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TRUMP TAKES PRESIDENCY

Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle In a stunning upset, Donald Trump became the United States’ next president early Wednesday morning by winning a large portion of white voters without college degrees.

Joyce Er The Chronicle In one of the most volatile elections in recent memory, filled with divisive rhetoric and scandals, Republican Donald Trump emerged early Wednesday morning as the country’s next president-elect.

The Associated Press announced that Trump won the election just after 2:30 a.m.

Wednesday morning.

This came after John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, announced around 2 a.m. that the campaign would “wait a little longer” for votes to be tallied and results to be finalized. However, several news outlets reported after the AP announcement that Clinton had conceded the election on a phone call to Trump.

“This is a big day in American history,” said senior and Trump supporter Brady Jackson. “This is ‘yuuuge’ as Donald

Trump might say. I mean, I just think it’s a testament to the silent majority coming out and taking back our country... I’m as giddy as a schoolboy right now.”

First-year Nikhil Sridhar, vice-president of Duke’s Young Americans for Liberty and a Trump supporter, said he was looking forward to four years of “peace and prosperity.”

Among Clinton supporters at the election watch party in the Sanford School of Public Policy, however, there was an atmosphere of fear.

“I’m feeling legitimate anxiety about what’s going to happen with this,” senior Sai Panguluri said Tuesday night. “[Brexit] allowed a lot of people to express their very racist attitudes. As a person of color, I’m absolutely terrified that the same kind of thing will happen here, because we’ve seen a lot of Trump supporters being openly racist towards people of color.”

Before the election, several polls

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projected a Clinton victory, failing to account for Trump’s unexpected surge on election day.

“If I had to guess, there was an unstated level of support with Trump,” said Fritz Mayer, professor of public policy and political science.

Mayer noted that there was a surprisingly high turnout in largely white, conservative states.

“We live in a bubble here in Duke, in Durham,” he said. “This is a visceral, antiestablishment reaction.”

First-year Aditya Paruchuri, who said he supports Trump largely due to his opposition to Clinton, said the election has demonstrated the importance of not letting the media decide elections.

“I hope the results of this election have exposed the media’s extensive imperfections, and that [the election] teaches voters to vote for whom they feel is the best candidate and not who the media

thinks will win,” he said. “I am glad that this election is finally over and that politics will no longer consume my life until the next election.”

Mayer attributed Trump’s shocking emergence to the “so-called centrist media’s” sensationalism of Clinton’s email scandal and the Clinton campaign’s failure to show her relevance to the presidency.

“Trump had a coherent narrative of America—its decline and the need for a strongman. That’s a very appealing thing to a fearful nation,” Mayer said. “Hillary never had that. It’s in her nature. She doesn’t have as clear a story of where America is and why she’s the person for that moment.”

Students also noted the effects that Trump’s win will have on future domestic policies and foreign relations. Laurel Pegorsch, a master’s student in the Sanford See TRUMP on Page 6

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Gubernatorial results too close Burr retains Senate seat, to call, delayed until Nov. 18 Republicans remain in charge Bre Bradham The Chronicle The winner of the North Carolina gubernatorial race will not be decided until at least Nov. 18 because the razor-thin margin will require a thorough vote canvass, according to incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory.

According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections website at 2:13 a.m., the race for governor was separated by less than 0.11 percent, with all 2,704 precincts reporting and Democratic challenger Roy Cooper with a 5,001 vote lead.

Cooper—the state’s attorney general since 2001—has promised to repeal the controversial House Bill 2, which McCrory has defended during the course of the campaign.

Sophomore Adam Bullock, Duke Student Government senator for equity and outreach, helped introduce a resolution condemning HB2 to the DSG Senate last year. Bullock said that he thinks Cooper will be able to overturn the legislation if elected.

“I am very confident that he will use his

political utility to ensure that this will not continue to affect the economy and the civil rights of North Carolinians,” Bullock said.

First-year Mitchell Siegel, a selfidentified Republican, said that he supported McCrory because he wants to support his party, although he is not completely in favor of HB2.

“I understand that the HB2 law is controversial, and I don’t support all parts of it, but if you look at his term in totality I think he has done a very good job with the state,” Siegel said. “I’m going to be living here for four years, and I’d like to have Pat McCrory in office. But if he loses I will move on with my life.”

However, HB2 was not the only issue on the minds of voters. North Carolina currently ranks 41st in the country for teacher pay— an issue that first-year Leah Abrams, a columnist for The Chronicle, said is critical to the future of the state. Abrams graduated from Carrboro High School in Carrboro, North Carolina, and said she cast her ballot See GOVERNOR on Page 6

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The gubernatorial race was separated by less than 0.09 percent and will not be decided until at least Nov. 18.

Frances Beroset The Chronicle In a close North Carolina senate race, Republican incumbent Richard Burr beat Democratic challenger Deborah Ross by a 52 to 45 percent margin.

The race has been contentious and has drawn significant funding. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, both have spent just a little less than 10 million dollars this cycle on television, online and radio ads. Outside spending on the race has neared $60 million. And the race was considered one of several pivotal contests in the fight for control of the Senate, which the Republican Party won.

Some of the biggest issues Ross faced during the campaign involved her work as the state director of the American Civil Liberties Union. There has been criticism attacking her for opposing the creation of a sex offender registry—allegations she has denied—and her position on flag burning. Burr, on the other hand,

has been attacked for getting rich in the Senate and his vote against a ban on insider trading.

Although House Bill 2 has been a major issue in the gubernatorial race, Burr has largely managed to avoid being associated with the law—although blame continues to be hurled back and forth by incumbent Republican governor Pat McCrory and Democratic challenger Roy Cooper.

However, prior to the election, Burr was attacked for controversial comments he made about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton joking about a “bullseye” on the candidate. He has since apologized for the remarks.

“I would say that the result of the Senate election isn’t really that unexpected. Burr was the incumbent, and you have this other person coming in,” sophomore Luke Potter said. “Ross really was up for a challenge against Burr. The incumbency advantage can’t be underestimated. That’s why the Senate is so tied up, and that’s why See BURR on Page 12

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Incumbent Richard Burr won the North Carolina senate race by a 52 to 45 percent margin, beating out challenger Deborah Ross.

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Distress, tension fill Democratic watch party in Raleigh Vir Patel The Chronicle RALEIGH—North Carolina Democrats were met with disappointment despite high hopes during a tense election watch party in Raleigh Thursday.

While incumbent congressional representative David Price picked up a win early in the evening, the event’s attendees waited with growing desperation during the night for the results of the presidential election as they monitored local races. Despite initial optimism expressed by both analysts and party-goers, the state’s Democratic Party failed to win in its race for the Senate. Its hopes for legislative gains were also dashed.

“Well, it’s not the outcome that we wanted, but I have zero regrets,” said Democratic Chris Teufel | The Chronicle senatorial candidate Deborah Ross. “It’s been The state’s Democratic Party failed to win the Senate, to the dismay of many attendees of the a huge honor to run to be your U.S. senator. I Raleigh event.

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Results of the North Carolina gubernatorial race will not be decided until at least Nov. 18.

