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Food truck owners note continued frustrations Faculty

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Adam Beyer The Chronicle Food truck owners are continuing to struggle with unsustainably low sales at their new campus locations.

Last week, Parlez-Vous Crêpe left Duke’s food truck line-up altogether, and other trucks said they are also considering ceasing their offerings at Swift Avenue, where sales have been poor.

Jody Argote, Parlez-Vous Crêpe’s owner, said it was regrettable that her truck could not stay.

“For us, we couldn’t afford to keep going there as much as we appreciate the loyalty of the students,” she said, noting that she expected sales to get worse as the weather gets colder this winter.

Brian Taylor, Trinity ‘16 and DUSDAC chair, said he was disappointed to see ParlezVous leave.

“It’s been a fantastic truck for us,” Taylor said. “I know students really like it, so I hate to see them go, but I understand why.”

Late this summer, Duke Dining informed the truck owners that they would be moved from Chapel Drive to locations in the Kilgo parking lot and on Swift Avenue. Food truck owners previously told The Chronicle that they were dissatisfied with the move and misinformed about student demand at the Swift location.

François Kerckhof, owner of Belgian Waffle Crafters, said that trying to sell food on Swift Avenue has been “horrible,” and that he is always hoping his truck will get another shift in the Kilgo parking lot.

“So they want us to go [to Swift]... but all of the trucks want to cancel it because we’re

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Chronicle File Photo The Parlez-Vous Crepe truck left Duke’s food truck line-up last week because of low sales.

losing money,” he said. “If they force me to stay at Swift, I won’t go there anymore at all.”

Getting out of their contracts with Duke Dining requires one month’s written notice, Argote previously told The Chronicle.

“I know that some of them were considering leaving the whole thing,” Kerckhof said. “I think we are all in a strange position. We all like Duke, we all love the students and we had a great experience [before]. But Duke Dining is not giving us a lot of options.”

Several truck owners said sales are slightly better in the Kilgo parking lot and

could potentially improve there, but Argote explained that it was still not worth it for her truck. The food trucks are all required to serve at both locations, and Duke Dining will not permit them to discontinue service at Swift Avenue, she said.

Robert Coffey, director of dining services, wrote in an email that his department had not received the trucks’ request to discontinue service at Swift Avenue until “late last week” and that he would work with student leaders to

Academic Council met Thursday to discuss the launch of a full undergraduate degree program at Duke Kunshan University.

After several previous discussions about the proposal were closed to the public, the council held an open session for faculty to ask questions about the program, which could potentially open by 2018. President Richard Brodhead addressed the council in support of the proposal, describing it as a valuable addition to China’s educational system.

“The Chinese know that the natural product of their own educational system is not altogether the kind of minds, the kind of citizens they want for the future,” Brodhead said. “They look to our liberal arts education that they don’t have—an education that gives a broader, rather than a narrower training.”

He cited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s work with the Indian Institutes of Technology as a model for the direction he could envision the program going. Still, he recognized that there were difficult questions to be addressed.

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Kornbluth gives details on undergraduate degree at DKU Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Duke Kunshan University, now in its third year, offers master’s programs and a semesterlong program for undergraduates, but a full undergraduate degree program is in its near future. The Chronicle’s Claire Ballentine spoke with Provost Sally Kornbluth about the specifics of the proposed program and what concerns have been raised so far. The following conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

The Chronicle: What discussions are going on about the undergraduate program at DKU? Sally Kornbluth: We’ve been discussing the undergraduate program over the last couple of years. There’s a faculty committee that has been working to design an interdisciplinary, liberal arts curriculum that would be really unique for China but also unique anywhere.

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The curriculum was developed through a faculty committee, then it’s been vetted by other committees, and we also had consultants in China that were familiar with higher education in China discuss it. The other piece of it is that we’ve begun to delve deeply into what would be necessary for it to succeed in terms of getting high quality faculty and students there. There’s been a lot of thinking about why we want to do this undergraduate degree. To me, the strongest arguments are really three-fold.

One is that it is a great opportunity for pedagogical experimentation. [There are] things that we can do on a green field that would allow us to develop new teaching mechanisms and potentially bring them back to Duke. The other thing is that we can really impact China for decades to come, and China is going to remain an important player on the international scene. We’re talking about introducing a whole new kind of education

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there. The question is, ‘what’s in it for Duke?’ I think a couple of things—we’re already starting to see the benefits of being embedded there, and we only expect that to grow. The vision is that if Duke is a truly global university, then we can really achieve a lot from being embedded there, impacting what’s happening locally and globally in education.

TC: Why is the University doing this specifically in Kunshan, China?

SK: I think China is a really important player on the global stage both economically, politically and socially. Part of it was practical— how do you find a partner that truly wants to invest that has the wherewithal and interest to build a really first-rate campus, and a place that is really invested in making a commitment to higher education? Kunshan is close enough to Shanghai that it’s influenced by a big city, but it’s See KORNBLUTH on Page 12

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DUSDAC gives food trucks New yoga studio provides option to leave Swift Avenue place for students to ‘refresh’

Ivy Shi | The Chronicle DUSDAC discussed the option of having food trucks park on East Campus.

Karam Katariya The Chronicle Recent concerns raised by food trucks were a hot topic at Thursday’s Duke University Student Advisory Committee meeting.

There are now six food trucks serving Duke’s campus. Last week, Parlez-Vous Crêpe, a popular food truck at Duke that had been serving its students for several years, decided to leave. This followed the recent relocation of all food trucks to new sites on campus because of fire hazards.

“Basically, if a fire truck can’t maneuver its way in and out of certain streets, it’s a fire hazard,” Aris Marton, assistant director of retail operations for Duke Dining.

Because of the fire hazard, the food trucks this Fall were moved to the Kilgo parking lot and a location near the 300 Swift Avenue.

However, Robert Coffey, director of dining services, noted that the trucks are struggling in the new locations.

“The opportunity cost for these trucks to stay on campus as opposed to leaving to other locations outside campus is now much higher,” Coffey said.

In light of Parlez-Vous Crêpe’s recent decision to leave Duke, DUSDAC members voted to give food truck operators the choice of remaining at their currently assigned Swift Avenue location or moving to the Kilgo parking lot, where sales have begun to pick up and revenues for these food trucks look more optimistic.

A group from Duke Student Government attended the meeting and suggested that food truck vendors could park on East Campus, especially on Saturdays and Sundays when Trinity Cafe closes early. However, first-years living on East have few food points, so it may be difficult for vendors to make substantial profits there, Coffey explained.

Nonetheless, DSG will be drafting a formal proposal for this option in order for it to be reevaluated, they said.

In other business: The committee also discussed student complaints that food nutrition information at Marketplace and West Union was “either wrong, not updated or very difficult to find.”

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Natasha Gupta The Chronicle If midterms are stressing you out, walk over to the yoga studio on Ninth Street, which opened earlier this year.

The studio, called “Yoga Off East,” was founded by Duke alum Kathy Smith in April and is located in the back of the restaurant Happy + Hale, a juice and salad bar. The studio was opened in collaboration with the owners of Happy + Hale, and Smith noted that the businesses share the same space because they wanted there to be a “fresh, clean place where healthy food would be accessible after exercise.”

“One of the difficulties we face is that the studio is tucked away inside Happy +

Special to The Chronicle The new studio teaches “slow yoga” and will soon begin offering courses in meditation.

Hale and is hard to find,” Smith said. “I just want students to know that Yoga Off East is a container of time and safe space where they can drop by and de-stress and walk back refreshed.”

Yoga Off East aims to teach “slow yoga”— popularly known as “vinyasa”—which is a “restorative” form of yoga, she added. It occasionally offers a “Run Club” where people from the local community come together to participate in two mile long run. The studio will soon be also offering courses in meditation.

