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Ride sharing brings competition to cab market

Anthony Alvernaz | � e ChronicleLocal businesses, such as Durham’s Best Cab and Charlene’s Safe Ride, have changed their practices as a result of the use of ride-sharing services.

With ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft spiking in popularity, Durham cab companies are finding themselves forced to adjust their business models.

Since bringing its services to the Triangle area in April, Uber has quickly gained local customers, company representatives said. The service is particularly popular with stu-dents—including those at Duke—and now,

local cab companies are considering alter-nate strategies as they watch business falter.

“We’ve definitely lost some business, I’ll admit it,” said Hussam Hassan, president of Durham’s Best Cab Company.

Hassan said that the company is in the process of developing a ride-tracking appli-cation similar to Uber, in addition to invest-ing more money in advertising.

Another local cab company, Charlene’s Safe Ride, said it is also adjusting its strate-gies in order to better compete with Uber.

“We like new technologies and we always

do our best to provide our clients with what other competitors provide,” operations manager Bell Belahouel wrote in an email Monday. “A few of our drivers signed up for Uber [or] Lyft and we are encouraging all our 25 drivers to do the same. You may or-der a ride with Uber...and ride with a Char-lene’s driver.”

Belahouel noted, however, that local cab companies have been frustrated that Uber and Lyft have skirted rules in attempts to

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Search for new JHFHI director commencesJohn Hope Franklin Humanities Institute seeks replacement for former director Ian Baucom

Rachel ChasonUniversity Editor

The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute is currently searching for a permanent replacement for former director Ian Baucom, who stepped down to take a position at the University of Virginia.

Baucom began his term as UVA’s dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences July 1 after spending 17 years in Duke’s English department. A six-person search committee chaired by Laurent Dubois, professor of Romance Studies and History, is reviewing applications for the position—which will be filled by a current Duke professor.

“We are looking for a leader with the vision to enhance FHI’s imprint locally, as well as its broader reputation outside of Duke; and with the skills to nurture FHI in its tripartite mission of excellence in scholarship, education, and knowledge in service to society,” the institute said in a statement.

The search committee asks applicants to submit a letter of intent, a recent resumé and a “vision statement” for the institute’s future by October 20.

Romance studies professor David Bell is

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Powell urges students to take risks in humanities ed.Michelle Xu� e Chronicle

In his new role as Dean of the Humanities, Richard Powell hopes to encourage all students to appreciate the value of a broad education.

Powell stepped into the position last month, after Srinivas Aravamudan resigned from the post for health reasons. The

John Hope Bassett Professor of art, art history and visual studies, Powell said he hopes to maintain the strong work done by Aravamudan and continue a tradition of collaboration.

“I am absolutely excited about this new position,” said Powell, who has taught at Duke for 25 years. “I’m attuned to the idea that this is an institution that is constantly reimagining itself for the better, and per-

haps I can give a historical perspective that will be useful in that process.”

Laurie Patton, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said she considers Powell the embodiment of what is best in the humanities at Duke. He brings to the role a “distinguished scholarly achieve-ment, awareness of the critical issues facing the humanities today and a keen sense of Duke’s international leadership in human-istic inquiry,” she wrote in an email Thurs-day. Patton also noted Powell’s capability in integrating traditional techniques with more innovative work.

Powell said that he hopes to build on much of the work done by Aravamudan, who held the position for five years. Pow-ell described Aravamudan’s work as “incredible,” and claims that the major challenge for him is maintaining that energy.

“It’s easy to follow the good work that someone has done,”

Powell said. “The challenge is keeping up that momentum.”Powell will hold the position through June 2016. He noted

that his goals include encouraging stu-dents to take advantage of the breadth of a humanities education.

“We’re trying to make the humanities integral and significant in the larger scope of education here,” Powell said. “I can’t say that I came into this position with an agenda, with a plan, with a program.... I am much more a collaborator, a listener.”

Studying the humanities makes a stu-dent better-equipped to move forward into graduate school or the workplace, Powell

said, no matter where their interests lie.“There will be an opportunity once you leave this institu-

tion to go to law school, to go to business school, to go into a

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From faculty receiving national recognition to recruiting an acclaimed filmmaker, the Duke community has announced several changes in the past week.

Appointment from the Law SchoolDavid F. Levi—dean of the Duke School of Law—has

been appointed chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the American Judicial System.

“I am pleased and honored to be chosen by [the president of the ABA],” Levi said in Duke Law News press release. “I look forward to working on these issues with this new committee, with my fellow co-chairs, with ABA leadership and staff and with our profession as a whole.”

The appointment was made by ABA President William C. Hubbard.

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Brianna Siracuse | � e ChronicleAt Friday’s Student Activites Fair, students learned more about Duke’s various organizations.

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serving as interim director while the search is conducted. He filled the same position last fall when Baucom was on leave to conduct research.

“The transition has gone pretty smoothly,” Bell said. “That’s in large part because I know the staff so well, and they’re a great staff—they’re really the ones the make the place run.”

Bell, who is part of the search committee, said he is not a candidate for the permanent position.

“I’m looking forward to finding a dynamic candidate full of new ideas,” he said.

Bell said his primary focus for the year will be working with the $1.3 million grant awarded to the institute by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation last spring. The grant will fund a new initiative allowing Duke’s humanities faculty and over 100 scholars worldwide to explore the future of humanities scholarship.

The institute and Duke’s humanities departments will use the money to organize speaker series, public conversations and working groups. Speakers will then publish “think pieces” on the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the humanities.

“Departments have been collaborating to create events where speakers come to campus and tackle some really serious topics,” Bell said. “It’s a huge opportunity, but that programming does require a lot of planning.”

