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ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 26
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After 17 percent of faculty, staff and graduate students reported being harassed in their academic environment, President Vincent Price has called on fellow administrators to create action plans to address the issue. “We are fortunate to be a part of one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning, but I know we can do better,” Price wrote in an email to all faculty and staff Monday. “I also know you share my commitment to ensuring we treat every member of our community with the civility and respect they deserve.” In the email, Price presented the results of a survey sent to all in academic units this August. 17 percent of faculty, staff and graduate students have reported feeling harassed or uncomfortable in their academic unit based upon “age, disability, gender, race/ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual harassment, or sexual orientation” in the last five years. Sexual harassment was the most-reported action, ahead of race/ethnicity-based harassment and gender and age harassment. Price noted that although there were differences in individual departments and units, the statistics were “broadly consistent with national trends for both large employers and academic institutions.” Price wrote that he has asked high-level administrators to meet with deans, department chairs and directors to address the situation going forward. Price wrote that he, Provost Sally Kornbluth and A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, have asked for Abbas Benmamoun, vice provost for faculty advancement, and Ann Brown, vice dean for faculty in the School of Medicine, to take action.
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Then the first-year guys came. Carrico had expected that a horde of fraternity pledges would try to cut in line and save spots for their older “brothers.” as they had the year before Despite doing walk-up line last Where were you for the Duke-UNC game? year. she wasn’t ready for what came this year. That question means everything to a Blue Devil, and “They didn’t care and were a foot taller,” she remembered. “It was some fans go to great lengths—from months in tents to terrible. It was horrible.” days in lines—to make sure the answer is “Cameron Indoor She estimated that approximately 100 pairs of guys cut in front Stadium” on game day. But only 9,314 people can be inside of her. She was pushed back and pressed against a fence, incapable the hallowed walls. of moving for three hours. She tried to weather the storm, even For every triumphant entry into the game, there are plenty muscling up to push forward a bit. But it wasn’t enough. of devastated fans left looking in. After registering with the line monitors, Carrico’s group ended Last year, some Duke students tented to get into the game. up 359th in line. That was bad news—in her experience, 300 groups Some waited in the walk-up line. Others or fewer get in. She stayed in line and camped in Not a lot of people try snuck in. This is the story of the latter. K-Ville for two straight days anyways. The names of one of the Blue Devils sneaking in. And almost all of On game day morning, Carrico toured whose stories is told in this article has Cameron with her mother. Then she returned been changed—they agreed to tell me them that do try, we catch. to K-Ville, where thousands of students were their story on condition of anonymity partying before the game. After a couple hours peter potash into the massive tailgate, the time came when all out of concern of potential disciplinary CO-HEAD LINE MONITOR action. The other is named. walk-up liners would learn whether they’d make Undergraduate entrance into Duke it into the big game. Everyone in the walk-up basketball games is regulated by a group of students known line gathered together by the line monitors, eager with anticipation as line monitors. They have their hands full during the North and hope. Carrico got rowdy; the crowd got rowdier, eager with Carolina game, but senior Steve Hassey, co-head line monitor, anticipation and hope. said he doesn’t think that students sneaking into the game is a This year, lineup time was a drunken, rowdy trainwreck in which huge problem. beer bottles and arm chairs became weapons, and the line monitors “There are definitely a couple people every year who we’ll became enemies of the (very drunk, very rowdy) people. Duke catch trying to sneak in, and obviously immediately we’ll kick Student Government and the line monitors discontinued walk-up them out of the stadium,” Hassey said. “But it’s never been an in response. overwhelming issue.” Sitting in her apartment as she tells me about her game day Senior Peter Potash, the other current co-head line experience, Carrico explained why she thinks this year’s walk-up line monitor, agreed. on game day went wrong. “Not a lot of people try sneaking in,” Potash said. “And “Because no one at Duke can be sober for anything, especially almost all of them that do try, we catch.” when they have to talk to a peer,” she said. Emphasis on the “almost.” Carrico walked into the kitchen, made herself another mixed drink and continued talking to me, her peer. She was heading to a Paint senior darty (daytime party, for parents) after the interview. This wasn’t then-senior Melissa Carrico’s first Duke-UNC As the situation escalated, police decided it would be unsafe to let game. She got in through the walk-up line last year. For her senior the uncontrollable line into Cameron. They went with the nuclear year, she had every intention of getting in in the same way. option: no one gets in. Walk-up liners saw injustice. Police and The walk-up line, which was recently discontinued, administration saw a boozed-up mob. was the quick-and-dirty version of tenting. On the first As a beer-fueled riot ensued, she saw an opportunity. She grabbed day of walk-up, scores of undergraduates would rush to her walk-up line partner, who confirmed the story. Krzyzewskiville in pairs to reserve a spot in the line. Duos “We are going to the game,” Carrico recounted saying. “Follow would need to keep at least one member in line for two me, stay close.” straight days—day and night, rain or shine— to have a shot In the midst of mayhem, she found one of the many blue buckets of getting into Cameron Indoor Stadium once all the tent of paint floating around Krzyzewskiville. She painted over the “3” on groups were inside. her wristband. As far as anyone could tell, she now belonged to group On the first day of walk-up, Carrico’s partner got to K-Ville 59. She covered the rest of her arms in blue for good measure. around 5 a.m, prepared to sacrifice dozens of hours for just two inside Cameron. She got there at 7 a.m. to switch shifts. See SNEAKING on Page 12 By Jake Sheridan Staff Reporter
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From chicken to irises: The history of the Duke Gardens complete with fountains and springs, to add to the aesthetics of the University. But according to LeFevre, budget limitations made this infeasible. You may have seen Duke’s lemurs, but you might have “The campus was built at the beginning of the Great missed out on the chickens. Depression, and one of the first things that got cut out of the Living in the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden, the budget was the ornamental lake,” LeFevre said. chickens are one of the many sights at the Sarah P. Duke The leftovers of Duke’s other construction projects Gardens. But the Gardens, much less remained on Duke’s the chickens, weren’t actually supposed It was never supposed to be a garden. campus—an unsightly to exist at Duke. mix of debris and And though it links the Duke and bill lefevre rubble. The remains EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GARDENS were Durham communities with its greenery especially and open space, not many know about its noticeable to Frederic humble beginnings. M. Hanes—a neurologist and one of Duke Medical “It was never supposed to be a garden,” said Bill LeFevre, the School’s early faculty—on his way to work in the 1930s. Gardens’ executive director. “It grew organically throughout the Hanes envisioned an iris garden to take the lake’s place, years without a lot of thought given into it.” persuading Sarah P. Duke to donate $20,000 for the Duke usually makes detailed plans of its construction projects, and plans for the Gardens initially called for a lake, See GARDENS on Page 4 By Cheyenne Quijano
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Courtesy of Duke University Archives A crowd gathers for a 1939 dedication ceremony on the terraces.
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Professor, alumni make Forbes 30 Under 30 lists By Likhitha Butchireddygari Investigations Editor
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The Forbes 30 Under 30 lists recognize 600 young innovators across 20 different industries, identifying business and industry leaders on the rise. This year, 12 former students and a professor from across Duke’s departments found themselves on the lists, earning recognition for their work in areas ranging from environmental innovation to feats in medical development. The Chronicle looked into what earned these 12 their places on the list.
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Sally Nuamah, Education As a first-generation Ghanaian-American, Sally Nuamah earned a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from George Washington University in 2011 and was named one of two Distinguished Scholars by GWU. She then went on to complete her Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University and is now an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a Women and Public Policy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nuamah is the one Duke professor who made the Forbes lists this year. “My brother Robert, who has been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember, has always emphasized the importance of taking an entrepreneurial approach to everything that I do,” Nuamah wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “This award reflects a culmination of my various efforts to help disadvantaged young people attain a better life through education. I am honored to be selected and excited to keep doing this work!”
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Abhishek Kumar, Education Abhishek Kumar, Pratt ‘11, was named to the 2019 30 Under 30 list for co-founding PremedHQ
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along with Shad Chowdhury. The organization works to address barriers that members of minority groups face when pursuing a medical education by connecting potential B.S./M.D. college students from disadvantaged backgrounds with coaches from top-tier medical schools. It also offers free MCAT video lectures, test preparation and one-on-one mobile mentoring. Kumar graduated from Duke University with a triple major in biomedical engineering, chemistry and biology before attending medical school at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego School of Medicine.
engineer who earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Union College before receiving her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2017. O’Connor is one of the co-founders and CEO of Nth Cycle, a company devising environmentally friendly techniques to recycle rare metals from discarded batteries and electronics.
