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Boundary between hate speech, free expression unclear at Duke Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle After recent events involving hate speech both on campus and nationally, administrators and students are debating how to balance freedom of speech with an inclusive, safe campus climate.

Although a hate crime is punishable by law because it perpetrates violence or harm, hate speech is more difficult to eliminate because it is often protected by the First Amendment. Long-standing traditions of free speech on campus have also established a precedent of protecting extreme and even hateful speech. After the defacement of the Black Lives Matter poster with a racial slur along with other racially charged incidents, students have protested and called for administrative action to create policies against hate speech on campus. According to Duke Student Affairs’ website, University student conduct policy currently does not specifically mention racial harassment or hate speech.

“We [will] be revisiting and reconsidering the question of whether our disciplinary rules should have specific mention of bias and hate and specific weighting of penalties for those things,” President Richard Brodhead said during an interview Friday.

Brodhead added, however, that introducing policies against bias and hate speech runs the risk of inhibiting free expression on campus. As a result, designing such policies can be complicated, and few universities have managed to do so successfully.

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“If the great majority of universities in America don’t have that kind of regulation, it isn’t because they don’t care about these things,” he explained. “It’s because there are complications in administering that have to be worked through.”

Free speech advocacy organizations in particular have taken a number of universities across the country to task for adopting regulations on student conduct that may limit certain types of speech.

Robert Shibley, executive director of

the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Trinity ‘00, wrote in an email that his organization would oppose any attempt by Duke to limit expression in the wake of hateful incidents on campus.

“Free speech is the bulwark of minority rights and acceptance. If Duke compromises free speech, it will compromise both of these things,” he wrote. “Having attended Duke myself, I can think of no reason this would be untrue on Duke’s campus when it has

been true so many times throughout history.”

FIRE—which rates colleges based on their free speech policies—gives Duke a speech code rating of “yellow,” meaning that there is at least one policy that could be used to abuse the free speech rights of students. According to FIRE, Duke’s Bias Response Advisory Committee threatens the freedom of speech of students.

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For the second straight year, the outcome between the Blue Devils and Aggies came down to the final possessions. And for the second straight year, the Aggies prevailed.

After leading by double-digits in the second half, No. 12 Texas A&M outlasted No. 14 Duke in overtime 72-66 Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, handing the Blue Devils their first loss of the season.

Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell led the way for Duke with 22 points on 8-of10 shooting, but the veteran guard play of Courtney Walker and Jordan Jones led the Aggies to a marquee road win.

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game, not just when you’re trying to come back,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Hopefully we’ll understand what that feels like, that intensity that we showed when we came back from 10 points down.”

In the extra period, forward Courtney Williams—the Aggies’ third senior starter—gave Texas A&M a 65-64 lead it would not relinquish with a runner that bounced high off the back of the rim and dropped in, and Blue Devil freshman guard Crystal Primm let a pass slip through her hands on the ensuing possession to hand it back to the Aggies (3-0).

Duke (2-1) scored the first point of overtime on a Kyra Lambert free throw just 21 seconds into the period, but would not score again until Primm made a contested layup to trim the deficit to 69-66 with 35.5 seconds remaining. Texas A&M made a few free throws down the stretch to ice the game as Duke’s 3-point attempts in the final

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Freshman Angela Salvadores made a stepback jumper to tie the game with 7:26 remaining in the fourth quarter, and the game went back and forth for the rest of regulation. Greenwell converted a driving layup to give Duke a 63-61 lead with 2:23 left to play, but the Blue Devils could not score on their next two chances to make it a two-possession game. Aggie center Khaalia Hillsman tied the contest with a layup with 34 seconds remaining, and the teams went to overtime deadlocked at 63.

“I just tried to talk to everyone in the huddle, keep doing the little things,” Greenwell said. “We did a really good job and I think in the second half we all came together and played a lot better together.”

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DSG reinstates discontinued housing committee for SLGs Nidhila Masha The Chronicle Duke Student Government presented a new version of its previously discontinued Residential Group Assessment Committee program, responsible for overseeing selective living groups, during its meeting Wednesday.

If approved, RGAC would have the power to approve prospective groups, review existing groups, put groups on probation, revoke a section’s housing and make changes to a group’s space and housing circumstances. The committee would be composed of administrators, representatives from housing communities and a representative from DSG. The authors of the statute creating the program—junior George Mellgard, vice president for residential life, and other members of the residential life committee— explained that there were a number of complaints about the first RGAC model, introduced in 2007 and discontinued in 2009, including a lack of communication between Housing, Dining, and Residence Life and students.

Mellgard noted that there were two main improvements made to the 2016 version of RGAC.

“A problem present in 2009 but that we think we fixed at this point in time, was the lack of communication between HDRL and the student groups,” he explained. “We workshopped these rules with a lot of different student groups—we heard their voices, their complaints, their concerns, and we workshopped it based on those complaints.”

The subcommittee met with 12 different Greek and non-Greek selective living groups when drafting the by-laws, he said.

In addition, the subcommittee has decided to hold an RGAC information session so there is increased communication between HDRL, the RGAC committee and the students, Mellgard explained.

“Second, we made the bylaw very rigid and precise so there’s no room for ambiguity” he said.

RGAC would assess SLGs using a point system that would deduct points for bad conduct and give points for community programming. To increase objectivity appraisals, scoring and appeals would be based on a numerical rubric. Each group would be able to score a maximum of 100

Abigail Xie and Stephanie Wu The Chronicle Eli Kozin, Duke junior and former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, spoke Wednesday in McClendon Tower about Israel’s Rules of Engagement.

Hosted by the Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee, Kozin—who served from 20122014 in the IDF—discussed ROE he learned and the temporarily revised guidelines recently released by Israel that generated controversy among Israeli soldiers. He said he hoped to clear up confusion surrounding ROE—or the rules soldiers must abide by in using lethal and non-lethal force in civilian contexts, specifically in the West Bank—and wanted to leave politics out of the discussion.

“When you have situations where people are making decisions such as these—often in very stressful circumstances like riots or protests going on with immediate danger to civilians or soldiers—people often have split seconds to make this decision,” Kozin said. “Human error is going to be

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle The reinstated Residential Group Assessment Committee will evaluate SLGs, approve prospective groups and have disciplinary power to put groups on probation.

introduced and I think that might be where some of the controversies in the media have come up.”

Kozin described the ROE he was instructed to follow during his two stints in the West Bank.

When dealing with a suspicious person, the IDF soldiers must verbally warn the suspect several times before firing warning shots into the air, he explained. If he or she continues, they may they aim for lower extremities, and only if he or she persists and poses mortal danger may they shoot to kill.

“I wish that more American police forces would build that into their training—I think it would save some loss of life,” he said. “As far as I’m aware, we are the only military that teaches its soldiers that it’s preferable in most instances to not kill the person but rather incapacitate them.”

The throwing of Molotov cocktails and stone throwing are all scenarios in which the soldiers are instructed to shoot in the air, unless an immediate and mortal threat is posed to civilians or soldiers, Kozin noted.

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Duke Burst connects students to faculty, Durham attractions Heather Zhou The Chronicle A new initiative called DukeBurst is adding to the many opportunities for students to interact with professors outside of the classroom.

Junior Will Want and sophomores Leah Rothfeld and Isabella Turchetta started the program this semester to help undergraduate students connect to professors while also getting to know the city of Durham.

“We realize that there are a couple of problems that Duke students have,” Rothfeld said. “One is that students don’t get to know their professors very well outside the classrooms, and we also noticed that a lot of students graduate only knowing Shooters, Harris Teeter and Ninth Street. So we want a way that students can get to know Durham through the professors. ” The four pilot events organized through DukeBurst have have generated positive feedback from both the students and professors. Faculty members determine which aspect of Durham they would like to showcase before being joined by students.

“It was really fun to hear what Duke life is like from a professor’s standpoint,” said sophomore Evan Bell, who went to the popular coffee shop Cocoa Cinnamon with Writing 101 professor Lisa Andres last Saturday. “I also like the opportunity to go to Durham because it’s not something I can always do, because I don’t have a car. It was just two great things in one.”

