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The mold standard: Duke inspects Central Forum examines proposed power plant Nidhila Masha The Chronicle A Tuesday forum addressed concerns about a proposed University plan to allow Duke Energy to build a combined heat and power plant on campus.

Supporters of the idea argued that building a CHP on campus will reduce emissions as well as the University’s energy bill—strengthening Duke’s ability to generate power during a regional power outage.

However, concerns have been raised about the plant’s broader environmental impact on the North Carolina community.

“We all want to provide for the University’s needs while producing as little greenhouse gases as possible,” said Dean Urban—a senior associate dean of Nicholas School of the Environment—in his opening remarks.

By capturing the steam driving a turbine and using it for heat, a CHP plant is designed to be more efficient than plants that just create heat or steam and plants that just See ENERGY PLANT on Page 4

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Some argue that the proposed Duke Energy plant would have negative effects on North Carolina communities.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Joe Gonzalez noted in an email Tuesday that the mold found in Central Campus apartments belonged to the genera Cladosporium, Aspergillus and Penicillium, which are common environmental fungi.

Adam Beyer The Chronicle Have a lingering cold? A lot of students seem to—and many think mold is the cause.

In an email to Central Campus residents Tuesday, Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez announced that the University has contracted with an environmental and engineering firm to evaluate every apartment on Central for mold. The inspections will include visual assessments, humidity measurements and an air quality test.

“As Dean Gonzalez stated, we have done over 50 tests over the last number of years and have never discovered a single case of the bad mold that is mentioned in the media,” said Rick Johnson, associate vice president of student affairs for Housing, Dining and Residence Life.

He said HDRL’s decision to evaluate all Central apartments was made out of “an abundance of caution.”

Students in three apartments have been relocated, according to the email, although Gonzalez noted these relocations were made to accomplish “needed work” rather than due to poor health conditions. The contractor, Duncklee & Dunham, will attempt to complete all inspections by Winter Break.

Rich Lisowsky, owner of Mold Solutions, a Durham-based mold abatement firm, said that dealing with indoor air quality can be challenging.

“Every one of these cases is different,” he said, noting that people need to fully know what is in the air before deciding whether to take action to treat it.

Lisowsky said he thought referring to mold as “toxic” was a mistake, as it is more akin to an allergen.

The email to Central Campus residents noted that inspections will begin Wednesday and will last approximately 45 minutes for each apartment. It listed three genera of fungal spores that have been found through HDRL testing: Aspergillus, Penicillium and

Cladosporium—all of which can cause allergic reactions or lung infections.

Gonzalez wrote that in the three specific apartments on Central with issues, the levels of those three species “were generally much lower than outdoor levels” but that their presence in different proportions meant there may be a mold source in the apartment that would need to be handled.

Johnson also noted that HDRL addresses potential problems with dust.

“Sometimes dust aggravates allergies, so HDRL cleaned all A/C units and ducts three years ago,” he said. “HDRL continues to monitor A/C systems and cleans systems as necessary.”

Last year, a student living on Central Campus found black mold in her apartment and hired an outside contractor to evaluate her apartment.

The student was relocated to West Campus while her roommates remained.

HDRL’s own test did not find mold at concerning levels, Gonzalez said at the time.

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Do males and females have differences in cognitive ability?

Cara Leigh Downey The Chronicle Males and females are often compared on aspects of intelligence in popular culture: are men better than women at math? Are women better at writing? Is the acknowledgement and study of these patterns perpetuating stereotypes?

Matthew Makel—director of research at the Duke Talent Identification Program, a program geared towards gifted students—was the lead author in a study published this month on sex differences in cognitive abilities. The study had two goals—to investigate whether such differences have changed since the 1980s and to compare these findings to a different culture, in this case India.

“If we are not taking advantage of fully developing the talents of all individuals, then that’s a huge loss to society, as well as being unfair to those individuals if they have a talent and a passion but were limited by some barrier that society has put up to restrict their talent development,” Makel said.

The researchers found that the rates at which males score in the the top 0.01 percent of math achievement scores compared to females in the United States has decreased since 1980, though males still perform better than females overall. Girls in the U.S. have gradually surpassed boys on language tests since the 1980s and now make up 60 percent of top SAT language scores.

The gender gaps among gifted youth in India are larger than in the U.S., with boys having an advantage in

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math performance and girls similarly surpassing boys in language, according to the study. Academically-talented boys in both the U.S. and India surpassed girls in science.

The study involved 320,554 gifted seventh graders in the U.S. and 7,119 in India who participated in the Duke TIP talent search between 2011 and 2015.

“One of the examples that we cite in the beginning of our paper is that women hold only about 16 to 17 percent of tenured faculty positions, and less than 30 percent of doctorates in mathintensive fields,” Makel said. “If we as

a society aren’t developing talent, then we are throwing away the potential to solve some of the world’s most difficult struggles, and we aren’t doing all that we can to help individuals reach their own peak performance and develop their own personal talents.”

However, Daniel Voyer, professor of psychology at the University of New Brunswick and an expert in sex differences in cognitive ability, noted potential problems with the study.

“I’m scared about that kind of research. I think it perpetuates stereotypes,” Voyer said. “Emphasizing

the sex differences in that way is in the end not helping anybody, because in the end you still have boys that are not doing well, and you still have girls who are doing well.”

Makel said he believes that researching sex differences in cognitive ability at the highest extremes is important because it provides information that could help achieve equity in STEM careers.

There could also be problems with the study’s focus on the extremes of cognitive ability, Voyer noted.

“I think their research was well done for the question they were asking,” Voyer said. “I’m just not sure exactly what the implications are. I don’t know that the implications are as profound as we might think at first glance.”

Duke TIP decided to study gifted children because studying only average performance “would ignore important and meaningful information that could help us understand how talent is developed in modern society,” Makel explained.

Voyer noted that he thinks it it important to create a positive atmosphere for both genders to learn.

He co-authored a study with his wife Susan Voyer on gender differences in scholastic achievement, which reported that females achieve consistently higher school grades than males.

“It doesn’t mean we should overemphasize boys and disregard girls. It just means that we should provide a better learning environment for everybody,” Voyer said. “We have to find ways to get everybody to engage in their own learning.

It doesn’t mean putting boys and girls in different classrooms.”

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Karl Rove, Jim Messina talk Ballot explainer: Voters will decide Durham bond referenda ‘polarized’ 2016 election Harrison Labban The Chronicle The Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy hosted a discussion featuring Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, and Jim Messina, former deputy chief of staff and campaign manager for President Barack Obama.

During the event, which was moderated

by Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy, Rove and Messina said that this campaign season is unlike any other they had experienced. Both noted that Trump’s chances for winning the election are slim, and Messina explained that his team’s most recent predictions give Clinton an approximately 94 percent chance of victory.