Bell said his other goals for the year include making sure the Global Brazil Lab, launched this Fall, has a successful start. An interdisciplinary team of faculty will lead the lab, which will focus on Brazilian arts, social movements and natural environment.

profession. Someone who sees himself or herself moving into a profession is much better educated if they know art, philoso-phy, music, literature or drama,” he said.

With his own academic and research interests falling in American art, African-American art and theories of race and representation in the African diaspora, Powell noted the power of a humanities education as a way for students to learn broadly and explore interests they might otherwise not realize.

“This is the moment where you can pursue a desire, an avocation, and just test yourself if there’s something that you might want to pursue in a serious sort of way,” he said. “Just take advantage of all of the options that are here. Take some risks. Do not feel afraid to stretch.”

Before being appointed to his current professorship, Pow-ell was chair of the art, art history and visual studies depart-ment. He serves on the advisory board for the Nasher Museum of Art, as well as the scholarly advisor committee for the Smith-sonian Institution’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

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Levi appointed chair of ABA committee, CDS brings documentarian Williams

“This new committee will be a focal point of the ABA’s efforts to protect our nation’s courts and secure the fair, efficient, and accountable administration of justice,” Hubbard said in the release. “Dean Levi’s talent and experience as a lawyer, judge and dean, together with his remarkable and renowned leadership, make him uniquely qualified to assume this important responsibility for the ABA, our judicial system, and our nation.”

Levi has served as the dean of the Law School since 2007, after earning his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1980. Prior to this, he was appointed United States Attorney by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and a United States district judge by President George H. W. Bush in 1990.

The role of the Standing Committee, according to the ABA website, is to promote public awareness of the values of an independent, accountable and efficient judiciary. Levi will lead several subcommittees, including the subcommittees on federal courts and state courts, to carry out this goal.

Acclaimed filmmaker comes to DukeThe Center for Documentary Studies, in conjunction

with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

will be welcoming Marco Williams to the position of 2014–15 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies.

Williams, a New York filmmaker and professor, has won several accolades for his films, including the 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for his ongoing project about racial homicide.

In a press release from CDS, Guggenheim’s statement said his works “challenge the status quo, [and] an audience’s comfort level, to interrogate and investigate our collective psyche as Americans.”

Williams will be teaching a joint Duke-UNC course called Documenting Personal Narrative. According to the press release, this course focuses on creating documentaries from personal and communal relationships.

Williams expects that this class will be different from ones he taught in the past, both in physical setting and student diversity.

“I’m looking forward to the intimacy that I think characterizes the South,” he said in the press release. “I’m also looking forward to the chance to engage students who come from a diverse course of study. I think that’s going to be great, and challenging for me as an educator.”

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gain riders.“Legally, Uber [and] Lyft are operating

as technology service providers,” he wrote. “Their private drivers are not allowed to con-duct business at [Raleigh-Durham Internation-al Airport] due to the lack of permits but have been showing up for a while.”

But although Uber has inconvenienced local cabs, it has been embraced by many stu-dents.

“Uber is a lifesaver for me,” said freshman Gurbani Singh. “Uber is, hands down, my top choice.... Uber is quick, reliable, very afford-able and by far the most convenient and need-

less to say the best mode of transport for me.”The majority of Uber clients in the Triangle

area are students, said Arathi Mehrotra, gen-eral manager for Raleigh-Durham Uber. The company is keeping the student perspective in mind as they expand—particularly in regards to affordability and consistently available late-night options.

The service functions by allowing riders to file a request for a car on their cell phone. The rider can then use the mobile application to track the approaching car on their phone and pay for the ride.

Two weeks ago, Uber launched a new pro-gram in the area—Uber XL, an SUV-service that allows up to six people to ride at once. Mehrotra declined to provide specific num-bers but said the company has “received an outpouring of positive response” since starting

the program.Uber spokesperson Taylor Bennett noted

that Uber brings a level of transparency to the cab experience that is not found with tradi-tional taxis.

“The ability to know who’s showing up, in what vehicle—the ability to track your vehicle just offers so much transparency that we are proud of and helps the riders to have the best experience possible not only in terms of trans-portation but also safety and reliability,” Ben-nett said.

But from Hassan’s perspective, Uber can-not replicate the full experience of a local cab company that is well-established.

“We’ve been in business for 15 years,” he said. “Our drivers go through rigorous back-ground checks and inspections every year so we can ensure the safety of our customers.”

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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Tuesday for the first time heard oral arguments over whether the government’s mass collection of data about Americans’ phone calls is constitutional and legal.

In a case that may be headed to the Supreme Court, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union squared off with a government lawyer over whether the National Security Agency’s gathering of vast amounts of Americans’ call records from U.S. phone companies violates the Fourth Amendment and a law known as Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

At issue is a major government counterterrorism program begun shortly after the 9/11 attacks, put under secret court oversight in 2006 and revealed through a leak by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in July 2013.

The ACLU filed a legal and constitutional challenge shortly after the program was revealed. A district court judge in December ruled against the ACLU, and the group appealed.

Under the program, the NSA each day collects millions of call records — numbers dialed, call length and time, but not call content — from phone companies. It analyzes them to find connections between people inside the United States and numbers reasonably suspected to belong to foreign terrorists. The government has justified the collection under a controversial, once-secret interpretation of Section 215.

The statute requires that records sought be “relevant” to an authorized investigation, but it was not publicly revealed until last year that the government had determined — and

the surveillance court had agreed — that such relevance could extend to all customer call records belonging to a phone company.

In nearly two hours of argument, the two sides battled over whether Congress knowingly consented to the formerly classified program when it twice reauthorized the statute, and whether the government’s interpretation of the law opens the way to bulk collection of other types of personal data.

