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the campaign moving forward.

“For the next two years, we will continue to focus on campaign priorities, specifically financial aid, faculty support and building our endowment—all of which will enhance the student experience,” she wrote.

Administrators have pointed to limitations in the University’s endowment size as a reason why peer universities have been able to expand their financial aid offerings, either by eliminating loans or lowering the

Duke Law has received a $5 million grant from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment to increase the number of endowed faculty positions, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday.

The grant will create the Duke Law Faculty Challenge, which will match donations in order to fund new endowed faculty chairs, professors of the practice or clinical professorships.

The grant aims to create as many as six new law faculty positions over the next two years.

“Endowed professorships support and attract distinguished scholars to Duke,” said David Levi, dean of the Duke Law School, in a Duke News press release. “Their scholarship generates intellectual excitement and new understandings of our legal system and substantive legal rules.”

The grant adds to the more than $90 million raised for Duke Law so far in the $3.25 billion Duke Forward fundraising campaign. It is the Duke Endowment’s second major contribution to the Law School since the start of Duke Forward.

In 2013 it gave $5 million to the Law School’s Center for Judicial Studies.

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Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Duke Forward is ahead of its fundraising goals, but administrators do not plan to end the campaign early.

As of October, the Duke Forward campaign—which raises funds for Duke’s 10 schools, health system, athletic department, facilities and financial aid—has raised $2.88 billion toward its goal of $3.25 billion by 2017. This puts the campaign ahead of schedule, explained Jennifer Haslip, executive

director of development marketing and communications for the Office of University Development. She noted that even if the campaign meets its goal earlier than expected, it will continue until its scheduled end date of June 30, 2017.

“We need to ensure that foundational areas like financial aid and faculty support are adequately funded,” Haslip wrote in an email. “Receiving additional support beyond the campaign’s goal in areas like these sets us up to better serve our students and our faculty in the future.”

Haslip added that raising support for need-based financial aid is a key goal for

Global Ed Office accounts for Paris study abroad students hours after attacks Ian Jaffe The Chronicle Duke students in Paris were quickly accounted for following Friday night’s terrorist attacks in the city.

The attacks, which began at 3:20 p.m. EST according to CNN, involved multiple shootings and bombings around Paris, as well as a hostage situation. At 6:43 p.m. EST, the Duke Global Education Office for Undergraduates reported that all Duke students in the Duke in France/ EDUCO study abroad program in Paris had been accounted for.

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Many of the students were outside of Paris traveling at the time of the attacks, Kelso wrote in a separate email to students in the Duke program and their parents. Kelso also noted that students were advised to take precautions for their safety.

“All students in Paris should monitor and adhere to directives from the French authorities,” Kelso wrote in the email to students.

“Current instructions are to shelter in place until further notice.

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Fire extinguisher placed in Giles oven leads to evacuation Sunday Ian Jaffe The Chronicle A fire in the Giles kitchen forced students to evacuate the dorm early Sunday morning.

After unknown individuals placed a fire extinguisher in a kitchen oven that was on, the fire alarm was activated, and students evacuated the building. The Duke University Police Department, the Durham Fire Department and various Housing, Dining and Residence Life employees responded to the incident, wrote Lisa Beth Bergene, associate dean for East Campus, in an email.

This is not the first incident of vandalism on East Campus—in recent weeks, the benches outside Giles residence hall and Wilson residence hall have also been significantly damaged.

HDRL does not yet know who was responsible for the fire, she wrote, adding that HDRL is working with DUPD and the Office of Student Conduct to investigate the incident.

Chief of Police John Dailey wrote in an email Monday that DUPD has investigators committed to looking into this fire as well as a recent fire in Randolph residence hall. He also encouraged anyone with information about either incident to contact DUPD, noting that information can be reported anonymously through their website.

“I cannot express how disappointed I am in the people responsible,” Bergene wrote. “I question whether those responsible deserve to be at Duke.”

Bergene explained that part of the extinguisher melted in the oven—triggering the fire alarm—and that a second extinguisher was also sprayed in the kitchen.

Meredyth Albright, a freshman resident

Ariana Gallegos | The Chronicle Giles residence hall was the site of drama Sunday, when the dormitory was evacuated after an unknown perpetrator placed a fire extinguisher in an oven.

in Giles, said that she and a friend were the first to notice the smoke. They attempted to use another extinguisher to put out the fire, which was when they noticed that there was a fire extinguisher already in the oven.

“My friend and I walked down the hall and we saw...smoke pouring out of the oven,” she recounted. “We ran over to a fire extinguisher...I opened the stove and blasted the fire extinguisher into the stove, but it was weird because there was another fire extinguisher in the stove.”

Although no one was injured in the incident, there was significant potential for harm to students.

“Thankfully, no one was harmed as the fire alarms were triggered before the canister

could explode,” wrote Matthew Bailey, residence coordinator for neighborhood two, in an email to Giles and Wilson residents Sunday afternoon.

Bailey also wrote that anyone found responsible could face criminal penalties, disciplinary sanctions and would likely have their housing license canceled.

He also noted that this fire and the destruction of the Giles and Wilson benches represent an escalation of occasional pranks occurring throughout the semester. As a result, both Giles and Wilson will be put on house-only card access for at least the rest of the semester.

Albright mentioned that a feud between Wilson and Giles might have played a role in

the incident.

“If it was an act of malice, obviously fingers are pointed at Wilson because they have done such idiotic things to Giles,” she said. “But I do not know if it was an act of malice, or if it was an act of stupid kids doing stupid things.

Of course I hope it was the second one, but something needs to be done.”

Albright noted that the destruction of benches has been one of the main components in the feud between the two dorms.

In his email, Bailey wrote that all East Campus benches will be removed if any more benches are damaged or tipped.

Albright said the fire alarms in the dorm did not awaken everyone.

“The fire alarms went off, but my roommate did not even know...until this morning when I told her,” Albright said. “She was asleep in the dorm. You can hear [the alarm] in your room, but it does not wake you up.”

