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DSG rejects resolution supporting action against EVP Trask elected committee. The changes were introduced by juniors Ilana Weisman, vice president for equity and outreach and executive vice president-elect, and Basil Seif, ad hoc senator.

“A critique that I hear a lot is that DSG is inefficient, insular and doesn’t work on substantial things,” Weisman said. “If you have it so everyone can be a stakeholder and have multiple committees invested in things, that’s your best outcome.”

The new committee structure would allow senators to work on multiple projects from different committees at the same time and would make DSG much more flexible.

The bylaw changes will be voted on next week after a second reading.

Alex Griffith The Chronicle Duke Student Government rejected a resolution for disciplinary action against Executive Vice President Tallman Trask in its meeting Wednesday night.

The resolution—introduced by senator for residential life Jacob Lettie, a junior—recommended that University administration take action against Trask, who Lettie said violated the Duke Community Standard when he hit contract parking attendant Shelvia Underwood with his car in August 2014. Trask did not stop to assist Underwood or wait for police to arrive, the resolution noted. Underwood has since filed a lawsuit against Trask.

Opposition to the resolution argued that it was not DSG’s place to issue a resolution before the University or a court has decided on the case. DSG Executive Vice President John Guarco, a junior, also asserted that Trask is vital to the day-to-day operations of the University and that many members of DSG work closely with him, especially in relation to the Board of Trustees.

Lettie explained in his presentation that the Community Standard impels community members to “act when the standard is compromised” and argued that Trask did not conduct himself honorably, particularly in regards to disorderly conduct and failure to comply.

The resolution failed after debate, with 26 senators voting against, four voting for and eight abstaining from the final vote.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Duke Student Government rejected a resolution that recommended the University take action against Executive Vice President Tallman Trask for violating the Duke Community Standard.

“I expected it to be controversial,” Lettie said. “I can’t fault people for being cautious and it was something that had to be discussed.”

Although DSG did not choose to take a stance on the allegations against Trask, Duke Student and Workers in Solidarity have planned a walk-out, march and protest to demand the immediate termination of Trask, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh and Carl DePinto, director

of Parking and Transportation Services. The event is scheduled to take place on the Main Quadrangle at 3:30 p.m. Friday and the organizers hope to bring attention to the University’s lack of transparency, citing the Trask incident as an example.

DSG also heard the first reading of changes to Senate bylaw, which would allow senators to participate in several committee groups, rather than being forced to remain within their

In other business: Senate passed two budgetary statutes: one allocated $2,995 for a Stryker stair chair for Duke Emergency Medical Services, and the other allocated $2,897 for two speakers and an inflatable projector screen for Duke Line Monitors and Gatekeepers.

Senate also passed a resolution to put a referendum on the vice presidential ballot in two weeks to determine the future of DSG’s funding of Chanticleer, the yearbook. Currently, $14 from every student’s student activities fee is allocated to Chanticleer so students receive one for free their senior year.

The referendum will ask students if they prefer that the money go to other student groups and give students the opportunity to buy the yearbook at the See DSG on Page 4

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Special to The Chronicle Grad student McSwain Forkoh was traveling home from Liberia when the Brussels bombings occurred.

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Waiting at a gate in Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, McSwain Forkoh first realized something was wrong when he saw a horde of people running towards him.

Forkoh, a first-year master’s student at the Sanford School of Public Policy, survived the March 22 Brussels Airport bombing, which occurred as he was returning to the U.S. after visiting family in Liberia. During the attack, members of the extremist Islamic State group detonated two deadly bombs in the departure hall of the airport, killing more than 30 individuals and becoming the deadliest terror attack in Belgian

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history. Initially, Forkoh said he thought that the group of people rushing toward him had missed their flights, but then he heard security personnel shouting orders to run toward the back of the terminal.

“They told us to drop our bags, so I dropped my laptop, my bag, everything,” Forkoh said. “We all started running.”

He said that he kept his phone—which he would later use to contact family and receive updates—and his passport in his pocket. Forkoh’s departure gate was located in a section of the airport across from the check-in counters where the two bombs were detonated.

“I got an alert on my phone from BBC News,” Forkoh said. “At that moment, I realized it was something serious. I was in the

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midst of a really terrible situation here.”

He described an atmosphere of panic and confusion as he and other passengers were evacuated from the airport following the bombing and waited outside. As the day progressed, shuttles brought those stranded to a holding location, where they were provided blankets, food and phonecharging ports. Forkoh said he was able to contact his mother before she learned about the attacks on the news and loaned his phone to many people who were also trying to assure their families that they were safe.

“A lot of people were coming up to me, panicking,” Forkoh said. “I’m glad to have been helpful this way.”

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Student social media strategy wins Zika challenge Adam Beyer The Chronicle Student teams presented proposals to combat the spread of the Zika virus Wednesday evening.

The event, held at the Fuqua School of Business, was the conclusion of the weeklong Zika Innovation Challenge in which students developed potential solutions and learned from leading experts in the field. The winning team proposed using social media platforms to alert travelers to the disease and its risks. The group will present their idea Friday to the Alliances and Incentives in the Era of Outbreaks Symposium and eventually to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Impact and Innovation.

“We’re all freshmen,” said freshman Gary Wang, a member of the winning team.

“We’ve never had this kind of platform before, and for Duke to invest in our idea and to believe in it and to potentially make it into something that’s implementable— that’s really exciting for us.”

Wang—along with freshmen Francia Fang, Howard Li, Michael Li and Jackie Xu— suggested monitoring the disease through

social media during and after the 2016 Summer Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro, which are expected to draw at least 500,000 international visitors. Their plan would warn travelers who make posts from Brazil, direct them to get tested and take a survey that researchers can use to identify risk factors and alert local public health agencies.

Overall, 110 students registered for the seven-day program. Nine experts led workshops and gave speeches about public health solutions to get the teams going.

Fourteen teams submitted solutions, of which six were selected to be finalists that presented Wednesday.

Other teams planned to distribute kits to vulnerable communities, to use mathematical models to predict the size of mosquito populations and to provide women with reproductive health services.

Several teams also proposed using biological solutions to combat the spread of the virus, including copepods, which are small crustaceans found in the sea, and bacteria. The projects were judged by public health and policy experts from Duke and the community.

“The teams were spectacular and just seeing all the ideas they brought to bear and how they collaborated with students from other disciplines was really impressive,”

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The week-long Zika Innovation Challenge brought together students to create proposals to combat the spread of the virus.

said Kimberly Langsam, research evaluation and student engagement program director at the University’s Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke. “I think a lot of people jump to solutions, but they really did the groundwork to understand the challenge landscape.”

Langsam emphasized the need to engage diverse groups of students in combatting the virus.

“The goal here is really for your benefit or learning,” she said. “It’s not often that we have these opportunities to all come together and work towards something really important.”

Scientists have been working to develop solutions to the mosquito-borne virus, which causes fever, rashes and muscle and joint pains.

Some experts are concerned that contracting the virus during pregnancy leads to fetal development problems and an increased risk of microcephaly, a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than normal, though the link has not been confirmed.

Most teams focused their solutions on Brazil, which was the starting point for the recent outbreak of the disease. The country has begun using 220,000 military personnel to curb Zika’s spread, representing the largest operation in its history.

The competition was modeled after the

Duke Ebola Innovation Challenge last year, which was sponsored by SEAD and generated much student interest, Langsam said.

“We thought it was very successful, and so when the opportunity came up to bring students together around Zika, we thought we should take advantage of it,” she explained.

The competition was sponsored by SEAD, the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Duke Global Health Institute.

Fang noted that she is looking forward to potentially implementing her group’s proposal.

“We didn’t want to get too hopeful, but now we’re just kind of past that first step,” she said. “It’s definitely more likely than it was last night.”

The Alliances and Incentives in the Era of Outbreaks symposium will take place Friday in McClendon 5 from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. It will feature speakers from a variety of public health backgrounds discussing strategies to fight infectious diseases, including representatives from GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, a pharmaceutical company, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Students ideas included monitoring the Zika virus using social media and using mathematical models to predict mosquito populations.

