November 23, 2015

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Past activism offers lessons

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David Wohlever The Chronicle Students presented a list of demands regarding racial equity and campus inclusion to administrators during another contentious discussion in Page Auditorium Friday.

The event, titled “Duke Tomorrow: Student-Organized Discussion with Brodhead and Administration,” was organized by a group of students after the previous week’s noon forum proved inconvenient for many students and faculty. President Richard Brodhead, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, listened to student demands and offered answers to questions from the audience. In response to accusations that the administration is moving too slowly on issues of diversity and inclusion, the three administrators made it clear that they are taking these issues seriously, but will not react without carefully considering all possible solutions.

“In a university, you have to actually think things through and work them through to find out what can be done, and we will not skip that process,” Brodhead said. “At the same time, I will tell you that it is our plan to look at these things seriously and to find out where the most progress has to be made.”

The event began with a brief history of previous student demands regarding the racial climate on campus as well as

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University of Missouri show that they are not alone in their struggles. Many also expressed concern about the lack of immediate tangible actions by the administration to combat racism.

“We acknowledge the administration for creating a task force in an attempt to work towards the elimination of bias and hate on campus. However, it is extremely inappropriate to expect students to wait until April 2016, five months from

Three Duke students have been awarded prestigious scholarships that will allow them to continue their education abroad.

Seniors Laura Roberts and Jay Ruckelshaus have been named as recipients of the 2016 Rhodes Scholarship, which provides two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. This weekend Roberts and Ruckelshaus became the 44th and 45th students in Duke’s history to receive the Rhodes Scholarship, which is a highly selective honor. Only 32 students were chosen out of 869 applicants this year. Senior Wills Rooney has been awarded a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which supports one year of study at a university in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

Both scholarships cover full tuition, living accommodations and other expenses.

“I’m excited for the chance to meet some incredible people from around the world,” Ruckelshaus said. “[The scholarship] is great validation for everything everyone has done for me.”

Ruckelshaus—a political science major with a triple minor in philosophy, history and English—is a student member of the Duke University Board of Trustees’ Academic Affairs Committee as well as a senator in Duke Student Government. He is also the co-founder and coeditor-in-chief of “Eruditio,” an undergraduate humanities academic journal. In addition,

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Fulya Keskin | The Chronicle Duke administrators heard demands from students Friday, one week after convening an open forum to discuss racial issues on campus.

a full reading of the “Demands of Black Voices,” a list of desired administrative actions and changes in policy, divided into 10 categories. The categories address bias and hate speech, racial and socioeconomic diversity, mental health and faculty unionization. They conclude with a demand that Brodhead, Kornbluth and Ashby agree to the other demands and announce their agreement to the Duke community by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Students noted that recent student activism at Yale University and the

Allen’s career day sends Blue Devils past Hoyas Nick Martin The Chronicle NEW YORK—All of sudden, Duke’s Nov. 17 loss to No. 2 Kentucky feels as if it was played months ago. Although the defeat was less than a week ago, Grayson Allen’s 2-of-11 shooting performance in that game certainly appears to be a thing of the past.

Behind another monster performance from Allen, No. 5 Duke defeated Georgetown 86-84 in the title game of the 2K Classic Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Coming off a careerhigh 30-point performance against Virginia Commonwealth Friday, the sophomore continued his efficient, aggressive style of play against the Hoyas, pouring in a new career-best 32 points, five rebounds and four assists to lead the Blue Devils to their second straight victory and pick up tournament MVP honors.

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the simple answer,” Allen said. “For me, it was about making adjustments from [the Kentucky] game. And I made those adjustments with the help of the coaches’ film and feedback, so it definitely does feel a lot better to play better.”

The Blue Devils (4-1) got off to a blistering start in the second half, with Duke riding Allen’s wave of confidence to establish its largest lead of the game to that point. The Blue Devils opened the second half on a 19-7 run, fueled by four 3-pointers from Allen and junior guard Matt Jones. Along with interior contributions from Marshall Plumlee and Amile Jefferson, Duke did not miss a shot for the opening 5:17 of the second half, pushing ahead to take a 63-54 lead.

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Long legacy of student Cultural O-week programs to activism offers guidance expand after mixed reviews Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle The history of Duke student activism shows that highly intentional campaigns that are sustained over time and bring together coalitions have been successful in achieving goals.

Over the past half century, Duke students and faculty have founded successful movements which used different methods to create change on campus. In the 1980s, for example, Duke activists pursued an almost decade-long campaign against apartheid in South Africa, finally resulting in Duke’s divestment from its holdings in that country. In 2013, DukeOpen activists achieved some success in their push for increased endowment transparency. The similarities between these and other successful movements help to illustrate what makes a campaign most effective and show which elements of Duke student activism have changed over time.

“Ultimately, the day is won by the strength of arguments,” said Ron Grunwald, associate dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Trinity ‘80. “This is a university community and in a university community, positions are won by the strength of arguments and not just by how loud you are or how creative your demonstrations are,

although loud and creative demonstrations have a role and are important.”

An underlying theme in successful Duke activist movements is an explicit and realistic list of demands. Bobo Bose-Kolanu, a thirdyear master’s student in computer science and founder of DukeOpen, explained that researching the cause and formulating a specific policy recommendation was effective for his group.

Robert Korstad, professor of history and public policy and director of the Initiative on Poverty and Social Justice, also noted that having a clear goal is a consistent trait of successful campaigns, specifically the antiapartheid campaign and the students against sweatshops campaign.

“There was an important moral and ethical issue at stake,” he said. “It was something that the University could do that was important, but didn’t overturn the whole structure of the University.”

Effective Duke student activists are also able to understand the power and authority structures on campus. For the DukeOpen campaign, activists’ ability to navigate the paradigm of the administration and the Board of Trustees was key.

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Special to The Chronicle In the 1980s, students successfully pushed the administration to end Duke’s investments in apartheid South Africa.

Sarah Feng The Chronicle More emphasis on cultural diversity will be included in the orientation for Duke freshmen, following a review of the existing programs by the Office of New Student Programs.

New cultural sensitivity programming elements, including group sessions titled “Building an Inclusive Campus Community” and “Campus Safety and Title IX,” were added to the 2015 orientation with the goal of fostering a more inclusive campus climate. The sessions were added after a team in New Student Programs reviewed the past two years’ programs. Currently, Duke Student Government is working with the Office of New Student Programs to further expand and improve these programs for the future.

