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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Duke Student Government was divided on whether or not to increase the student activity fee by 1.6 percent based on its current surplus of $151,331.73 in DSG programming funds.

Frances Beroset The Chronicle After vigorous debate, Duke Student Government voted to increase the student activity fee by 1.6 percent for 2016-17 and discussed possible changes to the Young Trustee selection process at its meeting Wednesday.

The increase in the undergraduate student activity fee adjusts for inflation and is built into every student’s tuition. The fee was $125.50 for 2015-16. A number of senators argued that raising the activity fee is unnecessary given that DSG currently has $151,331.73 in surplus programming funds, which could compensate for loss due to inflation. Around $120,000 of that surplus is coming from a de-chartering of inactive but still funded groups in the last year. Many senators expressed heated opinions during the debate about whether or not to raise the fee.

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Those in favor of raising the fee, including senior Senator for Durham & Regional Affairs Nicholas Andrade, argued although e can raise that raising the fee is it however a “very complex issue,” a larger much we want. increase would — Keizra Mecklai be necessary down the road because the surplus would run out without the increase agreed upon Wednesday.

Guarco took the floor, temporarily abdicating his chair position, to argue in opposition of raising the fee and add more to the debate. His floor time, normally limited to five minutes, was extended by two minutes after a motion to increase his speaking time.

The initial presentation stated that DSG bylaws forbade an increase the student activities fee beyond adjusting for inflation

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without putting the increase to a vote in a student referendum. During the meeting, however, DSG President Keizra Mecklai interjected that “we can raise it however much we want,” stating that the Board of Trustees would likely approve a larger raise and allow DSG to suspend its own bylaws.

The meeting also included a presentation by the Executive Board of possible changes to the Young Trustee selection process, focused on making the process “less DSG-dominated” after criticism from students in the past about DSG’s heavy involvement in the selection.

Changes discussed included abolishing the Young Trustee Nominating Committee Selection Committee, historically composed of mostly DSG freshman senators, to make the selection of the nomination committee less biased toward DSG. The board also presented a possible addition of a faculty advisor to the See DSG on Page 2

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At some universities, students facing alcohol violations may have to suffer consequences from not only administrative officials but also their parents.

Several universities have adopted parental notification policies that inform parents of their student’s alcohol or drug violations— most recently the University of Michigan, which unveiled a new pilot program this year focusing on first-year students’ alcohol offenses.

Mary Jo Desprez, director of wellness at U-M, explained that many universities—especially Big Ten schools—have had similar policies in place for many years. Still, many college students are concerned about the effects of this approach to reduce alcohol-related problems on campuses.

“At U-M, as well as across the country, the data is pretty clear that first year students can be an ‘at-risk’ population as they transition from home to college life,” Desprez wrote in an email. “We also know that students consider parents part of their social support system. “ The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act—which governs release of and access to student education records—states that institutions of higher education are allowed, but not required, to notify parents if a student under the age of 21 commits a disciplinary violation involving alcohol or a controlled substance.

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Chronicle File Photo The University of Michigan and other colleges have started using parental notifications in punishing alcohol or drug violations.

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Gentrification impact discussed Wed. Adam Beyer The Chronicle Many Durham neighborhoods have experienced a surge in development in recent years, bringing new residents and increased costs.

Gentrification in Durham was the topic of discussion Wednesday night at a presentation by Melissa Norton, the project coordinator of the Durham Living Wage Project. The talk at the Franklin Humanities Institute Garage aimed to start a conversation among community members and address the problem of longtime and often lower-income Durham residents being displaced by an increasing number of wealthy, white residents.

“As I talk to people about gentrification, I come up against hopelessness and cynicism, and I hear that and it’s real, but it also doesn’t promote action,” Norton said. “There are things we can do to fight for an inclusive central city.”

Robin Kirk, co-director of the Duke Human Rights Center, introduced the topic of the evening and urged the community to view gentrification as a human rights concern.

“There is something deeply unfair happening in Durham right now and we wanted to try and get a handle on it and use this idea of human rights to do that,” Kirk said, citing Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of property. “The change in Durham has been dramatic and very fast. Very little has been done to include affordable housing.”

Norton emphasized that historical forces set up the gentrification process in Durham. She pointed to practices of structural racism such as redlining, a process started in the 1930s by the federal government that marked predominantly black neighborhoods as risky investments.

This prompted a cycle of disinvestment in many of Durham’s neighborhoods, fewer businesses, a deteriorating quality of life, inferior schools, increased crime and fewer residents, Norton explained.

Recent interest in downtown Durham has driven up prices in these nearby neighborhoods, leading to the displacement of former residents who are priced out.

Photo Courtesy of The National Archives The 1937 Durham map above shows segregated red areas designated too risky for home loans.

“Gentrification is different than revitalization,” Norton said. “Revitalization is ground up and benefits most if not all members of the community.

There are definite winners and definite losers [with gentrification] so it is a social justice issue.”

Her presentation cited statistics showing the average price per square foot of housing has shot up by more than 100 percent in several central Durham neighborhoods. The Cleveland Holloway neighborhood’s pricing has increased by nearly 500 percent in the past 10 years. Some of the new residents use a historic preservation tax credit to finance their home renovations. Another force behind the increase, Norton noted, is global financial firms that have found opportunities to make more money in the real estate market of growing communities than in the stock market.

“I see the effects of gentrification when it comes to rental properties with how it’s displacing a lot of low wage workers into the shelters and the hotel chains,” Durham resident Nigel Brown said.

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Hope—a local nonprofit that helps re-house homeless people—noted that he hopes conversations will continue beyond the evening to create solutions.

“I came to really understand what we can do as a society to stop gentrification and redefine what revitalization means,” he said.

Norton said she felt hopeful for the future, noting that several parcels of publiclyowned land downtown could be dedicated to affordable developments. She also emphasized supporting community land trusts as a means of preserving long-term housing options for low and moderate-income families. The Durham Community Land Trust, which has been in operation since 1987, sells or leases property to families at affordable prices, providing more than 200 units of housing to residents in the area.

“I’m not cynical about the future,” Norton said. “Ultimately, what it comes down to is having lots and lots and lots of conversations across Durham about what we value, who we value and what actions we are willing to take to make those actions a community priority.”

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Another discussed change to the Young Trustee selection process was formally prohibiting the DSG President to run for Young Trustee, which Mecklai said has never happened.

In other business: The student organization Progress.

Period.—focused on making menstruation more acknowledged on campus—was officially recognized. The group Department Of, “Duke’s only intentionally comedic publication,” was approved to be chartered.

Additionally, DSG approved $2,600 in funding for the Black Student Alliance to host prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson in November, and granted Phi Beta Sigma $3,300 for its Casino Royale Charity Ball.

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Keith Whitfield is sponsoring a $4,000 contest, organized by the Academic Affairs Committee, to encourage students to submit course evaluations.

The reward will likely be in the form of a chance to win $5 or $20 dollar Amazon gift cards.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle In addition to raising the student activities fee, DSG prepared to vote on changes to the Young Trustee election process next week.

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Senior Ezgi Ustundag to appear on ‘Jeopardy’ Thursday Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle For one Duke student, success is about asking the right questions, not just knowing the right answers.

Ezgi Ustundag, a senior majoring in International Comparative Studies, will appear on the quiz show “Jeopardy” Thursday at 7 p.m. after participating in a taping of the f she doesn’t show last month. know Ustundag— who has been something, she’s an avid fan of very ready to learn the game show it and remember it since elementary school—is the for next time. first Duke student — Telisse Portis in recent history to appear in the regular season, though two seniors have appeared in the college championship version.

Although she was unable to disclose the results of the show before it airs, Ustundag explained that the application and audition process was very long.

“I’m on a listserv that they have, so I got an email that I could register for the adult online test in March,” she said.

“The second week of April was when I actually took the test.”

The test was 50 questions long and conducted in an a rapid-fire, Jeopardystyle format in which Ustundag had 15 seconds to answer each question.