“The legal theories that [the government] advances are a road map to a world in which the government routinely collects vast quantities of information on Americans who have done absolutely nothing wrong,” Alex Abdo, an ACLU staff attorney, told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

“I don’t think that’s the world that Congress envisioned when it enacted Section 215, and it’s certainly not the world that the framers envisioned when they crafted the Fourth Amendment.”

But Stuart Delery, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Civil Division, argued that Congress was briefed on and subsequently “ratified” the program when it reauthorized the statute in 2010 and in 2011, and that a series of judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have found the program to be lawful and constitutional in light of past Supreme Court cases. That panel meets in secret and hears only from the government.

The government needs to collect phone data in bulk, Delery said, “to detect and disrupt future plots before an attack can be made.”

Swayed by the public debate, President Barack Obama in January called for an end to the NSA’s bulk collection of phone data and asked Congress to craft legislation to enable

the government to obtain the intelligence it needs without using such invasive means.

The House passed a bill, but the Senate has yet to act.The three judges, all appointed by Democrats, questioned

Delery along lines that suggested receptiveness to some of the ACLU’s arguments — for instance, that Section 215 does not authorize such sweeping collection.

“It’s hard to imagine that [Section 215’s] rather innocuous language” means the government could collect so many records in bulk that have never been acquired before with a grand jury subpoena, Judge Gerard Lynch said.

“You’re really saying, ‘They’re not relevant to an investigation right now; we just want to have them in case they become relevant’ “ in the future, he said.

Lynch told Delery he didn’t see why the same argument couldn’t be extended to credit card or bank records.

“I just don’t understand the argument as to what’s so special about telephone records that makes them so valuable, so uniquely interactive, that the same arguments you’re making don’t apply to every record in the hands of a third-party business entity of every American’s everything,” Lynch said.

Delery said that phone records “by their nature are quite standardized” and allow for “rapid” identification of connections between “known and unknown terrorists.”

The judges expressed skepticism about the government’s ratification theory. “I wonder about how valid the ratification argument is when you’re dealing with secret law,” Judge Robert Sack said, referring to the fact that the program was not publicly known until last year.

At least two other appeals courts are likely to hear arguments over the program’s constitutionality this year.

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Control the line of scrimmage and you control the running game. Control the running game and you control the clock. Control the clock and you control the game.

David Cutcliffe’s first team at Duke was a far cry from controlling any of

those things. After 26 seasons in the SEC, he would later call the 2008 Blue Devils “the fattest, slowest football team [he] had ever

seen” and challenged them to commit to getting in shape.

Now in his seventh year at the helm, Cutcliffe’s players are strong, physical and speedy. They’re winning the battles in the trenches, beating their defenders on the edges, locking down the passing game and wreaking havoc in the backfield.

Getting to this point has been a process—and a well-documented one. See Digging on Page 5

DIGGINGcontinued from page 4

Kevin Shamieh | Chronicle File PhotoThe Blue Devils claimed their 19th consecutive regular-season victory at home thanks to a solid effort from the multi-headed monster of Emily Sklar, Jeme Obieme and Jordan Tucker.

Looking at Duke’s recent trends on third down, it appears as though the Blue Devils are still evolving even as they enjoy success not seen in 20 years.

Duke only became bowl-eligible in 2012 because of a last-gasp drive against North Carolina in what has been the most thrilling Duke-North Carolina matchup in any sport since I’ve been on campus. That drive—which culminated in a Jamison Crowder touchdown grab on fourth and goal with 13 seconds left—could have derailed at multiple instances, but Sean Renfree and company converted four straight third downs before the final pass to Crowder.

Renfree’s first two third-down throws on that drive went to Conner Vernon—the ACC’s all-time leader in yards and receptions. The senior led the Blue Devils with 85 receptions on the year, and his three third-down grabs on that game-winning drive were likely the biggest of his career. For me, they created an cartoonish version of Cutcliffe’s third

down strategy: third-and-throw-it-to-Conner-Vernon.

How representative is that? Vernon did lead the team with 41 targets on third and fourth downs in 2012, but that accounted for just 18 percent of the total opportunities. Led by a quarterback guru in Cutcliffe with a veteran talent in Renfree under center, the Blue Devils were a pass-happy team when needing a conversion, calling 171 pass plays to just 51 runs, and a handful that resulted in sacks.

The 2013 Duke squad improved on the foundation laid by the 2012 Blue Devils, vaulting into the ACC Championship and a scintillating Chick-fil-A Bowl. Yet the late-down philosophy was markedly different, reflective of an stronger offensive line, improved early-down efficiency and the departures of Renfree, Vernon and wide receiver Desmond Scott.

Last year’s Blue Devils showcased a more balanced attack on third and fourth downs, passing on 131 snaps and rushing 76 times. A big reason why: Duke found itself in shorter conversion situations, facing an average of 5.64 yards for a first down compared to 7.15 yards in 2012. In Cutcliffe’s second season in Durham, that number was at 7.4—in other words, on an average third or fourth down in 2009, opposing defenses could gear up to protect against the pass. The 2013 Blue Devils were much less predictable.

And although offensive coordinator Kurt Roper established more parity between the run and pass, one play-call stood out—the Brandon Connette quarterback draw.

Nicknamed the Phantom for his ability to seemingly be everywhere at once, Connette converted third downs as a passer, rusher and receiver in 2012, but transitioned into a short-yardage specialist in 2013 as the backup quarterback to Anthony Boone. The Corona, Calif., product had the most third-down touches of any Blue Devil, the vast majority of them running up the middle. He was involved in 43 of Duke’s 120 red zone snaps—accounting for half of the Blue Devils’ 40 red zone touchdowns—and his fourth-down scamper to seal the win at Virginia Tech immortalized his importance to Duke’s offense, not unlike Vernon’s snags against North Carolina.

