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‘What this time means’
General Motors CEO Mary Barra will deliver the Seniors reflect on moments of joy, marks of pandemic commencement address for Duke’s Class of 2022.
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With graduation just a few days away, seniors reflected on their time at Duke, shared their mixed feelings about post-college life and spoke about how COVID-19 created a defining gap in their college experience. “We were the last class to really have a full year on campus preCOVID,” senior Elizabeth Loschiavo said. “It’s weird to bookend Duke like this. The only years I’ve lived fully on campus are my first year and my last year.” She reflected on the small moments of joy that shaped their last four years, including reading in the Duke Gardens, the Wellness Center’s knitting circle and Duke University Union’s trivia nights. “All through my sophomore year before [the pandemic], me and my friends regularly went to Thursday night trivia,” Loschiavo said. “I don’t think we ever won, but we came close a couple times.” But these moments also taught Loschiavo, a first-generation college student, to “live more and worry less.” “I’m always going to be worried about finances and student debt. At the end of the day, you have one life to live,” Loschiavo said. “The moments of joy are the ones that you truly remember.” Senior Catherine McMillan described the Duke undergraduate experience as
“paying a premium for the convenience of living, learning and existing in the same space as thousands of amazing people.” From learning 1950s style dancing as part of Duke’s Swing Dance Club to helping Durham natives with their financial, employment, educational and housing goals, McMillan found ways to both spend time recreationally and give back to the community. “I think that we take some experiences for granted, like being able to run into a friend that you made last semester in class, or being able to meet up with someone for lunch in the spur of the moment in WU, that stuff will be a lot harder in the real world,” McMillan said. For senior Andrew Nguyen, closing the chapter on the last four years “doesn’t really feel real yet.” “I know that the deadline is coming, but I feel like there’s still so much left to do,” Nguyen said. “Maybe part of it is that I spent nearly a half of this time at home.” After he returned to campus, Nguyen took advantage of unique opportunities to watch Duke men’s basketball face off against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Cameron Indoor Stadium and spend relaxing days in the Duke Gardens with friends. Still, he wishes he had more time at Duke. “I’ll really miss
Honorary degrees will be awarded during the ceremony to rocket scientist Sylvia Acevedo, founder of Impossible Foods Patrick Brown, Medical Director of Mother of Mercy Hospital Tom Catena and President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina.
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DKU’s inaugural graduating class remembers last four years By Charlie Colasurdo Kunshan Report Editor
With Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural commencement ceremony approaching on May 19 EDT, seniors from DKU’s first-ever graduating class looked back on their four years attending Duke’s joint venture program in the suburbs of See REFLECTIONS on Page 16 Shanghai.
When they chose to attend DKU, they knew they were taking a bold step in a new direction. “I wanted a global community and DKU was able to provide that on top of a high quality education,” senior Spencer Reeves wrote in an email. “Having the chance to interact with people from See DKU on Page 16
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By Staff Reports The Class of 2022’s first year saw the renaming of an infamous building, a collection of controversies and a star-studded basketball season. In August 2018, the history department filed an official request to rename the Carr Building on East Campus, which houses the department. Named after Julian Carr, the wealthy white supremacist who donated the land that would become East Campus, the building came under fire from history alumni, People’s State of the University and Duke Student Government. At the December Board of Trustees meeting, the Board decided to officially rename the building to the Classroom Building, its original name. The history department had requested the University rename it after Raymond Gavins, Duke’s first Black history professor. The Board declined this request, ruling that the building’s original name would stay until the filing of another official request. Throughout the year, student activists were instrumental in bringing attention to certain Duke policies. Students received a letter in the fall that said financial aid would not pay for Duke health insurance unless their expected family contribution was $0. After pushback from student advocates for health care, President Vincent Price reversed the decision in a letter to the editor. Students also defended workers’ rights in the face of multiple University policies. When housekeepers were forced to work weekends, a
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student organized a petition to return them to their normal Monday through Friday schedules. Additionally, facilities staff were told they had to rebid for their shifts based solely on seniority, which meant workers were at risk of losing their existing shifts and buildings. Administration later scrapped the rebidding plans. There were several hate incidents on campus during the beginning of the year. In August, a wall at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture was defaced with a racist slur. In November, a swastika was painted over a mural on the East Campus bridge that honored victims from a shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue. In January 2019, Megan Neely, then director of graduate studies for the Master of Biostatistics program, sent an email to the department urging Chinese students to speak English outside of class. She stepped down the next day after screenshots of the email were posted online. Duke agreed to pay $112.5 million in March to settle a lawsuit alleging that a Duke scientist falsified data that was used to obtain $200 million in research grants. Throughout the year, Duke was involved in intense negotiations with regional transit authority GoTriangle about the proposed light rail from Durham to Orange County. The University announced Feb. 27 it would not sign a cooperation agreement in a letter to GoTriangle, all but killing the project. Duke did not want to give up land alongside Erwin Road in the heart of its medical corridor, and it was concerned about the effects of
electromagnetic interference and construction on the medical facilities’ operations. Students and Durham officials were not happy with the University’s decision. But in Cameron Indoor Stadium, first-year phenom Zion Williamson had everyone smiling. Duke basketball captivated the Duke community and the nation. The team featured R.J. Barrett, Cam Reddish and Williamson, the top three recruits in their class, as well as fellow top-10 recruit Tre Jones. The year got off to a strong start with a 34-point throttling of Kentucky in the Champions Classic. Arguably the year’s best win, however, came against Louisville, when Duke came back from 23 points down with just more than nine minutes remaining. After a trivia test that determined tenting eligibility, students camped out for weeks in Krzyzewskiville to watch Williamson and the Blue Devils face off against North Carolina. Even former President Barack Obama attended the game. Unfortunately, Williamson broke through his shoe 30 seconds into the game and would not return in a game Duke ultimately lost to the Tar Heels. Duke exacted its revenge on the Tar Heels in the ACC tournament semifinals before going on to win the tournament. Duke’s season ended in the Elite Eight against Michigan State when Kenny Goins hit a go-ahead three in the game’s waning seconds. Led by quarterback Daniel Jones, the football team finished the regular season with a 7-5 record. The season featured wins over North Carolina and Miami and blowout losses
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to Clemson and Wake Forest. The team capped off the year with a comeback win against Temple in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl. The New York Giants then drafted Jones sixth overall in the NFL Draft, making him the second Duke quarterback ever picked in the first round. Like Jones, this year was the last for Larry Moneta, then vice president for student affairs. Duke named Tufts University administrator Mary Pat McMahon to succeed him as the new vice provost/vice president for campus life. Ongoing construction projects could be found all over Duke’s campus this year. The largest project was a brand new dorm along Towerview Road, the Hollows. The suite-style building helped absorb around 700 of the students moving to West Campus after Central Campus was torn down. In the year’s student elections, undergraduate students chose then junior Liv McKinney to be the next DSG president, replacing then senior Kristina Smith. Trey Walk, then a senior, was elected to serve as the undergraduate Young Trustee. Duke “banned the box,” meaning applicants cannot be required to disclose their criminal records on initial job applications. Durham celebrated its 150th birthday in April with a birthday party at the American Tobacco Amphitheater. Finally, this February marked the 50th anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover, when Black student activists took over the administrative building and demanded change.
Protesters reflect on Allen Building Takeover on 50th By Carter Forinash February 13, 2019 Students who took over the Allen Building in 1969 shared their memories of the takeover at an official commemoration Saturday afternoon. As part of the official events held Feb. 12 at the Washington Duke Inn and the Nasher Museum, student protesters from the Allen Building Takeover discussed their memories and the legacy it has left on Duke’s campus. The Allen Building Takeover, which took place on Feb. 13, 1969, helped lead to the creation of the African American Studies program at Duke and brought attention to the needs of AfricanAmerican students at Duke. The panel was led by Catherine LeBlanc, Woman’s College ’71. Members of the panel included Charles Hopkins, Trinity ’69, Michael LeBlanc, Trinity ’71, Michael McBride, Trinity ‘71, Charles Becton, Law School ’69, and Janice Williams, Woman’s College ’72. Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and Mark Anthony Neal, chair of the department of African and African American Studies at Duke, acknowledged the pivotal role of the Takeover in influencing student activism at Duke in the five decades afterward. Both Ashby and Neal also cautioned that the lessons of the Allen Building Takeover show that Duke still has much progress to make. “Duke is not what it once was, but it certainly is not where it needs to be. We can thank those brave souls 50 years ago for always mak-ing it clear, making that clear to us,” Neal said. Campus atmospheres The panelists touched on their initial reactions and the injustices that existed when they
arrived on campus. parities were and what those injustices were, and was eager to learn how to fight against them,” Williams said. Other panelists mentioned that Black students at Duke at the time were kept apart by the Duke administration. “Duke thought that the best way to bring us here was to keep us isolated, keep Black students isolated from each other, so in all of our classes we were the only one,” Hopkins said. Hopkins, a talented writer when he got to Duke, also recalled the extreme difficulty that African-American students had getting professors to acknowledge the quality of their work. One professor even accused Hopkins of having his roommate, a white student, write his essays. “Not everyone at Duke agreed that black people were smart enough to be at Duke,” Hopkins said. Perhaps more than any other factor, the Society activity, black students who had never panelists argued that student unity—particu- spoken to me, who said Chuck we need to do larly among the Black students at Duke—was the something,” Hopkins said. driving force behind the Allen Building Takeover. C.B. Claiborne, Pratt ’69 and the first Black basketball player at Duke, spoke about his reasons The Takeover for joining the students in the Allen Building. Members of the panel agreed that the Take“When I’m asked why did you come into over was the culmination of poor conditions for the Allen Building, it was because my comAfrican-American students on campus and years munity was here, among the Black students,” of inaction by the Duke administration. Claiborne said. “This was like water boiling. It just got hotter and hotter and hotter,” Michael LeBlanc said. ‘We’re in here now, and these are our demands’ Hopkins, the leader of the Allen Building The original protesters recalled that they briefly Takeover, said that it was initially difficult to con- considered whether to bring weapons into the Allen vince students to commit to the action despite the Building for self-defense before deciding against it. conditions on campus. “Our thing was don’t give the administration “The turning point for me as an organizer an excuse not to focus on the issues that we’re of the thing was when grades came out. I had trying to raise,” Hopkins said people coming to me, people who had never “I got on the phone, called [Dean of Student participated in any kind of Afro-American Affiars Bill Griffith] and said, ‘Dean Griffith,
Courtesy of Duke Archives we’re members of the Afro-American Society, we’ve just taken over the administration building, we’re in here now and these are our demands,’” Hopkins said. Although negotiations took place of the course of the day of the Allen Building Takeover, the administration refused to negotiate until the students had left the building. The University issued a series of ultimatums before the student protesters received word that po-lice were organizing in Duke Gardens to force the protesters out of the Allen Building. When they decided to come out of the building, “the police was coming in the door that faced Campus Drive...Our recollection is that they came in throwing tear gas so we got out just in time,” Catherine LeBlanc said. Editor’s note: This story has been edited and condensed for print.
