The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY Health and Science University DUKE LAUNCHES GLOBAL CANCER INITIATIVE PAGE 4 DUSDAC MEMBERS SAMPLE GOURMET PANINI FOOD TRUCK PAGE 2 The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH YEAR, ISSUE 78 WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM by Hailey Cunningham THE CHRONICLE A new multi-campus initiative is working to connect and empower active feminist leaders from Duke and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Funded by a $5,000 grant from the Kenan-Biddle Partnership—which fo- cuses on uniting students from Duke and UNC—the new Feminist Activist Initiative aims to facilitate equality on both campuses by promoting feminist leadership and activism. Twenty-two to- tal applicants were accepted to the pro- gram last week—11 from each school. The initiative received over 80 applica- tions from Duke alone. “The initiative bridges class year and unites students with all different backgrounds from all different walks of life across two campuses in a network of feminist leaders,” said senior Lillie Reed, the initiative’s founder and chief administrator. “We want to build a com- munity.” Unlike many of the other campaigns on campus, Reed said the Feminist Ac- tivist Initiative will have a strong focus on following through with action. “Something that I find rather agitat- ing about a lot of campaigns at Duke and at UNC, is that there’s a lot of awareness and leadership development, but not a lot of action,” Reed said. “As members of the initiative, the people participating will create an activist cam- paign of their own design.” Senior Cara Peterson, a member of the new initiative and co-founder of Duke Culture Initiative, hopes the cam- paign will emphasize mentorship. “There’s a lot of experience that can ILLUSTRATION BY RAISA CHOWDHURY/THE CHRONICLE The Kenan-Biddle Partnership, which unites Duke and UNC students, has funded a new initiative focused on female empowerment. Feminist activists unite across shades of blue Tobia wants to amplify voice of student body by Kali Shulklapper THE CHRONICLE In his campaign for Young Trustee, senior Jacob Tobia wants to strengthen the voice of the student body. Tobia served as vice president for equity and outreach for Duke Student Government and president of LGBT student organization Blue Devils Unit- ed. Along with participating in Project WILD pre-orientation program, he was an active member of Rhythm and Blue a cappella group, has been involved in theater productions such as the Me Too Monologues and is currently a mem- ber of the selective living group Round Table. “People know me as an activist, but I’m much more than that,” Tobia said. “I’ve seen so much of this place—my experiences are broad enough to repre- sent the student body well.” Tobia’s priority is to increase avenues through which students can voice their concerns to the University. Tobia said that the current model enables infor- mal discussions of serious topics where professionalism is preferred. “I don’t think that’s acceptable,” To- bia said. “It is important that any great campus has a mechanism where they can hear back from their community.” Tobia said he is committed to making the Board of Trustees more accessible to students by creating a student forum designed for professional dialogue. Despite these challenges, Tobia has pursued a number of his own projects. Through work with DukeOpen and the Business and Finance Committee of the by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE A study that analyzed children from nine countries—including more than 300 families in Durham—found that children raised in a dangerous neighbor- hood are more likely to exhibit aggres- sive behavior. More than 1,290 families—from Chi- na, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States—took part in the study led by Ann Skinner, a researcher with Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. Al- though it has been widely accepted that there is a link between dangerous neigh- borhoods and aggressive children in the U.S., this was one of the first studies to examine the correlation internationally. In neighborhoods that were deter- mined to be dangerous, children dis- played higher levels of aggression, Skin- ner said. “We were able to replicate across the globe in a wide range of cultures, that when parents reported they lived in a dangerous neighborhood, we also saw increased levels of child aggression,” she said. Skinner noted that this observation was previously only reported with domes- tic samples. Since 2008, more than 300 Durham families were a part of the study that used parent responses to measure levels of child aggression—targeting behaviors like screaming and threatening others. Although differing parenting tech- niques were not found to be an effective way to mediate aggression when in dan- gerous neighborhoods, the study found that parents in dangerous areas often opted for harsher parenting techniques, Skinner said—noting that this style el- evated the levels of reported aggression. “When children reported they felt they lived in a dangerous neighborhood, this was linked with harsher parenting methods, which were in turn linked with more child aggression,” she said. “Par- ent and child reports were mixed on this point, however, and this study only talks about correlations, not causes.” She added that further study will be needed to determine how parenting techniques influence the displays of ag- gression in children. 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by Hailey CunninghamThe ChroniCle
A new multi-campus initiative is working to connect and empower active feminist leaders from Duke and The University of north Carolina at Chapel hill.
Funded by a $5,000 grant from the Kenan-Biddle Partnership—which fo-cuses on uniting students from Duke and UnC—the new Feminist Activist initiative aims to facilitate equality on both campuses by promoting feminist leadership and activism. Twenty-two to-tal applicants were accepted to the pro-
gram last week—11 from each school. The initiative received over 80 applica-tions from Duke alone.
“The initiative bridges class year and unites students with all different backgrounds from all different walks of life across two campuses in a network of feminist leaders,” said senior lillie reed, the initiative’s founder and chief administrator. “We want to build a com-munity.”
Unlike many of the other campaigns on campus, reed said the Feminist Ac-tivist initiative will have a strong focus on following through with action.
“Something that i find rather agitat-ing about a lot of campaigns at Duke and at UnC, is that there’s a lot of awareness and leadership development, but not a lot of action,” reed said. “As members of the initiative, the people participating will create an activist cam-paign of their own design.”
Senior Cara Peterson, a member of the new initiative and co-founder of Duke Culture initiative, hopes the cam-paign will emphasize mentorship.
“There’s a lot of experience that can
illustration by raisa chowdhury/The ChroniCle
The Kenan-Biddle Partnership, which unites Duke and UNC students, has funded a new initiative focused on female empowerment.
Feminist activists unite across shades of blue
Tobia wants to amplify voice of student bodyby Kali Shulklapper
The ChroniCle
in his campaign for Young Trustee, senior Jacob Tobia wants to strengthen the voice of the student body.
Tobia served as vice president for equity and outreach for Duke Student Government and president of lGBT student organization Blue Devils Unit-ed. Along with participating in Project WilD pre-orientation program, he was an active member of rhythm and Blue a cappella group, has been involved in theater productions such as the Me Too
Monologues and is currently a mem-ber of the selective living group round Table.
“People know me as an activist, but i’m much more than that,” Tobia said. “i’ve seen so much of this place—my experiences are broad enough to repre-sent the student body well.”
Tobia’s priority is to increase avenues through which students can voice their concerns to the University. Tobia said that the current model enables infor-mal discussions of serious topics where professionalism is preferred.
“i don’t think that’s acceptable,” To-bia said. “it is important that any great campus has a mechanism where they can hear back from their community.”
Tobia said he is committed to making the Board of Trustees more accessible to students by creating a student forum designed for professional dialogue.
Despite these challenges, Tobia has pursued a number of his own projects. Through work with Dukeopen and the Business and Finance Committee of the
by Carleigh StiehmThe ChroniCle
A study that analyzed children from nine countries—including more than 300 families in Durham—found that children raised in a dangerous neighbor-hood are more likely to exhibit aggres-sive behavior.
More than 1,290 families—from Chi-na, Colombia, italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States—took part in the study led by Ann Skinner, a researcher with Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. Al-though it has been widely accepted that there is a link between dangerous neigh-borhoods and aggressive children in the U.S., this was one of the first studies to examine the correlation internationally.
in neighborhoods that were deter-mined to be dangerous, children dis-played higher levels of aggression, Skin-ner said.
“We were able to replicate across the globe in a wide range of cultures, that when parents reported they lived in a dangerous neighborhood, we also saw increased levels of child aggression,” she said.
Skinner noted that this observation was previously only reported with domes-tic samples.
Since 2008, more than 300 Durham families were a part of the study that used parent responses to measure levels of child aggression—targeting behaviors like screaming and threatening others.
Although differing parenting tech-niques were not found to be an effective way to mediate aggression when in dan-gerous neighborhoods, the study found that parents in dangerous areas often opted for harsher parenting techniques, Skinner said—noting that this style el-evated the levels of reported aggression.
“When children reported they felt they lived in a dangerous neighborhood, this was linked with harsher parenting methods, which were in turn linked with more child aggression,” she said. “Par-ent and child reports were mixed on this point, however, and this study only talks about correlations, not causes.”
She added that further study will be needed to determine how parenting techniques influence the displays of ag-gression in children.
Throughout the nine countries of
Aggression in kids linked to neighborhoods
See behavior, page 6
See initiative, page 5
See tobia, page 5
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over a meal provided by Deli-icious, a gourmet panini catering truck from ra-leigh, the group listened to owner Susan Tower and considered the possibility of adding the truck to the list of dining op-tions. The truck was given high marks by the group, as several members expressed their satisfaction with the food.
“i would go to this place every day,” sophomore DUSDAC member Ahbi Shah said. “We should heavily consider them. They are on top of their game.”
Some members of the group ex-pressed concern about the truck’s simi-larity to Foster’s, another popular food truck that also specializes in sandwiches.
“[Deli-icious doesn’t] just do sand-wiches, but sandwiches are their big ploy,” junior DUSDAC member Ben Wang said.
Tower said that although the truck mainly served sandwiches, its versatil-ity set it apart from others. She said the company was capable of serving all dif-ferent kinds of food, from dumplings to sweet potato french toast.
