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It doesn’t want to start with Palantir By Mona Tong Local and National News Editor

Should Duke reevaluate its process of deciding which companies can recruit on campus? Administrators and students have clashed over this question since controversy ensued about the revelation that Palantir Technologies—a data analytics company that recruited at Duke’s fall TechConnect career fair—holds a $42 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Duke Student Government passed a resolution in December urging the University to cease its relationship with Palantir. However, administrators have struck a different tone. Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, wrote in

an email that it is “core to Duke’s values to strongly encourage critical thinking and open discussion” around the ways that companies and their policies impact people and other issues. “Toward this end, we should not limit how students wish to raise critical questions with a prospective employer,” she wrote. “Some students may want to work for change from within a company, others may steer away from the same organization altogether. Others might want to learn more from a recruiter before deciding, and some may want to catalyze change from outside the process.” McMahon said that she does not foresee the recent DSG resolution changing the administration’s decision. Sophomore Jeremy Carballo wrote in a message to The Chronicle that permitting

a company such as Palantir—“regardless of their other good work”—to recruit on campus is helping “a rogue federal agency take part in their acts of fear and oppression.” This, he argued, does not align with Duke’s value statement. Among the listed values in the statement are that Duke “avoid[s] activities, pursuits or financial interests that are not compatible, in reality or perception, with our responsibilities” and that Duke “encourage[s] questions and challenges, holding individuals and organizations accountable for their actions and decisions.”

Duke’s process for recruiting companies See RECRUIT on Page 4

Bus route shakeup adds more 300 Swift service By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

One semester into Duke boasting the new Swift Avenue Shuttle and C1: East-West Express, the University is tweaking the routes. For the first time since Duke purchased the apartments at 300 Swift, the Swift Avenue bus route will provide continual weekday service and occasional weekend service from 300 Swift to the West Campus bus stop throughout the day. In previous semesters, the Swift Avenue Shuttle stopped running from 2-6 p.m. before resuming in the evening. On weekends, the C1: East-West will detour See BUS on Page 4

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Not the best asbestos on Central By Matthew Griffin University News Editor

Demolishing some Central Campus apartments took longer due to an unsuspected obstacle—asbestos. The apartments on Central Campus had “some amount of asbestos-containing material in pipe wrap, ceilings, floor tiles and exterior boards,” Director of Project Management Paul Manning wrote in an email. The removal process took five months and was carried out by contractor Enpuricon Inc., costing $2.7 million. The removal took longer than initially expected because carpet glue containing asbestos had adhered to concrete in the floor of the apartments, Manning wrote. The asbestos is “all gone, but it took longer and it cost more money” because of the glue, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle. He noted that the Central Campus apartments were built “on the cheap and not very well, which is part of the reason why [Duke is] getting rid of them.” Manning wrote that an independent expert inspected the buildings and determined that the asbestos did not pose a health risk to occupants. Asbestos is a known carcinogen but only dangerous when airborne, said John Dement, professor emeritus in community and family medicine who has researched environmental carcinogens. It is common practice to leave asbestos-containing material in place and monitor its condition until it can be removed during a major renovation or demolition, Dement said. “Materials that are intact and in place, not damaged, not crumbling and causing issues, are typically not a problem,” Dement said. Trask said the University was aware that there was asbestos in the buildings, but it did not pose a health risk because it was under the carpet. “There’s always a risk as you expose and hit asbestos,” Trask said. “But that only happened when we pulled the carpet out.” Dement said that “it would have been common practice” to use asbestos-containing materials in the 1970s, when Duke built the Central Campus apartments. According to a document published by the University’s Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, there are asbestos-containing materials in “many of the buildings at Duke,” and the most common use is in “pipe insulation… floor tile, and acoustical plaster.” The document urges residents who find damaged materials that may contain asbestos to contact Housing and Residence Life. The apartments originally housed graduate students but eventually transitioned to undergraduates. Students lived in them for the last time during the 2018–19 academic year, and their demolition began in August 2019. The University has not yet established a long-term plan for the use of most of the land. Trask told The Chronicle in October 2019 that he would like it to become a premier research park. @thedukechronicle | © 2020 The Chronicle

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Remembering Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, one of Duke’s first black undergrads By Jake Satisky

‘Go out and live that life’

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One day, Wilhelmina Reuben and Gene Kendall left East Campus to see the new James Bond flick at a local theater. The two grabbed a hamburger after the movie. Suddenly, Reuben realized that she needed to rush back to East. Taking off her shoes, she and Kendall sprinted back to campus. He may have been on the track team, but she still beat him back to campus— in the nick of time. That scene could easily have been taken place at Duke today with any two students. But Reuben and Kendall’s day took place in the 1960s, when East Campus, the home of the Woman’s College, had a curfew. And Reuben and Kendall weren’t just any two students—they were two of the first five black students at Duke. Kendall recalled the story at a December memorial service for Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, who died Oct. 22. Reuben-Cooke, Woman’s College ‘67, had a decorated career, both at Duke and beyond. The Georgetown, S.C., native arrived in Durham in 1963 as part of an effort to desegregate a previously all-white university. She excelled at Duke, getting elected to Phi Beta Kappa and chair of the Freshman Advisory Council, which “literally shaped new students’ perceptions and commitment to Duke,” said Dennis Campbell, Trinity ‘67, Ph.D. ‘73 and vice chair of the Duke Endowment, at the memorial. Reuben-Cooke was also tapped by the White Duchy society and was selected by her peers in the Woman’s College as the 1967 May Queen, a decision that made it into The New York Times. After graduation, she enjoyed a stellar career as an attorney, as well as a law professor at Syracuse University and the University of the District of Columbia, where she worked as UDC’s provost. Reuben-Cooke never let go of her Duke ties, however. She served two terms on the Board of Trustees, and in 2011 the Alumni Association awarded her the Duke University Distinguished Alumni Award. A $1 million scholarship fund was announced in 2013 to honor her and the other four first black undergraduates.

