rival spring 2014

R I VA LTHE AFTERMATHSee the post-game pictures of celebration and sadness after the two games UNC-CH and Duke played against one another this season - 26

SENIOR BUCKET LIST Things every UNC Chapel Hill and Duke student must do before graduation - 29

celebrating the Duke & UNC-CH connection

Volume 9 • Issue 4 • SPRING 2014

STUDENT DJ’s Meet student DJ’s who study by day and work the spin table by night - 18

2 RIVAL MAGAZINE• VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 4

a letter from the editorspring issue 2014

staffEditor in Chief

Photo EditorArt Director

Social Media/PRTreasurer

UNC-CH Writers

Duke Writers

Photographers

Designers

Blog

Lauren Paylor, Duke

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CHMoira Gill, UNC-CHIlana Wolpert, DukeEric Kline, UNC-CH

Caroline LelandErin KolstadMark Dawson

Jake KleinRyan HoergerEmmie LeMarchandAnna MukamalRachel FischellJessica Lee

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CHKate Schneider, UNC-CHEllie Wilson, DukeCatalina Villegas, DukeSarah Houck, DukeAlexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

Moira Gill, UNC-CHElise Bruguera, DukeJessica Lee, DukeAlexandria Clayton, UNC-CH Wendy Lu, Duke

Sherry Zhang, Duke

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Rival is a joint publication between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that seeks to reinforce and redefine the historic rivalry. Rival is inde-pendently recognized at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is also a member of the Duke University Publications Board.

Funding for Rival Magazine was provided in part by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Congress and the Duke University Publications Board.

All content, pictures, graphics, and design are the property of Rival Magazine ©2013-2014. All rights reserved.

I can remember every detail of the day I was accepted to Duke University: where I was (gawk-

ing at a movie filming location in Manhattan), what I was wearing (a poorly chosen velour sweat suit), what I did when I found out (threw my phone and ran around a hotel lobby). I was obviously ecstatic but also extremely nervous. As a born and raised Floridian, I thought of J.J. Redick as solely a player for the Orlando Magic and firmly believed that the only important sports ri-valry existed between UF and FSU. The night before I flew to Duke to begin my freshman year, a friend already in college passed along a piece of wisdom to me: “Overtime, you’ll develop a life at Duke while still keeping your life at home. Except by then, you’ll begin to call Duke your home.” He was right – Duke has become my home. And I’m just as torn to leave it as I was to leave my first home in Florida. But such is life – as soon

as I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in one place, it’s suddenly time to go. But as happy as I am to say goodbye to living in a dorm room and eating Pitchfork Provisions’ chopped Mexican salads for every meal, I am definitely sadder to say goodbye to the Duke moments that can never be replaced. There aren’t enough pages in this magazine to list them all, but they include risk-ing hypothermia to see the greatest basketball game of my life, 4 A.M. life talks with the Notorious B.I.G. blasting from coffee shop speakers, and being a secret Tar Heel fan as editor of a magazine that has lit-erally changed my life. Thank you for an incredible four years, Duke. You’ll always be my home.

See you soon,

Lauren PaylorEditor-in-Chief

SPRING 2014 • RIVAL MAGAZINE 3

in every issue:Pregame pg. 4-5Discover the talents of Duke and UNC's two modern dance groups: Movement and Modern Extension.

Tar Tracks | Devil's Advocate pg. 11-12A Duke student and a UNC student share their perspective on university life in the Devil’s Advocate and Tar Heel Tracks column.

Top Vpg. 6-7Remember Snomageddon 2014? Check out what Duke and UNC students were up to on their days off from classes.

By the bookpg. 30In this issue, two classes offered at UNC and Duke on the topic of the AIDS disease are compared side by side.

Out of the bluepg. 31Meet the 2014-2015 editorial staff in this issue’s Out of The Blue section.

Athlete's Cornerpg. 22Rival sports columnist Ryan Hoerger talks about the upcoming baseball season and what the game will be like without players who recently retired.

in this issue:Lauren Paylor, Duke

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CHMoira Gill, UNC-CHIlana Wolpert, DukeEric Kline, UNC-CH

Caroline LelandErin KolstadMark Dawson

Jake KleinRyan HoergerEmmie LeMarchandAnna MukamalRachel FischellJessica Lee

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CHKate Schneider, UNC-CHEllie Wilson, DukeCatalina Villegas, DukeSarah Houck, DukeAlexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

Moira Gill, UNC-CHElise Bruguera, DukeJessica Lee, DukeAlexandria Clayton, UNC-CH Wendy Lu, Duke

Sherry Zhang, Duke

Send your thoughts to our editor!

[email protected]

Rival is a joint publication between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that seeks to reinforce and redefine the historic rivalry. Rival is inde-pendently recognized at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is also a member of the Duke University Publications Board.

Funding for Rival Magazine was provided in part by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Congress and the Duke University Publications Board.

All content, pictures, graphics, and design are the property of Rival Magazine ©2013-2014. All rights reserved.

Senior Bucket Listpg. 29The Rival staff has put together a com-prehensive “bucket list” of things to do while you are a student at Duke or UNC Chapel Hill!

STudent Entrepreneurspg. 8-10Discover more about the collaborative Duke-UNC Chapel Hill Startup Challenge event - a chance to learn more about fellow students and alumni involved in starting small businesses.

Feminist Activist Initiativepg. 13-17Get an exclusive look at this in-depth feature on UNC-CH basketball coach Roy Williams' life off of the court, as detailed by his daughter Kim.

STUDENT D.J.'spg. 18-20Rival writer Rachel Fischell interviews stu-dent DJ’s from UNC and Duke to show the talent not only as musical, but as a skill in bringing people together.

Poet's Cornerpg. 28“Ball- -ad -et” by Anna Mukamal (By submission)

Students meet with start-up representatives and share resumes (MORE ON PG. 8) FROM “STUDENT DJ’s”, PAGE 18


By Sherry Zhang, DukeDesign by Elise Bruguera, DukePhotos by Catalina Villegas, Duke

pieces from very early on because it builds a creative outlet. The com-munity and passion for dance in this group is hard to miss. Most of the girls started dancing between the ages of three and five. Currently, Momentum has 17 members, sev-en of which are first-years. Haylee Levin, a first-year in the group, says she loves Momentum and loves how it pushes her to experience dances styles outside of her comfort zone. The piece continues with intri-cate footwork and detailed syn-chronization, cannon and building. The dancers practice up to four times a week at the Arts Annex, a dynamic housing space on campus that provides rehearsal space for all of Duke’s dance and art groups. Although a relatively new group – they are currently in their fourth year– Covington believes that her favorite experience with Momen-tum has been the ability to watch them develop and grow. “From our first showcase in Schaeffer my freshman year with a lot of random pieces of all dif-ferent styles [to] seeing how amaz-ing our freshmen are this year, [in addition to] getting to perform at some of the big events like Awaaz has been really great,” says Cov-ington. Awaaz is one of the largest showcases of the year highlighting various dance groups, singers and

A dancer enters center stage right beautifully crafting her

body to the music. Another danc-er follows her entering center stage left who slowly synchronizes to her pirouettes (turns) and développés (a movement in which the leg is first lifted parallel to the floor then is fully extended). This is the open-ing for one of Momentum’s pieces choreographed by Rachel Zacharias (’16), Natalie Lubin (’17) and Cosi Goldstein (’17) to “Black and Gold” by Sam Sparro. It’s a feel-good jazz piece that incorporates incredible floor work and technique. Momen-tum, usually recognized as a phys-ics term for the motion of a body, well-exemplifies the beautiful mo-tion of bodies. “[The] idea of movement and how beautiful it can be motivates us through,” Kendall Covington, Vice President and Treasurer of Momen-tum, says. She describes Momen-tum as “an all girl multi-style dance group [that] focuses on ballet, hip-hop and modern as [their] three main styles”. All of their pieces are stu-dent-choreographed and all the practices and collaborations are student-lead. Students are encour-aged to choreograph “small group”

Duke Pregame: Building Momentum

Ready, Set... Go.

other artistic performances. “One of our biggest accomplishments this year was performing at Home-coming for the first time,” says Cov-ington. Besides these larger events, Momentum usually partners with various philanthropies on campus hosted by sororities or other dance groups. A future collaboration that is currently in the works is one with UNC-CH’s Modern Extension Dance Company. It started as a sug-gestion by a dancer in Modern Ex-tension who is a friend of a sopho-more member in Momentum. Due to scheduling conflicts, the explo-sion of Modern-Momentum-Ex-tension will have to wait. Snake 1-2-3-4, switch leap, tilt jump, come back together. As the piece wraps up, the dancers contin-ue to display their athleticism with their beautifully crafted lines and pointed feet. See the full perfor-mance on Saturday April 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm in Page.