But with Connette’s departure for Fresno State, the season-ending injury to

tight end Braxton Deaver, the suspension of Jela Duncan and the graduation of Juwan Thompson, the Blue Devils are missing 43 percent of their third-down targets from a season ago.

As Boone’s favorite target and Duke’s most lethal offensive weapon, Crowder figures to see the lion’s share of the looks on late-down snaps, after finishing second only to Connette with 36 targets last season. His explosiveness should also help Duke stay out of third-and-longs—when you can score on one play, as Crowder did Saturday, controlling the clock isn’t quite as necessary.

Saturday’s 52-13 victory against Elon allowed a glimpse into Duke’s gameplan for 2014, albeit a limited one given the lopsided score against an FCS opponent. Backup quarterback Thomas Sirk reprised Connette’s role of third-down specialist, picking up seven total yards on a pair of fourth-and-one conversions, and the Blue Devils faced only one third down of 10 or more yards.

The practice facility Cutcliffe inherited when he moved to Durham was only 80 yards long, but six years later Duke has flourished in the final fifth of the field, scoring on more than 83 percent of their red zone trips in each of the last two seasons. With Connette gone, the task of punching it in could fall to a number of people, from running backs Josh Snead and Shaq Powell to Sirk as Phantom 2.0.

The Blue Devils don’t have to win third downs to win a football game—they showed that last year with an 0-for-11 outing against the Hokies—but their continued success in that department will only help the program continue to rise.

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Blue Devils hold off Fighting Camels to improve to 4-0

Chronicle File PhotoFormer Duke quarterback Brandon Connette accounted for half of the Blue Devils’ red zone touchdowns last season.

Depth is a good problem to have. By that logic, Duke has a big problem with its offensive attack.

Outside hitter Emily Sklar turned in a career-best 22 kills to help the No. 21 Blue Devils hit their way past Campbell in four sets Tuesday night at Cameron

Indoor Stadium. The junior also added 10 digs to

pick up her second double-double in as many matches, and had plenty of help from her teammates to power the Duke attack.

“At the beginning of the season one of our goals that we made was to just take a lot of risks,” Sklar said. “If it’s not a perfect set, still going 100 percent for it instead of taking easy shots.... I thought tonight was a good night to do that, and I guess it paid off.”

Sophomores Alyse Whitaker and Jordan Tucker joined Sklar in double-figures with 12 kills and 10 kills, respectively, and outsider hitters Jeme Obeime and Breanna Atkinson combined for 14 more to pace Duke (4-0). The Blue Devils have now won 19 consecutive regular-season matches at home dating back to the 2012 season.

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“It was a good test for us. We’re getting to see different personnel out on the court and that’s always good to see in a competitive setting,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We made some

errors and made some things difficult for ourselves. And they made some great plays. I think I want to see us respond to those a little bit differently than we are doing right now, in a more relaxed,

together manner. We’ll talk about that and try to work for that for the future.”

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Control the line of scrimmage and you control the running game. Control the running game and you control the clock. Control the clock and you control the game.

David Cutcliffe’s first team at Duke was a far cry from controlling any of

those things. After 26 seasons in the SEC, he would later call the 2008 Blue Devils “the fattest, slowest football team [he] had ever

seen” and challenged them to commit to getting in shape.

Now in his seventh year at the helm, Cutcliffe’s players are strong, physical and speedy. They’re winning the battles in the trenches, beating their defenders on the edges, locking down the passing game and wreaking havoc in the backfield.

Getting to this point has been a process—and a well-documented one. See Digging on

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Kevin Shamieh | Chronicle File PhotoThe Blue Devils claimed their 19th consecutive regular-season victory at home thanks to a solid effort from the multi-headed monster of Emily Sklar, Jeme Obieme and Jordan Tucker.

Looking at Duke’s recent trends on third down, it appears as though the Blue Devils are still evolving even as they enjoy success not seen in 20 years.

Duke only became bowl-eligible in 2012 because of a last-gasp drive against North Carolina in what has been the most thrilling Duke-North Carolina matchup in any sport since I’ve been on campus. That drive—which culminated in a Jamison Crowder touchdown grab on fourth and goal with 13 seconds left—could have derailed at multiple instances, but Sean Renfree and company converted four straight third downs before the final pass to Crowder.

Renfree’s first two third-down throws on that drive went to Conner Vernon—the ACC’s all-time leader in yards and receptions. The senior led the Blue Devils with 85 receptions on the year, and his three third-down grabs on that game-winning drive were likely the biggest of his career. For me, they created an cartoonish version of Cutcliffe’s third

down strategy: third-and-throw-it-to-Conner-Vernon.

How representative is that? Vernon did lead the team with 41 targets on third and fourth downs in 2012, but that accounted for just 18 percent of the total opportunities. Led by a quarterback guru in Cutcliffe with a veteran talent in Renfree under center, the Blue Devils were a pass-happy team when needing a conversion, calling 171 pass plays to just 51 runs, and a handful that resulted in sacks.

The 2013 Duke squad improved on the foundation laid by the 2012 Blue Devils, vaulting into the ACC Championship and a scintillating Chick-fil-A Bowl. Yet the late-down philosophy was markedly different, reflective of an stronger offensive line, improved early-down efficiency and the departures of Renfree, Vernon and wide receiver Desmond Scott.

