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Students demand administrative action at Friday forum

Sanjeev Dasgupta and Gautam Hathi | The Chronicle Prior to the forum Friday, students requested administrators reconvene a week later at 5 p.m.—a more convenient time for many students and faculty.

Claire Ballentine, Neelesh Moorthy, Samantha Neal and Adam Beyer The Chronicle Tensions were high Friday afternoon at a community conversation convened by administrators in response to recent racist and homophobic incidents on campus. President Richard Brodhead hosted an open forum in Page Auditorium at noon for students to express their concerns and ask administrators questions about their responses to these events. Brodhead— along with Provost Sally Kornbluth and Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences—outlined several actions that they have taken or plan to take, including expanding implicit bias training, developing a website that answers questions about punishments for perpetrators of hateful acts and creating a task force to tackle issues of bias and hate on campus. He explained that addressing these issues must include efforts from the

entire Duke community. “No single administrative thing is the solution to the whole problem,” he said. Before the a event, a large group of students took the stage to demand another meeting at a more convenient time with more advance notice—next Friday at 5 p.m. The group began a call-and-response chant directed at the administration, saying, “You have created a space for us to fear for our lives, and you continue to maintain that space.” They also repeated “Whose university? Our university,” and continued to chant “Duke, you are guilty” as they exited Page Auditorium. Kornbluth later said she would be in attendance at the conversation next Friday. A main focus of the approximately 90-minute forum—which filled Page Auditorium and was broadcasted on the Bryan Center plaza using a speaker—was whether students or the administration were more responsible for implementing change on campus. Several students called

for more action from the administration and questioned what specific actions they are taking to prevent further incidents. “It is not my responsibility,” said senior Adesuwa Giwa-Osagie. “It is your responsibility, because I paid for my education and I paid for this experience.” Brodhead noted that action by the entire campus is needed and that students should speak up to educate each other about becoming more tolerant. Ashby, however, said the responsibility to address these issues should not rest on students’ shoulders, explaining that change must begin through the actions of faculty and administration. “We’re going to have conversations that lead to action,” she said. “Anything we say we’re going to do, we’re going to do. It’s just that simple.” Ashby noted that this change will not happen “overnight,” adding that she is visiting different departments of the University to discuss Duke’s values and will hold department chairs accountable. She

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also said new faculty will be held to high standards during their annual review. In addition, she noted that all faculty serving on search committees are required to undergo implicit bias training through the Office of Institutional Equity. “We will evaluate the entirety of the person—you can’t be a great scholar and intolerant. You have to go,” she said. Ashby’s comments on holding faculty accountable were relevant to several students’ concerns that research professor Jerry Hough—criticized for racially charged comments he made on a New York Times editorial last year—will teach classes next semester without having undergone any bias training. Another topic discussed was the noose incident last Spring, which a University investigation found was the result of a lack of cultural awareness and was not a racially motivated statement. “Can you honestly tell me that you

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Brodhead reflects on Friday’s open forum, action items isn’t because they don’t care about these things. It’s because there are complications in administering that have to be worked through, but I’m as happy as anyone to see, does someone have a version of this that is working well for them that would work well for us? If so, I would be very happy to adopt it. The third one was greater transparency about the handling of issues that could be put in the bias and hate category. There’s some degree of visibility that’s not sufficient, because some people know about it and most people don’t. And I think that’s an easy one to do. I’m not going to roll out the specifics of these things [yet], but these are commitments we’ve made, and I expect to have this work.

Grace Mok and Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Following Friday’s community forum in Page Auditorium, The Chronicle’s Amrith Ramkumar spoke with President Richard Brodhead about the event and his response to recent incidents on campus. The Chronicle: What were your main takeaways from what students said about their personal experiences? Were you surprised by any of them? Richard Brodhead: No, not especially. I went there to hear what people wanted to say. It was certainly going to be an event where people spoke about their concerns. I go to a lot of places where people are telling me what they love about Duke. I take both of these things to be true, but I didn’t expect today to be about the good side of things. I heard things that were new to me, but I heard things that I’ve also heard. An event like that can make it look like none of us ever talked to a student or learned what a student thought until Friday, but actually that’s not true. We’re all in communication all the time. I know that there’s a world which appears that there are some people who are called administrators with a capital “A” who are completely separate from other people, but actually there’s another sense in which we all live in this community together, that we enjoy each other’s company.

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle President Richard Brodhead was one of three administrators present at Friday’s open forum in Page Auditorium.

quickly and which are the ones that are going to take a longer time?” Maybe part of what we need to do is to inform people better. It’s hard, because you can’t just send out a list of good things you’re doing. But if you don’t do that, then no one knows the good things you’re doing. And then when you tell people, they go, “Well, none of us knew that.” That’s alright, we just all need to be in more communication about these issues and the degree of priority they have for this university.

outcome is that no one would ever read a single one. So you have to choose your moments. We just have to use every such occasion to speak about these topics.

TC: Could you clarify some of the new initiatives that you and the other administrators brought up? RB: I said three things. One, in imitation of what was done with the sexual misconduct task force, that we’d be having a significantly beefed up task force on all issues of bias and hate. Two, that we would be revisiting TC: What are some of the ways that this and reconsidering the question of communication could be improved? whether our disciplinary rules should RB: I think the best one is just having have specific mention of bias and hate TC: There were so many issues people out and about. Emails from and specific weighting of penalties for brought up, from faculty diversity to the president—people don’t sit down, those things, or whether existing rules mental health. How do you aggregate thoughtfully digest them and then are adequate. None of these things those and tackle those problems? commit them to memory. And that’s are easy questions. That’s why I didn’t RB: We’ll sit down and say to ourselves, one of the troubles. If I send out an announce a new rule today. If the great “Of the things we’ve heard, which are email every day about something that’s majority of universities in America the things that have to be acted on most happening on campus, the only assured don’t have that kind of regulation, it

TC: [Black Student Alliance president] Henry Washington raised concerns during the forum about incident report forms. Can you explain how such a form would be different from what currently exists? RB: Some people say there’s no ability to file such a thing. Some people say that it already exists. Guess what? That tells you that at the very least you have a communication problem, so we would need to look and see where are the improvements that can be made in the transparency of communication. TC: Communication has been on the minds of many students, especially regarding the lag time between when the incidents occur and when the administration responds. What has to be done on the administrative end before an email can be sent out to students? RB: Different instances have different facts, different shapes, different gravities, so you can’t have a cookbook formula for how to communicate about them. There certainly have been ones in my lifetime that were not at all correctly understood on the first instance, so if you communicate too broadly about See BRODHEAD on Page 6

