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Editor’s note: This article is the first in a multi-part series examining diversity in living groups on campus. It focuses just on organizations in the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association. Upcoming articles will look at the topic from the perspective of Multicultural Greek Council organizations, National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations and Selective Living Groups. You can read about the full methods of data collection online, and view the data and code used for this story on GitHub. “I’m from Dallas. I went to a private school growing up. My dad’s a lawyer. My mom’s a banker. It’s like cringe-worthy.” Meet IFC President James Bradford, a senior and advocate for making Duke Greek life more diverse. He thinks some of the stereotypes about Greek life are true, but he wants people who are considering Greek life to know something—many Greek leaders and members also want less homogeneity. The question is how. Bradford is concerned that students are on “cruise control,” by which he means not critically evaluating issues of diversity in one’s organization. “I just think people don’t put enough thought into it,” Bradford said. “Sometimes, when it comes to Greek life, we just put it on cruise control and say, ‘It’s self-selective.’ I think that’s what you hear a lot. The people we know to reach out to are in some way connected to our organization already.”

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An investigation by The Chronicle reveals just how steep a challenge those seeking change may face. The general differences between Greek and non-Greek seniors can be summarized as follows. Compared to the percentages for nonIFC or -Panhellenic Association students, the percentage of IFC and Panhellenic members: • who are from states in the Northeast is nearly twice as large; • who study engineering, biology or mathematics, or who are athletes or international students at Duke is about half as much; • who attended a high school with a tuition of more than $30,000, or one that was all-male or all-female, is twice as large; and • who attended a private high school is a third greater. But those differences vary significantly between Greek organizations. For example, almost 70 percent of men in Sigma Nu’s senior class are from New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. The majority of the class attended private high schools that charge more than $40,000 a year. When asked where he thought IFC could make improvements in diversity, Bradford said it was critical that students be educated about the levels and causes of homogeneity. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and David See GREEK LIFE on Page 5

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Visitors pause to snap photos of the gardens blanketed in this rare ten inches of snow. Meanwhile, at the center of this great assembly stands the creation of Patrick Dougherty, looking ever more whimsical covered in snow.

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New research could make HIV incidence tracking faster, cheaper By Claire Xiao Contributing Reporter

Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute have recently developed a tool that more accurately discerns new HIV infections from long-standing ones. Their strategy involved searching patient samples for antibodies, the proportions or components of which might differ based on whether patients are facing recent or longstanding infections. The newer method is more accurate in its intended measurements compared to existing tools and also requires less samples for population-level inferences, explained Georgia Tomaras, director of research at DHVI and senior author of the study. She added that these advances, collectively, could save governments and NGOs tracking HIV incidence time and money. Tomaras noted that their tool is premised on the idea that the body’s immune system continually adapts to HIV upon infection. “HIV mutates in the body. There is a cat-and-mouse game where the immune system is now evolving to try to catch up with the virus and at the same time [the immune system] is maturing,” she said. When the body is first infected with HIV, the immune system is capable of recognizing different components of

This tool enables us to keep pace with the current epidemic. GEORGIA TOMARAS

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the HIV virus, Tomaras noted. This dynamic is reflected in the antibodies that are produced by the body to combat the pathogen, which can change and become better adapted over time. Eventually, the body’s immune response learns to better recognize HIV, leading to an increasingly stronger interaction

between the antibody and the HIV antigen that the antibody is targeting. Because HIV also can mutate within the body, antibodies which might be more abundant at the early stages of infection could also become less or more prevalent later in a patient’s lifespan, she added. Armed with this knowledge, the team examined samples from HIV-infected individuals to assess relative proportions of antibodies in patients. “[The samples] are from HIV-infected individuals from all over the world. People who are either recently infected or have been infected for a long time—what we call chronically infected. Additionally, we looked at samples from people who are on antiretroviral therapy as well as those who are not,” Tomaras said, referring to a class of drugs which can also put further pressure on the virus to evolve. The samples were from patients who had been infected as recently as a couple weeks to 10 or 15 years, added Kelly Seaton, associate research laboratory manager at DHVI and lead author of the study. This combination allowed them to compare the antibody profiles of patients recently infected from those with long-standing infections. Seaton explained that the technology used to run the experiment involved a type of bead that would bind to antigens specific to HIV, which then enabled the researchers to then search for antibodies in patient samples. One benefit of this method, she added, was that they could now search for multiple antibody types at the same time. When researchers ran the experiment, they identified varying numbers of antibodies between different patients. These results were then processed in a statistical model developed by Nathan Vandergrift, associate professor of medicine, and Wes Rountree, a principal biostatistician at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. Based on the proportion of four naturally occurring biomarkers—the specific antibodies in the sample—the resulting assay was able to more accurately classify recent infections. In the future, the team might also integrate other combinations of markers in addition to those four.

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Special to the Chronicle A team of researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institue have developed a tool to assess timelines of HIV infections using patient samples for antibodies.

The new tool can ultimately track hotspots of HIV infections or measure the effectiveness of certain vaccination trials. “This tool enables us to keep pace with the current epidemic,” Tomaras said. “The field has changed and antiretroviral therapy is now used for HIV prevention as well as for treatment of HIV infected people. Because the new tool can distinguish the antibodies from the circulating antiretroviral therapy in the body, the test more accurately classifies someone who has antiretroviral therapy in their system. “Our tool is more accurate at identifying recent versus long-standing infections in people taking ART,” Seaton said. “And will enable identification of the best prevention methods against HIV in different populations.”

