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Duke introduces “signature courses”

Th u Nguyen | Th e ChronicleRace: A World History and World Masterpieces Made in Italy, from the history and romance studies departments, respectively, are the two “signature courses” offered by the University this semester.

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New courses help students develop skills to conduct analyses of worldly issues

Duke introduced a selection of new “signature courses” this fall that hit on a number of University buzzwords—including interdisciplinary studies, real-world applications and classroom innovation.

The Trinity College of Arts and Sciences launched the series with two courses this semester, both designed to help students develop skills and vocabulary to conduct and communicate deeper analyses of real-world problems. The school hopes to expand the program with more courses in the future

“These are courses that both introduce students to a discipline but also reach beyond the discipline to ask questions and explore topics of broad significance and broad appeal,” said Adriane Lentz-Smith, director of undergraduate studies for the history department, who is teaching one of the courses.

Trinity dean Laurie Patton noted that the course series got its name from the fact that the classes draw on a number of Duke “signatures”—strong professors, unique teaching techniques and collaboration around the world’s “big questions.”

“We feel we have a great advantage at Duke

Kornbluth addresses vision for University’s strategic planAlex Gri� th� e Chronicle

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Phillip Catterall | Th e ChronicleProvost Sally Kornbluth spoke about her plans, including focusing on research and student life, at the DSG Senate meeting Wednesday.

In a meeting laden with committee formation, approvals and statutes, new Provost Sally Kornbluth spoke to Duke Student Government about her vision for the University’s strategic plan.

The meeting opened with a moment of silence for the deaths of two students this weekend, fifth-year graduate student Kaila Brown and sophomore Alexander Rickabaugh. Kornbluth then took the floor to speak about the areas she plans to work on as she begins to lead academ-ic planning and organization—less than a week after she announced the begin-ning of the University’s foray into “pre-planning” for Duke’s next strategic plan at an Academic Council meeting.

Of the many things her job entails, she said that she wishes to focus on things such as research, particularly increasing

its scope beyond the sciences. Kornbluth also noted that she wanted to work on the role co-curriculars and extracurriculars play in student life and to investigate the relationship between these activities and the classroom curriculum.

In response to questions regarding her vision for students’ experiences over their four years, she said that she didn’t want students to have “millions of one-off expe-riences” and wanted them to focus on a few key, prolonged experiences through their entire stay at Duke.

When asked about the strengths of Duke in comparison to other top-tier universities, she explained that—from what she had seen through the eyes of her children at Yale University—she recognized that Duke was more capable of making changes in a shorter period of time. She fielded ques-tions about the engineering curriculum, which she wishes to address in order to al-low engineers to go abroad and study more than their engineering requirements.

Following Kornbluth’s address of the Senate, the inaugural director of the Duke Student Government Research Unit—ju-nior Kshipra Hemal—was introduced to the Senate by Executive Vice President Abhi Sanka.

Sanka, a junior, explained that the ap-plication process included case-study ques-tions about how applicants would lead cer-tain studies. He also said that the questions were indicative of real life studies he wants DSGRU to study after Senate commission. These examples included studies concern-ing voter turnout among students, data analysis of the new LBGTQ-inclusive ques-tion on the Duke admissions application, DevilsGate and the ability of some student living groups to form stronger communi-ties over others. During a question-and-answer session with the Senate, Hemal said that she would be open to doing longitudi-nal studies that would collect data beyond

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Duke Medicine starts business skills program

Ana Quinn

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New Business of Healthcare Academy to provide doctors leadership and business skills

With the Affordable Healthcare Act changing the financial side of medicine, Duke has launched a new program to educate physicians about the business of healthcare.

Earlier this month, the School of Medi-cine announced the launch of the Business of Health Care Acade-my. A partnership with physician information platform Medscape, the program is de-signed to give health-care professionals a

chance to develop their business and leadership skills through online courses taught by Duke professors.

“Healthcare professionals are thrown into roles of leadership without training in the business aspects of healthcare, and yet they are expected to perform,” said Ana Quinn,

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A research unit is the most productive

investment for any institu-tion, especially one that routinely infl uences the life of all students through the work of a few.

— Kshipra Hemal

DSGRU director talks program launch

Duke Student Government has recently cre-ated the Duke Student Government Research Unit, a committee of students designed to quan-titatively review different facets of student life in order to help solve campus issues. DSG recently appointed junior Kshipra Hemal to be the DS-GRU director for this year. The Chronicle’s Kali Shulklapper conducted an email interview with Hemal on her plans and goals for the new unit and what she hopes to bring to her role.

The Chronicle: Why do you think DS-GRU is so important for effectuating change on campus? What do you think it will provide to the Duke community in terms of what we have lacked in the past?

Kshipra Hemal: I could not be more ex-cited for DSGRU’s launch because I think it’s so important to have a unit that not only creates evidence for better policy-making but also assesses the impact of the changes we affect.

A research unit is the most productive investment for any institution, especially one that routinely influences the life of all students through the work of a few. I am completely certain that evidence-based initiatives are more successful and last-ing than ones without any statistical back-ing. Enhancing our proposals with data has a whole host of advantages that af-fect all parts of the policymaking process.

Not only can we understand the campus problem better, but we can also allocate resources more efficiently, back our pro-posals up with numbers and make a bet-ter case to administrators and our fellow students.

Duke Student Government invests tremendous amounts of time and resources into improving campus for students, and what we lacked before is the means to tackle broad, overarching issues that are typically very hard to understand. DSGRU will attempt to grasp these problems and con-textualize them in a way that makes it easier for DSG senators to better understand the issue and create more ef-ficient policy to tackle the problem.

TC: How do you think your past experi-ence with research, etc. prepares you for this position?

KH: To complement my major in statis-tical science, I’ve tailored my entire Duke experience around conducting research. Last year, I co-conducted a campus-wide study aimed at understanding students’

Special to Th e ChronicleKshipra Hemal, the recently-appointed DSGRU director, says she would like to conduct impact analyses of DSG initiatives.

Q&Aconfidence, self-efficacy, romantic rela-

tionships, rates of alcohol consumption and gender violence. [Duke Inquiries in Social Relations] expanded on the work of the Greek Culture Initiative from past years and we ended the year with a fruitful conversation about our findings with cam-

pus administrators and stakeholders….

I think the most ap-plicable experience I have is running DISR and studying self-effi-cacy in STEM courses. Both of these projects utilized Qualtrics, R Studio and STATA. Ad-ditionally, I have worked closely with the Insti-tutional Review Board and the Office of Insti-

tutional Research for implementing both projects.

Having done all this, I know how cha-otic and messy the research process really is and I feel equipped to handle that when I inevitably face it with DSGRU.

TC: What do you hope to bring to the table as director?

KH: I would really like to explore the possibility of conducting impact analyses of existing DSG initiatives, starting a lon-gitudinal study of campus culture, and making our data/research accessible to the public in the form of an interactive website.

The impact analyses are important be-cause they can better future legislation and the results can tell senators or administra-tion what works and what doesn’t work.

The longitudinal study is particularly important to me, because that’s what I did with DISR last year. I think there have been many wonderful faculty-led initia-tives to study campus culture, but I think it’s critical that we have a consistent, stu-dent-led barometer of campus culture. This way we can put numbers on the issues that affect students instead of believing the myths that circulate through campus. A longitudinal study will also allow us to study issues over several years, which will allow us to measure the efficacy of our ef-forts to combat them and identify areas of further improvement.

I also want to devote time to making data publicly available to students along with tools to visualize and experiment with the data themselves. We’re looking at the possibility of launching a website with ap-plets that would allow the public to visual-ize the data interactively. This way, people can look at datasets from different angles and ask questions that we didn’t have a chance to ask.

TC: What are you looking forward to the most in terms of heading this research unit?

KH: I’m really eager to work with the committee and alongside DSG. I know from [experience] that conducting this type of research without institutional back-ing is very hard and onerous. Having both DSG and administration’s support will be pivotal in making this type of research pos-sible.

TC: Anything else you’d like to add?KH: ….We have flexibility in design-

ing our goals since it’s our first year and I would really like to explore the possibil-ity of conducting impact analyses of exist-ing DSG initiatives, starting a longitudinal study of campus culture, and making our data/research accessible to the public in the form of an interactive website.