“Our team and our student, faculty and staff partners from across campus have done a deep dive over the past two years to revamp our student welcome,” said Jordan Hale, the director of New Student Programs. “We added several new components to the 2015 orientation...and recorded welcome videos from each of our Student Affairs Campus Life offices.”

With the initiation of several new cultural diversity and identity programs during orientation week, DSG offered support by collecting student feedback and communicating it with the Office of New Student Programs. “[DSG] let [New Student Programs] know what we saw was effective and ineffective in order to help them to improve the program going forward,” explained DSG president Keizra Mecklai, a senior.

Mecklai noted that student feedback toward the new orientation programming was mixed. Many students appreciated the effort and thought the new session was necessary,

but many considered its execution to be lacking.

Freshman Alec Lintz explained that he thought the cultural sensitivity programs were well-intentioned, but that there was not enough time allotted for them to be truly effective.

“The cultural sensitivity programs are totally helpful because some people are coming to Duke with very diverse backgrounds, while others are coming from very sheltered backgrounds,” he said. “But [the first-year advisory counselor, or FAC] group chat is kind of awkward and uncomfortable. It was a very quick experience, having only 10 minutes to talk about the part of hort-term your identity that solutions is so crucial to who you are.” to this kind of In addition, the problem never cultural sensitivity programs are work out, do unlikely to alleviate they? racial tensions, noted freshman — Hillary Song.

Song Hillary “The school has to go deeper instead of implementing programs that are for show or out of bureaucratic reasons,” she said. “Small group discussion that requires mandatory attendance works, but it’s always hard to change a person’s belief in one week. Short-term solutions to this kind of problem never work out, do they?”

DSG is working on initiatives to make the orientation programs more engaging and thought-provoking for students, said junior Ilana Weisman, vice president for equity and outreach. She noted that DSG is considering implementing changes to the large sessions during the week to more critically engage students.

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ACTIVISM from page 2 and stakeholders and how political capital is distributed and who influences who is really key to increasing pressure on the targeted decisionmaker,” Bose-Kolanu explained. “You have to have this organized strategy for how to apply what tactics when, instead of just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.”

Both Grunwald and Korstad also noted the importance of coalitions in successful past movements.

“They were built around coalitions. They weren’t simply student-led,” Korstad said. “There was good student leadership, and there was good interaction among faculty and staff and students on these issues.”

One aspect of modern campaigns that is changing strategies, however, is social media.

Bose-Kolanu explained that group messaging applications were essential in organizing DukeOpen, especially when information had to be spread to supporters immediately.

Over the years, student activist movements have dealt with a number of limitations. Bennett Carpenter, a graduate student in literature involved in the current campaign to eliminate continuation fees for graduate students, noted a few reasons for the difficulty in organizing students in Duke’s current activist climate.

“Students here seem incredibly preoccupied with their future,” Carpenter wrote in an email.

“There is so much fear of personal, professional and financial failure—even among first-year undergraduates.”

Carpenter added that the University administration has a sophisticated public relations organization that can deflect criticism from activists.

Bose-Kalanu also noted the difficulty of beginning a campaign.

“I would say that the challenge for any successful movement...is to become a movement,” he said. “You have to transform

social energy into social movement.”

Grunwald explained that when legitimizing campaigns, activists cannot be merely reacting, but must also have a deeper persistence and understanding of the problem at hand.

“Inevitably, movements make demands,” he said. “Having the determination to follow something through depends on being motivated by something more than just reacting to a specific event or reacting to a specific circumstance. It really requires some kind of deep understanding and analysis.”

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friends encouraged her throughout the application process.

“Duke as an institution was incredibly supportive and I’m so grateful to have had that,” she said.

The application process for the scholarship began in April and students were notified if they had reached the finalist stage in late October, Ruckelshaus explained. This weekend, the 208 finalists were interviewed before the 32 recipients were chosen.

Ruckelshaus added that he enjoyed meeting the other finalists, who he said were brilliant.

“We were joking that the judges were flipping coins [to see who would receive the scholarship],” he said.

Rooney noted that he is excited to attend Maynooth University in Ireland under the Mitchell Scholarship. He plans to study the philosophy of religion and pursue a master’s degree in theology.

“I’m extremely grateful to have received this honor,” he said.

In addition, Rooney—a Program II major in markets, society and personalism—noted that he

hopes to attend law school and is interested in public policy and leading public opinion.

He said that his Program II studies have been a great blessing in his life. For the past three years, he has been pursuing the academic question, “what is the human person and how does the human person flourish?”

As an undergraduate at Duke, Rooney served for two years as an a member of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. He is now a columnist for The Chronicle, and is the director of academic programming for the Duke Catholic Center. He is also a member of Duke’s NCAA Division I varsity cross-country and track team.

Rooney noted that he is eager to interact with the other recipients of the Mitchell Scholarship.

“The program is really oriented towards community,” he said. “I’m excited for the fellowship dimension.”

He explained that his professors and mentors were crucial to his success in the scholarship application process.

“This is not one individual’s accomplishment,” he said. “It’s the result of a team effort.”

Ruckelshaus founded Ramp Less Traveled, a nonprofit organization that supports students with spinal cord injuries who wish to pursue higher education.

He said he is interested in public life and service and that he hopes to become a public political thinker.

“I imagine I’ll have one foot in academia and one foot in the more direct political realm,” he said.

Roberts, a history major with a double minor in religion and political science, said that she was shocked to learn that she had won the scholarship but then became extremely excited.

“I’ve always wanted to study at Oxford because it has one of the best history programs in the world,” she said.

She explained that she plans to pursue a master’s of philosophy degree in British and European History at Oxford and then attend law school. She is interested in working as a human rights attorney in the public sector, she added.

At Duke, Roberts is the events chair for the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research and works as the vice president and director of campus affairs for the Duke International Relations Association. She also mentors elementary school girls through the Big Special to The Chronicle Brothers, Big Sisters organization.

Three Duke seniors won prestigious scholarships to study at universities the United She explained that her professors and Kingdom and Ireland. From left to right: Jay Ruckelshaus, Laura Roberts in and Wills Rooney.

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DEMANDS from page 1 now, for mere recommendations to be made,” declared one student on stage.

“The oppression and lack of safety we feel as students on this campus will not wait until April 2016.”