Momentum dancers synchronize and perfect their dance.


By Lisa LeFever, UNC-CH Design by Elise Bruguera, DukePhotos by Kate Schneider, UNC-CH

Some of it is more similar to con-temporary. Our show every year touches on the whole spectrum of modern dance,” she says. “And we’re better than Duke,” Cowan adds. Cowan says that the group has never done a collaboration with Duke’s modern dance equivalent, Momentum, before, but one is be-ing planned for the fall semester. “We see them a lot at Master classes because a lot of groups come to perform at Memorial Hall,” says Cowan. “Some dancers go and take class [at Duke] throughout the se-mester. There are a lot of connec-tions.”

ny in 1988. The company prac-tices five nights a week, holding tryouts every September for students with experience in modern dance who are inter-ested. “There are about 22 of us in the group, including sev-eral graduate students, one librarian and a faculty advisor who is a part-time dance fac-ulty member,” Cowan says. “I would say that most of us have been dancing since high school or middle school. I’ve been dancing my whole life; a lot of the dancers have been danc-ing their whole lives. We’re all pret-ty experienced,” Cowan says. Modern Extension is the only dance company at UNC-CH that offers a weekly technique class and is the only dance company on campus that is a part of the Sport Club Program. They actively fuse together elements of classical bal-let and newer, more modern dance techniques. “Modern can mean a bunch of different things. Some of it is post-modern, which is very abstract.

It’s a blur of baggy t-shirts, leg-gings and long ponytails as the

dancers of UNC-CH’s Modern Ex-tension Dance Company sprint by late on a Tuesday night in the base-ment of Woolen Gymnasium. The dancers form a circle with three on the floor in the middle. The rest of the group join arms and move to-gether in harmony around the fall-en before breaking apart in a flash of high kicks and pointed toes. “I have faith in you! You can do it – take it from the very, very top,” Park Cannon calls out to the group. Cannon is the co-president of Mod-ern Extension along with Celeste Cowan. Cannon and Cowan are both seniors – Cannon is a Hispan-ic Linguistics and Linguistics dou-ble major and Cowan is majoring in Biology and minoring in chemistry. The dancers are currently work-ing on two pieces that were each choreographed by the co-presi-dents. One is for the Company’s big annual performance in April and the other is for the company’s regional performance at the Amer-ican College Dance Festival, which is attended by colleges from across the nation including UNC-CH and Duke. “There are probably about 10 pieces in the show – two of them are choreographed by dance faculty and the rest are by students,” Cow-an says. Marian Hopkins, who served as the university’s only modern dance professor until she retired in the spring of 2012, founded the compa-

UNC Pregame: Modern Extension

Cowen’s piece, “Nuclear,” depicts nuclear family structure and relation-ships.

By Jessica Lee, DukeDesign by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH and Wendy Lu, Duke

I Freshman Jessica Hennacy and her friends went for a walk in

the Duke Gardens and took a ton of pictures. Afterwards, they went to the Marketplace until their toes defrosted, then ran to the parking lot behind Brown for an impromp-tu snowball fight. They spent the rest of the night watching Season 4 of The Walking Dead.

II According to sophomore Matt Peterson, Cooper House made

sleds from scratch and went sled-ding on the hills of the Washing-ton Duke. They also started snow-ball fights with other dorms and watched several winter movies, such as Frozen and Miracle.

III Freshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai

spent 13 hours studying and watch-ing figure skating, but mostly eating in the Marketplace from opening to closing. When they received the email saying classes were cancelled the following day, they ran out to build Olaf from Frozen to celebrate.

IV Freshman Patrick Terry and other Jarvis residents built

a giant 7-foot tall Marshall Plum-lee snowman, along with a helpless and much shorter UNC-Chapel Hill snowman beside it. “Maybe the people at UNC-CH will like it,” Ter-ry says.

V Sophomore Kate Abendroth and her friends had a snow

fight. However, unlike many oth-er Duke students who bundled up in coats and gloves before hurl-ing snowballs at each other, they dressed up in only bikinis, speedos and swim shorts!

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By Eu Fern Pan, DukeFreshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai build Olaf from Frozen.

Photo by Kate AbendrothKate Abendroth and friends have the usual snowball fight—in swimming attire.

Freshman roommates Eu Fern Pan and Tannya Cai make snow angels. By Eu Fern Pan, Duke

I As soon as the powdery snow was sticking to the ground, stu-

dents on South Campus headed to Skipper Bowles Drive to sled and snowboard down the steep slope, using everything from snowboards to wet floor signs to cardboard box-es. One group of students even built a ramp to jump off of.

II All over the quad, students expressed their creativity and

ingenuity in the snow by creating magnificent snow sculptures of people, dragons, cats and a partic-ularly good replica of the anime character Totoro.

III Football players, including the renowned Ryan Switzer,

organized a competitive snowball fight/football game on the 50-yard line of Kenan Stadium when the Duke-Carolina game was can-celled. Students and players alike tossed snowballs, passed footballs and created precious memories in the falling snow.

IV Throughout campus, lyrics from the animated Disney

film Frozen were ecstatically belt-ed as the storm raged on. The Bell Tower even got in on the fun when it played the melody from “Let it Go” as students cheerfully asked, “Do you wanna build a snowman?”

V Unlike the students, Caro-lina buses did not enjoy the

snow-covered ground. Many buses stalled and slid over the slick road-ways. In fact, UNC-CH students had to help push a bus up Skipper Bowles Drive when it began to slide down the hill.

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By Erin Kolstad, UNC-CHDesign by Wendy Lu, DukePhotos by Kate Schneider, UNC-CH


UNC Students get creative with their sledding vehicles as they race down Manning Drive.

Photo by Mahmoud Saad

Students created an impressive replica of the the cartoon character “Totoro.”

UNC students help bus drivers get up the Skipper Bowles Hill during th storm.Photo by Olivia RobertsonPhoto by Emily Dowmann

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Duke and UNC gather to meet with professionals from start-ups at the Duke Energy Hubb on the Duke campus.

By Sofia Stafford, DukeDesign by Jessica Lee, DukePhotos by Alex Clayton, UNC-CH

Despite the fact that it was just three hours to tip-off for the Duke-UNC bas-

ketball game—one of the most anticipated college basketball games of the year—swarms of eager students from Duke Univer-sity and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill filled the auditorium in Duke’s Gross Hall for the inaugural StartupConnect. The three hour networking event, hosted on February 20, 2014, was yet another impactful example of the power of combining the minds, resources and innovations of these two universities. Hosted by the Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, the Duke Department of Computer Science, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Duke Career Center, the UNC-CH Mi-

nor in Entrepreneurship, the Duke Start-Up Challenge and Duke in Silicon Valley, StartupConnect brought students and employers together for an evening of net-working and education. Aspiring entrepreneurs from Duke and

UNC-CH were invited to talk with employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni, from more than 20 companies. Ac-cording to Duke sophomore Tom Vosburgh, the fair “enabled us to get exposure to what it means to be an entrepreneur.” Amy Unell, Assistant Direc-tor of the Duke in Silicon Valley Program, describes the event as “a collaboration between Duke, UNC-CH.” Entrepreneurs in the Triangle and across the country provide opportunities for jobs, internships and mentoring while connecting with passionate entrepreneurial students.” According to Unell, “it is truly a win-win-win!” The event format facilitated effective networking and was ben-eficial to both students and em-ployers. It provided a less formal environment than the traditional career fairs that take place on campus while exposing aspiring

A student and a representative from “TeamSnap” have a conversation after the panel ends.


Amy Xiong discusses job opportunities with the representative for “First Flight Venture Center.”