“i know that there are a lot of trucks that do sandwiches, but i don’t really find us to be the same [as other trucks],” Tower said.
Senior Marissa Medine, external ven-dors chair for DUSDAC, said that variety was important given that only seven food truck spots are available for next year. She said some of this year’s trucks will likely return next year, but she did not know which were most likely.
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Eboo Patel, the Interfaith Youth Core President, spoke at the Goodson Chapel Monday evening. The event, “Is faith a barrier or a bridge?” was co-hosted by Duke University Service-Learning and the Chapel.
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The WHO SPEAKS campaign held a launch party at the Women’s Center Thursday for its new project targeting rape culture and popular media.
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Between work, sports and environ-mental science classes, sophomore Sarah Stanczyk can barely find the time to deal with her latest challenge: chemotherapy.
Stanczyk was diagnosed with hodg-kin lymphoma late last year. Despite her diagnosis, she has chosen to spend the Spring semester on campus and will un-dergo six months of chemotherapy at the Duke Cancer Center. Stanczyk said the first sign that something was wrong was that she would routinely contract mi-nor illnesses during her freshman year.
During a visit with her athletic doctor last Fall, Stanczyk, a club rower, men-tioned that she had had persistent swell-ing in her lymph nodes. After an initial x-ray to rule out the possibility of pneu-monia, Stanczyk was brought to the hos-pital for additional tests.
“i asked what they were looking for,” Stanczyk said. “They wouldn’t tell me, but they said i had abnormalities and they didn’t want to jump to conclusions.”
later that day she was told she had hodgkin lymphoma.
“Apparently i’ve had it for about five years,” Stanczyk said. “it was a huge shock.”
The decision to remain on campus was an obvious one, Stanczyk added—she hopes to keep things “as normal as possible” during her treatment.
“At home, my friends are away at college and my parents are working,” Stanczyk said. “i’d literally just be sitting in my house moping around and watch-ing netflix, and i think that would make me sicker. here, i have a huge support group. i’m taking a couple of classes. i’m
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working. i just want to keep it normal.”A number of Duke students have
dealt with serious illnesses in the past, said Amy Powell, associate dean of stu-dents and director of case management. The office of Case Management pro-vides outreach, advocacy and resources to students who are in need of support due to mental or physical illnesses. Powell added that it is not unusual for students to continue their schoolwork through their illness.
“We have students who decide to take some time off to fully address whatever
issues they might be experiencing,” Powell said. “But we also have some stu-dents… who are able to function with appropriate accommodations and assis-tance and thrive while they’re here.”
Former students who beat cancer have reached out to Stanczyk. Their sup-port has helped her prepare for what is in store, Stanczyk said.
Stanczyk said the experience has helped her discover new career goals. originally pre-med, she decided to change her program to explore other options.
“When i went to get surgery, i had a really good experience with the nurses,” Stanczyk said. “i might want to stay in the medical field, but maybe not as a doctor. i realized i really want to do something where i can work with patients.”
Several people close to Stanczyk are planning fundraising events to help her through her treatment, said junior Aly Breuer, a friend of Stanczyk’s. Most re-cently, the student organization Blue Devils vs. Cancer hosted their annual charity event Sweet night in Durham. This year, they donated a portion of the proceeds to Stanczyk’s family.
“everyone’s been really supportive,” Stanczyk said. “even something as small as running to get me a milkshake when i don’t feel well—it’s only been a couple of weeks and i’m already overwhelmed by the Duke community.”
Stanczyk said she began chemothera-py last week and noted the experience has been trying.
“There’s good days and bad days,” Stanczyk said. “The biggest thing about treatment is that i’ll be really tired all the time. i’ve already noticed that i have to sit down and take a break just walking to class.”
Still, Stanczyk said she remains posi-tive.
“She’s responded to this better than i imagined anyone could,” Breuer said. “That’s a huge testament to her will and her fight and her commitment to kicking this thing’s butt and doing it with a smile on her face.”
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Duke has launched a Global Cancer initiative in order to identify causes and treatment for cancer around the world.
The Global Cancer initiative was an-nounced as a collaboration between the Duke Global health institute and the Duke Cancer institute just a few days before World Cancer Day on February 4 to address new trends in global medi-cine, said Dr. nelson Chao, professor of medicine and global health and one of the leaders of the program. The initia-tive will launch at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania—one of four cancer referral centers in the country.
“With the way the world is changing, non-communicable diseases such as can-cer have surpassed infectious diseases,” Chao said.
Dr. John Bartlett, professor of medi-cine and global health at both DGhi and KCMC, is another leader of the initia-tive. he noted the importance of foster-ing cancer prevention and treatment in Tanzania.
“Some of our short-term goals include
hiring faculty members to be stationed in the region to roll out grants and re-search proposals,” Bartlett said. “our long-term goals include developing a strong research capacity and developing a self-sufficient model of cancer preven-tion and care.”
he added that there are several chal-lenges to creating an overseas initiative that is focused on cancer prevention and treatment.
“historically, American oncologists have not [sought out] opportunities in-ternationally,” Bartlett said. “A second challenge is identifying resources that can be used for global cancer research efforts.”
DGhi and DCi will be funding the program, but the full costs of it are still uncertain as the initiative is still in its ini-tial stages of planning.
Bartlett, along with other DGhi faculty, have created a strong presence in Moshi, Tan-zania over the last 20 years. DGhi currently has a preexisting partnership with KCMC—the Medical education Partnership—that
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The Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Cancer Institute have collaborated on a new Global Cancer Initiative that will be launched in Tanzania.
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by Sandhya SomashekharThe WAShinGTon PoST
WAShinGTon — The abortion rate in the United States dropped to its lowest point since the Supreme Court legalized the pro-cedure in all 50 states, according to a study suggesting that new, long-acting contracep-tive methods are having a significant impact in reducing unwanted pregnancies.
There were fewer than 17 abortions for every 1,000 women in 2011, the latest year for which figures were available, according a paper published Monday by the Guttmach-er institute, a pro-abortion-rights think tank. That is down 13 percent from 2008 and a little higher than the rate in 1973, when the Supreme Court handed down its landmark roe v. Wade decision.
The study did not examine the reasons for the drop, but the authors suggested that one factor was greater reliance on new kinds of birth control, including intrauterine de-vices such as Mirena, which can last for years and are not susceptible to user error as are daily pills and condoms.
They also noted the economy as a contrib-uting factor, because people tend to adhere more strictly to birth control during tough economic times. But they did not credit the recent wave of state laws restricting access to abortion, because most of those took effect in 2011 or later.
Those restrictions will surely have an im-pact on the numbers going forward, said rachel Jones, a senior researcher at Guttm-acher and lead researcher on the paper.
“if the abortion rate continues to drop, we can’t assume it’s all due to positive fac-tors” such as better adherence to contracep-tives, she said, calling the laws passed in 22 states “onerous.”
The report comes as tensions intensify in the long-simmering debate over abortion and contraception. religious groups are locked in a closely watched battle with the obama administration over new rules that require employers to offer birth control free of charge as part of their health insurance benefit packages. The Supreme Court will decide this year whether employers with re-
ligious objections may opt out of those rules.State legislatures are preparing to push
through another raft of restrictive laws, after a period that saw the enactment of dozens of new regulations that critics say will impede women’s access to abortion.
The new laws include requirements that women undergo ultrasounds before obtain-ing abortions, as well as licensing and inspec-tion requirements for abortion providers.
nine states banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, part of a national effort by abortion opponents to force the Supreme Court to revisit the legality of abortion.
The political clashes, now and over the years, have overshadowed a trend cheered, albeit cautiously, by both sides of the issue: The number of abortions in the United States has been decreasing.
“We are extremely happy that the abor-tion numbers are going down and continue to be declining over the years,” said Carol Tobias, president of national right to life, a prominent antiabortion group.
Such groups, including Tobias’s, reject the Guttmacher institute’s conclusion that the decrease was not related to state regu-lations restricting access to the procedure, because while the major surge in new laws came in 2011, some laws came earlier. For example, 39 states require parental notifica-tion or consent for a minor to get an abor-tion.
They say the graphic conversation in the 1990s around the procedure they call “late-term” abortion contributed to a greater awareness of, and horror over, how abor-tions are performed. And they credit new technologies that allow people to better ob-serve what happens in the womb at the earli-est stages of pregnancy.
“This is a post-sonogram generation,” said Charmaine Yoest, president of Ameri-cans United for life, the group behind many of the new state limits on abortions. “There is increased awareness throughout our culture of the moral weight of the un-born baby, and that’s a good thing.”
Guttmacher researchers said it is unlikely
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Board, Tobia has worked to increase investment responsibility.
Senior Sunny Froth-ingham, one of Tobia’s friends since freshman year, said that the Young Trustee’s job is to elevate student interests and bring the perspective of current students to the Board.
“Jacob has already done this,” Frothingham wrote in an email Monday. “his work with Dukeopen demonstrates that he already has the ability to speak up to Trustees, hold a presence in the Board room and change policy.”
Tobia also helped with the efforts to expand gender neutral housing to SlGs, West, Central and east Cam-puses.
“Gender neutral housing is something that nobody was talking about substantially four years ago,” Tobia said. “its current expansion reflects my ability to en-gage students to understand the value of changes that matter and to bridge students in a way that people don’t expect.”
