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Ryan Zhang The Chronicle New Latinx, Asian American and Native American programming spaces will occupy the bottom floor of the Bryan Center starting next Fall.

The Latinx space will occupy the space currently being used by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and the Asian American space will replace the Center for Leadership Development and Social Action, which is part of the University Center

Activities and Events. The new locations for those two offices remain undecided, but Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, noted that staff members have been involved in discussions. In an email to the student body, Moneta wrote that the new spaces will be housed within the Center for Multicultural Affairs.

“Both of these spaces and the new staff will be part of the expanding Center for Multicultural Affairs, and are a major step toward meeting the needs of our increasingly diverse Duke community,” Moneta wrote.

In a statement released jointly by representatives of several student cultural organizations, the creation of the spaces was praised as “not only a logistical victory, but also a deeply emotional and symbolic one as well.”

The organizations represented were Mi Gente, Duke’s Latinx undergraduate organization; the Asian American Alliance; the Asian Student Association; Diya, Duke’s South Asian student organization; and the Native American Student Alliance.

Junior Tara Bansal was elected president of Duke Student Government in an election held from noon Tuesday until noon Wednesday.

In addition to Bansal, junior Ilana Weisman was elected executive vice president. Gwen Geng, a sophomore, won the Student Organization Finance Committee chair race. In this election, 2,416 undergraduate students voted— which represents 36 percent of the student body, a slight increase from last year, when 30 percent of students voted.

Unlike last year, seniors could vote in this year’s election.

“The biggest thing I’m looking forward to is that I want to see dynamic and progressive vision,” Bansal said.

“My belief that DSG can impact this University has only increased after this election.”

Bansal, who currently serves as the DSG vice president of academic affairs, defeated juniors Annie Adair and John Guarco—who serve as chief of staff and executive vice president, respectively.

She complimented her fellow candidates on a fair and platform-driven campaign.

“I’m really proud of the campaign

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Donor McClendon, Trinity ’81, dies in car crash day after indictment Staff Reports The Chronicle Police have confirmed that Aubrey McClendon, Trinity ‘81 and the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was killed in a car wreck early Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports.

McClendon and his wife, Katie McClendon, Trinity ‘80, donated more than $16 million to the University. Both McClendon Tower in Keohane Quadrangle and the commons in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are named for the couple.

In a news conference Wednesday, Oklahoma police said that McClendon was found dead after driving into a wall at a high rate of speed.

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McClendon, 56, died one day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to rig the prices of oil and gas leases in Oklahoma.

McClendon had contested the charges against him in a statement Tuesday evening, stating that he would fight to prove his innocence and clear his name, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Gifts from the McClendons also helped support the plaza and Divinity School chapel.

“Aubrey McClendon was passionate about his family, his business and Duke University,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement.

“His generosity helped transform Duke in ways large and small, from his commitment to enhancing student life on campus, to his support for the Duke Chapel, to his love of Duke athletics.

We grieve with Katie, Will, Callie and Jack, as we also celebrate his legacy at Duke and beyond.”

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Committee’s ‘Abele Drive’ proposal Researchers work with NASA to rejected by Board of Trustees explain causes of global warming Gautam Hathi The Chronicle A committee created to determine ways of honoring Julian Abele recommended renaming Chapel Drive after the black architect, according to a memo listing committee recommendations.

The University committee, which was chaired by Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, submitted a number of recommendations to recognize Abele’s legacy. Among the recommendations was renaming Chapel Drive after Abele and placing a statue of him on the West Campus traffic circle. Although the committee favored this option, the Board decided to rename the main quadrangle on West Campus to Abele Quadrangle—a measure that was not recommended by the University committee.

Duke Student Government President Keizra Mecklai, a senior who was on the committee, said that she could not remember an instance in which the

Board had rejected recommendations from a similar University committee.

“I was very surprised that the quad was ultimately what the Board of Trustees decided,” she said. “I am very familiar with the Board of Trustees.

I’ve served on different committees, and I’ve never seen a decision that’s outside of what the administrative team has presented and decided on, at least when I’ve been on the Board.”

Several of the committee’s recommendations detailed in the memo written by Trask, such as installing a plaque honoring Abele in the Chapel, publishing a biography of Abele, purchasing the rights to a mural about Abele and engraving Abele’s name into the Chapel cornerstone, were ultimately adopted.

But the University committee, which was convened in the aftermath of community forums and demands from students made in November, generally See ABELE on Page 5

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Although a University committee recommended that Chapel Drive be named after Julian Abele, the main quadrangle on West Campus will be named after the black architect.

Abigail Xie The Chronicle A study from scientists at Duke and NASA is shedding light on the variability of global temperatures and the role that human activities play in global warming.

Patrick Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Wenhong Li, assistant professor of climate and civil and environmental engineering, and two scientists from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory used NASA satellite data and physical climate models to study recent global temperature changes. They studied the mechanism through which the planet is able to cool itself down and return to a temperature equilibrium after fluctuations due to natural warming forces, demonstrating that in the absence of external drivers like carbon dioxide emissions, the global temperature should be relatively stable.

The group published their findings Feb. 1 in the Journal of Climate.

“We show in detail why the earth can cool itself down after natural unforced warming events like El Niño,” Brown said. “It’s really does undermine the idea that the earth’s temperature can drift randomly or move itself into other climate states. This means that the type of warming we’ve seen since 1900 does require external forcings and drivers like the increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activities.”

Brown added that this work addresses a “big-picture” question about global warming—whether the earth’s natural cycles in temperature can fully account for recent trends of global warming.

“Within the climate community, there is at least a consensus that current temperature changes cannot be explained purely by natural variation,” Li said.

The scientists examined global and See CLIMATE CHANGE on Page 5

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Duke researchers have collaborated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to show that the earth’s rising temperatures have been impacted by human activities.

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by bylaw rather than constitutional amendment passed. According to the ballot, “The amendment would allow DSG to become more flexible regarding internal structure, facilitating legislative focus and campus representation.”

The amendment passed with 80 percent of the vote.

The election, on a noon-to-noon schedule, was the second election held this year on that schedule. Elections in past years have been held from midnight to midnight.

DSG Attorney General Robin Zhang, a senior, explained that the system works and should be a permanent change made to the election process.

“The noon-to-noon election should stay,” he said. “Having [Office of Information Technology] service overnight is a blessing.”

Issues in the middle of the night when no one is voting can be easily taken care of as opposed to past elections, when issues during the day limited the amount of time students have to vote, Zhang explained.

everyone ran,” Bansal said. “This campaign challenged all of us on what we’ve done during our time in DSG.” The presidential election went to an instant run-off format because none of the three candidates won a majority of the vote. After the recalculation, Guarco’s votes were reallocated to the candidate voters ranked second. Bansal finished with 1,200 votes—or 51 percent of the vote— compared to Adair’s 1,149. This number does not add up to 2,416 votes because not all voters ranked second options.

Adair noted how pleased she was with the close finish.

“For me to get such a close margin as an independent and a transfer is amazing, and it shows that Duke students are ready for results and a change of pace,” Adair said.

Guarco congratulated all candidates on a clean race.

“I’m proud to say we were able to spread our message, and congratulations to Tara,” he said.

Weisman—current vice president of equity and outreach—defeated junior John Turanchik.

“I’m thrilled for next year and am very excited to make DSG work as it should and make things happen for students,” Weisman said. “Being able to give back a senior is something I’m looking forward to.”