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Carr Building officially renamed By Bre Bradham December 1, 2018
full, academically rigorous contextualization of Julian Carr, and then we all need to wrestle with what it means for us today.” Carr supported the Ku Klux Klan’s violence, and bragged about “horsewhipp[ing] a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds” because she “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady” when he spoke at the dedication of the Silent Sam statue—a Confederate monument pulled down by
The University has stripped Julian Carr’s name from the East Campus building that bore it for nearly 90 years. The change comes four years after Duke renamed Aycock Residence Hall on East Campus because of its namesake’s history and amidst a national conversation about removing Confederate or racist memorials. The Board of Trustees approved removing without dissent Carr’s name at its meeting this weekend, Board Chair Jack Bovender said. The decision was announced to the University in an email from President Vincent Price Saturday afternoon. “Our campus is first and foremost an inclusive community of people, not of classrooms and buildings,” Price wrote in his email to the Duke community. “With each new student or faculty member who arrives here, with each new discovery made or perspective shared, this community grows and evolves to better meet the challenges of its time. The renaming of the Carr Building represents one such evolution, at once a reflection of how our world has changed and a demonstration that our values and bonds will endure far longer than mortar or stone.” The Carr Building will be called the Classroom Building until a new name is chosen. Price told The Chronicle after the Board meeting that he does not have a set time frame for recommending a new name, adding that he is considering the building’s name in conjunction with other memorial efforts on campus. Dan Garcia The Classroom Building was the Carr Building’s original People’s State of the University’s rally at the Carr Building name before it was renamed in honor of Carr in 1930. The decision to revert to the Classroom Building comes after the ad protesters earlier this semester—at the University of North hoc committee did not make a recommendation on a new name, Carolina at Chapel Hill. according to the Duke Today release. Instead, the committee The Duke Today release about the name change noted Carr’s deferred the renaming process to the Board of Trustees. In its contributions of moving Trinity College from Randolph County request to rename the building, the history department asked to Durham in the 1890s, but noted he was “an active proponent that it be named after Raymond Gavins, the first African- of white supremacy throughout his adult life.” American professor in the department. “He boasted about being a member of the initial Ku Klux Klan The Carr Building’s name came under scrutiny at the and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white beginning of the semester, when Duke’s history department filed supremacist platform,” the release stated. a formal request for the name to be reconsidered. The push to rename the Carr Building kicked off in the The request stemmed from the department’s concerns spring, when student protesters included it as one of their about Julian Carr, after whom the building was named. demands when they interrupted an alumni reunion event Carr donated the land for East Campus to Trinity College— where Price was speaking. Duke’s predecessor—and served on its Board of Trustees. After the Robert E. Lee statue was removed from the Chapel “It is a reasonable assertion to say that Duke wouldn’t exist steps last year, Price created a formal process for requests to be were it not for the generosity of Julian Carr. It is also true that made concerning names and places of memory on campus. At he was a virulent white supremacist,” Taylor wrote in an email the beginning of this semester, the history department faculty to The Chronicle in August. “Both of these things are true about members—who work in the Carr Building—filed a formal request Mr. Carr, and I think Duke needs to tell this story explicitly via a to strip Carr’s name and requested the building to be renamed in
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Duke pays $112.5 million to settle research fraud case By Ben Leonard March 25, 2019
By Ben Leonard February 20, 2019 Former President Barack Obama is in Cameron Indoor Stadium for this year’s DukeNorth Carolina game. After much speculation leading up to the game, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was in attendance for Wednesday night’s colossal matchup between arch-rivals No. 1 Duke and No. 8 North Carolina. He was seen in the stadium at approximately 7:30 p.m. Reports had circulated earlier in the week that Obama was expected to be in attendance, but Duke did not officially announce his appearance, nor could The Chronicle independently confirm it.
Henry Haggart Obama has scrimmaged with the Tar Heels in the past and picked them to win the NCAA championship in 2012, but also met Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his 2010 and 2015 national championship teams at the White House. Krzyzewski has sometimes clashed with Obama’s politics, such as when he criticized the president’s policy on fighting the Islamic State in 2014. Former President George H.W. Bush also attended a basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium after his presidency ended. President Donald Trump also attended the Duke-North Carolina game in 2004, sitting under the basket and appearing for an interview on ESPN.
honor of Raymond Gavins. Following the request, support for the change emerged from various parts of the Duke community. The student protesters, who formed a group called People’s State of the University, held a rally at the building in support of the change. More than 140 alumni of the history department sent in a signed letter that encouraged renaming the building, and Duke Student Government unanimously passed a resolution calling for a name change. The Board also supported the committee’s recommendation to create a display inside the Carr Building explaining “why the university chose to name the building in his honor in 1930, and why it chose to remove his name nearly ninety years later,” according to the Duke Today release. The committee’s report said that it received more than 900 responses to an online survey requesting input and heard from multiple members of Carr’s family. The educational installment is a key part of the recommendation, according to the report. “The unanimity of the committee’s support for the recommendation to remove the name is contingent on the creation of means to present educational and historical information on Julian Carr in order to preserve the record on Carr’s contributions to Trinity College and help the community understand his complex legacy,” the report stated. “We note that no individual is perfect, and we do not pretend to sit in judgment on any individual as a human or citizen,” the report said. “But the white supremacist actions that Carr pursued throughout his life, even when considered in light of the time in which they were held, are inconsistent with the fundamental aspirations of this university, and removing the name will be a powerful statement that lifts up our values as a diverse and inclusive institution.” Per the formalized process, the request was reviewed by an ad hoc committee Price formed in response to the request, which delivered a proposal to him. Price reviewed the proposal and delivered it to the Board of Trustees, which supported removing Carr’s name. Bovender said he appreciated the formalized process. “Julian Carr’s legacy is complicated. His leadership of and philanthropy to Trinity College helped ensure that the small liberal arts school would remain independent and would have the means—and the land—to transform into the great university it has become,” Price wrote in the email. “But this same person also actively promoted white supremacy through words and deeds that, even by the historic norms of the time, were extraordinarily divisive and caused serious harm to members of his community. It is for these reasons that I agree with the History Department, the committee members and the trustees that removal is the appropriate course of action.”
these data, labs at the University were able to secure additional federal funding, calling roughly $200 million in grants into question. Others were also implicated in the lawsuit, including two of Potts-Kants’ supervisors: William Foster, ex-professor of medicine, and Monica Kraft, former division chief of the pulmonary division. The two supervisors were accused of negligence and ignoring warnings of misconduct. The National Institutes of Health implemented additional regulations for Duke researchers in April 2018, requiring those applying for grants for less than $250,000 per year to provide a detailed budget of their proposed costs. The email went on to outline steps Duke has taken to promote scientific integrity. Price wrote that the University has taken many steps in recent years in order to “promote an environment and culture of scientific integrity,” such as creating the Office for Scientific Integrity and appointing Geeta Swamy as associate vice provost and vice dean for scientific integrity. Duke brought a new data management tool, established required “science culture and accountability plans for all School of Medicine units” and created a program to monitor clinical quality, Price wrote.
Duke will pay $112.5 million to the federal government in a settlement for a lawsuit regarding its handling of falsified data that the suit alleged was linked to $200 million in federal research grants. “This is a difficult moment for Duke,” President Vincent Price wrote in an email to the Duke community. “This case demonstrates the devastating impact of research fraud and reinforces the need for all of us to have a focused commitment on promoting research integrity and accountability.” The lawsuit, filed by former lab analyst Joseph Thomas, alleged Duke used the data to obtain grants and covered up the fraud. The lawsuit came from fraud allegedly committed by former Duke researcher Erin Potts-Kant. A researcher in the pulmonary, allergy and critical care department of Duke Health, Potts-Kant has had more than 12 scientific papers retracted since word broke of the allegedly falsified data. Potts-Kant admitted to changing parts of the data but said that experiments actually were run. Thomas brought the case under the False Claims Act, which could have forced Duke to fork over as much as $600 million. Thomas alleged Potts-Kant falsified Editor’s note: This story has been shortened for data in research on mice’s lungs. From print.