Bergene wrote that the fire alarm system is being updated to increase its audibility and also noted that resident assistants will be going door-to-door to talk to residents in some of the East Campus buildings.

“I think many of the students living in Giles have had enough and are beginning to speak out against peers,” she wrote. “It’s also important to remember that we are not certain if these actions were caused by people living in Giles or by people from other buildings.”

Although many of the details of the incident are still unknown, Bergene expressed her disappointment at the behavior and the waste of resources that it caused.

“Given all that we are witnessing in the world right now in Paris, Beirut and on our own campus, the immaturity and complete disregard for the safety of others is hard to fathom,” she said.

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Unexplained pizza box found in Randolph dryer before fire Monday Ian Jaffe The Chronicle Early Morning morning—one day after a fire extinguisher was placed in an oven in Giles—a dryer in a Randolph laundry room caught fire, setting off the sprinkler system and forcing students to evacuate the dorm.

The fire caused significant water and fire damage to Randolph residence hall, which is being cleaned up by the private maintenance company AfterDisaster, wrote Kevin Erixson, residence coordinator for neighborhood four, in an email. The Duke University Police Department is investigating the fire as an arson, he noted. Delaney Dryfoos, a freshman resident in Randolph, said she and a few friends were the first to discover the scorched and melted dryer in the laundry room about a half-hour before the fire started.

“I noticed that it smelled like melting plastic,” Dryfoos said. “We went over and looked at the dryers and noticed that one of them was completely melted, and it smelled horrible—and then there was this random pizza box that was in the dryer. It looked as though the pizza box had not even been melted, but the plastic of the dryer was melting off.”

Although the dryer was off and there was no fire at the time, Dryfoos and her friends notified a resident assistant about the issue.

She also noted that this was the second time a Randolph dryer had caught fire this year.

“This is the second time that something was happening to the same dryer, so I thought it was ridiculous that people were stupid enough to be doing this and putting people in harm’s way,” she recounted.

Nearly 30 minutes after Dryfoos found the dryer, the fire alarm was activated, causing

students to evacuate the dorm.

Lisa Beth Bergene, associate dean for East Campus, wrote in an email that it is unclear exactly what caused the fire. Once the fire started, the fire alarm and sprinkler system were activated, and the Durham Fire Department, HDRL and DUPD responded thereafter, Bergene wrote.

The exact timing of the fire is also under investigation. Dryfoos said that when a DUPD officer interviewed her Monday morning, she was told that the dryer had caught on fire sometime between when she found it and when the fire alarm was activated.

During the evacuation, there were concerns that not all of the students had complied with the fire alarm and left the building.

According to freshman Randolph resident Ray Pryor, the fire department went through the dorm to make sure that all residents had left, but had to break open his door because he had locked it before leaving.

“The fire department was concerned that not everyone was out...but they could not get into my room to make sure that I was out,” he said. “They basically destroyed the handle on the locked part of the door to get inside.”

Pryor also noted that some of the concern over the evacuation might have been because Randolph has had multiple false alarms over the course of the semester, and some residents now ignore the alarms.

In his email to Randolph residents, Erixson asked that they take all fire alarms seriously and immediately evacuate the building when alarms are activated.

Both the fire and the sprinkler system caused substantial damage to the dorm.

“The laundry room will be offline for a while,” Bergene wrote. “Machines need to be repaired/replaced and the walls also need to

Special to The Chronicle Another East Campus fire caused a residence hall to be evacuated Monday—a student found a pizza box in a dryer before the fire alarm was activated.

be cleaned and painted. The sprinklers were set off, so there is also water to contend with.”

According to Erixson’s email, some parts of the dorm will be off-limits until the damage is repaired.

Pryor noted that he was told it will be approximately three days until the door of his room is repaired, and that he has moved to Bell Tower residence hall for the next few days.

John Dailey, chief of police for DUPD, wrote in an email that investigators are looking into causes of the fire. Dailey

encouraged anyone with information about the fire in Randolph or the incident in Giles early Sunday morning to contact the police department or HDRL. Bergene wrote that HDRL is investigating as well, adding that RAs have been asked to talk about what happened with their residents.

She also expressed her disappointment regarding the fires in both Randolph and Giles. “[It is] reckless and with complete disregard for the safety of the other people,” she wrote.

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income threshold at which a student’s family is not expected to contribute financially. President Richard Brodhead spoke about these limitations after the October Board of Trustees meeting.

“Universities that have six times as big endowments have added some goodies onto the packages,” Brodhead said.

Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard index compiled by The Chronicle indicates that Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University and Rice University are among the schools that have lower average annual net niversities costs for federal financial aid recipients than Duke, despite that have having smaller endowments six times as big than Duke. endowments Despite the endowment have added some limitations, Haslip noted that all schools, units and goodies onto the initiatives are on track to packages. meet their individual goals as the Duke Forward campaign — Richard continues.

Brodhead Duke is not alone in its fundraising efforts. Several peer universities are also in the middle of ambitious capital campaigns. In September, Harvard reached the $6 billion mark in its $6.5 billion campaign. Johns Hopkins and Georgetown are also making strides on their fundraising goals.

Johns Hopkins is continuing toward its goal of $4.5 billion in its campaign, which began in 2010, and Georgetown announced in September that its capital campaign hit its goal of $1.5 billion almost a year ahead of schedule.

The Duke Forward campaign publicly launched in September 2012 after its private launch two years prior.

It represents the University’s largest fundraising effort to date and includes every school at Duke along with Duke Athletics and Duke Medicine.

Haslip explained that the campaign has evolved since it started. She noted that some of the funds raised will support new efforts, such as the funding of new library collections and emerging areas of focus like the sciences.

One challenge the campaign has faced is having to educate potential donors about the variety of programs and initiatives supported by the donations, Haslip noted. She added that the Office of University Development is currently looking at ways to broaden Duke’s philanthropic culture.