Representatives of Mi Gente and Asian American Alliance also spoke to the administrators, presenting their own demands for change.

The Mi Gente representatives called for “increased pay for all black and brown labor,” stronger support for Latino and Latina faculty members, a new Latino cultural center and a public apology from administration for failing to deal with Latino student issues, among other demands.

Representatives from the Asian American Alliance criticized the administration for failing to meet the demands made after the 2013 “Asia Prime” t seems party hosted by like...you the Kappa Sigma fraternity. all respond The discussion a lot quicker was later opened to people to the entire auditorium, and threatening several students yor money brought up than people controversial issues in the threatening University’s your students’ recent and longterm history. safety.

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for Justice in Palestine, noted that administrators were quick to address recent faculty unionization efforts, as well as outside pressure to prevent the Muslim call-to-prayer being led from the Chapel bell tower in January.

“It seems like...you all respond a lot quicker to people threatening your money than people threatening your students’ safety,” Faircloth said.

Brodhead replied that the decision to cancel the call-to-prayer was not influenced by any pressure from donors. He also said that faculty are free to have their own opinions on the issue of unionization regardless of the administration’s position.

Matthew Bunyi, a graduate student in the Sanford School of Public Policy, stated that a demand to name the new West Union building after Julian Abele— the black architect who designed West Campus—could be a “quick win” for Duke. In response, Brodhead said the decision would be up to the Board of Trustees.

The discussion briefly descended into shouting when one student asked about how to maintain free speech while still combating racism.

“When did we decide that, in the name of tolerance, we are intolerant to others?” freshman Elliot Lin asked. “Instead of challenging that racism, we have decided to shut it out completely.”

Another student shouted from the balcony that racism is not free speech, sparking a heated argument about limits on free speech. Sophomore Taylor Jones, who moderated the event, asked students to take the conversation outside of Page.

Brodhead stated multiple times throughout the event that he wanted

to ask a question, but was ignored each time.

In the closing minutes, Jones challenged the administrators to acknowledge certain problems that students face. The last question of the night cut to the center of student concerns.

“Do you promise to move forward honestly and quickly to effectively put an end to the institutionalized inequalities currently instated on this university?” she asked.

Brodhead responded by encouraging the student body to take ownership of the issues moving forward.

“I said it last week and I’ll say it again.

We’re here because this is all of our university,” he said. “It affects all of us, it needs all of our work, it takes all of us working together to make it better.”

Compared to the previous week’s forum, some students preferred the format of this event.

“I came because it seems like this is more student-run and a safer space for student voices to get out,” said Amanda Mathew, a sophomore.

Some students and faculty at the event expressed optimism for the future of these issues on campus, noting that they are hopeful that student activists can make a difference.

“It’s an honor to be a teacher at Duke if these are the students I’m going to teach,” said Matteo Gilebbi, senior lecturing fellow and cultural advisor in the Romance Studies department. “It’s great that they brought up the issue of unionization. I think this is part of the same issue, to make Duke a better place. I’m honored to be part of this movement.”

O-WEEK from page 2 small group conversations about identity that are facilitated by older students who are well-trained to do so,” she said.

Weisman said the orientation for the Class of 2020 may include more small group conversations about culture and identity—for example, resident assistants leading nighttime discussions about forging one’s identity on campus or FACs leading tours of campus identity centers.

She added that next year’s orientation may also include more programming for students of historically marginalized identities and additional information about identity centers through webbased formats similar to AlcoholEdu. Following several racist and homophobic incidents on campus in the past year, students have called for increased diversity training. Last Spring, DSG passed a resolution supporting a request by the Black Student Alliance to implement a cultural diversity course during orientation.

Weisman said that although diversity programming and measures to enhance cultural competency will not be able to fully stamp out hateful perspectives, they can still help the campus community.

Ensuring a safe environment is the ultimate goal of new student orientation programs, Hale said.

“It is my hope that the work we do here at Duke gives students the opportunity to build the community to make them successful here at Duke and beyond,” he said. “We will continue to assess and evolve our orientation programming to establish an environment that is welcoming to all.”

To the protesting students, forcing us all to learn out loud, thank you for your work.

An education that develops in the silence of marginalized knowledges and histories, in the quiet of unearned civility, in the muting of sharply articulated criticism of white supremacy, is no education at all. It is the mere recitation of dominant pieties and protocols of containment.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— For the last two games since a last-second loss to Miami, Duke has been in a funk, making costly mistakes and failing to take advantage of opportunities.

Little changed Saturday against Virginia through the first three quarters, and a fourthquarter rally fell one score short.

Parker Boehme’s pass into the end zone was broken up on fourth-and-two as the Blue Devils suffered a fourth straight defeat with a 42-34 loss to the Cavaliers Saturday at Scott Stadium.

Similar to their last three performances, the Blue Devils fell into an early hole and could not dig their way out despite late fourthquarter heroics by Boehme. Both sides of the ball struggled—Duke’s offense gave up three turnovers and defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ unit surrendered several explosive plays and 502 total yards.

“We found a way to be in a position to win a game that maybe we shouldn’t have. We had turnovers. We had penalties. We had false starts by receivers. Those things stop drives.

We missed explosive opportunities. We gave up explosives. It’s just fundamental things that well-coached teams won’t and can’t do,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I’m proud of our team for responding. At the end of the day, you can’t get behind.”

As has been the case throughout this season, it was an afternoon of unfinished drives and mistakes for redshirt junior quarterback Thomas Sirk and the Duke offense.

On the game’s first drive, the Blue Devils (6-5, 3-4 in the ACC) drove 42 yards before failing to convert on one of their best chances of the night. Senior wide receiver Max McCaffrey himself running wide open behind the Cavaliers’ secondary, but Sirk— back under center after a one-game absence due to injury—overthrew him on a flea-flicker.

Virginia (4-7, 3-4) quickly capitalized off of

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Virginia freshman Olamide Zaccheaus hauled in his first career touchdown as the Cavaliers victimized the Blue Devil defense with six plays of more than 20 yards.

Duke’s missed opportunity, capping an 80-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus to Evan Butts on a double-pass trick play of their own.

After the Blue Devils stalled on their second drive, Virginia extended its lead to 14 points with a 45-yard pass from quarterback to Matt Johns to David Eldridge and a 26-yard rushing touchdown by T.J. Thorpe. Although the Blue Devils initially had Thorpe bottled up, he found a small hole and navigated his way to the end zone.

