November 10, 2015

Captain in training

Ariely markets new card game

Duke center Marshall Plumlee spent 40 days at Fort Knox this summer | Sports Page 7

The James B. Duke professor works to explain irrational decision-making | Page 2

The Chronicle T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2015

WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM

ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 47

Andy Grammer to perform Saturday at DevilsGate Alex Griffith The Chronicle Andy Grammer will perform Saturday morning prior to the football game against the University of Pittsburgh, senior Bryan Dinner, Duke Student Government vice president for social culture, said Monday evening.

The concert—part of the DevilsGate tailgate program that began this year— will be held at Jack Coombs Field at 9 a.m. and will conclude by 11 a.m., allowing students to get to Wallace Wade Stadium in time for the game’s kickoff at noon.

Saturday’s game will be the last home game of the season.

“We’re very excited about having Andy Grammer,” said sophomore John Makowiec, DSG special organizer. “He had a hit song over summer, he performs a lot of cover songs, which is always popular, and he’s very engaging when he performs.”

Pop singer Grammer—whose previous hit songs include “Honey, I’m Good,” “Keep Your Head Up” and “Fine By Me”—recently performed the national anthem at the opening game of the 2015 World Series. The California native’s most recent song, “Good to Be Alive,” was released in August.

The concert is part of an initiative organized by the football team’s marketing department in conjunction with DSG to increase undergraduate student attendance at football games. Chris Alston, director of football marketing and promotions, explained that the concert is only the beginning of an expanded

Graphic by Carolyn Sun | The Chronicle

attempt to get students to football games.

“Our goal is certainly to grow this and find a venue to accommodate more students,” he said. “We want this to be a kickoff to bigger events going into next year.”

Makowiec noted that the idea to hold a concert before the game came from the State University of New York at Buffalo, which has increased student interest and

attendance at its football games by having concerts beforehand.

“We want this to be the start of a new tradition at Duke,” he said.

Concert wristbands will be distributed to the first 3,300 undergraduate students— roughly half of the student body—between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Nov. 11 and 12.

Students will also receive tickets to the football game. Student groups will still be

able to sign up for tents, as they would be able to do for any DevilsGate tailgate.

“It’s something everyone should be excited for,” Dinner said.

DevilsGate tailgate was r​ evamped before the football season to increase student support for the football team, with the Last Day of Classes alcohol policy and a new procedure for groups to reserve tents being implemented to generate interest.

ACIR responds to students’ transparency concerns at forum Sarah Kerman The Chronicle The University’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility hosted a public forum Monday night.

The meeting comes after a Sept. 21 letter from James Cox, Brainerd Currie professor of law and ACIR chair, which recommended that the University not adopt DukeOpen’s requests for increased investment transparency. Several student members of Divest Duke attended the forum and asked critical questions regarding the University’s endowment transparency and social responsibility. Cox expressed doubt that the transparency measures called for by DukeOpen would influence the University in a positive manner.

“The role of transparency and knowing what holdings we have is likely to produce more angst and anxiety than the good it would produce,” Cox said.

|

|

Tim Profeta, co-chair of the Campus Sustainability Committee, explained that Duke has already made carbon neutrality pledges and has made the switch from coal to natural gas. He and Cox stated that divestment from fossil fuels would prove difficult because of the symbolic message that would send in policy circles.

Noting that the University previously divested from Darfur and South Africa during its apartheid regime, Cox stated that divestment would effectively equate fossil fuel companies with conflict minerals and racial segregation.

“Investment is a meaningful social symbol,” he said. “At the same time, we believe symbolism moves the needle.”

Cox noted that he has yet to see Divest Duke’s student movement provide a sufficient explanation of what steps would follow divestment.

“Divestment is a one-time thing,” he said.

“You might get a headline on Monday, but what are you going to do on Tuesday?”

|

|

INSIDE — News 2 Sports 7 Classified 9 Puzzles 9 Opinion 10

|

Senior Rachel Weber, a columnist for The Chronicle, asked how much momentum a student movement would need in order to be deemed worthy of consideration by ACIR. She noted that the Divest Duke campaign has gathered more than 4,000 signatures as well as support from numerous faculty members. Cox responded that ACIR is focusing less on the amount of discourse and more on the quality of arguments being put forth.

Cox also noted that, to a certain extent, it is difficult to further reduce the University’s emissions beyond divestment.

“A lot of what’s purchased for the University is at the micro-level—purchased through employee credit cards,” he said. “How to manage that is difficult.”

Cox said ACIR recommended against disclosing a list of the endowment’s direct equity holdings, noting that the day-to-day holdings See ACIR on Page 5

Serving the University since 1905

|

Matthew Rock | The Chronicle James Cox, chair of ACIR, addressed transparency concerns Monday.

@dukechronicle

|

© 2015 The Chronicle

2 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

www.dukechronicle.com

The Chronicle

DUSDAC samples Pizza Ariely turns experiments Mia in quest for next MOP into Irrational Card Game Samantha Neal The Chronicle After a year off the program, Pizza Mia is being considered to fill a vacant spot as a Merchants-on-Points vendor.

Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee heard a presentation from Pizza Mia in its meeting Monday night. Committee members sampled several pasta selections— including penne a la vodka, tortellini with meat sauce and tortellini with cream sauce— as well as caprese salad. The Italian restaurant emphasized its fresh ingredients, current ties to Duke and experience on the program in its presentation to the committee.

“When we were no longer a part of the Merchants-on-Points program, we really realized how valuable it was,” said Carol Beasley, who presented with Pizza Mia owner Reno Salvatore. “We want to make sure everyone is happy.”

In addition to pasta and pizza, Pizza Mia offers subs and salads—which can be enhanced with their homemade tomato vinaigrette, Beasley said. Dietary restrictions

can be accommodated as well, she noted, and their pizzas can be made with glutenfree dough.

As a former member of the MOP program, Salvatore said that he already has an idea of how it operates and understands that long wait times at peak hours due to lack of delivery drivers could be a potential challenge. Salvatore explained, however, that he is flexible with the menu and would be willing to take student feedback into account.

Beasley and Salvatore also mentioned in the presentation that Pizza Mia already receives business from Duke students, including members of the lacrosse, football and basketball teams.

“We’re not a national chain—everyone is here and local,” Beasley noted. “I think that would be a good match for Duke University.”

DUSDAC members were impressed

by Pizza Mia’s presentation and their enthusiasm for rejoining the program.

“I thought it tasted really good. I liked it a lot and would definitely order it on the See DUSDAC on Page 5

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Among the dishes DUSDAC sampled Monday were penne a la vodka, tortellini with meat sauce, tortellini with cream sauce and caprese salad.

Grace Mok The Chronicle If you think you know how people make decisions, you can test yourself and have fun with a new card game from Duke professor Dan Ariely.

Ariely, James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics, launched a Kickstarter campaign Oct. 20 to develop the Irrational Card Game, meeting his funding goal of $15,000 within the first two hours and tripling it within 24 hours. The game asks players to predict the outcomes of interesting social science experiments. Sales proceeds will go towards funding new research at the Center for Advanced Hindsight, directed by Ariely, which studies decision-making in areas such as health, marketing and relationships.

“Truly understanding human nature is being able to predict the outcome of an experiment,” Ariely said.

Ariely studies rational and irrational decision-making, has written several

books and released a documentary this past summer titled “Dishonesty: The Truth About Lies.” He is also the cofounder of BEworks, which aims to use behavioral science techniques to solve businesses’ problems.

To play the game, players must correctly predict the results of social science experiments based on short descriptions on the cards. The cards are divided into categories, such as incentives, awareness, time and perceptions. The game also has strategic components—players are able to trade and steal cards or skip a question.

The game’s experiments will be selected by researchers at the center.

Catherine Berman, a research associate at the center, noted that studies are picked based on their significance to psychology or behavioral economics, as well as how fun or surprising they are. Not every study in the game can have counterintuitive results, however, or players would always guess the most outlandish answer, she said.

See ARIELY on Page 5

Special to the Chronicle Dan Ariely’s new game tests whether or not one can predict how people make decisions and includes strategic components to enhance gameplay.