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UW Madison chancellor discusses morality, markets Frances Beroset The Chronicle Rebecca Blank, current chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, spoke Wednesday about the inherent tension between morality and economic decision-making.

Blank, who described herself as both a lifelong Protestant and a lifelong economist, reflected on the possible conflict in today’s society between the market’s reliance on materialism and the values of Christianity. The talk was part of the economics department’s Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Lecture series and the Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture series of the Center for Christianity and Scholarship, an independent organization that hosts discussions on religion and academics.

“Self-interest alone is not an adequate construct for individual interaction,” Blank, former acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, said. “Christianity demands interest in others. Markets are pretty clear that I am always better off if I have more choices, more things and more money. Christianity says well-being is not about more or less material goods, but spiritual abundance.”

Blank previously served on former President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. She also worked in the Department of Commerce from 2009 to 2013 before leaving that position to become chancellor of UW Madison.

“Those who work with me tell me I still think like an economist, and it’s not always said in a complimentary way,” she said. “But I truly believe in the power of markets. I believe

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Blank explained that Christianity can still be used as the basis of economic decision-making despite conflicts between the two schools of thought.

in an economic system in which supply and Although she said she believes in the demand work together to set prices. When market’s positive potential, Blank also explained that they are functioning effectively, markets it can have hose who work with me e n c o u r a g e destructive productivity and effects. tell me I still think like an innovation.”

“In most economist, and it’s not always said in Blank said she cases, economic views Christianity a complimentary way. change brings as providing both good — Rebecca Blank a framework and bad at the for morality in same time,” economic decision-making, especially in she said. “Our response to these issues times of economic downturn or stagnation. as individuals must be based on a

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Although Christianity teaches interest in others over oneself, Blank acknowledged that interactions between the market and government can still lead to political differences among Christians.

“Even Christian people who believe we should reach out to those without a voice and who are disadvantaged can disagree about what this means about housing policy, about welfare,” Blank said. “These debates must be engaged in with a willingness to know that you may be wrong, and that’s okay.”

Despite the often conflicting perspectives of the market, government and Christianity, she said that ultimately, “the market has to serve the people, rather than the people serving the market.”

Freshman Neal Vaidya said he enjoyed hearing Blank’s thoughts on the modern market.

“I don’t really have a lot of experience with a religious perspective on economics, so it was a new way of looking at it,” he said.

The talk, attended by about 50 people, was followed by a Q&A session moderated by Luke Bretherton, associate professor of theological ethics.

It was co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Divinity School, the political science department and the Center for Politics, Leadership, Innovation and Service.

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BRUSSELS from page 1 Although he did not hear the first two explosions, he said he heard police officers destory the third bomb using a controlled explosion. An announcement was made prior to the third bomb’s detonation instructing survivors not to panic.

“The sound was loud. I heard it clearly,” Forkoh said. “It reinforced what I was thinking—it could have been my death that day.”

After realizing that the airport had shut down and he would not be able to leave Brussels, Forkoh said he notified administrators in the Duke public policy program, who put him in touch with the Office of Global Strategy’s global administrative policies and procedures department.

Forkoh praised the department for its prompt response and focus on getting him out of Brussels safely.

“They were highly concerned about my emotional state and letting me know that everybody here was thinking about

DSG from page 1 end of the year instead. The resolution was introduced by Lettie and policy advisor Michael Pelle, a senior.

Senate also passed a resolution condemning North Carolina House Bill 2, which senators said discriminates against queer and trans people, in addition to discriminating against people with disabilities and preventing individual cities and towns from passing their own nondiscrimination laws. The resolution was introduced by the following

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me,” Forkoh said. “I felt so loved.”

After staying overnight in the nearby municipality of Lo-Renginge, Forkoh eventually boarded a flight leaving Frankfurt, Germany. He arrived back in Durham early Friday morning, approximately three days after the bombings. His belongings remain in the Brussels airport and will be processed when the airport reopens. According to BBC News, however, it could take months for the airport to reopen.

Forkoh added that he has been touched by the outpouring of support and concern from the Duke community since returning. He noted that the empathy of his friends and classmates has helped him return to daily life as a Special to The Chronicle student and undergraduate teaching Students and workers have planned a protest for Friday at 3:30 p.m. to draw attention to the assistant.

He also expressed support for the incident involving Trask and the University’s lack of transparency regarding the episode.

Belgian families that had relatives injured or killed in the attack.

“It’s different when you are in the situation,” he said. “You feel grateful that you didn’t get harmed because a lot of people died.” members of Senate—junior Tanner Lockhead, vice president for Durham and regional affairs; senator for equity and outreach Adam Bullock, a freshman; senator for services Will Hardee, a freshman; and ad hoc senator Alice Reed, a sophomore.

Finally, Student Organization Funding Committee allocated money for two student group events: $16,085 for the International Association’s Springternational and $1,696 for Inside Joke’s spring comedy show.

SOFC also chartered two new Chronicle File Photo groups—Duke History Union and Duke Student Government voted for a resolution condeming the North Carolina state legislature for recently passing the controversial House Bill 2.

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According to some middle-aged woman’s blog, William Faulkner once said, “I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately, I am inspired at 9 o’clock every morning.” You’re amazing, Will, and we exalt your easy muse, but do you really have to rub it in? I’ve been sitting at my laptop for the past four hours and have written a net of absolutely nothing. I have what is known as the dreaded writer’s block.

I’ve switched the topic I’ve wanted to write about at least 15 times. Maybe I’ll talk about Chris Rock and the Asian joke at the Oscars, I muse. Perhaps I could dabble in an essay about how Sam Smith totally forgot there were other decorated LGBTQ people in show business besides him, as I dust off my tolerance and inclusion badge. I ate food today--maybe I could journal about how Chirba Chirba was also coincidentally the same noise my stomach made after eating their food. All pretentiously viable social justice-y and gastronomically themed options, but none of them really amounted to much besides an excessive hitting of the backspace button.

I am currently not inspired at all.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Not even a modicum of wishful thinking. Writer’s block is one of the worst feelings ever. It pits my desire to write something meaningful for this editor’s note against my desire to just get it done.

Part of my drained inspiration stems from the fact that academic writing has flattened my creativity. To get to Duke, many students have been bred to write a certain way: superfluous and esoteric word vomit for academic essays and these elaborate and fluffy think pieces that are somewhat sentimental for personal reflections. On campus, there are many different creative outlets to hone’s one’s craft, but only so many students participate in these and that’s not necessarily the tenor of writing style set in the classroom.

I generalize of course, some of the

student writers on campus are actually really, really good and make my best work look like used toilet paper. However, a good portion of our campus writes to please a certain formula. It writes to please a certain professorial eye. It writes to be a profound emblem of gilded academic. My brain shifts to run efficiently rather than wandering abstractly. It decides that in the current time and place, taking chances on risky writing styles and voices and perspectives is not worth my time or the potential bad grade. Let’s just write what I know works.

As a result, I can safely say that I have fallen victim to this rut of writing. As with this note, I’m constantly battling whether I should try to write something meaningful or just finish the assignment and move on to the next one.

I had a professor my first semester at Duke, who shall remain nameless and who had a penchant for “good, simple

editor’s note writing” and stressed a form of writing different from that found in academia. This professor remains nameless because I’ve been quite convinced he Googles himself on a daily basis, and finding himself in the context of this editor’s note would give him too much satisfaction. He lived on the philosophy that much of academic writing can be simplified. He felt that using a vast vocabulary and expanding abstractly on ideas were egregious sins. Write as if you were speaking to your grandmother, he would say. And that’s fine. If I’m going to

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However, I noticed throughout the semester, my peers and my writing became reduced to bare Sparknotes. Our writing lacked the details and nuance that substantiated the writing and fully developed the ideas on the page. Yes, Grandma would understand what we were saying, but the writing lacked the ability to answer her questions about the subject at large such as how would this idea affect me or what is the background on this idea or who are you and why are you talking to me?