“The thing that scares the hell out of

Isaac Zhang | The Chronicle The event, which was moderated by Peter Feaver, focused on the 2016 election’s impact.

me… is to have one member, of any party, say that they won’t accept the outcome of the election,” Messina said. “I think democracy has only worked when you put [the finished election] aside and go on and work together. Now you have a nominee saying, even if he loses, he might not say [the election] is okay. Two-thirds of all Republicans say the election might be stollen from them. That’s an incredibly divisive development, which could change our democracy in a really scary way.”

Both veteran political operatives spent time speculating about how the U.S. would move forward after election day, with Rove noting that both Republican and Democratic parties will have to adapt following the close of the 2016 election.

Rove also explained that the controversy surrounding this election is nothing new in American politics.

“Don’t kid yourself—we have been highly polarized before and we will be highly polarized again,” he said. “Do not think that we are in a new situation. Go take a look at the 1800 election—you think it’s ugly today? Go see what they were saying in the 1800 election.”

Although Rove recently said on Fox News Sunday that a Trump victory was something he “didn’t see happening,” he said that he is not abandoning the Republican cause this election. Rove was quick to contest Messina’s predictions that Democrat Roy Cooper would defeat sitting Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in this year’s North Carolina gubernatorial race, as well as Messina’s See ELECTION on Page 4

Nathan Luzum The Chronicle This year’s ballot asks Durham voters to approve or deny four bond referenda. These referenda allow voters to determine whether Durham County is authorized to sell bonds in order to fund specific public resources and take on debt, which the County will be authorized to repay by increasing the tax rate on its citizens.

School bonds If approved, $90.9 million would be raised via the sale of bonds for reconstruction and maintenance of Durham area schools.

Out of the total money raised, $51.9 million would be devoted to completely rebuilding Northern High School, which was originally built in 1955. Since 2000, Durham County has devoted more than $3.5 million to Northern High School maintenance, including the replacement of the air conditioning system, the upgrade of asphalt and repairs to the tennis courts.

“We have spent a lot of money bandaging the problems with this school versus just rebuilding a new school,” wrote John White, vice president of public policy at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce who is leading the effort in support of the bond, in an email.

The remaining funds will go to various repairs and heightened security measures in other Durham County schools.

Library facilities bonds The Durham County Main Library would

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receive $44.7 million for a major overhaul.

The 36-year-old Main Library is the only Durham library branch that has not been significantly updated since its opening.

If the bond is approved, an additional 20,000 square feet would be added to the library’s interior, and the current areas of the library would receive systems upgrades and design changes. The exterior of the building would be modified to increase aesthetic appeal and energy efficiency, while the parking layout would undergo a redesign to improve traffic flow.

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“Durham Technical has been underfunded for many years,” White wrote. “While some would say we’ve been conservative White emphasized the importance of the Main Library to in terms of how we’ve invested in DTCC and thus how often many Durham County citizens. we have asked Durham County residents to support DTCC, “The Main Library attracts 430,000 visitors annually and we have not kept up with training and industry demand for supports the 15 percent of Durham households that do not Durham and the region.” have access to any kind of broadband,” White wrote. “Specific White indicated that since 2001, a total of $16.9 million has to Durham’s workforce, approximately 27 percent of library been raised via bond funding for DTCC. $332 million and $240 computer users have searched for, applied for or used the library million have been raised for Wake County Technical College and to apply for jobs.”

Central Piedmont Community College, respectively. However, those colleges are much larger than DTCC. Community college bonds The bond would raise $20.2 million for the maintenance and Museum bonds expansion of Durham Technical Community College. $14.2 million in bond funding would pay for improvements The money raised would contribute to a 20,000-30,000 to the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. square foot expansion of the facilities to create additional A portion of the funds would be devoted to a new parking room for automotive systems and construction classes. Some deck, an improvement that would make access to the museum classrooms from other departments would also be relocated to easier, White noted. the proposed expansion zone.

Most of the remaining funds would be used for exhibit Additionally, more parking would be added to the campus, expansion and modification by constructing new spaces and and a new Facilities Service Building would be constructed to upgrading technology.

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ENERGY PLANT from page 1 generate electricity. The purpose of the forum, sponsored by the Energy Initiative and the Nicholas School, was to consider whether building an on-campus CHP would actually serve Duke’s interests.

“Having a regional power outage would be catastrophic to the campus,” said Russell Thompson, director of utility and engineering services. “We don’t have backup generation for every building on campus. Only the hospital is 100 percent and they would be relying on diesel generators.”

Although Duke hospitals keep four days worth of fuel on hand for diesel generators, they must send for a new shipment when supply runs out, Thompson explained. But this might not be possible in the aftermath of a severe natural disaster, which typically causes long-term regional power outages.

Based on case studies of prior natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, Thompson concluded that such power outages could last as long as seven days—a timeframe that the hospital is not currently equipped to handle.

Natural gas pipelines, he explained, run deep underground and are not usually affected by severe weather conditions.

Construction of the CHP plant would thus increase Duke’s ability to supply power to its various facilities in the face of a natural disaster.

Others suggested that even in the absence of such emergency conditions, the CHP plant could prove useful to the University.

“A primary advantage of this project would be that compared to baseline situations, I think we’re looking at about two million dollars a year in cost savings,” said Ted Herman, co-president of the Nicholas School’s Business and Environment Club.

Tuition rates might be favorably affected by such reductions in its overhead cost, said Herman, who is also pursuing master’s degrees in business and environmental management.

Duke Energy submitted its proposal to the North Carolina Utilities Commission last week and is awaiting government permission to go ahead with the plan. If approved, the plant would be built to the east of the Blue Zone parking lot, confirmed Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, in a prior article.

A CHP planning document published by the University argues that greenhouse gas emission rates would fall by 18 percent if the plant is installed.

However, two Nicholas School professors recently published a guest column in The Chronicle, criticizing some of the planning document’s conclusions. The figure has also been contested by local environmental justice non-profit NC WARN. Jim Warren, the group’s executive director, recently sent an email to President Richard Brodhead questioning the plant’s ability to reduce emissions.

“The amount of natural gas burned on campus—and associated greenhouse gas emissions—would increase by 61 percent over current practice,” Warren wrote in an email.

Some members of the student body oppose construction of the CHP plant.

Sophomore Claire Wang, president of the Duke Climate Coalition, said that more than 800 students have signed a petition against the construction of this CHP plant. Doubt about the plant’s potential impact on greenhouse emissions is one of the organization’s concerns.

Wang also raised the issue of economic injustice, noting that the costs of building the plant will be passed on to the general North Carolina population, and those people will not benefit from its construction.

“The plant cost is 60 million total,” she said. “55 million of that is funded by Duke Energy which pays for its projects by charging rate payers who are just people in the community.

So ultimately the bulk of this plant is being paid for by North Carolinians who are not at all affected by what Duke will be benefiting from.”

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However, both expressed uncertainty about where the GOP will go after the election—particularly what role Trump will play.

“He’s got fourteen million [Twitter] subscribers, and he will have allies [after the election]… who understand social networks,” Rove said. “So the question will be, what does he want to do?”

