March 8, 2016

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Students urge Duke to make facilities more accessible Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Although access to buildings on campus for students with disabilities has improved in recent years, some students say there is still work to be done.

Following student advocacy beginning in 2011, the Disability Management System instituted a series of short-term and longterm plans focused on implementing policies to make campus buildings and transportation more accessible. Since then, more buildings and sidewalks meet the specifications of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez wrote in an email. However, some students with disabilities expressed frustration about the current state of campus buildings.

“Duke has so much money and it’s used to make new buildings, but a portion of it could be used to make buildings more accessible,” said junior Cuquis Robledo, president of Duke Disability Alliance.

Senior Jay Ruckelshaus—the founder and president of Ramp Less Traveled, a nonprofit organization that helps students with spinal cord injuries pursue higher education—noted that several places on West Campus, such as Craven and Crowell Quadrangles, still need to be improved.

Robledo explained that the lack of accessibility in some West Campus dormitories poses problems when she wants to visit friends living in these locations. In addition, she noted that the Languages building on West, which does not have a ramp, is impossible for her to enter.

“There are certain classes that I can’t take

Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Some students feel that the University should make it easier for those with disabilities to get to certain dormitories and academic buildings.

[because they are held in Languages],” she said. “I think it would be better in the longrun to fix the front of Languages.”

Ruckelshaus explained that many structures on West have not been able to undergo renovations because of the age and architecture of the buildings.

“It’s frustrating but understandable,” he said.

Ruckelshaus noted that he thinks

the construction projects currently in progress—including the West Union and the new student health center—will leave campus in a much better place than it was before.

“In the short term, it’s been annoying, especially the closing of the bridge between Main Quad and the Bryan Center,” he said. “But it’s part of the effort of making it more accessible.”

However, Robledo noted that she believes the value Duke places on making buildings aesthetically pleasing inhibits the effective implementation of measures to improve accessibility.

Many ramps to buildings, especially on East Campus, are located behind buildings, which makes them harder for students with disabilities to utilize, she said.

Although progress has been made in the main areas of West Campus, Robledo noted that some parts of campus seem to have been forgotten.

“I can’t take art classes in the buildings on the backside of East Campus, which is definitely frustrating,” she said.

She added that one of her friends chose to rush a particular fraternity because he knew that the dorm where the fraternity lived was accessible to those with disabilities.

The snow this year caused additional difficulties for Robledo and her friends who also have disabilities, she said. Because the walkway in front of her dorm in Edens was not cleared of ice and because snow had been pushed onto sidewalks, she was unable to attend class.

Gonzalez wrote that Housing, Dining and Residence Life is committed to addressing the needs of students with disabilities.

“I believe that most are very happy with the efforts and changes that are made,” he wrote.

However, Robledo noted that she feels that students with disabilities tend to get forgotten in the face of other issues on campus because they make up only a small See ACCESSIBILITY on Page 3

Med School announces new Center for Population Health Sciences Vir Patel The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle Dr. Lesley Curtis will direct the new center that will collaborate with other health-related programs to investigate research solutions.

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Public health experts at Duke are taking steps to establish a new population health department in the School of Medicine with the recent launch of the Center for Population Health Sciences.

The center will be directed by Dr. Lesley Curtis, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Pragmatic Health Services Research in the Duke Clinical Research Institute. It will aim to identify important factors that govern the health of populations and individuals and will also seek to provide new research solutions based on disciplines such as epidemiology, health services research, health economics and statistics.

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Curtis wrote in an email that the CPHS will partner with other campus departments, including the DCRI, Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Center for Community and Population Health Improvement and the Duke University Health System.

“Collaboration with other clinical research centers is one of the most exciting aspects of what lies ahead,” she wrote. “I expect collaborations across many dimensions ranging from cosponsorship of colloquium events to codevelopment of educational programs and research initiatives. By working together, we capitalize on each other’s strengths, address unmet needs and create a stronger foundation for [our future research].”

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Curtis explained that the idea for establishing the CPHS began as a discussion between senior administrators at the School of Medicine last Spring.

Representatives from the University’s many groups that perform clinical research and study health policy were later assembled to develop the new center and shape its vision, she added.

Duke’s Center for Community and Population Health Improvement was one of the groups involved in establishing the CPHS and hopes to complement the new initiative’s goals, wrote Dr. Ebony Boulware, professor of medicine and director of the CCPHI, in an email. The work of the CCPHI centers on developing See POPULATION HEALTH on Page 3

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Alumna discusses nonprofit’s pro-life stance, election Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Marjorie Dannenfelser, Trinity ’88, is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a nonprofit that seeks to elect pro-life politicians.

The Chronicle’s Neelesh Moorthy spoke with Dannenfelser to discuss her shift in opinions from pro-choice to pro-life at Duke and her opinions on the current election.

The Chronicle: What is the Susan B. Anthony List?

Marjorie Dannenfelser: Our mission is to elect mainly women who will enact laws that will save lives, and from the perspective I come from that means women are advocates for pro-life laws. In my view, that is the natural and feminist origin of women’s rights. Elections are the central missing piece of the pro-life movement. That is the foundation for the forming of legislation, and at the same time as forming legislation you have to elect these people.