After the online test, the process progressed to an in-person,

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Special to The Chronicle Senior Ezgi Ustundag taped an episode of the quiz show “Jeopardy” last month. The episode will air Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

50-question test—this time with only 8 seconds to answer—and a meeting in Atlanta.

“We had a mock round of Jeopardy— they took us up in little groups of three,” Ustundag said. “They were really trying to see if we could express ourselves well, without getting nervous or without mumbling.”

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Durham Neighborhood Partnership, has known Ustundag since she participated in the Duke in Durham DukeEngage program in 2013. Miglarese said that Ustundag’s personality was distinctive and helped her make it onto the show.

“She was outstanding as a colleague with her class—her sense of humor, her energy, her involvement,” he said.

“It wasn’t showy at all, I just noticed

that she had star power.”

Once Ustundag found out that she had passed the test in early August, she began studying before the September taping. Although Ustundag knows a great deal about world capitals, she tried to learn about a variety of different topics.

“I knew classical music and opera were huge weaknesses of mine, so I at least tried to get some exposure,” she said. “I read the news from different outlets everyday to make sure I was up to speed on all issues—it’s really a shot in the dark, but a few things I picked up did help me.”

Ustundag’s diligence extends beyond studying for Jeopardy, however, said her roommate of four years Telisse Portis, who is also a senior.

“Ezgi is so hard-working—she’s probably the most hard working person I’ve met at Duke,” Portis said. “If she doesn’t know something, she’s very ready to learn it and remember it for next time.”

Portis noted that Ustundag’s preparation for Jeopardy occurred in a variety of ways, and said that she has participated with Ustundag in local trivia night events.

Ustundag said that the experience was valuable and would encourage other Duke students to try out for the college championship.

"I would encourage any Duke student to take the college test that’s coming up,” she said. “Read the news—if you don’t know a name or something you read, look it up, be genuinely curious.”

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may be notified of an individual’s first alcohol or drug violation if the individual needs medical attention or engages in other serious behavior such as significant property damage or driving under the influence. A student’s parents may also be informed if a student commits a second alcohol or drug violation of any type.

Desprez explained that the goal of this strategy is to bring attention the alcohol issues that students face before these problems escalate.

“What we hope is that we can intervene early when there is a sign of a pattern of behavior that could harm the student or a situation that was dangerous,” she said. “This is a health and wellness issue and we will have that be the spirit of our discussions with parents and families.”

The approach to alcohol violations at Duke is similar to U-M’s but not identical.

The University’s Alcohol Policy states that the parents of students who put their health or safety at risk through alcohol consumption may be notified. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and the director of the Duke Student Conduct Office, said that parental notification occurs in most, but not all situations.

“Students are given the first opportunity to tell their parents and then we ask them to be in touch with us,” he wrote in an email.

David Mallen, the alcohol and drug senior program coordinator at the Wellness Center, explained that Student Conduct evaluates the situation on a case by case basis.

He added that under certain circumstances, informing parents of their child’s alcohol violation may make the situation worse, but that it generally helps students create a stronger support network.

Mallen explained that in his experience,

Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Many students already enjoy going to Durham Bulls games, but a new proposed sports commission could bring even more athletic events to the Bull City.

The Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau, Durham Chamber of Commerce, Duke and North Carolina Central University have been working to form a Durham sports commission, which would try to bring more amateur sporting events and tournaments to Durham. Shelly Green, president of the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau, noted that the city would see an estimated $2.6 million increase in local tax revenues in the first three years. Other benefits could include recruitment opportunities and internship possibilities for Duke students.

“Durham is already a sports city,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “What we hope the sports commission would do is elevate the visibility of the city to become a more attractive destination for national sporting events—whether those are things like soccer tournaments or other kinds of things that bring athletes, families and economic activity to the city.”

Green noted that several Durham officials who support the project envision Duke students playing a vital role in the development of the commission.

“We think there’s going to be some opportunities for internships,” Green said.

“People interested in sports tourism, the medical side of what goes on with sporting events—they will have some opportunities for

participation and getting involved from the sports medicine, sports facilities and event management standpoint.”

The proposed sports commission could help provide Duke coaches recruiting opportunities by hosting events and tournaments, Green explained. She noted that the commission could also provide additional support when the University plays host to ACC and NCAA athletic events.

Local sports teams that are currently being forced to fundraise to travel for competitions outside of Durham would also benefit from the sports commission, Green said.

“If they work with the sports commission on creating some new events, that actually can become an opportunity for them to earn money for their teams, as well as saving money that they didn’t have to spend going outside the community,” she said.

Currently DCVB has oversight regarding local sporting events, but its founding legislation prevents it from sponsoring events.

A task force including representatives from Duke was formed to push forward the idea of a sports commission, Green explained.

“Essentially, it’s a collaboration between DCVB, the city and the county for the purpose of creating and hosting amateur sporting events,” Green said, noting that she and the Chamber of Commerce President convened with interested citizens two years ago to begin discussing how to make the sports commission a reality.

In the coming weeks, the task force is presenting to the Joint City-Council Planning Committee to acquire financial support for the project.

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Reactions to parental notification policies have varied widely. Desprez noted that some students at U-M think their university should have no contact with a student’s parents.

Anushka Sarkar, a sophomore at U-M, said that she worries the policy will negate U-M’s amnesty policy—which allows students to call for help if another student’s life is in danger without fear of punishment—because students will worry about facing consequences from their parents.

“This policy gives a reason to not call for help,” she said. “Anyone 18 or older should have autonomy in deciding if their parents find something out about their health history.”

Several Duke students also said that they thought parental notification policies are problematic if the student is a legal adult.

“It would make sense if we were minors, but we should have a say now,” said freshman Bella Letourneau.

Brandon Dalla Rosa, also a freshman, added that students should be able to make the decision to inform their parents about occurrences in their lives, especially because students no longer live in their parents’ homes.

Mallen explained, however, that many firstyear students face difficulties adjusting to life on campus and use alcohol or drugs to acclimate, but then inevitably run into more problems. In these situations, parental notification policies often result in the student receiving more support, which helps them overall, he said. He added that most of the objection to these policies comes from students, who think informing their parents will make the situation worse.

“Once people understand why the policy is in place, they tend to feel better about it,” he said.

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Sometimes I am baffled by how much importance we place in opinion.

Specifically in art, where nowadays most of us agree that there exists a special value in each one of our subjective opinions, it seems that people spend too much time arguing over the validity of a certain point of view. While these discussions can be fun to have, any attempt to bestow superiority to one opinion over another as opposed to realizing the difference is one of interpretation is simply misguided. To me, these assertions of opinion portray a lack of confidence in our perception of reality in the face of some presumed objective truth.

These differences in opinion are commonly—and vehemently— articulated regarding music. Check out the YouTube comments for some music videos and you will witness some of the most creative name calling of the 21st century. People defend music they enjoy as if they are the last bastion for all art, and in turn they are retaliated against in a manner so vicious it makes me wonder how someone can have so much hate for a person that they have never even met in real life. Of course, it’s not really a hatred for the person, but rather a hatred for any appreciation of the music. Liking a song is seen an offense to the attacker’s idea of what constitutes quality music, as if someone can win at art.

Sometimes these arguments can come up in critical analyses of music as well.

Often people place too much importance on the content of music reviews—usually not by trying to invalidate them, but instead by regarding them too highly. This is most commonly seen in “tastemaker” websites like Pitchfork and The Needle Drop. Some will go to these websites to validate their appraisal of a new album.

Some also go to these websites to find new music, which I think is sensible as long as they keep an open mind when listening to the album and try to listen to it unadulterated by the opinions of others. I love going to these websites.

Despite some people claiming the opinions expressed in these reviews to be objective truth, I still enjoy reading about and feeling the earnest contemplation, love, and effort the critics have put into understanding the music.

Very quickly a hypocrisy might seem to appear for people who realize that I write an editor’s note every month in which

editor’s note I dump my opinions for sometimes as long as 800 words. Considering the only people who read these are my parents, though, this isn’t a huge issue. Still, in my defense, I expect—and sincerely hope— that no one takes the opinions expressed here to be anything more than the ruminations of some college dude who is required to write a note every once in a while. While sometimes I enjoy writing them, and oftentimes find it therapeutic, I hope no one ever believes they can have an objective value placed on them.