A committee of 6-7 members will be chosen and we will start meeting once a week and on a need basis after fall break. You are not required to attend the DSG meetings until next semester, when we will be asked to present our findings at 1 or 2 meetings. We will be working closely with the Office of Institutional Research and the Institutional Review Board, so this is a great opportunity to get acquainted with them. Additionally, you can apply what you learn in class and contribute significantly to the legislative process! If this sounds interesting, check out the application and more information on DSGRU.

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Dr. Anne Pusey believes thatrecordings may shed light on development of language skills

After being ignored for more than 40 years, a significant portion of the largest dataset of audio recordings from chimpanzees in the wild has been archived, digitized and stored.

The recordings of immature chimpanzees were taken between 1971 and 1973 but were ignored until a team began the process of digitizing the data. Anne Pusey, chair of the evolutionary anthropology department, was involved in digitizing the recordings and is now looking for researchers to analyze the col-lection. She believes that the recordings can give insight into vocal systems and the develop-ment of language skills.

“Chimpanzees and bonobos are our clos-est relatives,” Pusey said. “I hope that someone who is interested in vocal systems can use the data.”

This set of recordings were collected by Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij and Frans X. Plooij at Gombe National Park in Tanzania while working with chimpanzee expert Jane Good-all. Pusey was a student working on her disser-tation in Gombe at the time. When Goodall turned to activism, she didn’t have the time to archive and analyze the records, she said.

In 2003, during a reunion in France, the team which collected the recordings decided to begin the process of preserving the data by digitizing it so that it would be available to all

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researchers interested in using it. The collec-tion which has been archived contains 1,136 recordings from infant, juvenile and adoles-cent chimps which were gathered over two years.

Martha Fischer, a terrestrial audio archivist who works with the Cornell House of Orni-thology helped transfer the data from analog to digital format and then archive it in the on-line Macaulay Library. Pusey added that a large number of field notes collected by van de Rijt-Plooij were translated from Dutch and digi-tized during the archiving process. The tapes had suffered some damage due to oxidization over the long period during which they were stored, but the recordings were still clear, Fischer said. She added that the next phase of the archiving process is still ongoing.

“We are still continuing the project with the adult group of chimpanzees” Fischer said.

The recordings would potentially allow researchers to see how children acquire lan-guage. Pusey said that there are no other collec-tions of chimpanzee recordings which follow the same animals over such a large timespan. This will allow researchers to analyze longitu-dinal data on language development. When analyzed, the data could play a large role in studying chimpanzee vocalizations.

“These are extremely rare recordings of a species that are our closest living relatives,” said Dr. Susan Alberts, professor of Biology

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the developmental director of the Business of Healthcare Academy. “We designed this pro-gram to provide them with the background that they need to better lead organizations and to confront new healthcare policy chang-es and the significant financial implications they carry.”

Quinn noted that the courses are designed to provide healthcare profes-sionals with the fundamental knowledge needed to be competitive in today’s com-plex healthcare system.

The five courses—each taught by a different member of the Duke faculty—include Effective Leadership for the 21st Century, Strategic Management, Finan-cial Decision Making and Healthcare Policy Studies. The courses are interac-tive and video-based, and each can be completed at the learner’s pace. If an individual completes all five, he or she is eligible for a Duke-endorsed certificate.

The Academy was developed over four years to address the recent shift in the American healthcare environment, Quinn said. Chief among these changes is the 2013 passage of the Affordable Care Act—which led many healthcare professionals to seek a better under-standing of medicine’s new business en-vironment. Duke created the Academy specifically to address these needs.

“Policy changes and financial con-cerns became the impetus for creating this program,” said Quinn, who also serves as the business manager for the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Quinn noted that as program contin-ues to develop and grow, more courses will be provided.

“The courses were each designed for the busy healthcare professional who doesn’t have the time to earn an MBA,” Quinn said. “The certificate takes a to-tal of 24 hours to complete, but anyone doing the program can work at whatev-er pace they see fit.”

The Academy is one of several inter-disciplinary programs recently launched by Duke Medicine—including the Duke Institute for Health Innovation, which opened in September 2013 after six years of planning and working to se-cure funds. The concept for the Acad-emy was presented at DIHI’s Summit on Transformative Innovation in Health-care last Fall, shown as an example of an interdisciplinary solution to an issue in medicine.


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in already having so many unique pedagogical approaches,” Patton wrote in an email Wednesday. “So let’s take the next step and roll these great qualities into one common memorable intellectual experience, called a ‘Signature Course.’”

The two new courses offered this semester are Race: A World History and World Masterpieces Made in Italy, from the history and romance studies departments, respectively. Race: A World History is taught by Lentz-Smith, and its main focus is to explore the social construct of race and how it has operated in different regions throughout history.

“People have a really bad vocabulary about talking about race as if it were a variable extracted from other things under discussion,” she said. “[My aim is to] offer better tools to talk about and think through race.”

World Masterpieces Made in Italy is taught by Martin Eisner, associate professor of Italian studies. The course focuses on getting students to interact with the “Great Books” and other art forms produced by thinkers including Dante, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle.

Eisner highlighted the variety of ways he intends for students to increase their exposure to older art—including field trips to the Anonymous 4 medieval acapella show and a trip to the North Carolina Museum of Art.

“I want to add to the hundreds of years of conversation about these cultural products, [seeing as] those texts are open to interpretation,” Eisner said.

He added that he hopes his class will allow students to read pieces they have heard of but would not otherwise read.

Sophomore Alex Song is enrolled in Lentz-Smith’s class and said he has found it enjoyable thus far, noting that he found about the class through an e-mail blast he received at the end of last year.

“I really like the unconventional approach to history by looking at individual case studies and reading primary sources,” Song said.

Patton noted that the classes are somewhat similar to the University Courses, which are centered on social issues and bring together members from across the Duke community by being open to students from every school. The Signature Courses, however, are designed to focus on more specific topics and are taught more frequently—with multiple Signature Courses offered at once, compared to the University Course model, which offers one class each Spring.

“We all have had experiences of great courses,” Patton wrote. “They usually reflect the ‘ideal’ education—what we thought we would be doing at college. So we felt it would be a great idea to combine the best of what Duke has to offer in a single course: a common intellectual experience that many students are energized by, taught by our best and most inspiring teachers, a focus on a ‘big question’ and clear pedagogical innovation.”

the four-year university experience as well.In an interview with The Chronicle after the meeting,

she said that she wished to explore beyond the commissions of the Senate.

“I’m open to studying questions of interest that are not necessarily long-term,” she said. “So I’d be willing to answer questions about existing DSG initiatives like the Zagster program’s efficacy and the LGBTQ question from an effi-cacy standpoint, like how many applicants actually used it and how effectively was it used by the administration.”

In the coming weeks, the Senate will begin the DSGRU survey commission process.

In other business:A myriad of presidential committees were confirmed

by Chief Justice Will Giles, a senior. These committees will advise the president of Duke University about a variety of groups and interest items, including athletics, investment, environmental sustainability and transportation.

A statute concerning Student Organization Finance Committee’s guidelines was passed unanimously. The stat-ute explains SOFC’s rules and criteria for new clubs to have a charter and also explains rules regarding the allocation of funds to certain clubs, such as the refusal to allocate funds toward alcohol and t-shirts.

Legislation concerning the charter of the Harmonies for Health club, which helps disabled children living at the Durham Ronald McDonald house play instruments, was passed.

The members of several committees were also con-firmed. The Internal Affairs committee addresses the or-ganizational structure, bylaws, and general vision of DSG.

and Evolutionary Anthropology.Alberts added that the recordings are valuable because the

endangered status of chimpanzees makes recordings of this type rare. The data may not be directly applicable to research into human development, Alberts said. Scientists can, however, potentially use the recordings to piece together behavioral data that may eventually guide human research.