“We’d like to move beyond the senior gift to establish a culture of philanthropy and giving that begins when students arrive on campus,” she wrote.

Haslip wrote that later this week, the University will release a 2015 campaign impact report, which will contain more detailed updates about the campaign’s progress.

She added that the University has not begun formal planning for the next fundraising campaign, which will occur after the completion of Duke Forward.

“We will be reviewing the key objectives and opportunities that the new provost and other academic leadership define through the new strategic plan to ensure that post-campaign fundraising efforts continue to align with the University’s top priorities,” she wrote.

and/or France should monitor the security situation closely before attempting to return to the city.”

Duke junior Max Kramer—who was in Paris at the time with the Duke program—wrote in an email that his host mother was the person who first notified him of the attacks. Kramer also reported that he quickly received many messages from friends and family asking where he was and if he was safe. He responded to these messages individually and posted on Facebook to indicate that he was safe.

“I was contacted by Duke around 11:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. EST), although I know Emory students on the same program were contacted by their school closer to 2 a.m.,” Kramer wrote. “We received a second email from Duke around 12:40 a.m. saying that every Duke student had checked in and was safe.”

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LAW from page 1 The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment focuses on four areas including child care, health care, education and the rural church, and distributes grants to organizations across North and South Carolina. It has given nearly $1.5 billion to the University to date.

“Establishing a law school was part of our founder’s hope for Duke University, and we believe this new grant strengthens that legacy for students and scholars today,” said Minor Shaw, chair of the Endowment’s Board of Trustees in the Duke News press release.

Levi noted the new positions will allow the law school to address a large range of social issues.

“Almost every challenge facing our society—from climate change and financial regulation to health care reform and access to justice—have important legal dimensions,” Levi said in the press release. “Law faculty help shape public conversations through their scholarship, research and counsel.”

program is required to have contingency plans for emergency situations. The office also contracts with International SOS to provide travel assistance and medical evacuations for all Duke study abroad programs.

Following the Paris attacks, the program contingencies were not implemented, Kramer explained.

The GEO monitored International SOS and the U.S. State Department for security information, however, and updated students and parents as soon as they received information.

At this time, the GEO is not considering canceling current or future study abroad programs in France unless the security status in the region changes significantly, Kelso explained.

Even after the attacks, Kramer noted that he does not feel that his safety is at risk.

“I continue to feel safe in Paris,” he wrote. “We had classes today like normal. I walked around parts of Paris both Saturday and Sunday without considerable fear.”

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For freshman Luke Kennard, the battle is far more personal.

After comfortable victories against Siena and Bryant in the 2K Classic to begin the season, No. 5 Duke will face its first major test Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. against the secondranked Wildcats in the Champions No. 5 Classic in Chicago.

Duke Kennard—who was vs. raised by a family of No. 2 Kentucky Kentucky fans just more than two hours TUESDAY, 7:30 p.m. north of the Wildcats’ United Center Rupp Arena—will have an added chip on his shoulder as he takes the floor at the United Center, just a five-hour drive away from his high school in Franklin, Ohio.

“We had some UK stuff in the house, but all that’s gone—it’s all Duke now, all Duke,” Kennard said after Saturday’s win against Bryant. “I know a lot of friends and family are going to be there, pretty close to home.... I’m excited about it and it’s a big game. I’m going to play really hard and hopefully come out with a win.”

Although it’s not the titanic clash college basketball fans hoped for in April last season

times. In that time, the Blue Devils have brought their fifth banner to Durham, but the Wildcats have been unable to capture a national title since 2012.

Despite the fact that Tuesday’s matchup features two of the top teams in the country with coaching legends Mike Krzyzewski and John Calipari patrolling the sidelines for Duke and Kentucky, respectively, both teams

After the season’s opening weekend, all the hype surrounding Duke basketball is not about its top-ranked recruiting class, nor its nationally televised showdown with No. 2 Kentucky Tuesday—but rather the magnificent scoring prowess of Grayson Allen.

Allen put on a pair of shows for the Cameron Crazies this weekend, christening the Blue Devils’ title defense with 26 points and a pair of stadium-shattering slams against Siena Friday night. As an encore the next day, he notched a career-high 28, methodically breaking down the Bryant defense and dishing out six dimes to lead the Duke offense to a 113-point explosion.

Allen’s 54 points are the most for any Blue Devil through the season’s first two games in more than 30 years. Only Johnny Dawkins has ever surpassed this mark in a Duke uniform, pouring in 27 and 28 in the first two contests of a 1983-84 season in

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Fulya Keskin | The Chronicle Blue Devil freshman Luke Kennard grew up in a Kentucky household, but his family now supports No. 5 Duke heading into to Tuesday’s much-anticipated clash with the No. 2 Wildcats.

between an undefeated Kentucky squad and a talented Duke team—two clubs that combined to send nine players to the NBA, including four top-10 selections and the entire Wildcats starting lineup—Tuesday’s renewal of one of the sport’s greatest rivalries has its share of storylines.

The Blue Devils (2-0)and the Wildcats have (2-0) finished with the top two recruiting classes in the nation the past two years, with Duke edging Kentucky both

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Q&A: AAU program raising gun violence awareness Former Duke guard Andy Borman won a national championship with the Blue Devils in 2001 and currently serves as director of a New York City-based AAU team, the New York RENS. The RENS compete on a nationwide circuit, and this season will use their platform to raise awareness about gun violence. The Chronicle’s Ryan Hoerger spoke with Borman—a nephew of Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski— about the RENS’ decision to wear orange patches on their jerseys this season to raise awareness about gun violence. Their conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

The Chronicle: How did you get involved in the anti-gun violence movement and deciding to wear the orange patches?

Andy Borman: It was obvious from a couple different instances that took place in and around New York City that gun violence was a problem.