Geng, the current DSG treasurer, won the SOFC chair race over junior Alexa Soren, a current SOFC member. Geng received 54 percent of the vote, but may be facing a lawsuit in the DSG Judiciary about the inappropriate use of her position to campaign.

Special to The Chronicle Finally, a constitutional amendment Senior Tara Bansal edged out Annie Adair in allowing Senate size to be determined this year’s DSG presidential election.

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CULTURAL SPACE from page 1 “Many students within our communities do not feel that they have a place to be safe on campus, or a place to call home,” the statement reads. “These new spaces are an incredible step towards making campus a more inclusive and equitable place.”

Program coordinators will be hired to lead the Latinx and Asian American centers, and a graduate student staff member will be hired for the Native American space. A national search will be conducted to find the new coordinators.

Sophomore Elizabeth Barahona, vice president of Mi Gente, noted that although Mi Gente is pleased with the center, the organization may need to expand into a larger space in the future.

“Eventually, we’ll want to move into a bigger center,” Barahona said.

Senior Stanley Yuan, president of the Asian American Alliance, also wrote in an email that the Asian American Alliance may need to expand in the future to accommodate the variety of Asian American cultures at Duke.

The cultural center comes several weeks after the publication of a Jan. 25 list of demands written by Mi Gente. In a general body meeting of the group, Barahona provided an update on progress that had been made toward meeting those demands.

In addition to establishing the cultural center, the administration has agreed to fully fund Latino Student Recruitment Weekend, allowing Mi Gente to use its general funds elsewhere. As a result, Mi Gente will end its boycott of LSRW, but will no longer participate in organizing the weekend.

The administration has also agreed to hold monthly meetings between representatives from Mi Gente and administrators including Moneta and Valerie Ashby, dean of Trinity

College of Arts and Sciences. Other demands will be discussed at these meetings, including wage increases for laborers, need-blind admission for undocumented immigrants and connections with local Latinx populations.

With regard to the formation of a Latino studies department, Barahona said that the administration told Mi Gente it was not possible due to a lack of funding.

Yuan also wrote that one of the priorities of the Asian American Alliance was to advocate for an Asian American studies department.

“Administration made it clear that they do not have the funds for any new departments,” Barahona said. “They still said that this was a priority, but it was a low priority.”

Senior Antonio Lopez, Mi Gente general body member and president of La Unidad Latina, a Latino fraternity, said at the general body meeting that, of the 10 demands, the request for a public apology from the administration for “the routine negligence of Latinx issues on this campus” was the least likely to be met. Barahona noted, however, that administrators had expressed apologies to students in private meetings.

“To get an apology publicly would be very difficult because of the kind of reputation that Duke wants to have,” Lopez said. “They’re going to be hard-pressed to admit it.”

The demands issued by Mi Gente were the latest in a series of student demands this year, including the November demands from the group Concerned Students 1969.

“The ever-changing population on Duke’s campus comes with both great benefits for a deeper understanding of an increasingly diverse community, and inevitable strains as these changes push at the boundaries of our existing spaces,” Moneta wrote in his email.

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ABELE from page 2 felt that renaming Chapel Drive after Abele would be the best way to put Abele “into the common vocabulary” of the University, Mecklai said.

Trask also noted in the memo that relatives of Abele whom the committee reached out to preferred renaming Chapel Drive.

Mecklai added that she was not sure why the Board decided to rename the main quad, which runs from the Davison Building to Clocktower Quadrangle since she does not sit on the Board’s facilities and environment committee, which made the final decision.

“Abele Road would be in your GPS and literally on a street sign,” Mecklai said. “My biggest concern is that I don’t know that [the name of the main quad] will be in the common vocabulary.”

Junior Michael Norwalk, DSG vice president of facilities and the environment who sat on both the University committee and the Board committee that considered the issue, said that the Board decided to rename the main quad instead of Chapel Drive because renaming the quad “never really came up” in the University committee’s discussions.

He argued that had renaming the quad been suggested to the University committee, the idea would likely have been among its recommendations to the Board.

“The symbolism is very similar,” he said. “If you’re on Chapel Drive, that’s the driveway up through the center of campus, up to his masterpiece, which is the Chapel...The quad is symbolic in the same way, it’s just that generally more students use the quad in more everyday language than Chapel Drive.”

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“Abele Quad” would make its way into students’ vocabulary, and pointed out that advertising for events such as DevilsGate tailgate and Last Day of Classes events would now use the new name for the quad.

A number of other suggestions made by the University committee to honor Abele, some of which would have required the University to spend extra money, also appear to have been rejected at this time. In particular, Trask noted in the memo that commissioning a statue of Abele for the West Campus traffic circle would likely be “a sevenfigure effort.” The Board did not accept this recommendation, and also did not approve the recommendation of an academic conference celebrating Abele’s career.

The University will, however, purchase a Odili Odita mural titled “Shadow and Light (for Julian Francis Abele)” that is currently on display at the Nasher Museum of Art. This will cost the University approximately $30,000, but half of that has already been pledged by a Trustee Emeritus, according to the memo.

The University will also fund an annual Julian Abele Awards and Recognition Banquet, which honors the achievements of black community members. The awards were first hosted in 1990 by the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and are now co-sponsored by the Black Student Alliance and the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, according to the Duke Student Affairs website. According to Trask’s memo, the annual event will likely cost $25,000.

Although students demanded in November that West Union be renamed “Abele Union,” the University committee did not recommend that, according to the memo. Trask wrote in the memo that the committee believed West Union was

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no longer Abele’s work.

“Most of us worry that the major transformation undertaken by Grimshaw means that this is no longer Abele’s building,” he wrote. “Almost none of the interior spaces remain as he designed them; three sides of the exterior do.”

Trask added in the memo that other buildings on the main quadrangle considered by the committee for renaming, “do not seem important enough for the statement we are trying to make.”

CLIMATE CHANGE from page 2 local temperature patterns due to natural events, when external drivers are not influencing the climate.

Natural warming events, such as El Niño, can be amplified by what Brown called “positive feedbacks” of energy.

He gave the example of natural warming causing sea ice to melt, which leads to more solar radiation energy absorbed at the surface because the reflective snow is being replaced by a darker land surface, which in turn causes more warming.

These positive feedbacks affect temperatures locally but also happen all over the world, he explained.

Using NASA satellite data collected since 2002 and physical climate models, the researchers found the mechanism through which the earth prevents these natural warming events from amplifying and maintains global temperature stability.

“It has to do with the way that the earth redistributes energy of an unforced warming event like El Niño,” Brown explained. “It’s going to be able to cool

itself back down, because the earth moves energy away from these locations where you have positive feedbacks to locations where negative feedbacks dominate. At those locations you’re able to get rid of excess energy essentially.”

Changes in clouds and water vapor also allow the earth to release more energy into space, Brown said, adding that many other scientific details are part of the explanation.

Although the warming effect of increasing greenhouse gas emissions is universally accepted now in the scientific community, many still WENHONG LI disagree over how much warming the planet will see in the next century, how climate change will specifically impact natural ecosystems and humans and what the best strategy is to address the issue, Brown said.

“But there’s a large consensus on the basics,” he added. “Our study is in this basics zone, but it was an assumption before that we felt needed to be shown in more detail.”

Li noted that the research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and other programs, could help clarify misconceptions about the phenomenon of global warming.