Introducing the new DukeChronicle.com.

Redesigned and Responsive.

TM

The Chronicle

www.dukechronicle.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 3

New first-generation scholarship well worth it, students say Jaime Gordon The Chronicle Many first-generation college students on campus are pleased with the university’s new Washington Duke Scholars program, which builds on Duke’s commitment to supporting students from all backgrounds.

But others acknowledge that the University still has a long way to go.

Announced by President Richard Brodhead last week, the Washington Duke Scholars program will provide firstgeneration students with a host of resources, including a four-week pre-orientation program, laptops, a professional readiness seminar and access to exclusive faculty and alumni interactions. In 2009, Duke started the 1G Network, a support system for firstgeneration students comprising a two-day pre-orientation program coupled with financial and academic support over the entire four years. Director of Access and Outreach Justin Clapp, who is in charge of the 1G Network, explained the importance of supporting first-generation college students academically, emotionally and financially.

“For many first-generation college students, success was fostered on one’s own,” Clapp wrote in an email. “This makes navigating complicated academic and social challenges a bit daunting.”

Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, noted that first-generation students do not lack family support, but that their support system lacks experience with higher education.

Freshman Hunter McGhee agreed with Wasiolek, adding that the 1G program has

played a positive role in bridging the gap.

“We don’t know what we’re getting into when we go to college,” he said.

“Our support is different. We don’t have someone we can ask ‘How does this work?’, so we’re forced to be independent. It’s just a different experience. The 1G program was phenomenal, but the college can always do more.”

The creation of the Washington Duke Scholars program is an attempt at doing more. So far, first-generation college students have said they are very pleased with the steps the administration is taking to bolster the existing programs.

“Honestly, I think it’s fantastic,” sophomore Ashley Ericson said. “A lot of 1G students get caught up in college life and think they have to move on after preorientation, but knowing that there’s other resources throughout the year could be really influential.”

Some first-generation students reacted to the announcement in a more lukewarm fashion. Freshman Samantha Bouchal—an Angier B. Duke scholar and first-generation college student— acknowledged the good intentions at the heart of the new proposal, but also pointed out possible problems in the program’s effect on other scholarship groups.

“In my scholarship group, there is a lot of representation of privilege,” Bouchal said,“These kids, in order to have the resumes that they do, need to have access to certain resources that students who are firstgeneration or low-income do not have. One of my concerns is that the administration is going to feel as though the Washington Duke scholarship lets them off the hook with representing socioeconomic diversity in the scholarship population. This might

Get

Graphic by Dottie Kontopoulos | The Chronicle

be a dangerous segue into systematizing privilege in scholarship groups like the Benjamin N. Duke, Robertson and Angier B. Duke [programs].”

Bouchal also noted the fact that the Washington Duke Scholarship will only be awarded to approximately 30 individuals in the first year of the program, even though, in the past four years, each incoming class has included more than 150 first-generation college students on average.

Duke’s proportion of first-generation college students—about 10 percent— is slightly lower than some of its peer

institutions. First-generation students make up close to 20 percent of the student body at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 15 percent at Harvard University and approximately 12.5 percent at Yale University.

“As a first-generation student myself, I’m really pleased that Duke has decided to move in this direction and acknowledge that this population of students is part of Duke’s diversity,” Wasiolek said, “This is a population of students that, with the right See FIRST-GENERATION on Page 5

The Ecology of Erasure Soil Erosion, Landscape Conservation, and the Greening of the South The 2015 Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History

Dr. Paul Sutter Professor of environmental history University of Colorado - Boulder

November 11th at 5:30 pm Reception to follow immediately!

Sign up for The Chronicle’s weekly newsletter— a compilation of what’s trending for Duke students on campus and in the Triangle.

thebluedirt.com

Field Auditorium Environment Hall Duke University’s West Campus For a campus map, go to maps.duke.edu In the 1930s, the plantation South was a theater of environmental destruction.

More than a century of tobacco and cotton cultivation had left a landscape wracked by massive soil erosion. But in the decades after World War II, in what historian Thomas Clark famously called the “greening of the South,” soil erosion’s scars came to be hidden beneath a mantle of trees, obscuring one of the most important stories in American environmental history. In a talk that draws on his new book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies, Paul Sutter will explore this complex process – what he calls “the ecology of erasure” – and the hidden history, environmental and social, that connected soil erosion and forest conservation in the region.

Sponsored by the Forest History Society, the Duke University Department of History, and the Nicholas School of the Environment. For more information, please contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or visit www.foresthistory.org

4 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The Chronicle

www.dukechronicle.com

DSG, GPSC urge

creation of oncampus voting site Alex Griffith The Chronicle

Chronicle File Photos DSG and GPSC passed resolutions encouraging administration to establish an on-campus voting site for next spring’s primary.

2015 BOYARSKY LECTURE IN LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS

The Global Tobacco Pandemic:

Award-winning author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, Allan Brandt will show how a single product came to play such a dominant role in agriculture, business, medicine and politics.

He will evaluate new questions of global health disparities, trade, and consumption; analyze the rise of e-cigarettes; and examine the current global parameters of tobacco control.

Historical and Ethical Reflections on the Persistence of Smoking in the 21st Century Allan M. Brandt, PhD Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine Professor of the History of Science Harvard University

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 6:00pm Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Reception to follow • Free and Open to the Public Doors open at 5:45pm Limited parking available in the Nasher lot.

Additional free parking on Anderson St. and Alexander Ave.

For more information: 919.668.9000 trent-center@duke.edu

The Boyarsky Lectureship, created through a gift from Drs. Saul and Rose Boyarsky, brings distinguished lecturers to Duke University who can inspire achievement in social justice and public health through science.

TRENT CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, HUMANITIES & HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Undergraduate and graduate student groups have asked administration to establish an on-campus voting site for next spring’s primary election.

Duke Student Government and Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council recently passed resolutions asking administration to create a voting site that is on campus and easily accessible to students. The resolutions came after last week’s local elections in which students were forced to vote at off-campus locations.

“It’s been in the pipeline for a while,” said freshman Nia Moore, senator for Durham and regional affairs, who introduced the DSG legislation with sophomore Liz Brown, also a senator for Durham and regional affairs.

“We’ve been trying to find ways to increase turnout, especially by engaging groups on campus like Duke Political Union, Duke Democrats and Duke [College] Republicans.”

The resolution, which passed in DSG Senate unanimously last Wednesday, had the support of DPU, Duke Democrats, Duke College Republicans, Duke Libertarians, Democracy Now, Duke Political Review and Duke YOUnite.

The University has played host to a voting site for past elections, including the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, explained junior Tanner Lockhead, vice president for Durham and regional affairs.

Lockhead noted that one of the first steps of the process is to convince administration that an on-campus polling location would receive support from the Durham County Board of Elections and benefit students.

“The Durham County Board of Elections has been very supportive of an on-campus voting site in the past,” he said. “We have to convince the University that it’s something that students and the community want.”

One challenge facing the proposal is the lack of a designated on-campus location for polls, Lockhead said.

He also explained that it is harder to get administrative support for a primary election voting site.

“Administration is on board with the 2016 presidential election,” he said. “Getting support for the a site for the primary has been more difficult.”

The GPSC resolution supports the creation of the site due to the fact that North Carolina state laws have recently reduced early voting periods, eliminated simultaneous voting and registration and strengthened voter identification and registration requirements.

The GPSC resolution was introduced by Travis Knoll, a Ph.D. student in the history department.

“This resolution highlights the urgency of making voting accessible to the broader student population,” he wrote in an email. “At a time where voting restrictions are tightening in North Carolina, on-campus voting is essential to help us more easily comply with the reduced early voting periods as well as to send a strong message that we students and professionals are concerned about exercising our rights and willing to do our part to fulfill our civic responsibility.”

GPSC President Abbe LaBella, a Ph.D. student in genetics and genomics, explained that an on-campus voting site would permit both students and faculty to vote without neglecting their other responsibilities.

“Duke students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as administrators and staff have schedules packed with important commitments,” she said. “An on-campus voting site will help many individuals vote without sacrificing other duties.”

