Researchers lead initiative toward hollistic learning“It’s very important to assess what a child knows and doesn’t know in
order to decide what to teach”
Durham Bulls Park to host 2015 commencement
Wallace Wade Stadium will close for renovations in Dec. and
remain closed until Aug. 2015
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Grace Wang Health & Science Editor
In collaboration with the federal Race to the Top Early Learning Chal-lenge, some Duke researchers are piloting a program to answer, “How young is too young to test?”
The program—which originated from a recommendation by the K-3 North Carolina Assessment Think Tank—is a collaborative effort between the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy and the North Carolina Depart-ment of Public Instruction. North Car-olina is currently leading a consortium of 12 states developing proposals to address the issue of holistically evalu-ating student performance, said Ken-neth Dodge, director of the Center for Child and Family Policy and co-chair of the think tank. If successful, the program has the potential to create a national model for early elementary assessment that does not rely on stan-dardized testing.
“We shouldn’t be stacking K [through third grade] students up against each other in very high-risk, high-stakes, anxiety-provoking kinds of tests, but it’s very important to assess what a child knows and doesn’t know in order to decide what to teach,” Dodge said.
The need for more holistic evalu-ations prompted the Think Tank’s recommendation for formative as-sessments, Dodge said. These assess-ments—which differ from traditional evaluations—hone in on aspects of
The upcoming renovations to Wallace Wade Stadium mean that this year’s com-mencement ceremony will get some local fla-vor—with proceedings to be held at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Wallace Wade will close for renovations in December and remain out of use until Au-gust 2015. As a result, this year’s commence-ment—held in Wallace Wade for the past several years—will be relocated to the Dur-ham Bulls’ park downtown. The ceremony is scheduled for the morning of May 10, 2015.
“We’re grateful to [Bulls owner] Jim Good-mon and his team for working with Duke to make it possible to hold commencement at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park,” University Secretary Richard Riddell, whose office is in charge of commencement planning, said in a Duke News release. “It will be a unique com-mencement, introducing many parents and friends to a revitalized downtown Durham.”
Hosting the ceremony off campus means that the timing and location of many of the diploma ceremonies that traditionally follow the main commencement will have to be changed, Riddell said in an email to graduat-ing seniors Monday.
The park, colloquially known as DBAP, seats 10,000. The Bulls—the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays—will be on the road for the weekend of commencement, allowing the team and the University to reach an agree-ment regarding the stadium.
For many students, however, the an-nouncement was less than satisfying. Al-though the renovations to Wallace Wade have been scheduled for years, the news that
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Emma Loewe | The ChronicleDuke students gathered after a Missouri grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, the Fergu-son, Mo., police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, Tuesday evening. (See story online.)
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Five Duke faculty have been award-ed the American Association for the Advancement of Science distinction of Fellow.
AAAS Fellow—an award presented to top scientists based on peer nomi-nations—was awarded to 401 members
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of the association this year. The award recognizes the recipients’ meritorious efforts and contributions to advances in science and their applications in so-ciety.
The five Duke faculty members are Christopher Counter, professor of pharmacology and associate professor of radiation oncology; Drew Shindell, professor of climate sciences in the Nicholas School of the Environment; Bruce Sullenger, Joseph W. and Doro-thy W. Beard professor in the depart-ment of surgery; George Alexander
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students’ approaches to learning as well as their cognitive, social and physi-cal development. The evaluations stem from observations which occur through class instruction and one-on-one con-versations.
Data collection for the pilot program concluded on Nov. 14, said Cindy Bag-well, the DPI K-3 assessment project ad-ministrator, who added that the initial phase impacted approximately 5,000 kindergarteners in 81 schools across the state. Bagwell said that the teach-ers will finalize their feedback later this week.
Preliminary feedback showed teach-ers’ appreciation for how the new mod-el expands beyond measuring single factors such as literacy, she added.
“Teachers are extremely receptive to the focus on the whole child,” Bagwell said. “They appreciate the broadening of the lens we’ve been looking through for children.”
Dodge noted that a recent feedback meeting emphasized a need for greater support toward teachers performing formative assessments in the classroom.
“They need more training on how to do the assessments and how to think about them in the context of their les-sons,” Dodge said.
Bagwell, however, was enthusiastic about the prospect of higher education institutions providing teachers more formative assessment techniques.
“Teachers were more likely to have that ‘aha’ moment, a sense of under-standing, if districts are providing pro-fessional development around forma-tive assessments,” she said.
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• Craven Memorial Auditorium: The University’s commence-ment ceremonies first took place at Craven Memorial Au-ditorium, a building erected on East Campus between 1898 and 1899 and taken down in 1926.
• Main Quadrangle: Commencement ceremonies took place on the Main Quad, in front of the Duke Chapel on West Campus, after 1931.
• Page Auditorium: Page Auditorium, on West Campus, became home to the University’s commencement ceremonies after 1931. Cer-emonies alternated between the Main Quad and Page until 1974.
• East Campus: East Campus again became home to the University’s commencement ceremonies between 1980 and 1983.
• Wallace Wade Stadium:Commencement ceremonies were held at Wallace Wade Sta-dium between 1974 and 1979 and after 1984.
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in the pastgraduation would officially be held off campus was met with frustration from some seniors.
“I always thought that my parents would see me graduate in Wallace Wade, and at the very least on Duke’s campus,” senior Barbara Bla-chut said. “Renovations have forced us to give up a good part of the Duke that we knew and loved freshman year, and it’s unfortunate that it is also going to affect our last day as Duke students.”
Wallace Wade has been the location for graduation since 1984, with a variety of other campus spots housing the ceremony in the years prior—including Page Auditorium, the Main Quadrangle and East Campus.
“We worked hard to find a location that would provide our graduates with a memo-rable experience and we think we have done that,” Terry Chambliss, director of Duke’s Of-fice of Special Events and University Ceremo-nies, said in the release. “The Bulls stadium will comfortably accommodate our usual number of attendees with plenty of parking and good accessibility.”
The renovations to Wallace Wade include include a new tower that will replace the Finch-Yeager Building on the west side of the stadi-um, a new LED video board and speaker sys-tem to be implemented in the south end zone and plans for new North and West gates that will feature enhanced concourses.
“Attending games at Wallace Wade, includ-ing storming the field against [North Caroli-na] and Miami, has been integral to my Duke experience,” said senior Daniel Kort. “I left the game on Thursday night fully expecting to hear ‘Dear Old Duke’ echo through the sta-dium just one more time at commencement, but the unfortunate reality is that our Wallace Wade days are over.”
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Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File PhotoDurham Bulls Athletic Park, pictured above, will be home to the 2015 commencement cer-emony, since Wallace Wade Stadium will be closed for renovations until Aug. 2015.
Elysia Su | Chronicle File PhotoAlthough Wallace Wade Stadium, pictured above, hosted last year’s commencement ceremony, it will close Dec. 1 and remain closed until Aug. 2015.
Emma Loewe | Chronicle File PhotoEast Campus, pictured above, was home to the University’s commencement ceremony be-tween 1980 and 1983.
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Crowder, Tomlinson to play in Senior Bowl
Eric Lin | The ChronicleSenior Jamison Crowder will get one final chance to boost his draft stock in a Duke uniform followng the Blue Devils’ bowl game by competing in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.