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HTC brings virtual reality experiences to campus Lucy Zhang The Chronicle HTC’s virtual reality headset prototype impressed members of the Duke community who got to participate in a virtual reality demonstration last week. A smartphone manufacturer, HTC held demonstrations in CIEMAS for Duke staff and students to try on the HTC Vive headset— one of a series of demonstrations he demos at universities, including the are University of seriously not like C a l i f o r n i a , Berkeley and anything I’ve ever experienced N o r t h e a s t e r n University. The before. HTC Vive’s was — Jasmine Lu software created by Valve C o r p o r a t i o n ’s Steam platform, with the hardware made by HTC. Together, the demonstration of the device provided a realistic experience of gaming and other types of environments, students said. “The demos are seriously not like anything I’ve ever experienced before,” said freshman Jasmine Lu, who helped run the demonstrations. “The environment is so easy to interact with, and you really feel immersed in the new space.” One of the features shown was 360-degree room-scale virtual reality. Jacob Ross—regional manager at the AroundCampus Group, which brings speakers to college campuses— described 360-degree room-scale as

a distinguishing feature of the HTC Vive that allows users to explore a virtual location. In the demonstration, users could explore an entire 15 by 15 foot space as the system tracked both horizontal and vertical movement— for example, if the user dropped something on the floor in a game, he or she would be able to bend down and pick it up. “I have a fear of heights, and there were a couple of demos where you’re able to look over edges—my heart was pounding,” Ross said. “It was really hard to remember sometimes that this is the virtual world while your body and brain are telling you ‘no, this is real life.’” Other demonstrations included wandering around a kitchen and watching a life-sized whale in the ocean. The Tilt Brush demonstration let people try 3D painting with the entire room as their canvas. Another popular demonstration took place in Aperture Science, a setting in the popular video game Portal. Exploring Aperture Science in virtual reality is a “totally different experience” from playing Portal on a traditional computer, Ross said. Other demonstrations involved significantly more action. “I’ve had sniper fire coming in, and I’m crawling on the floor army-style trying to get behind the desk in the game to escape these bullets,” Ross added. “Yet when people are watching me do it, they just see my crawling on the floor.” Junior Sivaneshwaran Loganathan stated that he was particularly impressed by the visuals and the sense of complete immersion into the environment,

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adding that he prefers the HTC Vive to the Oculus Rift, another virtual reality headset that is currently available commercially. “[The HTC Vive] was leagues better than that,” Loganathan said. “The graphics were just so much more realistic.” The Duke community displayed enthusiasm for the demonstrations, Ross said. He noted that, of all of the campuses he had visited so far, Duke had the highest number of demonstrations

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Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Following attacks in Paris, Beirut and around the globe, students gathered Saturday on the Chapel steps to reflect and pay their respects to those lost.

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BRODHEAD from page 2 it, you can actually create broad misunderstanding of the issue. Certainly it’s a challenge to all of us to think harder about all this, but the truth is the communication has to be appropriate. There’s just no escaping that fact. TC: This week for a lot of people has been a whirlwind. What has it been like for you as a president of a university? RB: These events on our campus have been concerning. But...a student who I met at a meeting with [LGBTQ students] was exactly right: there’s a way in which it’s all about the events, and there’s a way in which it’s not at all about the events. That’s very important. There’s a way in which we’re talking about this like it’s a “this week crisis issue” and there’s another way in which we are talking about a year-afteryear continuing effort on the part of this university to transform itself.

When everyone who came to the University came from the same school and had the same income, guess what? You actually didn’t have to mediate these kinds of group [conflicts] because you didn’t have different groups. The openness of a great university to all the talent of the country and the world—I regard that as the greatest privilege of a university. And if that means there’s new work you have to do on underlying issues, most of them arising from a social dimension, structural social issues or historical, cultural issues, then let’s get busy and do the work. TC: How did the events around the nation, at Missouri and Yale, impact the planning of this forum? RB: Each event on every campus carries heightened charge that comes from national things. So of course there was some input from other universities, but this was a Duke event. This was a Duke gathering.

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FORUM from page 1 believe there is no racial motive behind the incident last Spring?” senior Katrina Miller asked. Brodhead explained that the student who committed the act received a serious disciplinary sanction, though the details of the sanction could not be divulged due to federal law. Three investigations—by federal, state and local law enforcement—took place and none of them resulted in a criminal charge, he said. Although many students are upset that the student in question was not expelled, Brodhead noted that he does not think the University should punish individuals based on “the passions of the community.” In addition, implicit bias training and the ability of students to report incidents of bias or discrimination were addressed. Giwa-Osagie criticized the University’s priorities, pointing out the lack of bystander intervention training and specific forms for students to use in reporting discrimination-related incidents. She noted that Duke found the money to “build a million dollar glass door” but has not yet implemented bystander intervention training or bias report forms. Although there is an incident report form available for students, it is not specifically dedicated to instances of bias or discrimination. Brodhead said that solutions are in the works. He noted that the Office of Institutional Equity has recently doubled its capacity to do implicit bias training. Ashby added that mandatory educational components addressing bias are being considered. Duke does currently have a Bias Response Advisory Committee within the Office of Student Affairs—however, Brodhead said a new task force will be created that will strengthen existing efforts to combat bias and will be modeled after the University’s Gender Violence Task Force. Kornbluth also announced that Duke has opened a search for a vice provost for faculty advancement whose main responsibility will be “diversity and inclusion” on campus. Miller added that because of the recent incidents, she no longer feels safe on campus as a black woman at Duke and asked the administration to address her fears. “You say you’ll be here next Friday at 5,” she said. “But where are you going to be tomorrow when I’m walking home from the library at midnight afraid, angry and scared to walk around my own campus because I don’t know if the person walking next to me or the person sitting next to me in class is the one who defaced that poster?” In response to Miller’s concerns, Ashby promised to keep her door open in the Allen Building for students looking to discuss their individual situations with her, but acknowledged that these issues go beyond any individual. “Let me talk to you,” she said. “This is about you. You asked the question what I can do right now, and I’m telling you what I can do right now.” Matthew Bunyi, a graduate student in the Sanford School of Public Policy, also criticized The Chronicle for multiple opinion pieces in recent months and encouraged changes to the way opinion pieces are handled. “We’re not saying don’t publish those things. I’m saying go find somebody who is going to publish something that responds to that on that same day,” he said. Several students noted that the anonymous social media app Yik Yak allows users to post discriminatory comments without fear of repercussion, calling for administrators to shut down the media platform. Brodhead explained that he did not know if he had that ability but acknowledged the dangers of students being able to post anonymously. Junior Christine Wei raised concerns regarding staff diversity in Counseling and Psychological Services, socioeconomic diversity in student recruitment and mental health on campus. “As someone who can’t afford to look like someone who is wealthy, I don’t feel as if I belong on this elitist, privileged campus,” Wei said. “Our university is supposed to be a microcosm of society, but where are the voices that have gone unheard?” Kornbluth said that faculty members agree with Wei on these issues, noting that their goal is for students to eventually “see themselves in the faces of the faculty.” She also noted that immediate action would be taken as a result of Wei’s observation that there is only one AsianAmerican counselor in CAPS. Conversations addressing the recent incidents on campus and how to improve campus climate will continue to take place, Brodhead explained. “None of us ever had the idea that this would be the only time we’d talk to anyone in this room,” Brodhead said. “This wasn’t the first day we thought about these issues, and this isn’t the last day we will think about these issues.” Ryan Zhang and Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting.

