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‘Your true competitor is yourself’ By Mona Tong Local and National News Editor

Team USA fencer and Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, Trinity ‘07, encouraged the Class of 2023 to make confident decisions based on their personal beliefs, regardless of other people’s actions or opinions. Muhammad spoke to first-year students as the closing speaker for Orientation Week in a conversation facilitated by Mary Pat McMahon, the new vice provost/vice president for student affairs. As the first female MuslimAmerican athlete to medal at the Olympics and the first athlete to compete in a hijab for Team USA, Muhammad shared lessons and wisdom she gained from her time with the sport and at Duke. Having graduated within the lifetime of the Class of 2023, Muhammad related to her audience by describing her favorite memories, professors, classes and study spaces, among other Duke experiences. “It felt like being at Duke was an opportunity to discover myself, who I was, what my beliefs were at the time, who I wanted to become as an individual,” Muhammad said. “It just gave me a really good foundation and chance to spread my wings in understanding what growth meant.” By discussing the adversities she faced in her athletic career as both a religious and racial minority, Muhammad also inspired the Class of 2023 to trust and believe in themselves and their enormous capabilities. Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor Ibtihaj Muhammed implored the Class of 2023 to believe in themselves, find motivation within themselves and explore new things at Duke in her talk.

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Morocco to Duke: The journey of the faculty advancement chief By Bre Bradham Investigations Editor

Abbas Benmamoun grew up in a small Moroccan town in the Rif Mountains, dotted by olive groves and abutting the ruins of a Roman colonial town. He was one in a family of eight who enjoyed playing soccer with his friends. Benmamoun went to elementary school and middle school there, but since the semi-rural area did not have a high school, he headed to boarding school. He studied in Morocco’s capital, Rabat, before traveling to London for a master’s program. There, a professor suggested he pursue a doctorate in the United States. “I remember I didn’t have enough money to apply to schools, so I applied to one—University of Southern California at Los Angeles—because there was someone there I wanted to work

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with,” Benmamoun said. “I applied there and got admitted— that’s how I ended up coming to the United States.” After a 20-year stint at the University of Illinois, Benmamoun came to Duke in 2017 as a professor and the University’s first vice provost for faculty advancement. “It was kind of a long journey,” he said with a laugh in his Allen Building office—4,000 miles away from his Moroccan hometown. Now, Benmamoun is entering his third year at the helm of the Office of Faculty Advancement, where he and his team provide leadership development for department chairs, assist with hiring to ensure inclusivity and help bring in diverse faculty and offer skill development programs for faculty, among a variety of other initiatives. The goal? To help faculty succeed and be productive, and to create a more inclusive Duke community. “I feel that education really is a gift that we need to treasure

and make sure we share with others,” Benmamoun said.

‘We should be willing to embrace those challenges’ In November 2015, Provost Sally Kornbluth announced at a community forum that the University was searching for a vice provost for faculty advancement. The announcement came after a series of racist and homophobic incidents on campus and a few months following the release of a lengthy report that noted the percentage of black faculty on campus was 4.4% and Hispanic faculty was 2.6%. The 2015 report suggested more diversity in faculty searches and increased attention on creating an inclusive community to aid retention. In July 2019, Kornbluth said that the office came about as See BENMAMOUN on Page 14

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New Year, New Chron An Editor’s Note

By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

On page 4, I lay out some of the things to watch for this year at Duke. There’s lots to watch for from the Chronicle too—new year, new Chron. First, I am so excited about our new website. It features a much more user-friendly experience, with no in-line scrolling or hover navigation. There are now top stories and trending features to inform our readers of some of our most popular articles. We are still working out the minor kinks that come with any new site, but we are thrilled about the site’s new look. We also have a new color detail, a splash of coral, in our logo. For most of The Chronicle’s history, we have focused on the written word and the still image to cover the Duke experience. Last year, we expanded into the spoken word with our podcast lineup. Now, we are kick-starting our video department to envision Duke through the moving image. Our videos will entertain, explain and capture Duke in ways we haven’t been able to before. On our site, you can also find our Chronquiry service, where readers ask us questions or submit comments directly. Our reporters always keep their eyes and ears open for stories, but we can’t

be everywhere and we certainly can’t read minds (though that would help a lot when interviewing administrators). If you have a question about Duke or Durham, chances are that others in the Duke community have that same question. And we can find out how many others have them too, thanks to our voting tool on the website that lets us decide which question to look into first. Help us figure out what you care about and what we should investigate. Speaking of community journalism, The Chronicle is unveiling the Community Editorial Board. The old Editorial Board was a group of mainly undergraduate students—independent of the Chronicle’s news staff—who shared their opinions on relevant issues facing Duke students. Understandably, there was a fair bit of confusion, as many people thought Edit Board spoke for the paper. The Community Edit Board still will not speak for The Chronicle. It will function similarly to the former board, as it is a group of involved students who will offer sharp takes on Duke news after deliberating together. We are now in the 115th Volume of The Chronicle. Our journey began when Duke was still Trinity College, and we hope to continue the tradition of excellence. Follow us on social media, read our articles on the new-and-improved website and be a part of the campus conversation.

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Kamala Harris speaks at Durham banquet general. At the #KamalaNotKin rally, one of the banners read, “Invest in our community. Stop the Cops. #FundBlackFutures.” North Carolina politicians like Mayor Steve Schewel, Trinity ‘73 and Ph.D. ‘82, Gov. Roy Cooper and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) were also in attendance at the event. Some had personal connections to Harris: Cooper served as the Attorney General for North Carolina as Harris served in the same position in California. Butterfield introduced Harris, the keynote speaker, and expressed his gratitude for her presence at the banquet. “When she speaks her colleagues listen—at least most of them,” Butterfield said. “We are proud that she is showing America and the world that African American women can excel and lead this great nation.” Noting that the committee is one of “leaders who understand the fight that we have is an Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor ongoing fight,” Harris said that the current

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke to the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People.

By Stefanie Pousoulides News Editor

“Who are we?” asked Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris at a Saturday banquet in Durham, as she said it was necessary at this current moment to look in the mirror and reflect on the “history of our country.” Sen. Harris (D-CA) said that those in attendance at the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People’s Founders’ Day Banquet know one component of the answer: “we are better than this.” Harris, the keynote speaker, was elected in 2016 as the second black woman

and the first South Asian American woman to serve as a U.S. senator. “For 84 years, this committee has fought for a more just and more equal Durham but also a more just and more equal America,” Harris said. “This committee helped elect Durham’s first black members to the city council and the school board, worked to integrate everything from city schools to the Durham Bulls and fought for equal opportunity.” Protestors of the event gathered outside of the Durham Convention Center, where the banquet was held, to bring awareness to Harris’ criminal justice record as San Francisco’s district attorney and California attorney

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moment’s fight isn’t new. As the daughter of parents active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, she said she would not be able to be a senator nor a serious presidential candidate without the ongoing fight for civil rights, and specifically pointed to the work of the Durham committee. For the past two years, she said conversations on civil rights, and specifically race, have shifted from mentioning the long-used phrase “the race card” to “identity politics.” She pushed back on the new term, as it’s used to “marginalize the subject in a way that I believe is meant to say ‘hush’ in a way that sometimes is meant to say ‘shut up,’” Harris said. “When we talk about how our country is and where we are on civil rights issues, it is not identity politics in the way that they try to See HARRIS on Page 12

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What to watch for in 2019-20

Some of the stories, people and questions worth paying attention to this year By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

Take a deep breath and listen closely. Notice anything missing? Construction has quieted down significantly, with the completion of the new Hollows Quad and renovations of Craven Quad. But just because West Campus has momentarily calmed down in terms of construction, that doesn’t mean that all the excitement is gone. Here are a few stories, people and questions to watch out for this year.

Is Duke going to announce more plans for Central Campus?

As the Hollows fills with students, Central Campus is coming down. Duke started demolishing apartments on Central a few weeks ago after those apartments had housed students for more than 40 years. “We’ve known from the day I arrived that Central Campus was done, that those buildings are ready to be retired,” Larry Moneta, former vice president for student affairs, told The Chronicle in 2017. “The money we put into them was just to keep them going until we could build something new.” Duke has not committed to a long-term plan for the approximately 60 acres of land at its disposal. The Board of Trustees’ Future of Central Campus task force specified only a small expansion for the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and some additional parking. It did not advocate for any other exact development, opting not to dilute the potential of Central with small projects and because Duke doesn’t quite have the money for a big undertaking on campus right now, as Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle last fall. So what will Central look like this year? How much more parking will be available, and who will get to use it? There probably won’t be many reasons to go near the demolition, unless you’re trying to go the International House. I-House will remain on Alexander Avenue within Central Campus this year—a decision that was unpopular with the president of the International Association.

