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Kevin Shamieh | Chronicle File PhotoComing off a narrow win at Wake Forest and its first loss of the season at N.C. State, No. 4 Duke will host Miami Tuesday at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Just like the Wolfpack, the Hurricanes are led by a pair of dynamic guards—Angel Rodriguez and Sheldon McClellan (See story on Page 4).

A CHANCE TO BOUNCE BACKDKU student group provides

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Following the inaugural semester of Duke Kunshan University, one student organization is seeking to act as ambas-sadors for positive change and promote the student experience.

The Kunshan Student Ambassador Council was established to act as DKU’s student representatives. The group was first established in August 2014, but their official constitution was not ratified until December. As part of the group’s work first semester, they administered two sur-veys to the student population of DKU and issued an action proposal to enhance the experience of studying in Kunshan.

“I would recommend DKU in a few years but I currently feel that it is not

Chapel honors Haitian earthquake anniversary Rachel Chason University Editor

Duke’s Haiti Lab and Duke Chapel came together Monday to host a service of remembrance that marked the five-year anniversary of the massive earthquake that struck Haiti.

The intimate gathering in the Chapel was “an opportunity for the Duke communi-ty to commemorate the lives lost in this trag-edy,” said Jacques Pierre, a visiting lecturer in French and Haitian Creole and culture, in a Duke News release. The 2010 earth-quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, left more than 230,000 people dead

and 300,000 injured.The catastrophe prompted a flood of

humanitarian aid — with more than $13.5 billion coming from do-nor nations and private groups. Although sig-nificant repairs and im-provements have been made, Haiti remains mired in political turmoil and continues to battle a cholera epidemic, which has struck more than 720,000 Haitians and killed almost 9,000 in the last four years.

“Despite the challenges, the service to-day focused on hope,” said Lydia Bradford, a sophomore who attended the event. “I

thought it was a really strong service.”Bradford and Grant O’Brien, also a sopho-more, attended the event because they will

be heading to Haiti this summer to do research with the University.

The service included a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in Creole, and a moment of silence at 4:53 p.m., the time that the earthquake hit. Cha-

pel Dean Luke Powery also preached and the choir sung.

“The chapel is just one among many parts

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Despite the challeng-es, the service today

focused on hope.

— Lydia Bradford

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complete and, for a Duke student, does not provide a comprehensive university experience. I think that for the future DKU has a ton of potential but it currently is not up to par with the cost of tuition for students, ” reads one of the anonymous comments collected from the survey.

The commenter continued to explain that they feel DKU would have been a better experience if students were required to take a class in Chinese so they could better experience the unique culture.

DKU-KSAC is composed of both graduate and under-graduate representatives from Duke, Chinese and inter-national universities studying at DKU. Pranav Sridhar was the founding undergraduate chair, and Hwee Min Loh was the founding graduate chair. Because the un-dergraduate program at DKU only lasts one semester, Sridhar has since returned to his university in India, while Min Loh remains at DKU in the year-long gradu-ate program.

Overall, the findings of DKU-KSAC detailed that Fall 2014 had been a positive experience for DKU students, and their recommendations serve only to further ele-vate the experience.

“Despite its shortcomings, DKU does provide an en-

riching experience. Shortcomings are part and parcel of what every pioneering institution and I accept and believe that there has been so much to learn here,” an-other anonymous comment reads.

The executive findings of DKU-KSAC explain that during the Fall, students and administration faced chal-lenges, some of which were to be expected with the management and opening of the new campus. Most of the issues they encountered, however, were not severe enough to render student life inadequate.

“At present, there exists a lack of effective communica-tion between students and administration that we hope to bridge,” the DKU-KSAC executive summary reads.

The summary goes on to propose the establishment of a system for democratic student government at DKU and the adoption of an ambassador program at DKU’s partner school, Wuhan University.

“In order to evolve a conducive learning environment, providing students an effective framework to streamline their ideas, concerns, and feedback is essential,” the doc-ument explains. “Such a mechanism can be best imple-mented through a student elected student government.”

Because the students of DKU come from incred-ibly diverse backgrounds, the ambassadors found that a space for student leaders to emerge and have their voices heard would increase the cultural competency and awareness of the school.

“This University is a melting pot of highly motivated and radically diverse students from around the world,”

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Jesús Hidalgo | The ChronicleDuke Dining celebrated a National Curried Chicken Day at the Marketplace and Penn Pavilion Monday afternoon.

National Curried Chicken Day

Jesús Hidalgo | The ChronicleDouglas Nowacek, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rod-gers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology, discussed the ecology of the Western Antarctic Peninsula Monday.

Ecology of the Antarctic

DKU-KSAC reads.By helping form a similar group at Wuhan University,

there could be a better flow of knowledge and ideas be-tween the student perspectives at both schools, accord-ing to the DKU-KSAC recommendation.

The proposal went on to detail the need for student employment at DKU.

“Students are the bedrock of DKU. Allowing students to engage in the building of this institution will allow for an all-round integration of the student community. Student employment opportunities would enable stu-dents to gain hands-on training and experiential learn-ing,” the document read.

One issue faced by the student body during the first semester at DKU was finding an effective method of communication between with administration, accord-ing to DKU-KSAC.

As such, the proposal outlines the need for regular and regimented meetings to convey issues that chal-lenge the student experience at DKU.

“As a pioneering institution, DKU is based on the solid bedrock of transparency and communication. This guiding principle needs to be incorporated in every fac-et of the student experience. One effective mechanism could be monthly meetings between DKSG and mem-bers from different departments of the administration,” the proposal details.

In increasing this transparency and communication, the proposal also suggests a more clear process for es-tablishing student groups at DKU.

“Students at DKU have a wide variety of interests and talents that need to be tapped to create a truly transfor-mational learning experience,” it reads. “Creating a well-defined procedure and protocol to register a student organization is essential to channelize student interest.”

Representatives from DKU-KSAC could not be reached for comment in time for publication.

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of the University that have built relationships between the people of Duke and Hai-ti,” Rev. Meghan Benson, the chapel’s director of worship, said in a Duke News release. “We are glad to recognize those bonds in this worship service and hope that others will find it a meaningful op-portunity for reflection.”