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After dominating Marquette in its home opener, Duke will look to continue its home-stand with another win.
The No. 8 Blue Devils will take on Buffa-lo at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The con-test against the Bulls marks the second of a three game home se-ries before Duke trav-els to College Station, Texas, to face No. 7
Texas A&M Sunday.With four games in eight days, Duke
will need to keep fresh legs on the floor at all times. Luckily for head coach Joanne P. McCallie, the Blue Devils have several dangerous options to turn to, as seven players are averaging at least 18.0 minutes per contest.
“Depth can play a key role [because] we have a lot of games coming up in the next week,” McCallie said. “We just have to come back and refocus. We have to have a killer mentality and just get better. This gives us more experience.”
The Blue Devils (3-0) will go into their
game with Buffalo coming off an 83-51 victory against a young Marquette team Sunday afternoon. Redshirt freshman Re-becca Greenwell was the leading scorer for Duke, tallying career-highs with 22 points and 12 rebounds. Greenwell and freshman Azura Stevens—who netted 18 points and snagged 10 boards—both collected their second double-doubles in three career games.
McCallie hopes that this high level of play will carry through to Tuesday’s tilt against a Buffalo team eager to prove it-self, notching two wins after losing its first game of the season to Siena, 58-50. To pull off the upset, the Bulls (2-1) will need to be able to hang with the Blue Devils bas-ket for basket, which will require shooting
much better than the 33.2 percent shoot-ing clip Buffalo has produced so far this season. By contrast, Duke has shot 50.3 percent in its first three games.
Buffalo sports a veteran roster led by guard Mackenzie Loesing. Last season, the junior averaged 16.3 points and 2.0 steals per game, and has increased her scoring in the early going this year, post-ing 19.0 points per contest to go with 4.0 rebounds. Redshirt sophomore Rachel Gregory is another key contributor for
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For the first time in 25 years, a pair of Blue Devil seniors will play beyond this year’s bowl game.
Wide receiver Jamison Crowder and right guard Laken Tomlinson have accept-ed invitations to play in the 66th annual Reese’s Senior Bowl Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 4 p.m. The game will be held at Ladd-Pee-bles Stadium in Mobile, Ala., and will be televised by the NFL Network.
With both players accepting their invita-tions, it will make the first time since 1989—when Clarkston Hines and Chris Port were selected—that Duke will have multiple rep-resentatives at the Senior Bowl.
In Crowder’s 50 career games, he has hauled in 268 receptions for 3,437 yards and 22 touchdowns. His recep-tions mark is only 15 behind the ACC record set by fellow Blue Devils Conner Vernon, a 2012 graduate. He also ranks second in the conference in career re-ception yards, trailing Vernon by 312 heading into Saturday’s tilt. He leads Duke with 70 receptions and 840 yards so far this season.
Tomlinson bolsters an offensive line
that ranks ninth in nation in sacks al-lowed and fourth in tackles for loss allowed. He is currently tied for the FBS lead among active offensive line-men with 50 consecutive starts. Earlier this month, Tomlinson was one of 11 student-athletes named to the FBS All-
state AFCA Good Works Team. He was a CBSSports.com Midseason All-American Second Team selection and a Phil Steele Midseason All-American.
Duke will take on Wake Forest this Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium at 7 p.m. in its final regular season contest.
Jack Dolgin | The ChronicleSenior Elizabeth Williams and the rest of the Blue Devil frontcourt will face a stiff test from a Buffalo team averaging 55.3 rebounds per game.
the Bulls, averaging 11.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Sophomore Alexus Malone is averaging a double-double, scoring 10.7 points and hauling in 13.3 rebounds per game. Team rebounding is a big point of emphasis for Buffalo—col-lectively, the Bulls average 55.3 rebounds per contest.
“I’m excited,” McCallie said. “It’s go-ing to test us a little bit in our perimeter defense and shoring up our post defense. Hopefully we will get to the free-throw line more and attack their post more.”
McCallie is no stranger to the style of play employed by third-year Buffalo head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. Legette-Jack
was an assistant coach at Michigan State alongside McCallie from 2000 to 2002.
The Blue Devils will look to their post players to provide stingy defense and solid rebounding Tuesday night. Specif-ically, senior Elizabeth Williams will need to continue her imposing shot-blocking campaign. The Virginia Beach, Va., na-tive needs 91 more blocks to break the ACC career record for blocked shots, cur-rently held by former Duke star Alison Bales. Williams needs just 11 more blocks to move into 25th on the NCAA career blocks list—a position she would share with George Washington’s Ugo Oha—and is currently averaging 4.3 blocks per game this season.
The Blue Devils will also rely on se-nior guard Ka’lia Johnson—who leads the ACC with an average of 7.0 assists per game—to find the offensive stride that led her to a triple-double in Thursday’s win against Old Dominion. After scoring a career-best 18 points against the Lady Monarchs, Johnson was held scoreless against Marquette Sunday.
“We had some performances at Old
Dominion that were pretty spectacular, but not [against Marquette],” McCallie said. “Anybody can have a good night. The great players are going to show up every night. The All-Americans, the great players, night in night out deliver under any circumstance. We’re still developing that consistency.”
The Blue Devils will have to achieve that consistency quickly, as games against top ranked opponents are rapidly ap-proaching. Duke will take on Stony Brook Friday evening at home and will then travel to College Station to face the No. 7 Aggies two days later. They will then head to Lincoln, Nebraska to take on No. 15 Nebraska Dec. 3, followed by a showdown with newly-minted No. 1 South Carolina at home Dec. 7.
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In last year’s first five games, Duke sur-rendered more than 60 points in five of six
contests—including 94 points to Kansas in the Champions Classic and 90 points to Vermont in a one-point nail-bit-er that narrowly kept alive the nation’s lon-gest non-conference
home winning streak.What a difference a year makes.Five games into this year’s campaign, the
Blue Devils have allowed 60 or more points just once, showcasing a motivated defense that has used the depth of the Duke bench to develop a stingy full-court press.
What’s behind the resurgence of the Blue Devil defense? I think you can chalk it up to part-getting-back-to-the-program’s-roots, part-having-a-stable-of-athletic-guards and part-Jah-lil-Okafor-being-really-tall.
Before the season started, senior captain Quinn Cook said the presence of Okafor down low—a rim-protector that Duke sore-ly missed last season—would allow the Blue Devil guards to take some more chances on the perimeter, knowing that the freshman was playing behind them to help out should they get out of position. By jumping into passing lanes, getting up closer on the ball-handler and employing the full-court press, this year’s Duke defense has made its living by not allow-ing opposing guards any comfort, particularly when it comes to launching from behind the 3-point line.
Due to the pressure applied by the Duke guards, opponents have struggled mightily shooting triples this season. Collectively, Pres-byterian, Fairfield, Michigan State, Temple and Stanford have combined to shoot 12-for-72 from behind the arc against the Blue Devils. That’s 16.7 percent, folks, and it’s not going to win you a lot of basketball games, no matter who you play. When that somebody happens to be the No. 4 team in the country, one that shoots it at a 41.7 percent clip from distance at the other end, it’s effectively game over.