Virginia’s receivers consistently found separation from Duke’s secondary, and Duke’s defensive line failed to generate any pressure on Virginia quarterback Matt Johns. The Cavalier rushing attack, which contributed 143 yards, also took advantage of poor tackling by

the Blue Devils.

“If you don’t tackle well in this league, you’re going to give up yards,” Cutcliffe said.

Late in the first quarter, another Duke mistake led to points for Virginia. After recovering a fumble by Boehme—who came in for a first-quarter series to briefly spell Sirk— the Cavaliers went up 21 thanks to a three-yard rushing touchdown by running back Taquan “Smoke” Mizzell, who added two more scores on the afternoon.

Redshirt junior safety DeVon Edwards gave Duke its first points at the end of the period with a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown—his third of the season and is one shy of the ACC record with six career returns.

“Any score on special teams is big,” Edwards said. “That brings a lot of excitement to the

team. Coming off a kick return, usually we start getting a lot of momentum” Saturday’s return was no different. After an interception by junior cornerback Breon Borders in the red zone, the Blue Devils added a 36-yard field goal by Ross Martin to cut the Virginia lead to 11.

But toward the end of the second quarter, the Cavaliers recaptured control of the game.

Virginia responded with a 36-yard passing touchdown from quarterback Matt Johns to Mizzell, and the Blue Devil offense settled for another field goal to end the half.

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Tar Heels end Duke’s season again in Final Four Jake Herb The Chronicle After avenging regular season losses against Stanford and Virginia to reach their second Final Four in the past three years, the Blue Devils finally ran up against a team they could not sneak past on a second try—North Carolina.

The second-seeded Tar Heels shut out No. 6 Duke 2-0 Friday at Phyllis Ockler Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., ending the Blue Devils’ season one game short of a national title game appearance. The semifinal contest between the two Tobacco Road rivals was a tight defensive battle, with North Carolina making the saves it needed to fend off Duke and punch its ticket to the national championship game against top-ranked Syracuse.

Redshirt senior Lauren Blazing made two saves and senior Hannah Barrecca paced the Blue Devils on offense with three shots. But Tar Heel freshman Malin Evert stole the show, netting both of her team’s goals to send North Carolina on

to Sunday’s title match and send the Blue Devils home.

“For us, it’s a takeaway to get better in the future,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com. “[The] little things matter and in the key moments.... I think that’s what it comes down to. I couldn’t be more proud of the type of hockey we played today.”

Duke (14-7) played North Carolina (21-2) close for the full 70 minutes, but the Tar Heels capitalized on the few opportunities that the Blue Devils gave them to walk away with the win.

North Carolina’s first score came in the third minute after a whistle set up a penalty corner. A routine defensive play suddenly went sour after a miscue by the Duke defense sent the ball rolling right to the stick of Evert. The Bad Schwartau, Germany, native immediately fired a shot from the right side of the circle and handed her team a lead it would not surrender.

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Han Kang | The Chronicle Redshirt senior goalkeeper Lauren Blazing’s career in the cage came to an end Friday when the Blue Devils could not break through in a 2-0 loss to North Carolina in the Final Four.

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Stevens’ career-high 32 lead Blue Devils past Army Drew Johnson The Chronicle After a hard-fought overtime loss to No. 12 Texas A&M, the Blue Devils responded with an explosive offensive showing to earn their third win of the season.

Sophomore Azurá Stevens dominated the Black Knights in the post all afternoon as No. 14 Duke overcame an early nine-point deficit to take down Army 72-61 in an intense Sunday battle at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Blue Devils struggled early on, but turned things around in the second half thanks to a commanding performance from Stevens, who set a new career-high with 32 points on 14-of18 shooting and picked up her third straight double-double with 14 rebounds.

“They’re a team of a lot of seniors and a lot of experience and we didn’t do the things we wanted in the first half,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I thought in the second half our team was very strong, defended them very differently and really just did a lot of good things in the game.”

Army (3-1) began the game on a hot shooting streak, making its first three 3-point attempts to put itself ahead of the Blue Devils 9-6. Duke (3-1) came out aggressive on defense, consistently trapping the Black Knights in the halfcourt, but got in foul trouble early as the team picked up five team fouls in the first five minutes.

Kelsey Minato led the charge for Army, scoring 13 points in the first quarter alone on 3-of-3 shooting from downtown, more than half of her team’s total for the period. Minato’s impressive shooting was contagious—the Black Knights shot 83 percent from long range in the first quarter while also going 58 percent from the field as it jumped out to an early 23-14 lead.

“You can’t let people get hot like [Minato did]…. She’s a tremendous guard, [a] really

Jennie Xu | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens’ career-high 32 points fueled Duke’s 11-point win against Army Sunday. Stevens went 14-of-18 from the floor and added 14 rebounds.

good player,” McCallie said. “I didn’t think that our pressure was very good in the first half and all.”

As the period came to a close, Stevens— who McCallie called a “silent killer”— notched an easy inside score and followed it with an impressive steal leading to a breakaway layup that narrowed Army’s lead to 23-18 in the quarter’s final seconds.

The Blue Devil offense featured excellent passing throughout the game, allowing the team to consistently find Stevens for open looks inside while the Black Knights scrambled to keep up with Duke’s ball movement. The Blue Devils’ perimeter game struggled Sunday—the team shot just 17.6 percent from long range—so the sophomore’s career performance came at the perfect time.

“I think conditioning is a big part of it.

Just being able to attack the entire game and not just one quarter or one half, being

able to do that in both halves,” Stevens said.

“Angela [Salvadores] was great at finding me inside the seams and Kyra [Lambert] as well…I think the team mindset really just helps us out.”

As the second quarter began, the Blue Devils continued to attack the basket and find opportunities inside, but failed to turn these opportunities into points. Army consistently fouled Stevens and fellow forward Lyneé Belton in the paint, but the duo struggled to be effective at the free-throw line, going 1-of-7 in the first half. As a result, the period came to a close with Duke facing its largest halftime deficit of the season, trailing the Black Knights 34-31.

The Blue Devils bounced back quickly from their first-half difficulties with an explosive offensive outburst. Stevens picked up where she left off, notching a pair of freethrows followed by an easy layup to put Duke ahead 35-34—its first lead of the game since

the opening minute. Stevens’ efforts were quickly followed by a Crystal Primm put-back off the glass, expanding the Blue Devil lead to five and forcing an Army timeout with 6:58 left in the third quarter.