A wide range of speakers sang Reuben-Cooke’s praises at her memorial service in the Chapel, including her professional colleagues, Duke classmates and family. They shared a mix of fond memories and reflections on her legacy. Nancy Benner, Woman’s College ‘67, roomed with ReubenCooke for three years. She recounted how she and “Mimi”— Reuben-Cooke’s nickname—became addicted to Zero candy bars because the two would get hungry studying late at night, and they could get the bars in the vending machine. In fact, they saved so many wrappers that they earned a free Zero bar T-shirt. Benner touched on Reuben-Cooke’s civil rights record as a student, as Reuben-Cooke became an active member of civil rights protests in Durham and Chapel Hill. “There were civil rights protests taking place all over the country, and Mimi completely became a part of them,” she said. “I remember once going to her room freshman year telling her that I was afraid for her safety—I was worried she was going to get arrested. She did not seem very concerned.” Kendall, after telling the James Bond story, summed up Reuben-Cooke’s virtues with a story about a young girl at a relative’s funeral who was impressed with the kind words said about her relative. “She said, ‘Grandpa, how can I get someone to say nice things about me?’ He said to her, ‘Write down all of the things that you would like to have said about you… and go out and live that life.’ Wilhelmina Matilda Reuben-Cooke—’Mimi’— obviously wrote down those things,” he said.

Continuing her legacy

In 2013, Duke celebrated the 50th anniversary of ReubenCooke and her classmates arriving at the University. There were events in major cities across the country, culminating in an artistic program in Page Auditorium. Keith Daniel, Trinity ‘90, M. Div. ‘05 and D. Min. ‘16, was chosen to be the project manager for the commemoration. Despite briefly working with her, he got to know Reuben-Cooke enough to be moved by her

Special to The Chronicle Reuben-Cooke was named the Duke May Queen in 1967.

grace and vitality. “She just always had such a presence around her that clearly inspired me as someone who’s now approaching my 30th class reunion this spring from Duke,” he said. Chandra Guinn, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, holds up Reuben-Cooke as “the standardbearer and a model” for students who feel challenged at Duke, due to her desegregating the University and finding ways to contribute in different fields throughout her life. When asked what students can learn from Reuben-Cooke today, Guinn replied in an email, “never give up.” See REUBEN-COOKE on Page 3

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I-House making move from Central to Epworth By Irene Park Staff Reporter

The 10-minute uphill walk from the C1’s Nasher stop to International House is quite a dynamic experience. First, a roadblock sign. Next, a series of orange cones. Then, a massive cloud of dust over the demolition waste of Central Campus. And finally, you’re there. Although International House has been situated on Alexander Avenue for the last few years, one of Central Campus’ final active structures will soon relocate. The I-House will move to the formerly Epworth Residence Hall on East Campus by Jan. 13 and will open the following morning, I-House Director Lisa Giragosian said. Giragosian said that serious administrative discussions surrounding the move began around late August, with plans for the transition formalized in October. The I-House stayed on Alexander Avenue despite ongoing Central Campus demolition because no other space was available on either East or West Campus, according to Esra Uzun Mason, student development coordinator at I-House. Epworth was the base for the Office of New Student Programs for the 2018-19 academic year and the Fall 2019 semester. When the ONSP moved back into its renovated office, I-House pounced on the opportunity to move. Uzun Mason explained that for most I-House staff, the transition to East Campus is greatly anticipated, especially since the current view is simply rubble. “It’ll be a good way for us to communicate and collaborate with other departments more easily,” Uzun Mason said. The C2 and Central Campus Express buses were discontinued at the start of this

academic year, so the I-House hasn’t been as easily accessible. The Swift Avenue Shuttle does run through Alexander Avenue, but did not operate between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. until Jan. 8. An additional C1 bus was added in October in response to overcrowding, but the closest C1 stop is still half a mile away. I-House is difficult for cars to reach right now due to construction-related roadblocks. Furthermore, the move will position the I-House closer to other student spaces such as the Women’s Center, the Academic Advising Center and the Academic Resource Center. Uzun Mason also noted that Epworth is a much larger building than the current I-House, allowing for more space and parking. “Now that we’ll have more space available and we’ll be in an accessible space, we’d like to promote more social gatherings and really open up our space to a larger community,”

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Uzun Mason added. “We want to have casual gatherings where we can invite undergraduates, graduates, visiting scholars and spouses to hang out and share ideas.” Senior Shyam Pradheep, president of Duke’s International Association, explained that the move will greatly benefit first-year international students, who will now be only a short walk away from the resources of the I-House. “They’re the ones that require the most support, I would say, just because they’re just getting acclimated,” he said. “This is an office that really supports them to do well at Duke.” Pradheep doesn’t anticipate any problems besides a brief period of potential confusion. “It’s going to take time for people to realize that the I-House is not where it already is, and I think there’s going to be kinks,” he said. “But I think the disadvantages will be more short term, and long term, it’ll be a lot, lot better.”