When asked how Clinton will govern if elected president, Messina had a more definitive answer. “[Clinton’s] history as a senator was bipartisan, working across party lines,” he said. “That’s the way her husband governed, and that’s what she says she’ll do.”

Although Messina did not deny the magnitude of Trump’s base, he said he does suspect that GOP leaders will toss Trump aside after the election.

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Stories from Jazz at the Mary Lou

A look at the decade-old tradition, page 7

‘The Jemima Code’

Toni Tipton-Martin helps dismantle racial stereotypes, page 8

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For fall break this year, I hit up the most popular place for Duke students to get away, excepting D.C.: Asheville, N.C. While promises of hiking and seeing the Biltmore seemed appealing, my chief reason to go stemmed from the desire to wear a sweater without having to worry about heatstroke by midday.

There were many highlights of the trip: the fall foliage (the one thing I really miss about New England), finding a real-life functioning video rental store, and, oh yeah, seeing a bear run across the Blue Ridge Parkway right in front of our car.

But the one event that sticks out most to me is our Monday night at the Grey Eagle.

This fine establishment, while usually used as a Taqueria and music hall, was transformed on Monday nights into a contra dancing space.

That’s right: the event featured a caller, a live band, the whole deal.

The space was filled with older regulars, couples, and a few firsttimers. My friends and I arrived just as the beginner’s lesson was ending, meaning we had no chance of keeping up with the more experienced dancers.

Don’t get me wrong: I do love to dance, in larger group environments, when nobody is really watching me. Apart from an ill-advised tap and jazz class in fifth grade, I had no experience with real dancing, especially dancing with a partner.

We only knew about contra dancing from an Asheville tourist site of questionable quality, and when we walked in and only saw a few older people milling around, we ducked outside and held a spirited

debate about whether or not to go in. In the end, not wanting to be cowards won out, so we walked in.

After a brief introductory lesson, the night kicked off with the band picking up their instruments and the caller beginning to call out moves I had never heard of. The next hour passed in a blur of twirling, accidentally bumping into people, and saying, “sorry!” to whatever partner I had at the present moment. Despite discovering that I had literally no dancing talent, I enjoyed myself. The live music was catchy in a small town sort of way, and the dances, when I could follow along, were fun to try out.

editor’s note Apart from the dancing, looking around at the regulars of contra dancing was also fascinating. Sure, there were plenty of newcomers, both single and in couples, but it was clear who came there every week.

They danced better than everyone else and formed a sort of rhythm with each other as they twirled around the room.

Even though we were only in Asheville for a total of four days, it was enlightening to be able to be a part of something so central to some people’s lives. We were just passing through, but some participants spent months or possibly years learning

how to do dancing that is much more difficult than it seems.

What really stuck out for me for fall break this year was having the opportunity to really appreciate a different part of the countr y.

Despite having studied at Duke for over a year now, I’ve rarely had the opportunity to experience different parts of North Carolina, or break out of the “Duke bubble” if you will. Monday night at the Grey Eagle, I was able to appreciate a culture that I would never likely have experienced other wise, having barely even heard of contra dancing before we went.

Last year, fall break ser ved as a break from the hectic atmosphere of Duke. I took full advantage of laying on the couch and watching entire seasons of shows on Netflix.

This year, I couldn’t help but start thinking of how little time I had left at Duke, despite only being a sophomore. How many times in my life was I really going to have the opportunity to pack some of my best friends up in a car and drive to paradise? Was it better to decompress from Duke by napping the day away, or was it worth it to make some memories stronger than any twist ending on Netflix? I decided dealing with homesickness for a little longer would be worth getting to explore a part of North Carolina that I had always wanted to visit.

Did we stay longer than an hour?

No. Did we master any part of contra dancing? Not even close. But, separately from making for a decent Instagram post, it is one hell of a memory.

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Old gig, new faces: stories from Jazz at the Mary Lou Henry Chan The Chronicle

Riley Mangan works at the Human Vaccine Institute on mother-to-child transmissions of HIV. Modestly dressed in a plain sweater and jeans, he speaks with a smart, youthful earnestness; the phrase “boyish charm” was invented for guys like him. But he can’t talk for long. It is Wednesday at the Mar y Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, and tonight he’s the new guy on piano.

Mangan goes about his business methodically.

His lean frame is hunched over, and his deliberate phrasing is complemented by crisp, clean tones. Hearing his careful silences, one thinks: this is a man who think things through.

But he also delights in dense arpeggios that run the length of the keyboard, and when the moment seizes him, which is often, he bounces his left foot so vigorously it is almost a stomp.

“One of the best things about a jam session is the strangers. You get somebody who is rolling through, maybe they’re playing with a show that’s touring and they’re going to be in Durham for two weeks,” Mangan said. “You get somebody coming up on stage, has his horns and about to take solo—no idea what this guy sounds like. Sometimes they’re just okay, and other times they knock the socks off your feet.”

True, Jazz at the Mar y Lou has its recurring figures: its founder and director of Duke’s jazz program Professor John Brown, and his many friends of regional fame (like saxophonist Brian Miller, trumpetist Al Strong). But more often than not, you can obser ve musicians of all stripes—sometimes so outwardly dissimilar it’s comical—jam in awesome creative communion, and after wards they will shake hands, and you realize: they’ve just met.

In the subterranean dimness, laptops glow; most audience members are working, but nobody takes offense. Drummer Donovan Cheatham and pianist Andrew Berinson are members of the house band, and they have a palpable bromance that likely resulted from four years of collaboration which started during their time at North Carolina Central University. Berinson plays with a wistful lightness of touch; Cheatham’s technical prowess dominates. But they are just as interested in having a conversation with you as they are with each other.

“Most of the people in the audience aren’t musicians, which to me is a good thing,” Berinson said. “Music is a social art, so it’s meant to be shared. They could be studying in their room or the librar y or a coffee shop, but they came here to hear some jazz.” “ T h e r e ’s a u d i e n c e a n d t h e n t h e r e ’s u s , a n d i f t h e r e ’s e n e r g y c o m i n g f r o m b o t h d i r e c t i o n s , that kinda makes the world go round,” Cheatham said.

S i t t i n g a t t h e b a c k r o w, a w a s h i n s o u l f u l melodies, Ingrid Lorese is a bit restless. Born in the Philippines and raised in the States, she g r e w u p s u r r o u n d e d b y rh y t h m a n d v o i c e . H e r father was a pastor who directed the church c h o i r, s o s h e e n d e d u p s i n g i n g w o r s h i p m u s i c a lot. Her childhood hero was Filipina Broadway star Lea Salonga. Since coming to Duke, she has joined an a capella group and the Duke Jazz Ensemble.

And yet, she’s ner vous about singing tonight.

Lorese, a senior, has sat in the Mar y Lou crowd since she was a sophomore. For two full years she did not consider per forming. While the event is technically an open jam session, it has a guarantee on quality. Ask any jazz musician in the Triangle area, and absolutely nobody talks smack about the Mar y Lou. This is to the credit of Brown’s discerning eye (and ear): his signature invitation goes, “We welcome all—and listen closely—qualified musicians.”

