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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014 ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH YEAR, ISSUE 76WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM
Voter ID laws debated across state lines
N&O sues UNC for withholding records in academic scandalby Jenna Zhang
THE CHRONICLE
News and Observer Publishing Co. sued UNC Chancellor Carol Folt last Thursday for student records that could help illuminate the origins of the athlete academic performance scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John Drescher, executive editor of the News and Observer, said UNC has released the requested records dating from 2006 to 2011 but is withholding records from the mid-1990s when the “bogus” classes began. UNC officials claim that the records in ques-tion contain information protected under the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which permits educational institutions to with-hold information that could be used to per-sonally identity students.
Jonathan Jones, director of the North Car-olina Open Government Coalition, called the school’s legal standing on FERPA “tenuous.”
“If they’ve brought this information for-ward for some years, why can’t they release it for others?” Jones said. “Universities should be and can be as transparent as possible. UNC, through this whole scandal, has refused to be transparent.”
Drescher contends that the requested re-cords are not protected by FERPA because
they do not identify students by name and the likelihood of identifying a student based on the information contained in the records is very low.
According to a Jan. 23 News & Observer ar-ticle, UNC attorneys have said that the spread-sheets in question are broken down into 13 categories —including the name of the stu-dent, their sport, cumulative GPA, major and semester. The News & Observer has requested a copy of the spreadsheet with all the fields redacted except those titled “sport,” “course title” and “semester.”
“We’re not interested in identifying specific students by name,” Drescher said. “However,
we are interested in knowing the composition of these bogus classes by sport. We want to get that information from an earlier period when the classes started, to really get to the root of the issue and see if there are any trends.”
Joel Curran, vice chancellor for commu-nications and public affairs at UNC, said the records in question were protected under federal privacy law and said the school would “vigorously defend the privacy rights of [stu-dents]” in a statement last Thursday.
Karen Moon, UNC director of news services, and Steve Kirschner, UNC senior
by Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE
Three graduate student young trust-ee finalists were selected from a pool of 20-30 applicants.
The selection process included in-terviews and application reviews by the Young Trustee Selection Committee of the Graduate and Professional Student Council. The GPSC General Assembly will elect a candidate at its Feb. 18 meet-ing. Closed voting is one of the major differences between undergraduate and graduate Young Trustees.
The finalists are Shannon O’Connor, Amol Yadav and Bill Hunt.
O’Connor is a fifth-year PhD/MD candidate in biomedical engineering and the vice-president of GPSC for 2013-2014. Yadav is a fourth-year PhD candidate in biomedical engineering and currently serving as president of GPSC. Hunt is a sixth-year Ph.D. candi-date in English and served as the presi-dent of GPSC for the 2012-2013 school year.
by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE
Actions taken in other states on voter iden-tification laws may indirectly influence the le-gal outcomes on the issue in North Carolina.
Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 589 Aug. 12 of last year to alter voting procedures and restrictions. Among the provisions and restrictions are a reduction of early voting as well as the termination of same-day voter reg-istration, pre-registration for high school stu-dents and the use of college identifications as acceptable forms of voter identification.
The law is now the subject of a lawsuit brought against the state by the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice. Earlier this month, a compa-rable law passed March 2012 in Pennsylvania was struck down by a state judge on the basis that it did not assist in free and fair elections. Officials and experts have said that this could have implications for the case developing in North Carolina.
Legally, the Pennsylvania case cannot serve as a legal precedent, as it only involves state law and thus is not applicable in other states, said Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles S. Rhyne pro-fessor of law. Judges may be influenced, how-ever, by knowing the actions other courts have already taken on similar constitutional issues.
“The fact that other courts are striking
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Grad Young trustee fi nalists selected
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Changes in the voting laws of other states may influence voting procedures and restictions in N.C.
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Duke is in the process of removing “academic and social roadblocks” affect-ing students on financial aid, in response to a report two years ago revealing stu-dent concern with financial diversity at the University.
The Socioeconomic Diversity Initia-tive—a joint project launched in 2012 by the Office of the Dean and Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education and the Of-fice of Financial Aid—conducted a series of focus groups asking how students felt about the divide between high and low income students. In the subsequent re-port, students recommended changes to a number of policies including hous-ing, dining plans and course-related fees. As a result, the University is working on changes that have so far included a new financial literacy website, a new faculty position and an updated policy on class-related expenses.
“My main impression was...how much time and energy those students [on finan-cial aid] have to spend thinking about it, managing it, working in a way that non-aided students have the luxury of not worrying about,” said Donna Lisker, as-sociate vice provost for undergraduate
education.The new financial literacy website was
released over a year ago as a direct result of this initiative, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate edu-cation. The site provides useful financial advice for students on a budget.
“The financial literacy website is giv-ing students all sorts of information
about how to manage money, how to think about loans, you name it,” he said.
Nowicki also said the initiative is spawning a new faculty position—tenta-tively named the Director of Access and Outreach—designed to support low in-come and first generation college stu-dents. The new director will report to both the financial aid and provost’s of-
fices.Nowicki explained that these are just
steps in an ongoing process.“[We] try to identify where the barri-
ers are, where the challenges are, where the hurdles are and then step by step gradually remove those,” he said. “Prog-ress is what we need to aspire to. There’s not an endpoint necessarily, but there’s measurable progress.”
The 2012 report noted that students on financial aid often have difficulties paying for class-related expenses such as textbooks.
“The general perception was that most faculty members aren’t aware that not all students can afford additional costs,” according to the report. “It would be helpful if faculty knew some general information about possible ways for stu-dents to cover these.”
Lisker said that the University has worked to eliminate “hidden fees.” All extraneous class-related fees, such as those for field trips, must now go through the bursar’s office so that stu-dents who qualify can be reimbursed.
Additionally, the report revealed that the dining plan is also a source of stress for lower income students. Some stu-dents in the focus groups said they felt
restricted since they couldn’t afford to eat off-campus with friends, creating a socioeconomic divide between students.
“It’s a status thing to be able to say you don’t eat at the Marketplace,” said to one of the anonymous students quot-ed in the report.
The problem presents itself as early as freshman year, when students have a limited number of food points.
Nowicki added that the University would like to eventually put another dining hall on East Campus to diversify freshman meal options, but it is unlikely to happen any time soon. Meanwhile, the administration is discussing modifi-cations to the dining plans, but no im-mediate changes are forthcoming.
The issue of a gap between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds is one that any top college has to ad-dress, Nowicki said.
“Duke and any selective college or university is inherently an upper-middle class environment. And in fact, we kind of want it to be an upper-middle class environment because that’s the place where our students will end up,” he said. “The question is how much distance do different kinds of students have to travel to get to that environment.”
University works to shrink socioeconomic divide
“And in fact, we kind of want it to be an upper-middle class environment because that’s the place our students will end up.”DEAN NOWICKI
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associate athletic director for communica-tions, have declined to comment on pend-ing litigation beyond releasing the state-ment by Curran.
Jones said that the school has historically used FERPA in “ridiculous” ways, including use of the law to withhold information on stu-dent parking tickets and phone numbers of football coaches.
“There’s a history there of the university hiding behind FERPA,” Jones said.
UNC came under fire earlier in January when Mary Willingham, an academic advisor at the university, released information show-ing that of 183 athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012, 60 percent read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Will-ingham’s research also showed that 8 percent and 10 percent read below a third-grade level.
A Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges’ investiga-tion revealed that courses in question were overwhelmingly attended by student-athletes. Of the 384 students who signed up for the classes, 173 were student-athletes. Of those student-athletes, 88 were football players ans 21 were men’s basketball players.