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Deborah Ross conceded to Richard Burr, who won the election by almost six points, according to data from the State Board of Elections.

wanted to thank you for all of the effort that you put into this election—it’s been an election of a lifetime.”

During the evening, Ross conceded to incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, who won by almost six points statewide according to the State Board of Elections.

The results of the gubernatorial election were left in the air at the end of the night as neither Democratic candidate Roy Cooper nor Republican incumbent Pat McCrory reached a clear victory, separated by a margin of fewer than 5,000 votes.

Cooper addressed the crowd at the watch party close to midnight, explaining that North Carolina votes would be recounted and that a final decision might not be reached until Nov. 18.

Attendees of the watch party hailed from across the state and also included Cole Wicker, a Duke junior and North Carolina native. “[This watch party] is an exciting place to be to see the turnout of North Carolinians rather than just Duke students,” Wicker said. “Being a native North Carolinian, it’s cool to see what people I grew up around came to do.”

Wicker explained that the potential outcome of this electoral cycle could have ultimately led to new state policies on nationally contentious issues such as House Bill 2 and voter suppression controversies.

Such a transition might have also improved North Carolina’s reputation as a whole, he added.

“If we get HB2 out of here, that’s when a lot of companies that originally said no could potentially come back,” he said. “But I think in just our reputation as a whole, we’ll have the opportunity to have North Carolina not known as a laughingstock anymore.”

This story was finalized before the presidential election was called.

N.C. Republicans celebrate across-the-board victories Henry Chan The Chronicle RALEIGH—The air of anticipation turned into one of giddy celebration soon after news broke that North Carolina belonged to the Republican Party.

The North Carolina Republican Party gathered at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley Tuesday night to watch election results unfold. In a massive ballroom decked with signs for Republican incumbent governor Pat McCrory and flanked by two giant screens broadcasting Fox News, a crowd of more than 500 eagerly awaited good news. By the end of the night, as news that Republican nominee Donald Trump had won the state’s electoral college votes and that incumbent senator Richard Burr won re-election, speakers from North Carolina GOP leadership appeared onstage to cheers.

“The people of North Carolina showed the pundits who is in charge of North Carolina, the grassroots,” said state party chairman Robin Hayes, Trinity ‘67, shortly after Trump won in the state. “North Carolina was and is a red state.”

At the beginning, speakers focused more on state-level races, and there was a conspicuous lack of Trump signage on the official stage.

However, as the night went on, the speakers from GOP leadership grew more confident, and the crowd followed their lead. After Burr’s win was announced, a spokesperson claimed “the news is very good across the board.”

Later, GOP speakers referred to the gubernatorial race being “very close.”

The uncertainty about the gubernatorial race put a damper on an otherwise boisterous crowd. The event was formally

billed as “Governor McCrory’s victory celebration,” and when McCrory appeared after midnight to explain the delay, the crowd booed the news. This also appeared to catch the NC GOP off guard, as their speakers had begun the party by getting the crowd to chant “four more years” anticipating a McCrory victory.

However, it was an electric moment when Fox News projected that Trump would win in North Carolina, and the momentum continued to build after that. When Trump was projected to win in Florida, the crowd broke out in a spontaneous chant of “drain the swamp.”

Speaking to The Chronicle, NC GOP vice chairman Michelle Nix said she was Chris Teufel | The Chronicle thrilled by Trump’s win in the state and The Republican watch party in Raleigh featured giant screens displaying Fox News and more that she had a doubt about his chances. than 500 attendees.

Lori Kaitlyn Babb, a first-year at Campbell University, came to the party mostly to support McCrory, and in particular, his education spending and state surplus.

“My mom’s a teacher,” she said.

“Under McCrory’s leadership, her pay has gone up.”

William Wallace, a Durham resident, voted Democrat but came to the party to support his friend who works at the governor’s office. He said he was surprised that Trump came so far, a sentiment echoed by most in the crowd.

At a cocktail table, a family had laid out a hand-drawn map of the United States with only black and white outlines.

Enthusiastic children colored the states with red or blue crayons whenever the results were called. By midnight, it was a splash of bright crimson.

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle This story was finalized before the presidential Republicans celebrated as Trump won North Carolina and Richard Burr won the senate race against Deborah Ross. election was called.

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Durham residents lament ‘depressing’ election results

Han Kang | The Chronicle Durham residents gathered at Motorco Music Hall to watch the president, senate and gubernatorial race results.

elections to affect their relationships with each other.

“I’m actually seeing a Trump supporter right now,” Leecanup said. “We have different political views, but we still get along fine.”

Ivon Lewis, who is originally from Germany but obtained U.S. citizenship 20 years ago, explained that she decided to vote for Clinton “years ago.” She noted that her friends and family back in Germany had strong opinions about the U.S. elections.

“They think that Trump is crazy,” Lewis said. “I struggle to explain [the US elections] to people back in Germany.”

Others noted that they are ready for the election to end. Durham resident Erin McArdle described it as a “circus.”

“I’m sick of it all, I just want it all to be over. I understand that sexism exists and people are afraid of having a female president, but Trump is just a clown,” McArdle said.

Jonathan Katz, acclaimed journalist and author who attended the party, shared his distaste for Trump, who he called a “fascist” and a “proponent of Herrenvolk democracy.”

“I think that this election are very important in determining the future of both the country and the international politics,” Katz said.

North Carolina was one of the fiercest battlegrounds in this election, but the initial dead heat widened to an impressive lead for Trump and finally a win. The mood at the Motorco Watch Party noticeably darkened quickly after Clinton’s North Carolina loss.

McArdle’s partner, Daniella, who is an Ecuadorian immigrant and obtained U.S citizenship two years ago, expressed her

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Alethea Toh The Chronicle Residents from all over Durham gathered at the Parts & Labour restaurant in Motorco Music Hall, anxiously watching the nail-biting 2016 election night.

In the early stages, the atmosphere was crowded, boisterous and charged as people chatted excitedly, drinking and eating while watching the MSNBC live stream. The crowd mostly cheered during each Clinton victory and booed during every Trump win, as Durham has become a Democrat stronghold in recent years. Roaring applause broke out when it was announced at 9:45 p.m. that Clinton was leading in Durham with 81 percent of the votes.

the Democrats are having a tough time taking up the Senate.”

Burr has supported the coal, oil and natural gas industries, favors limited government spending and is in favor of preventing federal money from being given to organizations that support abortion. In his acceptance speech, Burr promised to continue advocating for conservative principles in the Senate.

Key to his re-election platform has been his foreign policy experience as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

He has opposed closing the Guantanamo Bay prison and has criticized the Obama Administration’s Iran Deal as a “foreign policy disaster.”

“I think we had high turnout rates in the western region of North Carolina, and that pushed him over the brink,” said Chronicle columnist and senior Addison Merryman. “The polling data we’ve seen over the last few weeks suggested that he would have a two to three point lead, and that’s what we’re seeing.”

Merryman added that Burr can help fix problems with the Affordable Care Act, which has been largely decried by Republicans. Regarding Burr’s next term, Merryman said he was “hopeful and optimistic.”

Sophomore Sabriyya Pate, also a columnist for The Chronicle, said it was a shame North Carolina had elected “another Washington insider.” In her concession speech, Ross said she would continue working to inspire young people.