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In the Juanita Kreps and L yndhurst Galleries at the Center for Documentar y Studies, large black and white photos are suspended from the ceilings.

Illuminated by the warm lights in the galleries, the faces of African American women from generations past came into focus. They were the former slaves, forgotten ser vants and aspiring young chefs who sustained American families for the last 200 years.

Curated by food and nutrition journalist Toni Tipton-Martin, “The Jemima Code” is a traveling exhibit currently housed at the CDS until Nov. 23. Through the photos of Alvin Langdon Coburn, Tipton-Martin tells the stor y of real African American cooks who have been trapped by the stereotype of Aunt Jemima. This caricature is an over weight, subser vient and asexual ser vant gladly caring for her master’s family while disregarding her own children.

As defined by Tipton-Martin, “‘The Jemima Code’ is a 200-yearold practice of using the image of the plantation mammy to symbolize and misrepresent the knowledge, skills and abilities of African American cooks.”

Originally used to promote her book by the same name, “The Jemima Code” consists of a visual portion and an interactive one. The first is curated by Tipton-Martin and the second by Courtney ReidEaton, the exhibitions director at CDS. In the first room, viewers are physically able to walk around, toward and beside the women in

the galler y. In this way, TiptonMartin hopes to convey a sense of intimacy and connection that would have been impossible had the portraits been placed against the walls. Affectionately called “The Ladies” by Tipton-Martin and her readers, the larger-than-life portraits hanging from the ceilings evoke different emotions from different people.

“For some of us she brings warm memories of someone who cared for the family,” Tipton-Martin said.

“She might be someone who cared for you in your mother’s absence.

She might be someone that you’re a little ashamed of because if you’re African American and you’re a woman, she comes out of an era when black women were told you can’t be anything else except a domestic ser vant.”

“This room really connects the stereotype [of Aunt Jemima] and the histor y of it in different points of entr y to these women,” said Tamika Galanis, who works for

Eaton-Reid as an intern, about the interactive part of the exhibit. “If you were to just experience that side of the exhibit with the photographs, there’s no direct representation of the typical Jemima.”

The second half of the exhibit invites visitors to explore and touch the world inhabited by TiptonMartin’s ladies. Resting on one table, nestled in a wooden box are old recipes that people can copy onto index cards to take home. On another, a variety of fragrant spices beg to be opened and smelled.

Further physical manifestations of the mammy stereotype are on display ,from contemporar y food packaging to an Aunt Jemima cookie jar. Those interested in learning more about the issue may browse booklets with additional information and watch the movie “Ethnic Notions,” which plays on the far wall.

In addition, Tipton-Martin’s beautifully illustrated book helps to dismantle the Jemima Code and gives voice to the women whose

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Tipton-Martin’s beautifully illustrated book helps dismantle the Jemima code.

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stories have been overshadowed by racism. “The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks” is a collection of cookbooks mostly written by African American women.

“Each one of the authors and books is given their own platform and their own space of beauty,” Tipton-Martin said.

By incorporating anecdotes and portraits of the authors, readers see these women as the unique and varied individuals they were.

They had their own lives and defied the plantation mammy stereotype.

Overcoming the limits society placed on them, they were entrepreneurs and businesswomen who used food and cooking to advance themselves economically and socially.

“These women were not just ser vants…these people developed the framework of food in this countr y and they were professionals.

They weren’t just somebody’s cook, somebody’s wet-nurse, somebody’s nanny…food ser vice…was a way that some of these women found freedom,” Galanis said.

Like Rebecca West, who graces the cover of the book, the women of “The Jemima Code” were skilled professionals in the food industr y with immense pride in their work. But in an effort to dismiss the real culinar y knowledge and intelligence African American chefs possessed, white people from the Reconstruction and Jim Crowe eras often attributed a cook’s proficiency in the kitchen to natural instinct and supernatural magic.

By honoring the women who contradicted the Jemima stereotype, Tipton-Martin hopes people can embrace their gifts of dignity and strength.

Recess Reviews: Lady Gaga’s new album ‘Joanne’ Brooklyn Bass The Chronicle Lady Gaga’s “Joanne” is just as new as her new look and is less unconventional and futuristic than her earlier work. She ditches the auto-tune in favor for punchy vocals and leaves the club hits for strong pop anthems and complex melodies.

In other words, “Joanne” is a simple, timeless work. This means the album lacks a song that is suitable for a live night on the dance floor; however, gains are made elsewhere as it works to satisfy a more sophisticated audience. Gaga is still fun, but she proves that she has more to offer the soundscape.

Songs like “Angel Down” and “Hey Girl”—featuring the flirty voice of Florence Welch—make the social statements of which hard-core Gaga fans are already familiar, but were often missing from most of her music. “Hey Girl” is a celebration of friendship and an urge for women’s solidarity. “Angel Down” addresses the darkness of deadly racism pervading the streets, as Gaga passionately belts out her frustrations about this reality in dedication to Trayvon Martin.

She even sprinkles a bit of social commentary in “Come to Mama,” a show tunes-like number that addresses prejudice in all its forms.

Although Gaga confronts serious topics with this new album, one still finds that “Joanne” remains light and pleasurable among many levels of nuance. She still wants to dance, which is evident with “Dancin’ in Circles,” an upbeat tune with an international sound. Throughout the album, Gaga’s signature feisty sound, accompanied by country, folk and 1980s rock influences, maintains the listener’s interest. In “Joanne,” the voice of Cyndi Lauper and even Bette Midler lives on. Their legacies have an obvious impact on this album.

Despite its many strengths, “Joanne” will suffer with an audience who is only acquainted with her music because of its popularity in dance clubs. Unlike her loyal Little Monsters, Gaga occupies a specific musical space to most of the world.

The radical change of musical style exhibited in “Joanne” may not be received well by mainstream audiences.

Nevertheless, the risk is worth taking as Lady Gaga’s “Joanne” has the potential to successfully propel the artist into an elite class of musical artists whose music transcends time.

“Joanne” is the difference between existing as a fleeting pop artist with an interesting gimmick, to a sophisticated contributor to the musical soundscape.

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Yellow Jackets hope to avenge consecutive losses to Duke Saturday at home Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle Before the Yellow Jackets’ 2014 loss to the Blue Devils in Atlanta, Georgia Tech had ripped off 10 straight victories against Duke and had not lost at home to its Coastal Division foe since 1994.

Now, after consecutive losses to the Blue Devils—including a two-touchdown defeat in Durham last September—the Yellow Jackets will be looking to get back on track and pull within one win of bowl eligibility Saturday afternoon.

Georgia Tech and its dangerous tripleoption offense will challenge a Duke team that is still in search of its first conference win when the two sides meet at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta this weekend. Like the Blue Devils, Georgia Tech has lost three straight ACC games and needs a win to get back into the race for the Coastal Division title.