It’s not that the five teams Duke has played are necessarily bad 3-point shooters—Pres-byterian being maybe the one exception. Against their other opponents so far this sea-son, the Blue Devils’ opponents are 88-for-250 from beyond the arc, or 35.2 percent. Two of those teams—Michigan State and Stan-ford—have veteran guards who have proven their shooting prowess in postseason play. The Spartans and Cardinal both shoot better than 40 percent when not playing Duke, but went a combined 8-for-34 last week against the tena-cious Blue Devil perimeter defense.
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BUFFALO UP NEXT FOR DUKE
Lily Coad | The ChronicleRedshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell tallied a career-high 22 points and 12 rebounds in Duke’s rout of Marquette Sunday and will look to turn in another solid outing Tuesday.
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Crowder, Tomlinson to play in Senior Bowl
Eric Lin | The ChronicleSenior Jamison Crowder will get one final chance to boost his draft stock in a Duke uniform followng the Blue Devils’ bowl game by competing in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.
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After dominating Marquette in its home opener, Duke will look to continue its home-stand with another win.
The No. 8 Blue Devils will take on Buffa-lo at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The con-test against the Bulls marks the second of a three game home se-ries before Duke trav-els to College Station, Texas, to face No. 7
Texas A&M Sunday.With four games in eight days, Duke
will need to keep fresh legs on the floor at all times. Luckily for head coach Joanne P. McCallie, the Blue Devils have several dangerous options to turn to, as seven players are averaging at least 18.0 minutes per contest.
“Depth can play a key role [because] we have a lot of games coming up in the next week,” McCallie said. “We just have to come back and refocus. We have to have a killer mentality and just get better. This gives us more experience.”
The Blue Devils (3-0) will go into their
game with Buffalo coming off an 83-51 victory against a young Marquette team Sunday afternoon. Redshirt freshman Re-becca Greenwell was the leading scorer for Duke, tallying career-highs with 22 points and 12 rebounds. Greenwell and freshman Azura Stevens—who netted 18 points and snagged 10 boards—both collected their second double-doubles in three career games.
McCallie hopes that this high level of play will carry through to Tuesday’s tilt against a Buffalo team eager to prove it-self, notching two wins after losing its first game of the season to Siena, 58-50. To pull off the upset, the Bulls (2-1) will need to be able to hang with the Blue Devils bas-ket for basket, which will require shooting
much better than the 33.2 percent shoot-ing clip Buffalo has produced so far this season. By contrast, Duke has shot 50.3 percent in its first three games.
Buffalo sports a veteran roster led by guard Mackenzie Loesing. Last season, the junior averaged 16.3 points and 2.0 steals per game, and has increased her scoring in the early going this year, post-ing 19.0 points per contest to go with 4.0 rebounds. Redshirt sophomore Rachel Gregory is another key contributor for
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For the first time in 25 years, a pair of Blue Devil seniors will play beyond this year’s bowl game.
Wide receiver Jamison Crowder and right guard Laken Tomlinson have accept-ed invitations to play in the 66th annual Reese’s Senior Bowl Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 4 p.m. The game will be held at Ladd-Pee-bles Stadium in Mobile, Ala., and will be televised by the NFL Network.
With both players accepting their invita-tions, it will make the first time since 1989—when Clarkston Hines and Chris Port were selected—that Duke will have multiple rep-resentatives at the Senior Bowl.
In Crowder’s 50 career games, he has hauled in 268 receptions for 3,437 yards and 22 touchdowns. His recep-tions mark is only 15 behind the ACC record set by fellow Blue Devils Conner Vernon, a 2012 graduate. He also ranks second in the conference in career re-ception yards, trailing Vernon by 312 heading into Saturday’s tilt. He leads Duke with 70 receptions and 840 yards so far this season.
Tomlinson bolsters an offensive line
that ranks ninth in nation in sacks al-lowed and fourth in tackles for loss allowed. He is currently tied for the FBS lead among active offensive line-men with 50 consecutive starts. Earlier this month, Tomlinson was one of 11 student-athletes named to the FBS All-
state AFCA Good Works Team. He was a CBSSports.com Midseason All-American Second Team selection and a Phil Steele Midseason All-American.
Duke will take on Wake Forest this Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium at 7 p.m. in its final regular season contest.
Jack Dolgin | The ChronicleSenior Elizabeth Williams and the rest of the Blue Devil frontcourt will face a stiff test from a Buffalo team averaging 55.3 rebounds per game.
the Bulls, averaging 11.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Sophomore Alexus Malone is averaging a double-double, scoring 10.7 points and hauling in 13.3 rebounds per game. Team rebounding is a big point of emphasis for Buffalo—col-lectively, the Bulls average 55.3 rebounds per contest.
“I’m excited,” McCallie said. “It’s go-ing to test us a little bit in our perimeter defense and shoring up our post defense. Hopefully we will get to the free-throw line more and attack their post more.”
McCallie is no stranger to the style of play employed by third-year Buffalo head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. Legette-Jack
was an assistant coach at Michigan State alongside McCallie from 2000 to 2002.
The Blue Devils will look to their post players to provide stingy defense and solid rebounding Tuesday night. Specif-ically, senior Elizabeth Williams will need to continue her imposing shot-blocking campaign. The Virginia Beach, Va., na-tive needs 91 more blocks to break the ACC career record for blocked shots, cur-rently held by former Duke star Alison Bales. Williams needs just 11 more blocks to move into 25th on the NCAA career blocks list—a position she would share with George Washington’s Ugo Oha—and is currently averaging 4.3 blocks per game this season.
The Blue Devils will also rely on se-nior guard Ka’lia Johnson—who leads the ACC with an average of 7.0 assists per game—to find the offensive stride that led her to a triple-double in Thursday’s win against Old Dominion. After scoring a career-best 18 points against the Lady Monarchs, Johnson was held scoreless against Marquette Sunday.
“We had some performances at Old
Dominion that were pretty spectacular, but not [against Marquette],” McCallie said. “Anybody can have a good night. The great players are going to show up every night. The All-Americans, the great players, night in night out deliver under any circumstance. We’re still developing that consistency.”
The Blue Devils will have to achieve that consistency quickly, as games against top ranked opponents are rapidly ap-proaching. Duke will take on Stony Brook Friday evening at home and will then travel to College Station to face the No. 7 Aggies two days later. They will then head to Lincoln, Nebraska to take on No. 15 Nebraska Dec. 3, followed by a showdown with newly-minted No. 1 South Carolina at home Dec. 7.
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In last year’s first five games, Duke sur-rendered more than 60 points in five of six
contests—including 94 points to Kansas in the Champions Classic and 90 points to Vermont in a one-point nail-bit-er that narrowly kept alive the nation’s lon-gest non-conference
home winning streak.What a difference a year makes.Five games into this year’s campaign, the
Blue Devils have allowed 60 or more points just once, showcasing a motivated defense that has used the depth of the Duke bench to develop a stingy full-court press.
What’s behind the resurgence of the Blue Devil defense? I think you can chalk it up to part-getting-back-to-the-program’s-roots, part-having-a-stable-of-athletic-guards and part-Jah-lil-Okafor-being-really-tall.