Although a few Duke students currently attend classes at the studio, it has not been extremely popular among those on campus.

First-year students said they wanted to take advantage of the free yoga lessons offered at the Brodie Recreation Center. Additionally, several upperclassmen explained that they find that the walk down to Ninth Street is time-consuming.

However, Smith noted the advantages of her studio’s location off campus.

“Our studio is a great alternative because the gym on campus can be distracting sometimes, and we have awesome instructors here who love to share their expertise,” she said.

Smith, a former Duke tennis star who graduated in 2001, said she practiced yoga to alleviate pain after sustaining a sports injury to her shoulder.

Following a successful recovery, Smith earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Oregon, where she wrote a paper on the commercialization of yoga in the U.S. That See YOGA on Page 5

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Augmented reality goggles could make neurosurgery safer Nathan Luzum The Chronicle Neurosurgeons may soon be able to visualize hidden parts of the brain while performing surgery.

Neurosurgery residents Dr. Shervin Rahimpour and Dr. Andrew Cutler collaborated with Dr. Regis Kopper— director of Duke immersive Virtual Environment—and Yameng Liu, a master’s student in engineering, to create a more efficient way to conduct brain procedures.

Using a pair of augmented reality glasses known as Microsoft HoloLens, Kopper and Liu developed a simulation in which the ventricles in the brain were accurately overlaid on the head of a mannequin.

“Until HoloLens, [augmented reality] has been pretty unstable in the sense that it wasn’t very good at registering things in the environment in real time,” Kopper said.

Kopper added that although augmented and virtual reality are not entirely new to medicine, their use in the past has been limited.

“One of the early uses of [virtual reality] from the ‘90s was actually exposure therapy,” he said.

Exposure therapy is the psychological method of exposing patients to their fears in order to cure them. For example, a patient deathly afraid of heights may be repeatedly exposed to a cliff through virtual reality goggles to help overcome the fear.

But when Rahimpour and Cutler approached Kopper, they were interested in a far more complex simulation to help tackle a routine, yet occasionally tricky procedure—an external ventricular drain.

Special to The Chronicle Using Microsoft HoloLens may help neurosurgeons perform external ventricular drain procedures in which a hole is inserted in the skull to reduce pressure.

“What we all do emergently is drill a small hole in the skull and then pass this catheter into that fluid space to drain off the fluid,” Cutler said. “The idea is to drop the pressure immediately and give the fluid a new way to get out of the head.”

Although the surgery is typically routine, it can sometimes take a turn for the worse. Cutler explained that the traditional anatomical landmarks fail to work properly in certain situations, forcing the surgeon to guess how the catheter should be inserted.

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With augmented reality, however, surgeons can avoid potentially dangerous guesswork.

“What this does uniquely is that it overlays the real environment with the virtual environment, so it helps you interact with both at the same time,” Rahimpour said.

In this case, neurosurgeons can visualize the ventricles in a patient’s brain on a Microsoft HoloLens screen based on a scan performed before the procedure.

The development process is still in its

early phases, Kopper said. Although the concept of integrating augmented reality with surgery has proven feasible, the technology must improve before the device can be tested on anything other than a simple mannequin’s head.

“There’s some delay in tracking the catheter,” Cutler said. “Once that kind of picks up, we’ll be able to test it on models that we have, hopefully by the end of this academic year.”

Kopper added that other improvements could be had to the device.

“It’s still a bulky device, it’s heavy, but the main problem with the HoloLens is that the field of view is pretty small,” he said.

Even after these issues are ironed out, the implementation of augmented reality in medicine will continue.

“The procedure we have explored here is only the beginning,” wrote Dr. Patrick Codd, assistant professor of neurosurgery who advises Cutler and Rahimpour, in an email. “[Future improvements] could include making easily accessible, in realtime, multiple data streams including endoscopic video, patient vitals and patient MRI and CT imaging to the surgeon and the team throughout the operation.”

Rahimpour explained that the simulation could also double as a training device for budding neurosurgeons, providing them with a safe way to practice newly learned operations.

Even though the project is still in its early stages, both the researchers and residents are optimistic about its potential.

“I’m excited for where the technology is going,” Cutler said. “I think as new generations of hardware and software come out, it’ll only get better and allow us to start jumping into other procedures and fields.”

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Duke study shows apes can Chapel dean Luke Powery looks to bridge faith, education understand false beliefs Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Luke Powery was recently reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Duke Chapel.

Powery’s tenure on campus so far has focused on connecting with students and bridging faith and learning. The Chronicle spoke with Powery about his successes so far and his plans for the future.

The Chronicle: What do you consider to be your biggest accomplishments during your time as dean?

Luke Powery: I would put it in a broader perspective, I don’t know if there’s one thing. There are several things that have begun to happen. Preaching archives are being developed, and we’re expanding our Organ Scholars program. What’s happened is that we’re beginning to partner in more obvious ways and being intentional about collaborations and partnerships as a general expansion of what we do. So stretching out our arms across the University—to the library, to the Duke Jazz [program]. We have various partnerships that are being solidified to help people know that we’re here and we’re here to serve the University.

but taking that beyond even the traditional arts and moving toward the visual arts and partnering with the [Nasher Museum of Art] to bring in various exhibitions and using the Chapel space to exhibit art.

We’re also in the process of thinking through how to deepen our community connections. We rent a house in the west end of Durham where undergraduates who have recently graduated can live together and partner with a nonprofit while they’re living in a community for a year. They’re called the PathWays Fellows.

The last is interfaith engagement and that has to do with our work in religious life across the various campus ministries but also a new program that is starting in the Spring called the Interreligious Scholars Program.

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TC: What do you hope to do during your second term?

LP: I think build on four key areas. With preaching, to expand that archive and make it more accessible. We’re planning on building a website that will interface with that digital archive to use for research and teaching.

Courtesy of Duke Photography Then the area of sacred arts. So expanding Luke Powery will serve a second five-year what we do. We have a rich musical history term as dean of the Duke Chapel.

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Katelyn Vlastaris The Chronicle The ability to understand false beliefs has long been thought to be unique to human consciousness, but a recent study revealed for the first time that great apes are capable of making this distinction as well.

Researchers at Duke found that great apes understood the false belief of others, which is simply a notion about the surrounding world that is not true. From chipmunks to college students, every animal is capable of holding a false belief. However, it was previously thought that only humans were able to understand when someone else held a false belief.

“Doing so in the most complete sense requires imagining another individual’s perspective and understanding exactly how that individual construes the world to be different than it actually is,” said Christopher Krupenye, a researcher in developmental and comparative psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, who co-led the study with Fumihoro Kano, a comparative psychologist at Kyoto University. Krupenye received his Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from Duke this May. The presence of such ability in apes—such as chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans— means that their understanding of others as mental beings is more complex than was previously assumed.

Pinpointing false belief has given scientists a better look into the ways apes interact with one another.

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with others, they can do it more effectively. Apes have evolved this ability to compete based on not just who is there, but on what the other one knows and believes about the world,” said Michael Tomasello, senior author of the study, co-director of the Max Planck Institute and Trinity ‘72.

Tomasello added that humans can still be distinguished from apes because of humans’ ability to engage in cooperation.

For the study, the researchers created a video with a point of conflict that would engage the attention of the apes. In the video, a man expresses interest in a rock, before a second man dressed in a gorilla suit nicknamed “King Kong” angrily takes the rock away and hides it under a box.

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the rock away entirely. When the man walks back into the room, scientists wanted to test whether the apes could predict where the man would— incorrectly—think the rock was.

Eye tracking technology was used to locate where the chimps looked during the video.

