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First-years’ food points to increase next year

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By Carter Forinash Staff Reporter

Did you run out of food points during your first year at Duke?

The Class of 2023 might not have to worry about that problem after the Board of Trustees approved an increase to the number of food points included with first-year dining plans during its weekend meeting.

The plan was spearheaded by junior Liv McKinney, Duke Student Government vice president for services and sustainability. It will raise the number of food points included in the smallest dining plan to about 800, although Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote that the administration is “still nailing down” the exact number.

“If you’re to actually follow [the current] 500-foodpoint meal plan… it promotes a very unhealthy way of living and eating on campus,” McKinney said. “So I think just having a bigger amount to start with is huge for students who can’t afford to have more, but also just for promoting eating three meals a day.”

The current offerings include either 472 or 545 food points, which are valued at a dollar each. Both current plans also include 14 meals per week at East Campus’ Marketplace.

McKinney began working on the project last year, when she surveyed students to ask whether they had run out of food points and if they could afford to purchase more.

“Looking at that data, it was very concerning, the percentage of students who were unable to add more food points if they did run out,” she said. “Looking at when they ran out, it was almost overwhelmingly all first-years.”

McKinney noted that that the current plans are designed so that students will run out of food points and add more. However, she said that financial aid usually does not cover food points added during a semester, which leads many students to conserve the See FOOD POINTS on Page 12

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Men’s basketball dealt first road loss of season by Hokies Michelle Tai | Staff Photographer Freshman point guard Tre Jones puts up a shot against Virginia Tech guard Ahmed Hill during Tuesday night’s game.

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.—Cam Reddish barreled down the lane with just more than 13 minutes to play, knocking a Hokie defender down on his own way to the ground.

Third-ranked Duke, like its freshman sharpshooter, was offbalance and out of whack.

Seven road wins in ACC play weren’t going to become eight for the Blue Devils Tuesday night.

DUKE 72 No. 20 Virginia Tech knocked VTECH 77 off Duke 77-72 at Cassell Coliseum, taking down the Blue Devils for a third consecutive time on its home floor. Without Zion Williamson once again, Duke leaned on 38 combined points from the duo

of Reddish and R.J. Barrett, but a dagger corner triple from Hokie forward Ty Outlaw in the final 90 seconds put the hosts ahead for good, and the Blue Devils’ perfect start away from home in conference play came to a halt.

“That was just a heck of a game, hard-fought, [and I’m] proud of my guys,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They’ve been on this amazing schedule, and I think they fought each game and they fought tonight.”

After Duke surged from down five and leveled the game at 59 apiece on an R.J. Barrett triple, Virginia Tech took advantage of a soft Blue Devil zone out of the under-eight media timeout to retake the lead, as Wabissa Bede canned a 3-pointer right in front of the Hokies’ bench.

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HEALTH & SCIENCE

New Duke wetland study could help slow hurricanes’ wrath

By Jenn Marsh Contributing Reporter

Courtesy of NASA Coastal wetlands, like these in Louisiana, provide a buffer from hurricanes’ damages to the inlands.

With rising sea levels and human development threatening wetlands, the effects of hurricanes could become even more devastating.

“Wetlands attenuate waves so that when a hurricane comes in, they can slow down that wave so damage is not as bad when it hits the coastline,” said Anna Braswell, who received her PhD from Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2017 and is currently a research scientist at University of Colorado Boulder.

New research from Braswell and study co-author James Heffernan, assistant professor of ecosystem ecology and ecohydrology chair at the Nicholas School, could help scientists better analyze wetlands to determine which ones are most vulnerable. Erosion and vegetation were two of the factors that determined the “persistence or loss of coastal marshes,” along with the “depth, size, shape and latitude of the estuary,” among

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other things, Braswell said in a news release.

Braswell and Heffernan studies the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to gain a better understanding of the future of wetlands—areas of marshes and swamps that are saturated with water—and their interaction with humans.

Braswell said they started out seeking to find the driving force behind patterns of wetlands along the East Coast. These patterns, she explained, vary based on the region and factors of the wetland itself.

“In places like Georgia you have these huge expanses of coastal wetlands, and in other places, like in the northeast United States, there’s fringing or very small strips of wetlands along water bodies,” Braswell said.

With careful modeling and analysis, her team has been able to connect certain wetland features to the patterns that they exhibit.

Braswell said they have looked at these wetlands while considering nearby watersheds, coastlines, estuaries and See WETLAND on Page 12

Women’s tennis sweeps ACC opening weekend The Blue Devils powered through their first weekend of conference play, beating Florida State and Miami.

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Renowned legal scholar William Van Alstyne dies

By Jake Satisky University News Editor

Even in his final days, a renowned Duke Law School First Amendment scholar made sure his legal voice was heard.

The News & Observer was appealing a libel case to the North Carolina Supreme Court, and William Van Alstyne was going to try his best to convince the Court to hear the case.

Van Alstyne was a professor at Duke for nearly four decades until his 2004 retirement, and he was well-known for being “generous with his ideas” as well as his legal prowess.

The William R. and Thomas L. Perkins professor emeritus of law filed an amicus brief Jan. 11 before his death Jan. 29.

‘The quintessential Duke Law experience’ The Journal of Legal Studies named him one of the 40 most frequently cited American legal scholars. Judges, lawyers and academics twice selected him in polls as one of the most qualified Supreme Court justice candidates in the country.

Van Alstyne may be best known for his First Amendment and free speech scholarship, but he was also an expert in other amendments, the Constitution, separation of powers, impeachments and civil rights.

He famously argued in favor of individuals’ Second Amendment right to bear arms in 1994 for the Duke Law Journal and wrote a casebook on the “First Amendment in the Twenty-First Century.”

Van Alstyne—known as “VA” to friends and colleagues—taught at the Law School from 1965 to 2004, during which he appeared numerous times before House and Senate committees, wrote countless legal articles and served as a “incredibly engaging, terrific teacher,” according to

Chronicle File Photo William Van Alstyne taught at Duke’s School of Law for nearly forty years until his 2004 retirement.

lawyer Mark Prak, Trinity ‘77 and J.D. ‘80, one of the professor’s former students and a representative for the News & Observer in the libel case.

After graduating from the University of Southern California and Stanford Law School, Van Alstyne worked as California’s deputy attorney general and for the Justice Department on voting rights cases in the South. He became a professor at Ohio State University before joining Duke’s law school in 1965. He left in 2004 to go teach at William and Mary Law School until 2012, when he retired to sunny Southern California.

Despite his immense stature in the law community, he wasn’t a stuffy academic—he loved motorcycles and wore leather jackets to class.

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Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye professor of law and former dean of the Law School, said in the school’s news release on his death. “No one did more to elevate the reputation of this law school into one of the premier law schools of this country, and no one was more generous with his ideas or in transmitting to students respect for the rule of law.”

Van Alstyne was highly regarded among his peers and students. Prak, who took his First Amendment seminar, called him the “quintessential Duke Law experience.”

Paul Carrington, the Harry R. Chadwick Sr. professor emeritus of law and dean of the Law School from 1978-88, succinctly described Van Alstyne in an email to The Chronicle.