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For the first time in three years, the Blue Devils and Panthers managed to avoid a shootout. But this time around, the game was on the verge of being a second-half blowout. On Senior Day at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday, Duke dropped its third straight game since beginning the season 6-1 with a 3113 loss against Pittsburgh. The Blue Devils are now out of contention for the ACC Coastal title, and were unable to rack up one more home victory for their seniors—including captains Jeremy Cash and Matt Skura—in their final home game. “We are a better football team than we played on that field today,” senior tight end Braxton Deaver said. “[The] premium needs to be on our execution. We need to hit and we need to be the Duke football team that showed up in August getting ready for this season.” Although the team did not give up another 66 points like it did last week against North Carolina, Duke (6-4, 3-3 in the ACC) once again had several missed opportunities and surrendered a number of explosive plays that put the game out of reach in the second half. The once-stout defense could not get off the field—allowing the Panthers (7-3, 5-1) to convert 8-of-15 third downs—and several key penalties in the contest kept the ball moving for Pittsburgh. In the first drive of the second half for the Panthers, a defensive holding penalty negated a third-down sack by defensive end Deion Williams and a defensive pass interference call against cornerback Breon Borders in the end zone reversed a pick that would have ended the drive. Instead, the Panthers punched in a touchdown three plays later on a three-yard reception from tight end J.P. Holtz. “Penalties are something that are part of the game,” senior defensive end Kyler Brown said. “We can’t always rely on the refs so we have to be out there making the plays ourselves. That’s something that we’ve definitely got to correct and something that we’ve got to clean up.”

Saturday was truly a tale of two halves, as the Blue Devils played a strong first two quarters against Pittsburgh but faltered in the final 30 minutes to fall to 6-4 on the season and .500 in ACC play. In the first half, Duke tallied a net yardage of 283, compared to the Panthers’ net of 201, turned the ball over zero times and scored 10 points. In the second half, the Blue Devils totaled 78 yards, compared to Pittsburgh’s net of 247, turned the ball over three times and, had it not been for a miraculous 51-yard field goal by senior Ross Martin that bounced off the crossbar and through the uprights, would have scored zero points. “The time of possession just flipped on [us] and the score just flipped on [us],” head coach David Cutcliffe said. Prior to the game, redshirt junior quarterback Thomas Sirk’s status was uncertain. Sirk had sustained an upper body injury against North Carolina, and was listed as questionable for the game. Despite being in full dress on the sideline, Sirk did not play, and redshirt sophomore Parker Boehme was given the start. “It was a last second decision with Thomas’ injury,” Boehme said. “He came out and warmed up, and it was kind of a last minute thing.” On Duke’s very first play, Boehme completed a swing pass to senior Shaquille Powell for a 22-yard gain. The quick start made it seem as if Duke would be more than able to compete with Pittsburgh, even following the loss of Sirk and the demoralizing 35-point loss to North Carolina the week before. Although Boehme’s first series ended in a punt, it inspired the Blue Devil crowd, dejected from two straight difficult losses and the news that their starting quarterback would not be taking the field. Despite a 92-yard drive and eventual touchdown by Pittsburgh on the following possession, Boehme rallied the team for a 79-yard drive of his own, which ended in a

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Redshirt sophomore Parker Boehme filled in at quarterback for an injured Thomas Sirk and led Duke in both passing and rushing, but it wasn’t enough as Pittsburgh beat Duke 31-13.

Pittsburgh managed to exploit several open holes in the Blue Devil defense to break open a 10-10 tie at halftime. Running back Qadree Ollison broke off a 43-yard run on the first play of the second half, and AllAmerican wide receiver Tyler Boyd showcased his speed and agility on his way to 79 yards on the ground and 38 yards receiving. “Tyler Boyd is a great player,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “He’s got great speed and athleticism. He certainly showed himself well today.” Ollison gashed Duke for 111 yards and one touchdown in the win, and dual-threat safety Jordan Whitehead—who also plays offense— managed to gain 38 yards rushing in addition to a team-leading nine tackles. The freshman also secured an interception midway through the fourth quarter that seemingly ended the game. Despite the loss, backup quarterback Parker Boehme showed potential in his first start as a Blue Devil. After completing his first five passes of the game, the redshirt sophomore went on to complete 23-for-42 passes for 248 yards for the afternoon. The Jacksonville Beach, Fla., native also used his legs to move the ball for Duke, punching in one touchdown and racking up 80 yards on the ground—including the team’s longest

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Anthony Nash topped 100 yards receiving for Duke, which lost its third straight game Saturday to Pittsburgh.

run of the season with a 77-yard scamper in the first quarter. Boehme’s first outing was marked by a close connection with wide receiver Anthony Nash. The duo teamed up for 101 yards, including a 52-yard crossing pattern that Nash took down to the Duke one-yard line and a 36-yard snag at the right sideline that led to a Ross Martin kick for the Blue Devils. “[Boehme is] a tough-minded, toughphysical kid. I thought he gave us everything he could give us today. You couldn’t ask much more for a guy in his first start than what Parker Boehme did,” Cutcliffe said. “I couldn’t be happier for a more conscientious young man [in Anthony Nash]. He is a hard worker, it’s important to him and he still can take another step.” With no chance of capturing a Coastal Division title in Durham following the loss, Duke will look to right the ship and end its three-game losing streak on the road against Virginia next week. “We’re a 6-4 team. I’ve been apart of teams that would love to be a 6-4 team,” Cutcliffe said. “There are teams around the country right now that would like to be sitting where we are. And now, it’s a matter of what we’re going to try to do. It’s not time to run. It’s time to step up and step forward.”