The apes spent the longest time looking at the box where the man had last seen the object, indicating that they knew the man would think to search for the rock there, even though the object had been removed. The “anticipatory looking” of the apes was then recorded by the eye-movement tracking devices.

This particular method of testing distinguished the study from other literature in the field that attempts to have chimps react to a detection of false belief with a simple task, similar to the way children over the age of four are tested on their understanding of the same topic. All of these studies have had negative conclusions, Tomasello explained. However, this most recent study was designed to be simpler and based on the way infants under the age of 24 months are tested.

“Previous studies imposed a lot more demands on the apes, in terms of what they had to remember and how much self control they had to exercise,” Krupenye said. “It may well be that our task was successful simply because it was less demanding for the participants.”

Although these results represent a milestone in the field, the findings stop short of putting apes and humans on an even playing field when it comes to an understanding of mind theory.

“Apes can do it when it’s just a matter of looking, but when it’s a matter of incorporating that knowledge into intelligent, strategic action, there is no evidence so far of them doing that,” Tomasello said.

Future tests are necessary to ensure that the apes are not simply reacting to and memorizing patterns of behavior, the researchers noted.

But beginning to get students coming together from different faiths and traditions to develop religious literacy and a deeper understanding of each other. My hope is that we will be a place in general where people will say [they] can find sanctuary there.

FACULTY from page 1 concerns about China’s human rights record and the ability to have a true liberal arts education in an authoritarian government.

James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds professor of law, said he was troubled that the liberal arts education provided under an American system could lead to legal repercussions for professors and students.

“The freedom to be critical without [the students] acting on that critique is not a liberal arts education, it’s mental masturbation,” he said.

Several faculty members noted that they had positive experiences working on DKU’s campus. Carlos Rojas, a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies who has led seminars at DKU, disputed the idea that a liberal arts degree posed a danger to its participants in China.

“Duke itself is increasingly reliant on students from mainland China... Some of them stay. A lot of them go back to China,” he said. “If we were really concerned about the ramifications for students who come here and are exposed to liberal values to go back to China to risk crossing a set of invisible lines, then I think we should reconsider taking these international students from mainland China, which is actually a very sizable body of the student population.”

Steffen Bass, associate chair for teaching in the physics department, said he could see both sides of the issue, adding that universities played an important role preserving bubbles of free thought during World War II in his native Germany.

Provost Sally Kornbluth said that she thought this could be an opportunity to make a positive change in the country.

“We are not going to fundamentally change every aspect of the Chinese regime by having a 2,000-student university, but you know, we’re going to sure change the lives of those 2,000 who are then going to go on and have ripple effects all over the country,” she said.

The council will take a vote on a resolution supporting the proposal at its November meeting.

TC: Your strategic plan for the Chapel emphasizes the Chapel’s role in bridging faith and learning for the University. Why do you consider that to be important?

LP: I think it’s important because it taps into the deep roots and history of Duke. It also says that intellectual life for a major research university should also be integrated into one’s spiritual life. So the idea of being a whole person. One’s faith and one’s learning are not necessarily mutually exclusive. One takes one’s whole being in the educational enterprise and vice versa.

It’s especially important at a major research university. There are many students, faculty and staff that are people of faith from various traditions, and I think our goal is to not let people forget a part of their identity. And the life of faith and religious practice is not going away. Religion plays a significant part in politics, and it’s not just destructive, it can be constructive. I think it’s vital for a university to created space where conversations about faith can happen.

TC: During your first term as dean, you created a position for student engagement.

What does student engagement look like regarding the Chapel?

LP: On many levels, that particular position is one of our positions in student ministry to really connect with students and bring students together around the arts in particular and to reach out to traditionally underrepresented student groups, but really all students. Our student ministries happen whether it’s one-on-one through mentoring. It happens in the classroom. I have a couple of staff members who teach undergraduates around various world religions and ethics.

[It’s about] giving students opportunities to connect with meaningful conversations.

It may even happen on Spring Break trips, mission trips, opportunities to serve in the community. We’re trying to take a holistic approach. Students are the heart of any university. My hope is that students will know we are here for all of you.

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Over the weekend, several racial, homophobic, and anti-Semitic slurs were found spray-painted under the East Campus bridge. The slurs were painted over before the University was notified, but those who discovered the hate language (right before an event hosted by NAACP, the Asian Student Association and Mi Gente), took pictures of the graffiti. NOT good.

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Volleyball is on a roll, and the men’s soccer team is finally catching up. They ended their three-game losing streak with a 3-2 win against Campbell on Tuesday. Cross country’s on fire, with a first place win for the women and a 2nd place medal for the men at the VertCross Invitational last week.

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YOGA from page 2 propelled her to obtain certification as a professional yoga instructor, she explained.

Smith went on to serve as the head coach of the women’s tennis team at Princeton University for five years and recently moved back to Durham, where she conceived the idea for Yoga Off East. Her husband Ramsey Smith is head coach of the Duke men’s tennis team.

This is also not the first time Smith has brought yoga to Duke students. She has led the Duke baseball team in yoga workouts, and has worked with men’s tennis and women’s lacrosse teams.

DUSDAC from page 2 Union is in the works.

Committee members pondered issues with the late start time of the Merchant on Points program as well. However, Coffey said MOP was only created as a supplement to oncampus dining options and that Duke Dining does not want its on-campus vendors to lose potential revenue while they are open.

Additionally, changes in Marketplace’s hours to accommodate athletes mean the dining hall now opens 6:45 a.m.

Duke Dining is working to resolve problems with flies at West Union and Marketplace by installing more fly lights in the buildings.

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Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Ahead of Duke’s annual Countdown to Craziness showcase Saturday night, The Chronicle’s Amrith Ramkumar breaks down five things to keep an eye on when the Blue Devils take the court in front of the Cameron Crazies. Doors will open to Cameron Indoor Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday, with the team’s blue-white scrimmage getting underway at 8:25 p.m.

Will Grayson take flight?

At Duke’s media day earlier this month, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he and his staff want to pace All-American guard Grayson Allen during preseason practice and throughout the year, noting that the junior’s style of play leads to a lot of hits and time spent on the floor. Allen sat out during the Blue Devils’ open practice Oct. 1, but it will be interesting to see if and how much he plays during Duke’s scrimmage Saturday night.

The Jacksonville, Fla., native has been tabbed the early favorite to win National Player of the Year by most outlets, and could put on a show in a fast-paced scrimmage.

There was no dunk contest at Countdown to Craziness in 2015, but if there is a dunk contest this year, Allen would be one of the favorites. He won the McDonald’s AllAmerican Game Dunk Contest in high school before taking second behind Marshall Plumlee at Duke’s event in 2014.

Who brings the ball up Krzyzewski noted that the only Blue Devils who likely could not bring the ball up the court after getting a defensive rebound are

Chronicle File Photos Sophomores Chase Jeter and Luke Kennard could surprise some fans during Saturday night’s 5-on-5 scrimmage.

big men Chase Jeter, Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier. It will be interesting to see the comfort level forwards like Jayson Tatum and Amile Jefferson have dribbling up the floor during Saturday’s scrimmage. Allen, freshman Frank Jackson and sophomore Luke Kennard would seem to be the team’s main ball handlers, but Duke could be even more dangerous if its forwards get comfortable initiating the offense.

Sophomore standouts?

Kennard and Jeter had up-and-down freshman seasons and seem to have faded into

the background so far in preseason practice, with the Blue Devils’ latest recruiting class and veterans like Allen and Jefferson earning most of the accolades. But Duke will need major contributions from role players, and Kennard and Jeter could make a big impact starting Saturday. Given the sharpshooter’s offensive skills, Kennard has a chance to stand out if he can defend Jackson and Allen well, especially since the Blue Devils are expected to rely heavily on senior Matt Jones’ defense at the guard spot this year.