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REUBEN-COOKE FROM PAGE 2 “Be ever mindful and intentional in your efforts to cultivate individuals to follow in your footsteps even as you are unsure of where the path will lead you,” she added. “Walk with your head held high, demonstrate dignity in your doing and dealings and be sure to secure the crown.” Marcus Benning, Trinity ‘14 and Law School ‘17, had the chance to meet ReubenCooke during the commemoration as president of the Black Students Association. He explained that her legacy is most visible in the organizations created after her graduation, such as the Afro-African Society—the precursor to the Black Students Alliance, the Presidential Council on Black Affairs, Black Students Association Invitational and all of the black student groups that exist today. “When you think about the fact that BSA came the year that she graduated, and there were only five students in the first class, you could see that her community of students were really focused on institution building,” he added. Benning said that Reuben-Cooke’s death exemplifies that in the midst of losing many post-civil rights era leaders and trailblazers, there is still plenty of work that needs to be done beyond commemorating their legacy. He referenced the noose found hanging in the Bryan Center Plaza in 2016, just three years after the 50th anniversary commemoration, as an example of why students today need to continue the work of people like Reuben-Cooke. “Based on the work that her family has done, which has always been forwardlooking to increase access to the University, I think it’s really incumbent upon us to view her work as incomplete and ongoing, and now that we no longer have her to contribute, that we pick the baton up and move the mantle forward,” he said.

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Therefore, Wright-Swadel explained that the Career Center shouldn’t be “in the business of prescribing [values]” through a vetting process. “I don’t think you want me using my personal values to decide who’s coming, so we try to reflect the community,” he said. McMahon said that if the University gets into “the process of vetting the values of an employer,” it would set the precedent of granting individual administrators the power to determine where students’ opportunities lie. Ravi Bellamkonda, Vinik dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that although Palantir’s technology is “used to enforce immigration policies that are deeply disturbing,” Duke cannot restrict “access to our campus to [all] people and companies that we find objectionable.” He also wrote that he does not believe that a subset of students “should decide for everyone which companies are okay or not.” Pratt School of Engineering hosts TechConnect in partnership with the department of computer science and with support from the Career Center.

FROM PAGE 1 Bill Wright-Swadel, assistant vice president of student affairs and Fannie Mitchell executive director of Duke’s Career Center, noted that as long as employers “have legitimate jobs and are involved in hiring practices that don’t discriminate,” they are eligible to recruit at Duke. He added that, while some companies reach out to Duke, Duke also contacts employers first. In Palantir’s case, he doesn’t remember which it was, but he wouldn’t be surprised if “either of those directions happened.” As a company engaged in both the private and government sectors, he said that Palantir attracts students from a variety of majors and career paths. Wright-Swadel said that the Career Center’s mission is to provide students with the broadest array of opportunities as possible. These opportunities should represent the curriculum, students and faculty while also letting students have choices, he said.

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Senior Sandra Luksic said that Duke students having direct access to Palantir’s table at TechConnect should not outweigh the lives and safety of undocumented students. They added that by choosing to not reform its vetting process and allow Palantir to continue recruiting on campus, Duke is inherently contradicting itself, as “the lack of action is an action.”

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Wright-Swadel added that one of Duke’s values is “free speech and openness and choice.” Sometimes, it is very difficult for an institution to uphold all of its beliefs concurrently, he said, but he broadly considered this a “case of representing our values and empowering students to make choices.” McMahon said that the “confounding” part of the situation is that Duke is abiding by its ethical and moral principles through recognizing that it is not administrators’ role to perform a value assessment of companies and make decisions for the entire student body. Carballo said that he understands the argument that Duke shouldn’t be deciding if companies are “ethical” enough to recruit students. However, he noted that Duke cannot foster “free choice without the weight of the irreparable effects that these companies cause,” and Duke should at least use its role as an institution to publicly denounce companies holding contracts with ICE. Luksic emphasized that temporarily banning Palantir from having a table at TechConnect would be in “no way” taking away students’ abilities to make their own free choices or preventing students from working for the company. Rather than pausing Palantir’s recruitment on campus, McMahon said she is open to discussing other ways that Duke can “foster meaningful community engagement and address the same thing, which is supporting migrant communities and undocumented students.” She talked about the possibility of having an open forum or working group that brings people in a conversation to better understand the situation. Bellamkonda wrote that Duke can continue to “facilitate discussion of immigration policy and advocate for policies that are consistent with our values” and “shine a light on what it means to be a socially responsible corporation, so that our students can make their own informed choices about career opportunities.” However, he wrote that it is also fundamental to Duke’s values to respect student’s right to protest policies and corporations counter to their beliefs. Family separation policies are “abhorrent to say the least,” Bellamkonda noted, explaining that engaging in political activism and encouraging students to be involved in civic life is the best way to effect real change. Editor’s Note: Jeremy Carballo is a member of The Chronicle’s Community Editorial Board.