“VA and I were old friends, having been colleagues at Ohio State,” Chadwick wrote. “He was an awesome teacher and scholar.”

The brief The News & Observer was sued in 2011

by Beth Desmond, an N.C. State Bureau of Investigation agent who claimed that the paper libeled her in an investigative series about the SBI and caused her to experience posttraumatic stress disorder.

A Wake County jury awarded Desmond $9 million, and the N.C. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of Desmond while reducing the damages to $6 million in accordance with state law. The N&O is appealing to the N.C. Supreme Court in part because they allege the Superior Court judge gave improper instructions to the jury and would not admit evidence from a national review board that showed Desmond’s bullet fragmentation analysis didn’t support her expert testimony in murder cases.

In the brief that Van Alstyne filed asking the N.C. Supreme Court to consider the case, he argued that truth is an absolute defense for libel suits, regardless of whether the truth is discovered post-publication.

“In New York Times [v. Sullivan], the Court emphasized that the ‘central meaning of the First Amendment’ lay in the role it played in ensuring the conditions of self-government by protecting the public discussion of conduct of government officials,” he wrote in the brief.

Even if the published material isn’t completely factual, he said, it isn’t defamation if revealing of the complete truth would have the same effect on the subject’s reputation.

“Any action that restricts the ‘breathing space’ the courts have repeatedly recognized as essential in this context must be viewed with constitutional skepticism, and a person sued by a public official for publishing statements critical of the official must be given wide latitude to prove the substantial truth of the publication,” Van Alstyne wrote in the brief.

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‘My biggest fear growing up’: ICE raids in NC detain 200

By Rose Wong

Herrera said that he was most concerned with students going Gallagher, the ICE field office director, blamed the increase on to school in the wake of the raids.

N.C. sheriffs who have severed ties with ICE. “I understand what these kids who aren’t going to school Unable to enter county jails without cooperation from the Roughly 200 people were arrested in U.S. Immigration are fearing,” Herrera said. “That was local government, ICE resorts to conducting and Customs Enforcement raids across North Carolina always my biggest fear growing up.” searches in public spaces, where agents If they’re in the wrong earlier this month.

Students whose parents were arrested are more likely to find undocumented Sean Gallagher, director of the ICE field office in Atlanta, by ICE no longer have an adult to take place at the wrong time, immigrants without a criminal record, referred to recent ICE actions as “the new normal.” Recent ICE them to school, Herrera said. according to Gallagher. my officers will take raids included Durham, Burlington, Charlotte and parts of Bryan Cox, a spokesman for ICE, “If they’re in the wrong place at the Wake County, according to ABC11. said in a statement that the agency does enforcement action. wrong time, my officers will take an The 200 arrests do not include 27 people who were detained not conduct “random or indiscriminate sean gallagher enforcement action,” Gallagher said at the after an unrelated ICE raid at Bear Creek Arsenal, an arms enforcement” and focuses on individuals DIRECTOR OF ICE FIELD OFFICE IN news conference. manufacturing plant in Sanford, according to an article by the with a criminal record.

Mayors from seven cities—Durham, ATLANTA Charlotte Observer.

Among the 200 arrests, 50 individuals Asheville, Burlington, Carrboro, Chapel A large group of plant workers were taken to the cafeteria, had criminal convictions, while 40 faced Hill, Greensboro and Fayetteville—have where they were subjected to a process of interrogation, pending criminal charges. ICE referred to one-third of the signed a letter condemning the ICE raids. fingerprinting and document verification, as reported by the detainees as “collateral” arrests, which include individuals who “We cannot stop ICE from operating in our cities, but we Sanford Herald. lacked any kind of criminal conviction, but were discovered can and must speak out against these raids which destabilize Sophomore Steven Herrera was born in Guatemala and grew to be undocumented during a larger search, according to the neighborhoods, traumatize children, hurt many innocent up in Sanford, N.C. Previously an undocumented immigrant, News & Observer. people, and create distrust of law enforcement,” the letter said.

Herrera—who is now documented—returned to Sanford for a The number of “collateral” arrests increased by over 20 percent “The negative collateral consequences of these raids on our week to support his community. since the last fiscal year, as reported by the News & Observer. cities is enormous.”

In response to the recent ICE activity, Charles Thompson, professor of the practice of cultural anthropology, organized a protest vigil with his wife and Orin Starn, professor of cultural anthropology.

Through his academic research, Thompson has worked closely with Mexican farmworkers laboring in the United States and students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.

“Our Constitution says that citizens and non-citizens alike are protected under the law. All of our citizens and noncitizens deserve to live in a community that abides by the rule of law and have protections for our people,” Thompson said. “We don’t believe in living in a country where people have to be afraid to go out into the streets because the police are after them.”

Herrera gave advice to Duke students on what they can do to support those affected by ICE. “Reach out to your friends that are directly and indirectly Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons affected by this,” he said. “Like personally for me, this is an ongoing fight that I’ll never get away from.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained approximately 200 individuals in a Southern sweep earlier this month.

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That cute animal video may harm endangered species, study says “People loved it and they thought it was the cutest thing ever and that was captured in our data,” Clarke said. “During and right after this viral video was when we saw a spike in people Sharing videos of cute exotic animals interacting with talking about pet lemurs.” humans may be fun, but a Duke study found it may have She contacted the original posters of the video, who said the a negative impact on non-domesticated lemur was called “Sefo,” meaning animals. chief of the village. They said A 2016, a video of two children in the lemur wandered into the southern Madagascar petting a ring-tailed village, but Clarke said that is lemur who started gesturing to continue not representative of the normal behavior of lemurs. scratching when they took a break was posted.

Lemurs are endemic to the The video went viral, and Duke researchers conducted a study analyzing nearly 14,000 Thousand is how many tweets the island of Madagascar, one of the top ten poorest countries in the tweets mentioning pet or captive lemurs over team analyzed for the study an 18.5-week period. world. Clarke said all pet lemurs are taken from the wild as babies The video attracted wide attention over the Simran Prakash | Staff Photographer Internet and inspired people to tweet about pet lemurs, said Tara and forced to live a very unnatural lifestyle—there are no captive A new study from Duke researchers shows the potential harms for Clarke, one of the study’s authors and visiting assistant professor breeding programs on the island. the animals of sharing viral videos.

Viral videos featuring endangered animals or wild species in Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department. that are not domesticated are problematic because people who view them do not know about the animals’ actual living conditions, she said.

“People are not really understanding where that animal came from, how it got there, if this is a natural behavior or a natural setting for the animal to be in,” Clarke added.

She said Sefo is clearly ‘chunky’ in the video, a result of his unnatural diet in the village.

Madagascar has also experienced a severe drought over the last three years, hurting wild lemur populations. For a lemur to be fat, it would have to eat human foods, she said.

Despite pet lemurs being illegal in Madagascar, previous work done by Kim Reuter, who also co-authored this study, showed that 28,000 lemurs were taken captive by the illegal pet trade between 2010 and 2013.