A former five-star big man, Jeter struggled for most of the 2015-16 season

but has reportedly made big strides in the offseason. The Las Vegas native is part of Duke’s loaded frontcourt, and how he fares against Bolden and Jefferson under the bright lights could give the 6-foot-10 big man confidence going forward.

Potential coming-out party for Tatum Jahlil Okafor showed how dominant he could be at this event in 2014, and last year it was Brandon Ingram’s turn to flash his potential. With forward Harry Giles sidelined See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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No. 9 Florida State deals Blue Devils first ACC loss Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Freshman Olivia Erlbeck fired a shot toward the top left corner of the net late in the second half, but Florida State star goalkeeper Cassie Miller deflected it to keep Duke scoreless.

The Blue Devils had their chances.

Seventeen shots, six of which were on goal, and a penalty kick to boot.

And although the Seminoles’ opportunities were few and far between, the hosts cashed in when it mattered most.

With a looping header from point-blank range, Kaycie Tillman tallied her first goal of the season in the 98th minute and lifted No. 9 Florida State to a 1-0 overtime victory against No. 4 Duke DUKE 0 Thursday evening 1 at the Seminole FSU Soccer Complex in Tallahassee, Fla. The Blue Devil offense put pressure on Florida State throughout the game, earning a pair of late opportunities to potentially escape with a win.

But as was the case when Duke upset the Seminoles 2-0 in last year’s Final Four, the

team that dominated possession Thursday was unable to earn the victory. Florida State’s upset wasn’t quite as meaningful as the Blue Devils’ 2015 postseason win, but it handed Duke its first conference loss and opened the ACC regular season title race back up entering the last week of the year.

“We dominated the game after the first 20 minutes,” Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church said. “[The Seminoles] came out of the gate and were really good—and we knew they would be…. They had a lot of emotion and played really well.”

In the 85th minute, Duke senior Christina Gibbons stepped up for a pressure-packed penalty kick after freshman Mia Gyau was taken down inside the penalty box. Although the All-American’s initial shot was saved by Seminole goalkeeper Cassie Miller, Gibbons got a rebound opportunity, only to send it sailing over a wide-open net.

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Duke to battle UNC for regular season ACC crown Michael Model The Chronicle Entering last Friday’s tilt at then-No. 17 Wake Forest, the Blue Devils knew they needed to win their final two ACC contests and get some help from other teams to win their first conference regular season title ever.

Duke got that help as fellow top-five teams Syracuse and North Carolina lost, making the stakes for the Blue Devils’ rematch against the Tar Heels that much bigger.

No. 2 Duke will do battle with No. 4 North Carolina Saturday at 1 p.m. at Jack Katz Stadium for the ACC regular season title. The Blue Devils are coming off a 2-1 comeback win against the Demon Deacons and 5-1 rout of then-No. 19 Old Dominion, but will have to do something they have not since September 2013 to earn the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament—knock off the Tar Heels.

Since 2006, North Carolina has won 15 of 16 contests against its Tobacco Road rival, including victories in the 2014 and 2015 NCAA tournament and a 3-2 win in Chapel Hill earlier this year in a rare nonconference battle between the two teams.

“We’re really sick of it honestly,” senior Robin Blazing said of the Tar Heels’ dominance. “We’re trying to see it as any other game, taking care of business and doing what we know how to do. It’s a rivalry, but it’s also just another game in our path.”

Blazing is a big reason the Blue Devils (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) are in position to add more history to a spectacular regular season featuring 10 top-20 wins following the senior’s game-winning goal at Wake Forest. Duke has won three straight games since a 5-1 loss at the

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hands of the Orange. and is also hoping to avenge its 3-2 Sept. 25 loss to North Carolina (12-3, 3-2) in which the Tar Heels scored three goals in a 15-minute period to take control in the second half.

Penalty corners fueled the Tar Heels’ spurt against the Blue Devils, and also allowed Syracuse to build a 4-0 lead on Duke in the game’s first 27 minutes, one of the few times the Blue Devils have struggled to find their footing this season.

“You know Syracuse, we have to make some changes from that game, but going forward we have a good lane to success,” Blazing said. “We’ve just got to take care of

UNC and get down to business.”

Part of Duke taking care of business will likely involve getting senior Heather Morris and junior Alyssa Chillano going after the duo combined for just one shot in their first game against North Carolina this season. Each player has scored 11 goals this year, and the duo has combined for seven assists, meaning their ability to create their own scoring chances off penalty corners will be critical against two Tar Heel goalkeepers that only allow 1.1 goals per contest.

Alex Halpin and Shannon Johnson split time between the pipes for North Carolina,

though Halpin has been playing most big minutes lately and played the full 70 minutes in the teams’ first matchup.

The Tar Heel defense will likely keep a close eye on Blue Devil graduate student Aisling Naughton, who had a goal and an assist in the September game and had two goals Sunday against Old Dominion.

Naughton and company will be hoping to employ the same strategy then-No. 7 Louisville did in its 1-0 upset of North Carolina last weekend.

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After defeating then-No. 9 UCLA in early September, the Blue Devils seemed poised to spring a few more upsets and challenge some of the toughest opponents on their schedule.

But heading into its penultimate conference game of the regular season, Duke is still searching for its second win against a ranked opponent.

The Blue Devils will have a chance to do just that when they host No. 4 No. 4 Notre Dame Notre Dame Friday vs. at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Duke sits Duke 10th in the ACC heading into the FRIDAY, 7 p.m. matchup against the Koskinen Stadium Fighting Irish and will have to win its final two ACC games to have any chance of hosting a first-round game in the conference tournament.

A thrilling win 2-1 against N.C. State on Sept. 30 appeared to be what the Blue Devils needed to turn their season around after a slow start in conference play. But the Blue Devils failed to score more than a goal in three consecutive losses to Davidson, Virginia Tech and North Carolina to open October. Duke

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Junior Cameron Moseley has scored three goals in his last three games to energize the Blue Devil offense.

snapped its nearly three-week skid Tuesday against Campbell when it scored multiple goals in the first half and came away with a much-needed 3-2 victory.

Despite his team controlling the game, Blue Devil head coach John Kerr pointed out that his team must compete better on the other end of the field in order to battle tougher opponents.

“We were a little sloppy at times, defensively,” Kerr said after his team

allowed seven shots in the victory.

Duke (5-6-2, 1-4-1 in the ACC) will hope its momentum from the game against the Camels can carry over to its contest against a Notre Dame team that enters the matchup on a two-game losing streak. After losing just one game in a nearly two-month span, the Fighting Irish (10-3-1, 3-2-1) have dropped games against then-No. 21 Virginia and Northwestern in the last week. In each

of the losses, Notre Dame has struggled to rebound after letting its opponent get off to fast start and the Blue Devils will look to get on the board early to put the pressure back on the Fighting Irish.

Freshman Suniel Veerakone and junior Brian White will likely play a role in any of Duke’s scoring opportunities as the duo has combined for seven goals and nine assists this season. But the play of forward Cameron Moseley has carried the Blue Devils of late as the junior has netted goals in three consecutive games.

Moseley now has a team-leading five goals on the year, despite starting in just three games this season.

Although Kerr made it clear that his team will not face an easy task Friday against a stout Fighting Irish defense, he stressed the importance of Duke making the most of its opportunities.

“We’ve got to do better when we have possession,” Kerr said. “We have to make sure that we are conscious of what we are doing on the ball.”

The Blue Devil offensive attack will also have its work cut out against one of the best goalies in the country.

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Cameron Indoor Stadium last six at home for the Blue Devils, who are 9-2 in the friendly confines of Cameron this year.