Andres noted that the type of interaction

Special to The Chronicle One of the goals of DukeBurst is to show Duke students various parts of Durham while getting to know faculty.

offered by DukeBurst is distinct from how professors typically communicate with students in the classroom.

“Office hours are so formal, and I only get to interact with students in my class,” Andres said. “Flunch is nice, but it’s still on campus. I really loved the Cocoa Cinnamon chat because the students who came happened to be very diverse, with different majors and backgrounds, and it’s nice to get to know them outside of the class.”

Andres, who grew up in the area, said

that Durham has been changing a lot in the last 15 years and is worth exploring.

“I really like the idea of DukeBurst— bursting out of the Duke bubble—because Durham has a lot to offer,” she said.

Another aspect of the program that appealed to Andres was that it was not limited to freshmen. Faculty-led outings during orientation week are not able to offer the same diversity as those facilitated through DukeBurst, she explained.

Economics professor Martin Zelder—

who led a hike in Eno State Park with six students—also said he enjoyed the experience.

“It’s very different when you are out in the wild, where I am not an authority,” he said. “There is more openness for students to raise topics.”

In addition to increasing interactions between students and faculty, the program can also potentially connect Duke students to Durham residents, Turchetta explained.

She said that a soccer game—one of the four pilot programs—organized by a professor managed to create ties between students and residents that would go beyond a one-time occurrence.

“The exciting thing is after that game, the Durham residents actually invited us to play with them in the future, so this really means that Durham is welcoming Duke students to go out more and interact,” Turchetta said.

The founders of DukeBurst noted that they are meeting with the head of Duke Conversations, another program that creates space for conversations between students and faculty members, and Duke Student Government to discuss cooperation and possible expansion.

Zelder explained that the benefits of the program serve to strengthen the bonds between students and faculty.

“I think it’s important for the student to see us more as human beings—this is what has happened to me and my life, this is what I think I have learned from it and this is what I want to pass on to you,” he said. “It’s valuable any time at any setting where you can get to know about another person and try to make sense of their existence. ”

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SPEECH from page 1 The Bias Response Advisory Committee is tasked with advising “the Vice President for Student Affairs on allegations of bias-related incidents that may impact the Duke community,” according to the committee’s website. A bias-related incident is defined as when a person’s bias against an aspect of another’s identity motivates a particular action.

Lisa Beth Bergene, associate dean for East Campus and co-chair of the committee, said that the committee— which will be augmented or replaced by a new task force announced by Brodhead during an open forum Friday—has not been asked to convene at this time regarding the defacement of the Black Lives Matter poster or any other hate speech issue.

In response to this incident, Shibley noted that a punishment for the perpetrator is warranted but not because of the writer’s intentions.

“Defacement of posters or other publications around campus is vandalism, and is punishable by law,” Shibley wrote in an email. “If you disagree with a particular poster or publication’s message, the right course is to respond with your own expression, not tear down, trash or vandalize the expression you dislike.”

Student suggestions for handling hate speech have ranged from advocating for more open conversations to direct administrative action.

“Hate speech can, in my opinion, only be combated with education. Those who so freely spew out their ignorance have chosen to live in their privilege and deny the struggles of the rest because it is just that easy to do when it isn’t your lived experience,” said junior Eden Ashebir, secretary of Duke Ethiopian/Eritrean

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Student Transnational Association. “By making people aware of the microaggressions, the institutional challenges, and, well, basic human decency, we may be able to combat those who wish to disrespect and harm a people.”

During Friday’s forum, Brodhead said other institutions’ policies regarding hate speech would be taken into account moving forward. Free speech issues at a number of other universities across the campus have recently risen to prominence.

At Yale University, Erika Christakis, associate master of Silliman College, questioned the value of an email from Yale administrators asking students to refrain from wearing culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Students subsequently protested and called for the resignation of Christakis and her husband Nicholas Christakis, the master of Silliman College.

According to the Yale Daily News, Yale President Peter Salovey reaffirmed support for Nicholas and Erika Christakis and announced policy reforms in response to student demands in an email to Yale students Wednesday.

In FIRE’s database, there are 212 colleges that have a speech code rating of “red,” which means that “the university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.” Among these schools are Harvard University, Cornell University, Princeton University, Brown University, Columbia University and California Institute of Technology.

FIRE argues that Harvard’s policy stated in its Handbook for Students defining racially derogatory speech directed towards others as racial harassment limits free expression. It also deems Columbia’s policy of forbidding campus email users from sending ”obscene, harassing, offensive or other unwelcome messages” as a restriction on free speech.

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points, with 80 points for house stewardship and 20 points for programming. Groups scoring fewer than 70 points for two semesters in a row would be put on probation.

Additionally, RGAC would host a mandatory info session for housing liaisons each semester and would be available through the semester to answer any questions groups may have pertaining to the process.

Mellgard clarified that RGAC would only monitor SLG living and not independent living, which would continue to be run by the University.

“Independent housing is a right, but it’s a privilege for SLGs to have sections,” he noted.

“So independent housing is guaranteed by the administration and should not be subject to any sort of bylaws.”

If approved, the program will take effect next semester, but it will not have the power to revoke housing or put groups on probation until Fall 2016.

to shoot at suspects’ legs and lower extremities to stop them, Israel recently modified its ROE so that soldiers may only shoot in the air and not at the legs, and still may shoot at major organs if immediate lifethreatening danger is posed.

“There isn’t the opportunity to just incapacitate someone now,” he explained.

Kozin also discussed the “fog of war” that often leads soldiers who are faced with split-second decisions in civilian contexts to make mistakes.

“There are plenty of places where human error can come into the equation and potentially cloud decision-making and force people to make decisions that might not be prudent,” he said. “Even when it’s not army against army, there can be a certain fog that surrounds a situation.”

By adjusting ROE to not allow shooting at the lower extremities, Israel hopes to cut down on the margins for human error and minimize the amount soldiers are shooting at all. According to Kozin, during times of stress, ROE often get stricter.

“They would rather have a situation that errs against the soldiers at this point and almost protects their status in court and public opinion at the potential expense of the soldiers,” he said. “That’s why soldiers got angry—they said you’re making our job and the ROE very difficult.”

Despite the element of human error, Kozin defended the objectivity of Israeli soldiers. Although his own unit mostly consisted of soldiers “who did not necessarily care for their neighbors of different faiths,” they were always strictly instructed to not discriminate based on religion.

“We all took a great amount of pride in our professionalism and doing what we were called upon to do in the most evenhanded way possible,” he said.

In other business: Engineering Student Government President Rebecca Bauer addressed the Senate regarding the lack of adequate funding and publicity for student engineering groups and the need for increased communication between Pratt and Trinity.

Senior Jack Heller addressed the Senate regarding his role as liaison for the Sanford Innovation and Impact Fund and discussed the need for more undergraduate involvement in the program.

DSG voted to charter three new groups: Be the Match on Campus, a service organization dedicated to finding more members for bone marrow donation; Love Your Melon, a cancer awareness service organization; and the Campus Poetry Journal.

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I first read James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in my 12th grade AP Literature course. I had heard the tales of Joyce’s writings—they were too complicated for the average reader, they seemed meaningless, they were just plain strange.

So I approached the text with caution but ultimately agreed with earlier assessments. I was confused by what exactly Joyce was trying to communicate with his work. Stephen Dedalus is a character who is at once crazy—he is convinced that he shares a destiny with the mythical Daedalus, the creator, whose son Icarus flew too close to the sun—and obsessive— he quickly latches onto a young girl from the moment he first meets her.

The book’s narrative style that quickly shifted from snapshot to snapshot only left me bewildered.

I remember arguing in class that Joyce’s text lacked a simple thing: a plot. What was so wrong with a narrative, a linear track a reader could follow? Instead, Joyce’s book often read like a progression of simple moments.

Dedalus has a conversation with his mom, meets a girl, hates Ireland. But how were they all related?