Willingham’s report is the latest in a series of scandals at UNC pertaining to the academic performance of student athletes. A 2012 inves-tigation found that UNC had been offering bogus classes since the 1990s, which required no work or attendance. Most of the courses had been made available through the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Depart-ment. The department’s former chair, Julius Nyang’oro, was indicted for academic fraud in December after being paid approximately $12,000 for a class he did not teach.
UNC had maintained that the case was an isolated incident until last Thursday, when UNC Chancellor Carol Folt apologized for the bogus courses and accepted responsibility for
academic fraud.“All of those students who were involved in
those courses deserved better from us,” Folt said in a press statement last Thursday. “We also accept the fact there was a failure in aca-demic oversight for years that permitted this to continue.”
The News & Observer is within its right to collect this information in order to provide more information on the issue but not to identify individual students, said Phil Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson professor of the practice of journalism and public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
Professor Ken Rogerson, lecturer in Public Policy and director of undergraduate studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy, echoed this sentiment, stating that UNC as a public institution is subject to public records laws. News organizations have access to information based on these laws, and though there are ex-ceptions, lawsuits from organizations of good reputation are rarely frivolous.
“That’s what news organizations do, es-pecially in democratic societies like the U.S. they try to access information that should be known to the public,” he said. “This is a nor-mal thing.”
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down voter ID laws might make it psychologi-cally possible to do the same in other states,” Charles said. “It certainly is relevant as a moral precedent and other courts might be empow-ered [to overturn them].”
A lawsuit from the Department of Justice against a voting law in Texas could also predict how events play out in North Carolina, Charles added. Although the states’ respective laws contain different provisions, the states’ situa-tions are analogous to one another.
“People are keeping their eye on what is go-
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ing on in Texas, because it might foreshadow what is going on in North Carolina,” Charles said.
The Pennsylvania court’s action is a good sign on a moral or philosophical level for those in North Carolina who are fighting to overturn it, said Allison Riggs, a staff attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and opponent of the law.
“The court will look to what other state courts have done under other constitutional provisions,” she said.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, five different states have been involved in legal or legislative action on voter identification since February. In addi-tion to action taken in North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania, the Tennessee Supreme Court heard a challenge to a voter ID law and the Arkansas legislature passed and then over-rode a veto of a voter photo ID law.
Riggs said differences do exist between the Texas case and the North Carolina one. For example, the Texas law specifies that one’s name must appear exactly the same on the ID and the voting roll, and those without IDs can vote with provisional ballots and return six days later with photo ID.
Additionally, the Texas law is already in effect, whereas most of the North Carolina provisions do not take effect until 2016. For this reason, the Texas lawsuit is “fast-tracked,” Riggs said, and a decision will come in Sep-tember. The North Carolina case is set to go to trial summer 2015, leaving room for the Texas decision to affect the North Carolina one.
Voters will be asked for a photo ID at polls starting Januart 2014 in a stricter effort by elec-tion day workers, but those who do not have one will not be forced to cast a provisional bal-lot, Riggs said.
A political bargaining chipAs the voter identification saga continues
into the 2014 midterm elections, it may be used as more of a point of political contention
than one of altered election processes.Charles noted that because the North Car-
olina law will not come into direct play in how elections are conducted this year, it might in-stead become an issue among parties running for seats in the election. The backlash that has resulted from the passage of the law—notably by the state’s chapter of NAACP and its leader Rev. William Barber—will likely put the issue on a platform. Democrats will seek to regain control of the legislature to overturn the law without the help of the courts.
“My guess is the law will be used to work extra hard to turn out the vote,” Charles said.
The state Republican Party has used the law as a point to exemplify differences between their party and opponents such as incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, who is up for reelection in 2014. North Carolina GOP Com-munications Director Daniel Keylin said the GOP’s perspective remains that the law pro-tects the integrity of the ballot box.
“The Obama administration has filed a friv-olous and politically motivated lawsuit against the state of North Carolina, a decision that Kay Hagan has cheered on,” Keylin wrote in an email Tuesday. “North Carolina’s law is com-mon sense policy that is very similar to the laws in over 30 other states…. Only liberals like Kay Hagan don’t think people should have to show a form of photo ID in order to vote.”
Keylin said he does not expect the Penn-sylvania ruling to have an effect on develop-ments in North Carolina voting law.
The state Democratic Party is focused less on the pending lawsuits and more on edu-cating people about the logistical impact of the law as it is in place so that people are not prematurely discouraged from turning out at polls, said North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Director Robert Dempsey.
“We know that we need to reach out to our voters,” he said. “We are focused on the law as it stands, talking to voters and making sure they understand it.”
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Archibald MotleyJazz Age Modernist
January 30 - May 11, 2014
The first retrospective of the American artist’s paintings in two decades will originate at the Nasher Museum and travel to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture
Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Octoroon Girl (detail), 1925. Oil on canvas, 38 x 30.25 inches (96.5 x 76.8 cm). Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, New York. © Valerie Gerrard Browne.
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art; the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor; and the Henry Luce Foundation. Major support is provided by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art; Drs. Victor and Lenore Behar; the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources; and Deborah DeMott. This project is made possible in part by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Blue Devils and Orange set to clashby Karl Kingma
THE CHRONICLE
This summer’s conference realign-ment brought exciting changes to col-lege basketball, but it may also have caused a small change in the Blue Dev-ils’ playbook.
Duke’s call for a rare switch to a 2-3 zone used to be “Orange”—an homage, perhaps, to Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim’s cel-ebrated zone scheme. As graduate student Andre Dawkins learned in his return to the team this summer after a year away from basketball, times have changed.
“Actually, when we first started put-ting in our zone defense I was calling it ‘Orange,’” Dawkins said. “They told me it’s called 12 this year.”
But why the change?“I don’t know,” Dawkins said wryly.
“That was an executive decision.”Syracuse is no longer a distant, snowy
university with a basketball program known for its pesky zone. The No. 2 Or-ange sport an undefeated record and have leapt right to the top of the ACC standings in their first year as a member of the conference. No. 17 Duke seems to have rebounded well from its strug-gles early in ACC play, but the Blue Dev-ils will face their toughest challenge yet when they battle the Orange at the Car-rier Dome Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
Syracuse students have been camping
K-ville and Boeheimburg: A tale two tent cities
MATTHEW CICANESE/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO SAM MALLER/THE DAILY ORANGE
Freshman Jabari Parker (left) and senior C.J. Fair (right) will square off as Duke battles Syracuse at the Carrier Dome Saturday.
MARGARET LIN/THE DAILY ORANGE
Syracuse students have taken a page out of Duke’s book by camping out for this week-end’s matchup between the Blue Devils and Orange.
out for nearly two weeks in anticipation of the contest, but head coach Mike Krzyzewski says the Blue Devils will em-brace what is sure to be a raucous road
environment.“I think they’re going to have their
largest crowd ever,” Krzyzewski said. “We welcome all the attention that’s given
to us. It’s much better to have attention than not have attention.... Hopefully the game will measure up to the buildup.”
Less than three weeks ago, Duke went on the road to face another orange-clad conference opponent. After suffering a 13-point loss to Clemson, many would have hesitated to give the Blue Devils a chance against undefeated Syracuse (20-0, 7-0 in the ACC) on its home floor.
But the Blue Devils (17-4, 6-2) seem to have grown together since that stinging upset. Duke has rolled off five consecutive conference wins and, though the team’s offensive firepower has been impressive, redshirt sophomore captain Rodney Hood says the Blue Devils’ growth on the defensive end and on the glass have been vital to the team’s success.
“We’ve played some of the best de-fensive ball of the season,” Hood said. “I think it’s because we’re rebounding the ball. Throughout the season, people were saying that’s the weakness, and it was. We’re turning it into a strength…. If we keep the rebounding margin close, I think we have a chance to win.”
