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Smash Mouth, the rock band behind the 1999 hit “All Star,” will perform at this year’s Old Duke concert April 12. The event is sponsored by Duke University Union.

Bryan Center stores shuffle in renovations

by Margot TuchlerTHE CHRONICLE

Bryan Center renovations are forcing a shuffle among several of the building’s stores.

The University Store and the Lobby Shop spaces are scheduled to close around May 15 after the Spring semester ends, said Jim Wilkerson, director of trade-mark licensing and operations for Duke Stores. These changes are part of a larger set of renovations to the Bryan Center Duke Stores, including the Gothic Book-shop and the Textbook Store. Wilkerson added that this is the first time these spaces have been renovated in the past 30 years.

To accommodate the large number of visitors who come to Duke during the summer, a smaller quantity of University Store merchandise will be sold out of the Gothic Bookshop space from the beginning of sum-mer until Aug. 1. Additionally, a scaled-down version of

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Henderson dies at 44

by Jackie KlaubergTHE CHRONICLE

Former Duke basketball star Phil Hen-derson died at his home in the Philippines Sunday of a reported cardiac arrest. He was 44 years old.

Henderson, a 6-foot-5 guard who made three NCAA Final Four appear-ances in his time at Duke from 1986 to 1990, was the captain and leading scorer of the 1990 Final Four team.

“We’re so sad about his passing,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski

said. “[I] talked to his mom this morning. He’s a good guy, very talented player.”

Henderson is one of 60 Blue Devils to fin-ish his career with more than 1,000 points, currently ranking 33rd in program history with 1,397. Henderson also recorded 330 re-bounds and 217 assists.

Perhaps the play he is remembered for most is a dunk he performed over George-town’s Alonzo Mourning in the second round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament. The

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Despite protest, Dillo still leavingby Imani Moise

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A short-lived burst of student opposition has not stopped the administration’s plans to replace the Arma-dillo Grill this summer.

Students circulated a petition to keep the Tex-Mex res-taurant and bar, affectionately called “the Dillo,” days after a Jan. 18 article in The Chronicle reported its upcoming ouster. This petition, however, did not reach the Office of Student Affairs.

Both Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student af-fairs for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, said they have not seen the petition to date, and plans to replace The Dillo are moving forward.

“There has been no talk about the Dillo moving back into that space,” Johnson said.

The student petition accumulated 1,000 signatures in fewer than five days, said manager Erika Garris. The own-ers of the Dillo could not be reached for comment.

The petition will not cause any changes for this Fall, however, because the contract for the Bryan Center space currently occupied by the Armadillo Grill has already been signed by the owners of the Loop Pizza Grill, Johnson said. He noted that Duke Dining reached out to the owners of the Dillo a year and a half ago, asking them to submit a

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Students pack themselves into Armadillo Grill to watch last week’s Duke-Carolina game. The popular restaurant, which also serves as a sports bar, will leave campus at the end of the semester.

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OLD DUKE ALL STARby Anna Koelsch

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All that glitters is Old Duke. The 90s favorite Smash Mouth will

perform April 12 as part of Old Duke, the annual musical throwback concert. Duke University Union made the an-nouncement early Tuesday morning, releasing the news with a Harlem Shake dance video.

Sophomore Willa Townsend, DUU Joe College co-chair, said she and co-chair Jordyn Gracey, a junior, priori-tized bringing a live band to Old Duke. They chose Smash Mouth as Old Duke’s performer during first semester.

“Smash Mouth is a well-known band from the 90s that has far more than a couple of popular songs,” Townsend said. “They’ll be great live and an awe-some way for the student body to come together and relive the 90s.”

The band rose to prominence in the late 90s with hits such as “All Star” and a cover of The Monkees’ “I’m a Believ-er.”

The Joe College committee spent more money than in past years be-cause the committee felt so strongly about bringing a band, Townsend said, but she declined to comment on how much money was spent to bring Smash Mouth. In past years, Old Duke has fea-tured artists such as rapper and reggae artist Shaggy and the band Sugar Ray.

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by Michelle MenchacaTHE CHRONICLE

College students are finding it in-creasingly difficult to graduate in four years, but Duke students seem to be do-ing just fine.

Low national graduation rates have raised questions about the optimal way for students to plan their academic ca-reers. Taking on multiple degrees can work in many cases but can also create is-sues for successful graduation. Duke stu-dents buck the national trends, but ad-ministrators noted that students should weigh the benefits of one or more ma-jors before choosing to pursue them.

An official letter from the National Commission of Higher Education At-tainment last month decried low gradu-ation rates and urged schools to make graduating students on time a priority by expanding the resources and support they have available. One recommenda-tion was to prevent students from com-pleting more than one major in an effort to improve students’ progress toward graduation.

“The number of Americans attending college is at a historic high, but far too many never make it to graduation,” the letter said.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, said he believes that even though it is popular, pursuing multiple majors, minors or certificates should be done with careful consideration.

“Duke is very interested in cross-dis-ciplinary and interdisciplinary learning and the last thing we would want to do is limit students on the education track,” he said. “But I do think it’s important that Duke and its students understand that majoring in multiple areas shouldn’t just be seen as collecting merit badges.”

According to the Department of Edu-cation, only 40 percent of college stu-dents are able to graduate within four years, while only 60 percent graduate

within six years. The NCHEA letter notes that budget cuts, decreased support ser-vice programs and higher tuition rates have all contributed to low national graduation rates.

Duke, however, does not seem to share these same struggles. According to News and World Report, Duke has a four-year graduation rate of 89 percent, more than double that of the national average.

Bruce Cunningham, assistant vice provost and university registrar, credits this high graduation rate to the quali-fied and academically driven students that the University accepts each year.

“We also have a terrific support sys-tem on campus,” Cunningham said. “Faculty, advisors, deans, student affairs, and staff—all of whom have a part in making sure students make good prog-ress towards their degrees and that any issues are addressed quickly.”

According to the NCHEA report, there are a number of reasons why stu-dents do not graduate in four years. Some want a break from a tedious aca-demic schedule, some have medical or family issues and some discover a college that gives them a better fit.

“The support services here are out-standing. This is a very responsive place for students who need help,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.

Just because students can graduate with multiple degrees, however, does not mean all of them should. Nowicki believes that while many students are suited for multiple degrees, for other students a single degree may be the best choice.

“Duke is always going to support mul-tiple majors, but we want to make sure we help students explore these major options thoughtfully,” he said.

Nowicki noted that other schools

Freshman hopes to improve Uni’s food production ethics

by Elizabeth DjinisTHE CHRONICLE

Freshman Daniel Woldorff, a member of the student group Food for Thought, works to promote ethical food consumption at Duke. Woldorff at-

tended the national Real Food Challenge conference in Baltimore last weekend to discuss nationwide ef-

forts to encourage food sustainability and is in dis-cussions with Duke’s dining provider, Bon Appetit Management Company, to improve the way Duke’s food is produced. The Chronicle’s Elizabeth Djinis spoke with Woldorff about the ethical food movement on campus, how Duke adds up and what foods to watch out for in the dining halls.