“The way I see it, this is not only a loss for Deborah Ross, it’s also a loss for the people of North Carolina,” Pate said.

“Deborah Ross was a prime candidate for this position. Furthermore, we have Richard Burr, in many ways he’s reflective

Laura Leecanup, who has lived in the Hickory-Lenoir area for the past two years and just graduated from the Aveda Institute Chapel Hill, said that she would normally vote for an independent party, but decided to vote for Clinton in this election. She expressed that the elections have created a divide within the Research Triangle Area community, as many people there are pro-Trump.

“I have friends who were beaten and punched by pro-Trump supporters during rallies,” Leecanup said. “It’s so different once you step outside of the Research Triangle Area.”

Both Leecanup and her sister, Renea Bryant, expressed that although most of their family, including their parents, are Republicans, they have not allowed the

of Donald Trump.”

First-year Leah Abrams, also a columnist for The Chronicle, said Burr’s re-election might actually harm the reputation of students graduating from Duke.

“Your degree is worth more when the state has a good reputation,” Abrams said.

Libertarian candidate and pizza delivery driver Sean Haugh received less than four percent of the vote.

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The election result will also significantly impact immigrants and minorities, added first-year Axel Herrera.

“I came in 2005 undocumented and am under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which was given by executive order,” Herrera said Tuesday night before the result was announced.

“Whichever president is elected is the one who’s going to decide whether DACA stays or goes.”

Mayer agreed that the ramifications of a Trump presidency are profound, noting that “there’s going to be a lot of soul searching about how we got this wrong.”

Disbelief was a common emotion among Duke students Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

“I’m surprised that [Trump]’s getting a lot of these votes. He’s winning these traditional Republican seats, which is right, but Florida or Virginia are surprises,” firstyear Ibrahim Butt said early in the evening.

“As an international student and a Muslim student, in the past few days I’ve become a bit more fearful with the realization that if he is elected, we will have a president of the free world who has these backwards, manipulative views.”

for Cooper in part because of his education funding policy.

“I watched, over the last six years of my public school career, the deterioration of the public school system in this state,” she said. “It was terrible being a kid and seeing all of your teachers leave.

It caused a lot of pain to my teachers, to students, to parents and to families all across the state. I feel really confident that Roy Cooper is going to redeem the reputation of North Carolina, because it hasn’t been good.”

Cooper won the Democratic nomination for the office by defeating former State Representative Ken Spaulding with a 37 percent margin. Cooper is one of 150 candidates President Barack Obama has endorsed during this election cycle, according to Ballotpedia.

In addition to attacking McCrory’s social policies, Cooper has campaigned on increasing teacher pay, cutting taxes for the

Han Kang | The Chronicle The crowd expressed distaste for Donald Trump each time he won a state.

deep disappointment at Trump’s win in North Carolina.

She explained that in the misogynist culture in Ecuador, “men tell people what to do and what to say, and I thought the U.S has such a positive culture.” She said she feels that Trump is “backward” and repressive against women.

Nashawa Wilson, ‘Tank’ Wall and Alex Griffith, who all work for Working America in Durham and have been relentlessly campaigning for Clinton in Raleigh, expressed disappointment at the North Carolina result, calling it “depressing.”

“We campaigned so hard for nothing,” said Wilson, who studies at the Durham Technical Community College.

Griffith called the Durham polling stations’ malfunctions “utter bulls***.”

“It’s all very frustrating and exhausting,” she said. middle class and expanding Medicaid. He has also stated his intention to allow online voter registration and roll back the state’s voter ID laws.

McCrory first took office in 2013, and he won this year’s Republican nomination in March with 81.7 percent of the votes over former state Rep. Robert Brawley and 2012 gubernatorial candidate Charles Moss.

McCrory has rejected focusing on social issues and “bathroom politics,” instead honing in on the fiscal success his administration has had. His campaign website claimed that 230,000 jobs were created and a $450 million budget surplus was accumulated during McCrory’s tenure.

Colin Duffy, junior and chair of the Duke College Republicans, said that he expects McCrory to come out victorious despite the uncertainty.

“I, personally, am a huge McCrory fan,” Duffy said. “I’m a little biased in this sense. I really do believe that Pat is going to win. I think that the down-ballot indicators are pointing that way as well.”

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Students gathered in the Sanford School of Public Policy to watch election results come in, with many noting their shock at the outcomes.

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DEMAN brings arts and media alumni to Duke

Students have opportunity to speak to professionals, page 9

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Dentists and bars, page 8

Recess reviews: 'The Handmaiden'

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Dillon Fernando .......... Pence toasters Christy Kuesel .......... sister suffragette Kirby Wilson ............. souls to the polls Georgina Del Vecho.....cooler than urs Drew Haskins .......................no show Tim Campbell ................not Tim Kaine Aditya Joshi ............ wizard (of Awaaz)

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Art gets a bad rap.

At universities like Duke, where STEM fields are encouraged and a liberal arts education is viewed in terms of “T-reqs” rather than as a part of being a well-rounded individual, it seems like art is looked down upon as being “lesser” or “easier.” Aside from the fact that things that are supposedly easier are discredited at Duke— which is a whole separate issue I can get into at another time— the idea that a career or major in the liberal or fine arts is inferior is completely misleading. Not only is art difficult (take it from someone who’s tried to be good at it since sixth grade), it’s something that has enriched our lives since the beginning of time.

The beauty of art is just that— it’s beautiful. Although it seems superficial, it’s human nature to like aesthetically pleasing things.

If it weren't, I highly doubt the Kardashian/Jenner clan would be famous or that the fashion industry would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Art is something we can look at, we can listen to, we can watch, that reminds us that there is beauty in the world to appreciate, even if it’s not beauty we’re experiencing firsthand.

And although I love and appreciate art for this, it’s not the reason I need it in my life. I am, unfortunately, neither creative enough nor committed enough to create art; instead, I consume it. It’s strange how something seemingly so passive, like looking at a painting or watching a movie, can elicit such deep and visceral emotions. A good movie or book can make you laugh, can make you cry and can even have you loving or hating characters as if

editor’s note they were your own acquaintances.

THIS is why I love and need art in my life. Not because I like looking at pretty things (although this is not categorically untrue), but because, in my world full of organic chemistry and molecular biology, it provides me a respite from my, at times, dull and stressful everyday life. Especially with this year, this election, it’s sometimes

nice to pretend that the biggest problem in my life is whether or not Jack will fit, not whether or not my country is heading towards inevitable chaos.

It’s obvious that I am not the only one who harbors this sentiment, either. The movie, music, fashion and fine art industries contribute significantly to the world’s GDP and make up a notable part of the work force in the United States. So why then, is something that means so much to so many people across the world looked down upon at institutions of higher education like Duke? Why do so many parents (including mine, both of whom work in the arts) discourage their children from pursuing careers as actors, writers, musicians or artists? Not only is art unassumingly per vasive, it can have just as much power to heal as medicine can and is just as much a platform for social and political commentar y as any newspaper or journal. Art is a tool for education and a tool for expression. It is by no means a lesser career path and should not be treated as such.

