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Toddi Steelman, Ph.D. ‘96 and first permanent executive director at the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), will be the next dean of the Nicholas School for the Environment, according to a Duke Today release. The role is being currently filled by Jeffrey Vincent, Clarence F. Korstian professor of forest economics and management, who has been serving as the interim dean since last year when former dean Alan Townsend resigned. Steelman, who has been a “wildland firefighter, ice-road trucker and participant in the world’s largest snowball fight,” will assumer her new role July 1, noted the release. “I am delighted to welcome Toddi Steelman back to Duke,” said President Vincent Price in the release. “She has a rare combination of scholarly achievement and successful leadership in environmental education and research that will only accelerate the Nicholas School’s great momentum in focusing on perhaps the defining issues of our time.” Before SENS, Steelman was a faculty member in the department of forestry and environmental See STEELMAN on Page 3

Does Duke have the Bitcoin craze yet? By Shannon Fang Staff Reporter

Headlines in recent years have been saturated by mentions of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, with the price of the digital currency rising over 1,000 percent in just one year. Bitcoin’s price hit an all-time high in December, when it was valued of one Bitcoin at just below $20,000. On campus, it is unclear how many students are after cryptocurrency. “If I were a student, if I had the capital to get started, I would definitely think about doing it,” said senior Dhruv Luthra, president of the Duke Blockchain Lab, an organization focused on technology also used in cryptocurrencies. See BITCOIN on Page 4

Chris Teufel | Staff Photographer Sophomore Jack White played the best game of his career to ignite the home crowd with five points and a career-high seven rebounds.

Jack White comes off bench to spark 18-0 run in blowout vs. Notre Dame By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Duke’s backcourt didn’t take long to heat up again following an invisible performance in Saturday’s loss to Virginia. The fourth-ranked Blue Devils dispatched Notre Dame 88-66 Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, as freshmen Gary Trent Jr. and Trevon Duval and senior Grayson Allen combined for 52 points. But the star of the night may have been little-used sophomore forward Jack White, who came off the bench to key an 18-0 second-half spurt that turned the game into a rout. “He’s just the ultimate teammate,” Allen said. “He’s that kind of guy that’s just all about the team, all for us, always supporting the guys on the court, so when a guy like that comes in and he gets his own, it’s really fun to see.” After Notre Dame trimmed Duke’s advantage to five points in the first minute of the second half, the Blue Devils (19-3, 7-3 in the ACC) quickly scored eight straight points to take their biggest lead of the night to that point. An alley-oop lob from Trevon Duval to Marvin Bagley III sparked the run, and Duval stole the ball and took it strong to the basket for a 3-point play less than 20 seconds later. Notre Dame battled back once more to make it a six-point game, but Duval had the answer yet again, swishing a 3-pointer from the wing and then dishing an assist to Wendell Carter Jr. on the next possession. Allen put an exclamation point on the

Sujal Manohar | Recess Photography Editor Duke’s bench was active and energized throughout its impressive 28-4 run in the second half.

decisive stretch with a steal and a one-handed breakaway dunk, and after the two teams traded baskets for a couple of possessions, White ensured that the momentum did not end there. After converting a putback dunk in the first half for his first points in more than a month, White grabbed a strong offensive rebound that led to an open triple for Allen with 8:09 left, forcing Notre Dame to use a timeout while Duke head coach Mike See M. BASKETBALL on Page 12

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Convicted jihadist, former Guantanamo Bay interrogator talk religious extremism By Katherine Berko Senior News Reporter

Ismail Royer, a convicted jihadist, and Jennifer Bryson, a former Guantanamo Bay interrogator, could not be more different. Yet the two are great friends—so much so, that two weeks ago, Bryson attended Royer’s wedding. They spoke together at the Sanford School of Public Policy on their experiences and insights into extremism Tuesday night, hours before President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep Guantanamo Bay open. The two speakers initially met when Bryson read a blog post Royer had written. At the time, Bryson had no idea about the 13 and a half years Royer spent in prison as a convicted jihadist. But the piece resonated with her, and Bryson sent Royer a friend request on Facebook, which he accepted. A few months later, Royer shared an Associated Press article on Facebook about when he left prison. Bryson saw it, read it and thought that Royer sounded a lot like herself. “I just thought: I really want to meet this person. But, I thought, there’s no way,” Bryson said.

Bryson messaged him on Facebook and mentioned to him right up front who she was. They met a few days later and after speaking for a few hours, she hired him to work for her at the Center for Islam and Religious Freedom. Bryson’s background Bryson did not plan to become an interrogator. In 2003, she went to work for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Human Intelligence Collection. “They initially assigned me to an office where they had no use for me to be there. By 2003—this is post 9/11—and we’re in Iraq and I’m sitting there with a Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies, trying to bring books to the office to read because I have nothing to do,” Bryson said. At the time, there were no interrogation trainings for civilians, Bryson said. Yet it was decided that she would be put in a six-week class to become an interrogator in the fall of 2003. Following the class, Bryson arrived at Guantanamo Bay in 2004. See EXTREMISM on Page 3

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New research could help better predict baseball stars By Ben Leonard Staff Reporter

Baseball prospects are notorious for not living up to expectations placed on them. The minor leagues are littered with former highly-touted players. Few top draftees make it it to the major leagues, and those that do don’t always become stars. But new research from Duke Health could help teams better evaluate who will make it.

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According to a study of 252 major and minor league players published Jan. 8 in the journal Scientific Reports, players who scored higher on electronic vision and motor skills tests through a program called Nike Sensory had better plate discipline—they got on base more, walked more and struck out less. “Baseball organizations are competing against one another to get as much information as possible about a player to increase the accuracy of their internal projections,” lead author Kyle Burris, a Duke statistician and Ph.D. candidate said in an email. “While visualmotor testing likely won’t fundamentally change baseball scouting until we know a lot more about how the brain works, teams could incorporate this information into their evaluations.” Advanced analytics like these have become more and more common in the world of baseball—the 2017 World Series Champion Houston Astros rely heavily on a computer analytics system, as do many other professional teams. “It’s an incredibly booming field right now,” Burris said in a video. “There’s a tremendous demand for athletes to be able to maximize their peak performance.” See BASEBALL on Page 3

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EXTREMISM FROM PAGE 2 “It was at first a bit of a shock for me,” she said of her arrival. “I was placed in a supervisory position…I supervised all of the interrogators and analysts working with the Saudis…I had to improve the interrogation plans for these interrogators.” Royer’s background After growing up in St. Louis, Royer left for Bosnia during the Bosnian War and fought several battles as a guerrilla fighter. After moving to Virginia, he then travelled to Pakistan to where he met with the Lashkare-Taiba a militant Islamist group, which U.S. authorities later classified as a terrorist organization. He later returned to Virginia and became a member of the “Virginia Jihad Network,” which helped train extremists to

BASEBALL FROM PAGE 2 The players in the study used large touch-screen devices to complete different exercises, which resembled video games. The exercises test users’ vision and ability to pick up small details, which a press release describes as similar to being able to recognize a pitcher’s grip on the ball before it is thrown, which could help the hitter anticipate what type of pitch is coming. High scores on a test of a player’s ability to recall and recreate patterns correlated with better skill at reaching base, and better scores in hand-eye coordination and reaction time correlated with one’s skill at inducing walks, the release said.

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But once he failed to get a Pakistani visa, Royer returned to the United States the following year in 2002. With his return came questioning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “They started raiding people’s houses,” Royer said. “They didn’t raid my house until

later…[but] it was clear that I was going to go to prison.” In June 2003, Royer was arrested and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but was released after 13 and a half years for good behavior. Royer lived among many other terrorists in prison. Two included the “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski— who carried out a deadly bombing campaign across the U.S.—and the “shoe bomber” Richard Reid—who tried to ignite explosives on a flight to Miami in 2001—with whom he used to exchange letters. “I wound up with a huge stack of letters between us,” Royer said. “There are many layers to the problem of extremism…we used to debate about the permissibility of killing civilians.” Reid, who was serving a life sentence, would ask Royer why he was trying to soften his beliefs. Royer said he thought people with beliefs like Reid’s were “delusional.”

Extremists and religious freedom During the Sanford talk, Royer spoke about his newfound hopes for religious freedom since his release from prison and learning from the extremists he met there. “I believe religion is not the enemy,” he said. “Religion is not the problem.” Royer said religious freedom boils down to the notion that people can believe what they want but ultimately, “human beings are all one brotherhood and that each human being has their own God-given dignity.” Bryson said that she follows suit and that’s why the two of them now work together. “There’s really only three ways that we can live together in a pluralistic society,” Royer said. “Either try to force everyone to believe the same thing as one particular religious group or try to eliminate religion all together or leave everyone alone to practice the religions that they see fit…I think that third option is the only practical way for us to all live together.”

On the other hand, high spatial recognition scores correlated with an ability to avoid striking out. All of these factors could help scouts better determine who has the chops to handle major league pitching. Burris, a longtime baseball and sports fan who will work for the Cleveland Indians as an analyst this summer, wrote that he has talked to many teams about the work, and they’re interested in learning more. “Many teams are using this type of technology, but don’t quite know what to do with the information,” Burris wrote. “For the foreseeable future, teams will be using these types of tools for internal scouting, since they’re able to test their own players.” Burris noted that the exercises could eventually become a training mechanism for plate discipline. Literature has shown

that many of the skills related to on-field performance can be improved by training, he wrote. Still, he said it is unclear whether those improvements could actually materialize on the field. One shortcoming of the research is that only plate discipline skills correlate with better scores on the exercise—not other statistics like slugging percentage, which measures a hitter’s power. “In future collaborative work, we’d ideally like to use pitch-level data to determine the influence of visual-motor ability on various components of plate discipline,” Burris wrote in an email. “For example, do players with slower reaction times struggle with velocity up in the zone? Are players with higher perception spans able to better differentiate between fastballs and curveballs on two-strike counts?”