She added that it is in students’ interests to vote for candidates who will represent them at a time when student loan debt is the second highest source of personal debt— trailing only mortgages.

Lockhead said it is the University’s responsibility to help students vote.

“If Duke’s mission is service to society, it’s important to create an atmosphere of student engagement and without a voting site, that doesn’t exist,” he said. “It’s an obligation of the university to create both the culture and access [to a voting station].”

Aleena Karediya contributed reporting.

The Chronicle

DUSDAC from page 2 weekend,” sophomore Olivia Deitcher said. “I didn’t realize how much I missed pasta until I started eating it.”

The committee eventually agreed to consider other interested vendors—including Luna Rotisserie and Empanadas, Mexican restaurant Don Marcelo’s and Guglhupf Artisan Bakery—before making a decision.

DUSDAC Chair Brian Taylor, a senior, explained that he hopes the upcoming opening of the West Union will change the way students view MOP options.

“MOPs right now are kind of a dinner supplement, but they will soon be transitioning to more of an after everything on campus is closed down option,” Taylor said.

The committee also considered the fact that West Union will have an Italian venue operated by Enzo’s Pizza, and that there are already many options for pizza delivery on the program. Some members noted, however, that having an both Italian delivery option and an Italian eatery on campus would not detract from either’s business.

“Looking at [Pizza Mia’s] menu compared to Enzo’s, theirs is way cheaper and also has way more options,” sophomore Sam Pickerill said. “It kind of makes Enzo’s menu look like a kid’s menu.”

The restaurant was last an MOP vendor in Spring 2014.

After Pizza Mia left the program, the unexpected closer of The Pizzeria—commonly known as Cinelli’s—left the program devoid of an Italian option. Pizza Mia was considered last Spring semester to fill the MOP spot left by Satisfaction, but that spot was ultimately filled by Dunkin’ Donuts.

The current vacancy in the MOP program is a result of Chai’s Noodle Bar’s decision not to return this year. Taylor noted that Sushi Love has largely filled this niche, and that Chai’s departure has not created any dissent among students.

www.dukechronicle.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 5

ARIELY from page 2 As of Monday, the Kickstarter campaign had raised more than $150,000, far in excess of the initial goal of $15,000, which Ariely said was only to cover the fixed costs of developing the game.

He noted that the campaign has allowed him to respond to feedback as he continues to develop the game. For example, to address concerns about whether players will get bored with a few rounds of the game, Ariely is considering adding different types of cards and themes that would focus not on finding the right answer, but rather on coming up with solutions to various psychological biases revealed throughout the game.

Ariely said that creating a physical game rather than a digital mobile game best allowed him to facilitate discussion about social science.

“We wanted to do something that has a group of people...sharing something with someone sitting next

to you,” he said. “Why is this the result. What are the implications?”

He added that Kickstarter in itself has interesting psychological implications.

“The same people who download things illegally are willing to contribute to something on Kickstarter,” he said. “I think that the reason is that once something has been created you don’t feel the obligation to pay for it, [but with Kickstarter] you can credit yourself to helping to make it real.”

Also working on the game with Ariely and the center is Miki Mottes, an independent illustrator, animator and designer. Mottes wrote in an email that illustrating for the game is a long process, often taking between two to four hours per card, in order to find the best and most entertaining depiction.

Ariely noted that how the final version of the game will look is still undecided. The Kickstarter campaign ends on November 19th and has an expected delivery date of March 2016 for those pledging $24 or more.

“Because the game hasn’t been created yet... it can still change,” he said.

HOT ITEM of the WEEK

In other business: Some committee members noted that Mixed Korean food truck—which was just recently added to the food truck rotation—has been running out of some ingredients. Members also mentioned that Gussy’s Greek food truck has been absent recently, though Taylor did not provide a reason.

Other issues discussed were the high cost of fruit at Penn Pavilion and the idea of using a blender cleaner at Quenchers to save water.

ACIR from page 1 of the endowment are highly prone to change. He added that Dartmouth College—which implemented a policy where, four days a year, the public can look at a list of direct equity holdings without transcribing or taking photos—has only received two requests to view the data.

“It was not clear to us what was the ultimate benefit of seeing equity holdings at a particular point in time,” Cox said.

Bobo Bose-Kolanu, a graduate student in literature who was vocal in the DukeOpen campaign to promote investment transparency, asked if the committee would adopt any of the other transparency mechanisms the group advocated for.

Despite ACIR’s recommendations against the disclosure of a list of endowment holdings, Cox responded that the committee is improving transparency efforts on its website by finding and publishing proxy resolutions in response to requests from the DukeOpen campaign.

In other business: Malcolm Bonner, a graduate student in economics and a student representative on ACIR, noted that Columbia University recently divested from private prisons. Cox noted that the committee will explore the issue of private prison divestment in its Dec. 3 meeting, and he expressed optimism about the prospect.

One audience member asked about the possibility of divesting from Iran. Cox replied that several issues relating to turmoil in the Middle East will be on the agenda at ACIR’s Dec. 3 meeting.

“We’re starting to do our homework in advance of that,” he said.

FIRST-GENERATION from page 3 support, will thrive and flourish at Duke.”

The administration’s goal is that the Washington Duke Scholars program, in conjunction with the 1G Network, will attract more first-generation students to Duke and help them feel at home once they arrive on campus.

“As we continue to recruit and retain first-generation college students, everyone benefits,” Clapp wrote. “We will now have more opportunities for well-rounded discussion in the classroom, residence halls and study spaces. With a diverse and inclusive student body comes greater success and attainment among all students. I’m excited for all that this is happening.”

Duke Crewneck Sweatshirt Available Sizes: S - 3X Fabric Content: 11 oz., reverse knit. 95% cotton, 5% polyester Advertised price does not include tax. Offer cannot be combined with any other discount or promotion.

20

Offer valid Tuesday, November 10 through Monday, November 16, 2015, or while supplies last.

$

each

Compared to $6995 up to $7995

Available in the following locations:

The University Store Upper Level, Bryan Center

Medical Center Bookstore Lower Level, Duke Clinics

Via eSTORE

www.shopdukestores.duke.edu Departments of Duke University Stores®

6 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

www.dukechronicle.com

The Chronicle

The Chronicle

Sports

www.dukechronicle.com

The Chronicle

THE BLUE ZONE

STOCK WATCH: DUKE ADDS GILES TO CLASS OF 2016 sports.chronicleblogs.com

www.dukechroniclesports.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

MEN’S BASKETBALL

CAPTAIN IN TRAINING

Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle After completing his Army ROTC contracting ceremony Jan. 23, Marshall Plumlee said one of his next goals was to become a better leader at Army officer training during the summer.

The 7-footer’s experience at Fort Knox in Fort Knox, Ky., could pay off in more ways than one moving forward.

In his fifth year in the Duke program, Plumlee provides a much-needed veteran presence in the Duke frontcourt, alongside senior Amile Jefferson. With lone senior Quinn Cook and the Blue Devils’ other top three scorers from last year’s championship team absent, finding consistent low-post production is one of the many questions head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad faces entering the season.

But after a month of officer training, Plumlee returned to the hardwood ready to lead. He has since carved out a new role as the co-commander of the Blue Devil defensive unit.

“One of the biggest things that the Army has helped Marshall [with] that has translated to basketball is his talk,” Jefferson said. “In the Army, you have to be direct.... He’s not asking you to do something—he’s commanding you to do it. That’s what you have to do on the basketball court. You can’t say, ‘Excuse me, guard, can you please go to the baseline, where we can trap this guy?’ It’s one word, it’s direct— it’s ‘Ice!’ It’s ‘Blitz!’”

During approximately 40 days of training designed as a culmination of the first three years of cadet training and ROTC training at Duke, Plumlee distinguished himself at Fort Knox because of his work ethic, said Capt. Justin Montgomery, a military science instructor at the University of South Carolina who worked

VOLLEYBALL

Tucker coming on strong Jack Dolgin

Jordan Tucker is not your ordinary Division I middle blocker. And that’s what makes her so good.