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After graduating from Duke in 1992, JJ Ramberg moved to New York City in search of a job—a familiar yet precarious position for any young graduate. Soon, opportunity presented itself when the receptionist for "NBC Nightly News" took a six-week leave. The show’s manager offered Ramberg the temporar y position, and she accepted.

“Once I was there for less than a minute, I was hooked,” Ramberg said. “I realized this was the career I wanted to take. This was the path I wanted to follow.”

In a stroke of luck for Ramberg, the former receptionist never returned. A series of promotions ensued, and over twenty years later Ramberg is the host of MSNBC’s “Your Business” and one of the premier financial journalists on TV. Around the same time Ramberg took that temping job, a freshman Dave Karger walked into Duke’s Career Center. Eager to pursue a career in entertainment but unsure where to start, he asked a staff member for information about internships in New York City.

“His response was, ‘Wow, we’ve never had a freshman come in here before,’” Karger, Trinity ‘95, said.

Even so, Karger managed to secure an internship at a PR firm that summer, launching a career that has included writing over 50 cover stories for Entertainment Weekly and hosting videos for Fandango, IMDb and "Access Hollywood."

Both Ramberg and Karger credit their successes to those first, small steps into the entertainment world. This weekend, students interested in arts and media careers have the chance to do the same.

Beginning Friday, some of the most accomplished Duke alumni will converge upon the seventh annual DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend for two full days of workshops and dialogue.

Guest speakers hail from a list of media giants that includes The New York Times, ESPN and iTunes, among others. So far, over 500 students have registered, making this year’s DEMAN Weekend the largest so far, and registration is still open.

The centerpiece of the weekend is the keynote address 7 p.m. Friday, a conversation moderated

by Karger and featuring Ramberg and Amy Gravitt, Trinity '95 and executive vice president of HBO Programming. The three will talk about their paths to success, reflect on their time at Duke and address some of the greatest issues in their respective fields.

But the rest of the weekend is filled with both smaller group discussions and larger social events, allowing attendees to choose whichever items on the agenda suit their interests.

“No matter if you're a first year or a graduate student, introverted or extroverted, small group or large group person, DEMAN has you covered,” Amy Unell, arts entrepreneurship liaison, wrote in an email. “It's like the menu at your favorite restaurant. You can get the five-course meal or order à la carte. You can personalize your DEMAN Weekend experience.”

For students and young alumni aiming to stake out a place in an industry where connections are so important, DEMAN We e k e n d p r e s e n t s t h e p e r f e c t o p p o r t u n i t y t o form relationships with those most involved in the entertainment world.

“The more that students can learn about what is out there while they’re in school, the better,” Ramberg said. “So through weekends like DEMAN, students have the opportunity to speak to people, to really understand what a job is—not just what they think it is—and then potentially develop relationships with people who can help them get that first job.”

The Duke Entertainment, Media and the Arts Network, which lends the weekend its name, was launched in 2009 and boasts hundreds of alumni in the highest ranks of the media world.

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When filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the French cinematic scene in the 1950s, they brought more than the French New Wave with them; they gave birth to a theory known as auteurism. Translated into English as ‘authorship,’ the theory stipulates that a director can create a style that is uniquely his or her own, lending to an array of films that undoubtedly belong to a single artist.

Although director Park Chan-Wook claims that he is not an auteur, there are certain aspects of his films that render them discernibly distinguishably his. A viewer can almost always be guaranteed heavy themes of revenge, darkly humorous dialogue and more twists and turns than an amusement park ride when watching a Chan-Wook film. His latest movie, “The Handmaiden,” is no exception—it’s a sensual tale of deception that lets Chan-Wook’s style shine.

“The Handmaiden” pulls its story from “Fingersmith,” a 2002 novel written by Sarah Waters, but Chan-Wook changes the setting from Victorian Britain to Korea under Japanese colonial rule.

Sook-Hee, a young woman raised by con artists and pickpockets, is selected by a conman using the false title of Count Fujiwara to aid him in an elaborate scheme. She is to become the maid to Lady Hideko, a quiet and troubled heiress, and persuade her to fall in love with Count Fujiwara so that he can marry her, steal her fortune and throw her into an insane asylum when all is said and done.

But there’s a problem: Sook-hee and Hideko fall in love with each other. Through stolen glances and tender moments laden with sexual tension, director Park Chan-Wook navigates their burgeoning relationship in the subtlest and most convincing ways.

They share intimate, fleeting moments, building in ferocity to a literal climax that solidifies their bond and complicates the con job even further.

However, this is not a film that grounds itself in romanticism; it is, at its core, an examination of the patriarchy and how women can reclaim their agency in a world dominated by men. Hideko is forced by her Uncle Kouzuki, a collector of antique erotica, to read sexually explicit material to older men in hopes that they’ll purchase a piece of his collection.

There’s a striking, beautiful scene wherein Sook-hee, in a fit of contempt at Kouzuki’s merciless treatment of Hideko, destroys all of his erotic novels. It’s an incredible, emotional representation of the two women demolishing the male authority which has entrapped them for their entire lives.

Chan-Wook does an even better job of exploring this idea of women rebuking male dominance through the lens of a unique narrative, largely untouched by the conventional cinematic portrayal of lesbians. Whereas films such as “Carol” and “Blue Is the Warmest Color” are emotional, slow-burning stories about women grappling with and accepting their homosexuality, “The Handmaiden” never attempts to examine the titular characters’ feelings about their sexual desires. Sookhee and Hideko are in love and there’s really nothing else to it—no pain or tumult tagging along, weighing down a narrative that otherwise allows the two women to have stories that lie outside of their sexuality.

Of course, “The Handmaiden” is enticing for more reasons than just its portrayal of women and their sexual endeavors. The story is deftly told in three parts, each one with differing narration and perspectives, and the plot twists are brilliant, the film doubling back on itself as more information is uncovered. It’s a refreshing progression, one that begs multiple viewings because of its intricacies. Perhaps this is one of its greatest shortcomings, though—at times, the plot becomes so complex that it is difficult to follow, although the catch-up is easy.

The cinematography and direction are fairytalelike, beautiful in their own right. Wide pans of a body swaying from a looming cherry blossom tree, closeup shots of Hideko seductively licking a lollipop and voyeuristic angles captured through peep holes and windows – every frame is painstakingly composed. The film’s perfection is at times cloying, deliberately reflective of the women’s stifled and suffocating environment.

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KICKING AND SCREAMING Inside the lives of Duke’s 3 assistant coaches

Jack Dolgin The Chronicle Even in a fluid sport like soccer, there are plays to draw up, tapes to analyze and referees to challenge.

The life of a Duke assistant coach is dynamic, but the first thing any of them will tell you is they are still involved with the sport they love.

“A desk job is probably the furthest from it,” assistant coach Lane Davis said. “I will probably have struck about 150 crosses in about 45 minutes. So from a physical standpoint, it’s almost like still being able to play.”

Every morning, there is the same routine—head coach Robbie Church and his assistant coaches, Davis, Erwin van Bennekom and Carla Overbeck, plan out strategies and discuss games.

From there, teamwork is on full display.

Davis takes care of the film. Van Bennekom draws up offensive sets as Overbeck maps out defensive strategy.