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participate in violent jihad. But after 9/11, Royer was advised to leave the United States, so he fled to Bosnia. “Even though none of us really supported the 9/11 attacks, we did feel a sense that we needed to go be in the Muslim world and leave this non-Muslim land,” Royer said.

There are many layers to the problem of extremism. ismail royer

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FROM PAGE 1 resources at North Carolina State University and the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a wildfire expert whose research focuses on “understanding community preparation and response to wildfire,” the release noted. Emily Klein, professor of earth sciences at the Nicholas School, chaired the national search to find someone to be the next dean. “The search committee evaluated many excellent candidates, and we found that Toddi Steelman has the right combination of experience, vision and energy to lead the Nicholas School into an exciting future,” Klein said in the release.

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BITCOIN FROM PAGE 1 What is cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is digital currency that utilizes cryptography to secure monetary transfers. It is praised for its decentralized nature—in other words, there is no bank or middleman that mediates your transfers when you purchase something. Instead, in the case of Bitcoin, individuals called miners solve math puzzles to confirm monetary transfers, in which blocks are added to the existing blockchain. Imagine the blockchain as a type of electronic ledger or receipt of all previous transactions that is unalterable and open to the public. Thus, the transfer is usually not controlled by a central authority and is more secure. Miners are able to make money because each time they solve a cryptographic puzzle, they earn a specific number of Bitcoins. Are students mining at Duke? Luthra stated that he is not aware of mining at the University, but he believes it is possible students are mining. If students

were mining, he said that they are likely mining Ethereum and Bitcoin because they are the easiest to set up, have the most online resources available and are the most popular. Mining on a college campus is more profitable compared to mining at home because the energy bill goes to Duke and not the individual. According to Forbes, mining Bitcoin has consumed 20,000 gigawatt hours of electricity per year—which is similar to the power demand of Ireland—and costs up to $1,800 to mine a single coin. Relaying the costs to the University can save the miner these electricity costs. Luthra said the two reasons mining is not common at Duke is because mining rigs are nontrivial to set up and are costly. It is difficult to profit as a single miner because the mining industry is dominated by large corporations, Luthra noted. These corporations contain thousands of miners, making it challenging for a single student to compete. However, Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht professor of international business, hopes that there are no students mining on campus. “It’s not a good idea to mine in North Carolina, it’s not worth it when you factor in the cost of the power,” Harvey said. “It’s

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Stephen Bryan, director of the Office of Student Conduct, wrote in an email that “Student Conduct has not encountered possible disciplinary issues with cryptocurrency and mining at Duke.” Luthra noted that if he were mining on campus, he would be worried about getting in trouble by the administration, which has not yet released guidelines about mining cryptocurrency on campus. “It should be allowed because right now it’s primarily a really great intellectual exercise,” Luthra said. “It’s only going to be more and more important, the skills are only going to be more and more valuable. What I would like to see is Duke to create opportunities for students to work with miners with the administration.” He believes mining is a way for students to get involved in an exciting space that will be critical to computer science in the next few years. For example, professors should sponsor student projects to build their own mining rig and split the profits with Duke, Luthra said. How is blockchain technology incorporated at Duke? Blockchain technology is “the most disruptive technology since the internet,” Harvey said. “The University needs to be ahead and prepare students for future, as a result, it’s crucial that we undertake both research and give students the training that they need to be disruptors rather than disruptees,” he noted. Duke’s Blockchain Lab opened in November of 2016 and is housed under the Innovation and Entrepreneurship department. The idea stemmed from the lack of resources for students to learn about blockchain technology and participate in blockchain research. The lab’s goal is to be a platform for students to learn about and be involved in blockchain technology. It is currently focusing on education initiatives, such as hosting speakers in the industry. It has also run a day-long Ethereum crash course event and a blockchain house course taught by Harvey. Luthra wants the lab to work toward sponsoring student projects and organizing networking events in hopes of helping Duke students earn jobs at large cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. “I’d like to see Duke students, after they graduate, be leaders in the space,” Luthra said. “I would like to see researchers, academics and people in industry view Duke as a leader in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology—both from an education perspective but also from a research perspective.” Currently, Duke does not have faculty that specialize in blockchain technology and research. But given the impact of blockchain technology, Harvey asked, “Does it seem right that students should have to teach themselves?” He added that he believes it is critical Duke ensures their students are instructed in the new technology. Harvey, who is teaching a full load, is the only professor teaching a blockchain course, and he says other faculty need to step up. Both Luthra and Harvey hope that the University will hire more faculty working in the blockchain and cryptocurrency fields. Utilizing the interdisciplinary nature of Duke, Luthra notes that Duke should focus on researching how to build these systems, as well as the impact and possibilities of the technology. Duke does not currently accept cryptocurrency as a form of donation, Luthra noted. However, he expects that the Blockchain Lab would receive considerable cryptocurrency donations if the University were to accept such currency because he said many Duke alumni work in the field who are willing to help new projects. For example, Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, was co-founded by Duke alumni Fred Ehrsam, Trinity ‘10. Luthra emphasized that the Blockchain Lab is open to all students with any level of technical background because this technology will be important in their future. Duke has had blockchain instruction for the last four years— an advantage over other peer institutions—and Duke should leverage this track record by introducing more courses yearround, Harvey said. “In the next few decades, this technology is going to be critical to reimagining the systems that our economy is built on. We want Duke students and the Duke community in general to be prepared for that revolution and actively lead it,” Luthra said.

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The Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” appears for the first time in “Chungking Express” around the 42-minute mark of the film. From there, if my count is correct, it appears eight times in total, the second instance occurring not two minutes after the first. I watched Wong Kar-Wai’s film the night before I left campus last semester, and besides lodging that song firmly in my head for the better part of the following three weeks, “Chungking Express” made a fitting start to my trip home — as it is, in part, a film about transit: Amid the din of 1994 Hong Kong, the movie follows two police officers in the same district of the city, each reeling from a sudden breakup, their urban surroundings marked by subway stations and airport terminals. One character’s ex-girlfriend is a flight attendant; his new love interest, on the other hand, plays “California Dreamin’” quite literally on repeat, longing to escape to that imagined place in the sun. The characters in “Chungking Express” live in the thick of a globalized world, and they find solace, accordingly, in the icons of Western pop culture, including that hit single from The Mamas & the Papas (which takes on entirely new life in the wake of this movie). They dream of destinations that, like their love, may as well be illusory. But perhaps more importantly, the constant presence of transit is a reminder of the inevitability of time — of missed connections both literal and figurative, of the arrivals and departures and “expiry dates” that accompany every relationship. It’s an effect that’s only amplified by Wong and his cinematographers’ camera work, which in some scenes employs an exaggeratedly slow frame rate that seems

to blur time entirely, more than once isolating a single character who seems to move in slow motion while others around him fly by. Elsewhere, a recurring close-up shot of a calendar clicks each day away. And always in the background, still, is “California Dreamin’,” its roundlike melody cycling interminably in on itself, its minor key the perfect vessel for the characters’ melancholy: “If I didn’t tell her, I could leave today.” It was with these images fresh in my mind that I drove home for winter break, a place where my awareness of time can feel most amplified. Visiting home is sometimes akin to opening a time capsule, to re-entering a past preserved in amber: My old bedroom, complete

staff note with the memorabilia of my adolescence, remains intact; so, too, do the familiar rituals that accompany each day, the holiday traditions honored, the people and places visited. At the same time, though, nowhere is the evidence of time more apparent, manifesting itself in subtle, material changes — like a tree that had to be cut down, or some new structure built at the neighborhood pool, or a family dog that no longer roams about the house — that, ever so gradually, threaten to render past the point of recognition the landscape of my childhood. I usually find myself surveying those

changes while driving, often late at night, when the streets of my hometown are all but deserted. But the very act of driving, for me, is as bound up in the past as what I observe from its vantage point. As a luxury that I’m denied while I’m away at school, being behind the wheel returns me to the numerous drives I took late in high school, a time when, like the figures in “Chungking Express” and like most other people my age, I was occupied by a longing for the fantasy of an unfamiliar destination (although my surroundings bore little resemblance to the bustle of Hong Kong). On occasion, I would direct my car to what felt like the furthest edges of civilization, or I would bike to a field that overlooked the runways of the nearest airport, from which one could see, silent at a distance, the planes landing by the minute, idling, taking off in every direction. At the time, driving was a form of escape. Today, it feels more like a retreat. But although my surroundings bear little resemblance to the bustle of Hong Kong, I can identify, then and now, with the characters of “Chungking Express” in their arrivals and departures and expiration dates, in their constant transit. From my house, I-40 can be traced on a map nearly all the way to Los Angeles. Around the same time that I was driving aimlessly around the Raleigh area, I determined to complete that drive from start to finish. To the date, I still haven’t made the trip — and if I ever do, I’m not sure what I would find on the other end. But in the dead of winter, when all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, a film like “Chungking Express” seems to make those California dreams a reality. —Will Atkinson

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Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky to screen 18 short ﬁlms over four nights By Selena Qian Staff Writer