Increased pressure and trapping from Duke’s defenders made it difficult for the Black Knights to re-establish its rhythm, as the team went 2-of-12 from the floor during the third period after shooting 46.2 percent in the first half. Minato went cold—the senior scored just five points in the second half—and the rest of the Black Knights struggled too. Army scored just five points in the quarter.

The Blue Devils’ offensive tempo continued to pick up as the third frame came to a close, with a spurt of points coming at the end of the period. Thanks to another nine points from Stevens—including an energetic and-one layup in the quarter’s final seconds—Duke found itself with a 50-39 lead by the period’s end.

The Black Knights made a late push early as the fourth quarter began—cutting Duke’s lead to five with 7:57 remaining— but a Stevens layup and a 3-pointer by Salvadores quickly erased any progress made by Army, stretching the Blue Devils’ lead back to 10.

One of the games most exciting plays came during a fast break transition where Salvadores flipped a no-look behind-the-back pass to Rebecca Greenwell. The backcourt duo joined Stevens in double-figures, finishing with 13 points apiece.

“It was a great pass and luckily I finished it for her,” Greenwell said. “She’s really fun to play with and every time she has the ball I just try and get near her because I know that she can find a way to get the ball to players.

She’s great at passing.”

Duke heads to Cancún, Mexico, for a three-day tournament during Thanksgiving break. The Blue Devils will take on Idaho, Iowa State and Texas State.

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Duke Elite-Eight bound after topping Florida Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Two years to the day removed from a 1-0 victory against the Gators at Koskinen Stadium, the Blue Devils outlasted Florida once again, this time on the Gators’ home pitch.

Thanks to goals from junior defender Rebecca Quinn and freshman attacker Taylor Racioppi, third-seeded Duke orchestrated an impressive comeback to defeated secondseeded Florida 2-1 Sunday afternoon at Donald R. Dizney Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

A year after being left out of postseason action altogether, the Blue Devils’ victory against the Gators earned Duke a trip to the Elite Eight for the sixth time in the last decade.

“I thought we were really, really good offensively. We moved the ball well. We attacked at speed,” head coach Robbie Church said in Duke’s postgame press conference. “[We scored] two great goals, especially the game-winning one. I thought

we defended really well. Obviously we kind of went a little bit on the defensive side at the last 15 minutes or so. I thought E.J. [Proctor] was just tremendous. She has been all year in the goal. We’re very, very proud and we’re very fortunate to be moving on.”

Although Racioppi, classmate Kayla McCoy and sophomore Ashton Miller had the first scoring attempts of the contest, it was the Gators (19-4-1) who took the lead in the 21st minute when freshman Sarah Troccoli broke the scoreless draw with a header from three yards out.

But the Blue Devils (13-5-4) evened the contest just nine minutes later off of a set piece.

In the 29th minute, sophomore Casey Martinez took a corner kick that was deflected by a Florida defender. The bouncing ball found junior captain Christina Gibbons who put a curling cross inside the small box from 25 yards out. Quinn scored the equalizer and her third goal of the season with a See W. SOCCER on Page 8

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Freshman Taylor Racioppi notched the game-winning goal early in the second half for the Blue Devils Sunday afternoon as Duke upset second-seeded Florida on the road.

Lily Coad | The Chronicle Grayson Allen scored 62 points this weekend at the 2K Classic in New York.

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“We did that this half, that second half—we responded. He told us what he wanted and I thought we did an amazing job of responding, but it has to be for a whole game.”

The Hoyas (1-3) hung around until the very end, though, coming within one point several times down the stretch. With 21.5 seconds left, Isaac Copeland hit a 3-pointer to close the gap to 84-81 and did so again with 5.4 seconds remaining to narrow it to 86-84. But even with Georgetown threatening to pull the upset in front of an animated Garden crowd, the Blue Devils hit 9-of-12 free throws in the final 1:07 to finish off the Hoyas and capture their fourth win of the season.

After a Copeland jumper gave Georgetown

a 37-29 lead with 4:10 left in the first half, the Blue Devil offense—which up to that point had left much to be desired outside of Allen’s performance—finally started settling in a groove, foreshadowing the outburst that followed intermission. And just as Luke Kennard sparked Duke’s second-half run against Virginia Commonwealth as part of Duke’s switch to a small lineup, the Blue Devils had another unsuspecting freshman step up Sunday.

Rookie forward Chase Jeter, who had been used sparingly this season, provided Duke with a much-needed spark off the bench in his second stint on the court. He slammed home an Allen miss and snagged a defensive rebound and fired it ahead to Allen, who found Jones in the corner for a 3-pointer that gave Duke a 40-39 lead. Georgetown countered the Blue Devils’ 8-0 run with an 8-3 run of its own, but the Blue Devils had begun to click offensively, developing a rhythm that carried into the second half. “[Jeter] gave us some big minutes,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re going to need that. Marshall and Amile are really good with him. He just wants to do well so bad sometimes he’ll have happy feet or miss an assignment. But the attitude’s great. It’s tough giving him as much time in these games, possession-by-possession games, but hopefully he’ll continue to grow.”

After Duke’s smaller lineup paid off in a big way against the Rams Friday, the quintet of Allen, Thornton, Jones, Kennard and Jefferson or Jeter struggled to find its footing in the early going of the first, as the Blue Devils opened the game 1-of-5 from behind arc and could not establish an interior presence. The duo of Plumlee and Jefferson, though not dominant in the paint, was effective, combining for 12

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points and 14 rebounds to provide the Blue Devil shooters plenty of second chances but fell victim to foul trouble in the first half. Duke finished the game 8-of-18 from behind the arc, with five coming from Allen.

On the defensive end, the Blue Devils spent part of Sunday’s contest playing a 1-3-1 zone, with Jefferson at the top. Although Georgetown head coach John Thompson III said that he felt the Hoyas were still able to find their shots, he admitted that the zone slowed their pace and kept his squad from running the floor as they had in the early going.

“We have it in, so we practice it, and it helped us,” Krzyzewski said. “It kept them out of the lane, out of driving. They were driving on us too easy. And Amile did a great job on the top of [the zone]. It helped us.”

Duke will take the court again Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium against Yale.