There was a group of women that was Feminists for Life that had the idea [for the SBAL] first, and because I had the same idea, we found each other. It was a very diverse group of women, some Quakers, some Democrats, there was me, a Republican, so a diverse group of women came together at the same time to launch a new idea about what women’s rights and abortion activism meant.

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TC: How is the pro-life viewpoint related to feminism?

MD: If you really look at the foundations of feminism, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, had a unanimous opinion on what this was. Abortion was not a word then, but it was very clear what they thought.

There are other scholars that disagree with me, but it is very difficult to look at the actual words of these women and deal with the fact of what they said. Susan B. Anthony said that, referring to the act of abortion, the act would ‘burden a women’s conscience and burden her soul in death.’

Her newspaper, The Revolution, was very hard to sustain financially, but she was very adamant that she would not take advertising from the one group of women who really wanted to advertise in her paper, and that was women, especially in New York, who wanted to advertise Restellism [, an old term for abortion].

It’s exploitation because when a woman finds herself in a sexual relationship that she finds herself unequal in, and then the guy decides that he doesn’t want any part of the child that comes of that relationship, he can walk away. She might have a moral compunction about doing away with that child, but he can walk away. He can always cleanse his hands of that relationship, and she cannot. She’s left to deal with that situation.

If the woman is the one who wants to get rid of the baby, however, it’s not exploitation. When I used to be prochoice, I would have done the same thing.

My thoughts were at that time ‘I’m getting rid of a problem.’ I think that’s what a lot of women in that situation think, so I guess in that instance it’s not exploitation.

But what is happening is science has improved, and time has gone on testing

MD: More important than anything else was philosophy. I could not escape the most vacuous arguments that I was making myself. ‘My body, my choice’ simply doesn’t last very long under examination. The political piece was out on the quad. There was no pro-life group.

I was changing my opinion, my views were evolving, and I came out and spoke my piece. I was absolutely and completely shouted down by the group, but I thought it was important to say what I thought. I started out pre-med as well, and while it turned out being a doctor wasn’t for me, the scientific method—evaluating the evidence—was also impactful.

The truth is my opinion evolved over time. I think it was just the fruit of intensified argument and conversation. It was also TC: There was a law in North Carolina prayer—it was a time when faith was really that required abortion providers to show an important to me as well. I thought at that ultrasound to pregnant women seeking an abortion, but it was struck down by an appeals See DANNENFELSER on Page 3 court for violating doctors’ free-speech rights.

Do you support such a law?

MD: If an ultrasound is going to happen, the women should be given that information. It’s the only test that somehow has a different test for whether you show it to the women. Why should we as women be protected from that information? It’s okay if you don’t want to look at it. You can say you don’t want to look at it, but I think it’s one of the most important pieces of information they could possibly have. Why in this one situation would we not insist that the information be provided, especially if it involves the life of another person? the theories of Roe v. Wade that it’s not as simple as we hoped. We hoped it would be a simple procedure that would liberate ourselves from the consequences of what happened, but it’s not that simple. One of the reasons is ultrasound. When a woman witnessed what is actually happening to the person we claim has been harmed, and with ultrasound and pictures of what is happening to the unborn child, we’re looking at that and we’re thinking twice.

For me, that’s where it changed.

There’s only one reason why I’d ever be against abortion, and that’s because there are two lives involved. There are two people to consider in every abortion. We’re not talking about a person and their appendix.

We’re talking about two people.

TC: I know that you were previously Special to The Chronicle the pro-choice chair of Duke College Republicans at Duke. What experiences at Marjorie Dannenfelser became pro-life at Duke after starting college pro-choice.

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Ruckelshaus explained that because there are very few students with disabilities, the University does not attract as many applicants who have disabilities as other schools do.

“Because of this, we don’t have as many students advocating for [disability access] issues,” he said. “It’s a vicious cycle.”

He added that although he believes projects making West Campus dorms and buildings accessible are needed, focusing on minor dorm renovations—like those to Giles dorm on East Campus—is probably better. Such projects will positively impact the majority of students’ experiences, Ruckelshaus said.

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“We have worked very hard to make sure students do not miss out on experiences due to limitation with housing accommodations, regardless of the cost and work required,” he wrote.

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“Researchers of CCPHI will be intimately engaged with those of CPHS—I envision many faculty may have affiliations in both, although our missions are distinct,” she wrote. “I also believe that the Center for Population Health Sciences will focus on developing research methodologies that can [someday] be applied in Centers like CCPHI to better understand the determinants and drivers of health.”

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time that it was just an intellectual journey for me, but it was probably also spiritual.

TC: How has the fact you have gone through this transition affected how you campaign for pro-life causes?

MD: I thought I was the best advocate for the pro-choice standpoint, so I gave a very strong libertarian argument and what I thought was a very strong pro-choice argument, knowing on a non-intellectual side that I would have had an abortion in an instant, that I had no moral compunction against it.