Further, Tobia plans to ensure that the conversation about investment responsibility remains a strong dia-logue. he added that he is committed to creating a stra-tegic plan for increasing the socioeconomic diversity of the school from recruitment to financial aid. in regards to his previous lGBT activism work, he noted that it is time to bring about larger social change.
“i’m one for proactivity,” he said. “i’ve learned the patience and persistence necessary to bring about large-scale changes.”
Anthony Brown, professor of the practice of public policy and sociology, said that it is easy to see Tobia as a quirky personality, but that the “real Jacob” is a com-bination of forces.
“Jacob is remarkably talented—distinguished in terms of his charismatic leadership, high moral princi-ples and humility,” Brown said. “There is always a spar-kle in his eye that accompanies his can-do attitude.”
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brings technology, teaching innovations and new resources to Tanzania.
rolvix Patterson, a senior and global health major who has conducted research in haiti, noted that pro-viding care in a resource-poor area can be an immense challenge but rewarding.
“The partnership with DGhi, Duke Cancer institute and the Tanzanian health clinic will provide the clinic with a higher level of support, leading to improved short-term and long-term health outcomes,” Patterson wrote in an email Sunday.
in addition to this partnership, DGhi and DCi will host a Global Cancer Symposium May 14. researchers from india, China, Brazil and various African nations will attend.
DGHi from page 4
be shared, and i want the campaign we design to focus on a shift of knowledge about the way gender impacts men and women on a day-to-day basis, from one year to the next,” Peterson said. “But i’m really excited to fo-cus on whatever ideas the whole group come up with.”
The participants will also meet for a retreat in late February and occasional dinners to discuss gender is-sues and solutions with feminist faculty and other lead-ers.
“i’m excited about the conversations i get to have with other women and men who are dedicated to the same issues i am,” Peterson said. “i also am really ex-cited to see the exchange between Duke and UnC stu-dents and to work with a world outside of the Duke bubble.”
Both schools have seen recent progress in their fem-inist campaigns, reed noted.
“it’s very important to realize that we have a lot of students who are passionate about the same things as
UnC students,” reed said.larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and
co-chair of the Kenan-Biddle Partnership, said uniting the two campuses is important given their complemen-tary strengths.
“expanded collaboration contributes to further scholarship, experiential opportunities for students and the benefits that come with [multiple] perspec-tives—public versus private institutions, intellectual and practical engagement and even competition,” Mo-neta said.
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study, researchers asked families ques-tions about their perception of the neigh-borhoods in which they lived. Using their answers, researchers then assigned levels of danger to the neighborhood.
The study distinguishes that it is the perception of danger that was taken into account rather than the statistics of crime in the area.
in all nine countries studied, both mother and father responses indicated an association between dangerous neigh-borhoods and child aggression, but this link was only reported in the children’s responses from five of the nine coun-tries.
“in this particular manuscript, we were looking at neighborhood danger in a much broader context, and were try-ing to identify the mechanisms by which dangerous neighborhoods might affect child behavior,” Skinner said.
She noted, however, that they did not classify residents based on the danger of their neighborhoods, but rather allowed families to classify themselves based on their perception of their environment.
Beverly Thompson, director of the Durham office of Public Affairs, said there are many organizations in Durham that are working with local “low-wealth or impoverished” families.
“east Durham is the city’s target area for crime reduction,” Thompson wrote in an email Friday.
one such group is Durham’s Part-nership for Children. The organization works with the Durham community to help prepare children under the age of five for school. in order to qualify for the program, families must fall at or be-low the poverty level.
in its 2009-2010 Annual report, Dur-
ham’s Partnership for Children noted that 56 percent of parents reported chal-lenging behaviors for children at the beginning of the program and only 16 percent reported challenging behaviors at the end.
“To ensure every child in Durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children from birth to five [years of age] and their families that promote healthy develop-ment and learning and enhance access to high quality care,” Communications Manager elaine erteschik explained as the mission for Durham’s Partnership for Children.
A recent report by the Durham County school board found that there have been unnecessarily high suspen-sion rates in the past several years. new guidelines are being put in place to help lower these rates—which disproportion-ately affect black and minority students and students with disabilities.
in north Carolina, during the 2011-12 school year, the north Carolina Bar As-sociation reported that black students—who make up approximately 26 percent of the total student population—ac-counted for 56.8 percent of short-term suspensions in the state.
“in our sample, we recruited fami-lies from about 15 public and two pri-vate elementary schools across Durham in 2007-2008, and while we have a wide distribution of socioeconomic levels in our study, they are not evenly distribut-ed across any specific neighborhoods, as this was not a main focus of our original grant,” Skinner said.
The families will continue to be moni-tored for about four years to continue collecting data as the children grow up, she added.
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“We are hoping to do a pretty com-prehensive dining survey to look beyond the numbers and see what the students actually want,” she said.
Deli-icious has some experience serv-ing college campuses, as it spent some time on north Carolina State Universi-ty’s campus. Despite its popularity with the students there, it was forced to leave for financial reasons, Tower said.
Some DUSDAC members said they were concerned to hear about Tower’s history with universities and worried that Deli-icious may not accept an offer on fi-nancial grounds, citing Duke’s policy of taking 17 percent of food truck revenue. nCSU charged a $500 flat rate per year.
DUSDAC co-Chair Chris Taylor, a se-nior, said he was optimistic about Deli-icious’s prospects despite potential fi-nancial challenges.
“A percentage is a more normal thing to do [than a flat rate],” he said.
Shah said he had a larger concerns to worry about.
“[Deli-icious] is such a terrible name,” he said.
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that previous laws had an impact, because they examined the abortion rate in more liberal states that did not enact such laws before 2011 and found no difference in the trend.
The study released Monday shows that, after a plateau from 2005 to 2008, the long-term decline in the abortion rate has re-sumed. The rate has dropped significantly from its high in 1981, when there were about 30 abortions for every 1,000 women of reproductive age. The number of abortions
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also fell 13 percent from 2008 to nearly 1.1 million in 2011, the study said.
The results echo a report last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion, which also found a decline in the abor-tion rate after a plateau. That report, which used a different methodology, pegged the abortion rate in 2010 as 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age.
The numbers of abortions are not eas-ily sussed out, because providers are not re-quired to report them. The CDC draws from state health department reports, and its data are incomplete. For example, California — responsible for an estimated 17 percent of abortions nationwide — does not gather data on the number of abortions.
Guttmacher approaches the task differ-ently, conducting a periodic census by mail-ing a questionnaire to all known abortion providers. it follows up over the phone with those who don’t respond and uses reports from health departments and other data to fill any remaining gaps. The report is to be published in the March issue of the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives on Sexual and reproductive health.
experts cautioned that the numbers doc-umented by Guttmacher in the immediate aftermath of roe v. Wade may be particularly shaky. Many abortions were still taking place underground and off the books at that time.
Monday’s report showed a shift in wom-en’s preferred method of abortion. it found that nearly one in four of all non-hospital abortions were a result of the abortion pill, up from 17 percent in 2008. The number of abortion providers declined 4 percent over the period.
Six states experienced no change or an increase in their abortion rates — Alaska, Maryland, Montana, new hampshire, West Virginia and Wyoming. researchers did not explain why those states defied the overall trend.
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TYLER CAVANAUGH 8.5 ppg,4.4 rpg DEVIN THOMAS 11.3 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 2.5 tpgTRAVIS MCKIE 11.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 1.5 apg
MADISON JONES 3.8 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 40.0 3FG%CODI MILLER-MCINTYRE 14.4 ppg, 3.8 apg
In their last four games, for-wards Jabari Parker and Amile Jefferson have been combin-ing for nearly 20 rebounds per game, and Jefferson is coming off back-to-back 14-point per-formances.Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has benefi ted from Duke’s depth at this position, ro-tating his fi ve guards in and out. Krzyzewski has started four different combinations in the last four games.
After three starts, Matt Jones has seen just 11 minutes in the last three games. He might see time against Codi Miller-McIn-tyre, but if the rest of the rota-tion maintains its strong play, Jones’ role will be minimal.
The breakdownIf Wake Forest’s leading scorer Codi Mill-er-McIntyre is not at 100 percent health, the Demon Deacons could struggle to keep up with the Blue Devils’ high-powered offense, but forward Travis McKie is coming off a season-high 26-point performance against Georgia Tech. For Duke, look for another balanced scoring attack.OUR CALL: Duke wins, 79-65
DUKE vs. WAKE FORESTTuesday, February 4 • Cameron Indoor Stadium
9:00 p.m. Blue Devils (17-5, 6-3) Wake Forest (14-8, 4-5)
(Projected lineups, statistics from 2013-14 season)
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After playing a long and emotional game against a new rival, the Blue Dev-ils are ready to defend their home court against a familiar foe.
Coming off two days rest, No. 11 Duke faces a rebound-game against Wake Forest at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday night at 9 p.m.
Despite the temptation to dwell on one of the most exciting college basketball games this season, the team is focusing its attention on what lies ahead.
“To be in two settings like [Pittsburgh and Syracuse] and play in two games like that are things that most teams don’t go through,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “This is the first time this team has gone through some-thing like that, and we have to make sure it does not hurt our progress going forward.”