Our kids kind of made it pretty apparent that they wanted to do something to raise awareness on the gun violence issue. I called a couple organizations, one of them being Sandy Hook Promise—which is run by the Mothers of Sandy Hook up in Connecticut—and a program called Everytown, which is raising awareness

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about gun violence. We called them and said, ‘What can we do? What’s a good message to send?’

Very similar to how breast cancer awareness has the pink ribbon and Support Our Troops has the yellow ribbon, what those two organizations let us know is that the color for safety is orange. We are sewing orange patches on all of our game jerseys—from second grade up through high school—and that’s just our way of saying that we don’t like gun violence, our kids don’t like it and we’re going to raise awareness and try to make a change.

TC: Was there a specific catalyst around your program that led to the RENS deciding to take this stand?

AB: There were four instances this past season, and the season really runs from March to early

August. Out of those four, two of the instances were players that were not a part of our program but that we do know because we play against the teams that they play for. One of them was a kid that used to play for us three years ago, and the fourth one, Tyrek Chambers, played on our freshman AAU team and in August was walking to the local convenience store with some friends and got shot in the stomach. He was the product of a drive-by that really had no rhyme or reason for why it took place. Fortunately, Tyrek’s alive, but unfortunately Tyrek still has a bullet lodged in his body, and has and is undergoing multiple surgeries to try to be fully healthy again.

TC: With all of these incidents occurring around them, how did your players respond?

AB: Were the kids affected? Of course they were.

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has averaged 17.5 points per game on 77 percent shooting in his first two contests. In the backcourt, guards Jamal Murray—who, like Duke freshman point guard Derryck Thornton, reclassified to join the Class of 2015—and Isaiah Briscoe have quickly adjusted to the college game and have combined to average 24.5 points per game thus far.

Although Duke’s freshmen have been overshadowed by the play of Grayson Allen to start the season, the newest Blue Devils will have their first chance to perform in the national spotlight. Forward Brandon Ingram appeared to find his perimeter stroke against Bryant Saturday and has the versatility at 6-foot-9 to make life difficult for defenders.

Meanwhile, Thornton, Kennard and forward Chase Jeter have all shown flashes of their abilities early this season.

“I think they’re very mature and they come in with a lot of talent, but they’re a different group than last year, and we have a different returning class than last year’s class,” Jefferson said. “What we’re trying to do is establish a bond, something special with this group of guys.”

Although it’s rare for a single week in the season to hold much importance, the Blue

Devils enter the Champions Classic with a chance to make a major statement in the next seven days. A non-conference victory against another team likely to be in contention for a conference title could provide a similar resume boost to what Duke received after beating Wisconsin last year. Following Tuesday’s game, the Blue Devils will head to the second leg of the 2K Classic in New York,

where they will face off against VCU and either Wisconsin or Georgetown at Madison Square Garden this weekend.

“Each one is a little bit of a measuring stick,” Krzyzewski said. “The Champions Classic has been great for all four of the teams and the games have been terrific. We’re really looking forward to it and then we have to turn around and go to New York—so it’s a busy week.”

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are searching for their identity amid an abundance of youth.

“Kentucky is going to be as talented as anybody we play and they’re young, too,” Krzyzewski said Saturday. “But they’re really talented and in that type of environment, you can’t get practice in that.”

The Wildcats and the Blue Devils have nearly identical roster compositions with six incoming freshman alongside steady veterans.

Playing the leadership roles of Marshall Plumlee, Matt Jones and Amile Jefferson for the Wildcats are senior Alex Poythress and sophomore Tyler Ulis. Although the two have been solid contributors for Kentucky, Ulis’ 5-foot-9 stature and Poythress’ ACL tear at the beginning of last season have prevented them from bolting to the NBA like several of their teammates.

But for both teams, much of the talk has centered on their highly-touted freshmen.

For the Wildcats, 6-foot-11 forward Skal Labissiere will man the interior and test the Blue Devils up front. The No. 2 recruit in the Class of 2015 is off to a fast start and

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MARSHALL PLUMLEE 6.0 ppg, 8.5 rpg AMILE JEFFERSON 15.0 ppg, 11.5 rpg BRANDON INGRAM 18.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg GRAYSON ALLEN 27.0 ppg, 4.0 apg, 4.0 rpg MATT JONES 14.5 ppg, 2.0 apg, 1.5 spg

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MARCUS LEE 11.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 23.5 mpg SKAL LABISSIERE 17.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 3.0 bpg DEREK WILLIS 12.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 55.6% 3FG JAMAL MURRAY 13.5 ppg,4.0 rpg, 5.0 apg TYLER ULIS 8.5 ppg, 3.5 apg, 34 mpg,

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2015-16 season) Freshman Skal Labissiere DUKE UK finished his debut weekend 82.5 PPG: 102.5 13-of-17 from the field, joining 61.0 PPG DEF: 74.5 FG%: Marcus Lee and Derek Willis as 49.6 50.4 3PT%: double-figure scorers up front.

37.3 28.9 FT%: Together, their athleticism will 73.8 70.8 RPG: 44.0 43.5 challenge Amile Jefferson and APG: 13.0 Marshall Plumlee at the rim, as 15.0 8.5 BPG: 5.5 well as Duke’s offensive drivers.

SPG: 6.0 11.0 The Wildcats boast three five8.0 17.0 TO/G: star guards in the backcourt, The breakdown but Duke gets the nod because Both teams are tasked with replacing the of its superior 3-point shooting. vast majority of their scoring from last year’s Grayson Allen, Matt Jones, Final Four squads. Although Duke will be the Luke Kennard and Brandon younger team in most of the games the Blue Ingram can all heat up at any Devils play this season, head coach Mike given moment, stretching the Krzyzewski’s veterans have played through Kentucky defense. adversity in tough situations before, and this Senior Alex Poythress torched gives Duke an intangible edge against a WildDuke for 20 points three years cat squad that will look to the freshman trio ago in Atlanta, and freshman of Labissiere, Murray and Briscoe for much of Isaiah Briscoe gives head its offense. coach John Calipari another versatile, scoring big man in the backcourt. The Wildcats OUR CALL: Duke wins, 74-70 may not platoon this year, but their depth is still foreboding.