I don’t think there is a right way or a wrong way to write. Objectively, there is a consensus on a threshold for good writing—the ideas are well supported and the grammar/writing style is decent. This is tolerable. What differentiates good writing from killer writing is the voice that leaves clear and unique ideas and perspectives reverberating through the ink. Words that leave an organic impact on an individual in as few words and through a rare lens. Just don’t use this editor’s note as an example of that.

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‘Braveness of Jane’ captures mental illness, sea Jessica Williams The Chronicle Full of wonders like sea monsters, labyrinths, minotaurs and puppets, The Duke Players’ upcoming spring show will mirror the real world with fantasy.

Written and co-directed by senior Faye Goodwin, “The Braveness of Jane” explores mental illness through the original lens of a heroic quest.

“It’s basically interactions that you have when you’re having a bad day, a bad week, a bad hour—it’s regular interactions with people expanded into this hero’s quest and hero’s journey,” said director Nancy Merlin, a sophomore.

Beginning in the real world then transitioning into fantasy, “The Braveness of Jane” centers on a regular woman and her struggles with her own emotions. Written, directed and produced entirely by students, the show will provide a relatable portrayal of mental health issues. With actors deeply involved in the emotions of the work, the show hopes to artistically communicate the internal strife many people—including Duke students— face.

“It’s a really new piece, so we get to figure out these characters for the first time,” said senior Susanna Booth, who plays Jane.

Playing challenging and emotionally taxing rolls, the actors draw upon personal experiences and observations to express the themes of the plot. Since “The Braveness of Jane” is being shown

Special to The Chronicle “The Braveness of Jane,” written by senior Faye Goodwin, is one of few student-written productions put on by Duke Players.

for the first time, the actors and director have been able to mold the work as rehearsals progressed. Goodwin, the show’s writer, also served as co-director at all the rehearsals, making it easier for the cast and crew to stay true to the original vision of the piece.

“Having Faye here as a co-director, it’s easier to make sure we’re sticking to what she wants the show to be,” Merlin said.

Goodwin initially became interested in writing plays after taking a playwriting and screenwriting class with Neal Bell in the Theater Studies Department. With support from Bell, Goodwin finished an

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initial draft of “The Braveness of Jane” in approximately four months and took her work to a writing festival in Iowa last summer to get advice from professional playwrights.

“It’s a ton of work—but the support I’ve gotten from my peers and the theater department has been astonishing,” Goodwin said.

Seeing “The Braveness of Jane” come to life has been extremely rewarding for Goodwin, and she hopes to continue writing plays in the future. Tackling this particular was rewarding not just for the cast, but the actors and directors as well.

“The reason I really like the script is

the play gets it—the play just gets what it’s like to be in a rough patch or have mental health problems,” Merlin said.

Providing a student’s artistic perspective on mental illness, “The Braveness of Jane” hopes to add to oncampus discussion and awareness of mental health issues.

“We’ve had a lot of great discussions about mental health on campus— such as the Me Too Monologues and National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Mental Health Week—and this dovetails nicely on those initiatives,” Booth said.

Although “The Braveness of Jane” would be worth seeing solely due to its thematic focus, it is also important to campus culture because of its origins— it stands out as a completely studentcreated production on a campus where most performed works are not studentwritten.

“There’s so little student writing at Duke compared to almost any other university,” Goodwin said. “It’s important for students to support their peers and see what they’re working on.”

Whether hoping to support student work, to encounter a new perspective on mental health or to just see a new production, students will find an emotional, imaginative yet truthful story in “The Braveness of Jane.”

“The end of the show is a little hard to watch, but when it’s done with its full emotional intensity I get floored,” Merlin said.

“The Braveness of Jane” will be performed in Brody Theater March 31-April 3 at 8 p.m. each evening.

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LDOC Lineup Analysis, 2016 Edition Dillon Fernando The Chronicle The acts for the 2016 LDOC were announced last week without the pitiful fake-out video of last year and caustic Yik Yak student tirades. There are a wide slough of student opinions on the lineup ranging anywhere from “At last, someone good” to “Yay, diversity” to “Seriously another bad year” to first-years’ “Is LDOC an instrument?” No matter your opinion on the LDOC lineup, Recess gets the skinny on the artists so you can get a little more hype about the upcoming concert.

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From the people I’ve talked to, Rae Sremmurd (pronounced Ray-Shrim-er) is polarizing. Usually if you’re not totally feeling a song or an artist you can appreciate the music and bop along. However, I’ve found either you’re in the camp that is totally psyched or you’re in the camp that feels like you can’t relate to their music at all. Regardless, the brother duo Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jxmmi” Brown is one of the more mainstream artists in the lineup who are sure to bring a lot of energy to the stage and the event. Coming from a rough upbringing, the duo started out performing at parties around their town of Tupelo, Miss., and eventually caught the attention of “106th & Park” on BET where they had their breakout performance. From this exposure, they eventually signed to Mike WiLL Made-It’s production team that has worked with Rihanna, Jay Z, and Kanye. The name Rae Sremmurd is each word in Mike WiLL’s production company EarDrummer spelled backwards. Rae Sremmurd has accrued a BET Award for their song “Throw Sum Mo” ft. Nicki Minaj and Young Thug and secured two platinum singles “No Flex Zone” and “No Type.” Even if they aren’t your cup of tea, the duo will not lack in charisma on stage.

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“Throw Sum Mo” ft. Nicki Minaj “No Flex Zone” “Come Get Her” “No Type”

DJ Matoma Up-and-coming DJ Matoma is bringing his Norwegian brand of tropical house to the LDOC stage. Matoma has mixed tracks from the likes of Jessie J, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Enrique Iglesias, Nico & Vinz and the Notorious B.I.G., whose track “Want That Old Thing Back” Matoma remixed and renamed as “Old Thing Back.” “Old Thing Back” became Matoma’s breakout hit in Norway and across Spotify. Let’s just say, he’s a big deal in Europe and should be one here, soon. Tropical house is a type of electronic dance music that has a more upbeat and chill vibe to its track—sorry, no booming, quad shattering beats this LDOC. This sub-sub genre of deep house makes use of instruments such as pan flute, marimba, steel drum that give the music its characteristic island-y feel. Think more Kygo and less David Guetta or Avicii.

Matoma will be stopping at Duke during his North American tour, and his signature remixes will offer Duke a great taste of tropical house.

Recommended Listening: “Old Thing Back” “Running Out” “Find Love (feat. Dboy)”

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Wes Walker Wes Walker is, according to his SoundCloud bio, an artist, rapper, producer, vinyl disc jockey, master of ceremonies, part-time baller and full-time shot caller. I think that says a lot. Known for his college party anthem “Jordan Belfort” featuring fellow college rapper Dyl, Walker started his career as a signed artist for Atlantic Records in 2015 and went on tour with College Weekly last fall. Last year, he also released his first mixtape “Next Rookie of the Year” and is producing new tracks for an expected upcoming record release. Walker is currently a junior at Temple University studying Media Studies and Production along with Media Business and Entrepreneurship. He’s driven, ambitious and yes Dukies, you can add him on LinkedIn. Expect to see rap/EDM/trap hybrids coming from Walker this LDOC that’ll knock your salmon shorts off.

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Saint Motel Saint Motel offers a more alternative and indie pop/ rock sound to this LDOC lineup. Formed in 2009 in Los Angeles, the band’s music style ranges from songs you groove out to, inside, bundled in blankets on a winter’s day to the jazzy and upbeat that inevitably lead to gyrating your body silly. A/J Jackson’s cool voice anchors every track leading to music that the band hopes people will “listen to without their pants.” Their hit “My Type” scaled alternative music charts and radio stations alike worldwide over the past two years. A few members of the band met while they were in film school at the University of Southern, and much of their work is accompanied by stunning visuals in their music videos and album art. It’ll be interesting to see if Saint Motel integrates any visuals during their sure-to-be killer performance. Good job, LDOC committee. Good. Job.