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What does Mary Pat have planned for students and their living situations?

After 18 years leading Student Affairs, Larry Moneta retired in June and was replaced by Mary Pat McMahon from Tufts University. Since Student Affairs oversees dining, mental health services, housing and residence life, affinity groups, clubs and the career center, McMahon has a lot on her plate. Additionally, the undergraduate residential experience has been a major topic of campus conversation for the past several years. Groups like Duke Students for Housing Reform have advocated for an end to selective living, while other students

tried to reimagine how social selective groups could work at Duke—and don’t forget about the countless columns in The Chronicle for and against housing reform. The Board of Trustees even commissioned a task force on the Next Generation Living and Learning Experience. McMahon will be charged with implementing living recommendations from the task force and fostering a less stress-inducing housing process alongside Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education. See WATCH on Page 18

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Is mental illness to blame for recent mass shootings? Duke experts say no By Rose Wong Local and National News Editor

In the wake of recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the president and other Republican lawmakers responded to the increasing demands of gun control activists by pointing to mental illness. But experts from Duke say that’s wrong. In early August, President Donald Trump called for the return of mental health institutions to tackle gun violence, while claiming that his administration will focus on the impact of mental illness at an unprecedented level, according to an article by Politico. “We have to start building institutions again because, you know, if you look at the ’60s and ’70s, so many of these institutions were closed, and the people were just allowed to go onto the streets,” Trump told a group of reporters. “That was a terrible thing for our country.” In North Carolina, Democrats in both legislative chambers filed extreme risk protection order bills, which allow family members and law enforcement officials to ask a judge to temporarily remove guns from an individual who poses a risk to themselves or others. However, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, who presides over the Senate, insisted that the focus should instead be on mental health and personal responsibility, according to WRAL. Jeffrey Swanson, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Duke School of Medicine, has authored and co-authored over 200 publications on violence and serious mental illnesses and will serve as a visiting

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Some Republican lawmakers have tried to pin the blame on mental illness for the recent spate of mass shootings. Experts say that rhetoric is dangerous for those experiencing mental illness.

scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research this fall. He called the president’s mental illness talk “fake news.” “Most of the people who are perpetrators of gun crimes don’t have mental illness,” Swanson said. “[Mass shooters] are isolated, alienated, aggrieved young men following this deviant cultural script and have access to very lethal technology. But few of them actually have one of the recognizable psychiatric illnesses that tens of millions of Americans deal with and who would never do something like this.” Based on Swanson’s 2015 study, even if society were rid of mental illness, violence would only be reduced by 4%. Few perpetrators

of gun violence have legitimate mental illnesses, but they all have guns. In a speech at the School Safety Summit earlier this month, Mandy Cohen, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that people with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. Swanson said that the rhetoric of mental illness allows Republican lawmakers to “obscure the real problem and prevents us from focusing on real solutions,” such as improving background checks, increasing law enforcement against illegal gun trafficking and enacting extreme risk protection order laws, known as red flag laws.

Falsely blaming mental health increases the stigma that people struggling with mental illness face regularly, perpetuating the notion that these individuals are somehow dangerous or should be feared, Swanson commented. Kristin Goss, Kevin D. Gorter professor of public policy and political science, said that while the federal government has not been able to move beyond the rhetoric, considerable action has been made on the state level in both red and blue states. “Nothing meaningful has happened in Congress to advance gun regulations arguably since the mid-nineties,” Goss said. “But most criminal justice policies happen at the state level. States have way more authority over criminal justice than the federal government.” Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have passed extreme risk protection order laws. Even though ERPO bills struggle to gain bipartisan support in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper recently signed an executive directive to strengthen background checks and increase gun violence prevention education among law enforcement and the local community. Swanson said for action to occur on the federal level, the focus needs to return to guns. He found that compared to 14 other industrialized countries, the United States has a standard crime rate, but an exceptionally high homicide rate. Furthermore, an assault in the United States is three times more likely to involve a gun. “If you have a couple of young, intoxicated, impulsive young men in the middle of the night in the UK and they get into an argument, See SHOOTINGS on Page 13

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Rico Nasty to headline Heatwave concert By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

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As if Durham hasn’t already been hot enough, a Heatwave is coming next week. Each year, Duke University Union’s campus concerts committee puts on its Heatwave concert at the end of the first week of classes. Rapper Rico Nasty will be headlining this year’s concert on Krzyzewskiville Aug. 30. The FLONERS—from Duke’s Small Town Records Aaron Zhao | Features Photography Editor label—will open for her. Heatwave is the first campus concert of the year. This year it will have rapper Rico Nasty as the headliner. “We are in fact having Rico for Heatwave and are super excited about it!” wrote junior Max Miller, chair of DUU’s campus concerts committee, in a Facebook message. Rico Nasty, a 22-year-old rapper from Maryland, is known for songs like “Smack a Bitch,” “Countin’ Up” and “Poppin.” She was featured as a member of XXL’s 2019 Freshman Class, which highlights up-and-coming hiphop artists.

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Rico Nasty has released four albums in the past three years, and will begin the Nasty Tour in Australia in January 2020. Her most recent album, Anger Management, was released on April 25. Last year’s headliner, Snakehips, was chosen because the DUU Campus Concerts committee recognized that “based on the past two years of student survey data for LDOC, rap and EDM are the two most popular genres on campus,” according to Dylan Posner, Trinity ’19, former chair of DUU campus concerts. This year’s committee has followed suit, choosing hip-hop and R&B performers to kick off the year. The FLONERS—a hip-hop and R&B duo made up of Kofi and Carlito—are from the student-run label Small Town Records. They write and produce their own music, and they’re “ready to take their ambition to the next level,” according to their bio on the label’s website. British electronic music duo Snakehips headlined Heatwave last year. They performed after Apollo J and jiggy riKO from Small Town Records.

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Admissions building to be Not even a rattlesnake can renovated, staff relocated stop Mike Posner By Jake Satisky Sports Editor

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While administrators publicly say that the foundation of the university is its students, sometimes Duke has to worry about its other foundation—in this case, the one buried under the admissions building. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions building on Campus Drive will be renovated during the 2019-20 academic year, improving its nearly 100-year-old foundation and

facilities. Admissions officers and staff are moving to separate locations for the year. The building will undergo a series of repairs, Vice President for Facilities John Noonan wrote in an email to The Chronicle. Renovations include modernizing its “mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems,” and replacing the roof. The building’s foundation will also need repairs to fix foundation settlement issues and upgrade Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility. The renovation will also connect the building to the campus-wide chilled water system to improve air conditioning efficiency. See ADMISSIONS on Page 13

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Mike Posner, Trinity ‘09, was 1,632 miles into his walk across the United States when a baby rattlesnake bit him Aug. 7. After receiving an antidote and resting for a few days, he aims to resume the journey he had been planning for years. The Grammynominated artist started his almost 3,000-mile walk in April 2019 from Asbury Park, N.J., and had been releasing a song in each state, according to CNN. For example, his song “Prince Akeem” featuring Wiz Khalifa, was released just days before the snake bite. At the time of the bite, Posner was more than 100 days into his trek across the United States. His daily goal of walking 24 miles was cut short at the 16-mile mark when he was airlifted to a nearby hospital to receive an antivenom treatment. On Instagram, he expressed his gratitude for the attentiveness of his team and hospital staff. “I’ll be here a few days and will not be able to walk for several weeks but enjoying the AC and the nice bed, haven’t had those in a while Hahahaha! Can’t wait to get back on The Walk!” Posner wrote on Instagram. At Duke, Posner was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity and was involved with Small Town Records. The sociology major returned to Duke along with his friend Big Sean to perform at the LDOC concert in 2009. Posner has received many accolades for his career as a songwriter and singer, such as

a 2016 Grammy nomination for “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” and being named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for music in 2017. He had intended to do the walk for years, but the deaths of both his father and his friend and fellow musical artist Avicii motivated him to concentrate on the journey, Posner told Billboard the month he began his trek. Before he embarked on his journey, he set introspective goals, desiring to discover “how to be in love with where I am right now.” “I don’t feel like I’m walking to show people who I am. I’m walking to find out who I’ll become,” Posner told Billboard. Since his stay at the hospital, Posner has made strides to focus on his return to his journey. He has been able to walk without his walker, and traveled 3.6 miles Aug. 20. Posner did not respond to requests for comment through Facebook and Instagram.