Arsheen Allam, Energy Arsheen Allam earned her Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business in 2018. Driven by prior visits to India and Pakistan, Allam sought to devise new Lakshya Madhok, methods to filter water Number of Duke-affiliated people and therefore established Finance who will made Forbes’ list this year Lakshya Madhok, CNanoz, which develops Trinity ‘11, graduated nanotechnology-based from Duke with a Bachelor of Arts in computer carbon water filters. In 2015 she founded GOLeafe, science and economics before kick-starting his a company working to produce graphene for career at Morgan Stanley. On Forbes’ 2019 30 supercapacitors with patent-pending technology Under 30 list for finance, Madhok is recognized which uses only organic materials. as a vice president on a structured credit team at Bain Capital Credit. Stephanie Papes, Healthcare Papes, Trinity ‘12, is recognized by Forbes for Abdullah Feroze, Healthcare co-founding Boulder Care, a mobile platform Now a neurological surgery resident at Seattle designed in response to the opioid crisis. The Children’s Hospital, Abdullah Feroze completed a platform’s goal is to make treatment for opiate fellowship in the Global Health Fellows Program use more widely available to the population, and at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy before has raised over $3.7 million from investors. Papes attending Stanford University School of Medicine. graduated from Duke University, double majoring While at Stanford, Feroze helped initiate the use of in public policy and biology. a monoclonal antibody vaccine designed to block the CD47 cancer cell signal, which is critical to the Lorin Crawford, Science disease’s advancement. The vaccine, anti-CD47, Now an assistant professor of biostatistics is now in clinical trials for leukemia subtypes and at Brown University, Lorin Crawford received brain tumors. his Ph.D. from the Duke University department of statistical science in 2017. Today, Crawford’s Megan O’Connor, Energy See LISTS on Page 4 Megan O’Connor is a chemist and environmental
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GARDENS FROM PAGE 2 project that would bear her name. The original garden proved to be problematic—flooding was common, and all the flowers drowned. So Hanes convinced her daughter, Mary Duke Biddle, to fund a new Gardens on higher ground, which she endowed for her mother in 1938. Ellen Shipman devised a second plan, more similar to the Gardens of today. Later on, a notable “master plan” for the Gardens was designed in 1959 by landscape architect William Leong, which was “the best thing that secured the Gardens’ future,” according to LeFevre. He also designed the South Lawn and Courtesy of the Duke University Archives Azalea Court, among other things, in the 1960s. A 1952 postcard shows an illustration of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
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This plan prohibited building on the land used by the Gardens, which allowed for continuous improvements to the Gardens. “It gave us the opportunity over the next 30 or 40 years to create gardens down here, instead of buildings and parking lots,” LeFevre said. Since that decision, the Gardens has attracted more than 300,000 visitors a year, according to its website, bringing people from Durham and elsewhere to play, spend time with their families or take in the beautiful surroundings. “No other garden has as great of an appreciation for the sights,” LeFevre said, encouraging the public to visit—he recommended the Rollins Overlook in the spring and late summer, when the sunset illuminates the Duke Chapel and the Gardens.
LISTS FROM PAGE 3 research is focused on building machine learning algorithms that help scientists understand interactions between genetic features, aiming to elucidate the nature of genetic disorders that currently confound doctors and researchers. Lauren Moxley, Law and Policy When Microsoft took a case to the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the government’s attempt to gain access to customers’ emails, the company needed legal representation, and Lauren Moxley was up to the task. Recognized for her presentation and her work at Covington and Burling, Moxley is on the 30 Under 30 list. Graduating from Duke University in 2012 with a B.A. in public policy, Moxley completed her law degree at Harvard Law School. Now at Covington and Burling, she focuses on privacy, surveillance and cybersecurity. Rob Lehman, Consumer Technology After short stints at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, Lehman got in on the ground floor of Compass, a real estate company valued at more than $4 billion. Five promotions later, Lehman, Trinity ‘11, now runs expansion, mergers and acquisitions, sales operations, new revenue and strategy. According to the Forbes biography, Lehman has driven Compass’ geographic expansion into more than 100 cities around the country.
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HARASSMENT FROM PAGE 1 The requested steps include meeting with deans, department chairs and directors to review the findings of the survey within their realm, identify best practices and create action plans going forward. The survey was promulgated after Price wrote an email to the Duke community in February announcing that Duke would take self-assessment steps in light of “a profound moment of reckoning about sexual harassment in the academic world.” “We must do more,” Price wrote in February. “We all have a responsibility to work together to build a campus free of sexual harassment, an academic community that allows all of its members to reach their potential and contribute fully to our missions of learning, discovery, and service.”
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Loving Vincent van Gogh isn’t an uncommon thing. In fact, van Gogh’s works have left a clear mark on pop culture. Just take a tour in the libraries, and you’ll see students using Starry-Night laptop skins, Starry-Night keyboard protectors, Starry-Night phone cases or Starry-Night water bottles. At the poster sale every year, van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” “Café Terrace at Night” and “Almond Blossoms” are among the top sellers (and you can be sure that I bought all of these). By now, Van Gogh is a household name, and it would likely be difficult to find someone that doesn’t at least recognize his work. I don’t recall the first time I encountered his paintings, but he has been the single major source of great inspiration and deep fear for me to pursue the creative arts. I remember seeing the Arles “Sunflowers” for the first time – the popping density of the seeds made me believe for a brief moment that the painting was embroidered — the wildness of the flowers refuse to follow the direction of a single sun. Even without knowing the full story of Vincent’s troubling psyche and self-doubts at the time, I see the sunflowers as a faint, yet hopeful beam of light coming from an echoless abyss of indescribable darkness and loneliness. I remember the nine-year-old me, sitting in front of the computer screen, thinking, “Wow, one day I wanna make something like that too.” Then I immediately decided against it when I dug deeper into his bio and found out that he suffered from manic depression and cut off his own ear. The nine-year-old me found that fact horrific and I was a little disturbed when I went to sleep that night. Mom came in to check up on me and asked
what was wrong. I said, “Nothing, I’m just a little scared by Vincent van Gogh.” Despite this incident, I started pausing before anything van Gogh – notebooks, postcards, stickers, etc. I had hidden this obsession pretty well until on one of my family’s tours around the neighboring garage sales, I couldn’t help but pick up a print reproduction of “Starry Night.” I saw the real “Starry Night” at MoMA for the first time during last Thanksgiving break. I searched the entire floor and asked four security guards before finding it. Dwarfed in size by many other paintings in the room, it silently stood on the wall,
staff note its darkness beaming in front of a packed crowd. I struggled to the center, my eyes greedily taking in every brushstroke, every line, every curve of the wrist. I could almost see him sitting at the window in his small room in the asylum, his mind confounded and his eyes insane with passion. People came and went. Where were they going? Carrying the conversation to a nearby café, savouring Vincent’s tragedy while sipping tea? Returning to their glass-windowed office buildings, looking down at the people who
are looking up at them longingly? I have a taste for tragedy too. I love Vincent for his sadness, but I also resent him for it. I want to believe that he had the talent to sell his art and become a marketable artist but just didn’t bother to. I want to believe that he was a free spirit and did not care about the opinions of others. I want to believe that he was self-assured in the value of his art and did not seek other people’s acceptance or approval. But the truth is that he only started painting because he had failed at all his previous jobs. He only managed to sell one painting in his life no matter how hard he tried. He was desperate for others’ approvals and cut off his left ear when his admired partner and friend left him. The truth is that just like Vincent, I am also deeply afraid of failure and worry about the paycheck and status. Did he ever want to give up? What kept him going? Did he know that his art is great even though few told him so? What would he think of his posthumous fame? I’ll never know the answers to these questions. But I do know that Vincent is one of the bravest and strongest men I’ve ever learned of. I do know that nobody can paint like Vincent — with the eyes of a child seeing the world for the first time. Nobody can live like him, with the innocence of a child living the truth of his dream. As he famously said: “What am I in the eyes of most people – a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person – somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then – even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.” —Eva Hong