I would like to say that eventual class discussions turned around my thinking, but I still managed to hate the book throughout my college years.

At the mere mention of James Joyce, I would scrunch up my face, as if to say, “Not him again.”

But recently I started thinking more about the idea of life as moments. Maybe a plot makes a book more palatable to a reader, but Joyce’s book was more true to life. Because what is life really than a string of seemingly unrelated moments that

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make a story?

I have often tried to place my own life into a narrative. I talk to this person, I get this grade, I go to this school and it will all add up. It will all play out as it should. But following this narrative sometimes stops me from taking chances. I expect it will all play out a certain way, and if it doesn’t—well, I haven’t confronted that possibility yet.

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editor’s note realizing that I can’t control my own narrative and that seemingly random moments may affect— perhaps permanently alter—my fate is incredibly scary. I have a whole future ahead of me that I can’t control. And no longer is there any defined narrative. I did the whole high school and college thing, but now I’m on my own.

Somehow Dedalus’ model is somewhat comforting.

Sure, it would be nice if my life had an easy plot to follow and an easy one to sell. “Elizabeth Djinis: The Lifetime Original Movie.” But more often it’s the unexplainable moments that get me. The conversations that years later have more significance than they ever could at the time.

I often think about the times that I met people who would go on to become my closest friends in college. It wasn’t

a cataclysmic event and I didn’t always leave the conversation and know what was ahead. Instead, gradually, over time, you break down barriers. You become closer. They see you laugh.

They see you cry. They look at you and they know you. But the times you realize this aren’t always the biggest moments—sometimes they could be as a small as a night in Perkins.

When I first entered college, I asked my mom if these would really be the best four years of my life. So many people had warned me not to waste these years because I would never get them back again. So when I turned to her, eyes wide, asking whether college was the best four years of her life, she paused.

“College was great, but so were my 20s, and so was having you.

Sometimes the best years of your life are hard to predict in the moment.”

So for now, like Stephen Dedalus, I’m living moment to moment and not trying to figure it out. The crazy thing about life is that those little moments become each of our stories, but they wouldn’t be half as exciting if we didn’t simply let ourselves live.

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Doc Studies forum celebrates the modern documentary Christy Kuesel The Chronicle In 1990, the Center for Documentary Studies opened its doors, becoming the first institution in the United States solely dedicated to documentary arts.

Twenty-five years later, the center is celebrating Documentary 2015: Origins and Inventions, a forum dedicated to looking at documentary today.

The event will be held over the course of three days, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22, with a series of panels taking place each day. The panels cover a wide range of subjects, from photography, to film and audio, with the panelists coming from different locations across the continent. The attendees will include a combination of Duke students and faculty and locals from Durham and the greater Triangle area, as well as others from across the country. The Sunday panels focus specifically on how to teach documentary, both at the University and at other places of higher education.

“Documentary has always been about going out and making images of other people and recording stories of other people, and figuring out how the tools and ideas of documentary can be shared with as many people as possible is very key to the center’s work,” said Tom Rankin, former director of CDS and the current director of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

In addition to the panels, the forum honors four contributors to the field of documentary arts in a special Saturday night celebration.

Special to The Chronicle The forum at the Center for Documentary Studies will honor contributors in four documentary categories: (from left) Samuel D. Pollard, the Kitchen Sisters, John Cohen and Natasha Trethewy.

“We recognize people whose contribution has fundamentally shaped the way we think about documentary film, documentary writing, documentary audio. Each of our winners has had not only an enormously talented body of work, but that body of work has also dramatically shaped the discipline,” said CDS Director Wesley Hogan.

The honorees were chosen from the four distinct fields that CDS emphasizes— writing, audio, photography and film.

Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States, was selected for her work focusing on what Hogan describes as “the haunted South.”

The Kitchen Sisters, producers of various audio shows including “Hidden Kitchens,” are recognized for their work in telling stories from individuals that otherwise would not have been heard.

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John Cohen, a photographer, musician and filmmaker, is described by Hogan as “a poet of both the eye and the word.”

The center also chose to honor Samuel D. Pollard, a feature film and television-video editor, for his impact on the evolution of documentary film.

The panel provides an opportunity for all attendees to look at how documentary has evolved in the last 25 years and where the art form is headed, especially with the digital revolution that has taken place in the last decade.

“Documentary as a field took a very different turn when everyone could suddenly be a documentarian,” Hogan said, remarking that the use of camera phones has made it possible for anyone to record information and publish it.

In addition to allowing reflection on documentary as a whole, the forum

also allows the Duke community to look back at how the Center for Documentary Studies has evolved, as well as where it is heading in the future.

The center was founded in 1989 through an endowment of $15 million from the Lyndhurst Foundation, which allowed the center to bring in visiting artists, employ expert faculty and to host exhibitions relating to documentary.

The center was moved to its current location at the Bridges House on West Pettigrew Street in 1994. In the past 25 years, the center has started a number of new initiatives, including the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, continuing education classes and the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program.

In the future, the center will focus on combining traditional documentary practices with the new technology that has surfaced with the digital revolution.

“What we try to do is use these past teachings and writings and advances about documentary aesthetics and ethics to give people context in this very strange new world where anyone who has access to social media has a new platform to publish,” Hogan said.

Hogan also noted the importance of strengthening the network of documentarians across the country, and that the forum will help develop face-toface relationships among various artists.

Rankin noted how the center will focus more and more on how documentary can play a unique role in higher education.

“This is a place where people make stuff, not just study things that have already been made,” Rankin said.

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Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle Classical music is getting a twist this week in Baldwin Auditorium.

Duke Wind Symphony is taking a nontraditional route with its concert this Thursday. The group’s first-ever Crowdsource concert differs from previous concerts the symphony has put on in that the audience will get to vote on the pieces it would like to hear.

Should you attend, you will actually get to have a say in what will be performed.

“I was looking for a way to further engage the audience and had heard of this idea of letting them participate before,” said Verena MösenbichlerBryant, director of the Wind Symphony.

“I want our audience to feel like they are part of our performance. We spend

hours perfecting music to share with them and this is a special way to get them involved.”

The Wind Symphony is comprised completely of Duke students, both graduates and undergraduates, and performs several formal concerts throughout the year as well as tours in locations like Washington.

In addition to Alfred Reed’s “Hounds of Spring” and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of the Nobles,” a live voting website will be set up for the audience to vote on songs. Attendees will have a choice between Georges Bizet’s “Carmen Suite” or Guiseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” and between John Philip Sousa’s “The Washington Post March” or Edwin Franko Goldman’s “Cheerio March.” The rest of the concert will be based on student suggestions from the end of last semester.

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“I am curious to see which pieces our audience will choose,” MösenbichlerBryant said. “Since the rest of the pieces are student suggestions, I am excited for their passionate performance of those works.”

Mösenbichler-Bryant originally came up with the idea for a crowd-sourced concert and ran it by the executive board of the symphony, which agreed that the modified format was an interesting idea and decided to go through with it.

“This isn’t something that classical music groups usually do, they don’t usually get the audience involved in the music that much,” said sophomore Bryan Higgins, a member of the Wind Symphony. “I wasn’t really sure how it was going to work, but I’m curious to see how it goes on Thursday.”

However, the uniqueness of the concert and the involvement it entails

also means that the Wind Symphony had to put in extra work to make sure things will run smoothly.

“The preparation for this concert was more intense since we had to learn more repertoire than we are actually going to perform,” Mösenbichler-Bryant said.

Higgins said he is looking forward to being able to share the symphony’s music with the Duke community following months of rehearsing multiple times per week.

“We’re not going to be playing all of the pieces that we’ve prepared since the audience will be voting on them during the show, so we have several pieces ready for the concert that we may not actually end up playing,” Higgins said. “I just hope that we get a big turnout.”

Admission to Thursday’s concert at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium is free and open to the public.

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Stephanie Joe is a senior majoring in Dance and Visual and Media Studies who has choreographed and will be performing in the Dance department’s performances this weekend, November Dances, at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Theater Nov. 20 and 21. The Chronicle’s Georgia Parke sat down with Joe to talk about the performance and what it means to be a Dance major at Duke.

