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Annie Adair Junior Annie Adair wants to redefine the way that Duke Student Government interacts with students and build better relationships with campus organizations if elected the next president.

Adair, a native of Arlington, Va., is the current DSG chief of staff. She hopes to increase measures to combat sexual assault on campus and to create a more open social environment for Greek-affiliated and

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While chief of staff, Adair served as the chair of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee, was one of three women on the Interfraternity Council sexual assault prevention task force, helped implement the DevilsGate program to enhance the football gameday experience for students and collaborated with current President Keizra Mecklai, a senior, to implement a C5 bus route to take students from Central Campus to East Campus.

“DSG presidents can be distant,” Adair said. “You can be top-down and then make decisions based on personal views, but I believe that we can even the playing field and build strong relationships that target policy.”

Adair transferred from Virginia Polytechnic Institute following her freshman year. An independent student, Adair said she hopes to create a more open environment within DSG and within Duke’s social culture.

“You don’t have to be a merit scholar or

a member of Greek life to be represented [by DSG],” Adair said. “Sixty percent of the student body is not represented in DSG. I want to work with [Student Organization Funding Committee] to have more open events on campus.”.

She also said she would like to focus on better combating sexual assault on campus by collaborating with groups including the Women’s Center, the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council.

John Guarco Junior John Guarco plans to advocate for reforms to Duke’s student conduct policy if elected Duke Student Government President.

Guarco, a Staten Island, N.Y., native, currently serves as DSG executive vice president.

In addition to modifying the University’s student conduct policy, Guarco hopes to increase opportunities for student input.

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strongly to Friday protest Gautam Hathi The Chronicle

The protest against a cop-themed party last Friday has triggered a number of strong reactions on Facebook.

One of the first posts that garnered attention was written by junior Thasos Athens, who argued that the themed party was not a big issue and that protestors were needlessly attacking Greek organizations on campus that have been previously scrutinized.

“This protest-happy activist culture has gotten so beyond the pale in its own search for validation of its victimhood that it’s now actively generating controversy on perceived easy targets,” Athens wrote just after the protest finished.

The post has received more than 200 likes, but a number of students commented on the post criticizing Athens for dismissing the protest and the issue of mass incarceration. Many students also challenged the tone of Athens’ post, writing that it was unnecessarily aggressive and hostile.

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Researchers’ findings about effects of alcohol inform state task force Abigail Xie The Chronicle Scientists at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are working with the state government on an initiative to educate parents and the public as a whole about the effect of alcohol on adolescent brains.

The report, which was requested by Governor Pat McCrory in December, summarized the conclusions reached by researchers in North Carolina and around the country thus far about the impact of binge drinking on brain development in adolescents. The researchers from Duke and UNC recently presented the findings to the Governor’s Substance Abuse and Underage Drinking Prevention and Treatment Task Force, as part of its efforts to inform parents in North Carolina of the risks of their children binge drinking.

“Part of our responsibility as a state is to make sure that parents and others concerned with underage drinking have access to a wealth of knowledge to help them understand the dangers, and to have conversations with their children,” said Luther Snyder, executive director of the North Carolina Initiative to Reduce Underage Drinking.

Snyder noted that studies consistently show that parental communication can postpone the age of initial alcohol consumption.

“It’s mainly written to help parents understand the adolescent brain and understand why they would want to protect their children from alcohol until that brain is developed,” said Donita Robinson, assistant professor at the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.

According to the report, evidence from human and animal studies demonstrates that adolescents’ brains and bodies process alcohol differently than adults’.

When teenagers consume alcohol, they are less sedated by the same amount and are more likely to binge drink. Alcohol can also negatively impact learning, sleep and stress levels.

Less is known about the long-term effects of binge drinking on the adolescent

brain, noted Dr. Wilkie Wilson, research professor of prevention science at Duke’s Social Science Research Institute. The report points out that particular regions of the brain, such as the hippocampus, which is crucial for memory, are vulnerable to long-term consequences. In addition, binge drinking causes inflammation in the brain, which may be associated with depression later in life, and early alcohol use may be related to alcohol-dependence in adulthood, whether due to genetics or the environment.

The researchers emphasized in the report that binge-level drinking—rather than small amounts of drinking— is what can lead to serious consequences in the long run.

“You’ll often hear people and sometimes parents ask, why can’t the drinking age be lowered?” Robinson said. “That’s one of the reasons we do the research we do—to try to find out if are there consequences to underage drinking specific for adolescents. From a scientific point of view there’s a good reason to not drink during adolescence. So I think you need that information out there, to help adolescents and parents.”

The task force aims to promote awareness about this information among parents and the general public in North Carolina’s efforts to curb underage drinking and substance abuse. The researchers also noted the need for a broader education about alcohol’s effects on the brain.

“From my interactions with the public, it’s always a surprise when I talk about the unique effects of alcohol,” Wilson said.

“Parents and kids have no idea about this—they don’t think about the brain, and they don’t even know how alcohol kills.”

Dr. Cindy Kuhn, professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke, explained that the task force came to the group of Duke and UNC researchers to “identify the messages that we as scientists believe the public should know about.”