Knowing those things, if you change your mind, I can tell people I disagree with that I share their views. That is the essence of a liberal arts education, and that’s what I got from Duke. What I got from Duke is the ability to argue with people I disagree with, and because I have had this pro-choice stance myself, it makes it very real and it pushes me to have a conversation that embraces different premises.

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TC: In one of the Republican debates, it was mentioned that Planned Parenthood has a lot of useful functions beneficial to women’s health. Are you in favor of defunding them, given those other functions they serve?

MD: As long as they make abortion the central component of their enterprise, I’m in favor of defunding them. If they gave up abortion, we would have no fight on our hands. The ratio of community health centers that do far more than any particular Planned Parenthood clinic is around 30-to-1. They are far more accessible and they provide far more services to women, despite the public relations Planned Parenthood puts out. This is well-documented not just by us but also by Congressional Quarterly. What Planned Parenthood has is political leverage. In a second [I would defund them], because all that money would then go to those community centers that do far more for women, because it actually serves women’s health.

TC: What presidential candidate in your mind has the best position on abortion?

MD: Our position is to improve every single candidate.

Our biggest concern has been and still is to get every single candidate committed to certain deliverables when they become president—defunding Planned Parenthood, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act, nominating a justice for the Supreme Court who is sane and has a fielty to the Constitution. We’ve never had a Republican field like we do currently. Trump is the very last choice and has been the very last choice, but he has satisfied the minimum standards.

If you really think that this abortion issue is about 4,000 lives every single day, what do you do? Who do you choose? If it comes down to Trump versus Clinton, we’ve got to really look at that question.

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Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle Through his first 38 games as the head coach of Richmond, Dan Chemotti had yet to pick up a signature win for his young Spider program.

Monday night against his alma mater, he and his team flipped the script and picked up a hallmark victory, making a statement on the road in Durham.

Richmond upset No. 9 Duke 12-10 at Koskinen Stadium behind a stellar defensive effort that shut out RICH 12 the Blue Devils in the DUKE 10 fourth quarter and a four-goal outing from attackman Mitch Goldberg. Duke got a pair of hat tricks from senior Chad Cohan and sophomore Justin Guterding, but they were not nearly enough to overcome a gritty performance from the Spiders.

“This is a program-defining win for the University of Richmond. I’m extremely proud of our guys,” Chemotti said.

“Anybody can beat anybody. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past nor what it says on the front of your jersey. If a team plays better for the 60 minutes of game time, [they are going to win].”

A back-and-forth game—one in which the lead changed hands five times—was highlighted by a Richmond possession with the game tied at 10 in the fourth quarter that lasted for nearly three and a half minutes. The Spiders moved the ball efficiently through the offensive zone and peppered Blue Devil goalie Danny Fowler with three straight shots— all of which narrowly missed.

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Duke (4-3), Guterding—the Blue Devils’ points leader this season—registered three more goals, bringing his career total to 101 points through just 25 games. The Garden City, N.Y., native became the fastest Duke player to pass the century mark, breaking the record of current Blue Devil assistant coach Matt Danowski—who accomplished the feat in his first 27 games more than a decade ago.

The sophomore’s two goals in the first 2:22 of the game staked Duke to an early 2-0 lead. Even though the Spiders responded forcefully to knot the game at

When the 15 finalists for the Wooden Award—the annual prize for the most outstanding college basketball player—were announced Saturday, there was one notable name missing from the list.

It wasn’t Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine or Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield.

Instead, it was freshman phenom and projected No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons who was nowhere to be found.

According to ESPN Insider Jeff Goodman, Simmons was not certified by Louisiana State to appear on the ballot because he “did not have the necessary criteria to be eligible.”

Considering the 6-foot-10 forward was benched for the start of the Tigers’ Feb. 20 game against Tennessee for academic issues, this led many to assert that Simmons had failed to meet the academic requirements for the award—a meager 2.0 GPA. If the freshman is struggling academically as the reports have pointed out, the question for many then becomes how he is even able to play for Louisiana State if he cannot qualify for an award that recognizes his abilities on the court. But another big issue stemming from the reports is Simmons’ status as a presumed one-and-done player in the NCAA, with the bright lights of the NBA ahead of him.

Prior to the 2006 draft, the NBA established a minimum age requirement

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Jack White | The Chronicle Attackman Mitch Goldberg found the back of the net four times as Richmond stunned Duke Monday at Koskinen Stadium.

It was the fourth shot, though, from freshman Teddy Hatfield that finally found the back of the net and gave Richmond (5-1) an 11-10 lead it would not relinquish.

Duke head coach John Danowski was not made available to the media after the game.

“It was definitely a defining moment of the game. We’ve been struggling to find ourselves and find the right combinations,” Chemotti said. “It was really just our normal motion set and sharing the ball. It was a very unselfish play and Teddy [Hatfield] was on the receiving end.”

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Four Blue Devils earn auto-bids to NCAA tournament Seth Johnson The Chronicle

For the first time in program history, the Blue Devils will be sending more than two grapplers to the NCAA tournament in backto-back seasons.