“We wish to educate people and to get them to know the science behind the phenomenon—to better understand why climate change really happens and what we can do to prevent severe weather due to climate change in the future,” Li said. “I really would like the younger generations to take an important role in terms of educating and thinking about what our future could be.”

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This past Sunday night, 34 million Americans and I watched the Academy Awards. It was a four-hour slog for the most part, with highlights few and far between. The next day, I read countless articles about how long and boring the ceremony was, truly an exercise in futility and pointlessness in a shallow industry. I’m not going to disagree with any of that. The Oscars are without a doubt the most boring awards show out of a pantheon of boring awards show. How do we fix it? Can it even be fixed? I say it can, but it’s all dependent on one big thing—they can’t hand out any more awards.

“But Drew!” you might exclaim. “How can something be an awards show without any awards?” To answer that, I point to every single other awards show in existence. The reason why the Tony Awards, Grammys, and VMAs are the most entertaining awards shows (and schlock like the Golden Globes and Emmys are not) is because they cut down on the amount of awards that they give out in favor of performances, spectacle and basically anything that television viewers actually enjoy seeing. The sort of self-congratulatory pablum present at the Oscars really only plays well to the famous audience. Not to take away from any of the winners’ accomplishments, but how many of us actually care about who wins for Best Sound Editing? These awards obviously are significant achievements, but there are more people likely to be celebrating that win sincerely in the Nokia Theatre than there are sitting on American couches. I would say that most Oscar viewers really only care about who wins the acting awards, Best Director and Best Picture. According to my notes during the show, those six awards took a grand total of 18 minutes to announce. 18 minutes out of four hours does not a mandatory viewing experience make.

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The things that did enliven the Oscars were scarce this year. Chris Rock was predictably, scathingly excellent, and his opening monologue gave off such an electrifyingly thrilling high that the rest of the broadcast could only go down from there. Save for Sam Smith’s pitchy and dull rendition of the Best Song winner “Writing’s On the Wall,” the other music performances from The Weeknd, Dave Grohl, and Lady Gaga were uniformly excellent (though the exclusion of performances by other nominees such as Anohni and Sumi Jo in favor of their more famous counterparts was shady).

There were moments of spontaneous fun and emotion that brightened the show, too, such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s welldeserved win and Kate Winslet’s beaming

editor’s note reaction, DiCaprio’s joy over a box of Thin Mints, Quincy Jones’ chuckle and anything involving the delightfully charismatic “Room” actor Jacob Tremblay. Still, the majority of the broadcast was leaden, with more boring speeches than usual and little in the way of virality or meme-ability. I kept praying for an “Adele Dazeem” moment, but we got none.

This year, the Grammys only gave out eight actual awards at the broadcasted show with the rest being handed out at an offsite pre-ceremony. That choice allowed them to fit in upwards of 20 performances in a three hour broadcast, which is a much better ratio of fun to pomp. The Grammys planners

also wisely chose to hand out more relevant awards such as Best New Artist and Album of the Year exclusively—an excellent ploy to get people to tune in to the whole show.

While the quality of the performances was largely lacking this year, the Grammys were infinitely more entertaining because there is always a genuine sense of joy in their celebration of music itself. The Tony Awards mine a similar vein of sincerity in entertainment, and the VMAs do away with all sense of decorum in favor of spectacle, pizzazz and catering to the Internet.

Look at Lady Gaga. In years past, she has built up her brand of subversive pop through ludicrously extravagant performances at the Grammys and VMAs and shocking and literally sickening fashion (hello, meat dress!) on their red carpets. The past year has been different though, as her recent move towards subdued yet still talented artistry has given her 2016 performances at the Grammys and the Oscars a sense of natural gravitas and emotion that is rarely present at either of those ceremonies.

The quality of the performances is still very high, and her rendition of the Oscarnominated “Till It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground” in which she brought out survivors of sexual assault on college campuses was a heartfelt, showstopping moment in a broadcast sorely lacking in anything but artifice. Gaga’s performance was powerful and still paid tribute to the movie she was nominated for, which is a template the Oscars could and should follow in the years to come.

With all due respect to the winners, the audience doesn’t need to see a lot of these technical awards. Next year, cut out the deserving riffraff, add in performances that pay tribute to the movies and don’t try to force pomp or emotion.

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Q&A: Journo Gustavo Gorriti Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Gustavo Gorriti is an eminent Latin American journalist who has covered the civil conflict between the Shining Path and the Peruvian government in the 1980’s, the beginnings of Alberto Fujimori’s dictatorship and drug-dealing and corruption issues in Panama. Gorriti visited campus last week to give a talk about his journalistic experience in his homeland, and The Chronicle’s Jesús Hidalgo spoke with him about the role of journalism in the modern society, the perils of covering the Shining Path in Peru and his take on contemporary politics.

The Chronicle: What do you think about the current intersection between journalism and entertainment?

Gustavo Gorriti: Journalism has to be entertaining.

Storytelling is its central aspect and a story should be exciting and captivate the reader, the listener, the viewer. If that means that journalism needs to use unorthodox narrative techniques sometimes, they are welcome as long as they don’t affect the other fundamental aspect of journalism—its intimate connection with true facts. A story should be exciting but also accurate and faithful to facts at the same time. Journalists should always dot their i’s and cross their t’s.

TC: How do you make your own stories more interesting and entertaining?

GG: That depends on the public that one addresses. If it’s a public with a certain degree of sophistication, a fundamental thing is to employ irony. Irony is one of those elements that invigorates the intellectual function of a story if it is well applied.

It makes storytelling sharper and clearer. It also creates tension in the story and helps the reader to follow and understand the narrative easily. Humor, when it is present when dealing with serious issues, requires a very precise idea about what the right doses to use is in order to avoid distorting what you’re showing.

Another thing that is always key is trying to build an interesting narrative structure... The narrative structure should be a means to optimize the expository purpose of your story—to explain, to expose, to reveal in an organized way corresponding to the facts.

TC: Besides having to deal with the political violence from both the Shining Path and the Peruvian government in the 1980s, what was the most challenging part when you had to cover this turbulent epoch?

GG: There were many challenges. First, what was happening in Peru was very obscure. The Shining Path was a clandestine group that started a conflict against the government and one of its strengths was precisely that it worked in the shade. After each of its unpredicted attacks, it seemed to vanish in the air, so trying to explain to the people what was going on... it wasn’t easy. Then, of course, those were dangerous times because of the violence from both the government, which employed inadequate and obsolete plans, strategies and doctrines to defend itself, and the Shining Path. Traditionally, war reporters cover a war from one of the opposing sides, but in our case, one had to cover everything, one had to cover both sides and one had to demonstrate that one wasn’t a spy collaborating with one of the groups—which was almost impossible to do in a paranoid society. And one also had to be very careful to report in an ideology-free way, because some people wanted to twist one’s words even when one described the conflict clearly and objectively.

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The ArtCon Experience Jessica Williams The Chronicle

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Latin American journalist Gustavo Gorriti visited Duke this week.

TC: The Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa, recently said that it would a terrible tragedy if Keiko Fujimori won the Peruvian elections this year. You experienced the worst part of her father’s dictatorial rise to power in 1992. What can you say about the potential return to power of fujimorismo?

GG: People had great expectations and hopes when democracy was reintroduced to the Peruvian society in 2000.