“Parents need to understand that their kids’ brains are different from their own brains,” Kuhn said. “Ideally, parents would

Chronicle File Photo Duke and UNC researchers recently presented their findings about the effects of alcohol to a state task force that seeks to inform parents about the risks for adolescents.

convey at a very early age that there are a lot of lifestyle things their kids can do to optimize how their brains function, like getting sleep, exercise and not drinking until you pass out. High levels of drinking are dangerous to their brains and to their health—because of unwanted things that happen when they’re intoxicated.”

Although the report focuses on adolescent brains, the researchers noted that human brains continue developing into the mid-20s, meaning alcohol—and other things, including a lack of sleep—can affect brain development of college students.

“I think students need to take responsibility for their health including that of their brain,” Kuhn said. “There’s a real problem at Duke, not just with alcohol but with students managing their lives in a way that their brains aren’t functioning well. They don’t get enough sleep and they’re cognitively impaired.”

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It changes perspective to be able to see things through the eyes of others who have grown up in different cultures, with different sets of attitudes and beliefs.”

Wilson added that although the brain’s “wiring” settles down around age 22, people who begin drinking earlier in their lives tend to be more vulnerable to long term consequences.

Kuhn also said that universities like Duke need to do a better job of encouraging parents to have conversations with their kids before they come to college, but that universities are “incrementally going in the right direction” in terms of educating students on alcohol consumption risks.

“I don’t think they’re putting their lives at risk if they drink alcohol in general,” Kuhn said. “I’m much more worried about high levels of drinking, and their survival, than managing the legalities of do 18 year olds drink at all.”

The report was written by Kuhn, Wilson, Robinson and Dr. Fulton Crews, director of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.

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UMBC president urges support for minorities in STEM fields Adam Beyer The Chronicle The president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, called for rethinking the way minorities are treated in science, technology, engineering and math fields during a talk sponsored by the Duke Initiative of Science and Society Wednesday.

Freeman Hrabowski discussed his efforts to increase opportunities for minorities in STEM fields at UMBC, tabbed the top up-and-coming university by US News & World Report. During the talk at the Trent Semans Center, he praised Duke for its support for diversity in graduate programs but said it could improve its undergraduate opportunities.

“You attract some of the best students of all races in the country. I would say to Duke you should be among those institutions producing students who are doing well enough in science and engineering to go on to earning Ph.D.s in science and engineering and right now you are not,” Hrabowski said.

At UMBC, Hrabowski led the creation of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which provides a support system for students interested in STEM. Several graduates of the scholarship program were in attendance at the talk, including Kafui Dzirasa, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a recipient of the 2016 Presidential Early Career award.

The lack of minority students in STEM is a problem, Hrabowski said, noting that universities must address the culture of natural sciences and engineering departments. Solutions—including smaller class sizes, team-based learning and less emphasis on “weed-out” courses—have broad benefits.

Motin Yeung | The Chronicle Freeman Hrabowski has helped make UMBC one of the nation’s top up-and-coming universiities.

He spoke at Duke Tuesday about increasing minority representation in STEM fields.

“When you’re able to help one group, like students of colors, you help others,” he said. “It’s not just black students who are not doing well in science and engineering.”

Hrabowski serves as chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans and was listed one TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2012. He received an honorary degree from Duke in 2005.

In an introduction to the talk, President Richard Brodhead noted that Hrabowski was a “person of the most captivating

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A mathematician by training, Hrabowski said listening to Martin Luther King, Jr. and being jailed were transformative experiences.

“I always from that point on connected solving math problems with solving problems of society,” he said. “The most interesting problems could not be solved quickly.”

As chair of President Barack Obama’s commission on educational excellence,

Hrabowski said he sees data that concerns him. Less than 0.5 percent of scientists at the National Institutes of Health are black and no national agency has even one percent of black Ph.D. scientists, he explained. Only 5 percent of American bachelor’s degrees are given in natural sciences or engineering, but among minorities the figure is between 2 and 3 percent.

“The dream should be that people of all races are getting to know each other well enough, trusting each other enough, ending up with the skills and the competence to know what’s necessary to study problems of humankind,” he said.

Freshman Robyn Guo said she enjoyed the lecture, but noted she did not know what to expect.

“As an Asian American, I know that we’re not technically underrepresented in science but I did want to learn about how other people thought about the whole issue,” she said. “I definitely want to learn more about these issues.”

Guo—who is planning to pursue a degree in biology—said Hrabowski’s emphasis on supporting K-12 education programs for minorities in STEM was important.

Members of the audience of more than 200 posed questions about inequalities and how to help younger students prepare for tough college classes.

“Any child who is going to do well in STEM has to learn to read and enjoy reading,” Hrabowski said. “We have a tendency to separate arts and humanities from science and engineering.”

The event was the second of three distinguished speakers for the lecture series. Rep. Bill Foster spoke last November as the first speaker, and The New York Times science writer Gina Kolata will speak March 22.

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The Blue Devils head into the postseason ranked for the first time ever and will face four other ranked squads Ali Wells The Chronicle The Blue Devils’ season has featured a number of program firsts, and the final CSCAA poll added yet another—the squad will head into the postseason ranked for the first time in program history.