Church handles much of the housekeeping work like equipment orders, and if you enter into his office, you’ll find him with a pair of reading glasses on.

‘500 new followers’ Before the 2015 season, Duke lost its long-time assistant coach Billy Lesesne, who left to become Georgia’s head coach.

After his departure, Church decided to look for a younger group of coaches.

Van Bennekom joined the staff and brought with him an international flair as a former player originally from the Netherlands.

He posts a video of practice formations almost every day on his Twitter account, generating tens of retweets and shares.

“It showcases our players, it showcases

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our university and our team,” van Bennekom said. “A lot of coaches give me feedback... and like 500 new followers within a week.”

Davis, who is in his first year with Duke, manages game film and works with the team’s goalkeepers. In his first year, van Bennekom had to edit game footage, which cut into his time for focusing on tactics.

But now the ACC edits most of the games, and Davis handles the rest of the responsibilities, freeing up time for van Bennekom and Overbeck.

That is a good thing, because Overbeck—a captain of the memorable 1999 U.S. World Cup team that won the tournament in a defining moment for women’s soccer—will be the first one to

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Morgan Reid and assistant coach Carla Overbeck dabbed together during the team’s regularseason win against then-No. 5 Virginia. The Blue Devils open the NCAA tournament Saturday.

admit she struggles using a computer.

“When [Lane] has a computer problem, he comes to me,” she quipped.

“Just kidding.”

During a game, the coaches each play their different parts. Davis stands near the midfield line, giving incoming Blue Devils last-moment instructions before they check in. Van Bennekom can be found with a clipboard by his side, reviewing formations with the players.

And then there is Overbeck, who exhibits a combination of sarcasm, frustration and enjoyment that make her a sight to behold on the sidelines.

During the team’s 1-0 win against thenNo. 5 Virginia, she momentarily dabbed with junior Morgan Reid. Later in the game, she yelled to the referees, “Just give them the game [while you’re at it]!”

Futsal fanatics It would be quite difficult to focus one’s energies on a sport yet not get a chance to play it frequently. Last year, van Bennekom came up with a solution.

He recruited a few former Blue Devils still around Durham to compete in a new league of futsal called Durham Atlético.

Futsal is like soccer but occupies a much smaller playing area—sometimes a basketball court—involves fewer players at a time and has a smaller, denser ball.

A former professional futsal player in the Netherlands, van Bennekom entered the team into Division II last year, but they won the league and moved up to Division I this year.

There was a moment of high drama a few weeks ago when van Bennekom did not have enough players that day and was

That didn’t last long.

A few days after announcing that everyone but Harry Giles would be active for the team’s regular-season opener against Marist Friday, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has more injury news to deal with. Freshman center Marques Bolden has suffered a left lower-leg injury and will be evaluated after this weekend’s first two games, the team announced on Twitter Monday afternoon.

Bolden was seen walking around campus on crutches Monday morning. When The Chronicle contacted team spokesperson Cory Walton, Walton declined to comment.

A five-star recruit, Bolden was expected to anchor Duke down low all season and had 13 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks in 25 minutes in the team’s first exhibition game.

He is the third five-star freshman to suffer a preseason injury, joining Harry Giles and Jayson Tatum. Tatum is expected to return this week from a foot sprain, and there is still no timetable for Giles’ return after he had a knee scope in early October.

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Freshman center Marques Bolden will miss Duke’s first two regular-season games before being re-evaluated.

in danger of forfeiting.

Enter Robbie Church.

“An hour before the game, I said, ‘Hey, you want to come?’” van Bennekom said.

“What head coach would say, ‘Yeah, yeah.

I’ll come’?”

“I was with my family,” Davis said. [But] he’s like, ‘I’ve got Robbie to come, you’ve got to come watch…. And I was like, ‘Baby, I’ve got to go to the game.’”

“He knows better than to call me,” Overbeck, a mother of two, said.

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Kasper relishes redshirt year, international events Delaney King The Chronicle A little less than a year has passed since Jacob Kasper decided to redshirt his junior season in an attempt to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In that time, the Lexington, Ohio, native has faced some of the world’s best competition everywhere from Colorado to Russia.

After placing seventh at the U.S. Open in December 2015, Kasper qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 215-pound weight class. He packed up his car right away and drove 22 hours from Ohio to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

“I didn’t know where I was going to stay, what I was going to do, what I was going to eat, or anything,” Kasper said. “I was out there to train—that was basically it. I didn’t care if I had to sleep on the floor or sleep in my car. I was going to get better.”

Kasper said he found a room in a house without running water or a working kitchen as he began his training in January 2016.

The Olympic Training Center accepts wrestlers who are Olympic qualifiers, national team members or training for international competition.

After competing at 184 pounds during his freshman and sophomore seasons at Duke, Kasper trained at 215 pounds to compete in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, a departure from collegiate—folkstyle—

Chronicle File Photo Jacob Kasper is wrestling as a heavyweight this year after competing at 184 pounds as a sophomore in 2014-15.

wrestling with different sets of rules.

Before the Olympic Team Trials in April, the USA wrestling squad sent individuals to compete at the Pan-American Championships in Frisco, Texas, at the end of February. But as the competition approached, a Crohn’s disease flare—that had first affected Kasper at the U.S. Open in December—threatened his ability to compete and forced him to seek help from a doctor.

Crohn’s disease affects the gastrointestinal tract and can come with abdominal pain and weight loss—troublesome symptoms for a wrestler.

“The [doctor] basically told me I couldn’t compete—I was going to have to take four weeks off,” Kasper said. “[USA Wrestling Greco head coach Matt Lindland] offered for me to compete at the [Pan-American Championship] and be the U.S. representative, so obviously I wasn’t

going to sit out. I went and wrestled Pan Ams anyway—I told the doctor it would have to wait.”

At the event, the heavyweight lost to third-seeded Oscar Loango Solis 10-0 by technical fall in the quarterfinals. Loango Solis went on to earn bronze, and Kasper returned to Colorado Springs to pursue treatment for Crohn’s disease.

In April, Kasper suffered another technical fall, this time at the Olympic Team Trials in Iowa City to G’Angelo Hancock. Kasper managed a fifth-place finish but failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics, ending his bid to compete on the world’s biggest stage.

“The plan was I was going to take a month off,” Kasper said. “Instead, I got home to Ohio [and] went stir crazy after about five days.”

The heavyweight returned to Durham for the summer to train and finally saw his hard work pay off when he won the Beach Nationals Championship at the end of May, defeating four opponents in one day en route to the title.

“I packed up the car at 5 a.m., drove down to the beach with a high school buddy and competed because, I figured, wrestling’s wrestling—any competition is a chance to get better,” Kasper said. “I think if there was a thumb wrestling competition, I’d compete in that too just because I love to compete.”

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“I had bruised ribs, that stayed with me for a while,” Church said. “The problem is, I haven’t gotten a call back.”

‘Indiana Jones’ The futsal and last-minute recruiting give a sense of the team’s warm and even goofy culture—both with the players and the assistant coaches.

During the interview with the assistant coaches, just as Overbeck was describing Church as fun-loving, he walked by and made the kind of funny face your younger sibling might in a silly family photo.