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Sophomore Year By Staff Reports While the Class of 2022’s second year on campus will forever be infamous for the University’s transition to empty quads and online courses, the year was also remarkable thanks to student activism, campus renovations and basketball games for the ages. It was a busy year when it came to student life. First-years were barred from O-Week parties, and alcohol was banned from fraternity rush events. Electric scooters began to litter campus sidewalks, though the University placed restrictions on their use. As for student elections, junior Tommy Hessel was elected Duke Student Government president and senior Ibrahim Butt was elected undergraduate Young Trustee. Sophomore year also saw its share of controversy. Over the summer, Duke agreed to pay $54.5 million to settle a class action antitrust lawsuit after the plaintiff alleged that Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had agreed not to hire each other’s employees. Duke’s Department of Education sent a letter criticizing the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, after which President Vincent Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth reaffirmed the University’s commitment to academic freedom. Two fraternities faced disciplinary action: Duke’s Delta Sigma Phi chapter was shut down in September due to “risk management problems,” and the University suspended its Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter in November and required members to move out of their housing section. Students made their voices heard throughout the year, protesting tech company Palantir and a talk by John Bolton, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump. During a weeklong global climate strike in September, students held a rally on the Bryan Center plaza. Alumni, students and faculty won prestigious awards this year. William Kaelin Jr., Trinity ‘79, School of Medicine ‘83 and a member of the Board of Trustees, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Gabriella Deich, Trinity ‘20, who co-founded the Arete Fellowship at Duke, was named Duke’s 50th
Rhodes Scholar. and Jenny Tung, Trinity ‘03, Graduate School ‘10 and an associate professor in evolutionary anthropology, won a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant for $625,000. Demolition, construction and renovations changed the face of Duke this year. Construction crews began tearing down Central Campus, and students moved into Hollows Quad for the first time. Ahead of the spring semester, popular eatery Pitchfork’s also got a new look. Meanwhile, some familiar faces announced their departure. Richard Riddell announced Oct. 1 that he would be stepping down in June as senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees. Two weeks later, Duke announced Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s retirement. Mary Pat McMahon became vice president and vice provost for student affairs, succeeding Larry Moneta, and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek announced that she would move into a new advisory role during the 2020-21 academic year. The University community mourned the loss of three Duke students and alumni during the academic year. Morgan Rodgers died in July. Grey Spector and Raj Mehta died in March. The last two months of the academic year were anything but ordinary. The first hint of the coming storm came Jan. 25, when Duke Kunshan University announced that classes would be suspended until midFebruary. DKU courses moved entirely online Feb. 24. Back in Durham, life went on, but Duke banned University-funded travel to China and eventually announced that students who traveled to areas with a high risk of COVID-19 exposure would have to self-quarantine before returning to campus. On the athletic front, the baseball and softball teams had outstanding seasons. Bryce Jarvis pitched the first nine-inning perfect game in the baseball program’s history, and it seemed possible that the team would make it to Omaha for the College World Series. The softball team finished 23-4 and was ranked 25th in the last ESPN/USA Softball poll after a nine-game win streak, their first time being ranked in a major poll. Duke football had a lackluster season, finishing with five wins and missing a
bowl game for the first time since 2016. The women’s basketball team got off to a rocky start but ended the regular season third in the ACC. The men’s basketball team posted a pair of dazzling wins over rival North Carolina. After a comeback for the history books in Chapel Hill, Dean Sue sat atop a bench to stop students from burning it. Students got their second chance a month later, after a second victory over the Tar Heels that featured a spectacular senior night from Justin Robinson. Despite an exciting start, the men’s basketball team’s season was brought to a crashing halt. Three days after Robinson’s shining moment in Cameron, and midway through spring break, students began to receive hair-raising emails from University administrators. Classes were moved online, athletic activities were suspended, and students were told not to return to Durham to collect their belongings. By the end of a tumultuous extended spring break, it was
clear that the Class of 2022’s sophomore year would not end in a normal fashion. Students and professors adapted to holding classes on Zoom, and undergraduate and eventually announced that students who traveled to areas with a high risk of COVID-19 exposure would have to selfquarantine before returning to campus. Yet amidst the hardship, the Duke community came together. Within days of the announcement that classes would move online, the Duke Mutual Aid Facebook group had formed to help members of the Duke community impacted by the pandemic. The University created three relief funds with seed funding of $9 million, and Duke researchers turned their attention to creating a vaccine for the virus. Students celebrated the last day of classes with a Zoom concert. Commencement was postponed, and seniors attended a virtual celebration called Marking the Moment to commemorate their graduation. And on a quiet campus, the bells of the Duke Chapel continued to ring.
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After Duke win, Dean Sue stops illegal bench-burning effort By Nathan Luzum February 8, 2020
After a win for the ages against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, students were fired up to burn benches. There was only one problem—Duke didn’t have a permit. Students dragged the bench for Sherwood House onto the quad, but Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek planted herself atop the bench for around 45 minutes to prevent students from lighting it on fire. As students chanted at Wasiolek, others attempted to give her a handle of vodka and White Claws, which she declined to drink. Some students also approached the bench with lighters and a small blowtorch, but did not set it aflame. Eventually, when they realized a bonfire wasn’t in the cards, students began filing over to Cameron Indoor Stadium to welcome the team back. “I have great appreciation for the school spirit, and I love to encourage that in any way I can,” Wasiolek told The Chronicle after stepping
down from the bench. “But I just felt it was very important not to burn that bench. I really want to preserve the opportunities in the future to be able to burn with a permit. If we do it illegally now, we’re not going to get a permit in the future.” Bench-burning permits are granted for only four games out of the year, she explained. The University has permits for both the men’s and women’s home basketball games against UNC, in addition to the men’s and women’s National Championship game—but none for an away game in Chapel Hill. “What I didn’t want to have happen is any students get in trouble by burning the bench,” she said. “It’s not a matter of whether we could have controlled it and tried as best we could to make it safe, but it’s illegal. It’s against the law. I’m not sure students understand that. I don’t mean that in a condescending way, but the law is very clear.” Wasiolek knew that she might have to intercede even before the Sherwood bench was dragged into the quad following the Blue Devil win. Students have reacted this way to close
victories in the past, she said, noting that this was the third time in her career pacifying a group of students dead set on burning benches. “I didn’t think it was going to happen tonight because of the weather,” Wasiolek explained. “And then I called Duke Police just to see if they knew of anything going on, and they called me back and said it might be helpful for me to find my way to the main quad.” In response to being handed several alcoholic beverages by students begging her to allow a fire, Wasiolek noted she wasn’t tempted to crack one open. “Someone handed me some vodka, some White Claw,” she said. “This is not an appropriate time or place for me to be consuming alcohol, frankly. There’s a time and a place, but this wasn’t it.” As students continued to surround the bench and serenade Wasiolek, Mary Pat McMahon— vice president and vice provost for student affairs—was surveying the fray from the edge of the quad. She told The Chronicle that they were
trying to get a bullhorn to Wasiolek. However, students filed away before she could receive it. Despite several students approaching the bench with lighters and a blowtorch, Wasiolek said she wasn’t afraid that the bench would burn. “The good news is that the collective levelheadedness of the crowd, other students made sure that didn’t happen,” she said. “I was greatly appreciative of that.” As the crowd thinned out, students began climbing atop the bench and taking selfies and pictures with Wasiolek, which she described as “awesome.” There also wasn’t a possibility of acquiring a permit on short notice. Associate Dean of Students Clay Adams and McMahon said that the permits had to be granted 90 days in advance, so there was no chance to apply for one on the spot. In 2001, benches were burned without a permit in Duke’s legendary comeback win against Maryland. After students set them aflame, the Durham fire marshal rescinded the permit for a future game, but was persuaded to return it days later after discussion with administrators.
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Student-created group Duke Mutual Aid provides resources to community By Matthew Griffin March 15, 2020
Days after Duke canceled in-person classes and restricted access to campus, students have come together to help each other navigate lives altered by the coronavirus. Students formed the Duke Mutual Aid Facebook group, which aims to provide help in the form of food, housing and transportation for members of the Duke community affected by the University’s decision to close campus. Students have also created a Google Drive folder with a frequently asked questions document, a form for offering assistance, a form for receiving assistance and other resources through Mutual Aid. “The group’s main objective is to use the creativity of the Duke community, the resourcefulness of the Duke community and have a sort of grassroots, Duke-studentoriented way to help other students on this campus,” said junior Jamal Burns, an administrator on the Mutual Aid page. Students, alumni and other community members can fill out Mutual Aid’s Google form to offer assistance if they are able to provide it to students who face “financial difficulties, food insecurity, housing loss” and other challenges after the shift to online classes and the closing of Duke’s campus. Students who wish to request aid can see responses on a spreadsheet and reach out to those who complete the form. The form notes that it is “not part of the official response” of the University and that Duke is responding to questions at the email address keeplearning@duke.edu. Burns and several other students started working on the FAQ document, which is separate from the Mutual Aid page, immediately after Duke suspended in-person
classes March 10 and urged students who had traveled for spring break not to return to campus. The 12-page document includes information on financial aid, housing, food, academics and other subjects. “Immediately, a lot of students started to ask me a ton of questions,” Burns said, which he said was because of his role as co-president of Duke LIFE (Low-Income, First-Generation Engagement). “Me and these other groups of individuals… had to think quickly on our feet and make a document by reaching out to administrators and getting answers to these questions that we didn’t even know the answers to ourselves.” The students created the document so that people wouldn’t “left in the dark,” he said, which involved “decoding the ambiguity of some of the emails that we were sent.” First-year Lily Levin, also a columnist for The Chronicle, created the Duke Mutual Aid Facebook group Friday morning, though she noted that it was originally another student’s idea. A similar page for students at the University of Chicago, UChicago Mutual Aid, served as a model. “I think Duke is trying to respond to what it needs to do to keep [the] University safe, and in that sense isn’t really doing as much for the community in terms of housing requests, food, transportation. I think it’s more of a second priority,” she said. “So for us, it’s making that our first priority.” The group grew out of a group of students who were already in touch because of a shared interest in issues like fossil fuel divestment and Palantir’s presence at Duke, said senior Gino Nuzzolillo, an administrator on the page. Nuzzolillo, also a columnist for The Chronicle, criticized Duke’s response to the coronavirus situation, including the way Duke further restricted access to campus after previously
telling students they could return to get their belongings. Students have to help each other, he said. “I think at the end of the day, the only people that we can really rely on are each other,” Nuzzolillo said. “And we need to be able to help each other out through a really stressful and scary situation, and that’s the role that the Duke Mutual Aid group fills.” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that Duke further restricted access to campus because it was worried about thousands of people coming to campus for a “reverse move-in.” He added that it would defeat the purpose of what the administration is trying to do, which is limiting the opportunity for exposure on campus. “There’s an army of people who are working on the plans to make sure that students can get what they need to do their work and to return home or go to some other location,” he said. Nuzzolillo joined several other Mutual Aid admins and scores of other students in signing a letter to the University that made a number of demands related to the situation. Sophomore Emma Cairns, who received approval from Duke to continue living in the Duke Smart Home, started the group’s food-collection effort after a friend who was leaving campus texted her and offered to give her some extra food. She realized that many students were probably going to leave behind food when she left, so she decided she would collect extra food to give to the Community Pantry or the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. Cairns posted on Instagram, Twitter and her personal Facebook, but the messages started “pouring in” after she posted to the Mutual Aid page, she wrote in an email to The Chronicle.