The Chronicle: Why did you choose to focus on ethical food consumption and what is your goal in joining the student group Food for Thought?

Daniel Woldorff: Our goal in Food for Thought is to make the food system more ecologically sustainable, more fair, more humane. [This cause] is really important because food is the intersection of so many different aspects of our lives: social justice, culture, history, nutrition. It involves bio-engineering, it involves economics—all of these different parts of our lives.

There are so many great things that come from food, from bringing people to-gether to getting us energy everyday, but it also is part of a system that creates slavery in southwest Florida and creates a huge amount of pollution of our great rivers. We are responsible for that—we’re the ones buying it, and we’re the ones supporting the system, so we’re trying to find a way to act more ethically by maximizing our ben-efit and minimizing our impact.

TC: How would you describe Food for Thought?

DW: Food for Thought is a group of students that are working to improve sus-tainability of Duke’s purchasing, and shift dollars from less ethical purchases to more ethical ones. We are one of many groups

across the nation doing the same thing. We’re part of the national Real Food Chal-lenge, and so we’re all working with a tool called the Real Food Calculator, which we use to calculate the percentage of real food from our campus vendors. We go through the actual invoices of vendors and catego-rize each item by ecologically sustainable, humane, fair, etc.

TC: Last weekend, you attend a confer-ence about the issue of ethical consump-tion to meet with like-minded youth. How did that go?

DW: Several of us went to a conference hosted by Real Food Challenge where we got to meet all the other people across the country who are working on these projects. We shared information about our successes and challenges, went through some train-ing and workshops, really put ourselves in a grander context, really understood that we are doing this as a movement across the entire nation.

TC: How well do you think Duke cur-rently promotes ethical food consumption?

DW: Duke contracts with a food service provider, Bon Appetit, and even before [Food for Thought] was ever involved, Bon Appetit has been a leader in sustainable food in the food service industry. They are doing a lot of different practices that stu-dents don’t know about, so what we’re try-ing to do is work with them, see what their goals are and what our goals are and see where we can work together and improve the system as a whole.

TC: How do you eat ethically at Duke?DW: Try to balance both health and sus-

tainability. I look for the least processed, freshest foods and try to get ones with as little meat as possible, typically completely vegetarian. I would avoid the things like eggs and pizza, I try to avoid the fruits that are most likely not from around here, defi-nitely not seasonal, such as pineapples—you can’t grow those here.SEE MAJORS ON PAGE 4

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Obama uses new political freedom for national agenda

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PALM CITY, Fla. — In a gym usually home to the Hyde Park Academy Thun-derbirds, President Barack Obama spoke about his own home late last week — and the trouble it faces.

He warned students and teachers that the fragility of families, the easy violence of guns and a threatened education system are failing Chicago’s South Side, where he once worked as a community organizer and began his family.

“Change requires us reflecting internal-ly about who we are and what we believe in,” he told the rows of uniformed stu-dents lining the blue breeze-block walls in bleachers. “And facing up to our own fears and insecurities, and admitting when we’re wrong.”

More than he ever did in his first term, Obama is describing the country as he be-lieves it should be, not the one it has been for much of the past decade. It is an inspi-rational technique of the community orga-nizer and of the upstart national candidate he once was.

But Obama has always been good with words and moments. It’s the hard partisan work inside Washington that has so often vexed him. After returning Monday from a golf outing on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, Obama faces a schedule largely free of public events this week, leaving time for the private political work that is key to this kind of governing.

How to bring his skills in the first area to bear on the second is the central question

occupying Obama and his senior staff, who hope to harness his post-election political freedom on behalf of a domestic agenda still broadly unpopular among Republi-cans in a divided Congress.

He is threatening executive action to confront such issues as climate change, a greater concern to the young voters who comprise his base than it is to House Re-publicans. His vast former campaign orga-nization also is mobilizing to fight outside the Beltway for a political agenda whose fate will be determined inside it.

“He no longer feels to me like a prime minister,” said John Podesta, chairman of the Center for American Progress, a think tank closely associated with the administra-tion, and a White House chief of staff dur-ing the Clinton administration. “He now understands the full range and power of the presidency to get things done.”

Podesta managed Obama’s 2008 post-election transition, and he has traced the president’s arc in office as a sympathetic observer and sometime adviser.

But he and many other Democrats were critical of Obama’s response to losing con-trol of the House in the 2010 midterm elec-tions, when a chastened president sought to accommodate an empowered Republi-can Party. Since then, Obama has seemed at times lost down the rabbit hole of par-tisan battles that he had once pledged to end.

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“The Dillo chose not to submit a bid,” Moneta wrote in email Monday, adding that it was not the University’s decision to close the restaurant.

Sophomore Brendane Tynes said she did not agree with the University’s request that the Dillo cater to a broader demographic.

“I don’t think it’s acceptable for Duke to ask Dillo to change its menu,” Tynes said. “What does the Loop have that other places don’t? If you want a burger you can go to McDonalds. If you want pizza you can order in. There is no convenient way on campus

to get Mexican food.”Garris said that her duties are the day-to-

day running of the restaurant, but her supe-riors are working on trying to get the Dillo back on campus, even if it moves to a new location.

“It is in all of our best interests that Duke have Armadillo Grill on campus,” Garris said. “[The owners] are working diligently with Duke Dining”

Although the eatery is still slated to vacate its current location, Moneta said the Univer-sity is open to the restaurant submitting a proposal to return elsewhere on campus.

The Dillo is scheduled to end service on May 17 and the Loop is scheduled to move in early August after renovations this sum-mer, Johnson said.

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Let’s Talkstruggle to graduate students on time because the demand for classes can be so high. The problem is not that stu-dents lack the time needed to fulfill major requirements, he added, but that universities are not offering enough of the required courses to meet student de-mand.

Duke makes an effort to ensure that the resources and classes are available if students want to pursue multiple de-grees, Nowicki said.

Kevin Hogan, a senior majoring in

economics, feels lucky to be able to grad-uate on time without worrying about ful-filling his major requirements on time.

“I didn’t always get the classes I want-ed, but there were always classes avail-able that would fulfill requirements.”

Katy Falletta, a senior expecting to graduate with a major in Public Policy, minor in Women’s Studies and certifi-cate in Global Health, agrees that she has not had to worry about fulfilling her graduation requirements in four years.

It may take thoughtful planning and consideration, she noted, but ultimately she was able to get the classes she need-ed to fulfill the necessary requirements.

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Students expressed their excitement about the Smash Mouth announcement on Facebook and Twitter, and many commented that they are more excited

for the Smash Mouth performance than the LDOC performers, previously an-nounced as Steve Aoki, Kendrick Lamar and Travis Porter.