Ha Nguyen | The ChronicleThe Iota Mu chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. collected new and gently used backpacks and school supplies for the John Avery Boys and Girls Club through Wednesday in the Bryan Center and Marketplace.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. hosts school supply drive

Chaired by Sanka, its new members are senators Tanner Lockhead, Annie Straneva, John Gaurco, Ilana Weisman and Michael Norwalk, all sophomores. Senators Tara Bansal and George Mellgard—both sophomores—and Nick Andrade and Brian Hopkins—both juniors—formed the Financial Oversight and Appeals Committee, which oversees the budget and fund allocation of DSG. Finally, the Senate Judiciary Committee, which nominates justices and looks at impeachment cases, was assembled. Its members are sophomore senators Annie Adair, Dustin Hadfield and Cindy Wang and freshman senators Sean Gilbert, Moses Wayne and Amy Vitha.


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Perfume GeniusRecess interviews Mike Hadreas about his life and music, page 10

Dancing the FlamencoA foray into this exotic dance style, page 9


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At the start of this school year, Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a standard, blue, extra-long twin mattress around Columbia University’s campus. Her endeavor is part of a performance art piece called “Carry That Weight/Mattress Performance” that seeks to bring attention to her university’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. Picasso once stated “art is an instrument in the war against the enemy;” Emma’s work as both an artist and activist seems to emulate this notion. In the weeks since she started the piece, students have begun to help her carry the mattress as she lugs it across campus, each grabbing a corner so the burden is shared rather than hers alone.

Like Emma, I like to think of myself as both an “artist” and as an “activist.” As the editor of Recess, I try to question how art is an activist endeavor and how activism is an artistic endeavor. It is rare to find art sans politics, or activism divorced from aesthetics. Situationist International and punk rock, second-wave feminism and Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, Dumile Feni and the anti-apartheid movement: art and activism go together like peanut butter and jelly. Both are performing ideas within a public sphere, but choosing to stand-up and speak out on an idea means opening oneself up to the vulnerabilities of exposure.

To do this as a woman comes with a far

greater risk than to do this as a man.Back in the spring of my first year at

Duke, Katie Zaborsky wrote in one of her Editor’s notes that “concerns of personal safety may not seem like they have much to do with art, but that’s only if you don’t see artistic space as existing in a reality that can be ugly, unfair and dangerous.” In particular, she was discussing the fact that she would never wander New York streets in the same way that many men do in pursuit of enlivening experiences, à la Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris or T.S. Eliot in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Her piece resonated with me as a first-year

woman in the same way it resonates with me today. It reminds me why, despite my love of wandering, I always feel as if I can never let myself actually get lost: the risk is just far too great.

Perhaps, that is why I used to find refuge in wandering the internet. It felt like a safer space. I used to believe that I was drawn to writing on online platforms because it was easier than other forms of art. I could avoid stage fright and the threat of people insulting me to my face, or worse. But, the more I wrote, the more I realized that writing as a woman meant that I would always be put in a vulnerable position, whether that writing is shared on the internet or from the top of a soapbox. The internet is as much a public space as a sidewalk.

This week, another artist-activist named Emma circulated around the web: Emma Watson addressed the United Nations in order to kick-off the “HeForShe” campaign. The speech was heartwarming and explicitly feminist. It comes as no surprise then that within hours of this speech being circulated, a deluge of comments appeared online: on YouTube, “is she mentally ill?”; on BuzzFeed, “I came here for naked pictures. I see none”; on 4Chan, “that feminist b***h Emma is going to show the world she is as much of a w***e as any woman.”

If these comments don’t seem out of the ordinary, it is because they aren’t. It seems that every time a celebrity woman acts outside of traditional gender boundaries, she is barraged by harassment. Unfortunately, this is not just a reality for celebrities but for all women on the internet. Think of the Duke woman on CollegiateACB. Think of Karen Owen. Think of Belle Knox.

These sort of reactions don’t just happen to sexual women, but to all sorts of women who dare to hold an opinion on the internet. As a student-writer, I have received harassment and threats of assault because of what I have written in The Chronicle and my personal Facebook page.In a Pacific Standard article from January, writer Amanda Hess noted that nearly 75 percent of reported online harassment was experienced by women. This included women who received threats of assault, murder or rape for writing an unfavorable review of a movie, blogging about software and coding, or, worst yet, actually talking about women’s issues.

As a woman who hopes to both wander and write, my future does not look too promising in regards to my sense of safety. It is easy to dismiss such harassment as meaningless because it is online, but that neglects the real toll of these comments: either women in public spheres have to focus more on their safety than what they are saying, or they leave these spaces

entirely. We all lose.Part of me wants to say that to dare to

make art, or to engage with art, in these ugly, unfair and dangerous spaces is exactly the sort of radical activism we need to tackle the problem, but another part of me feels like to advise such is problematic. The task feels as Sisyphean as Emma must feel lugging her mattress around campus.

Is the price of feminism really for women to continually put themselves at risk?

My identity as an artist and as an activist comes at the expense of many women before me: I am indebted to Janet Malcolm as much as I am to Gloria Steinem, as much to Josephine Baker as I am to Malala Yousafzai. Each of these women put themselves at risk—physically, emotionally or otherwise–and paved the way for women like me to talk about what is difficult and uncomfortable, to assert that the experiences of women are not just worth sharing, but also worth hearing.

To create a safe and equitable forum for art and activism is not to create a space free from differences in all their multitudes. We should discuss; we should even vehemently disagree. But there has to be a way to do this without compromising the physical and psychological safety of women. Until we as a community cultivate these forums, women will continue to have to carry that weight. We can, however, each do our own part to make sure no woman has to carry it alone by doing the most radical thing that both art and activism demand of us: listen.

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Creative Executive at Cross Creek Pictures in L.A.John Doherty ‘07

“A Walk Among the Tombstones” Film Screening and Q&AFriday, Sept. 26 6:30 - 9:30 pmBryan Center Griffith TheaterRegistration Required via eRecruiting

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Katie Fernelius ........................ Fresca

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At the start of this school year, Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a standard, blue, extra-long twin mattress around Columbia University’s campus. Her endeavor is part of a performance art piece called “Carry That Weight/Mattress Performance” that seeks to bring attention to her university’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. Picasso once stated “art is an instrument in the war against the enemy;” Emma’s work as both an artist and activist seems to emulate this notion. In the weeks since she started the piece, students have begun to help her carry the mattress as she lugs it across campus, each grabbing a corner so the burden is shared rather than hers alone.

Like Emma, I like to think of myself as both an “artist” and as an “activist.” As the editor of Recess, I try to question how art is an activist endeavor and how activism is an artistic endeavor. It is rare to find art sans politics, or activism divorced from aesthetics. Situationist International and punk rock, second-wave feminism and Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, Dumile Feni and the anti-apartheid movement: art and activism go together like peanut butter and jelly. Both are performing ideas within a public sphere, but choosing to stand-up and speak out on an idea means opening oneself up to the vulnerabilities of exposure.

To do this as a woman comes with a far

greater risk than to do this as a man.Back in the spring of my first year at

Duke, Katie Zaborsky wrote in one of her Editor’s notes that “concerns of personal safety may not seem like they have much to do with art, but that’s only if you don’t see artistic space as existing in a reality that can be ugly, unfair and dangerous.” In particular, she was discussing the fact that she would never wander New York streets in the same way that many men do in pursuit of enlivening experiences, à la Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris or T.S. Eliot in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Her piece resonated with me as a first-year

woman in the same way it resonates with me today. It reminds me why, despite my love of wandering, I always feel as if I can never let myself actually get lost: the risk is just far too great.

Perhaps, that is why I used to find refuge in wandering the internet. It felt like a safer space. I used to believe that I was drawn to writing on online platforms because it was easier than other forms of art. I could avoid stage fright and the threat of people insulting me to my face, or worse. But, the more I wrote, the more I realized that writing as a woman meant that I would always be put in a vulnerable position, whether that writing is shared on the internet or from the top of a soapbox. The internet is as much a public space as a sidewalk.

This week, another artist-activist named Emma circulated around the web: Emma Watson addressed the United Nations in order to kick-off the “HeForShe” campaign. The speech was heartwarming and explicitly feminist. It comes as no surprise then that within hours of this speech being circulated, a deluge of comments appeared online: on YouTube, “is she mentally ill?”; on BuzzFeed, “I came here for naked pictures. I see none”; on 4Chan, “that feminist b***h Emma is going to show the world she is as much of a w***e as any woman.”