Students meet and share résumés with start-up representatives.

entrepreneurs to local start-ups. By providing entrepreneurially spir-ited students with the opportunity to hear from a panel of speakers and connect one-on-one with the employer representatives, Start-upConnect is an innovative and effective type of career fair. A panel discussion opened the night, providing advice to students seeking internships and full-time jobs. This selected panel of entre-preneurial Duke alumni explained to students the characteristics and skills employers seek when hiring so that they were better able to understand the process. The panel discussion was followed by an eve-ning of vibrant networking during which students from all depart-ments at Duke and UNC-CH were welcome to introduce themselves to employer representatives at different tables set up throughout Gross Hall. Many of the employer representatives were Duke alumni who want to help open the door of entrepreneurial opportunity to the next generation of Blue Devils and Tar Heels. During the panel discussion, Duk alumni reflected on their challenges and experiences as en-trepreneurs and suggested ways of getting a job in the startup world. Although all of the panelists pos-sessed different backgrounds and followed different paths to becom-

ing entrepreneurs, their stories all led to one shared takeaway: In the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, uncertainty leads to opportunity. Bant Breen, Duke graduate and Founder/CEO of the management and optimization company Qnary, shared his advice with the audience: “We look for people who have failed, so don’t be afraid to fail.” Most of the 400 Duke and UNC-CH students in attendance were juniors or seniors who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. While many were seeking internships or potential jobs after graduation, others were trying to find out more about what it is like to work at a start-up. Ronda Closner, a represen-tative from First Flight Venture Center, a high-impact technolo-gy incubator that hosts up to 40 companies at a time, was looking forward to meeting students interested in science and innova-tion. “Duke and UNC-CH both have really great science programs that produce curious minds, which is exactly what our startups look for,” she says. Similarly, nutraceutical com-pany Vital Plan was looking for interns with the potential to be hired permanently. “This genera-tion embraces change and a new

way to do things, so this is a great opportunity for us too,” says com-pany representative Esther Lee. The event also drew first and second year students looking for a realistic view of the job market, potential career paths and even summer internships during their college career. Duke freshman Amy Xiong attended the event because “it is great practice for networking when I am looking for an internship next summer or a job down the line.” Most companies who attended the event are based in North Caro-lina or have offices in the Triangle Area. However, there were also companies from New York, Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington D.C. and Denver. From AnyCloud, a document and picture sharing start-up, to Yammer, a private social network that helps companies collaborate on software and business appli-cations, there was a wide range of representation. All the companies, however, shared a common theme in their mission to promote inno-vative technology solutions for in-dividuals and other organizations. Similarly, while all of the students who attended the event are at different stages of their career path, they are all equally energized and united by their common interests in technology, innovation and


Duke and UNC students gather to listen to the panel of start-up professionals.

entrepreneurship. StartupConnect is a direct result of Duke in Silicon Valley students taking initiative to put student feedback into action. “The student interest has been outstanding,” reports Howie Rhee, Managing Director of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. “We’ve had an outstanding com-mittee from across Duke helping to pull this event together.” In addition to campus organizations and programs that dedicated time and resources, Pratt alumnus and Director at Silver Lake Partners, Sean Delehanty, also generously sponsored StartupConnect. Duke junior Janvi Shah is credited with the conception of this innovative networking fair. According to Shah, “many students saw this [event] as a huge need and opportunity since startup employ-ers are underrepresented at Duke’s traditional career fairs.” The collaboration with UNC-CH emerged from student orga-nizers within the UNC-CH Minor in Entrepreneurship who, like Shah, participated in the inaugural class of Duke in Silicon Valley last

summer. “As their energies indi-cate, cultivating and nurturing the relationships between the Bay Area entrepreneurial network and the Duke/UNC-CH student body is a priority for both students and the larger university-wide initiatives,” says fellow student organizer and UNC-CH junior Cate Tidwell. In order to make this event pos-sible, student organizers reached out to Duke and UNC-CH alumni who are involved with startups, many as part of founding teams. The Duke Innovation & Entre-preneurship Initiative and the Pratt School of Engineering both tapped into their extensive alum-ni contacts. The organizers also collaborated closely with American Underground, a startup acceler-ator/incubator with locations in Durham and Raleigh, to represent local startups at the event. Access to the Underground gives high-growth companies the flexible office space and the necessary con-nections to reach their potential. According to Chief Strategist Adam Klein at American Un-derground, “we see talent as the lifeblood of any good company, so

it’s only natural to support things like StartupConnect as a way to give our companies access to smart students at Duke and UNC-CH.” Shah hopes that “StartupCon-nect will serve as a central platform for students and startup companies with alumni from Duke and UNC-CH to connect.” According to Shah and Tidwell, the goal of this event is to help students navigate the path to entrepreneurship by enabling them to interact direct-ly with alumni who have forged meaningful careers in building companies in a variety of indus-tries. “I think this is a good step towards building a culture of entrepreneurship at Duke and strengthening ties with a start-up-rich Triangle area,” says Brian Strubbe, a Duke junior and student organizer of the event. With all the buzz surrounding the event and its turnout, it seems as though this year’s StartupConnect was just the beginning of what will hope-fully be a continued collaboration between Duke, UNC-CH and the Triangle.

By Emmie Le Marchand, DukeDesign by Wendy Lu, Duke

I am pretty sure I have a serious food obsession. I want food all the time, whether I’m hungry or not, and most-ly because I’m just bored or because I can anticipate how good something is going to taste. I cannot sit in Perkins without needing something to sip on from the VDH barristas and I definitely cannot work at my din-ing room table without straying to my pantry to grab a bag of something to nibble on. If someone I’m with is eating then why shouldn’t I be? I’ve been sitting in the same spot for three hours…I’ve obviously well earned my next meal. Food is everywhere and I must have it.

Durham is a foodie’s heaven and maybe it’s just be-cause I’m heading home to England after graduation in May, but I am very aware of leaving behind all the restaurants I haven’t had a chance to visit and all the places I have tried and loved. My to-go-to list is getting forever longer, especially when each time I visit some-where I immediately want to go back. I don’t want a limit on the number of times I can go line up out the door for Monuts or struggle to finish the contents of a boat at Sushi Love or eat late night Cosmic. I’m praying that the Cheesecake Factory opens a restaurant across the pond sometime soon because I really don’t know if I can live without their Spicy Cashew Chicken and pumpernickel bread.

Brunch is the best part of this country. I would eat breakfast food for every meal if I could. Eggs, sausage, pancakes, bagels, biscuits, French toast, yogurt and granola, coffee, fruit juice…I feel like I’m betraying the full English breakfast by loving American brunch but it’s about the occasion and the restaurant and the any-time of the day. You will be hard pushed to find many restaurants in England like Nosh or Elmo’s that serve breakfast well into the afternoon. Nosh…The Duke Slammer, The DeLuca, the black and blue smoothie. I’m salivating just thinking about it, mourning the mo-ment I’ll want breakfast after noon and won’t be able to find a place to go. At home, breakfast is a bowl of ce-real or a piece of toast. Unless it’s Sunday, when you’re massively hung-over and a fat greasy plate of sausages and beans slumped on your sofa watching the footie is the only potential cure. Here, Nosh is the answer to everything.

After brunch, the froyo culture comes in a pretty close second on my list of American gastronomic godsends. A drink might follow dinner at home with my friends; here I’m totally ok with going out for frozen yogurt in-stead, with filling my pot full of deliciousness that does not come with the guilt of ice cream and brings just as much relaxation as a glass of wine. When I move to London this summer, I will make a point of seeking out somewhere to get my post-dinner sugar fix, since there aren’t three froyo places within 10 minutes of each oth-er like there are in every city here.

As much as I will miss the food here, along with paying for a full WaDuke dinner on my Duke card or driving to get a Cook-Out milkshake at 2 AM, I can’t pretend there aren’t many aspects of the English food culture I can’t wait to get back to. I’m looking forward to coming downstairs in the morning to a brewed pot of hot coffee sitting on the dining room table. We do the black stuff in mugs, sitting round the breakfast table together. The first person up makes the coffee; they do not drive to Starbucks to pick up a tray of lattés in paper cups, nor do we stop by the Dunkin’ Donuts drive through every morning. I can’t remember the last time we ordered take-out or picked up food instead of cooking, even if it was just an omelet or leftovers. (As I write this I breathe a silent sign of relief that there is a Chipotle in London.) I haven’t found a place to get a decent cur-ry around here, nowhere like the Bangladeshi restau-rant in my village that gives us free sorbet served in a scooped-out orange peel.

I know as you read this you are laughing at me missing English food. You’re thinking, how in the world can she prefer fish and chips to a good ol’ American burger with all the trimmings, or what can possibly be tasty about those weird little cucumber sandwiches? Well laugh all you want about our tea and crumpets and feel free to remain mind-boggled about marmite, but there is one English meal that you just can’t knock: the Sunday Roast. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes and veggies, all drowned in gravy, eaten off a wooden pub table and washed down with a pint of ci-der. That is the gastronomical delight that England and only England can offer and the one big reason my food obsession won’t be relenting any time soon.