But later, those expectations and hopes diminished dramatically and democracy lost momentum. People were disappointed by those politicians that they had chosen with great illusions. Then, a reaction started—Peru became one of the most skeptical countries about democracy in Latin America. And a perverse cycle started too. Many leaders who wanted to establish an honest democratic order at the service of citizens were forgotten and other leaders who didn’t have the same plans came back to the political stage. Suddenly, Peruvians got trapped in a perverse “lesser-of-two-evils” cycle.

Every five years, we have to vote for the lesser evil to avoid the greater evil. However, what happened in Peru is that the greater evil of an election became the lesser evil in the following one. And it happened in 2001, 2006, 2011 and now will happen again this year.... That’s what we’re trying to stop right now. In the first half of the presidential campaign, politicians with a long discredited career were the only candidates and they couldn’t sell themselves as the lesser evil. But fortunately, new young politicians have stepped up and voters have reacted against those discredited candidates. Hopefully, this perverse cycle will come to and end.

TC: Do you think the U.S. is trapped in a similar perverse cycle nowadays?

GG: I think that in the American political history, there has never been a figure like Donald Trump. He’s a sort of Il Duce, isn’t he? And he’s a cynical millionaire, a perverse narcissistic politician. I was trying to find other alike ultraconservative figures in the past but I can’t find any. I hope that if Republicans choose him as their candidate, he’ll be swept in the elections. One should have deep concerns about the future of the U.S. and humanity if we end up living in a world where the president of the greatest world power is Donald Trump.

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ArtCon, Duke’s student-led arts and creativity summit, was held on Friday and Saturday of last week. Over 45 industry professionals visited campus to speak about their careers, as well as how Duke students can pursue art before and after graduation.

“The purpose of ArtCon is to give students the ability to connect with recent grads and industry professionals working in the arts, in order to make art a normal pathway instead of an abnormal pathway at Duke,” said duARTS President Anshu Vipparla, a senior.

Like DEMAN weekend, which took place in November, ArtCon was created to allow student exploration into how an interest in the arts on campus can translate into a career after graduation.

“Unlike DEMAN Arts and Media Weekend in the Fall which features amazing alumni from creative industries based across the country, ArtCon is focused on non-alumni professionals in creative industries based in the Durham area,” said Amy Unell, alumna in residence at the Duke Career Center.

From music performance to arts entrepreneurship, ArtCon sparked conversations on a variety of arts topics of interest to students. Here are just a few.

For the Writers:

Digital Journalism: Writing, Reporting and Publishing Students and industry professionals discussed the paths leading to a career in journalism, as well as what a journalist’s life is really like. Including journalists such as Steven Petrow, a columnist for the Washington Post and USA Today, and Blyane Alexander, an anchor for the 11Alive News Atlanta, the session focused on a variety of media forms from print news to podcasting.

For the Durhamites: Coffee Chats

During the first day of ArtCon, students were invited to speak with the industry professionals in a relaxed, informal setting. As many of the professionals came from Durham, conversations started about the state of arts in Durham and how students can get involved.

“If you’re an artist, Durham and the Triangle is becoming one of the hotspots of the country,” said Talya Klein, Durhambased director and photographer of the Durham Doll. “It’s staggering when you think of it, but there’s so much growth here.”

The Durham Doll, named Dahlia, travels around landmarks of Durham and is photographed every day wearing a thematicappropriate outfit to inspire a creative Instagram project.

For the Planners:

The Arts Beyond Duke: Preparing for a Career in the Arts, Media and Entertainment Industry

As described by many Duke alumni at ArtCon, the University has only recently provided opportunities for students to learn how to link the arts to a career through events like ArtCon and DEMAN. This session included questions regarding the support students receive to pursue the arts after graduation, as well as what other resources should be made available to help promote the arts even further.

For the Storytellers:

TV, Film and Documentary Storytelling

In this session, industry representatives spoke about the creation of their stories—from networking to get into the field to the editing of projects.

“I always like talking to students,” said Nadjib Assani, a multidisciplinary artist who spoke at the session. “When I teach, I like showing students a different dimension in terms of art and how they can explore their craft and get better. I know some of the information is hard to obtain.”

For the Scientists:

Arts in Science: Beyond Hobbies

Ruici Ong is a Trinity senior. Her work can be found on Facebook at “Duck Academy.”

Breaking the misconception that arts and sciences are completely separate, this session explored how the two fields overlap more than most people expect.

“We had a faculty professor present how she incorporated art into her scientific work,” Vipparla said.

The session also discussed the importance of creativity in careers, as well as creativity’s relevance at Duke.

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Chronicle File Photo The Duke Opera Workshop will perform in Baldwin Auditorium, pictured above, April 23.

There are a considerable number of singing groups on campus; from a cappella to musical theater to the more chorus-like groups, it can get overwhelming. But one group that’s not often talked about on campus is opera.

The Duke Opera Workshop— founded in 1958 and directed by Susan Dunn, professor of the practice and director of undergraduate studies in music—puts on shows every semester.

Opera Workshop is older than even the oldest a cappella group on campus, and is one of the only undergraduate opera programs that is still offered among peer institutions.

“Opera is definitely something that has been swept under the rug in our generation,” said senior Jay Attys, a music major and member of Opera Workshop. “It was the way of life at one point and now it seems like it has become a relic of the past, sadly.”

This semester Duke Opera Workshop is bringing opera into the modern age with their “Opera Goes to Broadway”themed Spring Semester Performance.

The performance will be featuring operatic-sounding songs from Broadway musicals such as “Oklahoma!” and “Sweeney Todd.”

“Usually it will be a group of about ten of us and we’ll perform a variety of types of songs: duets, solos, trios, a group number,” said sophomore Katherine Berko, another student performing in the show. “Also, with this show we’ll have a dialogue in between

the pieces so there will be, for instance, an ‘Oklahoma!’ song and then a little speech, so there will be a story in the background of all these songs.”

An extensive knowledge of opera is not a prerequisite for attending the show, however—even some of the current performers in the show had no previous experience with opera before coming to Duke.

“I used to just think opera was boring, like anybody else my age, I didn’t really understand it,” Attys said. “It was not until I became a music major and started studying it that I really started to appreciate opera for what it is.”

Although Opera Workshop puts on a show every semester, the performers this semester hope that because this show has a less opera-like and more Broadway feel, it will gain more recognition especially among the student population.

“A lot of the audience for our past shows has consisted of people who are older, or people who are attached to the program, like parents,” Berko said. “But hopefully with a musical theme we’ll have a better audience. Everyone’s really talented, and usually everyone that goes really enjoys it.”

“Duke has a lot of great singers here, and [Opera Workshop], and just the music department in general, is often under-appreciated,” Attys said. “We will continue to do what we love, and we can only hope that this show will bring more us more attention.”

This semester’s show “Opera Goes to Broadway” will be premiering on Saturday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium. Tickets for students will be free.

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BLUE DEVILS FALL ON HUMP DAY

The Fighting Camels held Duke to just four hits as they avenged last week’s 4-0 shutout Sam Turken The Chronicle Through their first eight games, the Blue Devils had mostly played beyond their years. But with several underclassmen in its starting lineup, Duke demonstrated its youth Wednesday night.

A day after timely hitting and strong pitching helped the Blue Devils defeat Davidson 9-2, Duke fell 5-1 to Campbell at Jim Perry Stadium DUKE 1 in Buies Creek, CAMP 5 N.C., in the second game of a home-andhome series. Eight days after the Blue Devils defeated the Fighting Camels 4-0 in the teams’ meeting in Durham, the Duke bats fell silent Wednesday on the road.