“I’ve had about, I think, 50 people give me food,” she said Saturday. “I’ve only been able to collect about 20 people’s worth so far. My friends who have cars have been angels, helping me get things from West and East over here.” Cairns has now taken donations of cereal, ramen, pasta, rice, beans, drinks and more. She plans to start distributing it once she has finished collecting donations. The group also aims to provide housing for students who don’t have a place to stay. Duke is allowing some students to stay on campus for health or safety reasons, but some international students whose requests to stay were denied told The Chronicle they were looking for housing off campus because they didn’t want to risk traveling home. One of the students said he was looking at Mutual Aid as an option. The group’s mission has already expanded beyond the core areas of food, housing and transportation. Students set up a Venmo account, @dukeaid, to facilitate direct cash donations. Others have taken to the Facebook group to share information like guidance for students on financial aid and companies offering free internet and flights, a Durham-focused relief fund. “Things are changing all the time, and as students’ needs change I think the group will also change,” Nuzzolillo said. Beyond the Facebook page, other current and former students are stepping up. Duke Student Government President Liv McKinney, a senior, wrote in a message to The Chronicle that DSG was working with administration to help students. Former Duke basketball star Zion Williamson pledged to pay the salaries of all employees at Smoothie King Center, the New Orleans Pelicans’ arena, for 30 days, which Cairns See DUKE MUTUAL AID on Page 16
On a quiet campus, the Chapel bells continue to ring By Shannon Fang April 10, 2020
Even with campus nearly empty and students scattered around the world, Duke’s voice continues to sing. At 5 p.m. every weekday, the bells of the Duke Chapel’s carillon play for 15 minutes, as they have for decades. From a room partway up the Chapel tower, Joseph Fala, interim carillonneur and staff specialist for Chapel music, plays a melody of hope and stability in a time of uncertainty. “The school is still very much alive,” Fala said. “It’s almost like a candle lit in a window— there’s some light in the sound of the bells that are still perpetuating on campus.” For him, the ringing of the bells signifies that the University will not be silent during the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each stroke of the keyboard or push of the foot pedal causes a clapper to knock against a bronze bell, producing a chime that challenges the eerie quiet on campus. Meanwhile, classes and services persist, even if the students and congregation are scattered across the globe. Fala, who is also an organ scholar with the Chapel, said the sound of the carillon is an ingrained part of the campus architecture. The Chapel itself is singing, and he is simply the one behind the scenes operating it. In this, he echoed the words of former Duke President William Preston Few, who led the University when it took on its current name in 1924. When George Allen and William Perkins of the Duke Endowment told Few in 1930 that they wanted to donate a carillon to the school, Few wrote in a letter that the “Chapel bells will in a sense be the voice of the University.”
Jeremy Chen The bells also stand as a pillar of dependability and consistency in these turbulent times. Carillonneurs at Duke have been striking the instrument’s pedals and oak batons up in the Chapel tower every weekday for almost 90 years. “To have [the carillon] continue to play is a way of saying that the campus is still as it always has been and will continue to be that way,” Fala said. “Keeping that momentum or rhythm of the daily ringing of the bells is what is so inspiring to a lot of people.” Fala has the freedom to choose which songs he will play for each 15-minute recital. Aside from the tradition of playing “Dear Old Duke,” the University’s alma mater, on Friday afternoons, he tries to select songs that reflect the upcoming holidays and spirit on
campus, such as playing scores from “Beauty and the Beast” on Valentine’s Day. Now, he said he is focusing on hymns that speak to hope, comfort and healing. Despite the trek up 169 steps to the bells, Fala said he looks forward to playing the carillon every day. He hopes that he is carrying out what his predecessor, Samuel Hammond, would have done. Hammond was Duke’s second university carillonneur and played the bells for five decades, which Fala said was his form of daily prayer. Duke’s carillon is purely mechanical, and according to a listing by the World Carillon Federation, it is one of about 170 such instruments in the nation. Its 50 oak batons and 26 pedals control 50 bells, cast in England, that allow the instrument to span four octaves.
With the largest bell weighing 11,200 pounds, and the smallest weighing 10.5, Fala said he has to put his body weight into it when he plays. The carillon chamber has a practice console, allowing Fala to perfect new songs to add to his repertoire without disrupting campus, and he now practices about an hour a day. He said he hopes to one day become Duke’s third university carillonneur, a position that he views as akin to an artist-in-residence at the University. Despite the nearly empty campus, Fala feels a greater sense of duty now than ever. Although much of the Duke community is not within the half-mile earshot of the chiming bells, the Chapel has continued to have services through livestreams and videos. Hopefully, there will soon be an opportunity to hear the bells virtually as well, he said. “Keeping the bells sounding throughout this challenging period is a sign of hope and a reminder that the ministry of Duke Chapel continues… even though it looks a little different,” Director of Chapel Music Zebulon Highben wrote in an email. Fala hopes that when everyone is back on campus, the Duke community will be more aware of the carillon that chimes as the University’s voice. “When I go up into the tower, I get into the zone playing, and I think about the time when the students will be back here, and down on the ground, it’ll be a busy, thriving university again,” Fala said. “I think playing is one of the things that—for whoever is on campus and whoever hears them—will serve as hope to people for the day when we’ll all return to campus together.”
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By Staff Reports The Class of 2022’s junior year saw activism, a disappointing basketball season and adjustment to a new normal. The summer preceding the semester saw solidarity and activism related to the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd. Students hosted benefit concerts, letter writing campaigns and started antiracist book clubs. The Duke Black Coalition Against Policing (BCAP) issued a list of demands that called on Duke to disband the Duke University Police Department and invest in the Duke and Durham communities. The University also announced a plan to combat systemic racism. The activism continued into the school year, with a K-Ville protest organized by Nolan Smith, Duke men’s basketball’s director of operations. Duke’s fall reopening did not come without its issues. The University’s decision to reopen in the fall without consulting workers prompted activism from graduate students and Duke Workers United, a group that represents the Duke Faculty Union, Duke Contract Workers United and other workers groups representing municipal employees and transit workers. Weeks before reopening, Duke walked back some reopening plans that left some upperclassmen without on-campus housing, resulting in a mad dash for off-campus apartments for some and resignation from others. The year also saw a consequential presidential election, and student political groups and advocacy groups mobilized to get out the vote. Some students adjusted voting plans due to North Carolina limiting registration to college students physically present in their college community. In October, then presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke in Durham, criticizing the Trump administration’s pandemic response and calling on people to vote. Though Donald Trump won the state of North Carolina’s electoral votes, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were
ultimately elected, and Biden-supporting Durham residents and students celebrated. Some Trump supporters, however, challenged President Biden’s victory, including Representative Mo Brooks, a Duke alum. On Jan. 6, a pro-Trump mob, egged on by Brooks, stormed the Capitol the day of the certification of election results. But despite the stress and loneliness of the condensed semester, the fall was not without its bright spots. One came in the form of the international hit Library Takeout, a song written to explain Duke Library’s new contactless reserve system. This year also saw major changes in Duke’s Greek life and selective living. The Abolish Duke IFC & Panhel group began with the creation of an Instagram page in mid-July for students and alumni to share anonymous stories about their experiences in Duke Greek life, including experiences with racism and sexual assault. In part because of activism from Abolish Duke IFC & Panhel, chapters of Zeta Tau Alpha women’s fraternity and Alpha Delta Pi sorority attempted to decharter, albeit unsuccessfully. Duke’s Panhellenic Council also voted to ban mixers with all-male groups. Selective living groups were allowed to host virtual recruitment this spring though most were not allowed to recruit first years. Some groups decided to cancel rush entirely. Others took a different approach. Several fraternities disaffiliated from Duke early in 2021—forming the Durham Interfraternity Council—and began in-person rush processes. These rush events contributed to a spike in campus COVID-19 cases and resulted in a “stay-in-place” order in mid-March. In January, students were introduced to the Duke Marriage Pact and in February, to virtual tenting for the Duke-UNC basketball game. The men’s basketball team lost both regular season games to the Tar Heels and, for the first time since 1995, missed the NCAA tournament. The team was also forced to withdraw from the ACC tournament due to a positive COVID-19 test within the program.
But it was not all bad news for Duke athletics. ThenAssociate Head Coach Jon Scheyer earned his first career win when head coach Mike Krzyzewski was quarantined due to potential COVID-19 exposure. Duke women’s golf won the ACC Championship and Gina Kim won the individual conference crown. In August, Duke implemented new Title IX changes without giving the community time to offer feedback. In October, Duke’s social media team posted a racially insensitive meme on Twitter to much backlash, only removing the tweet after almost 21 hours. In March, a racist printout was hung in Brown dorm, an act for which no responsible students have been found. Students criticized administrators’ response to the incident. In the wake of a shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, Judith Kelley, dean of the Sanford school of Public Policy, sent out an email that failed to properly name the victims. In response to rising anti-Asian violence, Asian student groups released a list of demands, calling for the University to provide greater support for students. This year also saw the renaming of several campus buildings, including the renaming of the SociologyPsychology Building to the Reuben-Cooke Building and Jarvis dorm to West Residence Hall. The University congratulated Rhodes Scholars Jamal Burns and Kendall Jefferys, both seniors. Senior Doha Ali was chosen for Young Trustee in an overhauled selection process. Students enjoyed a virtual LDOC concert with Flo Milli and Dayglow. After initially restricting the attendees, Duke invited all seniors and students who graduated early to the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2021. Plans again changed to allow each member of the class to bring two guests. The Duke community mourned the losses of three of its members this year. Graduate student Michael Mutersbaugh died in December and senior Kenna Tasissa died in January. Longtime carillonneur J. Samuel Hammond died in February.