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GREEK LIFE FROM PAGE 1 Pittman, senior director of student life in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, declined to share data on Greek life demographics with The Chronicle, even though the Office of Student Affairs has already collected data on the topic. Moneta said he did not want to target any individual organizations. He also said he feels there is much work to be done regarding diversity in Greek life. “If only there was a formula...it’s about balance and opportunity,” Moneta. “My ideal experience is one in which I can traverse easily and comfortably between all my communities and not have one far more privileged than another.” The Chronicle spent three months collecting data that was publicly available

Special to the Chronicle Senior James Bradford, president of Interfraternity Council, said that many Greek students want more diversity in their organization.

for members of the Class of 2018. In all, The Chronicle collected data on every member of the Class of 2018 listed in the “Freshman Picture Book” the University publishes every Fall. That picture book contains every member of the senior class except for a handful of students who for unknown reasons were left out of it. Additional sources include public social media posts, national and chapter fraternity and sorority websites, LinkedIn and a picture of all members in Delta Sigma Phi on the wall of the restaurant Devil’s Krafthouse. Some members of the Class of 2018 might have transferred from Duke since being in the Freshman Picture Book, but because that data is difficult to collect and for consistency, we did not exclude anyone originally listed in the book. Numerous people might have also left Greek life since joining, which the data does not reflect. The Chronicle did not gather racial data on any students because it is self-identified. Comparing Greek- and non-Greek students There are several possible reasons for the trends. Junior Kiley Knott, recruitment chair for Gamma Phi Beta, said the cost of Greek life can be a barrier to entry. For sororities, there is a $75 fee just to register for rush, and once in a sorority, members may have to pay $420 to $900 a year, according to the Student Affairs website. IFC fraternity dues range between $600 and $1,000 a year. Some full or partial scholarships, however, are available from chapters, Greek councils and the national organizations. Greek students also differ from non-Greek students based on location and type of high school as well. For example, all six seniors who graduated from Brunswick School, a private all-male day school in Connecticut, joined either Sigma Nu or Alpha Tau Omega. “It’s not like an underhanded process,” said

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Sonali Biswas, president of Gamma Phi Beta. “It’s literally like, ‘I know these people from my area.’ If I knew a ton of people from my high school here, I would probably be really excited to talk to them about my sorority.” These face-to-face interactions can arise from other commonalities, too. About 67 percent of participants in the pre-orientation

“It was personally difficult to go through the recruitment process as someone who is a person of color,” she said. “I’ve heard this echoed by other friends who are also people of color. People are chanting at you and they look nothing like you and you’re self-conscious already. That can make it really difficult.”

It was personally difficult to go through the recruitment process as someone who is a person of color. SONALI BISWAS

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program Project Waves joined a Greek organization, which is about twice the rate of Greek membership for the school at large, and almost half the women in the program joined either Kappa Kappa Gamma or Kappa Alpha Theta. Last year’s co-program director, senior Laura Baker, takes those numbers to heart. She described PWaves as a microcosm for the current conversation about homogeneity in Greek organizations and other groups around campus. In particular, she sees race as a significant source of homogeneity. “I think we had three black females apply for PWaves out of like 450 students,” Baker said. “One year we had literally no diversity on staff. It was all white,” referring to a staff of more than 40 sophomores, juniors and seniors who had participated as first-years. Bradford shared a similar experience, saying that students who were less similar to current members—across a range of variables—were less likely to want to be a part of Kappa Alpha Order, even though the fraternity wants them to join. Biswas said that being a person of color added extra pressure for her during rush.

Differences within Greek Life Not all Greek organizations are the same, however, and certain groups contribute more significantly than others to the disparities between Greek and non-Greek students. In particular, Sigma Nu and sorority Delta Delta Delta are outliers in almost every variable that in general differentiates Greek students from non-Greek students—being from the Northeast, the number of international students, the number of biology, mathematics or engineering majors, the number of athletes, attending a high school costing more than $30,000, attending a private school and attending an all-male or allfemale school. Both organizations declined to comment for the story. Still, more than 75 percent of IFC and Panhellenic organizations are in the top 20 percent of outliers in at least one of the seven variables. Many of the variables may correlate strongly between one another, so assuming any sort of causation is potentially impossible. “I don’t know where Kappa [Kappa Gamma] would fall on the socioeconomic ladder, but I See GREEK LIFE on Page 12

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staff note The common room in which I stood was tightly packed with crowds of wideeyed freshmen, which made any attempt at mingling without awkwardly elbowing past someone nearly impossible. Great, I thought. Isn’t socializing comfortably with others supposed to be the point of all this? I’d realize soon afterward, on the bus

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back to East Campus, that my assumption was woefully naïve — rush, as it turns out, predicates itself far more on social performance than comfortable mingling. I gazed at the other first-years accompanying me on the C1. They, too, had just spent upward of an hour trying to be the most interesting person in the room, carefully balancing lighthearted humor, feigned curiosity and a casual demeanor. (Too much energy is startling; too little is concerning.) I overheard one girl mention how well she had connected with an SLG member, which immediately caused me to tune out and lay my head against the window. None of my conversations had seemed that promising. Was I just terrible at talking to others, at getting to know them? I’d chatted with plenty of SLG members at the open houses I attended, and our conversations were fine. Nothing I said seemed obscenely offputting or dull. I’d mostly talked about my hometown (“Oh, Raleigh? You’re local! What’s that like?”), my co-curriculars (“The Chronicle, that’s cool! Recess? … I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it”) and the freshly inked tattoo on my inner forearm (“Let me guess — you like movies”). Coming up with talking points wasn’t the hard part. It was desperately trying to boil myself down to those topics, a few facts I could quickly spit out that would most accurately explain me, that was causing most of my anxiety. These bite-sized pieces of myself had to be easily digestible, but attention-grabbing, too — not only was I trying to introduce myself, I was also trying to do it in a manner that was charismatic and alluring and entertaining. I wanted to present myself as someone who could fit in, a person who feels intensely familiar after just a few minutes of conversation.