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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle The Panthers scored three touchdowns in the second half and kept the Blue Devils out of the end zone to break their two-game losing streak and spoil Duke’s Senior Day.

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Career nights for Jones, Allen power Duke Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle Duke’s top-ranked recruiting class may have received much of the attention during the offseason, but two games into the season, the returning Blue Devils have done much of the heavy lifting. Playing on its second consecutive night in the 2K Classic benefitting Wounded Warrior Project, No. 5 Duke rolled to an easy 113-75 victory against Bryant Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Sophomore Grayson Allen and junior Matt Jones led the way for the Blue Devils with career highs of 28 and 19 points, respectively, and freshman Brandon Ingram added 21, breaking 20 points for the first time in his career. “At first, I think we played better on defense,” freshman point guard Derryck Thornton said. “We did a better job pressuring the ball and containing the ball. Secondly, we played more as a team. I think we did a great job today coming out and really trying to execute the things as far as getting in the paint and making the extra passes and playing together.” After shooting just 24 percent from beyond the arc in the season opener Friday against Siena, Duke (2-0) found its shooting stroke early Saturday. The Blue Devils connected on eight of their 11 attempts from downtown in the first half, led by Jones, who connected on five triples of his own. With Allen continuing to attack the basket and Duke starting to hit perimeter jumpers, the Blue Devil offense found its stride and shot 48.6 percent in the first half en route to a 59-32 lead.

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Junior Matt Jones knocked down 5-of-6 3-point attempts in the first half en route to a careerbest 19 points as the Blue Devils rolled past Bryant Saturday night.

“At halftime, I told them, ‘I don’t know who’s scoring, I just know we are because we have connecting plays,’” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When you connect like that, that’s beautiful basketball. The rhythm of the offense starts going to the shot. You’re not going to do that all the time, but when you do get those exchanges, they’re beautiful.” Although they found their rhythm eventually, the Blue Devils got off to a slow start, scoring only five points while committing three turnovers in the game’s first five minutes. But Ingram used his versatility to carry the

Duke offense, hitting two 3-pointers and scoring eight of the Blue Devils’ first 12 points. As the half progressed and Duke settled into the game, the Blue Devil defense continued to raise its intensity as the length of Jones and Ingram in the passing lanes made life difficult for the Bulldogs. Despite allowing Bryant to shoot 48 percent from the floor in the first half, Duke scored 14 points off of 11 turnovers. The team’s intensity on the perimeter was matched with graduate student Marshall Plumlee’s ferocity on the interior. Plumlee finished with three

blocks and controlled the offensive glass with five offensive rebounds. “One of the best ways I can contribute is with my energy each and every game, even if my shots aren’t falling or I’m not being that much of an influence on the offensive end of the floor, I feel I can be a spark of energy,” Plumlee said. “I try to do that, and it’s easy when you have guys like Amile Jefferson and Matt Jones setting the tone.” With the Blue Devils in control, Krzyzewski gave the combination of Amile Jefferson along with four freshmen—Ingram, Luke Kennard, Derryck Thornton and Chase Jeter— time on the court in the second half. The lineup responded with some of the team’s most exciting plays of the season as Kennard and Ingram threw down consecutive dunks after a pair of turnovers by Bryant to ignite the crowd and stretch the Blue Devil lead to as many as 36 points. “We got that little run in the second half where we got some steals, Luke got some steals and all of a sudden they felt good and that’s what we needed to get going,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s a cool way of playing too, when we’re playing together.” The Bulldogs continued to scrap back and went on an 8-0 run of their own to narrow their second-half deficit. Bryant (0-1) shot 49.1 percent from the floor and knocked down 13 3-pointers of their own, led by sophomore guard Hunter Ware, who tallied 24 points. Duke gets its first major test of the season Tuesday against No. 2 Kentucky in the Champions Classic in Chicago.

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Stevens’ monster game sends Duke past Eagles Ben Feder The Chronicle After an uninspiring season opening effort, Duke wanted to come out stronger at home. And behind their star players, the Blue Devils did just that. No. 14 Duke routed Winthrop 78-50 Sunday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, fueled by a combined 35 points from the dynamic duo of redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell and sophomore Azurá Stevens. Stevens provided 18 points and 14 rebounds for her first double-double of the season, and finished with eight blocks, just two shy of a triple-double. “Azurá has a lot to offer, and she’s very capable I think, so it’s great to see her being so strong and tough with the ball to get 14 rebounds and eight blocks,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I thought Becca was playing good defense and was aggressive.” Greenwell connected on her first three 3-point attempts as Duke (2-0) ran out to a quick 11-2 lead. After only scoring nine points against Pennsylvania, the Owensboro, Ky., native finished with 17 points—14 of which came in the first half—and four rebounds. Finding soft spots in Winthrop’s zone,

Greenwell found ample space to operate, shooting 5-of-10 from behind the arc and surpassing 500 points for her career. When the Eagles (0-2) started to rally in the second quarter, Stevens stepped up her game on both ends of the court. Using her length, the 6-foot-6 forward disrupted Winthrop’s forwards in the post—her careerhigh eight blocks accounted for half of Duke’s program-record-tying 16 for the game. The eight rejections are also the fifth-most by a single player in program history. Winthrop junior Erica Williams became the 18th player in Eagle history to reach 1,000 career points, a milestone she reached early in the third quarter. Williams led Winthrop with 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting. Despite their sluggish start, the Eagles battled back in the second quarter, trimming the Blue Devil lead to as little as three points. Winthrop’s defense frustrated Duke at times, at one point forcing four straight turnovers, but the Blue Devils found their bearings as Stevens began to dominate in the post. Duke controlled the second half, outscoring Winthrop 37-19. The young Blue Devils impressed after halftime, as they combined See W. BASKETBALL on Page 13

Haeryn Kim | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens came within two blocks of a triple-double Sunday, finishing with 18 points, 14 rebounds and eight blocks as the Blue Devils cruised in their home opener.