Lemurs are often captured from the wild as babies to serve as pets or photo props in tourist locations but become sexually mature and aggressive at three years of age, Clarke said. The lemurs then become a nuisance and are taken to sanctuaries, released into the wild with no knowledge of how to socialize with other lemurs or killed and eaten, she said.

“These are the invisible impacts that people don’t see when they’re taking a photo with a pet lemur or pet slow loris or sloth and [when you share it on social media] you’re promoting that and this perpetual cycle,” Clarke said.

Lemurs are one of the most endangered groups of mammals in the world with 95 percent of species endangered.

“We know tourists like going to the restaurant or the bar that has lemurs bounding around or coming up and stealing a piece of bread off your plate,” Clarke said, adding she and her colleagues hope to persuade local business and guide associations in Madagascar working with tourists not to engage in similar businesses. At Duke, the Lemur Center works to protect endangered species through its conservation breeding program.”

For now, Clarke hopes to encourage everyone, including scientists, to think twice before liking and sharing cute lemur Colors: Black, Oxford and other exotic animal videos and selfies without context.

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‘back to the sunset’ Producer Eric Oberstein wins third Grammy award, page 7

late night king ‘Last Week Tonight’ premieres sixth season, page 7

growing pains Recess features editor reflects on turning 20, page 6

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I used to be that obnoxious girl who always “unintentionally” reminded her friends that her birthday is in a month. I would discreetly insert a reminder into every unrelated conversation — or maybe not so discreetly.

When I confessed to a friend that I finally realized this fault of mine, she looked at me and nodded in the same way my mom did when I finally gathered enough courage to tell her about breaking her favorite vase.

Anyway, the point of revealing my obnoxiousness is to highlight how uncharacteristic I was in dealing with my 20th birthday – I dreaded it. When my parents repeatedly brought it up over winter break and asked me how I wanted to celebrate it early with them (which became a tradition after my birthday became a school day in college), I brushed over the topic or simply said that I didn’t want to do anything special this year. My mom nodded and said, “You’re finally growing up.” But the truth is: I never dreamed that the first digit of my age would change from 1 to 2. And I’m scared to death by the idea that one day it will also change to 3, to 4, to 5, to 6…

I feel like I’ve been a teenager all my life (and I have been, for, well, half of it). Teenagers can be angsty and can afford to waste a lot of time and energy. They still enjoy being and are unafraid to be very, very emotional. They enjoy many freedoms without having to bear the associated obligations.

But being in your 20s is a different story.

People in their 20s can also have fun and have greater access to exploring the world, but they always seem more melancholy, having to get up with a hangover and drag themselves to work. Some still haven’t found a job after graduation and wake up, sweating, from the fear that their bank account has already cleared to zero. Or even worse yet, they hate their job but are afraid to quit it and start from scratch to pursue what they really want to do.

People tell me that I still have plenty of

time, but I know that to succeed in any field, I most likely need to start early and act now to take advantage of all the available resources.

I’ve already invested thousands of dollars of tuition to build my future.

But time is relentless and doesn’t even spare me one second for my incessant plea, and my 20th birthday came and went. And now my future self, whom I so looked forward to meeting in college, is finally here, banging on my door 24/7 and demanding that I see her.

But she seems scarier than I thought from the peephole. And I can’t find my key.

I tried to pack my days with things to do so that I could get the secure feeling that I am

staff note working toward something, or so that I could forget to obsess over the question of whether I am working toward something. But the only thing I have figured out for myself is that as an adult, I only have roughly five minutes every time to get upset, stress out or cry before starting to study for the third midterm of the week or running to the sixth meeting of the day.

“Take five.” That’s what they mean.

I have also learned about how friends work in the adult world. People drift apart. You could say that it’s because one side messed up or that you found out you have different values, but ultimately, it’s simply because you’re both growing. And apparently growing up separates people. But eventually, people will be okay with drifting apart because they all understand the tacit rule that they can always make new friends in a new place.

A kind, caring mentor told me, “Eva,

you are growing up now. What you’re going through, it’s just growing pains.”

Yes, growing pains — anxiety for new responsibilities, fear for consequences of major life decisions and the haunting uncertainty of the future. At least now I have a word for them.

But I can’t help still holding to a lot of things, even if they are childish. I still believe in the colors of sunset, the smiles of passersby, good basketball games and late-night chicken wings with friends. I still believe that one day I’ll meet the people who are destined to never leave my life and one day I’ll make my parents unprecedentedly proud and stand on the stage I’ve dreamed of standing on a million times. I still refuse to be disillusioned.

The night I returned to Durham from winter break, I struck up a conversation with my Uber driver as usual. I told him that I am currently a sophomore at Duke. He told me that he went to Duke in the ‘90s. I told him that I’m turning 20 in a few days. He told me that 20s will be the best years of my life. At the end of the ride, he suddenly asked me, “Wait, when exactly is your birthday?” I told him the date, with a feeling.

The he exclaimed loudly and happily, swerving the wheel a bit, “Oh my God! We have the same birthday! I knew it!”

So now I still believe in fate. And I still believe in the future. Maybe she is not 10 years away from me but only a second away. Maybe, after all, time did decide to be lenient and spare me a second – that precious next second.

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Eric Oberstein wins third Grammy award with help of two Duke alums

By Christy Kuesel Recess Editor

When Eric Oberstein ran up on stage two weeks ago to accept his third Grammy award for producing Dafnis Prieto’s album “Back to the Sunset,” one man stood beside him: fellow Duke alum Harsha Murthy.

Although Oberstein, Trinity ’07 and current interim director of Duke Performances, is widely recognized as an accomplished producer in his field, “Back to the Sunset” marks the first album where he collaborated with other Duke alumni.

Murthy, Trinity ’81, served as an executive producer for the album and John Hahn, Trinity ’74, served as an associate producer. “Back to the Sunset” was both Murthy and Hahn’s first time working on any professional music project.

“They really became our guides in many ways through this project, both in connecting us with funding and thinking strategically about the project,” Oberstein said. “And I’m so grateful to both of them as friends and mentors.”

Hahn originally reached out to Oberstein after his last Grammy win to learn more about music production. When Oberstein conceived his next project, he reached out to Hahn, who then reached out to Murthy.

Both Murthy and Hahn praised Oberstein’s vision and production abilities in the creation of “Back to the Sunset.” He has won two Latin Grammy awards in addition to his three Grammys.

“We just had tremendous confidence in Eric running the show,” Hahn said. “He’s got a lot of talent, maturity and insight.”

Oberstein was familiar with Prieto’s work before “Back to the Sunset,” as they had both worked with jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, with Oberstein working as a producer and Prieto composing a number of pieces for him. Prieto also won the MacArthur “Genius”

Fellowship in 2011.

So when Oberstein was considering collaborations for his next big project in the spring of 2016, Prieto’s name rose to the top of his list.

“Having primarily produced big band albums prior to that, I felt very comfortable in pursuing that project with him,” Oberstein said.

“I knew that it would be a heavy lift, because big band projects are the more ambitious and expensive albums that one can do. But at the same time, the opportunity to collaborate on something that he really wanted to do and that he could showcase his talents as a composer with, that was incredibly exciting to me.”