The Blue Devils (17-5, 6-3 in the ACC) will look to continue a 28-game home win streak—tied for the longest active run in the nation—against a young but talented Demon Deacon squad. Despite being tabbed 13th in the ACC preseason poll, Jeff Bzdelik’s team sits tied for eighth place in the conference.
But after a 4-3 start in the ACC and an un-defeated record on its home court, Wake For-est (14-8, 4-5) has dropped two straight games in Winston-Salem, including a 67-57 loss to then-No. 2 Syracuse on Jan. 29.
It could be an uphill battle for the Demon Deacons if Wake Forest’s leading scorer, guard Codi Miller-McIntyre does not suit up Tues-day night. The sophomore was described by Bzdelik as day-to-day with an ankle injury he sustained in a Feb. 1 loss to Georgia Tech.
Even though the Demon Deacons fell 75-70 in their last outing against Duke, Bzdelik said his team will be better prepared this time around.
Home Sweet Cameron Keep calm and cheer on
“Last year we were extremely young, and we have played Duke now,” Bzdelik said. “We played Kansas and Syracuse this year. We have been through enough games that we are be-yond [rankings].”
Forwards Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood have been consistent weapons for the Blue
Following road tests against the ACC’s best, Duke faces Wake Forest at home
Saturday’s 91-89 overtime loss to Syr-acuse was Duke’s fifth loss of the year. On paper, this looks concerning. It also just feels concerning. Heck, the team lost
only six games all of last season. You have to go back to the 1996-97 season to find a Duke team that lost this many games, this early in the season.
But there are two things to know right now:1) Duke’s early-season losses don’t matter 2) The loss to Syracuse is pretty much
the best loss a team could ever have.Why shouldn’t you care about Duke’s
early season defeats? They obviously matter in some sense—the NCAA Tour-nament selection committee obviously will not ignore disappointing defeats at Clemson and Notre Dame, not to men-tion the losses to Kansas and Arizona on neutral courts.
More so than most Duke teams in recent memory, though, this team has evolved during the year. More so than many Duke seasons in recent memo-ry, Coach K has evolved with the team throughout the year. The team that took the court Feb. 1 against Syracuse is noth-ing like the one that lost to Kansas in the second game of the year.
Wideout Trevon Lee commits to DukeFOOTBALL
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On the heels of capturing the ACC Coastal Division crown and playing in one of the most-hyped bowl games of the postseason, the Blue Devils contin-ued the success of 2013 going Monday night as four-star recruit Trevon Lee committed to the program.
On the eve of his selection, Lee had his decision whittled down to two op-tions: Duke and Vanderbilt. But in the end, the Blue Devils coaching staff and
recent success won him over.Lee was a standout at Cardinal Gib-
bons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida—not to be confused with Car-dinal Gibbons of Raleigh, NC—and attracted attention from 13 Division I schools according to ESPN.com, who had him ranked at No. 235 in the Class of 2014 ESPN300.
Lee garnered offers from nine schools and visited Ole Miss and and California in addition to Duke and Vanderbilt.
He burst on the scene in his junior campaign, amassing 704 yards on 36 catches with 11 going for touchdowns. Lee followed his breakout season up with career-highs in receptions and yards his senior season, as he hauled in
48 receptions for 743 yards in addition to five scores.
At 5’11, 167 pounds and boasting a 4.49 40-yard dash, Lee will make a nice addition to the Blue Devil receiving corps which already runs deep. With Jamison Crowder entering his senior season, Lee will have an opportunity to learn from one of the ACC’s top receiv-ers before possibly taking over Crowder’s role as the explosive deep threat when the All-ACC receiver departs following next season.
With Lee’s commitment, Duke now has four four-star recruits in this year’s class, including fellow Florida-product Nico Pierre, who was the Blue Devils’ highest-ranked recruit in six years.
Duke lands fourth four-star recruit for 2014 class
Devils throughout the season, but it was the breakout play of guard Rasheed Sulaimon and forward Amile Jefferson that had Duke playing at a high level during their two-game road trip last week.
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Despite Duke’s losses this season, the team has grown and sophomore Amile Jefferson has developed into a top rebounder.
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Jefferson provided Duke with a healthy presence in the paint, averaging 14 points and 8.5 rebounds during his last two games. The sophomore has put up near dou-ble-double numbers in his last six games and is not showing signs of ceding the paint to opposing teams.
“[Amile is] a very versatile performer and a good competitor,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m really very pleased about how he has played, and we watch him continue to get better.”
Sulaimon saw action at the point guard po-sition Saturday night and scored 16 points in the loss, including a heroic last-second trey to send the game into overtime.
He has come a long way since being benched in the midst of a slump earlier this season.
“Rasheed is a combo,” Krzyzewski said. “He
actually puts the best pressure on the ball of anybody we have on the team, because he is taller and a really good athlete. He played like a combo in high school. We will keep looking at that.”
With additional offensive weapons be-ginning to mature, Duke will look to take advantage of a defense that is ranked 119th in the nation, giving up 68.3 points per contest—in stark contrast to the ninth-ranked defense they faced this past week-end against Syracuse.
But no matter who Duke is facing, the team has a common goal of improving in one of the season’s toughest months, no mat-ter who is on the other side of the court. And that’s a sentiment the Demon Deacons feel as well despite their two game slide.
“It is two basketball teams playing,” Bzdelik said. “We should be able to play with everybody if we are playing well.”
It’s not just little differences, either. The offense is no longer just hoping Ja-bari Parker hits shots. The offense, in fact, is quite spectacular: Duke’s offense has the highest efficiency rating dating back through 2003, the first year advanced col-lege basketball statistics website KenPom.com has data.
The rotation of players playing has also wildly changed. Remember when Rasheed Sulaimon was in the doghouse and didn’t play against Michigan? (Note: Coach K does not have a doghouse.) I
think we can all see that ‘Sheed’s time riding the pine is over this season.
Just as important as ‘Sheed is the re-cent play of Andre Dawkins. He didn’t play against Kansas. He was also just a small factor in the Arizona and Michi-gan games. And when he did light it up, it was against weaker teams like Gard-ner-Webb or Eastern Michigan. That’s why it’s so impressive that he scored a combined 34 points on 12-of-20 shoot-ing in Duke’s two games against Pitts-burgh and Syracuse. When he comes into games, opposing teams must ac-count for him on defense, else he’ll
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Sophomore Rasheed Sulaimon struggled earlier in the season but has plenty of momentum following his performance Saturday at Syracuse.
make it rain.There are other differences too. Tyler
Thornton is playing less, and is far more efficient in his minutes. Amile Jefferson has developed into possibly the best re-bounder in the ACC. Marshall Plumlee is finding his niche as a stopper in the paint and rebounder, even if he isn’t ready to do big things on the offensive end just yet. Jefferson and Plumlee’s increases in minutes mean that Parker spends less time playing center, which is good for the defense and Parker’s long-term stamina.
This now brings us back into point No. 2: If Duke has correctly made all these ad-justments, why didn’t it beat Syracuse?
Well, sometimes the final result of a game just doesn’t really show how well or not well a team played. And given a num-ber of circumstances, Duke played a heck of a game. I’m not sure I’ve even watched a loss that gave me so much more confi-dence in the future of a team: Wouldn’t you even take Duke as five-point favorites right now for the game at Cameron In-door Stadium? Ten points?
The Blue Devils persevered through questionable foul calls (Jefferson’s fourth and Parker’s fifth), a perplexing no-call (Rodney Hood’s dunk attempt) and what will likely be their most hostile road environment of the season. Duke, ultimately, scored 89 points against one of the best defenses in the country. Then, the Orange needed career-high scoring days from C.J. Fair and Jerami Grant to only win the game by two. Look, I’m not saying Duke was robbed and cheated. The game is over. Duke lost. But as far as losses go, it’s pretty darn encouraging
for the future prospects of the team.On Selection Sunday, at some point
Duke’s resume will come up. This will be a Duke team with more losses than we’re used to, they’ll say. How did they lose to Clemson and Notre Dame, neither of which will make the Big Dance, they’ll ask. And Saturday’s loss to Syracuse will still be in the loss column—’can they really hang with the best of the best?’ they’ll mull.
But when you want to think about how good Duke actually is and their chances at winning big games going for-ward, remember these things, because the Blue Devils are different. In a very good way.
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After having little impact in marquee games early in the season, guard Andre Dawkins posted big numbers against Pittsburgh and Syracuse, scoring 34 combined points.
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Despite a decrease in minutes, guard Tyler Thornton has found ways to contribute when he is on the floor.
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Jefferson provided Duke with a healthy presence in the paint, averaging 14 points and 8.5 rebounds during his last two games. The sophomore has put up near dou-ble-double numbers in his last six games and is not showing signs of ceding the paint to opposing teams.
“[Amile is] a very versatile performer and a good competitor,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m really very pleased about how he has played, and we watch him continue to get better.”
Sulaimon saw action at the point guard po-sition Saturday night and scored 16 points in the loss, including a heroic last-second trey to send the game into overtime.
He has come a long way since being benched in the midst of a slump earlier this season.
“Rasheed is a combo,” Krzyzewski said. “He
actually puts the best pressure on the ball of anybody we have on the team, because he is taller and a really good athlete. He played like a combo in high school. We will keep looking at that.”