Trying to impress others isn’t inherently terrible. Everyone wants to be liked. (If you’re vehemently shaking your head, you’re lying to yourself.) We’ve packaged and branded ourselves into perfect little bullet points a million times already — applying to colleges, writing personal statements for summer programs, vying for a spot in a selective club on campus — but very few of us have done it purely for social payoff. The idea of voluntarily putting yourself in a position to be judged almost purely on first encounters, in which most of the (brief ) conversation is pedestrian and unrevealing, sounds awful. And yet, without fail, countless first-year students — myself included — play along and rush Greek organizations or SLGs every spring. Why did I rush? I comb through my memories in an attempt to remember the exact thoughts and feelings I had during winter break of my freshman year. I was depressed. I was scared. I was anxious. The adage that I’d heard innumerable times since I arrived at Duke was eating away at me: Your first semester friendships won’t last. I convinced myself that rush would inevitably tear my relationships apart, but the severing could at least be delayed if I tagged along to events and parties. Maybe, by some stroke of luck, I’d even end up in the same SLG as one of my friends. It’s hard to think rationally when everything seems to be on the precipice of catastrophe. Logically, if my friends truly cared about me, their possible affiliation with a living group would not hinder our ability to have an intimate, healthy relationship. But my friendships still felt so fragile and I’m easily susceptible to loneliness and I didn’t want to be left out. I was so terrified of being left out. I ended up rushing only one SLG, and I was cut after the second round. I think it

The Chronicle was because I showed up to a rush party considerably drunk, but in my mind, liquor made me looser and funnier and less likely to second-guess every conversation I had. Sometimes I wonder what the discussion was like when the time came to decide whether or not I’d make it to the final round. Was it long and drawn out, a heated debate that caused a schism in the group? Or was it an easy decision, a quick and unanimous ‘no’ that resounded in murmurs throughout the room? I’d like to think it was the former, but deep down, I’m sure it was some variation of the latter. Most of my friends ended up joining an SLG. Things settled down after January, and none of my friendships were irreparably damaged — in fact, they only strengthened as the weeks pushed on, and I’m grateful to be able to call my first-semester friends my best friends, people with whom I’ll hopefully remain in contact for the rest of my life. Rush, as uncomfortable and weird and anxiety-inducing as it was, didn’t ruin my freshman year. I guess that’s what I wish someone would’ve told me: That it’s normal not to feel excited about rush, to feel alienated and alone and pressured and strange while everyone around you seems to be excelling. Putting on a performance for others probably isn’t supposed to feel natural. I like to think that I’m okay. (And if I’m not, it’s definitely not rush that’s at fault.) I like to think that you’ll be okay, too — whether you’re rushing, or you’re feeling excluded, or you’re incredibly excited at the thought of being affiliated. It’s up to you whether or not rush defines your Duke experience. So be unafraid, like I wish I had been, and do what feels right to you. I promise everything will be fine. —Nina Wilder

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Oscars preview: Don’t get mad this awards season, get indifferent By Wesley Caretto Contributing Writer

No matter how hard I try to shut it out, the Academy keeps coming back into my life. Last year’s Oscars were immortalized by a headline — “Oscars Blunder: Best Picture award given to ‘Moonlight’ after ‘La La Land’ mixup” — that seemed suspiciously similar to another award show gaffe from a year earlier. This headline, through a variety of phrasings, instantly appeared on my phone’s lock screen in a flurry of news app notifications minutes after the mistake. My phone vibrated so much that I worried a nuclear missile was heading for the United States. To my dismay, my attention was again held captive by the Academy. For days, social media was flooded with articles about the historic upset in which “Moonlight” bested “La La Land,” with some signaling that the Academy, or perhaps even the film industry altogether, may be taking steps in a more progressive direction. Think of the various awards shows as an extension of the Forer effect, a psychological phenomenon wherein generic platitudes used to describe one’s personality are deemed accurate or insightful. When an Aries reads a horoscope that describes them as a sympathetic soul who loves the company of others, but also values private relaxation, they feel like the description is true. Such broad and vague positive statements elicit a universal response, because deep down, we all want to think we’re sympathetic and half-introverts, half-extroverts. Deep down, we all want to believe that the Academy or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) represent altruistic appreciation of artistic ingenuity when they dole out

Courtesy of Flickr The biggest story of last year’s awards season was “Moonlight”’s Best Picture triumph over “La La Land.”

awards each winter. When their picks align with ours, we feel as though the voters have been vindicated; when they don’t, it’s easy to believe those voters are somehow out of touch. Whether or not the awards shows have room to grow when it comes to minority representation and inclusion (which they do), both the outrage and the celebration associated with these award shows ultimately achieve the same ends: legitimizing the institutions as tentpoles of the movie industry. Sure, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been around for long enough to qualify for some sort of prestige within the industry, but for 89 years of the Academy’s 90-year reign, the makeup of the Academy’s membership has been overwhelmingly white

and male. It’s not exactly surprising, given Hollywood’s overwhelmingly white and male history, that membership demographics tend to ignore the achievements of nonwhite and female filmmakers. Despite noble attempts to boost diversity among members, the Academy’s invitation policies still favor industry nepotism. Members join either through merit (i.e. receiving an Oscar nomination) or, usually, through networking (i.e. nominations from current Academy members). This is why the Academy’s membership includes such prestigious actors as Meat Loaf and Erik Estrada. Imagine 8,000 strangers sitting in a ballroom at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. It’s an overwhelmingly white, male crowd, with the average age hovering around 60 years old.

They select only a handful of actors, actresses, directors and composers from movies released in 2017 as nominees for awards. Then this anonymous crowd, which isn’t even required to have watched all the nominated pictures, puts it to a final vote, selecting a winner on plurality, meaning for the low percentage of just 13% of the vote, a film could win best picture if the other eight nominees are split evenly. Would you consider these awards legitimate? Would you trust the opinions of this voting body? Most importantly, would you take offense to their winners? If you answered, “No, that’s stupid, and this weirdly homogenous group of strangers who don’t even have to know about the movies they vote on and don’t have to elect winners through a majority doesn’t have to validate what movies I consider good,” then congratulations! You understand why the Academy shouldn’t be taken seriously. We already know the Oscars and the Golden Globes are overwhelmingly susceptible to bribery. We already know that the Academy and HFPA are vested in the awards ceremonies as spectacle, not “artistic milestones.” We already know that production companies use nominations and wins as marketing tactics, ever since producers of “The Deer Hunter” found out that the Academy’s blessing will help sell a depressing Vietnam War flick. While the natural reflex is to suggest the Academy needs to be restructured, to include more minority representation, or even to replace their voting system, there’s a much simpler way to show dissatisfaction with the awards organizations: Quit caring about them. The full version of this article can be accessed at dukechronicle.com/section/ arts-culture.