Recommended Listening: “My Type” “Cold Cold Man” “Puzzle Pieces” “Benny Goodman”

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Out of the Blue premieres a cappella album ‘Youth’ Tim Campbell The Chronicle This past week, Duke’s Out of the Blue released their new album “Youth.” “Youth” is the latest in a rapid stream of albums that OOTB has released in the past few years. Unlike many collegiate a cappella groups, OOTB has been prolific in recording and releasing their material.

The group currently has five albums on Spotify and also appear on many compilations, including several “Best of College A Cappella” compilations dating back to the mid1990s. Their recordings have been critically acclaimed and have garnered the group multiple awards, making them the most decorated a cappella group at Duke.

“Youth” follows in the stead of OOTB’s previous successes.

The album highlights the group’s talents in multiple genres, and includes original arrangements of stylistically varied songs. Music director Sophia Santore, a senior, explained the that the variation in styles contributes to their success.

“Our albums must be diverse and showcase strong soloists, arrangements and variety of genres while telling a cohesive story,” Santore said. “We don’t just plop a few of our favorite songs onto an album every two years.”

The diverse talents of the group’s members play into this strategy. All members are encouraged to either learn how to arrange or how to beat box.

Santore also describes the technical complexity of OOTB’s music as including “difficult rhythms, dissonance, weird syllables, and instrumental noises like trumpets.”

These techniques are employed to great effect throughout “Youth,” and give the group’s arrangements a unique and interesting sound. Some of the best songs on the album demonstrate this, including the folk-rock ballad “I Will Wait” by Mumford and Sons and Clean Bandit’s pop-house anthem, “Rather Be.” “Youth” is also well-produced, a fact that can be attributed to collaboration between OOTB and Dave Sperandio, a well renowned a cappella music producer. Sperandio edits, mixes and masters the tracks with the help of Santore and previous music directors.

Chronicle File Photo Out of the Blue recently released their latest album, as well as an accompanying music video for the song “Youth.”

However, the album is not complete when recording and mixing have been completed. Business Manager Samantha Kisare, a junior, handles logistics of album production, which includes licensing, distribution, communicating with editors and finalizing album art.

“The whole process was completely new to me, and it was definitely exciting to play a big role in the album production,” Kisare said. “I could not contain my excitement when I got the boxes of our completed albums at my door.”

The process of creating an album is both costly and timeintensive, which makes producing one every two years a difficult task. The recording process takes months, involving hours in the studio for group members, in addition to normal performances, rehearsals, and other commitments.

Putting albums together is made more difficult due to the financial commitment of production, because Duke does not provide funding to the group due to its audition-based selection process.

“One of the biggest challenges is funding,” Kisare said.

“Out of the Blue is completely funded by ourselves, and considering it takes $10,000 to produce an album, it is a lot of work to raise money.”

The group raises money through concerts, album sales and our annual fall break tour, Santore said.

OOTB also released their first-ever music video in conjunction with the release of the album. The video was for the titular song of the album, “Youth,” originally by Daughter, and features Duke’s Momentum Dance Company in addition to OOTB. “Over the course of a month, we met with Momentum and Freewater Productions to select a song, discuss a concept, and create a game plan for this video,” Santore recounted: “We could not have done achieved such an amazing video without the other groups, and we so thankful to have had the opportunity to collaborate on such an exciting project.”

Q&A: The Mowgli’s on happiness, sadness and singing TC: What’s the craziest or most unexpected thing that’s ever happened on tour?

KE: I think that every single tour there’s probably a valid experience to answer that question. Every time we show up to a venue and there’s a more-or-less packed house, any amount of people that come together and sing the words, is pretty crazy. You never really know if you’re going to show up to a town and if anybody’s going to show up to the show. And so every time people do, and every time they share a show with us, it is pretty unexpected in a way. And it’s really, really, really appreciated.

We experience a lot on the road, and we’re all faced with really intense situations. You’re getting not a lot of sleep, and you’re eating like crap and living this nocturnal lifestyle. You see your very best and your very worst on the road, and of everybody else. It’s really cool seeing the very best in your friends and band mates when they’re onstage and doing their thing.

Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Alternative rock group the Mowgli’s will rock Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro April 10. The Mowgli’s formed in 2010 and released their first full-length album “Waiting for the Dawn” in 2013, and their second album “Kids in Love” in 2015. The band has toured both by themselves and with a number of other bands, including Walk the Moon and Manchester Orchestra. The Chronicle’s Christy Kuesel talked to vocalist Katie Earl about the music, the band and the upcoming tour.

The Chronicle: What are some of the main themes you see in your music?

Katie Earl: Love is definitely a major theme in our music. So is sunshine. It’s really unintentional in a way, but I think we all really are inspired by life and the world and those themes just come through in our lyrics a lot.

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KE: It definitely has a lot of pros and a lot of challenges. I like to think of it as a microcosm study of society. There’s a lot of ideas, a lot of input, a lot of people, a lot of opinions, and we have to work together towards a common goal to get something done and to get the best product we can do as a group done. It’s important for us to let everyone be heard and to let everybody shine, and also to know when to sacrifice your own idea for the idea that’s better for the group. It’s got a lot of challenges with ego. It’s a constant test for each and every one of us, and it’s teamwork. It’s like any form of love or any relationship; it’s constantly something you have to look at every day. You can’t ever give up on trying to make it work. In the end it’s really worth it because you never feel alone. You have someone to share all of these milestones with and all of the achievements that you get from your hard work. You have a support group TC: Your band is pretty big, with seven members. to share it with and a group of people who know what you’re going through and who understand your mission.

What’s it like working with that many people?

TC: How do you feel that your sound has evolved from “Waiting for the Dawn” to “Kids in Love” and beyond?

KE: Well, it’s definitely evolving and it always will be, hopefully. The more we all write and play, the better we coming at writing and playing. This whole experience has been a journey in developing as artists individually and as a collective. We’re always learning from different bands that we’re playing with, from different writers that we write with, and we’re taking those things that we learn and applying them to everything we do within the band. So each and every one of us has said yes to every opportunity that’s come our way when it comes to working with other people and sharing ideas, and we come back to the group with what we’ve learned and apply it to our own projects.

TC: I saw that all of the proceeds from your new single “Room for All of Us” are going to the International Rescue Committee. What prompted you to decide to help out the cause?

KE: They’re a really great organization that I think for a hundred years, or at least close to that, has been helping immigrants from all over the world, anybody who lives in a city or country where there’s conflict of any kind… Anywhere that there’s any kind of conflict they help people resettle their lives in peaceful places, which I’m all about. I think that’s really important. I think that this world is all of ours and nobody is really entitled to living a safer, better life than anybody else.

They’re a really amazing organization and we were excited to have any kind of opportunity to help them in any way possible, because they’ll never stop being needed. There’s always going to be people who need to escape danger and conflict. We’re really honored to help them in any way we can and that song thematically lines up with what they’re doing and we thought it would be a cool way to help them.

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REVIEW: Zayn’s ‘Mind of Mine’: the former boybander steps out solo Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle On March 25, 2015, Zayn announced his separation from the intensely popular boy band One Direction and exactly one year later, on March 25, 2016, the world was blessed with the release his first solo album, “Mind of Mine.” With a sultry R&B-like sound, it’s an understatement to say that Zayn’s new music is a departure from the happy, indie-pop songs he and his bandmates used to produce. Gone is Zayn: The Member of One Direction. In his place is Zayn: The Man Who Has Sex and Does Drugs (and who wants us to know it).

Although undoubtedly a strong and talented

vocalist, Zayn and his musical abilities in this album are undermined by the feeling that it was created solely for the sake of being different.

From the Lil Wayne-esque cover, which depicts a young Zayn covered in his present-day tattoos, to the unconventional capitalization of the songs (i.e., “BoRdErSz,” “tRuTh,” “lUcOzAdE”) to the album’s intensely sexual themes, “Mind of Mine” seems more like an act of teenage rebellion than the product of a seasoned artist. His new sound is enticing and has drawn comparisons to artists such as The Weeknd, Usher and Jeremih, but Zayn has yet to distinguish himself in the world of R&B as more than just “the one who used to be in a boy band.”