“Smash Mouth was one of the first CDs I owned,” said senior John McGinty. “I’m definitely stoked to see them live.”

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the Lobby Shop, which will just sell dry goods, will operate out of another room on the upper level of the Bryan Center.

“As soon as the renovated Lobby Shop and University Store are available Aug. 1, then we’re in a big hurry to move all the University Store stuff back into the renovated space and the Lobby Shop merchandise back into its reno-vated space,” Wilkerson said.

The Gothic Bookshop and the Text-book Store have moved their invento-ries off campus while their Bryan Cen-

ter locations undergo renovations. The Gothic Bookshop closed Feb. 2, and the Textbook store closed Feb. 1, both to reopen by the end of the summer. The University Store and Gothic Bookshop will boast glass entrances looking onto the Bryan Center Plaza, next to Joe Van Gogh coffee shop.

“It’s going to be inconvenient—we know that—but we really had no choice but to shut these operations down in or-der to do renovations,” Wilkerson said. “We made arrangements... to make sure customers can still call us and get what-ever they need from us.”

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Walsh said he does not anticipate a major revenue loss while the stores are closed. The timing of the renovations was planned so that the Textbook Store was not affected during the shopping period for Spring semester textbooks, nor will it affect students in the Fall. As for the Gothic Bookshop, Walsh said the lost revenues are not a concern be-cause its sales are quite small anyway.

“The benefits of improved visibility and improved access for customers far outweigh the short-term impact,” Walsh said.

Those wishing to purchase books from the Gothic Bookshop must now

do so over the phone or via email. Textbook orders can be placed at the service desk or online. All orders will then be delivered to the Textbook Store’s service desk in the Bryan Cen-ter below the University Store.

Junior Eva Bahnuk, who has worked at the Gothic Bookshop since her freshman year, noted that all employ-ees of the store were promised jobs at other Duke Stores while the renova-tions are taking place. She is currently working at the Textbook Store service counter.

Walsh said he anticipates substan-tial improvements to the Bryan Center stores’ operation.

“[When] the Gothic [Bookshop] is visible from the Plaza... and the Uni-versity Store is right there on the Plaza with new glass doors, it’s going to total-ly change the model for the University Store and the Textbook Store and the Gothic [Bookshop], and that’s more than a fair trade off,” Walsh said.

Ishchenko, a member of the expedition from the Urals Federal University, said by phone.

The meteor blast over the Chelyabinsk region, which has a population of 3.6 million people, was the largest recorded since the Tunguska event flattened more than 800 square miles (2,100 square ki-lometers) of Siberian forest in 1908. The object entered the atmosphere at 9:20 a.m. local time on Feb. 15, hours before an unrelated asteroid half the length of a football field hurtled past the Earth.

“The fragments were found deep in the snow and ice around the lake,” Ish-chenko said. “They’re now being test-ed.”

Chelyabinsk police are investigating sales of meteor pieces via websites, the Interior Ministry’s local division said in an emailed statement. Supposed mete-orites have been put up for sale at prices ranging from 10,000 rubles ($330) to 500,000 rubles, according to the state-ment. The police are seeking the people behind the offers.

An 8-meter hole was punched through the ice on Cherbarkul Lake. Divers failed to find pieces of meteorite under water, Rossiya 24 reported Feb. 16.

The rocky pieces found around the lake contain about 10 percent iron, Vic-tor Grokhovsky, a member of the Rus-sian Academy of Science’s meteor com-mittee who headed the expedition, said in a statement on the Urals Federal Uni-versity’s website.

Before hitting the Earth’s atmosphere, the Chelyabinsk object was about 17 me-ters and had a mass of about 10,000 tons, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement.

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His success in those mundane matters will determine how active he can be on be-half of his broader economic agenda, which calls for public spending on education, re-search, job training and other areas. First is how to avert $85 billion in automatic spend-ing cuts scheduled to begin March 1.

In recent weeks, Obama has drawn bright lines with congressional Republicans over taxes and the federal debt limit that he has stood by with public support on his side. Podesta described his likely approach with Republicans as “trench warfare,” a test of whether Obama has learned how to play a better inside game.

Even outside the Beltway, it is not opti-mism that Obama is using to support his calls for change, but a blunt reminder of the necessity to adapt to a changing economy.

To an audience of factory workers in western North Carolina a day after his State of the Union address, Obama warned that many of the manufacturing jobs that once sustained Appalachian towns will never re-turn. He criticized the politics of Washing-ton — a trope since his 2008 election — but also pledged to do better at that part of his job.

“I will be back there fighting for you, be-cause there’s nothing we can’t do and no possibilities we can’t reach when we’re work-ing together,” he said. “We just have to work together.”

But the prospects of a breakthrough with congressional Republicans are poor.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where Obama has been unable to secure approval for his nominee for defense secretary, for-

mer Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.Last week, the president complained that

60 votes should not be the new normal for passing legislation or confirming nominees. He sounded more like the old annoyed Obama rather than the new one who seems to accept partisanship as an enduring fea-ture of his tenure.

“The filibuster has historically been used selectively,” he said during a Google Hangout session, adding that “it’s just unfortunate this kind of politics” are playing out with troops still in Afghanistan.

All reelected presidents emerge with newly grand ambitions and a sense of confidence that only a popular referendum on their re-cord can provide. Obama has been no differ-ent.

He warned Republicans as early as his first post-election news conference that he believes his victory was a clear endorsement of his pro-posals for taxes, spending, immigration and other measures.

The confidence carried over to his State of the Union address last Tuesday, an hour-long speech devoted to closing the income dispar-ity between the rich and the poor. At its core was the populist message that Republicans used in the last election to brand him as a class warrior, a label he no longer seems to fear.

David Kennedy, an American historian at Stanford University, was reminded of Frank-lin D. Roosevelt’s call in his 1944 State of the Union address for a “second Bill of Rights,” a hugely ambitious liberal agenda.

“It was dead on arrival and he knew it,” Kennedy said. “But he was laying down mark-ers. And I couldn’t help but think of that ap-proach as I was listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address the other night.”

Only a few moments — often following national crisis — have opened up enough political space for large social and economic programs to succeed. The Civil War brought Reconstruction, the Great Depression led to

the social safety net and activist government of the New Deal, and the civil rights movement inspired the Great Society.

Obama’s historic election at a time of fi-nancial crisis and war seemed like another such moment, and with control of Congress, he secured broad health-care legislation that eluded his predecessors. But there has been little since Democrats lost full control of Con-gress.

How to add to, and cement, his early legis-lative achievements is Obama’s challenge. But what is considered a big presidential agenda today in an age of austerity and lingering anti-government sentiment is smaller than it once was.