It might be easy to use modern society’s obsession with science and technology as a scapegoat for insistence on attributing objective values to art. It seems logical, given the rapid growths in these fields in the last several decades coupled with these fields’ insistence on hard evidence

and an idolization of objective truth.

Still, good scientists will agree that their hypotheses are opinions supported by and based in objective data. There will usually be multiple interpretations of a set of data that further experiments can help falsify or support. Knowledge is moved forward when collaboration of opinions leads to an explanation that best suits the data. The difference here is that opinion is meant to convey objective truth, even though it cannot possibly encompass every reason for a natural phenomenon occurring.

Regardless, interpretation of art has a long history of being conveyed and received as objective truth. Even Stravinsky had to deal with critics claiming his work was unfit for consumption, just like Deafheaven had people up in arms over “Sunbather” not falling in line with the trve cvlt black metal canon. If anything, art, and music especially, most likely has fewer snobs, taste fiends, and elitists than it did hundreds of years ago. In society this is reflected in ideas such as moral relativism and other more progressive theories that value inclusion of differing viewpoints rather than a settling on one objective reality.

Still, the narcissism and insecurity that leads to arguments of opinion are very much rampant. People just have trouble accepting that others can interpret a piece of art differently and gain a much different amount of pleasure from it. Students should discuss art, but do so in terms that do not attempt to place superiority over some works. Appreciating differences in opinion fosters individuality and what makes us unique and all that. But more importantly, it also keeps us from looking like jerks.

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Fullsteam turns five:

Plough-to-pint philosophy celebrated in throwback beers and three-day party

Georgia Parke The Chronicle Time w flies when you’re brewing beer.

Fullsteam Brewery in Durham is celebrating its five-year anniversary this week with celebrations and throwbacks to pints of the past. Over the three-day shindig—“Five Years of Brewing, Three Days of Awesome”— patrons can engage in a lip-sync battle, Fullsteam trivia, live DJ, a hoedown and a pumpkin spice recipe competition. Happy hours each day will also re-release original Fullsteam beers from years past.

“I’m hopeful that after five years, we’re going to work to become an institution and part of Durham’s fabric,” said Sean Lilly Wilson, Fullsteam founder and CEO. The kickoff event Thursday will have a community focus, Wilson said, including cider sampling from Foggy Ridge Cider in Virginia— whose apple pomace has been used as an ingredient in Fullsteam beers. Food samples from Highland Avenue restaurant in Hickory, N.C. and wines from Fair Game Beverage Co. in Pittsboro N.C will be available on Thursday.

And—beer geeks rejoice—the brewery’s original Imperial Stout Igor will be released as a bottle in all three versions, Igor, Senor Igor and Son of Igor.

“It’s a little bit about us but also about the community of food and beverage makers that we’re happy are joining us,” Wilson said.

Since opening its current space at 726 Rigsbee Ave. five years ago, Fullsteam has tripled its brewing capacity, adding more tanks to the site as well as a bottling line. As the manufacturing capacity has expanded, it has grown to push the edges of the space’s capacity.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Fullsteam patrons often line up at the bar for a taste of the brewery’s delectable beers. Bonus: flights are delivered in a North Carolina-state shaped platter.

“We’re not bursting at the seams, but we’re close to it on the manufacturing side,” Wilson said.

In five years, Fullsteam has stuck to its underlying mission the brewery’s operations.

Brian Mandeville, Fullsteam’s head brewer since last December, said that Fullsteam is unique in that its ingredients directly reflect the mentality of the business. He explained that the emphasis on local ingredients means the brewery must employ more creative juices in deciding how to best utilize what they have available.

“Many breweries are afraid to do some of the things that we do,” Mandeville said. “We work with a lot of ingredients where there’s not a lot of conventional wisdom of how best to work with

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them. We have to experiment a little bit more and do things that are a little bit riskier.”

Ingredients on Fullsteam’s current menu include sweet potatoes, basil and honey.

Mandeville said he works with farmers within three miles for the Summer Basil beer, and that “everybody wins” when those relationships are formed. Although the cost of local, unprocessed ingredients is higher, Mandeville said the cost feeds into an economic system where both the farmers and the brewery can eventually grow more in the long run.

“It means that when you buy a Fullsteam beer, some if it is going back to the farmers,” Mandeville said. “We absorb some of that cost because we believe in it.”

Beyond the brews, Fullsteam is known for its Thursday night trivia and a diverse lineup of events including yoga classes, dog walks, comedy shows and concerts and a continuous rotation of food trucks parked outside.

“At the tavern we celebrate ‘beautiful/ stupid’—the best things in life are beautiful and stupid,” Wilson said.

In the last five years, some of the most memorable and unusual events, Wilson said, include a Christmas pageant in 2011 called “A Very Merry Durham”; the annual Point 262 “Marathon”; and a bad movie trailer competition.

“It ended up being hilarious,” he said of the latter. “It was a muggy June night at 10 o’clock, a younger crowd with tons of energy and nonstop laughter.”

The space remains split between a bar room and an open, warehouse-like space with stacks of board games lining the walls, pinball and ping-pong and a stage for shows under a festively lit hanging star.

“I think it reflects Durham’s diversity and its welcoming attitude…. We want people to know it and feel it as they come in,” Wilson said. “We may not always hit it, but I think we do pretty darn good.”

Other landmarks include the First Frost persimmon ale being awarded a 2013 Good Food Award, gold medals at the 2012, 2013 and 2014 U.S. Beer Opens, and five years straight of being Independent Weekly’s Best Local Brewery.

There is no five-year plan for Fullsteam as it sits, but Wilson said they’re exploring options venture out further and to produce beer that meets the demand of customers.

“Our goal is to be a landmark brewery for the South,” he said. “We’re proud of five years but we’re just getting started.”

Homecoming 2015 October 2-4

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Founders Day Convocation and Reception

The ceremony includes a memorial for members of the community deceased during the past year; recognition of outstanding students, faculty, and staff; and the presentations of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, and the University Medal.

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The Graduate School Reception [ Kirby Horton Hall and Patio, Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens ]

9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

President Brodhead’s Homecoming Dance [ Wilson Gym Basketball Courts & huge tent on K-ville Quad ]

u 9:30 p.m. n Duke Chinese Dance Troupe n Duke Bhangra n Duke Swing u 11:00 p.m. n Sabrosura n Momentum n Defining Movement (DefMo)

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Duke Football vs. Boston College Homecoming Game 2015 [ Wallace Wade Stadium ] Cheer the Blue Devils to victory as the team takes on the Boston College Eagles at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium.

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Weeklong Arts Festival puts on shows, workshops, pianos Christy Kuesel The Chronicle The rainy weather this week has not dampened the spirit of the Duke Arts Festival, spanning from Sept. 28 to Oct. 5.

Hosted by duARTS, the festival is an annual event celebrating all forms of art around campus. duARTS is a studentrun group focused on promoting the arts within the campus community. It took over the program from Duke Arts last year, making the Duke Arts Festival significantly more student-run than it had been in years past.

“It’s basically a kind of celebration of the arts on campus, where the arts have a more visible presence on campus during the week, with events going on every single day,” said Anshu Vipparla, a senior and duART chair.

While the festival brings recognition to the many talented student artists, it also brings the arts to people on campus who would normally not participate in the arts. Many of the events are “popin” events, where students are able to quickly stop by without investing a lot of time in the event. All of the events throughout the week are also Art Card friendly, meaning students can collect stamps on Art Cards to redeem for free food around Durham.

Vipparla said that duARTS tried to space out the festival more this year, as last year students appeared to be overprogrammed. This year, only one or two main events take place every day, aiming to boost student attendance in these larger events.

Vipparla said she hope that the festival generates student interest in the arts community on campus and showcases the efforts of student artists. She also hopes the program will help students realize that art isn’t a separate sphere at Duke, but rather a community that everyone can be a part of.

“The festival fosters the idea that everyone is an artist and that everyone is part of this community,” said Vipparla. duARTS organized the festival by collaborating with many student groups on campus, as well as local artists in Durham and the Nasher Museum.