The Chronicle: What is November Dances for people who don’t know and what makes it different from other performances that happen throughout the year?

Stephanie Joe: November Dances is the dance programs mainstage concert for the Fall semester. it includes works coreographed by professors and also students in a diverse range of styles, ranging from contemporary ballet, there’s African, modern, some more theatrical works— this year we have flamenco. So it’s really cool to see different styles and ones by experienced choreographers and also… with students as well.

TC: What are you choreographing?

SJ: I am dancing in a contemporary ballet piece choreographed by one of the professors in collaboration with a student. And I also

choreographed a piece, it’s a group piece with six dancers. There’s four student choreographers and around eight pieces total, so half of it is student work.

For the African piece and the flamenco piece, there are some community members who are performing so it’s not just undergraduate students. I know that there’s a graduate student who’s performing in the flamenco piece and in the modern piece also.

So it’s kind of a nice community atmosphere since it’s not just undergraduates. My piece is with six dancers. I am not performing the piece but I’m working with the undergraduate students. The one that I’m performing in is with four undergraduate students total. One of them is actually from UNC. TC: Can you talk about your personal history with dance and since you’ve been at Duke?

SJ: I spent many years dancing prior to coming to Duke. I trained pre-professionally in Houston at the Houston Ballet Academy.….

Throughout my time at Duke I’ve really grown a lot through the dance program and I’ve really appreciated the supportive, collaborative and open environment that professors have created.

I’ve really appreciated being able to study dance from many different perspectives—not only in the studio physically understanding my body and technique… but also understanding the history of dance and where it has come from and all different cultures that have influenced it.

So I think that my understanding of dance has increased.

One of the greatest things about dance at Duke is that it’s so inclusive or very open. In other environments sometimes there’s a feel of “this is right” or “this is wrong” and “it should be done a certain way.” And while we are striving for technical and artistic excellence, the dance

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program here is very open to people of all levels.

It’s exciting when people haven’t tried it before, and they just take a class for the first time.

TC: What do you think is one of the biggest misconceptions about being a dance major at Duke?

SJ: I guess most people probably don’t really know what I do. I’m actually an interdepartmental major so I’m studying Dance and Visual and Media Studies with a Markets and Management certificate. Pretty much all the dance majors do a combination of different things and I think that speaks to the interdisciplinary nature of Duke.

I guess people might be surprised to find that dance majors here has a much more academic focus. A lot of the courses that are required for the major involve a lot more reading and writing and analysis.... It’s pretty holistic. There’s a lot involved.

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SJ: This piece was inspired by different things, partly the music it’s music by Nils Frahm and so it’s kind of soft and contemplative. The second piece has more of a stronger resolve.

Then I guess I’m taking it from my experiences currently as a senior and just trying to really savor each moment here and enjoy these memories.

It comes from a place of thankfulness and I guess hope, there is some uncertainty with what happens in the future. I guess just kind of enjoying this while I’m here and spending time with people and ideas of finding inspiration in different moments and lingering in those.

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REVIEW: One Direction, ‘Made in the A .M.’ jams to power ballads, that isn’t found in One Direction’s earlier albums. The band certainly hasn’t suffered from the loss of Zayn and seems to have even redefined itself since his absence to include more influences. Although the band plans to take a hiatus in 2016, it is still on track to continue its success in the future.

Jessica Williams The Chronicle Arguably the most popular current boy band on the planet, One Direction released its most recent album Made in the A.M. Nov. 13. With the biggestselling worldwide album of 2013 and the highest-grossing concert tour of 2015, the band entered 2015 only to lose band member Zayn Malik in March. Made in the A.M., the first of its albums with only a quartet, highlights One Direction’s versatility, even without its fifth member.

The first track of the album, “Hey Angel,” definitely showcases One Direction’s boy band roots with its Coldplay-like vocals and NSYNClike beat. Although its invigorating opening does well at introducing the album, the song’s repetitive lyrics don’t create the romantic vibe it’s trying hard to reach.

This is directly contrasted by “Perfect,” which creates a fun, lightheartedly romantic feeling that hides the song’s bad boy lyrics, like “If you like to do the things you know that we shouldn’t do/Then baby, I’m perfect.” The song contrasts the positive, sweet lyrics of the hit “Story of My Life” from its 2013 album Midnight Memories, and the cutesy, preteencrush lyrics found in “One Thing” of 2012’s Up All Night.

In addition to One Direction’s usual upbeat, poppy tunes, Made in the A.M. features several slower songs. One such song, “Infinity,” creates a more

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genuinely sweet, passionate atmosphere than the majority of its other songs.

All four members have beautiful solos, and Harry Styles’s power-ballad chorus is highlighted by the other members’ lower pitches. The band highlights the interactions of each boy’s voice even further in “If I Could Fly,” which features sweet harmonizations as well as solos. The song’s heavy emphasis on the piano and violin creates a somber, heartfelt vibe not completely achieved= in their past albums.

In addition to “If I Could Fly,” “I Want to Write You a Song” has a pure sound. Basically a male version of Ingrid Michaelson’s 2006 song “The Way I Am,” the song utilizes sweet acoustics and light vocals. Although

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far more upbeat than “I Want to Write You a Song,” “Olivia” channels similar romantic feelings. Almost reflective of early Beatles or even Billy Joel, “Olivia” is a cutesy throwback song and a good sing-in-the-shower jam.

As the first single released since Zayn’s exit, “Drag Me Down” helped reassure Directioners of the band’s resilience. Midtempo but still very poppy, the song debuted third on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July, and is still currently in the top 25 songs on ITunes. The song’s relatable pop lyrics and nice beat drop are irresistible, with potential to sway even dedicated One Direction haters.

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Last season, if you asked the Blue Devils who their starting point guard was, you would not get a clear answer—there was not a true floor general on the roster.

This year, there are three guards capable of playing point in the Duke rotation—all of them true freshmen. Although the plethora of choices promises to make the Blue Devils more versatile in the backcourt, it also begs the question: Who will be the one taking the ball down the floor when the game is on the line?

Wednesday, that player was Kyra Lambert.

The 5-foot-9 guard logged 40 minutes in No. 14 Duke’s 72-66 overtime loss to No. 12 Texas A&M, posting a 4-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in her stint as the Blue Devils’ floor general.

The Cibolo, Texas, native’s solid passing performance, however, sharply contrasted with an ice-cold 2-for-12 performance from the floor, which highlighted some of Duke’s limitations at the point guard position early in the season—namely youth and inexperience. “[Lambert] is growing every game.... I think she’s frustrated a little bit because she wants to do more and she knows she can do more,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “She’s a freshman point guard and that’s a lot of pressure.... You need all the individuals to play at their highest level [to] connect, and we’re still working on that. We’re not always connecting right, the way we should, so there’s

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Duke freshman Kyra Lambert finished with eight points, four assists and just one turnover but shot 2-of-12 from the field in Wednesday’s loss against Texas A&M.

some lessons for us there.”

Lambert’s ball-handling and passing played a key role in keeping Duke within striking distance down the stretch. After the Aggies put some space between themselves and the Blue Devils with a 10-2 run at the beginning of the third quarter, Duke needed a team effort to regain the lead.

Showing poise under pressure, Lambert scored four of her eight points in the second half and gave the Blue Devils an early lead in

overtime with a free throw. She committed just one turnover all night, holding her own against a veteran backcourt for a top-15 team and gave her teammates the opportunity to regain the lead.

That chance finally arrived with 2:23 left in the game. The Blue Devils led Texas A&M 63-61 and victory was in sight for McCallie’s squad. But an inability to pad that lead in the rest of regulation enabled the Aggies to force overtime, where they eventually overran a

Duke team suffering the consequences of a short rotation.

“This is a game we should have won—we could have won—so you look at it, and you’ve got to let it sink in a little bit so that it can right some wrongs and get us to a higher level,” McCallie said.

