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TABLE OF CONTENTS Arlie Petters.............................3 Construction roundup...................................5 New rules for fraternities...............................7 Professors’ political affiliations................................9 Campus crime recap......................................11

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Arlie Petters: The road to becoming one of America’s few tenured black mathematicians By Isabelle Doan Staff Reporter

When Arlie Petters learned that there are only about a dozen black tenured faculty across the nation’s top 50 math departments, he was not surprised. Petters, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College and Benjamin Powell professor of mathematics, has read the profile in the New York Times about Edray Goins, a professor of mathematics at Pomona College. Goins is one of about a dozen tenured black mathematicians among 1,769 tenured faculty in the top 50 math departments in the United States, according to the New York Times—and so is Petters. Before I spoke to Petters in person, we corresponded via email. I asked whether Goins’ experience of being an African American mathematician compared to Petters’ own experiences as one of the few underrepresented mathematicians at Duke and across the country. “I still battle racial microaggression, patronizing behavior, a foolish sense of intellectual superiority towards underrepresented minorities and a lack of belonging,” he wrote in an email. “In balance, there is a subset who treat me with high respect intellectually and positively engage with me as a fellow human being.” Petters also sent me an article he wrote for the American Mathematical Society. In one part of the essay, he recounts an experience he had as a new graduate student. When he asked a fourth-year student directions to the main

math office, the student gave him directions, but added that Petters “could tie a rope to the ceiling and swing over to the other side.” Petters responded that he saw the student was going to be an asshole, and walked away. “I wish I could tell you that my experience was an anomaly. Over the years I have mentored a host of underrepresented minority students and listened to their experiences,” Petters wrote in the article. These experiences ranged from microaggression to more overt examples of exclusion. Chief among these experiences can be loneliness. In a blog for the American Mathematical Society, Goins explained why he left a full professor position at Purdue University—a top research university—for another at a liberal arts college. One reason was that he was “tired of being the only one.” “African Americans make up roughly 12% of the general population. This means on average one out of every eight people you pass on the street will be African American,” Goins wrote in the blog. “In my College of Science, that average drops to one out of every 100 faculty you meet on our campus. To say that I feel isolated is an understatement.” In Petters’ first few years of graduate school training at Princeton University, there was one other black student. During his later time at Princeton, he was the only black student. He was the only black instructor when he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And then when he came to Duke, he was the only

Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor Arlie Petters first became interested in mathematics and astronomy growing up in Belize, where he would gaze up at the night sky and see millions of stars.

black faculty member in mathematics. Petters described it as a “lonely journey.”

A life under the stars

Petters spent his childhood in Dangriga, Belize, born to a black mother and a Mestizo father. He said he remembers the natural beauty of the country, but he doesn’t forget the poverty. He remembers standing in line to receive cornmeal and powdered milk from aid workers. He remembers studying under

kerosene lamps and studying the night sky. In Belize, he explained, the night sky has millions of stars visible to the naked eye. Observing the stars as a child, he became fascinated by astronomy. Combined with his interests in art, Petters’ passion for mathematics emerged. “Experiencing the beauty and mystery of mathematics in a cosmic setting invoked See PETTERS on Page 12

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Hollows is coming 2019-20 construction roundup

By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

only the finishing touches remain before the dorm is set to open, Gonzalez wrote. Originally, plans to expand the network of piping that provides hot water and heating to Duke’s building were set for this summer, which would have closed Towerview Road between Duke University Road and Wannamaker Drive, according to a news release. However, this project has been postponed until 2020.

As Central Campus shuts its doors to housing undergraduates, West Campus is set to welcome some of the displaced students as the residential construction projects wind down. The Fall 2019 semester will see the opening of the 703-bed Hollows dorm complex and the reopening of Craven Quad dorms after yearlong renovations. Summer construction will also be taking Craven Quad place in Abele Quad and along Chapel Drive to After students living in Craven were prepare for the 2019-20 academic year. relocated to Few Quad and 300 Swift apartments for the 2018-19 academic year, Cravens renovation will be complete in midThe Hollows The Hollows, which began construction July slating the dorm to reopen in Fall 2019. in the summer of 2017, is slated to open Gonzalez added that there were no major in the middle of July and house students complications with the construction. for the Fall semester, wrote Joe Gonzalez, The renovation encompassed installation of a assistant vice president of student affairs new roof and central air conditioning, renovation and dean for residential life, in an email to of common rooms and remodeling of bathrooms, The Chronicle. Gonzalez told The Chronicle last year. The new dorm complex was originally designed to hold around 500 students in East Campus Southgate is set to reopen in the Fall for the single rooms in a suite-style fashion. However, in February 2019, Gonzalez Class of 2023 after it was closed for the past said that around 180 singles were to become academic year to install central air conditioning double rooms to accommodate the influx of and sprinklers. students studying abroad in Durham from Jarvis and East House, along with the Duke Kunshan University and more admitted recently constructed Trinity House, absorbed transfer students. This has raised the number students displaced by the renovation for the of beds to 703. 2018-19 academic year. Most of the construction has been Gonzalez explained last summer that completed with no major complications, and Trinity—which opened in January 2018—is

Charles York | Photography Editor The Hollows, seen here under construction, will open in July and house around 700 students this Fall. It is part of the University’s efforts to move students from Central to West Campus.

intended to replace Jarvis, Epworth and East House, but that some of these dorms would remain open as swing space during renovations. Gonzalez wrote that no renovations were planned for the 2019-20 academic year, meaning that Epworth and East House would not house students of the Class of 2023. However, Jarvis will remain open for the upcoming year. Jarvis is the substance-free dorm on East Campus, meaning its residents are not allowed to consume alcohol or drugs while living there. According to Gonzalez, the next major renovation on East Campus will likely be the installation of central air conditioning and sprinklers in Gilbert-Addoms, which would begin in the summer of 2020. See CONSTRUCTION on Page 14

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Frat rush is sobering up By Mona Tong Local and National News Editor

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Beginning Sept. 1, 2019, Duke fraternities that are part of the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) will be required to have all rush events be substance free. Other new policies include limiting events with alcohol to a three-to-one guest-to-member ratio and banning all drinks exceeding 15% alcohol by volume, unless they are served by “licensed and insured” third-party vendors. These policies may be difficult for fraternities at Duke to implement, and would change certain aspects of current fraternity life on campus. These new policies are part of ten new guidelines unanimously agreed upon by the NIC, and members must ensure their documents follow the new guidelines by Sept. 1, 2019. As a trade association, the NIC represents 66 international men’s fraternities, including 15 of those part of Duke’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) and three in Duke’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). The guidelines were adopted in an effort to “standardize and strengthen health and safety measures” across chapters and reduce the pervasive presence of drugs and alcohol. “This is another important step to improve the health and safety for our 385,000 members and their guests,” said Judson Horras, NIC president and CEO, in a news release. “This will lead to a more unified prevention and accountability system, resulting in safer communities and refocusing fraternities on brotherhood, personal growth, support, and service.” Matthew Conley, a senior and president of the IFC, agreed with the statement, writing in an email that he thinks the dry rush change will benefit Duke’s fraternities tremendously and make recruitment a more welcoming environment. He wrote that although it “will certainly be a big change,” he believes that it was a good decision. Members of the NPHC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The three aforementioned policies on dry rush, the guestto-member ratio and drinks exceeding 15% ABV are the only “new” rules established by the NIC. Conley noted, however, that many of Duke’s IFC fraternities already abide by some of these new rules. Emilie Dye, director of student engagement, wrote in an email that although Duke neither alters nor updates its policies based on NIC guidelines, a few of the ten NIC guidelines are already enforced by Duke’s Student Conduct general policies on alcohol outlined in the Duke Community Standard. The University has enforced such policies, according to Dye, which includes requiring students to comply with all federal, state and local laws regarding drugs and alcohol. Since the IFC is generally not a judicial body, most violations would likely be handled by Student Conduct or individual national organizations. “If an organization is found in violation of one of these standards, enforcement and sanctioning depends on if it is a University policy violation as well as an NIC violation,” Dye wrote. “They could be subject to both University sanctioning and sanctioning from their national organization if the act violates both.” Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, wrote in an email that enforcement and sanctioning for University policy violations occur according to a case-by-case process outlined in the Community Standard. The steps typically begin with Student Conduct receiving a report of a possible violation. Conley noted that the enforcement and sanctioning process for national organization NIC policy violations vary from chapter to chapter. NIC members with Duke chapters include Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Psi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Beta Sigma, Pi Kappa Alpha, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

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For each Republican faculty member in Pratt and Trinity, there are nearly 13 Democrats. Is this a ‘crisis’? Does it matter for teaching, research?

Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in a statement to The Chronicle that she “[respects] the privacy of [the faculty’s] choices made at the Nearly half of all faculty members in the polls” and that “political party identification Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the plays no part in how we recruit or retain Pratt School of Engineering are registered Duke faculty.” under the Democratic Party in North Carolina. Ravi Bellamkonda, dean of the Pratt School But not even 4% of the faculty members of Engineering and professor of biomedical are registered under the Republican and engineering, similarly said that a faculty Libertarian Parties. member’s political party is “private.” The Chronicle attempted to collect the Although he acknowledged that engineering political party registration of all Trinity and faculty tends to be more conservative nationally Pratt faculty members using online North than arts and sciences faculty, Bellamkonda Carolina voter registration records. According emphasized that engineers are “wired to look at to The Chronicle’s analysis, 44.65% of faculty the facts of the case and do an analysis.” “Engineers are trained, in any given members are registered Democrats, 24.90% are unaffiliated, 23.90% are not registered— situation, to not bring bias to the table including those who are ineligible to register, because that affects things,” Bellamkonda such as faculty who are not naturalized in the said. “The whole point is to analyze the issue United States—3.48% are registered Republicans and come to some conclusions based on and 0.47% are registered Libertarians. There analysis and modeling. Maybe some of that were 2.61% of faculty members whose voter is playing in where their preference is to be unaffiliated, and—depending on the issue or records were indeterminate. Other schools at Duke, such as the Sanford the candidate—then they’ll choose.” Michael Munger, School of Public Policy or professor of political the Nicholas School of the The reason I have been at Environment, were not Duke nearly 25 years is that science, explained that he was formerly on faculty included in the analysis. at Dartmouth College, More information on the Duke is by far the most University of Texas at data set can be found in intellectually open place I Austin and the University our Editor’s Note at www. have ever been. dukechronicle.com. of North Carolina at Hill, but none of Seth Masket, professor michael munger Chapel those schools were quite of the political science PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE like Duke. department at the “The reason I have University of Denver, explained that these statistics are similar to those at been at Duke nearly 25 years is that Duke is by far the most intellectually open place that I other universities. “This is consistent with what people have have ever been,” Munger said. “I really do think found across the U.S.—that academia tends to there is more support here for looking at both be heavily dominated by more liberal faculty or all sides of a question than there are in a lot members, that Republicans and conservatives of places.” Provost Sally Kornbluth did not respond are not very well represented at universities to multiple requests from The Chronicle to among faculty members,” he said. Masket said this disparity could be comment on this article. attributable to many factors, and that it would be difficult “to hone in any single reason.” A voter’s party registration: An ‘identity’ Still he explained that, overall, “Democrats or a ‘summary of preferences’? Christopher Johnston, associate professor and liberals are more drawn to the academic life” and Republicans “tend more toward of political science, described the two major professions [other] than academia.” He perspectives in political science on what postulated that these two effects reinforce each it means for someone to register under a other, as conservatives may see the prevalence political party. The first viewpoint is that partisanship is of Democrats at universities and become averse a summary of a voter’s preferences, otherwise to working in such a climate. “The Republican Party itself for many years known as an ideology. now has made a point of criticizing academia “When they say ‘I am a Republican,’ what as to one of its go-to talking points, saying that they are telling you is that, ‘My political academics do not understand what is really preferences are closer to the Republican Party wrong with the country—that they have all of than the Democratic Party,’ but partisanship their intellectual Ivy League pursuits but do itself may not be having an impact on political not understand what faces real Americans,” behavior,” Johnston said. “It’s more of a reflection of people’s preferences and values Masket said. However, Masket explained that, to a than it is itself a prime mover of behavior.” The second perspective describes large extent, faculty members’ political party affiliation does not affect their teaching. He partisanship as an identity, when a political outlined that departments such as history, party becomes a driving factor behind sociology or political science are the “most someone’s life and actions. “It is more than just a summary of my sensitive areas” for such a consideration, as they political preferences,” Johnston said. “It is a part engage more with political issues. Nevertheless, he has noticed as a political of who I am.” scientist that there are “real norms” for faculty He elaborated that this view describes not to appear biased toward any political party. partisanship as having a causal impact on “There is a lot of criticism of academia behavior. This perspective would also provide about being biased, and academics are pretty evidence for how a partisan identity can bias a sensitive to those concerns and really try not voter’s information processing, Johnston said. to teach that,” Masket said. “It is generally “Even if I disagree with a candidate on the considered a poor form of teaching for [faculty issues, I might put that to the side or ignore members] to just tell what they believe and why the places I see disagreement in order to be able to support the candidate of my team,” students should follow that.” By Stefanie Pousoulides News Editor

Johnston said. He added that the two perspectives are difficult to disentangle, as survey data shows that they tend to reinforce each other and make similar predictions of vote outcomes. Masket provided insight to what it means when voters do not register under a political party. “They will evaluate the evidence and claims made by different parties and make a decision at the time of the election, but they do not want to be beholden to one party or the other,” Masket said. However, he noted that unaffiliated and affiliated voters tend to vote similarly. “That is to say [unaffiliated voters] tend to be loyal to one party or the other,” Masket said. “They tend to stick to one party for a long period of time. Unaffiliated [voters] who are lean Democrats tend to vote as reliably Democratic as those people who call themselves as weak Democrats.”

thus have a long view on how people have worked to shape state power,” she wrote. Lentz-Smith, who has a secondary appointment in the African and African American studies department, elaborated on African and African American studies being the only department to have all faculty members registered to vote. “As a scholar of African American history, I vote to honor the people who put their lives on the line to secure the franchise— and in defiance of those defenders of white democracy who fought and killed to keep people of color from participating in politics,” Lentz-Smith wrote. “We need only look to contemporary shenanigans aimed at cutting down voter participation to understand that voting matters.” All four engineering departments boasted registration rates above 70%. Biomedical engineering (BME) had the ‘Voting matters’: Registration rates seventh-highest percentage of its faculty vary greatly by department registered to vote at 84.95%. Electrical and There is a norm in the United States computer engineering (ECE) had 77.45% of that people are encouraged to vote, Masket its faculty registered to vote, and 71.43% of explained, but voter turnout is “somewhat low” the faculty in both the civil and environmental compared to most democracies. engineering (CEE) and mechanical engineering “At least in presidential elections, at least and materials science (MEMS) departments are half of the population will vote. Generally, registered to vote. people will register just for the ability to do Bellamkonda explained that BME that,” he said. “It does not mean they are going may have a high rate of voter registration to vote every time–to have that freedom and because those who are drawn to biomedical the ability to weigh in in that election.” engineering “have a desire or need to more Masket explained that voters in most states, directly see the purpose, meaning and including North Carolina, must register to vote application of their work.” prior to an election. “Perhaps we can draw some inferences In Trinity and Pratt, voter registration by from that sample of the population pursuing department varies—some departments have BME and what the implications might be for all members registered, whereas others have a social, political act like [voter] registration,” only half. Bellamkonda said. The departments with the highest levels Krishnendu Chakrabarty, John Cocke professor of voter registration are African and African and chair of electrical and computer engineering, American studies—with explained why certain 100% of its faculty registered As a scholar of African faculty members in to vote—chemistry at 89.09% American history, I vote to the department might and history at 87.93%. not be registered. The literature, Asian and honor the people who put “Members of our Middle Eastern studies and their lives on the line to faculty were born philosophy departments had outside of the U.S.,” the lowest voter registration secure the franchise. Chakrabarty said. percentages at 50.00%, 57.89% adriane lentz-smith “In ECE, people were and 60.71%, respectively. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY born in India—like Mark Anthony Neal, me—China, Korea James B. Duke professor and and other places chair of African and African American studies, all over the world. Many of them naturalized did not respond to requests to comment from maybe a year or five years ago and may have not The Chronicle. Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott yet registered to vote.” professor and chair of literature, declined a request to comment. ‘Is it a crisis?’ Masket said that it is uncertain whether the North Carolinians can register under voter registration percentages differ because of one of the five recognized political parties— political engagement or due to other factors, Constitution, Democratic, Green, Libertarian such as American citizenship and faculty rank. or Republican—or choose not to register under “It is hard to know if we are capturing one at all. No faculty member is registered interesting distinctions about people’s under the Constitution or Green Parties, engagement in politics or if this is really being according to The Chronicle’s analysis. driven by the percent of a department that are More than half of faculty members in not U.S. citizens who are not eligible to vote,” the social sciences are registered under the he said. “It could also be that some of the Democratic Party, whereas the plurality of the departments with the lower percentages have a faculty of the natural sciences and arts and higher percentage of new faculty or temporary humanities are registered Democrats. faculty—the adjuncts and lecturers that do not To Munger, a registered Libertarian plan to be in North Carolina for very long and and the 2008 Libertarian candidate for simply have not registered because of that.” North Carolina governor, the objective of Adriane Lentz-Smith, associate professor of the academy is education. In light of that history, wrote in an email that she was dismayed purpose, he questioned whether party that all Duke departments didn’t have high affiliation was relevant. voter registration. “The question is not whether there is a “Still, it does not surprise me that History diversity of viewpoints on the faculty—the would have high rates: we study politics, economy and society across the centuries and See FACULTY on Page 13

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Number of DukeALERTS constant for 2018-19 Two crimes still unsolved

charges were filed in either incident. Both cases are still open.

By Carter Forinash University News Editor

The number of DukeALERTS issued from June 2018 to 2019 stayed the same as the prior year. Each year saw three crime-related DukeALERTS, and two of those issued this year are still open. The number stayed well below the 10 DukeALERTS issued two years ago. DukeALERTS are sent at the discretion of the University in emergency situations, and are not issued for all on-campus crimes. The most common on-campus crime continues to be larceny involving stolen phones or laptops, wrote Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, in an email. Violent crimes tend to be rare, as most theft involves unattended possessions. However, Duke did report two sexual assaults for criminal investigation last year, similar to numbers in previous years. Two rape cases were reported to the Duke University Police Department for investigation in 2017, out of 19 total reports, according to Duke’s 2018 Annual Clery Security Report. Cavanaugh wrote that DUPD’s focus over the next year will be on increased visibility around campus. DUPD has taken steps to improve visibility for the past several years, increasing security and police staffing. “Recent enhancements to security include the addition of security cameras on campus to better monitor events and

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Twenty-four hours after the first DukeALERT of the academic year, two female Duke students reported being touched inappropriately by a man on Campus Drive around 9 p.m. The women were approached individually by a suspect wearing an orange shirt, according to the DukeALERT, which was issued at 10:59 p.m. A warrant was issued Sept. 21 after investigators identified the suspect from security footage. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office then arrested 21-year-old Gustavo Antonio Velasquez Silva, who was charged with two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery and Jake Satisky | Editor-in-Chief released on $6,000 bond.

Three DukeALERTS for crimes were issued this academic year, with one alert coming from two locations on Campus Drive.

Dec. 13, 2018

A female Duke student reported being raped in a Central Campus common room on Pace Street. The student was sleeping between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. when she was awakened by a suspect and “forced to have sex,” the alert said. The DukeALERT was issued at 5:21 a.m. Duke increased security personnel and changed access codes on Central Campus in response to the incident, but declined to comment about whether the suspect was caught on security footage or affiliated with Duke. The case is still open, Cavanaugh wrote.

activities, and tools such as the LiveSafe mobile app, which allows people to submit security tips to Duke Police,” Cavanaugh told The Chronicle in September. The Chronicle revisits the three incidents that triggered this year’s crime-related DukeALERTS.