Prieto was born in Cuba, moved to New York City in 1999 and has been performing and working in the United States since then. He is currently a faculty member at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

On “Back to the Sunset,” Prieto wanted to honor all of the musicians who inspired him.

Each track is dedicated to a different set of artists who influenced him, including Chico O’Farrill, Arturo O’Farrill’s father.

“The story of the album is about honoring these mentors and influences and giving him an opportunity to assemble a brand new band,” Oberstein said.

The big band included five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, a pianist, a bassist, a percussionist and Prieto playing the drums.

Oberstein specializes in big band albums, having previously produced six of Arturo O’Farrill’s albums. Big band albums tend to be more ambitious from the logistical perspective due to the number of people involved. But the variety of voices in big band is exactly what makes it special for Oberstein.

“The thing I love about big band is that it provides such a large musical palette for the composer,” he said. “In some ways, it’s

like an orchestra for jazz, in that there are so many voices.”

Oberstein produced “Back to the Sunset” through Prieto’s own independent label, Dafnison Music, meriting its own challenges.

Murthy likened self-producing an album to a startup venture. Without a major label to support a project, producers need to gather the musicians, book a studio for recording and raise money.

“And for a big band album, which is what Dafnis Prieto wanted to do, it’s a lot more complicated, because a lot more people are involved,” he said.

Oberstein and Prieto started a crowdfunding campaign through Fractured Atlas to help raise funds for the project, and also applied for

grants to cover costs.

“Back to the Sunset” was released April 6, 2018. The album was nominated for a Latin Grammy, in addition to winning the Grammy for best Latin Jazz album.

Oberstein said a recognition like a Grammy could help Prieto and his band secure more touring opportunities, but he emphasized he does not produce music to win awards.

“It’s not why we do this work, but it is a nice acknowledgment of the work and encouragement to keep doing it and keep moving forward with it,” Oberstein said.

As to whether winning a Grammy ever gets old, Oberstein said no.

“Each project is special and unique,” he said.

Special to The Chronicle Eric Oberstein accepted his third Grammy award for “Back to the Sunset” in Los Angeles Feb. 10.

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‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ is still the king of late night

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When Jon Stewart left “The Daily Show” in 2015, John Oliver stepped up to fill massive hole in late night comedy that Stewart’s departure created. Oliver had been a “Daily Show” correspondent, even hosting Stewart’s show for eight weeks while Stewart directed his film “Rosewater.” With this practice under his belt, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” hit the ground running in its first season. The show has not looked back, remaining a glowing fixture in the crowded field of late night television.

Now in the show’s sixth season, Oliver is sticking to his winning formula, starting with commentary on the news of the week before spending 20 minutes on thoughtful and hilarious “deep dive” pieces. These pieces cover noteworthy subjects, like the border wall, Jamal Khashoggi or the NRA, or seemingly obscure subjects that only Oliver can make enjoyable — like astroturfing, subprime lending or the North Dakota oil boom. Seth Meyers uses a similar concept in his “A Closer Look” segment and Hasan Minhaj replicates it on his new show “Patriot Act.” Oliver kicks off the season premiere with a few minutes on Trump and the national emergency declaration. For the third time in the show’s six seasons, the main story was Brexit.

Oliver tackles three key questions related to recent Brexit negotiations in the piece: Why don’t people like Theresa May’s deal, what happens if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal and could they just not do Brexit at all? Episodes about Britain are Oliver’s sweet

spot, as he can leverage his personal experiences to enhance the humor.

When discussing the risks of a no-deal Brexit, Oliver jokes, “Medicine shortages are not a problem Brits are used to dealing with.

They’re used to having their problems limited to hearing Americans mispronounce the word ‘vitamin,’ not having enough beans as part of your breakfast and having to wait 20 years for another royal wedding.” He then urges five year old Prince George to “settle down already.”

Later in the episode, Oliver devoted several minutes to a terribly corny music video from Dutch boy band the Breunion Boys, who write songs about reuniting Britain and the EU. Oliver is known for filling the show with shenanigans, so expect even more crazy bits later on in the season. Last season, he bought an old Russell Crowe jockstrap from “Cinderella Man” and donated it to one of the last remaining Blockbuster stores in Alaska. He also purchased five wax statues of former U.S. Presidents, which he used in the Season 5 finale for a fantastic “Fast and the Furious” spoof. In the previous seasons, he also started a church, created an all dog version of the Supreme Court and sent a mascot named “Jeff the Diseased Lung” to Times Square to warn about the risks of smoking.

The second episode of the new season has its own moment of absurdity, as Oliver creates a fake talk show called “Wakey Wakey with John Oliver” to interview a psychic (played by the always hilarious Rachel Dratch). The episode starts off with a rundown of this week’s news that included a few minutes on the new election in North Carolina’s 9th District after corruption

plagued the initial election in November. Oliver, known for poking fun of the places he brings up in the show, has this to say about North Carolina: “North Carolina: Of the two Carolinas, without a doubt one of them.”

The episode then moves to its main story concerning psychics. Oliver states that psychics have no actual abilities, and quickly redirects his focus to the predatory practices of these individuals. They prey upon people who are at their most desperate — after the death or disappearance of a family member, for example — and use their purported gifts to rob people of their savings. Oliver partially blames daytime talk shows

for frequently giving these psychics a platform, leading into the spoof with Dratch.

The show’s sixth season is off to a promising start, not straying far from the structure of previous seasons. If this trend continues, “Last Week Tonight” will keep its position as the best late night show on television. Although other late night programs struggle to turn funny situations into good comedy, Oliver can make something like a cash bail segment entertaining, proving his gifts as a comedian. With the 2020 elections inching closer and the Mueller report about to drop, Oliver’s show will have plenty to joke about this season.

Photo Courtesy of Flickr The sixth season of comedy special “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” premiered Feb. 17 on HBO.

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With the game tied at 59 after fighting and clawing their way through the match, the Blue Devils looked ready to finally take the lead for good and put the Hokies away.

Duke’s unusual 2-3 zone defense, however, left Hokie guard Wabissa Bede open for a 3-pointer, which he knocked down with ease.

That make especially highlighted a lack of identity for the Blue Devils, which ultimately lost them the game.

Ranked fifth in the nation in 3-point field goal defense—holding its opponents to just 28.7 percent from beyond the arc—Duke did not close out well down the stretch, allowing Virginia Tech to hit two of the most important shots of the game—the one previously described by Bede and another open trey with a minute and half left to play to seal the deal for the Hokies. These shots left Duke stunned and unable to recover, dropping its second of three games without its star freshman Zion Williamson.

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The Blue Devils have struggled to find their rhythm and consistent play across the lineup with Zion Williamson on the bench due to injury. fast enough,” freshman Cam Reddish said.

“They made tough shots and it was just a hard fought game.”

Ever since the Spartanburg, S.C., native went down due to injury against North Carolina last Wednesday, the Blue Devils have

not looked the same. Obviously, the team lost a bulk of its offensive prowess without the second leading scorer in the ACC, but in Duke’s loss to Virginia Tech, it is clear that the team has lost much more.