BUS FROM PAGE 1 after leaving the East Campus Quad to make hourly westbound stops at 300 Swift approximately nine minutes after the hour, from 9:09 a.m. until 11:09 p.m. Additionally, the C1X route has been modified to stop at the intersection of Campus Drive and Swift Avenue in both directions. The Chronicle previously reported that Parking and Transportation Services was deliberating a route modification. The changes take effect Jan. 8. Additional service to the 300 Swift apartment complex comes after numerous concerns students have raised in recent years regarding safety. “Sometimes I come back from the library around 1 a.m. It is really scary walking up the hill on Campus Drive in the pitch dark with no security guard around,” then-sophomore Giselle Vargis told The Chronicle when the route was first introduced in 2017. “I think this should be changed especially since there have been unfortunate incidents in the same area last year.” There were two arrests along Swift Avenue in Fall 2016 before Duke purchased the complex. In November 2016, an individual reported that she was sexually assaulted and robbed at knifepoint at 10 a.m. while walking along Swift, and a suspect was arrested weeks later. Other schedule changes affect the H5: Broad-Erwin route, which will now stop near the Washington Duke statue on East Campus, across from the bus circle. The bus will also run a modified route connecting Trent Hall to West Campus and East Campus from 6:30 p.m. to 8:05 p.m. on weekdays. From 5:32 p.m. to 10:37 p.m., the LaSalle Loop will incorporate an additional stop by the intersection of LaSalle Street and Erwin Road.

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New Year’s resolution? Nina Wilder ..................get like jojo

Kerry Rork ..................... cut gems

Will Atkinson .............bernie 2020

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staff note YouTube is where I go when I want to be entertained — effortlessly, thoughtlessly, mindnumbingly entertained. It is a perfect receptacle for that desire, overstuffed with content tailored exactly to my scatterbrained preferences, algorithmically designed to be easily digested and impossible to look away from. According to the “recommended” videos YouTube’s homepage thrusts at me upon arrival, I have a weakness for talk show clips, “Key & Peele” skits and compilation videos centered on drag queens, movie stars and drama-hungry makeup gurus. This mathematic anticipation of my interests is what drove me, slack-jawed and stimuli-deprived, to encounter a video titled “HOUSE TOUR!! — JoJo Siwa.” I had fallen into a JoJo-themed rabbit hole the night before, wherein I spent an hour reading through her Wikipedia page, trolling her Twitter and Instagram profiles, reliving the summer between eighth and ninth grade when I ravenously consumed nothing but “Dance Moms.” YouTube was paying attention to my search habits, and it served me JoJo on a silver platter. I clicked without hesitation. Before we get into all of that, I would like to

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provide you with some context: Joelle Joanie “JoJo” Siwa was born May 19, 2003 (thank you, rabbit hole), into a world that was on a swift but forceful downward decline. Then-President George W. Bush had accused the Iraqi government of hiding weapons of mass destruction only a few months earlier, and by JoJo’s birth, the War on Terror was fully fledged. A year later, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg would launch Facebook from his Harvard dorm room and transform the landscape of the internet forever. Everything was changing, pitching us deeper into the clutches of the attention economy, and at the center of these converging events was an all-American desire for distraction — the kind that eats up our disappearing free time in service of the late-capitalist pressures we so desperately want to eschew. Reality television exploded in the 2000s and remained highly profitable into the 2010s. Richard Hatch and Kelly Clarkson, the first-season winners of “Survivor” and “American Idol,” respectively, became household names. Myspace, which reached its zenith in 2006, gave way to Facebook which gave way to YouTube, then Twitter, then Tumblr and Instagram and Snapchat. We uploaded our lives online and mediated their pleasures through four-inch-tall screens. For those born after the turn of the century, performing — their talents, their personalities, their

selfhood, in ultimate service to the altar of profit — was all they ever knew. And so JoJo did what any other kid reared in the aughts would, at one point or another, dream of doing: She became a child star. (Maybe it’s unfair to say JoJo had any agency in this choice — in the same way that the name “JoJo” inherently necessitates either a life in show business or in clownery for the unfortunate individual to whom it is given — but that’s a different conversation altogether.) Her break came when she starred on “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” a spin-off of dance instructor Abby Lee Miller’s main project, “Dance Moms,” whose cast JoJo eventually joined. Miller is known for her cruel tutelage and bad attitude; JoJo and her mother, for their part, were equally catty during their time on the show. By 2016, at the age of 13, JoJo left “Dance Moms” and began to build her brand in earnest. While on the show, JoJo had started to don her now-signature hair bows, large and colorful and overwhelmingly childish, pinned against her similarly infamous (and frighteningly tight) ponytail; in 2016, she released a line of bows to be sold at Claire’s, the retail bastion of girliness. She also dropped a single that year, “Boomerang,” an “anti-bullying” song so insidiously banal and inoffensive that it may very well have been focus-grouped into existence. Then, in 2017, JoJo signed an overall talent deal with Nickelodeon, meaning everything she produced from that point forward — her music, her clothes, her dwance routines, her Tweets and YouTube videos, her image — would be controlled by the company. Back to the house tour video. It opens with a quick promotion: JoJo’s worldwide “D.R.E.A.M.” tour (do we think JoJo has ever listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.”?) is adding 50 new cities to its schedule. That seems like a lot. Then JoJo is standing in front of a Spanish Colonial house, smooth off-white stucco, clay tile and iron trim allover. It sprawls more than it towers, taking up preciously sparse acreage, the way most expensive homes in Los Angeles tend to. JoJo, using her uniquely raspy, high-pitched, fast-paced voice, catches me up: She just moved in three days ago. Before we enter the house, she again reminds me that she’s going on tour. Inside is worse than outside. Gaudier, I mean. The foyer is blindingly white and marble and cold,