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Haley Gorecki’s career-high 28 points lead Blue Devils to highest scoring output since Dec. 10 By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Four days after Duke narrowly extended its run of dominance against Virginia in a physical defensive struggle, it needed a lot more scoring to continue one of the program’s most remarkable streaks at Virginia Tech. The No. 15 Blue Devils beat the Hokies 86-75 at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va., for their 72nd straight victory against teams from the state of Virginia. Although Duke trailed by eight late in the second DUKE 86 quarter, it closed the 75 half strong thanks VT to the heroics of star guard Lexie Brown, who scored her 1,000th point in a Blue Devil uniform—becoming the second-fastest player in program history to reach that mark—and finished the game with 23 as Duke built a commanding lead with a 31-point third quarter. “Points aside, this has been an amazing experience for me. People ask me all the time if I’m happy with this decision I made [to transfer from Maryland], and I’m so happy,” Brown told GoDuke.com. “Putting basketball aside, the moments and memories I’ve made have been amazing, but to score 1,000 points here, I can leave my mark here, which is exactly what I wanted to do when I came here.” Redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki added a career-high 28 points on 7-of-10 shooting from long distance to help the Blue Devils easily clear 70 points for just the second time in the last nine games. Duke also allowed a

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Haley Gorecki scored nine points during a 16-2 run that broke the game open in the third quarter and finished as Duke’s leading scorer. season high in points. Virginia Tech guard Taylor Emery scored eight straight points by herself midway through the second quarter with two 3-pointers and a jumper in the lane to start a 15-2 run that put Virginia Tech in front 37-29, but Brown came alive in the final minute-and-a-half of the period. The graduate student stopped the bleeding with a 3-point play with 1:12 remaining in the half, and after Erin Mathias pulled Duke (15-4, 4-2 in the ACC) within three points

with a pair of free throws, Leaonna Odom got a block to force a shot clock violation on what the Hokies hoped would be the last real possession of the half. But with the Blue Devils needing to go almost the length of the floor in 2.1 seconds, Brown took the inbounds pass, pulled up and drained a shot from closer to midcourt than the 3-point line. “It was nice to see the ball go into the basket. I just kind of threw it up there, which is funny

that that’s the only [3-pointer] I made the whole day,” Brown said. “That was definitely an energy booster, and it definitely killed all the momentum that Virginia Tech had.” Brown picked up where she left off with a jumper to start the second half to cross 1,000 points in just the second year of her Duke career, and though the Hokies (13-6, 2-4) traded baskets for the next few possessions to pull even at 45-45, the Blue Devils then broke the game open with a 16-2 run. Gorecki made two 3-pointers and added a 3-point play during the run, and Duke shot a sizzling 13-of-16 from the field in the third period. Although the Hokies struggled to score in the paint, they stayed in the game in the first half by pushing the pace and firing away from deep, knocking down 7-of-17 attempts from beyond the arc before the break. Emery, a 42.1 percent 3-point shooter entering the game, found space to make six triples and finished with a gamehigh 30 points. “She’s quite a player, obviously had a tremendous game, so we’ll have to learn from that,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Every year is different, and this is a very good Virginia Tech team.” When Virginia Tech missed its jump shots, it often chased them down for long offensive rebounds, scoring 23 second-chance points. Duke has now been outrebounded in all five of its conference games despite being the tallest team in the ACC. “We know what our problem is. If we didn’t See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Duke to open 2018-19 with Champions Classic By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Mike Krzyzewski asked for it after thenNo. 1 Duke beat then-No. 2 Michigan State in Chicago at the Champions Classic in November, and now he will get his wish—the marquee event will take place on opening night of the 2018-19 college basketball season. The NCAA Division I Council approved a change that will move the start of the season up three days to the Tuesday before the second Friday in November. The Champions Classic—which has taken place on the Tuesday after the second Friday in November since it was launched in 2011— will now move up a week to Nov. 6 next fall, with Duke facing Kentucky and Michigan State playing Kansas at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. “I wish when hopefully they change the start of the season to start on Tuesday, that

this would be one of the things that kicks it off, events like this where we can kick off college basketball big-time,” Krzyzewski said after this year’s game against the Spartans. “This is a big-time night.” Duke is 4-3 all-time in the Champions Classic, which has featured the same four programs since its inception, and it is 1-1 in the event against head coach John Calipari’s Wildcats. The Blue Devils’ matchup with Kentucky will mark the first time they have opened the season away from Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2001, when their first games were at the Maui Invitational in Hawaii. “It’s such a great idea, and to have the Champions Classic on that date is an honor,” Krzyzewski said in a press release announcing the change. “I’m anxious to do something for the first time, and I think it’s a positive step in the right direction for our sport.” Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting.