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Lucy Corin, Trinity ’92, is a writer and visiting professor of English at Duke, as well as professor of English at the University of California at Davis. She has published two collections of short stories, “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses” and “The Entire Predicament” and one novel, “Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls.” She is currently working on her second novel. The Chronicle spoke with Corin about her writing and what writing has shaped her. The Chronicle: Many college students are trying to figure out their way after graduation. How did you become a writer? Lucy Corin: There’s a million ways to answer that. I grew up in a house full of books where I was really encouraged to do things and make things, and where writing was a way to get out of chores by being in the middle of a project. As long as you were doing something or making something, that was good with my parents. We didn’t have a television but if you were just sitting around, you would have been set to some productive task, like cleaning things. TC: Who were the authors who shaped you during your youth? LC: Our house was filled with books, but they were books for grown-ups. There were some things for kids, but they were all mixed together. So I was reading the children’s versions of fairytales right along with MAD Magazine, Jim Carroll’s “Basketball Diaries” and James Dickey poems. My mom was a Shakespeare scholar and she was mostly interested in the history, so I got a lot of stories about British aristocracy as bedtime stories. TC: You graduated from Duke in 1992. What has changed since you were a student? LC: It’s hard to tell what has changed about Duke and what has changed about universities in general, in terms of culture and what students are focused on. Yet, as I walked into the new Bryan Center, it was so beautiful to see that the first thing to your right is that office for queer students and students of color. When I was here, the offices for these organizations were tiny rooms buried in the basement that you would never see. I really did get a little weepy seeing how open and celebratory these groups are treated now. Also, I’m pretty excited about the way they’ve shifted housing, which seems to be a lot better than it was when I was an undergraduate. TC: Were you an English major? LC: I was, but I wasn’t at first. I came in as a drama major, as there was a really exciting theater program that was starting up at the time — but what I learned from investing myself in it from my first year on, was that I didn’t want to be an actress. I’m a terrible memorizer, so I was never on stage without being in complete terror about even the most basic things, like forgetting where you have to go. Then I realized that I was most attracted to the storytelling, so when I finally took my first creative writing class and saw that there was a way you could organize your life around it, that changed everything. TC: After graduating from Duke, you got an MFA from Brown University. In the last few years, these programs have been somewhat controversial, with some critics arguing that they isolate writers and make them too distant from everyday life. How has that experience changed you? LC: I’ve heard that critique and it’s one of at least a dozen similar claims. I’m not sure about all of them but I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with finding some funding and a supportive culture that says, “Sit here and think about writing for a couple of years!” We are in a culture that devalues the arts and where it’s practically impossible to support yourself and actually have time to do anything creative. An MFA allows you to test out what you are as an artist and what it means to you, in an intense, 24/7 culture that you just can’t find anywhere else. Still, it can hurt writers if they mistake that culture for every culture. TC: You published two collections of short stories, a genre which Stephen King once said was barely alive anymore. How do you choose your genres? LC: Well, I guess it depends on what parties you go to whether you think the short story is dead or not. That kind of perspective is the same kind of view of the world that would say poetry and theater are dead, which would mean that only mass culture matters — but subculture matters and quirky culture matters, as well as underground culture matters. I would say the short story is doing pretty great, with some of them being up for the National Book Award, although that’s not what makes it alive. I think what makes it alive is whether there are people who dedicate their life to it. TC: Of the last 10 to 15 years, what works of art and media have been your favorites? LC: A book would be Horatio Castellanos Moya’s “Dance with Snakes.” I watch a lot of longform series TV, which I’m very interested in and the reality TV shows that have been going on for 20 years. Except I won’t watch “Big Brother.” I think it’s unbearable, but I’m very interested in the evolution of “Survivor” or “The Bachelor,” for example. Especially them establishing a narrative and individuals taking on roles as characters relates to the novel and what things are possible for the novel.
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Uncovering the past: Highlights from the Rubenstein Collection By Kerry Rork Staff Writer
Research can be a form of storytelling, of capturing life from decades or even centuries before. It can give the world a better idea of how people used to live. Housing over 10,000 manuscripts, 350,000 books and artifacts from a variety of subject areas and time periods, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library can be the perfect place for these aspiring researchers and devoted academics in the Duke community and abroad. Two members of the Rubenstein community, Andy Armacost, head of collection development and curator of collections, and university archivist Valerie Gillispie work alongside other Rubenstein librarians to provide ideas and examples of resources for students and faculty interested in archival research. The Rubenstein features a number of specific collections, including a human rights collection and records of modern advertising. Graduate and undergraduate students regularly make use of their collections, and researchers from around the world travel to Duke to access rare manuscripts. Here are some of the highlights of the Rubenstein’s collection: Scrapbook of Odessa Massey, 1920s One of Gillespie’s favorites from the Rubenstein collection is a 1920s scrapbook from Duke student Odessa Massey. “What I love about her is that she was a little bit of bad girl,” Gillispie said. “She went out on a lot of dates and she would break the
rules of women’s college. She would go in a car without permission or do too many dates in one week, that sort of thing.” In her scrapbook, Massey pasted in all her demerits and write-ups for breaking the rules, as well as dozens of cards from gentleman callers. “[I love] to see what it was like to be a Duke student through this one particular student 90 years ago,” Gillespie said. A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems, 1641 This recent addition to the Rubenstein collection discusses the geocentric and heliocentric theories of the universe during the 1600s. “It was after Copernicus said that everything revolves around the sun, but the official Vatican policy was that everything revolved around the Earth,” Armacost said. “So it was difficult for Galileo to write a book about it because he was worried he might get into trouble. He framed the book as two people in a conversation who were just talking about the two theories which gave him the freedom to write about both ideas using historical figures like Copernicus and the ancient astronomer Ptolemy.” This edition, written in Latin, would have been read and widely distributed in European academia in the late 17th century. Duke Workers’ Weekly Payroll, 1927 Last summer, the Rubenstein Library hosted a number of Story+ research projects, one of which focused on the workers who built the Chapel. “This came out of the President being
interested in a follow-up to the removal of the Lee statue and wanting to understand more about Duke’s history,” Gillispie said. The student researchers quickly realized that though the Rubenstein contained detailed records for the building of West Campus between 1927 and 1930, the archive did not have records on the Chapel itself. They decided to expand their research to looking at West Campus as a whole. “We studied this weekly payroll that lists the name of the person, the job they had, how many hours they worked each day, what they
were paid and the total amount they were paid for that week,” Gillispie said. “What the students were able to do was research each individual, study more about their race, compare pay for white and black workers, study buying power in Durham and interview descendants.” Although their research did not have the initial intended results, it led to discoveries about the role of race in labor relations and clues on how to continue their investigation into Duke history. “And like any good research project, it inspires more questions,” Gillespie said.
Kerry Rork | Contributing Photographer A payroll for the construction workers who built West Campus in the Rubenstein Library.
Duke grad Maria Kuznetsova discusses fiction writing as a way of life By Alyssa Wilson Contributing Writer
Maria Kuznetsova never had a doubt about what she wanted to do with her life. She always knew that she wanted to write. As one of the two participants of the “Fiction Writing as a Way of Life” event hosted by the English Department last Wednesday, Kuznetsova discussed fiction writing with Blackburn visiting professor Lucy Corin. “People asked whether I had considered other more stable or lucrative careers, but at the end of the day, I couldn’t see myself doing anything but writing,” Kuznetsova said in an interview with the Chronicle. A native of Kiev, Ukraine, Kuznetsova moved to the United States when she was a child. After graduating from Duke, Kuznetsova earned an MA in fiction writing at University of California Davis and an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s workshop. Her debut novel, “Oksana, Behave!”, will be released in March 2019. Kuznetsova spoke with The Chronicle about fiction writing and how to get into the field. The Chronicle: How did you know becoming a writer was what you were meant to do? Maria Kuznetsova: I’ve known since I was a young immigrant who read books, and later, in elementary school, wrote stories to make sense of my life in America. There wasn’t one “a-ha” moment, though I don’t remember ever wanting to do anything else. TC: What are some ways you recommend getting into writing during or after college? MZ: It’s important to set up a writing routine during and after college — during
any phase of your life. You have to treat it like a job, and put in your time at your desk even if you feel like nothing is happening. I give myself a few hours a day to just write, when I have the time, or occasionally aim to hit a certain amount of words, like 500 a day. Even if everything I wrote that day was terrible, I can say I tried. TC: Do you believe an MFA in writing is worth it? MZ: I do! Not only did I have the time to write, but I learned so much from my teachers and classmates and wouldn’t otherwise be the writer I am today. An MFA can also help you make connections for the purposes of publication, so this was also helpful for me at Iowa. TC: How did it feel to have your book published? What was that process like? MZ: It feels amazing and surreal to know that my book will be published in March. The process took a while — from completing the book to finding my agent to revising the manuscript before sending it out to editors. The process of choosing an agent and an editor was exciting but stressful, because it felt like there was a lot at stake and I had to pick the person who understood the book the way I understood it. TC: Do you have any other tips and thoughts you’d like to share? MZ: One thought is that for students who are considering getting an MFA — don’t do it until you feel confident about yourself as a person, and at least somewhat confident as a writer. Get some work or life experience first - it will make your writing richer and will also make you appreciate the time you have to write when you’re back in school.