The Prairie Village, Kan., native is the most energetic player on the court, tossing pregame mini-volleyballs farther into the stands at Cameron Indoor Stadium than anyone else and unleashing screams of joy after kills. She exudes a palpable sense of excitement that is as genuine as it is infectious.

“I love to cheer. I love to get everybody going,” Tucker said before the season started.

“Most of the time, a lot of people think I amp it up, but genuinely that’s my initial reaction.

The game’s so fast, there’s so much like emotion in it that you don’t have time to make cheers. It’s just pure emotion for me.”

See TUCKER on Page 9

See PLUMLEE on Page 8

See EXHIBITIONS on Page 8

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Duke awarded No. 3 seed The Chronicle

Haeryn Kim | Chronicle File Photo Junior middle blocker Jordan Tucker has enjoyed a second-half resurgence this season.

Get rid of exhibitions

motor have made him the clear choice to be Duke’s starting center ahead of five-star freshman Chase Jeter. The Warsaw, Ind., native might not be as likely to record highlight reel plays on the offensive end, but noted in the preseason that his summer training made him more assertive, often a key characteristic for successful players down low.

“It helped me a lot with my command presence and becoming a more decisive leader and I think the coaches have seen a noticeable change in me after my return from the training,” Plumlee said.

In addition to balancing his on-court schedule with his ROTC time commitment, Plumlee will be tasked with mitigating the loss of All-American center Jahlil Okafor and following in the footsteps of older brothers Miles and Mason, who both started at center as seniors and

Jesús Hidalgo

The Chronicle

COLUMN

Through two games this season, the Blue Devils have lost two of their captains to minor, albeit nagging, injuries. All Duke has to show for it is an impressive 0-0 record, despite scoring more than Sameer Pandhare 100 points in each game and winning by an average margin of 54.5 points.

As guard Matt Jones walked off the court gingerly in an exhibition against Florida Southern and Amile Jefferson was helped off the court a game later against Livingstone, Blue Devil fans found themselves in a collective state of panic. Injuries to two of the team’s most experienced rotation players meant that Duke would be forced to rely even more heavily on a freshman- and sophomoreladen roster.

Although Jones and Jefferson are now back practicing, the near-disastrous exhibition games for the Blue Devils once again raise questions about the value of exhibition contests in the first place.

Sure, injuries are part of the game and the same injuries to Jones and Jefferson could certainly have happened during a tough practice. But playing in an uncontrolled setting against a Division II team that is out to prove it can play with the big boys, players are exposed to a higher level of risk.

But the biggest argument against exhibition contests is how shockingly little they teach us about a team. Remember

Special to The Chronicle Duke center Marshall Plumlee went through an ROTC contracting ceremony in January and spent more than a month at Fort Knox this summer for officer training.

with Plumlee’s platoon on the base.

Plumlee’s 7-foot frame helped Montgomery pick his platoon out from a crowd during earlymorning exercises. The biggest change in the graduate student’s approach after 30 days of field work was learning how to slow down his decision-making process, Montgomery said.

Despite not having the tactical knowledge of some of his peers when he began training, Plumlee caught up quickly.

“Out of my 40 cadets I had, he was maybe in my top four, maybe my top three, as far as how he approached things. As far as being a team player, he was the number one guy,” Montgomery said. “If he wasn’t so damn tall, a very close [comparison] would be Rudy. He’s just pure heart.”

Although Plumlee is still relatively inexperienced on the court—his 9.6 minutes per game last season were a career high—his familiarity with the Blue Devil program and

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 7

Duke’s 2014 season came to an end on Halloween with a 2-0 loss against Florida State, keeping the Blue Devils on the outside looking in at the postseason for the first time since 2002.

Danielle Duhl and her teammates promised to be back in the NCAA tournament in 2015—a promised that was fulfilled Monday afternoon.

No. 21 Duke earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament as an at-large invitee thanks to its 10-54 regular-season record, which included a historic 1-0 win against Tobacco Road rival and thenNo. 7 North Carolina Oct. 16. The Blue Devils finished 4-3-3 in the ACC, which received the most selections to the tournament with eight.

The Blue Devils will host James Madison Friday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium in the first round of the NCAA tournament. If the Blue Devils defeat the Dukes, they will battle the winner of the matchup between South Florida

and Florida Gulf Coast one week later.

The Blue Devils gathered in the Murray Athletic Building to watch the selection show and were relieved to see their name appear onscreen.

“When the brackets [for the NCAA tournament] came out last year and we saw that it wasn’t our year and that we were done, it was a very bitter ending,” Duhl said. “A lot of us were pretty upset and angry. At that point, it was our mission to say ‘Okay, how do we get to the point where we are so close as a team that we can come in and we can just be a sponge to everything and work hard?’”

One year later, the Blue Devil defense has produced dramatically different results after the unit struggled throughout the disappointing 2014 campaign. Duke returns to the postseason with 11 shutouts on the season and just 0.7 goals per contest—the 26th best mark in the country.

See W. SOCCER on Page 9

8 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

PLUMLEE from page 7

Jack White | Chronicle File Photo Center Marshall Plumlee must shoulder more of the low-post scoring for Duke this season.

The Chronicle

www.dukechroniclesports.com www.dukechronicle.com

made dramatic leaps before landing in the NBA. Heading into his final season, the youngest Plumlee sports career averages of 1.4 points and 1.9 rebounds per contest. But there were signs at the end of last year that he could assume a larger role in the offense, including a 12-point outburst—all on dunks—in the ACC tournament against N.C. State.

In Duke’s two exhibition games, Plumlee—who said in January that he hopes to pursue a professional basketball career while serving as a Reserve officer following this season—averaged 12.5 points and 7.5 rebounds in 21.0 minutes per game.

“We’re not going to have any [other] guys who are 22, 23 years old. Marshall is 23,” Krzyzewski, a West Point graduate, said during the preseason. “The situations that he was placed in and the growth that he has had as a leader is showing up here—he’s done a really good job.”

One of the ways Plumlee could impact games might not even show up in the box score.

As dominant as Okafor was for the Blue Devils last season before being selected third overall in the NBA draft, the 6-foot11 center struggled at times on the defensive end of the court, particularly in pick-and-roll situations.

Plumlee and Jefferson are two big reasons why this season’s Duke team could be even more active defensively with its length on the perimeter and activity down low. The unique combination based on communication on the back end could let Krzyzewski and his staff experiment with more exotic defensive looks than they have in the past, when the Blue Devils traditionally utilized a pressure man-to-man style.

“When big guys have a good voice in a game, especially defensively, it helps you,” Krzyzewski said. “The perimeter, if they are doing a good job, cannot look behind them. If they have a voice behind them telling them what is going on, they can do their job better. They trust that voice. Whenever we have had teams that have had good vocal big men, we have usually been a much better defensive team.”

After years of balancing a strenuous schedule and waiting in line to be a steady option for the Blue Devils, Plumlee could step into the spotlight when Duke opens the regular season Friday against Siena.

But even if he does not right away, the 7-footer will likely find a way to make an impact before the end of the year—Plumlee has plenty of experience adjusting to high-pressure situations.

“Out in Fort Knox, you can get fragmentation orders and things get flipped upside down in a second and you have to adjust,” he said. “The same thing can happen in the world of basketball and I feel more confident than ever to be able to make the right decision to help my team win, no matter what the circumstances might be.”

EXHIBITIONS from page 7 during preseason NFL action when the Philadelphia Eagles soared past their first three opponents by an average margin of 20.7 points and appeared to have the NFL’s best offense?

Neither do I. Tyus Jones—last year’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player—averaged just six points per game in Duke’s two exhibition tilts last year.

Against Florida Southern in particular, the Blue Devils were forced to match up with five guards—an anomaly that forced freshman Luke Kennard to play at the four position.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski admitted after the game that there wasn’t much to take away about the team’s regular season rotation, and I couldn’t find a reason why the Blue Devils should’ve even taken the floor in the first place. Are we really expecting Marshall Plumlee to showcase the same array of hook shots and interior dominance that he did against an undersized Florida Southern squad against a scary-good Kentucky team in a week’s time?

As a fan watching the game, I must admit that I hardly knew what the score was in either exhibition. Outside of seeing the walk-ons take the floor, there simply wasn’t much to get excited about in watching Duke beat Division II opponents to a pulp.