“That’s goofy right there,” Overbeck said. “Robbie’s the most well-liked coach out there.”

The tone helps the assistant coaches with otherwise mundane tasks, like when they had to retrieve the team balls that went over the fence at the practice fields across N.C. Highway 751 near the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club.

“It used to be a dump. There was an old truck back there, tons of dumpsters, but it’s just straight-down forest, vines,” Overbeck said. “The balls are like $140 [each]… and we were down a couple.”

“Carla went full-out Indiana Jones down there,” van Bennekom said.

“We put on all of our gear, our boots, our hats, our everything,” she said.

They’ve been put in other tough spots, like when they forgot to take the balls for practice off the team bus before a game at Wake Forest.

They were fortunate enough to call the driver in time and get them back. “[Church] found out, and he wasn’t too happy,” van Bennekom said.

Smaller fish, bigger pond Overbeck could very well be a head coach at other programs around the country. Aside from her national team experience—which included appearances in one Olympics and three World Cups as a pioneer in American women’s soccer—she went undefeated in her four championship seasons at North Carolina from 1986 to 1989 and has been an assistant coach at Duke since 1992.

But the Dallas native says she has everything she needs. Overbeck has been in charge of one of the nation’s best defenses year in and year out and also has more time to be a mother in her current role.

“I was the full-time assistant from [19921997] when I had my first child,” she said. “[It was hard] trying to play on the national team and being a mom and being a fulltime assistant.”

For van Bennekom and Davis, there is still plenty to learn at Duke before perhaps taking command of one of their own programs later on. Van Bennekom has numerous coaching degrees from FIFA and was already an assistant coach at the professional level with Sky Blue FC of the National Women’s Soccer League.

“Erwin could be a head coach and will be a head coach and will be really, really special,” Church said. “He is very good tactically and teaching-wise and breaking things down. He sees things different than we do.”

But van Bennekom said he would also be perfectly happy staying with the Blue Devils in his current role for the rest of his career. He cited those “Aha!” moments when players implement in-game adjustments they have been working on with the coaching staff.

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Kasper traveled for 39 hours to reach Kemerovo, Russia, for the tournament and stayed for two days to weigh in and compete before flying back to Durham in time for his Monday classes.

“Any chance I get to compete, I’m going to compete,” Kasper said. “This sport is so brutal and so physically testing, you’re never going to be able to compete at 100 percent. If you only compete when you feel like you’re 100 percent, you’re never going from page 12 to get to compete.”

After a whirlwind start to 2016, Duke’s lead heavyweight was razor-sharp in the Kasper went on to compete at the ASICS team’s first event. Kasper brought home UWW Cadet and University Nationals the Southeast Open title, along with senior in Akron, Ohio. The 215-pounder did Connor Bass, who claimed the 174-pound not let a first-round loss discourage him, title to highlight a successful bout for the finishing third after registering a technical Blue Devils. fall against Spencer Wilson and avenging A 2015 NCAA championship qualifier, his early loss against the Marines’ Daniel Kasper will look to reach the national Miller along the way. stage again in the spring after his year Kasper added that he had another away.

The season will bring its fair share Crohn’s flare at that time, but said he has of challenges, as Duke’s schedule features since recovered. matchups with four heavyweights ranked “I’ve had two Crohn’s flare ups in the No. 15 or better, including No. 2 Connor past eight months, but since then I’ve been completely healthy,” he said. “My weight is Medbery of Wisconsin coming up in back up—I’m in probably the best shape November. But Kasper already has one ranked win under his belt after defeating I’ve ever been.”

Kasper is also the heaviest he’s ever Edinboro’s Billy Miller in the Southeast been, starting off the 2016-17 season in Open quarterfinals.

“If you’re not going to be the best to the heavyweight class after weighing in at do it, don’t do it,” Kasper said. “Every year about 230 pounds to start the fall. that I’ve stepped onto campus, whether The final chapter in Kasper’s time off came after he had already returned to it was my true freshman year or this year, Duke. A month before his redshirt junior [my goal] is undefeated national champ. If season began, the wrestler was invited to you put your goal any less than that, then New York Times for Syndication Corporation you’re going to sell yourself short, you’re join USA The Wrestling in Russia a seniorSales 620 Eighth New York, 10018 going to sell your teammates short, you’re tournament. Kasper lost Avenue, in the round of N.Y. For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 going to waste your coaches’ time.”

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Then there’s the winning, which van Bennekom experienced in his first year as the team went to the national championship game before losing to Penn State 1-0.

With Duke preparing for its NCAA tournament opener Saturday at home against Charlotte, the Blue Devil coaching staff is working to get back to the College Cup. Fans might even enjoy watching their sideline antics as the postseason unfolds.

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Though many ordinary Americans, on Duke’s campus and beyond, probably wish to move on from political drama of 2016 and relegate it to the backlogs of their Facebook feeds, for others the work has just begun. With the recent presidential election now relegated to the status of “history,” political scholars and historians can now begin the process of assessing the historical and political legacy of 2016.

In American history, certain elections in particular hold significance as milestones in the democratic process. The election of 1980 signaled the rise of the so called “Moral Majority” demographic among the Republican voter demographic, while the election of 1960 introduced televised presidential debates. Future scholars will no doubt debate and come up with their own unique interpretations on the causes and legacy of this year’s presidential election. The implications of this scholarship will have far reaching effects from influencing future presidential elections to providing DBQ prompts for AP U.S History exams.

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particular norms and precedents of the electoral process and two-party democracy. Academics will question how 2016 altered notions of party solidarity: throughout the election many Republicans defected from party lines over Trump’s nomination while many left-leaning Democrats sided with outsider pseudo-socialist Bernie Sanders over party favorite Hillary Clinton. They will consider the causes behind the abrupt shift in this election from focusing on political issues to personal gossip – best exemplified by the media’s extensive coverage of Trump’s many shocking

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statements. Pundits will also continue to assess the shift in voter demographics of this year’s election. Just like the election of 1968 that gave the rise the Republican “Southern Strategy,” 2016 has notably shifted voter demographics over party lines. African Americans, Latino and Asian American voters have continued to support the Democratic party disproportionately, while the blue collar, white working class (a historically Democratic stronghold) has coalesced around the Trumpian Republicanism.

Along the lines of gender and politics, academics will surely consider the impact of Trump’s blatantly misogynist statements on the female voter demographic.

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On a more international level, future textbooks may place the U.S 2016 presidential election within the context of rising nativist minded politics worldwide. Trump’s nationalist and xenophobic political campaign has been echoed in flavor across the Western democratic world.

Right wing political leaders worldwide such as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen, have all adopted anti-immigrant, isolationist rhetoric to varying degrees of success. Just as the 1930s signaled the rise of fascism across the Western world, perhaps this decade will be contextualized within the rise of xenophobic politics.

Of course, historians will also examine 2016 through a technological lens, considering how the rise of social media has affected this year’s presidential election. They will have at their disposal entire libraries of tweets Facebook posts and other valuable historical documentation all digitally preserved. Commonplace political discussion was once ephemeral. Today it is forever cemented in the backlogs of Facebook, twitter and Instagram for future scholars’ use.