No. 21 Duke will send four grapplers to Madison Square Garden in New York March 17-19 for a chance at an NCAA title, based on Sunday’s ACC championships at John Paul Jones in Charlottesville, Va. The Blue Devils scored 33 team points to finish fifth, headlined by a second straight ACC title at 197 pounds for No. 5 Conner Hartmann and a second consecutive runner-up finish for No. 9 Mitch Finesilver—this year at 149 pounds after placing second last season at 133 pounds.

“When you sit back and look at it, what we’re doing at Duke—it’s special right now,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham told GoDuke.com.

“It’s special for the way our guys are coming

here and competing and the steps that the program is taking. Obviously we’ve got some steps to go. We’ve got to continue to work hard and that’s what we’re going to do.”

Hartmann had no trouble taking his No. 1 seed into the championship bout Sunday to vie for his second title in as many years.

The redshirt senior received a bye into the semifinals, where he defeated N.C. State’s No. 4 seed Michael Boykin 2-0 to enter the evening’s championship round. There, the Port Orchard, Wash., native faced off against Virginia Tech’s Jared Haught—the No. 2 seed—and maintained control en route to a 4-2 victory to defend his crown.

With the victory, Hartmann becomes the eighth Blue Devil to win multiple titles and qualifies for the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in his career. When he enters The World’s Most Famous Arena March 17, the 197-pounder will be seeking his third consecutive All-America bid, which would make him the first Duke grappler to achieve the honor.

After battling from the sixth seed at 133 pounds last season to a runner-up finish, Finesilver utilized his No. 2 seed at 149 pounds to achieve the same feat in his sophomore campaign. The Greenwood Village, Colo., native captured his second silver Sunday and his second NCAA bid in two seasons.

No. 4 seed Zach Finesilver dropped into the consolation semifinals, but the redshirt freshman battled back into the third-place match, falling 4-0 against No. 3 seed Joey Ward.

With four automatic bids available at the weight class, the 141-pounder joined his twin brother in punching a ticket to the Big Apple.

Despite having the No. 2 seed, 165-pound grappler Jake Faust dropped two consecutive matches to start his day and fell into the fifth-place matchup. With five automatic bids available in the weight class for the conference, Faust dispatched No. 6 seed Garrett Peppelman of Virginia 11-4 to lock up Duke’s final automatic bid.

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Redshirt senior Conner Hartmann won his second straight ACC title Sunday night.

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collegiate career hanging by a thread—unless his team can make a 2011 Connecticut-esque run in the SEC tournament—Simmons has to consider how his actions off the court may affect his stock moving into June.

Despite his struggles of late, Duke’s Brandon Ingram was just named ACC Rookie of the Year and nabbed a spot on the All-ACC Second Team with his 16.7 points, 6.8 boards and 1.4 blocks per game.

Generally considered the only player that could make a push at the No. 1 spot ahead of Simmons, Ingram may have to come alive in the postseason if he wants a shot at the first overall pick.

But considering the reports surrounding Simmons’ academic situation, why not take Ingram, who has avoided off-the-court issues and is being shipped directly from Coach K’s one-and-done farm in Durham?

That seems like a more reliable option, right? Probably not.

Although Simmons has developed a knack for not meeting the academic standards set before him, he should have never been asked to. If it were not for a superfluous rule forcing him to play in a league that he had no interest in, then he would be on his way to challenging Karl-Anthony Towns for Rookie of the Year at the highest level.

The academic rigors of being a studentathlete at the Division I level are hard, so give Simmons a break. As Blue Devil big man Alaa Abdelnaby once said, “The only way I can make five A’s is when I sign my name.”

So let’s stop making players who don’t want to pursue the collegiate avenue take that path and let them make their own decisions about when and where to play. We do not force our children to go to college if they choose a different route, so why should we force our athletes?

of 19 to play at the professional level. For many, this was a way to ensure that players went to college and developed prior to going pro. Others saw it as a way to keep top-flight talent around for at least one year in what is essentially the farm system of the NBA. The problem, as Simmons’ case demonstrates, is that players that have no interest in sticking around for four years at the college level, putting up videogame numbers—Simmons is averaging 19.6 points, 11.9 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game—and foregoing the ‘student’ part of ‘student-athlete.’

So, why not weed out the players that do not want to be there and just let them move on to earn the big bucks?

Although it seems to make sense to return to the norm of high school players going pro—it worked well for Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James—NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has openly stated that he would rather raise the age to 20, making most players stick around for two years rather than one.

But that does not solve the problem.

The players do not want to spend two years at a school just to abandon ship mid-collegiate career and pursue the dreams they envisioned the entire time.

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With the score tied at six heading into the halftime break, the second half brought more of the same see-saw action. A pair of late third-quarter goals from Cohan and junior Jack Bruckner brought life to the Blue Devils bench, but a quick answer from Goldberg gave Danowski’s squad just a 10-9 lead heading into the final 15 minutes.

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two apiece, a third goal from Guterding with less than two ticks left in the first period pulled the Blue Devils back in front, 4-3.

The second quarter saw a number of dazzling saves by Richmond goalie Benny Pugh—who finished with 12 on the night—that allowed the Spiders to turn defense into offense, making use of an efficient transition attack that scored three straight goals and gave Richmond its first lead of the night at 6-5.