Granted, the experience of playing in Cameron must’ve been exhilarating for the Blue Devils’ opponents. But if that’s the case, why not just make the game a regular season contest?

Last season, Duke cruised through its exhibition schedule by an average winning margin of 48.5 points. Once the calendar flipped to the regular season, the Blue Devils beat their first two opponents—Presbyterian and Fairfield—by an even wider spread of 59.5 points, even though they were playing on consecutive nights.

The NBA and NFL have discussed the idea of eliminating or reducing the length of the preseason in order to preserve their players’ health for the regular season and college football doesn’t even have a preseason. With college basketball continuing all the way until early April, extra rest and time in the classroom for student-athletes seems far more beneficial than taking the court for an essentially meaningless game.

In the next two weeks alone, the Blue Devils will play five games, including three against NCAA tournament teams from a year ago and two potential matchups with Final Four teams.

Losing Jefferson and/or Jones for any of these contests could leave Duke short-handed and hurt their chances. After all, Blue Devil fans should understand the importance of resumebuilding non-conference victories as the team’s case for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament a year ago was bolstered by a road victory against Wisconsin.

For the umpteenth time in a row, Duke finished exhibition play undefeated. Finally, it’s time for the real show to begin.

The Chronicle

www.dukechroniclesports.com www.dukechronicle.com

TUCKER from page 7

spot on the ACC All-Freshman Team.

As a sophomore, she picked right up where she left off, again leading the team in kill efficiency and playing every set of every match. In addition to making her second All-ACC Academic Team, Tucker was tabbed to the second team All-ACC. “She’s just one of those kids that, as a coach, you love to have on your team, and you love to be able to be her coach, because she gives you everything she’s got,” Nagel said. “She isn’t necessarily the tallest, but she is a really physical player.”

But Tucker’s production slowed during the first half of this season. She hit just .196 in Duke’s first 13 matches as the team struggled to find a rhythm, losing close set after close set. With Obeime gone and Sklar nursing a lingering injury, the team needed a player who could provide a spark.

On Oct. 2, North Carolina swept the Blue Devils, a match in which the Tar Heels overpowered Duke at the net. Tucker—who is as passionate as anyone about the Tobacco Road rivalry—took time to reflect after the game about her role and effort.

“I don’t even know what it really is, but [the rivalry] brings something out of you that you can’t really reproduce,” Tucker said. “I kind of had a moment after UNC where, hearing what my teammates had to say and feeling what we felt…. I kind of said to Coach, “We’re sick of losing. We’re done with that—we’re over it.’”

Two days later, she turned in her best performance of the year to that point, notching 13 kills at a team-high .360 rate to lead the Blue Devils to a dramatic, five-set comeback victory against N.C. State.

Tucker’s play has been on the rise ever since, and during the past five-and-a-half weeks, she is hitting at a team-best .351 clip and has picked

The only junior named a co-captain, Tucker has keyed Duke’s second-half resurgence as the Blue Devils set their eyes on a return trip to the postseason. But the road to success in Durham was not always clear-cut.

At six feet tall, Tucker is smaller than the typical middle blocker, a position that requires elevation and athleticism to both lay down kills and block opponents. Playing for her high school team, her height was not a problem, as she led nationally ranked Bishop Miege to three Kansas 5A state championships.

But colleges were looking for tall middle blockers, which meant Tucker would need to stand out in other ways. And she did, using her long arms, powerful step and high point of contact with the ball to deliver forceful blows. “[Height is] another thing about the game you can use as motivation to make you work harder,” Tucker said. “[Senior Breanna] Atkinson always says, ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.’”

But Tucker missed out on the opportunity to commit to Duke during her sophomore year of high school—when elite-level students commit—despite initial interest from Duke head coach Jolene Nagel. When she visited campus in the spring of her junior year, though, Tucker said she immediately fell in love with Duke. Although Tucker was more of an unknown because she delayed her decision, Nagel brought her on board anyways.

Tucker was worth the gamble. She played in all but four sets during her freshman year, learning from the likes of Emily Sklar, Jeme Obeime, Elizabeth Campbell and Chelsea Cook on a team that captured the 2013 ACC championship. With 222 kills at a team-best .308 rate, Tucker earned a sudoku_504B

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

(No number is repeated in any column, row or box.)

3

Duke’s 14 underclassmen will get their first taste of the national tournament, as Duhl and other veterans who participated in the 2013 edition will look to guide the youngest Blue Devils with their experience in the national spotlight.

“We’re excited to be back,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “It was such a disappoinment last year this time to sit in this room. We knew that we were not in [the NCAA tournament] because we knew that [our RPI] was below .500. But not only are we back, we’re back [as] the third seed. What a great accomplishment for these young ladies, for all the work they did in the regular season—from being completely out of the tournament to be back as a third-seeded team. It’s a testament of their hard work.” sudoku_504B

CLASSIFIEDS

Created by Peter Ritmeester/Presented by Will Shortz

TUTORING GRE PREP with Holiday Discount PrepSuccess has helped thousands of students prepare for the GRE� Our 42 hour course is $504 ($12/hour)� Attend classes on seven Saturdays or Sundays in person in RTP, NC or Live Online� Register before December 1st and SAVE $25� www�PrepSuccess�com or 919-791-0810

9 1 7

5 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TRAVEL/VACATION 3 8 5 4

3

4 SPRING BREAK1$189 BAHAMAS 6 for 5-Days. All prices include: Round-trip 3 luxury party cruise� Accommodations on the island 4 at your choice of ten8 resorts� Appalachia Travel�7 www�Baha9 Distributed

by The New York Times syndicate (c) PZZL.com maSun�com 800-867-5018

DUKE EMPLOYEE SPECIAL TUITION RATE! Employees may enroll for academic credit in an undergraduate course valued at one course credit for $975 and/or enroll as an auditor in an undergraduate course valued at one course credit for $100� Application deadline December 1 for credit� Registration deadline January 12 for audit� Questions? http:// www�learnmore�duke�edu/academics/ or 684-5375�

504B

Solution sudoku_504B

3 2 8 6 9 1 The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation5 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 7 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 www.dukechronicle.com/classifieds 4

classified advertising

For Release Tuesday, November 10, 2015

6 1 4 3 5 7 9 2 8

9 7 5 2 4 8 1 6 3

1 9 6 8 7 4 3 5 2

5 4 7 1 2 3 8 9 6

8 3 2 5 6 9 4 1 7

4 6 1 7 3 5 2 8 9

2 8 9 4 1 6 7 3 5

7 5 3 9 8 2 6 4 1

504B

5

8

2 5

4

3 4 1 6

3 8 7 9 (c) PZZL.com

W. SOCCER from page 7

up ACC Player of the Week honors. Duke is 7-4 since the North Carolina game, compared to a 6-7 ledger before.

“She just went another gear higher,” Nagel said. “She realized, I think, that we needed somebody to be able to do that for us, and wasn’t afraid to be the one, wasn’t afraid to put [herself] on that line.”

At the end of this season, Sklar will leave Duke with a big hole to fill. But based on her mid-season renaissance, Tucker appears ready to fill the void and leave her own legacy in the process.

“I wasn’t so comfortable to like be rowdy or get really loud,” Tucker said. “Our team has really worked on, this year, opening up and allowed each other to be ourselves a little bit, which I think eases everybody up. Obviously, you want to be playing as a unit, but you don’t want to lose your identity.”