The Yellow Jackets will turn to their physical offensive line to accomplish that feat—they currently stand third in rushing among ACC teams with 234.3 yards per game and boast a trio of talented backs that have combined for nearly 1,000 yards on the ground.

“This is a really good Georgia Tech team,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said.

“They’re better than they’ve been, playing well at quarterback, which in that offense— any offense—makes it difficult.”

Although redshirt senior quarterback Justin Thomas led the team to a 3-0 start, the 2014 second-team All-ACC signal-caller has been inconsistent since. The Yellow Jackets could not dictate the pace of play in losses to Clemson, Miami and Pittsburgh, but bounced back last week with a 35-24 win against Georgia

Khloe Kim | Chronicle File Photo Quarterback Justin Thomas and company have struggled to sustain drives against Duke’s defense in the teams’ last two meetings.

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Thomas had 26 total touchdowns in 2014 before a disappointing 2015 campaign, and so far has mostly facilitated for Georgia Tech’s other backs in the triple option. And after reaching the century mark in rushing on five occasions during the 2014 season, the Prattville, Ala., has failed to do so once in the Yellow Jackets’ last 19 games—a streak that Duke hopes to extend.

In their last three games against tripleoption offenses, the Blue Devils defense has stayed disciplined and led the way in three decisive Duke wins.

“They’re well-coached. They’ve played very well against option teams the last two or

three years,” Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson said at his weekly press conference.

“From Navy, to Army, to us, they’ve got a good scheme and they execute it.”

Despite the Blue Devils’ past success against the option, Duke has been susceptible to giving up chunk plays. Last season, even though the Blue Devils held the Yellow Jackets to fewer than three yards per carry on 60 rushes and Thomas struggled through the air, all six of his completions went for at least 10 yards.

Georgia Tech does not throw often, but its tendency to go for big plays through the air is still a staple of Johnson’s offense. This season, five Georgia Tech wide receivers

average at least 14 yards per reception— putting the Yellow Jackets first among ACC teams in yards per completion.

“If it’s not complicated enough to stop the run game, they have play-action passes, and good ones, almost off every run action,” Cutcliffe said. “Hopefully we maintain right positions on the ball...and we don’t give up as many explosives as a lot of people do to this type of offense.”

Like its offense, Georgia Tech’s defense started the season well but has sputtered in conference play. The Yellow Jackets surrender about 350 yards per game—good for 27th in the nation—but allowed 32.7 points per game in their three ACC losses.

Facing a Duke offense that has been just as inconsistent, the Yellow Jackets will turn to redshirt junior cornerback Corey Griffin and senior linebacker P.J. Davis to get the ball back to Thomas and the offense. Griffin has 38 solo tackles along with an interception and Davis has 34 total tackles.

“Their defense has some special components,” Blue Devil center Austin Davis said. “Their defense doesn’t get as much credit as it should.... They typically have good players up front. They’re unique in how they’re coached. They’re very disciplined, they work well together and they move gaps.”

On the defensive line, redshirt senior Patrick Gamble leads the Yellow Jackets with three sacks, and along with junior Antonio Simmons, is tied for the Georgia Tech lead in tackles for loss with five.

Although the Yellow Jacket front struggled against Pittsburgh’s physical offensive line, it could have the upper hand against a Duke offense that ranks near the bottom of the See SCOUTING on Page 13

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Blue Devils win third straight in OT at Elon Riley Pfaff The Chronicle

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Brian White’s game-winner in overtime gave the Blue Devils their first three-game winning streak of the season.

Coming off a double-overtime upset of then-No. 4 Notre Dame, the Blue Devils entered Tuesday’s game looking to take care of business in their nonconference finale.

After posting another strong defensive effort, they finally DUKE 1 broke through in ELON 0 overtime to record their first threegame winning streak of the season.

Duke knocked off Elon 1-0 Tuesday night at Rudd Field in Elon, N.C., on an overtime goal by junior Brian White. The Blue Devils overcame a slow start in the first half thanks to White’s fifth goal of the year, and goalkeeper Robert Moewes made four saves to earn his second

shutout of the season.

“We kind of made a pact before the game that we wanted to come out here and make sure we had a shutout,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “The guys did a great job, from Robert to the back four.

The midfield four in front of them did a great job and even the front guys did a great job making sure it wasn’t easy for the backs to play the ball forward.”

Each team came out firing in the overtime period following a scoreless first 90 minutes, with the Phoenix (7-4-3) putting early pressure on the Blue Devil defense.

Elon had a golden opportunity in the 96th minute, but Moewes denied Luke Matthews’ header to give Duke (7-6-2) a chance to strike back on a counterattack.

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Countdown to overreaction Brian Pollack The Chronicle Countdown to Craziness was Saturday night and, as usual, it was electric.

Cameron Indoor Stadium was filled to the brim with energized fans eager to see the top-ranked Blue Devils on the floor for the first time.

Celebrations were abundant and emphatic starting with the player introductions. During the scrimmage, offense flowed freely, as freshmen Jayson Tatum and Frank Jackson made the rest of the squad look as if they were playing in slow motion.

The brimming talent and promise of the roster was clear even to the casual observer, and it was easy to fantasize about what this team could become. A friend even texted me afterward saying we should book tickets to Phoenix for the Final Four.

But that reaction is exactly what fans should guard against following Saturday’s showcase.

It was just that—a showcase.

For all of the hype surrounding Countdown and how much anticipation it builds, the event is completely meaningless from a basketball perspective. Countdown still provides legitimate value to the program through marketing and branding exposure and an alluring recruiting pitch for top high school talent, but drawing conclusions this early in the basketball season is a dangerous practice.

The first live glimpse of any team is bound to

be overanalyzed regardless of the opponent— in the same way that early MLB spring training games and NFL preseason contests are dissected for “meaningful” takeaways. Yet to take away any meaningful lessons from a 20-minute intrasquad scrimmage—something that frequently happens in practice—is overly sensationalistic and plain silly.

Yes, Tatum looked outstanding and polished and could seemingly score from anywhere he wanted to. But he was also being guarded by Jack White, who figures to see little—if any—crucial playing time this season and pales in comparison to the types of defenders and schemes Tatum will draw on a regular basis when real games begin.

Jackson stood out by virtue of his raw athleticism, quickness and ability to break down the defense off the dribble.

Those skills should carry over to the regular season, at least in some capacity, but the 6-foot-3 guard also has a lot of learning to do in terms of running the offense and adjusting to the flow of the game. How Jackson fares against Kansas’ veteran backcourt duo of Frank Mason III and Devonte Graham Nov. 15 will tell us infinitely more about what the Blue Devils can expect from him this year.

Even that marquee matchup in the Champions Classic, though, can only tell us so much about where this Duke team is headed. It will be a litmus test, for sure, against a top-notch team, but there’s no need for the metaphorical walls to cave in even if the Jayhawks romp to a double-digit win.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshman Frank Jackson was one of the stars Saturday night during the scrimmage at Countdown to Craziness.