Devil's Advocate: An Ode to Food


By Caroline Leland, UNC-CHDesign by Wendy Lu, Duke

We’ve all heard the reasons for why Duke and UNC-CH are such rivals: close physical proximity, high se-lectivity and world-class academics, famously strong athletic programs... But how often do people think about the differences? As a Robertson Scholar, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a semester as a Tar Heel living at Duke — which I took on as a chance for an unscientific anthropological study comparing the two places. I am obviously limited to my own unique experi-ences, but I think my observations have credibility be-cause it is always a priority to me to immerse myself in the culture of wherever I am. I’ve done my best to fully dive in with academics, athletics and social life at both schools, and while I have found that both universities are vibrant in every sector, there are marked differenc-es as well. (Disclaimer: I don’t think I can ever shake my born-and-bred partiality to UNC, but I want to establish that I truly love both schools. Yes, Chapel Hill is ultimately home to me, but Duke is like a second home. And who doesn’t love their vacation home?) I think one of the main reasons for any differences between the schools is the contrast between public ver-sus private. Because UNC-CH students, as members of a state school, largely hail from North Carolina, they are much more likely to be involved with local politics. Because UNC-CH’s tuition is controlled by the state legislature, UNC-CH students are much more likely to be paying attention to the decisions being made by state politicians. A related difference between the two rivals is that Chapel Hill is a college town that sprang up because of the university, while Durham existed long before Duke came to town. For this reason, UNC-CH is much more integrated with Chapel Hill than Duke is with Durham, making UNC-CH students more likely to be involved with the community in service and in local politics. Duke has a more national and international focus than UNC-CH. It’s an emphasis at both schools, for sure, but when 9% of Duke students are international as compared with the less than 3% at UNC-CH, it is only natural that Duke would make international poli-

tics more of a priority. As a journalism major at UNC-CH, I’m required to take a state and local politics class — but such a class doesn’t even exist at Duke, despite their strong political science department. The other major cultural difference I have noticed between the two schools is in how the students view their time at college. When I was living at Duke, one of the biggest little things, so to speak, that I missed from UNC-CH is that Duke doesn’t have the same “quad culture.” On any sunny day at UNC-CH, you are guaranteed to see people sitting, sleeping, talking, or tossing a Frisbee on the quad. Duke cherishes its own classic quads as well, but seeing people populate them is much less common. After spending several months there, I came to realize this small thing was actually quite symbolic. It stems from the way the students view their time in college. At Duke, with its many ca-reer-specific majors and highly competitive academic spirit, college is seen as a platform for what will come after. It’s a time to prepare for your career: to take the right classes, to land the internships, to network. UNC-CH, a school with a broader liberal arts base and a higher emphasis on local communities, has a differ-ent approach. At UNC-CH, where many students are “born and bred” Tar Heels, the general attitude seems to be one of excitement for simply being at Carolina. Most of my UNC-CH friends don’t know what they want to do when they graduate — while most of my Duke friends are on the path for medical school, law school, or corporate banking. It’s simply different ideas of success. I am not meaning to imply there’s any sort of right or wrong in the comparative differences between these two great schools. The state and local focus at UNC-CH might make us less in tune to what happens on a global scale. And likewise, by focusing on the national and international, Duke sometimes misses out on what Durham and North Carolina have to offer. Statistically speaking, Duke students are probably more likely to be national politicians, while UNC-CH students are prob-ably more likely to be leaders in the state. The mission of each school is different, the student body makeup is different, and therefore the campus cultures are dif-ferent. I think it’s fun to contrast the two, important to be aware of our differences and necessary to appreciate both so we can learn from each other and ultimately, as any rivals should, make each other stronger.

Tarheel Tracks: Different Shades of Blue



Duke University senior Lillie Reed grew up in Green-ville, North Carolina, an

area she calls “very conservative.” She says that until college, she nev-er identified as a feminist because it was socially unacceptable to do so. Even so, Reed’s mother is a feminist. “My mom taught me the word ‘misogynist’ before I was four years old,” Reed says. “I think she

might have burned bras.” Accord-ing to Reed, this is all in a social context where “people would insult you by calling you a feminist.” When Reed was growing up, sexism was also rampant in her hometown. Once, she was ac-cused of cheating on biology tests because she consistently scored higher than the boys in the class. Her teacher thought this was im-possible since “girls can’t be good at math and science.” Fast forward to 2014, and it’s clear that Reed’s teacher was mistaken. Reed is now double majoring in Psychology and Global Health and minoring in Biology. She is also a Chronicle columnist and an intern at the Duke Women’s

Center. Reed says that before coming to Duke, she didn’t expect to be involved with any feminist initia-tives. “When you come to college as a freshman, you think it’s a liberal wonderland,” she says. “But then I started witnessing sexism firsthand.” Reed says that sexual assault became a problem in her life and in her friends’ lives, and that this issue finally spurred her to get involved. “It got to the point where more of my friends had been as-saulted than hadn’t,” Reed says.

Reed began writing for the fem-inist blog Develle Dish, which is a space for people who want to en-gage in dialogue about women’s is-sues. “Writers can be womanists or feminists,” Reed says. She explains that feminism and womanism are two sides of the same coin. “Fem-inism was started as a movement largely driven by white women,” Reed says. “On the other hand, womanism was started primarily by black women who wanted equal rights, who didn’t think that femi-nism fit them.” Womanism is generally taken to be a variation of feminism that is more aware of the issues facing women of color. Reed emphasizes the importance of intersectional-

ity—the study of how other factors, such as race, socioeconomic class or sexual orientation impact one’s identity—in discussing feminist causes. “Womanism is a more intersectional form of feminism,” Reed says. “Even though some people say I can’t, I identify with womanism as much as I can as a white woman.” As Reed became more comfort-able with the concepts of feminism, womanism and intersectionality, she developed the necessary tools to promote advocacy for feminist causes. She wanted to design a

feminist and womanist activism program with an intersectional focus. “If it didn’t have these com-ponents, in addition to activism, we would just be perpetuating a lot of the divides we’re trying to break down,” Reed says. Although Reed generally prefers to strengthen existing programs rather than to start new ones, she says that “this was a space where one didn’t really exist.” So, she applied for a $5,000 grant through the fourth annual Kenan-Biddle Partnership to pioneer the Femi-nist Activist Initiative (FAI). It was Reed’s very first grant—and hers was one of 10 total projects to be selected. The Kenan-Biddle Partnership

ActivisM IN MOTION

By Anna Mukamal, DukePhotos by Elle Wilson, DukeDesign by Moira Gill, UNC Chapel Hill


awarded over $49,000 in grants for these 10 projects to be launched during the 2013-2014 school year (see the last page of this article for a brief description of each grant). According to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s website, this initiative partners with Duke University to promote “student-initiated, inter-insti-tutional projects designed to strengthen established collabora-tions or encourage new ones.” The essence of the Kenan-Biddle Partnership is to increase intellec-tual interaction between students at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Similar efforts include the Robert-son Scholars Program, which was started in 2000 and provides full funding for students to engage in inter-institutional, domestic and international study. The Robert-son bus system allows students to easily transport themselves from campus to campus, a resource that Reed plans to take advantage of in programming for the Feminist Activist Initiative. The original grant states that

the FAI exists “in order to cap-italize on potential synergies between the two campuses and on mutual energy and excitement for social activism.” The program was initially named the Feminist Colloquium, but Reed and her leadership team later changed it to the FAI to demonstrate that it is not only a leadership program, but also a program dedicated to social activism. Basic components of the FAI include “a leadership retreat, a publication, an activist campaign designed by participants and monthly colloquia where participants will be offered the op-portunity to engage with feminist leaders.” As the founder of the FAI, one of Reed’s goals is to utilize the human resources that are available to her at Duke and at UNC-Chap-el Hill. She says she was “totally blindsided” by “how different the approaches to activism were” at the two schools. “Duke students have their 12 million extracurriculars,” she says. “At UNC-CH, students have their one main passion.” She

thinks that while UNC-CH is an activist community, Duke students are individual actors in a commu-nity of activists. Reed acknowledg-es that because both settings have benefits and drawbacks, the FAI will coordinate inter-institutional efforts to capitalize on strengths and minimize weaknesses. Reed also envisions the FAI as being in constant evolution. “Each semester, this group of students will create some sort of activism on both campuses through the FAI retreats,” Reed says. “They’ll con-tinue to meet with faculty, staff and visiting feminist leaders to acquire knowledge to share with their fellow students.” Reed says that activist initiatives could include women’s voices in politics, an-ti-sexual assault efforts, awareness of intersectionality and initiatives to involve women of color in femi-nist causes on both campuses. “College is usually the most lib-eral part of our lives, so it’s a good time to mobilize people to make change,” Reed says. “It would just be a waste for Duke not to make

Senior Lillie Reed sits down with RIVAL to speak about her hopes for the new Feminist Activist Initiative and the partnership between Duke and UNC Chapel Hill.