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feet to four, meaning there should be more room for Allen to operate around the rim.

The early returns on this are positive—he went a combined 17-of-18 from the line this weekend, good for a remarkable 11.4 free throws per 40 minutes.

Of course, if defenses could focus entirely on preventing Allen from getting into the lane, he would not be a very valuable asset. But Allen’s shooting stroke is plenty dangerous, and it forces defenses to come out and guard him on the perimeter— which both enables him to take opponents off the dribble and frees up opportunities for his teammates.

Last season, Allen shot 42.5 percent from the floor and knocked down 34.6 percent of his 3-point attempts—respectable shooting figures, but not spectacular ones.

Against the Saints and the Bulldogs, he connected on 16 of 31 field goal attempts (51.6 percent), including 5-of-12 from deep (41.7 percent)—numbers that garnered him ACC Player of the Week honors Monday.

Those gaudy figures are unlikely to keep up against Kentucky’s length and athleticism or some of the ACC’s stingier defenses, but even if Allen’s shooting numbers settle in the middle between last year’s and last weekend’s marks, opposing defenses are in for a rough go.

The biggest difference from last year to this year may simply be the role Allen is expected to play as he becomes part of the starting lineup. He earned his first career start Friday and logged more than 30 minutes both nights after never playing more than 24 in a game as a freshman.

With more minutes come more shots, and the best way to determine how Allen functions in the flow of the offense is by his usage rate—the percentage of the team’s shots he takes. As a rookie, his usage rate was just 4.8 percent, but that spiked to 19.7 percent Friday and 24.7 percent Saturday as Allen had the ball in his hands more than any other Blue Devil.

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which he would go on to average nearly 20 points per game.

It’s not like we didn’t see this from Allen at all as a freshman last year—it’s just that these scoring barrages were few and far between. His 16 clutch points in the national championship game sparked offseason talk that he could develop into the focal point of the Blue Devil offense this season. Against Wake Forest, Allen outscored the Demon Deacons by himself in the first half and stole the show on Senior Night with a 27-point outburst.

But at the same time, the 6-foot-5 guard averaged a mere 4.4 points per game on the year and was often ineffective off the bench.

His immense physical ability was evident, yet his transition to the college game was far bumpier than for his three classmates now playing in the NBA. So, putting all this together, what kind of production can Duke expect from Allen this year?

Allen’s greatest strength is his ability to drive and attack the rim with either hand.

This helps him get to the free throw line at a very high rate—he averaged 6.6 free throw attempts per 40 minutes last year, just slightly behind Jahlil Okafor’s 6.8 rate and well above Justise Winslow’s 5.5 and Tyus Jones’ 4.9 marks. Considering Allen’s conversion rate from the charity stripe was 84.9 percent last year—compared to Okafor’s dreadful 51 percent—that’s a huge plus, and a handful of points the Blue Devils can count on every night.

Scoring from the free throw line is especially valuable because it tends to fluctuate less than other methods of scoring. Allen is bound to have his games when he goes 1-for-8 from beyond the arc, but having a consistent six to 10 free throw attempts per game in his back pocket will help prevent him from ever being a nonfactor offensively.

New NCAA rules this year have expanded the restricted arc from three

tremendous jump, usage rates in the range of 20-25 percent are normal for a team’s primary offensive weapon—which is what many have forecasted Allen to be for this year’s squad.

On last year’s team—one noted for its offensive balance and wide array of scorers—Quinn Cook led the way by taking 20 percent of the team’s shots, followed by Okafor at 19.2 percent and Winslow at 16.2 percent. In 2013-14—when Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood were far and away the two best scoring options—Parker amassed 24.8 percent of Duke’s totals shots, with Hood accounting for another 20.4 percent.

In Dawkins’ 1983-84 campaign, his usage rate was a very high 27.3 percent—even with two other scorers averaging more than 13 points per game.

A team can score in a variety of

different ways—relying on one player or several makes no difference as long as the points end up on the scoreboard. In all likelihood, Allen’s shot volume this year will be primarily a function of the development of talented but unproven freshmen Brandon Ingram, Luke Kennard and Derryck Thornton. If that trio matures in a fashion parallel to last year’s unit of Jones, Okafor and Winslow, then Allen’s usage rate will probably sit around 15 percent. Should they struggle or not adapt right away, Allen’s usage rate could very well climb in the 20-25 percent range.

Either way, suffice it to say Blue Devil fans should get used to Allen regularly having the ball in his hands this season.

Whether or not that continues to produce highlight-reel dunks and team-shouldering performances—only time will tell.

Fulya Keskin | The Chronicle Grayson Allen kicked off his sophomore campaign with a bang this weekend, totaling 54 points—the second-most ever for a Duke player through the season’s first two games—thanks in large part to a combined 17-of-18 performance from the free throw line.

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TC: Have you worn the patches during any AAU events yet? What’s been the initial response?

AB: We played in two tournaments—for the first one we didn’t have the patches ready so our kids wore orange undershirts underneath their jerseys, so you could see the orange sleeves. And for the second one, we played with the patches on. It’s gone really well. There is a rallying effect. In less than a week, I have had 25 programs from across the country call and say ‘Hey, how can we get patches? How can we join the movement?’ What we’re doing is we’re telling any program, whether it’s a youth program, whether it’s a high school, whether it’s a college, whatever—if you want to wear patches, we will get them made, we will send them to you free of charge. We don’t want this to be a flash in the pan. We don’t want it to be something where everybody talks about it for three days and then moves on to the next issue.

I think that’s part of the allure of the patches because they’re going to be there every time we put on the jersey.