Last year’s Blue Devils showcased a more balanced attack on third and fourth downs, passing on 131 snaps and rushing 76 times. A big reason why: Duke found itself in shorter conversion situations, facing an average of 5.64 yards for a first down compared to 7.15 yards in 2012. In Cutcliffe’s second season in Durham, that number was at 7.4—in other words, on an average third or fourth down in 2009, opposing defenses could gear up to protect against the pass. The 2013 Blue Devils were much less predictable.

And although offensive coordinator Kurt Roper established more parity between the run and pass, one play-call stood out—the Brandon Connette quarterback draw.

Nicknamed the Phantom for his ability to seemingly be everywhere at once, Connette converted third downs as a passer, rusher and receiver in 2012, but transitioned into a short-yardage specialist in 2013 as the backup quarterback to Anthony Boone. The Corona, Calif., product had the most third-down touches of any Blue Devil, the vast majority of them running up the middle. He was involved in 43 of Duke’s 120 red zone snaps—accounting for half of the Blue Devils’ 40 red zone touchdowns—and his fourth-down scamper to seal the win at Virginia Tech immortalized his importance to Duke’s offense, not unlike Vernon’s snags against North Carolina.

But with Connette’s departure for Fresno State, the season-ending injury to

tight end Braxton Deaver, the suspension of Jela Duncan and the graduation of Juwan Thompson, the Blue Devils are missing 43 percent of their third-down targets from a season ago.

As Boone’s favorite target and Duke’s most lethal offensive weapon, Crowder figures to see the lion’s share of the looks on late-down snaps, after finishing second only to Connette with 36 targets last season. His explosiveness should also help Duke stay out of third-and-longs—when you can score on one play, as Crowder did Saturday, controlling the clock isn’t quite as necessary.

Saturday’s 52-13 victory against Elon allowed a glimpse into Duke’s gameplan for 2014, albeit a limited one given the lopsided score against an FCS opponent. Backup quarterback Thomas Sirk reprised Connette’s role of third-down specialist, picking up seven total yards on a pair of fourth-and-one conversions, and the Blue Devils faced only one third down of 10 or more yards.

The practice facility Cutcliffe inherited when he moved to Durham was only 80 yards long, but six years later Duke has flourished in the final fifth of the field, scoring on more than 83 percent of their red zone trips in each of the last two seasons. With Connette gone, the task of punching it in could fall to a number of people, from running backs Josh Snead and Shaq Powell to Sirk as Phantom 2.0.

The Blue Devils don’t have to win third downs to win a football game—they showed that last year with an 0-for-11 outing against the Hokies—but their continued success in that department will only help the program continue to rise.

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Chronicle File PhotoFormer Duke quarterback Brandon Connette accounted for half of the Blue Devils’ red zone touchdowns last season.

Depth is a good problem to have. By that logic, Duke has a big problem with its offensive attack.

Outside hitter Emily Sklar turned in a career-best 22 kills to help the No. 21 Blue Devils hit their way past Campbell in four sets Tuesday night at Cameron

Indoor Stadium. The junior also added 10 digs to

pick up her second double-double in as many matches, and had plenty of help from her teammates to power the Duke attack.

“At the beginning of the season one of our goals that we made was to just take a lot of risks,” Sklar said. “If it’s not a perfect set, still going 100 percent for it instead of taking easy shots.... I thought tonight was a good night to do that, and I guess it paid off.”

Sophomores Alyse Whitaker and Jordan Tucker joined Sklar in double-figures with 12 kills and 10 kills, respectively, and outsider hitters Jeme Obeime and Breanna Atkinson combined for 14 more to pace Duke (4-0). The Blue Devils have now won 19 consecutive regular-season matches at home dating back to the 2012 season.

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“It was a good test for us. We’re getting to see different personnel out on the court and that’s always good to see in a competitive setting,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We made some

errors and made some things difficult for ourselves. And they made some great plays. I think I want to see us respond to those a little bit differently than we are doing right now, in a more relaxed,

together manner. We’ll talk about that and try to work for that for the future.”

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As a child, I used to think the trees outside my house grew as high as they did because they were trying to touch the sky. I remember having this in mind one day when I wandered from

my backyard and skipped over to a field that lay tucked away from view. Fresh, undisturbed grasses tickled my bare little feet while warm breezes wafted past me like a mother’s whisper as I entered into this private world of mine.

I knew exactly what I came to do. Looming over me was the tallest tree in the fi eld—tower of my ambition, emblem of my conquest. Chiseled against the sunlit horizon, its dark silhouette cast over me a menacing shadow, but my mind remained set.

I was going to touch the sky.So I began to climb, grabbing limb after limb. Once at the top

I set my eyes triumphantly upon the skies, gazing at the drifting clouds. I inched forward a bit, trying to keep them in my gaze as they sailed away, and then…

My foot slipped. At once, the peaceful and promising world fl ipped

over and crashed down around me as I fell from the height of the tree. My shoulder hit the unforgiving ground with a forceful thud, and waves of pain began rushing through my body like angry waters from an opened fl oodgate. I started crying, searching helplessly amid the vast skies above, but the clouds moved on, mocking me as I lay in the grass—alone.

Since that day I’ve become quite familiar with falling. With every exam, paper or personal struggle that conquers me, I am thrust brutally back to the ground from which I came. To be human is to reach, to strive for what is beyond our grasp—and yet, to climb is to fall. Our tragedy is that we can look beyond the heart, but can do only within the heart.

I didn’t know it then, but I had fallen long before I slipped off that tree. Climbing was my fall. My ambition had burned with the desire to touch the sky and transcend the mortal earth beneath me. Creation stood before me and I saw that it was good. And what was good would’ve been better if it were mine.

Since that day, I’ve been falling up. I fall up past the ceiling, up over the mountains, up among the stars. On the way, I fall past those precious to me—my friends, teachers and family. One by one they pass me by—struggles, values…memories altogether.