On a snowy evening in 2015, Jason Oppliger went to the Carpentry Shop, just down the street from Smith Warehouse. Now an instructor of Arts of the Moving Image, he was, at the time, a student in the M.F.A. program for Experimental and Documentary Arts, and he was meeting with his Experimental Moving Image class. This particular class meeting was his first introduction to filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, who will visit Duke for a showing of 18 of his films in an event called “18 at 18.” Dorsky will show these experimental films at the Rubenstein Arts Center over the course of four nights, Feb. 2 to Feb. 5, starting at 7 p.m. each night. Three of those films will be world premieres — Dorsky completed them earlier this year as part of a seven-film series titled the “Arboretum Cycle.” Oppliger said his introduction to Dorsky changed the way he thought about making and editing films. He then realized that Dorsky was still creating and screening new films. “I think that just knowing that this person is around, it’s like, ‘Well, why not? Why not get them here, have them show these films and talk about them because they are here?’” Oppliger said. “It’s so rare to have an artist of that caliber still around, just available, just making work and doing their thing.” “18 at 18” provides an opportunity for the graduate students in the M.F.A. program to interact with Dorsky and immerse themselves in his work in a way that could not happen otherwise. The screenings are also free and open to the public. Ted Mott, assistant director of the M.F.A. program, said people from as far

as Nashville will attend the event because of both the volume of films and the opportunity for a Q&A with Dorsky, who is a well-known figure in experimental film. “He’s a very revered film artist,” said Tom Rankin, director of the M.F.A. program and professor in the practice of art. “He’s the kind of person that our students study in class, but don’t necessarily imagine being able to see in person.” Students study Dorsky to understand his vision and the way he constructs his films. They also often read excerpts of his book, “Devotional Cinema,” which Ranking said is now a “classical” text in the teaching of film. Dorsky has been creating films since 1963, according to his website. He shoots silent films on 16-millimeter film at 18 frames per second, rather than the more common 24 frames per second used in cinematic film. In recent years, he has screened his work at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, the Pacific Film Archive and the Harvard Film Archive. Dorsky has also shown his films abroad, such as in a cathedral in Lyon, France. Due to the technical needs of projecting at 18 frames per second, the department likely could not have invited Dorsky in past years. The opening of the Rubenstein Arts Center, with a new projection booth that has these capabilities, allowed the department to invite Dorsky to screen. Dorsky also had a role in planning the event. He chose which films to show, and he chose to keep the event at a manageable size. “He’s passionate about things being what he calls ‘human-scaled,’” Mott said. “He didn’t want the scale of the project to outsize anyone’s ability to experience it.” Oppliger similarly called Dorsky’s films

Nathaniel Dorsky | Courtesy of M.F.A. Program for Experimental and Documentary Arts “Love’s Refrain” screens Friday at the Rubenstein Arts Center, part of “18 at 18: Nathaniel Dorsky at Duke.”

“generous.” He said the films show the world through a different lens, specific to Dorsky’s vision. “I think Nathaniel Dorsky is trying to show us the world again in a certain way, in a refreshed form,” Oppliger said. “That’s what I think these films are to me at least, an experience at getting to explore the world all over again, but through a very specific filmic language that Nathaniel Dorsky has basically developed over the years.” The lack of sound in Dorsky’s films creates an increased emphasis on the visual. Mott said silent films tend to feel more “exhibited,” with longer shots and more

attention paid to the montage. Rankin said seeing silent films is a “transformative” experience. For people who work with film regularly or did not grow up in the digital age, he said, it is easy to forget that seeing any silent projected film is a new experience for most people. His students start to see the world differently when they learn about the medium. “They’re never the same,” Rankin said. “They start working with these little pieces of film that they string together and they start creating a sensibility that light is projected through and it really does change the way that they think about the image.”

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Brie, beignets and banana rum: Recess takes Triangle Restaurant Week By Jessica Williams Recess Media Production Editor

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Durham may be known nationally for its breadth of restaurants, but last week the entire Triangle took part in an annual extraordinary culinary experience. Triangle Restaurant Week, which ran from Jan. 22 to Jan. 28, allowed foodies from all over the Triangle to sample what the best restaurants had to offer at a low price. Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill restaurants offered two- or three-course prix fixe menus for lunch and dinner. Lunch menus were priced at $10 or $15, while dinner menus ranged from $20 to $35. We sent two Recess writers around the Triangle to review a few restaurants participating in Restaurant Week: Parizade Conveniently located one block past Ninth Street, Parizade serves contemporary Mediterranean fare in a colorful, formalyet-fun environment. With quick, attentive service and intricate dishes, Parizade served a three-course lunch for the reasonable price of $15. Lemon Farro After a light yet tasty salad as a starting course, the Lemon Farro added a more wholesome element to the meal. With light lemon flavors pairing well with hearty vegetables and slightly nutty farro grains, the dish produced an amalgamation of flavors to create a memorable — yet not overwhelming — lunch experience. Banana Rum Napoleon This dessert was the highlight of the meal. With the phyllo layers on top adding a bit of crunch and the rum pastry cream incorporating just enough sweetness, the dish was one of the best banana desserts I’ve ever had. To top it all off, the presentation — a dusting of powdered sugar and a

strawberry on top — made this deconstructed Napoleon all the more attractive. Coquette Brasserie Coquette Brasserie, located in Raleigh’s North Hills, boasts a wide assortment of French cuisine and drinks. Upon walking in, visitors are greeted with a white and black tile floor, red seats and a large bar. The menu features everything from foie gras to coq au vin. The brasserie also offered a wide variety on its prix fixe menu, where hungry visitors could choose from two appetizers, three entrees and two desserts for $30. Baked Brie The baked brie was the perfect size for an appetizer. While the cheese may have been too much by itself, it was paired with salted toasted pecans and a red wine poached pear. These elements added in a necessary salty sweetness, breaking up the melted texture of the brie. Mille Feuille of Duck Although the duck was perfectly cooked and well-seasoned, the potato mixture underneath the meat was a bit too heavy, overwhelming the natural sweetness of the duck breast. Cinnamon Beignets The highlight of this dessert was the espresso ice cream and the powerful caramel sauce; the beignets themselves were a little underwhelming. Although these beignets would make good cinnamon donut holes, they weren’t fluffy enough to feel like true beignets. Vin Rouge A French bistro on Ninth Street, Vin Rouge boasts a warm, intimate interior and an intricate yet traditional menu. For $35, Restaurant Week-goers could sample three courses of Vin Rouge’s best dishes, with a large selection for each course. Celery Root Soup This appetizer was definitely a pleasant surprise. Expecting

something light due to the celery, the soup was thick, creamy and sweet — almost like a corn chowder but with a higher subtlety of flavor. Beef Bourguignon The tender, perfectly-cooked beef was complemented by a thick meat sauce. The herb polenta was nicely flavored, and paired well with the side carrots and mushrooms. Lemon Tart With a surprisingly strong lemon flavor, this tart was a zesty end to the meal. Made a bit sweeter by the browned sugar on top, the tart was also complemented by the foamy, lightly-sweetened cream on the side. Kipos Kipos is one of the many restaurants lining Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street, but its Greek influences, friendly staff and airy atmosphere make it stand out from the rest. It also had a generous brunch menu for Restaurant Week, serving three large courses for $15. Spanakotiropita The spanakotiropita was perhaps the biggest version of spanakopita I have ever seen. The dish almost took up the entire plate it was on, but every last bite was worth it. The light pastry, spinach and feta combined perfectly in each forkful. The Greek pastry was a favorite around the restaurant, as almost every table had at least one plate of it. Greek Omelet Although the feta cheese, tomatoes and spinach all tasted fresh and flavorful individually, the omelet in its entirety was nothing special. The feta cheese was gathered on the interior of the omelet, leaving most bites without the added flavor. Cookie Plate These homemade cookies were my favorite part of the meal. Sweet enough to quench my sugar cravings yet subtle enough not to overwhelm brunch-time taste buds, all the cookies tasted fresh and crumbled beautifully.

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From left to right: Beef Bourguignon (Vin Rouge), Baked Brie (Coquette Brasserie), Cinnamon Beignets (Coquette Brasserie), Spanakotiropita (Kipos)

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ADF’s Movies by Movers highlights affinity between bodies and camera By Ashley Kwon Staff Writer

Last Sunday, American Dance Festival held the biannual Movies by Movers Film Festival at the Nasher Museum of Art. Despite the rain, the museum’s auditorium was filled with Duke students and other members of the Durham community who came to watch four films selected for the festival. Festival director and curator Cara Hagan has been organizing the festival for three years. Growing up watching the musical films of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hagan said she always felt like the camera and moving bodies had a natural affinity for each other. When she was in her twenties, she finally had access to equipment and people who were also interested in the marriage of dance and film, and she began to explore the combination further. Although it is not well-known to the public, the dance film genre has existed since the late 1800s, Hagan said, when people started making films as an artistic medium. So when Hagan looked for people with whom to make such films and show them to the public, she did not find it difficult to gather individuals to participate. Most of the films that Hagan receives are between five and 15 minutes long, although she also receives feature-length films. Hagan said it is difficult for a movement-based film to last for longer than 15 minutes while maintaining a coherent plot. Similarly, due to the rise of digital culture, many people prefer short films to watch on social media. “A lot of people are making tiny films so that they can post them on [social media] and other places where people are not sitting and watching for a very long time,” Hagan said.