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AB: I think any person that has played for or had a relationship with the coaches, Coach K and every single member of the staff at Duke basketball, I think you learn several things right away. One is leadership, another is responsibility, and I think the third thing—Coach talks about it all the time—is being a part of something bigger than yourself. I played there in the early 2000s and a lot of my best friends are former teammates, and that’s something that we take a lot of pride in. This is my opportunity to be a part of something that’s bigger than myself.

That’s something that’s ingrained in you, and it becomes a part of who you are. The effect that Duke has had on me is it has made me a better man, which has prepared me in life and also prepared me to take on this leadership role of supporting and guiding such a worthy cause.

for breast cancer awareness. How do you see sports as a vehicle for pushing important social causes like this one?

AB: Sports are a large part of our country and they’re a large part of the social conscience of people. I think it’s big—it’s got the potential to be enormous. Obviously the platform that sports provide, I mean, look at Duke basketball. Duke basketball is not just a Duke influencer—it’s a national influencer of all ages, whether you’re a third-grader or an adult. Our hope is that we can make it so that gun violence is not only unacceptable, it’s uncool. When you’re a kid, being cool is pretty important, so if we can make it cool to be safe and to be healthy and to make good decisions, then I think we’ve done our job.

TC: You mentioned that after the tragedies that took place, there was almost a sense of acceptance from your kids. Since the orange patches have been sewn on, have you sensed a change?

AB: There’s an enormous sense of pride, and our kids really believe they’re making a difference. They’re kind of carrying the torch. A lot of [gun violence] is senseless, a lot of these things are not premeditated—they just occur.

A big thing for us is making sure our kids are making good decisions, putting themselves in a safe environment, if they’re in a place where they feel uncomfortable, that they’re prepared or equipped so that they can make a phone call or reach out for help. The first step in any change is self-awareness, and so that’s what our kids are undergoing right now. After self-awareness, it’s [having a] positive influence on others.

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ast Friday, President Brodhead held a community forum in Page Auditorium with Provost Sally Kornbluth and Trinity Dean Valerie Ashby. The forum was announced against the backdrop of student protests of racism across the nation and the resignation of the University of Missouri’s president after pressure from student activists for mishandling racial issues. It concerned itself with institutional responses that would improve the campus environment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and mental health. The forum also highlighted an increasingly awkward miscommunication between administration and students over what demands and projects have been accomplished, which are ongoing and which have been passed on.

The forum was a rare opportunity for students to air grievances directly to top University leadership and for administrators to freshly understand the, often raw, emotional toll that these issues have on individual, peer-to-peer and community levels.

Moreover, administrators in attendance likely began to better understand the labor, both emotional and administrative, that student leaders who try to improve campus have performed on top of their academic obligations.

Many ideas, some new and many rehashed, came out of the forum, an outcome which we applaud for setting

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many proposals into the public eye and putting many on the same page, for once. These ideas included the creation of a dedicated form to report bias incidents but most importantly revealed the fundamental need for top administrators to communicate more about what policy or initiatives can be expected. Dean Ashby shared that she is working on addressing bias in faculty and that search committees will now go through bias training before choosing new faculty. Administrators also listened very well and should be applauded for maintaining their composure.

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From students at the event, there at times tended to be an unfortunate lack of awareness from the student end about what work is currently being done in addition to a brief miscommunication about The Chronicle’s opinion section, clarified in Friday’s Editor’s note. From the administration’s end there was an unmistakably sympathetic response to the breadth of issues that affected students in personal anecdotes and the emotion behind some questions. If those sympathies are to acted on, the administration ought to put energy into making students aware of safety improvements, substantial initiative progress and further opportunities for

dialogue. No doubt, the administration has the power and means to communicate easily with students, and we recommend that they do so. A supplement or hyperlink in Dean Steve Nowicki’s Short List emails or a monthly email would suffice, without becoming ignored by students for being too frequent. It may be that such channels of communication are necessary to be in touch about progress in the problem areas of race, gender, sexuality, etc.

Due to a student demonstration at the beginning of the event which called, in part, for Friday’s forum to not be a one-off event scheduled at a time inconvenient for students, Provost Kornbluth stated publicly her intent to attend next Friday’s forum. In order to make these conversations with administration sustained to hold leaders accountable as well as show good faith from all parties through an open flow of sentiments and information, we encourage all members of the Duke community to attend. We can all contribute to our campus’s active conversation with or without forums and should do so whenever possible. Students who involve themselves productively and in good faith should be encouraged to do so, and the administration should balance the fact that the job of students is primarily to be students with the role students necessarily have in providing feedback on the community and University broadly.

Love and respect over fear and hate

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ear Duke Community, I left the conversation Friday feeling angry, sad, concerned and conflicted.

It became clear to me that many students don’t feel safe on our campus. Many feel persecuted, marginalized or ignored. Others feel their freedoms are being curtailed, that

whom we disagree. Let’s remember that the goal of raising one group is not to dominate others but rather to level the playing field.

It’s tempting to let outrage, indignation and fear win, to let powerful emotions obscure a common vision. We’ve all seen the media circus the past few months, either condemning “PC” culture as an existential

Ted Yavuzkurt GUEST COLUMN their free expression is in danger. President Brodhead was right on point, explaining the necessity of being decisive and discerning in our response to ensure that we do not trade one evil for another.

The multiple issues involved have already been covered far more eloquently than I could ever hope, so I don’t want to rehash them here. I just don’t consider myself sufficiently informed. The worst discrimination I’ve ever encountered is some online players calling me Jewish slurs during a DotA match. The experience of being black in America is something qualitatively different from anything I’ve ever run into.

Thus it’s not for me to judge the legitimacy of another student’s pain. If members of our community feel unwelcome, unsafe and unnerved, then that’s a real concern.

They’re not making it up. It’s something we have a moral obligation to address with more than platitudes or condescension.

It’s so easy for me to say that what bothers me is legitimate and what bothers someone else is just hypersensitivity. But it’s also intellectually lazy and uncaring.