Monday

The Duke Arts Festival kicked off Monday with an Anime Workshop, hosted by duARTS and Center for Multicultural Affair. The Poetry Fox also greeted students at the West Campus bus stop, offering to compose a poem based around a word of the students’ choice. Pianos are also placed at the West Campus bus stop and the Bryan Center Plaza for the duration of the week.

The first day of the festival concluded with the annual DUU VisArts Student Showcase Reception. Students could stop by the Bryan Center to enjoy more than 100 pieces of student art featured in the student-curated Brown Gallery, narrowed down from more than 230 submissions. Although the art in the Brown Gallery will be up for three weeks, the art in the temporary installation will only be up for the remainder of the week.

“The art we have is incredible, because it’s all student art and mostly undergrad, and not even all from people who are art majors,” said Rachel Lamparelli, a sophomore and chair of Duke VisArts.

Tuesday

The festival includes much more than just visual art. Although the Djembe Ensemble—a group focused on West African drum music—performance for was rained out Tuesday, students were still able to get balloon animals from a clown called Mr. Rainbow inside the Marketplace.

“I asked for a surprise, and he definitely surprised me,” said freshman Katie Tsang. Mr. Rainbow blew up a balloon and let it fly around the room instead of handing it to her.

The Arts Annex hosted a night of Karaoke, beat-boxing and free Enzo’s Pizzaand Monuts to wrap up the Tuesday festivities.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, Arts Career and Internship Fair popped up in the Bryan Center for two hours. Students had the opportunity to visit booths from organizations such as the American Dance Festival, the Nasher Museum and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

“Many students want to work in art for the rest of their life, and they want to find jobs in these fields, and for those students there are very limited resources,” Vipparla said.

The rest of Wednesday’s activities included a concert from a capella group Rhythm and Blue at the West Bus

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he festival fosters the idea that everyone is an artist and that everyone is part of this community — Anshu Vipparla Stop, a photography workshop hosted

by DukeCreate at the Arts Annex, and swing dancing and a Bollywood hiphop lessons at Brodie Gym. Wednesday concluded with an evening of jazz at the Mary Lou Williams Center.

Coming up

The Duke Arts Festival has additional activities lined up through Sunday, featuring opportunities for students to appreciate artists’ work, as well as create their own.

MuralFest will be held on the Bryan Center Plaza Friday afternoon. Local Durham artist Gabriel Eng-Goetz has created large paint-by-numbers murals, which students can work on with paint pens. The finished murals will be hung up around campus. The event will feature buffalo wings, Locopops and free tank tops.

The Arts Theme House will host their annual Melted Crayon Art event Saturday, where students can create colorful canvases by melting crayons with hair dryers.

The Duke Arts Festival will draw to a close on Sunday, wrapping up with the Nasher10 Homecoming, which celebrates the Nasher Museum’s tenth anniversary, and will feature a number of tours, discussions and demonstrations with artists and

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Above: An exhibit in the Bryan Center features student work. Below: Student a cappella group performs for students at the West Campus bus stop.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle A colorful, decorated piano flanked the West Campus bus stop for the Arts Festival.

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Nasher works with Alzheimer’s patients to engage with art Jessica Williams The Chronicle For people with Alzheimer’s, life is a constant struggle, both against the disease and against the stigma it creates. Cognitive loss makes it harder for individuals to connect to friends and family, as well as to their own emotions and memories.

Luckily, there are resources available to help patients cope with their experiences.

Formed in 2014, Reflections: The Nasher Museum’s Alzheimer’s Project is a joint effort by the Nasher Museum of Art and the Duke Family Support Program that provides tours for both caretakers and individuals impacted by Alzheimer’s. Inspired by Meet Me at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art’s Alzheimer’s project that started in 2007, Reflections provides an opportunity for people with Alzheimer’s to have fun in a welcoming, social environment.

“For some people, it’s the first time they’ve been to a museum, but with our program it’s not intimidating,” explained Lisa Gwyther, director of the Duke Family Support Program.

Featuring a tour of the Nasher galleries, lunch and either an arts and crafts workshop or a musical performance, Reflections tours create a safe space where individuals with Alzheimer’s can discuss feelings and ideas about artwork without feeling judged due to their illness.

The tour guides highlight critical thinking and emphasize to the patients that there are no wrong answers.

“The tours themselves are a pleasure; patients are receptive and their caretakers are appreciative,” said Jessica Ruhle, manager of public education at the Nasher.

Because a large portion of each tour includes returning members, patients create a friendly community with the others involved with Reflections. Caretakers also get to know

Special to The Chronicle The Nasher Museum of Arts hosts various programs for the community at large, including the Reflections program for Alzheimer’s patients.

each other and enjoy experiencing their loved one being happy and engaged at the museum.

Since Alzheimer’s and other cognitive diseases are so stigmatized, it’s often hard for patients to find a welcoming place where they—and their loved ones—won’t have to worry about public embarrassment. Reflections tours offer them a new place to engage socially like they did before.

While Alzheimer’s disrupts a person’s daily life and personality, Reflections works to restore them for a while through discussion and involvement. In talking about artworks, patients are encouraged to look within their own emotions and memories to respond to a work. They are reminded of the contemplation that was possible before their disease and feel comfortable enough to express it with the group.

They also listen to live music on some tours, and

on the others participate in a craft like painting or ceramics in which they can flex their creativity.

“It’s great to see them light up and feel at home among friends,” Gwyther said.

In each of the tours, it’s clear that the people involved care about what they’re doing: they’re enthusiastic about the program and value the relationships they’re able to make with patients and caretakers. While most people coming in for tours at the Nasher are different from one week to the next, Reflections tours include patients that come again and again to be with their supportive community. This pattern facilitates not only relationships between participants, but also between participants and both the tour guides and the museum.

“It’s inspiring to see the resilience in people who are dealing with loss, but who remain

open to fresh perspectives through an arts experience,” Gwyther said.

In organizing the tours, the Nasher and Duke Family Support provide people with Alzheimer’s a rare opportunity to engage in a normalizing, welcoming environment. The tours run on a few Wednesdays every month and have expanded since their foundation to have more members.

“One of our goals is to expand the number of museums hosting these programs in North Carolina—there aren’t many museums doing them in the Southeast,” Ruhle said.

Considering the positive influence of the tours on its participants, hopefully these kinds of programs willbecome more commonplace as a part of the effort to destigmatize Alzheimer’s and provide a more welcoming environment for those affected.

Students write, direct, act, produce play in 24 hours Grace Peterson The Chronicle A typical theater production starts with several days of tryouts, followed by weeks—sometimes even months— of rehearsal that culminates in a highstress “tech week” and, finally, the production itself. Eschewing the drawnout process, the Duke Asian American Theater group’s show Sept. 27 took less than 24 hours to produce and perform.

All production team members— including writers, actors and directors— met with producer Harmony Zhang, a senior, starting at 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

26 to discuss their task for the next 24 hours. The actors and directors then went back to their dorm rooms to catch a few hours of sleep while writers Danica Liu and Kara Post, both seniors toiled through the night on their scripts.

“It’s not super hard [to write in the early hours of the morning],” senior Danica Liu said. “Actually, when you are tired enough, all of your inhibitions go away and you stop being afraid to write something terrible. And when that fear isn’t there anymore, you can do a lot of cool things.”

From the hours of 12 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., Liu and Post produced their uninhibited writing. When the actors arrived at 8 a.m., two scripts entitled “Williams” and “Fourth Wave Feminism” were waiting for them.

By 11 a.m., actors were on their feet, well-acquainted with the plays and finished with preliminary blocking. Over

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the next nine hours, they developed their characters and memorized their lines. Sophomore Hannah Wang had a particularly difficult task, as she was in every scene of “Williams,” said: “When you have so little time to critically analyze the script, it’s harder to get really cerebral or intellectual with your character development,” Wang said. “You have to rely much more on your gut, and connect on a visceral, emotional level with your character, letting yourself feel, think and act like them in the moment.”