I want to stay but I know I must go. How will I touch the sky if I stay down below?

As a Duke student, I’m often guilty of what I call the Eden Complex. In a world where people are oppressed relentlessly for their differences, I’m tempted to see this campus as a sanctuary where such differences render us unique rather than fl awed.

In this Garden, we are provided with the Fruit of Knowledge, a gift granting discernment between Good and Evil and the resources to promote the former. I saw that the Fruit was good. I ate, and I climbed up for more.

Thirsting insatiably for knowledge and prestige, I have let go of the bonds that held me down on this earth—the intimacy of my relationships and even my compassion for others—and I’ve fallen up. Plummeting up to the stars, beckoned like a moth to the illusory sparkles of status and pride, I realize too late that I’m alone. I look back down with longing, only to see the rest of the world moving on, like clouds drifting into the distance.

Duke is not always Eden. Often, it is Naylor’s Linden Hills, a place where the higher a person ascends in worldly standing the deeper he or she descends into the Circles of one’s internal Hell. Too often I see Duke students caught within an obsessive pursuit of the perfect GPA, social life and post-undergraduate career. Despite our quest to alleviate the problems of this world, so we profess, we remain oblivious to structural inequalities that, for many of us, have contributed invisibly to the opportunities we have now. We feed the narcissism of our minor differences by neglecting their existence.

In this society, to climb is to step on others. Benefi ting from a winner-take-all system means that for every stride I take up, someone next to me stumbles down—yet still I’ve climbed alone. That’s why we’ve fallen—we want the fruit only for ourselves.

No longer do I want to see myself standing with content on a tree that was planted for me. I want to challenge all of us at Duke to come down from our high places—not to fall, but to come down willingly. Let’s use the gifts we’ve been given to plant more seeds in a barren earth. Let’s strive for more than just acing classes or earning a comfortable living. Instead let’s invest our education into the collective advancement of all, not few.

But fi rst we must quell our fear of vulnerability. Humility and honesty convey strength not weakness. Only by meeting on equal ground can we trust each other as humans and share the narratives we carry. Thus we begin our climb together.

Perhaps together we’ll discover another way to touch the sky—without having to leave the ground.

Chris Lee is a Trinity junior. This is his fi rst column of the semester.

I’ve noticed something strange about Duke’s crest. The blue and white shield has a banner running beneath it which is supposed to bear the school’s

motto—Eruditio et Religio. “Knowledge and Re-ligion.” On the signs in Wilson Gym the banner is there, but the motto is not on it. All of the crests on campus signage have the banner, but many of them don’t have the motto on it. Just a blank banner. There could be any number of reasons for the this; maybe to save money, maybe it’s an oversight. It doesn’t re-ally matter. and I’m not passionately upset that the motto is absent from the sign reminding me to leave my shirt and shoes on.

But it did get me thinking. Perhaps the motto being left off of the crest actually points to something real. We are occasionally reminded of the motto at Convocation, Commencement, but I wonder whether

we write it off as a vestige of a bygone era. It seems that Duke, one of the top research universities in the world, couldn’t possibly cling to this outdated and overtly Christian take on education and religion.

Duke was undeniably founded as a Christian school.[JS1] The motto is indeed a historical remnant. The Dukes—Washington and his sons—were committed Methodists. They supported Trinity College and endowed Duke University partially in the hope that it would turn out well-educated Methodist ministers. We are not unique; Harvard and Yale were also founded for the education of clergy. It seems almost ludicrous today, but Duke’s fi rst bylaws declared that the school must “assert a faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the character of Jesus Christ.” If you’ve ever wondered why we have a massive chapel smack in the middle of campus, there’s the answer.

The founders of the University put it there on purpose. And they expected that it would be used by all students and faculty.

So what do we make of our motto? It certainly doesn’t mean what it meant in the early days of the University. Study and religious practice are separate things, and Duke has clearly cast off its original mandate to proclaim that Jesus Christ is the embodiment of all knowledge and faith. Even so, our motto is worth preserving if we can reinterpret it.

Real talk—I know religious people can be annoying. I say that as a devoted and active Christian who spends a lot of time with them. I often fi nd myself baffl ed by religious people who use their faith to defend opinions that have almost nothing to do with the core beliefs of the religion they claim to practice. I’m often embarrassed by religious people who use their faith to make careless generalizations and hurtful judgments. I’m horrifi ed when some Christians compare gay people to pedophiles and rapists. And Duke students always seem to fall into frustrating conversations with conservative Christians like these, usually concerning hot-button issues like gay marriage or abortion. Occasionally

they even crop up here in the Opinion pages.So it’s no wonder that people are wary of letting

religion into serious discussions. Some religious people—even at Duke—perpetuate antiquated prejudices and make similar judgments. Some really do hurt people and diminish the quality of the academic community. After all, it’s hard to sit in a classroom and learn with an open mind when those around you have voiced unkind and narrow-minded opinions. But there is more to any religion than a few political issues—certainly loud conservatives don’t speak for entire traditions.

The “Religio” in the school’s motto does not in any way sanction bad theology, make poor arguments reasonable or justify the apparent inability of some religious people to act like decent human beings. “Religio” describes a mode of thinking rather than a set of thoughts. It describes, just like “Eruditio,” a way of seeking understanding. Knowledge and faith are not opposites, they are different ways of making sense of things. Both can be used badly and both can be used well.