If our Black, LGBTQIA, Asian, Latino, Native American, Muslim or other students feel hurt, I feel hurt. If our Conservative, Christian, Republican or other students feel silenced, I feel silenced. If a student writes hateful words, I feel angry, and I also feel sad that an individual is so full of fear that they have to attack another group of people to be noticed and feel power ful.

As our university works to figure this out, please, let’s all try to be compassionate and kind to each other. Even toward those with

threat to free speech or vilifying Conservatives for promoting hate and racism.

Duke needs to be better than that. We should show each other and the rest of the world that we can rise to this challenge with dignity, respect and mutual understanding.

We should show them that we can build a better campus without sacrificing the hard-won freedoms of earlier activists on whose shoulders we all stand. We are not arbitrarily forced to choose between mutual respect and freedom of expression. This is Duke. We need both.

As much as I wish we could eliminate all the hateful, nasty, vile voices from our collective discourse, I doubt it is either possible or desirable (as others have articulated ad nauseum). We will merely end up trading one form of intolerance for another. Though I agree that our administration has much work to do, I firmly believe that the way to end hate is not to silence it, to try and push it out of sight, but to drown it out with compassion, love and mutual respect.

This process begins with understanding.

We cannot hope to overcome fear and hate so long as we antagonize each other. Please, talk to your fellow students; don’t demonize them. Talk to those who disagree with you.

Even talk with those who think you are crazy.

But don’t shout, don’t categorize, don’t belittle. Listen, and try to see the humanity in each other.

Please, be decent and kind to each other.

Thank you, Ted Ted Yavuzkurt is a Trinity senior.

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here has been a great deal of discourse and dialogue on campus lately. Between President Brodhead’s forum, the defacement of the Black Lives Matter poster, racial events unfolding on campuses across the United States, the death threat towards a LGBTQ+ student and the painting of “Black Lives Matter” on the James B. Duke statue, it feels as though race relations are very much on everyone’s mind. These incidents have

we were in grade school. However, listening is somewhat of a lost art. We are constantly taught how to formulate responses and aggressively stand up for our own thoughts, but in doing so we have lost the ability to listen.

The charge to listen isn’t as easy or simple as it may sound. I’ve caught myself responding instead of listening several times this semester. When the James B. Duke statue in front of the chapel was painted with the words “Black Lives

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week after the Iraq War began in 2003, The Onion published a debate piece entitled “This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t”. At the time, it was a not so satirical point-counterpoint from an all too comical source. Yet today, 13 years later, it reads a lot more like a prophecy fulfilled.

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occurred against the backdrop of several racially charged incidents across the country causing a storm of discussions about race at Duke and beyond. As parties launch into extensive discussions about their feelings and opinions, I have watched closely, hoping to see if this rise in dialogue about race will work towards creating greater progress.

These incidents, which threaten minority students and often make them feel unsafe, have sparked very passionate but alienating responses from community members. Time and time again, minority students on this campus express their anger, frustration and even fear. It’s important to note that students who have felt marginalized have always been open about sharing their emotions and organizing community gatherings and meetings. This is not an issue of people failing to stand up for themselves or voice their opinions. So why then are we, as a campus and a country, struggling so much to reach across this divide? Why do we continue to fail over and over in making minority students feel safe and accepted in their own universities, especially given the tremendous amount of dialogue and conversations we seem to be having about race? Why doesn’t the student body communicate better with each other across various boundaries and self-created pockets? Why are we struggling so much to bridge the barrier of systemic racism?

I don’t have the answers to these questions. I’m not sure that any of us do.

However, I do have an idea of where we should start: listening. It’s almost ironic to have forums and talk about respectful “dialogue” when these conversations just become outlets for people to share their feelings to deaf ears.

The truth is that we can talk and share and write all day, but if no one is going to honestly reflect and internalize these ideas, real progress will be hard to come by. Listening is ultimately learning, and if we want to make Duke better, then we must all resist the urge to add our opinion to the mix and be honest.

It may seem that we should all be incredible listeners, given how much emphasis we put on listening when

Matter,” I remember listening to two of my friends debating that anonymous person’s action. One of my friends was frustrated with the person’s decision to remain anonymous, saying that painting the statue was more harmful than helpful because it was disrespectful and didn’t help to promote racial equality. My other friend argued that the painting of the statue represented the oppression of black students on campus who felt that their voices weren’t respected by Duke.

They both went back and forth sharing their opposing ideologies, and while their conversation was respectful and calm, neither seemed to be making progress until things got so tense that everyone fell into an awkward silence. Somehow that awkward silence turned into a reflective silence and one of my friends piped up and said, “I’d never really thought about the graffiti as a way to express your voice to your institution. I guess if that’s what the phrase means to you, then it actually makes a lot of sense.” In response, the other person said, “And actually I do think that painting on the main statue isn’t the most productive way to communicate, but I actually appreciate that you listened.”

Just a few seconds of silence that allowed each party to actually internalize the words that the other person was saying made a momentous difference.

We went from a long, tense conversation to a quiet, more engaged discussion in just a few seconds. I’d even argue that our conversation made us all better Dukies who were more prepared to engage in discussions about race and actually listen.

Yes, we are missing empathy and productive discussion and a willingness to create safe spaces for minority students. But we are also allowing pockets of our campus and our society to suffer in silence by turning a deaf ear and “engaging” in conversations that are really just vacuums for opinions and ideas. The only way to absorb these ideas and be connected to one another on the authentic, real level we strive for is to do one thing: listen.

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

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Throughout the duration of last week’s Paris attacks, I could not help but think what it must have felt like to watch 9/11. The unsettling cacophony of vulnerability, anger and grief left me wondering what comes next. I don’t remember much about 9/11 other than being picked up from school by my mom. I do, however, know about the consequences—I’ve been watching them every year since.

Right now, if only for a few days it seems, people are grieving. But many are already calling for action, and they are right to do so. ISIS has proven its capability far beyond what anybody could have hoped, and the sustained existence of a violent theocratic state likely surpasses the threat that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda ever did. François Hollande called the attacks an “act of war,” and less than 72 hours later, he validated that claim by ordering the French air force to begin bombing Raqqa, Syria. That action, decisive and severe as it may be, feels justified. But it also feels a little too familiar.