Williamson’s mere presence on the floor allowed his teammates to play more loose and unbothered, and with Williamson on the bench, freshman R.J. Barrett suffered the most against the Hokies. According to head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Barrett felt sick during the first half, and the fact that Virginia Tech was able to focus its defense solely on him made matters worse. The leading scorer in the ACC scored just four points in the first half, shooting 1-of-7 from the field. Barrett’s lack of aggression early on allowed Virginia Tech to control the pace of the game, and keep a small lead going into the locker room.

“Once we started the game, it was obvious that we weren’t getting our normal movements offensively and defensively because they’re accustomed to Zion,” Krzyzewski said. “We had to make some adjustments there.”

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Blue Devils sweep ACC opening weekend

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Three forehands followed by a fundamental shot she’s practiced countless times was all senior Kaitlyn McCarthy needed on match point to put the Blue Devils on top. That overhead winner in sunny Miami resulted in McCarthy throwing her hands up in excitement.

She turned to her seven teammates lined up with junior Meible Chi on the left and freshman Margaryta Bilokin alongside McCarthy’s doubles partner and classmate Ellyse Hamlin on the right. They ran in her direction as the comefrom-behind dual match victory was set in stone.

The defending ACC regular season champions opened up their conference slate this past weekend and the two dual matches did not go as smoothly as last season. The Blue Devils took the pair of home dual matches against Florida State and Miami 6-1 in consecutive meetings last March.

Duke grinded through Friday’s 5-2 victory against the No. 12 Seminoles and Sunday’s 4-3 win against the No. 18 Hurricanes. In both matches, the home team took the doubles point, but the Blue Devils took control of the singles play later in order to clinch the perfect start to the conference season.

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 With the visitors in serious foul trouble, though, Virginia Tech started to go back inside, feeding big man Kerry Blackshear Jr., as it did most of the night. The 6-foot10 redshirt junior finished the game with 23 points and 10 boards for his third doubledouble in as many games.

“You have a port in a storm, but it’s a friendly port,” Krzyzewski said of Blackshear.

“It’s not just somebody to throw it to score, he can make plays. He’s a playmaker for them.

He’s the most unusual center in our league. You just don’t play against guys like him.”

And when Blackshear slammed home a thunderous two-handed jam just before the under-four media timeout, it seemed like the home team was on its way to finishing off the upset.

Alex O’Connell, however, had other plans, drilling a clutch 3-pointer from the left wing, bringing the Duke bench to its feet as Coach K called a timeout with 3:16 remaining.

Following a Blue Devil stop, Duke (24-4, 12-3 in the ACC) worked the ball in deep, with Reddish missing a floater that Marques Bolden collected for a put-back lay-in. The next trip down, Barrett lobbed one to Bolden, who put down the two-handed jam to tie things at 70.

“We have a lot of pride in our fight,” Reddish said. “Coach stresses that we fight regardless of the situation—practice, games. I thought as a team we did a good job of fighting, but we didn’t come out on the good end today.”

TENNIS FROM PAGE 8 Before Sunday’s match, Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth switched up the doubles pairings as freshman Maria Mateas sat out and sophomore Hannah Zhao paired with classmate Kelly Chen at the second position.

Chi and Bilokin rounded out the lineup as McCarthy and Hamlin headed the lineup.

“We switched our doubles teams around today to try to find some energy,” Ashworth told GoDuke.com after Sunday’s victory.

“We thought Hannah Zhao would give us a little more energy. Nothing against Maria, we just thought the combination of Kelly and Hannah would give us energy. We had the energy but we didn’t execute.”

After falling 4-6 in doubles, No. 26 Chen was quick to get on the scoreboard Sunday afternoon down in Coral Gables, Fla. The Cerritos, Calif., native only gave up one game en route to a 6-0, 6-1 win to even the match at one point apiece.

No. 22 Mateas then fell to Miami’s No. 7 Estela Perez-Somarriba 0-6, 4-6 and No. 124 Hamlin registered her first singles loss all season after winning eight in a row to open up her senior campaign.

These two results placed Duke (91, 2-0 in the ACC) on the brink of losing to the Hurricanes (6-3, 0-2). With their backs against the wall with little margin of error, the Blue Devils needed No. 18 Chi, McCarthy and Bilokin to all win in order to return home with two weekend wins.

Chi and Bilokin both took the opening sets in tiebreakers. Chi then brought the match score to 2-3 after winning her second set 6-4. In only her second conference singles match, Bilokin stormed to a 6-1 win in the second to even the score and send the

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The Hokies wouldn’t go quietly into the night, though, as Outlaw drained the eventual game-winning shot just 11 seconds later.

Reddish’s triple on the other end did not go down and Virginia Tech hit all four of its free throws in the final minute to salt away its 11th ACC win of the season.

“We just needed another stop to give us a chance to take the lead, and we left open a guy,” Tre Jones said. “I think we played pretty good defense, we rotated how we were supposed to rotate and they just hit a shot.”

It was an uncharacteristic first 20 minutes for Duke in more ways than one. Until just before the halftime buzzer, Barrett failed to make a field goal, and after entering the night

averaging just fewer than 13 turnovers a game, the Blue Devils gave the ball away seven times before the break.

Virginia Tech (22-6, 11-5) capitalized on the visitors’ errors, scoring 10 points off turnovers and stretching its lead to as many as six in the latter stages of the half.

“I’ve got to take responsibility for that as a leader,” Jones said. “I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to do—get us organized as a team.”

Before that, though, neither team was able to get a real foothold.

Duke and the Hokies kept within four points of each other for the opening 16 minutes as Reddish shouldered the offensive load for the

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Blue Devils—the freshman logged 12 points with a pair of triples as no other Duke player scored more than six before intermission.

The Blue Devils will now return home for their last two regular-season contests in Durham, hosting Miami Saturday afternoon before Tuesday’s Senior Night matchup with Wake Forest.

“That six-game stretch [since Feb. 9] was going to be tough no matter what, especially with four of the games being Saturday-Tuesday away games. It’s just an unusual thing, but when you lose Zion right in the middle, then it escalates,” Krzyzewski said. “Overall, my team’s done an outstanding job, and we’ll move forward now....

We’ve got to get back and get refreshed.”

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R.J. Barrett struggled in the first half, but turned it on in the second half en route to a 21-point performance.

match to the distance.

“In singles, that was just a gritty, tough ACC road match. We didn’t play great and it took us a bit to get used to the conditions,” Ashworth said. “It was the first time we’ve played in 85-degree weather and wind. Kelly’s win was huge to get us on the board quick.”

It all came down to a senior and the Cary, N.C., native needed to go three sets. After No. 108 McCarthy lost the first frame 2-6, her match was sent to a tiebreaker to decide the second set. McCarthy lost the first two points and was only five points away from defeat. But the senior regrouped and won the next seven points to take the second set.

In the third set, McCarthy went up 2-0 and then 4-2 before setting up a break and match point up 5-4 on her opponent’s serve.

After three forehands, McCarthy charged the net as Miami’s Carla Girbau chipped a return up for a routine overhead winner to clinch the win.