That’s not to say there aren’t good songs on the

album.“Pillowtalk,” which reached number one on various music charts worldwide, is catchy and fun, and the intermission song “Flower,” which is sung entirely in Zayn’s father’s native language of Urdu, gives us a glimpse of the versatility of which the artist is capable. While “Like I Would” and “BeFour” are also memorable, some of the other brooding, slow-paced songs tend to blend together with the same subject matter and the same sound.

Overall, “Mind of Mine” is not a bad album. Like any album, it has hits, duds and songs that you’ll forget a second after they’re over. However, one thing is certain. With its release, Zayn is not likely to fade into the b a c k g r o u n d o r b e m i s t a k e n f o r an innocent member of a boy band any time soon.

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DUKE MARCHES INTO APRIL AGAINST UNC Seth Johnson The Chronicle

Do not let the date deceive you—the Blue Devils are no fools when it comes to the month of April.

Since 2007, Duke has lost just three regular season games in the fourth month of the year, and when the first draw is taken at the faceoff X on April Fool’s Day Friday, the squad will be poised to continue that string of success in 2016.

With their Tobacco Road rivals making the short trek down highway 15-501, the No. 11 Blue Devils will attempt to head into No. 17 the final month of the UNC regular season with vs. a victory against No. No. 11 17 North Carolina at Duke Koskinen Stadium at FRIDAY, 6 p.m.

6 p.m. After a resumeKoskinen Stadium building 16-15 win Saturday against thenNo. 5 Syracuse, Duke will search for its first 2-0 conference start since 2011.

“Every game has its own story, and it’s one at a time. I think we’re just trying to improve on our weaknesses and trying to recognize strengths,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “I don’t think anyone talks about being 2-0 [in conference] as much as we just talk about the next game. I think we’ve learned that this is all so fragile…. For us, we look at this game as, ‘Can we be better than we were

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior midfielder Deemer Class erupted for seven goals and two assists Saturday against Syracuse and will look to stay hot against North Carolina Friday.

last week [and] can we improve upon what we did offensively?’”

Although they are averaging 14.4 goals per game this season, the Blue Devils (7-4, 1-0 in the ACC) struggled to find the back of the net in a gut-wrenching loss against Air Force at home last week, netting just nine goals in the overtime defeat. But as conference play ramps up in the coming weeks, Duke needs to build on its offensive eruption against the Orange moving forward.

And led by senior midfielder Deemer

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Class, the Blue Devils will look to do just that Friday.

Against Syracuse, Class—who boasts a team-high 33 goals this season—recorded seven tallies and two helpers to propel his team to a come-from-behind win. In the fourth quarter, the senior scored three of his team’s five goals during a 5-0 run that set up Duke for the overtime winner and garnered the Baltimore native ACC Offensive Player of the Week and USILA Offensive Player of the Week honors.

Aside from Class, who scored five goals last season against the Tar Heels (5-4), sophomore attackman Justin Guterding will look to repeat his six-point performance from last year’s 1514 loss in Chapel Hill in his second matchup with the lighter shade of blue. Guterding leads the Blue Devils with 45 points this season, well on his way to matching his 70-point total from his rookie campaign.

If ACC Defensive Player of the Week and faceoff specialist Kyle Rowe can continue winning 67 percent of his faceoffs and add to his 90 ground balls from the midfield, the Duke offense will be able to dodge down the alley and feed Guterding around the crease for another offensive outburst.

“We’ve been watching film on Carolina.

We know what they’re going to do. We know what we’re going to do to keep that momentum going and hopefully we just keep shooting and shoot like we have been,” Guterding said. “All ACC teams defensively are really athletic, so we’ve got to move the ball quickly and put it on each other’s sticks and have good shots.”

North Carolina will turn to new weapons for offensive production after losing a trio of its most productive seniors from last year’s squad. Jimmy Bitter, Joey Sankey and Chad Tutton combined for 10 goals and four assists in last March’s win against Duke, but this season, the Tar Heels have relied on senior attackman Steve Pontrello and sophomore attackman Chris Cloutier to carry the load.

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Duke set to close regular season Blue Devils look to stay hot Drew Johnson The Chronicle Duke is fresh off its first victory of the spring, back on top of the national rankings and seemingly in perfect position to challenge the field in its final regular-season event of the spring.

The only problem—the team will be tested against its best competition yet, and will have to do so without its best golfer.

The top-ranked Blue Devils travel to Athens, Ga., to compete in the 44th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate, but will not have their scoring average leader, sophomore Leona Maguire, along for the trip. Maguire received an invitation to the LPGA’s ANA Inspiration event in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and will not join her teammates as they navigate the University of Georgia Golf Course Friday through Sunday.

The tournament will be a true test for Duke as it joins a 12-team field that includes each of the nation’s top seven

squads, but the Blue Devils are playing some of their best golf of the season.

The team is just two weeks removed from a 16-shot victory at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic, at which Duke led the field during all three days of competition and had no golfer finish worse than tied for 14th.

Similar to the Blue Devils’ most recent event in Baton Rouge, La., this weekend’s trip south provides an extra dose of preparation for the upcoming postseason.

The Liz Murphey Collegiate recently changed to a mix of stroke play and match play in an effort to simulate the format of the NCAA championship, allowing the players to become comfortable with the mix of competition styles ahead of the shootout in Eugene, Ore., May 20-25. Day one of the tournament will be stroke play, providing seeding for Saturday and Sunday’s match play rounds that follow.

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Jacob Weiss The Chronicle After winning two consecutive matches for the first time in a month Sunday, the Blue Devils will look to continue climbing in the ACC standings.

Duke aims to stay hot this weekend with a Friday road match against N.C. State at the Dail Outdoor Tennis Center in Raleigh at Duke 4:30 p.m. and a 3 p.m. vs.

Sunday home bout with No. 3 Virginia N.C. at Ambler Tennis State Stadium. With just five FRIDAY, 4:30 p.m. matches remaining in Dail Outdoor Tennis Center the regular season, the Blue Devils—currently No. 3 tied for ninth in the Virginia conference—need as vs. many wins as possible to improve their ACC Duke tournament seeding.

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To continue its recent Ambler Tennis Stadium success against two teams

who are also hot—N.C. State has won three matches in a row and Virginia eight—Duke will have to start fast against the Wolfpack and Cavaliers.

Sunday against Louisville and N.C. Central, the Blue Devils captured the doubles point in each contest after head coach Ramsey Smith made some adjustments to the team’s doubles lineups from Friday’s loss to Virginia tech. Duke continued the momentum in singles, winning the matches 5-2 and 6-1, respectively. “[Sunday], we played better in doubles,” Smith said. “We had a different team though, so we will most likely continue with those doubles pairings, but we have some other options as well. We really just want to keep the momentum—we have won two doubles points, did some better things and hopefully we can continue that this weekend.”

Against the Cardinals Sunday, the Blue Devils (10-10, 3-4 in the ACC) started freshmen Catalin Mateas and Vincent Lin on court one, senior Daniel McCall and freshman Jason Lapidus on court two and sophomore Nicolas Alvarez and junior T.J. Pura on court three. Alvarez teamed with freshman Ryan Dickerson against the See M. TENNIS on Page 12

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Battle of the Blues to kick off outdoor season Ali Wells The Chronicle Duke will not just be facing its rivals in powder blue uniforms this weekend when three teams square off for the Battle of the Blues title with a squad in navy mixing up the usual Tobacco Road matchup.

Kicking off the regular season of the outdoor campaign, the Blue Devils will host North Carolina and Michigan Friday and Saturday at the Morris Williams Track and Field Stadium for the first competition between the three programs. “[We asked Michigan] strictly on the color of their uniforms,” Duke director of track and field Norm Ogilvie joked. “I kind of kid about this, but one of my thoughts was having another blue school. But the big thing is this is an ACC-Big Ten matchup, and Michigan is a big name in the Big Ten. This could be a classic annual matchup.”