Before the season started, senior captain Quinn Cook said the presence of Okafor down low—a rim-protector that Duke sore-ly missed last season—would allow the Blue Devil guards to take some more chances on the perimeter, knowing that the freshman was playing behind them to help out should they get out of position. By jumping into passing lanes, getting up closer on the ball-handler and employing the full-court press, this year’s Duke defense has made its living by not allow-ing opposing guards any comfort, particularly when it comes to launching from behind the 3-point line.
Due to the pressure applied by the Duke guards, opponents have struggled mightily shooting triples this season. Collectively, Pres-byterian, Fairfield, Michigan State, Temple and Stanford have combined to shoot 12-for-72 from behind the arc against the Blue Devils. That’s 16.7 percent, folks, and it’s not going to win you a lot of basketball games, no matter who you play. When that somebody happens to be the No. 4 team in the country, one that shoots it at a 41.7 percent clip from distance at the other end, it’s effectively game over.
It’s not that the five teams Duke has played are necessarily bad 3-point shooters—Pres-byterian being maybe the one exception. Against their other opponents so far this sea-son, the Blue Devils’ opponents are 88-for-250 from beyond the arc, or 35.2 percent. Two of those teams—Michigan State and Stan-ford—have veteran guards who have proven their shooting prowess in postseason play. The Spartans and Cardinal both shoot better than 40 percent when not playing Duke, but went a combined 8-for-34 last week against the tena-cious Blue Devil perimeter defense.
Last year’s shoddy early-season defense foreshadowed the season-long struggles that
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“Split or together?”The waitress hasn’t even come to a full stop to ask the question. She looks
at you for your answer over her shoulder. You don’t meet her gaze. Instead, you look across the table into the eyes of your…person. The person who you don’t find repulsive, whose gender matches the one you’re sexually attracted to. The maybe person.
The sounds of people chattering and plates clanking seem to get louder. You’re still looking into each other’s eyes. The waitress has now awkwardly stopped, awaiting your answer. In this half second, you will attempt the most herculean feat of nonverbal communication in human history.
First, you must establish if he thinks this is a date—like the have-her-back-home-by-11, subtly-but-not-at-all-subtly-spend-the-night-trying-to-touch-her, try-to-not-make-it-feel-like-a-job-interview kind of date. (For the next 500 words, I’m making the maybe person a man. For me, he’s a man. And you’re a woman, because, um, I am. Welcome to my head.)
You also must establish if you think this is a date. You’re not sure if you want it to be, but you did spend like 15 minutes trying to curl your hair, and then an-other 35 fixing the attempt with a straightener. That’s got to mean something, right? And you should listen to your subconscious in these scenarios. It probably
knows better than you do.If he thinks it’s a date, and you think it’s a date, you also would like him to
know that finding this out when the check comes is suboptimal. He’s a modern man and these are modern times, so nothing has been explicitly stated—noth-ing that could make any one experience any kind of rejection. What’s happen-ing is anyone’s guess. He’s asked you to eat a meal off campus (datey) on a weekday (not datey). And now, he’s asking you out for the first time by awk-wardly lagging when the waitress asks who’s paying. He’s asking you on a date that already happened. This is not attractive to you.
On the other hand, you don’t think the onus should always be on men to ask women out. That’s so archaic, but the thought of taking steps to reverse it is a miserable prospect. Making the first move with someone is on your to do list, somewhere between taking care of your three weeks of laundry buildup and finding your old collection of state quarters in your home storage so you can reclaim your $12.50.
But even if he does decide to confirm the maybe date by offering to pay, and you decide that you want to allow it to have retroactively been a date, you don’t know if you can accept.
You’ve yelled “f*** the patriarchy” before, but that’s mostly because it’s really fun to say, not because you particularly mean it. You speak out against sexism’s tangible harms, sure, but you’re not insulted by chivalry. You’d rather he didn’t try to open the car door for you because of the miserably awkward wait time, but lending jackets and pulling out chairs and stuff is kind of nice.
You like tradition. You like that your whole family has the same last name, never mind if it came from your dad. In fact, hyphenating children’s last names really bothers you. Does no one notice how unsustainable the practice is? What if two hyphenated babies got married? What would their kids be? Little baby Sherman-Karyotakis-Shenseki-Jackson? Imagine them filling out forms, like for college or voter registration. Oh goodness—they’re already doing everything under the sun to keep liberals from voting. This can’t help. No, hyphenation can only last for a single generation. And you thought liberals were supposed to be obsessed with sustainability!
Dismantling all of these old systems is often kind of pointless and results in chaos, and that’s probably the case here too. Just look at how disastrous disman-tling the old system of Boys Asking Girls on Dates has been—it’s led to this mo-ment. If he offers, you need to accept so that you can let him know that you’re consenting to the dinner having been a date.
But then you think about a series of studies you read that highlight just how pow-erful a motivator reciprocity is. You recall that people were asked to donate money, and in one study, giving participants a conditional gift–telling them that they would receive a gift only if they donated–lessened the average amount they would donate by almost $10. But another study showed that making the gift unconditional had the complete opposite effect. Giving a small unconditional gift increased donation rates by 17 percent. A large unconditional gift? 75 percent. Dinner, you think, is a large unconditional gift, and it makes you feel like you owe him. You know that this tool has been used to manipulate women’s behavior for centuries.
You don’t think that he’s conscious of this or trying to manipulate you at all. But you do think it sets up a pretty toxic dynamic, and you’d really rather not feed into that. Unavoidably, you will feel a debt to him. Whatever intimacy the two of you experience will feel a little transactional. You know that you shouldn’t – you know it so well – but accepting dinner will make it feel like you owe him your affection. You think you want to give it—the hair incident is telling you that you want to. But you want to choose to do so freely, just because you want to.
You can feel the waitress getting agitated. She’s holding heavy plates. You inten-sify your gaze. Is he following what you’re saying? They say 90 percent of commu-nication happens through body language, so he’s getting 720 words of this, right?
“I have a coupon,” he says. “Free dinner for two.”Oh. Huh. Well. Bullet dodged.Maybe you should verbalize some of this nonverbal communication. The
thought makes your stomach feel topsy turvy. It’s going on the To-Do list. You put it somewhere after finding those quarters.
Ellie Schaack is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
God. Religion. Faith. In my experience, these words are often banned from intellectual conversation except in criticism. I have ex-
perienced a (negative) shift after mentioning my faith in various conversations with professors. In one instance during a one-on-one, a professor criticized aspects of my faith, Christianity, under the assump-tion that I did not have religious beliefs of my own.
Beyond intellectual stigma, these words represent a personal experience, an experience so personal that few are willing to speak about it. If we can so openly speak about our one-night stands and our last hook-up, why not God, religion and faith? Allow me to break the silence by telling a story about my jour-ney discovering God. Whether you consider yourself
religious, agnostic or atheist, I encourage you to con-tinue reading as I attempt to provide a depiction of faith that you have likely yet see.
I was raised in a fairly religious home, but I re-member from an early age—about fourth grade—I began searching for more answers. To be honest, religion never satisfied me because it gave me a set of rules and expected me to follow it. If God really existed, I wanted to know the heart behind the rules, the person behind the laws.