Towerview Road. One of the two suspects was armed with a handgun. The alert did not specify if the victim was a student or not. The DukeALERT was issued at 11:38 p.m after the crime occurred at approximately 10:56 p.m. A second robbery involving a car stolen at gunpoint was reported off campus on Sept. 17, 2018 the same night, less than a mile from the An armed robbery attempt was reported in Wannamaker incident. DUPD and the the Wannamaker fire lane, which runs between Durham Police Department looked for Wannamaker Dorm and Keohane 4B, off connections between the two cases, but no

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PETTERS FROM PAGE 3 feelings similar to what I had when drawing and painting,” Petters wrote in an email prior to our meeting. After spending his last two years of high school in Brooklyn, Petters went to the City University of New York—Hunter College, graduating with a math and physics double major and a philosophy minor. He then went to graduate school at MIT, where he participated in a program that let him also receive graduate training at Princeton. After an instructorship at MIT and an assistant professorship at Princeton, Duke recruited Petters. He was the first black person in the mathematics department to earn tenure at the University. Petters’ work focuses on how gravity acts on light. One of his contributions to the field is his development of a mathematical theory of gravitational lensing, whose applications he pioneered in physics. Gravitational lensing is the effect created by matter that’s

between a light source and an observer and that bends the light as it travels to the observer. It was one of the predictions from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Currently, Petters researches how the gravity of microscopic black holes acts on light. This adds to research on the foundational question of whether there is a fifth macro dimension—a spatial dimension in addition to length, width and height, he explained. “Evidence of an extra dimension would create a paradigm shift analogous perhaps to when we once thought that the world was flat,” he wrote. Even with his many research interests and duties as a dean and associate vice provost and professorships in mathematics, physics and economics, Petters finds time for personal pursuits. He created the Petters Research Institute in his native Belize for children from all over the country to study math and science. The Institute was featured in a segment on NOVA scienceNOW, in which Petters’ old friend Neil DeGrasse Tyson profiled him. Petters has received an array of honors, ranging from being recognized as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the British empire to being honored with

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a street in his name in Belize. He was also appointed as the inaugural chairman of the Council of Science Advisers to the prime minister of Belize. Petters is currently writing a science-fiction novel, which shares his observations on the human condition, “especially as it touches on human suffering,” he explained. There will be a diversity of backgrounds featured in the novel, including his own Caribbean heritage. The decorations in Petters office hearken to the diversity of this world he admires. Behind Petters’ desk, there is a triptych of a world map. Around his office, he has decorations which he explains to me one by one—Quinceañera and a Ukrainian bride, as well as a Peruvian flutist in traditional attire and a framed piece of embroidery from China. Perhaps most important is the framed photograph in the corner of his office. Petters explained that the photograph is from when Einstein visited Lincoln University in 1946. In the picture, young African American students gather around as Einstein lectures on relativity. Petters received permission to print the photograph, he said, and now it hangs both in this office and another one of his offices. The visit is not very well known. The Harvard Gazette wrote that only black press covered this event extensively, and the visit is not mentioned in any one of Einstein’s major biographies or archives. ‘Incremental improvement,’ but ‘a long way to go’ At Duke, Petters looked for community and found it in the humanities, which had more underrepresented minorities than the sciences. However, he has carved a path for minority students in mathematics. Black Americans have received 1% of doctoral degrees awarded in mathematics in the last decade. Petters explained that at each stage of his career, he has been part of initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in STEM. “I was part of bringing in the first underrepresented minority graduate student in math at Princeton and the second and third ones in math at Duke,” he wrote. Today, Duke’s math department has a black assistant professor and a Hispanic postdoctoral fellow, whom Petters said he met at a conference and encouraged to apply. Jonathan Mattingly, chair of the department of mathematics, wrote in an email that there are two underrepresented minority graduate students in addition to the one underrepresented postdoc. Additionally, there are two black faculty members. One is tenured—Petters—and one is tenure track, Mattingly wrote. Petters mentors underrepresented minority students and faculty and is involved in conferences designed for these cohorts. Additionally, he wrote that he started the SPIRE Fellows program at Duke. The program is designed for “highachieving undergraduates from diverse backgrounds” interested in pursuing STEM, according to the website. Such mentorship reflects the fact that Petters himself was inspired to go into academia by role models from underrepresented backgrounds. “There has surely been incremental improvement, but there is still a long way to go,” Petters wrote. Petters did not find statistics on black tenured professors unexpected. “The tenured ranks is where the power sits in departments and is the ultimate environment to penetrate,” he wrote.

The importance of belonging

This past January, Goins gave an address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, entitled “A Dream Deferred: 50 Years of Blacks in Mathematics.” In the latter half, he briefly highlighted the research of Petters, whom he described as an “extremely good friend” and “one of the most fascinating people you’ll ever meet.” Goins highlighted Petters in his talk because he is one of the few black mathematicians. Goins cites a statistic in his talk that in the last 50 years, the percentage of “blacks receiving doctorates in the mathematical sciences has doubled in the last 50 years.” It has doubled from 0.93% to 1.97%—much lower than the 12% of black Americans. The challenges are persistent. “I always felt a challenge to my identity in many dimensions, particularly as it intertwines with a sense of belonging,” Petters wrote in an email. In a tweet, Amy Harmon, the New York Times journalist who wrote the Goins profile, wrote that Petters was “one of several other black mathematicians” that she reached out to other than Goins. Petters also sent Harmon his essay on “belonging.” In his essay, Petters says that belonging is a perpetual challenge for women and underrepresented minorities in mathematics. The onus is on mathematicians to ensure that belonging is nurtured, he wrote. “I believe that an integral part of keeping our field vibrant and relevant is for its participants to welcome everyone, knowing that anyone can get better at mathematics through an ample commitment of time and energy by teacher and student,” he wrote.

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FACULTY FROM PAGE 9 question is whether the faculty are capable of presenting both or all sides in the debate,” Munger said. “It might be that they are not. That is a fair argument.” However, although some view a political party as a personal view that is not brought into the classroom, others may counter that a fair process of selecting faculty would be matching the faculty’s political affiliation to reflect that of the larger population. “If the process of faculty selection is fair, if it is ideologically neutral, shouldn’t the proportions of the faculty have about the same number of Republicans and Libertarians as the larger population?” Munger said in explaining the hypothetical. “And if they don’t, is that a sign of bias in hiring?” Johnston explained that a faculty member’s political party in the social sciences may shape how they ask questions and structure models for their research. As a political psychologist, he said that if there were more conservative political psychologists, they may pose different types of research questions than a more left-leaning faculty member would. “Because of [political identity biases information processing], I tend to worry that we may be missing out on some important discoveries in our field because we are too homogenous,” Johnston said. “We do not have enough diversity in political orientation and so we are missing out on some important questions we could be asking that just do not occur to people that are left wing.” In addition to the types of questions, Johnston said that bias can influence how certain variables are labeled in academic research. For example, he recently reviewed a paper on system justification, which is when an individual fulfills their underlying needs by

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defending the status quo, even when doing so may harm others. Johnston explained this phenomena occurs when people are “motivated to see what is good and right and legitimate because they are uncomfortable with changes in values and institutions.” Johnston elaborated that there is a theory about system justification that a person wants to view their own group as a good group in addition to viewing oneself as a good individual. In the paper he reviewed, the authors operationalized system justification on attitudes on climate change. Johnston provided an example of something that could be measure such attitudes—otherwise known as a scale— as “the Earth has enough resources to last us as long as we need.” He pushed back on the authors’ assumption that system justification could be applied to views on climate change. Many others could perceive climate change as a “belief about the world,” Johnston said. “To call that system justification or denial of reality is problematic. It seems to come from a perspective that is assuming something about the world because of political orientation,” he said. “Political orientation influencing a belief about reality that leads researchers to place a certain label on a construct that might not actually be appropriate—at the very least would be contentious.” Johnston said that he does worry a bit about political psychology in those two respects but does not believe it to be a crisis. “Is it a crisis? I do not think it is a crisis,” Johnston said. “I just think that, at the margin, it would probably be better to have more ideological diversity in the social sciences.” The Chronicle emailed 10 faculty members who are registered Republicans, but only two of them replied. Both wrote in separate emails that their political views do not align with those currently held by the Republican Party and did not respond to further request for comment.

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Engineers ‘tend not to be a very the pedagogy, we generally tend not to be a very political bunch’ political bunch,” Bellamkonda said. In contrast to departments in Trinity, the plurality of faculty in each engineering department are unaffiliated voters. Of all engineering departments, BME has the highest percentage of faculty registered to vote but not registered under a political party at 43.01%. A third of CEE is unaffiliated, whereas 35.29% of ECE and 32.47% of MEMS are unaffiliated. “In engineering, because of the nature of

Chakrabarty echoed that he would expect for Pratt as a whole to have more unaffiliated voters than Trinity. “Engineers tend to be more skeptical,” Chakrabarty said. “They ask more questions. They aren’t going to go by what they hear. They want to find out themselves.” When it comes to those registered under See FACULTY on Page 14

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FACULTY FROM PAGE 13 a political party, Pratt faculty members lean Democratic with 31.64% registered as Democrats and 7.46% registered as Republicans or Libertarians. Faculty age may explain the percentage of Democratic voters in Pratt, Chakrabarty speculated. “We have a few faculty who are in their 70s and 80s. But there are very few in 60s, and many who are in their 40s and 50s and even younger,” he said. “There is a trend nationwide that those who are younger tend to be more blue.” Chakrabarty also said that, although he is a registered Democratic voter, he focuses more on a specific candidate than a party’s platform and believes faculty in the ECE department would do the same. Bellamkonda and Chakrabarty both noted that political party registration does not come up as often in engineering courses as it may in some arts and sciences disciplines. Although engineers traditionally do not view themselves as being political, Bellamkonda said, their work is approaching an inevitable intersection with politics. “If you look at what’s happening in Facebook and other places [involving artificial intelligence], engineers no longer can say that what they do does not have implications that are political or in research allocations or information and such,” he added. To address this, Bellamkonda said Pratt has recently standardized ethical aspects of technologies and has started a program to incorporate such content into existing classes in Pratt and the computer science department in Trinity. Another intersection of engineering and politics is the “impact of the party in power of funding levels and research allocations,”

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Chakrabarty noted. He claimed that faculty in Pratt may lean toward a certain party due to basic research funding but acknowledged that he could not provide definitive proof. “Typically if you look at funding for [National Science Foundation] or [National Institutes of Health], [projects] have been funded more when they have Democrats in power,” he said. “Whereas, if you look at the funding for the Army, the Air Force, Navy or [Department of Defense] agencies, they tend to give much more funding when they have Republicans in power.”