The No. 22 Wolverine women are the third-ranked Big Ten squad in the first poll of the outdoor season behind No. 16 Ohio State and No. 20 Michigan State—the 2015 outdoor conference champions. On the men’s side, the Blue Devils will have their hands full with the No. 17 Tar Heel squad.

Duke will rely on its strengths in the women’s jumps and men’s throws to keep pace with both ranked squads in team scoring.

On the women’s side, 2015 outdoor NCAA championship veterans Megan Clark and Teddi Maslowski will look to earn their first wins of the outdoor season in the pole vault and long jump, respectively. Both senior leaders hold the school record in their signature event with Clark’s highest clearance at 14 feet, 9 inches and Maslowski’s farthest jump at 20 feet, 8 1/2 inches.

For the redshirt senior throwing pair of Stephen Boals and Thomas Lang, wins in the shot put and javelin could be key to Duke’s score. Lang sat out the indoor season and threw in his first competition since June 2015 at the Raleigh Relays last weekend, hurling the javelin 214 feet, 10 inches. Both throwers may need to produce new season-bests to stay at the top of the scoreboard.

“Every event will be good,” Ogilvie said. “In some events Duke has the upper hand, others Michigan or [North Carolina]. But in every event, there are two schools with good athletes.”

Middle-distance harrier Elizabeth Whelan will likely headline the Tar Heels’ effort for the

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Senior Anima Banks (right) will run the women’s mile instead of her specialty, the 800 meters, which will put freshman Kim Hallowes in the two-lap race.

title as she holds the squad’s fastest time in the 800 and 1,500 meters, ranking in the nation’s top 30 in both events based on times posted within the last calendar year.

Although she specializes in the 800 meters, senior Anima Banks will toe the line in the women’s mile against Michigan’s Shannon Osika and Laura Addison, leaving freshman Kim Hallowes to contend with Whelan in the two-lap race.

“Anima is still going to focus on the 800 meters during the outdoor season, but it’s good to run a 1,500 because it makes you stronger.

Plus Anima is the strongest miler at this school, as evidenced by her anchor leg on the [distance medley relay],” Ogilvie said. “We are trying to strategically put her in a good place, and spread out Anima, Kim Hallowes and Olivia Anderson in different events.“ Anderson—who anchored the distance medley relay at the indoor national championships in Banks’ stead after the Mamaroneck, N.Y., native advanced to the 800-meter finals—will also not be competing in her signature mile but will run the 3,000-meter steeplechase instead.

Graduate student Shaun Thompson will compete in his first steeplechase since the 2014 season against two of the nation’s best.

Wolverine Mason Ferlic holds the No. 3 time in the last calendar year with his mark of 8:35.45, and his teammate Connor Mora ranks 12th in 8:45.96. Thompson’s best time—third on Duke’s all-time list—is 8:58.04.

“Those Michigan guys are really good—

All-American level,” Ogilvie said. “This will be good for Shaun to get qualified for regionals.

He’s a good steepler—one of the best in Duke history. If he can hang with them for the first half of the race, that will pull him away from everybody else.”

Sophomore Kyle Carrozza made his season debut in the event at the Raleigh Relays, shaving more than a minute off his career best with a performance of 9:22.20, and will look to drop more time in Saturday’s tough field.

Alec Kunzweiler will aim to pick up more points for the men with a strong performance in the mile. The junior has also improved dramatically since the 2015 outdoor campaign, posting a new career best at the Raleigh meet of 3:48.20 and anchoring the 4-x-1,500-meter relay to a win against Michigan State.

Only one event will be contested Friday afternoon—the men’s and women’s hammer throws. The remainder of the field events will start at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with the women’s discus, and the women’s 4-x-100-meter relay is slated to toe the line at 4 p.m. to kick off the track events.

The Chronicle Thursday, Smith said. “[In practice], we’re just fine-tuning a couple of things,” Smith said. “We’ve been doing a lot of doubles and really just getting ready for Friday.”

N.C. State features three ranked players that headline its singles lineup—No. 44 Simon Norenius, No. 77 Nick Horton and No. 85 Thomas Weigel—but has also shown depth of late. In the Wolfpack’s last match against Clemson Saturday, N.C. State prevailed 4-3 even though its leading trio went a combined 1-2.

The Blue Devils’ only ranked singles player, No. 19 Alvarez, will look to set the tone for Duke in singles as the teams battle to get back to .500 in ACC play.

After the Blue Devils take on the Wolfpack, they will have a day to recover before returning to the courts in Durham to host the Cavaliers (16-2, 6-0) Sunday. Virginia captured its second national championship in four years last May and returns five of the six singles players who helped the Cavaliers hoist the trophy in Waco, Texas.

Virginia’s lineup features five ranked singles players—including No. 7 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and No. 8 Ryan Shane—as well as two ranked doubles teams. The pairings of Shane and junior Luca Corinteli and Kwiatkowski and senior Mac Styslinger are ranked second and eighth in the country, respectively.

The Cavaliers take on top-ranked North Carolina in Chapel Hill Friday afternoon, and will also have one day to recover ahead of Sunday’s tilt with Duke.

Smith emphasized that the Blue Devils will focus on N.C. State before turning their attention to the defending national champions.

“On Saturday, we will focus on Virginia,” Smith said. “But we cannot get ahead of ourselves. Every single one of these ACC matches is a big deal—it’s really important— and N.C. State is playing really good tennis, so first we need to be ready to play them at a tough environment at their place.”

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To get comfortable for Friday’s match against the Wolfpack (15-10, 3-4) in Raleigh, Duke will practice at Dail Outdoor Tennis Stadium

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late—competing twice this season as an individual—but did tee it up in Athens last season, shooting 82 and going 0-3 in match play.

“She’s still involved with a big swing change,” Brooks said. “She’s going to go in there and just do the best she can, and we’ll just see how it goes. She’s made great progress and she feels excited about playing and that’s the main thing.

She’s ready to go.”

Duke competed in last season’s edition of the tournament with mixed results, finishing third after a fourthplace stroke play performance followed by a 2-1 match play showing. Brooks noted that the team’s recent experience at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic should provide good preparation for this year’s Liz Murphey Collegiate, as the two events are held on courses with similar features.

Junior Sandy Choi is another Blue Devil golfer poised for a strong performance, as the Seoul, South Korea, native has not placed outside of the top 20 since September. Choi notched a tie for second place two starts ago at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate after scores of 71, 70 and 73. Sophomore Gurbani Singh will also return to action after her best finish of the season in Baton Rouge, where she tied for the most birdies made throughout the week and finished tied for 14th.

With Boutier, Choi and Elena Carta each earning high finishes in the team’s last two events, Brooks added that the depth that his team has shown is a valuable asset to have with the postseason looming. The ACC championship will be held April 15-17 at the Sedgefield

W. GOLF from page 11 own game for the most part,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “Then there will be times when you need to be aware of what’s going on with your opponent’s game, but those situations will make themselves pretty obvious. As long as you are aware, you’ll know that you don’t take unreasonable chances when your opponent is already in the ditch.”

Celine Boutier enters this week’s tournament after taking the field by storm in her last start, when she dominated a 96-golfer field and finished with a 14-stroke victory—her first individual title since 2014. The senior was the only competitor in the field to shoot a round in the 60s— Boutier had two—and sits just behind Maguire with a season scoring average of 72.4. The Montrouge, France, native carries plenty of momentum onto the par-72 track, as she finished a perfect 3-0 in the match play portion of last year’s tournament.

Virginia Elena Carta arrives in Athens with her game in top form—she finished tied for second in her last start at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic—but the freshman is the only player on the Blue Devil roster without experience at this weekend’s course. Elena Carta is still well-tested in match play, though, as she was a member of Europe’s 2014 Junior Ryder Cup team and also participated for Duke in the East Lake Cup last fall.