I believe this is where faith can be distinguished from religion. Religion revolves around the act of doing—whether it be worshipping, praying, giving. Faith is a state of the heart—of believing and trust-ing. Religion summons us to do something for God--faith invites us to know God.
As the brilliant people we are, we tend to ask the “why” questions. It’s hard for us to accept a given set of rules without asking why these rules are in place. We discount religion because it precisely does that. But let’s approach religion in a different way. Could faith offer us a lens through which we can see the context of the rules? Could it provide us a window through which we can glimpse the heart behind the laws?
For years—from fourth to tenth grade—I re-member searching for God, the person whom I knew of but in reality did not know. I understood well the principles but had yet to meet the person. I did a fairly good job of observing a set of rules, but following directions well does not mean I know the person giving me directions. Take, for example, the relationship between a manager and an employee. Most managers are not relationally close with their employees because their relationships revolve around giving/following orders. It takes conversa-tion and quality time to build relationships, and I did not have that with God.
I remember attending camps, retreats and con-ferences attempting to pursue this relationship. The mob mentality overtook me during these gath-erings, and I became lost in the sea of passion and zeal. When I returned home, though, I was exactly the same person. Whatever I received from those events never translated into everyday life. And that frustrated me.
My journey during those years was filled with enough emotions to last for a lifetime. There were instances when I was so persistent that I could hardly sleep at night. At other times, the journey was so
mundane that I needed a picture Bible to even mod-erately engage me. There were some small victories along the way, but I mostly remember the many de-feats. Several weeks ago, I wrote a column about an instance in which I hit rock bottom because I had attempted to cheat. This occurred during the begin-ning of my tenth grade year and triggered in me an increased desperation to encounter God.
I remember journaling around the holiday sea-son that same year, desperately telling God that un-less he showed up in my world, I simply would not make it. At that point, I felt that it was physically impossible for me to continue trying to become a better person because I was so burned out from the attempts. Although I exerted copious amounts of ef-
fort during those years, I always fell flat on my face.About three months later, I traveled two hours
away from my home to Dallas, Texas, to spend spring break with some old friends. They were attending a school through their church called Antioch Disciple-ship School. My first night in town, I attended a ses-sion of their school, and at the end of the session, my friends and some others in the school asked if they could pray for me. I agreed, and before I knew it, I was reduced to a puddle of tears. Internally, I encountered the love of God in a way I had never encountered before—it was the first time in my life that I had felt unconditionally loved, genuinely val-ued and truly beautiful. It was in that moment that I knew beyond a doubt that God is real.
That moment culminated my journey of search-ing for God, but it was the beginning of my journey of discovering God. It indeed has been a most beau-tiful, life-changing experience. Through it, I have gained an insurmountable amount of confidence and courage that have affected the way I approach various aspects of life.
At institutions of higher education, we tend to dis-credit the existence of God. If we can explain why life is as it is today, then why add God into the picture? On the other hand, some of the religious discount science because it does not align with their beliefs. What if science and faith were, in fact, not mutually exclusive? What if science explains the way by which God works and faith explains the way God is? Science offers an explanation for the evolution of life as it is today. Faith offers an explanation of where life origi-nated.
Last year, in one of my classes, a professor made a snide remark about God and moved on to say, “Not that I believe in God or anything.” Similar situations have occurred in several instances in my other class-es. There seems to be an underlying belief that faith is for the intellectually weak. However, that is simply not the case because one can have faith without com-promising scientific theories. As a university, we need to realize that students on campus have a wide range of beliefs. Classes should be structured with these heterogeneous perspectives in mind. We need to create an environment that encourages the explora-tion of all realms of thought without subconsciously imposing a particular paradigm.
Thao Nguyen is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
Faith at institutions of higher education
Check yourself
Like 10, 959, 922 people other people as of today, I love Humans of New York. Its posts dominate my Facebook timeline more
comprehensively than even those of The Onion, The New York Times or even my friends who still take mirror selfies, yet the thought of clicking “unfollow” has never crossed my mind.
The acronym stands for “Humans of New York,” the brainchild of Brandon Stanton, a bond trader who moved to the city after a one-two punch of macroeconomic and existential crises. Seeking to create a comprehensive directory of every Gothamite, he began photographing and interviewing random passers-by in the summer of 2010. His work rapidly attracted the attention of The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and the
world at large--Brandon recently toured 10 coun-tries on the United Nations’ dime, documenting people from across the Middle East and Africa in order to promote the organization’s Millennium Development Goals. In short, HONY is any ar-chetypal member of the millennial generation’s dream project00following a passion, bettering humanity and writing a number one New York Times bestseller in the process.
Of course, nothing inspires imitation quite like success, and HONY is no exception. Admir-ers across the world have created “Humans of … “ Facebook pages in cities such as Berlin, Madrid and Ann Arbor. The Gothic Wonderland, too, has its own “Humans of Duke” page, complete with quotes about feminism, stories of personal growth and confessions of laundry left undone, and a corresponding parody page dedicated to documenting students’ backpacks (I kid you not). Both are still updated sporadically, and other cities’ “Humans” pages have done well for themselves--the Parisian franchise, for instance, has almost a quarter-million fans--but none have matched the massive success of the original, whose empire has grown to encompass mediums of multiple social media and even two books. Thankfully, product placement has yet to appear in his works.
What makes these collections of photographs so compelling? In my opinion, it is because HONY offers an antidote of sorts to reality televi-sion. With the Kardashians and Real Housewives of the world becoming more popular than ever
before by broadcasting their shockingly mun-dane antics to anyone and everyone, it’s odd to witness a similar rise in fame of a project dedi-cated to the normal people of planet Earth. Ce-lebrity cameos occur occasionally–Bryan Crans-ton of “Breaking Bad” fame once said something about his wife’s love of fireflies–but for the most part the people Brandon features in his works are refreshingly mundane. By documenting class trips instead of polo tournaments and after-prom walks home instead of Academy Awards after-parties, HONY reminds us that the world of the 99.99 percent is also worthy of the attention of camera lens.
Though it can sometimes err on the side of melodrama with its tales of fragmented families and cheating exes, the entire project nonethe-
less retains a sense of authenticity. Sure, the comments section of many photographs eventu-ally turn into dumping groups for inspirational quotes that seem to be, from a cynic’s perspective at least, posted solely for the sake of garnering likes, but what online content does not? More than anything, the true appeal of HONY and its derivatives is their relatability. When we read those one-paragraph or one-line captions we see a little bit of ourselves staring back at us from the computer screen. A retiree who once designed the shields for nuclear submarines reminds us of our own career ambitions. The elemen-tary school-age members of the Eco Adventure Club walking the High Line inspire memories of our first field trips. A widow dressed in black recalling some of her husband’s final words can prompt recollections of our own deceased rela-tives. HONY brings out life’s beautiful moments, and so we flock to it.
Of course, we don’t need cameras and a world-famous website to bring out the candor and emo-tional intensity that Brandon and his collabora-tors do. We just need a few minutes of free time, an open mind, a sense of humility and possibly a cup of coffee to win over the more timid of us. Humans are social creatures and surprisingly open when asked to be.
Everyone has stories like the ones we read with such gusto. We just have to ask for them.