When expectations are at a championshipor-bust level—which they are certainly approaching for this team, fairly or not—there is a tendency for pundits to scrutinize every slipup or false step in search of the one weakness that can fell such a talented team.

In the 2014-15 season, many thought the sky was falling after the Blue Devils stumbled to a 2-2 start in ACC play and got blown out

by Miami at home. Fans were lamenting Tyus Jones’ defensive struggles in January 2015 after Miami’s Angel Rodriguez torched the freshman. But in April, Jones went on to be the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player.

In that case, talent won out, as it almost always does in a long season. And this Duke team has as much talent as any team in the country—perhaps more.

That’s an important thing to keep in mind when the inevitable ebbs and flows of a tough ACC slate take hold. Despite their overwhelming ability, the Blue Devils will not, in all likelihood, meet every test along the way, and there will probably be times Duke looks downright lost.

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ACC in nearly every offensive category but is coming off one of its cleanest performances at then-No. 7 Louisville.

Georgia Tech could also have an advantage in the kicking game, as Harrison Butker is one of the most reliable kickers in the nation. The senior is a perfect 25-for-25 on extra points this season and has missed just one field goal.

If the Blue Devil defense can continue its strong play against the triple option, the Yellow Jackets could look to Butker to get points on the board. He kicked two field goals from outside 45 yards last year against Duke to keep Georgia Tech within striking distance, so the Blue Devils will try to keep the Yellow Jackets off their side of the field.

“As a defense, we’re on a high horse right now,” Duke redshirt junior defensive end Dominic McDonald said. “We feel great, very confident and we play the tripleoption very well.”

“I said, ‘Make good decisions because you want to understand that they’re tired, we’re tired and if you make your angles right and you make good decisions on the ball, we’re going to get opportunities,” Kerr said. “And soon enough, we did.”

Less than three minutes later, freshman Brandon Williamson—the hero in Friday’s win against the Fighting Irish—found White near the top of the penalty box to set up the junior’s third game-winning goal of the year.

White used a quick turn to get by the Elon defense before dribbling by Phoenix goalkeeper Matthew Jegier and slotting the ball into the back of the net with his left foot.

“I’m so happy for him because he’s been so close for such a long time and he needed that confidence builder,” Kerr said. “He did a fabulous job keeping his composure in front of the goal.”

The contest was even throughout, starting in the first half when both goalkeepers had to make timely saves to keep the game scoreless. Moewes was at his best from the start, making two first-half stops to shut down an Elon offense that leads the Colonial Athletic Association in shots on goal and assists per game.

The Blue Devils’ best chances in the first half came when Williamson fired a shot just over the crossbar in the 13th minute and when Jegier had to deflect a White cross out of play. Duke focused on controlling possession in the opening period, biding its time before trying to beat a goalkeeper with six shutouts

OVERREACT from page 12 country’s top recruit who is supposed to put this team over the top—won’t be on the court in Cameron against Michigan State Nov. 29, or even by New Year’s Eve for the team’s ACC opener at Virginia Tech. It’s possible that when he does return to the floor, he won’t immediately emerge as the dominating presence he was hyped up to be.

If and when things like that happen, resist the urge to panic.

Remember the moment in January 2015 when many thought Duke was a pretender rather than a national title contender—the Blue Devils responded by hanging a banner in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Graduate student goalkeeper Robert Moewes notched his second shutout of the season Tuesday night.

on the year and keeping the pressure each found the goal’s frame with on the Phoenix offense with aggressive opportunities in the next 20 minutes. defensive play.

Jegier kept Duke off the scoreboard in “We wanted to make them play the regulation by stopping a White attempt ball earlier than they wanted to play in the 86th minute to force overtime, it, and we knew that there would be but the Blue Devils kept at it to get back opportunities to steal it off them at some above .500 for the season. point,” Kerr said. “We just wanted to Duke will look to preserve its make sure they were uncomfortable on momentum in its regular season finale at the ball and our two strikers did a great No. 17 Virginia Friday night. job doing that.”

“It gives us a lot of confidence, a lot After halftime, the defensive of belief, and that’s what we’ve been battle continued, with the Blue Devils searching for the last half of the season,” ramping up their offense in search of a Kerr said. “I really like this team going game-winner. into the late stages of the season, and The CC NewUche Yorkhad Times Syndication Freshman a shot blocked Sales I’mCorporation very excited. They deserve it and 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 in the 55th minute, before classmates they’ve For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 earned it and we just got to keep Max Moser For and Suniel Veerakone it25, rolling.”

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oom. Doom. Doom. The truth is gone, the lines are blurred, the lies prevail. Politics may never recover. So sayeth the crowd of commentators who have declared that we now live in a “post-truth” world—a state of politics and discourse in which people and politicians stake out claims grounded in their own subjective versions of facts, ignoring any semblance of objective reality.

The post-truth world theory hasn’t materialized out of thin air. In the United states, Donald Trump, a major party’s presidential candidate, has made and recycled countless false statements ranging from the declaration that his wild tax plan would produce a surplus to the assertion that Barack Obama is the sole founder of the Islamic State to the rumor that Obama was born in Kenya. Faced with incontrovertible evidence contradicting those statements, he has doubled down on them, questioning the veracity of the so-called “objective facts.” His claims have been shameless and perturbing. Unfortunately, such shenanigans haven’t just been limited to American politics.

In the United Kingdom, during the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, pro-leave advocates repeatedly claimed that EU membership cost the UK 350 million pounds/week and that a vote to leave the union would

lead to that amount of money instead being spent on the UK’s national healthcare system. The claim was roundly debunked, but that didn’t stop it from being splayed over pro-leave banners and constantly repeated by prominent “Brexiteers.”

Certainly, the world of 2016 provides ample opportunities for such “Post Truthism” to arise in politics. In academia and research, so called “experts” regularly contradict each other, as evidenced by the seemingly benign debate about the actual health

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benefits of milk. Those contradictions make it seem that the truth of any given statement is up for debate. Meanwhile, people confine themselves inside of social media echo chambers where they are regularly exposed to a narrow band of supportive opinions and diluted facts, decreasing their ability to accurately evaluate truth. On top of all that, the rise of globalization has heightened xenophobic and racist attitudes across the developed world, prompting people to rely on “truth-y” feels-right facts to back up their thinly veiled prejudices.

Post-truth politics, though, is nothing new.

Ever since the days of Julius Caesar, politicians have played games with semi-truthful rhetoric in order to influence their electorates. During the election of 1800, New Englanders frantically hid their bibles in their wells under the false guise from John Adams’ supporters that the deist Thomas Jefferson would seize all religious books.

Even in 1960, President Kennedy had to deal with baseless claims by Republicans that he would be subservient to the Pope.

The political lies of today are not new, nor or they more egregious than those of the past. They have simply become magnified in a digital age where they are easily re-shared. In fact, perhaps “anti-Truthism” in 2016 has ironically contributed to a more honest depiction of the state of American politics. It has exposed a nest of lingering racist, sexist and xenophobic attitudes that lie beneath a web of shoddily constructed claims.