With additional offensive weapons be-ginning to mature, Duke will look to take advantage of a defense that is ranked 119th in the nation, giving up 68.3 points per contest—in stark contrast to the ninth-ranked defense they faced this past week-end against Syracuse.
But no matter who Duke is facing, the team has a common goal of improving in one of the season’s toughest months, no mat-ter who is on the other side of the court. And that’s a sentiment the Demon Deacons feel as well despite their two game slide.
“It is two basketball teams playing,” Bzdelik said. “We should be able to play with everybody if we are playing well.”
It’s not just little differences, either. The offense is no longer just hoping Ja-bari Parker hits shots. The offense, in fact, is quite spectacular: Duke’s offense has the highest efficiency rating dating back through 2003, the first year advanced col-lege basketball statistics website KenPom.com has data.
The rotation of players playing has also wildly changed. Remember when Rasheed Sulaimon was in the doghouse and didn’t play against Michigan? (Note: Coach K does not have a doghouse.) I
think we can all see that ‘Sheed’s time riding the pine is over this season.
Just as important as ‘Sheed is the re-cent play of Andre Dawkins. He didn’t play against Kansas. He was also just a small factor in the Arizona and Michi-gan games. And when he did light it up, it was against weaker teams like Gard-ner-Webb or Eastern Michigan. That’s why it’s so impressive that he scored a combined 34 points on 12-of-20 shoot-ing in Duke’s two games against Pitts-burgh and Syracuse. When he comes into games, opposing teams must ac-count for him on defense, else he’ll
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Sophomore Rasheed Sulaimon struggled earlier in the season but has plenty of momentum following his performance Saturday at Syracuse.
make it rain.There are other differences too. Tyler
Thornton is playing less, and is far more efficient in his minutes. Amile Jefferson has developed into possibly the best re-bounder in the ACC. Marshall Plumlee is finding his niche as a stopper in the paint and rebounder, even if he isn’t ready to do big things on the offensive end just yet. Jefferson and Plumlee’s increases in minutes mean that Parker spends less time playing center, which is good for the defense and Parker’s long-term stamina.
This now brings us back into point No. 2: If Duke has correctly made all these ad-justments, why didn’t it beat Syracuse?
Well, sometimes the final result of a game just doesn’t really show how well or not well a team played. And given a num-ber of circumstances, Duke played a heck of a game. I’m not sure I’ve even watched a loss that gave me so much more confi-dence in the future of a team: Wouldn’t you even take Duke as five-point favorites right now for the game at Cameron In-door Stadium? Ten points?
The Blue Devils persevered through questionable foul calls (Jefferson’s fourth and Parker’s fifth), a perplexing no-call (Rodney Hood’s dunk attempt) and what will likely be their most hostile road environment of the season. Duke, ultimately, scored 89 points against one of the best defenses in the country. Then, the Orange needed career-high scoring days from C.J. Fair and Jerami Grant to only win the game by two. Look, I’m not saying Duke was robbed and cheated. The game is over. Duke lost. But as far as losses go, it’s pretty darn encouraging
for the future prospects of the team.On Selection Sunday, at some point
Duke’s resume will come up. This will be a Duke team with more losses than we’re used to, they’ll say. How did they lose to Clemson and Notre Dame, neither of which will make the Big Dance, they’ll ask. And Saturday’s loss to Syracuse will still be in the loss column—’can they really hang with the best of the best?’ they’ll mull.
But when you want to think about how good Duke actually is and their chances at winning big games going for-ward, remember these things, because the Blue Devils are different. In a very good way.
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After having little impact in marquee games early in the season, guard Andre Dawkins posted big numbers against Pittsburgh and Syracuse, scoring 34 combined points.
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Despite a decrease in minutes, guard Tyler Thornton has found ways to contribute when he is on the floor.
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for Young TrusteeHaving met with the three candidates for un-
dergraduate Young Trustee, the Interfraternity Council has voted to formally endorse senior Neil Kondamuri for the position of Young Trustee.
Neil has been an active member of a number of different student groups across campus, and we be-lieve that he brings the greatest breadth of experi-ence to the position of Young Trustee. During his time at Duke, Neil has been a member of The Chron-
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Duke has, for many years, worked to promote faculty diversity. And yet, despite improvements in some areas, the University has failed to significantly increase the number of Latino faculty on the payroll. Of our 1,768 tenured professors, only 2 percent are Latino. These numbers remain low even a decade after the launch of the Faculty Diversity Initiative, a program designed to increase the percentages of black, female and other minority faculty at Duke.
Most discussions about diversity on campus revolve around the need to maintain a broad spectrum of identities—including wide-ranging gender, racial, sexual and socioeconomic identities—in the undergraduate student body. Faculty diversity rarely gets the attention it deserves. The underrepresentation of Latino faculty reminds us that diversity should be a priority at all levels of the University.
Faculty diversity matters. It bolsters a vibrant intellectual community by ensuring that a broad range of perspectives are represented. Having a diverse faculty also helps create a diverse student body. In its petition to extend the discontinued contract of a Latino professor, Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino Student Association, notes that faculty members from minority communities can serve
as mentors and advocates for underrepresented communities and provide opportunities for students to “fully express and explore their unique identities.”
North Carolina has the 11th largest Hispanic population in the U.S., and 6 percent of Duke’s student body identifies as Hispanic or Latino. Latino
representation is important, and Duke should work to recruit more qualified Latino faculty.
In its recruiting practices, the Faculty Diversity Initiative seems to have failed to achieve diversity outside of the black-white, male-female binaries. A diverse community is one that includes a wide range of perspectives, identities and experiences, and we should not limit our conception of diversity to include only a small set of groups. Focusing on a narrow array of groups can make diversity initiatives seem like instruments of accumulating “diversity capital”—a valuable asset in a higher education community for which “diversity” is more often a buzzword than substantive aim. It also jeopardizes the development of a robust spectrum of faculty
representation, and the Faculty Diversity Initiative should, for this reason, work to develop a more expansive definition of diversity.
Assembling a diverse faculty is difficult. In the case of Latino faculty, the candidate pool is small. This is often because structural inequalities prevent Latinos from accessing the kinds of educational resources that would put them in a position to apply for a faculty position at Duke. Hiring decisions are made at the end of a series of systemic barriers that crowd out minorities. Using hiring decisions to correct for these barriers cannot solve the root problem.
In a world devoid of inequality, hiring decisions would be based solely on teaching competency and research prowess. But inequality exists, hiring is imperfect and promoting faculty diversity is important. We recommend that the Academic Council continues to promote diversity—broadly defined—within the faculty. Specifically, the Council should continue to promote pipeline programs to tenure-track positions and increase recruitment efforts. If Duke believes in the importance of diversity, it should double down on its attempts to recruit qualified professors from underrepresented groups.
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I watched the Super Bowl this year for three reasons: to see the trailers for upcoming superhero movies, to dance to Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers and to watch the commercials for some killer conversation starters the next morning. Super Bowl XVLIII offered fans an unusually one-sided game in which the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8, but while fans of opposing teams were driven apart as the game
progressed, the commercials between plays ostensibly brought them back together.
“Full House” reunions, M&M disaster scenarios and adorable animals every few ads could have done little but unite people in ecstasy. But one commercial by Coca-Cola, while meant to endorse a vision of modern America as simultaneously diverse and united, was met with controversy and public outrage. Coke branded their product to the tune of “America, the Beautiful” sung in a variety of languages. Self-identifying patriotic mavericks instantly took to Twitter in a storm of fury. Within moments “#SpeakAmerican” began trending as U.S. citizens tweeted that singing the song in any language but American (read: English) is offensive, un-American and representative of a weak country.
These hardy nationalists made a few mistakes in their activist social media campaign against non-Americanism. For starters, “American” is not a language. If “American” were ever a language, it would be representative of the incredible diversity of ethnicities and cultures the United States offers a home to. Immigrants founded America, after all, so it only makes sense to include new cultures when forming contemporary perceptions of what America actually is. In fact, nearly all of the English language—which these individuals meant to refer to—is derived from languages from abroad. Further, as of the most recent U.S. Census, two-thirds of those reported to speak English also speak Spanish. The U.S. is home to six other languages that are spoken by at least a million individuals, including in descending order: Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, French, German and Korean. In some parts of the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, upwards of 40 percent of citizens speak a language other than English at home.
While English certainly remains the dominantly spoken language in the U.S., it has yet to be declared the country’s official national language. There are reasons for this. Most notable—and what those who reacted so hostilely to the commercial were actually right about—is the simple idea that our language has an impact, just not always a desirable one. Declaring a national language might stand as a unifying
force for those who speak it fluently, but it would simultaneously create a paradox against America’s historical place as a melting pot of different cultures. A national language fosters uniformity, but it also sends the message that America should be solely a homogenous nation. This message has dangerous consequences for a country that is already perceived so negatively by people and nations abroad.
Reading online debates between those who support and despise Coke’s commercial reminds me of Duke’s “You Don’t Say” campaign, which aims to make students more aware of the impacts their words can have on others. Some students criticize the campaign for exacerbating social issues on-campus, but, at both the individual and collective group level, choice of language has severe effects. Nationwide criticism to what I first perceived to be an innocently unifying commercial shows the effects of language clearly. The Twitter explosion has done nothing but show how some American citizens have not quite yet progressed to the point of accepting cultures different from their own. More than this, criticism of other languages signifies to Americans who speak these other languages that aspects of their cultures are somehow less “American” than those of English-speaking backgrounds. Trending tweets in outrage of “America, the Beautiful” not being sung exclusively in “American” is potentially just as offensive as calling someone gay or tranny or telling someone to “man up.”