“With only one day to prepare for a team like Duke, we didn’t want to complicate things too much,” Chemotti said. “We wanted to stick to our normal defensive focuses and things that worked.

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ast week, the administration announced three new programming spaces for AsianAmerican, Latinx and Native American student communities in the expanded Center for Multicultural Affairs. We look now at what needs these spaces meet and at the importance of recognizing the efforts of groups on campus, such as Mi Gente and the Asian-American Alliance, which have advocated for such changes for years.

Immediately apparent is how the Mi Gente announcement that it would stop collaborating on the Latino Student Recruitment Weekend played a part in why these changes were so swiftly agreed upon.

Previously, Mi Gente used its undergraduate funds for the admissions event, a reality that became untenable given that they found themselves “continuously disappointed with Duke and its dismissal of the needs of students of color.” After meetings through February, administration granted the programming spaces, independent LSRW funding and two other demands made by Mi Gente.

For activists on campus, Mi Gente’s actions serve as a case study of interfacing with administration.

Here, what really shone were the necessity of disruption when years of respectful dialogue had not worked and the value of compromise through meetings and negotiation of what can and cannot

“‘It is certainly possible that Trump knows exactly what he is doing.’ Read his book. It’s pretty safe to say he knows exactly what he is doing. He’s not an idiot, as much as everyone might want to think so.”

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be done. Inspecting the changes actually wrought by these methods, the new programming spaces stand to represent a symbolic commitment on Duke’s behalf to marginalized students as well as to offer students a physical safe and relatively sovereign space on campus.

To understand why these changes are important, we must remember that this university was never built originally for non-white students and that on our campus, and others across the country, marginalized

Editorial students are still targeted. Symbolically, these new spaces are a commitment to not just have students of color and different backgrounds on campus but to have those communities shaping campus in their own right.

While we understand safe space is a charged term on campus and in national conversation, we maintain that the spectrum of student comfort and discomfort on campus is real to every individual’s lived experience and that it is important to disentangle the idea of a safe space from the action of self-segregation. For students who do not see their communities reflected in Duke’s broader student

body, these changes offer a way to find a home of one sort or another. If a student even once makes use of the space in a moment of need or crisis, this validation is the founding motivation for this kind of change. Furthermore, these new spaces mean hiring staff who are Asian-American, Latinx and Native American. Currently, the Latinx community has few staff members of these backgrounds in mentorship roles, and the Asian-American and Native American communities have next to none. Seeing Duke choose someone who looks like you as a mentor and leader is crucial. Being able to connect with them in a safe space, even more so.

While not every student needs programming from their communities to feel included or even needs a designated cultural space to go to, these facts do not make the effort any less valuable for those who do. As cultural, social and political growth for communities happen in one area of campus life, as facilitated by these changes to the CMA, the positive feedback cycle of how designated spaces can affect the broader campus will hopefully pick up, along with students’ abilities to engage in these dialogues constructively.

In tomorrow’s editorial, we turn to the importance of diversity and understanding racial identities in the interests of discerning what our campus community can do to be more welcoming and harmonious.

Finding spontaneity at Duke

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arly last week I woke up to this text from my little sister. “Mom and Dad are taking me to DC for the weekend! I wish you could come!” Groggy from just waking up and lacking the judgment of a fully awake human being I replied, “I am coming!”

This would be answered by a frantic series of emojis, exclamation points and general glee. I talked to my parents and friends later, and it was decided— my friends and I were road tripping to DC. This weekend was a lot of firsts. First time driving for more than 35 minutes at a time. First time crying to Adele on I-95 and then blasting Eminem 100 miles later. First time I prioritized doing something

doesn’t necessarily mean that you must give up your academic focus or other commitments. Too often, we think about life and decisions as sacrifices. There is the famous myth that in college you must choose two of the three S’s: sleep, social life and school.

There is definitely a hint of truth behind that, but to simply accept the idea that you can only choose two pieces is defeatist and untrue. Living life “to the fullest” is basically the most boring, cliché idea that exists, but I think it somehow implies that you’re living on the fringe, bungee-diving, backpacking and whitewater rafting all over the world. We operate under the assumption that we’re all held back by our commitments, and that the most ideal way of

Shruti Rao TAMING OF THE SHRU fun with family and friends over getting all my homework done. As expected, the weekend was a great time. We tried out fun chocolate bars in the city, visited national monuments and slept in like the sleep deprived college kids we are.

To be fully honest, I later found out that I had some important meetings in DC that meant I would have had to drive up anyway. However, it still felt like a spontaneous trip. The fun I had exploring the city and spending time with people I care about became the primary objective of the weekend, and the meetings were almost an afterthought. It also taught me an important lesson about what we value most in life and balancing all of one’s commitments.

Sometimes it pays to be whimsical and to set aside time to just enjoy life.

Of course, not everyone can or should just pick up and leave Duke. Spontaneity can be a late night drive to pick up milkshakes. It can be calling a friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time with whom you want to reconnect. It can be going to the Arts Annex and trying to make a clay pot from the pottery wheel even though you have no experience.