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HARRIS FROM PAGE 3 phrase it where America stands on core issues of civil rights. It’s about America’s identity,” Harris said. Instead, discussions should be centered on “truth and fact” when discussing the identity of the United States, Harris said. Issues like the racial wealth gap, maternal mortality and equal opportunity for education are integral to America’s identity, she explained. “We must collectively address the fact that black families have just $10 of wealth for every $100 of wealth held by other families. It is a matter of America’s identity,” Harris said. “We know that black women are three to four more times likely to die in childbirth as compared to other women. It is a matter of America’s identity.” Harris said that in addition to asking “Who we are?” “For whom?” must also be answered to properly understand the context of current challenges. President Donald Trump ran his 2016 campaign on the slogan of “Make America Great Again,” but Harris argued that the nation shouldn’t return to the ways of times before rights protections that came with legislation and court cases like the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, federal minimum wage and Roe v. Wade. In contrast, Harris is running for president to “turn the page.” “After turning the page, the test before us as leaders is to write the next chapter and to write the next chapter in the America that we believe in,” Harris said. To fulfill the promise of home ownership for four million black families, she proposed investing $100 billion for families in “historically redlined communities or in federally subsidized housing.”

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As home ownership is intertwined with intergenerational wealth transfers, Harris believes that these investments are integral to addressing the racial wealth gap. Families who want to invest in their children’s education and entrepreneurship often take assets out of their home to avoid taking out loans. “Intergenerational wealth based on home ownership is connected with the existence and fact of the racial wealth gap as a reflection of America’s identity and then talking about building the America that we believe in and writing the next chapter,” Harris said. At the banquet, the committee also annually honors two members of the Durham community for their significant impact, and the 2019 honorees were Elaine O’Neal, interim dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law, and former mayor Bill Bell. Harris applauded Bell’s influence on Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor Durham as the city’s former mayor, as “many N.C. Governor Roy Cooper and Representatives David Price and G.K. Butterfield were at the event. may not be able to see what leadership looks like until they see a leader” like him. O’Neal has shattered boundaries, Harris said, since she was the first woman to be the Chief District Court Judge in the North Carolina District Court and the first woman to be Superior Court Judge for Durham County. Her “extraordinary force” reminded Harris of something her mother used to tell her: “Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.” The presidential candidate said she knew she was speaking to a “committee of leaders who understand the fight that we have is an ongoing fight.” The fight to attain the “noble ideas” the United States was founded upon was “born out of optimism,” Harris said, and it was “born out of knowing, believing and having faith in what can be, unburdened on what has been.” “This is a fight for the soul of our country,” Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor Harris said. “This is a fight born out of love. People protested Kamala Harris’s criminal justice record in California outside the banquet Saturday. This is a fight we’re going to win.”

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same floor and more accessible to each other than they currently are,” Guttentag said. A handful of staff who regularly interact with visitors will be FROM PAGE 8 relocated to the brand-new Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center at 615 Chapel Drive, which will host admissions visitors during the The admissions building was built in 1930 originally to 2019-20 academic year. Guttentag predicted that visitors would house Duke’s president. The building now hosts the admissions enjoy the location change, given the modern, spacious facilities visitors center and its information session space, as well as that the new building offers. “[Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center] is a real visitors center admissions offices. The adjacent visitors center—McClendon Commons—is a with appropriate facilities,” Guttentag said. newer building, constructed in 2003. However, apart from its shift from a home to an office, Noonan suggested that the admissions building has otherwise largely remained in its original form and therefore requires upgrades due to its age. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag told the Chronicle that most of the admissions staff will be FROM PAGE 5 relocated to the Noell building on the American Tobacco Campus. While the admissions office expects to eventually be somebody gets a bloody nose or a black eye,” Swanson said. “In back on Campus Drive, Guttentag suggested that the change in our country, it’s statistically more likely in that scenario that one of those young men in one of our big cities would have a scenery might work out in the short-term. “We’re actually looking forward to having everyone on the concealed handgun and things would get out of hand.”

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COMPETITOR FROM PAGE 1 “I just want to let you guys know that there will be people who doubt you in your life, who don’t believe in your dreams, who don’t believe in your journey, but one of the cool things about your journey is that it’s you,” she said. “You don’t need anyone else’s support. The only support you need comes from inside.” Throughout the conversation, Muhammad emphasized the importance of embracing individuality, maintaining ones personal beliefs and serving others. She talked about the toxicity and futility of comparison to others, adding that one’s biggest and only competitor should be oneself. “Your true competitor is yourself and I’ve learned to use myself as my biggest competitor,” she said. “I always want to be better than I was yesterday—I want to smile more than yesterday, I want to be happier than I was yesterday, I want to be a better agent of change, I want to do better in my community, locally and globally more the next day or this day than on previous days.”

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Muhammad spoke of two options life presented her with: she could either follow the common path of athletes and fade into relative obscurity after winning her medal, or become an “agent of change” with her newfound prominence. She also acknowledged and identified with the stress faced by first-years and many Duke students in feeling like they aren’t doing or achieving enough. Although she added that this pressure can help students grow, she noted that it can be overwhelming and underscored the importance of mental health. When McMahon asked Muhammad for a final piece of advice for the first-years, Muhammad suggested that they should explore as many classes and topics as they can. “I wish someone told me you don’t have to pick your major on day one,” she said. “I didn’t know that international studies was a passion of mine until I got to Duke… I learned so much about myself in taking a multitude of classes here at Duke and I would encourage you to do the same.” First-year Winnie Lu said that she enjoyed the conversation, noting how relatable and applicable Muhammad’s message was to first-year students. “I enjoyed the talk a lot,” Lu said. “Muhammad’s story, especially where her life plans changed constantly, was full of advice and lessons that are applicable to a lot of freshmen like me right now who aren’t completely sure what’s ahead of us.” First-year Angela Wu said that it was “humbling” to get to sit only a few rows away from somebody who has pushed not only herself, but also society’s limits. “Even though I’ve heard a lot about Ibtihaj in the news, it felt so different to listen to her speak to us simply as a part of the Duke community,” she added. “I think being able to hear from her made everything she said feel more personally meaningful for me.”

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part of the follow-up from the report. “The idea was that as part of the follow-up that we needed an office dedicated essentially to faculty advancement writ large, to creating a more diverse and inclusive faculty environment, empowering faculty with leadership skills, with career development opportunities, etc.,” she said. At the time, Benmamoun was the vice provost for faculty affairs and academic policies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—a “similar role, somewhat overlapping but not entirely,” as Kornbluth described it. “So I wanted somebody who was a good listener, who was thoughtful, but who had a pretty good grasp of what the important issues were,” Kornbluth said. “In other words, understanding trends nationally in diversity and inclusion, understanding best practices.” And in Illinois, Benmamoun’s youngest child was about to leave home, meaning a change wouldn’t be disruptive to his family. “What I found really interesting about this opportunity at Duke is that it’s about faculty advancement—which in my view, is a really good way these kinds of positions should be framed,” he said. “It is about supporting all the faculty, with diversity being an essential component of faculty excellence, and I found that very appealing. I could also tell the leadership was very interested in that area of faculty advancement.” Benmamoun was announced as the hire in February 2017, and his first day on the job was June 1 of that year. Sitting in his office in September 2018, about 15 months after he started in Durham, Benmamoun said that the first year was a learning period in which he focused on talking with people and assembling a team to work with in the new office. “For the first few months it was mostly about learning about the place and what is being done so that we don’t duplicate the efforts,” he said. “What are the top priorities for us in the space of faculty advancement?” The good news, he said, was that Duke has been thinking about those types of things for a while, so there were numbers to work with and plans in place. “Faculty advancement” may seem like a pretty broad term. The office’s work largely falls into “three big buckets,” Benmamoun explained. The first is recruiting qualified, diverse faculty. They help with the recruitment process for faculty positions to ensure that the “net is cast wide,” such as considering how the job ad is drafted and ensuring the applicants are treated equally when they come to campus. “We are not telling people ‘We want you to hire this particular person from this particular background,’” Benmamoun said. “What we are telling them is ‘Try to have a broad, inclusive, fair process—and then hire the best fit for your program.’” The office can also provide “some financial support” to a unit if it’s trying to bring in a diverse faculty member. “What I like about this position at Duke is the value of diversity is not seen as something separate from other faculty development efforts,” Benmamoun said. “Things like excellence, diversity, inclusion are weaved into every aspect of faculty development. I think that is the right way to go about it.” The second of the metaphorical buckets is developing faculty and providing support for the people who work with faculty, such as department chairs and deans. This includes holding workshops to help faculty prepare for promotion and tenure and to develop their mentorship skills. The third is working to make Duke’s overall climate more welcoming for all parties and building a sense of community for faculty members. “The challenges that come when you are diversifying a place is that you are bringing people with different backgrounds and experiences, so you need to find a way to create space for everyone,” he said. Making everyone feel more included improves the University’s talented faculty pool and allows students to reap the benefits. “We should be willing to embrace those challenges,” Benmamoun said. To help build community, his office offered seed grants for faculty to develop affinity groups this past academic year. He said one group started having weekly meetings and did a weekend retreat together. Nicole Schramm-Sapyta, assistant professor of the practice in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, was supported by Benmamoun’s office to host a series of eight workshops last year, as part of an Inclusion and Power Dynamics series. She said that they plan to host six more this year. A survey was given to the participants after the workshops to see how effective they were. See BENMAMOUN on Page 15