“Our relationship to the big movie screens has changed a lot over the past 10 years.” Not all films screened at the festival, however, were fast-paced. ADF gets a wide range of submissions each year, including ethnic dance films and films that tackle social issues. Making selections among those films, Hagan enjoys seeing the different ways filmmakers and choreographers define the dance film genre. “One of the things that is interesting about screen dance is that even though there is kind of a nebulous accepted definition, it is really up to the artists to decide what ‘screen dance’ is,” Hagan said. Today, Hagan receives a diverse array of submissions from around the world. Among those, she assesses how the teams of artists captured three-dimensional existence in a two dimensional space and how the actors and actresses communicate a message to the audience. Lisa Donmall-Reeve’s “Early Mourning,” which screened on Sunday, had a strong narrative centered on a woman who lost her lover. It was based on a longer film that Donmall-Reeve’s friend Ben Hartley choreographed. Throughout “Early Mourning,” a female dancer and a male dancer dance to several pieces of music, from which Hartley got his inspiration for the choreography. When Hartley first brought his work to Donmall-Reeve’s newly formed production company, Donmall-Reeve said she knew it would be a chance for her to try something different. “I knew it was not dance for dance’s sake, which is very much where I come from. It had to do with storytelling,” Donmall-Reeve said. Some films did not have any plot at all. Shocked after the Charleston shooting incident,

Courtesy of ADF The American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers Film Festival took place Sunday at the Nasher Museum.

Paul Moon shot “Apostasy” in the small town of Cape Charles, Va., to speak out against gun violence. Throughout most of the film, a male dancer improvises his movement in an abandoned World War II bunker and in front of a structure that resembles a massive gun. Despite the differences between their respective films, the filmmakers shared their hope for the audience to discover and experience something new from their films. Bat-Sheva Guez, who directed a film titled “Behind the Wall,” said her film appeals differently to viewers with different experiences. “Behind the Wall” depicts an injured ballerina who discovers a portal to a fantasy world that changes the ways she views her surroundings. “There are several things I tried to convey with the story-all within the confines of a short film,” Guez said, referring to the film’s allusions to the effects of gentrification and the ballerina’s loss of her identity as a dancer due to injury. “Different aspects of the story will resonate

differently with each viewer, and that is what is fun about this process.” Meanwhile, Yulia Arakelyan, one of the directors of the film, “Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees,” which depicts actors with disabilities performing a ritual in a dreamy setting, had a message to the audience that she and other directors wanted to convey. “We are interested in creating immersive fantastical worlds that draw people out of present day reality and into a reality where disability exists as a natural variation of the human form or is even a state of unusual power,” she wrote in an email. “We want to invite the audience into a world where people with disabilities are magicians exposing archetypes from many traditions.” After the festival ended, the audience left the auditorium, some with puzzled expressions on their faces. Others were passionately debating about the characters and symbols presented in the films. The films indeed introduced the audience to a new world of dance onscreen.

Hoof ‘n’ Horn mostly succeeds in updating ‘Company’ for the 21st century By Sydny Long Staff Writer

Classic Broadway shows are difficult to modernize. A vast majority of the shows that took twentieth-century stages are cut from the same humdrum, homogeneous cloth, offering little diversity in any sense of the word. They are stories about the same upper-middle-class people living average upper-middle-class lives, set to interminable ballads and show tunes with only a handful of true stand-outs. In a world as tumultuous and terrifying as our own, it can be difficult to retreat into a universe that contains no reflection of reality and instead focuses on presenting an artificial, polished facsimile. Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company” is no exception, with its main conflict centering around a man who just can’t seem to commit to a relationship and puts up with constant interference by his many married friends. Such a low-stakes show with such a cookie-cutter lead — how many movies and television shows have been based on the premise of a single man searching for a woman to call his own? — presents its fair share of adaptation obstacles, but Hoof ‘n’ Horn makes a spirited attempt to bring this story into 2018, one that ultimately results in an entertaining, if not very refreshing, crowd-pleaser. The musical opens with Robert (played by first-year CJ Cruz), better known as Bobby, coming home to a surprise birthday party thrown by his friends. Bobby is unmarried but is currently juggling three girlfriends: outspoken Marta (first-year Multy Oliver), dull April (sophomore Kelly McLaughlin) and sweet Kathy (sophomore Sharon Kinsella). As he celebrates his 35th birthday, his friends — all married — grill him over his inability to

settle down and find a wife of his own. Bobby contemplates this as he is swung from event to event and couple to couple and girlfriend to girlfriend (to girlfriend). Meanwhile, his friends are also going through challenges: Sarah (sophomore Shaina Lubliner) and Harry (first-year Nicholas Chrapliwy) are trying to give up their respective vices; Susan (sophomore Holly Holder) and Peter (firstyear Niall Schroder) are getting a divorce even though they still seem to be very much in love; Jenny (senior Clara Bird) and David (senior Savannah Lynn, playing a traditionally male role with expressive aplomb) are trying to please one another in spite of their different personalities; Amy (first-year Sarah Jacobs) and Paul (firstyear Daniel Sprague) are getting married in spite of Amy’s manic breakdowns; and Joanne (sophomore Jenna Clayborn) and Larry (sophomore Tim Clayton) are suffering through

what is now Joanne’s third marriage. In spite of the unwieldy amount of characters and conflicts, the cast manages to keep the show’s vignettes fast-paced and the audience engaged. Every role is perfectly cast and played excellently — nobody ever dips in their commitment to their character or betrays their fatigue. They are high-energy until the final bow. The girls in particular are standouts, from Clayborn’s show-stopping performance of “Ladies Who Lunch” to Kinsella’s spellbinding solo dance in the second act to Jacobs’ hysterical, overthe-top breakdown during “Getting Married Today.” Cruz is a perfect Robert, delivering a performance that matches his unforgettable turn in “The Producers” in terms of impeccable comedic timing and strong vocals that fill the entire theater. It is the skill and enthusiasm of the cast that keeps “Company” running even when the show or score itself is lacking.

Mary Helen Wood | Staff Photographer First-year CJ Cruz (center) stars in “Company,” which runs through this weekend in the Sheafer Lab Theater.

Attempts at bringing “Company” into the 21st century, however, are less successful. There is a fair amount of iPhone usage, from the replacement of answering machine messages at the beginning with voicemails on Robert’s phone to “Another Hundred People,” Marta’s big number, which features the cast walking through the streets of New York with their heads bent over their cell phones. While these moments are definitely impactful during their presentation, the underlying commentary isn’t quite sharp enough to be memorable and the entire effect ultimately falls flat. Some casting decisions, such as having Marta be black — which adds a new dimension to her spiel about befriending different people — and including a same-sex couple in Robert’s group of friends, are more potent and do a better job of updating “Company” for a 2018 audience. Today’s New York City is much more different than the New York City in which Sondheim conceived his musical and this production takes a stab at articulating this difference that sticks the landing. “Company” itself is a very adult show, dwelling on themes of loneliness and companionship that are not always the most entertaining. However, the cast knows where to play up certain scenes to make them more dynamic and interesting, especially in the second act, which is one enjoyable number or monologue after another and helps the show zip along to its poignant conclusion after a somewhat stagnant first act. Everyone onstage is dancing and singing and acting their hearts out, an effort so genuine and jubilant that one can’t help but leave the theater with a smile on his face and a tune stuck in his head. “Company” may be far from a perfect Broadway show, particularly for a modern audience, but Hoof ‘n’ Horn has the spirit and talent to bring it to life.

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‘The Cleaners’ documentary examines the dark corners of social media By Alexandra Bateman Staff Writer

Social media is perhaps the most pervasive technology in our world today, especially among college-aged people. Nearly everyone I know has some sort of social media profile: Facebook for keeping up with campus events; Instagram for showcasing your best, most attractive achievements; Snapchat for communicating with your real friends; maybe Tinder for passing the time. We spend so much of our days looking at our phone and computer screens, engaged in a virtual world composed primarily of images — images that we take for granted as benign and consumable. We go online and expect that we’ll see 10-second makeup tutorials and brownie recipes, that we won’t see images of violence and destruction. Of course, we know that sensitive images violate the community standards of most of the popular social media sites, but surely people still upload them. What happens to these images when they are posted? Who sees them? How are they removed? Who controls what we see online, and to what extent does this censorship protect or control us? Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck grapple with these questions in their debut documentary film, The Cleaners. The film, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 19, follows several Cleaners, or “Content Moderators”: people employed by third-party companies responsible for removing images and videos that have been flagged as violating the community standards of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. As Cleaners, they sift through approximately 25,000 images and

videos each day, deciding which ones do, in fact, violate the site’s terms and which can be ignored. Each Cleaner is assigned a topic, ranging from terrorism to self-harm and suicide to sexual content. They are told that “cleaning up the dirt” and protecting the user should be their primary goals, but many find that the Content Moderator position takes a psychological toll. One Cleaner said, “I’m a different person from what I was before. It’s like a virus slowly penetrating my brain.” Another likened being a Cleaner to slavery — these Content Moderators sacrifice their own wellbeing so that social media empires can continue to thrive. Day in and day out, the Cleaners are subjected to images so horrifying that none of us can imagine them. One Cleaner estimates that, in her role as Terrorism Content Moderator, she has seen hundreds of beheadings. She is so familiar with images and videos of beheadings that she has come to be able to identify the instrument used in various attacks. A sharp edge on the skin of the severed head indicates a sharp blade. More jagged edges, a blade as dull as a butter knife. Block and Riesewieck shed light on an unethical practice in which these psychologically-damaging positions are outsourced to people in the developing world. Because the Cleaning companies are more loosely regulated in these countries, they often offer no psychological support to their employees. Thus, trapped in a job that prevents them, under a non-disclosure agreement, from speaking about what they see, Cleaners are forced to process their trauma on their own. The political implications that arise when

Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block | Courtesy of Sundance Institute “The Cleaners” follows the content moderators who remove inappropriate images on social media websites.

companies control our access to information compounds the unethical treatment of Content Moderators. “The Cleaners” focuses briefly on Illma Gore and her nude painting of Donald Trump, an image that went viral in Feb. 2016. Gore’s piece, a clearly politicallymotivated one, was swiftly removed from all social media sites because it was flagged as having violated community standards. Which community standards did it violate? The image was removed for nudity (which Facebook permits in fine art images) and because it defamed Donald Trump’s character. She was left with two options: Respond with her name and address to an anonymous copyright filing or delete her Facebook account. In other instances, social media companies and their cleaners effectively assist foreign governments in keeping information out of their countries. Rather than have their site blocked in a country entirely, social media sites like YouTube and Twitter block IP addresses

in countries like Turkey from viewing content their government has deemed unfit. One opponent of content moderation said, “We might lose democracy because we’re willing to give it up.” “The Cleaners” provides such a comprehensive, nuanced picture of content moderation and the modern person’s relationship to social media that there is too much to unpack in an 800-word article. The relevance and significance of Block and Riesewieck’s film lie in the questions it asks of social media companies, of cleaning companies and of our own social media practices: How much control are we willing to surrender in the name of safety? How do we understand and differentiate between the documentation of civil rights violations and the reverence of them? What is the value of being disturbed by an image? “The Cleaners” asks us to consider how we interact with social media as a technology, biased in its very design.