the ceilings are vaulted and everything is open. JoJo’s voice, which is loud at any volume, echoes against my eardrums. She shows off a candy bar, a shaved ice machine, a toy claw machine, a custom-made billiards table, a swimming pool, a tennis court, a basketball court and a designated merchandise room, which houses “every product under the sun” that’s JoJo-branded — “T-shirts, bedding, blankets, socks, underwear, lunch boxes” and much, much more. By the time JoJo had kicked me out of her house with a final plug for her tour — she’s leaving us to “play in [her] room because [her] room is awesome” — I was baffled. I doubled back to her Wikipedia page to confirm that, yes, she is 16 years old, despite her overall affect communicating that she is far younger. In the heyday of childhood Disney stardom, this was the age in which everything started to fall apart: At 15, Miley Cyrus posed for Annie Leibovitz in nothing but a bed sheet; at 17, Demi Lovato tried cocaine for the first time; at 18, Joe Jonas took his first hit of marijuana. And yet, here is JoJo, on the brink of legal adulthood, wearing an outfit she markets to 10-year-olds. Is she okay? She must be, because her (loosely reliable) net worth is $12 million. To date, D.R.E.A.M. The Tour has sold over 500,000 tickets, earning a whopping $26.9 million. (It is currently the fifth-most profitable concert tour in the country, right behind Madonna’s.) Her two YouTube channels combined have 13 million subscribers and rake in around $9 million dollars a year from advertising revenue alone. And then there’s the hair bows and T-shirts and backpacks and lunch boxes, and whatever else Nickelodeon has deemed profitable to stamp her image onto, all of which helped finance her multimillion-dollar mansion I had the displeasure of visiting, with its garish novelty décor and bubblegum furnishings. That’s all to say: I can’t — I cannot — stop thinking about JoJo Siwa. She is American excess, corporate greed, the worst parts of TikTok and the D.A.R.E. program, all bound up and held together with a $16.99 “Unicorn on Fleek” bow, and her grift shows no signs of slowing down. If Miley Cyrus and her Disney cohort killed the tween star, then JoJo is resurrecting it, and we are utterly helpless to stop her. —Nina Wilder

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Identity and African attire: Duke students reflect on cultural fashion By Fati Abubakar Gangaran Contributing Writer

Every year, excited students arrive on Duke’s campus carrying luggage, boxes and many other personal items. Some are seen clutching teddy bears from childhood. Others are being dropped off by emotional parents. Excitement, worry, anxiety and all the other complex emotions that come with migration are palpable. In this sea of people are a group of students for whom this is an experience not only laden with long layovers, hysterical goodbyes and family farewells, but spicy cooking ingredients, traditional ethnic clothing, flags and many other items of cultural significance to the African continent. Whether they’re donning curly hair or thick afros or braids, the African student stands out for many reasons: There is usually an ethnic bracelet, ring or African print somewhere on their dress, notepad or handbag. Some are coming from different countries in Africa, and others are coming from homes in the United States saturated with hints of their African heritage. Students from Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Bostwana and other African countries chose to attend universities across the United States for various reasons, be it seeking a study abroad or finding better universities for their desired goals. When they set foot on the schools’ campuses, their determination to succeed and their hesitation in foreign

cultures are evident in the many stories that later become topics of discussion at student associations formed by their predecessors. But one important discussion for many African students is how to remain rooted in their culture while being in a new and alienating place. Many carry different items that not only remind them of home but signify their identity as Africans — items they hold dear. As a graduate student from Nigeria, and also an “educational migrant” here at Duke for a study abroad, I brought many items with me: my ethnic group’s silver bracelets and gold earrings, our traditional veils, African prints designed in many styles and my mother’s prayers. I wanted not only to remember home but also to take my culture with me everywhere I went. As a naturally curious person, I wondered what other ‘’educational migrants’’ brought with them — specifically, the clothes that represent or remind them of home. I began to photograph other African students at Duke and invited them to share their stories and their emotional attachment to their certain African heritage with me. I was interested in the intersection of cultural identities and fashion sense. What parts of your culture do you bring with you to a new country? How do you express yourself? What attire represents your respective culture or forms your cultural identity? Continued on Page 7

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Dorothy Oye Adu-Amankwah (Ghana) Senior, English “One of the heritages of an African is the attires that have been woven by centuries of history. When I express this heritage, I can choose to be queenly or casual or daringly bold. But other times, I simply allow the bright colors to speak for my quiet soul.”

Seun Okimi (Nigeria) Fourth year, chemistry “Each of my ankara outfits has a story. Whether it’s the fabric I watched being haggled in Lagos markets, the design I drew up carefully and was able to watch come to life or the extra touches from family members who gave them as gifts — each one has a story. I wear my ankara like a story, a reminder of these stories from a place so far that its stories can be too easily forgotten.”