‘A hunger for students on the left’

As the director of the philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) certificate, Munger applies the concept that an intellectual should be able to effectively argue all sides of an argument in the program’s senior year capstone. In the course, PPE students routinely debate all perspectives of difficult questions. In fact, students must prepare to argue all sides of the questions because they do not know which perspective they will be assigned to defend until the day of the debates. Munger noted that this is a skill that intellectuals should be expected to have. However, not all students have such an opportunity to defend a perspective other than their own. Students on the right “learn how to argue,” but students on the left “just get patted on the head,” he said. When he has spoken at other universities, such as Brown, Munger said students have approached him after the lectures with praise for bringing well-argued perspectives—even if the students disagreed with them. “I think there is a hunger for students on the left to hear the best form of the arguments that they disagree with. They are smart. They are capable of coming up with their own reasons,” Munger said. “It is as if the people on the left are afraid that having students

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hear the best form of the argument that they disagree with, students are not smart enough to know why it is wrong.” Munger does not believe himself to be alone in his beliefs about viewpoint diversity, as he stated that there are many Democratic professors who would echo his arguments. He also added that there is “more support” at Duke for evaluating all perspectives of an argument than at other universities. “The real consideration for me is not so much if your personal beliefs are on the left or right, but are you capable as an intellectual of making sure that students know the arguments and counter arguments—if nothing else to make sure that students on the left are capable of carrying out their function in an informed citizenry in a democracy,” he said.

Drive and Duke University Road is rapidly nearing completion. According to Manning, the building will have its landscaping completed over the summer and be ready to open in the fall. Once completed, the center will be home to a new office for the Duke Alumni Association and provide meeting areas for visitors and graduates.

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Near the intersection of Telecom Drive and Research Drive, a new engineering building is under construction and slated to open by the Spring 2021 semester. The superstructure of the building is complete and in the process of being enclosed. Crews are currently installing mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Manning wrote that the building will include a lecture hall, research and teaching labs, collaborative spaces and active learning rooms.

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CONSTRUCTION Cafe Edens—also known as Pitchforks— will undergo renovations until December 2019, but with no impact to the eatery’s hours of operations in the Fall, wrote Paul Manning, director of the office of project management, in an email to The Chronicle. The restaurant, found in Keohane Quad, will see its kitchen and serving area renovated over the summer to accommodate the influx of students living in the Hollows, which is near Cafe Edens. During the Fall semester, crews will be working on constructing a glass structure to encase a nearby terrace, providing approximately 70 extra seats for diners, according to the news release.

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Chapel Drive will be closed from Duke University Road to the traffic circle at Campus Drive to replace a culvert—a watercarrying pipe beneath the road—according to a news release. The closure began after Commencement and will last until August. A traffic light will also be installed at the Duke University Road and Chapel Drive intersection, in addition to new pavement, sidewalks and street lights along Chapel Drive. Pedestrians will be able to use a walkway running by the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center while the street is closed.

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President Vincent Price has survived two years as Duke’s 10th president. The Chronicle’s Jake Satisky sat down with Price to discuss his second year, Central Campus, Greek life, his legacy and more. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Read the interview in its entirety at www.dukechronicle.com. The Chronicle: Last year when former Chronicle Editorin-Chief Bre Bradham interviewed you, you said, ‘to quote the great James Brown “I feel good.”’ This year has maybe been a little bit harder—how are you feeling now? Vincent Price: Still feeling good. Every year is different. The academic year always brings a couple of unplanned activities that have to be navigated, but I always measure a year by the progress we make against our strategic priorities, and it’s been a great year. TC: Do you have an idea of what you would like Central Campus to be, or how you would like it to be partitioned? VP: So what the Board of Trustees task force on Central Campus did is look at a variety of different potential uses. None of them seemed all that compelling in the sense that there perhaps were other parts of the campus where those same functions could be better served. In the short term, yes, we’re going to use it for parking. We have a need for parking. But in the long-term we anticipate other kinds of purposes. It could be a place, for example, where you locate enterprises that are engaged with researchers at Duke. The downtown, which is now the innovation zone downtown, now more or less completely occupied. So as we think about sites for expanding research commercialization and different kinds of corporate partnerships, that space may be a usable space. TC: So, wait for the lightbulb moment? VP: Either the lightbulb moment or a development in our strategic work as a campus that presents a compelling need that’s best satisfied by construction on that property.

For former President Richard Brodhead, Duke represents a home and community that he will forever be a part of. The Chronicle’s Mona Tong caught up with Brodhead, the University’s ninth president, and discussed coming back to Duke, what he’s up to now and how he feels about the Brodhead Center. Since stepping down in 2017, he has remained strongly connected to Duke and its campus. His wife, Cynthia Degnan Brodhead, is still on the Board of Advisors for the Nasher Museum of Art, and Brodhead said they come back to visit Duke a couple times per term, whether it be for the Nasher, to meet with friends, to give lectures, to teach in classes or to simply enjoy Duke and Durham. In a brief visit from April 25 to April 26, he even did a poetry reading at Perkins Library for the celebration of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. “It is very fun for me to be back here in this beautiful time of the year,” he said. “We just love it here—it was our home for 13 years.” Brodhead served as Duke University president for 13 years, from 2004 to 2017. During his time at Duke, Brodhead focused on deepening Duke’s engagement with both the broader Durham community and world. Investing in downtown buildings and increasing resources for Durham youth development and K-12 education, Brodhead worked to improve Duke’s relationship and collaboration with Durham. Although Brodhead worked to strengthen relations with Durham, he was also president during the infamous lacrosse incident, when those relations strained. In Spring 2006, several members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team were accused of sexually assaulting a dancer at a party, but they were later found innocent. The case unquestionably shaped Brodhead’s legacy as president. Nonetheless, some of Duke’s signature programs and institutions such as DukeEngage, the Global Health Institute

This summer marks a decade and a half since Nannerl Overholser Keohane finished her tenure as the eighth president of Duke, making history as the first and only woman to hold the University’s highest office and second to lead a major American research university. Students today may be more familiar with Keohane Quad than the president it was named for. However, under Keohane’s leadership, Duke founded a host of programs and institutes, including the Bass Society professorship, the Robertson Scholars program, the University Scholars program, the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. She also oversaw the construction or renovation of more than 45 campus buildings and the reorganization of the campus road system. Keohane recalled a comment that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask—with whom she worked closely on the reconstruction of campus—made at her last Board of Trustees meeting. “Tallman joked when I retired that the Trask and Keohane Construction Company was finally closing up shop,” Keohane said. These major advancements were largely enabled by the fundraising campaign Keohane spearheaded, the fifth most successful ever in American higher education. Through Campaign for Duke, Keohane helped bring $2.36 billion to the University. Beyond tall buildings and record-breaking fundraisers, Keohane brought to Duke a strong set of principles, said John Burness, former senior vice president for government relations. During Keohane’s presidency, Burness encouraged the “values-driven president” to be more selective in choosing the controversial situations that she publicly engaged in. Keohane disagreed, Burness said. “I thought she was not being more strategic with which

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‘Equal Opportunity Provocateur’

Sanford dismisses professor ‘largely’ for controversial teaching style By Rohin Shahi Contributing Reporter

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When Evan Charney’s contract came up for renewal last spring, he did not expect that it would be shot down. Charney, associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy, will not be teaching at Duke in Fall 2019. After a two-member faculty review committee and a panel of his peers in the Sanford School of Public Policy

decided not to renew his contract, Charney appealed to Provost Sally Kornbluth. More than 100 students and alumni signed a letter in May 2018 asking Kornbluth’s office to reverse the decision. When that appeal was rejected, he sent a complaint about how his case was handled to the Faculty Hearing Committee—a group of faculty from different departments at Duke—on the grounds that his academic freedom and due process had been violated. That appeal, too, was rejected, even as the FHC stated that he was “an asset to Duke.” “The members of the panel were disappointed with Sanford’s handling of Professor Charney’s reappointment,” the

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Istanbul is the only city in the world located on two con�nents. Istanbul’s Byzan�ne, O�oman, and Turkish cultural legacies allow the city to be read as a “palimpsest”—an overwri�en, layered text of mul�ple, even contradictory meanings. Istanbul is an ideal site to explore imperial history, migra�on, iden�ty, East/West rela�ons, Islam/Chris�anity, and cosmopolitanism. Through interdisciplinary sources in history, literature, culture and poli�cs, students will examine a variety of urban, architectural and social spaces including churches, mosques, public squares and ethnic neighborhoods. Taught in English. Erdağ Göknar

AMES 290S.02

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The Korean Wave

Hallyu, also known as the Korean Wave, refers to the sudden rise of Korea’s cultural industries and the growth of Korean popular culture in the global market since the late 1990s. This course focuses on par�cular performances, influences, and ruptures that have shaped the Korean Wave. We will look at the use of a form of performance, such as K-pop, theatre, performing arts, cinema, and TV drama and shows as analyzing sources. Through the close reading of selected video clips, films, and performances, we will inves�gate the various forms of race, gender and sexuality, and Koreanness that are performed, represented, challenged and nego�ated in Korean popular culture. We will read cri�cal essays in fields of gender studies, queer studies, theatre studies, cri�cal theory and cultural studies, and interpret the discursive construc�ons paying close a�en�on to the specific historical contexts in which the performances were produced and circulated in rela�on with globaliza�on. Staff