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in Duke’s first season. The Blue Devils open the year with five of their first nine games against teams from By Big Sanjay the Ten, aRavindra league that sent five sides to last Staff Reporter year’s NCAA tournament, including Ohio State, which Duke will play Feb. 9. And ACC A then-season-low points and a foe Florida State ended last 52 year as the nation’s fourth straight loss. A nationally-televised fourth-ranked team and came up just a win embarrassment home floor.City for the short of making on it toitsOklahoma Pittsburgh has now lost Series. six straight games, 2017 Women’s College World andRegardless, will be looking to avenge 35-point defeat the expectationsitsfor this team at the hands of the Blue Devils when the aren’t ones of wins and losses. As Youngtwo clash for it’s theasecond in just days. explains, mattertime of laying the11groundwork No. 5 Duke will host the for the next few seasons and puttingfloundering together Panthers the pieces that will allow the BlueSaturday Devils to at 4 p.m. Cameron eventually become competitive bothatin the ACC Pitt Indoor Stadium and and on the national stage. vs. look to improve to 10-0 “We’re trying to build a great foundation No.really 5 focused at home season. here, and we’re on thethis process,” Duke Pittsburgh comes she explained. “We’re going to celebrate the to SATURDAY, little things4 p.m. we do wellDurham and notdesperate be totally to turn its season around Cameron Indoor Stadium focused on the outcome. But I’m confident after reaching a in new with this group and the work they’ve put low in its last game, struggling to score just and what they’re capable of. If they stick to the45 points in Tuesday’s Syracuse. process and do whatdefeat they’reatcapable of, we’re Duke, on the other hand, is running like a going to win some games.” well-oiled machine, lossbeen to N.C. State Jan. 6 Not since 1999 hasthe there a new varsity having seemingly served as a wake-up call for team in Durham, when rowing began. Threethe Blue Devil up 189 years earlier,defense. KerstinAfter Kimelgiving launched thepoints Duke in a two-game span, Duke has allowed just 52, 71 women’s lacrosse team, which won just three and 75 points in its last three games, including times in 15 games during its first season. It was yet another victory not until twocome-from-behind years later that those Blue against Devils a ranked opponent in Miami. played their first postseason game. to calm down. It“Coach is likelywas to just be a telling similarusstory for Duke We’ve been in that position before where we’re softball as it looks to get off the ground, but down and trying to fight back into the game, with an experienced hand at the helm, the so we know howappear it is,” freshman Blue Devils poised tophenom quickly Marvin find Bagley III said. “He just told us to play like men their footing.

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Wendell Carter Jr. had a double-double by halftime and finished with 15 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks to hold his own against Dewan Huell in the post. along the perimeter to help the Blue Devils space for rushed jumpers. Duke responded with a late-game stretch the floor. In a back-and-forth first-half, the duo kept Duke afloat as Hurricane freshman Lonnie that evoked memories of its early-season Walker IV started hot from the field and Miami comebacks against Texas and Florida in the PK80 Juan Bermudez Sports Photography Editor Invitational. After |pushing through the ups and pushed the pace. Gary Trent has seconds excelled remaining in the Bluebefore Devils’ downs last two tying record of games, ACC play, thetheir Bluefreshman Devils appeared With justJr.four with six senior madeGrayson 3-pointers against Wake andhit Miami. to finally the gear that the team teased in its halftime, Allen hit the both ground for Forest a loose ball. The captain gathered and quickly nonconference schedule. first half, after goingto6-of-7 from line 3-point teammates.” found Trent darting the 3-point for arange look tonight “We’reand nothis where we want to be. That’s the in his previous game against Wake Forest. Duke Pittsburgh’s perimeter defense as the buzzer sounded. Trent nailed the off-balance moral of the story, ” Trent said. “Wehas havebeen to head coach Mike Krzyzewski had high praise solid of late, allowing five or fewer threes in jumper, giving the Blue Devils a 42-40 lead after continue to go hard because we’re not number one for the 18-year-old after the game. six of its last seven games. The Blue Devils, the first 20 minutes of play. in the ACC. We gave up some games in the ACC “He’s hard allout year, but in the and however, to crack” the Panthers’ But the worked Hurricanes wiped the momentum we just were want toable be successful. last week and a half, he’s shooting the ball defense and knock down 12 shots from Trent’s jumper almost immediately and Duke will hope to continue its from climbdeep up quicker, and thank goodness. He was sick in their last matchup. Trent will be looking to pulled away with a 19-2 run. The length and the conference standings and notch its fourth as can be against Wake,” Krzyzewski said. stay hot and help his team continue to scorch aggression of the Hurricanes’ perimeter defenders consecutive victory when it takes on Pittsburgh “These kids, you need try toagain, get them into Saturday afternoon back in Durham at Cameron bothered the Blue Devilstoonce as Duke a groove, and boy, he came through for us Indoor Stadium. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9 struggled to get the ball into the post and settled

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ast week, a panel of federal court judges, in an unprecedented decision, announced that the North Carolina state legislature’s gerrymandered congressional districts were unconstitutionally partisan. The court ruling describes the state legislators responsible for drawing the districts as being “motivated by invidious partisan intent” and cites a violation of the 14th amendment, which guarantees equal protection of the law. Given that Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly were quite vocal about their partisan agenda, evidence for gerrymandering was apparent; Representative David Lewis—who drew the 2016 congressional districts—even stated that he believed “electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats.” Since the court ruling, the mainstream media has suddenly become abuzz with think-pieces and opinion articles on partisan gerrymandering and its implications for both parties. In light of national conversations on partisan gerrymandering in our state, active participation in North Carolinian politics is essential. As we mentioned in yesterday’s editorial, the scandal-ridden sensationalized intrigue of national politics can detract from banal, but meaningful civic engagement. While many citizens avidly follow national politics, state legislatures—despite their importance in local politics—are often overlooked. The ramifications of

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this political disengagement from state politics can be devastating. Following the election of Democrat Roy Cooper in 2016, the state legislature of North Carolina organized a legislative coup to siphon power away from the Democrats. This instance is one among many that reminds us how much we as voting bloc stand to lose when we do not actively engage effectively within local and state politics. Recognizing the role gerrymandering plays in our state politics is an important first step. Drawing districts is not a straightforward task.