Many of his proposals build on past prog-

ress, including his pitch to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. Others, such as immigra-tion legislation, seek to address long-standing problems that his predecessors were unable to fix.

And one of his most controversial propos-als seeks only to renew a lapsed ban on assault weapons. Even those ideas may be too much to secure for Obama, unless he can turn the political world that is into the one he thinks it should be.

“I hope — and at this point it’s only a hope — that the aspirational agenda he has laid out intersects with a political strategy to deliver him a different Congress in two years,” Ken-nedy said. “Otherwise, it will remain only as-pirational.”

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THE RISE OF KYRIE IRVINGby Brady Buck

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Five years ago, few knew Kyrie Irving’s name as an under-classmen in high school.

Fast-forward to now—the former Duke point guard has more titles than he knows what to do with. After his first year in the league, he was named NBA Rookie of the Year. In the internet-sensation Pepsi Max advertisements he goes by “Uncle Drew,” a nickname that has caught on with media and fans. His Cleveland Cavalier teammates dubbed him the “Dark Knight” when he was wearing a facemask in December to protect his injured jaw. And ESPN the Magazine called him “the most captivating 20-year old since LeBron.”

His newest title tops his laundry list of aliases: NBA All-Star.

First steps to stardomContrary to the norm on the AAU circuit, Irving’s father,

Drederick—a former NBA player—brought Kyrie along slowly. Irving played on a middle-of-the-road AAU team, the New Jersey Roadrunners, and did not attend major camps until he was an upperclassman in high school. The empha-sis was on getting better as a person, student and player, which ingrained a mantra that he has lived by since: hungry and humble.

Finally, the time came to throw Irving in the fire, which required the then-scrawny, 5-foot-8 Irving to transfer from the smaller, more academically rigorous Montclair Kim-berley Academy in New Jersey after his sophomore year of high school to nearby St. Patrick High School, a national public-prep basketball powerhouse at the time. The move also allowed the ambidextrous guard to be coached by one of the best high school basketball coaches in the business in Kevin Boyle.

Count current North Carolina guard Dexter Strickland as one of the many who had never heard Irving’s name before they became teammates at St. Patrick on a team that also in-cluded current Charlotte Bobcat forward Michael Kidd-Gil-christ, the No. 2 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft.

“I was in the gym working out, and [Irving] was sitting on the stage behind the hoop watching me workout,” said Strickland, describing his first encounter with Irving several months before that season began. “Afterwards, he intro-duced himself saying he transferred [to St. Patrick], and he started practicing with us. At the time he could not dunk. He would try to get me to teach him how to dunk…. That was the first time I met Kyrie.”

Those vertical challenges were short-lived.

“He always had great handles and was very crafty,” Strickland said. “I think a few months later out of nowhere he started doing windmill [dunks] and throwing it off the backboard. It was kind of funny.”

As his physical abilities and explosive-ness caught up with his already advanced skills and instincts, Irving blossomed as a player. After his brilliant junior campaign leading his squad to a state championship and 24-3 record, Irving participated in a marquee national camp for the first time in his career.

The summer before his senior sea-son in high school he attended the NBPA Top-100 camp in Charlottesville, Va., where current Duke juniors Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton began aggressively recruiting him to Duke.

Thornton and Hairston had already made their pledge to Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski, and they made their pitch to Irving and Harrison Barnes, who would eventually commit to North Carolina.

“We knew that Ky and Harrison were the last two that coach [Krzyzewski] was going after,”

Hairston said. More importantly, the event humbled Irving, which is

what allowed him to fully maximize his potential. While at the camp, Irving went head-to-head against current Detroit Piston guard Brandon Knight—the top-ranked point guard in high school basketball at the time.

“To say Brandon Knight outplayed him would be putting it kindly,” ESPN senior recruiting anaylst Dave Telep said. “At that moment, I think Kyrie

had never gone through anything like that before. I remember talking to him the next morning. He skipped an optional workout and

his head was down. It was clear that he had never faced adversity like that [in front of numerous college coaches and scouts].”

Irving didn’t keep his head down for long.

“I was actually watching that game,” Hairston said. “I think Ky used that as a wake up call.”

A few months later, Irving was the No. 1 point guard in the class, and Telep recalls walking out of one of

Irving’s high school games wonder-ing if he were the best player in all of high school basketball. He av-eraged 24.7 points per game and led St. Patrick’s to a 24-3 record in

his senior season.“I believe everyone has their moment

of truth. The great ones will look themselves in the mirror, pick themselves off the floor and go get it,” Telep said. “I think that was his moment.”

In that process of picking himself off the floor and before dominating in his final prep season,

the Blue Devil coaching staff, as well as Hairston and Thornton, locked up Irving. Citing his rela-tionships with players on the team and Krzyzewski, Irving committed to Duke over Kentucky, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M in October.

Strickland, however, was a bit more skeptical of Irving’s decision to wear royal blue.

The former Blue Devil’s journey to stardom in the NBAJohnston out for the season after surgery

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Selected No. 1 in the 2011 NBA Draft following one injury-shortened sea-son at Duke, Kyrie Irving played in his first All-Star Game last weekend.

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Six months after winning a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Abby Johnston’s Duke diving career has ended prematurely.

Head coach Drew Johansen announced Monday that the senior had surgery last week to repair a bone spur on her clavicle and ease inflammation in her acromioclavicular joint and will miss the remainder of the Blue Devils’ season.

Johnston was a three-time All-ACC selection and earned Duke’s first national title for women’s swimming and div-ing when she captured the 3-meter springboard competi-tion at the 2011 NCAA Championships.

“It was a really tough decision for me. I was a mess the en-tire weekend,” Johnston said. “Just the thought of not being with the team and not competing in the ACC Champion-ships was really hard for me. It’s still going to be really tough having to be on the sidelines supporting them while they compete, but ultimately I had to do what was best for me.”

The Upper Arlington, Ohio native had been suffering from the injury for more than a year. It affected her perfor-mance at the 2012 Olympic Trials, forcing her to withdraw from the individual competition after qualifying for the Olympic Games in the 3-meter synchronized competition with partner Kelci Bryant.

Johnston was able to compete for Duke just once this season, finishing first in the 1-meter springboard event in the Blue Devils’ meet against South Carolina Jan. 12. She spent the first half of the school year attempting to rehab her shoulder but could not muster the strength to com-plete the 3-meter event at the same meet.

“I thought that having a three-month break when I got back from the Olympics would help the inflammation go down, and I was going to be able to come back as good as new, but structurally my shoulder just didn’t hold up,” Johnston said. “As soon as I started training again the in-flammation and irritation was back, and I just didn’t have the strength that I used to have in my arm.”

Johnston said she thought her international diving ca-reer was finished before the surgery, but she has now be-come open to the possibility of returning and making a run at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Until that decision is made, the senior will occupy her-self with rehabilitation and medical school applications.