AMES 390S | AMES 690S | LINGUIST 390S

Literary Islam

A broad overview of the most essen�al elements of the Islamic literary tradi�on. Begins with pre -Islamic poetry and how it framed the emergence of the Qur'an, hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), and the early Islamic community. Ends with modern takes on classic genres and sources. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Department consent required. Ellen McLarney

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Japanese as a Second Language

Introduc�on to second language acquisi�on; focus on the acquisi�on of Japanese as a second language (AJSL); theories and research of second language acquisi�on; theore�cal and pedagogical issues speciﬁc to AJSL. Yunchuan Chen

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Engages students in the prac�ces and theories of archiving, documen�ng and cura�ng marginal histories. Hands-on research in the archives of Duke's Rubenstein Special Collec�ons and elsewhere. Examines histories of movements and encounters between the "West" and "Asia." Teaches original archival research and documentary methods through guided excava�ons in digital, audiovisual, and material resources. Directed readings and special guest lectures guide students on how to think cri�cally on the theories and praxis of knowledge produc�on, collec�on, documenta�on, circula�on, and consump�on. Students curate projects for ﬁnal research assignment. Nayoung Aimee Kwon

AMES 490S | AMES 503.02

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Arabic Sources on US Slavery

This course will speciﬁcally explore Arabic wri�ngs of enslaved Africans, par�cularly Omar ibn Said (1770-1864), who in 1831 wrote an autobiography in Arabic while enslaved in Bladen County, North Carolina. Mbaye Lo

AMES 551S | LIT 551S

Transla�on: Theory/Praxis

Examines theories and prac�ces of transla�on from various periods and tradi�ons (Cicero, Zhi Qian, classical and scriptural translators, Dryden, Schopenhauer, Benjamin, Jakobson, Tanizaki, Qian Zhongshu, Derrida, Apter, among others) and considers topics such as incommensurability, cultural exchange, imperialism, "Global Englishes," bilingualism, and techno-language. Prerequisite: open to undergraduates, but all par�cipants must have strong command of one language aside from English, as ﬁnal project involves original transla�on and commentary. Instructor consent required. Eileen Chow

AMES 620S

Cri�cal Genealogies of the Middle East

This course provides an in-depth inves�ga�on into the various theore�cal and textual tradi�ons that inform interdisciplinary Middle East studies with a focus on History, Cultural Studies, Religion and Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, the course will maintain a disciplinary rigor so that students learn how knowledge is produced within the framework of speciﬁc disciplines. Foci include social history, literary theory, cri�cal visual studies, and postcolonial theory. Erdağ Göknar

Hebrew

Korean

Arabic 101 Elementary Arabic Arabic 203 Intermediate Arabic Arabic 281 Media Arabic Arabic 305 Advanced Arabic Arabic 407 Issues in Arabic Lang/Lit I Arabic 610S Quaranic Arabic

Hebrew 101 Elementary Hebrew Hebrew 203 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Hebrew 305S Advanced Modern Hebrew

Korean 101 Elementary Korean Korean 203 Intermediate Korean Korean 305 Advanced Korean Korean 408S Readings in Modern Korean Literature Korean 455S Na�onal Iden�ty & Music in Mod Korea

Chinese Chinese 101 First Year Chinese Chinese 105 First Year Chinese in Review I Chinese 131 Literacy in Chinese I Chinese 203 Intermediate Chinese Chinese 305 Advanced Chinese Chinese 331 Modern Chinese Media Chinese 332 Chinese Transla�on Chinese 333 Adv Chinese for Bilingual Learners Chinese 407S Issues in Chinese Lang/Society I Chinese 435S Chinese in the Humani�es I Chinese 455 Modern Chinese Culture

Hindi 101 Elementary Hindi Hindi 203D Intermediate Hindi Hindi 305 Advanced Hindi Hindi 407S Issues in Hindi Lang/Society I

Japanese Japanese 101 Elementary Japanese Japanese 203 Intermediate Japanese Japanese 305 Advanced Japanese

For addi�onal informa�on about AMES course oﬀerings, please contact: 919 668-2603 (h�ps://asianmideast.duke.edu/courses)

A process carried out ‘oddly’

Charney, as a regular rank, non-tenure track professor, was working on a five-year contract. He earned his undergraduate degree from the City University of New York—Hunter College, then a pair of master’s degrees and a doctorate from Harvard University. Charney began teaching at Duke in 1999. During his review for re-appointment in 2013, thenSanford Dean Bruce Kuniholm extended Charney’s contract for two years—rather than five—due to “low evaluations” in two Master of Public Policy classes he taught, Charney wrote in a footnote of his appeal to Price. But then-Sanford Dean Kelly Brownell extended his contract until 2019 in a September 2014 letter that cited “a very satisfactory internal review” of Charney’s teaching. With the extension, Charney’s contract is set to end June 30, 2019. The review for whether to extend it was planned for 2018, the year before his contract was set to expire. Each school or institute at Duke has a review committee that crafts an “initial report on appointment, reappointment or promotion” for any regular rank, non-tenure track candidate who is seeking one of those three listed objectives, according to the Duke University Faculty Handbook. Certain items of the report come from a “review portfolio” from the provost’s office, but the school or institute also is able to “have some flexibility to reshape that list [of items] to fit the nature of the position being reviewed,” the faculty handbook states. Charney’s faculty review committee was composed of Kathryn Whetten and Robert Korstad, both professors in the Sanford School of Public Policy, according to the FHC report. The report detailed that the two professors “prepared a 13page report that was provided to the Sanford faculty and dated ‘March 2018.’” They did not make any “clear, formal recommendation” about whether to re-appoint him, according to the FHC report. Charney claimed Korstad and Whetten were ideologically opposed to him. “[They] obviously have an ideological axe to grind,” Charney told The Chronicle near the beginning of the Spring semester. Whetten disputed the claim in an email to The Chronicle. “Dr. Charney and I are actually very close in our teaching objectives, material that we present and work toward a classroom in which authentic dialogue and exchange can occur,” Whetten wrote. “I do not have any axes to grind with Dr. Charney, ideological or otherwise.” Korstad initially referred The Chronicle to Billy Pizer, professor and senior associate dean for faculty and research in the Sanford School of Public Policy, when asked for general See PROVOCATEUR on Page 13

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FHC stated in their report. “Professor Charney was, for many years at Duke, a highly-rated, University-decorated, and—for many, many students—beloved and formative teacher.” The FHC report found that though the review process was “no model for personnel management and faculty governance, nothing Sanford did in this case implicates the Faculty Hearing Committee’s jurisdiction.” Charney finally appealed to President Vincent Price. Price then became the third to reject Charney’s appeal, leaving the professor without further appeal options and without his job at Duke.

Persian Persian 101 Elementary Persian Persian 203 Intermediate Persian

Tibetan Tibetan 301 Advanced Modern Tibetan I

Turkish Turkish 101 Elementary Turkish Turkish 203 Intermediate Turkish Turkish 305 Contemp Turkish Comp/Readings

Urdu (NEW)

Urdu 101 Urdu Script

Charles York | Photography Editor Charney taught the core policy ethics course in the Sanford School.

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How Duke offices in Durham have handled aftermath of downtown explosion By Maria Morrison Health and Science News Editor

Kristen Brown, Duke’s associate vice president of news, communications and media, was in Page Auditorium on West Campus when she received an emergency alert of an explosion in downtown Durham. “The first thought is an immediate sense of, ‘are people okay?’” Brown said. “Then it is, how do we take care of people? How do we recover from this?’” A gas leak April 10 in Durham caused an explosion and a partial building collapse after contractors hit a gas line. The blast destroyed local coffee shop Kaffeinate and killed its owner Kong Lee. Other buildings on the block of Duke and Main streets were also damaged, including multiple Duke offices. Several Duke offices operated out of rented buildings on the Main Street block. There were around 100 employees at 710 West Main Street—where the Duke Cancer Institute was located—and 700 West Main Street, which housed the Office of Alumni and Development Records and the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs. Although the buildings were not destroyed, both of the West Main Street properties sustained significant damage, according to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. Ten employees were also injured in the incident. Most suffered lacerations, and all were treated. But there was another problem for Duke—where the nearly 150 Duke employees would work. The need for relocation required Duke to find new office space in a growing Durham area, purchase new office supplies and computers and adjust employees to new commuting routes.

(Top) Aaron Zhao | Features Photography Editor (Bottom) Charles York | Photography Editor Durham was rocked in an explosion downtown April 10.

“It’s exciting what’s happening in Durham, its life, its vibrancy,” Brown said. “But in times like these you realize that it’s hard to relocate all those people in a city that is dynamic and growing. Everyone is looking for space.” Duke has relocated smaller groups of employees to various locations across Durham, including the American Tobacco Campus. However, larger groups are still awaiting permanent relocation. Brown explained that employees have been quickly adapting and flexible during the various relocations. “Something like this that is unexpected and so powerful can be really scary and traumatic, and I’m so impressed with the leadership that I’ve seen at every level. I’m impressed with the resilience and spirit of our community,” Brown said. Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that Duke employees have persisted in their work after the explosion. He also reiterated Duke’s commitment to supporting employees and community members impacted by the incident. “The resiliency of our team members has been remarkable. To their individual and collective credit, virtually all work has continued to move forward,” Cavanaugh wrote. “As you might imagine, this was a significant event, and Duke is doing all it can to support our impacted colleagues.” Cavanaugh also paid respects to those killed in the incident and expressed appreciation for first responders who helped deal with the immediate aftermath of the explosion. “Our deepest sympathies remain with the families of the two individuals who lost their lives as a result of the blast,” Cavanaugh wrote, referencing Lee and utility worker Jay Rambeaut.