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BENMAMOUN FROM PAGE 14 “We didn’t reinvent the wheel or anything, but the response was in the right direction,” Schramm-Sapyta said. The issues they are trying to tackle through these workshops don’t go away magically, she noted, but people are more aware of them and willing to talk about problems that previously floated under the surface. Schramm-Sapyta said she was glad that Benmamoun’s office was there to help. “They’re taking on the tough topics,” she said. Kornbluth noted that Benmamoun has, “in some ways, a difficult role.” “It’s not a command and control kind of role, it’s really a collaborative kind of role. You can’t legislate people being more inclusive, for instance,” Kornbluth said. “You have to educate people, you have to establish best practices. You have to interact with all parties. It has to be somebody who has the intelligence, social skills and good relationships with people all around the campus to really make progress.” Duke is not the only university in its peer group to tackle these issues, both Benmamoun and Kornbluth said, but it combines this suite of roles under one office that is broadly focused on faculty advancement, without being legally focused or a compliance-based office. “We try to support the whole person, the whole faculty,” Benmamoun said.

‘How language works’

Along with being Duke’s vice provost for faculty affairs, Benmamoun is also a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and linguistics. A visiting speaker sparked his interest in the field when he was studying for his bachelor’s degree in Morocco, and he went to London to get a master’s degree on the subject. He earned

his Ph.D. from USC in 1992. “My research is comparative in nature. I look at, for example, different varieties of Arabic. It’s a vast area, so you are going to get huge diversity in language,” Benmamoun said. “We try to find what is in common, what is different. Why some properties are different, how those differences came about. Are they due to some internal change or due to some pressure through contact with other languages?” He wrote “The Feature Structure of Functional Categories,” which was published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and “The Syntax of Arabic,” which Cambridge University Press published in 2010. “Linguistics is about how language works, and there are so many questions that are so intriguing about how human language works,” Benmamoun said. His academic background was useful in the Spring 2019 semester when his office responded to an incident in the biostatistics and bioinformatics department when the then-director of graduate studies—Megan Neely, assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics—sent an email to students warning them to not speak Chinese in the hallways. She stepped down from her role as director of graduate studies but remains on the faculty as an assistant professor. The controversy drew international attention. In its wake, Benmamoun’s office stepped in to hold a community forum about the issue and brought in speakers who could address language, culture and the international student experience, Kornbluth said. Benmamoun also noted they organized a workshop for chairs and faculty on how to support students from a variety of backgrounds. “That particular situation was interesting because Abbas is a linguist,” Kornbluth said. “He’s very, very deeply interested in how language affects perspective and how it affects culture.”

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typically evaluated after five years, so no Although Benmamoun’s position is aimed formal evaluations have been conducted at supporting faculty members, recruiting yet. However, she’s heard positive anecdotal and retaining good professors is a benefit for responses from people with whom the office students too. has worked. It can also help Duke compete with its peers As to whether the faculty is becoming more to attract and keep top-notch academics. diverse, the provost said she will need to see “I hope so,” Kornbluth said. “I hope hard data to know for sure. people feel that is part of the environment, “My impression is yes, but I really need to that they are working hard to improve see the hard data to know where we are being faculty life here, to make it a more diverse successful and where we are falling down, and and inclusive environment. That’s part of put strategic thinking and resources in places the thinking.” where we have not been as successful as we’d Sitting in his office after wrapping up his like,” she said. second year on the job in May, Benmamoun talked about his goals for the coming ‘How transformative education can academic year. be’ He wants to continue the programs that When asked what drives him in the role, have been successful—like the leadership Benmamoun said that he enjoys supporting his development programs—and said his office fellow faculty members. is thinking about launching a leadership “I believe this is really critical work for us,” development pipeline to help faculty develop he said. “I really enjoy working with faculty.” academic leadership skills. As a teacher, he loves enabling students to The office is also working to address the thrive, and this position lets him play a similar issues outlined in a survey released by President role for faculty members. Vincent Price in November 2018. The survey “When you play a small role in ensuring reported that 17% of faculty, staff and graduate that somebody can excel and do great, and that students at Duke said they had been harassed you have a hand in that, I find that a fulfilling or felt uncomfortable within their academic thing,” he said. unit in the last five years. When he’s not on campus, Benmamoun So far, Benmamoun’s office has held a said that he and his wife like to walk and hike, community forum regarding these issues and and he likes to read. They love Durham, he said, has been talking with leadership within schools and try to take advantage of the close proximity and departments to share the results of the to the Durham Performing Arts Center. survey and discuss the next steps. Benmamoun’s passion for education, “This effort is going to continue,” he said. tempered by his background and journey, Benmamoun said that the efforts to drives him to try to make Duke a more make campus more diverse and inclusive are diverse and inclusive place for all who call the ultimately good for the “academic bottom line,” community home. since research has shown that diverse teams do “My generation in the family is the first that better in the private sector and the military. was able to get a formal education. I know how Students deserve that diversity of perspectives transformative education can be,” he said. “I and experiences to help them better prepare for really love to see talent nurtured and everyone New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation the future, The he added. given the opportunity to thrive regardless of Eighth Avenue, New York, Kornbluth 620 explained that offices are N.Y. their10018 means.” For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For August 26, 24, 2019 2019 For Release Release Saturday, Monday, August

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Do Duke students care about Bach?

uke University Chapel houses one of the finest pipe organs in the United States. Built by the legendary Flentrop Orgelbouw of Zaandam, The Netherlands, the mammoth instrument dominates the great arch separating the narthex and the nave of the neo-gothic building.

a series of concerts entitled, The Complete Organ Works of J. S. Bach. My wife and I went over for the first concert in the series. As we walked from the parking lot to the Chapel, we could hear the voices of two students who were strolling along behind us and discussing the late start to their day. The male spoke loudly enough to be heard

acoustical bosom of the sanctuary. Wrong again! Entering the Chapel was like walking into a rest home. Wheel chairs and walkers were everywhere, and as we settled into our seats we couldn’t help but notice that the young people in attendance could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

across the quad. “I slept until 12:30,” he said, “but after I got up and started in, I dominated my work—my writing was beautiful, if I do say so myself.” The encounter brought to mind the statistics on every freshman class admitted to Duke over the past thirty years. Each class has surpassed its predecessor in terms of standardized scores, grade point averages, and achievements outside the classroom. And the percentage of applicants who are not admitted has grown steadily over the years. Still, the admissions office has always found plenty of entitled credential builders with high opinions of themselves to go around nicely. I snapped out of my reverie in time to look for the line of students I expected to see waiting to get into the Chapel for the organ concert. Since there was always a line for the basketball games, I assumed there would be plenty of students wanting the best seats for the concert. After all, Bach’s compositions for the organ are among the greatest works in the history of music. Opportunities like this are one of the reasons students want to come to Duke in the first place—or at least that’s what they say in their application essays. But the entrance area to the Chapel was uncrowded, and there were no students in sight. Perhaps they were inside, I thought, already occupying seats in the

I don’t know what the students were doing that Sunday evening. Maybe they were studying for a test; perhaps they were recovering from a Saturday debauch; or it could have been that they were just dominating the hell out of a paper. Whatever the case, they missed a fine performance of some of the most magnificent music ever composed, played by a member of their community on a great instrument of their university. You may say that one sample doesn’t prove anything, and you will be right. But go to any classical music concert on campus and count the students there. It won’t take you but a few seconds, and the number will include those who are there as part of a course requirement. You may also tell me that all students are not necessarily interested in classical music, or classical art, or poetry, or even basketball. And you would be right again. However, in a great university that rightly prizes diversity and that purportedly has its pick over a broad and crowded spectrum of qualified students, shouldn’t there be a decent showing at events such as the Bach concert? One would surely tend to think so.