“I was pretty certain that I would be done because I had been in so much pain and was dreading practice, but now that I should be able to come back good as new, I should be able to come back to the sport if I want to,” Johnston said. “I’m much more tempted to come back for Rio, but right now I haven’t decided yet.”

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In her one meet this season, Abby Johnson finished first in the 1-me-ter springboard event against South Carolina Jan. 12.

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“I think it’s a good pick for him I just hope that system doesn’t change who he is as a player,” Strickland said at the time.

The pain and gain at DukeDuke fans wanted to remember Irving’s

name and number by seeing it hang in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. But a freak toe injury—that Krzyzewski called “dumb luck”—prevented that dream from becoming a reality.

Joining a team that had just won the Na-tional Championship, Irving made his pres-ence felt right away when he arrived in Dur-ham and instantly became the best player on the team.

One game, in particular, embodied Ir-ving’s prodigious talents in his one-year stay in college: The ACC-Big 10 Challenge con-test against then-No. 6 Michigan State at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Irving dazzled the college basketball world, getting to the rim at will en route to 31 points—only the fourth 30-point showing by a Duke freshman in school history.

“Before that game he told Tyler and I that he was going to kill it,” Hairston said. “Kyrie just dominated the entire game. That was the moment I knew he was really special, and he was going to do really special things.”

Perhaps the most gifted freshman that Krzyzewski has ever instructed, Irving played a scant 11 games in a Blue Devil uniform be-cause of the injury and left school early to be-come the No. 1 pick in the 2011 NBA draft. While healthy, the 6-foot-3 and 185-pound point guard averaged 17.5 points, 4.3 as-sists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in Durham.

Arguably the most gut-wrenching of all, Irving never got to experience the Tobacco Road rivalry. Or the rivalry never got to expe-rience Irving, who never got to play against his close friends Strickland and Barnes

“It’s sad to say he couldn’t play [in the Duke-North Carolina games],” Strickland said. “It would’ve been great. It would’ve been something to see.”

Much of the shortchanged Duke basket-ball nation still lies awake at night wondering what could have been if Irving stayed healthy. Rubbing salt in the wound, Krzyzewski gave a hint as to what could have happened.

“I’ll tell you what, Kyrie’s freshman year, I thought we could maybe run the table,”

dunk ranks fourth on the most memorable dunks in Duke’s history according to The En-cyclopedia of Duke Basketball.

The two-year starter—who recorded 21 points and six rebounds in a 30-point loss to UNLV in the 1990 National Championship game—is survived by five children: Genesis, 21; Harrison, 15; Adonia, 6; Athaila, 5; and Azriel, 4.

Henderson was a McDonald’s All-Ameri-can team member from Crete-Monee, a high school in Illinois. In high school, as in college, Henderson was a threat on both sides of the court, using his length to pick up rebounds, blocks and steals as well as points. Henderson averaged 21.8 points in his senior year of high school and went on to average 18.5 points per game in his senior season.

“[Phil was a] gentle person, real gentle per-son and had a lot of talent,” Krzyzewski said. “Everyone in our basketball family certainly is mourning his passing. A lot of teammates out there that are expressing that—I know on Twitter [they] have already expressed things to our office.”

IRVING from page 7

HENDERSON from page 1

Krzyzewski said during a December press conference. “We had good chemistry right away with that group.”

As painful as it is it can be for Blue Devil fans to watch Irving dominate now, Duke is reaping the benefits. Irving’s enthralling performances on a weekly basis in the NBA have undoubtedly paid dividends for a pro-gram that was lacking—or at least publicly perceived to be lacking—that one elite NBA player to carry the Duke flag.

Recruits love Irving’s infallibly tight han-dles and clutch floor-game that has a spice of streetball to it, as well as his charming cha-risma. Now, Krzyzewski has a bonafide elite player in the NBA who he can point to when selling his program to young prospects.

“It helps a lot,” Telep said. “It’s a street cred thing. How much more ammunition do you need to give Mike Krzyzewski with USA Basketball and now Kyrie Irving? That’s a hell of a recruiting pitch.”

The future is nowIrving’s brief stint of brilliance in college

has become a nightly routine in the pros. Playing on a team with predominately

young, no-name talent, Irving’s dynamic scor-ing and play-making abilities give the Cava-liers a chance to beat teams they shouldn’t on almost any night.

In light of Irving’s success, Strickland admits that Duke did not hurt Irving’s

development.“I don’t think it changed him it all,”

Strickland said. “I only said it because my teammate, Leslie McDonald’s [high school] teammate Elliot Williams went to Duke and it changed his game a lot. I actually think Duke made [Irving] better.”

While Irving regularly displays pin-point shooting accuracy and among the best han-dles in the league, he has gained even more notoriety for his success in the clutch. Irving averages 23.5 points and 5.5 assists per game this season and leads the NBA going 11-for-17 in “clutch” situations late in games. The dominance during crunch-time is surprising for some, especially those who were skepti-cal of the Cavaliers decision to choose Irving with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft.

“I’m not surprised,” said Strickland, who maintains a close relationship with his for-mer backcourt running mate. “I’m so proud of him. I texted him the other day, ‘Keep do-ing your thing—the sky is the limit.’”

Despite his many names, many people don’t know what to say about Irving. Celtics head coach Doc Rivers was at a loss for words when Irving scored 11 of his game-high 40 points in the final 2:31 of the fourth quarter to lift the Cavaliers past the Celtics 95-90 on Jan. 22. Rivers’ only had one assessment as to how his veteran team squandered the game.

“And then Kyrie Irving happened,” Rivers said after the loss.

With his All-Star debut, history has also hap-pened: Irving became just the seventh player in league history be an All-Star at 20-years old. The other members of that list: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Kevin Garnett, Isiah Thomas and Shaquille O’Neal.

As if his rise to stardom weren’t enough, Irving finally got some revenge on Knight from that day in Charlottesville. In the NBA Rising Stars Challenge during All-Star weekend, Irving scored 32 points while be-ing guarded by his old rival for much of the contest. None of those buckets were as spec-tacular as a tantalizing crossover, step-back jumper that Irving drilled over Knight, who fell to the ground trying to guard the move.

“That was kind of payback from the high school days,” said Hairston, who calls Irving one of his best friends. “It was good basket-ball—they were going back and forth at each other, but I think Kyrie got the upper hand.”

Irving’s impressive weekend continued as he took home the 3-point shootout title and then finished with 15 points in Sunday night’s All-Star game.

And the question of Irving being Duke’s best NBA player ever is becoming less and less of a question by the day.

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In his one season at Duke, Irving scored a career-high 31 points against then-No. 6 Michigan State.

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I can’t help but chuckle whenever I hear people talking about a perceived lack of campus safety. A few incidents notwithstanding, Duke’s campus-

es (and their peripheral areas) tend to be some of the safest locales in the city—you’re probably not going to get shot walk-ing down Campus Drive at 2 a.m.