If these comments don’t seem out of the ordinary, it is because they aren’t. It seems that every time a celebrity woman acts outside of traditional gender boundaries, she is barraged by harassment. Unfortunately, this is not just a reality for celebrities but for all women on the internet. Think of the Duke woman on CollegiateACB. Think of Karen Owen. Think of Belle Knox.

These sort of reactions don’t just happen to sexual women, but to all sorts of women who dare to hold an opinion on the internet. As a student-writer, I have received harassment and threats of assault because of what I have written in The Chronicle and my personal Facebook page.In a Pacific Standard article from January, writer Amanda Hess noted that nearly 75 percent of reported online harassment was experienced by women. This included women who received threats of assault, murder or rape for writing an unfavorable review of a movie, blogging about software and coding, or, worst yet, actually talking about women’s issues.

As a woman who hopes to both wander and write, my future does not look too promising in regards to my sense of safety. It is easy to dismiss such harassment as meaningless because it is online, but that neglects the real toll of these comments: either women in public spheres have to focus more on their safety than what they are saying, or they leave these spaces

entirely. We all lose.Part of me wants to say that to dare to

make art, or to engage with art, in these ugly, unfair and dangerous spaces is exactly the sort of radical activism we need to tackle the problem, but another part of me feels like to advise such is problematic. The task feels as Sisyphean as Emma must feel lugging her mattress around campus.

Is the price of feminism really for women to continually put themselves at risk?

My identity as an artist and as an activist comes at the expense of many women before me: I am indebted to Janet Malcolm as much as I am to Gloria Steinem, as much to Josephine Baker as I am to Malala Yousafzai. Each of these women put themselves at risk—physically, emotionally or otherwise–and paved the way for women like me to talk about what is difficult and uncomfortable, to assert that the experiences of women are not just worth sharing, but also worth hearing.

To create a safe and equitable forum for art and activism is not to create a space free from differences in all their multitudes. We should discuss; we should even vehemently disagree. But there has to be a way to do this without compromising the physical and psychological safety of women. Until we as a community cultivate these forums, women will continue to have to carry that weight. We can, however, each do our own part to make sure no woman has to carry it alone by doing the most radical thing that both art and activism demand of us: listen.

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divorced from aesthetics.

I s the price of feminism really for women to

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NC Museum of Art presents film noir retrospective

The North Carolina Museum of Art is currently hosting “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know,” a weekly film series dedicated to highlighting seminal movies in the film noir genre.

The series, which began last Friday with a showing of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 Strangers on a Train, aims to show audiences the complicated male characters prevalent in film noir history. Actors in the films include Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.

“It is surely the combination of plot elements and character construction, on the one hand, in conjunction with a powerfully distinctive style of cinematic representation, on the other,” Michael Morton, who is teaching a course devoted to film noir as Duke research professor in the program of literature, said.

Film noir became popular starting in the 1940s because of its lurid, suspenseful storylines and its hardboiled dialogue that recalled popular novels of the time. Almost entirely shot in black and white, many film noirs continue to influence cinema to this very day.

“I have long been interested in this form, initially simply as a matter of more or less casual interest, but in more recent years, in a more focused manner, as an area of particular concentration within the overall field of film studies,” Moore said. “I noticed that there was no course in the University’s curriculum devoted specifically to the study of film noir, so I took the opportunity to develop one.”

“Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know” has

also piqued the interest of Duke students, as well. Tera Kashgarian T’15 is excited to visit the retrospective and watch some of the films.

“Watching film noir now—especially in

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the wake of its appropriation in so many TV tropes—is a really fun exercise in reconciling, as a contemporary viewer, the aesthetically dark stylistics and kind of dire musings on the existential condition of the

protagonist, with that certain self-awareness of the genre that at the same time provides a massive cultural reference point for re-imagination, kitsch and trope,” Kashgarian said.

Film noir typically features complex male protagonists, whose flaws provide the major psychological drive of the film and influence the plot in drastic ways. Classic examples include Humphrey Bogart’s bitter detective Sam Spade in John Huston’s 1941 The Maltese Falcon and Kirk Douglas’s corrupt journalist Chuck Tate in Billy Wilder’s 1951 Ace in the Hole.

“The ‘flawed protagonist’ drives most cultural narratives in his flawedness, from Aristotelian hamartia to something as banal or camp as the requisite stylized personality quirk/punchline in a standard issue romantic comedy,” Kashgarian said. “What interests me more is the fundamentally flawed protagonist, whose flaw is deployed on a more existential level and serves only to complicate his condition without any teleology of narrative resolution.”

“Absolute must-sees are The Maltese Falcon and The Postman Always Rings Twice,” Moore said. “Definitely to be recommended, for a variety of reasons, would also be Strangers on a Train, Ace in the Hole, Gun Crazy and On Dangerous Ground.”

“Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know” continues this Friday, Sept. 26 with a showing of Ace in the Hole and ends on Friday, November 21 with a showing of Tay Garnett’s 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice. In between, the series is full of films to recommend to modern audiences.

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Embracing the “woman” in my flamenco experience

The very essence of flamenco lies in raw, human, physical attraction. There is quite simply nothing sexier than partaking in the performance of flamenco, let alone dancing the flamenco. This past Tuesday, I participated in a free community workshop held by Flamenco Vivo, Carlota Santana’s dance company.

Unsure of what to expect, I came dressed in a long, turquoise skirt my dad had bought for me from Argentina. I suppose I thought I had leverage over other newcomers given my small claim to what I believed to be authentic flamenco wear (upon later research I found it to be a tango ensemble). Yet, most of the participants came with colorful, full-length skirts and for those that didn’t, Carlota Santana handed out bright red, polka-dot skirts.

Across the room sat three musicians: a cajon player, a guitarist, and a vocalist, practicing songs with one of the company’s dancers. The Flamenco is heavily dependent on the music, primarily the toque (guitar), the cante (singing), and the palmas (claps).

Wearing all black and bearing the resemblance of a ballerina, Leslie Roybal would come to lead the workshop. She was a native of New Mexico and had been dancing all her life, eventually joining Flamenco Viva where she is currently both a touring dancer and a teaching artist. When I asked for any tips she could give before the lesson started, she simply grinned and exclaimed, “No! You have nothing to worry about.”

Coming together in front of the mirror, there were about fifteen of us, mostly women and a mixture of students and community

residents. We began by stretching our arms and wrists, slowly and deliberately, in tempo with the music.

Precise, strong arm movements are critical to dancing the flamenco. Leslie was quick to point out that flimsy “luau arms” have no place here. After mastering the arms, Leslie taught us the symbolic claps of flamenco. There are two types: one that is slightly muted, and one that is more robust.

Clapping rhythmically to the beat, I felt a surge of confidence as we hit the downbeats with our heels to the floor. Leslie taught us a few moves, including a version of the grapevine where we swung our arms and hit our heels at the end of eight counts, simultaneously turning to start the next step. Nailing structured, yet fluid arm movements while doing the grapevine and stomping my heels was fairly challenging. I felt as if my arms were flailing all over the place as we moved quickly to the music.

Yet, claiming those end beats with the strike of the heel was so invigorating.

After forgetting to change steps during a cue, Leslie proclaimed after forgetting to change steps during a cue, “The music was so good, I got lost in the sauce.”

One of the last steps we learned was the llamada, the move that signaled the singer. Like all other flamenco movements, the llamada embodied an enticing fierceness. Once the call was initiated, the singer would effortlessly slip into the music. The singer of the night had an incredibly smooth, yet vigorous voice. I asked him if he had ever trained classically, to which he told me he learned how to sing flamenco mainly from his family members, who are also flamenco musicians and dancers.

The dance was finally finished, but there was still one more element to making it complete. We had to walk back to our starting spots and

dance from there. Ironically, this was the most difficult part. On the first attempt walking on, I felt extremely vulnerable and a bit awkward. Conquering the flamenco required unquestionable confidence. I imagined that I was an ostentatious bird, failing miserably at doing the mating dance.