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Trevon Duval’s crucial shot turns the tide to spark Blue Devils’ dominant second-half spurt By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

For nearly a half-hour of game time Monday night, the Fighting Irish hung around, just hoping for a chance to claw back in front. And with Duke’s lead down to just a half-dozen midway through the second half, the door remained open for a comeback. Although Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said Trevon Duval was the guy his team wanted taking a shot at that point, he probably didn’t want the freshman point guard to drill what would wind up as the night’s most crucial bucket—a lengthy triple that sparked the Blue Devils’ dominant 28-4 run. “Honestly, I love the fact that teams want me to take that shot because it’s the shot I’ve been working on,” Duval said. “I’m very confident and I believe it’s going to go in every time, and I think my teammates and my coaches do, too.” Confidence isn’t necessarily a word that would have described Duval’s 3-point shot at the start of conference play, though. He shot just 2-of-12 from long distance in Duke’s first trio of ACC contests, and before that, Duval made just five in all of nonconference play. With a breakout performance at Pittsburgh and steadiness in the last few weeks, though, the rookie has become more effective and efficient from beyond the arc, only adding to the Blue Devils’ deep offensive arsenal. “That was a big moment for him to have the confidence to [take that shot], and it was all

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Trevon Duval scored eight second-half points, dished out all four of his assists after the break and made the biggest shot of the night. net,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “You can see how our guys understand things that different guys are trying to get through and how they responded when he hit that. It meant more than three points, although three points were nice. It meant even more for our team, and that’s part of growing up.” For a 19-year-old in just his 22nd collegiate game,

the night was not without its growing pains. Duval struggled early, scoring just four firsthalf points while also committing a pair of turnovers and collecting two fouls. As a result, he played just 14 minutes, with the offense running through backcourt mates Grayson Allen and Gary Trent Jr. But after intermission, it seemed as if a

switch flipped. The Blue Devils’ first points of the second half came on a gorgeous dime, as Duval lobbed an alley-oop pass to Marvin Bagley III at the rim. The next possession, Duval stripped the ball from his former AAU teammate T.J. Gibbs, took it to the hole and converted a layup plus an additional free throw, which he promptly drained. And how did he follow that up? By assisting Bagley for a triple and then knocking down a jumper of his own on the Blue Devils’ next two offensive trips. “I was in a little bit of foul trouble and the flow of the game wasn’t going my way,” Duval said of his sluggish start. “We were winning, so I was fine, but I had in my mindset to come out and play my game...being more sharp and taking care of the ball and being sure that I didn’t turn the ball over.” Although the fouls ultimately caught up with him, Duval’s confidence and resilience took center stage against the Fighting Irish. He finished with not only 12 points, but also four assists—all after the break—that helped Duke go on its gamebreaking run. On a team with low-post scoring threats, an experienced senior leader and a consistent shooting threat that might be as hot as anyone in the league, Duval’s role as a facilitator is exactly what the Blue Devils need. Like most good teams, Duke goes as its point guard goes. So whether it’s with points or with passing, the development of a confident Duval will go a very long way.

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Duke men and women advance to indoor nationals Blue Devil men stay unbeaten with two wins in Texas By Jason Atwood Staff Reporter

The Blue Devils advanced without much trouble Sunday, and they didn’t even have to play the weekend’s hosts to do it. No. 24 Duke wrapped up its weekend in Fort Worth, Texas by sweeping San Diego 4-0 and punching its ticket to the ITA National Men’s Indoor Championship in Seattle in the three weeks. With the win, the Blue Devils will advance to the tournament for the sixth time in eight seasons. Sunday was a special day for Spencer Furman, who helped secure the doubles point before coming away with a huge singles victory to send the Blue Devils to Seattle. Furman, whose parents live in the Fort Worth area and came out to support him, clinched the match for Duke with his 7-6, 6-2 win against August Holmgren. “Great college tennis match,” Blue Devil head coach Ramsey Smith said. “I thought we competed extremely well, and it certainly was a lot closer than the 4-0 score. There were a lot of close matches, and we fought through some tough situations.” It was a surprise that Duke was even playing

San Diego at all. The Toreros upset No. 10 TCU in a match that came down to the wire, and the Blue Devils advanced to the weekend’s championship with a close 4-2 win against Louisville Saturday that junior Ryan Dickerson clinched with a three-set win. “San Diego played a heck of a match yesterday,” Smith said. “Pretty surprising result, but they’re an awfully tough team and they were the better team yesterday against TCU. But we play who’s in front of us, and we were able to come away with the big win.” For the third time in a row, Duke (3-0) came out strong by taking the doubles point. But the match began with a Blue Devil defeat, as August Holmgren and Joel Gamerov topped juniors Jason Lapidus and Ryan Dickerson on Court 2, 6-2. But Duke rallied back, beginning with junior Nick Stachowiak and freshman Sean Sculley defeating Gui Osorio and Nico Borter 6-4. Then, Furman and junior Catalin Mateas clinched the doubles point by taking down David Norfeldt and Pratt Keerasuntonpong, 6-3. The Blue Devil See M. TENNIS on Page 12

No. 9 women’s team outlasts Washington at home By Winston Lindqwister Staff Reporter

After a fall season full of deep runs in individual tournaments, the Blue Devils looked to last weekend to see if that success would translate to a dual-match format. And with both a sweeping victory and a hard-fought win under its belt, Duke looks like it will be able to hold strong against almost any opponent. The No. 9 Blue Devils hosted the ITA Kickoff Weekend Saturday and Sunday at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center against Fresno State and Washington. Duke swept the Bulldogs 4-0 thanks to dominant play in singles, but was held to a much tighter 4-2 contest against the Huskies to clinch a spot in the ITA Team Indoor Championships in Madison, Wisc., in three weeks. “Mentally, we were good,” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We held up mentally and physically, which is great this early in the season.” In its opening contest against Fresno

State (1-2), Ashworth’s squad controlled virtually every court. Although the No. 1 tandem of senior Samantha Harris and freshman Kelly Chen took an uncharacteristic 6-2 loss to the unranked duo of Emma Wilson and Georgia Lawson, the rest of Duke’s highly-touted doubles squad was there to pick up the slack. Second-ranked duo of juniors Kaitlyn McCarthy and Ellyse Hamlin took down Juliane Triebe and Katerina Stloukalova 6-2 with ease, and the Blue Devils’ newest pairing of sophomore Meible Chi and freshman Hannah Zhao cruised to a 6-1 win against Abbey Watanabe and Alessia Dario. With the doubles point secured, Duke (30) carried its momentum to dominate Fresno State in singles. Zhao was the first of the Blue Devils off the courts, having swept Olivia Noble 6-0, 6-4 on Court 6. Seventh-ranked Harris was not far behind, picking up a 6-3, 6-2 win against Wilson on Court 1, and No. 100 Chi took down Lawson 6-1, 6-3 on Court 5 to clinch the win for Duke. See W. TENNIS on Page 13

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Scheyer leaves game at halftime for daughter’s birth labor this afternoon and the doctors said it would be a long time—you know how those doctors are, they’re not right all the time, so we said, look, whenever. And Jon Scheyer was the primary Blue Devil he said, ‘Coach, I got to go,’ and I said, ‘Damn right assistant coach responsible for discovering Jack you got to go. Get out of here.’” Krzyzewski did not know whether the baby girl White in Australia and recruiting him to Durham, had already been born at and he must have been proud of the sophomore He said, ‘Coach, I got to go,’ the time of his postgame forward’s energy that and I said, ‘Damn right you press conference. “I haven’t gotten an sparked an 18-0 secondgot to go. Get out of here.’ update yet,” Krzyzewski half run. But Scheyer wasn’t on MIKE KRZYZEWSKI said. “No one’s tweeted the bench to see it. He had HEAD MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH me or snapped me or cracked me or called me or more important business whatever the hell you do right now.” to attend to. Scheyer was a four-year player at Duke and Scheyer left Duke’s win against Notre Dame Monday night at halftime to get to started at point guard as a senior for the Blue the hospital for the birth of his first child, Devils’ 2010 national championship team. His 12 days early. The former Blue Devil guard brief professional career was hampered by a has been an assistant under head coach Mike serious eye injury, but the 30-year-old is already Krzyzewski since 2014 and got married to widely respected as an up-and-coming coach. In an anonymous survey of coaches around the Marcelle Provencial in May 2017. “Just in case you were wondering why Scheyer nation last summer by CBS Sports, Scheyer was left, it wasn’t because I wasn’t listening to him,” tabbed as the most likely assistant to become a Krzyzewski quipped after the game. “She went into coaching star. By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

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Sophomore Spencer Furman went undefeated to help Duke to two wins last weekend.