I look at this creatively uncreative hashtag and realize ironically that I wholeheartedly agree with its message: Citizens of America should #SpeakAmerican. As such, we should speak with consideration of differences, appreciation of diversity and understanding of the importance of their words. I listen to the second verse of “America, the Beautiful” for solace that the United States is meant to be greater than the widespread outrage of diversity would seem to depict: “O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress. A thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw. Confirm thy soul in self-control—thy liberty in law!” Hopefully the U.S. can continue to be a nation welcoming to a mixture of cultures filled with Americans who are conscientious of the influence their words can have.
Brendan McCartney is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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“A white man is superior to a negro.”What would you do if these words were etched in marble over
the entrance to your freshman dorm? How would you feel about Duke? Would you stand for it because it had always been there? Would you insist the etching remain because of its historical value? Would you lazily allow it to remain because it’s not that bad? Or, if given the chance, would you replace these words with something else, something that is truly representative of the values and diversity of our school?
That quote is one of many from former North Carolina Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock, the same Aycock whose name adorns the dormitory on East Campus. The name Aycock was chosen for the dorm when it was constructed in 1914 because at the time, Aycock was seen as the “Education Governor,” credited with pioneering public education in the state of North Carolina and giving children access to public schools. Because of this legacy, Aycock’s name also adorns buildings at UNC-Chapel Hill and East Carolina University,
in addition to a Charles B. Aycock High School in Wayne County, N.C. But underneath the narrative of a progressive, education-minded governor
lies an insidious history of white supremacy and racial subordination. During the Reconstruction Era when the South was decimated by the impacts of the Civil War, the federal government kept troops in southern states in order to ensure that racial harmony was maintained. But when President Rutherford B. Hayes pulled those troops out in 1877, most southern states quickly spiraled back into rigid systems of racial subordination and segregation.
But North Carolina was different. While the state certainly had a lasting legacy of racism, an overtly racist government did not reclaim the state immediately after Reconstruction. Instead, a Fusionist government, made by a coalition between poor white farmers and poor black farmers, took control of the state. Accordingly, by the late 1800s, North Carolina continued to have blacks who were elected to public office in select areas across the state.
Nowhere was this more visible than in Wilmington, which was at that time the largest city in the state due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. In Wilmington, a robust black community was thriving, with black-owned businesses featured on Main Street and a black newspaper—the Daily Record—published regularly. Additionally, black citizens held one-third of the elected positions on the city’s Board of Aldermen, and the municipal government heard the voices of the black community.
This coalition worked well for North Carolina’s working poor at the time, and the state was able to enact numerous progressive policies for the time—namely enfranchising poorer North Carolinians by lowering the property requirement that was necessary to vote. While these policies were beneficial to small farmers and textile mill workers, they were widely loathed by Aycock and the rest of North Carolina’s white gentry, who saw the policies as an attack on their economic control.
Accordingly, Aycock, along with the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels and many other leaders across the state, decided to break up the Fusion movement by spearheading a white supremacist movement like North Carolina had never before seen. They believed that if they could drive a wedge between working-class white and black citizens through fanning the fires of racial hatred, they could regain control of the state.
And so they began their work, slandering local newspapers with advertisements and comics that depicted black men as rapists and trumpeted the threat of “negro rule” across the state. They formed white citizens’ organizations and state-wide white militias that worked to intimidate black citizens and discourage voting. These efforts culminated in the 1898 Wimington Massacre, which is widely considered by historians to be the only successful coup in American history. During the Wilmington Massacre, white men stormed the city and burned down the headquarters of the black newspaper, forcing black city council members to resign at gunpoint and killing at least 98 people—most of whom were black.
Following the massacre, anti-black violence swept across the state, effectively intimidating black voters away from the polls. And, in 1900, Charles B. Aycock was elected the governor of North Carolina.
In 1914, Aycock dormitory was named in his honor by Trinity College, the precursor to Duke University. It was not named because Aycock had any specific association with the school—he did not attend Duke, nor did he give money to construct the building. The dorm was simply named to honor Aycock’s legacy, which is why the name should change.
As a University, we cannot afford to accept history as something that is static, nor can we afford to gloss over the inconvenient truths of our own history as an institution. The reality is that for years and years, Duke was a university that condoned racism and racial exclusion. But times change, and, thankfully, our University has changed along with them. We are now an institution that throws its arms open wide to the world and all its people, and we owe it to ourselves and to our community to ensure that the names of our first-year residence halls welcome all students to Duke equally.
So what’s in a name? As it turns out, quite a lot.
Stefani Jones is a Trinity senior and the president of Duke Student Government. Her column is the second installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of Duke Student Government. Send Stefani a message on Twitter @DukeStudentGov.
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LydiaThurmandoubly a lie
Spike Jonze’s new movie, “Her,” presents a novel iteration of the Western fear of artificial intelligence: the fear that we
might fall in love with it. Everyday people express less extreme fears about the role of technology. The fear that texting, Facebook chatting and chatbots might replace human interaction. The fear that a Candy Crush addiction has gone too far. The fear that the ease and aptitude of technology will render the skillsets of some individuals obsolete. Perhaps fear is a strong word, but as society furthers its reliance on technology the discomfort that stems from dependency is far outshone by the underpinning of that dependency: our
infatuation with new technology. Although this seems like a stretch, the reality of the matter is that human relationships with technology aren’t too far from the reciprocal romantic relationship portrayed in “Her.”
There’s no doubt that people have grown attached to technology. Aesthetically powerful games mesmerize users and organizational apps orchestrate real life events from scheduling to reminding. Dating sites, whether Meet an Inmate, Farmers Only or the more traditional Match.com go so far as to initiate and prompt reality. But what makes a movie like “Her” seem far-fetched to us isn’t the reliance or dependence, it’s the sense of reciprocity. It’s ludicrous to think of a computer or any brand of artificial intelligence producing humanity.
Yet that seems to be a next step. Technology has already been incredibly good at responding to human prompting. Typing a line of code results in an output. Swiping advances to the next picture. Some phones vibrate slightly with every touch, a raw physical response. The question is: Can our gadgets reciprocate emotion? Human emotions on a grand scale aren’t impossible to predict. You can probably guess most stupid puns before your friends make them, and an understanding of hormones and the endocrine system provides further insight into the way people respond to different situations, behaviorally and emotionally. Throw in a dash of weighted randomness and you could produce a machine that exhibits sometimes irrational, but largely rational, emotional responses to external stimuli. A lab in Singapore directed by Dr. Hooman Samani is working to develop a robot with artificial intelligence that is “an active participant in the communicative process, [adjusting] its affective state depending on its interactions with humans.” Namely, it becomes content (makes happy beeps a la R2D2 and displays purple flashing LEDs) when touched by a human companion, or appears jealous (makes grunting noises and displays green LEDs) when it isn’t receiving attention.
This isn’t to say that producing a response that simulates emotion is the same as producing an actual emotion, but it does
beg the question: What does it take for an individual to develop feelings for something or someone? Do they have to be confident that the same emotional and chemical processes that cause themselves to behave in certain ways also motivate the actions of others?
For instance, as robots become more and more lifelike, there is something that causes humans to hold a distinct distrust of them. This is often called the “uncanny valley.” The basic idea is that the neural pathway that allows individuals to identify motion and that which allows individuals to identify facial features cross at the parietal cortex. If a robot has a lifelike face but retains a limited
and mechanized range of motion, there is a mismatch of neural pathways. One piece of information calls the robot human, one calls it mechanical. The incongruity prompts distrust.
I hypothesize that if Dr. Samani produced a robot that was capable of realistic emotional responses to human companions, a similar distrust would develop. Viewing a projection of realistic human emotion combined with the recognition that the technology is distinctly non-human (either from visual cues of mechanized motion or from just the understanding that behavior is defined by algorithms) would cause distinct discomfort.
Still, despite these imbalances in reciprocation, I think that people have fallen in love. Perhaps not in the manner of “Her,” but people have become obsessed with, dependent on and validated by their technology. All it takes is a click on one of your seven remotes, and your plasma/HD/flat-screen/able-to-predict-what-you-want-to-record television will show you hundreds of inter-human relationships that label themselves as love without half of the relationship qualifications that a person might have with their iPhone. I fail to see any more depth in “The Bachelor” than these weird human-technology relationships.
When it comes down to it, I think the true appeal of technology is that it makes you a better person. This is said over and over again in wedding vows, but possessing a 4G device really does make you better, superhuman even. It makes you a person who doesn’t need to stop for directions and can always come up with the actor in that one movie. Technology can be an engaging and empowering companion, requiring minimal investment or emotional risk. Still, the human responsibility exists that we must actively seek to define our relationships with technology. Without active definitions, this age of high-volume tech usage could easily be one that sees an isolation of people and the mindless loss of hundreds of dollars on Candy Crush upgrades. Loving our gadgets is more multi-faceted than it seems.
Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her biweek-ly column will run every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.
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for Young TrusteeHaving met with the three candidates for un-
dergraduate Young Trustee, the Interfraternity Council has voted to formally endorse senior Neil Kondamuri for the position of Young Trustee.