On the second attempt, I tried following the music and letting my hips, feet, and arms fall wherever it felt right. It worked. As I was dancing, I felt a strong sense of communal pride: I felt unabashedly proud to be a woman, dancing alongside other women and men.

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Flamenco Viva Carlota Santana Dance Company will be performing this Saturday at 1 pm at the Rock Quarry Park. Admission is free. Next February, the company will perform a style of flamenco, tablaos, at Motorco Music Hall, in which dancers will interact directly with the audience. Carlota Santana will also co-teach an academic course, The Art and Cultural History of Flamenco in 2015, and for the first time in the fall, the Dance Program will add a Flamenco Repertory for the student dance concert.



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The Chronicle: Just to start off, what do you think draws people to your music?

Mike Hadreas: Well I tend to be fairly explicit about what I’m talking about. I don’t hold back or cover up things because they might be too uncomfortable to share….[people speaking in the background].

Jesus f*****g Christ. Sorry. This has been like f*****g hell. I got in a big old fight with someone trying to bum a cigarette off of me earlier and he called me a f****t and I sort of blew up on him…[more unintelligible speaking in the background].

You know what? Just walk on, sir! Go ahead and walk on! [pause]


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TC: Everything okay?

MH: No, it’s fine. I just…I have a quick temper. These people are trying to bum cigarettes off of me...what was I talking about again?

TC: What do you think draws people to your music? You were talking about how you are fairly explicit about what you are talking about and don’t hold back or cover up anything…

MH: Oh yeah! When I was growing up, that was what I looked to music for and why I read the books that I read and stuff. You’re trying to feel less lonely and deal with all the complicated ickiness and weirdness and loneliness that just comes with being a person. So, the music I make is a therapy for me but also will hopefully be impactful and empowering

or comforting for other people that hear their experiences in the music. People will feel less alone.

TC: I feel like you put a lot of identity into songs you write. Do you think that’s a common thing among musicians?

MH: I think there’s room for both! I don’t think it’s necessarily more valuable or less valuable either way. But I think I’m good at it! I haven’t felt very purposeful or proud of myself a lot in my life, but I feel like I’m good at sharing these secrets about myself and, you know, putting myself out there. So it feels important for me to do that.

TC: Do you ever feel too exposed by sharing all of this?

MH: I do. But the longer I make music the more I realize how I can keep it separate in some ways. Even my music is a little more amped up and a little more confident than I actually am.

TC: Has that always been the case? This new album is much louder and grittier.

MH: More this album. It’s still me, and I still feel like I have an equal amount of myself invested in it. But it’s more of a performance, and it requires more of a performance. Before, I was behind the piano and singing. I never really thought of it as a performance. It was more just, you know, inviting people to listen to me. I don’t know how to explain it. This one feels more like I’m singing at people and for people.

TC: If you are singing at people and for people, what do you think they draw from it? Do you think they draw something differently from it now that you are “performing” it instead of just “playing” it?

MH: I think so. But hopefully in a good way. I think people liked what they thought was a fragility about my earlier performances, and it was very clear that I was kind of scared to be on stage. That it was hard for me to sing. I think people responded to that and found something in that, and I don’t think I’ve totally lost that. I’m hoping that people who like my first album will respond to whatever I’ve, like, learned and come to terms with and what confidence I’ve gained.


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Jesús Hidalgo | The ChronicleJunior Shaquille Powell will look to build on last year’s performance against Miami in which he rushed for 59 yards and a touchdown on seven carries.

Steamrolling its way to four nonconference wins, Duke has looked every bit as dominant as it has untested.

Winning each of their first four contests—against teams with a combined one FBS win

this season—by an average of 30 points per game, the Blue Devils have yet to face a significant challenge in 2014. That is set to change quickly when Duke hits the road for what may be one of its

toughest matchups of this entire season—an ACC opener against Miami in a nationally televised game, which is scheduled to kick off Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

In head coach David Cutcliffe’s mind, every game from here on out is considered a must-win.

“Not that each game’s not important, but now this is what you play for. This is why you’re here,” he said. “There’s a conference playoff that goes on every week, and now that we’ve got eight conference games in a row, it is truly a one-week-at-a-time, one-game season.”

Carrying a 12-game regular-season winning streak into Saturday’s game, the Blue Devils (4-0, 0-0 in the ACC) will enter Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., with a target on their back. Duke was neck-and-neck with Miami (2-2, 0-1) for three quarters before dispatching the Hurricanes 48-30, giving the

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Blue Devils their sixth straight victory.After letting a tight divisional contest slip

away, Duke knows that Miami will be out for blood this time around.

“I think Miami has their eyes set on us,” redshirt senior left tackle Takoby Cofield said. “They’re going to try and make sure they don’t let this one slip away.”

The ground game was the key to the Blue Devils’ victory a season ago, exploiting the Hurricane defense to the tune of 358 rushing yards, which stands as Duke’s highest single-game rushing total in the 21st century. Running the football was a priority for the Blue Devils in the offseason and has been the team’s bread and butter in 2014, as Duke

averages 261 rushing yards per game behind the running back trio of redshirt senior Josh Snead, junior Shaquille Powell and freshman Shaun Wilson and quarterbacks Anthony Boone and Thomas Sirk.

But the most dangerous runner on the field Saturday could be Miami running back Duke Johnson. The junior missed last season’s Duke-Miami matchup, sidelined with a broken ankle, but has since returned as one of the ACC’s most dynamic weapons.

Averaging 123.5 all-purpose yards for game and 6.2 yards per carry, Johnson drew a rare degree of praise from Cutcliffe.

Duke’s nonconference slate looked wonderful on the scoreboard: 174-46. But on paper, some of the numbers don’t look quite as nice.

Four games into the season, a statistical oddity has emerged. The Blue Devils are giving up the seventh-fewest points in the country

at just 11.5 points per contest, but opponents are gashing them for 182.3 yards per game on the ground, a mark that ranks 90th in the country.

Duke has given up increasing yardage in every game this season, beginning with 138 yards against Elon. Troy followed suit with 158 rushing yards Sept. 7—100 of them coming in the first quarter—and Kansas carved out 202 against the Blue Devils in Durham. Last weekend, Tulane continued the troubling trend, getting to the second level and churning forward for 215 yards.

The disparity between Duke’s rankings in the two categories is one of the widest margins the country. Plotting points per game against rushing yards allowed per game for every team in the FBS, it’s clear that the Blue Devil defense is doing an incredible job of bending, but not breaking.

The regression predicting points per game allowed from rushing yards allowed returns a coefficient of 0.0997, meaning that every 10 additional rushing yards predicted a one-point increase in points allowed per game. According to that model, Duke should be allowing 28.2 points per contest. Granted, it’s an overly simplistic model that neglects several other pertinent variables that undoubtedly affect points allowed—for instance, the Blue Devils’ 32nd-ranked third down conversion defense of 31.8 percent or its 84th-ranked redzone defense (nine scores in 10 trips)—but it helps prove the point that a porous rushing defense should be giving up more than 11.5 points per game.

The one team with numbers similar to Duke’s is Temple, which ranks 94th in rush defense but ninth in points per game allowed. The Owls are 2-1 on the year, and their stingy defense can partly be attributed to their 14 takeaways this season, most in the nation. The Blue Devils have generated seven turnovers this season, five of which came last weekend.

Duke’s opponents this season haven’t exactly been the running-back-heavy Wisconsins and Oregons of the world—only Kansas cracks the top 50 nationally in yards per game. Troy ranks 111th in the country at 101.8 yards per game, and Elon—Duke’s opening-day opponent—has rushed for just 104.5 yards per game against its two FCS opponents after grinding out 138 against the Blue Devils in August.

Duke looks to have big weekend on road

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Lily Coad | The ChronicleSophomore Lizzy Raben and Duke will be tasked with slowing down the ACC’s top scor-er in Virginia Tech’s Murielle Tiernan.

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After a statement 3-0 road win against Pittsburgh, Duke continues its stretch of

three straight road games against N.C. State Thursday and No. 2 Virginia Tech Saturday. The Blue Devils will look to open ACC play with a 3-0 record that could vault them back into the rankings.