The Blue Devil offense shined Tuesday night against the Wildcats, scratching out seven hits in the first inning to jump out to an early 5-0 lead. Defensively, starting pitcher Kellen Urbon tossed seven scoreless innings before the Blue Devils gave up two late runs.

But against Campbell, Duke’s batters struggled to string hits together. Although Blue Devil pitchers combined to record 14 strikeouts and limited the Fighting Camels to five hits and two extra-base hits, they made several costly mistakes early on.

“We have right now four freshmen and five sophomores playing a bunch. And sometimes it’s just the inconsistency of youth. It’s something

Jack White | The Chronicle Freshman Zack Kone notched two of the Blue Devils’ four hits in Wednesday’s loss at Campbell.

that with time will improve,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “We gave them some extra bases. We gave them some free bases that allowed them to get their offense going. We’ve done a pretty good job to date of limiting free bases. So you have those moments.”

Duke right-hander Jack Labosky started strong with a strikeout and ground-out in an 11-pitch first inning. But after striking out

Brian Taylor, the sophomore surrendered a triple to the right-center field gap to Jimmy Monaghan. Labosky seemed to settle down thanks in part to a diving stop by sophomore third baseman Max Miller to hold Taylor at third base and throw out Justin Lamazares. But Campbell (4-4) registered its first run when Labosky threw a wild pitch that bounced off the backstop,

allowing Monaghan to scramble home.

The Blue Devils (5-4) recorded their first hit in the third inning when freshman shortstop Zack Kone singled up the middle. But Campbell pitcher Tyson Messer quickly escaped the inning when Miller fouled out to first base and freshman right fielder Jimmy Herron flied out to center field to end the frame.

When Labosky returned to the mound in the bottom of the fourth, he seemed poised to cruise through the inning after striking out Taylor again. But then things fell apart.

Monaghan and Lamazares hit back-toback singles to put runners on first and second before Drew Butler cleared the bases with a two-strike double down the right-field line. Although Pollard replaced Labosky with southpaw Luke Whitten, the bleeding continued. Butler advanced to third off J.D. Andreessen’s fly-out to right field, and the Fighting Camels extended their lead to 4-0 on another passed ball.

The Blue Devils quickly responded when five batters came to the plate in the fifth.

Miller spurred the response with a single through the right side. After Herron singled to the left side, advancing Miller to second, the two runners trotted to second and third base thanks to a wild pitch. Although sophomore center fielder Evan Doughtery brought Miller home with a sacrifice fly, the Blue Devils left Herron stranded when sophomore Peter Zyla popped up to second base.

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CHRONICLE

Ramkumar elected sports editor of V. 112 Staff Reports The Chronicle Junior Amrith Ramkumar, editor-inchief of The Chronicle, was elected sports editor of the student newspaper’s 112th volume at a department-wide meeting.

Ramkumar will begin his one-year term April 27 and replace senior Ryan Hoerger. The Norman, Okla., native will lead a staff of approximately 30 writers, editors and departmental staff.

“I cannot wait to apply many of the lessons I learned this year as editor-inchief during my time as sports editor,” Ramkumar said. “We have made great strides with our new website this year and I look forward to pushing for more digital innovation in the coming year.”

Before being elected editor-in-chief in February 2015, Ramkumar served as a men’s basketball beat writer and the sports blog editor.

He previously was a beat writer for women’s basketball, in addition to covering several other

sports since joining the department at the start of his freshman year.

“Amrith has been incredibly devoted to The Chronicle ever since he stepped on campus as a freshman,” Hoerger said.

“He has really grown into the role of editorin-chief and done a great job leading the organization as a whole, and I admire his dedication to now return to the sports department as a rising senior to continue developing new sportswriters and telling important stories.”

In his platform, Ramkumar emphasized building on the successes of this year by restructuring the department slightly to prepare underclassmen to take on leadership positions the future. A more decentralized structure will allow the department to build on this year’s momentum and expand production of feature stories and videos, he explained.

“A major goal in the department and throughout the organization is to make our processes sustainable with a new digital model, which requires buy-in from a dedicated staff,” Ramkumar said.

A political science major also pursuing a minor in statistics and the policy journalism and media studies certificate, Ramkumar plans to graduate in May 2017 before potentially beginning a career in journalism.

“Amrith’s breadth of experience as editor will allow him to take the sports department to new heights,” co-news editor Ryan Zhang, a senior, said.

Ramkumar noted that his experiences covering Duke’s 2013-14 women’s golf national championship and the women’s basketball team his freshman year made him want to take leadership positions in the department in the future. He said in his speech that he hoped to give underclassmen in the department similar opportunities moving forward.

“With several Duke players and coaches setting their sights on this summer’s Olympics and the University preparing to add softball as its 27th varsity sport in 201718, the upcoming year will be another special one for one of the top athletic programs in the country,” Ramkumar said.

The Chronicle Junior Amrith Ramkumar will serve as sports editor for The Chronicle’s 112th volume.

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Duke aims for NCAA auto-bids at ACC championships Seth Johnson The Chronicle After all the blood, sweat and hard work poured on the mats all season long, it is finally time for the Blue Devils to take the big stage in the most unpredictable time of year—the postseason.

“This is a good time. I’m excited about it,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said.

“The guys are healthy. I feel like it’s been a good vibe in the room so far, so I’m excited to see what we do.”

Lanham will get his answer Sunday at the ACC championships in Charlottesville, Va., when No. 21 Duke travels to John Paul Jones Arena for the second time this season.

The Blue Devils will begin their day at 11 a.m. and hope to still be around when the championship finals kick off at 7 p.m., searching for an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament in two weeks.

Following one of the ACC’s most successful regular seasons in recent memory, the conference was allotted 34 automatic bids—tied for the most in league history— and is ranked fifth among major conferences in automatic slots awarded.

“I feel like if you look at the Big Ten, they’re the ones that everybody talks about, but look at our matchups against Big Ten teams this year. We’ve all beaten Big Ten teams, so we’re excited about that going in and we feel like we can have a premier conference and a premier tournament and quality schools going out,” Lanham said. “We’re capable of putting guys on the podium, and that’s what we need to do bottom line, as a team and as a conference.”

The Blue Devils will certainly have to deal with one of the toughest ACC fields in several years after going 1-4 in conference duals this season. Of the five other teams competing this weekend—No. 3 Virginia Tech, No. 8

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Redshirt senior Conner Hartmann is the defending conference title-holder at 197 pounds and enters the ACC championships with the No. 1 seed.

N.C. State, No. 11 North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Virginia—none have fewer than five grapplers in the coaches’ rankings. The Hokies—who went undefeated in the regular season to lock up their second consecutive dual-meet title—have eight wrestlers with that distinction and boast the most No. 1 or No. 2 seeds in the conference tournament with seven, though seeds and lineups are subject to change until 5 p.m. Saturday.

Duke will not roll over without a fight, though. The squad enters Sunday with the third-most No. 1 or No. 2 seeds with three, and boasts five wrestlers ranked in the RPI this season.

No. 5 Conner Hartmann—the defending ACC champion and No. 1 seed at 197 pounds—No. 9 Mitch Finesilver—the No. 2 seed at 149 pounds—and No. 18 Jake Faust—

the No. 2 seed at 165 pounds—will lead the way for the Blue Devils. All three wrestlers will receive byes into the semifinals before strapping on their gear for the day.