By 8 p.m., Sheafer Theater was open and ready for an audience. “Williams” told the story of Lucy, a Duke student who is admitted to a psychiatric ward after attempting suicide. At the play’s beginning, Lucy is irresponsive and claims that she doesn’t need help, but as the show goes on, she begins to find companions in her fellow ward-mates.

The play culminates in the revelation that Lucy tried to commit suicide after

coming out as a lesbian by kissing her best friend, who subsequently rejected her. At the end of the play, Lucy is released from the ward, though her future plans are unclear.

In contrast to the tense and tragic “Williams,” Post’s play “Fourth Wave Feminism” was a satire using humor to expose hyperbolic and inaccurate stereotypes about feminists.

“The play started with the idea of playing off the extreme [stereotypes] that feminists are a threat to everything traditionally American,” Kara says. “They are communists… terrible wives and mothers, lesbians—which seems like an antiquated idea, but some people really did view suffragists as an evil.”

Director Aileen Bi, a senior, and actors Sophie Caplin, a sophomore, and Ruici Ong, a senior, brought Post’s vision to life. At the start of the play, feminist activist Isabella converts her fellow student Audrey to feminism, and over time, Audrey’s views about women’s

rights become increasingly extreme.

By the end of the show, she is an anticapitalist, lesbian, male-hating witch.

In one of the final scenes, she literally brews a potion as convenient “thunder” lighting effects burst in the background.

“The whole experience of arriving at 8 a.m. to the performance at 8 p.m. was crazy and memorable,” Ong said. “I certainly recommend the 24-hour play experience to any student who wants quick and dirty, short-term yet intense and rewarding experience in theater.”

Zhang predicts that Duke Asian American Theater will put on the fourth annual 24-Hour Play next year.

“What inspires us to put it on every year, more than anything, is to see students take up the challenge of working together, pushing their limits, and creating something really memorable at the end,” she said.

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Music Review:

CHVRCHES “Every Open Eye”

Georgia Parke The Chronicle Glasgow electronic synth-pop trio CHVRCHES dropped their sophomore album “Every Open Eye” last Friday, Sept.

25. Their first full-length release since 2013’s “The Bones of What You Believe,” it faced a tough challenge of living up to the mammoth single “The Mother We Share.” Nothing on that first album was nearly as good as the song that put the group on the map—that is, the map of internationally everywhere—but it established a style and a feeling so clean and distinctive that the group was able to shoot from “derivative” to “influential”— according to The Atlantic—in the space of two short years. This second album is at once effusive and meticulous, forgoing an attempt to overshadow early success but rather hammering in the CHVRCHES sound we know and love through consistency and energy among their tracks.

Both of the first two songs, “Never Ending Circles” and “Leave a Trace,” are satisfying to those craving the fresh but somewhat sinister CHVRCHES sounds.

In the first, a long instrumental intro acts as a fanfare into the experience.

The second is more forthcoming about its pop identity, with the synthesizers not emerging much until two verses in and the vocals hitting more of an alto register than the usual high soars. However, upon reaching track four, you get an “Ah, we’ve arrived” feeling. Lead singer Lauren

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Mayberry has described it as anthemic, which makes sense considering its rousing, inspirational chorus—“We are breathing and letting go / We will take the best parts of ourselves / And make them gold.” Although it edges on being too peppy, considering the visceral assertiveness of other relationship-based tunes, it is buoyed by the darkness of the underlying synths and its unpredictability through the bridge. It allows the music itself to empower, rather than relying on trite aphorisms.

The album overall is a terrifically smooth listen. At a point, though, it becomes too streamlined, as the

similarity of several songs makes them bleed into each other. An exception is “High Enough to Carry You Over,” which grabs your ears as the only track Mayberry’s vocals do not appear. Martin Doherty takes over instead, which fits well for this song’s continual “hadn’t given you up” refrain. As a tenor, he contrasts less with the instrumentals to give a faded, unassuming effect. Also a treat is “Empty Threat,” thankfully fast and crystal clear with Mayberry’s best vocals on the album.

It all ends with “Afterglow,” which was clearly written to be an album closer.

Whereas other songs use grandeur in

moderation. The ballad uses no rhythm, just continuous long organ-like notes under her cosmic lyrics unpacking a relationship’s temporal difficulties: “With all of the light and space / We take up our own space / I’ll find my own way back / Back to the past tense.” I wish the album closed, thought, with the bonus track “Bow Down,” which is the actual final song on the special edition album. An escalating, motivating album like “Every Open Eye” deserves one last dance, and while “Afterglow” leaves you pleasantly mellowed out, “Bow Down” preserves the band’s cornerstone pathos with the same edgy pulse of tracks prior.

The strength and empowerment emulating from the album is not surprising coming from Mayberry, who has demonstrated her unwillingness to accept degradation. In 2013 Mayberry, who holds degrees in both law and journalism, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian about harassment and misogynistic messages directed towards her that the band had received online following the release of her first album.

“My hopes are that if anything good comes out of this, it will start a conversation, or continue the conversation which is already happening, encouraging others to reject an acceptance of the status quo,” Mayberry wrote. Her response is like much of the album—measured, thoughtful, steadfast and eloquent.

CHVRCHES may reject the status quo when it is harmful, but they have done a real job of embracing what already works in their music and making it gold.

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DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE LOOMS Brian Mazur The Chronicle

Although there are no ranked opponents remaining on the schedule, the season is not getting any easier for Duke.

After notching a season-defining 34-20 win against then-No. 20 Georgia Tech last weekend, the Blue Devils will look to move to 2-0 in ACC play for the Boston first time since 2012 College against Boston College vs.

Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Wallace Wade Duke Stadium. As head coach David Cutcliffe’s SATURDAY, 3:30 p.m. team moves into the Wallace Wade Stadium heart of its schedule, it is also poised to continue facing physical ACC teams, including an Eagles team that he called a “well-oiled machine.”

“They are very physical,” Cutcliffe said.

“We are coming off of a game [against a team] that was physical and we are going into another game that is physical. So as always, this time of year you start getting little bumps and bruises.”

Saturday’s matchup looks to be another bruiser. With two of the nation’s best defenses taking the field, fans should not expect a lot of offensive fireworks. Boston College (3-1, 0-1 in the ACC) enters the game with the nation’s top total defense— only allowing 118 yards per game—and the FBS’s second-best scoring defense, giving up 7.8 points per game.

These statistics have been somewhat skewed after the Eagles held winless FCS

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Linebacker Dwayne Norman has been a key stopper in the Duke defense of late, registering 21 tackles in his last two games.

foe Howard to just 11 total yards in a 76-0 victory Sept. 12, but head coach Steve Addazio’s defense proved itself a week later when it only gave up 217 yards and one offensive touchdown against then-No. 9 Florida State. Boston College delivered a similar performance one week later against a Northern Illinois team that nearly upset No. 1 Ohio State.

“They do a lot of things on defense and defend every aspect,” Cutcliffe said. “They have a great run defense, but also a great pass defense, and that’s why they are who they are.”

In its own right, Cutcliffe’s defense has opened eyes across the country after solid performances against ranked Northwestern and Georgia Tech squads during the past two weeks. The Blue Devils only gave up a combined three offensive touchdowns in those contests and held the Yellow Jackets to just 173 yards rushing—200 less than their season average.

Duke’s front six has played better than expected through four games and is a driving force behind a defense that has only allowed 11.5 points per contest so far. Linebacker Dwayne Norman has anchored the group of

late, posting 21 tackles in his last two games, including 4.5 for loss. Look for Norman to be very active once again against a physical Eagles offense that will attempt to run the ball into the heart of the Blue Devil defense.

“My playing style is more of a hard-nose, traditional linebacker, to get up there and just hit it out and see who is going to get up and keep coming back,” Norman said. “It definitely helps me out and helps my game.”

Redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash has been another stalwart for defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ defense and will look to cause problems for redshirt freshman quarterback Troy Flutie—nephew of former Boston College star Doug Flutie—who will be making just his second career start Saturday.

Cash has put up big numbers this season, including 34 tackles, 1.5 sacks, eight tackles for loss and six quarterback hurries, proving he can make a big play both in the secondary and at the line of scrimmage.