On the heels of Duke’s sixth-place finish at the women’s conference championships last week—a four-spot improvement from last year—the No. 19 men will look to make a move of their own at the four-day ACC championships in Greensboro, N.C., starting Wednesday.

If the Blue Devils outscore last year’s total of 435 by more than 150 points, they will record their best finish since the 2011 season, which featured three gold-medal wins. But they will have to take on four other teams ranked in the final poll—No. 7 N.C. State, No. 13 Louisville, No. 18 North Carolina and No. 24 Virginia Tech, with Georgia Tech and Florida State also receiving votes.

“What we would like to do is be in the top half of the ACC—what we would love to do is be in the top five,” Duke head coach Dan Colella said. “This team has shown that they are especially capable of that. For us to

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle After the women finished sixth last week, the No. 19 Duke men will take to the pool this week for the ACC championships in Greensboro, N.C., against four other ranked teams.

be ranked 19th in the final poll and to have been ranked consistently all season is really exciting for us.”

The Blue Devils graduated only one senior from their championship roster that finished ninth at last year’s meet in Atlanta. Stefan Knight swam on both the 200- and 400-yard

freestyle relays, which placed seventh and eighth, respectively, for a total of 90 points.

But Duke’s reloaded sprint group features a number of contenders for Knight’s spot, including freshmen Sean Tate and Yusuke Legard and junior Dylan Payne.

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provisional cuts in both sprint freestyle relays, the Blue Devils will need to break their own program records for a chance to compete in the events in Atlanta March 23-26.

National-championship relay swims will also depend on the standout 200-yard medley quartet repeating last year’s feat of earning an automatic NCAA qualification. Kaz Takabayashi, Peter Kropp, David Armstrong and James Peek finished second with a time of 1:25.03 to claim Duke’s first medal in a relay event in program history. The squad earned the A-cut by six tenths of a second last year, but this year’s standard will be tougher—the mark stands at 1:25.30. The Blue Devils hold the third seed heading into Wednesday’s event with a season-best showing of 1:25.62 from the Nike Cup Invitational in November.

“We have a very solid chance of getting second, even possibly first,” Takabayashi said.

“The four of us have been together for the past two years now and we have really gotten used to each other’s habits. It’s exciting being behind the blocks—especially for me going first—knowing no matter how I do there are always three people behind me who are exceptional.”

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Urbon highlights shutout win in first start for Duke Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle On a cold, drizzly night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the hot bat belonged to a Blue Devil freshman at the bottom of the order.

Freshman catcher Chris Proctor notched two hits and two RBIs from the ninth spot in the lineup and three Duke pitchers held Campbell to just three hits as the Blue Devils got over the hump Tuesday, shutting out the Fighting Camels 4-0. In his first start in a Duke uniform, former Cornell right-hander 0 Kellen Urbon tossed CAM DUKE 4 five innings—four of them three-up, threedown frames—to pick up the win, the Blue Devils’ first against Campbell since 2012.

Urbon took advantage of the Fighting Camels’ aggressive approach at the plate, needing just 16 pitches to get through the first two frames. The San Diego native pounded the strike zone all night, putting 42 of his 55 pitches inside the strike zone and keeping Campbell off balance with sliders early in the count.

“Not a lot of people sit [first-pitch] slider, so if I can drop one in there, I have the advantage,” Urbon said. “I was really trying to throw strikes

and trying to get early contact, just trying to get outs and take each inning individually and not look too much into pitch count.”

Campbell (2-2) tried to keep Duke on its toes by showing bunt throughout the game, but the Blue Devils (3-1) did a good job handling the steady diet of ground balls that Urbon, Kevin Lewallyn and Luke Whitten served up. Two of the Fighting Camels’ three hits were bunts, and the third did not escape the infield.

As dominant as Duke’s pitching was, Pollard’s lineup had some trouble of its own solving Campbell starter Michael Horrell, managing just four base-runners before exploding in the fifth.

The Blue Devils scratched across their first run on an error, a sacrifice bunt and a fielder’s choice. Shortstop Zack Kone led off with a chopper to his counterpart, but the throw skipped wide of first base and out of play, moving the freshman to second base. Center fielder Evan Dougherty advanced Kone with a well-executed bunt in front of the plate, and with the infield in, Proctor’s grounder to second base brought Kone home safely as catcher J.D. Andreessen had to smother a bouncing throw.

“That’s the formula. We put the pressure on with our speed, we got down the line

good,” Pollard said. “Guys can’t relax on any throw. We finally got one thrown away. If you get down the line that good, you’ll create some offense for yourself.”

The Blue Devils were not done, though, as leadoff hitter Max Miller sliced a line drive the other way that looked like it would score Proctor—except it got lodged underneath the fence down the right field line. With Proctor forced to stop at third and Miller on second, freshman Jimmy Herron lined a single into center field to plate Proctor and chase Horrell.

Sophomore Peter Zyla tacked on one more run on the second pitch he saw from reliever Zach Minnick, chopping a fielder’s choice to first base that brought in Miller.