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“It was difficult coming off of last season not making the tournament, but I think what was different from this year is just having that true belief that we can win this tournament and that we’re a good enough team,” Quinn said during Duke’s press conference. “Maybe we haven’t gotten exactly the results we wanted throughout the regular season with some games, but we know that we can show up for huge games and we’ve shown that throughout the season.”

The Blue Devils headed to the locker room with an 8-2 advantage in shots taken, but that was not reflected on the scoreboard, as the

sides remained tied 1-1 following Quinn’s score. Just after intermission, each team had two scoring opportunities but could not find enough space to convert.

And then Racioppi broke through.

The freshman from Ocean Township, N.J., notched what turned out to be the gamewinner for Duke in the 55th minute with a right-footed first touch, finishing an inviting cross from Martinez and an assist from McCoy. It was Racioppi’s seventh goal of the season and third in the Blue Devils’ last four contests.

Duke’s defense stepped up and made sure the advantage held up for the rest of the game as Proctor and the Blue Devil defenders only allowed two shots from forward Savannah Jordan—who entered the match with 24 goals, the second-most in the nation.

“We had talked a lot about getting numbers in the box and really pressing into them,” Racioppi said. “I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time, and put it in the back of the net. It was a great ball and a great deflection, [I was] just pretty lucky. It came across pretty quick, so I barely reacted on it.”

In a rematch of the 2011 NCAA tournament final, the Blue Devils will travel to California to visit top-seeded Stanford Friday evening looking to capture a berth in the Final Four, which will be played Dec. 4-6 in Duke’s backyard of Cary, N.C. “Obviously with our seed, we understand we have to travel,” Church said. “We do that in the regular season. I think we’re a very good team on the road. We’ve proven that game-in and game-out with big games on road. We’re very confident we can play anybody now if it’s at our place or now it looks like we’re going to California. Not a bad place for Thanksgiving, so we’ll head that way.”

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Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Backup quarterback Parker Boehme orchestrated a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown drives, but the would-be game-tying drive stalled just short of the end zone.

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“I thought we could run the ball between the tackles,” Cutcliffe said. “And we come out and we turn the ball over running the ball well.

If you’re going to turn the ball over, you’re going to put yourself behind the eight-ball. You can’t start both halves the way we started with either turnovers or missed opportunities.”

The Blue Devils tried to mount a comeback when Sirk—who finished 22-of-34 for 207 yards—capped a 67-yard drive with a seven-yard touchdown to senior tight end Braxton Deaver.

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The Blue Devils added two late touchdowns in the fourth quarter to reduce their deficit.

Boehme took over under center and the offense suddenly found a rhythm, scoring 14 points on back-to-back 69- and 68-yard drives before the night’s end.

Boehme established a rapport with Rahming, who finished with 190 yards and a touchdown and reeled in multiple passes of more than 40 yards. “[Sirk and Boehme are] both resilient,” Cutcliffe said. “They both have big accurate arms. I want them to be more consistent, more consistent down the field.”

Duke will try to close the regular season on a high note when they face Wake Forest on the road Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

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feeling that administrators might see but fail to understand their lived experiences in terms of fear and discrimination, though Dean Ashby signaled her understanding of the issue.

With respect to the demands made, any member of the undergraduate community should feel comfortable suggesting improvements to better undergraduate life, but they should also understand the resources and power, staff-wise, that go into evaluating, planning and implementing changes to

Editorial our University. Understanding of and submission to this process is a core requirement to make progress.

For example, it seems unreasonable to be unhappy with a one semester timeline for the new taskforce’s recommendations to come out. That viewpoint fails to understand what it takes to appoint and gather a large, diverse committee, design and conduct research, draw conclusions and deliberate on appropriate action items. It would do justice to no party to rush this or other proceedings because it is, or should be, the priority of both administration and concerned students that things be done right and not hastily.

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In his speaking segments, President Brodhead attempted to contextualize the progress which Duke as an institution has made on racial tensions, and we think it would be helpful for undergraduates to think twice and internalize what he is saying about the history of Duke and how progress is as incremental as it is project-based. Ultimately, the burden is still squarely on administrators to lead in these changes and for students to participate to the extent that their being students allows, but that does not mean students should play ignorant or unwilling to learn from administrators and their experiences. As finals and the holidays approach, we hope that the conversation and actions taken between campus leaders and administrators does not slide back into complacency.

Administrators should continue to be transparent and in touch with students via minutes and periodic announcements. Coming to the forums in good faith and establishing a task force are great steps, and we hope to see continued actions as well as the realization that all parties ought to be more proactive given the highly reactive nature of the year’s developments.

Above all else, however, we believe there is still a silent majority of undergraduates who have yet to engage in this dialogue and their engagement will be essential for changing the student culture that is at the root of many of these issues.

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tudent Moderator: Hello to everyone and thanks for coming to this, the second convening of Duke Tomorrow! After last week’s forum ended in frustration for many, we decided that we would try again this week with a different format. In the interest of clarity and brevity, today’s forum will be run like an episode of the long-running BBC game show, “Just A Minute.” For those of you unfamiliar, the goal in “Just A Minute” is to speak for a full minute on a topic “without hesitation, repetition or deviation”. If you break one of these three rules, another contestant can buzz in and take your topic. You get points for either finishing a minute or buzzing in when someone else breaks the rules. For today’s game, the administrator who finishes with the

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in spite of not actually answering the question. Since you’re all still failing to directly answer our questions, we’re going to swap to a quick-fire round for the last stage of the game. All you have to do is answer “yes” or “no” without hesitation, repetition or deviation, and you’ll get a point. Alright, fingers on buzzers. Kornbluth, you start and the question is: “Does Duke have a historic problem with racism?”

Kornbluth: Racism is bad and Duke exists and they have certainly existed nearby and probably even within one another.

Moderator: Erm, that was neither a yes nor a no so I’m afraid I can’t give you the point. Dean Ashby, you’re next.

Same question, and again, please just a yes or no answer: “Does Duke have a historic problem with racism?”

SATIRE, PROBABLY most points will win the right not to be on the panel next time we convene one of these forums. All right, fingers on buzzers. President Brodhead, you’re up first and your topic is: “Does Duke oppose its employees unionizing?”

The minute starts now.

President Brodhead: Well you know, when trade unions first developed back in 18th century England, they were opposing some abhorrent conditions: workers were often put in dangerous situations and paid little, with no real means of redress or improvement. Sidney and Beatrice Webb’s “History of Trade Unionism” for example relates tales of workers being made toDean Ashby: He’s deviating from the topic!