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Duke-Alabama: More than a game

uke Football takes the field in Atlanta on Saturday in its first season-opening game with Alabama since 1972. In this one, like the ‘72 game, Duke will play before a full house (in the Mercedes Benz Stadium) against an Alabama team ranked No. 2 nationally preseason polls. For all of that, the game stands for so much more in the lore of college football and in the Duke program’s return to the national stage under Coach David Cutcliffe.

teammate and All-ACC defensive end Emo Gilson was decked on the opening kickoff by future NFL Hall of Famer John Hannah—grew from the experience, and headed home. But not before Alabama Coach Bear Bryant paid Duke Football the highest of compliments in a post-game interview, “Duke out-toughed us tonight!” Remarkably, David Cutcliffe, then an Alabama student and later an assistant to Coach Bryant who would return to Duke in a role unimaginable at

guest column That Duke would be playing Alabama now is a story in itself. Duke’s fabled West Campus wasn’t even finished in 1930—and Duke had yet to open its stadium—when then Dean E. H. Wanamaker approached Alabama’s then-head coach Wallace Wade for advice on how to steer Duke into the same national prominence in athletics that Duke was seeking in academics. Wade, who was coming off consecutive Rose Bowl appearances (the first by any southern school) and two national championships, stunned the world by accepting an offer—$12,500 in base salary plus a share of the gate—to come to Duke as its head football coach. In short order, Duke would win two national football titles under Coach Wade and name its stadium after him. What I didn’t know, as a freshman walk-on player in ‘72 practicing for Duke’s opener that season in Birmingham, was that Duke Football was just beginning to compete again on the national level after years wallowing in obscurity. Duke went into that game led by second-year Head Coach and Duke All American Mike McGee (who passed away last week after a storied career as a coach and athletic director). Against all odds, Duke was competitive against that Alabama team, trailing by two at the half and falling by a respectable 35-12 margin. Our team withstood some big hits—as my freshman

the time, was “in the house” for that game. Duke Coach Mike McGee’s unranked teams of the 1970’s went on from that epic meeting with Alabama in 1972 to play Tennessee, Florida, Southern California, and Michigan in successive seasons. That willingness to schedule and compete with national football powers proved to be a run-up to Steve Spurrier’s arrival at Duke as head football coach in 1986. The legendary Spurrier continued the restoration by leading Duke to a share of the ACC Football title and to national offensive yardage records in his last season here. So Saturday’s “Kickoff Game” between Duke and Alabama in Atlanta, historically reserved for the nation’s highest-ranked college teams, is really a “major” bowl game for Duke. And it’s a tribute of the highest order to all that has been achieved in recent years by Duke Coach “Cut” with the support of Coach K and Duke AD Kevin White. The DukeAlabama game really reopens the tale of two schools that long ago put college football on the map and put Duke athletics on the road to compete at the highest level. John Bussian, T’76, is a Raleigh-based First Amendment lawyer and former walk-on player who serves as volunteer counsel to The Chronicle.

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What happened to my attention span?

remember release night for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” like people remember family births and weddings. I was seven and a superfan, so my dad woke me up at midnight to stand in a line which stretched three blocks through our sleepy Dutch city. When we reached it, the bookstore was filled with synthetic fog and plastic decorations, and a Hogwarts-robed cashier even comped my copy because we were tenth in line. We made a twelvehour drive to vacation in Provence the following day, and I’d finished the book before we parked the car.

as coping mechanisms missing the fundamental problem: my failure to adopt a strict “digital minimalism” and systematically evaluate whether the technologies in my life add value, then eliminate those which don’t pass the test. In an ideal world, we’d all fulfill Newport’s regimen. For reasons including peer pressure and my self-destructive love of Twitter, my own progress on his path has remained slow, but history tells us that distraction, and attempts to combat it, are fundamental to the human psyche—the battle for our attention spans predated, and will certainly outlast, the technologies we presently enjoy.

ourselves accountable by regularly logging our progress. Attention, he writes, is a muscle (literally – just as accumulated myelin sheaths enable us to perform physical movements, so too do they protect our brain’s generative processes) which, with careful training, can grow stronger. I rarely meet his standards, but I find Newport’s work an invaluable benchmark. Central as attention is to our role as students, though, I think it has even richer dividends to pay in our relationships.

The writings of medieval monks, for instance, reveal that they had to fight bitterly to inhabit the mens intentus (Latin for “mind fixed on its object”) and maintain devotion to sacred texts, rituals, and hymns. Centuries before the smartphone, their minds wandered out the window into daydreams and anxieties, prompting various coping strategies: scholars avoided family, gossip, and other distractions through monastic seclusion; devised vivid mental animations as mnemonics for important concepts; and engaged in regular, mind-clearing manual labor. It’s by turns frustrating and comforting to learn that this struggle is so universal. Newport, always preoccupied with maximizing human productivity, has brought his talents to bear on these broader questions of creativity and concentration. His 2016 bestseller Deep Work, whose title refers to focus on a complex intellectual task, unpacks the requirements for intellectual achievement without the pain and procrastination. I find particularly helpful its suggestions that we zealously protect our “deep work” time by scheduling it in advance, block messaging and email during deep work periods, and hold

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil wrote that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” and added elsewhere that “taken to its highest degree, it is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.” I can grant my own fundamentally limited faith and love to a poem, an equation, or a children’s novel about a boy wizard, but I can also give it to a parent, a sibling, a friend in crisis. Here, too, does my distractible brain betray me; here, even more, do I need to cultivate my focus and presence. My goal for this semester—the gift I’m giving myself— is the chance to luxuriate in both my academics and my friendships without distraction or emotional absence. It’s a slow road, full of traps and doubling back on itself, but it’s one, I think, worth traveling.

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At the time, I was most excited about the free book and chance to be outside after bedtime, but in retrospect, it’s the voracity of my reading that I marvel at. I’m more easily carsick now, but even stationed in an armchair, I don’t think I could knock back those 700-odd pages in one go. Indeed, I’ve recently found that reading for long stretches, whether the material’s academic prose or fiction, requires that I struggle constantly against distraction and the waning of my mental energies. The memory of my concentration feat now makes me curious about attention spans—how potent mine was as a child, how it’s since frayed, and how I can work on building it back up. The distractions are obvious. Like almost everyone I know, I’m constantly scrutinizing my relationship to my phone, laptop, and other instruments of procrastination. In various bids to reduce addiction, I fiddle around with notification settings, delete apps from my phone, or switch displays to grayscale. But Cal Newport, a computer scientist, socialmedia skeptic, and professor who churns out New York Times bestsellers on tech and student life, would dismiss these steps

Margot Armbruster is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

My weekly 75-minute dilemma

our guides are responsible for leading over 40,000 annual visits to this beautiful gothic campus. Our commitment is an hour and fifteen minutes a week, but as a black student on this campus, it feels like a lot more. We start at the Admissions Office and head toward Abele Quad. Parents and students ask me questions along the way.

They’re not talking about me personally though. They’re asking how Duke treats its black students.

“Do you feel safe on campus?” “Do you feel like you’re treated equally?”

not tarnishing the image of dear old Duke. One of the first lines in the tour guide manual is “portray a fair and unbiased opinion on campus life/activities”, but how can I do that when this campus is biased against students who look like me? Students who have only just been able to attend this University in the past 56 years (58 for graduate students).

worse, having students ask for it to be taken down, but having our sentiments ignored. Duke, you need to do more. The diversity and inclusion you brag about isn’t simply putting non-white people on brochures or the website. It’s about actually doing something to help those students. It’s not about nostalgizing your racist past but finding a way to grow from and change

I feel like I’m betraying black students on my tours when I tell them about how great O-Week is, how I was able to go abroad for the first time thanks to financial aid, and how crazy the basketball games are because I want them to apply and go here. I want to see more black students on this campus. The black population at Duke went down from 13 percent in the Class of 2021, to 10 percent in the Class of 2022. I don’t tell these prospective students that the black students of the Class of 2022 were greeted with a racial slur at the Mary Lou before classes even started. I tell them about some of the engaging conversations I’ve had in class but leave out the “little things”. The microaggressions. The internal racism students are positive they don’t have because they have one black friend and Martin Luther King Jr. is their favorite activist. Having to hear non-black people sing ALL the lyrics to “Caroline” even though Aminé damn well said “if you ain’t black, don’t say n***a.” Having to see a #ThrowbackThursday picture of East campus in the 1960’ when the school was segregated by race and gender posted on the school’s official twitter. Even

its course even if it does upset a few older alumni. Hold your students and your staff accountable. Hold yourself accountable. I’m going abroad in the fall (woohoo), but I don’t know if I can go back to giving tours in the spring. It gives me so much joy seeing students fall in love with a campus that I call my home, but at the same time, I don’t want to lead others to believe Duke is everything it claims to be. I don’t think I can effectively be a representative of Duke University that the tour guide manual wants me to be while fighting against a University that does not completely value my place here. To black students thinking about applying to Duke, know that you have every right to be here and more. Know that Duke as an institution might not be fighting for you, but there is a community here ready to help you whenever you need it.