Tom Vosburgh is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.
HONY
Appreciating those who make Duke feel like home
Every Thanksgiving brings about the laundry list of items to be thankful for, and we as Duke students have, as usual, more than most. As
this time of year comes around, there is something to be said for thinking about the ins and outs of be-ing a college student in a new light. Recast yourself not as a student, or a consumer, of a Duke educa-tion, but as a human being. We live very different lives than others around us in society—spending all
day wandering around an architectural oddity, con-gregating with especially intelligent peers and fac-ulty. Spend twenty minutes in Von der Heyden café, and it becomes clear that the conversations around you are far different than those that might take place at your average coffee shop. Never again will you be surrounded with people whose interests are, at once, as similar and as divergent as yours—people who, at any hour of the day, are willing to converse, socialize, speculate and pontificate with you.
The more you think about yourself, and your collegiate experiences, in these absolute terms, the more strange and wonderful this form of higher
education seems. We often talk about ourselves and our experiences in terms of detachment—the Duke “bubble”, the culture of elitism, the “Dukebag” and so forth—but until one realizes the upside of how special this lifestyle is, it is difficult to be thankful for those outside of it who keep our “bubble” intact. Nearly half of us will sit down at the dinner table this Thursday and thank our parents for financing the entirety of our college education. More importantly, almost all of us will be thankful for the emotional support our families provide, something that becomes more and more evident during the first years away from home. Secondary to that are the many people who make Duke feel like home for the rest of us. Everyone thinks of someone different and, for some, it may be hall mates, resident advisors, members of an SLG community, friends, roommates or even the casual acquaintance. However spectacular Duke’s campus may be, it is the people that breathe life into it.
For those that hurry to class through the Duke Gardens in the morning, it is easy to walk right by the folks that care for one of Duke’s more unique amenities. There are so many just like them that contribute to the upkeep of our campus as well. Housekeeping keeps the dorms and bathrooms
clean, and security guards pace the campus bus stops. Bus drivers shuttle us back and forth all day, and safe-ride drivers pick up where they leave off. We want to thank these people not only for the service they provide us, but also for the unique campus spaces they help maintain. It is worth noting that, sometimes, the most vibrant conversations unexpectedly take place on a C1 Express full of energetic freshman.
As campus empties out and people quietly depart for home this Thanksgiving Break, look around at the space that surrounds you. Successful people are the product of successful networks, so step back and appreciate the people that support the ins and out of your extraordinarily life at Duke.
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“Split or together?”The waitress hasn’t even come to a full stop to ask the question. She looks
at you for your answer over her shoulder. You don’t meet her gaze. Instead, you look across the table into the eyes of your…person. The person who you don’t find repulsive, whose gender matches the one you’re sexually attracted to. The maybe person.
The sounds of people chattering and plates clanking seem to get louder. You’re still looking into each other’s eyes. The waitress has now awkwardly stopped, awaiting your answer. In this half second, you will attempt the most herculean feat of nonverbal communication in human history.
First, you must establish if he thinks this is a date—like the have-her-back-home-by-11, subtly-but-not-at-all-subtly-spend-the-night-trying-to-touch-her, try-to-not-make-it-feel-like-a-job-interview kind of date. (For the next 500 words, I’m making the maybe person a man. For me, he’s a man. And you’re a woman, because, um, I am. Welcome to my head.)
You also must establish if you think this is a date. You’re not sure if you want it to be, but you did spend like 15 minutes trying to curl your hair, and then an-other 35 fixing the attempt with a straightener. That’s got to mean something, right? And you should listen to your subconscious in these scenarios. It probably
knows better than you do.If he thinks it’s a date, and you think it’s a date, you also would like him to
know that finding this out when the check comes is suboptimal. He’s a modern man and these are modern times, so nothing has been explicitly stated—noth-ing that could make any one experience any kind of rejection. What’s happen-ing is anyone’s guess. He’s asked you to eat a meal off campus (datey) on a weekday (not datey). And now, he’s asking you out for the first time by awk-wardly lagging when the waitress asks who’s paying. He’s asking you on a date that already happened. This is not attractive to you.
On the other hand, you don’t think the onus should always be on men to ask women out. That’s so archaic, but the thought of taking steps to reverse it is a miserable prospect. Making the first move with someone is on your to do list, somewhere between taking care of your three weeks of laundry buildup and finding your old collection of state quarters in your home storage so you can reclaim your $12.50.
But even if he does decide to confirm the maybe date by offering to pay, and you decide that you want to allow it to have retroactively been a date, you don’t know if you can accept.
You’ve yelled “f*** the patriarchy” before, but that’s mostly because it’s really fun to say, not because you particularly mean it. You speak out against sexism’s tangible harms, sure, but you’re not insulted by chivalry. You’d rather he didn’t try to open the car door for you because of the miserably awkward wait time, but lending jackets and pulling out chairs and stuff is kind of nice.
You like tradition. You like that your whole family has the same last name, never mind if it came from your dad. In fact, hyphenating children’s last names really bothers you. Does no one notice how unsustainable the practice is? What if two hyphenated babies got married? What would their kids be? Little baby Sherman-Karyotakis-Shenseki-Jackson? Imagine them filling out forms, like for college or voter registration. Oh goodness—they’re already doing everything under the sun to keep liberals from voting. This can’t help. No, hyphenation can only last for a single generation. And you thought liberals were supposed to be obsessed with sustainability!
Dismantling all of these old systems is often kind of pointless and results in chaos, and that’s probably the case here too. Just look at how disastrous disman-tling the old system of Boys Asking Girls on Dates has been—it’s led to this mo-ment. If he offers, you need to accept so that you can let him know that you’re consenting to the dinner having been a date.
But then you think about a series of studies you read that highlight just how pow-erful a motivator reciprocity is. You recall that people were asked to donate money, and in one study, giving participants a conditional gift–telling them that they would receive a gift only if they donated–lessened the average amount they would donate by almost $10. But another study showed that making the gift unconditional had the complete opposite effect. Giving a small unconditional gift increased donation rates by 17 percent. A large unconditional gift? 75 percent. Dinner, you think, is a large unconditional gift, and it makes you feel like you owe him. You know that this tool has been used to manipulate women’s behavior for centuries.
You don’t think that he’s conscious of this or trying to manipulate you at all. But you do think it sets up a pretty toxic dynamic, and you’d really rather not feed into that. Unavoidably, you will feel a debt to him. Whatever intimacy the two of you experience will feel a little transactional. You know that you shouldn’t – you know it so well – but accepting dinner will make it feel like you owe him your affection. You think you want to give it—the hair incident is telling you that you want to. But you want to choose to do so freely, just because you want to.
You can feel the waitress getting agitated. She’s holding heavy plates. You inten-sify your gaze. Is he following what you’re saying? They say 90 percent of commu-nication happens through body language, so he’s getting 720 words of this, right?
“I have a coupon,” he says. “Free dinner for two.”Oh. Huh. Well. Bullet dodged.Maybe you should verbalize some of this nonverbal communication. The
thought makes your stomach feel topsy turvy. It’s going on the To-Do list. You put it somewhere after finding those quarters.