“We hope to turn three [points] into nine [points] this weekend,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said . “In [the ACC], a win will get you three points, a tie will get you

one, and a loss will get you nada.” Duke’s first challenge of the week comes

against N.C. State (2-5-2, 0-1 in the ACC) in Raleigh. The Blue Devils (5-4, 1-0) will play for a a highly-coveted three points and a 2-0 record against a Wolfpack team that fell 1-0 against Wake Forest Sept. 21.

Although the N.C. State game looks good for Duke on paper, Church warns that beating the Wolfpack could be “tricky.”

“[N.C. State] is hard to break down defensively, they put a lot of numbers behind the ball, and are dangerous on the counter-attack and set plays,” Church said. “We really have to go at State, we can’t afford to settle for long shots.”

The Blue Devils will head to Blacksburg, Va., Saturday to take on second-ranked Virginia Tech (10-0, 2-0). Last year, the Hokies eliminated Duke in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament by a score of 3-0. Church SUNDAY, 1 p.m.

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Lily Coad | The ChronicleJunior Emily Sklar will look to lead the Blue Devils as they try to add to their current 21-game winning streak at home.

Special to The ChronicleDuke’s Board of Trustees approved three phases of Wallace Wade renovations this weekend, including a new 42 by 75.6-foot videoboard.

Amrith RamkumarStaff Writer

Blue Devils face tough conference foes at home Board approves football renovationsJack Dolgin

Staff Writer

Repeating as ACC champions is certainly a tall task. Fortunately for Duke, volleyball kicks things off where it has been just as dominant as Cameron’s winter tenants—home, sweet home.

The Blue Devils open up conference play against Georgia Tech Friday night at 6:30 p.m. and Miami Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke boasts a 21-game regular season home win streak, dating back to Nov.10, 2012.

“It’s not an easy thing to go on the road when you’re Duke,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “[This weekend], we’re fortunate enough to be home, so I think that helps us a lot, and we’ve got to take advantage of every opportunity when we’re home.”

The Blue Devils are 6-0 at home and 1-3 on the road this season, where the team faced top-ranked Stanford and beat No. 14 Michigan State. Part of their success at home has revolved around the strong support the team feeds off of during its games. Duke has interactive competitions and free giveaways during the game for fans, and almost 1,000 show up for each home contest.

“We have a real volleyball community, I think, a fan base that really enjoys our team and everything, and fortunately we try to make them want to come back and see us,” Nagel said. “We take pride in that, trying to have good attendance at our home matches.”

Coming into the weekend, the Yellow Jackets are ranked 50th and the Hurricanes are ranked 54th in blocks per set, far ahead of the the Blue Devils, who rank 194th. Sophomores Alyse Whitaker and Jordan Tucker, team leaders in blocks this season, will need to step up if Duke wants to keep its home winning streak alive.

Georgia Tech’s 6-foot-2 freshman Sydney Wilson

leads the team with 52 blocks in 12 games. Sakile Simmons and Taylor Scott lead the way for the Hurricanes stat.

“[Georgia Tech has] had their recent success,” Nagel said. “Our goal right now… is to make sure we’re blocking the way we want to against an opponent, and that will lead to our digs.”

In the backcourt, sophomore Sasha Kerelov has stood out nationally for the Blue Devils, as her 5.29 digs per set are good enough to rank 17th in the nation.

“[Kerelov’s] been doing a tremendous job defensively on the court,” Nagel said. “She’s been playing with a lot of maturity, passion, and I think she has a presence on the court… I’m really excited for her to be where she is.”

The Blue Devils lead Miami and Georgia Tech in aces, assists and digs per set, and there is hope Duke will be able to extend its winning streak to five games by the end of the weekend.

“Right now, we’re not focused on winning the ACC

Championship,” Nagel said. “We have to take things one game at a time.”

The Yellow Jackets, though coming into Friday’s game on a three-game winning streak, including two victories in the Georgia Tech Invitational, are still looking to find their rhythm in the first few weeks of the season. After finishing 12th in the ACC last season with just two road wins, the program hired all-time collegiate great and 2013 Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year Michelle Collier as head coach.

The Hurricanes also have a newly-acquired head coach, with Jose “Keno” Gandara in his second year at the helm. Miami finished fourth in the ACC last season with a 12-8 record, ultimately losing to Oregon in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“We haven’t gotten to play [Miami] that much in their styles and everything,” Nagel said. “Because we don’t have much history with them, it doesn’t give us that much information… so we need the Cameron Crazies, the students to come out this weekend.”

FRIDAY, 6:30 p.m.Cameron Indoor Stadium

Georgia Tech

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SUNDAY, 1 p.m.Cameron Indoor Stadium

Miami

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Approval for the removal of the track, lowering of the field and installation of lower-level seats as part of the Wallace Wade Stadium were approved by the Duke Board of Trustees in the spring, but three additional projects that will also transform the home of a quickly-rising Blue Devil football program were only approved by the Board this weekend.

The three projects that will also begin following Duke’s final home game Nov. 29 against Wake Forest include the new tower that will replace the Finch-Yeager Building on the west side of the stadium, new LED video board and speaker system to be implemented in the south end zone and plans for new North and West gates that will feature enhanced concourses.

“The most important word that has gone around our athletic department is transformational,” Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Cragg said. “This period of time and the next two years is going to transform our good to great facilities into really great.” The tower will be a five-story, 91,000 square foot facility featuring 21 luxury suites, a 300-plus seating dining room and exterior club seating. The President’s box, media facilities and coaches’ booths will also be housed there, and the massive facility’s location will allow it to be utilized for multiple sports.

“It’s going to be spectacular,” Kevin White, vice president and director of athletics, said. “That will begin this winter, probably in January if I had to pick a date.”

Although the project will begin during the next offseason, it is not scheduled to be completed until 2016, meaning that temporary facilities will have to be used next year. But for White and Cragg, the costs of having one year disrupted by construction pale in comparison to the massive benefits that should be gained.

The new south end zone Daktronics LED video board will be more than twice the size of the current video board and

will be 42 feet high and 75.6 feet wide for a total of 3,175 square feet. Its 1080P high definition resolution and size will make it comparable to the video boards many new NFL stadiums are installing.

“One of the great things that we’ve been able to do is re-purpose the existing video board,” White said. “We actually found the ability to take part of the video board and take it into Koskinen [Stadium] and take the rest of it and put it in Williams Track [and Field Center].”

The concourse renovations might be the most significant updates to the 85-year old stadium for fans and recruits, as new North and West gates with updated guest services, ADA seating balconies, nine sections of new blue seats and new lighting and

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and Alexander “Time has frozen for us but it moves for everyone else. ‘How are you?’

— Ruby Watts ”She made you cry. She made you laugh. She made you feel such immense joy that seemed unimagi-nable before you met her. Her love for others was beyond compare. There wasn’t a single person that she didn’t care for. When you were around her, you could feel her love and because of that love, you

wanted to be better in order to feel like you deserved it. No matter who you were she gave it anyways. She was the most amazing person I have ever met and was perfectly imperfect. She meant the world to me and changed me for the better and I will always thank her for that.

With much love.

Spencer Jasper, Trinity ‘10

“When you were around her, you could feel her love and because of that love, you wanted to be better in order to feel like you deserved it. No matter who

you were she gave it anyways.

— Spencer Jasper ”Dear Kaila,

I am absolutely sure that you were able to recite excerpts by Stanley Cavell and J. L.

Austin by heart—Philosophy of Language was one of your passions.

We took a class together in Spring 2011, our first year at Duke, with Professor Sarah Beckwith—a graduate seminar about Shakespearean tragedies and Philosophy of Language. My first year at Duke was rough. I came from Peru in 2010 to start my PhD in Spanish. Adapting to a new language, a new culture and a new educational system was as puzzling as many of the books I had to read for my classes. Frequently, I felt lost in the middle of a classroom, barely understanding what both students and professors were saying. From time to time I even wondered whether abandoning the comfort zone my homeland offered was the right decision. However, every time you and our classmates shared your thoughts about Othello, Cleopatra and Coriolanus in class, I had the impression that everything was going to be alright, that everything was alright indeed and that instead of feeling overwhelmed by the challenges that my new life in the States presented, I should be grateful for the privilege of interacting with such smart people like you.