Proctor—who improved his early-season average to .571 with two hits in four trips to the plate Tuesday—was kept busy all night behind the dish as well, springing up time and again as the Fighting Camels tried to generate some offense with small ball. The freshman fielded two bunts cleanly and made a couple of throws to first base on dropped third strikes to keep Urbon out of the stretch.

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Jack White | The Chronicle Sophomore Max Miller had two hits Tuesday, helping to lead Duke to victory—its third straight win at the DBAP.

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performances so far this season. All four swimmers are seeded in the top 10 of their signature events and could be key contenders for the eight-man championship finals and for podium positions.

Kropp claimed the top seed for Friday’s 100-yard breaststroke courtesy of his statement swim of 52.13 seconds to kick off the season at the Oct. 3 dual meet against Pittsburgh.

His time stands just five one-hundredths of a second away from automatic qualification for the national championships.

The Los Angeles native will take aim at Duke’s first ACC title in an individual event since Nick McCrory swept all three diving competitions in 2013 and the team’s first swimming gold medal since Piotr Safronczyk won the 100-yard breaststroke in 2012.

Peek just missed earning a spot in the championship final of the 50-yard freestyle at last year’s championships, but won the consolation final in 19.74 seconds. The Forest Row, Sussex, England, native nearly realized his hopes of an individual NCAA championship berth, but this year he is seeded fifth with a season-best time of 19.79 seconds.

Although the 100-yard freestyle is not his specialty, Peek could also make a splash in the longer sprint. He is seeded 10th at 43.82 seconds—half a second faster than the NCAA provisional standard.

“Last year, I was a little upset with my evening swim [in the 50]—I missed the cut.

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cut for the NCAA meet,” Peek said. “The 100 free over the last four years has kind of been my Achilles’ heel…. At Nike Cup this year, I swam a [personal] best time and I was very surprised by that, so I think that’s definitely a sign of good things to come at this meet.”

The Blue Devils will head into Wednesday’s swims with points already up on the scoreboard, thanks to the freshman diving trio who competed during the women’s meet last week.

Evan Moretti, Josh Owsiany and Lee Christensen combined for 82 points on the one- and three-meter boards and in the platform event. Moretti scored in all three contests, with his best performance coming on the first day of competition. The Scarsdale, N.Y., native made his ACC-championship debut on the three-meter board and tallied 354.15 points to place fifth.

“I totally surprised myself,” Moretti said. “I just wanted to score points for the team. The Duke team this year is just so strong and a great group of people you want to score points for. It feels good to be a significant part of it.

It’s great to make an impact and knowing that the [swimmers are] going into their meet with points is a huge booster.”

A week after watching their female training partners race through four days of preliminaries and finals sessions, the men will have their chance to take to the water in the same pool starting Wednesday at 4 p.m.

“It’s a fast meet and you are up against people who are about to be the top swimmers in the nation,” Takabayashi said. “The overwhelming excitement in the arena just gets me itching to race.”

in the sixth—I don’t care if you’re a freshman or a senior, that’s a heck of a play,” Pollard said.

“This was not an easy night to play defense—it’s a great park and obviously the field played great tonight, but it’s damp, the balls are wet. We had to make a ton of plays in the infield and we made every single one of them.”

Duke’s bats went quiet after the threerun fifth but woke up again in the eighth, tacking on an insurance run with a two-out rally. Center fielder Evan Dougherty smacked a double over third baseman’s head, and Proctor promptly brought him home with a clean single to left.

The extra run allowed Pollard to leave senior reliever Nick Hendrix in the bullpen and keep Whitten on the mound for the ninth, and the sophomore retired the side in order to secure the Blue Devils’ first shutout of the year.

lobbing a toss to first on a sacrifice bunt that Adam Wyse beat out for a base hit. Another sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third with one out, but Lewallyn struck out pinch-hitter Michael Van Degna and induced an inningending ground ball to emerge unscathed.

Kone charged hard to pick up the grounder and make a quick throw on the run, just beating Anthony Lopez to the bag despite pleas from the Campbell coaching staff to the contrary. The freshman—who spent the fall and much of the preseason working his way back from Tommy John surgery—made eight perfect throws on the night, but none more important than that one to strand two Fighting Camels.

“That play that he made to get us off the field

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n the to-do list carried around by each Duke student, the pursuit of a summer internship accompanies a litany of classwork and extracurricular engagements to which students are obligated. In the wake of financial recruiting and on the tail end of consulting applications, many of Duke’s juniors already boast coveted positions in prestigious firms. Yet, the worries of summer employment plague more than upperclassmen: first-years and sophomores also feel the anxiety of improving their resumes with shiny internships. Today we ask to what extent preprofessionalism negatively competes with our intellectual and professional growth at our liberal arts institution.

Your Duke experience risks becoming instrumentalized in the pursuit of a pre-professional track. In medicine, law, banking and consulting, firstyears and sophomores see, particularly in the latter two, the security, money and glitz sought by mentors and upperclassmen friends. This is not to say this is true of every pre-professional student. For some, a variety of cases to work on in consulting has great allure. For others, the pursuit of immediately profitable careers is a necessity. Midway through last semester, we discussed how the financial pressures of attending a school like Duke contribute to our drive to go into post-graduation careers that pay well. But more often than not, as we

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argued last year in “You Jump, I Jump,” most students see these four paths as well-trodden and surefire ways to become “successful.” However because they are also highly competitive fields, even for Duke students, tunnel vision overtakes us in their pursuit.