In advance of the cer-emony, which is available via webcast on the Chapel web-site, a remembrance book was available for visitors to write messages to the people of Haiti.

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Nicole Savage | The ChronicleDuke’s Haiti Lab and Duke Chapel hosted a service of re-membrance that marked the five-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake Monday.


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Emma Loewe | The ChronicleFreshman Tyus Jones was just 1-of-6 for four points in Sunday’s upset loss to N.C. State and will look to hit double-digits for the first time in 2015 against Miami.

Men’s Basketball

After getting a wake-up call in their first two ACC road games, the Blue Devils will return home looking to bounce back.

No. 4 Duke will host a dangerous Miami squad Tuesday at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium coming off a narrow win at Wake

Forest and its first loss of the season Sunday at N.C. State. Just like the Wolfpack, the Hurricanes are led by a pair of dynamic transfer guards—Kansas State transfer Angel Rodriguez and

Texas transfer Sheldon McClellan—who can heat up in a hurry, so the Blue Devils will look to fix the defensive breakdowns that let N.C. State rack up 87 points.

“We know being in the ACC, you need to rebound very quickly,” assistant coach Jon Scheyer said. “We’re disappointed with the loss. We need to get better and we need to respond. In the ACC, every win is so important, so we really need to bounce back and play defense and come together and get this win.”

The duo of Rodriguez and McClellan leads the way by averaging 30.0 points per game, but head coach Jim Larranaga’s squad also relies on the 3-point shot to put up points. Miami

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After a loss it is reasonable for fans to be calling for lineup changes. After all, Mike Krzyzewski changed his own lineup after a

close call at Wake Forest last week, replacing Amile Jefferson with Matt Jones for Sunday’s loss against the Wolfpack.

But before you lose your voice screaming for some roster reshuffling, let’s take a look at some numbers.

Plus/Minus isn’t the best stat in the world, but it can be a useful one. Especially when compared to the team’s Plus/Minus when a player is on the bench. By taking the difference between the team’s Plus/Minus with a player on the floor and with him on the bench, you get a reading of many net points are gained or lost with a specific player on the court.

Of course, this stat is marred by who each player is playing with when on the court. Marshall Plumlee doesn’t get the benefit of playing next to Jahlil Okafor and so his adjusted Plus/Minus will take a hit. But let’s

Data Digging: Plus/Minus revealing for Blue Devils

Bobby Colton

See Plus/Minus on Page 9

ignore the limitations for a minute and take a look at the numbers.

As you may have guessed from watching any Duke basketball this season, the Blue Devils’ top two contributors have been Quinn Cook and Okafor. Duke is on average 11.53 points per game better with Cook on the court and 10.2 points better with Big Jah manning the middle. Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow also grade out positively at 7.53 and 6.2 apiece. Somewhat more surprisingly, the oft-unnoticed Matt Jones also receives a positive grade thanks to his strong games in ACC play.

A notable missing name from the above list is that of Amile Jefferson. Times have been tough for the Philadelphia native, as Duke has been doing 17.8 points per game worse with Jefferson than without him in the past five games. That just so happens to correspond exactly with Matt Jones’ stretch of five games with a +9.0 rating. I think we’re starting to see why it was DeSoto’s finest who earned the start against N.C. State. And despite the poor result, Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle

Quinn Cook and Jahlil Okafor have led the Blue Devil offense all year and their high marks in the Plus/Minus column come as no surprise.

(11-4, 1-1 in the ACC) averages more than eight triples per game and has six players who have made 10 or more shots beyond the arc this season, led by Rodriguez, McClellan and the third starting Hurricane guard, Manu Lecomte. The Belgian sophomore shoots 42.2 percent from long range and provides floor spacing when Rodriguez and McClellan attack off the bounce.

“They have a scorer’s mentality,” Scheyer said. “Anytime you make a mistake, they’re going to always attack. They’re guys who

can miss three in a row and still have that confidence where they’re going to shoot the fourth one with no hesitation”

Prior to the N.C. State loss, Duke only allowed its opponent to shoot an average of 27 percent from long range. After letting the Wolfpack go 10-of-16 from distance, defending Miami’s perimeter will also be key for the Blue Devils (14-1, 2-1) to get back on track.

If Duke can settle its defense, it should be able to successfully play through freshman

center Jahlil Okafor and control the tempo of the game. The Demon Deacons and Wolfpack had success doubling the Chicago native on the catch with a second big man, but regardless of what strategy Larranaga chooses, he will need strong play from 7-foot center Tonye Jekiri to slow down the Preseason AP National Player of the Year.

Jekiri averages 7.8 points and 9.9 rebounds per contest and will look to find the same real estate in the paint against Okafor and company that Wake Forest’s Devin Thomas and N.C. State’s BeeJay Anya exploited. On the other end, Jekiri averages 1.7 blocks per game and will need to anchor the Hurricane defense when Miami is caught rotating and gives up dribble penetration.

“[Jekiri’s] old. He’s a veteran who knows who he is,” Scheyer said. “He complements those guys very well. He’s a great screener, he rolls to the basket very hard [and] he’s always on the offensive boards. He’s a great energy player and we’re going to need to contain him because he’s always moving and he plays very hard.”

Duke shot 27 3-pointers and made just seven Sunday and had 10 shots blocked, so showing more patience and not letting the defense dictate shot selection will be the primary goal on offense for the Blue Devils.

“We had some good looks when they doubled [against N.C. State], it’s just a matter of taking advantage of it,” Scheyer said. “Jahlil’s doing a good

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Emma Loewe | The ChronicleFreshman Tyus Jones was just 1-of-6 for four points in Sunday’s upset loss to N.C. State and will look to hit double-digits for the first time in 2015 against Miami.

Men’s Basketball

After getting a wake-up call in their first two ACC road games, the Blue Devils will return home looking to bounce back.

No. 4 Duke will host a dangerous Miami squad Tuesday at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium coming off a narrow win at Wake

Forest and its first loss of the season Sunday at N.C. State. Just like the Wolfpack, the Hurricanes are led by a pair of dynamic transfer guards—Kansas State transfer Angel Rodriguez and

Texas transfer Sheldon McClellan—who can heat up in a hurry, so the Blue Devils will look to fix the defensive breakdowns that let N.C. State rack up 87 points.