The Blue Devils will certainly have their hands full on the defensive end of the floor. Four Syracuse players boast double-digit scoring averages, and 6-foot-8 senior C.J. Fair can score 20
by Ryan HoergerTHE CHRONICLE
Students are tenting for a Duke basketball game—but they are not Duke students.
In anticipation of Saturday’s showdown be-tween No. 2 Syracuse and No. 17 Duke, nearly 200 Syracuse students have been spending the greater part of the past two weeks camping out next to the Carrier Dome. With the Cameron Crazies occupying Krzyzewskiville in anticipa-tion of a March 8 matchup with North Caroli-na, the tent city’s counterpart has sprung up in Syracuse, N.Y—they call it Boeheimburg.
“Our rules state that you’re allowed to start camping for the next home game three hours after tip of the previous home game,” said Ben Glidden, a Syracuse senior and president of Otto’s Army, the Orange’s student section. “We had Pittsburgh [at home Sat. Jan. 18] and in theory we could start camping that night. The Carrier Dome asked us not to start camping until Sunday night because there was a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in the Dome. My group brought our tent out on Sunday night, and we were the first group there.”
Groups at Syracuse are capped at four members, and one member of each group must be present at all times. As a member of Group 1, Glidden controls The List, the regis-tration form for each group. Unlike at Duke, where Line Monitors supervise and regulate the tenting process, Syracuse’s line-check sys-
tem is dictated at the discretion of Group 1.Gabby Hodgins, this year’s Head Line
Monitor for Krzyzewskiville, said Syracuse’s policies differ from Duke’s because of the vastly different timeframes within which the systems operate. Otto’s Army spends a few nights outside, but the Cameron Crazies camp out for as long as six weeks. The senior contended that K-Ville’s longer commitment and policy of making as many as 10 people sleep in the tent at one time create a strong tenting community.
“What makes K-Ville so great is the atmo-sphere on game day, with the music blast-ing and the community around the game,” Hodgins said. “When you only need to have one person there at a time, it takes away from that kind of experience.”
Given the unusually long gap between Or-ange home games, this year’s camp-out will be the longest in the history of Otto’s Army. Al-though the rules governing Syracuse’s tenting policy restrict the length of the time students can camp out in advance of a game, they say nothing about dealing with the elements.
“In the past we’ve been pretty strict on not letting people go home [due to weather],” Glidden said. “In the past we’ve had snow-storms and blizzards and we’ve moved tenting inside the Dome. This year we had that whole
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CLASSIFIEDS
RAKEEM CHRISTMAS 5.6 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.5 bpgJERAMI GRANT 12.4 ppg, 6.8 rpgC.J. FAIR 16.7 ppg, 6.0 rpg
TYLER ENNIS 12.3 ppg, 5.4 apg, 2.5 spgTREVOR COONEY 13.2 ppg, 40.1 3FG%
AMILE JEFFERSON 6.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 65.5 FG%JABARI PARKER 18.8 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 1.1 bpgRODNEY HOOD 17.4 ppg, 4.6 rpg 44.8 3FG%RASHEED SULAIMON 8.3 ppg, 46.3 3FG%QUINN COOK 12.4 ppg, 5.5 apg, 1.5 spg
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Hood and Parker provide a lethal scoring punch for the Blue Devils up front and are very diffi cult to guard. C.J. Fair is one of the top swingmen in the ACC and Jerami Grant has stepped into a starting role.Cook has recovered from a badly twisted ankle and Sulai-mon continues to up his play, but Syracuse has one of the top backcourt combinations in Ennis and Cooney. Ennis could be the X-factor in this one.
Former Blue Devil Michael Gbinije and shot swatter Baye Moussa Keita play big roles for the Orange off the bench, but losing starter DaJuan Cole-man to injury has Syracuse playing a shorter rotation.
The breakdownThe Blue Devils are playing some of their best basketball and should be able to hang with one of the nation’s top teams, but there’s a reason why the Orange are undefeated. In the end, the combination of breaking Syracuse’s vaunted 2-3 zone and a record-setting Carrier Dome crowd will prove too much for Duke.
OUR CALL: Syracuse wins, 68-62
DUKE CUSEPPG: 81.5 71.4PPG DEF: 66.4 57.8FG%: 47.2 45.53PT%: 41.4 34.6FT%: 74.6 69.1RPG: 35.4 36.0APG: 15.2 12.6BPG: 3.1 5.0SPG: 7.0 9.5
11.59.6TO/G:
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DUKE vs. SYRACUSESaturday, February 1 • Carrier Dome
6:30 p.m.No. 17 Blue Devils (17-4, 6-2) No. 2 Orange (20-0, 7-0)
(Projected lineups, statistics from 2013-14 season)
points on any given night.Point guard Tyler Ennis will also be a
focus for Duke. The Canadian freshman has been a savvy floor general for the Or-ange thus far, averaging 12.3 points and 5.4 assists per game. Ennis has played his best in big games during his rookie sea-son. In Syracuse’s three games against ranked opponents, Ennis averages 15.7 points per game and has dished out 14 assists compared to just one turnover. He averaged 39 minutes per contest in those
polar vortex thing, and there were about three nights where it reached -10, -15 degrees. For those three nights we allowed campers to go home from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for the safety of the students.”
During the past 10 days of tenting, nightly low temperatures in Syracuse, N.Y., have av-eraged 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit. By contrast, K-ville rules dictate that tenters are given man-datory grace for the night should the tempera-ture drop below 25 degrees. Relief appears to be on the way for residents of Boeheimburg, as an uptick of temperatures has a projected low of 25 degrees for the final night before Saturday’s matchup.
As of Wednesday night, there were 47 tents occupying Boeheimburg. Syracuse students purchase season tickets at the beginning of the year and are guaranteed a spot in the Car-rier Dome’s 5,000-plus-seat student section, which has reduced interest in braving the freezing cold.
Although Saturday’s game against Duke is the first camp-out of the season for Otto’s Army, it’s not unfamiliar. Boeheimburg was first established during the 2006-07 season, and usually hosts one big camp-out every year. Last season, students spent 10 days outside for Syracuse’s final home game against George-town as Big East rivals. That game drew 35,012 fans, the largest crowd to take in a college bas-ketball game hosted on a university’s campus in NCAA history. That record is expected to be in jeopardy for Saturday’s Duke-Syracuse matchup.
Syracuse officials had the opportunity to shatter the record against Duke by moving the court from the end zone of the Carrier Dome’s football field to midfield, but de-cided in the summer they would not make the move. Glidden said he would’ve loved to have seen 50,000 fans on hand for the game, but noted that altering the court’s configu-rations would disrupt Syracuse’s home court advantage by altering depth perceptions for players.
Regardless of crowd size, Saturday’s game has been the talk of campus and a
large reason why the Orange sold a record number of student tickets this year. “Beat Duke” T-shirts have been available in the Syracuse campus bookstore since the begin-ning of the school year.
“It’s a big deal with two legendary coach-es battling, but we’re the newcomers to the ACC and we’re in the position where we don’t necessarily have a rival yet,” Glidden said. “Ob-viously Duke has had a rival for many, many years and we’re not going to change that, but I think the ‘Beat Duke’ shirts show that we’re ready to come at Duke a little bit and show them that we’re just as crazy as them, just as crazy as UNC and can give them a battle every year.... No other game has compared to the hype around this.”
When the Orange travel to Cameron In-door Stadium for a Feb. 22 rematch against the Blue Devils, tenting will still be in full swing for Duke students. Hodgins said she and the other line monitors expect a great deal of interest for Syracuse’s first visit to Duke as an ACC member—but scoring a prime seat won’t be easy.