The point is that having fun or being spontaneous

living would be to simply walk away from a “normal” life and do something completely unheard of.

Hiking and road-tripping are great getaways.

They have the potential to let us recharge, remind us of what we care about and are usually pretty fun.

However, my trip this weekend didn’t make me think that if only I road tripped more and got off campus more, then my life would be more fulfilling.

Instead, it encouraged me to think a little more consciously about how I was allocating energy in my life, if I was focusing on making time throughout my day to incorporate something that brings me or people around me joy.

Part of what makes Duke special is that every person here is incredibly different. Special snowflakes, if you will. There are different things that make us tick, emotionally and academically.

But if there is anything that drives me and what I’d guess drives all of us is the famous Christopher Morely quote, “There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Shruti Rao is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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new wave of political activism is polarizing America.

Both left and right are throwing caution to the wind for the sake of making points. Important issues are being raised, but at the cost of growing division.

Donald Trump has exploited the chaos, building more and more momentum for his campaign. If you think he’s finished, think again—just look at his last rally. If we don’t want him to be president, we’re going to have to set aside our differences and proceed cautiously.

Often, it makes enemies. At least, it fatigues potential supporters.

Moreover, these well-intentioned efforts can create an atmosphere that is hard for many to navigate. Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a staunch liberal, put it well: “Even those of us on the left feel the wrath of the leftier-than-thou brigade from time to time…for someone without my advantages, I can easily see how it might feel almost impossible to express an unpopular opinion without tying yourself in knots.”

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magine if a world-renowned biologist fundamentally disagreed with the basic theories and models underlying the core Molecular Biology course at Duke. Though it would be very worrisome, any biology major will tell you that their discipline doesn’t face such a problem. Unfortunately, as an economics major, I cannot say the same thing.

The major’s core macroeconomics course that I am currently taking uses the micro-foundation approach of Robert Barro and other New Classical

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Although this is a bipartisan problem, I am going to focus here on the political left. That is not because the right doesn’t engage in its own brand of controversial activism (as anyone can see from the Oregon standoff, asinine draw Muhammad parties or Trump rallies). Rather, it’s because most of us at Duke are left-leaning, and because I personally support many liberal causes.

My goal is to share my observations in good faith.

I’m conflicted. I want to praise activists for starting difficult conversations and striving to build a better society. As a result of their often thankless work, issues such as racial justice, income inequality and implicit bias are now being talked about. That said, I fear some efforts may be backfiring. I fear they may even be feeding the type of resentment behind Trump’s success.

His rise isn’t the left’s fault; that responsibility rests with the GOP. He’s tapping into latent American anger, amplified by the past decade’s Republican agenda. However, some of his popularity is certainly attributable to leftists alienating Middle America. I’m not alone in this belief; Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, conservative scholar James Kalb, Rupert Cornwell of The Independent and others share it.

What is going wrong? Are efforts to build a more inclusive world backfiring?

Quite possibly.

I see three problems: first, many of the tactics employed evoke the wrong emotional responses. Second, too many battles are being fought. Lastly, an elitist, exclusionary atmosphere has inadvertently been created.

Let’s ask ourselves: is it productive to hold signs like “Rush KKKG,” to spit on people listening to a speaker we dislike or to jump on stage at a Bernie Sanders rally? Does disrupting a Trump speech show his supporters the blight of racism? Do hair-trigger “Islamophobia” accusations build understanding? Does shaming people into silence genuinely change their views? Does protesting art exhibitions or yoga classes make people want to be more culturally sensitive?

I could go on. The answer is no. These strategies provoke anger, outrage and retaliation. They do not build understanding.

Sometimes they are necessary to jump-start systemic change, but their egregious overuse has been counterproductive.

What is more important: building solidarity to stop a Trump presidency or confronting every instance of cultural/ racial/social insensitivity? Are Yik Yak, fraternities and offensive professors truly the biggest problems in society right now?

I don’t know, but my instinct tells me there are bigger fish to fry. Demanding resignations, boycotting speakers and issuing ultimatums does not make friends.

With the election coming up, it is more important than ever not to alienate allies. The drama on college campuses does not occur in a vacuum. The rightwing press documents every instance of activists stepping over the line. Situations that might ordinarily seem like innocuous overreactions or growing pains are feeding the popularity of a candidate with incalculable destructive potential.

If we think the situation is bad now, just picture the Wikipedia page for Trump reading “45th President of the United States.” Stop saying it can never happen.

It can.

There is a solid chance that he could win in November with the help of disgruntled Democrats; a recent poll found that 20 percent of Democrats would be willing to vote for him. Rather than confronting people directly, angry Americans can vent into the ballot box. To say that would be catastrophic is an understatement.

We must all do our parts to stop giving him ammunition. The evidence is irrefutable—his supporters cite a hatred of “political correctness” as one of their primary motivations. Any action which furthers the perception of the left and/or Democrats as being too PC is tantamount to campaigning for Trump. It doesn’t matter how noble the cause—we must use utmost discretion and choose our battles.

Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic phrased it perfectly, “Citizens who oppose Trumpism are going to have to…persuade more Americans to adopt those norms voluntarily, for substantive reasons, not under duress of social shaming or other coercion.”

That means practicing enormous selfrestraint and non-violence. That means being prepared to respond rather than react when someone offends. That is hard— I’m not sure I could do it under pressure— but it is our best bet for combatting the anger Trump has unleashed. For example, look at the video of Rose Hamid silently protesting at one of his rallies. She exposed wrong while providing no convenient rationalization for retaliation. I found her silence louder than any words.

As students at a prestigious university, we have great power to shape the national conversation. It is up to us to use that power responsibly. At every step of the way, we must ask ourselves whether the action we are taking, however justified in the moment, is contributing to the broader dialogue.

We have a choice now. We can focus on building understanding, or we can focus on making noise. If we choose the latter, let’s start painting the White House gold for our next president, Donald John Trump.

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economists: models that base explanations of macroeconomic phenomena on the microeconomic understanding of individual behavior. While I have found many aspects of these “New Classical” models compelling, there are many influential economists—such as Paul Krugman, winner of the Noble prize in Economics, and Duke’s very own Kevin Hoover—who have serious qualms with these models.

Hoover has said that the microfoundation approach faces the Cournot problem, which arises from the difficulty of tracing the decisions and constraints of all the individuals in an economy and aggregating them to get macroeconomic relationships. However, even if these difficulties could be surpassed, Hoover still holds that certain macro concepts are irreducible to micro concepts because there is a conceptual divide between micro and macro. Why is this the case? According to him, the aggregation of micro-level entities creates macro-level concepts that are “emergent properties” of the aggregation.

These emergent properties only make sense in relation to the aggregation of the micro-level entities and to apply them to the micro-level entities themselves is a conceptual confusion.

Perhaps the following analogy will help clarify. In physics, certain properties of gas—which is an aggregation of individual molecules for all those who took “Rocks for Jocks” as their NS requirement— such as entropy and temperature are concepts that are unique to the macrolevel aggregation and do not apply to the constituent molecules that make up the aggregation. Similarly, in economics, a concept such as the general price level—a measure of the overall prices in an economy that is normalized relative to some base year—is a uniquely macro concept, as are all the real variables that are derived from it.

Therefore, a group of serious economists have a fundamental disagreement with the approach being taught in one of the largest economics courses at Duke. Indeed, because of their belief in the existence of concepts that lie solely in the domain of macroeconomics, they argue that many of the cause-and-effect relationships of macroeconomics are not reducible to the aggregation of individual behavior.

As a result, they believe that certain adhoc models, such as IS-LM, are a better way to understand the economy even if they are not consistent with the microfoundation approach.

There are many more quarrels within the discipline that highlight its state of disarray. The same economists who Ted Yavuzkurt is a Trinity senior. His advocate the micro-foundation approach column runs on alternate Tuesdays. If you have have also rejected the Keynesian model a comment for him, he can be reached at tdy@ as incapable of providing accurate explanation of economic phenomena, duke.edu.

including the 1930s depression: the very event it was designed to explain! At Duke, the Keynesian model—once viewed as the pinnacle of economics—is not even covered in the core macroeconomics course in certain semesters. However, this model remains one that a few economists such as Krugman still view as one of the strongest in economics.

The reason for this state of affairs lies in the very nature of the discipline of economics. Because economics deals with infinitely complex phenomena that

are constantly changing and affected by many different kinds of causal factors (political, psychological, technological, etc.), economic theories are forced to include ceteris paribus clauses (Latin for “all else equal”). This allows them to create a simplified world in their model, with many aspects of reality assumed to be non-factors, in order to develop theories about (what they believe to be) the most important causes of various economic phenomena. Unfortunately, the explanatory power of economic models explanatory power is limited by the ceteris paribus assumptions must make in order to derive their cause-and-effect conclusions. Indeed, when one of the factors that a model assumes actually does interfere in the real world, the model will likely fail to explain or predict the real world phenomenon it was intended to.

Take Keynes’ model. In light of the Great Depression, Keynes concluded that, in the short run, demand shocks were far more likely to cause recessions than supply shocks. The main causeand-effect relationship Keynes’ theory sought to illustrate was that the level of employment depends on the level of aggregate demand. In order to illustrate the relationship between inadequate demand and recessions, the Keynesian model assumes away (or at least does not include) the possibility of many other economic factors such as supply shocks. Consequently, Keynes’ model failed to explain the stagflation (high unemployment and high inflation) of the 1970s because, in the period leading up to it, many of the factors Keynes implicitly assumes away or ignores in his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, became important characteristics of the economic environment. Indeed, a series of negative supply shocks, mainly the dramatic increase of oil prices by OPEC in late 1973, invalidated Keynes’ implicit non-interference clause for supply shocks. The year of 1972 also marked a period of excessively expansionary monetary policy, while the Depression— the focus of Keynes’ theory—occurred after a period of severely contractionary monetary policy.

This significant lack of consensus may be very discouraging for Duke’s aspiring economists. However, I would encourage them to see the bright side.