Celine Murugi (Kenya) Sophomore, computer science “There is so much weight in the fabric, colors, patterns and accompaniments of an African outfit. As I wear these garments, I wear small fragments of my culture, traditions and my birth place. They are perfectly blended together to represent that which I call home.”

Moarabi Kakabalo (Botswana) Senior, electrical and computer engineering

“African attire gives me a sense of identity. It connects me to my roots.”

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Duke dominates in first game of new year By Michael Model Associate sports editor

CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Miami may be the farthest the Blue Devils have to travel this regular season, but for Vernon Carey Jr., Saturday evening’s matchup provided him an opportunity to feast on some home cooking. Playing less than an hour from his high school, Carey continued his dominant freshman campaign with a 24-point, DUKE 95 n i n e - r e b o u n d performance to lead UM 62 the second-ranked Blue Devils to a 9562 win against the Hurricanes at the Watsco Center. The Blue Devils’ fiery offensive effort rivaled the heat of the Florida sunshine as Duke shot 62 percent in the first half and 59.7 percent overall in the blowout. Carey wasn’t the only Duke player shooting with a magnetic ball Saturday. Fellow freshman Cassius Stanley added 20 points in the contest on an efficient 8-of-11 performance from the field. “He’s been extremely poised. That’s the thing I’m most proud of him. Even if he made a mistake or missed a shot, he doesn’t get frantic,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said about Carey. “He just plays every play. They put him in some tough defensive situations that he eventually did well in, but that’s the next step for him. But offensively, he was outstanding. “He’s got great hands. His dad was a

lineman and his kid would have probably been a tight end or something because he can catch and he can pass. He’s a good basketball player. He’s not just a big guy.” From the beginning of the night, the usually daunting ACC road environment had more of a friendly feel. Duke blue was heavily sprinkled throughout the crowd, and Carey got a warm ovation during player introductions. The Southwest Ranches, Fla., native missed a layup and picked up a foul in the opening minute, but those would be the lone blemishes on Carey’s ledger. The 6-foot-10 center would not miss the rest of the first half, converting his next five attempts as the Blue Devils (13-1, 3-0 in the ACC) opened up a 50-36 halftime edge. “It was pretty cool I guess, but I’m just focused on winning with my teammates and on playing really well as a team collectively, so I think we did a good job of that,” Carey said of returning home. “It’s just another game for me, but I get to see my friends after this, so that’s something to look forward to.” Duke built upon its momentum from a Matthew Hurt buzzer-beater to end the first frame, embarking on a 22-12 run out of the locker room to put any chances of a stunning upset to rest. Stanley initiated the Blue Devil attack with the team’s first seven points, while the rest of the team started 0-for-5. Despite the freshman guard’s torrid start, nine first-half turnovers from Duke allowed the Hurricanes (9-3, 1-2)

In his hometown game, Vernon Carey Jr. scored 24 points and pulled down nine rebounds.

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Cassius Stanley scored 16 first-half points to keep the Blue Devils ahead against Miami.

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Recruiting roundup: Where the Blue Devil future stands By Em Adler staff writer

When it comes to Duke recruiting, almost all the focus surrounds which future NBA star will grace Cameron Indoor Stadium. However, there are also blue-chip recruits coming to Durham in many sports other than men’s basketball. With early signing day in the rearview mirror, the Blue Zone takes a look at the Class of 2020. Baseball Despite Duke’s reputation as a basketball school, its most impressive recruit plays baseball. The Blue Devils landed Jordan Walker, Perfect Game’s top recruit in the nation. It would be a major coup if he ever stepped foot on Duke’s campus, but lucrative MLB signing bonuses nearly always await top recruits. As such, it is hard to rank recruiting classes until June, when we know who’s going to college and who’s going to the pros. Duke does have another pair of top-200 recruits to lead its class, which currently ranks 29th in the nation and ninth in the ACC.

Women’s basketball In desperate need of a point guard, Duke signed Vanessa DeJesus, a five-star point guard out of California ranked No. 37 in her class, according to ESPN. With DeJesus as its only commit, the Blue Devils’ class ranks in the bottom third of the ACC, while at least five other ACC squads are ranked in the top 20 nationwide. Field hockey Duke did some impressive work in the 2020 class, leading to one of the ACC’s best incoming groups. Three top-50 players— Alayna Burns, a midfielder/forward from New Jersey, Barbara Civitella, a midfielder from Pennsylvania, and Shealyn Tatara, a defender from Pennsylvania—lead a class that includes five top-100 recruits. With four top-100 2021 recruits already committed to the Blue Devils, they’ve already got a good head start on next year, also. Football With starting quarterback Quentin Harris graduating, Duke needs talent and depth

behind center. Leading the Blue Devils is Luca Diamont, a quarterback rated as a four-star by ESPN. Diamont turned down Alabama, Mississippi and Mississippi State to play for the Blue Devils and is the No. 18 dual-threat quarterback. Two top-150 wide receivers, Jontavis Robertson and Malik Bowen, also headline Duke’s class of 2020. Men’s golf A respectable three-person class is headlined by two top-ranked golfers, Ian Siebers and Jimmy Zheng. Siebers hails from Washington and ranks No. 14 in the class of 2020 on average, according to the American Junior Golf Association and Golfweek of USA Today Sports, while Zheng is a New Zealander who ranks an average of 22nd. Women’s golf Phoebe Brinker, a Delaware native who was selected as a first-team junior AllAmerican this past year, ranks fifth by the American Junior Golf Association in this year’s class. Anne Chen, a Texas native, is a former first-team junior All-American as