partnerships with local colleges like UNC-CH.” Her distant goal is to create a FAI-based union between colleges and universities across North Carolina. Reed hopes that such a partner-ship will someday exist because she wants to combat the spreading stigma attached to feminism. “As soon as I started working for the women’s center, writing for Develle Dish and publicly expressing femi-nist ideology in my Chronicle col-umns, people started labeling me as ‘that feminist chick,’” Reed says. “Even though I don’t find shame in the term ‘feminism’ because feminists really just want equality for everybody, I felt shame in being called ‘that feminist chick’ because it was used in a shameful way.” Reed thinks that using labels to define people is dangerous. “Get-

ting labeled as a feminist and noth-ing more is annoying because it limits who you get to be,” she says. “Defining me by one aspect of my identity—which happens to a lot of people all the time in different ways—reduces me to one thing.” Still, Reed thinks that compared to the general population, Duke students are much more receptive to feminist causes. “There are very few Duke students who would openly say that feminism is dumb,” Reed says. “But when it comes to activism and actually putting feminist belief into practice, there’s not a cohesive activist component to the general receptivity.” FAI participant and Duke senior Cara Peterson was attracted to the FAI because she likes practice rather than theory. She thinks that most Duke students misconstrue

what feminism is. “I think the term ‘feminism’ is very stigmatized,” Peterson says. “Even as someone who associates strongly with feminism, there are times where using the word is not advantageous because I know people are going to entirely stop listening to what I say.” A Public Policy and Women’s Studies double major, Peterson is one of Duke’s 11 FAI participants. There are also 11 participants from UNC-CH. Peterson thinks that intersec-tionality—the idea that no one can be defined by a sole identity marker—was crucial in the FAI’s selection process. “One of the selection requirements was that the groups are really diverse,” Peterson says. “Only through diversity can we explore how gender, feminism

Senior Lillie Reed is the founder and chief administrator of the new Feminist Activist Initiative that connects feminist leaders from both Duke and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


and activism interact with our daily lives.” At the first of the FAI’s ini-tial gatherings, the participants engaged in an activity that was designed to illustrate the impact of stereotyping. In the activity, one participant asked another, “Who am I?” Then, the other described who they perceived that person to be based on their race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion or sexual orientation. Lots of times, the participants inaccurately judged each others’ characteristics by relying solely on their outward appearances. Even Peterson learned from this activity—and she has been a Wom-en’s Studies major since her junior year. “I wanted to understand the way in which my gender impacts my daily life,” she says. “My ma-jor makes me more aware of the bigger structures that reinforce my attitudes.” Topics of study in Peterson’s major include how commercial-ization and advertising perpetuate body image issues and the fact that one in four women will be sexually assaulted by the time she leaves college. “Most people aren’t even aware of this, much less do they realize the underlying factors,” she says. “The Women’s Studies major helps me to better understand my identity.” In some ways, Peterson views her major as Sociology with a gen-der lens—a multifaceted viewpoint that she will contribute to the FAI. “Gender is a part of our lives that not a lot of people delve into,” she says. “But it’s so critically import-ant to our understanding of what we should expect from our world and from ourselves.” Peterson explains that both

men and women are evaluated on stereotypes related to race, sexual orientation and religion. Yet so-ciety views men as individualistic and women as communitarian. “If a woman does what it takes to get to the top of a social group, peo-ple are going to like her a lot less,” Peterson says. “A lot of hierar-chy-climbing involves mentorship, and with less women in leadership positions, it’s harder for women to move up.” According to Peterson, there is a much bigger difference than most people realize between how men and women are treated. At Duke, Peterson thinks that women are less likely than men to raise their hands in class; similarly, more men run for leadership positions on campus than do women. “It’s much more pervasive than people realize,” Peterson says. “Women are expected to apologize for strong opinions. We tend to start off sen-tences with justifiers, like ‘I might be wrong’ or ‘I was just thinking that maybe.’” Peterson firmly believes that how people experience the world is largely based upon their identity markers. She has been involved in Common Ground, a student-led diversity immersion retreat pro-gram, and Me Too Monologues, an annual show about identity. She was attracted to the FAI because she has an activist—rather than just a feminist—stance. “I think the definition of feminism is not just working for women’s issues,” she says. “Belle Hooks, a well-known feminist in this era, works against systems of sexism and oppression, and I think oppression can be broadly interpreted to apply to any instance of inequality.” Next year, Peterson hopes to

be an intern at the Duke Women’s Center in order to create more programming for eating disorder awareness and support. She also plans to develop FAI projects to address self-esteem issues on cam-pus. “My Public Policy and Wom-en’s Studies duo basically means studying what empowerment is,” Peterson says. Within Public Pol-icy, she focuses on human rights advocacy and international devel-opment. This means analyzing how external factors keep people from feeling empowered. In Women’s Studies, Peterson examines forms of structural violence that may not be as apparent as these external factors. Peterson’s dream job begins right now. She is currently writing a book about everything she wish-es she had known before beginning college. “I want my narratives to illustrate every aspect of college—dating culture, social scenes, gen-der-based violence, image issues, academics, the Greek scene, and the addiction to productivity that a lot of students have,” she says. Eventually, Peterson would like to become a motivational speak-er, although she calls that “a big dream.” She wants to address what she believes to be the biggest prob-lem facing women today: a lack of understanding that their gender does impact them—be it for better or for worse. The Feminist Activist Initiative is designed to show that gender differences can empower women instead of putting them at a disad-vantage. It encourages Duke and UNC-CH students not only to embrace feminist causes, but also to promote tangible inter-institu-tional activist projects.


1. Inter-institutional Contempo-rary Music EnsembleThis collaboration unites the pre-existing Chapel Hill Contem-porary Music Ensemble and the Duke New Music Ensemble, two groups that perform music that students compose. The goal of the Inter-institutional Contempo-rary Music Ensemble is to put on three free concerts in the fall 2014 semester. Students from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill will collaborate and cooperate on every aspect of the effort, including composition, rehearsal and perfor-mance.

2. The Duke-UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Partner-ship (PPE Partnership) This grant builds on the joint Phi-losophy, Politics, and Economics program that Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill co-developed in 2005. Since the pre-existing program functions on the adminis-trative level by designing inter-in-stitutional undergraduate courses, the Duke-UNC PPE Partnership is primarily a student-led initiative. The PPE Partnership will sponsor two major speaker events—one at Duke and one at UNC-CH—that each feature discussions, speakers and academic responses that are led, chosen and written by stu-dents.

3. GlobeMed: Strengthening Partnerships for Global Health EquityGlobeMed is a pre-existing NGO that aligns with the movement for global health equity. This collab-

oration connects the GlobeMed chapters at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Duke University to analyze the relationship between international aid and community-based health projects. The overall goal is to foster the idea of intellect in the service of society.

4. Inaugural Duke/UNC-CH Graduate Workshop in Classics PedagogyThis inter-institutional workshop will take place on March 28-30, 2014. Most graduate programs in Classics allow graduate students to share their research with each oth-er, but not with the experts of the field. This workshop is unique in that it creates a time and space for graduate instructors and faculty to jointly strengthen their pedagogy in the field of Classics.

5. The Duke-UNC NeuroCare PartnershipThis collaboration combines the efforts of Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill students who volunteer for NeuroCare, a pre-existing orga-nization that serves local patients with neurological disorders. This partnership is novel because it al-lows students to supplement their classroom learning by engaging in the community to understand the first-person effects of neurological conditions. The goal is to promote not only the field of neuroscience, but also the positive effects of service.

6. A Blue Note GospelThis project is designed to engage students at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill in dialogue about the origins of Negro Spir-ituals. The overarching purpose

is to examine the role of gospel choirs and A cappella groups in the African-American communities of college campuses within the Trian-gle and across the nation.

7. The Campus BioDiv ProjectThe goal of this project is to in-crease inter-institutional student awareness of the role of biodiversi-ty. The primary interface is an app designed as a tool for students to better understand their local envi-ronments. Secondly, this initiative will harness interest in the app to create cross-campus biodiversity conservation efforts through sci-ence events and competitions.

8. Jewish Student Collaboration Between Duke and UNC-CHWriters of this grant acknowl-edge that the Jewish communities at both Duke and UNC-CH are vibrant, active and well organized; however, they exist separately. This program will pioneer inter-insti-tutional collaboration to enhance the Jewish experience of students on both campuses. The partnership begins with one program this year with the hope of future expansion.

9. Duke-UNC-CH Religion & Science SymposiumRecognizing the fact that Duke and UNC-CH are home to the nation’s premier religious studies depart-ments, the grantees have designed an interdisciplinary symposium that allows professors to present their research to an audience of students from both campuses. The goal is to stimulate inter-in-stitutional discussion in order to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and science.