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Duke Final Four-bound after taking down Cavs Steve Hassey The Chronicle For the second time in three years, the Blue Devils are headed to the Final Four. Playing its second straight single-elimination matchup, Duke avenged another regular season loss. After defeating No. 13 Stanford in overtime to advance past the Round of 16 Saturday, the No. 6 Blue Devils booked a ticket to the Final Four with a 2-1 win against No. 3 Virginia—a team that had beaten Duke twice earlier in the year. Just 10 days after falling at the hands of the Cavaliers in ACC tournament play, Duke scored the game-winner with four minutes remaining in the first half to defeat Virginia on its own blue turf at the University Hall Turf Field in Charlottesville, Va. Senior Amanda Kim took a pass from sophomore Alyssa Chillano in the 32nd minute and deposited it in the back of the cage, and the Blue Devils never looked back, surviving a scoreless second half to advance. “We were just chopping at them and chopping at them, and we knew that they were not going to beat us for a third time,” Kim told GoDuke.com. “We came out and we played Duke field hockey.” Junior Heather Morris—Duke’s leading scorer with 10 goals to accompany four assists—led the offense one day after the Blue Devils were shut out through regulation against the Cardinal. Morris picked up a goal just more than eight minutes into the match to kickstart the scoring.

The Cavaliers (15-6) did not give up without a fight, however, tallying eight second-half shots and forcing goalkeeper Lauren Blazing to make three difficult second-half saves. “Of course, Lauren Blazing had some key saves in key, key moments,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com. “That’s what you hope to get from a fifth-year senior goalkeeper with the experience she has.” Blazing may have come up big in essential moments for the Blue Devils (14-6), but the team also played stout defense that often kept Virginia attacks from reaching the goal. Bustin credited her offense with shutting down passing angles at the front that stopped attacks early and made the job of the defense much simpler. “I thought, together, our team defense was outstanding,” Bustin said. “From the forward lines playing good lines and putting pressure from behind, to our backfield just playing it simple and just stepping up for interceptions, it was really outstanding.” In 2013, Duke advanced all the way to the national championship game before falling to Connecticut. The Huskies will return to the season’s final weekend again this year, creating the possibility of a rematch if both teams advance to the title game. To get to this point, the Blue Devils have scheduled a litany of tough opponents, playing 12 top-15 teams in just 20 games. This stretch of difficult matchups—the toughest schedule in the country—helped prepare the Blue Devils for the quarterfinal matchup.

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After falling to the Cavaliers 4-2 in September and 5-1 Nov. 6, Duke knew that one goal would likely not be enough to ensure a victory. Sure enough, just three minutes after Morris’ goal gave Duke the early lead, Virginia’s Caleigh Foust beat Blazing on a fast break to even the score at 1-1. “We have a saying—just next possession— and we just focused on that,” Kim said. “We finished one and then we went right back to it and kept playing.”

Although Duke is not necessarily seniorheavy—the roster has only five seniors on a team of 23—four seniors remain in the starting lineup and their experience in the pressure-filled environment of the NCAA tournament helped the Blue Devils keep their composure. “I’m so proud of the seniors’ leadership and for them stepping up in these big games— they’ve been in these games before—and See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 13

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Blue Devils rout Dukes to reach Round of 32 Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle After six minutes, any added postseason pressure on the Blue Devils seemed to go away. From there, Friday’s demolition of the Dukes looked like the home team was just having fun. Propelled by three scores from underclassmen Imani Dorsey, Taylor Racioppi and Kayla McCoy, thirdseeded Duke blitzed James Madison 5-0 at Koskinen Stadium in the first round of the NCAA tournament. With the lopsided win against the Dukes, the Blue Devils have notched five goals in both of their last two contests and will hit the road to take on Florida Gulf Coast in the Round of 32 Nov. 20. “We scored some great goals tonight. It was nice to get some early and we’re finishing really well right now,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “But there were some shaky parts. I thought at times we were too excited. We were over-running. We were playing out of position a little bit and we’ll work on that next week. But you’ve got to be really happy [with the win].” Making their collective postseason debut, Duke’s freshmen and sophomores showed no signs of nerves in the Blue Devils’ return to the NCAA tournament after being left out of the postseason in

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Freshmen Taylor Racioppi (left) and Kayla McCoy each found the back of the net in their postseason debuts Friday as Duke advanced to the Round fo 32.

2014. The underclassmen for Duke (115-4) entered the game having scored 24 of the team’s 34 goals this season and got their first taste of NCAA action, stealing the offensive spotlight yet again Friday. The game could not have started much better for Church’s squad. Dorsey gave the Blue Devils an early lead, finding the back of the net with a curling shot from the left corner of the 18-yard box in the seventh minute.

Although James Madison (14-7-2) attempted to block the connection between the Blue Devil defenders and midfielders, the floodgates opened after freshman attacker Taylor Racioppi doubled Duke’s advantage. In the 26th minute, the Ocean Township, N.J., native tapped the ball into an open net after dribbling past goalkeeper Ellen Forrest for her sixth goal of the year.

“[My goals and assists] are a product of how well our team has been playing,” Racioppi said. “We’ve been moving the ball, keeping possession, tearing teams apart, running through them, getting crosses. It’s just a huge adjustment to how much our team has grown throughout the season and we’re hitting our peak at the right time.” After a Christina Gibbons penalty kick made it a 3-0 contest, freshman Kayla McCoy tacked on another goal, finishing an inviting cross from junior midfielder Toni Payne 91 seconds after intermission. Payne put the finishing touches on the scoring for the Blue Devils, delivering the last blow with more than 30 minutes to play. The Birmingham, Ala., native controlled a cross from sophomore Casey Martinez and chipped home Duke’s fifth goal of the night in the 57th minute with a slight touch from four yards out. Payne credited Dorsey’s early goal with giving the Blue Devils the momentum they needed to turn up the offensive pressure. She said that playing from ahead—particularly in the postseason with the season on the line— allowed Duke to play without feeling any late-game pressure. See W. SOCCER on Page 12