Utopia

The Image in Walter Benjamin

Lit 290S Fall 2019 Instructor: Jacob Soule jacob.soule@duke.edu CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ M/F, 4.40-5.55PM

LIT 612S Fall 2019 Professor Negar Mottahedeh GERMAN 512S / ROMST 612S / AMI 612S ALP W 1:25-3:55 PM • Friedl Building 102

What is a good society? “Utopia” has long had negative associations in public discourse, a word used to characterize an idea or proposal hopelessly idealistic and disconnected from the cold, hard truths of practicable reality. That the word has become effectively synonymous in popular usage with its supposed opposite, dystopia, is perhaps indicative of the difficult political and historical situation in which we find ourselves today. Is utopia a relic of early 20th century (or earlier) dreams of a perfected) society? Aren’t struggles for utopia always doomed to fail outright or, at best, destined to end in totalitarianism? Why does it now seem so impossible to imagine a desirable future, or even a “realistic” future that doesn’t end in catastrophe?

Returning to Walter Benjamin’s Art Work essay and its various sources and revisions, this course will discuss recent engagements with Benjamin’s work in cinema, photography, and visual and media studies and will attempt to understand the role and functions of the faculty he coins “the mimetic” in modern culture. Readings will be drawn from the English translation of Benjamin’s Selected Writings, Volumes 1-4, and including his work on photography, history, surrealism and his reviews of writers such as Charles Baudelaire. Readings will also include some of Benjamin’s own primary sources, such as the writings of Kracauer as well contemporary discussions of Benjamin’s work in academic journals.

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Asian American Studies director on program’s path By John Markis Senior News Reporter

The Asian American Studies Program officially arrived on campus Spring 2018, and for program director Nayoung Aimee Kwon, its creation was the culmination of over a decade of student work on campus. The program does not yet include a major, minor or certificate, but it offers courses that give “interdisciplinary perspectives on the current-day status of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in our society,” according to its website. Kwon, associate professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, said that the program also aims to create an Asian Alumni Affinity group by this fall. For Kwon, the creation of the program mirrors the push for programs studying other disadvantaged groups, such as programs in gender, African and African American, Native American and Latinx studies. She said that though the program

Special to The Chronicle Nayoung Aimee Kwon said AASP has experienced “various ups and downs” on the road to the program’s creation.

faced years of resistance since students began advocating for it only a certain group of students from a certain national origin, in 2002, there remained strong student support nonetheless but is a symptom of a wider culture of hate and bias toward for the creation of the program. minorities, and toward immigrants, with wider repercussions.” “There were teach-ins, faculty advocacy and demonstrations,” As AASP develops in the coming years, Kwon hopes that Kwon said.“We experienced various ups and downs, depending students will become more conscious of this reality. on the momentum.” But much progress is still needed in terms of cementing After years of unsatisfactory outcomes, activists realized the program’s place on campus. According to Kwon, Duke has the best avenue to sustain momentum was to explain their placed a moratorium on new certificate programs, and AASP strategies to younger classes. As a result, still needs to hire more faculty in order leadership would remain vibrant and Our role as a university to have the capacity to offer a major or strong, even as initial advocates left the minor. schools. Additionally, activists worked and as faculty is to truly However, there are other ways in which the program can grow. Kwon is expecting to dismantle the misconception that desegregate the university. to augment the FOCUS program with a these courses are intended for only Asian American students. new cluster specific to the ramifications “[AASP advocates] are not catering nayoung aimee kwon of anti-Asian American sentiment in to a minority group of self-identifying DIRECTOR OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES American history, especially as it pertains PROGRAM to immigration. She also seeks to secure students,” Kwon said. “[AASP programs] an AASP-specific learning space, as right are intellectual projects to educate the entire university about the history of Asians in America, like the now the program’s accessible spaces are mainly limited to history of women, or African Americans or Native Americans, shared classroom spaces in the Center for Multicultural Affairs. and how these histories have been an integral part of America’s Despite the barriers to AASP’s survival, Kwon is excited to complete what years of students have built. She recognizes the history and society from inception.” fact that Duke and a few other schools—such as Northwestern The necessity for this historical understanding became clearer than ever in February, when Megan Neely, thenUniversity, Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles—are alone in this effort, and she emphasized that director of graduate studies for the Master of Biostatistics program, encouraged Chinese students to refrain from their other universities have even further to go and face even more entrenched resistance. native language in casual conversation. The incident attracted national media attention. “Imagine, if those of us at an elite university like Duke Kwon emphasized that this “tip of the iceberg” incident must fight tooth and nail for this basic narrative to be taught in our curriculum, what the rest of the country is struggling highlights how bigotry thrives at Duke and demonstrates how racism can go unchallenged when outside of the traditional with,” she said. “There are many glaring blind spots in the way we teach today. Our role as a university and as faculty black-white binary. “Race relations in the U.S. and especially here in the is to truly desegregate the university and to take up the American South have understandably focused on the black responsibility of teaching history and its ongoing legacies in a more nuanced way.” and white conflict,” Kwon said, “but that sometimes prevents us from seeing the common structural challenges faced by In this way, Kwon said, Duke has the unique opportunity to act as a standard-bearer for other elite institutions by setting other ethnic and racial groups, in new forms of exclusions. We also do not think of this as an isolated incident impacting the example of how a history-aware campus behaves.

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‘Not really, no’: Moneta doesn’t have any regrets at Duke By Ben Leonard Towerview Editor

Chronicle File Photo Larry Moneta is retiring at the end of June after 18 years at Duke.

After 18 years as vice president for student affairs at Duke, Larry Moneta is set to retire June 30, when Mary Pat McMahon will succeed him as vice provost/vice president for campus life. The Chronicle’s Ben Leonard talked to Moneta about his time at Duke, from his best decisions to his regrets. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Chronicle: What are you doing with the time that is still left? Larry Moneta: A whole bunch of different things. We’re getting all of our summer construction projects that we need to have in order. We’ve got the transition to the summer conferences and sports camps. [There are] a good number of very formal transition duties,

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and I’ve just been engaging with those on my team who have those responsibilities to make sure we have everything in order. We have annual reports that come in from every department, and we’re still reviewing them just partially out of habit, partially out of interest. I asked them all to write their reports more in a way that my successor can learn from what they’ve been doing. I’m meeting with and spending time with my successor, getting her up to date on a number of things. TC: How much have you worked with your successor, Mary Pat McMahon? What are your impressions of her, and how do you think she’ll do? LM: I‘ve had a two-hour meeting with her and a couple emails. We have another session coming up in a couple weeks. We’ve been talking regularly on the phone. She seems terrific. She’s really personable and smart. She grasps everything we talk about very quickly. I’m very excited for her. TC: What do you think is the most important thing she needs to know about this job? LM: There’s a pretty significant complexity to what we do, because the division includes a lot of very different functions–a larger array of functions than are currently in her portfolio. She needs to spend time in those areas that she hasn’t previously been working in. She needs to understand how the financial structure of this division’s budget works. It’s substantially different from how she was funded [as dean of student affairs] at Tufts [University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Engineering]. But mostly, she really needs to focus on people. The priority in a role like this is always to get to know her team, the folks she’ll work with on a daily basis. She’ll need to know who they are and what their responsibilities are, what their talents and skills are as well as learning the broader Duke community. We’re a big and complex place, with a lot of people to get to know and develop relationships. I bet much of her time in the Fall will just be getting to know people. TC: Looking back at your time at Duke, what have been some of the best things you’ve done or the best decisions you’ve made? LM: A couple things stand out. I feel like I’ve had a pretty significant hand in the physical environment and trying to help develop a place at Duke that really serves students effectively. Everything we’ve done from the Brodhead Center renovation to the Bryan Center to the Wellness building certainly is a highlight for me. I can reflect to when I arrived and there really was no environment like that. That coupled with the fact that virtually every residence hall at Duke has been either renovated or newly constructed since I’ve been here–all sorts of major environmental contributions. But also the fact that we not only had a role in the spaces, but... I’m particularly proud of the staff we’ve been able to recruit, the leadership that is here, the way we serve students with clubs and organizations and work with UCAE, working [with] some of the most talented people I know. You’re working with everyone from RAs to the associate deans. You’ve got a really talented array of people who really care about students and support residential communities. You’re engaged with all of our cultural and identity centers, all of which I’ve had the opportunity to expand both the physical spaces and staff over the years—incredible staff at the Mary Lou Williams Center, or Jewish Life or the Women’s Center. There’s not a service or function that I had a role in helping improve that is not tremendously better than it was at serving students extraordinarily well. TC: How has Duke changed during your time here? LM: Demographically, Duke is a very different place. The undergraduate population has become far more diverse. At the undergraduate level, the experience is better and substantially different. We didn’t have an arts scene. We’ve had a few that have always done the arts. We’ve always had a niche, but now the arts at Duke [is] a signature. That [has] been something I’ve watched with great gratification because I’m a tremendous proponent of student arts—watching our dance groups and a capella groups grow in great numbers, and DuArts emerging as a powerful umbrella organization for the arts. You could say the same about the political engagement of the students. So much more student activism across the board, representing students of colors’ needs, DACA students, smoking cessation. It [has] been tremendously enjoyable and satisfying to watch students get more and more engaged in so many important issues and take the lead in advocating for reform. It makes me very proud of our students. TC: Is there anything major that you would have done differently? Any regrets? LM: Not really, no. An hour here or there I might have done something different, but in terms of the overall 18-year See MONETA on Page 13

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Get to know Moneta’s successor, Mary Pat McMahon By Glen Morgenstern Contributing Reporter