Claims that we live in a post-truth world today are overblown and not historically grounded. Whether it is 1800, 2016, or looking four years down the line at 2020, voters must always be able to process a broad range of claims and judge the validity of each on its own merits. Politicians can always lie, but they can’t define the truth.

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rom a multitude of perspectives, the 2016 election is in patent disarray.

Many Americans on both sides of the aisle feel that the choice they face on Nov. 8 constitutes the unenviable task of deciding the lesser of two evils.

Such is the unfortunate truth of the current political landscape.

One of the most dangerous precedents of this election will be its impact on the freedom of the press, a pillar of our free and open democracy. Both major party nominees have exhibited a recurrent disdain for the press, and it is only logical that such attitudes would persist in the White House. Donald Trump has mercilessly mocked a disabled reporter and has even employed the Orwellian tactic of barring news organizations from his campaign whose coverage he deemed slanderous. Such techniques invoke images of Soviet Russia rather than a vibrant, 21st-century democracy.

of the American people and ensures that the President remains accountable to those who elected him or her in the first place.

Its profound importance in the process of governing cannot be underestimated.

Past presidents have treated their relationship with the press with the gravity that it warrants. President Barack Obama, whose relationship with the press has been far from perfect, has held over 150 press conferences since taking office and lauded the media at the 2016 White House Correspondence Dinner for “pushing to shine a light on the truth every single day.” Other presidents have gone further than those kind words. President Jimmy Carter would even play softball with the press corps as a token of geniality. In short, despite the inevitable conflicts on policy or reporting, presidents have been able to form a working relationship with the members of the media who cover them.

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Secretary Hillary Clinton fares only slightly better on this issue. She went over nine months without holding a press conference between December 2015 and September 2016.

Does she intend to continue this behavior as President? While many may excuse Secretary Clinton’s reclusiveness by comparing it to the conduct of Trump, her actions are only slightly less perturbing.

Both of these examples serve as a stark premonition for toxic press relations when one of these two candidates claims the White House in November. The Constitution establishes many checks within the government that attempt to limit the power of the President.

The media, however, represents a different type of check that, despite its status as a nongovernmental entity, attains the same end of preventing an all-powerful presidency.

In every column or news report covering the White House, the press seeks answers to the most pressing questions on the minds

Given their past behaviors, Clinton and Trump unequivocally diverge from the conventional rapport between the president and the press. Trump’s labeling of the press as “some of the worst people I have ever met” and his proclivity to silence dissenting opinions holds no precedent in the White House.

It seems dubious at best that Trump could establish any productive relationship with his White House press corps. Secretary Clinton’s unwillingness to meet the press on their turf, through a press conference, again holds no precedent in the nation’s highest office.

On Jan. 20, 2017, either Secretary Clinton or Trump will assume the presidency. Ignoring their various positions (or lack thereof) on substantive policy issues, both candidates wield an abysmal record in their dealings with the media. The inauguration of one of these candidates will represent a loss for freedom of the press, and for American democracy as a whole.

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t’s October of 2016 and the United States is starting to feel the revolutionary ripples that technology is sending into our society.

Our political system is reeling from the fallout of what many perceive to be the failures of politicians and policy to protect the American dream.

Political candidates, eager to show their solidarity with the idealized, blue-collar American, have rolled up their sleeves and headed deep into coal country, old steel mills and the automobile industry strongholds to win votes.

The narrative parroted in the national media has been that traditional manufacturing jobs in industries like coal mining, steel manufacturing are drying up due to advances in

His hypothesis has gained a tremendous amount of attention, as the proliferation of technological advances moves at an astronomical rate.

So what are we missing? How does this rapid growth in technological capacity strengthen or undermine our society? Everyone seems to recognize the incredibly positive potential that can be leveraged from increasing capacity but also is skeptical about it’s benefits for all members of society. The reality is that we need to be a nation that drives innovation and then uses our innovative capacity for our own citizens.

We cannot and should not fight the proliferation of technology and instead need to focus on building the type of educational infrastructure that supports a knowledge-based society.

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s alumni of both Duke and Teach For America, we’re writing in response to the recent editorial, “Why Not Teach For America?” While the editorial was filled with inaccurate information about Teach For America’s program, mission and impact, the most uninformed assertion is that current Duke students would be best served to take their talents elsewhere.

As three of the nearly 500 Duke alumni who have chosen to join Teach For America since it started, we’ve witnessed firsthand the powerful impact of corps members and alumni. What makes Teach For America unique among national service programs is the scope and ambition of its mission: to boldly reimagine the future of our nation by enlisting remarkable, diverse leaders who commit to effecting change in schools, school systems, and in every sector and field that

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technology and the automation of work. Thus, the fervently held belief that all Americans who are willing to work hard and have high school degree have a right to enjoy the bounty of the American dream is now in jeopardy.

What is most fascinating about this election is that these communities of once thriving industrial areas are, understandably, looking to revitalize themselves by once again surging forward in manufacturing- an area that may not have much room to grow.

These issues are certainly relevant in the political debates over trade, such as the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). However, this narrative is missing the greater issue at hand.

Whether or not the United States chooses to engage in trade with Asia or what our strategy is for rebuilding the industrial job loss in Appalachia, we still have yet to solve the root of these issues.

It is no secret that technology has already started, and will continue to, fundamentally alter our economy.

Much of the conversation about how technology will change our lives focuses on the latest iPhone, new advances in medical testing, or the next big tech startup. The multi billion dollar valuations of Uber, Lyft, Airbnb are further evidence. Students at universities are quickly recognizing that technology is the future and are signing up for courses in computer science at dramatically increasingly rate.

Meanwhile, investors and venture capitalists are scouring Silicon Valley trying to hunt down the next Google.

The momentum building from the technology movement can largely be credited to Moore’s Law, which was proposed by George Moore in a 1965 paper titled, “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits,” where he essentially hypothesized that the processing capability of a computer doubles every 18 months, until 2025.

The grievances of the steelworkers and the coal miners are real. There is no denying the pain and the disruption that has ravaged many of these regions.

However, I fear that this is just the beginning. The crisis in America isn’t the troubled manufacturing towns.

They’re the symptoms of an undiagnosed epidemic in our social, financial and political system.

George Moore, in an interview with Thomas Friedman, was recently asked if he believed that Moore’s Law will continue to persist past his initial prediction. He said he believed it was possible and that the bounds of technology were truly unlimited. Thomas Friedman agreed with him but added, “Let’s remember that it was enabled by a group of remarkable scientists and engineers, in an America that did not just brag about being exceptional, but invested in the infrastructure and basic scientific research, and set the audacious goals, to make it so.”