“We know being in the ACC, you need to rebound very quickly,” assistant coach Jon Scheyer said. “We’re disappointed with the loss. We need to get better and we need to respond. In the ACC, every win is so important, so we really need to bounce back and play defense and come together and get this win.”

The duo of Rodriguez and McClellan leads the way by averaging 30.0 points per game, but head coach Jim Larranaga’s squad also relies on the 3-point shot to put up points. Miami

Amrith RamkumarBeat Writer

Blue Devils look to bounce back against Hurricanes

Column

After a loss it is reasonable for fans to be calling for lineup changes. After all, Mike Krzyzewski changed his own lineup after a

close call at Wake Forest last week, replacing Amile Jefferson with Matt Jones for Sunday’s loss against the Wolfpack.

But before you lose your voice screaming for some roster reshuffling, let’s take a look at some numbers.

Plus/Minus isn’t the best stat in the world, but it can be a useful one. Especially when compared to the team’s Plus/Minus when a player is on the bench. By taking the difference between the team’s Plus/Minus with a player on the floor and with him on the bench, you get a reading of many net points are gained or lost with a specific player on the court.

Of course, this stat is marred by who each player is playing with when on the court. Marshall Plumlee doesn’t get the benefit of playing next to Jahlil Okafor and so his adjusted Plus/Minus will take a hit. But let’s

Data Digging: Plus/Minus revealing for Blue Devils

Bobby Colton

See Plus/Minus on Page 9

ignore the limitations for a minute and take a look at the numbers.

As you may have guessed from watching any Duke basketball this season, the Blue Devils’ top two contributors have been Quinn Cook and Okafor. Duke is on average 11.53 points per game better with Cook on the court and 10.2 points better with Big Jah manning the middle. Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow also grade out positively at 7.53 and 6.2 apiece. Somewhat more surprisingly, the oft-unnoticed Matt Jones also receives a positive grade thanks to his strong games in ACC play.

A notable missing name from the above list is that of Amile Jefferson. Times have been tough for the Philadelphia native, as Duke has been doing 17.8 points per game worse with Jefferson than without him in the past five games. That just so happens to correspond exactly with Matt Jones’ stretch of five games with a +9.0 rating. I think we’re starting to see why it was DeSoto’s finest who earned the start against N.C. State. And despite the poor result, Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle

Quinn Cook and Jahlil Okafor have led the Blue Devil offense all year and their high marks in the Plus/Minus column come as no surprise.

(11-4, 1-1 in the ACC) averages more than eight triples per game and has six players who have made 10 or more shots beyond the arc this season, led by Rodriguez, McClellan and the third starting Hurricane guard, Manu Lecomte. The Belgian sophomore shoots 42.2 percent from long range and provides floor spacing when Rodriguez and McClellan attack off the bounce.

“They have a scorer’s mentality,” Scheyer said. “Anytime you make a mistake, they’re going to always attack. They’re guys who

can miss three in a row and still have that confidence where they’re going to shoot the fourth one with no hesitation”

Prior to the N.C. State loss, Duke only allowed its opponent to shoot an average of 27 percent from long range. After letting the Wolfpack go 10-of-16 from distance, defending Miami’s perimeter will also be key for the Blue Devils (14-1, 2-1) to get back on track.

If Duke can settle its defense, it should be able to successfully play through freshman

center Jahlil Okafor and control the tempo of the game. The Demon Deacons and Wolfpack had success doubling the Chicago native on the catch with a second big man, but regardless of what strategy Larranaga chooses, he will need strong play from 7-foot center Tonye Jekiri to slow down the Preseason AP National Player of the Year.

Jekiri averages 7.8 points and 9.9 rebounds per contest and will look to find the same real estate in the paint against Okafor and company that Wake Forest’s Devin Thomas and N.C. State’s BeeJay Anya exploited. On the other end, Jekiri averages 1.7 blocks per game and will need to anchor the Hurricane defense when Miami is caught rotating and gives up dribble penetration.

“[Jekiri’s] old. He’s a veteran who knows who he is,” Scheyer said. “He complements those guys very well. He’s a great screener, he rolls to the basket very hard [and] he’s always on the offensive boards. He’s a great energy player and we’re going to need to contain him because he’s always moving and he plays very hard.”

Duke shot 27 3-pointers and made just seven Sunday and had 10 shots blocked, so showing more patience and not letting the defense dictate shot selection will be the primary goal on offense for the Blue Devils.

“We had some good looks when they doubled [against N.C. State], it’s just a matter of taking advantage of it,” Scheyer said. “Jahlil’s doing a good

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vs.

See M. Basketball on Page 9


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Duke was outscored by only four points with Jones on the floor, versus eight points with him riding the pine for 20 minutes, making Jones one of just three Blue Devils to register a positive grade that game.

To have more success as the season wears on, the Blue Devils will need to get more from their top guns in games against better opponents.

Captain Cook’s mark of 11.53 leads the team, but in games against teams rated in Ken Pomeroy’s top 100—Michigan State, Temple, Stanford, Wisconsin, Toledo, Connecticut and N.C. State—that number falls all the way to 8.0. The slack has been picked up by Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow, who seem to have a flair for the dramatic by performing well in big games. Both freshmen have point differentials better than 11.4 against those seven opponents. Winslow’s 11.43 mark is particularly impressive considering Chief Justise’s disappointing -6 against Wisconsin.

It is widely accepted that conference play is

a whole different animal in college basketball. Although sample size may come into play, that has held true for the Blue Devils. I’ve already touched on Matt Jones’ prodigious play of late, and he has predictably been joined by Captain Cook and Chief Justise at the top of Duke’s leaderboard. But the positive surprise of conference season has been Rasheed Sulaimon, who has a +6.33 mark in three ACC games compared to his -4.73 mark on the season. After an inauspicious start, Duke has had a serious need for ‘Sheed against Boston College and N.C. State. The Blue Devils outscored the Eagles by 19 with Sulaimon on the hardwood, and played the Wolfpack to a draw in his 22 minutes of action.