Special to the Chronicle Kuznetsova returned to campus last week to participate in the talk “Fiction Writing as a Way of Life.”
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Making history: ‘House of Cards’ season six and the 2018 midterm elections By Stefanie Pousoulides Contributing Writer
Every president of the United States has been a man. But history was made in the final season of “House of Cards.” Released on Nov. 2, the finale of Netflix’s first original show, “House of Cards,” calls into question how women can pursue careers in politics — especially the leader of the free world — which have been historically dominated by older white men. The conflict of men and women is at the heart of season six, with Claire Hale — formerly Claire Underwood — serving as the United States’ first woman president and living in the shadow of the former president, her late husband Francis Underwood. “House of Cards” has always been in tune with the current political climate, as season five was eerily reminiscent of the Trump administration and the trailer for season six was released as Hale’s “presidential alert,” parodying that of Trump. Given how temporally significant the release of the show has been, consider it no coincidence that season six closely preceded the 2018 midterm elections. With a record number of women elected to the 116th Congress, how the audience assesses Hale’s presidency is analogous to how the public will now view women serving in Congress, an institution entrenched in gender roles. The objective of season six is to cause viewers to question whether or not the current political climate is ready for women to be powerful leaders. As evidenced by the dramatic tensions in the show, it seems its directors think women are going to have to continue to fight quite hard in order to obtain equality. The show uses two main devices to demonstrate this tension: the trope of using violence to demonstrate how severe the gender conflict is and employing flashbacks of Hale at a young age to show how she defied gender inequalities at a young age, when she would have
been most innocent and vulnerable. The first scene of season six puts the dramatized violence at the forefront, as Vice President Mark Usher reveals that Hale had received four times as many death threats since she has taken office and twice that amount since Underwood died. Because of the threats, Hale is advised to take the day off – the Fourth of July – from speaking to new military recruits. “The first female president of the United States is not going to keep her mouth shut on the Fourth of f••king July,” Hale said. When shaking the hands of recruits at the end of the event, Hale meets a black woman recruit. The president reassures her of her commitment to women’s rights by adding that she will make sure that the Equal Rights Amendment is passed. The recruit surprisingly counters, “Do you even have a plan? One that won’t get us all killed?” But, Hale is the one who emerges with the most provoking inquiry. “Would you have asked me that if I were a man?” Hale asked. A woman serving as commander of chief is the pinnacle of normative gender conflict. However, because of a record number of women veterans to serve in the 116th Congress, the American public might be stepping outside of the framing similar to the skeptical recruit in the show. A power broker family, the Shepherds, challenge Hale’s strength as the leader of the free world by attempting to control her presidency. One of the most insistent efforts is for Hale to follow up on Underwood’s promise to pass the FUTURE Act, a regulation bill. Hale initially balked at the bill, but when she seemingly acquiesces to sign it, Bill Shepherd guides her hand to do so. Hale later describes this act as “emasculating,” which is ironic given that she is not a man. However, this is key to how Hale approaches gender inequality. On one hand, there is no feminine equivalent in the English language
that captures the same meaning. On the other, Hale is asserting herself like Underwood would, seeking revenge. How Hale later maintained control over impeachment prospects is a classic replication of Underwood’s manipulation. With evidence that Hale was unfit for office, the Shepherds initiated the idea of impeachment, and they got a majority of the cabinet on board. Little did they know that this was what the sitting president wanted all along. Much to their chagrin, Hale fired every member of her cabinet and unveiled a new one composed of all women. This tactic furthers how Hale is weaponizing her femininity because she is well aware of the magnitude of her making history is in a political environment so ingrained in the patriarchy is so significant that she and her allwoman cabinet are untouchable. But, what does this mean for women holding political offices? Does this empower women or are the cabinet members mere tokens of Hale’s next move to challenge conceptions of the presidency?
Perhaps with 121 women in the 116th Congress our framing of women in the political sphere will change and women’s interests will be higher on the political agenda. An all-female cabinet is not the only portentous connection to the 2018 elections: Comparable to how Hale served as president while pregnant, a woman ran for New York attorney general while pregnant. Duke alum Zephyr Teachout, M.A. and J.D. ‘99, ran for New York attorney general pregnant and even had an advertisement of her getting an ultrasound. In light of the youngest person to be elected to Congress, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, being a woman at 29 years old, it is now inevitable that women might have to campaign and serve their offices pregnant. And, that’s a challenge that women in both House of Cards and in the 2018 election cycle accepted. “We’re on the verge of a big change here,” Teachout said to Time Magazine. “If women are going to be running in their 30s and 40s, they’re going to be running pregnant. You can’t change that.”
Photo Courtesy of Flickr The sixth season of “House of Cards” premiered on Netflix Nov. 2 and was the first season without Kevin Spacey.
‘Beautiful Boy’ is an honest depiction of addiction and loss By Alizeh Sheikh Interviews & Reviews Editor
What “Beautiful Boy” lacks in finesse, it makes up for in heart. The film, helmed by Swedish director Felix Van Groeningen, chronicles the true story of journalist David Sheff’s (Steve Carell) desperate attempt to salvage his deteriorating relationship with his son, Nic (Timothée Chalamet), who is addicted to methamphetamines. Both the older and younger Sheffs compiled the history of these tumultuous years into two respective memoirs, each told from their respective point of view. David Sheff’s memoir, “Beautiful Boy,” serves as the baseline for Van Groeningen’s screenplay of the same name, co-written with Luke Davies (who received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for “Lion”). The film marks Carell’s first foray into a purely dramatic role, one that he plays well even if the directing only half-heartedly captures his acting strengths. Chalamet, on the other hand, shines in his part as a recent high school graduate who floats in and out of himself as the alternating waves of addiction and sobriety roll over him. He plays youthful earnestness with great subtlety, an ability he proved in the 2017 film “Call Me By Your Name” and which he cultivates in “Beautiful Boy.” To the detriment of Carell — and perhaps to the movie as a whole — Chalamet is a magnet on screen who manages to invert the film’s implicit focus on David and his desperate endeavor to understand how best to love a son who seems already half-gone. Certainly, Van Groeningen has structured the film and screenplay to stay true to David Sheff’s account. The film is not about addiction nor “the addict” as much as it is about what it is like to love
and cherish a user. Nic does not even show up on screen until nearly 10 minutes into the movie, and our first conceptions of who he is are molded by his father, who we see forlornly cherishing his son’s childhood photographs and organizing his son’s desk as he waits for Nic to finally come home after a string of nights spent shooting up. We never see how, exactly, Nic passes his days on the streets nor when, precisely, he starts getting into hard drugs. We simply see the aftermath, on his face and in his behavior, and we see how it destroys David. It appears comical at best (and outright bizarre, at worst) to watch David snort cocaine himself in an attempt to understand what his son is experiencing, but it is scenes like these that underpin Van Groeningen’s desire to encapsulate what it’s like to be trapped on the outside and desperately want to get to the inside. We never see the nitty-gritty of addiction, nor do we taste the grit. Although the real Nic spent much of his days on the street, prostituting himself and picking food from dumpsters, none of that is on display, perhaps because David never knew or because he did not want to know. But it is not this narrow focus but, rather, the lack of a wholehearted commitment to any focus that detracts from the film. Addiction is a multifaceted issue that is linked to many factors, including wealth, race and access to health care, but even if every one of these factors plays into the Sheffs’ story, together they are too many to wrap the narrative of one movie around. This is why Van Groeningen specifically hones in on David and his attempts to salvage the father-son relationship, though his precision is somewhat lacking in both the directing and the screenplay. The narrative lacks strong coherence, with the frequent flashbacks to Nic’s childhood
days bonding with his father feeling somewhat contrived. We understand that father and son cultivated a tenacious bond in Nic’s childhood that faces destruction as his addiction rages, but these scenes fail to explain what it was, exactly, that brought them so close together, with only sideways hints at an early childhood divorce. This means that when Van Groeningen attempts to juxtapose the relationship of the past with the present, the contrast falls flat. The directing also, at times, fails to capture Carell’s strengths, which is a particular travesty when Chalamet is so captivating an actor. Carell’s verbal acting lacks a certain substance, in that some of the punchiest lines tossed to him in the screenplay (my favorite one being “Who are you, Nic?”) feel all too blunt or forced. His physical embodiment of the character would compensate for that, though, if Van Groeningen trained the camera on Carell’s face more often than he
actually does. Some of the best scenes in the film occur when we stare straight at David’s face as he rifles through his son’s notebook or speaks to a methamphetamine expert in a last-ditch attempt to understand his son’s addiction. Chalamet, on the other hand, is excellent all-around with his deft portrayal of Nic’s youthfulness as well as the guilt and fear that lurks beneath the surface. In one particularly well-done scene, Nic relapses in his girlfriend’s family’s bathroom during a family dinner. As he sits back down at the dinner table and attempts to convince himself and others that nothing has gone wrong, we watch a multiplicity of emotions pass over Chalamet’s face, layered in a way that frankly has to be seen to be believed. So, is “Beautiful Boy” worth watching? If you’re a stickler for narrative, not so much. But it is safe to say you will be missing out on an upand-coming actor at his (up until now) best.