“You could make the argument that it’ll be our biggest home game of the season, on par with Miami last year,” Hodgins said. “Black tenters will be allowed to sleep in their tent and still be in line for Syracuse. I’d expect [non-black tenters] to sleep out for about five days, but that would be on the sidewalk with no tents allowed.”
three games. Ennis’ matchup with Duke point guard Quinn Cook will be a fascinat-ing storyline for Saturday’s contest.
Offensively, Duke will look to move the Orange zone and then penetrate with crisp passes and economic drib-bling. Sophomore forward Amile Jeffer-son has played an increased role in the Blue Devil offense when the team faces a zone scheme, using his position in the middle of the zone to find open shoot-ers on the perimeter.
“The way to beat the zone is to get the ball in the middle, and that’s something we’ve been working on,” Jefferson said.
M. BASKETBALL from page 5 “If you’re not moving the ball, making pass fakes, making the zone move, then they’re just sitting there being long and taking up the whole court.”
It’s never easy traveling to take on the nation’s No. 2 team in a hostile environ-ment, but the Blue Devils are looking forward to Saturday’s challenge.
“It’s exciting,” Dawkins said. “As fun as it is to be here and to play in front of our fans, it’s just as fun to go and play in someone else’s gym where everyone else in there hates you and wants you to do poorly, so it’s definitely exciting. It doesn’t get old for us.”
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CLASSIFIEDS
RAKEEM CHRISTMAS 5.6 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.5 bpgJERAMI GRANT 12.4 ppg, 6.8 rpgC.J. FAIR 16.7 ppg, 6.0 rpg
TYLER ENNIS 12.3 ppg, 5.4 apg, 2.5 spgTREVOR COONEY 13.2 ppg, 40.1 3FG%
AMILE JEFFERSON 6.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 65.5 FG%JABARI PARKER 18.8 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 1.1 bpgRODNEY HOOD 17.4 ppg, 4.6 rpg 44.8 3FG%RASHEED SULAIMON 8.3 ppg, 46.3 3FG%QUINN COOK 12.4 ppg, 5.5 apg, 1.5 spg
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Hood and Parker provide a lethal scoring punch for the Blue Devils up front and are very diffi cult to guard. C.J. Fair is one of the top swingmen in the ACC and Jerami Grant has stepped into a starting role.Cook has recovered from a badly twisted ankle and Sulai-mon continues to up his play, but Syracuse has one of the top backcourt combinations in Ennis and Cooney. Ennis could be the X-factor in this one.
Former Blue Devil Michael Gbinije and shot swatter Baye Moussa Keita play big roles for the Orange off the bench, but losing starter DaJuan Cole-man to injury has Syracuse playing a shorter rotation.
The breakdownThe Blue Devils are playing some of their best basketball and should be able to hang with one of the nation’s top teams, but there’s a reason why the Orange are undefeated. In the end, the combination of breaking Syracuse’s vaunted 2-3 zone and a record-setting Carrier Dome crowd will prove too much for Duke.
OUR CALL: Syracuse wins, 68-62
DUKE CUSEPPG: 81.5 71.4PPG DEF: 66.4 57.8FG%: 47.2 45.53PT%: 41.4 34.6FT%: 74.6 69.1RPG: 35.4 36.0APG: 15.2 12.6BPG: 3.1 5.0SPG: 7.0 9.5
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DUKE vs. SYRACUSESaturday, February 1 • Carrier Dome
6:30 p.m.No. 17 Blue Devils (17-4, 6-2) No. 2 Orange (20-0, 7-0)
(Projected lineups, statistics from 2013-14 season)
points on any given night.Point guard Tyler Ennis will also be a
focus for Duke. The Canadian freshman has been a savvy floor general for the Or-ange thus far, averaging 12.3 points and 5.4 assists per game. Ennis has played his best in big games during his rookie sea-son. In Syracuse’s three games against ranked opponents, Ennis averages 15.7 points per game and has dished out 14 assists compared to just one turnover. He averaged 39 minutes per contest in those
polar vortex thing, and there were about three nights where it reached -10, -15 degrees. For those three nights we allowed campers to go home from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for the safety of the students.”
During the past 10 days of tenting, nightly low temperatures in Syracuse, N.Y., have av-eraged 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit. By contrast, K-ville rules dictate that tenters are given man-datory grace for the night should the tempera-ture drop below 25 degrees. Relief appears to be on the way for residents of Boeheimburg, as an uptick of temperatures has a projected low of 25 degrees for the final night before Saturday’s matchup.
As of Wednesday night, there were 47 tents occupying Boeheimburg. Syracuse students purchase season tickets at the beginning of the year and are guaranteed a spot in the Car-rier Dome’s 5,000-plus-seat student section, which has reduced interest in braving the freezing cold.
Although Saturday’s game against Duke is the first camp-out of the season for Otto’s Army, it’s not unfamiliar. Boeheimburg was first established during the 2006-07 season, and usually hosts one big camp-out every year. Last season, students spent 10 days outside for Syracuse’s final home game against George-town as Big East rivals. That game drew 35,012 fans, the largest crowd to take in a college bas-ketball game hosted on a university’s campus in NCAA history. That record is expected to be in jeopardy for Saturday’s Duke-Syracuse matchup.
Syracuse officials had the opportunity to shatter the record against Duke by moving the court from the end zone of the Carrier Dome’s football field to midfield, but de-cided in the summer they would not make the move. Glidden said he would’ve loved to have seen 50,000 fans on hand for the game, but noted that altering the court’s configu-rations would disrupt Syracuse’s home court advantage by altering depth perceptions for players.
Regardless of crowd size, Saturday’s game has been the talk of campus and a
large reason why the Orange sold a record number of student tickets this year. “Beat Duke” T-shirts have been available in the Syracuse campus bookstore since the begin-ning of the school year.
“It’s a big deal with two legendary coach-es battling, but we’re the newcomers to the ACC and we’re in the position where we don’t necessarily have a rival yet,” Glidden said. “Ob-viously Duke has had a rival for many, many years and we’re not going to change that, but I think the ‘Beat Duke’ shirts show that we’re ready to come at Duke a little bit and show them that we’re just as crazy as them, just as crazy as UNC and can give them a battle every year.... No other game has compared to the hype around this.”
When the Orange travel to Cameron In-door Stadium for a Feb. 22 rematch against the Blue Devils, tenting will still be in full swing for Duke students. Hodgins said she and the other line monitors expect a great deal of interest for Syracuse’s first visit to Duke as an ACC member—but scoring a prime seat won’t be easy.
“You could make the argument that it’ll be our biggest home game of the season, on par with Miami last year,” Hodgins said. “Black tenters will be allowed to sleep in their tent and still be in line for Syracuse. I’d expect [non-black tenters] to sleep out for about five days, but that would be on the sidewalk with no tents allowed.”
three games. Ennis’ matchup with Duke point guard Quinn Cook will be a fascinat-ing storyline for Saturday’s contest.
Offensively, Duke will look to move the Orange zone and then penetrate with crisp passes and economic drib-bling. Sophomore forward Amile Jeffer-son has played an increased role in the Blue Devil offense when the team faces a zone scheme, using his position in the middle of the zone to find open shoot-ers on the perimeter.
“The way to beat the zone is to get the ball in the middle, and that’s something we’ve been working on,” Jefferson said.
M. BASKETBALL from page 5 “If you’re not moving the ball, making pass fakes, making the zone move, then they’re just sitting there being long and taking up the whole court.”
It’s never easy traveling to take on the nation’s No. 2 team in a hostile environ-ment, but the Blue Devils are looking forward to Saturday’s challenge.