As for a negative surprise, look no further than Duke’s leading scorer—Jahlil Okafor. The freshman actually has Duke’s best mark at 12.57 in games against KenPom’s top 100, but has a -2.33 rating in conference play. Okafor may have had some pretty counting stats against N.C. State with 23 points and 12 boards, but only Jefferson and Tyus Jones faired worse in the adjusted Plus/Minus department. Duke didn’t lose any ground on N.C. State

PLUS/MINUScontinued from page 4

Sophia Durand | The ChronicleJunior Amile Jefferson is the only starting Blue Devil with a negative Plus/Minus mark and was benched against N.C. State in favor of Matt Jones.

job of handling the double teams and finding open guys, but we just need to make them pay for it.”

But regardless of any adjustments Duke makes with its schemes, it has seen the competitive spirit needed to win ACC games and hopes it can get back to playing with an edge.

“We should never come out of a game where we say the other team wanted it more, they were diving for loose balls when we weren’t or going harder for rebounds,” Scheyer said. “Those are things that we can control. Every game, that should never be a question.”

M. BASKETBALLcontinued from page 4

while Okafor sat.Tyus Jones has actually been worse than

Okafor in conference play, grading out negatively in both the Boston College and N.C. State games. In fact, in the 13 minutes Duke played against the ‘Pack without Jones, the Blue Devils gained five points.

Now that I’ve laid out the numbers for you, let’s take a moment before demanding changes. This stat isn’t the end all and be all of production, but it is worth monitoring moving forward. Only time will tell if Okafor and Jones perk up as conference play wears on; if Matt Jones and Sulaimon continue to be key contributors; if Jefferson can rediscover his mojo. For now, let’s put the breaks on panic over one loss and look forward to the rest of what remains a very promising season.


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Duke was outscored by only four points with Jones on the floor, versus eight points with him riding the pine for 20 minutes, making Jones one of just three Blue Devils to register a positive grade that game.

To have more success as the season wears on, the Blue Devils will need to get more from their top guns in games against better opponents.

Captain Cook’s mark of 11.53 leads the team, but in games against teams rated in Ken Pomeroy’s top 100—Michigan State, Temple, Stanford, Wisconsin, Toledo, Connecticut and N.C. State—that number falls all the way to 8.0. The slack has been picked up by Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow, who seem to have a flair for the dramatic by performing well in big games. Both freshmen have point differentials better than 11.4 against those seven opponents. Winslow’s 11.43 mark is particularly impressive considering Chief Justise’s disappointing -6 against Wisconsin.

It is widely accepted that conference play is

a whole different animal in college basketball. Although sample size may come into play, that has held true for the Blue Devils. I’ve already touched on Matt Jones’ prodigious play of late, and he has predictably been joined by Captain Cook and Chief Justise at the top of Duke’s leaderboard. But the positive surprise of conference season has been Rasheed Sulaimon, who has a +6.33 mark in three ACC games compared to his -4.73 mark on the season. After an inauspicious start, Duke has had a serious need for ‘Sheed against Boston College and N.C. State. The Blue Devils outscored the Eagles by 19 with Sulaimon on the hardwood, and played the Wolfpack to a draw in his 22 minutes of action.

As for a negative surprise, look no further than Duke’s leading scorer—Jahlil Okafor. The freshman actually has Duke’s best mark at 12.57 in games against KenPom’s top 100, but has a -2.33 rating in conference play. Okafor may have had some pretty counting stats against N.C. State with 23 points and 12 boards, but only Jefferson and Tyus Jones faired worse in the adjusted Plus/Minus department. Duke didn’t lose any ground on N.C. State

PLUS/MINUScontinued from page 4

Sophia Durand | The ChronicleJunior Amile Jefferson is the only starting Blue Devil with a negative Plus/Minus mark and was benched against N.C. State in favor of Matt Jones.

job of handling the double teams and finding open guys, but we just need to make them pay for it.”

But regardless of any adjustments Duke makes with its schemes, it has seen the competitive spirit needed to win ACC games and hopes it can get back to playing with an edge.

“We should never come out of a game where we say the other team wanted it more, they were diving for loose balls when we weren’t or going harder for rebounds,” Scheyer said. “Those are things that we can control. Every game, that should never be a question.”

M. BASKETBALLcontinued from page 4

while Okafor sat.Tyus Jones has actually been worse than

Okafor in conference play, grading out negatively in both the Boston College and N.C. State games. In fact, in the 13 minutes Duke played against the ‘Pack without Jones, the Blue Devils gained five points.

Now that I’ve laid out the numbers for you, let’s take a moment before demanding changes. This stat isn’t the end all and be all of production, but it is worth monitoring moving forward. Only time will tell if Okafor and Jones perk up as conference play wears on; if Matt Jones and Sulaimon continue to be key contributors; if Jefferson can rediscover his mojo. For now, let’s put the breaks on panic over one loss and look forward to the rest of what remains a very promising season.


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Last Wednesday, two terrorists barbarically murdered 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that had previously published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

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Last Wednesday, two terrorists barbarically murdered 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that had previously published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. The terrorists, professing to act in the name of their view of Islam, not only desired to silence Charlie Hebdo, but also to subjugate free speech more broadly through the threat of force against those that would dare to say anything contravening their radical Islamism. As free peoples, as firm believers in the fundamental, inalienable right of free speech and as fellow journalists, we are relieved to witness the defiant upwelling of global support for free speech and the heroic individuals at Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of this heinous tragedy. While Charlie Hebdo’s magazines may not be our cup of tea, we stand abreast with them in re-affirming and asserting the right of all peoples to

exercise their intrinsic right to speech. While this was a dramatic and clear example

of speech suppression by the terrorists, we must remain vigilant and aware that there are attempts at curtailing speech occurring everyday. Such restrictions occur even on college campuses like Duke, which are supposedly forums for the unencumbered exchange of ideas.

Obfuscators of free speech seek to diminish the ability to communicate one’s thoughts through the specter of retributive force. It matters neither what medium this suppression takes nor what form it takes. Literally silencing the speaker by killing them is as grave a threat to free speech as indirectly restricting the expression of ideas through institutional force such as the hand of government or even university speech codes that proscribe content-based limitations. We also note that it is equally grievous to use intimidation tactics to dissuade people from speaking out at all. Overt censorship and self-censorship through intimidation both offend free speech.