M. TENNIS FROM PAGE 11 duo fell behind 2-1, but won the next two games and never looked back. After earning the doubles point, Duke entered the singles portion of the match needing only three victories. Sculley, Furman and Dickerson delivered. It began with Sculley, who improved to 3-0 in dual match play after handling Borter 6-3, 6-3. Sculley never trailed in the match, and though Borter fought hard in the second to bring it to 4-3, Sculley won the final two games to swiftly finish him off. “He’s off to a great start,” Smith said. “When I recruited him, I knew he was going to be the type of guy who would thrive in a dualmatch setting. He just brings so much energy, competes so hard, and seems to love being out there, especially in the big moments. He has a lot of tennis ahead of him in his career, but how you start as a freshman is important and I’m really excited about how he has started.” Next up was Dickerson, who defeated Alexandros Araouzos 7-5, 6-2 to bring Duke’s lead to 3-0. Araouzos fought back to tie it in the first set after falling behind 5-3, but Dickerson shut the door by winning the last two games. In the second set, the score was knotted at 2-2 until Dickerson won four straight games. With the win, Dickerson

also improved to 3-0 in dual-match play. No. 81 ranked Furman sealed the match for the Blue Devils in a tight victory against Holmgren. Furman clawed back in the first set to force a tiebreaker—which he won 8-6—before easily taking the second set 6-2. “Spencer played great, and it was extra special for him. His parents live in the area and we had dinner with them on Thursday when we first arrived,” Smith said. “I told him after the Louisville match that tomorrow you have a chance to be a hero and win it for us. He saved some set points in the first set and just really fought a battle like he always does and clinched a huge match for us to send us to Seattle.” The Blue Devils managed to come away with the win despite competing without star player Nicolas Alvarez, who is nursing a foot injury. “I was really impressed that, without Nico, the next guy stepped up,” Smith said. “It showed a lot that we were able to get through this weekend without our best player, and it should give the team a whole lot of confidence moving forward.” Beginning next weekend, Duke has four tough matches between now and the ITA Indoor Championship Feb. 16-18. The Blue Devils play their home opener against No. 16 Illinois Friday at 6 p.m. and wrap up the weekend by playing Northwestern at noon next Sunday.

Krzyzewski bounded out to halfcourt to praise White. “There’s nothing like that—first of all, playing in front of a crowd like that, let alone chanting my name,” White said. “I was just trying to play hard and give energy and just have fun with my teammates. For Coach to react like that to a play I made, it was special.” The Australian proceeded to swish a 3-pointer on Duke’s next possession and grabbed several more rebounds in the middle of the run that opened the floodgates. He finished with a career-high seven boards in 14 minutes on the floor. “What a great thing. You don’t get a chance to see that very much,” Krzyzewski said. “You saw it when that Grayson Allen kid was a freshman in the national championship game where somebody you don’t expect not only plays well, but he sparks you, how happy our guys were for him.” Playing without preseason ACC Player of the Year Bonzie Colson and veteran point guard Matt Farrell due to injury, the Fighting Irish (13-9, 3-6) simply did not have enough firepower to keep up and fell to their sixth straight loss. Duke took an early double-digit lead with a 15-4 run fueled by triples from Trent and Allen, and more timely shooting kept Notre Dame at arm’s length for the rest of the first half. But the Fighting Irish did not let the margin get any larger than 10 points in the first 20 minutes, thanks to four 3-pointers from big man John Mooney, as Bagley had trouble stepping out to the perimeter to contest him. The Blue Devils played most of the game in man-to-man defense and shut down all of Notre Dame’s players aside from Mooney—who fouled out with more than nine minutes left—and sophomore T.J. Gibbs. Bagley had one of the quietest halves of his career before the break, missing six of his seven shot attempts before helping Duke pull away early in the second half. The Fighting Irish switched between man-to-man and

zone defense to contain him and rarely gave the freshman a clear path to the rim. “In that first part of the game, we left a lot of points on the floor. Missed dunks—it had to be very frustrating for Marvin. Marvin had one sequence where he had three, where one of them had to go in and none of them did,” Krzyzewski said. “Even as Marvin moves around against the zone, it was just one of those nights for him. But, look, I’ll take him.” Head coach Mike Krzyzewski went to his bench early after using his starters for all but six minutes against the Cavaliers, and Marques Bolden returned to the floor from a knee injury for the first time since Dec. 30, though White wound up stealing the spotlight and most of the bench minutes. Duke will take on St. John’s Saturday in New York at Madison Square Garden and has a week and a half before its next ACC game—a trip to Chapel Hill for its first meeting of the year with the rival Tar Heels. The Blue Devils will not return home to Cameron for more than two weeks. “We felt like we owed Cameron that one after losing Saturday,” Allen said. “We owed it to our fans to come out here and win, and that’s what we did.”

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Although McCarthy and Hamlin found a routine 6-2 win against Kenadi Hance and Lana Slavica, the duos of Chen and Harris and Chi and Zhao both fell 7-5. “Yesterday, [Sam and Kelly] got off to a slow start against Fresno,” Ashworth said. “I think today they played much better. Again, though, they had some opportunities on some deuce points that Washington played more aggressive than we did, and that’s something we need to work on.” In what would turn into a match with four three-set meetings in singles, Duke endured the marathons to come out on top. Hamlin was the first off the court. Against Alexis Prokopuik on Court 4, the Fairfield, Conn., native cruised to a quick 6-1, 6-3 victory. After controlling the first set, Hamlin fought off a surge from Prokopuik

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to maintain the lead and knot the match to take the match, but Chi closed out the score 1-1. But it took almost another hour set 6-4 to give the Blue Devils their third before the next match was finished. straight win of 2018. No. 64 McCarthy was the next to put “I had a lot of opportunities in the second the Blue Devils ahead, taking down Miki set, and I couldn’t convert,” Chi said. “[Hance] Kobayashi 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 on Court 2. played well. She forced me to create shots. The Kobayashi raced out of the gates with a 4-1 second set was tough to lose, but I came out lead in set one, but the junior Blue Devil in the third thinking that I had what it takes battled back to force a tiebreaker. Again to win the match and I was confident in that. down 4-0 in the tiebreaker, McCarthy surged If I kept going for my plan and trusting it, it ahead to take the set. The second set was would all work out.” no easier for the Cary, N.C., native, with Duke will return to the courts Saturday Kobayashi again taking the early 3-1 lead. afternoon at No. 10 Michigan in Ann Arbor. But McCarthy pushed forth with a 6-2 run “We’re going to Michigan next weekend, to finally close out the match. and they’re a very good team,” Ashworth On Court 3, No. 58 Chen battled yet said. “Indoors at their place, when we have another unrelenting Husky, with Vanessa the opportunity to win points and finish Wong repeatedly denying the Duke points, we’ve got to be better at it.... Against freshman’s attempts to close the match. good teams and good opponents, you only Although Chen took the first set with ease, get one opportunity to finish points, so you Wong stole the second set in a tiebreaker 7-6 better take advantage of it.” (7-5). In the final set, the rookie Blue Devil trailed 3-1 before finding another gear to Walk to Duke! take control once and for all, securing the set (919)-309-9765 6-4 and putting Duke in striking distance of www.TrinityProp.com winning the match. West Campus East Campus Although Zhao fell just moments later Georgetown Poplar West in a heartbreaking 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (8-6) loss to Governor Campus Walk Katarina Kopcalic, Chi was the one to give the Murchison Anderson Blue Devils the last point they needed. No. 100 Chi took the early advantage on Court 5 against Hance, taking the first set 6-2 and seemingly setting herself up for a quick win. Despite leading 4-1 early in the second set, Chi allowed the Washington sophomore to surge with a 4-0 run to take the lead. Although Chi tried to pull back in front, Hance denied her attempts and won the second-set tiebreaker 7-5. Yet again, Chi took the advantage in the The NewHance York Times Syndication third set—leading 5-3 with the clinch Sales Corporation Avenue, York, N.Y. 10018 in sight. Hance620 putEighth forth one moreNew attempt Unique and historic properties

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12-year-old black boy named Eric, his devastated parents and the police who shot him in the neck: in a story that seemed straight out of CNN, last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy featured a plot to which many viewers could relate. Episode writer Zoanne Clack has described the episode, titled “Personal Jesus,” as “an amalgamation of stories that were out in the media and personal experiences.” Clack’s goal, especially as an underrepresented female screenwriter in Hollywood, was to tackle “unconscious bias” in policing and how it drives the rates of police brutality when it goes unchecked, putting black lives like Eric’s at risk. Coming on the heels of an episode centered on domestic violence that aired the week before and another episode the former week in which an intern on the show comes out as transgender, the serious subject matter of the newest episode surprises few. Episodes featuring social issues like police brutality have appeared in other shows as well, such as the police sitcom Brooklyn NineNine and the police drama Law & Order: SVU. Even preceding television, other forms of media like the 1940 comedy film starring Charlie Chaplin which satirized Nazi fascism, The Great Dictator, have also featured explicit stances on prominent social issues. Storytelling

has always been used as a tool for sharing narratives and spreading awareness regarding issues, and shows like Grey’s Anatomy are only its more recent platforms. Though these shows sometimes may seem as just a means of relaxation after a long day or an escape from real-life obligations and issues, the stories their writers choose to tell can do far more than just entertain. For mainstream viewers, especially those critical of antipolice brutality movements like Black Lives Matter, episodes like “Personal Jesus” connects them to experiences from which their privilege shields them.