Editorial Board Small quantitative decisions can result in wildly different maps. As a result, academics from many different disciplines continue to research this topic to better understand its ramifications from varying quantitative, humanistic and social-science lenses. One such researcher is Duke mathematics professor Jonathan Mattingly, who—along with a team of Duke mathematicians—utilized mathematical modeling to study the extreme political subjectivity of North Carolina’s gerrymandered districts. Importantly, his research was instrumental within the recent federal court decision on North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional districts.

This reminds us that there is no single avenue for political engagement. While civic duty and active participation in government are essential, political engagement is not limited to one specific field. Given the variety of majors and courses offered at this university, we should seek to apply our talents to our political engagement. It is far too easy to dismiss politics as an arena in which only public policy, political science or pre-law students contribute. With the rise of big data in politics, quantitative skills are inevitably becoming essential for policy makers. Health care policy has huge ramifications for the field of medicine. Research in virtually any subject is impacted by fluctuations in funding resulting from political decisions. Perhaps, this is why Aristotle described political science as “the most authoritative science.” He understood that we, as civic participants, have no excuse not to be involved. Gerrymandering is undoubtedly contentious and rightfully so. However, an imbalanced political infrastructure does not deserve the entirety of the blame. Often, we disenfranchise ourselves because of our apathy. We choose to ignore politics with no intrigue or exciting drama to interest us. Failing to engage politically leads to a cycle of disillusionment by voters and abuses of power by politicians. Without collective actions from academics and voters, we may miss an opportunity to restore democratic values.

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o you ever sit and enjoy your own presence during any given moment? Often at Duke, I find that we always worry about what needs to be done next and rarely do we just breathe as we relish in the magnificence of the present moment. This lack of mindfulness leaves us wondering what’s next and with a longing for moments of the past. Given that most us just spent almost a month at home, you would think this would give us plenty of time to wonder and relish and do all those things that we dream of during the semester.

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While this may be the case for some of us, we should also keep in mind that some of us came to Duke to escape the confines of home. These folks often dread having to spend a few weeks within a space that makes them feel uncomfortable to be the most honest version of themselves. Instead of enjoying each moment, the time is spent constantly checking one’s own behavior to keep a low profile in these uninviting spaces. Hypercritical monitoring of this kind should not be confused with mindfulness, despite the fact that both involve some type of heightened awareness of one’s thoughts and actions. I believe these hypercritical feelings are similar to the feelings some people express of striving to be “effortlessly perfect” students. Both circumstances have the underlying connotation, that we should always be in control of what we’re doing at any given moment. However, can you imagine yourself just letting go and surrendering to the flow of time? What does it look like to surrender to your truth? Before I expand on this, I’d like to share a story of something I experienced over the break. Last winter break, I came out to my mom about my sexuality. There were questions, there were tears, but above all, there was acceptance. With

such a burden off of my shoulders, I could feel myself surrendering to the beauty of living a life based in truth. Yes, I technically still needed to have this conversation with my dad, but for that moment, I could relish in the unconditional love between my mom and me. Fast forward to this break, I get home one night to find both of my parents sitting at the kitchen table. Long story short, my dad confronts me about me not being honest with him about my sexuality. While I still hadn’t managed to talk to my dad about being gay, I didn’t change the way I behaved around him to pass for something that I’m not. I had been meaning to talk to my dad about this, but quite frankly didn’t know how to go about it. It wasn’t until the control of the situation was taken from me that I was forced to face the reality of that moment. I had no option but to surrender to such a moment. While my dad was overall very clear about his acceptance, there was something he said that stood out to me. “Nobody’s perfect, and that’s okay.” False. Most often, us queer folks are hit with this type of response, as if that will make us feel better. As if perfection can only exist within heteronormativity. Well, I’m here to tell you that you actually are perfect, just the way you are. You are exactly where you are intended to be in this given moment, so take a breather and enjoy it. Sometimes it takes just surrendering, and experiencing the results of it in order to realize the beauty of losing control. Losing control often has a negative connotation, but let’s change that this year. Let’s change how we think about the word “perfect,” too. Perfect should not be held to some standard, but rather we should celebrate perfect in all of its forms. So if you’re feeling a bit restless, lose control for a bit. Dance for a few minutes. Go for a run without any expectations of distance or time. Let a long sigh out. Yell at the top of your lungs if you really want to because it’s about time the world heard what perfect really sounds like. Jorge Arredondo is a senior and member of the Duke Men’s Project leadership team.

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A Bernie Sanders fever dream

ampus has been abuzz since news broke that Vermont senator and 2016 Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ visit to Duke was postponed. Sen. Sanders was visiting to participate in an Oscar-baity discussion at the Duke Chapel entitled, “The Enduring Challenge of a Moral Economy: 50 Years After Dr. King Challenged Racism, Poverty, and Militarism.” Even though the reason given for the urgent postponing was that Sanders was needed for vital voting sessions in lieu of a potential government shutdown, Friday Friday’s vivid nightmares following a 24-hour stint “snartying” during Wednesday’s blizzard saw otherwise. Senator Sanders had seemed excited to come visit Duke. He arrived Wednesday afternoon and was given a tour of campus. Upon arriving, Sanders appeared to feel at home in the snowy wonderland that has overtaken Duke. As snowflakes melted on his glistening, balding head, Sanders trekked up to the chapel, admiring the faux-Gothic architecture. Sanders gazed at the statues flanking the front door, and noticed the empty space where the controversial Robert E. Lee statue used to reside. When he asked the reason for the vacant space, the tour guides quickly shuffled Sanders to the next tour stop, muttering, “Oh just renovations. Certainly nothing that was erected to glorify the Confederacy during the Jim Crow era.” The tour’s next stop was the Social Sciences building, where Sanders wanted to stop to peer into a classroom. But as soon as Sen. Sanders put his hand on

the handle of a door leading to the Econ department, he shrank away, (as if in physical pain) clutching his now fiery hot hand and murmuring, “We have got to have a tax on Wall Street speculation... they were too big to fail…” In an effort to lighten the mood of the tour, Sanders’ next stop was K-Ville and Cameron Indoor. As the tour group approached the white wonderland of

that the living conditions at Duke University are in such a state of distress,” Sanders began, waving his arms in the air like a Venetian marionette, “We hail Duke as a great American university, yet these students are living in tents?” Sanders took a moment to catch his breath in the frigid air. A ray of sunlight burst forth from the sky, casting a spotlight on the impassioned speaker. “This is utterly