Created by Peter Ritmeester/Presented by Will Shortz

9 1 7

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 9

4 504B

Distributed by The New York Times syndicate

Solution sudoku_504B Find the answers to the Sudoku puzzle on

the classifieds page

3 6 9 1 5 8 4 2 7 2 1 7 9 4 3 6 8 5 The Chronicle 8 4 5 6 7 2 1 9 3 Our favorite stock: 6 3 2 8 1 5 7 4 9 watch: ��������������������������������������������������������������������������#amrithisnotimpressed re-: ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ zhangsta -holm: ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 5 4 7 2 6 amazinggrace 3 1 8 -ings: ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������vosburghler -ton: ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ privateryan 1 7 8 4 3 9 5 6 2 cars: ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� askjeev bo-: ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� wutangclan 5 9 1 3 8 4 2 7 6 Bell Gothic:�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wire Barb Starbuck: �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Barb 7 2�������������������������������������������Alyssa 6 5 9 1 8Coughenour 3 4 Student Advertising Manager: Account Representatives: ����������������������� John Abram, Megan Bowen, TJ Cole, 8 Tyler3Deane-Krantz, 2 6 Davis7English, 9 Philip 5 Foo1 Maria 4 Alas Diaz,

504B

Jack Forlines, Beatriz Gorostiaga, Jackie Lin, Rachel Louie, Gabriela Martinez-Moure, John McIlavaine, Brian Paskas, Risa Pieters, Nick Philip, Maimuna Yussuf Creative Services: ���������������������������������� Judith Leng, Rita Lo, Ella Wigington Business Office ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Leta Hallowell

Crossword ACROSS 1 “For more ___ …”

5 Print collectors, for short 9 Lady and the Tramp, e.g.

13 Catherine who married Henry VIII 14 All too familiar 15 Punjabi princess 16 ___ page 17 Overreached 19 Comedian with the doubleplatinum album “Retaliation” 21 “All right, you beat me” 22 Weep 23 Soccer superstar Messi 25 “Go team!”

27 Incessantly 29 L.A. locale 33 Outfielder’s shout 35 WhiteHouse.___

37 Bouquet holder 38 Massachusetts vacation destination 40 Flack who sang “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” 42 Deadlocked 43 Mogul with a Bunny 45 Put in rollers 46 Ships out 48 “The World on Time” courier 50 Scrubs areas, briefly 51 Celebration with a bunny 53 Approves of 55 Walk to impress 57 “Hmm …”

61 Smack unexpectedly?

63 Croat or Serb 64 Twinge 65 Kind of knife once touted in infomercials

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE C H I P

R O S E

M O N I C A

A N I M A L

F O A D N E

E W A N

S T A N Z T A E C K H O N D I Q U U R E N S S

T O K Y D O O C R I E L M E O R O A R L O N

S T A R O L A O N T A P E

T H R E E C E N T P I E C E S

O O L A L A D I E R E N T

P R O D F S E R A M D I O S L P S H O L A R

Z U L U H E M P I R A T E

E V I L G E N I U S

S T E A A R N A R N I A

U S A G E S

S N A G

E Z R A

S A I L

66 Bring on board 67 Pot grower?

68 Envelopepushing 69 Stack at a rock concert DOWN 1 Device with earbuds 2 Big car-care chain 3 Tennis tournament played on red clay 4 “Burger, medium, with fries,” e.g.

5 Louisiana language 6 With 44-Down, an “uh-oh” sensation … or an apt title for this puzzle 7 “Ooky” family cousin 8 Become established 9 Find incredibly desirable 10 Stumblebums 11 Tiny nuisance 12 Knight’s title 14 Number of times the Twins have won the World Series, appropriately 18 Flamenco cheers 20 “Yeah, right” speaker 24 Stink 25 Reduces to granules 26 Desert bloomer 28 Conversely, in texts

Edited by Will Shortz 1

2

3

4

5

13

14

16

17

19

7

27

29 35 39

43 47 51 55

11

12

30

31

32

59

60

24

28

38

46

10

21

34

42

9 15

23

26

33

8

18

20 22

25

6

No. 1006

36 40

44 48

41 45

49

50

52

53

56

57

61

37

54

58

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

PUZZLE BY ZHOUQIN BURNIKEL

30 Mexican once ranked as the world’s richest man 31 Traditional flower for a 20th wedding anniversary 32 Shows the way 34 What 15, say, would be for leaving home 36 Viva ___ (orally) 39 Nimble-fingered

55 Ending of several 41 Like women in central Asian Rubens paintings country names 44 See 6-Down 56 Carnival cover 47 First king of Israel 58 Houston sch.

49 Like clothes at formal occasions 52 Old West transport 54 One-named singer whose name used to be spelled with a dollar sign

59 Wyatt of the Old West 60 Nervous nights, maybe 61 Luxury resort amenity 62 Baby goat

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/studentcrosswords.

T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

The Chronicle

“

The underpinnings of Duke culture

L

ast week, a student and the community of which he is a part were explicitly and violently threatened. We find ourselves yet again issuing perfunctory apologies, gathering on symbolic steps and pledging to stand up against hate, only to have another wall defaced, another threat sent to a minority student, another Halloween party where blackface and ethnic identities are paraded as costumes. This rinse and repeat is draining. After yesterday’s editorial passionately laid out solutions for the administration, Student Government and students in today’s toxic environment, we turn now to correcting the student and administrative cultures at Duke.

The very notion of the University is based in education, and education is simply not optional for any of us. Many students are part of a broad middle; they are neither of the subset that is completely apathetic and resistant to change nor the groups who actively fight and organize for these issues.

When asked for positions, they will agree with the right causes. When presented with a Chapel gathering, they will stop and stay for a part of their day. But when given the opportunity to attend a panel event, push an idea on their DSG friend or create new ideas to fuel movements, they will pass.

Now we understand that Duke students have

obligations, and “It’s not my job.” In fact, students are right to point out that there are people whose jobs it is to handle these things. We know exactly who has taken it upon themselves through leadership positions in our Student Government and in their actual careers in the Allen building to tend to these issues. It is their job to represent us and to do work that outlasts our four years on campus. It is your job to remind them of that.

Editorial It is imperative that we push for action.

On the one hand, we can never be sure of the conversations in administrative offices, but we can be sure that administrators have no basis for pretending these issues are brand new in the span of their tenures. Those who have been here five, 10, 20 years simply have to go beyond horrendously noncommittal emails and condolences. Anything less is deceptive. Constant, visible contact with our Student Government representatives is a must. Both organizations absolutely must either show progress on proposals and action items that have been directly addressed to them or explain the rejection.

“We were wondering if we should keep our theme ‘code for good’ next year. we decided yes - we’re a community among communities.

Tech has impact & it’s important we’re aware of the impact.”

— “Ashley Qian” commenting on the Nov. 9 article “HackDuke competitors design 92 projects to help others”

LETTERS POLICY The Chronicle welcomes submissions in the form of letters to the editor or guest columns. Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, department or class, and for purposes of identification, phone number and local address.

Letters should not exceed 325 words; contact the editorial department for information regarding guest columns.

The Chronicle will not publish anonymous or form letters or letters that are promotional in nature. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for length, clarity and style and the right to withhold letters based on the discretion of the editorial page editor.

”

Direct submissions to: E-mail: chronicleletters@duke.edu Editorial Page Department The Chronicle Box 90858, Durham, NC 27708 Phone: (919) 684-2663 Fax: (919) 684-4696

The Chronicle

Inc. 1993

AMRITH RAMKUMAR, Editor RYAN HOERGER, Sports Editor RACHEL CHASON, Co-News Editor RYAN ZHANG, Co-News Editor GAUTAM HATHI, Digital Content Director STEPHANIE WU, Office Manager CAROLYN CHANG, Photography Editor JONATHAN ZHAO, Editorial Page Editor LEONARD GIARRANO, Editorial Board Chair MICHAEL LAI, Director Of Online Development

CHRISSY BECK, General Manager CLAIRE BALLENTINE, University Editor SARAH KERMAN, Local & National Editor ABIGAIL XIE, Health & Science Editor LILY COAD, Sports Photography Editor ELIZABETH DJINIS, Recess Managing Editor TOM VOSBURGH, Editorial Page Managing Editor EMMA BACCELLIERI, Towerview Editor MATTHEW ROCK, Towerview Photography Editor ALEENA KAREDIYA, Special Projects Editor SOPHIE TURNER, Special Projects Photography Editor MICHELLE MENCHACA, Recruitment Chair SAMANTHA NEAL, Senior News Reporter MEGAN HAVEN, Advertising Director MARY WEAVER, Operations Manager

ALEX GRIFFITH, University Editor NEELESH MOORTHY, Local & National Editor SANJEEV DASGUPTA, News Photography Editor GEORGIA PARKE, Recess Editor JESÚS HIDALGO, Recess Photography Editor BRIAN POLLACK, Sports Managing Editor NICK MARTIN, Towerview Editor THU NGUYEN, Towerview Creative Director CARLEIGH STIEHM, Senior Editor RITA LO, Graphic Design Editor DANI LAZARUS, Recruitment Chair ADAM BEYER, Senior News Reporter GRACE WANG, Senior News Reporter JULIE MOORE, Creative Director

The Chronicle is published by the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., a non-profit corporation independent of Duke University. The opinions expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of Duke University, its students, faculty, staff, administration or trustees. Unsigned editorials represent the majority view of the editorial board. Columns, letters and cartoons represent the views of the authors.