Editorial Board Television creates a platform separated just enough from reality that the perspectives it presents does not incite as much backlash in comparison to real-life narratives, but not so much that viewers forget about the real-life implications. “Personal Jesus” and similar television shows walk the line between fiction and reality. The show’s writers, for example, purposely named the child victim ‘Eric’ as a nod to real-life police brutality victim Eric Garner, whose murder galvanized the Black Lives Matter

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movement in 2014. This tactic generates nuanced conversations about social issues like police brutality even outside the living room—all under the guise of television discourse. To this end, the larger the audience is, the more effective television becomes. Shows with fan bases as massive as Grey’s Anatomy or Law & Order wield more power due to their reach. However, just as the size of such platforms enables television to spread diverse, nuanced narratives, the mishandling of complex social issues can, at best, fall flat. At worst, they can perpetuate existing prejudices and stereotypes. Grey’s Anatomy has largely avoided this by working closely with advocacy groups like GLAAD (the LGBTQ non-profit centered on media representation), which is evident in such decisions like casting a transgender actor to play a transgender character on the show. In short, Grey’s Anatomy has done its research and has included in the show-making process the voices of those it seeks to accurately represent, creating episodes that challenge its viewers to think critically and empathetically. Easily digestible for a mainstream audience, its thoughtful portrayals of social issues have the potential to change more minds and impact more lives.

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verybody knows “that guy.” He is “the person everyone loves to hate and never wants to become”—at least according to the most popular definition provided for the term on urbandictionary.com. In Washington D.C., the idiomatic label has been applied to one person in particular, especially as the Trump administration makes a concentrated effort to pass immigration reform in the start of its second year. Barely 30 years old and with no more than a Bachelor of Arts in hand, Duke alumnus Stephen Miller has

Jacob Weiss NOT JUMPING TO ANY CONCLUSIONS quickly become known as “that guy” on the Hill. As senior advisor to the president, Miller has represented the office on TV news shows, fielded questions from reporters at press briefings and has been active in the formation of Trump’s policy initiatives. In the past month, he has cemented himself as the most infamous member of the administration due to the emphasis that Trump has placed on achieving immigration reform in 2018 and Miller’s heavily restrictionist views on the matter. From directing choruses of “Build the Wall” chants at campaign rallies to railing against news reporters like CNN’s Jim Acosta, who questioned the underlying purpose of a proposed merit-based system of awarding green cards, Miller has made clear his hardline positions on immigration. His viewpoints, which are further right than those of many conservative peers in Congress, and an unwillingness to budge on any immigration issue have earned the derogatory moniker from both sides of the aisle. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham even has gone as far as to refer to Miller as the primary obstacle in the way of consequential immigration reform. However, one could counter that he is the impetus— not the obstacle—to consequential immigration reform, as a recent New York Times article suggests. Although urbandictionary.com provides a negative definition, the connotation of “that guy” may be positive in the case of Miller. As “that guy” in immigration talks, Miller represents a popular viewpoint that is proportionally underrepresented in Congress. When Trump was elected, the American people made clear that they wanted more diverse opinions present in the immigration debate. Prior to 2017, the immigration debate was an echo chamber under the guise of bipartisanism. Trump’s election has given voice to the immigration hardliners of Congress, previously relegated in favor of senators from distinct parties like Senators Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio, who hold similar fundamental views to Miller on the issue. Miller—just as he had in campaign stops in Johnstown, Pa., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and Fort Wayne,

Ind.—has directed the chorus. While the company of “that guy” may not be desired by many, Schumer and Graham included, Miller must have a seat at the table. While Miller is combative, rude and opposed to the most prominent perspective in the room, his role is critical. Miller’s positions make a lot of sense to a sizable portion of the American populace, who voted for Trump in large part because they aligned with the campaign’s stance on immigration. A significant portion of the American populace believes that less immigration and more comprehensive border control measures are the right path for the United States, and they need to be heard within the discourse. Opponents of the Miller-approved immigration paradigm have suggested that ulterior motives beyond those of law and order, or fairness and common sense, motivate Miller’s restrictionist policy ideas. Although they are certainly justified in arriving at this conclusion, they cannot paint the masses with a broad brush. For every individual who supports immigration restriction because of misguided bigotry, there is a vast multiple who support similar policies because they believe the United States should not become intentionally less skilled, immigrants who speak English will be more likely to successfully assimilate and a porous border represents a significant national security concern. “That guy,” might be a case of the former: a manifestation of bigoted ideology. Damning testimonies from those affiliated with him during his youth, racially-charged columns for the Chronicle and his adamant defense of our president’s character when he has defended the alt-right potentially evidence bigotry. However, it is also entirely possible that the eloquently stated and sensible justifications he provides during interviews, press briefings and rallies are his sole influence. It is unfortunate that such a high-ranking officer within the president’s current administration has garners such serious concern surrounding his personal character. But regardless of Miller’s personal views, he has undoubtedly helped establish a forum for immigration restrictionists who are not influenced by racial bigotry— such as Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who fiercely condemned white supremacism in Charlottesville—to influence policy for the valid reasons. Miller would be served well to be more cordial in his interactions with lawmakers as well as the press, as both Acosta and Graham can attest, and to more outspokenly condemn racial bigotry in any form so as to dispel allegations against his own character. However, he still is an important positive force in the capitol. Without Miller, an important, popular and well-informed perspective on immigration would be neglected because no one wants to be “that guy.” On the other hand, Miller welcomes the title. Jacob Weiss is a Trinity senior. His column, “not jumping to any conclusions” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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s time up on traditional solutions for sexual misconduct? Advocates for criminal justice reform, which is supported by a majority of Americans, will often allude to the effectiveness of restorative justice over that which is purely punitive in nature. Restorative solutions focus on not only repairing harm done, but also on identifying ways in which victims and offenders can work together to achieve healing. A restorative approach seeks to make incarceration more productive, providing the victim an opportunity to share how he or she has been harmed while at the same time preparing inmates for life after prison by equipping them with the personal and professional skills necessary for reintegration into society. In fact, educational programs have been shown to reduce rates of recidivism by as much as 43 percent. Considering the record breaking numbers of prisoners in this country and the disproportionate number of minorities amongst them, I’d be the first to support any push by lawmakers to further incorporate the aforementioned techniques in our criminal justice system. The first, that is, until these techniques were brought to a college campus near me. While it isn’t much of a stretch for me to envision a criminal justice system that works to rehabilitate the criminally convicted, I find it much harder to stomach the execution of this approach on Duke’s campus, especially when it comes to sexual assault—one of the most egregious offenses the University has to manage. My instinctive repulsion could have to do with the fact that this issue hits a lot closer to home. It’s much easier to talk about forgiveness in terms of inmates I’ll likely never encounter than in relation to those who have upended the lives of the men and women I’ve called my friends over the last five years. But, as we continue to reel from the shock of report after report of sexual misbehavior, I believe we will reach a point at which calling offenders out—and even kicking them out—simply won’t be enough for the sorts of drastic cultural change many of us want to see. In order to move forward, we have no choice but to put all options on the table, including the ones that force us to engage directly with wrongdoers. For years, victims’ advocates have prioritized the

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fight for offenders’ expulsion—and often, for good reason. Accountability and consequence for sexual misconduct on college campuses is long overdue, especially when a lack thereof means the threat of violence and retraumatization for all those who must share the offender’s space. But, if expulsion and other sanctions listed in Duke’s sexual misconduct policy were to be viewed through a restorative justice lens, I think they’d fail to meet the core tenets of reparation, reunion and transformation that the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation outlines as crucial in the restoration process. While removing a responsible party from campus removes the immediate threat, it does not guarantee that the wrongdoer will have learned and grown from the experience, or deter them from committing the same acts elsewhere.

cruel. But, in a recent phone call with Duke’s own Director of Title IX Compliance, Howard Kallem, I was pleased to learn that a restorative process works to puts the needs of the victim first and foremost, offering them a space to have their voices heard. Some universities, like Skidmore College, have already been hard at work to make restorative solutions a viable option for victims who want it. Skidmore’s PRISM Project has taken on the task of addressing both individual cases of misconduct in addition to “broader cultural contexts that support such behavior by offering non-adversarial options for prevention education, resolution, and pathways to safe and accountable reintegration.” And much of this push for alternative conciliatory efforts comes from victims themselves, like one young woman who told NPR how she’d produced a video with her assailant in hopes of turning her traumatizing experience into a learning opportunity for others. Other solutions vary from private victim-offender dialogue to sentencing circles in which both parties gather with family and friends to discuss the incident DUKE, FORWARD and its broader implications. While the idea of a creative collaboration between One would hope that expulsion would be victim and offender might seem a bit extreme, Mr. enough of a wake up call for a young perpetrator Kallem, also a contributor to a report on the PRISM to refrain from engaging in the same behavior, Project, told me that requests from complainants for but of course there is no guarantee against repeat alternatives to the formal disciplinary process are not offenses—and possibly even less so without the at all rare on Duke’s campus. During our phone call, opportunities to fully consider harm done. Sanctions he revealed that Duke administrators have begun that don’t carefully facilitate an offender’s reflection their own investigations into responses to sexual on their victim’s pain could very well lead to the misconduct that “allow complainants to tell their offender feeling sorry for getting caught, rather than stories in a safe and supported environment.” He for causing harm. If I’ve taken anything from last said that these responses might not only facilitate week’s intense national dialogue about Aziz Ansari’s the perpetrator’s personal growth, but also more disappointing dating behavior, it’s that a healthy importantly empower the victim to dictate the sexual encounter is not just the absence of force and healing process he or she needs. coercion, but also the integration of sensitivity to Mr. Kallem explained to me that many another’s experience. When it comes to achieving complainants don’t come to him seeking the latter, a restorative justice approach seems much retribution, but instead with the hope that the more useful in that it incorporates opportunities for accused will feel truly sorry for what they’ve done. the victim to share exactly how he or she has been During my time at Duke, most of my fellow harmed and, in turn, for the offender to engage in feminists rejected the notion of victim culpability deep reflection. for the consequences that a sexual misconduct I’m not naive enough to believe that any solution report might have on the life of the accused. demanding additional work on the part of the victim They’d dismiss feelings of guilt as further signs of might appear to be counterintuitive and downright the patriarchy’s insidious grasp on us all. I agree