The common thread between different offenders of free speech is thus not their methods or tactics of suppression but rather their shared motivation to silence speakers. This may take

many forms. Silencing through murder is a clear cut example, but using the fear of destroying one’s financial security such as what happened to the former CEO of Mozilla is also a form of silencing. The slew of commencement speaker dis-invitations last year also presents an example of silencing counter to our cherished principle of free speech.

Rather than attempting to silence a speaker one disagrees with, the legitimate way to register dissent is through counter expression. The beauty of free speech is that it provides the avenue for different viewpoints to face scrutiny in the marketplace of ideas. Disagreement with a message, such as Charlie Hebdo’s, can take the form of publishing materials arguing against its ideas or even more simply by convincing others to boycott the magazine, thereby delegitimizing its message. A belief in free speech necessitates a disapproval of attempts to silence.

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As I watched the clock tick down, I started to get pretty excited. It’s like the ball dropping on New Years but more personal because it was all for me. The cheap bottle of champagne was ready to be popped, and I was ready to drink and be surround-ed by friends. As it turned midnight and my friends started to sing, my phone started to vibrate with addi-tional birthday wishes and I realized I was the luckiest guy in the world.

You could probably guess that I turned 22 this week and as T. Swift sings it’s a pretty bittersweet mo-ment. “We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time” are not the words of someone who is su-per thrilled. In fact, I’m sure most of you have heard that after your 21st birthday, the festive occasions surrounding your birth aren’t nearly as exciting and there honestly is some truth to that.

Pretty big things happen in the pre-22 era of your life. At 16, you get a car, preferably new, red and sport-ing a cup holder for Starbucks—very basic. At 18, you are eligible to vote and join the movement of constant bickering with no compromising that is politics. At 20, you—hopefully—have avoided teen pregnancy and are no longer at risk of being a statistic. And finally, at 21, you are legally able to drink, which is promptly followed by a realization that liquor costs money and ain’t nobody got time to be poor.

Nonetheless, the build up before your 22nd birth-day is ridiculously overhyped with one obscenely scan-dalous yet awesome event after another. There is so much freedom and cause for celebration that it all seems pretty unfair since 22 isn’t that bad. It’s not like all the other stuff goes away, you just don’t really have anything new to celebrate. Think about it, what really happens at 22? The hype that surrounded turning 21 doesn’t come back, you just kind of do you for the rest of your life. This lack of celebratory fulfillment does not include weddings, children and all of those lovely adventures life throws at you. But if you objectively

look at it, is there another birthday that has something special? I mean, if you’re really hunting for a cause to celebrate, at 25 your car insurance goes down. Bless-ing? Indubitably. Event worthy? Meh. Cause for a cel-ebration? Not particularly.

So to my fellow 22-ers, I ask what is our next frontier? An average columnist would say some-thing witty like battling mediocrity. But a really good columnist would actually have an answer. What’s the next frontier?

I say it’s whatever you want it to be! The amazing part about being 22 is also the worst part about being 22. Each year becomes a blank template that you get to decide what to do. There are no life achievements or hallmarks to dictate where you’re going. Your life can be normal and uneventful or it can be crazy and full of adventures; it’s all about choice and thankfully it’s a choice that you get to make. As Charles Dickens would say, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of

times.” He would probably follow that with “it was the 22nd year, it was a year of promise.”

Sure, it was a night of fielding questions about when my AARP card would arrive in the mail or whether I needed a good geriatric doctor in the area. Interest-ingly, someone even asked if I wanted to bedazzle my walker. Clearly my friends are amazing people. But, I remember humming the words to 22 thinking to myself, “It’s miserable and magical, I’m feeling 22.” What’s going to happen this year in my life is a com-plete and total unknown. But even more surprising is that the unknown is all right with me, When I started college, I was one of those people who always had a sense of direction for the future. I was used to always having a plan and always knowing what comes next. But from the job search to being 22, I am finally real-izing that maybe a little ambiguity is good for the soul. Maybe being 22 is not so bad, maybe it’s just time to live my life old and wild and free.

Fedner Lauture is a Trinity senior. This is his first column of the semester.

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From the very first day of O-Week freshman year, I have identified as an engineer. But that didn’t stop me from doing a double take the first time I walked into EGR53. That’s not an exaggeration—I walked in, walked out, rechecked my nicely printed out schedule and walked back in. I was convinced that I was in the wrong room. Why? Everyone looked so… Normal. This reaction was especially rash when you consider that if you look up the definition of “engineer”, you’re not exactly going to get “5’2, extremely loud Indian girl who always wears dresses and laughs too much”. I realized that I didn’t really know what the “engineer” stereotype involved. Who really fits into it?

For fun, I decided to search “engineer” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and what I got was—”a person who designs and builds complicated products, machines, systems or structures; a person who runs or is in charge of an engine in an airplane, a ship, etc; a person

who runs a train.”Really? I’m not a complete fan of this definition. Although the

first part is objectively accurate, I don’t ever expect to be in charge of an engine on an airplane or ship, and have zero intentions of running a train. But the real reason I don’t like the definition is because it severely undervalues what an engineer does. Maybe I’m a bit of a romantic, or maybe think just too highly of myself, but I like to think of engineers as creators of the future—those who are trying to perfect the art of turning dreams into reality.

No one can deny that it’s a very practical major, or that it’s far from easy. A part of it is staying up all night in a basement with the tiniest slits for windows working on a lab report, mental breakdowns at 2 AM over four problem sets, fighting the urge to throw your laptop at the wall when you hear the MATLAB error sound for the 47th time, everyone and their mother thinking that you can have the ability to repair things—it’s pushing yourself to the limit and then pushing yourself beyond it.

But what engineers really do is constantly challenge themselves and the world to be better. That relentless drive has given us our fancy new phones, the braces we had in middle school that there’s no evidence of because we deleted all the pictures, the genetically modified fruit we had as a snack earlier today, the MRI machine we lay in for an hour to earn $50 for a research study or the Walk Again Project—led by Duke’s very own Dr. Miguel Nicolelis—which allowed Juliano Pinto, a paraplegic, to open the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with a kick. And that constant push for a better world will bring us flying cars, hover boards, personalized medicine based on genetics, cleaner and more efficient energy sources, smart materials and colonies on the moon.