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FOOTBALL from page 8 one-yard rushing touchdown for the backup quarterback. On the drive, Boehme also completed his longest pass of the season, a 52-yard toss to redshirt junior wide receiver Anthony Nash. The Blue Devils were able to force a quick three-and-out on the Panthers’ next possession, and Boehme exploded out of the backfield on a 77-yard carry—the longest rush of the season for Duke—and the Jacksonville City, Fla., native looked like more than just a stopgap. “[I thought to myself], ‘Run as fast as you can,’” Boehme said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t get in the end zone and we didn’t get any points off of that drive.” On fourth down at the one-yard line, Duke attempted a fake field goal, but redshirt freshman Nicodem Pierre’s would-betouchdown pass fell incomplete. “That [play] was something we had in the hopper,” Cutcliffe said. “I thought it was a great chance to score, but we just kind of underthrew it, and their kid made a great play—that’s kind of just football.” Boehme led Duke deep into Pittsburgh territory once more before the end of the half, in a drive that ended with a 27-yard Martin field goal, and the Panthers responded with a field goal of their own to knot the game at 10 apiece going into halftime. Although the score was tied, Duke was the much better team in the first half. But sticking true to the theme, if the first half was “the best of times” for Duke, then the second half was certainly “the worst of times.” “There’s no reason to sugarcoat it,” Cutcliffe said. “In the second half, we didn’t represent any part of who we want to be.… We got out-

blocked, out-tackled, out-hit. Their playmakers made critical plays at critical times—we didn’t.” Duke’s defense ceded 21 points to the Panthers, and the offense was stagnant. In fact, one aspect of the offense, the running game, was worse than stagnant. Stagnancy implies a lack of movement in either direction, but the Blue Devils’ rush accumulated -2 yards in the second half. The first three possessions of the second half were a Pittsburgh touchdown, a Duke threeand-out and another Pittsburgh touchdown. In just 10 minutes, the Blue Devils went down two touchdowns, and were out-gained in yards 1551. Duke was able to grab a field goal on the next possession on Martin’s 51-yard attempt to cut the score to 24-13, but that kick would be the last points of the game for the Blue Devils. The Panthers responded with yet another touchdown behind the arm of redshirt junior quarterback Nate Peterman, bringing the score to 31-13. The very next drive, Boehme drove Duke into Pittsburgh territory, but was picked off by freshman defensive back Jordan Whitehead inside Pittsburgh’s 10-yard line. The Blue Devils forced the Panthers to punt, but junior wide receiver Ryan Smith fumbled the return and Pittsburgh regained possession. Duke would turn the ball over one more time—a fumble by Boehme—to put an end to its miserable second half. “We’ve got to get back to the drawing board,” redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash said. “We’ve got to dissect the film, understand the mistakes we made and hopefully prevent them from occurring in the future.” Come practice Sunday, it will be a “tale of two tapes,” for the Blue Devils as they compare their solid first half of play to the second half implosion that cost them a victory.

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W. SOCCER from page 11 In the defensive third of the pitch, the Blue Devils entered the game averaging 0.7 goals against and held an opponent scoreless for the 12th time this season. Friday’s win was the ninth shutout for sophomore goalkeeper E.J. Proctor, who was rarely tested against the Dukes but pulled off three saves. Junior Rebecca Quinn returned to the starting lineup after being sidelined in Duke’s last two regular

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W. BASKETBALL from page 9 for 25 points on the night. Faith Suggs saw her first minutes of the year and Angela Salvadores looked much more comfortable in her second game of the season. Salvadores displayed her play-making abilities, finding an open Stevens for a layup with an over-the-head pass. The Leon, Spain, native ended her night with seven points and four assists. With noticeably improved ball movement, the Blue Devils were able to find open shots throughout the game. Behind four helpers apiece from Salvadores and classmate Kyra Lambert, Duke registered 18 assists on 28 made baskets. “I think they are coming along well. I think they are a very mature class. They listen to us when we have things to say and I think they really take it to heart and show it out there,” Greenwell said. “I think they’re doing a really great job, but it’s just going to take a few games to get adjusted and we’re still learning how to play with each other, but it will come along pretty soon.” With Winthrop’s tallest players standing at 6-foot-2, McCallie switched up her lineup, starting Erin Mathias in favor of Amber Henson. Although both forwards are listed at 6-foot-4, Mathias specializes in post play. Operating primarily in the high post, the sophomore found her teammates for open looks an finished with six points, six rebounds and two assists. After a poor shooting performance against Pennsylvania Friday, McCallie stressed the need to improve on the team’s overall ball security, but Duke still committed 23 turnovers, though many of those came after the game was in hand. With a pair of wins to open the year, Duke

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Junior Heather Morris started the scoring for Duke in Sunday’s win at No. 3 Virginia.

FIELD HOCKEY from page 10 they trusted that, and they led the rest to a great game today against a really talented and dangerous Virginia team,” Bustin said. With the victory, the Blue Devils will advance to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., Friday. They will be traveling 650 miles for a matchup against arch rival North Carolina, who resides just eight miles down Tobacco Road. North Carolina is the secondseeded team in the tournament and defeated Duke 2-1 Oct. 16 in Chapel Hill in the teams’ lone meeting of the regular season. “For the last 10 days, it’s been awesome,” Bustin said. “We look forward to making our Duke family and alums proud as we go to Michigan.” sudoku_506A

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In this together, at home and abroad

riday evening the world was stunned when six sites across Paris were violently attacked in suicide bombings and shootings resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people. Responsibility for this violence was later claimed by the terror group ISIS who in the 24 hours prior to these attacks had also committed similar bombings in Beirut and Baghdad. On Saturday, we learned that ISIS militants were killed in clashes with Turkish police as the G-20 conference of world leaders was held nearby. ISIS is the same terror organization wreaking destruction across Syria, resulting in one of the most significant refugee crises in history. We are all victims of this violence. We are all touched by it and affected by it as it continues. The tremendous loss of life and security suffered by our fellow global citizens is something we all mourn. At the same time, the opportunities we find for solidarity and unity are in stark contrast with the potential for division and retaliation that these despicable acts carry. Military action against ISIS strongholds in Syria is already occurring, but some are also calling for Syrian refugees to be turned away and deliberate arson at a mosque in Canada has been reported.

Facing these tragedies, we have the opportunity to decide how we should respond. We can decide who we include as part of our community in this time of tragic unity and who we make the Other, against whom we will fight. President Obama made the point that France

Editorial is our oldest ally, having been the first country to side with the United States in our struggle for nationhood. In this way, an attack on Paris is particularly jarring. However, it is important to concern ourselves with the apparent lack of attention similar attacks receive when they occur in countries where we have come to write off violence as commonplace. We frequently lament loss of human life but rarely acknowledge the wrongly reified value discrepancies between lives on the basis of national citizenship. We must recognize also the potential that attacks on global power brokers have to authorize the kinds of military presence on foreign soils that has influenced the global disparities we face today.