Moderator: Dean Ashby is correct, I’m afraid! Ashby gets a point and continues with the topic. Forty seconds left.

Ashby: Well let me just start off by saying thank you and that I really appreciate the structure for answering that you’ve given us here. I can see everything you’re trying to say, and I want to stress that I’m right there with you. Of course, all the things we’re talking about here will have to be considered in detail first, but, umProvost Kornbluth: Hesitation!

Moderator: You’re right! Kornbluth gets a point and continues, 23 seconds remaining. And, erm, please remember that the topic is “Does Duke oppose its employees unionizing?”

Kornbluth: So let me begin by making clear that this conversation is really important and we’re all ears to your concerns. But of course, each of the things you want will need to be considered in detail and will take different lengths of time to act onBrodhead: Repetition! She’s just saying what Ashby said already!

Moderator: Correct challenge! Point Brodhead, just 11 seconds left on the clock.

Brodhead: I was visiting Costa Rica, a country that has unions, the other year. It was a fascinating visit, and I learnt a great deal about what it means toModerator: TIME! Brodhead gets another point,

Ashby: So I have heard what you guys say and I feel you. When you tell me that’s your experience, that’s your experience.

Moderator: …okay so that sounds like an answer in the affirmative but again since you didn’t actually just say “yes” unfortunately you lose the point too. President Brodhead—and I would like to stress again that to score you MUST say either “yes” or “no”—does Duke have a historic problem with racism?

Brodhead: I was visiting the local aviaryModerator: No! Stop! Just a yes or no answer! This isn’t even a complicated question! All right, no points this round. God! Can you even say yes or no? How about this? Real easy, just please, give us a yes or no answer to prove it’s possible: “Do you have any brothers or sisters?”

Brodhead: My powers as president are more limited than most people appreciate and no one on this stage has the ability to push through major institutional reform. The power to do so lies in the opaque Board of Trustees, the prejudices and preferences of which are in turn a reflection of the Byzantine intersection of society and culture in which we live. I am Duke’s foremost politician and my job is to work with the power above and the demands below me in order to create a functional university, and I will never be able to fully appease your wishes no matter how much I try. So in short, I don’t know because all memory of my family was wiped from my brain after a horrifying administrating accident.

Moderator: Oh. Um, wow. That was a lot. What even is an administrating accident? But, er, thank you, I guess.

It was still deviation so I can’t give you the point but you won anyway. Congratulations.

Brodhead: So now we’re done, may I ask you a question?

Moderator: No. Monday Monday had originally planned this as a festive column in which a giant vengeful roast turkey rampages through Duke, killing everyone.

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f I hear one more person walk around this school screaming about their first amendment right to say whatever they want, I’m going to lose it. Or, rather, call and ask theirCivics and AP Government teachers to come stage an intervention, because clearly someone did not understand that whole Constitution thing.

Seriously. Stop with the freedom of speech.

If now is the point in my article in which you’ve flipped a table, wildly gesticulating your uncontrollable

University expelled a student in 2011 for having premarital sex, a breach of the university’s honor code. At Bob Jones University, skipping Bible Study or forgetting to shave your hair gets you a conduct warning. Watching pornography or engaging in “sensual behavior” gets you suspended or expelled.

I’m by no means advocating that Duke start expelling students for “sensual behavior,” largely because that means Duke would probably have about ten students left. My point is that

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The indignation of campus activists

ave you ever noticed that campus activists are perpetually “outraged” at whatever is the perceived “offensive” issue du jour? As George Will notes, “There is nothing more tiresome in modern American life than the indignation sweepstakes we get in all the time to see who can be most angry about this and that.” I can attest to Will’s weariness after enduring the Facebook posts about “standing in solidarity” with Missouri,

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anger that I would dare insult your “first amendment right” (ironic, no?), please sit back down. Yes, bravo, you have indeed identified that the first amendment to our Constitution prevents Congress from making laws “abridging the freedom of speech.” But, to borrow from The Princess Bride, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

The first amendment’s protection of freedom of speech is a protection from– and that’s the key distinction here–the government. For instance, if you want to stand on a street corner and scream claims that the homosexuals are taking over the country (e.g. the Westboro Baptist Church), the police cannot come and arrest you. If you want to post about your hatred of women online, the government can’t come for you. If you want to publish a book full of racial epithets detailing your dreams for a white America, the police can’t get you then either. The common thread in all this?The government cannot sanction you for speech that it simply doesn’t like, no matter how horrific or hateful that speech is.

However, the rest of us nongovernment people in this country are under no obligation to protect your speech. I am not compelled to protect your bigotry. I am more than free to organize a counter-protest and drown out what I think is sick, hateful, ridiculous, and absurd speech, and the government cannotcompel me to allow you to be heard nor restrict my ability to respond to your vitriol. Similarly, no publishing company is under the obligation to publish your racist manifesto. No private firm is constitutionally compelled to hire you. And no private university is constitutionally obligated to protect or sanction your speech either.

Duke is a private university, meaning that Duke is not funded by state taxpayer dollars. The University of North Carolina is largely funded through the N.C. legislature, so it is a public university. Since public universities are paid for through taxpayer dollars and are overseen by state legislatures, they are considered extensions of the government. As a result, public universities are indeed obligated to protect students’ first amendment right to freedom of speech.

As a private university, however, Duke is not under that same obligation.

Duke can establish whatever rules and norms it chooses and sanction students accordingly. Private universities establish norms all the time that would be unacceptable at public universities, and that most would see as a violation of the freedom of speech should the first amendment apply there (which it doesn’t). For instance, Brigham Young

private universities are able to establish whatever kind of community rules they so choose, and that by choosing to come to Duke, we are agreeing to Duke’s rules.

Your decision not to uphold the Duke Community Standard does not mean that the Navy should send in the SEALS to prevent you from being suspended or expelled. You have no first amendment right to freedom of speech at Duke because Duke is not the government.

Now, many esteemed universities have decided that as a matter of ethics, they will work to promote the freedom of speech on campus, but as a philosophical notion and not a legal one. Duke has long been committed to principles of freedom of intellectual expression. But Duke should also be committed to ensuring the safety of students on campus.