This is what Eruditio et Religio should mean for us today—we ought to hold our practice of religion to the same high standards we have for our academic practice. Both knowledge and religion should be pursued seriously and thoughtfully, and both should be taken seriously. Seeing religion as a blinding fi ction—incapable of doing real good—is as narrow-minded as any religious dogma. Religious traditions, when practiced well, have much to say about community service and social responsibility. Duke’s religious life groups could lend some interesting voices to the discussion surrounding DukeEngage and volunteerism. Faith just as often motivates people to work for the full inclusion and equality of all persons. And, of course, religious traditions can force us to look beyond our own problems and needs, opening our eyes to the world around us and how we might help.

if you should happen to hear the Chapel bells on Sunday (and your Saturday night hasn’t left you completely debilitated) consider going to the Chapel and seeing how one group of religious people makes sense of the world around them. You can see others—Shabbat at the Freeman center or jummah prayer in the Chapel basement on Friday afternoons. I hope you’ll agree that religious traditions contain a lot of beauty, though marred by ugly prejudices. They also contain a lot of serious intellectual work, work that is too often distorted and used destructively.

Eruditio et Religio doesn’t demand religion of anyone. But it does encourage those of us who are religious to practice our faith as well as we pursue our academics. It asks that we practice our religion for the betterment of the entire Duke community. And of those who are not religious, the motto asks that you not discount faith because you choose not to practice it yourself. Those of us who are religious and those who are not exist on the same campus. We live in the same dorms, we study in the same library and we cheer for the same basketball team in. If we can meet each other in the same intellectual space, we will all be better for it.

Zachary Heater is a Trinity sophomore. This is his fi rst column of the semester.

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This summer I had the distinct pleasure of getting all the way through James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Its reputation for being a difficult

read is well-earned, but there are also moments of lucidity, like this exchange between the protagonist, Leopold Bloom, and a bar patron:

“‘But it’s no use’, says [Bloom]. ‘Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows it’s the opposite of that that is really life.’

‘What?’ says Alf.‘Love,’ says Bloom. ‘I mean the opposite of

hatred.’”

Here, Bloom is getting at something I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last couple of months—the idea that love should be a defi ning characteristic not just of our interpersonal relationships, but also of our society. Most of us have felt love for a romantic partner or a family member. As I see it, the most important characteristic of such a love is the strong desire for the other person’s happiness. Although the brief quote only gives a hint of it, Bloom’s dream is that this characteristic should defi ne our relationships in a much broader sense, that we ought to desire happiness for everybody, even those we’ve never met.

At fi rst blush, it seems that the charge isn’t too great—all we have to do is volunteer at the soup kitchen a little more often, so to speak. But the reality is that adopting this world view has serious implications for our political, social and economic structures. To actually carry out this ideal of love, it’s essential that these structures enshrine and refl ect that ideal. As they stand now, however, our social institutions are centered on the rights of the individual as opposed to the cooperation of a collective. This is a useful way of thinking about things, because it recognizes the importance of the person as the basic unit of ethics. But this attitude also obscures the collective nature of ethics—we’ve taken the fact that we have rights to mean that we can exercise them with little regard for the interests of others.

The result has been an unwarranted faith in free market economics and in property. Now, I’m no Marxist, but I defi nitely think these concepts have become sacred out of proportion to their

usefulness. I’ll go into this in more detail throughout the semester, but suffi ce it to say that our current institutions aren’t yet equipped to represent a society whose members take each other’s happiness seriously.

Utilitarianism provides a very natural framework for assessing our progress in these goals. Given a choice between two possible worlds, we choose the one with more happiness. I’m well aware of the numerous problems associated with utilitarianism , but at the very least it provides a philosophically meaningful way of resolving confl icts between interests, something that other ethical frameworks lack. Moreover, the discussion of love fi ts in very well with this picture, for if we learn to cultivate a general love for others, then it becomes much rarer that one person’s happiness comes at the expense of another’s. The result is a sort of synergy between everybody’s happiness.

Now, the “realistic” reader probably has the objection that the world I envision is naïve and utopian. Admittedly, a world where everybody magically gets along isn’t likely to happen anytime soon. It’s hard to erase pettiness and prejudice from our emotional vocabulary, and even harder to eliminate it from our institutions. I’m also pretty sure I’ll never love a complete stranger as much as I love my parents (I’m not even arguing I ought to). In “Ulysses,” Bloom falls occasional prey to unsavory thoughts (he contemplates exacting revenge on his cheating wife, for example), but it’s his kindness that defi nes his character at the end of the day. So let it be the same for us. Maybe we’ll never reach utopia, but we could certainly strive for more love and kindness. Even more importantly, we could ask that our platforms for making collective decisions refl ect that love and kindness.

So what can you expect from this column throughout the semester? Are We There Yet? is about issues of the collective, understood in the framework of love. We’re defi nitely not “there” yet, and we have a long way to go. It’s not even entirely clear what it means to be “there,” though I hope I’ve sketched some of my beliefs on the matter. Throughout the semester, I’ll be talking about what I see as the biggest distances we have left to cover. Sometimes I’ll cover specifi c issues, and sometimes I’ll challenge prevailing theoretical understandings, but the goal will always be the realization of the ideal of love at the personal, political and economic level. Let that, at least, be the starting point of the adventure.

Eugene Rabinovich is a Trinity senior. This is his fi rst column of the semester.

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Celebrity feminism, tune in

What do celebrities like Taylor Swift, Lorde and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have in common? They are all part of a

recent wave of public figures who have publicly declared themselves feminists. For many, the embrace of feminism comes after realizing the

misconceptions they had harbored about the term. Others, like Beyonce, have begun to weave the feminist movement into their art. Though celebrity feminism may be an unexpected vehicle for popularizing the feminist movement, we have high hopes for the change it can catalyze.