FRATS BREAK WITH DUKE Nine fraternities have broken away from Duke’s Interfraternity Council after Duke announced changes to the rush process and selective housing, forming a new group called the Durham Interfraternity Council that has begun recruiting new members. In November, Duke announced that recruitment for firstyears would be delayed to sophomore year and that only juniors and seniors would live in selective living sections next year. These changes are part of the guidelines for Duke’s Next Generation Living Learning 2.0 Committee. According to Durham IFC President Will Santee, a junior, these changes posed a number of challenges to fraternities. Primarily, delaying rush to sophomore fall would be difficult “especially since so many juniors go abroad” and limiting selective living sections to juniors and seniors “wasn’t exactly conducive to the best living situation for sophomores,” Santee said. Santee said that it seemed as though the University “has a very set plan of where they see social life going at Duke” and the disaffiliated fraternities didn’t feel like that plan included them. Former Duke IFC President Rohan Singh, a senior, claimed that the IFC was not consulted by Duke when the University temporarily suspended spring recruitment in October and decided to move rush to sophomore year in November. Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president of student affairs, said that IFC was the first student group she met with to seek input on changes to rush. She added that she consulted national Greek organizations, Duke Student Government and dozens of other student groups in more than 100 preview meetings before the November policy announcement. Durham IFC is composed of Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Alpha Order, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu.
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Joe Biden elected 46th president of United States By Chris Kuo and Anna Zolotor November 7, 2020
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the next president of the United States on Saturday. Biden will enter office with a vision for liberal governance, including plans to implement a coordinated national response to COVID-19, invest in green energy, expand Obamacare, implement criminal justice reform and undo Trump’s immigration policies. During the campaign, Biden offered the promise of a return to normalcy after four years of chaotic governance under President Donald Trump. His running mate, Senator Kamala Devi Harris (D-Calif.), is the first woman, the first Black person and the first person of Indian descent elected vice president. “I sought this office to restore the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class and to make America respected around the world again,” Biden said Saturday night, in a victory speech in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The president-elect thanked the American people for turning out in record numbers to make his victory possible, and he emphasized his commitment to rebuilding and healing the nation. He listed his priorities for the next four years, including tackling climate change and racial injustice, but stressed that his first battle will be against a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans. Harris took the stage before Biden and thanked the American people for ushering in “a new day in America.” She reflected on the historical importance of her election as the first woman in the office of Vice President, as well as the first Black or South Asian person in the position. “But while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities,” Harris said. Biden’s victory marked the conclusion of a long election whose results were delayed by waits over ballot counts. News organizations including the Associated Press and CNN projected at around 11:30 a.m. Saturday that Biden had won Pennsylvania, and thus the presidential race. Trump has not yet conceded the race, despite Biden’s projected victory, promising unspecified legal challenges to the results. On election night, with many votes still to count, the electoral map had not shown a clear winner: Trump was ahead in key swing states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, while Biden had pulled ahead in Arizona and Nevada. But as the remainder of absentee ballots were counted, crucial states swung to Biden. He won Wisconsin and Michigan, putting him at 253 electoral votes, even as the Trump campaign embarked on legal challenges to seek a recount in Wisconsin and to attempt to halt the count in Michigan. An early call of Arizona—putting Biden at 264 electoral votes—by the AP and Fox was also met by pushback from the Trump campaign, but both decision desks stood by the decision. As votes were tallied, Biden called for patience and trust in the “messy” process of democracy, while Trump made false claims about attempts to steal the election and falsehoods about voter fraud. In the early morning Friday, Biden pulled ahead of Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia. He continued to hold his leads in Arizona and Nevada. “The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story: We’re going to win this race,” Biden said in a Friday night speech. Students involved in progressive advocacy were thrilled at the news of the victory. “We are so just happy, so relieved and so proud of the outcome and of the work that we’ve done,” said sophomore Daniel Marshall, Duke Students for Biden co-chair. Although the overall race has been called, the result in North Carolina is still not certain. Trump holds a lead and is likely to win, but some ballots remain to be counted and the race may not be called until next week. Marshall said Duke Students for Biden had made a difference, pointing out that early voting at Duke had increased more than 50% between 2016 and 2020. “We still don’t know about North Carolina. It still could go either way. But we know that Joe Biden won,” Marshall said. Robby Phillips, a sophomore involved in the Sunrise Movement, a climate activism group, said Biden’s win came as a “huge moment of relief.” The wait for the result over the past few days was harrowing, and he hadn’t been able to finish much work since he had been constantly checking the results, he said. Even though the electoral map looked hopeful, he had still been afraid Trump could eke out a win, Phillips said. Those fears are behind him now. “It feels like maybe the most difficult part is past for now, closing the book on a pretty dark chapter,” he said. Editor’s note: This story has been shortened for print.
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‘This is a movement’ Duke men’s basketball joins battle for social justice AUG. 27, 2020 — Henry Coleman III approached a single microphone during an August Black Lives Matter protest in Krzyzewskiville. He sported a black T-shirt with the words “Black Lives Matter” across the front, accompanied by Duke basketball and Nike logos. His Blue Devil teammates liken his athleticism and towering physical stature to former Duke phenom Zion Williamson, but Coleman has become better known for being powerful in a completely different sense. In the next two minutes and 30 seconds, more than 100 spectators looked on as Coleman made himself a Duke legend before he had even notched a minute of playing time in Cameron Indoor Stadium. “This country has had its knee on the necks of African-Americans for too long,” Coleman said at the protest. “This country has put a dagger in our backs and is yet to even acknowledge the dagger, let alone try to pull it out.” Coleman’s speech was one of several during a Black Lives Matter protest that took place at Krzyzewskiville on a sweltering afternoon Thursday, days after the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. reopened the wounds of police violence and racial justice in America. Protests erupted in Kenosha. The NBA postponed three of its playoff games after the Milwaukee Bucks chose not to play on Wednesday, and many other sports leagues followed suit. People stood on the grass, where white splotches of paint marked spots six feet apart. Many of the protesters wore black clothing and clutched cardboard signs: “Love Black Lives like you love Black culture” and “Tolerating racism is racism.” As Coleman continued, the entire Duke men’s basketball team came up behind him. When the raw emotion caused Coleman to get choked up, fellow first years Jaemyn Brakefield and Mark Williams placed a hand on each of his shoulders, a sign that even though this team had been together for less than a month at the time, unbreakable bonds had already formed. “When those guys came up behind me, it was almost like a security blanket,” Coleman said in an August press conference. “I just felt like those guys around me—they felt the message with me.” Coleman wrote his speech the night before the rally, the same night the NBA opted to not play its scheduled playoff games in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. As the professional sports world assessed the best steps to take for social justice, Nolan Smith, Duke men’s basketball’s director of operations, was doing the same. Coleman’s platform for the speech was possible due to the work of Smith in setting up the Krzyzewskiville protest. At the protest, Smith took the microphone first and talked about the importance of making sure that “this is not a moment, this is a movement.” “I can’t change the world,” Smith said. “But goddamnit, I can change Duke while I’m here.” Men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski also took the platform. “Today is for all of us to acknowledge this problem, to share our feelings,” Krzyzewski said. “This is a time for us to be all on the same team.” He called the audience to take concrete action by registering to vote, noting that tables had been set up outside Cameron Indoor Stadium for both basketball teams to register. This generation is the one that can truly
bring about change—the generation that can finally win—he said. “I grew up a long time ago in the [1960s]. I thought it was heading in the right direction. Damn, I was wrong,” he said. “I want to be right. I want to be on your team. And I want this systemic racism and social injustice to be defeated.” Senior Michael Buckmire also spoke, holding up a sign that read, “Am I next?” as he gave a speech. “There’s this idea of survivor’s guilt of other Black men seeing other Black men being killed. Am I next? Why is it this person? What’s going to happen if it’s me next? It’s something that’s scary and it’s something I can’t explain,” Buckmire said. Coleman, who was the final speaker, took it upon himself to leave an impression on the spectators. As his speech progressed, his tone grew harsher and his voice projected further and further across the courtyard. The authority with which he spoke was unlike anything one would expect from a freshman who’s been on campus for less than a month. More than anyone else, Coleman pushed responsibility onto the spectators. Not only did he unite them in a chant demanding justice and change, but he listed specific actions that anyone can do to promote change, specifically within the context of Duke Athletics. “Ask y’all players how they’re doing,” Coleman said. “Ask them how they’re feeling. I promise you, they’re feeling some type of way. I promise you that.” Full story by Chris Kuo, Christian Olsen and Jake Piazza
‘I can’t change the world. But goddamnit, I can change Duke while I’m here.’ From top: When first-year Henry Coleman III began to choke up during his speech, fellow first years Jaemyn Brakefield (second from right) and Mark Williams (not pictured) placed a hand on each of his shoulders; Senior Michael Buckmire held a sign that read, “Am I next?” as he spoke about survivor’s guilt; Nolan Smith, Duke men’s basketball director of operations, took the microphone first.
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Clockwise from left: A person waves a scarf atop a car driving by CCB Plaza on Nov. 7, celebrating Joe Biden’s projected victory in the presidential election; People danced together in CCB plaza on Nov. 7; Staff reporter Anisha Reddy’s West Campus dorm room during the weeklong stay-at-home order in March.