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Ultimately, the kinds of violence perpetrated in Baghdad, Beirut and Raqqa will alter fundamentally the way that world citizens live as a result of successful and contentious globalization. Without fundamentally changing our economies and ways of life, thus dramatically stunting our own growth, we cannot isolate ourselves from threats that would oppress us. Ultimately, despite differences of religion, race or wealth we can never fully separate ourselves from any other human life. Our efforts to draw boundaries, between countries or lifeways, often only serve to create the friction that leads to dangerous flames. As students at Duke we are provided the invaluable opportunity to be part of a highly international ecosystem. During our years here we will be exposed to a broader range of experience and thought than at likely any other time in our lives. Here, we have the ability to view the fluidity of difference and grow to understand the commonalities we share across constructed categories. Our hearts are with all those harmed by these tragic events. In their honor, as scholars, we dedicate our minds to learning about the people beside us so that the divisions which wound and scar our singular humanity may be healed.

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inking deeper and deeper into the perils of unproductivity, I pen this letter. I have not done much homework since Tuesday afternoon, when I received an obscure, four-line email telling of a “community conversation” in which members of the Duke collective would have an opportunity to “reflect on our aspirations

administrative management around issues of race and anti-black racism, pro-bono. Black students are actually doing the work of trying to improve our campus culture proactively throughout the year, but we are never listened to until a national spotlight threatens the fictional sense of effortless perfection this university prides itself on

Henry Washington GUEST COLUMN as a community.” The e-mail, which came the day after the President of the University of Missouri’s resignation amid racial tensions on that college campus, also declared that this “community conversation” was to be held on Friday at noon, when most Duke students would be in class. In the days leading up to the community conversation, as I do most days, I spent hours on end reflecting on my experiences as a black student at Duke, talking to other students about how they had experienced Duke’s social and political culture from the perspective of marginal identity and imagining the kind of tangible and intangible changes that are necessary to change Duke for the better. Now that I am days behind on class work, the dysfunctionality of my schedule over the past week could not be clearer. For those who do not do race work, you would probably be surprised at the stronghold that the work can have on your conscious and unconscious mind, especially as a person of color. Living daily the marginality that you seek to eradicate often causes it to consume your entire body and soul. Each night, when I am trying to fall asleep, black students’ experiences and black peoples’ lives are what I think about. The names of black women and men slain at the hands of police rise up off the pages of my Chaucer textbook. There are not yet enough black faculty at Duke for me to escape the pervasive reality of overworked, underpaid black staff labor. And I am dismayed, as are most of the black students with whom I have spoken, not at the responsibility we feel to the black student experience and the worldwide sense of racial equality but at the fact that, in pledging responsibility to the black student experience, we were seemingly also pledging to be chiefly responsible for black student safety, university policy and

maintaining. There is absolutely no excuse for President Brodhead not having known that there was a policy and report page for “bias-related incidents” on campus, especially given that I have talked extensively with him about changing that policy. On Friday, many students were frustrated not because they were having to talk about their experiences of race on campus or provide suggestions for institutional improvement but because they were having to repeat their experiences, suggestions and demands to a president that they were not sure had listened the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh time they had mentioned them previously. When President Brodhead threw a series of tantrums on Friday in response to challenging questions at a conversation he had assembled on race, he said to black students that, on this campus, they never actually have the privilege of being listened to. He said that he would continue to do what he wants to do, not what black students need him to do, regarding race on this campus. I have no doubt that in the coming months our President will establish a series of symbolic implementations to fabricate a commitment to diversity and inclusion on campus. There will probably be some kind of new (and likely ineffective) diversity officer or administrator appointed. Students will not be listened to. By February, headlines will feature Duke’s latest racial aggression chanted at a student, hung from a tree or inflicted upon a black body. That lovely student health building all of the black and brown construction workers are building beside Penn Pavilion should have a ‘racial trauma’ wing. Henr y Washington is a Trinity junior and the President of the Black Student Alliance.

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ll right, people. We all know full well what we’re here to discuss. Over the past semester, a disturbing trend has begun to develop: with startling regularity, every few weeks a column will be published in The Chronicle that triggers a huge outpouring of anger, disbelief and rebuttal. Many of the authors of these columns are not guest contributors but instead full-time Chronicle columnists, meaning that they are able to regularly

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ideas? OrWait. I’ve got it. When all the normal columns are satirical, the new satire is normalcy. The most subversive, satirical thing I can write right now is a perfectly normal, calm, generic Chronicle column. Watch and learn, world. … MONDAY MONDAY: The value of sympathy When I was in high school, I used to like

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A plea for civil discourse

he First Amendment has seen better days. Last week, protesters at the University of Missouri, themselves exercising their First Amendment rights of assembly and speech, verbally harassed a student photographer trying to document the protests. Going beyond the First Amendment, a few in the crowd physically pushed him back; meanwhile, a professor of communications went so

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together as two interlocking parts of the mechanism of social change— that is, the mass changing of minds. Freedom of speech not only allows a variety of perspectives to compete in the marketplace of ideas but also grants the least powerful in society the ability to criticize their government and other institutions that affect civic life. Civil discourse, in turn, applies a rigorous test to those ideas: Do they stand upon

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laud their inflammatory views and cultivate their public notoriety. These individuals demonstrate no tact. They push extreme viewpoints to no productive effect. They bring The Chronicle into disrepute. In short, they have stolen my job. You may not know this if you’re a relative newcomer to Duke, but Monday Monday has a little bit of a tendency to generate controversy. This is a tradition as old as Monday Monday itself, stretching right from the first Monday Monday’s barbed quips back in the 1970s to Spring 2013’s seminal tour de force in outrage, “Higher Ground”. Time and again, Monday Monday’s authors have been roundly rebuffed and removed for the scandalous content they had written. One writer was so offensive he actually almost managed to have Monday Monday destroyed forever. So it is with growing horror that I have watched the scorn and infamy to which I am entitled be usurped by a whole new class of controversial Chronicle columnists. I try and I try to capture my birth right back from them, but they have an advantage over me that I simply cannot overcome; what they’re writing is real. Do you realize that last week I wrote a column in which I have the LGBTQIA+ community basically say thank you for Jack’s death threat? Or that three weeks ago I wrote an unsubtle, incendiary polemic under the title of #AllLivesMatter? But both of these were satire! So when someone comes along actually saying that the only way to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict is to drive Palestinians off the land or that black culture is actually a major cause of black poverty, how am I supposed to compete? And you know what’s worse? Inevitably, every time one of these columns comes out, someone will post it to Facebook and comment something to the effect of “It took me a minute to work out this wasn’t satire,” or maybe, “Wow, Monday Monday’s best work yet!” That hurts, people. But this really gets at my central problem right now: when the real columns are more satirical than the satire columns, how do I do my job? Do I up the hyperbole even more? Do I drop the jokes and just plunge full-throttle into propounding facetiously right- or left-wing