Neil has been an active member of a number of different student groups across campus, and we be-lieve that he brings the greatest breadth of experi-ence to the position of Young Trustee. During his time at Duke, Neil has been a member of The Chron-
icle Editorial Board, Duke Student Government, the Senior Gift Committee, Project Build, and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, and we believe that he will be an active and effective member of the Board of Trustees.
The Interfraternity Council wishes the best of luck to all participating candidates and strongly urges every member of the Duke com-munity to vote on February 6.
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—“Madison” commenting on the column “Dick.”
Inc. 1993Est. 1905 the ChronicleDanielle Muoio, Editor
jennie Xu, Towerview Photography Editor Dillon patel, Towerview Creative Director
kriStie kiM, Social Media Editor julian Spector, Special Projects Editor
lauren carroll, Senior Editor chelSea pieroni, Multimedia Editor
anDrew luo, News Blog Editor Derek Saffe, Multimedia Editor
anna koelSch, Special Projects Editor for Online glenn rivkeeS, Director of Online Operations
rebecca DickenSon, Advertising Director yeShwanth kanDiMalla, Recruitment Chair
Mary weaver, Operations Manager julia May, Recruitment Chair
Megan Mcginity, Digital Sales Manager barbara Starbuck, Creative Director
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Duke has, for many years, worked to promote faculty diversity. And yet, despite improvements in some areas, the University has failed to significantly increase the number of Latino faculty on the payroll. Of our 1,768 tenured professors, only 2 percent are Latino. These numbers remain low even a decade after the launch of the Faculty Diversity Initiative, a program designed to increase the percentages of black, female and other minority faculty at Duke.
Most discussions about diversity on campus revolve around the need to maintain a broad spectrum of identities—including wide-ranging gender, racial, sexual and socioeconomic identities—in the undergraduate student body. Faculty diversity rarely gets the attention it deserves. The underrepresentation of Latino faculty reminds us that diversity should be a priority at all levels of the University.
Faculty diversity matters. It bolsters a vibrant intellectual community by ensuring that a broad range of perspectives are represented. Having a diverse faculty also helps create a diverse student body. In its petition to extend the discontinued contract of a Latino professor, Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino Student Association, notes that faculty members from minority communities can serve
as mentors and advocates for underrepresented communities and provide opportunities for students to “fully express and explore their unique identities.”
North Carolina has the 11th largest Hispanic population in the U.S., and 6 percent of Duke’s student body identifies as Hispanic or Latino. Latino
representation is important, and Duke should work to recruit more qualified Latino faculty.
In its recruiting practices, the Faculty Diversity Initiative seems to have failed to achieve diversity outside of the black-white, male-female binaries. A diverse community is one that includes a wide range of perspectives, identities and experiences, and we should not limit our conception of diversity to include only a small set of groups. Focusing on a narrow array of groups can make diversity initiatives seem like instruments of accumulating “diversity capital”—a valuable asset in a higher education community for which “diversity” is more often a buzzword than substantive aim. It also jeopardizes the development of a robust spectrum of faculty
representation, and the Faculty Diversity Initiative should, for this reason, work to develop a more expansive definition of diversity.
Assembling a diverse faculty is difficult. In the case of Latino faculty, the candidate pool is small. This is often because structural inequalities prevent Latinos from accessing the kinds of educational resources that would put them in a position to apply for a faculty position at Duke. Hiring decisions are made at the end of a series of systemic barriers that crowd out minorities. Using hiring decisions to correct for these barriers cannot solve the root problem.
In a world devoid of inequality, hiring decisions would be based solely on teaching competency and research prowess. But inequality exists, hiring is imperfect and promoting faculty diversity is important. We recommend that the Academic Council continues to promote diversity—broadly defined—within the faculty. Specifically, the Council should continue to promote pipeline programs to tenure-track positions and increase recruitment efforts. If Duke believes in the importance of diversity, it should double down on its attempts to recruit qualified professors from underrepresented groups.
redefining diversity
Editorial
I watched the Super Bowl this year for three reasons: to see the trailers for upcoming superhero movies, to dance to Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers and to watch the commercials for some killer conversation starters the next morning. Super Bowl XVLIII offered fans an unusually one-sided game in which the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8, but while fans of opposing teams were driven apart as the game
progressed, the commercials between plays ostensibly brought them back together.
“Full House” reunions, M&M disaster scenarios and adorable animals every few ads could have done little but unite people in ecstasy. But one commercial by Coca-Cola, while meant to endorse a vision of modern America as simultaneously diverse and united, was met with controversy and public outrage. Coke branded their product to the tune of “America, the Beautiful” sung in a variety of languages. Self-identifying patriotic mavericks instantly took to Twitter in a storm of fury. Within moments “#SpeakAmerican” began trending as U.S. citizens tweeted that singing the song in any language but American (read: English) is offensive, un-American and representative of a weak country.
These hardy nationalists made a few mistakes in their activist social media campaign against non-Americanism. For starters, “American” is not a language. If “American” were ever a language, it would be representative of the incredible diversity of ethnicities and cultures the United States offers a home to. Immigrants founded America, after all, so it only makes sense to include new cultures when forming contemporary perceptions of what America actually is. In fact, nearly all of the English language—which these individuals meant to refer to—is derived from languages from abroad. Further, as of the most recent U.S. Census, two-thirds of those reported to speak English also speak Spanish. The U.S. is home to six other languages that are spoken by at least a million individuals, including in descending order: Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, French, German and Korean. In some parts of the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, upwards of 40 percent of citizens speak a language other than English at home.
While English certainly remains the dominantly spoken language in the U.S., it has yet to be declared the country’s official national language. There are reasons for this. Most notable—and what those who reacted so hostilely to the commercial were actually right about—is the simple idea that our language has an impact, just not always a desirable one. Declaring a national language might stand as a unifying
force for those who speak it fluently, but it would simultaneously create a paradox against America’s historical place as a melting pot of different cultures. A national language fosters uniformity, but it also sends the message that America should be solely a homogenous nation. This message has dangerous consequences for a country that is already perceived so negatively by people and nations abroad.
Reading online debates between those who support and despise Coke’s commercial reminds me of Duke’s “You Don’t Say” campaign, which aims to make students more aware of the impacts their words can have on others. Some students criticize the campaign for exacerbating social issues on-campus, but, at both the individual and collective group level, choice of language has severe effects. Nationwide criticism to what I first perceived to be an innocently unifying commercial shows the effects of language clearly. The Twitter explosion has done nothing but show how some American citizens have not quite yet progressed to the point of accepting cultures different from their own. More than this, criticism of other languages signifies to Americans who speak these other languages that aspects of their cultures are somehow less “American” than those of English-speaking backgrounds. Trending tweets in outrage of “America, the Beautiful” not being sung exclusively in “American” is potentially just as offensive as calling someone gay or tranny or telling someone to “man up.”
I look at this creatively uncreative hashtag and realize ironically that I wholeheartedly agree with its message: Citizens of America should #SpeakAmerican. As such, we should speak with consideration of differences, appreciation of diversity and understanding of the importance of their words. I listen to the second verse of “America, the Beautiful” for solace that the United States is meant to be greater than the widespread outrage of diversity would seem to depict: “O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress. A thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw. Confirm thy soul in self-control—thy liberty in law!” Hopefully the U.S. can continue to be a nation welcoming to a mixture of cultures filled with Americans who are conscientious of the influence their words can have.
Brendan McCartney is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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Brendan McCartneya touch of ginger
“A white man is superior to a negro.”What would you do if these words were etched in marble over
the entrance to your freshman dorm? How would you feel about Duke? Would you stand for it because it had always been there? Would you insist the etching remain because of its historical value? Would you lazily allow it to remain because it’s not that bad? Or, if given the chance, would you replace these words with something else, something that is truly representative of the values and diversity of our school?
That quote is one of many from former North Carolina Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock, the same Aycock whose name adorns the dormitory on East Campus. The name Aycock was chosen for the dorm when it was constructed in 1914 because at the time, Aycock was seen as the “Education Governor,” credited with pioneering public education in the state of North Carolina and giving children access to public schools. Because of this legacy, Aycock’s name also adorns buildings at UNC-Chapel Hill and East Carolina University,
in addition to a Charles B. Aycock High School in Wayne County, N.C. But underneath the narrative of a progressive, education-minded governor
lies an insidious history of white supremacy and racial subordination. During the Reconstruction Era when the South was decimated by the impacts of the Civil War, the federal government kept troops in southern states in order to ensure that racial harmony was maintained. But when President Rutherford B. Hayes pulled those troops out in 1877, most southern states quickly spiraled back into rigid systems of racial subordination and segregation.
But North Carolina was different. While the state certainly had a lasting legacy of racism, an overtly racist government did not reclaim the state immediately after Reconstruction. Instead, a Fusionist government, made by a coalition between poor white farmers and poor black farmers, took control of the state. Accordingly, by the late 1800s, North Carolina continued to have blacks who were elected to public office in select areas across the state.
Nowhere was this more visible than in Wilmington, which was at that time the largest city in the state due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. In Wilmington, a robust black community was thriving, with black-owned businesses featured on Main Street and a black newspaper—the Daily Record—published regularly. Additionally, black citizens held one-third of the elected positions on the city’s Board of Aldermen, and the municipal government heard the voices of the black community.