Ellie Schaack is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
God. Religion. Faith. In my experience, these words are often banned from intellectual conversation except in criticism. I have ex-
perienced a (negative) shift after mentioning my faith in various conversations with professors. In one instance during a one-on-one, a professor criticized aspects of my faith, Christianity, under the assump-tion that I did not have religious beliefs of my own.
Beyond intellectual stigma, these words represent a personal experience, an experience so personal that few are willing to speak about it. If we can so openly speak about our one-night stands and our last hook-up, why not God, religion and faith? Allow me to break the silence by telling a story about my jour-ney discovering God. Whether you consider yourself
religious, agnostic or atheist, I encourage you to con-tinue reading as I attempt to provide a depiction of faith that you have likely yet see.
I was raised in a fairly religious home, but I re-member from an early age—about fourth grade—I began searching for more answers. To be honest, religion never satisfied me because it gave me a set of rules and expected me to follow it. If God really existed, I wanted to know the heart behind the rules, the person behind the laws.
I believe this is where faith can be distinguished from religion. Religion revolves around the act of doing—whether it be worshipping, praying, giving. Faith is a state of the heart—of believing and trust-ing. Religion summons us to do something for God--faith invites us to know God.
As the brilliant people we are, we tend to ask the “why” questions. It’s hard for us to accept a given set of rules without asking why these rules are in place. We discount religion because it precisely does that. But let’s approach religion in a different way. Could faith offer us a lens through which we can see the context of the rules? Could it provide us a window through which we can glimpse the heart behind the laws?
For years—from fourth to tenth grade—I re-member searching for God, the person whom I knew of but in reality did not know. I understood well the principles but had yet to meet the person. I did a fairly good job of observing a set of rules, but following directions well does not mean I know the person giving me directions. Take, for example, the relationship between a manager and an employee. Most managers are not relationally close with their employees because their relationships revolve around giving/following orders. It takes conversa-tion and quality time to build relationships, and I did not have that with God.
I remember attending camps, retreats and con-ferences attempting to pursue this relationship. The mob mentality overtook me during these gath-erings, and I became lost in the sea of passion and zeal. When I returned home, though, I was exactly the same person. Whatever I received from those events never translated into everyday life. And that frustrated me.
My journey during those years was filled with enough emotions to last for a lifetime. There were instances when I was so persistent that I could hardly sleep at night. At other times, the journey was so
mundane that I needed a picture Bible to even mod-erately engage me. There were some small victories along the way, but I mostly remember the many de-feats. Several weeks ago, I wrote a column about an instance in which I hit rock bottom because I had attempted to cheat. This occurred during the begin-ning of my tenth grade year and triggered in me an increased desperation to encounter God.
I remember journaling around the holiday sea-son that same year, desperately telling God that un-less he showed up in my world, I simply would not make it. At that point, I felt that it was physically impossible for me to continue trying to become a better person because I was so burned out from the attempts. Although I exerted copious amounts of ef-
fort during those years, I always fell flat on my face.About three months later, I traveled two hours
away from my home to Dallas, Texas, to spend spring break with some old friends. They were attending a school through their church called Antioch Disciple-ship School. My first night in town, I attended a ses-sion of their school, and at the end of the session, my friends and some others in the school asked if they could pray for me. I agreed, and before I knew it, I was reduced to a puddle of tears. Internally, I encountered the love of God in a way I had never encountered before—it was the first time in my life that I had felt unconditionally loved, genuinely val-ued and truly beautiful. It was in that moment that I knew beyond a doubt that God is real.
That moment culminated my journey of search-ing for God, but it was the beginning of my journey of discovering God. It indeed has been a most beau-tiful, life-changing experience. Through it, I have gained an insurmountable amount of confidence and courage that have affected the way I approach various aspects of life.
At institutions of higher education, we tend to dis-credit the existence of God. If we can explain why life is as it is today, then why add God into the picture? On the other hand, some of the religious discount science because it does not align with their beliefs. What if science and faith were, in fact, not mutually exclusive? What if science explains the way by which God works and faith explains the way God is? Science offers an explanation for the evolution of life as it is today. Faith offers an explanation of where life origi-nated.
Last year, in one of my classes, a professor made a snide remark about God and moved on to say, “Not that I believe in God or anything.” Similar situations have occurred in several instances in my other class-es. There seems to be an underlying belief that faith is for the intellectually weak. However, that is simply not the case because one can have faith without com-promising scientific theories. As a university, we need to realize that students on campus have a wide range of beliefs. Classes should be structured with these heterogeneous perspectives in mind. We need to create an environment that encourages the explora-tion of all realms of thought without subconsciously imposing a particular paradigm.
Thao Nguyen is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
Faith at institutions of higher education
Check yourself
Like 10, 959, 922 people other people as of today, I love Humans of New York. Its posts dominate my Facebook timeline more
comprehensively than even those of The Onion, The New York Times or even my friends who still take mirror selfies, yet the thought of clicking “unfollow” has never crossed my mind.
The acronym stands for “Humans of New York,” the brainchild of Brandon Stanton, a bond trader who moved to the city after a one-two punch of macroeconomic and existential crises. Seeking to create a comprehensive directory of every Gothamite, he began photographing and interviewing random passers-by in the summer of 2010. His work rapidly attracted the attention of The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and the
world at large--Brandon recently toured 10 coun-tries on the United Nations’ dime, documenting people from across the Middle East and Africa in order to promote the organization’s Millennium Development Goals. In short, HONY is any ar-chetypal member of the millennial generation’s dream project00following a passion, bettering humanity and writing a number one New York Times bestseller in the process.
Of course, nothing inspires imitation quite like success, and HONY is no exception. Admir-ers across the world have created “Humans of … “ Facebook pages in cities such as Berlin, Madrid and Ann Arbor. The Gothic Wonderland, too, has its own “Humans of Duke” page, complete with quotes about feminism, stories of personal growth and confessions of laundry left undone, and a corresponding parody page dedicated to documenting students’ backpacks (I kid you not). Both are still updated sporadically, and other cities’ “Humans” pages have done well for themselves--the Parisian franchise, for instance, has almost a quarter-million fans--but none have matched the massive success of the original, whose empire has grown to encompass mediums of multiple social media and even two books. Thankfully, product placement has yet to appear in his works.
What makes these collections of photographs so compelling? In my opinion, it is because HONY offers an antidote of sorts to reality televi-sion. With the Kardashians and Real Housewives of the world becoming more popular than ever
before by broadcasting their shockingly mun-dane antics to anyone and everyone, it’s odd to witness a similar rise in fame of a project dedi-cated to the normal people of planet Earth. Ce-lebrity cameos occur occasionally–Bryan Crans-ton of “Breaking Bad” fame once said something about his wife’s love of fireflies–but for the most part the people Brandon features in his works are refreshingly mundane. By documenting class trips instead of polo tournaments and after-prom walks home instead of Academy Awards after-parties, HONY reminds us that the world of the 99.99 percent is also worthy of the attention of camera lens.