Photo Courtesy of Amazon Studios “Beautiful Boy” explores the relationship between father David Sheff and his son, who suffers from addiction.
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‘thank u, next’ is Ariana Grande’s pièce de résistance By Jaime Gordon Contributing Writer
Ariana Grande’s latest single “thank u, next” opens with a bright, synth pop beat. As the melody progresses, her sweet-as-sugar falsetto paints a chronological picture of her well-publicized romantic struggles. The lyric “Even almost got married/And for Pete I’m so thankful” immediately amuses pop culture savvy listeners. She directly interpolates SNL cast member and former fiancée Pete Davidson, along with other ex-boyfriends Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez and the late Mac Miller. Taken at face value, it’s a well-produced Top 40 song by a mainstream ingénue. However, in the context of Ariana’s public life, it is so much more than than that. Self-aware and tongue-in-cheek, “thank u, next” handles serious heartbreak with the expert precision of a young woman who is well-acquainted with pain. Ariana Grande has turned resilience into an art form. The song evaluates past relationships with honesty and gravitas, while also crafting a vision of a future Ariana who is spirited and self-sufficient. This message is especially powerful when juxtaposed against her history of personal misfortune and heartbreaking disaster. Originally finding fame as a Nickelodeon child star, Grande rose to solo stardom with her first two studio albums. Although her vocals were undeniably impressive, she drew criticism for seemingly airheaded lyrics like “I only want to die alive” and “Now that I’ve become who I really are”. As time passed, Grande’s music evolved and she became a household name. The pop diva’s career seemed to be going seamlessly, until she was struck by tragedy. In 2017, a Grande concert at the O2 Arena in Manchester, UK was attacked by a suicide bomber, leaving 22 people dead and 116 injured. Grande honored the victims with a tear-jerking benefit concert before retreating from the spotlight for a few months to heal. Approximately one year after the terrorist attack, Grande went through a very public breakup with rapper Mac Miller. She pushed back against tabloid noise and released the single “No Tears Left to Cry,” signaling her triumphant comeback and resolution moving forward. Soon after, she went public with a new relationship: SNL’s Pete
Davidson. The two quickly got engaged and created widespread media debate over the validity of their whirlwind romance. Grande seems unfazed by the press. She released her fourth studio album “Sweetener” in August, featuring a song titled “pete davidson”. Everything seemed to be looking up for her, until September, when news broke of Mac Miller’s death. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Ariana and Pete had split. In the midst of this sorrow and emotional turmoil, Grande could have withdrawn from the public eye again. Instead, she reached outward with the surprise release of “thank u, next” last week, just months after her recent full length album. “thank u, next” is an ode to Ariana’s strength in the face of adversity. Forthright and earnest, the song stands in stark contrast to other pop diva break-up songs that are passive-aggressive and confrontational. It is like Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” all grown up. Grande namedrops her ex-boyfriends unabashedly and faces tragedy directly, addressing Mac Miller’s death with the lyric “Wish I could say thank you to Malcolm/ ’Cause he was an angel”. The soaring pre-chorus, which has inspired a new meme, attributes a specific lesson to each ex-boyfriend: “One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain.” On first listen, the catchy hook and high quality production are pleasantly entrancing. However, a second play reveals the beating heart beneath the glittery façade. It is the kind of song that is equally at home blaring from the speakers in a nightclub or playing quietly as an upbeat accouchement to a self-pity breakup playlist on Spotify. The song tells a story of hope amid suffering and grace that rises above mockery. It’s an anthem of self-love that does not exclude mutual appreciation. On Sunday, Grande encapsulated these feelings, tweeting, “What an interesting, challenging, painful and yet beautiful and exciting chapter of life….” In “thank u, next”, Grande processes pain with poise and musicality. She declares to the world that she has and will continue to overcome the hardships that persistently pursue her. “thank u, next” is more than just a new single: this is her pièce de résistance.
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Blue Devil freshman Maria Mateas brings professional success to the college game By Spencer Levy Associate Sports Editor
Two hands covered her mouth. Decked out in blue with matching wristbands, a rising tennis star had just won her first professional tournament in Fort Worth, Texas back in August. Freshman Maria Mateas could have skipped the college game without giving it much thought. She is currently ranked No. 302 in the world, jumping up about 400 spots in the past 16 months. She could have continued to raise her ranking while building up experience as a touring pro. For much of her junior career, the plan was to do just that. Mateas began to discover the benefits of college only in the last few years. Unlike basketball and football, there is no minimum college requirement to play professionally. Only a handful of tennis players, however, skip college to jumpstart their careers. “If I would have been top 200, there’s a 90 percent chance I wouldn’t have come to school,” Mateas said. “But I started thinking about my future more, just in terms of injury and in terms of what I want to do after tennis
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Freshman Maria Mateas has looked strong during her appearances for Duke this fall. and I decided that coming to school would be a good idea.” A star in the making Sophomore Kelly Chen knew Mateas before this fall, as the two played in similar tournaments,
including Mateas’ first pro victory. “[She’s] very professional on court,” Chen said of her teammate’s game. “She definitely has this mentality of being very determined.” That professionalism is a vital skill that can take Mateas to the next level.
In July, she advanced to her first singles championship match but lost in straight sets in the finals. Mateas then went right back to work. “I remember just taking every match one at a time and essentially it was my last tournament in my mind before coming to school,” Mateas said. “I was able to really keep it together mentally, which I think was the biggest part of the end result.” Mateas played in Templeton, Calif., accompanied by Duke assistant coach Matt Manasse last month. “What struck me the most was just her professionalism in terms of how she prepared for every match,” Manasse said. “She’s very meticulous in every single detail. She’s up in the morning in the gym doing her routines. She’s stretching at the right times and really just getting focused for each and every match.” In the first round, Mateas had match points, but didn’t convert, losing in three sets, despite striking the ball and controlling the court better than her 249th-ranked opponent. “Maria was just so positive and kept fighting through the ups and downs,” Manasse See MATEAS on Page 13
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Duke looking to recover defensively Wednesday By Liz Finny Associate Sports Editor
After rising to No. 1 in the AP poll, the Blue Devils—led by their four starting freshman—continue to be the hottest college basketball team in the nation. And all eyes will be on Duke once again as it takes the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday, when Blue Devils host Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Following the contest, the team will head to Lahaina, Hawaii, for the Maui Invitational next week. The Eagles will have their hands full guarding a Duke team that’s so offensively talented. Unlike Army, though, Eastern Michigan has the size that may be able to stifle the Blue Devils’ trio of large EMU guards—Zion Williamson, Cam Reddish vs. and R.J. Barrett. The Eagles boast a 6-foot-11 center No. 1 Duke in Boubacar Toure. Toure is joined by fellow starter James Thompson IV—a WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium 6-foot-10 forward that will help add size to Eastern Michigan’s perimeter defense. Elijah Minnie, who started in the Eagles’ most recent game against Goshen and led the team with 17 points, comes in at 6-foot-9 in the front court as well. These three big men will have the size that Black Knights did not against a Duke team that can get hot both in the paint and beyond the arc. “They have some big guys back there, so we’re going to have to
adjust,” Barrett said of Eastern Michigan after Sunday’s game. “It’s going to be a completely different game from this one.” The Blue Devils (2-0) may look to Williamson to lead the team again after his incredible performance against Army. Williamson led the team with 27 points and 16 rebounds. Duke’s star freshman crashed the boards on both ends of the court, but was also able to come up with six offensive rebounds that gave the Blue Devils more second-chance scoring opportunities. The Spartanburg, S.C., native had a monstrous six blocks on the game—with a sequence of three in one possession—and showed this same intensity and drive when going after loose balls and defending players before the shot. Williamson displayed his allaround skill set, with four assists—the second-most behind point guard Tre Jones’ seven. Classmates Reddish and Barrett also dominated offensively, with 25 and 23 points, respectively. However, while Williamson shot 11-of-14, Reddish and Barrett struggled to connect in a more sluggish first half as they combined to shoot 18-of-40 from the field. Despite a first half when Reddish and Barrett took some time to find a rhythm, the trio of top freshmen still scored 75 of Duke’s points. They will be tough for Eastern Michigan (3-0) to beat, as it’s averaged barely better than 50 percent shooting in the first three games. The Eagles’ shooting beyond the arc is not any better, averaging only 32 percent from three—numbers like these won’t hold up against a team that put up 118 against then-No. 2 Kentucky. Where the Blue Devils faltered defensively against the Black Knights was in transition. Duke struggled to keep up with
Army’s quick pace, and lagged behind on some fast breaks that allowed the Black Knights to keep the game close for far too long. Even Army’s quick inbound of the ball and drive down the court caught the Blue Devils’ bigger men off-guard. “It was different. They were really fast,” Barrett said of the Black Knights’ fast pace. “As soon as we scored, they were out, so that was just the type of game. The next game against Eastern Michigan will be very different, they’re bigger.” The visitors’ size may work in Duke’s favor, as it won’t be as quick as Army. Nonetheless, its height may make it difficult or Williamson to go up and grab rebounds for put-backs on offense. Toure has 33 total rebounds on the season, 24 of which are on defense. The Eagles’ height will surely help them crash the boards on offense also for second-chance opportunities the Black Knights didn’t have. Jones will have a hard matchup against Eastern Michigan’s redshirt senior point guard Paul Jackson, who leads the team with 56 points and 18 assists. Jackson has experience that Jones does not, and a rhythm with his older, veteran team that the Blue Devils showed they may not have totally developed yet. The matchup between an Eagle squad made up of three seniors and two juniors and the Duke squad of primarily top-recruited freshmen will be a test for the Blue Devils’ young mentality and experience. “It was very clear that they played harder than us in the first half,” Williamson said of Army. “I think they wanted it more. We came out there very sloppy and came in at halftime, Coach just said to be great, you’ve got to play hard. It doesn’t matter who you’re playing against, so I think the difference in the second half, we just played hard, we moved the ball around more instead of trying to go one-on-one, and I think that was our difference-maker.”