“It’s exciting,” Dawkins said. “As fun as it is to be here and to play in front of our fans, it’s just as fun to go and play in someone else’s gym where everyone else in there hates you and wants you to do poorly, so it’s definitely exciting. It doesn’t get old for us.”
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Beginning with the Class of 2018, freshmen on East Campus will have the option to live in gender-neutral housing. The new gender-neutral housing policy will allow students of the opposite sex to live in the same dorm room and use unisex bathrooms. The announcement of this change followed similar policy changes that established gender-neutral housing options for Central and West Campuses.
Extending gender-neutral housing to East Campus is, without a doubt, a progressive and commendable move. The Editorial Board has long endorsed policies that offer students the option of gender-neutral housing, citing the importance for Duke to remain inclusive and tolerant of all types of students and living preferences. Gender neutrality continues to vex some, but such an attitude is tired, antiquated and unrepresentative of Duke’s increasingly diverse student body. Expanding gender-neutral housing to East Campus is a laudable step that reaffirms Duke’s commitment to inclusivity.
Allowing freshmen to opt into gender-neutral housing is consistent with the current gender-neutral housing options on Central and West Campuses. In our view, freshmen should have the same freedom to choose gender-neutral housing afforded to upperclassmen.
Although first-year housing differs in many ways from upperclassman housing, students should not be excluded from a full range of housing options simply because of their class year.
Indeed, gender-neutral housing on East Campus is particularly important. Freshmen enter Duke as
blank slates and ought to have access to a wide range of perspectives, identities and living arrangements. Free from the group identities, biases and cynicism that one inevitably accrues as he or she passes through Duke, freshmen benefit immensely from exposure to policies and practices that encourage tolerance and respect difference. The Class of 2018 will enter Duke with gender-neutral housing options as the norm, rather than the exception.
Offering gender-neutral housing on all three campuses also reflects Duke’s enlightened stance on LGBTQ issues. Duke’s progressive approach to these issues is especially notable given that The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors recently banned gender-neutral housing at UNC, overturning a previous resolution that would
have allowed the option. In countering this trend of social conservatism and narrow-mindedness, Duke stands as a praiseworthy advocate for inclusivity and progressivism in North Carolina.
Although we endorse gender-neutral housing and agree wholeheartedly with its justifications, some concerns about the implementation of the policy on East Campus have been left unresolved. Will students who participate in FOCUS programs be precluded from opting into gender-neutral housing? In rare cases, would the administration find itself forced to pair students who had opted into gender-neutral with those who had not in order to fill up dormitory space?
These questions are important, but not unique to gender-neutral housing. Wellness and Arts dorms on East Campus often face issues relating to living preference and roommate pairing. The administration will have to work out these details going forward, and, perhaps, its commitment to gender-neutral housing will allow it to find solutions to some of the other logistical problems with housing. Expanding gender-neutral housing options is more than just a matter of obligation—it is a long-awaited step towards making Duke a welcoming place for all.
Gender-neutral a clear positive
Editorial
As a human being, I function horribly in large groups. I know I can be quite the rambunctious one, but throw me into a huge group of
random strangers and I’ll completely shut down. I’ll be awkward, shy and give off the impression that being alive makes me physically uncomfortable. Over the years, I’ve come to realize that this probably stems from an inherent, deeply-rooted fear that nobody likes
me. And I understand that, unlike my fear of sharks, mold and being locked in a freezer, this particular fear is actually kind of ridiculous. I know I have friends and people who think I’m pretty great, but that doesn’t prevent the nagging voice in my mind from telling me that I’m a loser and destined for a life of desolate loneliness. At this stage in my life, I can usually get over it and become my normal, social self, but sometimes I still find it difficult to be thrust into a new environment where I don’t know anyone.
So, as freshmen year came to a close, I was happy to leave behind that awkward transitioning period when large groups of strangers were the norm and everyone was uncomfortable because no one knew anyone, but, at the same time, we all desperately wanted to be friends. Don’t get me wrong, I love new people and find them quite exciting. But I was also relieved to have an established support system I figured I’d be able to rely on as a sophomore.
And then I decided to become a Resident Assistant, and, all at once, I was right back where I started: in a new environment, alone and stuck amidst a huge group of people that I didn’t even know.
The RA position is often misunderstood. Some friends will tell me its not a real job and I’m getting free housing for doing nothing. Others will ask if I’ve gone on some crazy power trip and just write everyone up all the time. And still some will wonder in bewilderment how I could possibly want to spend a second year on East Campus. And, while I’ve learned to respond to various inquiries, I’ll admit that, at first, I had the wrong idea as well.
The position itself is pretty straightforward: Take a bunch of freshmen girls from different racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, throw them all together in one living community and do your best to keep them alive. But, while that sounds simple enough, it’s also incredibly terrifying. I can hardly take care of myself—how am I supposed to create and nurture an entire community? But I told myself I’d be fine and at
the very least meet some cool people, garner a cult-like following of freshmen and have some ridiculous stories to tell years later.
But I kept returning to the same question over and over again: Would I feel alone? The second year East experience is, understandably, incredibly different from the first. I think what a lot of people don’t realize, though, is
that, as an RA, you are part of a team. My East Campus team consists of 13 other RAs and two GRs. Despite the fact that most of us started out as strangers, we spend so much time together that, inevitably, bonds form and relationships grow. And, after a while, East stops feeling like a separate entity and starts feeling more like home. I always knew my residents would find their place on East, and it was never really something that concerned me. But what I didn’t expect was that, through random hangouts, smoothie study breaks and weekend brunches, I’d find my place too.
It’s easy to retreat into communities of stability and established networks. But there’s value too in embracing the newness that freshmen year brought for all of us, even if I’m embracing it for the second time around. And, through this experience, I have met so many incredible RAs who I probably wouldn’t know otherwise—people to whom I can express my thoughts, vent my frustrations and gossip about the latest absurdities of my life. And, in turn, their personal accounts have inspired me, intrigued me and made me grateful to be part of something so great.
So to the question of whether being an RA can feel lonely, isolating or alienating: The honest answer is yes. Sometimes, I feel all of that and more. But I think that this would be true regardless of my living situation. And, at the end of the day, it is a job and environment I absolutely love.
The RA role isn’t an easy job, and, by the nature of the role, we go through a lot more than people give us credit for. But, despite the challenges characteristic of any job—the hours of being on call, the endless program planning, the constant fear of possibly ruining someone’s first year experience—it is a role I take pride in and that, in turn, has given me more than I had ever expected.
Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.
The rA life
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A common and misleading argument made by members of the Duke Student Government Executive
Board against The 40 Percent Plan is that it will harm small groups. This objection makes no sense. Here are seven reasons why.
First, this argument assumes that the status quo is beneficial to small groups. That’s anything but true. Small groups across the spectrum currently face unnecessary difficulty getting funding from the Student
Organization Finance Committee. Big groups are actually favored because they are better able to work the system—they’re more familiar with it. Not to mention that the process is anything but objective. Yes, DSG’s bail out of The Chanticleer is a prime example, but consider another: Last year, 52 chartered groups applied for an annual budget. The Duke Student Government was one of them. The 51 non-DSG groups received an average of only 27.72 percent of the money they requested. DSG received 93.11 percent of the money it requested (over $50,000). DSG gets its money, but the people don’t? Something’s not right here.
Second, remember what information students are going to have available to them when they log on to allocate their money. Groups will register ahead of time only if they want to receive money from the student allocation, and they will list how much money they anticipate needing for the year or semester. Groups will link to budget proposals showing how they will use the money, allowing students to be informed, conscientious donors. SOFC will be able to provide a “second-opinion” budget proposal, allowing students to compare the two budgets. Most importantly, students will be able to see in real-time how much money each group has already received. If a large group is siphoning off money, for whatever reason, students will see that and be able to act accordingly. This is an abundance of information available to students, allowing them to make informed decisions.