To reach the Editorial Office at 301 Flowers Building, call 684-2663 or fax 684-4696. To reach the Business Office at 2022 Campus Drive call 684-3811. To reach the Advertising Office at 2022 Campus Drive call 684-3811.

One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased for .25 at The Chronicle Business office at the address above. @ 2015 Duke Student Publishing Company

In terms of education, we have a concentration in Social Entrepreneurship at Fuqua that engages students with intense case studies, doing something other than churning out workers.

Making social justice and the realities of all those who struggle part of our education is not as radical an idea as we watch world and national events. Due consideration of these issues prepares better global citizens, workers, leaders, parents, you name it, and to deny that is to put on blinders to a shifting American culture. Especially, for those who disagree, this is part of the process of an education: to engage rather than to co-habitate.

Ultimately, it is imperative we introduce institutional culture changes. We have to realize that what we cannot alone do as students can still be pushed for as with the administrationside changes in the curriculum and disciplinary guidelines. Even as we create safer spaces and attend rallies, we have to remember our power to engage student leaders and administrators through collective pressure. Universities are for learning and unlearning. Growth requires change, and we cannot afford to continue with our blasé attitudes towards the thought of an education that would really push us in these ways.

As a community, we either reform, or perish.

Destiny

onlinecomment

Est. 1905

The Chronicle

www.dukechronicle.com commentary

10 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I

t was a hot, lazy, late-summer day in August when I walked into Detroit’s Department of Human Services. Fans were whirring as secretaries typed under the fluorescent lighting.

I was led by the Program Director to the very last cubicle and told to sit. “You’ll meet with the kids in a second,” she said with a slight smile, more curious than impressed. I could only imagine what she must have been thinking. What would a preppy rich kid from Saline be doing Downtown? Helping?

Yeah, he’ll be here for a couple of weeks and then

mother, there wasn’t much time for extracurriculars.

“But I like poetry. We do slams at my school all the time.”

I smiled. “Write about it. But most importantly, write about your life story.”

Before she left that day, I told her that she was going to go to the University of Michigan. She didn’t believe me, but I was certain of it.

Destiny and I met every week throughout our senior years in high school, and she told me in December that she took the ACT—and got a 32.

Paul Popa THE RIGHT GUY bail. I’ve seen it all before.

I might stay there for two weeks. Hell, I might be there for just one day. But I vowed to stay until I was confident I had made a difference, even for just one person.

I was jotting down the last of my notes when the last student of the day sat down. I looked up, and saw a young African-American woman staring at me with eyes that had likely seen far too much for someone her age. I closed my folder and asked the usual formalities: Hello. How are you? What’s your name? It was Destiny, and she was fine. But it wasn’t until I asked that seemingly innocent question that I learned who Destiny really was: “Tell me about yourself.”

Destiny grew up in a loving, two parent household until her father was shot on his way home from work when she was just eight years old. Her father believed that she would do great things, but his death caused Destiny to lose the confidence that only her father ever showed in her. Her mother struggled to provide for Destiny and her three younger brothers, and she found herself missing more and more school to work a part-time job. Her mother vowed that she would always be able to provide for her children, and Destiny could not let her mother struggle. So, her grades suffered.

I looked at her, a junior at Renaissance High School. I asked her what she wanted. Was there any way I could help? She said with a dejected tone that she wanted to go to college, but that she didn’t think she could get in. She was about to start her senior year and knew nothing about the admissions process.

“You’ve come to the right guy. I can help with that.”

I encouraged Destiny to put everything into her first semester grades at Renaissance and to take the ACT. With the struggle she faced helping her

This was a huge step forward, and we both knew it. Her grades were superlative: a mix of As and A-minuses. I told her to go ahead and apply to U of M. We worked together on every aspect of her application.

The day after my birthday, I sat down at my cubicle for the last day of my education assistance.

The same director visited me and thanked me for all that I had done—she never expected me to stay as long as I did or to impact any of the students as I had. I thanked her.

Destiny came in late that day. She came in with a hustle and came to my cubicle with a letter in her hand and tears in her eyes.

It was an acceptance letter to the University of Michigan.

I hugged her, and she thanked me. I believed in her, something no one else had done since her father passed away.

I struggled to hold back tears and told her I knew she could do it all along.

Destiny and I are close friends to this day. She is studying at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a full scholarship, and she hopes to someday do what I had done for her: inspire struggling students and convince them that they can achieve their dreams. She’s on the Dean’s List and loves every minute of her time there. She still thanks me periodically for what she says changed her life.

I could perhaps mention so many other examples from my resume of when I had accomplished something great. A prestigious award or recognition. International volunteer efforts. Campaigns and symposiums. I am proud of all I have done, but I will never be more proud of what I was able to do for Destiny that lazy summer day all those years ago.

Paul Popa is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

The Chronicle

www.dukechronicle.com commentary

All the world is a classroom

‘Tis the season

W

ith Halloween behind us, the holiday season is coming at us full force. It means two months of sappy holidays and 25 days of even sappier TV movies. My saving grace this holiday season, as always, is Black Friday. And with the extension of Black Friday into Thanksgiving, I now have two days to be thankful this year.

Thanksgiving starts off well with another Cowboys loss. My cousins and I then head over to Sports Authority to get free lawn chairs. They’re the sort of chairs your parents brought to your little league soccer games, but

up with my father. The woman from Walmart lines up a few people behind us and tells me that she was unable to get a copy of Madden for her son. I tell her that sucks and go back to paging through the Best Buy ad. There are people trying to scalp tickets for the doorbusters—I tell them to leave me alone. We’re finally let into the store and I push my way to the back where the Xbox Live cards are. It’s only $8 for a 3-month subscription so I grab the whole rack, 16 cards in all. I can’t imagine a day when I won’t want an Xbox Live subscription, and yet it’s

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 11

W

hen I arrived at Incheon International Airport in South Korea this past summer, my taxi driver asked me in Korean, “So MERS didn’t stop you from coming?” But apart from MERS (which stands for Middle East respiratory syndrome, an infection that was becoming a large problem in South Korea), there were plenty of other worries on my mind. I had already been abroad, having spent the previous

language I had learned in the classroom could be strikingly different from what I heard this summer, which took on differences associated with generation, gender, region, the context of social media versus verbal conversation and level of education or multilingualism.

I learned that the way in which I understand LGBTQ issues or issues of race and nationality or many other things is biased towards one system, and it made me realize all the more

Justin Koritzinsky

Drew Korschun

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

LOVE AND HATE, JUST NOT APATHY

I’m the youngest in my family and no longer eligible for little league soccer, so they’ll just sit in the garage next to the chairs from last year. The only action they see is the occasional bump when we pull the car in too close to the garage wall.

The chairs are just an added bonus though. The real draw at Sports Authority is the cash cards, which are scratch-offs worth at least $10. It’s like the lottery, but you don’t have to pay and you’re guaranteed to win. I walk out of the store, put my hood on, take my glasses off and get back in line to get another. After a few more go-arounds, I have upwards of $100 in cash cards. I text my friends at the Sports Authority across the river in Maryland to let them know the good news. The options seem endless, but the cash cards expire at midnight so I have to use them now. I go through the sections: shoes, clothes and racquets—I settle for socks for the third straight year.

My cousins and I return home for a quick dinner before heading over to Walmart. The line is hundreds of people long—we should have skipped dinner. I get in line at the video game section behind a woman who’s given up her Thanksgiving to get a copy of Madden for her son for Christmas.