SNEAKING FROM PAGE 1 To appease the mob, the cops started letting kids in. Just outside of Cameron, dozens of administrators, security guards, law enforcement officers and line monitors were struggling to check bands and create some order in the line. When a line monitor called for group 59, she ran forward. She got past that first line monitor. Then the she got past a second. Security stopped her as she went through the metal detector because she was wearing a fanny pack. She told them it contained epipens. They profusely apologized, and she moved on with determination. At the next stop, an administrator Carrico knew was checking wristbands. She greeted them, and they let her pass. Carrico moved toward the last checkpoint, the arched wooden doors of Cameron. With flashlights and a piercing voice, the guard at the entry demanded to see bands. As she passed, the guard stopped her. With all the power four years of acting at Duke had given her, Carrico flashed a smile and threw a Hail Mary. “You’ve already checked mine!” The gatekeeper, also caught up in the chaos of the walk-up line, did not question her further. She was in. The student section was full, so she was given a seat high up in a corner of Cameron’s upper ring. Her view was blocked by a poll, she said, so she and her friends climbed on top of it. She sat in the rafters. It said “Section 12, Row Q, Seat 19, $0.” Carrico’s walk-up line partner, who verified her account directly to The Chronicle, said that she didn’t feel good about sneaking in. Carrico felt differently.
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“The way I look at it is like, I really don’t think we took spots from people in Cameron. We were in rafters. I’m so happy I did it,” she said. “I have wondered about the legal implications because these tickets are worth so much money. But it was my last chance, and if that meant I had to scheme and lie…” She paused and smiled. “I’d do it again.” ‘I think they’re cheating everyone who tents’ Sneaking in has consequences. Hassey explained he thinks it hurts the tenting system. “I think they’re cheating everyone who tents,” Hassey said. “It’s something that is honestly kind of upsetting for me.” But tenters aren’t the only ones who could be affected. Those who sneak in risk getting in trouble. Bob Weiseman, senior associate director of athletics and athletic facilities, game operations and championships, told The Chronicle that information on potential punishments for sneaking in ”is not information we release.” Not everyone sneaks in like Carrico did, though. Mike DeGeorge, director of sports information, responded to a question about the punishment for those who pretend to have credentials they do not—like posing as journalists—to sneak in. “Any unauthorized use [of credentials] subjects the “bearer to ejection from the stadium and prosecution for criminal trespass,” DeGeorge wrote in an email to The Chronicle. Fake news. Our second fan, who we’ll call Liza, couldn’t tent and didn’t have time to stand in line. She decided to go to the game anyway. On the morning of game day, Liza and her group of co-conspirators headed straight for the University Store. There, they bought Duke Basketball polos. The girls stored the shirts in their
locker room—they are athletes—and went to the K-Ville party. Ninety minutes before tipoff, Liza and her friends went back to the locker room and disguised themselves. They put on their polos, grabbed journals and tucked pens behind their ears. For the next few hours, as far as Liza was concerned, she was a reporter for Duke’s student newspaper— The Chronicle. The girls headed for the Michael Krzyzewski Center, Duke’s athletes-only study building, which they had access to. Their plan centered around the underground tunnel connecting the K-Center to Cameron. They would get into the building, cross over into the arena and stay in the student section as “Chronicle journalists.” Outside the doors of the K-Center, disaster struck: a guard had the place on lockdown. Challenge one. Liza talked to the guard. “Look, we are writers for The Chronicle and our laptops are in there,” she said. “We have to get through.” The guard hesitated for a second. “Okay, let these girls through.” The crew of imposters entered the K-Center inside, got in the elevator and mentally prepared to face more guards as they rode to the bottom. The doors opened. The coast was clear. Only busied basketball managers filled the hall. Next step: get to the court. Below the K-Center and close enough to hear a thousand Duke students cursing the Tar Heels, Liza said that she started testing doors. On the other side of one she found the blue-light filled player tunnel and a waiting security guard. “Sorry, wrong door!” she said. Liza says she closed it quickly and continued down the hallway, dodging managers and (real) reporters while making casual small talk with smiling security staff. Then, she tried another door.
It opened to Cameron’s lobby, where a wave of graduate students were flooding into the arena. She hopped in. Liza rode the wave all the way onto the court, where she turned and headed for the undergraduate student section. There, she found her friends and celebrated her victory. Until the line monitors saw her. When the line monitors spotted Liza and her friends, she took off. I know she did, because she ran toward me and hid among my tent group. Her friends weren’t as lucky. They were caught and then questioned by a police officer. They had prepared for questioning earlier by looking up and memorizing the name of The Chronicle’s thenSports Editor, Hank Tucker. However, a slip of the tongue doomed them as they they tried to convince the officer of the authenticity of their fake identities. Liza said their alibi sounded like this: “No, literally, we are writers for The Chronicle. We will call Tom Hanks!” It didn’t work. The other girls were kicked out. A security guard came to find Liza. She hid within the tightly packed student section. The guard left. And, 20 minutes till tip off, things looked good for Liza. Until a line monitor showed up and asked where her wrist band was. To make sure no one snuck in, the line monitors had been checking wrist bands inside the student section. Liza didn’t have a band. She was toast. Improvising, Liza turned to me and the rest of my group and feigned outrage. “I told Steven not to rip off my band!” she shouted. The line monitor, smirking at the mediocre-atbest fib, let Liza know that it was fine if her band fell off—there was a database with the name of every See SNEAKING on Page 13
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MATEAS FROM PAGE 11 said “That fight and grit is going to take her a long way.” Mateas then stayed in California for her debut college event, defeating two top-16 players in straight sets en route to the finals, before losing to Gonzaga’s No. 35 Sophie Whittle. ‘My best friend’ Mateas has played tennis most of her life. Born into an athletic family in Romania, she immigrated to the United States when she was a young child. After a short stay in New Jersey and an extended one in Braintree, Mass., Mateas and her family moved to Chapel Hill last March. Although Mateas started to play at six, she took tennis more seriously thanks to her father, a tennis pro, and her mother, a fitness coach, when she turned nine. As Mateas explained, home is where her parents and brother, Catalin, are—not the physical location. Traveling often and taking classes online throughout high school, she never spent much time at the house, making it difficult to develop friendships. “My best friend through all of this was probably my brother because he definitely understood it and knew what I was going through,” Mateas said. Catalin, now a former member of the Blue Devil men’s tennis team, influenced her decision to come to Duke. The program’s prestige, however, would have made for an attractive place even without her brother, Mateas explained. Although her talent could have landed her almost anywhere, Blue Devil head coach
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Jamie Ashworth said that she was upfront with other schools about her commitment to Duke. Ashworth and Manasse, with their experience coaching top-tier players, are in a prime position to guide Mateas in her rise to the top before she makes the jump professionally for good. As a freshman, Mateas does not have a preseason singles ranking, but she is ranked first among college players according to her Universal Tennis Rating, a computer ranking powered by Oracle that also puts her 296th in the world. With a finals appearance under her belt, Mateas says she is playing for more than just an NCAA title. “Improvement is just being better than I was yesterday because then I will be better than I am today,” Mateas said. The freshman said her serve can be “dangerous” but Mateas’ self-proclaimed best shot is her forehand, which she can get some pace behind. Confidence in her backhand compliments her other strokes. “She’s your prototypical professional player in terms of her frame,” Manasse said. “She’s 5-11 [and] hits an unbelievable solid groundstroke on both sides flat through the court.”