Third, small groups tend to need money the fastest. They have lower liquidity than large groups. Under the current SOFC process, it takes a week—at a minimum—to get funding. Usually it takes longer. And this is if SOFC and then DSG approve a small group’s funding at all! Under The 40 Percent Plan, small groups will know they have a pool of cash available to them to be used at a moments notice. If a new group knows it has $300 given to it by students, for example, it can spend it without having to go to the SOFC and wait through a laborious process to get money that’s still subject to a line-item veto.
Fourth, think about the incentive effects at play. Under The 40 Percent Plan student group leaders will be able to say, “If you donate money to our group, we will do x, y, z.” This helps students get to know what groups are about and what events or services the groups will provide. In other words, it informs students! And if a group doesn’t follow through, students wouldn’t give them money again. So it makes student leaders more responsive.
Then think about incentive effects from the student perspective. Since a student will be donating money to groups of his or her choice, he or she will feel personally invested and responsible in that group’s success. They will have a financial
stake in the game that they didn’t have before. This counteracts student apathy and incentivizes group involvement.
How do these incentives benefit small groups specifically? Well, small groups tend to have much more committed and passionate members. These members will be willing to give a significant proportion of their 40 percent to help their group thrive. And since smaller groups are, well, small, it makes it easier
for group leaders to communicate information to their members. Small groups are like local communities—you know your fellow members and you know your group leaders, oftentimes on a first name basis. In this context, it is easier for group leaders to effectively communicate and deliver results—because it’s more personal. And because small group leaders can better communicate and deliver results, it means students are more likely to donate money to them.
Fifth, The 40 Percent Plan benefits the most quintessential of small groups—new groups. New groups will benefit under The 40 Percent Plan because they tend to have very fervent members. Not only will these members give part of—or all of—their 40 percent to their new group, but they are more likely to be very active in recruiting. This greater passion for recruiting will lead to more dollars brought in. Additionally, consider the status quo. Under the current system, there is no incentive for a new group to eagerly and enthusiastically recruit new members. In fact, there aren’t many tangible benefits to recruiting new members at all under the status quo, other than boosting the new group’s listserv. Under The 40 Percent Plan, new groups are rewarded for being proactive.
New groups are also viewed more skeptically by the SOFC because they don’t have a track record of throwing events. This makes it all the more difficult for new groups to get money quickly, and new groups are oftentimes the groups that need money the fastest—they have the most need to rapidly establish their presence. The 40 Percent Plan allows new groups to use their money quicker, with fewer strings attached.
Sixth, the argument that students will only give money to large groups is like saying students will only join large groups. We know this isn’t true. I’ve talked to literally hundreds of people about this petition and never once has a single student expressed excitement at the prospect of donating to a large group. Every single time I am faced with an avalanche of responses about how students would like to give to their small groups. And this makes sense—most of us are most passionate about our small group involvement.
Seventh, let’s say that reasons one through six are all just wrong. Well, consider the fact that, under The 40 Percent Plan, about $490,000 will be left to the SOFC to support small groups. That’s more than Harvard’s entire budget for all of its groups.
For all these reasons, don’t buy the argument that The 40 Percent Plan harms small groups. It’s frankly just not true.
Daniel Strunk is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Daniel a message on Twitter @DanielFStrunk.
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On Jan. 30, 2013, I held the first meet-ing for DukeOpen, a student group advocating endowment transparency
and investment responsibility. Only one other person showed up. Nine months later, the University acceded to almost all our requests and announced the broadest reforms to our endowment in the past decade. How did we make it happen, and what does this mean for student activism at Duke?
Shortly after launch, our group grew to its core size: four people. Much like a startup, we
moved fast and worked hard. We launched a professional website with a heavily researched policy proposal, received multiple news articles in The Chronicle and the Herald Sun, multiple endorsements—from the Editorial Board, Duke Student Government and other student groups—and, more recently, national press coverage in The Nation.
Operationally, we secured pitch meetings with high-profile groups and administrators, including University Secretary Richard Riddell, two successive Chairs of the Academic Council, two University-level committees, President Richard Brodhead and Neil Triplett, the president of our investment management group, DUMAC.
Our proposal asked Duke to actually implement guidelines on responsible investment the Board of Trustees originally passed in 2004. We suggested University-wide disclosure, improved oversight and a social choice fund for alumni to direct contributions to pre-screened investments.
We made significant progress in achieving a social choice fund, improvements to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s accountability and meeting frequency and increased disclosure to the ACIR. We did not get University-wide disclosure. Of particular note is an impressive concession from DUMAC President Neil Triplett. In a Sept. 20, 2013 meeting also attended by two DSG officers, Triplett admitted that University-wide disclosure of direct investments did not pose a financial risk. Citing research from peer institutions that found zero impact after five years of direct disclosure, he added: “Do I think they could reverse engineer what we’re doing? Probably not. If you do that in a controlled environment, the chances are pretty low.” Asked directly for his opinion, Triplett replied, “I’m not adamantly opposed to it.”
We were relentlessly thorough in navigating University bureaucracy. Before launching our campaign, we conducted a full review of the University’s administrative structure, yielding a 20-page internal strategy guide. This work helped us anticipate the administration’s various counter-tactics—to delay, deny and misrepresent—and continue to pursue unorthodox channels of support including faculty committees, thereby forcing the administration to cover a larger area of attack.
Our careful attention to image made us hard to dismiss. From the beginning, we pursued a model of reasonable student
advocacy, with a well-researched policy proposal and proactive attempts to collaborate with administrators. We escalated our actions only in proportion to the administration’s obstructionism, wrapping Duke’s statues and symbolically blocking the Allen building in the week leading up to the October Board of Trustees vote.
When the administration refused to come back to the negotiating table on University-wide disclosure despite DUMAC’s research, we hit the streets and gathered over
2,000 petition signatures in under a week. More likely than not, this demonstration of broad student support was behind the administration’s decision to put disclosure back on the table one year from now, pending review by the revamped ACIR. This promise, however, is conspicuously absent from the recent ACIR press release.
This administration is painfully unsure of how to navigate public scrutiny, with rumors of 20 Durham police put on high-alert in response to our plans to knock on the door at the October board meeting. The next day, they invited us to lunch with two trustees.
The move to closed board meetings, part of the 1990’s increased corporatization of the University, is facing serious challenges. Rights to press and student participation, formerly fought for and won by The Chronicle and Duke Student Government, are seeing renewed student interest.
Finally, the administration is off-balance due to highly visible setbacks with the online course provider debacle and the Kunshan controversy. Having to select a new Provost by July to fill Peter Lange’s considerable shoes only makes things harder. While the new Provost is installed, the current bureaucracy is fragmented and unable to present a unified front to student efforts. Now is a golden opportunity for movements to generate considerable headway.
For student activists interested in social justice, a plethora of campaigns await. Divest Duke has already started, with calls for divestment from fossil fuels. Other ideas include: substantive action on the Palestinian occupation that moves beyond platitudes, re-opening board meetings to independent press coverage and meaningful student participation, increasing faculty diversity and tackling Duke’s higher than average gender violence against women and, of course, getting full disclosure of direct holdings to the Duke community—something allegedly mailed to all alumni in the past.
DukeOpen’s massive victory demonstrates that structural change begins with students. An effective activist model must include strong research, a mastery of bureaucracy and a willingness to employ traditional grassroots escalation as needed, rather than as a first-resort. With a proven model in hand, activists have a powerful tool to generate credibility and bring change to our University.