An hour later they unlock the cases, everyone rushes them and the police are called. As I watch the Walmart employees run from the crowd, I see the woman in front get pushed away from the cases. I reach over her and everyone else to grab six copies of FIFA and, feeling the holiday spirit, a copy of Madden. It’s not for her— she convinced me that for just $27 I needed one, and now I have one.

I walk over to Best Buy to meet

summer in Seoul with DukeEngage, but this was the first time that I was truly traveling alone and figuring out my own research project.

As we drove from Incheon, a city along the northwestern coast, eastward into Seoul, we started to pass familiar sights. I recognized Hongdae, the hopping college town the DukeEngage students had resided in last year. I recognized Sinchon, Ewha Women’s University and then eventually some of the downtown sights near where I would be staying this time. Sighing out a deep breath, I knew that somehow this project would work out and this trip would turn into something meaningful. My topic of research, language and identity among LGBTQ Koreans in Seoul, was daunting but full of potential.

This was the summer between my junior and senior years. Timewise, one would think that it was planned just right: 1) deep into my majors already, I would be most equipped to form relevant research questions; 2) I had studied Korean for two years already and lived in Seoul for two months a year earlier, so I wouldn’t be completely lost; and 3) as a rising senior, this project would be perfect to spill over into my senior thesis in linguistics. But as we learn at every stage of our lives, even when we reach milestones, there is always more to be learned, and it’s always possible to feel like we don’t have our lives together. You can study academic theories, you can ask your professors advice for on-the-ground research, but like so many other things in life, sometimes it’s hard to learn how to do something until you simply do it.

As I lived in downtown Seoul, north Justin Koritzinsky is a Trinity junior. of the Han River, I enjoyed seeing some of the big sights on a daily basis. I lived His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. right by Seoul’s City Hall with its picnicperfect, expansive lawn; Gwanghwamun Square, ever a site for political activism; as well as Gyeongbokgung, the palace that was used by Korean royals during the Joseon Dynasty. I took in the big city atmosphere and became used to passing by hundreds, if not thousands, of people every day on the streets. I learned to map out my day, find people interested in being interviewed for research and read relevant articles in busy coffee shops. And I mastered the art of eating alone, even though Korean restaurants really are better suited for larger groups.

What did I gain from the research experience? I learned how to befriend strangers in a foreign country and become comfortable asking deep questions pretty much right away. I came to understand that the Korean years later and I still have a dozen Xbox Live cards.

I head back to Maryland and meet up with some friends to hang out for a couple hours before heading over to Target. We run into a classmate from Hebrew School (Jewish Sunday School) in line—go figure. We aren’t looking for anything in particular at Target, but it’s 4 a.m. and we have nothing else to do. Once we’re in, I decide to buy a new iPhone. When I get to the front of the line, I ask for silver. Thirty minutes later, I’m presented with my new iPhone—it’s gold. I tell them to give me a silver iPhone and they say they can’t—I can’t even. I tell them I’ll keep the gold iPhone and report the charge as fraudulent if they don’t give me a silver iPhone. The cashier goes to talk to a manager and I go to the speaker section where I play the sample music on every speaker on max volume. They come over and agree to give me a silver iPhone and I leave with my new silver iPhone thirty minutes later.

The best nights end where they start.

We head back over to Sports Authority for their 5 a.m. reopening and get in line. I walk across the parking lot to Old Navy to grab some flip flops for a dollar. After 30 minutes of waiting, our families arrive and cut the line to join us. There are 12 of us and only 80 cash cards. This means that this year we have a 15 percent chance of getting the $500 cash card. When we finally get in, we get our cards and reach into our pockets for coins to scratch them off with—we all get $10. We walk around for about an hour, again unsure of what to get—I settle for socks.

Want to write a guest column?

Contact Amrith Ramkumar at ar299@duke.edu.

the extent to which cultural norms can seem arbitrary when we compare them at face value.

Apart from research itself, I learned how to live my life largely by myself, separated from a familiar sense of community, in a new national and cultural context. I did get the chance to visit with a few Duke professors, some of my friends who were participating in DukeEngage this year and some other Duke friends who either lived in Seoul or were visiting as tourists. Those moments when I got to reconnect with people from communities that I felt deeply rooted in, I felt comfort, joy and a break from the sense of confusion that sometimes accompanied me during the research period. But the times in which I saw friends, they were much more scheduled than most interactions I could have on Duke campus. Seoul is a big city after all, with a population bigger than the New York City metropolitan area, so meeting someone usually requires narrowing down a meeting place to a specific exit of a specific subway station.

I also tried to take trips outside of Seoul when I could in order to expand my view of South Korea and continue the spirit of adventure that can sometimes wane away after weeks of staying put in downtown Seoul. I saw the traditional capital of Jeonju, I visited the city of Buyeo during the annual lotus festival and I got to see the famously touristpacked Haeundae beach in Busan. Small trips like these were breaths of fresh air and inspired me to keep on trekking through a difficult research project.

I believe Duke does still have some things to work on to improve the research experience for undergraduates. I was able to get generous funding to travel, to lodge and to get daily necessities, but not having a stipend on top of those expenditures, I can imagine many students are excluded from participating.

I think that, although I did hear many helpful points of advice from professors, I would love to see more structural support for prospective student researchers and venues for sharing stories and ideas among them. However, I am still grateful to have had this experience, and I can attest to the truth that learning is not, and cannot, be confined to a classroom alone. Sometimes we have to escape the Duke bubble, get out of our comfort zone and see life as it really exists every day in the diverse experiences of people around the globe.

Drew Korschun is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

12 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

www.dukechronicle.com

The Chronicle

November 10-16 EXHIBITIONS 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. Nasher Museum of Art. Richard Mosse: The Enclave. Immersive 40-minute six-channel video installation shot in eastern Congo. Thru January 10, 2016.

Nasher Museum of Art. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light.

Comprehensive and dynamic reinstallation of the museum’s collection, highlighting masterworks while illustrating a history of human creativity. Thru September 18, 2016. Nasher Museum of Art. Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection.

This exhibition demonstrates the museum’s ongoing commitment to collecting contemporary work by global artists, with an emphasis on artists of African descent. Thru July 10, 2016. Nasher Museum of Art.

EVENTS November 10 Inventing Vivian Maier. Art history lecture by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (UC Santa Barbara). 6 pm, A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse. Free.

November 11 MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: A Life at the End of the Gasoline Age. An artist talk by photographer and Duke MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts visiting artist Bill Burke.

6:30pm. Full Frame Theater. Free.

November 12 Photographer Nadia Sablin. An artist’s talk by CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Nadia Sablin on her exhibition and book Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila. 5:30pm, followed by a reception and book signing, Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

An Experiment With An Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson.

What price would you pay for knowledge? Furtive romance and troubling secrets infuse this examination of ethical challenges in scientific research spanning 1799 through 1999.

Duke Theater Studies departmental production, directed by Jules Odendahl-James. 8pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 General Public; $5 Students/Sr. Citizens.

November 13 Rare Music Concert: Music for Brass. Barry Bauguess, keyed trumpet & cornet; John O’Brien, fortepiano & piano; and Leah Peroutka, violin, perform late 18th & early 19th century music

by Hummel, Mozart, and Brandt. Presented in association with DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections). 5pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 12.) 8pm The Real Mayberry. The trials and tribulations of Mount Airy, Andy Griffith’s small NC hometown. Part of the Fresh Docs Film Series from the Center for Documentary Studies and the Southern Documentary Fund. 7pm, Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free.

November 14 Duke Opera Workshop – Susan Dunn, director. Revue of movie musicals performed with staging & costumes. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 12.) 8pm November 15 Duke Opera Workshop – Susan Dunn, director. Revue of movie musicals performed with staging & costumes. 3pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 12.) 2pm

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.

November 10 Innocence of Memories - lead-in to visit by novelist Orhan Pamuk New Turkish Cinema November 11 Like Father, Like Son Cine-East (Japan) November 16 Kosmos - Q&A to follow w/ Prof. Erdağ Göknar (AMES) New Turkish Cinema ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

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.