“This has definitely really been wonderful to have a stand at home where we can catch our breath,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It’s great for our team just because we can get some work done and sleep in our own beds.”

The Blue Devils (13-5, 7-1 in the ACC) have righted the ship after an inconsistent start to the

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle No. 1 recruit Harry Giles has been sidelined following a procedure to clean up scar tissue in his knee.

M. BASKETBALL from page 6 for the foreseeable future following a knee scope, Tatum appears to be the freshman most likely to have a big night. The 6-foot-8 swingman has a smooth jump shot and the length to get to the bucket with ease, which should make him a tough cover throughout the year.

Five-star recruits in the building Countdown to Craziness is also known for offering recruits a chance to get to know the Cameron Crazies, and it will be interesting to see which Class of 2017 stars look comfortable Saturday night. Among the touted prospects expected to be in attendance are five-star guards Gary Trent Jr. and Quade Green and five-star big man Wendell Carter. Duke is currently the favorite to land Trent Jr. and Carter and the Blue Devils are one of Green’s final five schools.

season, leading the conference in digs and sitting in second place in opponent hitting percentage to shut down opposing offenses.

Senior Sasha Karelov has led the defensive effort with 5.3 digs per set—tops in the ACC— and Duke has had at least three players reach double digits in digs in three straight matches, with defensive specialists Chloe DiPasquale and Nicole Ellatrache and freshman setter Cindy Marina stepping up in recent weeks.

Duke has also been playing better defense at the net, as sophomore middle blocker Leah Meyer is fourth in the ACC with 1.4 blocks per set.

“We’ve been able to improve our block….

That’s only helped our diggers get more digs, so they go hand in hand,” Nagel said. “It’s really continued to help our defense, so that’s huge and it’s wonderful and we’re going to need it this weekend.”

Duke’s defense will be in the spotlight against the Tigers and Yellow Jackets, who both have an experienced hitter in the top five in the conference in kills.

Clemson senior Leah Perri tallies 3.7 kills per set, and Georgia Tech senior Teegan Van Gurst has posted double-digit kills in her last two matches against the Blue Devils and has 4.1 kills per set this year.

“They’re very talented and smart players and they get the ball a lot, and we’re going have to be able to play defense against that,” Nagel said. “It’s not going to be easy. That’s why they’re so successful, because they’re so smart, so we’ll have our work cut out for us.”

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Sophomore middle blocker Leah Meyer has increased her block production in recent weeks as the Blue Devils have become one of the best defenses in the ACC.

Duke’s strong play in its back row has covered for a revolving door of outside hitters that have played this year. Freshman Jamie Stivers did not play in Saturday’s win against Virginia after starting 15 of the Blue Devils’ first 16 games, and junior Cadie Bates started insteadj in ust her fourth appearance of the season, notching eight kills.

Freshman Samantha Amos has also emerged as a key role player with five straight starts and at least 12 kills in three consecutive matches, taking playing time away from

sophomore Jessi Bartholomew, who has just one start in October after starting 11 of Duke’s first 13 matches.

“We’re very fortunate that we could play anybody on our team, and we think they would do a good job,” Nagel said. “That’s a real tribute to our team and their resilience and the fact that they are a team, that it doesn’t matter necessarily who is out there.

They’re going to work together.”

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shutouts and allowed only nine goals all season. A defense that surrenders only 10.1 shots per game also makes sure that the team’s goalie does not have to make too many tough saves.

After his team took on the challenge of playing talented conference opponents all season, Kerr does not expect to see his team back down Friday.

“North Carolina only let in six goals this season, and we played them last week and we scored,” Kerr said. “We’re creating a lot of chances, but we’ve got to convert them. And if we can convert at a higher ratio, we’ll be in good shape.”

Even if Duke is able to create scoring chances Friday, the Blue Devils will have their hands full on the other end of the field with Notre Dame forward Jon Gallagher. The junior was named a third-team All-ACC performer last season and has had an even better year this time around.

Gallagher leads the conference in goals and his team in points and assists this season. In his last two games, the forward has led all players in shots despite being held scoreless in both contests. He will look to get back on the scoresheet against a Duke defense that has been inconsistent in recent weeks.

With the season coming to an end, the Blue Devils are looking to continue improving as a unit with the ACC tournament still ahead of them. A strong performance against Notre Dame will give Duke a chance to do just that with only two games left on its regular season docket.

the ball and really patient defensively,” Blue Devil head coach Pam Bustin said. “[That] kind of threw North Carolina off their rhythm.”

Despite being shut out against the Cardinals, the Tar Heels are among the best offensive teams in the country. They average 3.5 goals per contest and have still scored 15 goals during their last four games, including a 6-0 drubbing of Miami (Ohio).

Senior Lauren Moyer and junior Gab Major headline North Carolina’s deep offense having combined for 20 goals and six assists this year, but it was Eva van’t Hoog who broke open the Tar Heels’ first win against Duke with a pair of goals.

Although the Blue Devils have had a few lapses against top-five competition, redshirt freshman Sammi Steele has proven to be

one of the best netminders in the country during her first year as a starter, and another big game from its goalkeeper could propel Duke to more history this season.

Steele has notched three shutouts this year—including one against then-No. 6 Maryland early in the season—and is in the top 15 nationally in goals allowed per contest.

Saturday’s game seems to have every possible storyline imaginable, but it will actually not be the Blue Devils’ regular season finale—Duke will conclude the season Oct. 29 against Richmond.

A long-awaited win against the Tar Heels would just give the Blue Devils another reason to celebrate on Senior Day next week.

“The last time we beat UNC was my freshman year,” Blazing said. “So that would really bring things full circle and would be an awesome way to end the [ACC] regular season.”

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VOLLEYBALL from page 8 The Tigers (6-14, 1-7) have struggled in the ACC this year and have not beaten the Blue Devils since 2012, but they snapped an eightgame losing streak Sunday with a five-set win against Boston College, rallying from a 2-0 deficit to win the last three sets.

The Yellow Jackets (15-5, 6-2) swept Duke last season and will likely be looking to catch the Blue Devils in the ACC standings with another win Sunday. They have lost just one set in the midst of a fivegame winning streak, and they are No. 43 in the RPI with a couple of impressive nonconference wins against Auburn and Georgia under their belt.

A win for Duke—which is No. 67 in the RPI—would help its chances of getting to the NCAA tournament for the first time in two years.

“They do have a little bit higher RPI than we do right now, but that’s certainly not something I’m even going to worry about,” Nagel said. “We’re going to worry about being prepared to play them… and take it one point at a time.”

W. SOCCER from page 6 Blue Devils’ star co-captain has failed to capitalize on her chances, but Duke had another opportunity to tally a game-winner just minutes later.

With only 45 seconds remaining in regulation, Blue Devil freshman Olivia Erlbeck fired a shot toward the goal’s top left corner, only to have Miller knock it away with her fingertips with what Church called “probably the best save [he’s] ever seen in 35 years” and send the game to overtime.

“[Miller] is as good as anybody in the country,” Church said. “Their whole team is good, but the goalkeeper is there to clean up and do whatever she needs to do.”

Florida State (11-2-2, 5-1-2 in the ACC) took advantage of Miller’s heroics barely seven minutes into the extra session after a crucial turnover gave the Seminoles possession.

Florida State sent the ball out wide to midfielder Olivia Bergau, who found Natalia Kuikka with a long pass toward the back post.

Kuikka then headed the ball to Tillman on the edge of the six-yard box, and the game’s hero did the rest, beating Duke goalkeeper EJ Proctor to end the contest.

Although the game ended frantically, for much of the first half, it was a defensive struggle.