With that being said, there are defi nitely other places in this city where being in the wrong place at the wrong time might well lead to some new holes in your torso. Hav-ing grown up in sheltered suburbia, I remember the all-too-stereotypical excitement I felt when dispatched to my fi rst gunshot wound call. Climb-ing out of the ambulance with the pep and exuberance only a trainee could have, I unleashed a barrage of assessment questions on my patient, who sat on the pavement clutching his right side. As I waited for him to respond to my queries, he just looked up at me exasperatedly, pointed to another round patch of scar tissue on his chest, and said, “Man, same s***, different day.”

Evidently, I wasn’t quite used to the ubiquity of violence in that community, or in any other one, re-ally. Safety and security have always been things I’ve taken for granted, so it required a different frame of mind to provide medical treatment within gang-land enclaves. When it comes to staying safe in EMS, we’re taught from early on that “scene safety” is paramount. It’s easy to spot obvious issues: If I ar-rive to fi nd my patient wearing a clown mask and holding a Bowie knife, I’ll probably turn around and leave. However, it’s much harder to determine if a safe scene will stay that way. Any clues pointing to problems will likely be subtle and non-specifi c. A pa-tient suddenly becomes quiet and looks around the room, a bystander moves between you and the exit, the knife that was on the table when you walked in is not there anymore—all can be easily and rationally explained, but can also be major red fl ags under the right circumstances. As such, there’s a fi ne line be-tween precaution and paranoia, and it’s not uncom-mon that you end up a little paranoid from time to time. However, you can’t let your paranoia get in the way of personal interactions, and you should never make judgments prematurely.

I recall a particularly vivid example where I let the line blur. It was a muggy summer night, and we had been dispatched to a residence for a Life-Alert activa-tion (think “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”). I noticed that the address where we were heading was located a block away from a noted hotspot for gang activity and drug sales; I had heard from multiple sources

that it was one of the worst intersections in town. And so, as we got out of the truck and approached the residence with our gear, I surveyed and scrutinized our surroundings. As my partner entered the house

to assess Anna, our patient, I lagged behind just long enough to see a man walking up through the yard. Black, mid-20s, about six feet tall, clutching an open Budweiser, wearing baggy clothes and an indifferent expres-sion, his eyes fi xed on me. Instantly suspicious, I allowed him to proceed through the door before me, word-lessly—from his appearance alone, I had surmised that he was up to no good. Once inside, our mysterious stranger motioned for me to follow him to a back room; I followed, rest-ing my hand on my fl ashlight with the thought of having something to defend myself with if things went south. In the darkened bedroom, he

reached down into a drawer, and I braced myself … only to see him pull out medications.

In the minutes that followed, all was revealed. Our stranger was a neighborhood youth named Justin, and, though not related to Anna, had become her de facto caretaker after her husband’s death. After pa-tiently explaining her list of medications and medical history to me, Justin went back into the main room and confi rmed my partner’s growing intuition that there was nothing medically wrong with Anna, tell-ing us that she got very lonely at times. Upon saying this, Justin walked over and embraced the blind, deaf Anna, comforted her and suggested that he make dinner for the two of them. Giving us a smile and a thumbs-up, Justin thanked us for our time.

My heart melted. I’ve never been one to get emo-tional in the fi eld, but that scene was so beautiful I nearly cried. Words fail to describe the shame I felt for having judged Justin solely on the basis of his appearance. My overzealous suspicion had led me to prejudice myself against this beacon of love and hope in a neighborhood that seemingly lacked both. I was wrong about Justin, in the same way anyone is wrong when judging another based on superfi cial characteristics, or defaulting to stereotypes. Without action on all of our parts to combat it, the endless cycle of prejudice will continue unchecked through our generation and those to come—as the maxim goes, “Same s***, different day.”

Jay Srinivasan, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. This column is the sixth installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage with the fi eld of medicine.

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The cost of socioeconomic diversityIf there were ever a way to

provide equal access to edu-cation, it is through fi nancial aid —or so we are told starting from our fi rst college infor-mation session. Although this sounds appeal-ing and even believable on an individual level, the reality of budget constraints rears its ugly head when we consider fi nancial aid systemically.

Yesterday’s editorial urged students to think critically about the University’s fi nan-cial aid policies for interna-tional students; today, we want to extend that discus-sion to the role of fi nancial aid in enabling socioeco-nomic diversity.

For the most part, we af-fi rm the conventional wisdom that fi nancial aid is a univer-

sity’s most powerful tool for attracting truly different stu-dents. And socioeconomic status is one of the strongest proxies for identifying a stu-dent’s background and fore-

casting the contribution he or she will

make to campus life.We applaud the Board of

Trustees for ensuring that Duke’s annual budget re-fl ects this priority: the Offi ce of Undergraduate Financial Aid received approximately $85 million this past year, de-spite the endowment’s losses in the recent recession, said Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of fi -nancial aid. Additionally, that offi ce deserves credit for their commitment to truly “meeting 100 percent

of demonstrated need” as more families need fi nancial aid than ever after the 2008 downturn. These actions demonstrate that socioeco-nomic diversity is more than just a buzzword at Duke. It is a persistent commitment.

But even if the University’s fi nancial aid has stayed afl oat in the short term, certain macro-level trends threaten its sustainability—and that of socioeconomic diversity—in the long run. First, although Rabil noted that Duke has kept its tuition increases at approximately 3 percent per year—low compared to some of our peer schools—the ris-ing cost of higher education everywhere makes college un-affordable in a way that can-not be addressed by fi nancial aid forever.

Duke could have billions of dollars for fi nancial aid and still not solve the under-lying problem: the actual cost of higher education is becom-ing terrifyingly unaffordable. To be sure, need-based fi nan-cial aid has improved acces-sibility and the high applica-tion numbers at Duke and its peer institutions indicate that, for some, no price is too high for a degree. The latter fact especially has eliminated any real pressure to trim the University’s costs.

But until a critical mass of colleges prioritize lowering tuition, higher education will be increasingly inaccessible for many. There will come a point when fi nancial aid can-not continue to act as a Band-Aid, as it does now, because tuition increases drive up fi -

nancial aid spending. Rising tuition costs will eventually squeeze out middle-income students, who benefi t little from Duke’s fi nancial aid coffers already and will be even more strapped for cash in the future.

Duke’s commitment to fi nancial aid even in hard times is an encouraging sign. But budgetary constraints are a poor excuse to address seri-ous problems: fi rst, the lack of true socioeconomic diver-sity in the neglect of aiding middle-income families and second, the overall unsustain-ability of the higher educa-tion model. We understand that money is tight at the Uni-versity, but—as the situation does not look to dramatically improve—perhaps some seri-ous rethinking is needed.