Communities, countries and civilizations have been built on the backs of engineers and imagination. You want a way to talk to and see your relatives thousands of miles away? Sure. Want to visualize what’s happening in a human brain? Coming right up. Artificial heart? You got it. Hover boards? Working on it—sorry McFly, we know you wanted that one by 2015.

At the end of the day, engineering is really a passionate pursuit of perfection. It’s a philosophy, a way of thinking. It is an interesting subject area that is simply never satisfied. Mr. Webster, you can quote me on that. Scott Adams once said, “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own.” I’m with you, Scott. It seems that optimization, while perpetually the goal to work toward, is yet to be grasped. There can always be less parts, less variability, greater efficiency. Engineers are never content with the world just as it is. It is in that way that the most beautiful thing about engineering becomes increasingly clear—it is not just in the obvious, but in everything around us.

That being said, I want to make another point—since there is a little bit of engineering in everything around us, there is a little bit of engineer in all of us. After all, if there’s anyone who can create a problem where there isn’t one, it would be my high school English teacher who insisted that the color of the curtains were a secret message from the author about how anguished the protagonist truly was.

If you have ever looked at anything and said, “That’s a dumb design,” or picked up something and scoffed, thinking, “this isn’t practical at all,” then you have some engineering in your blood. If you design, if you pioneer, if you create, if you explore, if you seek, then you have engineering in your blood. I don’t care if you’re an Art History major or an Electrical Engineer, if you are in the business of improvement in any way, then there’s a little “engineer” running through your veins. And I sincerely hope that you keep it circulating.

Ananya Zutshi is a Pratt senior. This is her first column of the semester.

Rarely do I find myself on the same page, or even in the same book, as Sarah Palin. Our ideological differences aside, she has provided the world with more than her fair share of political blunders in just the past few years. To invoke a famous line from Paul Keating, the probability of Palin offering something genuinely productive to a given political discussion without a prepared script is about the same as that of a typical American finally seeing Russia from his window.

So naturally I felt fairly surprised to find myself on team Palin when over the holidays People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) criticized her for posting a photo of her youngest son standing on his service dog to reach the sink. The group’s President, Ingrid Newkirk, opined, “It’s odd that anyone—let

alone a mother—would find it appropriate to post such a thing, with no apparent sympathy for the dog in the photo.”

The ad hominem critique of Palin’s motherhood comes across as unnecessarily hostile, but even more frustrating is the group’s apparent double standard in its treatment of Republicans and Democrats regarding their interactions with animals. To list one example of many, PETA venerated Ellen DeGeneres as “Woman of the Year” of 2009 but entirely ignored a photo she shared of a fan’s child standing on a dog to brush her teeth last year. Of course PETA should not have criticized Ellen for posting an innocent picture of a child on a perfectly content dog, but neither should it have mocked Palin for doing the same.

The only relevant difference between these two cases is the partisanship of the individuals who shared the photos. And so I question why a group with presumably noble intentions must stoop to such low measures as selectively personal ad hominem attacks, which clearly are not always genuinely substantiated in true animal wellness violations.

As an activist group, PETA has an especially daunting challenge. Like most activists organizations, PETA advocates most basically for a platform that the majority of individuals would empathize with: animals deserve respect, not brutality. Unlike most activist organizations,

PETA speaks for a group that literally lacks either a voice or any recourse for subjectively unjust behavior. This mix creates an especially potent collective action problem—to truly meet the group’s standards, individuals who support animal rights must make incomprehensibly extensive sacrifices.

Most people would likely agree that hurting animals unnecessarily is unjust. They will just disagree about the point at which using animals turns into animal cruelty. PETA’s standard is high, and as a result, PETA has no choice but to focus on branding and public awareness. To treat every individual with the same standard would be to debase the majority of their supporters.

And so we can discern the ultimate irony behind activism. For a group to raise awareness about a certain issue, they must do so by exploiting a certain type of case. They will draw out examples that might not always represent certain social injustices as well as others do. These are the cases that raise skepticism, that generate debate and that single out certain high-profile icons inappropriately.

This is why the clear, cut-and-dry cases of sexual assault, racial policing and—in this case—animal rights violations are rarely the ones that go viral. Note that I am not suggesting that certain high-profile cases are inherently less legitimate when someone attempts to point out their apparent flaws, but skepticism certainly leads the public to perceive them as less legitimate.

This double-edged sword of public awareness and alleged illegitimacy creates quite the challenge for activists. I liken activists to fire alarms. Fire alarms alert individuals of a sudden inferno engulfing their buildings just like activists alert apathetic individuals about unnoticed faults or inconsistencies in their morality. But unfortunately fire alarms and activists are both susceptible to sending out false sirens. When the ratio of false to real alarms becomes greater than its inverse, individuals will begin to lose faith in either.

The boy who cried wolf has morphed into the activist who cried social injustice. While I have no magical advice on how activist groups can achieve both public awareness and legitimacy, I do offer a warning that false alarms might not always be the best pathway to achieving a preferable end. I love animals even more than I dislike Sarah Palin, but even I have all but lost my respect for PETA.

Brendan McCartney is Trinity junior. This is his first column of the semester.

The irony of effective activism Hug an engineer—and yourself—today

Ananya ZutshiBLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEER

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Last Wednesday, two terrorists barbarically murdered 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that had previously published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

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Last Wednesday, two terrorists barbarically murdered 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that had previously published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. The terrorists, professing to act in the name of their view of Islam, not only desired to silence Charlie Hebdo, but also to subjugate free speech more broadly through the threat of force against those that would dare to say anything contravening their radical Islamism. As free peoples, as firm believers in the fundamental, inalienable right of free speech and as fellow journalists, we are relieved to witness the defiant upwelling of global support for free speech and the heroic individuals at Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of this heinous tragedy. While Charlie Hebdo’s magazines may not be our cup of tea, we stand abreast with them in re-affirming and asserting the right of all peoples to

exercise their intrinsic right to speech. While this was a dramatic and clear example

of speech suppression by the terrorists, we must remain vigilant and aware that there are attempts at curtailing speech occurring everyday. Such restrictions occur even on college campuses like Duke, which are supposedly forums for the unencumbered exchange of ideas.