In his third season starting at the strike safety for Duke (3-1, 1-0), the Miami native has blossomed into one of the most feared players for opposing offenses and is making a case to be a high pick in the 2016 NFL draft. After last week’s 12-tackle performance against the Yellow Jackets, Cash garnered National Defensive Player of the Week accolades from numerous outlets.

“He diagnosed so many things in the Northwestern game and blitzed, and he ends up tackling people four yards deep in the backfield,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s called ‘read and react’ and he does it very well.”

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Triangle showdowns await Blue Devils Ben Feder The Chronicle After a week to recover and learn from its most recent setback, Duke will look to climb back above .500 in conference play against its Triangle rivals.

The Blue Devils take on North Carolina Friday at 6 p.m. at Carmichael Duke Arena in Chapel vs.

Hill before making North another short Carolina trip to visit N.C. State Sunday at 1 FRIDAY, 6 p.m.

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Virginia last Friday, Duke will attempt to rebound with a strong weekend.

Equipped with a full week to recharge, the Blue Devils will look to avoid the same mistakes they committed against the Cavaliers, as they blew a quick 7-2 lead in the first set.

“We have to be able to sustain the start,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We have to follow that up with consistent and strong play.”

North Carolina (4-7, 1-1 in the ACC) enters Friday’s match off its fifth road loss of the year, and N.C. State (11-3, 0-2) is still seeking its first conference win after dropping its first two matches. The Tar Heels rely on senior middle blockers Victoria McPherson and Paige Neuenfeldt to anchor their front line, which averages 3.0 blocks per set, good for tops in the ACC and sixth in the nation. Neuenfeldt leads North Carolina’s offensive attack with 96 kills, and McPherson is the squad’s most efficient hitter among players with more than See VOLLEYBALL on Page 16

Haeryn Kim | The Chronicle Junior libero Sasha Karelov became the 21st player in Duke history to record her 1,000th career dig last week against Virginia.

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Swimming & DiVing

Blue Devils host Panthers as part of battle against cancer Ali Wells The Chronicle The Blue Devils will swim for victory with packed stands at Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion, but will be competing for more than a dual-meet win in their season opener Saturday.

Duke will host Pittsburgh Saturday at 11 a.m. as part of the Breast Cancer Awareness POD Meet, an inaugural nationwide philanthropic competition.

Spearheaded by Blue Devil assistant Pittsburgh coach Jesse Moore, the competition vs. brings nine teams and their fans together in the fight against breast Duke cancer.

“There are so many people who have SATURDAY, 11 a.m. been affected by this or know someone Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion who has dealt with breast cancer,” Duke head coach Dan Colella said. “This event will catch a lot of people’s attention and will get a lot of people involved in the future. This has absolutely added to [the excitement about the start of the season]. It has added some additional motivation to get as many people out to the meet to support this cause.”

Each school will raise money for the breast cancer organization of its choice through spectator entry fees and t-shirt sales at a designated home meet in October, and the team with the largest fundraising total, excluding additional donations, will earn a $9,000 bonus for their organization, comprised of $1,000 from one generous donor from each school. Sisters and former Blue Devils Catherine and Caroline Conklin supported Duke’s bid in the competition with their donation.

The Blue Devils will contribute the proceeds from Saturday’s meet to the Duke Cancer Institute, with the funds earmarked for breast cancer research.

The cause hits close to home for Colella—whose wife is a 13-year breast cancer survivor—and for the Duke Athletics community, as women’s lacrosse head coach Kerstin Kimel was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery earlier this year.

“It has been a good program for everybody in terms of getting the athletes aware and giving back,” Colella said.

“They are out there getting the word out amongst athletes and students on campus and doing whatever they can to get folks

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle The Blue Devils will host the Panthers in their first meet of the year Saturday, helping raise money to fight cancer in the process.

as involved as possible.”

The Blue Devils will aim to open the season with a pair of wins in front of the home crowd after splitting the meet with the Panthers to open the season in Pittsburgh last year. The Duke women claimed a 162-138 victory but the men fell 170128.

Duke’s newcomers will look to make a big impact on the Blue Devils’ overall score, especially with the addition of freshmen divers Lee Christensen, Evan Moretti and Josh Owsiany. Duke competed without a male representative in the diving well for the majority of the past season, so the trio will give the Blue Devils’ score a boost Saturday.

“They are bringing a wealth of talent to the program, and they have done exceptional things at both the club and high school level,” Colella said. “Last year we went into meets with a deficit, so it will be extremely nice to have these three doing their thing on the boards. Pittsburgh has some great divers, but so do we now.”

While the women’s squad has attracted national attention

with the strength of its past three recruiting classes, the men have also acquired impressive talent to bolster their roster.

Max St. George, Judson Howard and Riley Hickman add depth to the men’s side in the sprints and strokes. St. George specializes in backstroke, posting a personal best of 48.07 seconds in the 100-yard distance at the Illinois Boys State Championships in February. Howard will join Duke’s strong breaststroke contingent, led by ACC record-holder Peter Kropp and juniors Dylan Payne and Mike Seaberg. Hickman adds depth to the Blue Devil sprint roster and could be a key factor in relays.

“We have some really young talent, guys who did some exceptional swimming this summer, making Olympic Trials cuts or just missing them by a couple tenths of a second,” Colella said. “They are swimming at a high level, and nobody should underestimate them this year.”

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Capra leads Duke quartet to California Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Accompanied by Beatrice Capra, the only senior on a squad mostly consisting of underclassmen, three Blue Devil freshmen will have the opportunity to make their first appearance in a Duke uniform outside the state of North Carolina.

Capra and newcomers Ellyse Hamlin, Jessica Ho and Kaitlyn McCarthy will travel to Palisades, Calif., to participate in the Riviera/ ITA All-American Championships, which run Saturday through Oct. 11.

After registering solid performances in the Duke James Bonk Invite in Cary, N.C., 10 days ago, the four Blue Devils will battle opponents from all over the country. “[The Riviera All-American Tournament] gives us the chance to see where we are at the national level, a sense of where we are at the beginning of the season,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We’ve only had one tournament and obviously it was a

much smaller event. We’re excited to play against the best players in the country this weekend and we’re excited to showcase what we’ve been working on in practices.”

Although Capra did not play singles in the James Bonk Invite, she teamed up with Hamlin in doubles, defeating Virginia’s Erica Susi and Victoria Olivarez (8-0), Tar Heels Cassandra Vasquez and Ashley Dai (8-4) and Caroline Wegner and Mia King from TCU (8-5). The Blue Devil duo earned the No. 39 spot in the ITA doubles preseason rankings.

Capra—ranked 71st in the country and only 26 singles wins shy of her 100th career doubles victory—will offer her leadership and experience to her young teammates this season.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle As the lone senior on this year’s roster, Beatrice Capra has taken on a leadership role in mentoring a group of talented freshmen.

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arlier this month, Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield announced the forced resignation of current Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez. Reactions to Lopez’s tenure have been mixed. Positive responses mention the decrease in violent crime early in his career as well as outreach efforts like the Mental Health Outreach Unit and those towards the Hispanic community. Lopez, however, was often criticized for overseeing a department guilty of racial profiling, a number of high profile officerinvolved shootings and deaths and an alarming spike in violent crime in the two years after the initial decrease.

It is impossible to separate Lopez from the broader police force during his tenure. Last year, we wrote to evaluate police conduct in Durham, noting that the Durham Human Relations Commission’s report confirmed racial bias in Durham Police Department practices.

A national activist group, Campaign ZERO, has also researched and collected a variety of police reform policy recommendations that we urge DPD to closely examine. While pushing for systemic change, we also urge the police department to better address concerns in high profile cases, like when the vigil for Jesus Huerta,

a teenager who shot himself in the back of a police car, turned violent and police used tear gas to control the crowd. Other incidents, detailed in the News and Observer’s “Timeline of Troubles,” include the two fatal shootings of Jose Adan Cruz Ocampo and Derek Walker by police officers in 2013 and most recently the shooting of La’vante Biggs three weeks ago.