By Anna Mukamal, DukeDesign by Moira Gill, UNC-Chapel Hill

Kenan-Biddle Grantsawarded for the 2013-2014 school year


Turn it Up and dance on: Student DJs bring the crowd together

By Rachel Fischell, DukeDesign by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

Have you ever seen a DJ on campus at a party, event, or club and thought about how they got hired? What about where they learned to DJ? Or who they are outside their role as a DJ? Student DJs are few and far be-tween at both Duke and UNC-CH. It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to share his or her per-sonal music tastes, preferences and expertise with a crowd of peers. When you really think about it, trying to satisfy the musical pref-erences of everybody in a room is

quite the task. Duke DJ Jacob Rob-inson, better known as DJ Reddix, says that “the main challenge for DJs is that people have diverse tastes, so it can be difficult to bal-ance everyone’s tastes at a party.” Personally, Robinson really enjoys this challenge – he sees DJing as a way to bring everybody together. Robinson is a senior at Duke who has recently hired three sophomores to take over his cli-ents once he graduates. As a high school junior, Robinson decided he wanted a job. His father told him to start his own business, but he had no idea where to even begin. As if it were obvious, his

father commented, “you listen to music all the time – why don’t you become a DJ?” His father then proceeded to connect his son with a local barber who also happened to work as a DJ and thus began Robinson’s career. Since then, he’s immersed himself in running busi-ness as a DJ. Not only does he get paid to do something he loves, but he has also learned how to work well with clients and how to “seal the deal.” As a graduating senior, Robin-son is faced with the uncertainty of how the future of his DJing career will turn out.He says, though, that, “it’s definitely a priority.” He’s

Wearing a Grant Hill jersey, DJ Reddix is in the zone doing his thing as the crowd dances and enjoys the jams. Photo by DukeAfterDark


concerned that “when he tran-sitions to his next city, he won’t have the same built-in community and support as he does at Duke,” as well as the same sizable client base. Robinson is excited by this challenge and thinks he’ll need to take his career to the next level in terms of his skill and his approach in order to maintain his status as a well-regarded DJ. One thing that he believes has helped him immensely is the fact that he owns all of his own equip-ment, making it easier for groups to hire him. He is often hired by groups affiliated with Duke Uni-versity, including sororities, frater-nities and Duke Sports Marketing. Although he predominantly works Duke events, Robinson has a good relationship with a variety of ven-ues in Durham that have hired him for events in the past. Another of Duke’s DJs, Weston Fleming, has made a name for himself as DJ Groan n Sexy. Flem-ing didn’t begin DJing until his

sophomore year of college. When asked about his first experience as a DJ, Fleming says that he “DJ’d a dorm party for maybe 20 people with just a laptop running ‘djay’ software hooked up to a bookshelf stereo.” “I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I had a blast and people seemed to enjoy it,” says Fleming. “Eventually everyone in the room was paired off and making out so I figured I did something right.” Now a senior with two years of experience under his belt, he says that “nothing really compares to playing a lot of songs you really like

Photo by Derek SaffeWeston Fleming, aka DJ Groan ‘N’ Sexy, concentrates on his laptop as he creates and plays sick beats.

at a gig and having your friends and total strangers vibing and moving with you.” Recently, Fleming was asked to play at the release party for Re-sound Magazine. However, he DJs at the Duke Coffeehouse on a more consistent basis. “ It’s a great venue for me because it tends to attract folks who get down to more than just Top 40s,” says Fleming. Typically if he’s playing a live show, his mixes will be “some-thing people will want to dance to. Moreover, [whatever it is] must make you feel grown and sexy.” If it’s not live though, he tends to “make moody downtempo mixes that usually have some sort of nar-rative undercurrent. At UNC-CH, a growing num-ber of students are beginning to explore DJing as a way of earning some extra cash and exploring their passion for music. Trevor Dougherty, known as DJ Good Ratio, refers to himself as an

Photo by DukeAfterDarkDJ Reddix in the zone spinning at Night Lights Presents Homecom-ing at Casbah.


“I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I had a blast and people

seemed to enjoy it.”

beat farmer” in an interview with The Daily Tar Heel. He, along with current UNC-CH seniors Syem Barakzai and Brandon Schell have all spent a majority of their DJ ca-reers at Pulse Nightclub in Chapel Hill. All three have commented on the public’s growing interest in electronic music. As sophomores, Barakzai and Schell decided to co-invest in $350 worth of disc jockey equipment. The owner of Pulse, Richard Sergo, typically hires student DJs and will pay between $100 and $150 for each four-hour shift. By playing one or two shifts per week at Pulse, they’ve certainly managed to make that money back. One challenge faced by student DJs, particularly at UNC-CH, is the hours that they work. If you’re working a Thurs-day night from 10 PM until 2 AM, classes on Friday can be a strug-gle. At Duke, this isn’t as much of a problem because many of the

events that the Duke DJs play are on weekends and the events that fall during the week are often earli-er in the day. Interestingly, not only do Chap-el Hill bars and clubs promote the use of student DJs, but music pro-fessors at UNC-CH have expressed support as well. UNC-CH Music Department chairman, Mark Katz,

told the Daily Tar Heel last mont that “DJing involves a lot of rele-vant subjects, like entrepreneur-ship, professionalism and how to promote oneself.” If we look at the experiences of Duke’s DJ Reddix beginning in his high school days

through his college career, we see that this is inevitably true. Barakzai, who goes by the stage-name DJ Eskay, stated in an in-terview with the Daily Tar Heel, “there’s no better feeling than throwing on a song and seeing the floor fill with people who are grooving to it.” It seems, based on UNC-CH’s DJ Eskay and Duke’s DJ Groan n Sexy, that uniting a crowd of people is a universally rewarding experience for DJs at both schools.Clearly, many common sentiments are shared by student DJs across the mixing board – even at two schools with as deep-seated of a rivalry as Duke and UNC-CH. These students all share a passion for music and for bringing com-munities together. What could be better than getting paid for doing something you love?

Sources: The Daily Tar Heel

Photo by Derek SaffeDuke student, Weston Fleming, otherwise known as DJ Groan ‘N’ Sexy does work on the turntables.

I like to think that life is the sum of our experiences, that it is defined by both the best and

the worst of moments. I like to think that life is full of questions, that it holds a series of situations challenging us to the very core. And I like to think that life is about finding meaning as it pushes us to consider, reconsider and consider again. But at the same time, life is also busy. Between the ten-page es-say that we need to write and the friend with whom we need to catch up and the internship application we need to submit, we often find ourselves trapped in a giant to-do list and caught in a meaningless routine. Can you blame us? Most days, all we want is to make it through the day to a point where we often lose sight of the bigger picture and find ourselves com-pletely lost. I think that most Duke students experience this at some point or another; it’s almost a rite of pas-sage, a part of our growing up process. Personally, I’ve felt this way for the past year. I’ve been overwhelmed, overcommitted and

overexerted. I’ve felt tired, frus-trated and confused. The truth is, I have become so caught up in my daily life that I’ve lost sight of who I am and who I want to become. I have been wandering aimlessly and without purpose, hoping to some-how end up okay. Someone once told me, “When you find yourself lost in a forest, your best bet is to climb the near-est tree. A view of the entire forest from 200 feet above the ground is a hell of a lot more helpful than those five trees currently around you.” We all have different ways to climb 200 feet. And, similarly, we all find different ways to change perspectives. For me, that way has been to study abroad. When I made the decision to study abroad last spring, I knew that I needed to take a step back. And that meant leaving my comfort zone, pushing beyond my own perceived limita-tions and discovering what I am truly capable of. Every moment, every challenge, every decision will help you define who you are and who you are becoming. At this point, it has been a little over a month since I first saw the

snow-covered Swiss Alps from the plane window. And while this month has been challenging to say the least, it has also been extremely meaningful. I believe that there is meaning in staying on a bus just to see where it can take you, that there is meaning in singing old-school Britney at the top of your lungs during karaoke night with your new friends, that there is meaning in spending an extra hour at the café before dinner to talk about a lecture you just stepped out of. With each passing day, life gets more a little bit more chaotic, a little bit more complicated and a little bit more challenging. So yes, we can very well make a list of things we want to do some day, in the near future, when we have time. Or we can go out and actual-ly make them happen. So here’s to more nights where we dance until 5 AM. Here’s to more trips where we board a train with an unplanned destination, just to have an adventure. Here’s to more days spent in a café, talking about everything and nothing at all. Why? Because I believe that there is a better way to live, a better way to laugh, a better way to learn. And sometimes, all we need is a little change of perspective to figure it out.


W h y S t u d yAbroad?