It is a shame to think pursuing a stable preprofessional job after graduation has to compete with service work, altruism and cultural experiences—the essence of Duke’s liberal arts education. The job search overrides for weeks at a time our intellectual and professional growth in these formative years. Programs

Editorial like DukeEngage and Peace Corps and campus events like Lunar New Year and Night of Swing take back seats to securing an internship or summer research position.

While on Duke’s campus, we focus on the extracurricular activities and experiences that are tangibly connected to furthering our career prospects. When we go further down these roads, we soothe ourselves by saying there will be time and freedom to be altruistic or passionate about something “when I have the money.”

What are the counterbalances Duke has to promote its fundamentals against the rising tide of pre-

professionalism? First, the new Duke Experience class could and should connect first-years to professors who have chosen to continue in academic communities, giving students a taste of what their upperclassmen friends cannot really offer. Additionally, pairing undergraduates with graduate students would offer students a “five-plus” mentor to discuss long-term questions with, pushing students to be skeptical of the tracks they thought they would be on at Duke. Finally, the myth of a “perfect resume” must be debunked and the pursuit of passion projects promoted as what really sets students apart. Duke must endeavor to bolster the student who is really intrinsically motivated, helping them to translate their passions into careers. The Duke student who has made cultural experiences or service projects a big part of their undergraduate experience should be rewarded for making this time of their lives stand out from their careers after graduation.

We should hope that Duke increases its attentions to mentoring and inspiring students—supporting and promoting paths outside of the “Big Four”— just as students should talk themselves onto the path less traveled. The liberal arts education aims to educate students in a variety of competencies and an untempered devotion to pre-professionalism inhibits this aim.

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ust a few days ago a small group of students courageously marched towards the Delta Sigma Phi bench, temporarily annexed the most coveted three square feet of campus and bravely called for the abolition of prisons and Greek life. Our heroes then braced themselves for the difficult but necessary task of educating the clueless, ignorant onlookers who had gathered to watch the unfolding demonstration.

A lone warrior, small in comparison to the societal constructs they fought but possessing a large heart,

shouting “F*** the crowd” as our noble activists did. Luckily, the activists were well-trained in countering the shrewd tactics that the privileged used to sidestep criticism while they carefully, respectfully and thoughtfully address the activist’s concerns. “TONE-POLICING” shouted our heroes. Like a werewolf struck by a silver bullet, the tall, white male retreated.

After all, if you are upset with the tone that an argument is delivered in, you are probably missing

Tyler Fredricks PATRICIANS ETC. proudly declared the crowd “some f*** s***.”

“Pledge Task: Develop Some Empathy” read a sign valiantly thrust into the sky. Yes, not long ago Duke University’s champions fought back against the predatory and monolithic Greek community here on campus, consisting of organizations such as the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, which maliciously raised $30,000 when two brothers were diagnosed with cancer and perpetuates violent power structures such as the lifelong bond members share for the rest of their lives. Uninterested in considering how one associated with a brotherhood (roughly 30 percent of Duke men) or a sisterhood (just less than 40 percent of Duke women) might interpret a private event or aggressive teach-in, our champions resisted the Siren’s call and maintained their obstinate calls for abolition. Develop some empathy, indeed.

Our crusaders, however, assured themselves they would never stoop to the callous apathy displayed by the large group of onlookers who traveled from across Duke’s campus to listen to the protestors and participate in the teach-in (save a few hecklers).

Extending a metaphorical olive branch by granting the larger Duke community permission to speak, our heroes were promptly and expectedly snubbed.

Referring to a previous comment made by the protestors that compared the “Kappa Kop”-themed DSig party with the Holocaust, a white wale onlooker wearing a hat assaulted the foundational tenets of social justice when he dared say, “I just want to say that the Holocaust thing was kind of offensive.”

Fortunately, our protagonists promptly mocked his violent question that disputed whether DSig’s costume party could be appropriately compared to one of the largest tragedies, both in scale and deranged brutality, in human history. Luckily they took the high road.

But it was not the end. Another tall, white male berated the impromptu bastion of freedom when he mentioned that he believes in fighting structural racism and combating institutional inequalities, but disagrees with the method of

the point.

With Greek Life addressed, Duke University’s Best and Brightest focused their metaphorical highly-powered .50-caliber sniper rifle squarely on the peculiar American institution of locking up criminals who have broken the law. This inhuman establishment has parallels in virtually every human culture in the world stretching back for millennia.

“No to police, No to prison” read the poster that boldly declared that the best way to end mass incarceration, reform the criminal justice system and fix systemic inequalities is to completely erase the backbone of a system predicated on the rule of law. Our warriors had a simple message for those who want to outlaw murder, rape, arson, theft and other wicked elements in society by removing their perpetrators from society as a preventative measure: cages are violent. Subjecting people to state sanctioned brutality such as the protection that law enforcement gives our communities every day is violent. In fact, believing that criminals should go to jail is violent.