The Blue Devils (12-3-2, 6-1-1) failed to get a shot on target until the 23rd minute, but then ripped off nine of the game’s next 10 shots.

Gibbons led Duke with four attempts—playing all 97 minutes along with forward Toni Payne, who added three shots of her own.

“We got away from all those opportunities we had in the second half,” Church said. “You give Florida State a lot of credit—they were outplayed all over the field, but they hung in there.”

Throughout the latter 45 minutes of regulation, it seemed inevitable that the Blue Devils were going to cash in. With a trio of second-half goals in their last three wins, Duke and its high-powered offense forced Miller to make five saves and frequently found itself deep within Seminole territory.

But for the third time this season, the Blue Devils remained tied and goalless after 90 minutes—and like both prior occasions, they were unable to pull out a victory.

“We lost our patience a little bit,” Church said. “We tried to have players win the game with one ball. It got knocked back down and then they connected passes and kept the ball…. They executed [the game-winning goal] well.”

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With the win, Florida State closed to within two points of the first-place Blue Devils in the ACC standings as the regular season winds down. Thursday night’s top-10 matchup was a critical RPI battle for both sides as Duke and the Seminoles both are looking to earn top seeds in next month’s NCAA tournament.

Although Church dropped his 11th contest in 19 chances against Florida State and the loss snapped the Blue Devils’ eight-match unbeaten streak—the second-longest in program history— Duke’s head coach is looking forward to his team’s second road game of the weekend.

The Blue Devils will take on Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon looking to bounce back in their final road game of the regular season.

“I don’t think we’ll have any trouble getting ready for Pittsburgh,” Church said. “We have a lot of disappointed people, but we’ve got people that will learn from this. We’re still first place in the league and we plan to win the next two games and the regular season.”

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esterday, following the discovery of hate speech spray-painted across the East Campus Bridge, we emphasized our campus’s complicity in promoting a culture in which some among us feel comfortable utilizing hate speech. Today, we scrutinize hate speech to characterize the types of derogatory and problematic speech we should actively push against. We evaluate potentially hateful speech on the basis of content, intent and context, noting that the intersections of these criteria often confound the differences between hate speech and appropriate self expression. Recognizing this, we caution students not to toe the line we draw since gray areas can still prove to be offensive.

In many cases, broaching uncomfortable topics, if done in a sensitive way, can present important learning opportunities. However, striking a balance between the intention behind and content of a potentially contentious discussion is key in separating hateful and acceptable speech.

Such conversations must be entered with a desire to learn and engage in respectful discussion rather than impose beliefs or opinions on another person. In some cases, though, genuine intention can prove insufficient in allaying harm

done by the language of the conversation. In these situations, we must accept that any negative impact of the words utilized outweighs the original intention and be willing to steer the conversation in another direction. However, we can avoid unnecessary harm to another by reflecting on our tone and questioning whether a word or phrase with discriminatory connotations would be better replaced with another.

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For some groups, utilizing words with historically derogatory terms can be an expression of reclamation and empowerment. However, even within these marginalized groups, the meaning of

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We will all probably encounter situations in which we are unsure whether the derogatory speech being utilized in a conversation is targeting or negatively affecting another listener. When faced with such a situation, we push students to stand up for one another, believing it is better to speak out in an uncomfortable context than to allow someone to feel marginalized and silenced.

The general line between expressing oneself appropriately and hate speech is determined both societally and individually. Societally, it is imperative to avoid words and phrases traditionally associated with hate. Individually, it is important to defer to the individuals of the marginalized group these words or phrases may isolate because only they can accurately assess the impact the words have on them. At the end of the day, our mission is simple. We seek to respect others, their values and their experiences. As we move forward from the hateful acts of last weekend, in order to avoid unintentionally hurting another, we have to be more careful about our language even if we have been flippant during past conversations. Caution is a small price to pay to avoid crossing the line and expressing the hatefulness we condemn.

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ometimes referred to euphemistically as the “Silver Tsunami,” America’s population is rapidly aging.

It is projected that the number of Americans over the age of 65 will double by 2060, growing to comprise nearly ¼ of the U.S. population. This demographic shift poses significant challenges, given the progression of chronic disease and disability that can accompany the aging process. While demographics may be shifting, the world that this aging population will inhabit is rapidly changing as well. Those who now find themselves in the over 65 population were born before the birth control pill was approved by the FDA, before the Internet was invented, and before the advent of commercial jet travel. Major technological shifts have shaped the lives, careers and health of these citizens. Well-designed technology, similarly, holds great promise as a tool for facilitating a healthier, safer and more independent life for these individuals as they age.

When surveyed, the elderly report a strong desire to age in place. 90 percent of those over 65 reported that they plan to remain in their current residence for as long as possible. Reasons underlying this desire to remain at

avoid parallel parking indefinitely. However, for those unable to drive, these new cars could have a profound effect on quality of life. As anyone who has spent time with the elderly can attest, judgments regarding capacity to operate a motor vehicle can be touchy and unclear. Commonly, declines in vision, reaction time and memory occur insidiously, making a determination of capacity difficult. Much of American urban planning is predicated on having a car for transportation. In areas underserved by public transportation, the advent of selfdriving cars could radically influence personal safety, reduce social isolation and increase the ability to carry out necessary tasks for independent living, such as grocery shopping.

New technologies also hold promise as a tool for supporting the caregivers, typically unpaid family members, who care for people in the latter years of their lives. Caregivers report significant emotional stress and neglecting their own health needs in order to care for others, often resulting in burnout. Technologies that can take over basic caregiving tasks, such as automated medication containers that alert a smartphone when a dose is missed or robots that help with lifting and bathing, can radically improve the quality of life

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home are varied, but include a desire to remain connected with friends, family and community organizations.

Additionally, about one quarter of respondents reported they lacked the financial ability to move. Moving into an assisted living facility has significant financial ramifications. In 2014, the median annual cost for single bedroom apartment in an assisted living facility in North Carolina was over $35,000. A year of residency in a semiprivate room of a nursing home cost almost $74,000. This cost is not just born by individuals. Elderly individuals who spend down their savings while in a nursing home come to have their care covered by Medicaid. Technologies that assist the elderly in remaining independent and family members in caring for the elderly at home can represent significant cost savings to individuals and society.

Technology that improves life for the elderly does not have to be technically complex to improve quality of life. One of the most common examples is a “Personal Emergency Response Service”—best typified by LifeAlert necklaces.

Falls are responsible for 70 percent of the accident injury deaths among those 75 and older. Falling and being unable to obtain help can lead to dehydration, missing essential medications, and pain from injuries incurred during the fall.

A simple and well-designed button gives many people the confidence to remain in their homes, knowing they could quickly summon help in the case of an emergency.

Novel emerging technologies also hold great promise.

In August, Uber launched a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. To many young adults the advent of self-driving cars is primarily a matter of convenience and the ability to

of caregivers, and may prolonging the time that they can safely care for an elderly at home.

Like all technology, successful innovations for improving aging will depend on high quality human factors design.

Poor design will fail to account for the declines in hearing, eyesight and mobility that accompany old age. For example, with a tremor a tap on a touch screen may turn into a swipe, rendering the device difficult to use. The MIT AgeLab has created a suit to help replicate the physical realities of old age, giving designers and developers a chance anticipate challenges and design better products. Another common pitfall is assuming familiarity with a given technology and failing to account for a learning curve. A device that may be second nature to a child who has grown up with similar technologies may prove deviously complex to a well educated adult lacking context.

While the population is rapidly aging, well-designed and novel technologies hold promise as tools to reduce costs of care and improve quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers. Success will be based on the use of these technologies to augment, rather than replace, supportive care from family and societal sources. Disruptive technologies have radically altered everything from the way we hail a cab to craft our social networks. Technological advances similarly hold promise as tools for creating an aging process that allows for greater independence, dignity and safety.