Lambert was not the only Duke player to have a poor shooting night. In fact, every Blue Devil not named Rebecca Greenwell shot a combined 17-for-53. On a night when the perimeter shots were not falling, it was critical that Duke limit the number of mistakes it made—but the squad struggled in that regard also.

The Blue Devils committed 20 turnovers against Texas A&M compared to the Aggies’ 13 playing in a road environment. As Duke’s primary ball handler, Lambert did a lot to prevent that number from ballooning even higher.

As Lambert continues to develop, she can turn to Greenwell for advice and support.

Although not a true point guard, the Owensboro, Ky., native was one of the Blue Devils’ primary ball-handlers last season and has been able to return to her natural shooting guard position with the addition of true point guards like Lambert. “[Being a mentor means] just talking to them, making sure they have the right mindset, especially coming into games like this,” Greenwell said. “It’s tough. We’re going to face adversity…[it comes down to] just trying to get See POINT GUARD on Page 16

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Duke, UNC in Final Four Blue Devils battle FGCU Ali Wells The Chronicle The theme of the Blue Devils’ NCAA tournament run has been redemption—and their Final Four matchup against their Tar Heel rivals will be no exception.

No. 6 Duke will face second-seeded North Carolina Friday, looking to avenge its 2-1 loss in Chapel Hill Oct. 16. The Blue Devils No. 6 and the Tar Heels Duke will square off at 2:45 vs. p.m. for the second No. 2 semifinal match of UNC the day at Michigan’s FRIDAY, 2:45 p.m.

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When the Tobacco Road rival squads met in the regular season, North Carolina (20-2) found the back of the cage twice in the opening period. Although its defense rallied to shut out the Tar Heels in the second half, Duke (14-6) could not capitalize on opportunities to overcome the deficit.

“It was a great game, that first game, and we

definitely had our chances and opportunities,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “Against a good team and good opponent like UNC…we have to make sure we are more prepared and anticipate those opportunities so we can finish on them. We have to bring our best game.”

North Carolina held a 15-9 advantage in shots in the teams’ regular season matchup, with seniors Casey Di Nardo, Emily Wold and 6-foot Nina Notman combining for nine of the team’s attempts—including Di Nardo’s goal off a penalty corner in the 27th minute.

The Blue Devils will focus on containing the upperclassmen as well as sophomore forward Gab Major, who has tallied 17 goals this season, including five game-winners.

“They have a lot of key players,” junior forward Heather Morris said. “We did a great job against Virginia of taking out some of their key players and really playing our game, and I think that will be a big focus. UNC has a lot of talent, so we have to play our game and understand that we have to watch the key players.”

Duke will carry the momentum of one of its best defensive efforts this season into Friday’s match. The Blue Devils earned their trip to the See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 13

Cassie Calvert The Chronicle Although the Blue Devils have never faced off against Florida Gulf Coast, head coach Robbie Church is very familiar with Duke’s second-round NCAA tournament opponent.

The third-seeded Blue Devils will travel to Gainesville, Fla. to meet the Eagles Friday at 3 p.m. at Donald R. Dizney Stadium with Florida Gulf Coast a spot to the Sweet 16 on the line. The game vs. will serve as a reunion No. 3 for the squads’ head Duke coaches—in his lone FRIDAY, 3 p.m. season at the helm Donald R. Dizney Stadium of the men’s soccer team at the College of Boca Raton—now Lynn University—Church coached alongside then women’s head coach Jim Blankenship, who now leads the Eagles’ program. “[Jim and I have] been really good friends for 25 years,” Church said. “It’s not fun [to coach against him] because I really pull hard for him. He’s done a really good job at [Florida] Gulf Coast, but unfortunately

somebody’s not going to advance…. But it will be fun to see him and play against him.”

After eliminating James Madison 5-0 at home last Friday, Duke (11-5-4) will welcome the challenge of a new opponent and a new location. The Eagles—who have played 11 straight games without a loss—and the Blue Devils look very similar on the stat sheet.

Both teams have allowed 13 goals thus far this season, with Florida Gulf Coast goalkeeper Brittany Brown posting 10 shutouts to E.J. Proctor’s nine.

The only opponent both faced this year was Miami. Duke edged past the Hurricanes in Coral Gables by a final score of 1-0, but the Eagles—missing three members of their starting lineup—fell 1-0 at home.

“That shows how even of a match it will be Friday,” Proctor said. “I think that’s good to know how close of a game it was with them and Miami, even when they were missing starters.”

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Blue Devils seek to snap skid against Cavaliers Brian Mazur The Chronicle Sitting with a 6-4 record with two games to go is not where Duke wanted to be in late November.

After all, at this time during each of the last two years the Blue Devils were in serious contention to win the ACC Coastal Division and advance to the conference championship game in Charlotte.

The Blue Devils have taken a step back from previous years during this month and are instead playing to spend the postseason in a more attractive bowl destination. But Duke head coach David Cutcliffe has not written off Duke his team following a three-game vs.

ACC losing streak and instead told Virginia reporters that he wants his players to use the experience to grow as individuals, and as players.

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Scott Stadium “These are times that growth occurs in a program,” Cutcliffe said.

“I have been in them here and I am proud of the young men we work with here. Nobody is panicking. We’re 6-4 and a lot of folks in this country would like to be 6-4 in a competitive circumstance. But we do know that this is a test of our fortitude and our ability to focus.”

The Blue Devils are focusing on getting back to their winning ways Saturday at 3:30 p.m. against a struggling Virginia squad at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. Aside from a 66-31 loss to North Carolina back on Nov. 7, Duke is perfect in its three other road games this season. A trip away from home could be the refreshing change of scenery that the Blue Devils need to snap their late-season losing streak.

“We love playing on the road,” senior wide receiver Max McCaffrey said. “We love going into other stadiums, quieting the crowd. It’s an awesome feeling.”

Going into Scott Stadium might be an awesome feeling Saturday, but if Duke (6-4, 3-3 in the ACC) cannot correct some of the issues that have plagued it in recent weeks, the feeling leaving Charlottesville might not be too good.

The first step Saturday will be limiting the Cavaliers’ passing offense, which averages 232.9 yards per game.

Although this mark is only good for 54th in the nation,

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Senior Max McCaffrey must step up in the absence of dismissed wide out Johnell Barnes for the Blue Devils Saturday.

quarterback Matt Johns ranks third in the ACC with 2,295 passing yards and has the skill set necessary to pick apart a Duke secondary that has struggled against the conference’s top quarterbacks.

The Blue Devil secondary surrendered only 787 passing yards and three touchdown tosses in its first six games, but has fallen apart in the last four weeks, surrendering 1,259 yards and 12 touchdowns as the team has gone 1-3. Duke has sorely missed cornerback Bryon Fields—who would have been the starter opposite veteran Breon Borders, but tore his ACL during the preseason.

“We have addressed a lot of these critical areas in every way,” Cutcliffe said. “We are going to continue to do that. I expect results immediately, because they are all correctable things.”

Sophomore Alonzo Saxton II and true freshman Jeremy McDuffie have both played in Fields’ place

this season, but have been consistently picked on by opposing quarterbacks.

McDuffie could have a chance to show Johns that he can defend his island out in coverage, as the Virginia quarterback has thrown 14 interceptions this season, the most in the ACC by five. McDuffie has shown potential for the Blue Devils, including a second-half interception against Miami Oct. 31, and will look to make more big plays this weekend.

“I told [McDuffie] that you’re a new guy out there,” redshirt junior safety DeVon Edwards said. “They are going to come at you. You just have to keep your head up, things happen and you just have to deal with it and move on. We have his back, no matter what.”

Forcing turnovers—a feat Duke has accomplished just 12 times this season—could be the spark the Blue Devils need to get going on the offensive side of the ball. The offense should be particularly excited about running backs Jela Duncan and Shaquille Powell, who along with quarterbacks Thomas Sirk and Parker Boehme are spearheading a rushing attack that is averaging 188.5 yards per game this season.