Lisa Maguire will fill in the gap left by her sister as she makes her first team start of the season. The Cavan, Ireland, native has sparse experience as of

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“Every team in college obviously is different from year-to-year because of your losses. It’s hard to replace guys that scored [191 points] for them last year. That’s not easy, but as you get into April and these games, teams get better,” Danowski said. “Certainly, we hope it’s not this week where Carolina gets a lot better and a lot more poised, but they’re very dangerous.

They’ve got terrific players.”

With the loss of their high-scoring senior trio in the offseason, the Tar Heels have experienced lapses on the offensive end that have cost them down the stretch. With fewer than 10 goals in three of its losses this season, North Carolina will look to maintain a more consistent offensive assault against the Blue Devil defense on the kakuro_528A.txt road. The Tar Created Heels went scorelessby Will forShortz16

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he call for an Asian-American Studies program and support for interested students and faculty has increased in volume at Northwestern, Harvard and our very own Duke. Today we argue that this is a no-brainer for our administration and academic leadership.

The meaning and relevance of such a move to our community is undeniable, deserving the University’s full support. At the very least, the University should look to avoid The Daily Northwestern’s announcement headline which reads, “After 20 years in the making.”

As early as 2002, the Asian Students Association called for the creation of a major for Asian-American Studies. Some combination of a lack of momentum and several key activists graduating from Duke led to the fizzling out of this effort, but the Duke we see today is far different. A full 28 percent of the Class of 2019 identified as Pacific Islander, Asian-American or Asian in coming to study at Duke. At present, Asian-American professors and courses are lacking or inappropriately filed under Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. So much has changed at Duke and nationally in the last fourteen years and even in the last three years since the inexcusable Asia Prime party. Perhaps the timing is finally right.

A new program of study would help Duke’s many

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Asian-American students develop their own racial identity and give interested students an opportunity to learn what they currently have to glean from Asian Studies courses. While not every field of academic study or research necessarily deserves a department or program of study, the relevance of this area to students is clear and has time and time again been brought up. A lack of current student interest may not be indicative of actually low interest levels but a dearth of opportunities for students and incentives

Editorial for professors who need to teach in extant areas.

Political commentary aside about what this would mean for Asian-American activists, this move has legitimate academic appeal.

Yet even as some agree there is a need for understanding what it means to be Asian and of Asian descent, they fail to understand why listing such courses under an Asian Studies major is reductive, playing into the very assumptions activists are seeking to debunk. Further, Duke already has entire programs dedicated to comparatively smaller student populations and areas of research. Cultural exploration is not a competition, but fair treatment

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and recognition that Asian-Americans and other hyphenated Americans have distinct experiences from their original ethnicities is essential to understanding the issue at hand.

This is not to say there are not obstacles to establishing this program as a major, minor or certificate. Hiring new faculty is an expensive and complex process. We also cannot fault Duke for wanting to first focus on making existent programs as excellent as possible, but schools like Harvard have used the mean time to create an Asian American Studies Working Group that creates other opportunities for interested students and faculty.

We recommend a certificate for Asian-American Studies to acknowledge the interdisciplinary nature of the area across the humanities and the need for research through capstone projects. A working group to explore possibilities for the University is an essential first step, but the work of such a group must not fade over time as that of the 2002’s group did.

Can we tell if this will really have beneficial results for students? Ethnic studies programs at universities no doubt have a positive correlation with minority student achievement as well as the direct benefits of a more colorful academic background. All signs at Duke suggest that our more than 1400 Asian or Asian-American students would respond well.

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uring my sophomore year, I lived on Central Campus—206 Alexander, specifically—which is where my fraternity’s section sits. That location is now past tense, as university officials abruptly announced last week that our organization’s home for the past four years would be razed this summer and that our rising sophomores and juniors would be living off of Swift Avenue, an area of Central Campus so remote most students didn’t realize that it belonged to the University.

While The Chronicle made mention of the frustrations felt from members of my and other affected SLGs, the glaring reality is that

of cash, even if people assume that it is. That money is very carefully tied up in designated bunches, and ensuring that those numbers continue to grow and are properly allocated prevents the university from aimlessly throwing cash at any problem.

The issue, then, becomes the way in which the administration envisions and executes these massive transitions. Informing large swaths of students that their housing plans will be altered—or eviscerated—only a month before the school year ends hardly constitutes an appropriate warning.

The subsequent inability or unwillingness to provide those affected students any sort of latitude in determining new housing arrangements is similarly

Caleb Ellis MORE OR LESS this renovation endeavor was made without the consideration and intention of improving the experience of current undergraduates.

As well as anyone who has lived on Central, I recognize the need for the campus to be remade.

I was no stranger to mold-ridden bathrooms and walls, crumbling appliances and a lack of general university infrastructure, and in the two years since I’ve left those problems seem to have escalated, sometimes reaching the grotesque. Students who currently live on Central Campus describe HDRL’s attitude towards them as apathetic and unconcerned, and having seen that little to no efforts have been made to address those concerns, there is little to no reason to doubt the verity of the student sentiment.

That’s why the promise of renovations and a new campus construct ring so hollow for many, if not all, the students who still reside there. Yes, pouring $250 million into leveling and rebuilding a decrepit campus will improve the student experience, but not for the next six graduating classes. The buildings on Central have outlived their lifespan by nearly 25 years, and surely in recognizing that these buildings were unsuitable for use—let alone residency—a more cohesive, comprehensive and seamless transition plan could have been put in place.

What seems so crazy to me is that the inability to genuinely incorporate the concerns of current students has almost emerged as a larger story than state of the buildings themselves. Black mold and asbestos—even if it is a reported “trace”—should not be present in any home, much less the living spaces at one of the country’s premier academic institutions.

I recognize Duke’s commitment to ensuring both the long-term financial and physical viability of the University. The endowment is not a bottomless pit

frustrating. This comes on the heels of years’ worth of neglect in maintaining the most basic of living standards in Central Campus apartments. Dealing with HDRL and the administration shouldn’t feel like an exercise in futility, but a holistic look at the University’s management of Central Campus reveals more setbacks than steps forward.

Four years ago, my fraternity was transferred from Wannamaker to Central Campus during the University’s last great housing model makeover.

Back then, members told me they were nervous, averse even, to being driven off West Campus and transferred to an isolated area that more closely resembled a Picasso painting than college. Yet, those members and the classes that followed cultivated a Central Campus living experience that was, in my opinion, vibrant, fun and memorable. There was no library, no gym and no certainly no convenient bus schedule, but the opportunity to carve out a space for your own made it more than worthwhile.

That space is now being bulldozed, and I can’t help but feel for the youngest members of my fraternity. That being said, I have no doubt that the sophomores, freshmen and incoming Dukies that will eventually populate our new Swift section will be able to forge a new identity there. In spite of the mold, bats and asbestos, the Central Campus I’ve grown to love was once seen as a barren and isolated swath of Duke’s expanse. I can’t help but feel the same way about Swift, but if Central Campus as I knew it could endear itself to me, I’m sure that this new section will manage to do the same for future classes. After all, a place is only as good as the people in it, and there are some damn good people moving into that section.

Caleb Ellis is a Trinity senior. His column normally runs on alternate Fridays.

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nce upon a time, an ambitious and capable nation began the journey to defend its interests in foreign territory. Driven by a desire to boost its economy and secure its assertive presence in all corners of the world, the nation worked hard to ‘pivot’ its energy towards new areas of interests.

This nation is, of course, the United States of America.

The ‘Asia-pivot,’ renamed by the current administration as the “Asia Rebalance,” refers to the U.S. desire to

goods and the two nations are pursuing a both cooperation and competitive relationship; for India, a shared desire of open sea lanes trumps concern to be had over China’s presence in the Indian Ocean littoral.

Simultaneously and in the spirit of betrayal and vengeance (against who?), China has been rapidly intensifying its ties with European nations. A new Eastern European-Chinese New Silk Road is coming together already—a plan that will promote Chinese integration with global

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It is the waiting period. It is the wondering period. It is the fear of the unknown. It is this crippling sense that all your energies have gone to waste. I call this limbo. Being a human with absolutely zero patience, this category of time is a personal hell. When I am completely convinced of something I want, I tend

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address bad policies, which according to one political expert, work “against trade liberalization and an ill-conceived U.S.China bipolar condominium.”