You were fully committed to your research and participated in diverse activities related to the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke so we didn’t see each other very frequently after

that graduate seminar. However, I still remember a brief conversation we had on Feb. 24, 2012 vividly. We attended a party a common friend of us threw at her place. I arrived a bit late because I had been at the Duke Libraries’ annual party. The house was packed with graduate students from different departments. At some moment, you said that you needed a bit of the cool night breeze of North Carolina’s February so we went out to the porch to continue a conversation about Martin McDonagh we had just started. You smiled when I said that McDonagh was my favorite contemporary playwright and that I had seen three or four of his plays on stage in Lima. Then you made a couple of thought-provoking comments about The Pillowman and added that you were still debating whether to include it in your dissertation project. After that, you took a deep breath and went back to the party.

I would like to think that this brief conversation demonstrates the power that literature and arts still possess to connect people from different cultures, with different languages, with different beliefs. In strict terms, we were acquaintances rather than friends—however, in every interaction we had, you embodied the warm kindness of a cultivated soul. And I wanted to thank you for that.

Rest in peace, Kaila. “All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

Jesus Hidalgo, PhD student in Romance Studies department, photography special projects editor for The Chronicle

How are you?

“How are you?” they askit pierces through my heart.

Am I alive? Yes.Am I breathing? Yes.Am I suffering? Yes.

“how are you?”“how are you?” How can I be?

How can I think?I can move?

Time has frozen for usbut it moves for everyone else.

“how are you?”good. okay. fine. could be better.Say anything to get them to stop.

But they don’t. “how are you?”

I don’t f****ng know.I don’t have words.My mind is a mess.

Don’t you know I’m not good?Why ask.

“how are you?”He wont call me Crumble anymoreHe was the only one that did that.

I will do my physics homework alone.Physics. how can I look at that.

How can I think about that.Association is dangerous.

But everything is associated.“how are you?”

“how can I help?”You can’t f****ng help.

What could you do?Give me a hug. A cookie. A pat on the back.

I don’t give a f**k.It doesn’t change anything.

It doesn’t change anything at all.The emptiness is still there.

It will always be. We lost someone. Our 5 is now 4.

Spiders.Physics.

It’s all silly.Did I even know him?

Were we even truly friends?Do I have the right to be crying?

To be accepting condolences.I hope I did.

I hope we were friends.He was my friend.I was so excited.

I was so excited that we were getting close.I told Tim.

I was f****g excited.I finally feel like Alex and I are bonding.

I f****ng missed it.I missed his last weekend.

The epic weekend.The one everyone said would be the one to remember.

well yeah. we’ll never f****ng forget it now.But I was gone. “How are you?”

I was goneSunday.

I barely spoke one word to him.I couldn’t tell you the last thing we spoke about.

It may have been on Thursday. “how are you?”

He’s gone.I’m not good.

But they still ask.“how are you?”

Ruby Watts, Trinity sophomore

The passing of Kaila Brown has been painful for all who knew her, and it is with deep regret that we bid her farewell. It is, however, with gratitude that we reflect on her bright presence in our lives, and on the priceless opportunity to know a warm, compassionate,

fiercely intelligent scholar. Kaila pursued the life of both mind and heart, and those who knew her were struck by her conspicuous selflessness, her constant readiness to help those in need. I write this on a day in which the cold and gray skies seem a fitting reflection of our sorrow, but my heart is and always will be warmed and brightened by memories of Kaila’s radiant soul.

Basil Williams, graduate student at the Fuqua School of Business

Remembering Kaila“ That conversation

dangling in cyberspace is the

beautiful ‘half —moment.’ In it, Kaila is still there — a model of passionate ambition and open friendship, uncontrived intellect and intentional mentorship.

— Bailey Sincox ”

Thoughts for Kaila Brown

Kaila Brown cared deeply for me at two and a half crucial moments in my life.

The first was in my sophomore Fall when a “B-” on a paper sent me into a tailspin of questioning my decision to major in English. Over coffee in Vondy, Kaila listened patiently as I voiced my insecurities—was I even a good writer? How could I, from my insular, Christian corner of Texas, compete with the genuine intellectuals in English? Kaila responded with her characteristic compassion and vulnerability—she shared her own story with me, speaking about her journey from childhood in a Mormon community to undergrad at Brigham Young University and a PhD at Duke. She spoke of the richness of incorporating these traditions with her scholarship, encouraging me to see my experience as strength.

The candor of that conversation was made possible by another moment when Kaila quite bodily rescued me, the summer I first met her. She was the teaching assistant for Sarah Beckwith’s Duke in London: Drama study abroad program. It was 2012, the year of the Olympics, and Kaila was full of life—running the class, doing her own research at the British Library and still making time to hang out with us.

I was struggling. Before London, I was struck by a car while walking—I suffered a fractured skull and a concussion. I was on heavy pain medication and spent a lot of time in my room. Kaila was supportive, checking in periodically,

modifying assignments as needed.One day I was having Internet problems

in my dorm and climbed under my desk to unplug the Ethernet cable. As I yanked the cord with unwarranted force, I catapulted backward and smacked my tender head. I immediately felt ill and laid down, delirious. Some hours later, my friend Elizabeth called Kaila and she appeared at my door.

“I’m fine,” I said, embarrassed that I was lying in my bed in pajamas.

“You’re not fine, you need to go to the emergency room, and I’m going with you,” Kaila told me. She called an ambulance and waited with me until it arrived. She brought me a glass of water, helped me dress. She rode with me, filled out the forms the ambulance attendants forced into my weak hands. At A&E, the Royal London Hospital, she sat by my bedside and chatted with me, keeping me awake. Kaila sent me a card the next day.

Now, on the verge of graduation, I look to Kaila again. Through some bittersweet serendipity, I emailed her on Saturday night asking to get coffee. I was searching for wisdom as I apply to English graduate programs and craved Kaila’s honesty and listening ear.

That conversation dangling in cyberspace is the beautiful “half-moment.” In it, Kaila is still there—a model of passionate ambition and open friendship, uncontrived intellect and intentional mentorship. She will be present with me as I pursue the degree she was working to fulfill, always cherishing her example.

Bailey Sincox, Trinity senior

“ The first shared intellectual experience of Duke’s Class of 2017 involved reading about a tightrope walker... Little did we know that among us Alex

walked a tightrope, or a slack line.

— Kati Cadenhead ”The first shared intellectual experience of Duke’s Class of 2017 involved reading about a tight-

rope walker in Let the Great World Spin. Little did we know that among us Alex walked a tightrope, or a slackline. He greeted peers as they hopped off the East Campus bus for a year

walking his slackline strung between two trees standing in front of Jarvis. He greeted me for a year as I arrived and departed from my Residence Coordinator office in Jarvis, sometimes with a conversation, sometimes with a head nod, always with a smirk. I invited Alex to apply to be a Resident Assistant. He did not. It was okay. I enjoyed his daily presence while I could, his distinctive interests and whatever was behind that smirk. That smirk.

Kati Cadenhead, East Campus Residence Coordinator for Neighborhood Two “In strict terms, we were acquaintances rather than friends— however, in every interaction we had, you embodied the warm kindess of a cultivated soul. And I wanted to thank

you for that. Rest in peace, Kaila.

— Jesus Hidalgo ”Kaila pursued the life of both mind and heart,

and those that knew her were struck by her conspicuous selflessness...

— Basil Williams ”“

Student Affairs will be arranging transportation to the funeral and memorial services of Alexander Rickabaugh. The funeral will be held on Friday, September 26th with buses departing from the West Campus Bus Stop at 4:45pm and returning at 10:30pm. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 27th with buses departing from the West Campus Bus Stop at 8:00am and returning at 10:30pm.

Additonally, on Sunday morning there will be a silent procession of roses for Alex and Kaila at the start of the 11am worship service in Duke Chapel.

Memorial plans for Kaila Brown have not been announced.


Special to Th e ChronicleFollowing the fi nal home game against Wake Forest, the current track will be torn out and the stands will be lowered to kick off construction.

RENOVATIONScontinued from page 13

pavements will give the stadium two attractive entrances.