That number is particularly encouraging when going up against Virginia’s suspect rush defense that is tied for 70th in the nation. Last week, the Cavaliers (3-7, 2-4) surrendered 266 rushing yards to Louisville, including 155 and two touchdowns to Cardinal running back Brandon Radcliffe in a 38-31 loss.

The healthy running game has helped take some of the pressure off of the Blue Devil pass offense, which has faced some obstacles during the last two weeks. Boehme was forced into the starting spot last week after Sirk suffered an upper body injury against North Carolina.

Then, on Tuesday, Cutcliffe dismissed wide receivers Johnell Barnes and Terrence Alls from the team.

Cutcliffe described Sirk’s injury as day-to-day, saying that the Glen Saint Mary, Fla., native has practiced this week. With the loss of Barnes and Alls, wide receivers Anthony Nash and T.J. Rahming will likely see more action on the outside. Nash has been a bright spot for the Blue Devils as of late and hauled in five catches for 101 yards in the loss to Pittsburgh last weekend.

The Blue Devil offense will need to be at its best no matter who is under center Saturday. Virginia comes into the game having lost seven games this season, but has been competitive in conference play and barely lost to then-No. 9 Notre Dame back in early September.

“It’s hard to get nine wins in any big five conference in Division I football,” McCaffrey said. “That would be a huge milestone for us this year. That’s all we can do now and it starts with Virginia.”

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But the squad’s aggressive attack in the opening period also produced one of Duke’s best offensive performances in recent games.

The Blue Devils outshot the Cavaliers 9-4 in the first half and found the back of the cage in the ninth minute, striking first in regulation for only the third time in nine games with a tip-in by Morris off a pass from senior Sarah Urdahl.

Senior Amanda Kim drove the ball in off a penalty corner for the goal that would seal the win for Duke and punch its ticket to Ann Arbor—the second trip to the Final Four for Kim and her classmates.

“It was my second goal of the season, so the fact that it was a game-winner was pretty awesome,” Kim said. “It feels weird. I can’t believe it is my last tournament. I’m just excited for us to go out there and show what we have been working on since January. Hopefully we will get to the final game and change the result from my sophomore year and get a win this time.”

In 2013, Duke advanced to the title match of the NCAA tournament but fell to Connecticut 2-0. Kim, fellow seniors Aileen Johnson, Hannah Barreca and Sarah Urdahl and redshirt senior Lauren Blazing wrapped up an impressive sophomore season, helping the Blue Devils reach the final game and win 17 games for the first time in eight years. But the team’s five seniors hope to go one step further this weekend.

“Now you look back and think, ‘Man, they were young. They were puppies.’ And now they are our leaders,” Bustin said. “They definitely earned something from that experience two sudoku_507B

years ago and have grown as individuals and have grown as a leadership unit throughout those two years. I am so proud of them and so excited that they get to experience this again and share that experience with the underclassmen. That is a wealth of pride and knowledge that gets passed on through the program.”

Blazing—who logged all 70 minutes in the cage in the 2013 championship match against the Huskies—was vital to keeping Duke’s postseason hopes alive against the Cavaliers, tallying three key saves in the second period to preserve her team’s lead at one.

“The rest of the seniors and I are just glad to be playing for another week, potentially two more games and two more opportunities to play with the people we love,” Blazing said. “We are looking for the same consistency and same energy from the team that we’ve had all the way through, but as seniors, it’s a really special opportunity for us.”

The North Carolina defense—including goalkeeper Shannon Johnson, the younger sister of Duke’s co-captain Aileen Johnson—will look for its second shutout of the tournament after defeating Michigan 1-0 Sunday to advance from the quarterfinals.

But the Blue Devils will need to start the rematch against the Tar Heels aggressively and confidently, building on last Sunday’s performance in hopes of a different outcome from the Oct. 16 matchup.

If Duke pulls off the upset against North Carolina, it will face the winner of Friday’s noon semifinal match between top-ranked Syracuse and fourth-seeded Connecticut Sunday.

“I think we are just going to come out as a new team,” sophomore Alyssa Chillano said.

“That [loss to North Carolina] was earlier in the season. I think we are going to come out strong right away and show them what we’ve got.”

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How to maturely move forward, together

ast week, Dartmouth College joined a growing list of universities in the news for student protests about race. Unlike other instances, however, it was not the actions of the administrators in response to unrest that made headlines but the actions of protesters themselves.

According to student reports, a peaceful library protest at Dartmouth “turned ugly” when a small group of participants began to verbally and physically harass their peers. Similarly, protesters at the University of Missouri were criticized for crowding out a student ESPN photographer last week. While it is easy to condemn these groups and discount the national movement protesters stand for, we must remember to be charitable to the nuanced subgroups and ideas of movements, especially in light of our own on-campus events.

At Duke, as we have noted previously, responses to acts of racism range from disgust to indifference. At worst, we see administrators and students label these events isolated incidents, yet the response to protester missteps are very different. Last Friday, when “Black Lives Matter” was spray-painted on the James B. Duke statue, students of all persuasions used this incident to point out the flaws and wrongheadedness of the larger movement. Incidents of graffiti at Duke or the alleged aggression at Dartmouth can easily frustrate

supporters of the #BLM movement and provide extrapolated fodder for skeptics, but students should be primed against this sort of simplistic thinking. As students at Dartmouth note, we must pay attention to what has incited these more radical responses. Instead of focusing on outliers, we should emphasize the noble intentions and positive results of these movements.

Considering how stories are framed is only part of the process. Since the Allen Building Takeover

Editorial in 1969, students have made dozens of demands to administrators to improve the Duke experience for black and other minority students, increase the diversity of students and faculty and implement policies that will give bias policies the teeth they lack.

In a guest column published Monday, Black Student Alliance President Henry Washington rightly stated that students have been making the same demands again and again for years. The University still has a long way to go in addressing many of these demands, and last Friday’s forum highlighted that students and administrators are not on the same page about many responsibilities and concrete priorities. Although it sounds trite, as students we

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must continue to push the administration to do more and use examples of what they have done right as motivation moving forward.

In addition to reminding the University of what remains to be done, students must also be vigilant in staying informed about what has been done. We and others have already pointed out that only one of BSA’s four April demands has been met so far. But in an email sent after Friday’s forum, Dean Ashby shared specific examples of future plans, including a University Course on race and inequality, expanding the availability of implicit bias training and creating an advisory committee on diversity next semester.

The progress on these and other action items will certainly be covered by The Chronicle, and though the paper and other news sources will be published, nobody can force students to read except students themselves. Staying up to date is the first step in keeping parties accountable.

After Friday’s Community Conversation was criticized for its timing, President Brodhead and other administrators agreed to address questions of institutional change this Friday at 5:00 p.m. at a student-run discussion in Page Auditorium.

Administrative actions are a must, but students would be irresponsible to not do their part in staying vigilant and well-informed.

A case for selfishness

y senior year has not been what I expected. For some reason, I entered the fall semester with grand visions of fun, friends and carefree days of savoring the treasures of Duke and Durham. I imagined living off campus to be a great new adventure that would offer me a new space of expression.

But honestly, in a lot of ways, my senior year has sucked. Beyond the violent torrent of

concrete, “justified” measure of suffering to reach out to my support network, I felt lost.

My friends and family continued to try to help, but I don’t think they knew how. Eventually, I began to feel like my gloominess was a burden on others, and I started to push it aside for the sake of my social life. I depended regularly on therapy to provide a cathartic space of refuge that didn’t make me feel guilty.

Even though I always tell other people

Corinne May peer for you series sleepless nights and constant rejections that marked the fall career recruitment season, one of the more defining events of my year has been the drama of my living situation.

Shortly after moving into our apartment, my roommate and I discovered that our neighbors were insanely unfriendly to the point of abusiveness. After a particularly nasty encounter with my neighbor, I reached my breaking point. I stopped pretending that living off campus was a liberating experience and instead began pouring out my heart to my friends and family.