Beyond the economic capital at play, the cooperation between these two nations holds the potential to drastically cut global carbon emissions and shape the global economy.

As noted by the Vice President of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, “most East Asian states welcome the Asia pivot as a stabilizing force in the face of China’s rising influence.” U.S. officials have successfully spent almost a decade in talks with Pacific Rim nations including Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Australia to create the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This pact essentially redefines global trade to increase American exports eliminate tariffs on many goods, while excluding China in many provisions.

However, a similar narrative is not found uniformly across Asia.

Therefore, President Obama is navigating unprecedented terrain as the U.S. simultaneously pivots from the Middle East—a region in which the U.S. has invested more than a decade of fighting. To make matters worse, China is not impressed by the rebalance. Since 2011, Beijing has engaged in “saber-rattling” by establishing an extended air-defense identification zone around territories in the South China Sea. Their continued advancements, reminiscent of threatening imperialist conquests, may soon come to undermine all U.S. efforts for a stable relationship with the growing world power.

From 2015, the top four economies in Asia are China, Japan, India and South Korea. These nations will therefore have a great impact on the U.S. economy in the years to come. Hence, the maintenance of collaboration, respect and dialogue had with these nations must be as calculated as it is genuine.

Looking to the possibilities of future U.S. foreign policy this election year, some prospects are certainly grim. As a follower of the news alone, it is easy to note how the dangerous rhetoric of potential presidents coupled with global consciousness of U.S. domestic affairs can lead to trouble in future diplomatic talks.

Already, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and even Egypt’s official religious body, Dar alIfta have all condemned or expressed grave concern over statements made by the current GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination.

In 2013, India faced military coercion from China, which sought to “dismantle security structures in Ladakh, India,” according to the Times of India. Now, China is India’s largest trading partner in

economies. This new relationship can, and has been, attributed to a strategic gap created by the U.S. Thus, there will inevitably be a point in time where U.S. partners must strategically choose between it and China. When the climactic point of this story is reached, the costs of siding with the U.S. will not grave.

If American citizens are to stay true to American exceptionalism in all of its glory, we must assert ourselves as a rational nation with leadership that understands the fragile ground it navigates when engaging in groundbreaking partnerships.

The pivot must be focused and concerted, but above all else, detached from our chaotic domestic political scene.

For those who see the holes in American exceptionalism, who recognize that America’s history and political system are not necessarily worthy of universal admiration, there is still a reason to express concern over weakening U.S. ties to Asia. The profound quavering interdependence of U.S. and Asian economies is reflected in a tremendous annual trade deficit, billions of dollars in contingent liabilities to the savings and loan industries and U.S. banks that “are too weak vis-à-vis their Japanese and European counterparts,” as explained by former Ambassador Felix G. Rohatyn.

Meanwhile in Asia, China has been engaged in global affairs without consulting the United States; its 50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is yet another step closer to a global partnership that excludes the United States. Sadly enough, many traditional U.S. allies, including other Asian nations, Brazil, France and Germany, have all supported the AIIB despite U.S. opposition to the Bank.

Regardless, the implications of destabilized U.S. relations with Asia do not only matter to world leaders at negotiating tables. With election season in full force, the views of potential U.S. presidents on these issues should not be silenced in favor of slander or senseless tactics against the Islamic State. After all, foreign policy is not a term for solely government strategy in the Middle East, a fact of which more voters need to be conscious. And to the typical college student, a firm grasp on the history, culture and future of U.S. interactions is a crucial tool in today’s most cosmopolitan world.

Once upon a time, the United States sought to establish a new world order with a pivot to Asia as the way forward.

However today, there appears to be an impending aversion from the United States. Unlike tales of charming saviors and joyous endings, the end result of an Asian anti-pivot will be unfortunate for all parties involved.

Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

to go right after it immediately, an all-in approach of sorts.

Thus, one is often thrust into said limbo as a result of placing energies into something that has yet to actualize.

The waiting game can take many forms, whether it be waiting to hear back about a job inquiry, a lover, a health status or even a lost dog. There is in fact a common thread underlying each: fear of the unknown.

While it feels the absolute worst in the moment, when looking back on those events years down the road, more likely than not, you will realize why the it couldn’t happen when you wanted it. Again, in hindsight, I recognize the reasons for each major and minor event in my life. Perhaps it is a coping mechanism, perhaps it is the cosmos; whatever the reason, I can justify with the help of my journaling habits why some goals actualized while others stayed dormant.

Other than the fear of the unknown, which can be extremely debilitating, the limbo period is full of feelings of inadequacy. These feelings include, but are not limited to, longings for something or someone you do not have in real time.

The general internal narrative being, I am not good enough, but if I had (insert desire of your choice), then my life would be perfect, complete and livable.

In addition to waiting for efforts to actualize, seeing those very efforts falter can throw you into limbo. Perhaps you were put into limbo because you were broken up with, your family member passed away, you did not get your dream job or your grad school turned down your perfect application. However you got back to your idea of square one, there are ways to shift out of this limbo and make it more active and breathable.

I call this my three step plan, a plan that I am creating as I am sitting in a café experiencing a personal limbo in real time (the waiting for a love interest type: the worst!).

Part one: plant seeds. These seeds are goals that you know cannot actualize in the present moment. Plant the seed and add water to it over time. Instead of exhausting your entire being and energy into one of these types of goals, put a bit of energy into it every day to keep it alive. Perhaps it will actualize in a month, perhaps in five years. Regardless, if it is a

dream close to your heart, do not keep it in impossible mode if you cannot see it in the present or even in the near present.

Rather, work at it every day. Bit by bit.

Part two: short term goals or lower hanging fruit goals. They can also be long term goals that you planted years ago; suddenly actualizing without reason.

If it feels right, go for it. It might take a bit of courage to actually obtain said goal, but if it is in front of you, it is not there by accident.

Part three: learning that there is

really no limbo period at all. There aren’t actually these periods where the universe locks you in a cage and takes away all of your power, just to make you wait for the next job offer to come to your door, the next soulmate to cross your path, or your missing dog (who may have been hit by a car died already) to return to your clutches.

The limbo period is simple yet complex, a terrible mindset. It is a lens that uses the mechanism of fear.

The more you sit and wait for things to actualize, the more you will find that the life you want is not the life that you are living. Being an active participant in the life that you want and the life you believe in your deepest heart you deserve can be strenuous and painful. It is not a straight shot and there are always ways around the word no. Try viewing roadblocks and rejections as nudges or suggestions. Keep in mind, nothing really worth obtaining feels worthy without a substantial effort and fight to get it The fight is real. There is competition amongst other people who want to live out a similar dream, and there are negative feelings associated with perceived failures. Essentially, limbo, rejection or whatever your language calls it provides a million reasons why you shouldn’t do x,y,z or any other letter in the alphabet.

So as I sit in this café waiting for my hometown heart-throb, I attempt to practice what I preach by putting to ease my what if thoughts. I try to embrace the unknown because a predictable life, while comfortable, is not the life that I have ever wanted. I recognize that the greatest seeds that have actualized in my life came completely out of left field. They were seeds that I planted consciously and even unconsciously, emerging when the timing was apparently the right one.

Lastly, I attempt to combine intellect and emotion by integrating a revolutionary concept, patience, into my routine.

I close with some wise words provided by the oh-so brilliant Rolling Stones, “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes well you might find. You get what you need.”

Trust the Process, Catherine.

Catherine White a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Doug Perlman BA ‘90, Founder & CEO of Sports Media Advisors for Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Wednesday, April 6 5:30-6:30PM Rubenstein Library, Room 153 > 1:1 Advising with Doug will be offered on April 7 from 10:30AM - 12:00PM Registration required for all events in CareerConnections http://careerconnections.duke.edu

The Fannie Mitchell Expert in Residence Program features accomplished professionals sharing specialized knowledge and providing career advice to Duke students.