While economics is far from being, and likely never will be on par with sciences such as biology or physics in terms of its explanatory and predictive power, there are enormous opportunities for improvement. Hopefully, we can play a part in bringing the “dismal science” to its brightest point yet.

Julian Keeley is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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March 8-20 EXHIBITIONS

Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Pirate Party. An exhibition of photographs

by Paul and Damon McCarthy, co-organized by Duke undergraduate students. Thru March 13, 2016.

A Material Legacy. An exhibition that explores two distinct legacies: one of contemporary artists’ innovative use of materials, the other of philanthropy and collecting. The exhibition will feature works by artists who are the descendants of avant-garde predecessors who emerged a century ago and embraced industrial metals, manufactured objects and other non-traditional materials in the creative process. The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary, Nasher Museum of Art. Thru June 26, 2016.

Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, demonstrating the museum’s ongoing commitment to collecting contemporary work by global artists, with a focus on artists of African descent. Thru July 10, 2016.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light. Thru September 18, 2016.

Odili Donald Odita. Two large-scale murals by visiting artist and abstract painter Odili Donald Odita have been commissioned by the Nasher Museum; one is at Duke and one is in downtown Durham. Thru October 1, 2017.

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March 8 From Rodney King to Michael Brown: Anna Deavere Smith on the Narrative of Ferguson. Anna Deveare Smith is an outstanding American playwright, professor and actress best known for her roles in The West Wing and Nurse Jackie and her documentary theater plays on social justice topics. Tickets are required and free through the Duke Box Office, tickets.duke.edu. 7:00pm, Reynolds Theater. Free March 9 Lecture & Recital. Performing Beethoven. R. Larry Todd & Katharina Uhde. Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor of Music and former chair of the Music Department at Duke. Among his books are “Mendelssohn: A Life in Music” and “Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn.”

A graduate of Yale University, he studied piano at the Yale School of Music and with the late Lilian Kallir. Katharina Uhde is an Assistant Professor of Violin and Musicology at Valparaiso University, Indiana. She holds two doctorates, a DMA from the University of Michigan (2009) and a PhD from Duke University (2014). 6pm, Nelson Music Room. Free.

Our Stories, Your Legacy: A Dialogue with SNCC Veterans. The SNCC Digital Gateway is part of a partnership between the SNCC Legacy Project, the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Libraries that was formed to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop ongoing programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy. 6:30pm, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Duke University, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4. Free.

March 11 Deviant Septet. Featuring new works by Duke Ph.D. student composers developed over the course of Deviant Septet’s residency at Duke, as well as the group’s signature rendition of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. Presented by Encounters: with the music of our time in association with Duke Performances. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. $28 & $22 Gen. Public; $15 age 30 & under; $10 Duke Students.

March 12 Duke University String School. Erica Shirts, dir. Beginner Violin/Cello & Violin/Cello Choirs.

4pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

Exhibition Opening. Art and Nature: Artwork inspired by the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum.

Featuring more than 20 visual artists. Thru March 16, 9am-4pm. Reception 4:30-6pm, Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens. Free.

March 13 ALICE FEST. CDS sponsors this annual film and media festival of work by women in recognition of Women’s History Month. See alicefest.org for information. Full Frame Theater.

Duke University String School. Erica Shirts, dir. Intermediate String Orchestra, Concert String Orchestra & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra. 6:30pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

March 16 Nasher Reads: The White Road. The museum is hosting two book discussions on The White Road, written by Edmund de Waal. 11am, Nasher Museum of Art. The second discussion will be held March 20. Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to the discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

March 19 Nasher Creates: Sketching in the Galleries. Local artist, William Paul Thomas, will present a brief lesson and demonstration of ways to respond to art by sketching. Then you can try it out in the galleries! The Nasher Museum will provide drawing materials. Pens, charcoal and wet media are not permitted in the galleries. 10am, Nasher Museum of Art. Free with admission. $5 for adults.

On view through June 26, 2016

March 20 Nasher Reads: The White Road. (See March 16)

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus. (G) = Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (Carr) = Carr 103. (FHI) = Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105 (“Garage”). All events subject to change – for details, updates, and additions, see: ami.duke.edu/screensociety March 9 Middle East cinema program (6:15pm, Carr): The House Is Black (Short) + I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave (feature) AMI Showcase The Hundred-Foot Journey (G) 2016 Ethics series March 10 The Look of Silence + Q&A w/ Prof. Edmund Malesky Cine-East [Indonesia] March 21 Cairo in One Breath (G) + Q&A w/ dir. Anna Kipervaser AMI Showcase—AMI Faculty Spotlight ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

nasher.duke.edu/aml Kehinde Wiley, Naomi and Her Daughters (detail), 2013. Oil on canvas, 180 x 90 1⁄2 inches (457.2 x 229.87 cm). Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection. © Kehinde Wiley Studio.

A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art is made possible by the Nancy Hanks Endowment, Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr, and Kelly Braddy Van Winkle and Lance Van Winkle.

This exhibition would not be possible without generous loans from the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection.

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.