going to the bookstore. I would spend hours upon hours there just browsing, often times not even buying a book. There was a cashier there a lot of the time—we wouldn’t really speak, but he seemed friendly and would always smirk when I waved awkwardly upon seeing him. One day—surprisingly!—I actually decided to buy a book. I made my way triumphantly to the checkout, book proudly in hand, prepared to finally make up for all those times I’d visited without buying anything. The cashier started to ring me up; he told me the price: $12.99. I’d decided to clear out my spare coins that day, so had to awkwardly rustle through all my change to get him the money. But then, disaster. I counted and recounted, but it was true—I only had $12.87. I apologized profusely and offered immediately to take the book back to the shelf, not bearing the thought he would have to work to undo the damage of my stupidity. But—and I’ll never forget this—he said “It’s fine. There’s a line forming behind you. Just give me what you have.” The kindness of that cashier stays with me to this day. But I think the value of that moment goes beyond my being able to start Philip K. Dick’s Ubik one day earlier. The subtle smile and human grace that cashier afforded me speaks to a wider lesson I think all of us at Duke could really stand to UGH I CAN’T DO IT THIS IS STUPID. Look: I need this, people. I can’t besmirch the Monday Monday name. I need to get shares and infamy and angry calls for my resignation. I can’t do that while you guys are stealing my spotlight—so this represents my formal request that you normal columnists stick to balanced and neutral intellectual territory. I will keep writing the unconstructive, bombastic satires that are the hallmark of my position. If you don’t agree, I just don’t see any way for me to go on. Of course, I could probably always drum up some notoriety by just publicly bashing The Chronicle. But that would be too easy, you know?

far as to call for “muscle” to repel the photographer’s unwanted presence. Days before, Yale students, incensed over a simmering Halloween costume email scandal, surrounded the professor married to the originator of the email and demanded an apology from him. When he refused to apologize for his wife, and defended “the right for people to speak their minds,” one student shouted in reply, “Who the f--- hired you?”, a deafening crescendo to a deeply troubling campus conversation. More troubling than the protesters’ treatment of their critics—and observers—is the backlash the protesters have faced. For every measured, thoughtful critique, they have also faced deeply disturbing and overtly threatening responses. These kinds of hateful reactions confirm that the protesters’ concerns over racism are real and urgent. Such responses constitute in their own way an even more powerful assault on freedom of speech by giving speech a bad name. These incitements to violence are not protected under the First Amendment and should not be confused with the freedom to disagree. The substance and tone of today’s rhetoric, not only on campuses, but also on the campaign trail, seems to be challenging a fraying consensus: that free speech and civil discourse are the best ways for a free society to debate its issues. We’ve all heard of free speech, but what of civil discourse? I take “civil” to have two meanings: (1) reasoned and respectful, with the aim to persuade and (2) civic, intended to influence the community. Civil discourse, then, is communication intended to address some matter of civic importance in a thoughtful, respectful and persuasion-oriented manner. Civil discourse does not mean that the kind of speech has to be deferential or overly polite, but it does mean entering a discussion with some level of respect for the other Monday Monday would like to apologize to side. Ultimately, civil discourse anchors John for publicly calling him out in a column he conversations in understanding and truth. It’s about changing minds and being open himself will have to edit. to yours changing along the way. Civil discourse requires those beginning a conversation to entertain the possibility that they could be wrong. Far from being the sort of elevated conversation reserved to intellectuals, civil discourse requires the same conditions as a serious conversation with family or friends: the assumption of goodwill from the other side, the recognition that you may not have all the answers now, the understanding that others’ experiences may illuminate phenomena you’ve never experienced yourself, the hope that through listening www.dukechronicle.com/opinion you can expand your understanding of the world. Free speech and civil discourse work

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closer inspection? Do you persuade other people? At this point you may be thinking that it takes time for good ideas to triumph over long-held prejudices, and you’d be right. As a recent graphic from Bloomberg News illustrates, social change does indeed take time. It’s understandable for people whose knees are buckling under the weight of injustice to be impatient. It’s understandable to speak the language of one’s pain and to condemn those who are sitting on the fence while one suffers. It’s understandable to discount civil discourse as a milquetoast method, a too-slow route to achieve the sort of changes that should have happened yesterday. In the midst of all of this, it’s worth reflecting on the following questions: How do we create lasting change? Are my words changing any minds? The reality is this: civil discourse wins. The “idiot, full of sound and fury” may have his moment upon the stage, but it is the reasoned, strategic, methodical communicator—the James Madison, the Frederick Douglass, the Margaret Chase Smith, the Ella Baker— who carries the day and changes minds for centuries. Madison used cool logic and quiet coalition-building to shred the overly pessimistic arguments of antifederalist firebrands like Patrick Henry. Douglass’ eloquence proved in soaring counterpoint that a former slave could shape the discourse of a flawed democracy. Smith, at the time the only woman serving in the U.S. Senate, was the first of Senator McCarthy’s peers to condemn his anti-communist witchhunt, which she contended stood at odds with the American tradition of protecting “the right to hold unpopular beliefs.” Baker may not have been given the chance to speak like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Fred Shuttlesworth, but she moved heaven and earth as a behindthe-scenes organizer in the civil rights movement, coordinating successful campaigns like the Freedom Rides in the face of vile, violent opposition. At some point in our history, it became a sign of weakness, not wisdom, to change one’s mind. Free speech and civil discourse, working in concert, bring points of view into the open where they can clash, change and crystallize. Despite my earlier contention that the First Amendment has seen better days, I’m confident that its best days lie ahead. A free society must constantly test its dearest principles. Free speech and civil discourse are stronger than the challenges of our age. Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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