Beset on all sides by hordes of puzzled students that were bored on a Friday afternoon, the zealous leaders of DukeEnrage paused. As the sun set and the shadows faded into the fast-approaching night, the heroes that Duke deserves, but not those it needs, dispersed. Dismantling two violent power structures in a single day is difficult work, even for university students who have partially completed their bachelors’ degrees. Only time will tell whether the incoming “List of Demands in Regards To The Violent Kappa Kop Party” will be available on Tumblr or Facebook first.

Or maybe people will realize that fraternities and sororities on campus are not responsible for mass incarceration and that calls to abolish Greek life and prison are overreactions.

Tyler Fredricks is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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The vulnerability stigma

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o a lot of people date here?”

The question caught me off guard. Over ABP coffee, I sat discussing my experiences at Duke with a visiting family friend and her daughter, who were touring campus. We had proceeded through the common talking points: academics, social life, basketball and East Campus. After a pause, I answered that while couples certainly existed—particularly among upperclassmen—I did not think dating was the norm. She asked me why that

all over girls who are forthright, outspoken and confident in other aspects of their lives. People grow terrified of frank communication when the conversation involves acknowledging attachment. Although people tend to be perceptive about ambitions, they cannot analyze their own feelings, resulting in detached hookups that could have become more but never did. Sometimes we do not want attachment, but sometimes we do. How strange it is that perhaps we were more emotionally equipped

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here is a menace pervasive at this University that always goes unspoken of. It is a treachery I noticed as soon as I arrived at this institution—but I did nothing to address it. Now that I am in my senior year and not long on campus, I can keep my silence no longer. Students of Duke, I beseech thee: you need to stop cutting in line.

There are two main reasons I’ve decided to write my column for this week on the topic of queueing. One is that, as a Brit, the practice of queueing is

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was the case. I laughed, saying that was a complicated question.

Last week, my professor taught a lecture about contextual gender ethics. He read an excerpt by Katrine Marcal, who described the concept of the “economic man”—the standard of behavior humans are pushed to emulate. The words across the board read, “The economic man is rational, dominant, selfish, powerful, emotionally unavailable, independent and competitive. He knows what he wants, has an unlimited appetite, and you cannot change him.” In contrast, according to Marcal, society characterize straits traditionally associated with femininity as economically irrelevant: emotion, the body and dependency. The class was asked to discuss within what settings at Duke it feels beneficial to behave like the economic man or act based on these conceptions of femininity.

For the former, students spoke easily about academic pursuits, professional ambitions, extracurricular activities and the formation of social groups. A consensus existed among both genders that we are well versed in how to be this figure. The economic man strives and achieves. So do we.

When pondering spaces where emotion is highly valued, the conversation slowed. Duke students usually do not try to be dependent or vulnerable. We aim high and race forward on our own. The qualities of the economic man allow us to succeed, but we have been programmed so exhaustively we grow uncomfortable deactivating this mindset when it comes to grappling with emotions.

I do not want to speak in absolutes.

Of course, people have their own definitions of emotional and physical fulfillment. For many college students, the hook up culture fulfills exactly what they want. Casual encounters do not necessarily reflect an inability to find relationships. For those of us who want to find significant connections, though, I am puzzled by the disparity between many Duke students’ general intelligence and emotional intelligence. I notice an ironic pattern of regression: as time rolls forward and students sharpen their intellectual abilities, many grow less adept at handling their feelings.

The task of honestly identifying and dealing with emotions reduces many people to an uncharacteristic passivity. I have numerous friends who experienced committed relationships in high school but now quake at the idea of defining a relationship or being the one to initiate plans. I watch boys walk

to find meaningful connections at age 16 than we are now, as we head off to summer internships and graduate schools.

Too often, Duke students equate emotion with weakness. Our desires to succeed with ease and remain in control are equally ubiquitous in the romantic realm. A stigma is associated with being perceived as vulnerable because everyone wants to be the one who cares less. No one is willing to concede and admit to feeling anything.

Here, our slightly egotistical and lossaverse inclinations emerge. If we care and the other person does not, we could be embarrassed and the possibility of being hurt arises. But we are too smart for unnecessary emotional hurt; we are too busy with too many things to do. We fear attachment because risk is attachment’s closest companion. If we can convince ourselves our feelings towards someone do not extend beyond something casual, then hypothetically we are never vulnerable, right? We continue to appear composed and thriving to the outside world. We fail to confront or express our emotions.

Nothing is gained or lost.

Perhaps this aversion to vulnerability boils down to a fear of failure. Maybe we are afraid of getting entangled in emotions over which we cannot guarantee control. We are accustomed to sailing through life with supposed ease. When we trip, we do not know how to fall softly. We remain convinced that by never admitting to having feelings, we never risk being judged. We are not skilled at handling rejection with grace. This attitude is like rationalizing that we should not attend an interview so we can’t not get the job, and after that, deciding we do not actually want to be employed anyway. Of course, this logic sounds absurd when applied to situations beyond the romantic realm.