Ultimately, historians studying the 2016 presidential election may not have a clear consensus on the legacy of 2016. The meaning of this year’s election as well as the Trump presidency that follows will continue to be debated.

Scholars and all, however, will indubitably agree that the election and its raucous lead-up will leave a permanent mark on America as a country and a democracy.

On death and dying

t’s Wednesday and that means that this controversial, never-ending painful election season is finally over. This campaign season has been all-consuming, almost to the extent that I can’t remember what life was like without it constantly playing out in the background. I think it has been weeks, probably months, since I went a day without mentioning or thinking about the presidential election.

And now, it’s over. Many have noted that with the end of election season, our country’s divides and political fragments will not fade away. Our newly elected president has a momentous task—to unite a nation under one vision—even a nation as diverse and passionate as our own. However, the issues that we must ruminate on aren’t exclusively political. As we close this chapter of our nation’s history, I can’t help but to think of the fundamental properties of life that unite us all: mortality.

As a young American, I often think about my life in terms of the future—my degree at Duke, my career

before God who has given it to him. It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.”

But what happens when life is simply too painful to live? Modern medical advances have allowed us to save people from brink of death, with treatments and therapies that can sometime prolong life or prevent death, but can’t quite cure or treat.

Dr. Atul Gawande, a doctor who I have long followed and admired, published a book titled, “Being Mortal” on the topic a few years ago. His book is a reflection on the terrible pain and often unseen suffering of the elderly and chronically ill. As a physician, he questions the driving force behind his field, whether to ensure patients survival or enabling their well being. He reflects largely on these patients as “victims of our refusal to accept the inexorability of our life cycle.”

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and where I want to live. Rarely, do I ever think about the end of my life. What does it mean to die? How do we reconcile living full and meaningful lives while acknowledging that at some, unknown point in the future, it will inevitably end?

It’s complicated and much like our vastly dissenting political views, there is no consensus on death.

The right to die movement has a long legacy that can be traced back to the 1950s. Simmering in controversy, the movement gained momentum beginning in the 1990s. In 1994, voters in the state of Oregon voted 51 to 49 percent to approve Ballot Measure 16, that allowed terminally ill patients to use physician’s prescriptions to obtain medication that would allow for a humane death. Today, the states that allow residents to legally acquire end-of-life prescription medications are Oregon, Washington, California, Vermont and Montana. Legislation provides stringent guidelines and in order to qualify as you must be a resident of the state, be considered “mentally competent,” and have a diagnosis that at least two physicians believe will lead to death within a six-month period. There are several other steps to the process such as giving multiple forms of oral consent, written consent and waiting periods.

The movement has many passionate advocates, but also critics. Much of the opposition to the movement is deeply rooted in religious tradition.

In the Catholic teachings of the Catechism 2280 it is written, “Everyone is responsible for his life

At the heart of this debate is a moral issue. Who decides who gets to live and die? Is it fair for one person to choose to end their own life when there are other people out there fighting for a chance to live theirs? I can’t help but to think about family members I’ve lost to medical conditions and what I would give to have them back in my life. Somewhere, I am insulted at the idea of helping people let go of life, because I believe that our lives are worth fighting for. But who am I to make that decision? Who am I to enforce my beliefs when I cannot feel their pain or understand their suffering?

I believe that there is something sacred about our time here on Earth. I believe that we are all connected simply by the fact that we were chosen to be here and share this space with one another.

My parents raised me to live my life with purpose and it seems so wrong to then condone the ending of a life. However, my parents also taught me that to live life with purpose is to have grace, humility and empathy. Isn’t it then my duty to allow those that find themselves in these difficult positions the dignity to make this decision for themselves? There are no easy answers and there is no universal truth, but I am certain that the only people who have the right to end-of-life care decisions are those who are living in that reality themselves.

Shruti Rao is a Trinity junior. Her column, “taming of the shru,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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A party in disarray

recently heard on a national radio network station the astute comment of a political reporter to the effect that the Republican Party will have to conduct an autopsy after the election, regardless of who will become president of these United States. Implied in his comment was that the Grand Old Party was dead, or almost dead, since autopsies are usually conducted post mortem.

It is hard to imagine that the party of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, H.W. Bush and W. Bush could be in so complete disarray that all the leaders of the party have refused to campaign for their presidential nominee, and that some have publicly stated they will vote for the opposing party’s nominee.

How could this happen with majorities

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confusing that no one to-date purports to understand it all. The next bone of contention was the “stimulus package” that if correctly legislated, would have put billions of federal dollars to work on American infrastructure while at the same time rebuilding the American middle class. This initiative was also packed with pork barrel conditions and intentionally designed for failure by the Congress to settle political points. The winners were not the good citizens of this country.

“You reap what you sow.”

In the last six years of the Obama presidency, both houses of Congress have had Republican majorities and their leaderships have publicly stated that their main goal would be to slow down or block any initiatives coming

GUEST COLUMN in both houses of Congress and with entire TV networks, such as Fox, and print media, such as the Wall Street Journal, dedicated to the party line?

Where are you Carl Rove, when you are most needed?

I believe the answer to the above questions lies in a simple truth from the old and new testaments of the Bible: “you reap the harvest from the seed that you sow,” or as I hope to explain, from what you don’t sow.

When Barack Obama stunned the American psyche and the world at large by becoming the first African American president of the United States, a sense of optimism pervaded the minds of a majority of voters that such a neophyte politician with youthfulness and candor would breathe new air into the stuffy and acrid halls of government, and bring a fresh set of ideas for resolving the countries many woes; the chief ones being a worldwide recession bordering on economic depression, and two foreign wars costing American taxpayers one billion dollars per day.

What the voters of this country did not anticipate or desire was that a third great woe would soon face the country, namely, the refusal of congressional leaders and of a majority of members in the legislative branch of government to work with the executive branch to resolve the country’s problems.

In his first two years in office, President Obama sought bipartisan consensus on a national health care proposal that would reform years of private abuse and neglect in the health care system (e.g., $20 dollars of aspirin tablets in for-profit hospitals and refusals to insure pre-existing conditions). Instead he received constant and continual destructive “cooperation” from Congress. As a result, the country received a severely flawed Affordable Care Act which is jammed with hundreds of pages of special interest inserts and exclusions (no single payer plan) so complex and

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If this is a man

t is now November. Over a month has passed since the first official coverage of The Duke Men’s Project and its origins. As with anything that attempts to change the status quo, reactions were swift and overblown. Disgruntled alums, conservative websites and the depths of the internet were quick to label it as a denouncement of all things masculine. Liberal voices and groups on this campus were quick to rush to its defense and establish that any critics must be oblivious to notions of “toxic masculinity.” All offered quite different perspectives on the issues though clearly none actually captured the true spirit of The Duke Men’s Project.

If you truly want to understand what The Duke Men’s Project does, then I suggest you read their words or even better go talk to its founders. That’s what I did. If you do meet them, you will find not a bunch of liberals ready to shove their “feminazi propaganda” straight down your throats. Instead you will meet a group of educated students who want to have a conversation about the values and roles of gender in our society.