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K-Ville, Sanders stopped in his tracks. “Tents!” he exclaimed. “Whadd’are these tents?” A frenzied Bernie rushed into the thicket of K-Ville, brushing snow off of the nylon enclosures. “Are these students okay? Why are they out in freezing weather?” Bernie quickly called his staff to bring blankets, warm milk and stacks of student loans to Towerview. He embraced shivering tenters in his arms and whispered to them that he would take care of them, just as he once saved a injured dove when he was young. Bernie then climbed the stairs in front of Cameron and began to address the someodd twenty people milling around the greenspace. “It is frankly abhorrent and absurd

unacceptable. This is why we need a political revolution among college-aged students. This is why we need tuition-free college for American students!” When someone from the crowd yelled to Bernie that the average Duke student spends around $10,000 on housing each year, Senator Sanders grabbed his chest and shook his head solemnly. As Sanders stared out into the distance, the chorus of “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Miserables began to waft in from afar. A single tear ran down Bernie’s cheek, in which the reflection of a small child picking a daisy was depicted. A freshman bundled up in twelve layers of Patagonia ran up to Sanders and whispered in his ear. The senator’s countenance changed from one of

melancholy to one of confusion as the young man spoke to him. “Wait a minute,” Sanders said slowly, only articulating the first consonants in each word, “You’re telling me that some of America’s brightest students voluntarily sleep in tents for weeks on end just to see a basketball game?” The first year nodded. Sanders was silent for a moment. “And the entrance to the game is predicated upon who waits the longest. Students either take a nit-picking exam to get a spot, or enter a hyper-competitive race, a literal race?” Sanders peered at the tents in disdain. Even though there are thousands of young homeless people in America?” Suddenly, Sanders waved his hands to signal that his soapbox was over, but being sure to give the tenters an oldfashioned Bronx salute. He brusquely stormed back down the stairs and exclaimed, “You know, this would ever happen at UChicago.” Sanders retreated to West Union and then, disgusted by the quality of the experience, retreated to the Washington Duke and then, disgusted by the quality of the experience, retreated to a quiet corner in Perkins, where he had a meek dinner of lima beans and couscous and rolled joints using pages from “What Happened?” by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Friday Friday this week is reveaked to be Larry Sanders, Bernie’s underappreciated, overachieving brother with a strong bass voice and a fantastic head of hair. #Larry2020.

Onus of education

oth of my grandfathers at one point had multiple wives. I am one of fifty-nine grandchildren, my mother is the eldest of twelve, and my father is the eldest of twenty four. While these figures—and my own status as the eldest of six—confound many, they are present-day realities of societies and communities the world over. In the northeastern region of Nigeria where my family is from, polygamy is just one distinguishable attribute of the environment. The infant and maternal mortality rates in Nigeria are the second highest in the world. According to UNICEF, everyday roughly 2,300 infants and toddlers die in Nigeria. Additionally, lack of access to quality schools, limited family resources, and cultural attitudes towards education remain grave challenges to school participation. As a result, nearly half of high-school aged girls in the North are enrolled in neither formal nor nonformal education programs. Longstanding cultural norms define women as homemakers, and hence, young girls are married off at young ages. This is in order to attain limited economic security for both the bride and her family. My grandmother, first married at twelve, is but one affected by this practice. However, these attitudes are far from extinct. When I was fifteen, former familyfriends encouraged my parents to send me off to boarding school not far from where Boko Haram would soon-after abduct nearly three hundred girls. What is the point of her going to school, the family friends wondered.

“Isn’t she going to finish school and just get married anyway?” they asked my parents. They could not understand that my parents envisioned a future where I alone work to support myself. My parents’ pursuit of higher education for themselves and their children countered the long-standing cultural and social norms of their villages in Northern Nigeria. They sought to

displace millions from their jobs, and skills obtained at increasingly expensive universities become necessary if one is to remain competitive in future job markets. The Pew Research Center reports that future employment will favor those with above-average education, experience, and job training, specifically “average or above-average interpersonal, management and communication skills; and higher

When I was fifteen, former family-friends encouraged my parents to send me off to boarding school not far from where Boko Haram would soon-after abduct nearly three hundred girls. SABRIYYA PATE

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empower their children, particularly their four daughters, with all the resources and opportunities an American education could offer to diligent, ambitious young women. For all these reasons, I believe education is the most critical tool of empowerment. Particularly for women and the impoverished, a quality education offers a gateway to a better life where social, political, and economic restrictions, realities, and hardships are escaped and dismantled. Furthermore, for all these reasons, the opportunity for an education at an institution for higher education is a sheer privilege of tremendous magnitude. Particularly, this education is invaluable in a time where automation will soon

even the wealthiest stand to lose if the nation does not immediately diversify its investments and revenue sources. Even worse, for the millions of young people in rural areas such as Northern Nigeria with limited access to basic secondary school educations, the future looks dreary. Therefore, it is pivotal that today and forever more, young people blessed and empowered by the tools and opportunities of higher education, commit the fruits of our education to the betterment of humanity, and consider the ways in which we are complicit in maintaining certain inequalities. I am one generation removed from poverty. The patriarchal gender roles that define women as assets kept by patriarchs with several wives, each to produce children who are seemingly destined to an impoverished life, still creep at my ankles. Thanks to the education my parents were able to receive, however, I have a future they could never at one point conceive. To all the undergraduates fortunate to receive higher education in this time of rapid change and innovation, I hope my story will shine a new light on your educational privilege and inspire you to commit to something impactful with the opportunities that surround you. From meeting with a Director of Academic Engagement to conversing with friends on this topic, the onus is on you to put your education to action.

levels of analytical skills, such as critical thinking and computer skills.” Given my identity, it has been at times mind-boggling to consider the fortunate ways in which my parents and environments have led me to Duke University. Here, young people are exposed to the knowledge, networks, resources and opportunities that connect to each of the skills detailed in the Pew report. Above all, the cultural, political and environmental changes ushered in by a new age of industrialization and globalization will continue to exacerbate global inequality. We are fortunately positioned to thrive in a world where many will suffer concurrently. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity junior. Her For the oil-based economy in Nigeria, column runs on alternate Mondays.

