. And although the planning of the KKK march demonstrated a resurgence in public white nationalism, the real story of the day was the effectiveness of the protests that drove them off and the general efficacy of such demonstrations as a mechanism of democracy.

There were two main counter-protests that took place: one in Pelham where the KKK chapter is located, that transitioned to Danville, VA in response to rumors of a change in location of the KKK march, and one in Raleigh. The difference between these two movements demonstrated the variety of forms protest can take: the Pelham/ Danville action was organized by a loose amalgam of anarchists and antifascists from around the country who chanted and marched in all black to encouraging cries from locals; the Raleigh rally was a larger affair, more focused on demonstrating solidarity and community love than actively preventing the KKK march. As evidenced by the

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KKK incident, both direct and symbolic protests are often necessary; the two styles work in tandem.

Symbolic protests can embolden and give support to direct protests as direct protests make immediate impacts that create environments in which symbolic protests are tolerated and encouraged.

The power of protest is clear across the world. In South Korea, a Rasputinesque corruption scandal has led millions of citizens to demonstrate in the streets of Seoul in a call for the embattled president

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Park Geun-hye to resign and for the National Assembly to impeach her. The movement, dubbed the “candlelit revolution” by the South Korean press, recently forced the hapless President Park to declare that she was open to resigning and may lead to new elections. This is just one example in a long history of protests that have served as the catalyst for social change. Protests serve several other functions too— they demonstrate opposition to unpopular policies and ideologies, help to bring attention to societal problems, allow for education of the public and build community and united fronts. Most importantly

though, public protest and demonstration are methods of turning impotent political frustration into constitutionally-licensed democratic expression.

As we can see in Korea and in our backyard, protest can allow citizens in democratic societies to force the hands of the powerful.

This is not to say protest does not have its limitations. Fundamentally, protests are organized demonstrations in support of collective, democratic goals. If either organization or clarified collective goals break down, protests lose their efficacy. Outof-control demonstrations that are co-opted by the selfish and opportunistic to serve their own ends (e.g. through looting) rather than the ends of the community will fail to achieve their goals and give genuine protests a bad name. Furthermore, protest is not the only form of democratic engagement; the existence of protest does not diminish the importance of voting, writing letters to congresspeople and participating in forms of local governance.

For those looking to influence their community (local or national, narrowly or broadly construed) in additional ways though, protests should be considered akin to voting or any other form of democratic engagement they already participate in.

There is no fuller endorsement than a march.

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n Nov. 9, I woke up in a haze hoping that the evening before was a terrible, bizarre nightmare. I grabbed my phone, checked the news and realized that the presidential election was in fact real and that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be the next president.

Our campus was eerily quiet, almost as if we were in collective mourning. The world felt tired, and the gloomy clouds and the rain seemed to embody our sadness.

It has now been almost a month since the shocking upset in the 2016 presidential election. I can still remember standing in Sanford the night of the election at the watch party and feeling the panic, shock and disbelief as state after state went red. After I had processed the initial news, I was ready to talk about it and support my friends and classmates.

But the truth is that I am still grappling with the outcome of this election.

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greatness and the opportunity of this country, I refuse to accept that. Yes, I am ashamed of the way that my fellow Americans voted in this election, but I am not and I never will be ashamed to be American. I still believe that this nation is not defined solely by the single person who is president. We are defined by how we act, think, engage. By the way we carry ourselves and how we treat one another.

I was heartened to see the responses on social media and through active conversations by my classmates and peers. My friend Charlotte Gosnell shared her thoughts about the election the next morning. She said, “This will not be the end of your story and of your person,” and shared these poignant lines of Maya Angelou’s poem, “And Still I Rise.”

“You may shoot me with your words/You may cut me with your eyes/You may kill me with your hatefulness/But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

This election was as much about the dark

TAMING OF THE SHRU and mocked the emotional fallout claiming that college students are fragile and too easily broken when things don’t go our way. To be honest, I was rattled. I was genuinely shocked that this candidate, who opposed everything that I thought was American, could be elected through a democratic process. I had surrounded myself in an echo-chamber that simply reflected back different variations of my own ideas and had completely underestimated a huge part of America that I didn’t really even know existed.