I told anyone who would listen how awful the situation was and how hard each day was getting. Dissolving my typical façade of content was much easier than I thought it would be and the network of support pushing back against my despair felt really good. I would call my mom crying and feel validated about my sadness. Friends gladly let me sleep at their places so that I wouldn’t have to face going back to the apartment. My roommate became my mainstay and we used each other for strength as we engaged in countless frustrating meetings and phone calls to begin the move-out process. Throughout this period of obvious misery, I experienced intense surges of support for which I am forever grateful.

However, after we finally moved into a new apartment halfway through the semester and attempted a fresh start, things didn’t get better.

Although the external threat of my nauseating neighbors was gone, I was still feeling generally upset. I think I had rationalized all of my dissatisfaction and gloom with senior year by ascribing it entirely to my living situation. I no longer knew what I was feeling sad about, and unfortunately neither did my friends and family. Now that I could no longer rely on my

that their feelings are valid, I still struggle to practice what I preach and reconcile my own thoughts and emotions through my interactions with others. Clouding my spaces of friendship with my problems has always seemed somewhat selfish to me, especially if they are not even concrete and easily relatable. People have their own busy lives and problems to confront and work through; why should they feel compelled to waste time and energy on mine? This kind of perverted logic has traditionally consumed the way I interact with people and has contributed a great deal to my insecurity and hesitation about opening up to others.

Granted, therapy has offered me a completely safe space to process my pain and has helped me through a lot of moments in my life. But therapy can’t do it all. Sometimes you need someone to talk to without an appointment. Sometimes you just want someone to sit with you and assure you that you’re not alone. Sometimes you need to take up other people’s time without apologizing. As I go through the rest of my senior year, I want to come to accept the legitimacy of emotional selfishness. Trying to be more conscious about my deflections and fronts is a key step to that acceptance. Although my instinct is to avoid burdening people with my own emotional weight, I need to be more honest about myself.

We all confront unique struggles and pain and we should not feel compelled to brush them aside because we deem them illegitimate.

Corinne May is a Trinity senior. This column is the seventh installment in a semester-long series of biweekly Thursday columns written by members of Peer for You. Message a peer responder anytime and receive a response within 24 hours.

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nd then she laid off all the 40,000 people. And she says she’s a great CEO. Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her.

So joked a veteran at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire early last week. The woman he playfully fantasized strangling is none other than Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HewlettPackard and currently one of two female presidential candidates. Clinton responded as many adept politicians would: by laughing comfortably rather than suggesting that

of shattering the highest glass ceiling, the female candidate that seems to be the most unfairly treated on the basis of her gender is campaigning as a Republican.

Among Democrats at Duke, it is almost second nature to say that Fiorina has engaged in a war on women. We take it as given that to support conservative policies is to oppose women’s health. And as a result, Democrats do not notice the partisan double standard applied to women: Clinton can use her gender as a qualification at every campaign stop without question, but

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oday I woke up late. Ambulances at the hospital across the street from my host family’s home had cried out at least until 2 a.m., at which point I had put in earbuds. After eating breakfast and sitting, looking over the developments from the past night, the conclusions, the theories, the still-unknowns, etc., I walked out into the streets of Paris.

I was greeted by Paris itself—its pedestrians, its deranged motorbike drivers, its gray drizzle and dark costume.

The streets had not changed. The air was not different. It was Paris. I went into a

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strangling—even when presented as a joke—might be an unsuitable reaction to listening to someone with a different political perspective.

The veteran could have conceivably quipped something similar about any Republican presidential candidate, so it is silly to suggest, as did the press secretary of the RNC, that Clinton’s laughter demonstrates her inability to stand up against sexism.

Everyone jokes hyperbolically—when they do, few if any actually mean what they say in any literal sense.

What is more telling than the interaction itself is the reaction to it, or rather the lack thereof, from Democrats who typically jump on Republicans spewing misogynistic and otherwise hurtful declarations. When Donald Trump said of Fiorina: “Look at that face . . . Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that his “misogynistic comments” revealed his true feelings about women. When one co-host of The View said: “[Fiorina] looked demented” during a debate and another followed up with the idea that her face should be made into a Halloween mask, the response from Democrats was largely muted.

None of the aforementioned comments are inherently sexist. After all, male candidates are frequently criticized for their appearances.

Yet why is it that when Trump targets Fiorina’s appearance, he is assumed to be a chauvinist, but when co-hosts of The View criticize her in the same way, they are assumed to be feminists cracking an innocent joke? Differences exist between the two instances but without any meaningful distinctions: Trump is a politician, while the co-hosts are comedians; and Trump carries with him a past of offensive and disparaging language, assumedly unlike the co-hosts. But neither of these differences changes the intents or effects of the statements themselves.

If a Republican joked about strangling Clinton at a rally for Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush, and the candidate responded with unaffected laughter, the reaction from Democrats would be swift and pejorative. In truth, it probably should be. Statements never exist in a vacuum, and superficial attacks against female candidates should be heavily scrutinized. But the series of comments to date reveals a pervasive irony about modern American politics: for a presidential election long fated to feature a Democrat capable

bookstore, where I picked up a Kafka collection. I got a sandwich from a store and ate it in a small square. In the square there was a man who was talking loudly into a telephone and a woman who was carrying a lot of plastic bags. On my walk back, I saw two young girls, probably aged four and six, engaged in a game which consisted of slowly running (in the way of young children) back and forth along a row of square blocks in the pavement just in front of the glass façade of a showroom for antique video game machines, the kinds you see in older pizzerias.

I started reading Kafka in the afternoon.

It was a different experience reading it in French. French is a language built on context, and I was worried that the inimitable clarity of language that Kafka’s writing had always held for me would be lost in the translation. It wasn’t, though, and I realized as I read that I had only read Kafka in English, which was itself a translation, so I was only used to a diluted Kafka experience anyway. I read through The Metamorphosis and found a bit what I was looking for today.

The Marxist reading of The Metamorphosis is a tale of the alienation of a laborer in capitalist society. Gregor Samsa works as a traveling salesman. In the novella, he makes his distaste for his job known.

Additionally, the majority of his anguish does not come from being an unidentified vermin but from first his boss being mad at him for shirking his work and second his family clearly hurting from losing his flow of income—in essence, from the precariousness of a laborer in the free market.

A more popular reading of The Metamorphosis is one in which Kafka is expressing his alienation in the dominantly anti-Semitic milieu Kafka found himself in.

But I found a Zadie Smith reflection that I think comes closer to a more profound reading. She starts by quoting the author: “What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself, and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.” For Smith, the alienation is not from his community due to his ethnicity and religion but from community writ large because of his humanity. I quote Smith: “Kafka’s horror is not of Jewishness per se, because it is not Brendan McCartney is a Trinity senior. His a horror only of Jewishness: it is a horror of all shared experience, all shared being, column runs on alternate Thursdays.

Fiorina’s campaign is considered by many to be disgraceful to women in general. While as a Democrat I disagree with the majority of Fiorina’s policies, her candidacy so far has been characterized by competence and compassion. To suggest otherwise—her critics have called her heartless and antifeminist—on the basis of her conservative policies alone represents a dramatic oversimplification. All policies produce winners and losers, and no one policy comes wholly as a benefit or cost to a particular demographic group.

Even one’s stance on abortion, which today is used more than anything as a litmus test for determining whether an individual “supports women,” is the product of a complicated sense of morality more than it is a determinant of one’s compassion for women. While the United States has developed in a rapidly progressive nature over recent decades, public opinion about the morality of allowing abortions has remained virtually unchanged. This is not because society’s conceptions about the rights of women have been unaltered since Roe v. Wade, but rather because a majority of Americans, men and women alike, acknowledge that policies regarding abortion involve more than women’s rights alone, at least at some point along in pregnancy. I believe, as someone who is vehemently pro-choice, that opposing abortion does not equate to opposing women. Women oppose abortion in striking numbers; in fact, religious attendance and political ideology are often stronger determinants in predicting one’s stance on abortion than is gender.

Carly Fiorina says: “A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses.”