The story behind ‘Library Takeout,’ a Duke librarian’s international hit By Lillian Clark October 27, 2020
This summer, for the first time in three years, Duke librarian Jamie Keesecker started composing music again. The culprit? A rapping mouse. When the Nashville Public Library released a video of a chain-wearing mouse puppet bobbing to a parody of “Ice Ice Baby” to explain their curbside book pickup, Keesecker’s colleagues wanted him to make something similar for their new contactless reserve system, called library takeout. Keesecker went a step further than parody, and his video became a viral sensation. Fuqua School of Business student Zoey Kang recalls opening the video from an email newsletter. Thirty seconds in, she rewound it and started over. She did that about 10 more times, sent it to her friends as mandatory listening and shared it on Instagram. “Sometimes I wake up with the song stuck in my head. It’s genius,” Kang said. The Prodigal Composer Keesecker started making music as a teenager, when a friend handed him a floppy disk with music editing software. And he kept writing music, for more than 17 years. He got a master’s in music composition from Duke in 2011 and a doctorate in 2016, but worried constantly about his career. He realized he would make a better hobbyist composer than professional. Keesecker began work at the library, where his work felt refreshingly regular. He didn’t need to invent things from scratch. As COVID-19 infections in North Carolina rose throughout the spring, Keesecker spent more time at home with his three-year-old daughter Naima. His partner Heidi Wait, an intensive care unit nurse, spent less. While Wait worked overtime at Duke Regional Hospital under layers of personal protective equipment, Keesecker and Naima perched between the baby blue walls of their living room on two blue plastic kids’ chairs and worked their way through
quarantine with a crayon box. Naima squiggled, flirted with pointillism and learned to draw faces. Keesecker drew a stick figure playing a red keytar, shelves of books and other animations to accompany his newest composition—the “Library Takeout” song. Headphones in, he built sounds until they turned to gibberish. The headphones came off when Naima got bored or needed help adding a My Little Pony to her half-sleeve of temporary tattoos. For the library takeout video, Keesecker thought he would write something simple, synthpop. But once the beat came together, he started adding layers and didn’t stop. The song oscillates between two chords topped with sounds that sparkle while stick figures dance in a choppy animation style that reminds Keesecker of the Sesame Street he watched as a kid. It’s electrifying and funny. Living on Keesecker’s laptop, the song grew to be so bombastic, he had to pare it back down to fit in instructions for takeout along the way. “There can actually be freedom when you’re working on top of something so rigid,” Keesecker said. Keesecker edited together the animations and the song and uploaded it on YouTube under the pseudonym MicrOpaqu3, just in case it got really big. He showed Naima, even though she’d seen it in parts for weeks as they drew together. “Look, there’s all your work,” Naima said. Causing a Ruckus Duke librarian Andrea Loigman was on a multinational Zoom call collaborating on new library software when a chat from a librarian in Germany popped up: “I just saw your video. It’s so wonderful!” And then another, from a librarian in Denmark. “I don’t know how it’s getting around. I don’t know how they’re finding it … like I’m hearing from people in Europe about this,” Loigman said. People wondered on Twitter about MicrOpaqu3’s identity. As the Library Takeout video amassed views—nearly 20,000 by early October—Keesecker
stayed hidden. His pseudonym was a reference to tiny documents on cards called micro-opaques, read on a microfilm machine. “This song slaps and I’ve never even been to North Carolina, let alone Duke,” one YouTube commentator wrote. Another called the video “the only good that’s come out of the pandemic.” Duke students tried to find him. Sophomore Jake Heller wrote in a message to The Chronicle that he assumed the library had hired an independent contractor. To Keesecker, the whole thing was a great prank. “There’s something funny to me about being behind the scenes, causing a ruckus without ever being identified,” he said. Until an email newsletter to Duke faculty blew his cover, he intended to remain strictly anonymous. Keesecker released the song on Spotify and Apple Music on popular demand, again under the MicrOpaqu3 pseudonym.
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YouTubers Bill Wurtz and Louis Cole in the rapidly growing comment sections, even prompting one fan to post a drum jam tribute to the song. Keesecker said he was most thrilled that his video seems to have inspired others to start creative projects. He’s also glad he can close the laptop on his internet fame and spend time on yard work outside. He goes into work in the Music Library a few days a week now, back in his office with colorful book-binding samples and book jackets taped to the walls. Naima attends outdoor preschool in a mask. Keesecker spoke to a friend and fellow composer to express some of his doubts about continuing to compose. “Does the world really need more music from an almost middle-aged white guy? Don’t we have a lot of this?” he said. But the friend reminded him to not forget about the other side of things—making music for himself. Other librarians have approached Keesecker with ideas for more music videos, but he believes in taking breaks between projects to grow as a person. He’s not pressed by the attention to write “Library Takeout 2.” The fans will have to wait.
Viral Success On Oct. 12, first-year Sam Carpenter had just left his international relations class in the Bryan Center when a drawing of a red keytar drew him to a Chronicle newsstand. Paper in hand, he watched Duke librarian Jamie Keesecker’s “Library Takeout” video, featured in a story on the front page, and posted it to Reddit. By the end of the day, Carpenter’s post had soared to the front page of Reddit. “Library Takeout” went from around 20,000 views to more than 400,000 on YouTube. As of early Tuesday, its view count was more than 784,000. The official Spotify account tweeted a link to the song, calling it the “greatest library-focused track ever made.” Keesecker’s hit now has almost 100,000 streams on Spotify. “Being on the front page of Reddit is like— it’s hard to think of a higher honor… It’s kind of like the Billboard Top 10 of DIY-ers,” Keesecker said. Editor’s note: This story has been edited and Keesecker’s video inspired comparisons to condensed for print.
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Senior year saw a near return to normalcy, sweeping changes to the housing system and an unforgettable basketball season. The first day of classes was filled with excitement and anticipation as a fully-populated student body flooded quads and lecture halls for the first time in two years. This was shortlived—in response to over 300 undergraduates testing positive for COVID-19 in late August, Duke allowed professors to move classes back online for two weeks. Student groups did their best to adjust to new safety protocols but found it difficult to plan recruitment. Non-Greek selective living groups were not given any new fall rush guidelines, while Duke Interfraternity Council recruitment was a hybrid of inperson and virtual events. In mid-September, Duke announced QuadEx, a new residential system that links East and West Campus quads, to begin fall 2022. The goal of QuadEx is to emphasize a longer period of time for incoming students to build connections within their residential communities, but students had mixed opinions about this housing change. The Class of 2020 reunited on campus for a weekend to celebrate a belated commencement, with Sabrina Maciariello, Trinity ‘20, as the student commencement speaker and Ken Jeong, Trinity ‘90, as the guest commencement speaker. The alumni received closure from the abrupt end to their college career two years ago. And in early October, North Carolina held its primary elections, in which only 10.18% of registered voters in Durham County cast ballots in the primaries. Elaine O’Neal was elected as the first Black female Durham mayor in November, and in April, she delivered her first State of the City Address. Duke Athletics saw major transitions in leadership in the summer and fall. In a surprise June announcement that rocked the sports world, now-former head coach Mike Krzyzewski revealed his plans to retire after the 2021-2022 season, with Jon Scheyer named head coach-in-waiting. Nina King took over for Kevin White as athletic director at the start of September, while longtime football head coach David Cutcliffe departed at the season’s end,
making way for new head coach Mike Elko to come to Durham. Duke Athletics wasn’t the only area of the University to see changes in employment. In December, students and faculty protested against the changes to the Thompson Writing Program, in which renewable contracts will replace non-renewable lecturing fellowships as they expire. In February, the Duke University Press Workers Union won its election to unionize. New faculty, programs and centers were also announced, with the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences concluding a cluster hire in Native American and Indigenous Studies in August. The Arts and Sciences Council approved the Asian American and Diaspora Studies minor in February. Duke announced in April that it would establish the Center for Gender Violence Prevention and Intervention in fall 2022. The University saw some positive trends with Duke’s finances. Duke’s endowment returned nearly 56% in fiscal year 2021. Duke received an $11 million donation from an anonymous alumni family, the majority of the gift going towards the Sanford School of Public Policy. Duke also announced that it will be raising the minimum wage to $17 per hour for all eligible employees, with work-study positions rising to a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Still, the year was not without unfavorable incidents, especially in dorms. Students reported theft and vandalism in Kilgo Quad laundry rooms, and Few Quad residents dealt with broken exit signs and multiple fires. Duke also had its fair share of controversies. In January, former Duke doctoral student Matthew Harris sent a video referencing a mass shooting and an 800-page manifesto threatening members of the philosophy department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Duke was also one of 16 universities sued for alleged antitrust violations regarding unfairly limiting financial aid. The Duke community mourned the losses of some of its members this year. Michael Ward, professor emeritus of political science, died in July. Sally McIntosh Ziegler, Trinity ’56 and the first female editor-in-chief of The Chronicle, died in September. Professor of History Elizabeth Clark also died in September. Sophomore Bryan Lopez died in December. Paul Farmer, Trinity ’82, died in February.
In November, a person unaffiliated with Duke was found dead in a wooded area near Penn Pavilion. In March, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian students reflected on how the war was affecting their lives in Durham and their families in their home countries. Two Duke administrators announced their leave this year. Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh will retire this September and will be the National Basketball Association’s new President of Administration. Trinity College Dean Valerie Ashby will leave Duke in June and will begin her role as president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County in August. And back to Duke Athletics—women’s basketball fell to Miami in the ACC tournament and ultimately missed out on the NCAA tournament in Head Coach Kara Lawson’s first full year, but Shayeann Day-Wilson won ACC Freshman of the Year. While women’s golf could not defend their ACC title, Phoebe Brinker and Erica Shepherd took first and second place in the championship individually. For the first time in a decade, Duke women’s tennis won the ACC Championship. But of course, Duke men’s basketball was at the center of the college basketball universe this year. The Cameron Crazies were back in the stands and tenting in Krzyzewskiville. The team won its first ACC regular-season championship since 2010 but could not fend off Carolina in Coach K’s last home game. The Blue Devils had a magical run in San Francisco, winning the West regional tournament, but lost again to Carolina in the Final Four in New Orleans, officially ending Krzyzewski’s career. After an electric basketball season came the end of the semester, which was filled with festivities. In the year’s student elections, undergraduate students chose then-junior Lana Gesinsky to be the next DSG president, replacing then-senior Christina Wang. Kacia Anderson, then a senior, was elected to serve as undergraduate Young Trustee. And on the first in-person last day of classes in two years, students celebrated with a live concert featuring A$AP Ferg, Daya and Peach Tree Rascals.