This is the type of conversation that should be

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timeline illustrates how quickly miscommunication can lead to misrepresentation.

On Sept. 26, The Chronicle published the first article about The Duke Men’s Project. It had no mention of the words “safe spaces.” The next closest reference was the mention of a quote from The Duke Men’s Project’s Facebook page that referred to how it hoped to “create a space of brotherhood fellowship dedicated to interrogating male privilege and patriarchy.”

On Sept. 29, The Chronicle’s independent editorial board quickly followed up suggesting that The Duke Men’s Project was “novel because it provides males a space (a safe space even) in which they can discuss their own gender.” This quote is the first and only reference to The Duke Men’s Project being a “safe space.” No doubt it was a convenient way for the Editorial Board to hyperlink their previous editorials in an attempt to appear relevant. However, this use of language started a quick chain reaction that distorted how The Duke Men’s Project’s structure and goals were being represented.

The next day on Sept. 30, Heat Street, a

ESSE QUAM VIDERI from the Obama presidency. But they did not state why, the implied yet dubious reason assumed to be politics. So from 2009-2010, a divided Congress sowed bad seed in good soil and harvested a failed crop. And from 2011 to 2016, a unified Republican Congress decided to barely sow any seed at all, and harvested mostly weeds.

The winners again were not the good citizens of this country.

Which is why the Republican Party is currently in such a state of despair.

When you are given authority and power, citizens expect in return that you will use it wisely and for good purposes. If all you do with it is play political games, issue moronic commentaries and basically waste time and money, then it is very hard to generate public support or, for that matter, to generate great leaders.

Leadership is honed through the experience of accomplishment, not through the absence of experience.

Leaders rise to favor in a democracy when the benefit goes to the “demos”, that is, the people. The sad truth of the last eight years of Republican leadership is that there is none. A lack of accomplishment has brought forth no great leaders, and the public has found no one they can favor champion within the party.

It should be no great secret to a rational person that the current nominee of the Republican Party is not of the party. Regardless of who wins the election, the Republican Party will have to undergo an autopsy. And what they will find is that the party as we know it died from its own delusion that inaction was the best course of action to take. If you spend eight years doing nothing except sowing divisiveness, instead of good seed, the harvest is bound to be… well, you can fill in the blank.

Paul Triulzi is a graduate student in the Environmental Entrepreneurship Certificate Program.

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Moreover, many of the articles in defense of The Duke Men’s Projects are quick to leap to the obvious but more extreme consequences of the patriarchy including but not limited to, underrepresentation of women, sexual assault and direct violence against women.

These arguments and facts are far from new and have been stated over and over again. Rather than repeat them then, let us take a different approach. Let us start with a simple difference and expand from there.

I am a big fan of video games. As someone who used to play a variety quite frequently and occasionally plays them now, it is incredibly easy to see the gender divide present within these games.

In short, there always seemed to me that there were no female gamers. Something especially troubling considering that there are no physical limitations to video games.

Don’t just take me for my word though, check out any number of studies. One study cited over 500 times suggests that based on “established social norms,” video games are perceived to belong in the male domain. Consequently, in an attempt to seek social acceptance and avoid going against this norm, females play video games less frequently, play for fewer hours, and are less likely to enjoy video games in general. In other words, merely by belonging to a gender, males and females were more or less likely to engage in specific actions.

However, this difference does not seem so radical and toxic at first, does it? Yet, this example can show us two things. First, it illustrates a simple and undeniable difference between notions of males and females in our society. Second, it illustrates how these preconceived notions can quite literally influence actions of a gender.

These preconceived notions and actions quickly form the building blocks that lead to societal structures. From such small beginnings, comes the general assumptions and stereotypes about different genders. From that come the myriad of potential consequences.

In the case of gaming, what might start as a simple gender divide escalates into something quite different. To appeal to a generally male audience, games quickly adopted manifestations of prototypical masculine behavior. In doing so, gaming quickly became an all male-space that emphasized both resistance to women and hyper masculinity. Moreover, the lack of alternate perspectives leads such an all male space to quickly normalize this type of aggressive behavior towards women on a societal level.

However, the origins of these consequences do not seem that radical now do they?

The most radical thing about The Duke Men’s Project is that it is in fact not radical at all.

The question then becomes, “How did what was intended as a conversation become such a controversy?” The answer lies in both journalism and rhetoric. It is less a problem of the actual mission of The Duke Men’s Project and more a problem of what happens when other forms of media directly and indirectly misrepresent it. And thus misrepresentation does not just come from right wing extremists either.

There are many different ways in which language can be used to quickly distort an original message.

For the purpose of The Duke Men’s Project, I am going to set up the following timeline about the use of the words “safe spaces.” It is my hope that this

conservative blog, quickly published an article referencing how The Duke Men’s Project operated “under the banner of a ‘safe space.’” Their reference? The Chronicle’s editorial board.

By Oct. 2, Fox News had picked up the piece

by Heat Street and headed it under the title “Duke offers men a ‘safe space’ to contemplate their ‘toxic masculinity.’”

The next day, Oct. 3, Fox News had round 2 of their “discussion” of The Duke Men’s Project.

This time it was part of the “Campus Craziness” session of On the Record with Brit Hume. Once again The Duke Men’s Project was described as a “safe space” for male students to discuss “toxic masculinity.” Referencing once more what the Editorial Board had started.

On Oct. 7, The Duke Men’s Project finally published their own account of what they were trying to accomplish. At this point, they were able to clarify that “while [they] recognize the value of safe spaces on campus, the Men’s Project is not intended as one.”

By then, certain damage had been done.

Certain assumptions had been made. Certain individuals had begun to write off their Project.

To some it had become associated with extreme and inaccurate notions of male re-education and feminization camps. This distortion of language had to lead to a widespread misperception about the actual nature of The Duke Men’s Project.

So what then is The Duke’s Men’s Project?

From the perspective of this straight, white, moderate male, it is a conversation--one that attempts to address a range of issues. The fact remains that these issues are not initially inherent to all genders; rather they are acquired through an individual’s introduction to various individuals and society. Anyone can see the difference among genders in everyday life. Is it then so ultimately radical to have a conversation about these differences and attempt to address how they come about? Of course it’s not. As any true critical thinking exercise would, it asks men to reflect on their lives so far and how gender might have played a role in it.

Conversations like these represent a middle ground--one that does not demand overnight change but rather helps the participants understand why change might be necessary.

The conversation does not in the manner of a stereotypical liberalism proclaim a right of way of thinking but asks its participants to listen and challenge how they view the world. As society continues to question issues related to gender, conversations like these represent the best opportunity for individuals to reflect on themselves and society.

I am not going to talk down to those individuals who disagree with The Duke Men’s Project.

Condescending attacks create a visceral reaction and hurt one’s arguments if anything. Rather, I ultimately challenge them to do the research for themselves; to go and meet with those individuals with whom they disagree and be exposed to a different perspective; to leave their comfort zone-dare I even say safe space--of masculinity and challenge what it means to be a man. This is what makes The Duke Men’s Project truly radical: the commitment to having an open conversation while at the same time ultimately pushing the boundaries of the conversation on gender.

George Mellgard is a Trinity senior. His column, “esse quam videri,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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