I know full well that The Onion should be taken with an extra grain of salt, but that article depicts a reality that has arrived in almost every aspect of that description. The point here isn’t about lamenting the decision to enter Iraq—it happened. Debating its merits, or lack thereof, descends into a cyclical, partisan and unproductive conversation about a presidency none of us can change.

The point should be about the still-developing ramifications—an aftermath that has dragged into the current presidency and very well threatens to continue on into a third.

It should be about the precarious situation the Paris attacks thrust the global community—and specifically the Western world—into once again.

There will be a response to ISIS, and the hammer will almost undoubtedly fall much harder than it has in the past couple of years. But achieving a victory over ISIS will not and cannot fill the vacuum that so many politicians are eager to recreate.

Jeb Bush is ready to declare war.

Hillary Clinton isn’t even sure if we should take a leadership role. I don’t necessarily think either end of the spectrum is correct, nor do I think they’re both wrong. Interventionism and isolationism have both contributed to the creation and proliferation of ISIS. If the primary goal of the War on Terror was to ensure that there would never be another 9/11, how can we look at what happened last Friday in

Paris and call it a success? The situation is a mess, and it’s one that’s only gotten worse. My concern, and one that I would hope that key decision makers are truly taking into account, is that we don’t deepen an already festering wound.

Nathan Eckert may be fictitious, but several lines from his article in The Onion continue to ring surprisingly true. He perhaps put it best when he wrote, “This war will not put an end to anti-Americanism; it will fan the flames of hatred even higher… it will not lay the groundwork for the flourishing of democracy throughout the Mideast; it will harden the resolve of Arab states to drive out all Western influence.” If that sentiment doesn’t predict a world in which ISIS runs rampant, I don’t know what does.

But there’s the paradox: the United States can’t sit idly by while a caliphate hell bent on destruction continues to inspire terror worldwide. To eradicate this threat, the United States and Europe—hell, even Russia—must further entrench themselves in a region that has clung to “boots on the ground” like quicksand. There are few effective options that constitute something less than war and even fewer alternatives for filling the leadership vacuum that inevitably will follow.

This column may be short on solutions and it almost invariably tries to reconcile a foreign affairs conundrum that policymakers, their advisors and generals have been looking to solve for over a decade now. But maybe, if anything, it urges just enough perspective. Enough perspective that we let Paris symbolize an end and not another beginning.

Enough perspective that we recognize ISIS and their hatred are unsustainable in the face of real liberty and culture.

Enough perspective that Western intervention is not a means to an end and certainly not an end to a means.

That perspective, I hope, is enough to make sure the next major decision regarding ISIS is the last one.

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

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November 17-23 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. South Side. Black-and-white photos, video, and ephemera by CDS Lange-Taylor Prizewinner Jon Lowenstein explore his Chicago neighborhood. Thru February 27, 2016, Center for Documentary Studies.

Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila. Color photos by CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Nadia Sablin feature her Russian aunts. Thru February 28, 2016, Rubenstein Photography Gallery, Duke Libraries.

EVENTS NOVEMBER 17 Voice Master Class with John Fowler. 5pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Student Chamber Music Recital. Undergraduates perform chamber music from the 18th-21st centuries for string quartet, piano trio, saxophone quartet, and other combinations. 7pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

NOVEMBER 19 Duke Wind Symphony – Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director. Crowdsource: Repertoire chosen by Duke Wind Symphony members, including Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Procession of the Nobles, and others. Even the audience gets to vote on pieces during the concert! 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium.

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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.

Annual Semans Lecture by Brooke Davis Anderson. Topics of the lecture include: “Contemporary Art Meets the Big Easy” about the history of this city-wide exhibition, with an emphasis on last year’s project. The Nasher Museum of Art 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Free and open to the public.

NOVEMBER 20 Documentary 2015: Origins & Inventions. A national forum presented by the Center for Documentary Studies—a celebration of and open conversation around documentary today. Day and evening programming, The Rickhouse. Information and ticket sales at cdsfirst25.com/docforum2015.

Film TBA, Third Fridays with Full Frame, part of the Full Frame Road Show. Join Full Frame for free documentary films every Third Friday between May and November! 7:30pm, The Full Frame Theater at the American Tobacco Campus. Free, ticket reservations required.

November Dances 2015. Fall dance concert by Duke Dance faculty and advanced choreography students. 7:30pm, Reynolds Industries Theater. Tickets: $17 general, $7 students, $12 seniors.

Djembe & Afro-Cuban Ensembles, directed by Bradley Simmons with guest artist Monti Ellison. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Salon: an evening of poetry. The Archive hosts Salon to showcase and celebrate Duke’s literary community of poets. Undergraduate, graduate and faculty poets including Duke students Georgia Parke, Dimeji Abidoye, Brenna Casey and faculty member Nathaniel Mackey will read from original works. Refreshments will be served. 7pm, Rubenstein Library, Holsti-Anderson Room, 1st floor. Free. For more info, dukearchive@gmail.com.

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 19.) 8pm NOVEMBER 21 November Dances 2015. (See November 20.)

ND dance performance

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tickets.duke.edu or 919-684-4444 $17 general • $12 seniors • $7 students New Modern, African, Ballet and Flamenco works by Duke Dance faculty Andrea E. Woods Valdés, Ava LaVonne Vinesett, Tyler Walters, Carlota Santana, and advanced Duke student choreographers.

Documentary 2015: Origins & Inventions. (See November 20.)

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 19.) 8pm NOVEMBER 22 Documentary 2015: Origins & Inventions. Invited sessions on documentary education. (Open sessions on documentary topics occur on previous days; see November 20.)

An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 19.) 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 18 On Dangerous Ground AMI Showcase – Film Noir Series

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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.