A string of recent campus incidences–from the hanging of a noose, to racial epithets scrawled on signs, to homophobic death threats, to prominent faculty members voicing racist opinions, to students holding racist parties–has forced many more members of our university community to finally start paying attention to the issues that marginalized people, especially people of color, have faced for years.

I highly recommend reading–with an open mind–the demands that a group of students recently presented to the University’s Administration.

We can have discussions about the freedom of intellectual expression, and we can have discussions about the need to protect students from hate speech.

But none of these important discussions can happen when students walk around with an indignant notion that their “first amendment right” protects their ability to say whatever they want in Duke’s hallowed halls with no consequences.

You can argue that Duke shouldn’t sanction you for your speech, no matter how much violence it inflicts upon your peers, but you can’t claim that Duke is constitutionally obligated to protect your speech. If Duke were to impose sanctions for certain speech on campus, which I wholeheartedly endorse, Duke isn’t violating your rights at all. Duke is establishing what it means to participate and commit to a higher form of intellectual dialogue and a community built upon inclusivity.

So to the anonymous yakker who ever so eloquently stated, “Shoutout to first amendment right and freedom of speech, to the dumb ppl who think racist speech isn’t covered by freedom of speech, anything that is words is included by freedom of speech, so…f*** u,” I say this: You, sir, are wrong.

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Yale or whatever other college that’s no longer a “safe space” for the easily offended. I’m sure President Brodhead also shares my frustrations after having been harangued not one but two Fridays in a row by hysterical students. But more dangerous than the grievances of these activists is their authoritarian tactic of attempting to silence any opposition. Not only do I find their complaints unfounded, I refuse to be cowered and intimidated into accepting their attempt at monopolizing campus dialogue.

Before proceeding, I want to emphasize the importance of the First Amendment and the principles it expounds. It’s true, as activists have argued, that the First Amendment protects individuals from government “abridging the freedom of speech” but does not protect against private action. Duke, as a private institution, and students, as private citizens, are incapable of transgressing the First Amendment. But, as Charles Krauthamer notes, “The Constitution is not just a legal document. It is a didactic one.” The First Amendment doesn’t just state what the government is not permitted to do; it also normatively expresses what we the people should not want to do, which is to impinge upon the speech of others. When we encounter speech we disagree with, the correct response is to articulate your own speech in contestation, not to silence the opposition. Free speech protects unpopular speech, even “hate speech.” Campus activists who glibly cite the First Amendment as a get out of jail free card for their impudent actions are instead stomping upon the very principles embodied in the First Amendment.

The recent events at the University of Missouri are a prime example of those with misplaced consternation attempting to silence speech. The president, Tim Wolfe, and the chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, were forced to resign after the actions of Jonathan Butler, who undertook a hunger strike. What was he protesting? For one, he was upset with losing health insurance, which, ironically enough, is a direct result of the Affordable Care Act. Butler was also upset that Wolfe declined to speak with protestors when they disrupted the homecoming parade, surrounded his car and accosted him for his supposed intransigence.

Butler’s co-conspirators demand “mandatory racial awareness and inclusion curriculum for all faculty, staff and students, controlled by a board of color.” Is this demand any different than the forced re-education perpetrated by students of the Red Guard? The protestors also demand “an increase in the percentage of black faculty and staff to 10 percent,” which would be an unconstitutional race quota.

Never mind the trifling tantrum of the protestors; the actions of university faculty, who are government actors, in suppressing journalists and the free press is downright despicable and illegal.

As seen in a widely circulated video, Tim Tai, a student photojournalist, is physically assaulted by students and multiple faculty members when he attempts to document the protest taking place Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. Her on a public quad, as is his constitutional right. column runs on alternate Mondays.

The protestors claim that journalists intrude

upon their “safe space” as if that were some kind of trump card over the free press. Of course, the media isn’t supposed to make you feel safe; it’s there to report the news unvarnished, not coddle the psyche of protestors.

Over at Yale, there’s an even clearer example of free speech suppression emanating from “insensitivity” and “micro-aggressions,” so miniscule as to be vanishingly small.

Professor Erika Christakis had the audacity to

send out a thoughtful email questioning the propriety of Yale paternalistically regulating Halloween costumes as if students were children. In response, the little Robespierres of Yale decided to curse and scream at her husband, Nicholas Christakis, while he admirably defended free speech. Students have also called for the firing of the Christakis, which Yale has thankfully refused to do.

Missouri and Yale are just the two most recent and visible reminders of the inexorable assault on free speech at colleges. Both Condoleezza Rice and Christine Lagarde were forced to back out of commencement speeches due to student protestors. Wesleyan cut their student newspaper’s budget in half after a columnist dared to criticize the Black Lives Matter movement. At Smith College, journalists must swear to “explicitly state they support the movement in their articles.”

Activists at Amherst want to discipline students who refuse to support protestors. Black Lives Matter instigators at Dartmouth screamed and cursed at students studying in the library for not supporting the movement. The editors of Brown’s student newspaper censored the writings of a columnist after students complained. This list is endless.

But, thankfully, the tide might finally be turning against the aggrieved bullies of college campuses. Alan Dershowitz, a liberal Harvard professor, gives this insight into the Mizzou protests: “They may want superficial diversity, because for them diversity is a code word for ‘more of us.’ They don’t want more conservatives, they don’t want more white students, they don’t want more heterosexuals.”

The Washington Post Editorial Board writes in support of free speech. Columnists in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Vox, the Huffington Post and elsewhere also support free speech.

Perhaps most courageously, the Editors of the Claremont McKenna’s newspaper delivered a stirring dissent to campus activists for their appalling behavior. Even President Obama has supported free speech and reprimanded militant activists, not once but twice.

Here at Duke, I urge the University to immediately cease making proclamations in support of Black Lives Matter as if all students support the movement. The “Duke Students” Instagram account states: “We, students at Duke University, stand with [Mizzou] in solidarity… #ConcernedStudent1950.” Larry Moneta also stated in an email to students that “Black Lives Matter… has great meaning to me, to our Black community and to every member of the Duke community.” Instead, I encourage the University to adopt a robust protection of free speech, like our peers at the University of Chicago and Princeton. Lastly, I ask that my classmates reject the protestors’ demands, which are laughable if not for the fact that they’re actually serious. President Brodhead must not kowtow to these activists. He should simply issue a one-word response: No. Jonathan Zhao is a Trinity senior and the Editorial Page Editor. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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