Though it can sometimes err on the side of melodrama with its tales of fragmented families and cheating exes, the entire project nonethe-
less retains a sense of authenticity. Sure, the comments section of many photographs eventu-ally turn into dumping groups for inspirational quotes that seem to be, from a cynic’s perspective at least, posted solely for the sake of garnering likes, but what online content does not? More than anything, the true appeal of HONY and its derivatives is their relatability. When we read those one-paragraph or one-line captions we see a little bit of ourselves staring back at us from the computer screen. A retiree who once designed the shields for nuclear submarines reminds us of our own career ambitions. The elemen-tary school-age members of the Eco Adventure Club walking the High Line inspire memories of our first field trips. A widow dressed in black recalling some of her husband’s final words can prompt recollections of our own deceased rela-tives. HONY brings out life’s beautiful moments, and so we flock to it.
Of course, we don’t need cameras and a world-famous website to bring out the candor and emo-tional intensity that Brandon and his collabora-tors do. We just need a few minutes of free time, an open mind, a sense of humility and possibly a cup of coffee to win over the more timid of us. Humans are social creatures and surprisingly open when asked to be.
Everyone has stories like the ones we read with such gusto. We just have to ask for them.
Tom Vosburgh is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.
HONY
Appreciating those who make Duke feel like home
Every Thanksgiving brings about the laundry list of items to be thankful for, and we as Duke students have, as usual, more than most. As
this time of year comes around, there is something to be said for thinking about the ins and outs of be-ing a college student in a new light. Recast yourself not as a student, or a consumer, of a Duke educa-tion, but as a human being. We live very different lives than others around us in society—spending all
day wandering around an architectural oddity, con-gregating with especially intelligent peers and fac-ulty. Spend twenty minutes in Von der Heyden café, and it becomes clear that the conversations around you are far different than those that might take place at your average coffee shop. Never again will you be surrounded with people whose interests are, at once, as similar and as divergent as yours—people who, at any hour of the day, are willing to converse, socialize, speculate and pontificate with you.
The more you think about yourself, and your collegiate experiences, in these absolute terms, the more strange and wonderful this form of higher
education seems. We often talk about ourselves and our experiences in terms of detachment—the Duke “bubble”, the culture of elitism, the “Dukebag” and so forth—but until one realizes the upside of how special this lifestyle is, it is difficult to be thankful for those outside of it who keep our “bubble” intact. Nearly half of us will sit down at the dinner table this Thursday and thank our parents for financing the entirety of our college education. More importantly, almost all of us will be thankful for the emotional support our families provide, something that becomes more and more evident during the first years away from home. Secondary to that are the many people who make Duke feel like home for the rest of us. Everyone thinks of someone different and, for some, it may be hall mates, resident advisors, members of an SLG community, friends, roommates or even the casual acquaintance. However spectacular Duke’s campus may be, it is the people that breathe life into it.
For those that hurry to class through the Duke Gardens in the morning, it is easy to walk right by the folks that care for one of Duke’s more unique amenities. There are so many just like them that contribute to the upkeep of our campus as well. Housekeeping keeps the dorms and bathrooms
clean, and security guards pace the campus bus stops. Bus drivers shuttle us back and forth all day, and safe-ride drivers pick up where they leave off. We want to thank these people not only for the service they provide us, but also for the unique campus spaces they help maintain. It is worth noting that, sometimes, the most vibrant conversations unexpectedly take place on a C1 Express full of energetic freshman.
As campus empties out and people quietly depart for home this Thanksgiving Break, look around at the space that surrounds you. Successful people are the product of successful networks, so step back and appreciate the people that support the ins and out of your extraordinarily life at Duke.
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Truskey, R. Eugene and Susie E. Good-son Professor of Biomedical Engineer-ing; and Fan Wang, associate professor of neurobiology.
“I feel very lucky and very privileged,” said Wang, who was selected for her work on the assembly and connectivity of senso-rimotor circuits. “All of the studies were conducted here at Duke where I estab-lished my own lab. I am very fortunate to have had the support and help of the chairs and colleagues in the cell biol-ogy and the neurobiology department over the years. Furthermore, I would not have achieved this without all the handiwork from the talented students and postdocs.”
Counter, who was recognized for his contribution to elucidating the un-derstanding of how normal cells are trans-formed to cancer cells by the RAS oncogene, said it is an honor to be chosen as an AAAS Fellow.
“I owe many thanks to my students, post-doctoral fellows and technicians for do-ing the heavy experimental lifting,” he said. “As well as my colleagues, the department, the Duke Cancer Institute and the school of Medicine for provid-ing such a supportive and innovative
environment to pur-sue our research into how normal cells be-come cancerous.”
Sullenger, a trained nucleic acid biochem-ist, was acknowledged for his work on chemi-cal compounds that proved effective in pre-venting blood clotting.
“It is a real honor to have my group’s work on creating novel therapeutics recognized by the American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science,” Sullenger said. “I have benefited tremen-dously by partner-ing with clinicians in Duke’s Department of Surgery and the [Duke Translational Medicine Institute] to focus our research on addressing unmet medical needs.”
Truskey, a long-time faculty in bio-medical engineering, was awarded for his excellence in research as well as his service in teaching and administrative work.
Shindell, an expert in atmospheric chem-istry, climate variabili-ty and climate change, was recognized for his broad impacts in those fields as well as in society.
An official ceremo-ny will be held during AAAS’ annual meeting in San Jose, Calif., in February 2015, where the honored members will be presented with a gold and blue ro-sette pin.
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Graphic by Georgia Parke | The ChronicleDuke’s opponents have struggled to knock down 3-pointers against the Blue Devils (red bars) despite posting much better clips from downtown against all other competition (green bars).
would ultimately curtail Duke’s season far soon-er than expected. I doubt the Blue Devils will be able to keep opponents to 16.7 percent shoot-ing from distance all season long once ACC play kicks into gear, but there’s good reason to expect that this year’s Duke defense won’t fold late in games as it did last year.
Bringing four McDonald’s All-Americans off the bench—two of which are guards—is a great luxury for head coach Mike Krzyze-wski, because it means fresh legs will never be an issue for his squad. With sizable guards in 6-foot-5 Rasheed Sulaimon, 6-foot-5 Matt Jones and 6-foot-6 Justise Winslow to contest 3-point shooters, and pesky point men in Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones to harass ball-handlers and make passes difficult—in the full-court, so far this year—the offense can’t get in sync and can’t get clean looks at the rim. When a Blue Devil gets blown by, Okafor and junior Amile
Jefferson are there to control the paint.I mentioned earlier that this inspired effort is
due in part to a concerted attempt by Krzyzews-ki’s staff to get back to the type of defense that de-fined the Duke program for years. We see those clips immortalized on Duke’s all-time highlight reels—the Steve Wojciechowski floor slaps, the Shane Battier chase-down blocks.
But surprisingly enough, three of Krzyzewski’s four national-title-winning teams gave up more than 70 points per game—that’s more than last year’s 67.4 per contest that had people up in arms about Duke’s defensive lapses. Although the style and pace of the college game has defi-nitely changed over the years, it’s worth noting that a good Blue Devil defense doesn’t promise any results when the calendar turns to March.
The Blue Devils are allowing 57.4 points per game through the first week and a half of the sea-son, with Furman and Army coming to town this week. The Paladins and Black Knights shoot 26.3 and 31.8 percent from long range, respectively.
Expect those numbers to fall against one of the better Duke team defenses in the past few seasons.