“Kaitlyn has been great for us for four years in dual matches, especially in conference play,” Ashworth said. “I told her that I wanted her to fist pump her teammates every point… to look at them and do everything you can to involve the team because it was a team effort. She wasn’t alone. She did a great job of setting an example of what needs to be done if you’re the last person on the court.

You have to play to win and not just hope to win.”

Against Florida State (9-2, 1-1), Duke jumped out to a brief doubles advantage as the No. 18 senior duo of McCarthy and Hamlin won 6-2. But No. 56 freshman pair of Mateas and Bilokin lost and the team’s third doubles tandem of Chi and sophomore Kelly Chen fell to give Miami the 1-0 match lead.

“I don’t think anyone was happy with our

doubles play. We came out and missed way too many balls,” Ashworth told GoDuke Friday. “We let Florida State dictate the doubles and two and three and we can’t do that against a very good team.”

On the singles side, Bilokin played fast and quickly won in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 on court five. Mateas was next in line for the victory as the freshman knocked off No. 32 Carly Touly 6-2, 6-3.

With the 2-1 match lead, Duke turned to Chen’s third singles match to move the needle more in the Blue Devil’s favor. The sophomore earned a close 7-4 first-set tiebreak victory before taking the second frame 6-3.

The final three matches all were decided in third sets. Chi lost the tight first set 5-7 before cruising to the 6-1 second set win. On court four, McCarthy took the opening frame 7-5 and lost the second one 3-6. Over at the final singles slot, Hamlin set up the decider after a 6-4, 3-6 result.

The Blue Devils needed just one of the three final sets to clinch their first ACC win of the season. That clinching match point came via Chi, who took the third 6-3.

McCarthy then lost and Hamlin closed out the 5-2 victory with a 6-4 result.

“We were playing outside, under the lights for the first time in months and it could have been really easy to let those little things get to us,” Ashworth said.

“There was a lot of fight and emotion and if we can put that together with some good doubles, good things can happen.”

Duke returns home to host No. 31 Georgia Tech Friday evening at Ambler Tennis Stadium before making the short trek down Tobacco Road for a rematch with undefeated No. 2 North Carolina next Wednesday.

IDENTITY FROM PAGE 8 inability to force turnovers, which usually help the Blue Devils get out in transition and speed the game up. Throughout the season, Duke’s opponents have averaged 13.9 turnovers per game Virginia Tech only coughed up a single live ball once in 40 minutes of play and had just six turnovers in the contest.

This led to just five fast break points for the Blue Devils, and Duke’s half-court offense was not efficient enough without Williamson as a saving grace down low. Barrett and Reddish did a good job of picking up the slack, getting a number of tough shots to go in crunch time, but their heroic acts were not enough to ever take control.

All is not lost for the Blue Devils, as Duke fought hard in the second half to compete and force Virginia Tech to play almost perfectly to edge out a win. Barrett and junior Marques Bolden connected multiple times down the stretch for important scores down low, proving that the Blue Devils’ post game can still be utilized without Williamson.

“Virginia Tech won a tough game, and we fought them and they fought back and they were just a little bit more successful than we were,” Krzyzewski said. “Congratulations to them and they deserved it.”

When Williamson is on the floor, he brings an electrifying presence with his monster dunks and highlight plays galore, However, Duke looks like a completely different team on both ends of the ball without him, and the results have been less than desirable to say the least. While Williamson heals, the Blue Devils must find a way to dominate, as they have the talent and hopefully the heart to do so even without its best player.

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ast week, to the shock of many students, an article on the 2018 Duke Student Experience Survey revealed a scandalous statistic: 48 percent. The report chronicled student experiences around sexual assault and harassment as well as their perceptions of campus restorative systems. The standout headline among the 75 pages of the report is the result that 48 percent of female survey takers reported being sexually while at Duke, up from 40 percent in 2016. While speaking about sexual assault strictly through cold percentages does a disservice to its very human victims, these deeply disturbing numbers frame our understanding of the full extent of the violence perpetuated here at Duke.

assault that are this high at a school which purportedly prides itself on representing a safe, diverse community, speak volumes about how poorly we reconcile our own complicit involvement on the matter.

Procedures and policies at Duke are partly to blame for failing sexual assault victims. According to the survey, less than 60 percent of female undergraduate respondents reported they thought Duke would take their case seriously if they were assaulted and an abysmal 38 percent of female undergraduates reported that Duke properly investigates sexual assault. A lack of faith in this system not only directly leads to underreporting of violence, but also speaks to how little the voices

Editorial Board It may be hard to pinpoint what factors may have caused this increase—whether it is a result of actual growing rates of sexual assault or whether survey respondents felt more comfortable disclosing their experiences—but nonetheless this data remains troubling for us as a campus community. Rates of sexual

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and experiences of sexual assault victims are valued on this campus, specifically when those victims are female, queer, non-white and/or disabled. This is not just an administrative problem and cannot simply be resolved through a simple policy change.

The culture that we create and perpetuate on this campus determines the perception we have of those around us and it is our burden as students to change it when people are not valued.

Our conception of what community represents on this campus remains extremely limited. While we create community among our friends, among living groups and Greek organizations, we are taught more than anything else to make our Duke experiences about ourselves, focusing on getting the most out of this school regardless of how it affects the people that surround us. We are engrossed in a mindset of egotistical individuality. This lack of communal empathy and understanding is part of the reason why there exists such large disparities between the ways that male and female respondents felt about identical processes: there was a 19 percentage point difference between male and female respondents who thought Duke properly investigates sexual assault.

A guilty verdict by Student Conduct for sexual assault is not the sole indicator of whether the assaulter should feel remorse. We hesitate to call out the actions of our friends or peers who harass others through words and behavior because of how it could negatively impact such friendships. Neither of these approaches centers the victims of these actions, who are oftentimes forced to confront the aftermath of non-consensual sexual contact alone.

Our focus for sexual assault prevention and response should follow a restorative justice framework at all levels. Restorative justice seeks to center the healing of the person who was harmed and is founded in a communal focus on listening and empathy. These frameworks have been successfully adopted at an institutional level by other universities as part of the student conduct side of assault, but we should seek to adopt them within the smaller communities in which we exist at Duke. However, being able to successfully implement these practices requires an active effort to listen to those around us and incorporate the feedback of sexual assault victims.

The Student Experience Survey serves as a basis for how we understand the experiences of victims of sexual assault and harassment at Duke, and while these most recent results are cause for deep concern and alarm, they are also an indictment of a problematic campus culture that allows us to see so many of our peers assaulted. Assault prevention and response strategies place an undue burden on victims of assault to report their assaults, deal with the repercussions of the student conduct process and to advocate for changes in policy and culture. There are policy changes that are necessary to ensure the safety and inclusion of students who are more vulnerable, but no policy change that comes from an administrative level will be able to change students perceptions of what it means to be an active part of the Duke community.

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resident Price, for seven months now, our residential housekeepers have been unnecessarily working on weekends. After the policy change, housekeeping staff have changed to an alternating schedule of working seven days in a row every other week. Also a result of the schedule change, only half of their teams now come in Thursday through Sunday, so on these days housekeepers are expected to perform double the workload for the same pay.