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“How hard is Duke?” “What do you do for fun?” “How is the social life like?” We get to Abele Quad and I emphasize that Julian Abele, a black architect, designed the picturesque campus decades before he would have even been able to attend this school. On other stops I talk about memorable experiences, amazing professors, crazy traditions, and lifelong friends. Before long, the tour is over. Parents and students clap and I direct them back to the admission office. Some families linger waiting to ask me questions one-on-one. A white dad tells me that he could “really tell my enthusiasm for Duke.” As I thank him, I see a black family linger behind, and I know what’s coming. It happens every time I have a black family or group on my tour (which is unfortunately not quite often).

“How is Duke for you?” “How does Duke treat you?”

Each time, I struggle to come up with an appropriate answer. I still don’t know how to grasp my time and experience as a black woman at Duke. The tour is officially over, and I say I’m going to be honest with them. I tell them that there are incidents that happen on campus, with an emphasis on the pluralizing ‘s’. There are many times where I’m still the only black person in my classes, something I naively thought would go away after high school. I tell them that the administration isn’t always the best about things, but the students make the most difference. Groups of students band together when bad things happen and are vocal about the change, they not only want to see but need to see. There haven’t been that many institutional changes, but the presence of people, even when it’s just a few, standing up against injustices that happen on our campus make me feel more comfortable than an email sent by the University to keep its image clean. I tell them that Duke is trying—kind of—but it still has a long way to go. I weave my words carefully so that I am telling them the full truth, but

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The position’s title went from vice president to vice president/ vice provost, which was meant to convey the closely tied nature of Coach K to celebrate 40 years at Duke the living and academic aspects of student life, according to Provost Almost 40 years ago, a relatively unknown men’s basketball Sally Kornbluth. Students will be watching to see what initiatives coach from West Point arrived at Duke. His name was Mike Krzyzewski, and he would turn Duke men’s basketball into the McMahon and Bennett take to improve student life. juggernaut it is today. In March, Krzyzewski will celebrate the How does Duke’s Divinity School respond to 40th anniversary of his hire and all that he has accomplished Methodist anti-LGBTQ vote? in that time, including five national championships, more than In February, the United Methodist Church’s global 1,000 wins and 15 ACC tournament titles. representative body voted to enforce tighter bans on same-sex marriage and ordaining LGBTQ+ clergy. The vote is causing Will the Classroom Building get a new name? rifts within the denomination, as progressive and conservative This time last year, the History Department filed a formal request congregations figure out their future within the church. to rename the Carr Building. The current home of the department, The Duke Divinity School is one of 13 United Methodist the building was named after Julian Carr, a white supremacist who seminaries, which could put it in an awkward position. Protesters donated the land that would become East Campus. Cries to take his interrupted the Divinity School State of the School address in March name off the building grew louder as the Fall semester progressed, until 2018 to advocate for better treatment of its LGBTQ+ students. In the Board of Trustees voted to remove his name in December.

Instead of choosing a new person for the building to honor, the Board renamed it the Classroom Building, which was its original name before 1930. What will end up filling the empty plaque that currently sits above the building’s entrance? The History Department also submitted a proposal to rename it after Raymond Gavins, the first black history professor at Duke. However, that proposal was not adopted by the Board, as Trustees and administrators are taking a longer-term approach to the name. President Vincent Price told The Chronicle in June 2019 that although naming the building after Gavins may make sense now, the department may not be in that building forever. “In light of the debates about removing names from buildings, we want to be very careful in selecting names for buildings going forward,” he said. Will another formal renaming request be submitted this year?

New science faculty

Duke has committed to improving in the hard sciences, engineering, mathematics and medicine. With a $50 million grant from the Duke Endowment that the University received in March, it can hire the faculty to do so. The grant could serve as a chance to diversify the science faculty, as Duke will get the chance to hire more than a dozen new professors.

Election season

Yes, the 2020 election is over a year away and will be covered by Volume 116 of The Chronicle. Yet election season is already in full throttle, especially at the presidential level. California Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential candidate, spoke Saturday in Durham to the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People. More presidential candidates will likely make their way to Durham or the Triangle area before North Carolina’s Democratic primary in March. Maybe—just maybe—one will come to Duke. North Carolina will undoubtedly see hotly contested elections for governor and senator. Both elections will feature incumbents fending off challengers for their positions— Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. This isn’t an exhaustive list of the storylines we’re monitoring this year. If you have a tip or suggestion as to what we should be covering, please email Editor-inChief Jake Satisky at jacob.satisky@duke.edu or use our Chronquiry service.

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CHAPEL HILL — If you hit a brick wall enough times, it’s bound to come crumbling down eventually. After a half of numerous shots on goal from the Tar Heels, Duke’s backline inevitably broke down, allowing North Carolina to break through and score its first goal of the game en route to a Tobacco Road Rivalry win in front of a rowdy Tar Heel Crowd. North Carolina (2-0) took down the Blue Devils 2-0 Sunday evening to win the 2019 Carolina Nike Tournament at UNC Soccer & Lacrosse Stadium. DUKE 0 Duke (1-1) redshirt 2 junior goalie Brooke UNC Heinsohn’s four saves were not enough to stop the Tar Heel offense from putting the ball behind the goal posts and sealing the game for North Carolina. “I was just disappointed,” a dismayed head coach Robbie Church said. “You know, not in our effort. I thought effort was good. But our execution at times, our touches, giving balls away...we gave up too many shots, we didn’t get enough shots at our site. So we have to be more aggressive.” Despite Duke’s staunch efforts to limit opportunities for No. 2 North Carolina, the Tar Heels ended the match with 14 shots—six on goal—and controlled the ball and the tempo for most of the game. Duke’s offense struggled to keep up, unable to keep possession or get good

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shots off when it got the chance. The No. 8 Blue Devils entered the halftime locker room with a lone shot, none on target. The end of the game was no different, as Duke only got one more shot off, again not even close to being on-goal. This lack of offensive firepower allowed North Carolina to try, try and try again, giving Duke’s

backline a good early season test. About halfway through the first half, a Tar Heel lob from outside the box looked certain to go in, but two quick, phenomenal saves by Heinsohn kept North Carolina at bay. Deja vu occurred when a mental mistake by the Blue Devils in the backfield caused a wide open lane for a Tar Heel forward. Thankfully, Heinsohn made another great save, this time diving to the ground, keeping the score at nil on both sides. Unfortunately for Duke however, the third time was the charm. When the announcer informed the crowd that there was one minute left in the match, Blue Devil fans began to sigh of relief, as a half in which North Carolina clearly dominated the ball looked as if it would end in a tie. But with 13 seconds left, another lob into the box ended with a Tar Heel header past Heinsohn, giving North Carolina a one-goal lead. The second half was more of the same for Duke, as it spent most of its time trying its hardest to stop its opponents from scoring, but to no avail. In the 76th minute, a lob from the side of the goal floated over Duke’s defense but tapped a Blue Devil defender’s head for an own goal, all but sealing the game for North Carolina. This allowed the Tar Heels to play much more conservatively and just keep the ball on their side of the field for most of the rest of the match. Duke’s inexperience at the forward position showed today, as there weren’t many times when it looked like North Carolina’s defense was in trouble. The Blue Devil offense spent more time

helping out its defense near its own goal then on the attack. As the second half wore on, fatigue became more and more evident, as the few opportunities Duke did earn on the offensive end, finished with poorly timed passes or simply not getting to the ball as quickly as the wellrested Tar Heel defense. A sold-out, energized and loud North Carolina fanbase didn’t help Duke’s case either. “We’re not running hard enough off the ball... our offensive players are a little indecisive right now,” Church said. “They’re not making great decisions with it...it’s a lot of freshmen who are now sophomores and their roles have completely changed and they have to be the main players.” Though it wasn’t the result they wanted, the Blue Devils have a few things to be proud of after a hard fought battle with the second ranked team in the country. Heinsohn stayed focused and concentrated throughout the match despite the lack of execution by her teammates. If it weren’t for her, Duke could have faltered a lot more than it did. “I thought Brooke [Heinsohn] played very well,” Church said. “I felt that was a big time performance from a big time player and we need that from Brooke [Heinsohn] you know, we’re gonna we’re gonna need that all year from Brooke [Heinsohn].” Duke will try to recuperate before its next game against Georgetown back in Koskinen Stadium this Wednesday at 7 p.m., another match sure to challenge the Blue Devils on both sides of the ball.