Certainly her definition may very well be an oversimplification of women’s status in society today—consider how many choices made by women are only made once filtered through existing and oft-ignored patriarchal institutions. Regardless, her intentions are clear. Fiorina, as do the many women who identify as Republicans, wants to make this country better. Rather than dehumanize her as a disgrace to women, Democrats should engage in a dialogue about why certain policies yield more positive social outcomes for men and women alike.

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all genus. In a time and place in which national, linguistic and racial groups were defined with ever more absurd precision, how could the very idea of commonness not turn equally absurd? …What does it mean, to have a people? On no subject are we more sentimental and less able to articulate what we mean. In what, for example, does the continuity of ‘blackness’ exist? Or ‘Irishness’? Or ‘Arabness’? Blood, culture, history, genes?”

We have become so interrelated that we must define ourselves by increasingly specific boundaries. I’m not a Floridian,

I’m a Tampanian. I’m not a Jew, I’m an Ashkenazi Jew, and a secular one at that. At some point, this act of self-definition crosses over into self-parody. At some point, we’ll all be floating on little islands of identity.

At the end of The Metamorphosis, Gregor dies in his room to save his family the cost of his dead weight. His family rejoices. They take a trolley ride into the country and buy a new, smaller and cheaper apartment. They look at Gregor’s sister and realize she is beautiful and that they should find her a husband. Gregor had ceased to be human through his symbolic alienation.

This is the risk that we face, that we are forced to face in today’s world.

The people who killed so many Parisians and the people who killed so many Iraqis and the people who killed so many Lebanese were all people. Nobody but humans could be capable of such horrors, of such pure cruelty. And the people who died across the world, they were people too. If we continue to carve these rickety identities for ourselves, we will continue to find ourselves in the situation of mourning and numbness and despair that we find ourselves in today. The world is bursting at the seams with people, all kinds of people, and the communities that we used to be able to carve out are now pushed up against one another. They bleed into each other, subsume one another, band together, but more than anything, they seem to fight.

The pressure is too high when we maintain these borders around our identities.

Each of us is human, and we have to accept the consequences of that fact. Terrorists are humans, victims are humans. Slavers were and are human, slaves were and are human.

This is the recognition that needs to be made—that this is the only definition of ourselves that stands up. Religion, ethnicity, race, gender—all of it falls away before our essential humanness does. When we forget that, and when we see ourselves as or others as an alienated and bordered entity instead of the unbordered potential of humanity, that is when we create hurt for ourselves and others, the kind of hurt that we’ve seen over the past few days and over the past couple thousand years.

Max Kramer is a Trinity junior and is studying abroad in Paris, France. He composed this column on November 14, the day after the Paris terrorist attacks.

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to the determination and leadership of the upperclassmen.

Now more than ever, the leadership of the experienced juniors and seniors will set the tone for the freshmen and sophomores experiencing the NCAA tournament for the first time. This weekend will be a true test for Duke when in the span of just three days the field of teams will shrink from 32 to eight.

But for now, every game counts towards the ultimate—and so far elusive—goal of the program.

“All of a sudden it becomes pretty real.

We’re proud to be here, it’s an honor to be in the NCAA tournament,” Church said.

“This is just another game as we go forward hopefully in our march toward a national championship.”

A Duke win would send the Blue Devils on to Sunday’s third round match against either second-seeded Florida or William & Mary at 2 p.m. Duke defeated the Tribe 2-0 Aug. 30.

Racioppi have posted 13 goals for the Blue Devils to lead the team, and each picked up a score and an assist in the first-round win. The team’s depth on the attack was on full display against the Dukes as five different players scored. The five goals tied for the secondlargest offensive outburst ever recorded by Duke in NCAA tournament action.

Although Florida Gulf Coast (14-5-2) has an offensive weapon that would strike fear in even the most seasoned backs, Church is confident in his squad’s ability to contain the Eagles’ lethal forward Tabby Tindell. Tindell has found the net 17 times this season—tied for seventh in the nation—and also added 10 assists.

“Fortunately, we’ve played against a lot of teams that have good frontrunners, just being the nature of our league,” Church said. “[Tindell]’s got deceptive speed.… She doesn’t need much of a window. If she gets a half of a window, she’ll get a shot off.”

Although being careful not to underestimate Tindell or the Eagles’ number two on the attack, Paulina Speckmaier, the Blue Devils are confident in a defense that has been sharpened all season long against strong ACC offenses. “[Defense] is just something we have to continue to pride ourselves on,” Proctor said.

“That’s just such a key part of the game, because if they can’t score, then they won’t win.”

After a win last week that Proctor said was taut with high energy and nerves, Church said he is ready for his team to settle down through the week of practices and focus on the task at hand—a journey he said started last season with the Blue Devils’ loss to Florida State in the regular-season finale. The defeat put Duke under .500 and eliminated the Blue Devils’ Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle postseason hopes. Church credited much of Goalkeeper E.J. Proctor will look to add the team’s success since that sobering moment another shutout to her name Friday.

W. BASKETBALL from page 1 Texas A&M finished with a 17-13 advantage on second-chance points. After outrebounding both of its first two opponents by 15, Duke was outrebounded 49-44.

“Twenty offensive boards, that’s just guts and kids with pride. Last year at our place they had 20 on us. So, I don’t know at the end if we just wanted it a little bit more on the tough rebounds,” Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair said. “[My team] competed hard against McDonald’s All-Americans. I’ve got a lot of Burger Kings, but they’re pretty good and I’m not trading them.”

The Duke frontcourt also took a critical blow when forward Oderah Chidom picked up her third foul just 35 seconds into the third quarter.

Chidom had just made a layup to trim the deficit to 33-32, and the Aggies responded with 10-0 run with the Oakland, Calif., native on the bench to extend their lead to double-digits.

Duke pressed aggressively to manufacture a comeback, and McCallie’s squad trimmed the margin to three points after Chidom got a steal and threw a long pass down the floor to find Salvadores for a transition layup, giving the Blue Devils some momentum to set up the dramatic fourth stanza.

Both offenses came out strong in a backand-forth start to the game. Duke sophomore Azurá Stevens knocked down an open 3-pointer from the wing and Greenwell followed up with a pair of layups, but the Aggies responded. Greenwell made a 3-pointer of her own to break a 9-9 tie and had 11 of Duke’s 16 points when she went to the bench for a rest with 1:58 remaining in the first quarter. The Blue Devils led 21-16 after 10 minutes despite seven early turnovers.

Greenwell, Stevens and Salvadores all finished in double-figures to lead the Blue Devils.

“Becca’s going really hard. I love her attack mode and I particularly liked when she went to the

The Chronicle basket, got through all that traffic and finished,” McCallie said. “Becca’s known for her shooting, but she’s a complete player. She can rebound, she can pass, she can shoot, she can drive, and that was really evident in this game.”

The turnover parade continued in the second quarter—Duke had 13 at halftime and 20 for the game—but the Blue Devils’ perimeter shooting and ability to finish in the post disappeared, allowing Texas A&M to climb back into the game. The Aggies took the lead for the first time since the opening minutes on a pull-up jumper by senior Chelsea Jennings with just 14 seconds remaining before the break, giving them a 31-30 advantage heading into the locker room.

Duke returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday at 2 p.m. against Army.

POINT GUARD from page 11 everyone on the same page.”

Although McCallie said that each and every Duke guard will play point at some point this season, that person has mostly been Lambert so far—especially as freshman Angela Salvadores is still learning the system after resting for much of the preseason following a busy summer of international competition.

But the Blue Devils’ turnover problem persisted up and down the roster in Wednesday’s loss, suggesting that the issue with giveaways is a group one rather than resting on the shoulders of a single player in one position.

Duke will need to address taking care of the ball for the full 40 minutes moving forward, as Lambert continues her rise at one of the most capable point guards on the Duke roster.

“We really played a period of intensity that I think will teach the team,” McCallie said. This is what you have to play like from the beginning when the score is 0-0. That’s part of our maturing, to bring that to the table, and hopefully we can do that on Sunday [against Army].”