Bobo Bose-Kolanu is a graduate student and the founder of DukeOpen.
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Beginning with the Class of 2018, freshmen on East Campus will have the option to live in gender-neutral housing. The new gender-neutral housing policy will allow students of the opposite sex to live in the same dorm room and use unisex bathrooms. The announcement of this change followed similar policy changes that established gender-neutral housing options for Central and West Campuses.
Extending gender-neutral housing to East Campus is, without a doubt, a progressive and commendable move. The Editorial Board has long endorsed policies that offer students the option of gender-neutral housing, citing the importance for Duke to remain inclusive and tolerant of all types of students and living preferences. Gender neutrality continues to vex some, but such an attitude is tired, antiquated and unrepresentative of Duke’s increasingly diverse student body. Expanding gender-neutral housing to East Campus is a laudable step that reaffirms Duke’s commitment to inclusivity.
Allowing freshmen to opt into gender-neutral housing is consistent with the current gender-neutral housing options on Central and West Campuses. In our view, freshmen should have the same freedom to choose gender-neutral housing afforded to upperclassmen.
Although first-year housing differs in many ways from upperclassman housing, students should not be excluded from a full range of housing options simply because of their class year.
Indeed, gender-neutral housing on East Campus is particularly important. Freshmen enter Duke as
blank slates and ought to have access to a wide range of perspectives, identities and living arrangements. Free from the group identities, biases and cynicism that one inevitably accrues as he or she passes through Duke, freshmen benefit immensely from exposure to policies and practices that encourage tolerance and respect difference. The Class of 2018 will enter Duke with gender-neutral housing options as the norm, rather than the exception.
Offering gender-neutral housing on all three campuses also reflects Duke’s enlightened stance on LGBTQ issues. Duke’s progressive approach to these issues is especially notable given that The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors recently banned gender-neutral housing at UNC, overturning a previous resolution that would
have allowed the option. In countering this trend of social conservatism and narrow-mindedness, Duke stands as a praiseworthy advocate for inclusivity and progressivism in North Carolina.
Although we endorse gender-neutral housing and agree wholeheartedly with its justifications, some concerns about the implementation of the policy on East Campus have been left unresolved. Will students who participate in FOCUS programs be precluded from opting into gender-neutral housing? In rare cases, would the administration find itself forced to pair students who had opted into gender-neutral with those who had not in order to fill up dormitory space?
These questions are important, but not unique to gender-neutral housing. Wellness and Arts dorms on East Campus often face issues relating to living preference and roommate pairing. The administration will have to work out these details going forward, and, perhaps, its commitment to gender-neutral housing will allow it to find solutions to some of the other logistical problems with housing. Expanding gender-neutral housing options is more than just a matter of obligation—it is a long-awaited step towards making Duke a welcoming place for all.
Gender-neutral a clear positive
Editorial
As a human being, I function horribly in large groups. I know I can be quite the rambunctious one, but throw me into a huge group of
random strangers and I’ll completely shut down. I’ll be awkward, shy and give off the impression that being alive makes me physically uncomfortable. Over the years, I’ve come to realize that this probably stems from an inherent, deeply-rooted fear that nobody likes
me. And I understand that, unlike my fear of sharks, mold and being locked in a freezer, this particular fear is actually kind of ridiculous. I know I have friends and people who think I’m pretty great, but that doesn’t prevent the nagging voice in my mind from telling me that I’m a loser and destined for a life of desolate loneliness. At this stage in my life, I can usually get over it and become my normal, social self, but sometimes I still find it difficult to be thrust into a new environment where I don’t know anyone.
So, as freshmen year came to a close, I was happy to leave behind that awkward transitioning period when large groups of strangers were the norm and everyone was uncomfortable because no one knew anyone, but, at the same time, we all desperately wanted to be friends. Don’t get me wrong, I love new people and find them quite exciting. But I was also relieved to have an established support system I figured I’d be able to rely on as a sophomore.
And then I decided to become a Resident Assistant, and, all at once, I was right back where I started: in a new environment, alone and stuck amidst a huge group of people that I didn’t even know.
The RA position is often misunderstood. Some friends will tell me its not a real job and I’m getting free housing for doing nothing. Others will ask if I’ve gone on some crazy power trip and just write everyone up all the time. And still some will wonder in bewilderment how I could possibly want to spend a second year on East Campus. And, while I’ve learned to respond to various inquiries, I’ll admit that, at first, I had the wrong idea as well.
The position itself is pretty straightforward: Take a bunch of freshmen girls from different racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, throw them all together in one living community and do your best to keep them alive. But, while that sounds simple enough, it’s also incredibly terrifying. I can hardly take care of myself—how am I supposed to create and nurture an entire community? But I told myself I’d be fine and at
the very least meet some cool people, garner a cult-like following of freshmen and have some ridiculous stories to tell years later.
But I kept returning to the same question over and over again: Would I feel alone? The second year East experience is, understandably, incredibly different from the first. I think what a lot of people don’t realize, though, is
that, as an RA, you are part of a team. My East Campus team consists of 13 other RAs and two GRs. Despite the fact that most of us started out as strangers, we spend so much time together that, inevitably, bonds form and relationships grow. And, after a while, East stops feeling like a separate entity and starts feeling more like home. I always knew my residents would find their place on East, and it was never really something that concerned me. But what I didn’t expect was that, through random hangouts, smoothie study breaks and weekend brunches, I’d find my place too.
It’s easy to retreat into communities of stability and established networks. But there’s value too in embracing the newness that freshmen year brought for all of us, even if I’m embracing it for the second time around. And, through this experience, I have met so many incredible RAs who I probably wouldn’t know otherwise—people to whom I can express my thoughts, vent my frustrations and gossip about the latest absurdities of my life. And, in turn, their personal accounts have inspired me, intrigued me and made me grateful to be part of something so great.
So to the question of whether being an RA can feel lonely, isolating or alienating: The honest answer is yes. Sometimes, I feel all of that and more. But I think that this would be true regardless of my living situation. And, at the end of the day, it is a job and environment I absolutely love.
The RA role isn’t an easy job, and, by the nature of the role, we go through a lot more than people give us credit for. But, despite the challenges characteristic of any job—the hours of being on call, the endless program planning, the constant fear of possibly ruining someone’s first year experience—it is a role I take pride in and that, in turn, has given me more than I had ever expected.
Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.
The rA life
Michelle Menchacaa work in progress
A common and misleading argument made by members of the Duke Student Government Executive
Board against The 40 Percent Plan is that it will harm small groups. This objection makes no sense. Here are seven reasons why.
First, this argument assumes that the status quo is beneficial to small groups. That’s anything but true. Small groups across the spectrum currently face unnecessary difficulty getting funding from the Student
Organization Finance Committee. Big groups are actually favored because they are better able to work the system—they’re more familiar with it. Not to mention that the process is anything but objective. Yes, DSG’s bail out of The Chanticleer is a prime example, but consider another: Last year, 52 chartered groups applied for an annual budget. The Duke Student Government was one of them. The 51 non-DSG groups received an average of only 27.72 percent of the money they requested. DSG received 93.11 percent of the money it requested (over $50,000). DSG gets its money, but the people don’t? Something’s not right here.
Second, remember what information students are going to have available to them when they log on to allocate their money. Groups will register ahead of time only if they want to receive money from the student allocation, and they will list how much money they anticipate needing for the year or semester. Groups will link to budget proposals showing how they will use the money, allowing students to be informed, conscientious donors. SOFC will be able to provide a “second-opinion” budget proposal, allowing students to compare the two budgets. Most importantly, students will be able to see in real-time how much money each group has already received. If a large group is siphoning off money, for whatever reason, students will see that and be able to act accordingly. This is an abundance of information available to students, allowing them to make informed decisions.