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Editorial working on these concerns—but we hope to increase awareness among Duke students because of our University’s close ties to its surrounding community. In the last year, members of the Duke community have engaged with police issues in different ways, highlighted by the campus-wide reaction to the noose hung on the Bryan Center plaza last April. As evidenced by the crowd that came out for the Chapel forum, members of the Duke community are open to engaging with issues of race and justice. A number of Duke students were at the December 4 protests last year for police injustices in Ferguson, New York and

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When students claim to care about racial justice and equity but fail to actively educate themselves about the issues communities of color in Durham are dealing with, their claims ring hollow. We encourage everyone to read about Jesus Huerta, Carlos Riley Jr. and the protests outside the Durham County jail. At the same time, we urge students to become more actively involved in different parts of the Durham community through educational efforts like tutoring and even simply venturing into Durham.

Doing so, though not in any patronizing kind of way, recognizes the privilege and power that Duke as an institution has compared to its home city and the inherent power dynamic of relationships between Duke students and communities of color in Durham.

We should be supporting people and organizations rooted in Durham and applauding those who have been doing important organizing and activist work like the Durham Solidarity Center. Without that sort of active, intentional engagement, we let the status quo persist where simple corrections can be made with large amounts of pressure.

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he puck is in the net. As the defending goalie in this marathon team scrimmage, I have the dubious duty of sweeping the puck back out onto the ice. Even as it is still early in the Third Period of Life, the Duke Lifelong Scoreboard clearly shows the winner of this fabulous contest of “That’s Hockey.”

Give it up for my illustrious and distinguished

For our friends who have been supported at high levels by Duke University in these obviously critical fields of science, technology, engineering and medicine, I say: Congratulations, you deserve it, and this country needs the benefits of your research.

Since one must cite the styles of great ACC basketball players to communicate just what kind of scholar, writer or entrepreneur one aspires to be out along

David Proctor McKnight Guest column freshman roommate, Blake Wilson, who is now an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery at Duke. He is one of the leading experts in the fields of hearing research, remediation of hearing loss and neural prostheses.

All I can say is that all of his many honors are so richly deserved, and I hope that his international scientific research team can also win the Nobel Prize!

As for me, I am limping back to Carolina for the Third Period of Life, much relieved at having been traded back to the Tar Heels where I started out in my early years. I leave behind a shattered record as a Duke alum which is “checkered” at best, echoing the famous words of “the Checkers Speech” by Duke Law alumnus Richard M. Nixon, who after a frustrating loss in the 1962 California governor’s race only two years after he lost the presidency to John F. Kennedy, offered this premature assessment to the press: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more.”

Yes, this hockey game is all but done. When we started out in the fall of 1966, one real question about Duke’s academic aspirations was: can the science, engineering and medical people at Duke gain equal footing and respect with the social sciences and humanities folks?

The answer, my friends, is that you won’t have to lose any sleep about the priorities 21st century Duke University now places on science, medicine and engineering. It’s STEM’s show until somebody else wins another Pulitzer in literature, history or journalism.

the sidelines of life, I will tip my hat to the Blue Devil legacies of Bob Verga, Jim Spanarkel, Mike Gminski, Brian Davis, Bob Hurley, Christian Laettner, Shane Battier and all the rest. Looking once again toward the Tar Heel side of the court, I am perfectly wiling to tell you the kind of “player” I hope to be from now on over there in the Southern Part of Heaven where my first collegiate basketball hero was Lennie Rosenbluth.

I will now celebrate being “back in character” rather than “out of character” once again, striving for the rambunctious, happy-go-lucky, exuberant, shoot-passor-drive, behind-the-back flip-out surprise or just crashthe-lane, dash-to-the-bucket, joi de vivre of Doug Moe, on the lookout for the soft-spoken, accurate, defenseminded, free-throw-savvy York Lareses of this neck of the woods. In other words, teammates I can dish it off to if I don’t need to take it to the hoop myself.

But I’ll never be anti-Duke because I wasn’t antiDuke when I was a Carolina enthusiast the first time.

No, this is just the still-optimistic tale of an original “Big Four” fan who wanted to see all of North Carolina fare well in the campaigns of life while enjoying a sense of home at one particular turn in the road.

And that turn now leads me back to Franklin Street and UNC. But save me a spot at Devine’s every now and then.

David Proctor McKnight is a member of the Trinity class of 1970. He spends three hours a week in Chapel Hill as part of the Triangle Folk Jam music association, which gathers every Monday night at The Church of The Advocate.

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he other day, I was walking along the East Campus quad during the afternoon, heading to class, when I glanced at the bus stop. There was a couple sitting together on a bench, a few small groups of people standing and waiting for a C1 and some other students resting

that we’re less likely to have rude or brash conversations. In many ways, we actually have a better chance to enjoy conversations with a stranger.

Why, then, are our faces buried in our phones when we are alone and there are people all around us?

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used to see this girl around campus all the time. When I was late for class, running down Towerview Road, she would be on the other side of the road, walking sedately. She would be holding a salad in front of me in line at Au Bon Pain or sitting in the library on the first floor, books spread around her. I knew nothing about her, except that she seemed to be everywhere I was, and she

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there. All in all, there were probably around 30 people waiting for the next bus. Yet, every single person there had their neck unnaturally stretched down, the light of their smart-phones screen illuminating their face. Their eyes were glued to their phones. It was dead silent.

This isn’t that rare. Next time you’re walking, take a look around you and count the number of people you see looking down at their phones.

It’s almost become more normal than walking without a smart phone. Yet, this trend is hurting us both socially and physically. Our overuse of smart phones limits the degree that we engage with the world around us and hurts our neck and spine in ways that doctors are still learning about.

The morning after I noticed how many people were looking at their phones in silence, I was listening to a talk show on the radio. The talk show host mentioned a study done by two behavioral economists in Chicago about how people occupy themselves with their phone when in public places. In the study, the behavioral scientists gave people a $5 Starbucks gift card if, on their commute to work, they would simply strike up a conversation with whatever stranger sat next to them on the bus.

This filled most of the participants with dread. Most of the studies’ participants imagined that the conversations would be difficult to start. They figured that the stranger would try to end the conversation as quickly as possible, and they felt that the entire process would generally be uncomfortable.

Yet, the results showed exactly the opposite. Not only did the vast majority of participants report that they had pleasant conversations during their commute, they also generally reported that they actually enjoyed their commute more than the control group that did not speak to strangers.

The study continues by saying, when we talk to strangers, we “put our best self forward.” This means

major FOMO—fear of missing out.

Whatever the reason, studies show that starting a conversation isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be, and people generally enjoy these conversations more.

That’s not all. My sister is a physical therapist, and she warned me that physical therapists are increasingly seeing patients come in with “text neck.” When you lean forward and crane your neck to look down at your phone, you place greater weight on your spine. This can lead to headaches, spine problems, back problems and even surgery, especially if you bend your neck far to look at your phone rather than move your eyes. It can harm your posture, round the part of your back that should be straight and lead to problems down the road.

“It is an epidemic or, at least, it’s very common,” said Kenneth Hansraj, the chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine. “Just look around you, everyone has their heads down.”

If you think about it, smart phones are a very recent invention. Just four years ago, I didn’t even own one. Research focused on how the widespread use of smart phones affect us physically has only just begun. If doctors are already seeing patients come in with “text neck” just a few years after smart phones became widespread, imagine if these same patients keep using their smart phones for the next 30 years.

Smart phones are addicting. I see friends on their smart phones even when they are together, whether grabbing food or Googling random trivia during conversation. I see far too many people walking around campus with their necks craned down; these same people probably wonder why their necks are hurting them so much later in the day. Bending your neck down for hours a day isn’t natural.

Do yourself a favor. Pick your head up.

Tyler Fredricks is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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was always dressed impeccably, with her hair falling behind her in a shining mass.

She never smiled very much. I thought her the epitome of the type of girl I both despised and admired—beautiful, exclusive and untouchable. In my head, she had a group of three glamorous friends and would go to Cancun with them during spring break. She would depend on her beauty to manipulate people into doing things for her. I had met girls like her before, and so I dismissed the possibility of ever being her friend.