Unfortunately, there is serious concern over whether or not we’ll be able to meet these goals. MIT recently published a report titled, “The Future Postponed: Why Declining Investment in Basic Research Threatens a U.S. Innovation Deficit” that joins a chorus of voices that have been pointing to major declines in U.S. innovation and leadership. In a time and a world that is increasingly dependent on knowledge as power, the United States has no option but to take dramatic steps to invest and push the bounds of scientific knowledge. The disgruntled voices of an America that is rapidly being left behind don’t need artificial, temporary solutions. Instead, we need to build a workforce of the future, for a world that is going to be increasingly demanding of our innovative potential.

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

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shapes them.

So we wanted to share our personal stories that dispel the myths about Teach For America, and illuminate the collective impact of corps members and alums: one of us from the corps, and two as alumni from the legal world and from the classroom.

Elisa Oliver, 2015 Duke graduate: “As a second-year corps member, teaching high school math in Henderson, North Carolina, but living in Durham, I have a foot in both worlds. The critiques lofted by The Chronicle’s editorial board were the same criticisms I heard three years ago as a senior studying public policy. For me, the more I studied education policy, the more I felt like I needed to be in the classroom, gaining an understanding of inequity in practice, rather than in theory. I started making a plan to become a teacher starting my sophomore year, but chose to forego the traditional path to continue my policy studies while adding an education minor.

I ultimately came to Teach For America because my education heroes—folks like Mike Feinberg and the veteran teachers I worked alongside while interning in schools—all began their careers at Teach For America. Now that I’m a teacher, I’ve had to confront my own privilege in ways I never had to as a student at Duke. I have become part of a community that has pushed me to see outside myself, and I’ve learned to see the world through the eyes of my students. I will forever be an advocate for my students, but nothing makes me more proud than watching them become advocates for themselves and their community. So when I think about the mission of Duke—knowledge in the service of society—I can’t think of a better way to live out that mission than through Teach For America.”

Carlos Marquez, Duke Law 2017: “As a 3L at Duke Law, my students are never far from my mind. Teaching a class of English language learners in Houston, I saw firsthand the struggles of students who lack access to education, health care, and civic engagement because of language barriers and discrimination. As a Hispanic male teacher, I was able to forge meaningful connections with my students and share stories of my own father, who had come to the States in high school from Ecuador. And I am proud to say that after two years teaching the same group of students, in both English and Spanish, my students demonstrated the highest academic growth in my school and were in the top tier of academic growth in all of Houston.

Today, my passion for fighting for educational equity and the skills I learned in the classroom fuel my work. This semester I’m

taking Education Law, where I bring valuable insight from my time in the classroom to the law. Outside of class, I became involved with the Duke Law Clinics. Last spring, I worked in the Children’s Law Clinic where I represented families and students in special education and Social Security disability cases. This fall, I am working in the Community Enterprise Clinic providing pro bono legal work to community non-profits. When I think about the complex, systemic web of inequities in our nation— from immigration law to healthcare policy to educational access—I know that although I have left the classroom, I will continue to fight and advocate for these issues as an attorney.”

Azaria Verdin, Duke MPP 2014: “After four years of teaching at my Teach For America placement school, also in Henderson, I decided to pursue a public policy graduate degree at Duke to take on the systemic

injustices our students face in schools—from inequitable funding to excessive testing to lack of course options. Although I was studying alongside bright, motivated fellow grad students, I became frustrated that issues of race and class were noticeably absent from discussions of policy solutions. So I decided to return to the classroom, where I could again be on the front lines of policy and where race and class were central to every conversation.

Now in my seventh year of teaching, I have the unique opportunity to teach Japanese—yes, you read that correctly—to predominantly black, low-income students in Raleigh. Every day we have discussions about race and poverty, and how language can give my students access to opportunities in college and far beyond. Last summer I had the opportunity to take 15 students to Tokyo and Kyoto, where I was overwhelmed with pride watching my students use their language skills, meet students from other cultures and get their first taste of Japanese food. As a Teach For America alum from 8 years ago, I have seen the ways the organization has evolved since 2008 and believes it is now more than ever a path to making an incredible impact.”

We represent just a small cross-section of the Teach For America and Duke alumni network. A network that includes more than 30 doctors and health care professionals, 50 lawyers and policy makers, 10 professors and more than 20 principals and school leaders.

And our stories are three among more than 53,000 from the individuals who make up the broader Teach For America community.

While this community is diverse in every way, we share the powerful conviction that every child deserves an excellent education that will prepare them to pursue their dreams. And we personally know that there are many leaders here in Durham who can help make that happen.

And so, rather than engaging in theoretical debates, we challenge students to act. We need more leaders working toward the day when all children, regardless of race, ZIP code or background, receive an excellent education.

And we challenge The Chronicle’s editorial board to use the occasion of Teach For America’s third deadline not to discourage people from choosing a challenging and rewarding path, but to celebrate those who have made a commitment to equity: the corps members making an impact in our nation’s highest-need classrooms; the Duke and Teach For America alumni who are creating solutions for students across all sectors and all levels of the system; and the Duke students who clicked “submit” on their TFA applications, choosing to launch a lifetime of impact in the classroom.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS OCTOBER 26-30, 2016

Printing Realities: The Work of Printmaker Sergio Sánchez Santamaría Thursday, Oct 27 from 7-9pm Frederic Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, East Campus

Opening and reception of the exhibit by Mexican muralist, illustrator and printmaker Sergio Sánchez Santamaría. He studied at “La Esmeralda,” the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, in Mexico City. He has taught and exhibited his work in the United States, Europe and Russia. The exhibit “Printing Realities” will be on display from Oct 27-Dec 9, 2016. Sergio Sánchez Santamaría will be in residence at Duke and in the Durham community, teaching and creating a linocut for Supergraphic in Golden Belt. Free and open to the public.

This event is made possible by the Vice Provost of the Arts, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Department of Art|Art History|Visual Studies, and Duke University Libraries.

SCREEN/SOCIETY SCREENING: “VERNON, FLORIDA” & “LESSONS OF DARKNESS” Wednesday, October 26 7pm Richard White Auditorium

ART HISTORY LECTURE: “MAPPING THE GERMAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: THE SURPRISING VITALITY OF ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION DURING AN ERA OF CRISIS, 1914-24” PAUL JASKOT (DEPAUL UNIVERSITY) Thursday, October 27 11:30am Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, room A266 Free and open to the public

OPENING RECEPTION FOR STUDENT PHOTO EXHIBIT: “TRANSITS AND MIGRATIONS” Thursday, October 27 6-8pm Porch and University Galleries, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

SO AND SO: POETRY AND ART Thursday, October 27 7pm Nasher Museum of Art

RARE MUSIC CONCERT: GABRIEL RICHARD, VIOLIN Thursday, October 27 8pm East Duke 201 (Nelson Music Room)

ANTIC SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH: TRICKLE DOWN Friday, October 28 8pm Brody Theater, Branson Bldg Free

ACCUMULATIONS: EXPLORING THE LEGACIES OF TRISHA BROWN Saturday, October 29 9:30am-4pm Nasher Museum

RED CLAY SAXOPHONE QUARTET Sunday, October 30 3pm Baldwin Auditorium Free

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost of the Arts.