After several public miscues, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, is slated to retire at the end of June. Mary Pat McMahon, the incoming vice provost/vice president for campus life, will succeed Moneta in the role. McMahon, who last served as the dean of student affairs at Tufts University’s Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, will bring 22 years of administrative experience to her new position at Duke. She is excited to open a new chapter in the leadership of Duke’s campus life. “I took the job because it’s so clear to me that Duke is an incredible community of learners and good humans who want to do brilliant things in the world,” McMahon said. After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Yale University, McMahon went on to earn her Master of Science degree in history of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She then returned to Yale as the assistant director of undergraduate admissions, before leaving to serve as the associate director of doctoral programs at the New York University Stern School of Business. She then took on a six-year stint with Bowdoin, working as an assistant dean, and later as associate dean of student affairs. At Bowdoin, McMahon helped develop the college’s residential learning program through its College House program, and oversaw the experience of first-year students. She advised students on academic and personal topics, and provided guidance to judicial and sexual misconduct board hearing processes. She seeks to lend an ear to student voices on campus and spend time understanding the Duke experience. Christopher Rossi, associate dean of student affairs at Tufts University, spoke to the importance that McMahon places on student opinions and perspective. “She’s a person that centers students and amplifies student voices in institutional positions,” Rossi said. “Being a dean means you have to be proactive in being a visible presence in the community in a way that students feel like they know you and they feel like you are approachable.” Moneta’s handlings of hate speech incidents were met with controversy during his time at Duke. McMahon has also dealt with her fair share of hate speech and vandalism at Tufts. Recent incidents at Tufts include the egging of students and the appearance of slogans in support of President Donald Trump on the Tufts Cannon. Although McMahon recognized the personal directive behind hate speech and its ubiquitous effects on students, she declined to answer any specific questions regarding hate speech at Duke until she had familiarized herself with Duke’s policies. The response to the #thethreepercent movement at Tufts in 2015—inspired by the Boston Globe’s reporting that only three percent of students at some Boston area universities identified as black—was a highlight of McMahon’s tenure at Tufts. At the time, 3.9% of Tufts students were black. Two hundred protesters marched through Tufts in November 2015, which pushed McMahon’s office to take action. In an effort to diversify Tufts, McMahon led efforts to hire an African American clinician for the Africana Center—Tufts’ analog of Duke’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. During her tenure, the Student Affairs office at Tufts worked on the development of Students’ Quest for Unity in the African Diaspora—a pre-orientation program geared toward incoming black students. More recently, McMahon served on Tufts’ Student Life Review Committee, where she pushed for the Board of Trustees to create a Student Affairs Subcommittee, which solidified student life as a focus for the Board. Furthermore, McMahon led a town hall meeting as vacant or soon-to-be-vacant director positions at Tufts’ Latino Center, Asian American Center and Women’s Center prompted concern amongst students. Tufts’ undergraduate African American population has increased by 0.4% between 2015 and 2018, from 3.9% to 4.3%. In comparison, in 2016, 7.09% of undergraduate and graduate students at Duke identified as black, and 11% of firstyear undergraduate students in the 2017-2018 academic year identified as black. McMahon has not yet developed a course of action for her role at Duke, but she has already met with several Duke undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members, administrators and alumni. She looks forward to becoming an “advocate for and ally to Duke students.” “My first priority will be to spend time listening to student leaders, students who are new to the place and graduate students,” McMahon said. “I don’t want to assume that the

things I know about other campuses necessarily maps right onto the Duke experience.” In an email to The Chronicle, Provost Sally Kornbluth addressed the change in title from vice president for student affairs to vice provost/vice president for campus life. Kornbluth explained that McMahon will work closely with the Office of the Provost to facilitate “greater synergies between campus life and undergraduate education,” under the leadership of Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education. McMahon’s dual title of vice president, Kornbluth noted, reflects her role in managing housing and dining, and it means she will report to Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. “The title is meant to reflect the centrality of student affairs in campus life and the important role of the student affairs director in impacting life for all of our students on campus,” Kornbluth wrote.

Courtesy of Duke Today Mary Pat McMahon worked in a similar role at Tufts University.

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PROVOCATEUR FROM PAGE 4 comment on the situation. When told Charney alleged that there was an “ideological axe to grind” in regards to teaching style, Korstad responded “it is not true.” “I have never said anything like that to Professor Charney or anyone else,” Korstad wrote. When it was clarified that Charney did not claim that Korstad had spoken that phrase— but rather it was Charney’s characterization— Korstad declined to discuss the matter further. “I have disagreed in public exchanges on multiple occasions with both Whetten and Korstad on matters pertinent to my teaching philosophy,” Charney wrote in the FHC complaint. Whetten and Korstad told The Chronicle that they did not remember such public disagreements. “While Sanford faculty do have discussions about teaching, I do not remember ever disagreeing in public exchanges with Professor Charney’s teaching philosophy,” Korstad wrote in an email. “Our styles are different, but our goals are very similar.” Whetten wrote in an email that she “never had a public or private negative exchange with Professor Charney.” The next step for Charney’s reappointment after Whetten and Korstad’s review was a vote from Sanford faculty. The faculty handbook details that “all regular rank faculty, who hold the same rank as the candidate or a higher rank are eligible to vote.” After two meetings on separate days, the faculty voted against reappointing Charney. “Sanford then ended its relationship with Professor Charney through a process that included, oddly, a two-person committee and a report with no formal vote or recommendation, followed by a faculty-wide deliberation and vote,” the FHC report stated.

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Candidates who receive an “unfavorable” recommendation from the faculty can “appeal the decision to the provost within two weeks of the notification date,” the faculty handbook states. Thus, after receiving an unfavorable recommendation from the Sanford faculty, Charney appealed the vote to Kornbluth, who denied Charney’s appeal. Kornbluth declined to comment in an email to The Chronicle, citing that it was a personnel matter. Charney then made a second appeal, this time to the FHC—whose jurisdiction is limited to specific charges outlined in the faculty handbook—on the grounds of “allegations of violation of academic due

process” and “allegations of violation of academic freedom,” according to Charney’s written appeal to Price. In his appeal to the FHC, Charney asked to be reviewed again for another faculty vote in Spring 2020, and that he be made aware of the specific criteria on which he would be evaluated. The FHC unanimously decided to take no action on his appeal. Charney’s final step was to appeal to Price, who also denied Charney’s appeal. Price declined to comment to The Chronicle, deferring to Pizer. Read the rest of this investigation at www.dukechronicle.com.

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MONETA FROM PAGE 10 time, I’m very proud of what I was able to contribute to improving the Duke experience. I want to make sure I acknowledge graduate and professional students as well—there are more of them than undergraduates. TC: Going forward, you have said before that you might teach at Duke. What’s your role going forward? LM: I’m not teaching at Duke. My primary faculty role has been at the University of Pennsylvania for the last 25 years where I’m on faculty in their executive doctorate program in higher education management. I’m going to continue to teach there as I’ve got three new doctorate students assigned to me. I’m already deeply engaged in working with three more doctorate students on their dissertation topics. I may be teaching at other places nearby. I’ll do a little consulting. I’m not looking to work full-time, but I may do some consulting here and there. TC: What will you miss most about your job at Duke? LM: I’ll miss the people. It’s a cliche, but there really has not been a day where I wake up in the morning and say, ‘Oh crap, I have to go to work.’ I love coming in every day. I love the intellectual stimulation of the people I get to hang with both in student affairs and across campus. Some of the faculty—I’ve come to know probably 75 to 100 faculty well who I love connecting with. That’s probably the thing I worry the most about filling in: ‘How do I find that intellectual stimulation while I’m retired?’ I hope through my teaching and consulting and some volunteerism I’ll replace some of that. But the people here are just awesome. To learn from some of the people, that’s what I’ll miss the most.

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as you mentioned, a two-part proposal. One, to remove the Carr name. Two, to name it FROM PAGE 1 for Professor Gavins. These are two different kinds of decisions. TC: How do you think the light rail The Trustees, in my conversations with and Duke deciding not to sign on affected them, they feel—and I agree with this— relationships with Durham, and how do you that decisions about naming buildings think Duke can fix those—if they need fixing? or commemorating things on campus VP: Well, it has not changed at all my should be made in the context of a fulsome strong desire to work closely with Durham consideration of what deserves to be named and to find ways to support the community. and for whom. We don’t really have a It has made me aware though of how, in process for doing that effectively. a sense, thin the community’s understanding I can understand why my colleagues in of and support for Duke is. Because people history would want to honor Ray Gavins as a were willing to attack member of their faculty. Duke, in this specific I need to do more and The history department instance, without a deep is in that building. They understanding of the Duke needs to do more aren’t necessarily always myriad of issues that to spend time with our going to be in that affected that project. particular building. So neighbors in Durham. And so it reminds me we take a very long-term again, speaking of the vincent price view of these things. need to communicate TC: This year, DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT and spend time getting several fraternities were to know the community, suspended for hazing, that I need to do more and Duke needs to do and Delta Sigma Phi was recommended more to spend time with our neighbors in for closure. Beyond these actions, what has Durham and help people understand all the administration done with Greek life, what different ways that we’re engaged in Durham. are they planning to do going forward and In the short term, it was a challenge to are there any big changes on the horizon? have Duke attacked for having “killed the VP: I don’t know about big changes, but project”—with my own understanding of one of the task forces of the trustees—which it was not that. That was never the case and incorporates students and faculty and staff as certainly not the case from my perspective. well—has been looking at the next generation TC: I also have a question about the of residential living and learning on campus. now-Classroom Building. I know the So, thinking about Greek life factors into our history department, when they requested larger thinking about what our aspirations the renaming, requested it be the Gavins are for residential life on Duke’s campus. Building, but the Trustees decided it would But it’s also an opportunity for us to think stay the Classroom Building until another about the totality of residence configurations renaming process. Why did the University on campus, the migration from East Campus decide to stick with that name? Are you to West Campus, the timing of when students waiting for a donor? Is it going to be the Price land in these residential communities. So Building one day? Greek life is one piece of a larger puzzle that VP: No, no [laughs]. So the proposal was, we’re still trying to fit together.