well. They’ll join Duke’s most recent national champion squad. Men’s lacrosse Most of Duke’s 2020 classes are based more on depth than top-end talent, but the men’s lacrosse team clearly didn’t get the memo. A sextet of top-50 recruits is headlined by top recruit Brennan O’Neill, a former Penn State commit, and also includes two of his St. Anthony’s High School teammates in Jase Naso, the nation’s top face-off specialist, and Aidan Danenza. This haul, which ties for the most five-star commitments in the country, somehow ranks only 15th nationwide and fifth in the ACC, according to InsideLacrosse. But with the Blue Devils’ commitments from each of next year’s top two recruits, their run of dominance has no end in sight. Women’s lacrosse Three men’s lacrosse commits from St. Anthony’s High School on Long Island weren’t enough. Duke women’s lacrosse joined in on See RECRUITING on Page 9

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to stick around, and the Blue Devils held a mere 28-25 advantage with 8:34 remaining in the first half. Miami appeared to catch a break when Tre Jones picked up his second foul less than 10 minutes into the contest. However, Jordan Goldwire would not give in to the pesky 5-foot-7 Chris Lykes in his absence. With Jones out the remainder of the half, Goldwire was instrumental in holding the Hurricanes’ offensive leader to a dismal 2-for-9 performance in the first half. Lykes was once again locked down out of the break and finished with just eight points. “Goldwire was a key guy tonight when Tre got his second foul,” Krzyzewski said. “I’ll play a guy with two fouls in the first half, but when I took him out, I thought I’d bring him back with about five minutes to go. [Goldwire] was doing such a good job that we were able not to do that.” With its first win of 2020 in the books, the Blue Devils will look to continue their strong start to conference play Wednesday when they travel to Atlanta to battle Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets took down North Carolina earlier Saturday evening.

the St. Anthony’s love, getting a commitment from Katie DeSimone, a classmate of the new men’s lacrosse recruits and the No. 5 high school player in the nation, according to InsideLacrosse. She’s joined by Izzy Marsh, a four-star attackwoman from Maryland, and they lead the 14th-best class in the nation and sixth-best in the ACC.

Softball Claire Davidson, the No. 35 recruit in the nation and 17th-best pitcher, according to Extra Inning Softball, headlines the softball recruiting class of 2020. Davidson is a left-hander from Florida and was a second-team USA Today All-USA player last year. Five other commitments round out the 44th-best class in the nation and sixth-best in the ACC.

Men’s soccer The Blue Devils have secured one of the best classes in the nation, according to TopDrawerSoccer of Advanced Sports Media, and Duke has signed four four-star or better recruits. Peter Stroud, one of only two five-star recruits in the Class of 2020 going to college next year, leads the class, coming off of a season spent playing in the Premier League for West Ham United.

Swimming and diving There is a great divide between the sexes in swimming and diving. The men received commitments from five top-1,000 swimmers, according to CollegeSwimming. The women, on the other hand, signed five out of CollegeSwimming’s top 150 recruits, including Catherine Purnell, ranked No. 50 in the nation.

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Tre Jones helped Duke win with five assists.

Women’s soccer Grace Watkins, a forward from California, and Emily Royson, a defender from New Jersey, headline the class. The soccer recruiting process is still going strong, meaning many girls are uncommitted, but the Blue Devils appear to be adding a bevy

Men’s tennis Following up 2019’s second-best class in the nation was going to be a tough task for the Blue Devils. But head coach Ramsey Smith’s personal dedication made the difference in signing Niroop Vallabhaneni, a five-star from Arizona and Duke’s only recruit in the class of 2020. This comes in addition to the signings of

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Jaida Patrick was the highest recruit in Duke’s 2019 class at No. 57.

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ESPN commentator Dick Vitale’s grandsons, Connor and Jake Krug. Track & field/Cross country Neither men’s nor women’s track and field made waves with their recruiting classes, but neither did most of the other ACC teams, according to MileSplit USA. Duke did receive commitments from a few notable runners, however, including Jack Kovach, a distance runner from Illinois, Charlotte Tomkinson, a distance runner from California, and Brianna Smith, a hurdles runner and jumper from Pennsylvania who chose Duke because of coach Shawn Wilbourn’s vision for her training and development. Volleyball It was not a spectacular year for the ACC as a whole when it came to recruiting, and Duke was no exception. It signed Camille Nazor, a top-50 recruit from Louisville, according to VolleyballMag.com, but she marks the beginning and end of the class. Nazor led the Blue Devils in assists this past season. Editor’s note: This article was initially published online. To read the rest of this story, please go to https://www.dukechronicle.com/ article/2020/01/duke-athletics-recruitingroundup-2020-spring