Obfuscators of free speech seek to diminish the ability to communicate one’s thoughts through the specter of retributive force. It matters neither what medium this suppression takes nor what form it takes. Literally silencing the speaker by killing them is as grave a threat to free speech as indirectly restricting the expression of ideas through institutional force such as the hand of government or even university speech codes that proscribe content-based limitations. We also note that it is equally grievous to use intimidation tactics to dissuade people from speaking out at all. Overt censorship and self-censorship through intimidation both offend free speech.

The common thread between different offenders of free speech is thus not their methods or tactics of suppression but rather their shared motivation to silence speakers. This may take

many forms. Silencing through murder is a clear cut example, but using the fear of destroying one’s financial security such as what happened to the former CEO of Mozilla is also a form of silencing. The slew of commencement speaker dis-invitations last year also presents an example of silencing counter to our cherished principle of free speech.

Rather than attempting to silence a speaker one disagrees with, the legitimate way to register dissent is through counter expression. The beauty of free speech is that it provides the avenue for different viewpoints to face scrutiny in the marketplace of ideas. Disagreement with a message, such as Charlie Hebdo’s, can take the form of publishing materials arguing against its ideas or even more simply by convincing others to boycott the magazine, thereby delegitimizing its message. A belief in free speech necessitates a disapproval of attempts to silence.

Institutions like Duke or the U.S. government and, more generally, all free people must actively defend free speech against those that seek to silence in order to ensure the continued endurance of free speech. We owe it to those like Charlie Hebdo who have fallen in the line of duty.

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As I watched the clock tick down, I started to get pretty excited. It’s like the ball dropping on New Years but more personal because it was all for me. The cheap bottle of champagne was ready to be popped, and I was ready to drink and be surround-ed by friends. As it turned midnight and my friends started to sing, my phone started to vibrate with addi-tional birthday wishes and I realized I was the luckiest guy in the world.

You could probably guess that I turned 22 this week and as T. Swift sings it’s a pretty bittersweet mo-ment. “We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time” are not the words of someone who is su-per thrilled. In fact, I’m sure most of you have heard that after your 21st birthday, the festive occasions surrounding your birth aren’t nearly as exciting and there honestly is some truth to that.

Pretty big things happen in the pre-22 era of your life. At 16, you get a car, preferably new, red and sport-ing a cup holder for Starbucks—very basic. At 18, you are eligible to vote and join the movement of constant bickering with no compromising that is politics. At 20, you—hopefully—have avoided teen pregnancy and are no longer at risk of being a statistic. And finally, at 21, you are legally able to drink, which is promptly followed by a realization that liquor costs money and ain’t nobody got time to be poor.

Nonetheless, the build up before your 22nd birth-day is ridiculously overhyped with one obscenely scan-dalous yet awesome event after another. There is so much freedom and cause for celebration that it all seems pretty unfair since 22 isn’t that bad. It’s not like all the other stuff goes away, you just don’t really have anything new to celebrate. Think about it, what really happens at 22? The hype that surrounded turning 21 doesn’t come back, you just kind of do you for the rest of your life. This lack of celebratory fulfillment does not include weddings, children and all of those lovely adventures life throws at you. But if you objectively

look at it, is there another birthday that has something special? I mean, if you’re really hunting for a cause to celebrate, at 25 your car insurance goes down. Bless-ing? Indubitably. Event worthy? Meh. Cause for a cel-ebration? Not particularly.

So to my fellow 22-ers, I ask what is our next frontier? An average columnist would say some-thing witty like battling mediocrity. But a really good columnist would actually have an answer. What’s the next frontier?

I say it’s whatever you want it to be! The amazing part about being 22 is also the worst part about being 22. Each year becomes a blank template that you get to decide what to do. There are no life achievements or hallmarks to dictate where you’re going. Your life can be normal and uneventful or it can be crazy and full of adventures; it’s all about choice and thankfully it’s a choice that you get to make. As Charles Dickens would say, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of

times.” He would probably follow that with “it was the 22nd year, it was a year of promise.”

Sure, it was a night of fielding questions about when my AARP card would arrive in the mail or whether I needed a good geriatric doctor in the area. Interest-ingly, someone even asked if I wanted to bedazzle my walker. Clearly my friends are amazing people. But, I remember humming the words to 22 thinking to myself, “It’s miserable and magical, I’m feeling 22.” What’s going to happen this year in my life is a com-plete and total unknown. But even more surprising is that the unknown is all right with me, When I started college, I was one of those people who always had a sense of direction for the future. I was used to always having a plan and always knowing what comes next. But from the job search to being 22, I am finally real-izing that maybe a little ambiguity is good for the soul. Maybe being 22 is not so bad, maybe it’s just time to live my life old and wild and free.

Fedner Lauture is a Trinity senior. This is his first column of the semester.

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From the very first day of O-Week freshman year, I have identified as an engineer. But that didn’t stop me from doing a double take the first time I walked into EGR53. That’s not an exaggeration—I walked in, walked out, rechecked my nicely printed out schedule and walked back in. I was convinced that I was in the wrong room. Why? Everyone looked so… Normal. This reaction was especially rash when you consider that if you look up the definition of “engineer”, you’re not exactly going to get “5’2, extremely loud Indian girl who always wears dresses and laughs too much”. I realized that I didn’t really know what the “engineer” stereotype involved. Who really fits into it?

For fun, I decided to search “engineer” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and what I got was—”a person who designs and builds complicated products, machines, systems or structures; a person who runs or is in charge of an engine in an airplane, a ship, etc; a person

who runs a train.”Really? I’m not a complete fan of this definition. Although the

first part is objectively accurate, I don’t ever expect to be in charge of an engine on an airplane or ship, and have zero intentions of running a train. But the real reason I don’t like the definition is because it severely undervalues what an engineer does. Maybe I’m a bit of a romantic, or maybe think just too highly of myself, but I like to think of engineers as creators of the future—those who are trying to perfect the art of turning dreams into reality.