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Prodigious prospect Sophie Jones ready to make impact By Conner McLeod Sports Managing Editor

For most freshman Blue Devils, their first summer is filled with long, unglamorous hours of work on the pitch in the middle of hot Durham summers, trying to make a name for themselves at Duke. However, for one Blue Devil, a litany of goals and accomplishments were earned even before setting foot on Koskinen Stadium. This summer, freshman Sophie Jones won the 2018-19 Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year, perhaps the most prestigious awards given to high school soccer players in the country. Jones was awarded the honor in June for her accomplishments during her illustrious senior season, during which she notched 18 goals and 16 assists en route to a Central Coast Section Division I sectional tournament title. “I was just at practice at the U20 National Team camp that I was recently at and the winner of last year, Isabella D’Aquila... was like ‘Hey Soph congrats.’ I had no idea what she was talking about, and she was like ‘Oh you won the California State Player of the Year,’’’ Jones said. “I never would have thought that I could win that. Today I thought I was doing an interview with my parents about the state award and all my family and friends surprised me and [Pro Football Hall of Famer and family friend] Steve Young actually handed me the award.” Jones then received the news that she became a finalist for the national version of the award. On June 19, Jones became the first women’s soccer player to win the Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year in her high school’s history. While the honor may have caught Jones by surprise, to many the well-deserved award was an expected milestone to add on to a long list of achievements for the Menlo Park, Calif., native.

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After an illustrious high school career in which she earned Gatorade National Player of the Year honors, Sophie Jones will be called upon to make an immediate impact for the Blue Devils, being immediately inserted into the starting lineup. Jones won the 2018 United Soccer Coaches Youth Girls National Player of the Year, played with the FIFA U17 National team in 2017, and trained with the U20 National Team at the end of her senior campaign. It’s safe to say that Jones is no stranger to recognition at the highest level for her performances, and she made that clear when asked how the award made her feel as she prepares to play for the Blue Devils. “It’s definitely nice to be recognized for hard work and stuff

like that, but my confidence is not really based on what other people say,” Jones said. “It’s definitely a nice thing but coming in trying to make an impact as much as I possibly can and taking each day as a new step to get better hopefully as a team.” Perhaps Jones’ level of maturity is what helped her earn the award in the first place. According to the Gatorade Press Release, along with high achievement in the classroom and on the field, See JONES on Page 10

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including the incoming basketball recruits, here at Duke. What was move-in day like for your class?

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sure, because it wasn’t so much about Duke. I mean, Duke was certainly a factor, but it was more about him. And I committed to Duke because of him. I didn’t know very much about Duke, honestly, and so Coach K really sold me on him more than anything. If you look at my final schools, it was Duke, Syracuse, Iowa and Kansas. Those schools didn’t really seem to make any sense taken as a whole, but it was the four coaches that I really wanted to play for that was the unifying factor. And Coach K was the one above all others.

When he was hired by Duke four decades ago, Mike Krzyzewski was a young head coach with limited prior experience. After a tumultuous few seasons to open his tenure in Durham, Krzyzewski was able to put together a legendary recruiting class in 1982 that opened the door for him to put together arguably the most impressive coaching resume of all-time. Krzyzewski is now a five-time national champion with the Blue Devils, the all-time winningest coach in college basketball and a three-time Olympic gold medal winner as coach of U.S.A. basketball. The ACC Network documentary ‘The Class that Saved Coach K’, released Thursday, takes an in-depth look at what made the 1982 class—featuring Mark Alarie, Jay Bilas, Johnny Dawkins, David Henderson, Bill Jackman and Welden Williams—so special, and how they turned Krzyzewski’s career around. The Chronicle’s Derek Saul spoke to Bilas, ‘The Class That Saved Coach K’ executive producer and current ESPN college basketball analyst, over the phone this week to discuss the fabled 1980s Duke teams and the legend of Coach K. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Jay Bilas: It wasn’t as organized—you were kind of on your own back then. And, you know, we didn’t go to summer school. So you didn’t have a head start in that regard. Now, the players’ dorms are furnished, and all their stuff is already there. So it’s just a totally different deal.

TC: Do you think something like that—a head coach putting together just such an elite class before really achieving success on the floor—would be as easy to pull off today?

TC: Last year’s recruiting class, they really seemed to have that strong sense of camaraderie like your class did, did you see any similarities there?

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JB: I don’t know. That’s a good question. I’m not really

JB: It’s different because they all know they’re only going

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A North Carolina native, David Henderson gave the Blue Devils a reliable presence on the perimeter.

TC: Just how in the world did Coach K get so many top recruits before proving himself on the floor, having never gone to the NCAA tournament? JB: Well, he hustled. He recruited all of us really hard. And it was all different, we didn’t know one another, so it wasn’t like we could help recruit each other. There was a little bit of that toward the end, when certain guys committed, but he targeted a small group of the top players and he went after them hard and we’re just lucky that all of us said yes.

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Johnny Dawkins electrified crowds at Cameron Indoor Stadium, proving to be one of the top scorers in the nation.

TC: Duke now has built that brand-name status. Do you think when Coach K is recruiting, he’s still primarily selling people on himself? JB: Well, he doesn’t have to sell [himself] anymore, because it’s already done before he gets there. That’s the difference now, that there’s no sale to make. The players all know who he is and what he’s about before he ever walks in the door, so it’s just a different feeling.

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A center while at Duke, Jay Bilas went to law school and is now a college basketball analyst for ESPN.

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Duke’s 1982 recruiting class to be there for a year, so it’s sort of hard to the same kind of camaraderie, but they’re all great friends. And, you can totally get along really well together, which is a really nice thing with any team. Because our group had a unique bond and a special connection to one another doesn’t mean that other classes haven’t had that same thing and it doesn’t happen at other places, but it certainly was special for us. TC: In the documentary, Coach K mentioned that you guys really first exemplified “The Brotherhood” concept, what’s it been like seeing that concept grow into Duke’s signature thing? JB: I had never heard of “The Brotherhood” until it came out of the Duke program. We didn’t refer to it that way back then. We were teammates and best friends and all that, and I’m sure the term “like brothers” was used, but I never heard the term brotherhood that was thought something up in the last several years with Duke. But, we were the first for Coach K. We were his first NCAA tournament team, his first No. 1 ranked team, his first ACC championship team, first Final Four team. So I don’t know whether extra significance gets added on to that or not, but I’m sure there have been a bunch of classes that have been just as close and just as good of friends.

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The Blue Devil teams of the 1980s were known for their chemistry on the court and close bonds off the court.

TC: Something you also mentioned in the documentary was losing your matchup in terms of comparing your team to the all-time great teams—obviously, Lew Alcindor is a tough guy to beat out at center. So you think it wears on guys that don’t necessarily have a high profile, but still have big roles on the team? JB: No, that’s what you sign up for. All of us could have gone to other schools and been all-conference, but so what? Just because you play a role doesn’t mean you’re a lesser player, and I don’t really care what other people think in that regard. That’s their business. To me, it’s not that big of a deal either way. David Henderson is probably the prime example. If David had gone to N.C. State, he would have been first-team all-ACC. We played on an extraordinary team that had a lot of great players on it. When people hear the term role player, they can start thinking, well, that means that the player was limited. That’s not true, we just had to play a certain role on that team, but if we had gone somewhere else, we’d be sitting around with our little all-conference trophy, but I’d rather be a member of the team I was on. TC: What would be your advice to this incoming class as a whole? How could they really emulate that bond that your

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Mark Alarie proved to be Duke’s most consistent scorer inside, averaged 15-plus points in each of his final three seasons.

group formed? JB: I don’t think they even need to emulate it. I think they just need to do their own thing. They’re playing for the best coach, and it’s not like they need to look into the past to determine how they relate to one another. When you’re a good player, you’re a good guy and you’re a good teammate, all that stuff kind of takes care of itself. Coach K over the years has recruited some really good guys. We were lucky and had six of them and that led to recruiting even better guys after that, which was really, really nice. We were very involved in the recruiting after that of making sure that we did our best to help bring in guys after us that were kind of like us in that regard—team-first guys that were really good players that wanted to win. TC: What is the Coach K lesson that has stuck with you the most? JB: Oh God, there’s so many of them. Probably next play, that whatever happens, you’ve got to move on to the next play. That’s been a great thing for certainly for me and I think for all the guys that I’ve talked about it with, and I know that the guys that are coaches now have used that with their teams.