decision I made.” Since Mateas started school this past FROM PAGE 12 August, her ranking has only dropped 16 spots while she played in six tournaments. tenter on it, and if Liza was on the list, she could The freshman reached the semifinals of stay in the student section. The line monitor a professional tournament last month in scrolled through the list of registered tenters. Liza Florence, S.C., where she knocked out the froze. Seconds passed like minutes. She, of course, second seed and then-No. 219 as well as Texas’ was not on the list. ITA top-ranked Bianca Turati, 6-4, 6-4. Before Liza could run, the line monitor “Girls are peaking later nowadays at 25, 26, grabbed her and headed towards the door. But so I’m not putting pressure on myself like I Liza wasn’t giving up yet. Liza was in front of the have to be top 100 by the end of next year,” line monitor as the two walked off the court. She Mateas said. “Long term, top 10 would be sped up and got ahead of her captor. Then, as a where I’d like to be.” last ditch effort, she turned into the bathroom That goal is something that she will work and hid in a stall. on this fall and spring at Duke. She said that on the floor of the stall next to “She definitely has the potential…. But her, a girl lay passed out. Liza said she helped the I don’t think she’s there at this moment,” girl while someone got a medic, who rushed into Ashworth said. “The number of matches that the bathroom and told Liza to make sure only we play in college will help.” medical staff came in. After making sure the girl She has already made an immediate impact, was in stable condition, the medic checked the but progress is what matters most. unresponsive girl’s wristband, located her tent College has helped other players, including number and told Liza to find the girl’s friends in former Virginia standout Danielle Collins, the student section, according to Liza. Stanford alum Nicole Gibbs and ex-Tar She ran up to the security guard defending the Heel Jamie Loeb. Collins made a splash door to the court. Liza pointed to a medic behind professionally last year and is currently ranked her and explained that she was told to go into the No. 35. And the three combined resulted in student section and find the sick girl’s friends. five consecutive NCAA individual singles The guard let her through. She ran onto the titles from 2012-16. court, cut into the student section, and found Collins, Gibbs and Loeb each took the unresponsive girl’s tent-mates. She told them different paths to the professional game about their friend, pointed them towards the while they spent four, three and two years in bathroom and started heading for the door. Then college, respectively. she realized where she was. Whether she stays all four years or just for There were two minutes until tip-off. Liza one, Mateas will use college as a catalyst for stopped moving for the door and stayed put in future success on the professional circuit. the student section. A minute later, “Everytime “I have a plan in my head, but I definitely We Touch” came on. want to take it one day at a time and just see Thefor New Syndication “And I was there until the end of the game,” what is right meYork at theTimes end of the year,” Sales Corporation Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 she said. “And it was hype as hell.” Mateas said. 620For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550
‘Best of both worlds’ Although it may seem that Mateas took a risk, she is continuing to play professionally. As long as she plays all of the professional tournaments as an amateur, Ashworth said before the season that she is allowed to play and earn points in WTA tournaments. “I get the best of both worlds with this. It was a win-win for me. I really wouldn’t have chosen differently,” Mateas said. “Now that I look back on it, I’m very, very happy with the
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tool, its marketing practices have drawn intense scrutiny for their appeal to youths. Amidst a troubling rise in e-cigarette usage in adolescents, Juul’s flashy advertisements and variety of flavors have drawn the attention of the FDA. Current research has consistently concluded that Juuls are harmful to adolescent development and ironically— considering its original function as a weaning tool—lead to increased cigarette use in later life. Under such pressure, Juul declared on Tuesday that it would stop selling its flavored nicotine pods in stores and cease its social media promotions. Nowhere is this Juul epidemic seemingly more apparent than right here at Duke. Juuls are everywhere. Stuffed into a silicon card holder behind a Duke Card. Affably passed
Editorial Board around at parties between rounds of beer pong. Even pulled out for a quick puff in LL2 of Perkins. Given that Juuls have been shown to be an unhealthy gateway to further nicotine addiction, Duke’s choice not to include e-cigarettes in its smoke free policy is questionable at best. If this policy is motivated by the desire to promote healthy living, the intention is undermined by the exception being made for e-cigarettes. Nicotine addiction is okay, as long as it comes furnished in a sleek metallic finish, befitting the bourgeois sensibilities of generation Z Duke students. More insidiously, this policy further institutionalizes the implicit socioeconomic gap on this campus. A pack of
cigarettes retails for around $5.45, whereas the Juul starter kit alone is $50, a high start-up cost to many working class Americans. Low-income people are significantly more likely to smoke cigarettes, and on this campus, those lighting up tend to be workers and graduate students. In contrast, those Juuling tend to be the undergraduate students who can afford the technology. Under the guise of the easy cigarette scapegoat, Duke has institutionalized nicotine addiction as a privilege of the wealthy. It makes it impermissible to exist as a proverbial housekeeper on her smoke break. But it explicitly makes permissible a Duke student Juuling away at a pregame in Krzyzewskiville. Intentional or not, this policy signals to students and workers alike that addiction is a luxury when rich but a crime when poor. This decision brings to mind the federal cocaine laws passed in 1986, which disproportionately punished low income users. The goal of a smoke free campus is an admirable one, certainly one that Duke ought to pursue considering the adverse public health risks of tobacco. But in doing so, Duke needs to be more mindful of the implicit class divisions that can cause disproportionate impact. Duke can ban e-cigarettes and evenly enforce an anti-nicotine policy across the board instead of merely banning physical tobacco products. If the concern is depriving smokers of their means of quitting, Duke can fund other tools so that everyone can enjoy a healthier lifestyle—maybe subsidize free nicotine patches or nicotine gum. The failure to make these policy amendments would otherwise suggest that Duke’s policies do not have the interests of its workers and low income community members at heart.
I already make a living wage: Here’s why I’m fighting for my colleagues who don’t
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’m a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering. From September 1st, 2018 to August 31st, 2019 I will be paid $33,289.98 as a base stipend. I will also receive an additional $5,000 for the year, bringing my annual salary as a Ph.D. student to $38,289.98. I’m the exception. Currently, the Graduate School says that incoming Ph.D. students should expect a salary of approximately $31,000. I came to Duke University in part because I knew I was greatly exceeding this floor. I am close to earning what I could expect to make in industry as a laboratory technician, and that salary allows me to go to graduate
Austin Wadle GUEST COLUMNIST school. I came to Duke thinking all of my peers would have a base salary that comes out to approximately $15 an hour for 40 hours a week. I know having a living wage would allow us to pursue world-class scholarship with fewer worries for our economic situation. Not long after I arrived in Durham, I began to hear stories that my base stipend was exceptional. The friends I have made in departments all across the university informed me of these disparities in pay. Many Ph.D. students, ones who do amazing work that pushes our understanding of the world further and further, make thousands of dollars less than what the Graduate School promises prospective students. Those who receive the full stipend face financial hardships, too. Like many first-year students, I wasn’t paid until the end of September, even though orientation started in mid-August. I went without pay for a month and a half after spending several thousand dollars to move to Durham from Grinnell, Iowa, where I did my undergraduate degree. I know this pay schedule is unsustainable and makes graduate education at Duke inaccessible to many. I know I cannot stand by while this happens. I wanted to join a group that was agitating for better working conditions, and, as I walked into convocation, I ran into the Duke Graduate Students
Union tabling outside of Duke Chapel. They were handing out some of the most helpful material about life at Duke I had seen all week. After reading the material they were handing out, I gladly joined and am now a dues-paying member of SEIU Local 27. I’m fighting for better pay for all graduate students. I’m getting a Ph.D. in environmental engineering because I believe society has mounting problems that can be solved through empirical investigation and careful application. I went down an applied path when I pursued an undergraduate degree in chemistry because I felt that the fundamental chemistry research I had seen was too separate from the real-world problems. I know many of my peers in the Pratt School of Engineering feel the same way: we are committed to finding solutions to problems and improving existing systems. That’s exactly why I joined the union. The Duke Graduate Students Union is an effective and powerful organization enacting the kind of change I want to see on this new campus I’m learning to call home. The union is fighting for $31,000 a year as a floor, not a ceiling. We are fighting for a $1,000 relocation stipend to make graduate school more accessible for people who don’t have the finances to move across the country. We are fighting harassment and discrimination, something many of us who are minorities in STEM know far too well. We are fighting for health care that covers everything we really need. As engineers, if we did not care about the impact of our work, we would have stayed at home. Instead, we are engineering tissues that will save lives, investigating the contaminants that make us sick, developing the next material that revolutionizes the polymer industry, and so much more. We are willing to push the boundaries of what’s possible with our research, and we should be willing to do the same for graduate study at Duke—for Ph.D. students in all departments. We need to end pay gaps and raise wages. We need to end the discrimination rampant in the STEM fields. We need healthcare that meets our needs. Even those of us who make what the Graduate School says we do should fight to make sure that all graduate students are paid a living wage. Austin Wadle is a first-year civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. student and is the co-secretary for the Duke Graduate Students Union, Local 27, Southern Region Workers United SEIU. For more information about DGSU, please visit dukegradunion.org.