Both Hartmann and Faust will battle in weight classes receiving five automatic bids to the NCAA tournament, but Finesilver will have to secure a victory in his first match to receive one of the two automatic bids in his weight class.

“Throughout the year we tell guys, ‘Make it easy on yourselves,’ and that’s part of it, making it easy on yourself, earning a spot where you can get in a situation where you know that you’ve beaten those guys before.

You’ve earned a spot for the conference and go get what you’ve earned,” Lanham said. “That’s what we’re trying to do and I feel pretty confident that those guys are

capable of doing that.”

Outside of its top three, Duke will look to Zach Finesilver at 141 pounds and Connor Bass at 157 pounds to match last year’s program-best five grapplers qualifying for the NCAA tournament. Finesilver is the No. 4 seed in a class that will send four automatic bids from the conference meet and will face off against the Panthers’ No. 5 seed Nick Zanetta. The redshirt freshman beat the Pittsburgh redshirt sophomore 8-1 in dual competition Jan. 9.

Bass also received the No. 4 seed, but has work to do to receive an automatic bid at 157 pounds due to just three automatic spots up for grabs Sunday. The junior will meet the Tar Heels’ No. 5 seed Robert Henderson for the first time this season.

“I would like to [beat last year’s record],” Lanham said. “We’ve got some weights where we could get in there and qualify guys. I think legitimately we could get five [into the NCAA championships]. I feel like six would be hard, but I think we could do it. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got it, but obviously I feel like five would be a good number for us.”

Aside from the top half of the lineup, the Blue Devils may be poised for another surprise run. Last season, Mitch Finesilver— wrestling at 133 pounds—snuck into the championship final as the No. 6 seed, and earned a spot in the NCAA tournament.

With a litany of wrestlers vying for spots as the No. 5 or No. 6 seed at Duke’s four remaining weights—125, 174, 184 and 285 pounds— there is the potential for another Blue Devil to author his own Cinderella story.

“We’ve got a couple of guys that could [make a run like Mitch],” Lanham said.

“I think the mindset of the whole team is positive. It’s a positive vibe. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have one or two guys make a run like that—that would be exciting for the team across the board.”

MEN’S TENNIS

Blue Devils open ACC slate against Yellow Jackets Steve Hassey The Chronicle After last year’s regular season finished with an upset loss at the hands of Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils will be eyeing revenge Sunday. The only difference: four of Duke’s top five players will be fresh faces to the Yellow Jackets.

Georgia Tech will travel to the Blue Devils’ Ambler Tennis Stadium at noon in the ACC opener for both teams. This will be the first conference matchup Georgia for five members of Tech Duke’s 11-man roster. vs.

Freshman Catalin Mateas has stepped Duke into the second SUNDAY, Noon singles role, and Ambler Tennis Stadium classmate Vincent Lin has competed on the third singles court in a majority of the Blue Devils’ matches so far this spring. Dealing with a young and inexperienced lineup, Duke fought its way through a difficult nonconference slate early in the spring to try to get Mateas, Lin and their classmates

ready for conference play, another step up from junior tennis and some of their nonleague matches.

“The freshmen obviously haven’t had any conference experience. I think the dual season so far has really helped prepare them and I think they’ve grown a lot in terms of the expectations,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Our nonconference schedule has been really tough, so they’ve played ACC-level teams and we’re all excited for a fresh start and to get things together.”

After a tough stretch that saw Duke (6-6) fall in consecutive matches to Michigan and Vanderbilt to cap off a streak of six losses in seven matches, the Blue Devils have rebounded by securing four consecutive victories. Those contests all came against lesser opponents—North Carolina A&T, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina and Furman are all unranked. These victories have still provided confidence to the team moving into conference play.

“I think we’re ready. After the Vanderbilt match, we certainly weren’t See M. TENNIS on Page 17

Han Kang | The Chronicle Vincent Lin and several other Duke freshmen will get their first taste of conference play this weekend when the Blue Devils welcome Georgia Tech to Durham.

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really great team, so it’s a great opportunity to play on our home courts.”

A win Sunday would be the Blue Devils’ eighth victory to open their conference slate in the past nine seasons, after falling to Virginia Tech on the road a season ago.

By beating the Yellow Jackets, Duke would also push its record above .500 for the first time since its opening match of the spring against Elon Jan. 15.

“Things are clicking,” Smith said. “We’re doing our best to prepare and put ourselves in a position where everyone is playing and fighting their best in every single position. If we do that, then the sky is the limit.”

ready,” Smith said. “After these last two weeks of practice and double-headers, we have gotten into a better mindset and we have been working harder.”

After starting the season ranked No. 13 with a largely untested squad, the Blue Devils will again try to make the case for their re-entrance into the top 25 with a fifth straight victory and a quality win against an ACC opponent.

Georgia Tech (7-3) will not fall easily, though. The Yellow Jackets are also coming in on a hot streak of four consecutive victories, defeating Auburn, Georgia State, Mercer and Tennessee in preparation for the Blue Devils. No. 12 Christopher Eubanks—the Yellow Jackets’ premier singles player—has compiled an impressive season thus far, with a 20-5 overall record and a fast 7-1 start to the dual season.

Eubanks will likely compete on court one against Duke sophomore No. 15 Nicolas Alvarez in a rematch of a Nov. 12 meeting at the ITA National Championship. In the first round of that competition, Eubanks dispatched Alvarez in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. After initially trading points that led to a 3-3 score, the Yellow Jacket took nine of the final 12 games en route to victory. Eubanks advanced all the way to the semifinals before falling at the hands of California’s Andre Goransson.

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we didn’t give them another free base the rest of the ballgame,” Pollard said. “We did some things well. We forced them to make some mistakes. We limited them to five hits and only one extra-base hit and we certainly played good defense.”

The Blue Devils had several more late opportunities to rally and narrow the deficit.

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Three innings later, Duke pinch-hitter Michael Smiciklas led off with a walk and advanced to second when Kone—who finished 2-for-5 at the plate—reached on a bunt single with one out. But two more groundouts left Smiciklas and Kone stranded and clinched the Fighting Camels’ win.

“We forced them to make some mistakes,” Pollard said. “But we left some guys in scoring position.”

The Blue Devils will return to Durham Bulls Athletic Park Friday to begin a threegame weekend series against Toledo.

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BASEBALL from page 15 Duke’s pitching woes continued as the Fighting Camels extended their lead in the bottom of the fifth without recording a hit.

Whitten began the inning by hitting Kyle Prats with his first pitch, and after the sophomore walked Ben Calvano, Pollard brought in redshirt sophomore James Ziemba. The 6-foot-10 southpaw secured the first out of the inning when Anthony Lopez flied out to center field, but then lost his command as well. Campbell scored its final run when Ziemba walked the Fighting Camels’ next two batters.

Despite his pitching staff’s early struggles, Pollard was impressed that his squad did not surrender any additional runs in the last four innings. Ziemba worked three innings and allowed just one hit, and senior Nick Hendrix tossed a scoreless eighth.

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esterday, we scrutinized the procedural failures of administration’s investigations of EVP Tallman Trask’s 2014 hit-and-run incident, as well as what allowed Parking and Transportation Services’ hostile and discriminatory work environment to persist. Today, our title hearkens back to what Provost Sally Kornbluth stressed in the wake of April’s noose incident: if we remain as bystanders to racial macro- and micro-aggressions, “we’re all complicit.”