In a meeting that Duke Students and Workers Alliance had with Housing and Residential Life, administration claimed that this change was for the safety of students.

However, based on the results of our petition signed by over 1,000 people last fall, and conversations with over 40 housekeepers, students and housekeepers alike say there was no problem before and there has been no noticeable change in building cleanliness after the policy change. Not only is this policy ineffective, but it is also hurting our housekeeping staff. They lose time with their families, cannot attend religious

services, are unable to work second jobs, and have to pay for childcare on the weekends. This exploitation seems unimaginable.

Wake up, Duke.

The Duke Community Standard claims that we are dedicated to principles of respect and fairness, yet these policy changes are a blatant disregard of these very principles. Put yourself in the shoes of our housekeepers. Does this system seem respectful or fair? I have talked to countless housekeepers, and can assure you that it is not. Our housekeepers are not just “resources.” They provide dignified work.

President Price, I encourage you to re-evaluate this policy. In your inaugural address, you said, “Our new century calls for a university... that confronts its own problems as readily as it does others... and that shows its most generous and supportive self to its own neighborhood.” To stay true to this goal, please help take care of the people who take care of us.

Jacob Glasser is a Trinity senior and a member of Duke Students and Workers Alliance (DSWA).

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f anyone were to ask what singular skill I am most proud of acquiring at Duke, I would respond that it is dealing with rejection. Not memo writing, pouring agar plates, or wiggling my way onto the C1 at 9:50 a.m. Rather, it is learning to be rejected from amazing opportunities that has been the greatest challenge, and thus achievement, so far in my early Duke career. Not much in my high

began to stress me out, even when I wasn’t expecting anything in particular. My heart would start racing every time I refreshed my inbox, and I breathed a sigh of relief when no new emails popped up.

Even though I felt capable and qualified, most of the rejections I faced during my first year were my fault. My resume was that of an undecided first-year student, who had no

Nathan Heffernan COLUMNIST school prepared me for the constant cycles of application and rejection that sneak their way into every aspect of my life. The 25 percent early decision acceptance rate at the time I applied felt low, but now seems high compared to the acceptance rates of every insanely competitive opportunity at Duke.

When I first arrived at Duke with confidence and bright eyes, I wanted to get involved and explore new interests. I tried out for things I had been too scared to do in high school, and I applied to research opportunities that represented why I had wanted to come to Duke. In those few weeks, I experienced my first taste of rejection, as I received a steady stream of “we regret to inform you” and “we are unable to offer you” in my inbox. I felt like all of these opportunities were perfect for me and would change my life permanently, but they never came. The act of opening my mail app itself

marketable skills and no experience. I was unorganized, lazily informed and idealistic.

I didn’t even know where to start building experience in fields I had interest in. At that time, I envied my friends in FOCUS programs. They had their classes figured out and had close relationships with professors who could give them advice on research and write recommendation letters on their behalf. The continuous string of rejections I received taught me that I had no idea what I wanted to do, which was why I wasn’t quite prepared to do anything.

I was a pre-med potential neuroscience or chemistry major in my first few months here, and I applied to pertinent positions. Once I didn’t gain traction in those areas, and came to the conclusion that I didn’t know what I cared about, I tried to do some soul searching. I found several areas that I did care about—social justice, environmental

science, public health—and thought of subject areas where they intersected. After scrolling through websites and directories, I hastily dropped my neuro classes for the next semester and added public policy and environmental science classes. I applied to research opportunities the next fall, and although I had been unsuccessful for so long, I had a new sense of confidence.

As a result of my many initial rejections, I was forced to scrutinize what I was interested in and what I wanted to do in life.

I realized that I only applied to certain things for prestige and because I felt obligated to.

Without rejection, I would’ve never looked introspectively at my passions. With my newfound confidence, I looked intensely for positions that felt incredibly right and perfect for what I cared about. With this new attitude, I entered sophomore year applying to an enormous wave of positions and opportunities. I was rejected from several, but I eventually got into an environmental health lab that was perfect for my interests, after my dozens of prior attempts.

Nowadays, I continue to apply to things, and I continue to get rejected from things that I want desperately. But my heart no longer races when I get a mail notification.

I shrug and go on with my day. I’ve also learned to never expect anything, and to never take any opportunity for granted.

I’ve come to realize that this is a component of life that will never disappear, and only become more dominant and pervasive.

Whether I go into research or apply to graduate schools, the cycle of applications will determine my future. However, I don’t

have to allow it to determine my day-to-day happiness or to diminish my hope.

Rejection while at Duke continuously reminds me that I have so much room to grow. It teaches me that I am among highly qualified peers, and that I will always be challenged by other students at this school.

Most importantly, it has taught me to build my self-worth and validation on my own, instead of relying on achievements and quantifiers of success. Sometimes I have to acknowledge that I am indeed unqualified in comparison to the people around me. But I can work on this by continuing to pursue the things I care about, even if I don’t get validation that it is meant for me.

This summer marks the first summer where I have substantial plans and am not scrambling last minute to piece together something meaningful. In previous summers, I was rejected from every program or position I applied to and even fired from two jobs before I could start (both not entirely my fault). Although now I do feel like less of a failure for getting accepted into something, I realize that my previous rejections didn’t really mean much in the long run. I still care about the same things that I always did, and being turned down for opportunities hasn’t diminished my passions. If anything, it has clarified them. So, I look forward to a future full of constant rejections that will continue to catalyze my growth and force me to create my self-worth on my own.

Nathan Heffernan is a Trinity sophomore.

His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

At last: A ‘Duke Scandal’ we didn’t quite waste

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here is no such thing as dialogue at Duke University. There exist only monologues in parallel.

Consider the response to the Editorial Board’s piece on AIPAC. The Board stepped on one of the more obvious rakes in the commentariat’s backyard: addressing a

criticize it.

This exchange was many things. It was also the closest we as a community have come to actual dialogue in a very long time.

Consider the theme in some responses. The line separating valid criticism and antiSemitism, writes Doron Ezickson of the

already-marginalized members of our community, we call for a hate and bias policy.

I cannot number the columns I have read that are 700 words proclaiming a problem, 100 words demanding a solution, and no exploration of what that solution looks like.

How does that help the victims, exactly?

Anti-Defamation League, is crossed just in case “Israel’s fundamental legitimacy as a Jewish state on the historic home of the Jewish people is denied.”

We were so close to dialogue. The Editorial Board should have responded and cleaned up its definitional quagmire. Then we could have further concretized the line between principled criticism and prejudice. We could have worked from mutual understanding to constructive progress.

But this did not happen. This did not become a dialogue. This remained monologues in parallel. When I say that we “waste” scandals, I mean that we fail to make a bad thing as little bad as we can. We fail to redeem the one thing we could: a better understanding of who we are, and who we want to be, as a community.

It is not enough to know who we are not. We must know who we are. It is not enough to know what we reject. We must know what we dream of. This time, we came very close to redeeming that one good thing.

We recognized what was problematic. We defined the issue to discuss.