As I try to understand how Donald Trump was elected, I’ve realized that I also need to understand how and what drove my fellow Americans to cast their ballots. The path towards healing is paved by understanding. In the aftermath of the election many of my friends and classmates expressed how ashamed they were to be American. Perhaps because I’m a child of immigrants, who was raised to believe in the

forces of hatred, xenophobia and fear that one candidate awoke in America as it was about the indifference of all of us who failed to take a definitive enough stand against them. With Maya Angelou’s words in mind, I promise to engage (respectfully) in difficult conversations.

I promise to vote in local, state and presidential elections because our government doesn’t just exist at a macro level.

These next four years will test the strength and character of our nation. If you’ve felt hopeless or broken by results of this election, remember that those who sit in our political offices don’t rule us, they serve us. As a government of, by and for the people it is our vote and our voice that has timeless power over the future of our nation.

Shruti Rao is a Trinity junior. Her column, “taming of the shru,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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s Duke faculty members, one of the most important skills we teach is how to think critically, how to make good decisions, how to avoid cognitive biases and faulty logic. As we make one of the most important decisions in the history of the university—the establishment of the DKU four-year program in China— those skills are desperately needed, and apparently lacking.

Context Matters: We are about to establish a four year college that is supposed to be as good as Duke, 8,000 miles away in a deeply authoritarian country that is in the middle of human rights crackdown, with whom we might be about to start a trade war. (Or possibly just a war, if the President-elect’s Taiwan phone-discipline stays this good.)

This is a country that has locked up hundreds of human rights lawyers, and imprisoned

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then (gently) points out that we shouldn’t reason from isolated experiences at particular moments in time, but rather from systematic data, structure and evidence. Yet time and time again in the debate about DKU, particular anecdotes about “having had a good class in Kunshan with a really open discussion” were offered as evidence that the structural authoritarianism of the country would not be a problem. We would not tolerate such sloppy logic from our students for a moment.

What is the Exit Strategy?:The rule of law does not exist in China in the way we understand it. Contracts, laws and guarantees are subject to political exigency—they work until they don’t, which is generally at the moment they are needed; a time of repression. DKU has “guarantees” of free speech from a government that does

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its own academics for such offenses as writing about the guarantees in China’s own constitution. What could go wrong?

Timing Matters: A new, erratic and illiberal president is about to take power in our country and a new president is about to come to Duke. It makes no sense to tie President Price’s hands right at the beginning of his administration by committing the university to this program. And as for the other guy, where to start? He has threatened trade wars with China, immigration bans, destabilized the Taiwan situation, and offered robust defenses of torture. Ideal timing!

Let’s commit to building a four-year college in one of his principal targets, whose faculty and staff could then become political pawns.

Good idea? Hint: on Repression Jeopardy, the answer would be “Alex, what are 2000 hostages to fortune?”

The Sunk Costs Fallacy: Google it. No, really, Google it. There is no more perfect example of the sunk costs fallacy than our DKU decision-making process. I did mention it was a fallacy, right?

It is Not Personal: Many faculty members and at least one trustee have told me that they felt that voting against this initiative would just be a slap in the face for a muchbeloved (at least by me) departing President Dick Brodhead. This was one of the signature initiatives of his presidency. Please. Let us build a statue to honor this good man, not a disastrous initiative in a country whose government’s actions make a mockery of the ideals of liberal education for which he has worked so tirelessly.

Standards Matter: The degrees that DKU grants are required by Chinese law to be fully equivalent to Duke’s own degrees, and the faculty and students equal in quality to Duke faculty and students. Please read for yourself the equivocations in the Administration’s plans about how this will be sort of true, but not true, and the students will have degrees like the home institution’s, but not really, they will be “special,” and the faculty can’t transfer as of right to big Duke, but will totally be the same. They are, frankly, embarrassing.