This coalition worked well for North Carolina’s working poor at the time, and the state was able to enact numerous progressive policies for the time—namely enfranchising poorer North Carolinians by lowering the property requirement that was necessary to vote. While these policies were beneficial to small farmers and textile mill workers, they were widely loathed by Aycock and the rest of North Carolina’s white gentry, who saw the policies as an attack on their economic control.
Accordingly, Aycock, along with the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels and many other leaders across the state, decided to break up the Fusion movement by spearheading a white supremacist movement like North Carolina had never before seen. They believed that if they could drive a wedge between working-class white and black citizens through fanning the fires of racial hatred, they could regain control of the state.
And so they began their work, slandering local newspapers with advertisements and comics that depicted black men as rapists and trumpeted the threat of “negro rule” across the state. They formed white citizens’ organizations and state-wide white militias that worked to intimidate black citizens and discourage voting. These efforts culminated in the 1898 Wimington Massacre, which is widely considered by historians to be the only successful coup in American history. During the Wilmington Massacre, white men stormed the city and burned down the headquarters of the black newspaper, forcing black city council members to resign at gunpoint and killing at least 98 people—most of whom were black.
Following the massacre, anti-black violence swept across the state, effectively intimidating black voters away from the polls. And, in 1900, Charles B. Aycock was elected the governor of North Carolina.
In 1914, Aycock dormitory was named in his honor by Trinity College, the precursor to Duke University. It was not named because Aycock had any specific association with the school—he did not attend Duke, nor did he give money to construct the building. The dorm was simply named to honor Aycock’s legacy, which is why the name should change.
As a University, we cannot afford to accept history as something that is static, nor can we afford to gloss over the inconvenient truths of our own history as an institution. The reality is that for years and years, Duke was a university that condoned racism and racial exclusion. But times change, and, thankfully, our University has changed along with them. We are now an institution that throws its arms open wide to the world and all its people, and we owe it to ourselves and to our community to ensure that the names of our first-year residence halls welcome all students to Duke equally.
So what’s in a name? As it turns out, quite a lot.
Stefani Jones is a Trinity senior and the president of Duke Student Government. Her column is the second installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of Duke Student Government. Send Stefani a message on Twitter @DukeStudentGov.
What’s in a name?
LydiaThurmandoubly a lie
Spike Jonze’s new movie, “Her,” presents a novel iteration of the Western fear of artificial intelligence: the fear that we
might fall in love with it. Everyday people express less extreme fears about the role of technology. The fear that texting, Facebook chatting and chatbots might replace human interaction. The fear that a Candy Crush addiction has gone too far. The fear that the ease and aptitude of technology will render the skillsets of some individuals obsolete. Perhaps fear is a strong word, but as society furthers its reliance on technology the discomfort that stems from dependency is far outshone by the underpinning of that dependency: our
infatuation with new technology. Although this seems like a stretch, the reality of the matter is that human relationships with technology aren’t too far from the reciprocal romantic relationship portrayed in “Her.”
There’s no doubt that people have grown attached to technology. Aesthetically powerful games mesmerize users and organizational apps orchestrate real life events from scheduling to reminding. Dating sites, whether Meet an Inmate, Farmers Only or the more traditional Match.com go so far as to initiate and prompt reality. But what makes a movie like “Her” seem far-fetched to us isn’t the reliance or dependence, it’s the sense of reciprocity. It’s ludicrous to think of a computer or any brand of artificial intelligence producing humanity.
Yet that seems to be a next step. Technology has already been incredibly good at responding to human prompting. Typing a line of code results in an output. Swiping advances to the next picture. Some phones vibrate slightly with every touch, a raw physical response. The question is: Can our gadgets reciprocate emotion? Human emotions on a grand scale aren’t impossible to predict. You can probably guess most stupid puns before your friends make them, and an understanding of hormones and the endocrine system provides further insight into the way people respond to different situations, behaviorally and emotionally. Throw in a dash of weighted randomness and you could produce a machine that exhibits sometimes irrational, but largely rational, emotional responses to external stimuli. A lab in Singapore directed by Dr. Hooman Samani is working to develop a robot with artificial intelligence that is “an active participant in the communicative process, [adjusting] its affective state depending on its interactions with humans.” Namely, it becomes content (makes happy beeps a la R2D2 and displays purple flashing LEDs) when touched by a human companion, or appears jealous (makes grunting noises and displays green LEDs) when it isn’t receiving attention.
This isn’t to say that producing a response that simulates emotion is the same as producing an actual emotion, but it does
beg the question: What does it take for an individual to develop feelings for something or someone? Do they have to be confident that the same emotional and chemical processes that cause themselves to behave in certain ways also motivate the actions of others?
For instance, as robots become more and more lifelike, there is something that causes humans to hold a distinct distrust of them. This is often called the “uncanny valley.” The basic idea is that the neural pathway that allows individuals to identify motion and that which allows individuals to identify facial features cross at the parietal cortex. If a robot has a lifelike face but retains a limited
and mechanized range of motion, there is a mismatch of neural pathways. One piece of information calls the robot human, one calls it mechanical. The incongruity prompts distrust.
I hypothesize that if Dr. Samani produced a robot that was capable of realistic emotional responses to human companions, a similar distrust would develop. Viewing a projection of realistic human emotion combined with the recognition that the technology is distinctly non-human (either from visual cues of mechanized motion or from just the understanding that behavior is defined by algorithms) would cause distinct discomfort.
Still, despite these imbalances in reciprocation, I think that people have fallen in love. Perhaps not in the manner of “Her,” but people have become obsessed with, dependent on and validated by their technology. All it takes is a click on one of your seven remotes, and your plasma/HD/flat-screen/able-to-predict-what-you-want-to-record television will show you hundreds of inter-human relationships that label themselves as love without half of the relationship qualifications that a person might have with their iPhone. I fail to see any more depth in “The Bachelor” than these weird human-technology relationships.
When it comes down to it, I think the true appeal of technology is that it makes you a better person. This is said over and over again in wedding vows, but possessing a 4G device really does make you better, superhuman even. It makes you a person who doesn’t need to stop for directions and can always come up with the actor in that one movie. Technology can be an engaging and empowering companion, requiring minimal investment or emotional risk. Still, the human responsibility exists that we must actively seek to define our relationships with technology. Without active definitions, this age of high-volume tech usage could easily be one that sees an isolation of people and the mindless loss of hundreds of dollars on Candy Crush upgrades. Loving our gadgets is more multi-faceted than it seems.
Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her biweek-ly column will run every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.
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ExhibitionsLegendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene. Photographs by First Book Prize in Photography winner Gerard H. Gaskin. Thru February 22. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.
Deborah Stratman: Speculative Terrains. A range of work—photography, video, and installation—by MFA | EDA Visiting Artist Deborah Stratman. Thru February 28, Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus. Free.
EventsFebruary 4Songs of Love and Remembrance. Penelope Jensen, soprano; Elaine Funaro, harpsichord; John Pruett, baroque violin; Andrew Anagnost, baroque cello; Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe. Part of the Triangle HIP (Historically Informed Performance) Festival. 8pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Duke Music Department. Free.
February 6Choral Vespers. The Vespers Ensemble will be featured as part of the Triangle HIP (Historically Informed Performance) Festival, an early music festival sponsored by Mallarmé Chamber Players. 5:15pm, Duke Chapel. Chapel Music. Free.
Exhibition Opening Event. Curator Richard J. Powell on Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. 7pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Exhibition will be at the Nasher Thru May 11.
Full Frame Winter Series. Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, directed by Sebastian Junger. 7:30pm, Carolina Theatre. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.
February 7 - 9Dancing the African Diaspora. Theories of Black Performance. A three-day conference exploring the influence of the African diaspora on Black Performance. Registration required. http://aaas.duke.edu/dancing-the-african-diaspora-2014
February 9Jazz Informance. Duke’s John Brown and his ensemble. 2pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.
February 11Artist Talk. Public presentation by MFA | EDA visiting artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman. 7pm, Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free.
February 13 – 15An Iliad. By Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare. Featuring Phil Watson (T’14) (Sr. Distinction Project). 8pm, (+ 2pm on 2/15), Sheafer Theater, West Campus. Free.
February 14Ilana Davidson, soprano; Oren Fader, guitar; Laura Gilbert, flute; Jonathan Bagg, viola. Music of JS Bach, Villa Lobos, Franz Schubert, Ned Rorem and a new work by Duke composer David Kirkland Garner. 8pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.
February 15Katharina Uhde, violin; Shin-Ae Chun, harpsichord. J.S. Bach’s Complete Obbligato Sonatas, Part I. 7:30pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.
February 16Katharina Uhde, violin; Shin-Ae Chun, harpsichord. J.S. Bach’s Complete Obbligato Sonatas, Part II. 7:30pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.
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Cine-East: East Asian Cinema2/5 Paradox of the Post-Cold War in Asia Series. Jiseul, Meul O,
2012, South Korea, in Korean w/English subtitles. Introduced by Prof. Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Middle East Film Series2/10 Arts of Revolution Series. Ladder to Damascus (W).
Mohamed Malas, 2013, in Arabic w/ English subtitles. Introduced by Prof. miriam cooke (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
AMI Showcase2/11 Silent Film Series. Safety Last! (starring Harold Lloyd). Fred
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