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GREEK LIFE FROM PAGE 5 definitely do think that there is a lot of similarity—within each sorority, probably like a majority of the people are of this sort of class,” said senior Laura Guidera, who left Kappa on what she said were amicable terms. “I see some flaws in the system, but also without Greek life it would just manifest itself in a different way.” The differences between people who are and are not in Greek organizations also extends to career and academic interests and extracurricular activities. From publicly available data on LinkedIn and Duke-affiliated sites, each internship experience of an IFC or Panhellenic member was categorized into the subdivisions used by the Duke Career Center: engineering and technology, government and politics, health and life sciences, media and sports, business and nonprofit. That data revealed more than 43 percent of people in IFC fraternities worked only in business-related internships, compared to about 25 percent of Panhellenic students.

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In addition, almost three times as many IFC seniors major in economics and three times as many Panhellenic seniors major in psychology and neuroscience compared to non-Greek students. Engineers make up close to 18 percent of Duke’s senior class, but only eight percent of Panhellenic seniors. Biology, the most popular natural sciences major at Duke, includes close to nine percent of the senior class, compared to three percent of seniors in IFC.

The Chronicle hopes to reduce that number to $0 by 2028. The Chronicle found that the Class of 2019 members are about 85 percent Greek, and that percentage for the Class of 2020 is 73. In another business extracurricular, the Duke Investment Club, 58.8 percent of seniors who at one point were analysts or on the executive board are Greek-affiliated. Its executive board wrote in a statement that general body members of the

Beyond Greek life We can do a much better A concentration of students in Greek life can also be seen in clubs like Campus Enterprises, in which all 14 seniors are job so that 10, 15 years IFC- or Panhellenic-affiliated. Senior Riley Griffin, former chief from now, the data doesn’t executive officer of Campus Enterprises and a member of Delta look as striking. Delta Delta, wrote in an email that becoming a member of the organization requires passing a blind application reading and JAMES BRADFORD putting up a buy-in fee. SENIOR AND PRESIDENT OF She added that the organization, which accepts first-years INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL in the Spring, has made “significant efforts in recent years to diversify.” Griffin wrote that the price of that buy-in has decreased by 17 percent since 2015, adding that the organization organization are the top 30 percent of scorers on a final exam and stock pitch after a 10-week training program. Analysts in the organization have had two interviews with the executive board, which the board wrote had a “substantial proportion” of non-Greek students. “Nonetheless, we at the Investment Club are always working to improve our diversity and reach new audiences,” the board noted. “However, candidates’ affiliation in no way benefits them given our rigorous interview and application processes; similarly, non-Greek members of the Duke community are not inhibited in any way from joining our club.” Rather than pockets of Greek life, there is a lack thereof among many sports teams at Duke. The Chronicle conducted interviews with more than 10 then-active and former athletes at Duke last Spring for an article on athletes’ academic studies. Students said that only a few coaches let current seniors rush Greek organizations—including those on the women’s lacrosse team and men’s and women’s soccer, track and fencing teams— because, as Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe said last spring, the time commitment can be too much. At the same time, some of the former athletes from last year’s interviews said having athletes as members was a boost to fraternities and sororities’ statuses. “If [your teammate] says they’re going to be your big, and they demand that you get into that sorority—you’re in,” said junior and former women’s lacrosse player Phoebe O’Hara last spring, a sentiment senior and former women’s lacrosse player Gianna Ossello echoed.

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What now? Many of the Greek-affiliated students The Chronicle spoke with expressed an interest in reducing homogeneity within their respective organizations, but noted that doing so is difficult. Biswas said that her sorority brings in speakers from groups such as the Center for Multicultural Affairs to train sorority members on implicit biases before recruitment. She noted that all recruitment chairs are required to hear that information, but not the chapter members themselves. “Having that conversation where we have to recognize ways that recruitment does not facilitate diversity and how we have to work against that—making people aware of that is really important to me,” Biswas said. Panhellenic Association President Helena Abbott, a senior in Delta Gamma, did not respond in time for publication. Knott added that one sorority cannot fix the problem alone since it cannot control how other sororities treat first-years who differ from the average sorority member. Knott said that could make the difference in whether a rushee stays or drops out of the recruitment process. For Bradford, increasing diversity in fraternities is part of a multi-step process, in which the first step is elevating the credibility of the IFC among individual chapters. After that, Bradford said, the chapters would be more willing to accept IFC’s involvement in recruitment and other institutional processes. “Building credibility for [the IFC executive board] means building understanding among chapters and among representatives of those chapters that the Greek community as a whole matters,” he said. “For IFC to be involved in recruitment and for people to buy into the fact that our umbrella organization is committed to recruiting diverse people—that requires a lot of institutional change and a change in the way that people think of the IFC.” Bradford admitted that in pursuit of raising the group’s prominence, the IFC Executive Board has “failed” by letting diversity initiatives fall to the wayside. “I realize there will always be stereotypes and barriers to entry to an IFC organization. We can do a much better job so that 10, 15 years from now, the data doesn’t look as striking,” Bradford said. “There’s a lot of work to be done on the whole. “But I did want to emphasize that it’s something that we’re conscious of, it’s something that we’re trying to pursue the right way and do with purpose.”