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Letter to the Editor

(10/21/14 8:25am)

I was delighted to be in Wallace Wade last Saturday to see Duke's hard-fought win over Virginia. I was not so delighted to see the video board's new instructions for one side of the stadium to yell "Blue," followed by the other side yelling "Devils." All I could hear was the similar brainless chant where University of North Carolina Chapel Hill fans yell the only two syllables they know, Tar-heels, back and forth at their games. Those are the people we are getting ideas from? Duke fans are more than capable of creating an original way to welcome our deserving team to the field. A few years ago, I wrote a similar letter to the editor when a "noise meter" was introduced on the video board in Cameron. Thankfully, I haven't seen the noise meter in Cameron since. Duke fans should not need instructions on when and how to make noise. Unfortunately, we have needed some sort of encouragement at football games, as noise has been lackluster and sporadic. Be warned, these are the corny, pro stadium antics that will emerge if we fans do not take initiative. Students, take the lead. Organize, communicate, be creative, be loud and everyone else will follow. This team deserves everything we've got. Go Duke!

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/10/letter-editor

Get rid of Cameron’s noise meter

(01/17/12 11:00am)

At the start of the second half of Thursday’s basketball game against Virginia, a noise meter appeared on the scoreboard. It generated some half-hearted cheers from the crowd. Only four minutes later, however, UVA was forced to call a timeout during some real noise. It was that level of noise that gives you goose bumps and slightly disorients you, and it wasn’t in an attempt to break some fake noise meter. Our new video scoreboard in Cameron is great, and it’s been used to do some pretty cool things. I’ve also seen it used for cheap gimmicks, which has surprised me. Can you really say a Kiss Cam belongs in Cameron? It belongs at a baseball game right before the sausage race around the outfield. These activities are used to keep fans from getting bored between innings. Boredom is never a problem I’ve had at Cameron, but I understand that many enjoy diversions between play. I think it’s good that most of what we do during timeouts keeps the crowd flowing with the momentum of the game. I hope that we can all agree that using a video board to generate noise, however, is dangerous territory. Cameron is famous for its noise. We don’t need anything on an electronic screen to make it happen. We’ll let our friends at the Dean Dome play with the scoreboard noise meters, since they probably think they are actually making the meter go up.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/01/get-rid-camerons-noise-meter

The election broke down a racial barrier?

(11/12/08 5:00am)

The day after the election, I was waiting for my meal to be cooked at the Marketplace when one of the chefs struck up a political conversation with me. He said that people shouldn't be excited because a black president has been elected; they should be excited because a Democrat is being put in office. I wondered why this guy was lecturing me, but later, I realized he was completely right.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2008/11/election-broke-down-racial-barrier