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How to behave honorably in a global world
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hether through everyday conversations or discussions in the classroom, you’ve probably heard discussions on globalization: people today interact with others from many different cultures and backgrounds much more frequently than in decades past. From volunteering through DukeEngage, to studying abroad, to even spending time with friends from different
Duke Honor Council GUEST COLUMN cultural backgrounds, Duke students are certainly becoming more aware of their world and are becoming globalized. This presents a unique challenge in regards to values of integrity and honor. Different communities and cultures are governed by different moral codes. So how do we reconcile our own moral standards with those held by others? The Harvard Business Review addresses this question from an corporate standpoint. When businesspeople work abroad, they often encounter legal and ethical standards different from those in their home countries. Thomas Donaldson addresses the unique question of whether businesspeople should stand by the moral codes held in
their native country or adopt those of their country of occupation. According to Donaldson, one perspective, cultural relativism, takes the “when in Rome…” approach, while another standpoint, cultural imperialism, encourages businesspeople to abide by the same morals as they would in their home country. It is easy to see how the implicit debate between these two ideologies influences businesses— how should a company proceed if an action is morally and legally acceptable in a foreign country, but not in the company’s home country? How should a corporation train and treat employees from different cultures? This dilemma is difficult to resolve because company leaders must often choose between prioritizing economic gains and adhering to personal or cultural morals. Because the people the company leader is responsible for, including investors and employees, might be positively or negatively affected by the leader’s choice, deciding what is morally “right” or “wrong” can be extremely difficult. Though often in very different ways, this same question greatly affects all Duke students. At a recent Honor Council meeting, we discussed how Duke students come from diverse backgrounds and hold a variety of moral and ethical ideals, but we are all expected to conform to the Duke Community Standard. The Standard is like the roots of a tree—it is the common moral ground upon which we all build, as branches build upon a tree’s foundation. Each of our individual “branches,” or personal code of ethics, are affected by our cultural, religious and community backgrounds, and
deserve the respect of other community members. By using the Standard as a starting point and striving to understand how fellow students have woven it into their personal ideologies, we can further individual and community relationships. This provides an opportunity for all students to develop a more cohesive and trusting community. Through travel and technology, Duke students also encounter people outside of our university community, that might hold very different moral codes. If we act with the goal of treating others with equality and respect, then we can immerse ourselves in local customs and ideals while holding on to our own morals and beliefs. In order to better understand the communities we find ourselves in, we must personally make the effort to engage and interact; One way to do this might be by simply participating in local practices by attending a religious ceremony or helping prepare a meal. If college is truly about expanding your horizons and getting a world-class education, you must put forth the effort to become a citizen of the world, recognizing the importance of countries and communities globally. Through these experiences, students should do their best to serve as an example of kindness, trustworthiness, open-mindedness and integrity, both throughout the Duke community and beyond our borders. This week’s column was written by Trinity first-year Gabrielle Marushack.
To beat a dead horse
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was sitting in lecture the other day. Planning the route I would take on my run after class, I caught just a few words of my professor’s lesson. As he repeated his conclusion, my professor muttered “not to beat a dead horse, but…” And that’s when I began to ponder: why, exactly, does our parlance stigmatize the beating of dead horses? What’s so wrong with that? Sure, it’s implausible that I would come across a dead horse, or have any reason to want to beat it. You have to admit, though,
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it is possible. I picture an afternoon jog at the Al Buehler trail. There’s a slight chill in the air, but it complements the sweat my body exudes. I venture off the path to pee in the woods when I see it: a beautiful brown Thoroughbred with a bullet hole in its side and a blood-soaked mane. Looking closer, I see a bent leg and piece it all together. Some race horse owner must have checked the stables one morning and seen his prized stallion (named Charisma or some other horse name) with a broken leg. To put it out of its misery, the owner shot it, and somehow it ended up in the Duke Forest. Maybe I need an outlet for my rage, or maybe I want to be contrarian against my lecturer’s cliches, but I feel the sudden urge to give the beast before me a kick. Conventional wisdom tells me there isn’t much of a rationale to beat the horse, but even outside of my imagined world I am paralyzed wondering what I would do in such a scenario. To provide some perspective, I wanted to
reach out to some other Duke students. I asked my vegan friend, Leonie Jones, her thoughts on whether I could beat a dead horse or not if I ever came across one. “I’m not really sure what the context of this question is, but in terms of veganism, the bigger issues in my opinion are fighting against the continued torture, mass imprisonment and killing of billions of sentient beings,” she said, before I remembered that she goes to Durham University in the United Kingdom and not the university in Durham, North Carolina whose students I had wanted to question. As I reread her Facebook messenger response, I could imagine her saying it to me in her British accent and quickly realized my mistake. She added, though, “I wouldn’t say it was particularly ethical because although the horse is already dead, I’d still see it as an act of clear disrespect towards the animal and its suffering.” Although Leonie isn’t a Duke student, she brings up a good point—perhaps I do need to consider this question from an ethical perspective. With ethics in mind, I turned to Duke’s
most ambiguous and inexplicably wealthy resource—the Kenan Institute for Ethics. I emailed the first professor I found on Kenan’s website, asking if it’s ethical to beat a dead horse. A minute later, I got an “out of office” email in response. Facing this rejection, I turned to my second choice: Sarah Jacobs, a friend I made during Project Arts freshman year who mentioned to me that she’s taking a course in Kenan next semester. In response to the same question I posed the professor, she texted me a longer response than I expected: “Well, Jordan, to answer that timely question, I must look to our ethical forefathers. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, sufferer of horrible unethical punishment under the Gulag system, once said ‘even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.’ In my interpretation, the horse, in this case, is dead, and therefore, defenseless. As such, the defenseless horse cannot do what is right, for the horse itself is indeed, dead. The horse cannot make the rational decision
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of whether or not to beat itself, and therefore, the vital decision of whether or not to beat the dead horse is left in our hands. With the weight of this responsibility on our shoulders, we must act with the will that the valiant stallion would have wanted. What that is, I leave to the horse to decide.” In the classic ethical tradition, Sarah provided some powerful words that ultimately left me with more questions than answers. I was only left to look inward to find the truth I sought. Disillusioned, I found myself at rock bottom instead. If the systems that millions turn to for moral guidance, like veganism and ethics, couldn’t give me answers, what could? Is there such a thing as truth in the world, anyways? Is my search for naught? Are you supposed to do three questions in a series, or four? From rock bottom, I stood up and looked around. The scene before me looked just like the clearing in the forest I envisioned from my lecture. And that’s when I began to realize—maybe life is a search for answers, and I can relish in the boundless purgatory of the departed colt. In a way, to seek veracity in a steed that prompts simple violence is to conquer that which it begs of you. Maybe the vegans and the ethicists of the world have a point, then. The greatest philosophers have spent their lives finding meaning and truth in the dead horses they saw. As Plato once said that Socrates said, “all I know is that I know nothing [about what to do if I see a dead horse].” I may know nothing, but I refuse to cease my search. I will not run from that horse when I see it. When you come across your metaphorical Charisma, that vexing beast in its glorious infinitude, in the Al Buehler trail of your life, will you beat it, or will you let it beat you? Jordan Diamond is a Trinity sophomore. His column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.
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