BRODHEAD FROM PAGE 1 and Duke Kunshan University were established under his presidency. For Brodhead, coming back to Duke is, more than anything, about the people. He commented that he loves how whenever he walks through campus, he is constantly bumping into familiar faces. A strong believer in enhancing education and learning through building community, Brodhead spends his time back at Duke catching up with old friends and appreciating the parts of the campus community rebuilt under his presidency, such as the Brodhead Center for Campus Life. “[The Brodhead Center] is meant to be a place that you’d be attracted to so that everyone runs into everybody and gets the education through a dynamic fabric of community,” he said. “When I come here now, I’ll always see people I know walking through or people who know me—or I’ll see somebody I know who’s with somebody I don’t know, and then I’ll meet them. So, the building is part of the education in that sense.” Brodhead also said that he doesn’t mind students calling the building West Union rather than the Brodhead Center. Although he appreciated that the Board of Trustees renamed the building after him, he said that it was unexpected and ultimately concluded that “the point of buildings isn’t in their names, but in what you can do inside of it.” He would not reveal his favorite spot to eat in the Brodhead Center to avoid appearances of endorsement. However, he suggested students “try everything,” adding that “eventually everybody makes their university, but you don’t want to make it prematurely.” So far, he himself has tried all but two spots at the Brodhead Center. Brodhead shared that the Sarah P. Duke gardens and the Nasher exhibits are among other “musts” on his to-do list whenever he returns to campus, noting that the current

exhibits are “totally fantastic.” Despite no longer being president, Brodhead still stays updated with Duke, hearing about news stories and happenings through Duke faculty, trustees and students. In response to some of Duke’s more recent news and controversies, such as the University’s refusal to sign a cooperation agreement for the Durham-Orange Light Rail project, Brodhead commented that he believed Duke made a justifiable decision. “I think Duke raised a series of very reasonable objections about putting it so near the hospital that were never really dealt with,” he said. “Given the facts and given the concerns that Duke had registered that were not addressed, I don’t think Duke really had a lot of choice about it.” He shared sentiments similar to those of President Price, and he underscored the strength and cooperation behind relations between Duke and Durham, believing it to be “a mistake to treat the light rail as if that’s the index to telling our relations.” Brodhead also enjoys occasionally giving lectures and visiting classes, having taught in a few FOCUS cluster classes during the fall semester. During the spring semester, he also gave a series of three lectures to Duke Kunshan University’s first-ever freshmen class. The lectures were on topics in American history and culture, including the life of the Declaration of Independence in the world, the issue of slavery in the Constitution and the history of U.S.-China educational exchanges. As honorary chancellor of DKU, Brodhead said that he visits the campus, located in the southeastern Jiangsu province of China, about once or twice a year and plans to keep giving lectures and teaching lessons there in the future. What draws him to DKU is the strong pioneering spirit of the student body, remarking that these are students who could See BRODHEAD on Page 15

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BRODHEAD FROM PAGE 14 have gone anywhere but decided instead to go to “a brand-new university.” However, he said that although he loves to teach, he has enjoyed “being free” and the process of finding that perfect in-between balance. He said that for a quarter of a century as both the president of Duke and dean of Yale, he led a “super structured life.” Brodhead commented that it had been rewarding and fascinating, introducing him to a whole new world of education, learning and friendships, and it had come with exceptionally fond memories. He said that walking by the Chapel at this time of the year reminded him of the joy of speaking directly to students during the Commencement and Convocation ceremonies. Despite this, Brodhead reflected that living with so much structure “is only one way to organize your life.” “I’m now liking being able to do things on the spur of the moment and I’m liking to be able to spend more time outside,” he said. “I’m liking to be able to start a book and finish it, and it’s just anything that interests me, I’m now free to do.”

KEOHANE FROM PAGE 1 arrows she would take the heat on. There are a limited number of arrows a president can take,” Burness said. “But she believed that leaders lead.” The first arrow waiting for Keohane was the question of whether to make East Campus an all first-year residence.

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administration expected her to make a decision regarding East Campus, Keohane said. “I said, ‘Wait a minute, I don’t know nearly enough about Duke to make this crucial decision,’” Keohane said. She then spoke with different members of the Duke community, listening to their concerns and visions for campus housing. She soon realized that opinion was “divided” and regardless of what she chose, it would be “a very controversial decision,” Keohane said. Devin Gordon, Trinity ‘98 and a former editor of The Chronicle, recalled living in the Bassett Dorm as a first-year and walking across the quad to watch The Simpsons with his upperclassmen friends in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. Many of the students who enjoyed mingling with peers in different class years whom they had met living on East vocally disagreed with the creation of a first-year campus, Gordon said. Alumni threatened to stop donating to the University or discourage their children from attending Duke, said Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students. Faculty members whose offices were on East also felt that making the campus for firstyears only would “minimize the significance of their work,” Wasiolek added. Keohane ultimately decided to make East a first-year campus, which is something that many people now consider to be one of Duke’s strengths and is a popular selling point for the University. Even though Wasiolek was “not completely supportive” of Keohane and the Board of Trustees’ decision in 1995, she later recognized that it was profoundly beneficial to the development of first-year students, crediting the former president’s “foresight” and “courage to make an unpopular decision.”

Although a 1999 undergraduate focus group told Wasiolek that moving all first-years to East Campus was the “first really good decision that the administration has made,” Gordon said that students who protested the change maintained their distaste for “Nan.” Keohane is not a leader concerned with others’ opinion of her, Burness said. “Like anyone, she liked to be liked. But she didn’t particularly worry if she was loved,” said Burness. “You need that kind of long-term view if you’re willing to make changes.”

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church or the chapel of a pluralistic institution with people of lots of faiths? I thought it was clear that it was the second,” Keohane said. “It was a decision I made on principle of what I thought this university really was.” Keohane knew that her verdict would upset many members of the community. So prior to announcing, she called different Methodist church leaders and alumni who had expressed concern, explaining why she thought it was “the right thing to do.” She said that some were more supportive on the phone than others, but they all appreciated ‘The ultimate symbol’ that she spoke with them beforehand. During Keohane’s tenure, LGBTQ+ rights “Taking the time to pave the way for a were particularly controversial in the South tough decision that you know is right is and at Duke, which held deep ties with the very important for leading an institution,” local Methodist community. Several members Keohane said. on the Duke Board of Trustees were appointed by the Methodist church in North Carolina, The Women’s Initiative Burness said. In her second-to-last year as president, Keohane made clear her position on Keohane founded the Women’s Initiative. marriage equality when she decided that Duke She chaired a 16-member steering would provide domestic partner health benefits committee that gathered information on to homosexual couples—a question left by her the lives of women students, employees and predecessor, Keith Brodie. faculty members at Duke. “She was willing to deal with controversial After a year of interviews and research, the issues in a very straightforward and upfront committee released a report of findings and manner...more than certainly any president recommendations to improve gender equity that I’ve worked for,” Burness said. “If she on campus. believed strongly in an issue, she would take all One of the most common concerns the hits that would come with it.” expressed by female employees was the need But the decision to make Duke Chapel for more daycare facilities. available for gay and lesbian union ceremonies The University then worked to increase the was different, Burness said, because “[Duke] number of daycare slots available to graduate Chapel had a certain symbolic resonance and a students, faculty members and staff. lot of people strongly believed that it would be “I cared a great deal about the lives of the ultimate symbol of Duke’s commitment to undergraduate women,” Keohane said. “And the gay and lesbian community.” what I had heard about effortless perfection Keohane said that she faced opposition from and the ways in which they were socialized in Methodist leaders, senior staffers and members terms of their comfort at Duke made me feel of the Board. that there was a lot of work to be done.” But amidst the noise and controversy, she said Read more about the Women’s Initiative and that it came down to an “institutional question.” Keohane’s thoughts on “what it means to have “Is this chapel a chapel of the Methodist power” at www.dukechronicle.com.

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Fall 2019 Upperclass Move-in Information Happy summer! We can’t wait for your return. Please review the information below and look for more details via your duke.edu email from your Residence Life staff in July. Upperclass move-in is decentralized so please check-in and retrieve keys in your assigned area (see below). NOTE: Keys will be issued ONLY to the assigned student. Please have your DukeCard or valid photo ID ready. Early arrivals are not permitted unless prior approval is granted. Upperclass Check-in Dates/Times: • Friday, August 23: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm • Saturday, August 24: 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm • Sunday, August 25: 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm Upperclass Campus Check-in Locations: • 300 Swift – 300 Swift main lobby • Craven Quad – Craven House B Commons • Crowell and Wannamaker Quads - Crowell House G Commons • Edens Quad - Edens 2A Group Fitness Room • Few Quad - Few FF Commons • Hollows Quad – Building A Commons • Keohane Quad - Keohane 4A 2nd Floor Commons • Kilgo Quad - Kilgo O Commons • Smart Home – 300 Swift main lobby West Campus Check-in Procedures: • Students arrive on campus and are directed to the Blue Zone. No permit is required to park in the Blue Zone during move-in. • Students must proceed through the check-in process at their designated quads in order to receive access to an unloading area. • Students will check-in at their designated quad and receive an RCR and sign for their room key. • Students will receive an temporary unloading pass good for their designated unloading area. These passes are good for 45 minutes. • Parking Services staff will direct students to the appropriate unloading areas. 300 Swift and Smart Home Check-in Procedures: • Students should park in the 300 Swift garage or the lot across at the corner of Hull St. and Swift Ave. Students may also choose to park at their respective buildings and walk to 300 Swift. • Students will check-in at the 300 Swift office and receive an RCR and sign for their room key. Students arriving after opening week should check-in at their respective Campus Office. Campus Offices are open from 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday. West Campus: Craven Quad, House D, Rm 101R, 919-684-5486; upperclasshousing@duke.edu 300/301 Swift and Smart Home: 300 Swift, 919-684-5486; upperclasshousing@duke.edu Residency Requirement: All students are required, to the extent that housing is available, to live on campus for their first three years (six semesters). HRL will continue to apply semesters spent on “study away” programs toward the three-year residency requirement. Students are guaranteed the opportunity to live on campus during their fourth year.

Insurance statement: Duke University is not liable for damage or loss of personal property kept in student’s assigned space or in other areas of University Housing. Because the University does not provide property insurance, students are encouraged to secure their own personal property insurance. All Duke students should consider purchasing renters insurance to protect their personal property in the event that it is damaged, destroyed or stolen. Even if a student is a dependent under his or her parent’s insurance, the student’s personal property may not be covered. Talk with your parents. They should check their policy or contact their insurance agent to see what coverage you have and if renters insurance is right for you while away at school.

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