The celebrity feminism movement has the potential to launch to the fore broader conversations about feminism and social justice that heretofore have remained largely taboo. Pop culture icons are, in a way, ideal vehicles for spreading ideas, given their unique access to and infl uence over a broad range of people. By encouraging people to have conversations about feminism, they can galvanize people to learn, refl ect and think critically. Artists like Beyonce

have taken the next step to incorporate feminism into their music, slowly introducing the term to common vernacular via the radio or MTV. Take, for example, Beyonce’s new song, Flawless, in which she features Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s defi nition of feminism from her Ted Talk, “We should all be feminists”—“Feminist: the person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.” Not to mention, Beyonce’s performance of the song at the MTV Video Music Awards before the giant word “FEMINIST.”

Part of the power of the celebrity feminism movement is its effect of simplifying feminism. At Duke and in the greater community, many shy away from feminism or perceive it to be a taboo subject in part because of common misconceptions. Namely, the image of feminists as crazy, bra-burning women. Yet the hesitance may also stem from the fact that feminism, with its myriad distinct and oftentimes radically different branches, is simply too complex to understand. By simplifying and distilling the message, these celebrities are opening the doors to conversations. This celebrity feminism is also benefi cial in the way that it has promoted greater thinking of how other aspects of identity, such as

race, relate to feminism.Yet simplifi cation is a double-edged sword

that can lead to unintended consequences. The complexities that get lost in translation could deter, rather than galvanize, people towards feminism. Celebrities and audience alike should thus take the opportunity to truly engage with feminism.

Any problem as large as gender inequality won’t be solved by a celebrity making a stand for it, or even a wave of celebrity feminists. Even at Duke, problems will continue to persist. We do believe, however, that it can be a positive start to a conversation about feminism. The keyword is start—this movement is not perfect, but it can encourage greater understanding and galvanize action on the problem of gender inequality. The term “feminist” has at last hit popular mass airwaves, and it is up to us, the masses, to tune in.

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DACA MarathonCall for Volunteers

What is DACA Marathon?Co-hosted by the Duke Students for Humane Borders and the D.E.A.R. Foundation, the project helps undocumented youth in Durham who are eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to apply for or renew their DACA licenses.

What are volunteers supposed to do?The volunteers need to do 3 things:

Attend one of two four-hour training sessions.

Time: Saturday Sept. 13th, either 9am-1pm or 2pm-6pmPlace: Center for Multicultural Affairs, BC lower level

Participate in one or more two-hour sessions to process the application documents for DACA applicants.

Time: Evenings, Sept. 15th - Sept. 24thPlace: Rubenstein Hall 142

Cover a four-hour shift in the final ceremony at which applicants finalize their application packages.

Time: Saturday Sept. 27th, 10am-6pmPlace: A Durham public school near East Campus, TBA

Interested in participating? Have questions?Email [email protected] for further inquiries or registration.

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Olivia Anderson | � e Chronicle Junior outside hitter Emily Sklar posted a career-high 22 kills to go along with 10 digs in Tuesday’s match against Campbell to claim her sec-ond consecutive double-double.

to wire, but stumbled out of the gates in the second, falling into a quick 3-0 hole. The Blue Devils were able to battle back and briefly took a 15-13 lead following back-to-back kills by Sklar and Tucker. But Campbell responded by rattling off four straight points to reclaim the lead for good, evening the match at a set apiece with a 25-23 win.

The sloppy set was one to forget for the Blue Devils, who committed eight of their 22 errors on the night during the second stanza. Sklar chalked up the sluggish sequence to getting accustomed to new teammates in new roles. The antidote: improved communication and aggressiveness.

“We have a bunch of new people who are going in and playing and trying some new stuff out, so we’re trying to be more consistent no matter who’s out there on the court and having a loud presence out there and not just being passive,” Sklar said. “It’s about people wanting to be out there and getting super fired up.”

The third set more closely paralleled the opening frame, as the Blue Devils jumped out to a 10-4 edge that quickly morphed into a 23-11 advantage, thanks to the handiwork of Obeime and Sklar. Duke’s multi-headed monster of an attack ultimately overwhelmed the Fighting Camels to claim the third set, 25-14.

“Jeme and Bri are awesome—they really go for it,” Sklar said. “Some of their kills, I’m glad I’m on their side and not on the other team.”

Tucker dominated the opening of the fourth set, recording three kills to stake the Blue Devils to a 5-1 lead, feasting on

errant Campbell passes that floated over the net in prime attacking position for the middle blocker.

But as was the case in the second frame, a series of miscues allowed the Fighting Camels to stick around. Behind six fourth-set kills from redshirt sophomore Alexis Hein, Campbell clawed back from a 10-1 hole to close the gap to 24-22, but were ultimately unable to get over the hump.

“That’s the issue for volleyball, there’s always that kind of momentum change,” Nagel said. “It’s a very precious thing when you have that momentum, but it

can change so quickly. It certainly did for us, and Campbell made some great plays and we missed some plays. I would like to see us just play each point up to the best of our capability and not let those runs take place.”

Sophomore Sasha Karelov anchored the Blue Devil defense, registering a career-high 35 digs and helping limit the Fighting Camels to a dismal .116 hitting percentage. Filling into the slot that was held for four years by ACC all-time digs leader Ali McCurdy, Karelov has adapted well to the starting job, according to Nagel.

“When we recruited Sasha, we always knew she had the capabilities to be really good as a libero,” Nagel said. “This past year, January on, she really developed herself, not only her skills and her strength and conditioning, but she also has developed herself to have more presence out there on the court. I think she’s doing a great job and we’re really excited about it, and her serve is great too.”

The Blue Devils will leave the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium for a five-game road trip that begins Friday at Michigan.

September 3, 2014

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