By Divya Giyanani, DukeDesign by Jessica Lee, DukePhotos by Divya Giyanani, Duke


By Ryan Hoerger, DukeDesign by Jessica Lee, DukePhoto by Ryan Hoerger, Duke

In February, Derek Jeter an-nounced that the 2014 baseball season would be his last. The

New York Yankee shortstop will have played his entire career in pinstripes and accumulated one of the sport’s most impressive cu-mulative stat lines over 20 years: more than 3,000 career hits, 13 All-Star game selections, five Gold Glove awards and five World Series championships. This is the second time in as many years that the Yankees will deal with the pending retirement of a superstar. Last season, closer Mariano Rivera, baseball’s all-time saves leader, hung up his cleats. Rivera’s 2013 season was stellar, but also served as a nationwide fare-well tour for the veteran reliever. He was presented with gifts in pre-game ceremonies at nearly every stadium he visited in thanks for his many years of service. Love them or hate them, Jeter and Rivera were consummate professionals on and off the field. They won – a lot – and did it with class. They lost – not as much – but were gracious in defeat. It’s very likely that Jeter will get his own personal send-offs from the other 14 teams in the American League. As a Boston Red Sox fan, the retirements of Rivera and Jeter produced conflicted feel-ings. I’ve spent the majority of my life actively rooting against them and what they represent – a huge payroll, a long history of winning and their dominance over the

Red Sox from 1918 to 2003. But when Jeter retires, the core of the Yankee teams I spent my child-hood despising will be gone. As players on both sides of baseball’s most heated rivalry have retired, the Red Sox-Yankees matchup has lost some luster. Players have become friendlier, and the teams haven’t met in the playoffs since the Red Sox won Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. Jeter and Rivera were the kingpins holding the rivalry together, but with them gone, I’m going to have to find new ways to hate the Yankees. When Mike Krzyzewski decides to hang up the whistle and retire from the Duke sideline, it’ll be interesting to see how he’s received. Krzyzewski’s still going strong at age 67, and he’s in a race with Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim for first place in the men’s Division I record book, so this sce-nario probably won’t play out for a while. But should he announce a pre-emptive retirement a la Jeter and Rivera, he’d have the opportu-nity to embark on a similar fare-well tour around the ACC. Would Coach K be as well-re-ceived in his final visits to ACC arenas as Jeter will be around major league baseball? I have my doubts. People tend to hate Derek Jeter because he plays for the Yan-kees. People tend to hate the Blue Devils because they’re coached by Mike Krzyzewski. That said, Krzyzewski’s creden-tials are undeniable: four national championships, two Olympic golds, and before it’s all said and done, probably 1,000 career wins.

He’s done a lot for the sport of basketball, and those accomplish-ments deserve recognition. He’s won and lost with class, despite the fiery intensity that rubs some the wrong way. I bet many ACC road crowds would give Krzyzewski a much warmer welcome if they knew he wouldn’t be coming back the next time Duke visited. The reaction in the Dean Dome might not be one of those suddenly hospitable crowds. The Duke-UNC rivalry has persisted despite the retirement of Dean Smith because of the closeness of the schools, the intensity associated with college basketball in this state and decades of mutual dislike built up between the fan bases. It will continue with-out Coach K. But there will be a gaping hole once Krzyzewski calls it a career, and Tar Heel fans will have to find a new way to reinvig-orate their hatred of Duke, just as I must with the Yankees in the post-Jeter era. Jeter’s last professional game will be at Fenway Park, and tickets prices have skyrocketed for fans wishing to pay their respects to a baseball legend. Would the Tobac-co Road rivalry soften for just one night to honor Krzyzewski? Only time will tell.

Athlete's Corner

Ryan is a Duke sophomore. He plays trom-bone in the Duke University Marching Band.


The Blue blood rivalry Duke-Carolina

Photo by Sarah HouckThe graduate students in Section 20 “hex” the opposing team as they leave the court after warm-ups.

By Jake Klein, DukeDesign by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

In a world where the most important decision in life is choosing a shade of blue, Rival

Magazine presents Duke-Carolina: The Blue Blood Rivalry. Tobacco Road has been given the Holly-wood treatment before, but never like this. For the first time, viewers can experience the game day ex-citement buzzing in Durham and Chapel Hill leading up to tip-off. Originally released digitally last March before a wider release in November, The Blue Blood Rivalry premiered in Los Angeles for the first time in February, becoming an instant sensation featuring the likes

of Ryan Kelly, Kendall Marshall, Reggie Bullock, Antawn Jamison, Rick Fox, and Kenny Dennard. So grab a seat, pop some popcorn, and get ready for an in depth look at the rivalry on the big screen.Background The Blue Blood Rivalry started as a book called Blue Blood by renowned Tobacco Road historian Art Chansky in 2003. Across five volumes, Chansky, a UNC-CH alum, provides a fresh take on the greatest rivalry in collegiate athlet-ics. Although billed as a review of the last 50 years in Duke-Carolina basketball, Blue Blood traces the rivalry all the way back to the turn of the 20th century, detailing the

origins of the Duke (then Trinity College) and UNC-CH basketball teams in the pre-ACC world of the early 1900’s. Hassan Pinto, another UNC-CH grad and founded of GreatestFan Films, obtained the digital rights to Chansky’s Blue Blood. GreatestFan acts as a bridge between sports and technology, providing users with different media to interact with their favorite athletes and celebri-ties. GF also digitizes coffee table books, such as Blue Blood, allow-ing a wider audience to experience them via an eBook format. Pinto and Chansky originally wanted to make a hybrid eBook containing both pictures and video clips


Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty ImagesSeth Curry celebrates a shot during the NCAA Tournament on March 29, 2013.

to provide readers with an inside look into the rivalry. To this end, Pinto contacted writer/director Jason Rem, known for his work on Fox’s sport documentary series Beyond the Glory, to film scenes for the book. But shortly after filming began, the production team realized a few clips wouldn’t be enough. “Once we started filming for the eBook, we realized that we had something much bigger on our hands and that was a film that needed to be shared with the world,” Pinto said in a GF press release. At Rem’s suggestion, the team decided to make a docu-mentary with Chansky serving as screenwriter. The project was funded by $30,000 Pinto raised on Kickstarter, an online crowdfund-ing company, and an undisclosed

Photo by Sarah HouckCameron Crazies go wild to CASCADA’s “Every Time We Touch” during a timeout.

contribution by Image Entertain-ment, the film’s distributor. All in all, their total budget was less than $100,000. The Blue Blood Rivalry was re-leased via online video on-demand services last March, coinciding with the game in Chapel Hill. It premiered the following November on the East Coast, earning rave reviews. It was released again in February leading up to the first Duke-Carolina game of the season. It is now available on Amazon, iTunes, and other digital retailers as well as on DVD.

Overview Unlike other sports documen-taries that are centered around teams, athletes, or games, The Blue Blood Rivalry focuses more on the relationships Durham and Chap-el Hill have with the rivalry. The film itself is structured as a more-or-less chronological overview of the greatest Duke vs UNC-CH moments from the Art Heyman fight in 1961 to the Austin Rivers shot 50 years later (although an interesting anecdote about the 18th century feud between the Duke and Mangum families is briefly mentioned). Each defining mo-ment in Duke-Carolina history is followed by commentary not only from former players such as Jay Bilas, Seth Curry, Mitch Kup-chak, and Phil Ford, but also local fans and students. Passionate Tar Heel fans talk smack about Danny Green’s posterization of Greg Pau-lus while Dukies reminisce about Jeff Capel’s buzzer beater. Campus classics like K-ville and the Pit are documented, and footage from a celebratory bonfire and Franklin Street storming sneak into the film, but even those scenes aren’t the

main focus of The Blue Blood Rivalry. Pinto described the film as having a “mix of CBS’s Amazing Race” for the way it goes right into Durham and Chapel Hill, film-ing on location in several iconic hotspots. Members of the Chapel Hill Fire Department describe the massive public support of their Carolina blue fire trucks, bartenders and waitresses from venues such as Tyler’s Taproom and Tobacco Road Sports Café recount fan reactions to big games, families from all over the country tell stories of finding basketball tickets packed in suitcases under the Christmas Tree, even Durham Mayor Bill Bell makes a cameo to give his take on the rivalry. But the most entertaining location by far is Durham’s 40 Below Barbershop. Guards Quinn Cook, PJ Hairston, and Reggie Bullock as well as musician and Duke graduate Mike Posner, all make appearances at 40 Below, yet the nameless, everyday