Since The Chronicle’s investigative pieces were released this week, administration has offered only radio silence. While the articles contain careful, lawyered responses from President Richard Brodhead and other administrators, students deserve much more in the way of confirmation or disputation of these investigations, clarification of the oversight involved in handling these issues and light shed on the follow-up with PTS Director Carl DePinto. If the experiences and facts of these articles are to be dispelled, so be it, but if they remain uncontested, the silence is unforgivable.

President Brodhead’s declaration that “This is no Duke we want. This is no Duke we accept” ought to be just as forceful today as it was on April 1. As leaders of the university, administrators have to expect the highest standards for their behavior. In the absence of communication, an alarming and unacceptable

double standard is implied. Administrators along with faculty and students set the tone of our university’s culture, and the opacity and silence thus far only serve to breed distrust we would rather avoid.

But this duty is not the administration’s to bear in full. We all accept the Community Standard the moment we step foot on campus: to conduct ourselves honorably in all our endeavors and to act if the Standard is compromised. Are these and our University’s mission statement going to be empty

Editorial words or commitments to live by?

Perhaps the lack of national media coverage and large-scale student backlash differentiates this from the lacrosse scandal, adhan prayer retraction and noose incident. For students, perhaps that these issues cannot be neatly packaged into tweets or shared viral pictures invites complacency to wait out the news cycles. Perhaps students are fatigued by last semester and national dialogues, or is it that it is hard to feel connected to these staff experiences? It may be that many students have the privilege of so far avoiding toxic work environments and power differentials with highup officials. No matter the reason, while DukeEnrage

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worked closely with Tallman Trask III as both Duke Student Government President and a three-year Chronicle columnist. As someone who knows him, I write to convey my heartfelt disbelief that Tallman said the things reported by The Chronicle Monday.

I could say he is not racist. He is not and never once betrayed any prejudice to me, including behind closed doors in the darkest hours of the lacrosse scandal. I could say he is not malicious. He is warm-hearted and decent; no one cares more about Duke or the Durham community, both of which he has devoted a great deal of his professional life to building.

I could also say he cares deeply for the wellbeing of service employees at Duke; ask those who were guests at his wedding.

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I will instead emphasize what you’d know the moment you met Tallman: the alleged remarks don’t match his wit, his demeanor, or his voice. He is too pithy for most adjectives, let alone lame and repetitive ones. He is certainly capable of clever barbs—frankly, far too capable to say anything that is both so heinous and so unimaginative. It’s not him.

I hope the Chronicle has kept in sufficient touch with the University’s leaders to inform its reporting with both familiarity and perspective.

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has called for Trask’s removal, the majority of students are nowhere to be found.

We point to last semester when students pushed to bridge the gap between administration and student voices. Yet all of us now contribute to that distance in our apathy. An opportunity to fight for oversight and against discrimination has been carefully and painstakingly handed down by The Chronicle’s investigations. Whether your concern is administrative oversight, the procedures of DUPD or the racial discrimination in PTS, you should not wait for events that hit closer to home. In November, students articulated what appeared to be an interest in Duke’s workers but now with experiences demonstrating bias against our workers, student outrage has yet to materialize.

We must reevaluate the relationship between DUPD and the administration, the role of Trask as a leader at Duke and the behaviors documented by PTS’ director among other issues. It is a crying shame that Tuesday’s most talked about piece of news was a UNC student dressed up in Duke gear to film a spoof video on campus. We believe in temperance and staying cool-headed in moments of scandal and revelation, but we are shocked at our campus’s silence compared to what has erupted over events with many fewer details.

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“Why should American voters prioritize growth when the overwhelming beneficiaries of growth are the top 1%? When the middle class is stagnating, and the poorest Americans are no better off than they were at the outset of the recession?”

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write to respond to Noah Kane’s March 2 Letter to the Editor about Monday evening’s SiriusXM Electoral College Tour comedy show.

My introduction to the show did indeed reference the POLIS belief that comedy can help us grapple with dysfunction in our political system. However, I certainly did not intend for my introduction to blame one party for the pathologies in our modern politics. I would like to emphasize that the views of the comedians did not represent the views of POLIS, and I wish that the comedy show had been more balanced.

Indeed, my colleagues and I were surprised by and uncomfortable with the one-sidedness of some of the routines.

Earlier in the day, all three comedians

broadcast their SiriusXM talk shows live from Penn Pavilion where they interviewed faculty and students from all political perspectives.

Listeners were encouraged by the civil dialogue that occurred—even among students who very much disagreed with one another.

POLIS aims to be explicitly bipartisan, and while not every individual event can be fully balanced, the complete range of programs and activities we pursue will reflect our commitment to bipartisanship. We do welcome and appreciate dialogue around these issues. If Mr. Kane or other students have ideas for guests we could invite to help us achieve the balance we desire, we are open to considering them.

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The completion of a covenant

hroughout the year, this column has repeatedly articulated an anthropology—a conception of the human person—that respects our human dignity and outlines our ultimate destiny.

Three weeks ago, in advance of Valentine’s Day, I urged that the essence of love is to seek the good of the other, the antithesis of “a utilitarian game.” That is, “one person cannot ‘use’ another for self-gratification and at the same

and looks a moment in the glass, / hardly aware of her departed lover;” and then “allows one half-formed thought to pass: / ‘well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.’”

The experience between the typist and the clerk manifested no feelings, no trust and no recognition of the subjectivity of the other person. They mutually reduced both themselves and each other to objects of pleasure. Not surprisingly, the encounter fulfilled neither; the

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shameful 19.9 percent of citizens ages 18 to 29 turned out to vote in the 2014 elections.

Similarly, only 22.4 percent of the freshman class voted in Duke Student Government Senate elections. One year later, for the same freshman senator elections, only 19.4 percent of the Class of 2019 electorate actually voted.

Clearly, young people do not like to vote.

The overwhelming proportion of youth backing of Bernie Sanders, which

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time make a gift of oneself. . . . We are human persons, not instruments.”

Last week, I asserted that the morality of our actions must be grounded in truth—in reality— and not simply arbitrated by a preferential “yes” or “no.” Consent alone cannot be the sole determinant of morality, as “consent can mean only ‘I will,’ not ‘I ought,’ and can express only a personal preference and not a moral imprimatur.”

This week, on cue, “One Sexy Week” arrived at Duke University, providing an opportunity to address more specifically the contrast between an anthropology of human dignity and one of utilitarian self-gratification.

“SexFest,” the headline event for “One Sexy Week,” was held Monday evening in Reynolds Theater and drew about 90 people, myself among them. The keynote speaker was Laci Green, who has been described as an activist, feminist, “sex-positive video blogger” and “peer sex educator.”

The event began with an introduction that touted the evening as an opportunity to learn how to “get consent” to “get some”—a seemingly aggressive, objectifying way to frame sex when opening a 75-minute talk about the scourges of rape culture and sexual assault. The talk itself, to its credit, presented the frightening prevalence of sexual assault and rape, especially among college-aged adults. Moreover, the talk rightly recognized that the human person should never be objectified.

But in promoting “consent culture”—a culture free of sexual norms, defining sex only by consent and pleasure—as the solution to rape culture, the event presented an empty vision of sexual relations that is incapable of rehabilitating the attitudes that underlie rape culture. Peculiarly, for an event called “SexFest,” sex in itself was never attributed any meaning, significance or purpose (other than physical pleasure). “Consent,” “safety” and “pleasure” were the buzzwords. “Love,” on the other hand, was not mentioned once.