Months later, when I had forgotten about her existence, we were put together on a group assignment. It was only then that I discovered how wrong I was about everything, on all counts.

I have a bad tendency to judge people very quickly (I am working on it, I promise). It is the easiest thing in the world to look someone up and down and paste together a picture of a personality using their choice of clothing, bone structure and general demeanor. After all, don’t our choices reflect our characters? What else is there to go off? I look at the people around me and create these little stories about them and the way they must be. Why would she wear that outfit if she were not conservative? Why would he never smile if he were not a mean person? I imagine that people translate their decisions into actions so that they look like the selves they are. Unfortunately, when there are no surprises to people, it is easy to become arrogant. Everyone suddenly becomes a cliché or caricature. This gives you a healthy disrespect for humanity. I know that it is an old lesson by now, the story about the books and covers.

But the older we get, the more covers apparently matter. We polish up this cover of ours because, to a world that often assumes things at face value, we are what we appear to be.

Yet this is perhaps the biggest lie we have collectively decided to believe.

In fact, people do not always portray themselves as they really are. What they look like has very little to do with how they really are. Sometimes it has more to do with how they wish they

were. We all have a choice in the faces we show to the big, ugly world. We all know this. We hide the worst parts of ourselves all the time, deflecting our insecurities with whatever clothes or profile photos or internships we can find. The identities that we broadcast to the public are made of so many delicate pieces, each piece disguising an identity that no one else will really

understand, unless they dedicate the effort to do so. We all know this.

We point out how constructed these markers are all the time. None of the outside superficialities represent the integral essence of our personalities.

So why do we assume they represent others so accurately? Time and time again, I have made grand assumptions about people that have been proven wrong. Shyness can first appear as awkwardness. Confidence can first manifest as arrogance. Friendliness can first seem superficial. Why do we still treat people as they look?

I suppose it is simply easier.

If we did not judge people by their first impressions, we would have to learn to not judge at all. We would begin at a pure blank slate with each person, free of bias from physical influences, and would have to build up a picture of them through shared experiences instead of assumptions.

We would have to take the time to know people and know them well. We would perhaps uncover rich insights about the people who we live our lives with that will surprise us. We would perhaps have to be more open-minded and deal with the realization that everyone has something to teach, no matter how understandable or categorized they seem. Those things are hard and take humility and open-mindedness and understanding—but they can be done.

I am trying to imagine living that kind of life, the one that takes place in that old story about books and covers.

I am trying to imagine being someone who treats people not as they appear but as they are, without assuming anything. I am trying to imagine how things might have been if I had never had to complete a project with that girl I thought I had pinned down so well. One foggy night, as we worked on homework together, she looked up at me through a screen of her beautiful hair. All I could see were her eyes.

“I’m falling apart,” she whispered. I never would have guessed.

Isabella Kwai is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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SWIM from page 12 addition of Brian Lovasik in the sprints and Aaron Sett in the 500- and 1,000-yard events. Junior James Peek will pace the Blue Devils’ sprint contingent and sophomore Matt Johnson will face Sett in the longer distances.

Duke will have to capitalize on its strength in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes in hopes of an overall victory on the men’s side. Kropp led the heat to the wall in both events against Pittsburgh in 2014, as well as the 200-yard individual medley.

On the women’s side, the Panthers have rookies poised to make an impact in the freestyle events.

Rachel Brown posted faster times in the 50-, 100and 200-yard freestyles at the YMCA Short Course National Championships in February than any Pittsburgh swimmer at the ACC Championships, entering her college career with lifetime bests of 22.82 seconds, 49.26 seconds and 1:48.01, respectively.

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Junior Maddie Rusch and sophomore Leah Goldman went one-two in both sprints against the Panthers last year, and Duke could have a chance for a similar result Saturday with freshman Maddie Hess stepping up on the blocks for the first time.

The Blue Devil women stack up well against Pittsburgh in the stroke events. Freshman Alyssa Arwood will likely lead Duke in the breaststrokes, coming off a summer with personal best performances in the 100-yard event at 1:01.18 and 2:15.41 in the 200-yard distance.

After dropping all four relays in their home pool a year ago, the Panthers will look to put up a fight Saturday, and the meet-opening medley relay and closing freestyle relay may prove to be two of the meet’s most exciting events.

“It’s going to be a matter of who’s hungry and ready to race this weekend,” Colella said. “I think there is the potential for it to be a fairly closely contested meet. With a big crowd behind us, we can do some great racing this weekend.”

VOLLEYBALL from page 11 15 kills, sporting a .375 hitting percentage.

The Wolfpack boast youthful talent in sophomore Kaitlyn Kearney and freshman Blayke Hranicka, two of four N.C. State players with more than 100 kills so far this season. Both players are also hitting better than .300. The Blue Devils (66, 1-1) had mixed results against their Triangle counterparts last year, going winless in two matches against the Tar Heels and defeating the Wolfpack in their lone contest.

North Carolina’s record makes the Tar Heels a tough team to figure out. North Carolina’s nonconference schedule included five matches against ranked teams— including dominant straight-set wins against then-No. 3 Stanford and then-No. 20 Michigan, two teams that have defeated the Blue Devils. But the No. 7 ranked team in preseason polls has also suffered sweeps at the hands of unranked opponents in Minnesota and Pittsburgh.

N.C. State, on the other hand, surged in nonconference play, albeit against lesser competition. The Wolfpack have struggled to acclimate to the competition within the ACC, though, dropping recent matches to Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech.

“They’re both going to be very good opponents,” Nagel said. “They’ve both had two different schedules, and I think that makes a big difference.”

Duke has trudged through a grueling start to the season, with tough nonconference matches against some of the top teams in the nation. Nagel has relied on her upperclassmen to emerge as leaders to guide the team through the season, especially senior outside hitter Emily Sklar and junior libero Sasha Karelov.

For Karelov, the match against N.C. State will represent a homecoming of sorts, as the Raleigh native will be matched up against former club volleyball teammates.

“We’ve told [the underclassmen] that it is important to realize that every team in the ACC is legitimate, and that they keep on getting better and better, so we need to keep getting better and better,” Karelov said. “No team has won the ACC championship undefeated, so we need to go out each game and expect to win.”

With a team-high 20 digs against Virginia, Karelov cemented a spot in Duke history, becoming the 21st player to reach 1,000 career digs.

“It pushes me more because I want to be higher on the list,” the junior libero said. “It’s kind of motivational because I know that there is a next milestone out there for me to reach.”

The Blue Devils have watched a lot of film this week, hoping to improve on a meager .196 hitting percentage against the Cavaliers. Nagel has stressed communication and camaraderie, because with the long and treacherous journey through the ACC, the team will need to find its peak performance quickly.

With a quick turnaround between games, the Blue Devils will try to stay fresh, as this weeklong rest is important in their quest to move up in the ACC standings.

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“Our whole team is in a [good] place right now with each other because of her leadership.”

Hamlin—ranked No. 6 in the Oracle/ ITA Women’s National Newcomer/Freshman rankings—beat Furman’s Katarina Weymouth (63, 6-2) in Day One of the James Bonk Invite but lost to North Carolina’s Vasquez the day after. Both McCarthy and Ho were unbeaten in singles action in Cary.

In doubles, McCarthy teamed up with sophomore Samantha Harris. The duo, ranked 42nd in the nation, defeated Florida’s Belinda Woolcock and Kourtney Keegan (8-7) in one of the Doubles Finals of the James Bonk Invite. In the third Doubles Final, Ho and junior Chalena Scholl beat Georgia Tech’s Kendal Woodard and Paige Hourigan by the same score.

The three Blue Devil freshmen will look to have an immediate impact on the court and the trip to California will mark a stiff early-season test for them.

“We have to value every opportunity we get to play,” Ashworth said. “[The freshmen] are going to contribute to our team all year. [This tournament] will give them the opportunity to hopefully establish themselves at the national level. There’s no reason for them to be nervous or anything. It’s just about playing their game and the results will speak by themselves.”