In the world outside Duke, success involves taking risks, and vulnerability accompanies this. We are prepared for this academically and professionally, but why not personally?

People often wonder why they cannot find the connections they search for here at Duke, but first they must admit to wanting them. This involves not feeling embarrassed for caring or stigmatizing people who do. This game so many play with themselves—whether knowingly or not—seems emotionally backwards. People are engaged in a personal competition to never lose, but I would not equate never losing with winning. We just end up racing against ourselves. And that can be lonely.

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close to my heart. The other is that I still haven’t finished doing the research for the column I’d actually wanted to write for today and this was the first researchless topic I could think of.

In my home country we use the term “queueing” to mean waiting in line, in a flagrant indulgence of our national fetish for the letter “u.” Cutting a line in the U.K. is essentially a mortal sin; I can honestly say with only a little exaggeration that it’s a social taboo on the order of punching one of the Queen’s corgis or urinating on a vicar.

The few times I’ve seen someone audacious enough to openly cut a line in the U.K. they’ve always been met with universal murmurs of disgust from the queuers behind them. Let me put that in perspective for you: I’ve been mugged in public twice in London, and both times nearby onlookers just stared at it happening with the kind of blank disinterest more appropriately reserved for a distant relative’s funeral than for a live robbery.

Now, this is clearly something of a misplacement of priorities, so I should make clear that I’m not advocating the Duke community adopt Britain’s nigh-on religious observance of “The Queue.” But it really was a shock getting here and seeing how often and readily Duke students will jump a queue. You see it all the time: if ever there’s a giveaway for food or free stuff, there’ll be a bunch of people who’ll ignore all the individuals that had taken time out of their day to line up and instead just jump in where their friends are. It happens every Midnight Breakfast, at any on-campus event that has a line— and of course, at Shooters.

The queue jump at Shooters is a remarkable thing if only for its predictability. It always plays out the same way: just as the line has begun to get long, an Uber will pull up. Out will emerge a posse of three to five men and women. As a group, they will loudly bemoan to one another the length of the queue. Then one of two things will happen. In Circumstance A a leader— often a woman—will spontaneously emerge from the group, taking the lead in response to this unprecedented, timeconsuming crisis. Quickly gathering

her friends behind her and confidently striding straight up to the Shooters door, she will immediately begin negotiations for accelerated entry with the doorman.

Honestly, this is a part that I’m still too #irrelevant to understand, but I see that it works—and I’m hesitant to criticise it as queue-jumping because if Shooters’ management wants you in that badly, they do have the proprietorial right to abrogate your wait.

I cannot say the same for Circumstance B, though. In Circumstance B, the Uber posse splinters into subgroups who

prowl along the line, searching for an in—either a sympathetic acquaintance or an easily penetrable spot in the line.

For the Under-21 line, this spot is usually the point just before the fence hems you in; for Over-21 it’s the area right in front of the brick pillar, where you can shimmy on sideways into the line with relatively little resistance.

At this stage, some of the people cutting will get annoyed because they’re being extensively jostled while trying to enter the line. Keep in mind when this occurs that this is fine, because it will only help them prepare for the cramped and crowded conditions they’ll find once they end up in Hell. Let it be known also that it is always appropriate to boo anyone who is openly attempting to cut the line at Shooters. I began booing at someone who tried to cut me once, and the entire crowd joined in. It was glorious.

Now, I know that this opinion will not be a popular one and I’m going to look like the sanctimonious Tina Fey in the first episode of “30 Rock” or Rashida Jones in “Celeste and Jesse Forever.” Cutting is widespread at Duke and pointing out that it’s perhaps a tad douchey will inevitably lead a bunch of people to tell me to chill out, lighten up, take myself less seriously—etcetera. But look: there will be the occasional time you have a very good reason for queue jumping; I’ve probably done it myself at some stage. But it is replete at Duke.

And in my opinion, it represents the ultimate expression of everyday Duke student entitlement.

Look at it this way: when you jump a queue you’re making the decision that your time is worth more than the time of all those people behind you.

Implicitly, you’re saying that what you do with your time is more worthwhile than what they do with theirs; essentially, that you’re better than them. The thing is, though, that you’re not better than them, and unless you lead a remarkably economically productive life for someone going to Shooters on a Wednesday night, your time probably isn’t more valuable than theirs. So please, drop the arrogant self-importance, recognize that someone had the foresight to get there before you, and go to the back of the queue.

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Ronnie Nadine, Trinity ’15, who declined to comment, wrote a post criticizing Athens’ post and argued the conditions faced by prisoners, rather than the criticism faced by Greek organizations, should elicit sympathy. The post had received 85 likes as of Tuesday night and dozens of comments and replies.

“I’d call the poor and disenfranchised a group many may feel antipathy toward, especially since they’re currently jailed, while Greek and non-Greek Duke students are enjoying a world class education and access to the top jobs in the country upon graduation,” Nadine wrote.

Athens said that he did not intend to minimize the topics of incarceration and prison conditions in the U.S., but rather the way in which protestors raised the issues.