Duke announces new QuadEx residential system By Leah Boyd and Nadia Bey September 15, 2021
Duke will be rolling out a plan for a transition to a residential college system to begin fall 2022 over the next few days. The plan is built around “a strong affiliation for students’ first-year homes and their sophomore year quad, with recruitment for Greek life and other selective living groups continuing in the fall of prospective recruits’ sophomore year,” according to an email obtained by The Chronicle from Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president of student affairs, Shruti Desai, associate vice president of student affairs for campus life and Chris Rossi, assistant vice president of student affairs. The email states that the 2022-23 academic year will be the last year that selective living groups will have a dedicated residential section in campus housing. “We are not ‘abolishing’ Greek life and have no plans to do so; we are, however, going to continue to emphasize a longer period of time in which incoming students focus on broadening their connections and affirmations within their residential communities,” the email reads. The residential model will be centered around residential quads with their “own identity, traditions and social events,” similar to other private universities. “Initial implementation of some elements” is underway this semester, and the system will be fully operational in fall 2022. First-years will continue to live on East, and beginning with the Class of 2025, one to two East Campus houses will be assigned to one of seven quads on West Campus. Students cannot pick their quads. This is similar to the automated linking system that was established in spring 2020, but linking is now mandatory. The University will announce further details about linking this semester, according to the QuadEx FAQ. Current first-years will learn their assigned quad in spring 2022, and the Class of 2026 and following classes will learn their assigned East Campus and West Campus residences prior to move-in.
Students will still be able to rush selective living groups and Greek organizations, but selective housing will be phased out after the 2022-23 academic year. Senior Christina Wang, president of Duke Student Government, wrote that QuadEx “plans to preserve and foster the experience of LLCs, FOCUS groups, and academicrelated groups.” “Quads will offer belonging, friendship, and continuity in the transition from East to West Campus, throughout their time at Duke, and well after graduation,” the website reads. Students are allowed to select their roommates and request to block with friends, but all members of a block must be in the same Quad. Students will live in their assigned quad in sophomore year but will still “retain affiliation with their quads” if they choose to live elsewhere after their sophomore year. Approximately 125 beds will be reserved for upperclass students in each quad. Juniors may live in their assigned quad or other upperclass housing on West, including Hollows Quad and 300 Swift. Seniors may live in any of these locations or off campus. Wang wrote that the reason that Hollows isn’t part of the quad system is “a result of its different housing style (suite-style living).” “Additionally, the goal of the Quad program is to build community in shared spaces such as the Gothics and more closely grouped Quads, making the Hollows less ideal as a community-building space for sophomores/juniors,” Wang added. Beginning in fall 2022, first-years will partake in a quad-based house course called “Duke-Durham 101,” which aims to prepare students for “good citizenship” at the University and in the surrounding community. Sophomores will participate in “Sophomore Spark,” which will provide academic and career programming and alumni networking opportunities.
Quads will also be assigned Faculty Affiliates, who will provide mentorship and support quad traditions without the residential component. The planning for QuadEx began in 2018 with the launch of the Next Generation Living and Learning Experience task force, according to its FAQ page. Recommendations made by the second iteration of the committee shaped the current model, which will be rolled out at a later date as the University works out some of the logistics. McMahon told The Chronicle Tuesday that Duke is still working through more logistics of QuadEx. She estimates that they will formally roll out the full plan the last week of September. Why the change? Senior Ysanne Spence, president of Duke University Union, wrote that Duke has been a “near-explosion of selectivity, gate-keeping and imposter syndrome” in her experience. To Spence, QuadEx is an opportunity to “take the guess work” out of the social scene at Duke. “Coupled with the fact that students just got accepted into an institution with a 4% acceptance rate, students are then thrusted into applications and gate-keeping of social and professional events and developments,” she wrote. Wang agreed, citing a “need for more inclusive spaces and community-building opportunities for all students, especially those who choose not to join selective social organizations (and even for those who do choose to join selective social organizations).” Wang wrote that “administrators’ intentions are not to restrict the student experience, but rather to expand it.” “I think a misconception that many students have is that administrators are attempting to limit student freedoms and create restrictions around what students can and cannot do See QUADEX on Page 16
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Students move into K-Ville for first tenting season since before pandemic By Jake Piazza February 1, 2022
Droves of Duke fans shuffle to Cameron Indoor Stadium on a recent Tuesday night to watch their Blue Devils take on Clemson. Everything is nearly identical to all the other home games from this season. Line monitors’ bull horns ring, students show off their homemade signs to friends and the pregame line gradually grows as everyone scurries toward the walkway alongside the Wilson Recreation Center. But something gives Krzyzewskiville a different look. Probably the 200+ tents filling up every square foot of grass. Normally students hang out on the grassy quads prior to the games doing everything from painting faces to making hype videos on the Duke University Students’ Instagram page. But there wasn’t much space to do that starting Jan. 23, when the annual tradition of tenting returned after the pandemic forced its cancelation in the 2020-21 season. Students were ready for it to be back. “Tenting is just very special. You’ll meet so many new people. The community is unparalleled,” said senior Nitin Subramanian, who also tented his freshman and sophomore years. “Last night, I hung out with 10 people I’ve never met before at Duke.” The return of Krzyzewskiville It did not always look like tenting would get to make its return during the 2021-22 season. Over Duke’s winter break Dec. 23, the University canceled the normal Black tenting period (the longest one) due to concerns over the Omicron variant, with plans for students to set up camp for Blue tenting (the shorter phase with less required people in tents) starting Jan. 16. Weeks later, the University pushed back the tenting start date again as it decided to also hold classes online until Jan. 18. After much anticipation, the University gave tenting the go-ahead Jan. 13, with the plan for the infamous entry test to be Jan. 19 and Blue tenting to begin Jan. 23. “I was pretty upset when we got the first email about Black tenting being canceled and then when it got pushed back again that also wasn’t great,” junior Elizabeth Wise said. “We were worried that it wasn’t gonna happen or something but I was like: ‘Stop saying that, we need to make it happen, don’t jinx it.’” Wise’s group and 169 others had their wish granted. Roughly one-third of the undergraduate student body huddled in Cameron Indoor Stadium to take the test, and the 70 top scores emerged victorious—with real estate in Krzyzewskiville as their reward. Additionally, the setup process was different this year to adjust for the Omicron surge. Instead of each group having one large tent with all the members sleeping in it, there is a rule of two people per tent. That makes living arrangements a little difficult with the six-person nightly requirement in Krzyzewskiville during Blue tenting, but Duke Athletics provided two additional tents to each group. “I think it’s definitely more of a hassle just because it’s more setup, more tarps, more stakes you got to put down but I think it’s
Aaron Zhao Students set up their tents Jan. 23 for the first tenting season since before the pandemic.
definitely more comfortable in terms of the living situation,” Subramanian said. After a full day of hammering stakes, laying out pallets and propping up tents, Krzyzewskiville was back to its former glory by nightfall of Jan. 23. ‘This is actually my school’ For the hundreds of students braving the cold until the March 5 North Carolina game, it’s all worth it, especially after a year of being “Cameron-deprived” as senior Sunrita Gupta called it. Gupta values the skills that she’s learned from tenting. Negotiating pallet prices with local businesses, setting up a tent and collaborating with teammates are all things she’s picked up. “This has taught me a lot more than a lot of other extracurriculars I’ve been in,” Gupta said. “I think that this is a super worthwhile experience as long as you’re good about the time management and are willing to sacrifice some other things for it.” For others, tenting was just written in their future since birth. “There’s photos of me wearing Duke gear at like three months old so it was always gonna happen,” sophomore Thomsen Hoops said. “I’ve loved Duke basketball since I was a little kid.” Hoops’ tenting teammate, sophomore Skylar Brogan, knew she wanted to tent after she watched a documentary on the Cameron Crazies and the rivalry while she was applying to colleges. She knew she had to be one of the fans in the stands painted blue. “When I was interviewing [during the college application process], I was like: ‘I want to go to Duke because I want to paint myself blue.’”
Regardless of what people’s biggest takeaway from tenting is, many students circled back to the feeling of community that tenting in Krzyzewskiville creates. Wise is the proud team captain of “Keels Kave” and she’s enjoyed being in a tent with her friends from various social groups. Gupta is a part-time student this semester and being in “K-Watch” (like the 2017 remake of Baywatch) has kept her connected to campus. “It’s so cool to walk around campus, see the players around, actually be friends with some of them and be like: ‘Oh this is actually my school,’” freshman Amy Fulton said. “I feel such a sense of commitment to the team now, I gotta be there. I gotta support my boys.” As much time and effort as tenting in Krzyzewskiville takes, the students know how to have fun while doing it. Fulton and her group hung inflatable fish, crabs and strings of fish lights across their tent’s entryway to go along with its “Margaritaville” name. Wise and her friend adopted Mardell the stuffed dinosaur, a name the two of them made up because Wise’s favorite player is Mark Williams and her friend’s favorite is Wendell Moore Jr. Looking across Krzyzewskiville, a lot of the students in the tents weren’t even on campus the last time tenting took place. This season is different than any other with the raised stakes that Coach K’s last year puts on it. Only four of the players on this team’s roster had even known what it was like to play in a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium before this year. But that defining characteristic of the students who pack Cameron Indoor Stadium is the same as it always was. “We’re still crazy,” Wise said.