The gates and upper-level seating around the bowl will also not be complete until 2016, but the more long-term additions should complement the Latitude 36 natural sod playing surface and video board beautifully in 2016.

The 6,346 chair-back, blue seats on the east side of the stadium that were installed last offseason should serve as a glimpse into the future for fans as the first landmark achievement for what is shaping up to be a rapid series of major initiatives.

Immediately following the Nov. 29 contest against Wake Forest, the next ones will take place.

“In dramatic fashion, we’ll have bulldozers ready to take out the track,” White said. “I don’t know what the time of that game is, it’s yet to be determined, but it could be in the middle of the night the track will disappear and we will begin to lower the field.”

White and his staff are hoping that the modifications that will increase the stadium’s capacity to almost 40,000 will help attract even more fans and recruits in the cutthroat world of college football. They’re considering every option to satisfy fans, including modifying the stadium’s current concessions venues.

The players currently making history to warrant the massive facilities overhaul will undoubtedly benefit the most from the myriad of projects, and a 55-yard practice field that will match the playing surface of Wallace Wade stadium will offer kickers and quarterbacks the

opportunity to practice on the same surface they play on.

But as impressive as the new Wallace Wade Stadium will be, the additions to the rest of the Duke athletic campus that are also scheduled to get underway pending future approvals will make life very different for fans and student-athletes alike.

The overhaul of the weight training facilities in the 16-year old Murray Building will benefit all of the Blue Devils’ sports, especially the 23 non-revenue sports.

A new pavilion that will house a team store and offices for ticketing for every single sport, sports information, compliance and the Iron Dukes is also be expected to be in the works. It will also feature weight training facilities for Duke’s non-revenue sports.

Perhaps most importantly, the pavilion will overlook a plaza that is expected to be the center of a vibrant athletic campus; the plaza will link all of Duke’s athletic facilities and make any amenity for fans more accessible.

“We [would be] the only athletics set of

facilities that will be attached by something like that,” White said. “We’ve got a chance to use it in some really unique ways. I have this vision of some great moments in the plaza.”

Combined with the recently constructed practice fields behind Koskinen Stadium, renovations to Koskinen Stadium itself, construction of the new Williams Track and Field Center that is scheduled to be completed in December and new Kennedy Tower press facility that will be used for soccer, lacrosse and track and field and countless other facilities updates, there seems to be no end in sight.

Always trying to stay one step ahead, White and his staff have even started conceptualizing how to expand iconic Cameron Indoor Stadium to keep pace with Duke basketball’s massive market.

“It will be a frontal addition, hopefully seamless,” White said. “We’ll protect the authenticity of the place. We think we’ve got some pretty unique concepts in that regard, with [a big lobby entrance and] a big hospitality space on the second floor.”

But thanks to the generosity of Blue Devil donors as part of the Duke Forward Campaign, the leadership of the university and the Board of Trustees, to say the future looks bright for Blue Devil athletics would be a massive understatement.

“We think that 700,000 plus people come across and to the athletics campus on a yearly basis,” Tom Coffman, senior associate director of athletics and executive director of the Iron Dukes, said. “[These projects] are going to have a dramatic impact on the entire university community for building relationships that are so important to a place like Duke. As a fundraiser, that’s what we do. This goes far beyond athletics, this is a university happening.”

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In 2013, Duke’s defense made marked improvement in defending both the run and the pass, shaving off 51 total yards from 2012’s 469-yard average. But after holding opponents to 27.4 fewer rushing yards per game in 2013 and suffering the loss of All-ACC linebacker Kelby Brown before the season, the Blue Devils are in danger of regressing in that category in 2014.

As you might expect, the road won’t get any easier for Duke, because the ACC has some of the most potent rushing attacks in the nation. Three of the Blue Devils’ opponents are in the top 20 in the nation in rushing yards per game—Pittsburgh ranks 10th with 304, followed by Georgia Tech at 14th with 292 and Syracuse checks in at 19th with 265.

Last season’s Blue Devils completed a perfect nonconference slate in which they allowed just 13 points per game—with Duke’s offense, good enough to chalk up a victory on most Saturdays. But the scoreboard was not as friendly to the defensive unit in ACC play, giving up 29.9 points per contest. That’s a result that will have to be reversed for a Blue

Devil repeat bid at the Coastal Division crown.For all of those reasons, Saturday night’s

primetime showdown with Miami will be a barometer test for Duke in many facets of the game, but there may be no more pressing question than how the Blue Devil run defense will hold up against a physical ACC squad and the conference’s most dynamic tailback.

Duke Johnson is healthy and back in the lineup for the Hurricanes after missing last November’s meeting in Durham due to injury. The junior was sorely missed by Miami, which still racked up 184 yards on the ground—and 6.4 yards per carry—but lacked his open-field explosiveness and didn’t find the endzone with the running game, falling 48-30 to the Blue Devils.

As a freshman playing in the 2012 edition of Blue Devils-Hurricanes, Johnson put up an eye-popping 181 yards by himself—on 11.0 yards per touch—and found paydirt three times. Miami rode his coattails to a 52-45 road win, totaling 263 rushing yards.

To say that the will be on the minds of every Blue Devil defender come 7:30 p.m. Saturday night could qualify for understatement of the year. The run defense will have to buckle down to try to keep the Hurricanes under the 30-point threshold for the first time since 2010.

“He is—and I don’t use this all the time—he’s great. He is a special, special football player,” Cutcliffe said. “In my opinion, he’s a first-round draft choice.”

Johnson gashed the Blue Devils the last time he played them in 2012. Then a true freshman, the 5-foot-9 running back racked up 176 yards on the ground in a 52-45 win, finding the end zone three times in the process.

Duke has struggled to stop the run at times this season. Even in a 47-13 drubbing of Tulane last week, the Blue Devils allowed Green Wave running back Lazedrick Thompson to pick up 124 yards on 19 carries.

Miami’s stud running back will command Duke’s full attention on every down, and could be one of the toughest individual matchups the team faces this season.

“I heard a lot of hype about him, and from what I saw he was a really good player, so I was actually looking forward to challenging him myself,” redshirt junior safety Jeremy Cash said. “Unfortunately he got hurt, so I look forward to it this year.”

As for how to stop Johnson, Cash said the answer is simple.

“Tackle him,” he said with a smile. “People can’t run without their legs.”

Johnson’s workload will continue to be heavy as long as true freshman quarterback Brad Kaaya continues to adjust to playing at the college level. The first-year signal-caller has been a capable game manager for the Hurricanes, but is still prone to rookie mistakes—tossing seven interceptions in his first four collegiate contests, including at least one in every game this season.

The pressure of a primetime game under the lights coupled with Duke’s pass rush could force Kaaya into more errors Saturday as the Blue Devils try for a 5-0 start, one that would almost certainly earn them a spot in the top 25 next week.

said that his team had not yet devised a game plan for Virginia Tech, as they cannot afford to overlook Thursday’s match against N.C. State.

“In this conference, you can’t sleep on anyone,” Church said. “We probably won’t create a strategy until Thursday night, after we play North Carolina State.”

Although Church has yet to create a strategy, one can be sure that it will involve defending Murielle Tiernan, Virginia Tech’s leading goal-scorer.

Duke’s young defense will be faced with the challenge of defending Tiernan, who leads the ACC with seven goals scored. The Blue Devils starting back four is composed of three freshmen and only one returning player, sophomore Lizzy Raben. Church has praised the group’s resiliency and aggressive style of play, but the squad has yet to face an offensive threat as dangerous as Tiernan this season.

“Although we play two very good opponents, I expect us to go 2-0 this weekend,” Raben said. “We’re going to need two very good performances to do it, but this team is capable of rising to the challenge.”

For the N.C. State match, the team will leave to play straight after classes, but at Virginia Tech, they will stay overnight. Church hopes that this time together on the buses and in the hotel will translate to better play together on the field.

The two matches will conclude a series of road games that Duke will play before its ACC home opener against Louisville Oct. 4. By the time that game rolls around, Church expects his squad to be atop the ACC standings.

“We have to have an aggressive mindset,” Church said. “We have to fight for every ball—fight for every [conference standing] point available, especially on the road. Only then will we have something to defend when we defend our home field.”

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