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Although not a member of the 1982 recruiting class, Tommy Amaker was the floor general for Coach K’s squads.

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Blue Devils look to prove 2018 was no fluke By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

After earning their first NCAA tournament berth since 2015, the Blue Devils didn’t make much of a splash on the national stage, falling 3-0 to Loyola Marymount in the opening round of tournament. And after graduating four upperclassmen—including an elite middle blocker in Leah Meyer and an explosive double-double machine in Andie Shelton—Duke will have to make up the difference with a roster of explosive yet inconsistent youth. Player to look out for: Payton Schwantz With a roster that needed a jolt on both sides of the ball to take it to the next level last season, Schwantz fit the bill perfectly as a do-it-all outside hitter who was both aggressive on the attack and quick on her feet defensively. And with the Blue Devils again stuck with potential question marks up and down the roster, Duke can at least take solace in the fact that its junior outside hitter will undoubtedly rise to the occasion. In the 2018-2019 season, Schwantz led the Blue Devils in kills, utilizing an impressive standing vertical with a vicious spike to shred through opponents all season. Unfortunately, the Frisco, Texas native’s impressive arm wasn’t always on target,

leading to a hitting percentage of .223— average at best on a team that has struggled time and again to limit errors. If Schwantz can keep up her impressive numbers on the attack while improving on her hitting accuracy, Duke will have its offensive motor to build a lethal attack around.

Although sophomore Mackenzie Cole will be able to hold the floor as a gifted defensive specialist, Schwantz should again be able to add some much needed relief on the defensive end. Averaging 2.48 digs per set and putting in numbers resembling that of a libero, the junior Blue Devil made

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countless frame-saving plays throughout last season and should be primed to do just that in 2019. Most anticipated matchup: Aug. 31 vs. Stanford There’s no sugar coating it: the Blue Devils will enter this early-season matchup as massive underdogs, and for good reason. In Duke’s already challenging nonconference schedule, the Cardinal towers over the rest as the reigning national champions and one of the most dominant programs the Blue Devils have faced in recent memory. Last season, Stanford earned a staggering 34-1 record that included an undefeated ledger in the Pac-12—one of the most competitive conferences in the nation. Furthermore, the Cardinal will be returning their team leaders in kills, assists and digs on an already stacked freshman recruiting class, by all accounts making Stanford back-to-back preseason title favorites. Although Duke will have the deck stacked against it, the Blue Devils can take solace in the fact that they are effectively playing with house money. Stanford offers a challenge that a young Duke core has never faced before, and one that can offer an invaluable learning experience. And if the Blue Devils can pull off the seemingly impossible in the same vain as last See VOLLEYBALL on Page 10

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Jones regularly volunteered as a youth soccer coach and with the Special Olympics. Jones clearly understands the significance of being selected by Gatorade, and the importance of what she’s been able to accomplish so far. “I think this one’s about more than just how you are as a player, it’s about how you are as a person and I think that’s really cool,” Jones said. “It’s so nationally recognized. So many amazing people have won it in the past for so many different sports and soccer. I think the magnitude of the award is what makes it so cool.” Jones will be able to use her talent immediately for the Blue Devils, notching starts in both of Duke’s first two games of the fall. With her knack for scoring, unselfishness and poise as a leader by example, her rookie season could be one for the books, and quench the thirst of Blue Devil fans longing to see a national championship.

year’s improbable win over then No. 5 Pitt, Duke will achieve one of its greatest victories in program history. Worst case scenario: The biggest question mark for the Blue Devils will be how they fare at facilitating offense. Without Shelton to contribute a majority of assists, much of the load will fall on redshirt junior Sarah Nelson and freshman Camille Nazor. This load may be too much for this inexperienced pair to handle, and Duke’s offense stalls. Coupled with poor hitting accuracy, the Blue Devils can never put together a fluid offense—dashing hopes for a repeat tournament appearance.

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Best case scenario: With Schwantz holding down the fort and sophomore Ade Owokoniran and junior Summer Brown growing into key roles as hitters and blockers, the Blue Devils are one of the most explosive teams in the nation on offense. Coupled with a much-needed injection of experience with graduate transfer Lauren Cline, the steady presence of senior Samantha Amos and the return of senior Natalie Schilling from injury, opponents will struggle to contain Duke’s many offensive options. With such a dangerous attack and a talented defensive specialist in Cole, the Blue Devils make the tournament again, proving that last season’s run was not a fluke. Editor’s note: This is a part of The Chronicle’s daily series of previews for Duke’s fall sports, the rest of which can be found at dukechronicle.com/sports

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Duke to be challenged with rough schedule By Staff Reports

A lot of buzz has surrounded the Duke football program in recent months, as three-year starting quarterback Daniel Jones was selected with the sixth overall pick in April’s NFL Draft and the Blue Devils will open the season against No. 2 Alabama. Despite the headlines, Duke could be due for a disappointing fall, with a tough schedule and significant personnel losses in tow. Let’s take a look at what to expect from the Blue Devils this fall.

defense, without linebackers Ben Humphreys and Joe GilesHarris, will have to slow down Heisman Trophy favorite Tua Tagovailoa who threw for just under 4,000 yards and over 40 touchdowns in a historic offensive performance for the Crimson Tide last season. On the other side of the ball, quarterback Harris and the running back duo of Deon Jackson and Brittain Brown will try to move the ball on the ground against an always stout Alabama defense. Don’t expect the final line to be close, but the primetime contest is certainly a historic one for the Duke program.

Player to look out for: Quentin Harris A stout defense and formidable running attack will be Duke’s greatest strengths this upcoming season. But the play of redshirt senior quarterback Quentin Harris is what will make or break the Blue Devils’ record by the end of the year. With Daniel Jones sidelined for two games last fall, Harris performed well enough for a couple of commanding victories over Baylor and N.C. State. But the Wilton, Conn., native has been known to possess a very inconsistent arm— as evidenced through the start of fall camp. His raw speed can keep defenses honest, but Harris’ ability to throw the football will go a long way in determining Duke’s success throughout the 2019 campaign.

Worst Case Scenario: Like Blue Devil fans saw in 2016, the changing of the guard at quarterback is often not a smooth process, and the offense could take a while to develop with Harris taking over as the full time starter. With experienced and talented groups in the secondary and defensive line, the other side of the ball carries them to wins here and there, but ultimately a schedule that features three AP Top 25 teams and 11 opponents that reached a bowl game in 2018 will be their downfall. The Blue Devils start to show promise in the middle of the season during the easier part of their schedule but falter late in the season, failing to make a bowl game for just the second time in eight years.

Most anticipated matchup: Aug. 31 vs. Alabama Although the matchup against the Crimson Tide is not expected to be close by any margin, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game in Atlanta is by far the most anticipated contest in recent Duke football history. The young Blue Devils will be tasked with taking down a dynasty looking to reclaim its throne following last year’s embarrassing defeat to Clemson in the national title game. The Duke

Best Case Scenario: The Blue Devils have several factors stacked against them in the earlier half of the season. They will need to adjust to Harris as their quarterback while going head to head with some of the toughest programs they’ll be up against this year. However, if a solid transition is made, then Duke can use these pieces to their advantage. The Blue Devils may be able to play to their competition, with Harris proving himself as a quality passer

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and with younger players on defense stepping up. If the team manages to get in some hard earned wins within the first set of games, then this will build up the confidence of the players for the latter half of the season. They will also come out of these more difficult match ups with a stronger skill set to ride with come post-season. Combining a few tough victories from early on with some easier wins to follow, Duke could ideally finish its season with eight or nine wins. By learning to adapt to their schedule, the Blue Devils will be ready to qualify for and win their fourth bowl game in the past five years. Editor’s note: This is a part of The Chronicle’s daily series of previews for Duke’s fall sports, the rest of which can be found at dukechronicle.com/sports

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