“I’m sympathetic personally to the fight against government incarceration of our own citizens,” Athens said. “However, I find it utterly absurd that these protestors were trying… to make it an issue that’s somehow related to Greek life.”

Athens added, however, that he appreciated Nadine’s critical post. Athens said that he felt Nadine made “mistakes” in his analysis, but did respond in an analytical way and did not resort to ad-hominem attacks.

“I don’t agree with his analysis, but it’s his prerogative to make such a critique and share it and I want to laud him for having something actually analytical to say about it,” Athens explained.

Ray Li, Trinity ’15, who is currently a law student at Stanford University, expressed a different reaction on Facebook, writing that a discussion on prisons and mass incarceration is important to have at Duke, regardless of how it came about. Li encouraged students interested in the issue to get involved and help to find solutions.

His post received more than 300 likes.

Li also wrote about his experience working at juvenile prisons to help children understand their legal rights. He said that the experience had helped him to better understand the impacts that incarceration has.

“The system is unsustainable and we only think it’s so inevitable because it’s so entrenched in our national psyche,” he wrote.

Li added that although he had previously felt that abolishing prisons was out of the question, a debate on the first day of his law school classes convinced him to think otherwise.

“One of the debates was, ‘Should we or should we not have prisons?’ and to me that was a ridiculous question,” he said. “But there were a lot of people in my class who either went to Berkeley or some of the liberal arts schools and have learned more about this through their classes. It has been a conversation on their campuses, and so they knew the points of major contention on why prisons might be bad as a whole and what the alternatives are.”

Although Li said that he did not see any easy solutions to the issue, he thought that starting a conversation on the issue was a step in the right direction. While the way in which the conversation was started may have been contentious, he said that there may not have been alternatives.

“I had the privilege of working in a student government context [while at Duke] in which we were always given a microphone and always given a place to speak,” Li said. “A lot of people don’t have that kind of institutionalized space, and so I think that if you want to get an issue across and you don’t have a lot of institutional support behind you and platforms otherwise, I think protest definitely is an effective way to get your message out and to start a conversation.”

Others, however, said that the way in which protestors attempted to start a conversation on mass incarceration was unhelpful. Senior Pi Praveen said that the tone of the protests alienated many who are sympathetic to the issue of mass incarceration. She engaged in a protracted discussion in the comments section of Nadine’s post in response to a comment by junior Mina Ezikpe, who did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

The Chronicle She also said that the protestors were attempting to speak for all minorities rather than allowing people to speak individually.

“Even the conversation about a meritorious topic like mass incarceration that we need to have is put off by the way these people have suggested that all black and brown bodies and voices must be on their side or must adopt their narrative,” she said. “It’s really difficult to find anything productive here because moderates have been turned off of the conversation and people are being told that they must take one of two extreme sides.”

Praveen added, however, that she felt that the tone of conversations on Facebook threads after the protest devolved significantly. She added that she hoped there would be better discussions of issues on campus in the future.

“Not only do I regret that people felt the need to post their views in All Duke, rather than, for example, write a column in The Chronicle or air their views in a more refined way, I also regret that I felt the need to get involved,” Praveen said. “But it was an issue that I felt particularly invested in.”

CANDIDATES from page 1 During his tenure as executive vice president and previously as a senator for equity and outreach, Guarco worked with administrators on the sexual misconduct task force to advocate for an amnesty policy for students reporting sexual misconduct through which sexual assault victims do not have alcohol and drug use count against them in the investigative process.

Guarco also helped organize Duke’s first Mental Health Awareness Month.

“These experiences have prepared me to actually make policy changes at this school instead of simply making new programs and spending from our surplus,” Guarco said.

If elected, Guarco said ensuring justice and fairness in changes to the student conduct policy would be a priority, noting that the number of conduct cases at Duke has doubled during the last decade.

“I think student rights are being diminished at Duke,” Guarco said.

Tara Bansal Junior Tara Bansal hopes to continue to make improvements to student life if elected Duke Student Government president.

Bansal—a native of Dix Hills, N.Y.— currently serves as the vice president of academic affairs. Her platform includes four main themes—empowering communities, equity and inclusivity, modernizing academics and upgrading Duke.

“I think Duke is an easy place to feel at home,” Bansal said. “When there’s somewhere you actually care about it’s about wanting to put the effort and energy in to make things better.”

Bansal proposed amendments to expand the pass/fail policy as a part of the curriculum review this year. She was also one of the authors of a statute creating the DSG program to provide free online access to The New York Times for all undergraduates.

Regarding equity and inclusiveness, Bansal supports cultural competency training and increasing socioeconomic and racial diversity across organizations on campus.

“I’d like to see an expansion of the livinglearning community, which is a new housing option I started and is inclusive to everyone regardless of socioeconomic status,” Bansal said. “Within [Interfraternity Council] and [Panhellenic Council], I’d like to look into ways to fit endowments from alums to expand the number of scholarships for people in the system.”

In addition, her platform includes institutionalizing Title IX “Consent Chats” to educate students about bystander intervention and sexual assault. She also plans to ensure that all Duke-sponsored events are disability accessible and is looking to increase non-DSG representation on policy-making committees.