Third, small groups tend to need money the fastest. They have lower liquidity than large groups. Under the current SOFC process, it takes a week—at a minimum—to get funding. Usually it takes longer. And this is if SOFC and then DSG approve a small group’s funding at all! Under The 40 Percent Plan, small groups will know they have a pool of cash available to them to be used at a moments notice. If a new group knows it has $300 given to it by students, for example, it can spend it without having to go to the SOFC and wait through a laborious process to get money that’s still subject to a line-item veto.
Fourth, think about the incentive effects at play. Under The 40 Percent Plan student group leaders will be able to say, “If you donate money to our group, we will do x, y, z.” This helps students get to know what groups are about and what events or services the groups will provide. In other words, it informs students! And if a group doesn’t follow through, students wouldn’t give them money again. So it makes student leaders more responsive.
Then think about incentive effects from the student perspective. Since a student will be donating money to groups of his or her choice, he or she will feel personally invested and responsible in that group’s success. They will have a financial
stake in the game that they didn’t have before. This counteracts student apathy and incentivizes group involvement.
How do these incentives benefit small groups specifically? Well, small groups tend to have much more committed and passionate members. These members will be willing to give a significant proportion of their 40 percent to help their group thrive. And since smaller groups are, well, small, it makes it easier
for group leaders to communicate information to their members. Small groups are like local communities—you know your fellow members and you know your group leaders, oftentimes on a first name basis. In this context, it is easier for group leaders to effectively communicate and deliver results—because it’s more personal. And because small group leaders can better communicate and deliver results, it means students are more likely to donate money to them.
Fifth, The 40 Percent Plan benefits the most quintessential of small groups—new groups. New groups will benefit under The 40 Percent Plan because they tend to have very fervent members. Not only will these members give part of—or all of—their 40 percent to their new group, but they are more likely to be very active in recruiting. This greater passion for recruiting will lead to more dollars brought in. Additionally, consider the status quo. Under the current system, there is no incentive for a new group to eagerly and enthusiastically recruit new members. In fact, there aren’t many tangible benefits to recruiting new members at all under the status quo, other than boosting the new group’s listserv. Under The 40 Percent Plan, new groups are rewarded for being proactive.
New groups are also viewed more skeptically by the SOFC because they don’t have a track record of throwing events. This makes it all the more difficult for new groups to get money quickly, and new groups are oftentimes the groups that need money the fastest—they have the most need to rapidly establish their presence. The 40 Percent Plan allows new groups to use their money quicker, with fewer strings attached.
Sixth, the argument that students will only give money to large groups is like saying students will only join large groups. We know this isn’t true. I’ve talked to literally hundreds of people about this petition and never once has a single student expressed excitement at the prospect of donating to a large group. Every single time I am faced with an avalanche of responses about how students would like to give to their small groups. And this makes sense—most of us are most passionate about our small group involvement.
Seventh, let’s say that reasons one through six are all just wrong. Well, consider the fact that, under The 40 Percent Plan, about $490,000 will be left to the SOFC to support small groups. That’s more than Harvard’s entire budget for all of its groups.
For all these reasons, don’t buy the argument that The 40 Percent Plan harms small groups. It’s frankly just not true.
Daniel Strunk is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Daniel a message on Twitter @DanielFStrunk.
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Daniel Strunkany last words?
On Jan. 30, 2013, I held the first meet-ing for DukeOpen, a student group advocating endowment transparency
and investment responsibility. Only one other person showed up. Nine months later, the University acceded to almost all our requests and announced the broadest reforms to our endowment in the past decade. How did we make it happen, and what does this mean for student activism at Duke?
Shortly after launch, our group grew to its core size: four people. Much like a startup, we
moved fast and worked hard. We launched a professional website with a heavily researched policy proposal, received multiple news articles in The Chronicle and the Herald Sun, multiple endorsements—from the Editorial Board, Duke Student Government and other student groups—and, more recently, national press coverage in The Nation.
Operationally, we secured pitch meetings with high-profile groups and administrators, including University Secretary Richard Riddell, two successive Chairs of the Academic Council, two University-level committees, President Richard Brodhead and Neil Triplett, the president of our investment management group, DUMAC.
Our proposal asked Duke to actually implement guidelines on responsible investment the Board of Trustees originally passed in 2004. We suggested University-wide disclosure, improved oversight and a social choice fund for alumni to direct contributions to pre-screened investments.
We made significant progress in achieving a social choice fund, improvements to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s accountability and meeting frequency and increased disclosure to the ACIR. We did not get University-wide disclosure. Of particular note is an impressive concession from DUMAC President Neil Triplett. In a Sept. 20, 2013 meeting also attended by two DSG officers, Triplett admitted that University-wide disclosure of direct investments did not pose a financial risk. Citing research from peer institutions that found zero impact after five years of direct disclosure, he added: “Do I think they could reverse engineer what we’re doing? Probably not. If you do that in a controlled environment, the chances are pretty low.” Asked directly for his opinion, Triplett replied, “I’m not adamantly opposed to it.”
We were relentlessly thorough in navigating University bureaucracy. Before launching our campaign, we conducted a full review of the University’s administrative structure, yielding a 20-page internal strategy guide. This work helped us anticipate the administration’s various counter-tactics—to delay, deny and misrepresent—and continue to pursue unorthodox channels of support including faculty committees, thereby forcing the administration to cover a larger area of attack.
Our careful attention to image made us hard to dismiss. From the beginning, we pursued a model of reasonable student
advocacy, with a well-researched policy proposal and proactive attempts to collaborate with administrators. We escalated our actions only in proportion to the administration’s obstructionism, wrapping Duke’s statues and symbolically blocking the Allen building in the week leading up to the October Board of Trustees vote.
When the administration refused to come back to the negotiating table on University-wide disclosure despite DUMAC’s research, we hit the streets and gathered over
2,000 petition signatures in under a week. More likely than not, this demonstration of broad student support was behind the administration’s decision to put disclosure back on the table one year from now, pending review by the revamped ACIR. This promise, however, is conspicuously absent from the recent ACIR press release.
This administration is painfully unsure of how to navigate public scrutiny, with rumors of 20 Durham police put on high-alert in response to our plans to knock on the door at the October board meeting. The next day, they invited us to lunch with two trustees.
The move to closed board meetings, part of the 1990’s increased corporatization of the University, is facing serious challenges. Rights to press and student participation, formerly fought for and won by The Chronicle and Duke Student Government, are seeing renewed student interest.
Finally, the administration is off-balance due to highly visible setbacks with the online course provider debacle and the Kunshan controversy. Having to select a new Provost by July to fill Peter Lange’s considerable shoes only makes things harder. While the new Provost is installed, the current bureaucracy is fragmented and unable to present a unified front to student efforts. Now is a golden opportunity for movements to generate considerable headway.
For student activists interested in social justice, a plethora of campaigns await. Divest Duke has already started, with calls for divestment from fossil fuels. Other ideas include: substantive action on the Palestinian occupation that moves beyond platitudes, re-opening board meetings to independent press coverage and meaningful student participation, increasing faculty diversity and tackling Duke’s higher than average gender violence against women and, of course, getting full disclosure of direct holdings to the Duke community—something allegedly mailed to all alumni in the past.
DukeOpen’s massive victory demonstrates that structural change begins with students. An effective activist model must include strong research, a mastery of bureaucracy and a willingness to employ traditional grassroots escalation as needed, rather than as a first-resort. With a proven model in hand, activists have a powerful tool to generate credibility and bring change to our University.
Bobo Bose-Kolanu is a graduate student and the founder of DukeOpen.
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