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Three-and-a-half years ago, I received a call from Duke admissions telling me that I’d gotten off the waitlist. Duke was better than my other options in nearly

every way. I might have accepted on the spot, but I was nervous. I had come out as a sophomore in high school, and I wanted to go to a col-lege where I didn’t have to worry about my sexuality. Be-fore I enrolled, I scoured the Internet for some hint about Duke’s LGBT life. I was sur-prised to discover that Duke has had a rather dynamic history: In 1999, the Princ-eton Review labeled Duke one of the most homophobic schools, but seven years later Duke turned around and was ranked one of the friendliest schools for LGBT students by The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. I reached out to some LGBT Duke students who were active on Face-book and asked for their perspective. They all assured me that Duke was a great place to be LGBT.

In my fi rst month here, I doubted my decision. Coming to Duke felt like a step back from Houston, although I had a hard time understanding why. I don’t think I was blasé about coming out—I just felt like I was always entertaining straight people with the novel saliency of my experience. I’d also heard in early meetings with administrators that homophobia was the most prevalent form of physical and verbal discrimination on campus. I’d been harassed before, but no one had ever bothered me in school, so I had a hard time believing that students were doing this. It didn’t take long for that perspective to change.

On Halloween night of my fi rst year, a friend of mine got into a fi ght with two other students. As I wrenched my friend away, one of the other students pushed me to the ground and hissed, “You f***ing f****t.” I left the fi ght (with my friend) shell-shocked. No one had ever called me a f****t before. I tried to forget about it and decided it was an isolated incident.

But the harassment continued. In Spring of my fi rst year, I was kicked out of a section party after kissing a boy. I was told the party was invite-only, and I asked why none of the other uninvited guests were being asked to leave. I left the party humiliated, so embarrassed that I never told anyone about it. And then, on the last day of classes, a student paintballed the LGBT fl ag hanging from my win-dow. Before Duke, I had never felt the need to celebrate LGBT pride with a fl ag. But after months of incidents, I felt compelled to support a cause I had previously taken for granted. I reported the vandalism, partly because I wanted a resolution, partly because it was so much easier to report when I didn’t know who the perpetrator was. No one was ever charged.

Harassment directed at me has diminished, prob-ably because I’ve mostly stopped going to parties. You stop wanting to go out after endless nights of disquiet. But I know the harassment toward others hasn’t ceased. I’ve seen students get slammed with homophobia on the website Collegiate ACB. Gay friends of mine have been shoved when they’ve kissed their partners at Shooters. And most of all, we are mocked whenever we say some-thing slightly effeminate. It’s incredibly jarring whenever someone repeats something I’ve just said back to me in a high-pitched voice. I’d rather be shoved any day than be mocked for someone’s entertainment.

LGBT harassment is still the most prevalent form of physical discrimination on campus. In addition to the ha-rassment, I rarely feel like I have a student mentor to look up to on these issues. There are few out LGBT individuals in positions of leadership. Some of the LGBT individuals who hold positions of infl uence stay silent, and relegate their identity to rumored whispers. That’s the unfortunate thing about being gay—you either own it or you don’t. You can’t change your skin color, and it’s hard to hide your sex. But you can hide your sexual orientation. And it takes some damn courage to be out on this campus.

Like a lot of gays, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m tired of being the representative for something that I’ve been reduced to. I’m politically moderate, so I often ask myself, “When did I become so gay?” Maybe Duke is changing me, and maybe that’s a good thing. But I can’t help but wonder what life would be like on this campus if I were straight.

Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trinity ju-nior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

I rise in fl ame“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any

other name would smell as sweet.”Juliet was no politician.

Last Tuesday, the U.S. Senate reauthorized the Vio-lence Against Women Act (VAWA) despite 22 dissenting Republican votes. Social media exploded with shouts for these 22 senators to be voted out of offi ce. Surely these dissenters would have to be back-ward, right wing extremists in order to oppose a bill intended to protect women from violence. Well, not exactly.

Molly Ball of The Atlantic wondered why anyone would take such a politically septic stance, especially considering that the GOP lost by an 11-point margin among women voters last November. She sat down with Christina Villegas, a visiting fellow at the conservative Independent Women’s Forum. Villegas pointed to many specifi cs of the act—such as the targeted areas of vio-lence, the “mandatory-arrest” policy, along with waste and fraud—that could be made more effective and account-able. Villegas’ objections may be well intentioned, but when these concerns are labeled as opposition, the act’s supporters label dissenters as pro-abuse and anti-women.

When asked if opposing the VAWA for relatively minor objections was worth it, given the accompanying depic-tion as being anti-women, Villegas responded, “Having the courage to question various sections of this bill doesn’t make you pro-abuse or anti-women. No bill should receive unconditional support because its intentions are noble or its title sounds benefi cial.” Though I support the VAWA, I have to agree with this philosophy. All issues should be open to debate and revision.

Politically charged titles are nothing new, and politi-cians are smart about how they use language. As Ball again pointed out, when President Obama and Vice President Biden announced proposals for new gun legislation earli-er this year, they didn’t use the words “gun control” once. They side-stepped such an alienating, big-government term and opted to instead speak of “gun violence” and “gun-violence legislation,” to much success.

This reminds me of how my mother spoke to my dog. Every few months we would be off to the “v-e-t,” but never to the “vet,” so as to not raise any suspicions. The vet’s of-fi ce never changed, but our dog’s reluctance to go did.

Rhetorical manipulation clouds reality. We aren’t de-

bating the facts anymore, but how the facts are delivered. Labels can be used to make dissenters seem heartless or to avoid scaring off moderate supporters. Labels can be used to create the illusion of change and reform, while

remaining ideologically stagnant. Is the political science realm ruled by headlines? Do other scientists debate solely based on their papers’ abstracts?

But we are as bad as the politicians. We label ourselves as the Democratic vote, Republican vote, white vote, black vote, gay vote, female vote. Once you la-bel yourself, you can be catered to, focus groups can be assembled and you can be won over. You aren’t dynamic, open to discussion or capable of a varied position. You are a statistic with “known” political

positions. You are a dog that can be thrown the correctly worded bone and remain happy.

So don’t label yourself.When you do, the American two-party system forces

you to fall on one side of an issue, no matter how multi-fac-eted. This structures a damaging debate between parties, where conceding a point means “losing” it to the other side. So instead of conceding, we reword and repackage. But politics shouldn’t be an us-versus-them discussion. We are all American. Labeling those with other views as “them” discounts—even vilifi es—valuable perspectives.

Don’t discount the opposition without checking their sources. Instead of seeing a headline stating that the Vio-lence Against Women Act received “no help” from 22 Re-publican senators and saying “vote them out of offi ce,” learn from them. Understand why they dissented; don’t just auto-matically hate them for it. Issues are never as cut and dry as “for” or “against,” even though we usually vote this way. For or against; Republican or Democrat; chocolate or vanilla. Be curious and investigate the entire scope of the issue. You may still come to the same conclusion, but your wisdom is more stable with a comprehensive understanding.