The story of a bittersweet first day of classes
By Alison Korn, Milla Surjadi and Katie Tan August 14, 2021
Abele Quad, 7:30 a.m. Abele Quad was empty on Monday morning, but within the dorms, thousands of students were waking up and preparing for their first day of class, ready to breathe life into a campus that had been under strict pandemic restrictions for almost two years. A door in Craven Quad swung open, revealing several residential assistants carrying foldable tables, boxes of food and crates of juice to set up breakfast for their residents. Students gradually formed a line to get their share of Bojangles biscuits and Krispy Kreme donuts. Sophomore Luis Graterol grabbed a biscuit on his way to his first class of the day, a differential equations course. He was grateful that Duke is hosting in-person events like the breakfast. “Last year was kind of like a half year in terms of the amount of stuff we could do,” Graterol said. “So seeing all these people outside and having a good time is a different experience.” Graterol took a bite out of his biscuit. “Wait, I thought I got egg and cheese! Why is there bacon?” he said. Confused, he checked the label. “Oh, well, I just can’t read. This semester is going to go great,” he joked. But in all seriousness, Graterol said he’s ready for this semester. “I’m ready to go into whatever’s happening,” he said.
and clinking silverware. Aside from people wearing masks, this lunchtime scene felt close to normal. Upstairs on the second floor, several Duke Kunshan University juniors sat around fluffy gray couches, enjoying their meal. Junior Aryaman Babber said he feels more like a firstyear at Duke than a junior. “We don’t know where anything is!” he said. Junior Jingcheng Wu nodded. “I was looking for my classroom yesterday, and I actually ran into a bunch of [first-years]. They also thought I was a [firstyear] because I was looking for the class,” Wu said. Just outside the Brodhead Center, Duke Student Government President Christina Wang and Duke University Union President Ysanne Spence, both seniors, chatted with first-years they had befriended through Project BUILD. Wang called this FDOC “bittersweet.” “It’s their first, our last,” she said. “It’s nice seeing everyone back on campus. It feels almost like a normal FDOC.”
East Campus, 12:30 p.m. Over at East Union, students trickled in and out for COVID-19 tests. In the lobby, a photo booth for the first day of classes featured a blue backdrop embellished with Duke logos. Props lined a black table—glitter fedora hats, pom poms and a foam sign. Downstairs in Trinity Cafe, employee Renata Spain-Steele Brodhead Center, 12:30 p.m. agreed with Wellman’s assessment of the first-years. Lines of hungry students packed the Brodhead Center as “They seem to be a little more at ease [than the Class of the building hummed with the sounds of chattering students 2024 was] with most of the restrictions lifted,” she said.
For Spain-Steele, the day was busy, but she didn’t mind. After a slow summer, she welcomed the fast pace and new faces. Taking care of first-years means explaining to them how equivalency works, telling them, politely, that there can only be four people at a table and offering them her support. “Some [first-years] have told me that they cried when their parents left, and I try to reassure them that everyone here is nice and if they have any problems or questions, just come to us,” she said. Bryan Center Plaza, 2:15 p.m In the humidity of the afternoon, the Bryan Center Plaza was packed with students doing work and eating a late lunch. Seniors Kaela Basmajian and Jonathan Suna sat at a green table laughing with each other and enjoying Tandoor and Sazón between their classes. But getting their food had not been easy. “[The Brodhead Center] was just a disaster,” Suna said. “I’ve never seen a line that long in my entire life. I made friends in line, the line was so long. But it was fun.” Basmajian and Suna were people watching from their spot on the plaza. Basmajian said that they’ve seen a lot of friends so far, including a group of guys in black graduation robes walking around while making noise. “We think it might have been a secret society,” Suna said. “They were doing weird arm things.” “They didn’t talk to us, they just screamed randomly,” Basmajian said. “We didn’t really know what was going on, we just enjoyed the show.” Editor’s note: This story has been edited and condensed for print.
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responses to this question of how they’re feeling about college education. “I’ve learned you are capable of more than you think, your graduation,” Gaw said. “It might be, days, weeks from now, after all these ceremonies and graduation festivities, that I grades absolutely do not define you as a person and work/life FROM PAGE 1 balance is really, really important,” Tsang added. really kind of sit with what this time means.” Senior Huangrui Chu described his DKU experience these four years,” Nguyen said. “I feel like I tried to make as “colorful.” the most of it but there’s a lot that I wish I did more. Not just A student worker in student affairs, Chu has made activities and stuff, but meeting more people.” friends from around the world and has grown from a mere But for Loschiavo, graduating is a marker of moving on “to a FROM PAGE 1 more stable part of life.” backgrounds different from the one in which you grew up is participant in activities and workshops to an event organizer, coordinating programs for all students to attend. “I think we all kind of feel like COVID has done so much such a wonderful, special and important opportunity.” “I am more mature and know how to deal with different, damage to our college career that we’re just ready to close this Others viewed their time split between China and the complex situations at events now. Being a peer tutor, chapter,” Loschiavo said. United States as a learning experience. Senior Margaret Gaw took a middle-ground approach, “Not only did I learn a lot about the world and my university programming assistant, and research assistant, describing graduating as both a “sentimentality of leaving the classmates’ perspective and experiences, but I also learned a I’ve learned a lot in many areas,” he added, reflecting on place” and “excitement for the future and...anticipation of a lot about myself and where my own strengths and weaknesses this growth. The pandemic impacted DKU’s inaugural class in a new way of life out-side of this school.” lie,” senior Samantha Tsang said. variety of ways—notably sending international students As a pre-med student and an English major, Gaw plans After reflecting upon her experiences—including helping to work as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Massachusetts organize the annual Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit; home at the end of January 2020. Nearly all international General Hospital and then apply to medical school the joining the national service organization Alpha Phi Omega; students have been unable to return to China, and many following year. But she has yet to process the fact that and traveling to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and South have spent this past academic year studying on Duke’s graduation, and her new chapter, is rapidly approaching. Korea—Tsang remarked on the “memorable” nature of her campus in Durham, North Carolina. Chu lamented the impact of COVID-19 on campus at “[Seniors] have a lot of different emotional and practical DKU, including the “endless quarantine.” “The pandemic is destroying my life in DKU,” Chu said. “I hoped my international friends could participate in the events I hold on campus. I really hoped to study with them in the classroom together. I really hoped to take a journey with them around China.” Some, however, saw the upside, viewing this as a chance to expose themselves to new experiences. “I was lucky that while I was unable to be in China for the past two years, I have been able to spend a significant amount of time at Duke—much more than I ever expected. That has afforded me other opportunities that I would not have otherwise had,” Reeves wrote. Tsang echoed these sentiments, adding that the experience helped her get to know herself better, gain confidence and understand what drives her and her passions. All three graduates shared optimism and excitement for a life after graduation. “While graduating is a slightly scary thing, having to go out into the real world and do all the tasks associated with ‘adulting,’ I am excited for whatever my next steps will hold,” Reeves wrote. “I feel a bit nervous but excited,” Tsang added. “I’m looking forward to moving on to a new experience and Shreyas Hegde Richard Hollenbach Bates Cameron Martha learning as much as possible.”
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said was inspiring to students who wanted to help each other. Burns said the Mutual Aid group is mostly focused on “material” support right now, but he hopes it can become a place for students to socialize and stay connected while they’re apart. For him, the group has already fostered a sense of “solidarity” and “connectedness” for students. He pointed out that the group was growing rapidly: By Friday evening it had 600 members, and by Saturday afternoon more than 800 had joined. “I’ve seen amazing social media from students,” said Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost/vice president for student affairs. “You know, certainly sarcastic and processing and all the other things. But I’ve also seen this overwhelming, sort of, let’s pitch in and do this right and be together and think about it.” Nuzzolillo echoed the sentiment. “As hokey or as kitschy as it sounds, we are all in this together, and the more that we can help each other the better that we can do,” he said.
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The Forever Duke Student Leadership Award recognizes graduating students from across campus who embody the “Forever Duke” spirit in their service to the university. Recipients are individuals of high integrity who have done great things not only at Duke but for Duke, and they are leaving the university a better place than they found it. Congratulations and welcome to the Duke Alumni family!
Student feedback Both Wang and Spence noted that Duke implemented student feedback into the design process of QuadEx. Wang wrote that there were many student focus groups “designed and selected to incorporate the many diverse facets of student spaces and experiences” that were invited to share their opinions about social, academic and residential life at Duke. Spence wrote that there will be more opportunities in place coming up for students to voice their opinions on quads and the implementation of QuadEx, including giveaways.
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To the Class of 2022, Over the last four years, you’ve seen the University as so many versions of itself. Through a normal year, a pandemic and a return to a changed campus, your class has redefined the Duke experience. And I am sure that, like Duke, many of you have cycled through versions of yourselves during your time here. Perhaps by choice or necessity, you’ve had to redefine yourselves, over and over—different majors, friendships, career paths, hopes, dreams, loves. As we near your graduation, I’ve been thinking about this quote from author Joan Didion: “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” It’s my hope that with this year’s commencement issue, The Chronicle can keep you on nodding terms with the place Duke used to be and chart what Duke can become. We’ve included senior reflections, including those from Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural graduating class, and we’ve covered unprecedented COVID-19 implications and racial justice movements. But mostly, we’ve aimed to capture the moments in between, where the redefining happens in small glimpses—a bench, a song, a first day of classes, bittersweet. So as you cross the stage in Wallace Wade on Sunday into a new chapter of your lives, Class of 2022, I hope you grant a nod to the people you were here at Duke. The University would be nothing without them. Congratulations, Milla Surjadi Editor-in-Chief Courtesy of Fran Romano
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Summer Session II applications are still open for high school and visiting college students!
Spend the summer immersing yourself in opportunities that propel you forward and distinguish you from the crowd. Get ahead in your studies, discover a new subject, or get your first academic college experience. With online and in-person courses, you can make Duke yours from anywhere. Choose an in-person class and explore Duke's beautiful campus and Durham, one of the best cities to eat, play and live.
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Congratulations, Class of 2022! You broke the all-time senior giving record with 78% of your classmates donating to Duke! Over 1,300 seniors made contributions to the places and programs that mattered most to you and made this an epic year of philanthropy. Your generosity will go down in Duke history! A special Thank You to the Senior Giving Challenge committee whose leadership, vision and personal outreach helped break a long-standing record and set a new bar for senior giving at Duke. Sydney Albert Kacia Anderson Clayton Baker Emily Barlow Daniel Belfer Trevor Bowman Ava Changnon Joe Choo Bre Anna Clinkscales Bates Crawford Cameron Cucuzzella
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ROMANCE STUDIES SALUTES OUR 2022 GRADUATES! French Majors Graysen Leslie Airth Joshua Snow Coopersmith (Graduation with Distinction)
Alexander Henry Goss (Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull Award)
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