Equivocations are like mold: a sign that something wrong is going on inside.

Don’t Reason From Anecdata: Whatever your discipline, you have seen the moment where the student says something like, “Well, my granddad smoked like a chimney and he lived to be 93 so I don’t think smoking is that bad for you.” The professor

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ovus ordo Trump. President Obama has been the champion of the American environmental movement for almost eight years now. The executive powers he’s used to carry out his environmental agenda have propelled environmental policy to the fore of American politics and given activists a powerful ally. Nonetheless, environmentalists will soon loose their big gun. In the post-Obama era they will have no choice but to relearn how to enact change from the bottom up—and that’s a good thing.

In 2010, President Obama’s signature cap and trade bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, died in Congress. Despite Democrats controlling the House and Senate, they failed to rally behind a bill that transitioned the nation into a green economy at taxpayer expense. When Republicans recaptured the House of Representatives later that year,

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he withdraw U.S. funding from the UN Convention on Climate Change, or back out of the Paris Climate Agreement? They discovered much too late that President Obama’s executive fiats had created only the illusion of progress, while antagonism festered among voters and lawmakers who cared more about government overreach than rising sea levels.

Those sentiments were neatly encapsulated in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and fired at Washington like a political missile.

It’s time to stop panicking.

Environmentalism is, inherently, a movement to prevent the end of the world—but Donald Trump’s election isn’t it. In the long run, it may even be good for the movement.

Yes, that’s right—good. In recent decades, environmental activism has focused on influencing national policy through Congress or the President. The result is that environmental

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not for a moment honor the “guarantees” in its own constitution. Duke’s only threat is that we will walk away from the whole campus, leaving our students and faculty high and dry. Leave aside the fact that China almost always charges “troublemakers” with additional wrongs: a lot of those imprisoned human rights lawyers were also accused of crimes such as sexual predation. Weird, huh. And would we defend that student, that faculty member? In a factually murky situation, with lots of accusations? What precise level of repression will cause us to shut down an entire university? I asked the Provost and she said that the administration had not considered that question.

Principles Matter: And this is the most important point of all. China has made a bet that it can harness the productive power of free-ish markets without providing the freedoms of liberal society to go along with them. China’s leaders are not dumb and they realize that knowledge workers in an information society need to think critically and creatively. Liberal education gives just that training. Hence they like the idea of a campus like DKU. But the student at Duke whose education leads her to become a civil rights activist, an advocate for gay rights, a critic of the carceral state or a member of an unapproved religion (there are only 5 approved religions in China) has the freedom to act on those beliefs.

And that, China is not willing to grant. It wants “neutered” liberal education—ability to think critically without the freedom to say or do anything about it outside of the classroom. And that is the precise deal that Duke is agreeing to. We are offering to supply that neutered education, making ourselves complicit in their plan. But freedom to think critically without the freedom to act on those critical thoughts is not liberal education.

Imagine the student at DKU who is moved by a class discussion to hand out copies of the Chinese Constitution on campus, agitate for Falun Gong, or criticize the government’s appalling human rights or environmental record. When they come for that student, will we tell him, “Sorry, this was liberal education lite. We never meant all those noble pieties we taught you”? We should be ashamed that, as a university community, we are even considering the idea.

James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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President Obama’s path to environmental reform all but vanished. The political fallout after the Affordable Care Act limped out of Congress in March as well as Republicans’ general distaste for climate science slammed the door on environmental compromise.

Around this time the President decided that where Congress couldn’t act, he would. Having seen how environmental legislation dies in the political miasma of Congress, Obama bypassed the legislature altogether and implemented the Clean Power Plan using the EPA’s regulatory powers. The plan is designed to decrease U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 and environmentalists welcomed it with glee. Other examples of Obama flexing his executive muscle include restricting oil and natural gas extraction on federal lands, giving fuel efficiency standards a major update and using his powers under the Antiquities Act to preserve hundreds of thousands of square miles of delicate natural areas as National Monuments—all without Congressional help or approval.