But this is the exception, not the rule. We are content to recognize the problem and consider our work to be over.

In the wake of each new hate and bias incident, which further marginalize the

Consider the letter and petition printed on Monday in support of the DurhamOrange Light Rail. A smattering of student groups and a laundry list of faculty pressed President Price to do X for reason Y. But how many of these have actually met with the President? Or met with local stakeholders in this process? Or made a good-faith effort to establish dialogue instead of shouting their moral position into the ether and expecting someone else to realize it?

We can’t even have a proper discussion on housing reform. Hardly scandalous, yet hard to talk about. We shouldn’t be surprised that change does not happen when our discourse never passes the one side shouting, “It’s broken,” and the other shouting back, “It isn’t.”

When a strong community has a disagreement, they come together and work through it. We say our piece and leave. We the Undersigned decide Our Position, give our chests an emphatic thump, throw our demands onto some webpage or other, and wait for the person we address to bend. Rarely do we make a continued mutual engagement of constructive challenges and responses.

Is this the Duke Difference? We scrounge up the ever-ballooning cost of tuition to let someone else do our thinking for us? We are really so able to confuse one unanswered statement with a meaningful contribution to

Tim Kowalczyk COLUMNIST geopolitical gordian knot in 800 to 1,000 words and assuming you’ve contextualized everything there is to contextualize is hardly prudent. At risk of my own overgeneralization, the Board’s refrain was “settler colonialism”—a term they never bothered to define.

This can mean one of two things.

Hopefully, it is a response to opinions such as that of Danny Danon, Israel’s representative at the UN vote on Resolution 2334 (2016) against settlements, that denying Israel’s claim to territory beyond its own borders is denying Israel’s right to exist. How can denying Palestinian land to Israel infringe on Israel’s right to exist, unless it is assumed that there is no Palestinian land but only Israeli land—that there is no Palestinian right to exist?

However, the Board was not clear enough.

They compared Israeli “settler colonialism” to American “settler colonialism”—an implication being that someone’s land was taken and the current occupants have no claim to that land. Throw “Zionist” in the mix, as the Board did, and members of a people whose cultural memory includes centuries of pogroms, and the Holocaust, had ample cause to believe the worst. So far as the piece seemed to stray into antiSemitism, that far did five separate responses

an ongoing discussion?

We should not confuse the performance of outrage with the construction of something better. While that is not what happened this last week, it is what happens most other weeks.

If we want to build a stronger community, we begin by building a stronger discourse.

Do not be content with what I am against.

Find out what I am for. If you disagree with someone, challenge them. Understand why you disagree. Stretch your conversations to something of greater moment than how hard that midterm was. Let iron sharpen iron and avail yourself of all that Duke diversity you came here to experience. Will we have to engage with people whom we find distasteful? Yes. Either we bring them to better views or leave them to ferment in their resentment—and then, they shall do worse than words and words will not stop them.

Should the burden of this engagement rest on those already marginalized? Absolutely not. It is time for Duke’s “allies” to see some action. If it is a problem in this community, is is absolutely your problem.

This piece began with a discussion of a problem in the Holy Land. It ends with a cautionary tale from the Scripture which all claimants to the Holy Land share. The Tower of Babel, where one people are rent into many by their inability to understand one another, is a story about many things. One of these is how language can divide. Unless we understand each other, unless we communicate and resolve our disagreements, unless we take responsibility for the reality of discourse instead of the pretense of dialogue, we will never be all that we can. We move forward together or not at all. When next there is a problem, let’s actually talk about it.

Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Washington Duke Inn to stop accepting food points

FOOD POINTS

do not receive aid.

McKinney said that she initially wanted to create a “food point bank,” where students with extra food points could donate them to be distributed to those who ran out. However, she said that the administration found the idea too complicated and easy to abuse.

She said that Moneta preferred to instead increase the quantity of food points, eliminating the need for such a “safety net” altogether.

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initial offering of points. This can include skipping breakfast to get lunch equivalency at Marketplace.

The increase in food points will be covered for students whose financial aid covers dining, Moneta wrote. The cost of the first-year dining plan will increase to match the increased number of points for those who

executive director of dining—was set to end three years later after the Class of 2019 graduated, Coffey said.

Duke students will no longer be able to use He added that before the renovation, their food points at the Washington Duke Inn the Washington Duke operated with more and Golf Club after this semester. restricted hours under a Merchants on The Washington Duke Inn and Points contract with Duke.

Golf Course’s—located on Cameron During the renovation, these hours were Boulevard—is a popular dining option increased to expand the dining options for students to have breakfast, weekend available to students. brunch, afternoon tea, lunch or dinner to After the Brodhead Center was splurge on an extravagant meal with their finished, Duke Dining determined that remaining food points. there would be sufficient dining options “[This is] literally a devastating moment for students on campus and would not for this university,” sophomore Ella Van need the Washington Duke Inn as a dining Engen wrote about the change. option.

But what led to this policy shift?

Some students said that the policy Robert Coffey, executive director of dining change is a barrier for lower socioeconomic services, explained that using food points at status students to dine at the Washington Washington Duke was always intended to Duke. be a temporary option for students during Sophomore Daniel Sprague described campus renovations. the change as “unbelievably elitist.”

Coffey wrote in an email to The “Keeping the [Washington] Duke on food Chronicle that students were able to use points allows students of ALL backgrounds their food points at the Washington Duke to access a dining experience that usually starting when the would be reserved for Brodhead Center was people with $30+ (at being renovated in [This is] literally a minimum) to spend on a 2013. single meal,” sophomore devastating moment for After construction Grace Jeffrey wrote. this university. ended, Duke Dining Some students said decided to allow that they will miss the ella van engen memories they made at students from the SOPHOMORE the Washington Duke classes already admitted to the University to Inn’s dining room. continue using their food points at the “I’d use those points to treat my friends Washington Duke. to dinners, AND I’d leave a very hefty tip This policy—which included input to the servers,” Leasly Salazar, Trinity ‘15, from Duke Student Government and commented on the post. “I really enjoyed the Duke University Student Dining and their food and service, and the experience Advisory Committee, according to the there was always great.”

By Cheyenne Quijano

Contributing Reporter

WETLAND

means for animals to migrate due to human settlement or other environmental factors and will be more vulnerable to loss.

Braswell speculated that a loss of these wetlands from sea level rise and human settlement could lead to changes in fisheries and loss of the “buffer” that a wetland provides.

Braswell’s studies on wetlands, however, are far from over. Her research will continue with analysis of human development to gain a grasp on how it has affected coastal marshes.

“Understanding where marshes might be at a point where they’re going to degrade or where we might be able to put in more wetland restoration is important to being successful at having marshes into the future,” she said.

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details as small as individual tributaries.

Looking at wetlands from a much broader perspective than before, the researchers were able to identify patterns that couldn’t be found otherwise.

Braswell said that her research is important due to the effect of climate change on wetlands, which poses a threat to the ecosystems they create.

With a better understanding of the patterns involved in growth and loss of wetland areas, the researchers will know which areas are in most dire need of restorative efforts. Braswell explained that some areas of wetlands have no

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