Sure, labels are the fi rst things you see, but don’t be superfi cial. Dig deeper. You may see me, my height, my extremely athletic stance and think, “He’s good at bas-ketball.”

Nope.

Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Travis on Twitter @jtsmith317.

Time for a K-ville Magna CartaOn Feb. 13, The Chronicle ran a guest piece (“Pow-

er monitoring”) criticizing the line monitors’ en-forcement of walk-up line policies leading up to

the Carolina game, suggesting that their strict enforcement undermined the spirit of the game and the would-be Cameron Cra-zies. Online commenters responded by ac-cusing the author of “whining” and of being unwilling to accept an unbiased application of the rules. I fi nd this reaction surprising.

The key characteristic of the student section of Camer-on is the privilege of free and equal access for all students. Before the line forms, no one student has a stronger claim to a ticket than any other. In this sense, these tickets are held in common by the student body. The problem of how to allocate tickets is solved by giving preference to those who show up fi rst.

The LMs are the police force for this system. This group sees itself as so autonomous that it applied for selective living group status last year. New LMs are selected by the previous LMs themselves, which serves to perpetuate the dominance of characteristics deemed ideal by the estab-lished leadership. Though DSG plays a role in approving K-ville rules and appointing the head line monitor, the LMs have developed a code of conformity within their ranks that creates a distance between themselves and other students. This insular and unelected group has almost full control over access to what is in essence our property.

Frustrations with the LMs are common and not limit-ed to just the less devoted walk-up liners. Last week I wit-nessed fi rst hand how certain students were given favorable treatment based on their relationships with the monitors. What’s worse is that some of what tenters are subjected to would be considered hazing were if carried out by a greek organization or SLG. The lack of consistent and equitable enforcement is not the main problem, however.

The LMs are not held directly accountable in any mean-ingful way to the students they are there to serve. Why have we outsourced the regulation of our rightful prop-

erty to such an organization? Regardless of your feelings about how the LMs operate, shouldn’t you demand a say? What if they wore greek letters rather than blue jack-ets—would you feel differently? I am not at

all proposing that we eliminate the LMs, but I do believe that it is time for us to take back a measure of control over the student section. In 1215 the barons of England forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which obligated him to ask their permission, through Parliament, before he could change the law.

In the same vein, I suggest that the head line monitor be made into an elected position. Candidates would have to explain why they would be best able to regulate access to our seats, and it would enable a campus-wide conversation about the type of K-ville experience we want to have. This would democratize the organization and allow students a greater voice in its operation. Compared to other major elected offi ces such as DSG president and Young Trustee, the LMs probably have a much more signifi cant impact on many of our day-to-day lives. Local sheriffs are elected. What’s the difference? Why shouldn’t we have a voice?

Lastly, this shouldn’t be at all threatening to the K-ville establishment. In spite of all the criticism, LMs truly are the most devout Cameron Crazies and work very hard to im-prove the Duke basketball experience for all of us. They deserve our thanks for bringing order out of what would otherwise be total chaos. Consent, however, is key on this campus, and there’s nothing wrong with making the head line monitor ask us for it. Then we can all decide whether or not we get bathroom breaks.

Paul Vanderslice is a Trinity senior.

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12 | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 THE CHRONICLE

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

February 19 – February 25

ExhibitionsCampaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital). Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Thru February 23. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 Life magazine series on segregation. Thru March 2. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Road to Desegregation at Duke. A look at the contributions of African Americans at Duke 50 years after desegregation. Thru March 3. Rare Book Room Cases, Rubenstein Library. Free.

A Mockery of Justice: Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair. How the popular press satirized one of the most notorious legal cases in French history. Thru March 9. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide. How maps project ideas of urban space. Curated by students in the Franklin Humanities Institute Borderwork(s) Lab. Thru March 17. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Alphabetic Excursions. Prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Light Sensitive. Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Thru May 12. Nasher Museum of Art.

EventsFebruary 21The Duke University Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor. Two Shades Of Blue, featuring the UNC Wind Ensemble, Evan Feldman, conductor. Works by Eric Whitacre, Percy Grainger, Frank Ticheli, Lukas Schingenschuh, John Williams and others. 8pm, Reynolds Theater. Free.

Japanese Music Performance and Talk. James Nyoraku Schlefer and Yoko Reikano Kimura of Kyo-Shin-An Arts perform on shakuhachi and koto, and discuss the musical features, aesthetics and history of Japanese music. 4pm, Biddle Music Building Lobby. Free.

Andrew T. Nadell Book Collectors Contest. Undergraduate and graduate student bibliophiles show off their personal book collections. 1:30-3pm, Perkins Library Lobby. Free.

February 22Piano Honors Concert. Featuring advanced Duke piano students. 6pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Encounters: with the music of our time presents the Ciompi Quartet with guest artists from Kyo-Shin-An Arts. Works include Daron Hagen’s Concerto for Koto and String Quartet (2011). 8pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free.

Ark Dances. Informal dance performance of works entirely by students of all backgrounds. 8pm, The Ark. Free.

February 23Organ Workshop. Visiting organist Jonathan Biggers will offer a workshop on “Creative Hymn Playing” in the Chapel chancel. 11am, Duke Chapel. Free.

Theater Previews New Works Lab. See ad on this page.

Recital. German Lieder by voice students, featuring songs by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, and Marx. 2 pm, Nelson Music Rm. Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Free.

Totally Baroque. Music by J.S. Bach, Telemann, Handel and Purcell. Featuring Elizabeth Linnartz, soprano; Lewis Moore, bass; Alicia Chapman, oboe; Jennifer Streeter, recorder; Andrew Bonner, viola d’amore, violin; Robbie Link, viola da gamba; Andrew Pester, harpsichord. 7:30pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free.

February 24Organ Recital Series Concert. Jonathan Biggers, hailed as “one of the most outstanding concert organists in the United States,” will present a recital on the Aeolian organ. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

Screen/SocietyAll events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

2/19 ASHES OF TIME [35mm] Christopher Doyle Retrospective AMI Showcase

2/20 THE JOURNALS OF MUSAN (W) Transnational North Korea Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

2/21 IRANIAN TABOO (W) Iranian Cinema Middle East Film Series

2/25 5 BROKEN CAMERAS Palestinian/Israeli documentary Middle East Film Series

Presented by the Department of Theater Studies

Open rehearsal in Sheafer Theater

Friday, February 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Hoi Polloi’s two-week residency was made possible by support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

OBIE-winning Brooklyn-based theater company

H o i Po l l o ibrings to Duke

A work-in-progress presentation of

Republica new theater piece

inspired by Plato

Saturday, February 23 at 8 pmSheafer Theater

FREE