That consent-based conception of human sexuality reduces sex to a transactional act between two (or more, I suppose) people, no different from a chess match or an exchange of goods. In doing so, that conception of sex vitiates human dignity and misconstrues the human person as a utilitarian object of pleasure, the very perspective that fuels the lamentable rape culture.

The great 20th-century poet T.S. Eliot vividly captured the dehumanization that ensues when “consent” is the only measure of sexual activity.

In his hallmark piece, “The Waste Land,” Eliot describes modernist England, a place bereft of transcendence, loving relationships and meaning. He then hones in on a young typist, a “lovely woman” alone in her apartment at teatime. Soon, the expected guest, a clerk— note that both are nameless, underscoring the anonymity of the whole encounter— knocks at the door, and an ephemeral and “unreproved” carnal collision promptly follows.

After the hook-up, the clerk “Bestows one final patronizing kiss, / And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit.” The typist, meanwhile, “turns

has created a conspicuous presence on social media, coupled with the fact that, according to The Atlantic, “the youth … can indeed be a tipping point [in elections],” ironically act in stark contrast to the reality of youth voter participation.

Even on Duke’s campus, there is only a nascent movement to engage college students in political affairs.

Only two of three candidates who ran for 2016-2017 Duke Student Government President had registered to vote as of last Friday. This alone speaks volumes on our student leadership, the culture of the wider Duke community and our overall investment in Durham.

Laziness is the explanation for abysmal youth-voter turnouts; youth today are amongst the most “young, active and techy.” Rather, the idea of voting lacks immediacy—a mentality that pervades our understanding of current political affairs. With that, it is time to say “enough” to the amalgamation of apathy, frustration and ignorance that has resulted in laughable voter turnouts.

It is important to note that despite the thriving culture of politics on the Internet, many young voters do not vote because of the laws that work against them. New voting restrictions in many states make it harder for eligible voters to actually vote, though on Duke’s campus, the mere demographics and resources available to students suggest another narrative.

When Duke students launch campaigns based on “popping the Duke bubble,” the attention directed towards fostering understandings of our home are disappointing, if not deceptive.

Duke students are tragically sheltered in their understanding and exposure of the Durham we live in.

The difficult-to-navigate public transit system is not the only thing connecting Duke to Durham. The schools that we volunteer at are the product of ongoing gentrification. Many of our professors are living in houses downtown whose prices have risen 100 percent to 400 percent in the past ten years. Our 9th Street dinner options are a culmination of one of the world’s most inventive and tastiest food scene, and even the members of Duke Parking and Transportation Services (that our administration can uncontestably disrespect and hit with silver Porches) are Durham community members. Duke is a part of Durham and hence its problems should be regarded as ours too.

Youth activism and political engagement is paramount to the establishment of a community order whereby young people address their concerns and influence policy Wills Rooney is a Trinity Senior. His column decisions related to their future housing, employment and educational runs on alternate Thursdays. clerk departed furtively, while the typist, alone in her apartment, could not bring herself to contemplate what had just occurred.

The emptiness that follows such encounters—encounters not unfamiliar to Shooters, etc.—has been expressed by many who have engaged in hook-up culture.

Social science surveys have found widespread dissatisfaction among hookup participants, especially college-aged adults. In one study, 77 percent of female students regretted their hook-ups, while in another, 78 percent of women and 72 percent of men regretted having uncommitted sexual hook-ups. Furthermore, men were more likely to feel regret for having used a woman, while women were more likely to regret their having been used—the latter of which Eliot so intensely illustrates in “The Waste Land.”

“Consent culture” and human dignity are incompatible because human dignity flows from the reality, the objective truth, of sexual relations that “consent culture” denies. In fact, our sexuality expresses our relational dimension as persons and articulates itself through the language of the body. The rightful sexual union rests upon and completes a covenant in which male and female unite, freely and fully, physically and spiritually, committedly and indissolubly. In respecting the reality of the act, they thereby demonstrate an openness to accepting its natural consequence—the potentiality for new human life—into a family of unconditional love.

Sex thus unites romantic and charitable love—eros and agape—and combines physical attraction and spiritual self-gift, matching perfectly our integrated bodily and spiritual nature. The very idea of “getting consent” to “get some” is absurd, for sex is about neither “getting” nor “something” but about giving one’s entire self—one’s person, one’s love, one’s fertility—to another person through a reciprocal union.

Which account of sex accords with your heart, with your deepest interior self? If sexual relations as the completion of a covenant resonates, building toward a “covenant culture,” do not think you are alone. Many on college campuses across the country are forming communities of like-minded students through the Love & Fidelity Network and similar organizations.

In making its case against rape culture, SexFest mistook what is most important: the nature of the human person and its consequences for the meaning of sex. When sex is understood truthfully, as it actually is in its authentic depth and meaning—and not as a consensual, utilitarian engagement of pleasure—instrumentalization and objectification become impossible, and rape culture is eviscerated. Even more, by respecting the true nature of sex and the reverence that a covenant merits, we respect the true nature of ourselves and others—that we are not objects but persons, images of God bestowed with inestimable dignity and worthy of love.

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opportunities. The same goes to our investment in issues affecting Duke staff and local small businesses. Thus, it is critical that we as students take part in these local elections.

There will be many contests and referenda on the ballots you submit in the coming days; the North Carolina primary election takes place on March 15, and early voting begins today at the Freeman Center. Take the time to look beyond the first two most seemingly potent votes, and look into, for example, the County

Commissioners’ race for five seats.

One Commissioner running for reelection is Wendy Jacobs. A Duke alumna and founder of the Duke Coffeehouse, Jacobs has worked for environmental conservation, poverty reduction, the preservation of Durham’s social services, Durham workforce development and more. More specifically, she is committed to addressing the issues of gentrification and affordable housing. After urban renewal funds stemming from the Housing Act of 1949 were mishandled and used to displace traditionally African-American communities in Durham and throughout the nation, Jacobs wants to reverse the course of these changes and ensure prosperity for all sectors of our community.

To me, the most important demonstration of Durham’s commitment to equity is the 2016-17 Durham County budget. In tutoring at several public schools in Durham, I have worked with first graders who confide that they are “too hungry” to focus on reading.

Furthermore, the supplementary breakfast provided is insufficient—in effect, Durham Public Schools needs more funding. Last year, Jacobs voted against the County budget since it did not give DPS the requested amount of local funding—a valiant act to put a dent in the cycle of poverty and the underequipped DPS education system.

In effect, the issues we investigate can lead to greater consciousness and action on Durham affairs. Thus, from now till the end of voting, challenge yourself to truly ‘pop the Duke bubble.’

My final call is two-fold. Firstly, vote; same-day registration is still an option with simply one government-issued piece of identification. Yes, there are people making it difficult for us to act on our right to vote. However, instead of self-silencing and sitting passively, take action. Learn more at the N.C. Voter Guide website.

Secondly, I implore you to explore the full extent of the ballots you receive. A front-runner of the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Democratic Attorney Roy Cooper, has asked for a “pause” on Syrian refugees coming to North Carolina. Still, the most progressive community organization in Durham, the People’s Alliance Political Action Committee voted to endorse him.

The intricacies of Durham politics are in many ways reflective of the Washington D.C. political scene.

Look beyond party affiliations and challenge yourself to make informed decisions on leaders who will shape your greater community.

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

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