No one can deny that it’s a very practical major, or that it’s far from easy. A part of it is staying up all night in a basement with the tiniest slits for windows working on a lab report, mental breakdowns at 2 AM over four problem sets, fighting the urge to throw your laptop at the wall when you hear the MATLAB error sound for the 47th time, everyone and their mother thinking that you can have the ability to repair things—it’s pushing yourself to the limit and then pushing yourself beyond it.

But what engineers really do is constantly challenge themselves and the world to be better. That relentless drive has given us our fancy new phones, the braces we had in middle school that there’s no evidence of because we deleted all the pictures, the genetically modified fruit we had as a snack earlier today, the MRI machine we lay in for an hour to earn $50 for a research study or the Walk Again Project—led by Duke’s very own Dr. Miguel Nicolelis—which allowed Juliano Pinto, a paraplegic, to open the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with a kick. And that constant push for a better world will bring us flying cars, hover boards, personalized medicine based on genetics, cleaner and more efficient energy sources, smart materials and colonies on the moon.

Communities, countries and civilizations have been built on the backs of engineers and imagination. You want a way to talk to and see your relatives thousands of miles away? Sure. Want to visualize what’s happening in a human brain? Coming right up. Artificial heart? You got it. Hover boards? Working on it—sorry McFly, we know you wanted that one by 2015.

At the end of the day, engineering is really a passionate pursuit of perfection. It’s a philosophy, a way of thinking. It is an interesting subject area that is simply never satisfied. Mr. Webster, you can quote me on that. Scott Adams once said, “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own.” I’m with you, Scott. It seems that optimization, while perpetually the goal to work toward, is yet to be grasped. There can always be less parts, less variability, greater efficiency. Engineers are never content with the world just as it is. It is in that way that the most beautiful thing about engineering becomes increasingly clear—it is not just in the obvious, but in everything around us.

That being said, I want to make another point—since there is a little bit of engineering in everything around us, there is a little bit of engineer in all of us. After all, if there’s anyone who can create a problem where there isn’t one, it would be my high school English teacher who insisted that the color of the curtains were a secret message from the author about how anguished the protagonist truly was.

If you have ever looked at anything and said, “That’s a dumb design,” or picked up something and scoffed, thinking, “this isn’t practical at all,” then you have some engineering in your blood. If you design, if you pioneer, if you create, if you explore, if you seek, then you have engineering in your blood. I don’t care if you’re an Art History major or an Electrical Engineer, if you are in the business of improvement in any way, then there’s a little “engineer” running through your veins. And I sincerely hope that you keep it circulating.

Ananya Zutshi is a Pratt senior. This is her first column of the semester.

Rarely do I find myself on the same page, or even in the same book, as Sarah Palin. Our ideological differences aside, she has provided the world with more than her fair share of political blunders in just the past few years. To invoke a famous line from Paul Keating, the probability of Palin offering something genuinely productive to a given political discussion without a prepared script is about the same as that of a typical American finally seeing Russia from his window.

So naturally I felt fairly surprised to find myself on team Palin when over the holidays People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) criticized her for posting a photo of her youngest son standing on his service dog to reach the sink. The group’s President, Ingrid Newkirk, opined, “It’s odd that anyone—let

alone a mother—would find it appropriate to post such a thing, with no apparent sympathy for the dog in the photo.”

The ad hominem critique of Palin’s motherhood comes across as unnecessarily hostile, but even more frustrating is the group’s apparent double standard in its treatment of Republicans and Democrats regarding their interactions with animals. To list one example of many, PETA venerated Ellen DeGeneres as “Woman of the Year” of 2009 but entirely ignored a photo she shared of a fan’s child standing on a dog to brush her teeth last year. Of course PETA should not have criticized Ellen for posting an innocent picture of a child on a perfectly content dog, but neither should it have mocked Palin for doing the same.

The only relevant difference between these two cases is the partisanship of the individuals who shared the photos. And so I question why a group with presumably noble intentions must stoop to such low measures as selectively personal ad hominem attacks, which clearly are not always genuinely substantiated in true animal wellness violations.

As an activist group, PETA has an especially daunting challenge. Like most activists organizations, PETA advocates most basically for a platform that the majority of individuals would empathize with: animals deserve respect, not brutality. Unlike most activist organizations,

PETA speaks for a group that literally lacks either a voice or any recourse for subjectively unjust behavior. This mix creates an especially potent collective action problem—to truly meet the group’s standards, individuals who support animal rights must make incomprehensibly extensive sacrifices.

Most people would likely agree that hurting animals unnecessarily is unjust. They will just disagree about the point at which using animals turns into animal cruelty. PETA’s standard is high, and as a result, PETA has no choice but to focus on branding and public awareness. To treat every individual with the same standard would be to debase the majority of their supporters.

And so we can discern the ultimate irony behind activism. For a group to raise awareness about a certain issue, they must do so by exploiting a certain type of case. They will draw out examples that might not always represent certain social injustices as well as others do. These are the cases that raise skepticism, that generate debate and that single out certain high-profile icons inappropriately.

This is why the clear, cut-and-dry cases of sexual assault, racial policing and—in this case—animal rights violations are rarely the ones that go viral. Note that I am not suggesting that certain high-profile cases are inherently less legitimate when someone attempts to point out their apparent flaws, but skepticism certainly leads the public to perceive them as less legitimate.

This double-edged sword of public awareness and alleged illegitimacy creates quite the challenge for activists. I liken activists to fire alarms. Fire alarms alert individuals of a sudden inferno engulfing their buildings just like activists alert apathetic individuals about unnoticed faults or inconsistencies in their morality. But unfortunately fire alarms and activists are both susceptible to sending out false sirens. When the ratio of false to real alarms becomes greater than its inverse, individuals will begin to lose faith in either.

The boy who cried wolf has morphed into the activist who cried social injustice. While I have no magical advice on how activist groups can achieve both public awareness and legitimacy, I do offer a warning that false alarms might not always be the best pathway to achieving a preferable end. I love animals even more than I dislike Sarah Palin, but even I have all but lost my respect for PETA.

Brendan McCartney is Trinity junior. This is his first column of the semester.

The irony of effective activism Hug an engineer—and yourself—today

Ananya ZutshiBLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEER

BrendanMcCartneyA TOUCH OF GINGER

FednerLauture50 SHADES OF GROOT

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