Lauren Groskaufmanis is a graduate student in the school of medicine. Her column, “the picture of health,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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Newton on procrastination

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hen I was younger I always imagined that Sir Isaac Newton, the renowned scientist and mathematician, looked something like Sir Isaac Newton, the anthropomorphized newt in Beatrix Potter’s illustrated storybook, “The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.”

However, Newton the man has his own certain charm and usefulness (as I’m sure physicists, engineers, mathematicians and quite a few other scientific groups will attest). Today, I want to share a thought I have about Newton and his teachings and apply it to my favorite domain—motivation, productivity, and effectiveness.

One of Newton’s many contributions to science was a set of three scientific

with your time. If you aren’t, there are two problems you can encounter. First, you may feel as if you have hours of time every single day to fill with action upon action upon action. However, you may also feel like you have too much to do and you procrastinate because you’re afraid to even begin. Scheduling will help with either problem.

If you feel you have nothing to do then scheduling will allow you to mold your time so that you come up with projects and activities and goals for yourself to fill your time. On the other hand, if you have a ton of stuff to do, scheduling will allow you to make it more manageable and allow you to work productively without

The Oval Office isn’t a locker room

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ne of the downsides of university politics is that on prominent issues of social justice, the student body mobilizes to form its opinions without giving students time to discuss and deliberate on the issues. It is a sign of how much we care, I believe, but the result is that we all agree on how we feel before most of us firmly understand why. This is not a criticism, but rather an observation worthy of concern.

Two weeks ago, the Washington Postreleased a video showing Donald Trump bragging about groping and sexually assaulting women. The condemnation from the Duke community was swift and unanimous. Even Duke’s small but loyal population of Trump supporters was rattled.

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laws of the universe. Together, these laws are often referred to as “Newton’s Laws of Motion,” and the first of these laws essentially reads as followed: “An object at rest will stay at rest. An object in motion will stay in motion. Both of these laws remain in effect unless an outside force acts on the system.”

In plain English, this means that when something is moving forward, it will keep moving forward unless an outside force makes it stop. It also means that something which is not going anywhere will stay that way unless something shakes it up and gets it on its way. His law could be rephrased, perhaps, in this manner: things that are stopped will stay stopped, things that are moving will stay moving, either will continue to happen unless something literally forces the situation to change.

When it comes to procrastination, our biggest danger is the fact that it feeds on itself. Just like Newton’s law states, once we become “at rest” we will remain that way until we put in the massive effort to get ourselves moving once more. Have you ever noticed how much energy it takes to go from procrastination to productivity? It takes a lot. You’re going up against one of the fundamental laws of the universe.

When it comes to going out and achieving your goals, momentum is a powerful driving force. It demands that we keep on working even when we don’t feel like it. Once you have momentum, every single day can become productive, powerful and satisfying. Because every day you make forward progress you’re gaining momentum until you simply snowball into a massive wave of accomplishment.

I think that the most important question to ask regarding motivational ideas and philosophies is, “How is this actionable?”

Newton’s law tells you that you must wake up every day and get started moving.

Start by doing something that will lead you into another something which will lead you into another something all the way until your head hits the pillow each night. It really doesn’t matter what you’re doing as long as you’re doing something, because procrastination really hits us when we’re feeling as though we aren’t doing anything anyways. It gets us when we’re bored, and we have no activities to do. The way to combat it is to always be moving forward.

Now, a corollary to this principle of forward momentum is that if you are going to be constantly moving forward then you must be be supremely organized

going overboard.

Obeying this corollary, one of the most important ways to react to this motivational law of momentum is to start scheduling your day. Preferably, schedule it the night before, because it’s best to wake up each day with a plan. And that’s step number two for utilizing Newton’s law. Wake up every day knowing what you’re going to do. Waking up and checking your phone? That’s not a plan.

Waking up and knowing that you’re going to put your coffee on, stretch and meditate and then write in your journal— that’s what a plan looks like. That’s something that can get you started.

Taking into account the fact that specifically developing a morning ritual may be new territory, here are some things you can do to start beginning a motivational and effective day, every day: Wake up and write in your journal.

I personally like write about my goals, because that gets me pumped up, motivated and ready to go, and because the day is young I feel full of optimism.

Stretch and meditate as soon as you wake up. The two activities go together superbly because stretching is waking up your body in a slow, calm and thoughtful way while meditation is waking up your mind in a similar fashion. I stretch for ten minutes or so and meditate for the same.

Then I drink my coffee, look at my daily plan, go out and kick ass.

Begin by reading something highquality, positive and motivational that will get you inspired. A lot of people underestimate the power of filling their minds up with positivity, with positive words and thoughts; this is what morning reading allows you to do. Read books that get you primed and fill your mind with productivity-oriented thoughts.

Momentum begins the instant your feet hit the floor. By Newton’s first law, it will either continue as long as you allow it or it will stall out and flounder as soon as you allow it to slip away. Your most inspirational days will be the ones in which you build momentum through a positive morning ritual and then power on through roadblocks towards your goals until you wind down and finally lay at rest in the evening. However exhausted you may be, never underestimate the satisfaction you’ll feel at the end of a day that was filled with momentum in the right direction.

Jack Dolinar is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “more percent efficient,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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However, as a feminist I worry that in an election inundated with controversy, the significance of this footage will be obscured and lost in the noise. We must do more to explain to the student body what, specifically, Donald Trump’s remarks reveal about his view of women as well as the dangers of such a view should it ever command the highest office in our nation.

Trump’s pugnacious reputation has been forged largely through his confrontations with women. For example, Trump began a bitter feud with Rosie O’Donnell in 2006, during which he has referred to her as unattractive, a “big, fat pig” and “my nice fat little Rosie” among other slurs. Then, last year Trump referred to Megyn Kelly as a “bimbo” and posted doctored photos of her on Twitter after she confronted him for his treatment of women during a Republican primary debate.

Trump naturally rejects the notion that he treats women any differently than men, and his daughter Ivanka referred to him innocently as an “equal opportunity offender.”

Whether or not we accept the premise that he is a sexist, anyone who claims to be surprised by the new video is either quite unfamiliar with Donald Trump’s past or is being disingenuous. We knew this man had a problem with women long before we knew the allegations that he was groping them.

What the video does reveal is the extent of Donald’s sexual depravity. Not only does he show no regard for the woman he assaulted being married, which should strike a nerve among people of faith, but he behaved as though he owned her. He says, “And when you’re a star, you can do it. [Women] will let you do anything,” even “grab them by the p***y,” he clarifies.

It is imperative that we understand that the issue here is not that Donald Trump said a few profane words. The issue is that these words lay bare his perverse view of female value.

Donald Trump is the previous owner of the Miss America pageant, a contest ostensibly judged on criteria not including contestants’ appearance. Before he ran the contest, it reportedly irritated Trump that “the most beautiful people were never chosen [as winners].” Thus, as owner Trump implemented the so-called “Trump Rule” whereby contestants were “paraded” in front of him so that he could select those he found attractive enough for television. Additionally, as the star of the reality television show, “The Apprentice,” Trump made sexually explicit comments on and off camera; at one point telling a female contestant, “It must be a pretty picture, you on your knees.”

One could fill volumes with examples of Trump’s sexist behavior, and for each

his campaign will conjure up a defense.

Altogether, however, they paint the picture of a man accustomed to seeing women and their bodies as luxury goods—no different than a sports car or a new watch. And no luxury is beyond The Donald’s reach.