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that a victim should in no way feel responsible for an attacker’s decisions. I do think, however, think that the trend of opposition to primarily punitive resolutions merits some serious consideration. We must pay attention to the requests of victims, who haven’t ruled out restorative solutions despite—or perhaps because of—their trauma. As hopeful as I am about the potential of restorative justice to get at the roots of culturally embedded sexual transgression, I know that its implementation isn’t as straightforward as I’ve laid out. When I asked a friend and fellow Duke alumna if she would have considered using a restorative justice approach to address her own assailant’s behavior, she echoed my own conflicting sentiments about the framework’s use for college-based sexual misconduct. While conceding that current procedures for addressing sexual misconduct haven’t necessarily been successful in confronting the underlying causes of harmful sexual behavior on campus, she wisely reminded me to consider the potential risks that a restorative justice solution might entail—namely retraumatization and placing too much onus on the victim as an educator. While the restorative justice process has mechanisms in place to minimize these risks, her concerns are nevertheless well-founded, and I acknowledge the great deal of work that would need to be done in order to mitigate further pain. Regrettably, the victim would indeed have to take some responsibility for the offenders’ developmental process in a restorative approach, no matter how much work perpetrators are asked to do. To say that this is unfair would be a glaring understatement. Nonetheless, this is the unfortunate reality for just about every movement for systemic change that I can think of—the oppressed must first air their grievances and then work tirelessly to help others understand their experiences. But, for those willing and able to engage in the work of a restorative process, the slightest chance of forcing transgressors to move beyond merely expressing their remorse, instead channeling it to shift behavior, might be worth the risk. McCall Wells is Duke ‘17. Her column, “Duke, forward,” usually runs on alternate Fridays.

Duke student body: Where is Durham?

My high school, Hillside, is just five minutes away, but when I’m here it feels worlds apart.” I grew up in in a beautiful North Carolina public school district with great teachers and enough chairs and tables for most of the class to sit on any given day. My mom became an assistant principal in the early 1990s at Githens Middle School in Durham, and reminded me often of my great fortune. At Githens, she told me, she would frequently take weapons from students. Her kids were robbed of childhoods by the greedy hands of mass incarceration, poverty, substance abuse and racism in 1990s Durham. Durham Public Schools has a complicated history with segregation. Until 1970—16 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education—its districts remained segregated. After a court order demanded that Durham integrate its schools through busing, white families fled from the Durham City School System to the outskirts of the county which operated as the Durham County School System. These two neighboring districts remained institutions of de facto segregation until they merged in 1992, causing another surge of white flight from the public schools to private and charter schools. Today, the district is home to students of various socioeconomic and racial backgrounds— the majority of whom are nonwhite. About 82 percent of Durham Public School (DPS) students identify as racial and ethnic minorities, and about 66 percent of students receive free-and-reduced lunch funding. When I started school at Duke, I expected to meet a plethora of other kids from North Carolina public school districts. In fact, I expected to meet kids from the schools where my mom taught, schools that lie mere miles from Duke’s campus and yet seem worlds away. I figured that students

in Durham would be drawn to Duke’s campus and Duke would seek them out, given that they share a home. I quickly learned that this was not the case. I met many Duke students from schools like Durham Academy and North Carolina School of Science and Math, but few who graduated from the Durham Public School system. I actually met a Marketplace employee who attended Riverside High School long before I met a Duke student who walked those halls. It felt almost shameful that I was attending an institution with so few roots in its community that most of my friends couldn’t name a single high school in Durham, let alone speak to the city’s

Leah Abrams CUT THE BULL impending obstacles like the affordable housing shortage and the lack of public transportation. I reached out to the Admissions Office to see if my observations matched the statistical reality. Was Duke really so unrepresentative of Durham, or was I exaggerating? It seemed necessary to acquire the data. Understandably, during this busy time of year, the Admissions Office was unable to share high school information with me. I tried to avoid going one by one through the class of 2020 student directory, so instead I reached out to the high school counselors at each Durham Public School high school. While most only had access to self-reported data from school newspapers, they seemed to corroborate my perception that few DPS students end up attending the prestigious University down the street. Over the

past five years, Northern High School enrolled only two students in Duke University. Both are white males, and both played for the football team. I also spoke to friend of mine who went to Hillside High School. Hillside is the oldest historically black high school in the state of North Carolina that has continued to operate. Its long history as a hub for education and community in Durham makes it a city landmark serving a wide range of students. My friend believes that he is the first student in 10 years to be accepted to Duke from Hillside. Coming to Duke can be scary and intimidating. It can be frustrating to hear about the college counselors, equestrian teams and field trips many students had in high school, and to wish that your old friends could have experienced those luxuries. It can be sad to know that your peers are probably more likely to work at Marketplace than sit in your classes. For these reasons, I’m not sure if many DPS students apply to Duke in the first place. It might just feel like too much of a long shot or too much of a stretch. Another friend, Lee Rodio—one of the white males from Northern—said that he almost decided not to attend Blue Devil Days after hearing his tour guide say that she only felt safe on campus because there weren’t any “random Durhamites walking around.” “It was almost like when I first got here, people were surprised I wasn’t trying to mug them,” Rodio said. From his perspective, Duke students seemed to either pity or fear their Durham neighbors. This is not a condemnation of the Admissions Office, nor is it an indictment of my fellow Duke students, who are talented and deserving of their spots here. Rather, it is an observation of a concerning discrepancy and a need for investment in public schools systems. After all, if only 48 percent

of Durham Public School students enroll in any sort of college, then there is a clear need for improvement within the district itself. Duke should continue its relationship with the Durham Public School system and work to strengthen college readiness throughout the district. Additionally, students like my friends from Northern and Hillside say there’s much to be done in recognizing Durham-bred talent. “If Duke really wants to walk the walk instead of just saying that they want to be reflective of Durham, then they need to give more than just a first glance to DPS applications,” Rodio told me. “Where DPS students stand out, though it might not be the pinnacle of academic success, is that they have this well-roundedness. In the past five years, we’ve had a Morehead Scholar, a Gates Scholar, and a Jefferson Scholar—just to name a few. But the stigma around Duke’s culture often discourages our best and brightest from pursuing academic careers here. In terms of actually demonstrating their appreciation for that, I think the Admissions Office falls short.” When it comes down to it, each of us worked hard to be here and each of us is qualified to sit in class at Duke. But if Duke aims to establish roots in its community, to provide equal opportunities for education, to honor the contributions of Durham to Duke as an institution, then it’s worth remembering the inequities at hand. Even without a team of faculty preparing them for standardized testing, college essays and extracurricular activities, students from North Carolina public school districts are still ambitious, intelligent and compassionate. They deserve a shot—if they want it. Leah Abrams is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “cut the bull,” usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 21

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18 at 18: Nathaniel Dorsky at Duke Friday, February 2-Sunday, February 5 7 pm nightly Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Free, ticket required

The Duke University Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program welcomes visiting artist Nathaniel Dorsky to Duke in the spring semester of 2018 for four nights of films, February 2-5. The program, entitled 18 at 18, features 18 silent films from the filmmaker and author, screened at silent speed, 18 frames per second. The slate of films spans the artist’s career and includes a new film cycle, the Arboretum Cycle, photographed at the San Francisco Arboretum in 2017 and screened in its entirety at Duke as a world premiere. Admission is free, with reservations available at mfaeda.duke.edu Supported by the Duke University MFA|EDA, the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Arts of the Moving Image program and the Center for Documentary Studies.

ARTIST TALK: DARIO ROBLETO Thursday, February 1 7 pm Nasher Museum of Art Join us for Dario Robleto’s multimedia talk, “A Dream, As Faithful As A Flame.”

RUBENSTEIN ARTS CENTER GRAND OPENING PARTY Saturday, February 3 1-4 pm Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Free

FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE Presented by Duke Players Thursday, February 8-Saturday, February 10 at 8 pm Sunday, February 11 at 2pm Brody Theater Free theaterstudies.duke.edu

EXCAVATION SITES: DIDA + DUKE DANCE Friday, February 9 5-8 pm Ark Free

DUKE JAZZ ENSEMBLE WITH TIM WARFIELD, SAXOPHONE Friday, February 9 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium $10 general admission, students free

DUKE WIND SYMPHONY: 44TH ANNUAL VIENNESE BALL Saturday, February 10 7-11 pm Freeman Center for Jewish Life $12/ticket, $20 for 2 tickets

ALUMNI FILMMAKER: MULTI-PROJECTOR PROGRAM BY ROGER BEEBE (PHD, ’00) + Q&A Wednesday, Feburary 21 7-8:45 pm Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center

COMING SOON! 21ST ANNUAL FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Thursday, April 5-Sunday, April 8 fullframefest.org

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