Regrettably, President Obama’s environmental legacy is built on fair-weather foundations. The executive actions he used to force the states to address climate change represent precisely the kind of paternalism that conservatives despise. It drives resentful legislators further into the embrace of climate change skeptics like Myron Ebell and makes them all the more likely to pass damaging legislation in the future. Secondly, and of more pressing concern, is the fact that a new president can reverse his predecessor’s executive orders, making President Obama’s strategy all the more risky.

Obama’s actions may have been justified by the science, but they circumvented the democratic process—and that process is vengeful.

Enter Donald Trump. From his populist bully pulpit, the Republican candidate denounced President Obama’s hardline environmentalism as a power grab. He assailed Washington for attacking the fossil fuel industries that employ millions of Americans and keep many bluecollar communities afloat. Meanwhile, he doubled down on the standard Republican trope that elitist bureaucrats were strangling businesses with over-regulation and generally meddling in the lives of ordinary Americans.

His message resonated with voters unaware of the real motivations behind Obama’s decisions.

His inability to work with Congress was easily cast as unwillingness, his use of executive power reimagined as abuse.

Then Trump won the election, whilst Captain Murphy’s ghost whispered, “I told you so,” in the nation’s ear. Environmentalists broke into a panic, wringing their hands over all the ways Trump might imperil the planet.

Would he rescind Obama’s executive orders and “unleash” the fossil fuel industry? Would

protection has been treated like any other political issue, subject to the vicissitude of public opinion and the roadblocks that partisanship raises in its path. Not only is the federal government unreliable, but in those rare instances when it does compel the nation to act, the environmental movement’s opponents don’t fall in line. They dig deeper into their trenches.

If environmentalists instead focused their efforts on public outreach at the local government level, then perhaps they could rally the American people to their cause one town at a time.

Currently, mainstream environmentalism is an upper class, urban, and overwhelmingly liberal enterprise. The most environmentally conscious consumers are almost always wealthy. Only 40 percent of rural Americans, the most heavily affected by climate change, believe it’s a serious problem. Politically, less than half of Republicans support government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 86 percent of Democrats. In a political environment where neither the President nor Congress are sympathetic to their cause, environmentalists will be forced to export their message out of the liberal enclaves where it is strongest and into communities on the front lines.

To do this, activist organizations must invest massively in educating communities and local governments on the merits of sustainability, and they should tailor their message to each area’s economic and social landscape. Every area can benefit economically and environmentally from decreasing waste, investing in renewable energies and encouraging green agriculture.

Even if putting a solar panel on your roof didn’t cut your carbon footprint (which it does), it would still save you thousands of dollars in electric bills, and could add upwards of $15,000 to the value of your home.

To survive in the era of Trump, the environmental coalition that existed under Obama must expand dramatically, something it should have done long ago.

The environment belongs to everyone— the farmer and the urbanite, the rancher and the college student. Environmentalists should consider it unacceptable for their movement to protect the earth not to reflect the diversity those who live on it.

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, founder of the National Park service, and one-time swashbuckling cowboy, had this to say about America’s environment and our universal responsibility to protect it: “We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

Ian Burgess is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “from the mountaintop,” usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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The accelerating climate crisis requires leadership – not an expansion of fossil fuels.

• The proposed Duke Energy power plant would increase campus greenhouse emissions by 61%.

• It would increase local air pollution, barely improve campus power reliability and perpetuate the climate-destructive fracking boom.

• Methane leaking and venting from US natural gas operations is making the climate crisis rapidly worse. It’s likely a key factor in the record-breaking, three-year global heat wave.

• A large excess of regional power means the plant would unnecessarily boost rates for all Duke Energy customers.

• The University has many clean energy options, including huge solar power potential at prices lower than it’s now paying for electricity.

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Urge Duke University President Richard Brodhead to reject Duke Energy’s expansion of climate-wrecking fracked gas on campuses. Tell him to join Stanford and others using climate-protective energy solutions: President@duke.edu.

President Brodhead, we need your leadership to help avert runaway climate chaos.

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