In the second Presidential debate Trump denied ever carrying out the assault he bragged about in the Washington Post’s video. He chalked it all up to “locker room talk” and brushed the issue aside. A ludicrous media debate ensued over whether a 59-year-old man saying that he moved on an unconsenting woman “like a b***h” fits the definition of “locker room talk.” I will not entertain that level of foolishness here. More importantly, Trump walked into a landmine

with these comments, because within days several women had come forward with accusations against him. Currently, there are eight independent accusations against Trump, several of which fit the description in his 2005 video almost exactly. Barring a conspiracy of epic proportions, we have every reason to believe these stories are true. There is a sexual predator at the top of the Republican presidential ticket.

This concerns me most because our next president has large shoes to fill. He or she must maintain the pressure that the Obama administration has placed on Universities to expel rape culture from their campuses and be more transparent in their handling of reported sex crimes. Remember that 23.1 percent of undergraduate women experience sexual assault in colleges every year. Will Donald Trump be their voice?

Furthermore, the next president must stand before the military and every federal agency as their commander in chief and order them to treat women with respect and dignity. Donald Trump does not have the character, the concern, or the credibility to face these challenges.

A president’s behavior is a model of what they will tolerate in office. If that is true, I cannot imagine the hopelessness of women around the country who have been sexually harassed, assaulted or raped by a man of wealth and repute. What do they feel when he dismisses a confession of sexual assault as “locker room talk”?

This story began with the women Donald Trump violated, and it should end with them. Many claim they didn’t file charges against Trump when he kissed, groped or harassed them because they feared he would retaliate. He’s validated that fear by threatening to sue the New York Times for libel in a thinly veiled attempt to censor two women’s stories of being inappropriately touched by him years ago. Nonetheless, these women valiantly spoke out, knowing that Trump would try to silence them, because they trusted the public to believe them. If this country elects Trump in November, then our society will have doubly betrayed them: first, when Trump’s wealth granted him de facto impunity from the law; and second, when the public saw Trump for the predator he was but chose not to care.

Donald Trump likes to talk about keeping this country safe, but when it comes to women, he’s as dangerous as it gets.

Ian Burgess is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “from the mountaintop,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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FOOD TRUCKS from page 1 make a determination.

Coffey also wrote that Duke Dining encouraged the trucks to build relationships with apartment managers near the Swift location to help boost sales. Apartment managers say the trucks never did, he wrote.

Gus Megaloudis, owner of the Gussy’s Greek food truck, said he was told that if his truck did not show up at Swift Avenue, trucks would not be allowed to serve at the Kilgo lot either. His truck is exploring using two employees instead of its normal three while serving at Duke.

“It’s not worth it anymore,” Megaloudis said. “We can do same exact kind of money now at other jobs.”

Although selling food in the Kilgo lot had potential to improve sales, the late hours of their designated shifts—from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.—are not helping, Megaloudis explained.

He has started arriving at 7 p.m. and leaving by 9 p.m. to avoid slow sales times.

Parlez-Vous’ issues extended beyond the Swift Avenue location. The truck has had trouble connecting to the University’s

wifi, which is needed for handling sales, Argote added. Instead, she has had to write all sales down manually.

Argote noted that due to their contracts, food trucks cannot increase their prices to compensate for low revenues or Duke’s 17.2 percent take on all sales.

Taylor said that the food trucks were moved from their previous Chapel Drive locations because they were technically parked in fire lanes, but Argote said this was not relayed to her even though her truck had been in that location for six years.

“The University and Duke Dining have worked very hard to find viable parking locations free of charge, close to the students [and] residents... for the food trucks to serve the Duke community,” Coffey wrote. “Duke Dining also advocated for students’ request to have food trucks on Swift and worked closely with Duke Card and Duke Parking to make this happen.”

Taylor added that the University incurred fines last year because the food trucks parked on Chapel Drive.

Still, Parlez-Vous and Gussy’s Greek’s owners said they feel slighted by Duke Dining for the changes and the perception that West Union’s opening marginalized their role on campus.

Argote said she rated her experience with Duke Dining “at the

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bottom,” compared to the other universities she has worked with. Megaloudis added that he just wanted a clear indication about whether food trucks were fully supported.

“If they don’t want us to have that fair opportunity then so be it, let us go on and take care of our businesses and our families,” he said.

Taylor offered an apology for their plight, noting that he wants to make changes to help the the food trucks.

“I feel like we didn’t do the best we could to communicate with them the changes being made,” Taylor said. “I’d assure them that we really do want them on campus, we’re going to work as hard as we can to find them a place on campus.... We don’t want to force them out.”

KORNBLUTH from page 1 very much a suburban campus. They’ve built us a really beautiful facility there. They’ve given us free hand in what education offerings we have there. They really want an undergraduate program there as they’re trying to grow their economy. They see that students with the ability to read, write and think critically are going to be critical for the growing of their environment. So we’ve got a partner willing to make the necessary investments and a location in the wealthiest province in China, where we can have a great lifestyle there for our faculty and students and have an impact there for the whole country.

TC: What degrees will be offered and how will a degree from DKU compare to a degree from Duke in Durham?

SK: We don’t have anything absolutely definitive yet because it would have to be approved both by our accreditors and the Ministry of Education in China, but what we believe will happen is [the degree] will say Duke University as offered at Duke Kunshan University. So it would clearly be a Duke University degree, but clearly at Kunshan. We had a market research firm who talked to students, and they want the degree to indicate that it was given in China, and they don’t want to be accused of misrepresenting their degree. I think that the Duke faculty and students feel the same way. They want Duke Kunshan University to be a really high quality university but not say it’s the exact same thing because it’s not. We want it to be of equally high educational caliber.

TC: What is the timeline on the program’s approval?

SK: The vote by the Academic Council is in November, so we should know soon if the faculty approve it, and then the Board of Trustees has a vote in December. Then we start marching toward a launch. The original conversation was to launch in 2018. That has not been ruled out by any means. But on the other hand, we really need to start recruiting faculty and have a serious recruitment operation for students and see if we can make that date. 2019 is also a possibility. We want to make sure we have a truly high-quality offering, and we’ll know as soon as we start to recruit faculty how easy or difficult it’s going to be. We don’t need a huge number to launch because it’s a small, liberal arts college.

TC: What concerns have faculty members raised about the undergraduate degree program?

SK: I would say they fall into a few categories. The first is financial. Duke has spent a good deal of money there on Phase 1, and although the expenses have been as anticipated, the revenues have fallen short. The master’s programs haven’t grown at the rate that we would have liked. So the question is, how do you know you’re going to have the revenue in the next phases? In the first phase, the cost was split 50-50 with our Chinese partners. In the next phase, we have kept our subsidy of the operation at $5 million, and there will be $1 million of additional funding put into the hands of Duke faculty who want to do collaboration there. But our partners have committed $40 million a year. So a lot of the initial cost concerns are lost.

The other is the faculty quality, and one of the things that is going to be critical is the participation of Duke faculty in selecting colleagues for Duke Kunshan University. I think it’s going to have long-term payoff if the Duke faculty participate integrally in recruitment. In terms of student quality, we want students who are really strong. Part of that is going to be personal interviews to make sure their English is strong, because all the courses are offered in English. We’re going to have to make sure that they’re strong academically and so that has been another point of contention.

Another thing has to do with academic freedom. There are seven joint venture universities in China, and no one has seen an infringement on academic freedom. A number of the professors at Duke who have taught there commented on the huge breadth of viewpoints in the classroom, and they’re just bowled over by it.

They’ve talked about anything they’ve wanted in the classroom, with no censorship. Also the students and faculty there have access to anything on the Internet that we have at Duke.

We’re thinking about this not only for the present but for 30 to 40 years from now. If we can really do this well, this will have a huge international impact and also put Duke in an extraordinary light.