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Photo by Associated Press

people arguing for their favorite team really sell the scenes. Perhaps the funniest moment in the entire film is when a diehard Duke fan admits he’d let his son go to UNC-CH if they offered him a free ride, after declaring Chapel Hill was off limits. Somewhere in between all of these stories and zingers, The Blue Blood Rivalry finds time to stir up even more controversy. One seg-ment is dedicated to each school’s famous arena, Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Dean Smith Center. Jay Bilas candidly tells of playing the first game at the new-ly opened Dean Dome and how All-American point guard, Johnny Dawkins, said “we need to get one of these” in awe of its size. Blue Devil fans, as they always do, mock the Dean Dome’s size, giving the often cited phrase “there isn’t a bad seat in Cameron.” Studet tickets are also debated, both by students and alumni. Duke students laud the tenting experien-

ce based on the sense of com-munity it builds along with the assurance that the most dedicated fans get seats. Tar Heel supporters, however, quip that it’s a system for people who “aren’t smart enough to develop a lottery.” Even the schools’ uniforms are debated, with no clear consensus being reached. A Friendly Rivalry? In an interview with Grantland.com, Rem states that he always thought Duke-Carolina was a “friendly kind of rivalry, unlike Bama and Auburn, [with] the guy killing the trees.” Any poor soul foolish enough to wear the wrong shade of blue will argue there’s nothing “friendly” about this rivalry, even if neither side has stooped to committing arborcide. Still, it’s hard to argue that Duke and UNC-CH fans really hate each other. In fact, they might even like being together, if for no other rea-son than to mock and argue. This interaction between such passion-ate bases is at the core of The Blue Blood Rivalry. As Duke President Richard Brodhead put it, “part of each of our identities is that we have this famous rivalry with the other school. But if all we had is a rivalry, that wouldn’t be so good either.” In addition to the basketball and the campus traditions, the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill are discussed throughout the film. Durham is recognized as the home of several Fortune 500 companies as well as one of the most prosper-ous cities in North Carolina, if not the country. Chapel Hill, on the other hand, is praised for its more direct relationship with UNC-CH and its extension of the campus’s culture, such as its famous

Carolina blue street signs. More importantly, the 10 miles that separate these great cities are also highlighted. No other great rivals, whether its Auburn-Alabama, Yan-kees-Red Sox, or Celtics-Lakers, has to live side-by-side with each other the way that Blue Devils and Tar Heels do. This connection has strengthened the rivalry, but also developed a sense of community. While many great rivalries drive people apart, ours has brought us together. Said Rem on his take of the respective fan bases, “they get fired up, have fun, have a party, and the winner wins, the loser loses, and there’s another game in that year or next year. And they go right back to it.” As much as both sides enjoy winning, they’d much rather lose one game than lose the rivalry all together.

The crowd at the Dean Dome celebrates with Reggie Bullock after he makes a shot.

A young Tar Heel shows his team spirit while holding up a “Go Heels!” sign.


Design by Elise Bruguera, DukeMemories from the games

Clockwise from top: Cameron Crazies painted them-selves in the signature Duke blue. • Duke celebrates the win over UNC-CH with a traditional bonfire on the main quad. • The view from the student sec-tion during the Duke-UNC game in Cameron. • The final score of the Duke-UNC game in Cameron. Top photo by ESPN; all other photos by Lauren Paylor.


Clockwise from left: UNC fans ?? captions here!!! All photos by Aleise Preslar.


By Anna Mukamal, Duke

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what she is telling you withthe fluidity of her movementand the dynamism of her lips.

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They prance andpirouette, pounceon the pragmatic.

They hail from animplicit realm ofsilent salience…

choreographingtranscendental waltzes even as

this page burns: one ephemeralember to remember

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Poet’s Corner

Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke


BEFORE YOU GRADUATE...BUCKET LIST

With love, the Rival Staff Seniors

Stroll through the Duke gardens in the spring time and have a picnic at the Coker Arboretum

Enjoy a blueberry wheat beer at Top of the Hill, and have brunch at Parker and Otis

Discover the Nasher Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Museum

Drink out of the Old Well and climb the Duke Chapel

See a live concert at Cat’s Cradle, Local 506, The Pinhook, or Motorco

Participate in Relay for Life and run the Al Buehler trail

Explore the Morehead Planetarium and see a major performance at DPAC

Cheer loud for your team at a UNC Chapel Hill vs. Duke basketball

Relish these great four years of your life.


Course Name Aids and Other Emerging Diseases AIDS: Principles and PolicyCourse Number BIO 154 PUBH 423Professor Sherryl Broverman Ronald P. StraussOffered in Fall 2014? No NoRequired Books AIDS: Science and Society, 6th ed

Race Against Time, Lewis, 2nd editionGlobal AIDS Myths and Facts

“You’re the first on I’ve Told”: New Faces of HIV in the South

Number of Papers 3 1Number of Quizzes/Exams 0/3 0/0Course Grade 3 assignments/papers

2 exams1 final exam

Class Participation and Service, Book Essay, Critical Incident Reports (reflection of service or research conducted), Final Essay, Final Presentation

Attendance Policy Attend and interact Attendance at lecture is required for all students who have not previously taken the PUBH 420 course. Attendance is required at seminar or Movie/Discussion meetings.

Additional There are no additional require-ments. The class counts towards the Global Health major and minor which includes an experimental learning component.

30-40 hour service learning or research placement requirement (depending on prerequisites)

Duke UNC

By the Book By Sofia Stafford, DukeDesign by Wendy Lu, Duke


Duke University freshman Anna Mukamal is a writer, a long-distance runner, a violinist, a backpacker, a “foodie” and a poet. Pursuing a Spanish major with a mi-nor in English and a Policy Journalism & Media Studies certificate, Mukamal spends much of her time exploring multidimensional communication. Working as a research assistant for a local freelance journalist has led her to consider a career in publish-ing or magazine journalism. With interests varying from photography to religion, Mukamal loves academia and dreams of becoming a professor. Be it through her poems, her violin music, or the features she has written for Rival Magazine this year, Mukamal is a storyteller at heart. She is currently collaborating with Religious Stud-ies professor Shalom Goldman on an essay about the historical interaction between Judaism and Christianity. Next year, Mukamal will work alongside two Duke cultural anthropologists to document the lives of Latina housecleaners in Durham for “The Maid Project.” A Robertson Scholar, Mukamal will spend the spring 2015 semester at UNC-CH, where she hopes to further unite Duke and UNC-CH staff members as Rival’s Editor-in-Chief.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Peru, Venezuela, the United States and Spain, Catalina Villegas has been an avid photographer of the culture shocks, inequities and beauties of life she encounters. Inspired by Sally Mann and Edouard Boubat’s work, Ville-gas has typically pursued her passion for photography as a hobby. With much excitement, she first reached out to Rival the summer before her freshman year, not knowing how intense a rivalry she was getting herself into, and has thoroughly enjoyed every moment as a photographer. As Creative Photo Editor, she hopes to work with the team to bring to life those moments of pain, joy and euphoria that UNC-CH and Duke suffer each year. As a Duke freshman, Villegas is pursuing a double major in Public Policy Studies and Global Health, along with a certificate in Markets and Management Studies. She also enjoys work-ing at the Global Health institute as well as working with Durham’s Latino population.

Duke sophomore Jake Klein has been chosen as Rival’s new Sports Editor for the 2014-2015 academic year. A statistics major, Klein has spent two years on the Rival staff, primarily as a feature writer. He began his writing career by writing poetry for his high school’s literary magazine. He currently is working on a fantasy novel and hopes to one day write for Grantland, ESPN’s Bill Simmons’ sports and pop culture blog. In addition to writing, Klein is Duke’s first and only award winning trophy maker, having won the Awards and Recognition Industry Educational Foundation’s George J. Waas Memorial Scholarship in 2012. As a non-athlete in high school, he credits trophy making as a way to still be involved in sports. “I don’t kid myself. Building trophies certainly isn’t the same thing as being out there on the field or the court,” says Klein. “But the season isn’t over until someone picks up the champion-ship trophy.”

Although UNC-CH junior Alexandria Clayton is specializing in Editing and Graphic Design at the UNC-CH’s School of Journalism and Mass Communica-tion, her passions lie in the world of tattoos and photography. At age 16, she real-ized her love for body art, but never imagined she could make a career out of it. Upon entering UNC-CH, Clayton was given the spark she needed to pursue her dreams of being a photographer for a major tattoo magazine. By creating “Mon-stro Photography,” she hopes to get her name out there and build a cliental base of models and customers. Clayton has spent the past year building her photogra-phy portfolio in the hopes of submitting it to Inked Magazine. She is hopeful that one day in the near future she will be recognized as a successful photographer and designer within the tattoo industry.

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