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bout a year ago, Duke administration almost succeeded in eliminating health insurance for most students on financial aid. The policy change was intentional; its subtle implementation followed by the administration’s sheepish reversal in the face of public pressure reflected a university more concerned with saving a few bucks than its students’ access to basic healthcare. Although students and their families won, President Price’s explanation of the decision carried an

exist—and where is the material investment for overwhelmed Wellness Center services? If Duke hopes to forge “purposeful partnerships in the region,” why obstruct discussion on the light rail, the gas plant, or Parking and Transportation abuse of workers, all affecting residents of this region? If Duke values knowledge in the service of society, why encourage students to work for Palantir’s deportationabetting machinery, threatening undocumented people across North Carolina? These practices, behaviors, and

Gino Nuzzolillo COLUMN implicit threat: “We do not have unlimited financial resources...the broader challenge to university finances has not gone away.” Price left the fate of financial aid for future students unclear and the concerns raised by students regarding summer financial support, work-study, and continued health insurance coverage still go unaddressed. We’ve heard these tepid and vague reactions from university decision-makers many times before, in the non-response responses to issues like racist speech scrawled in Black cultural spaces or the concerns of protestors like the LGBTQIA+ students in the Divinity School. Such agony and controversy over financial aid budgets seems laughable in the wake of the grand opening of the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center. The university is seemingly willing to direct donors to drop $32 million on a complex few asked for, a space dedicated primarily to generating more donations and copying Stanford. Duke may posture and self-congratulate about the care and concern it applies to student and community well-being, but the feeling of seeing such unnecessary, superficial opulence reminds us where Duke’s priorities lie—financial aid is a “challenge,” but millions are available for a “dynamic” branch campus in China, a “best in class” Alumni center, for luxurious dorms somehow stuffed over-capacity. The rules governing university finances are, of course, complicated—but if recent columns are any measure of student needs, Duke’s spending decisions raise questions asking to what extent those priorities consider the most vulnerable among us. In fact, we can interrogate Duke’s Strategic Framework to see if a gap exists between stated values and daily practice. If we believe that Duke’s “brightest and boldest thinkers” are our “true value proposition,” why is there still no hate & bias policy or living wage guarantee for all employees, which would signal a commitment to ensuring our community’s safety and economic security? If we believe that Duke can “transform teaching and discovery,” why did Duke hire union-busting, top-dollar law firms like Proskauer Rose to maintain the exploitation of graduate students and contingent faculty labor, whose victories came only after their persistent protest? If Duke prides itself in its graduate contributions to teaching, why did Duke only concede to the bare minimum of a 12 month stipend, while grads still have to run their own food pantry? If Duke wants to build a “renewed campus community” focused on our well-being, why does Greek Life still

incidents are less about individual administrators, but rather reflect systemic injustice. Our lived experiences as students, faculty, staff, workers, and community members are lost in these gaps. In light of these (recent) histories, we must ask: who has Duke been changing for? The student body is still largely drawn from America’s wealthiest families, where 69 pecent of students come from the top 20 percent of incomes and only 3.9 percent come from the bottom 20 percent. Duke reproduces wealth and income inequality by refusing to end legacy admissions (one wonders if our percentage of legacy admits is similar to Harvard’s) and scaffolding a pipeline to the numerous corporations populating the Career Fair, a symbol of the futures Duke hopes we pursue—companies like Capital One, ExxonMobil, and Walmart. The intended byproduct of this process, of course, is a future class of new donors hoping to slap their names on another building or bench, as evidenced by an email to seniors this week which has already introduced us to the great honor of donating to Duke before we even receive our degree. Indeed, Duke is a blind adherent to the gospel of wealth accumulation and “do-good” philanthropy— this past week, the Board of Trustees honored philanthropist and former Board chairman David Rubenstein, whose occasional donations, as argued by former student Sydney Roberts, obscure violent origins in his private equity firm’s displacement of poor people and execution of mass lay-offs. A cursory look at the Board of Trustees website reveals its members as part and parcel of the United States’ gilded elite, executives at firms like McKinsey (who contract with ICE and exploit Puerto Rico’s debt crisis), Apple (manufacturer of microchips in military missiles), and ARAMARK (a notorious provider of inadequate, maggot-infested food in prison and jails, turning a profit on caged humans). In sum, Duke remains committed to the interests of the wealthy and well-connected who in turn reshape the university into its modern corporate form. And for the rest of us? As argued by my fellow columnist Annie Yang, we are reduced to customers, if not commodities ourselves. Duke does not love us. It’s about time we realized it. Gino Nuzzolillo is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. This column was originally published on October 3, 2019.

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ast week, the Duke Student Government Senate passed a resolution that urged Duke to terminate its “partnerships” with Palantir Technologies with the immediate aim of stopping the firm’s recruitment efforts on campus. This action by the DSG Senate—while perhaps emotionally satisfying for many of its members—is short-sighted, blatantly partisan in nature, largely

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uninformed by fact, and unnecessarily paternalistic when it comes to dictating the employment opportunities of Duke students. While I can understand why a subset of students here take issue with Palantir’s specific contracts with ICE, I would encourage them to take a more nuanced approach. One must consider the entire breadth of Palantir’s work and, in the aggregate, the incredible good the company has done and continues to do. Palantir brings much-needed innovation and modern software solutions to some of the most pressing problems of government. Software developers at Palantir have immensely aided our collective national security. Their software products are generally held in high regard by national security practitioners and especially by intelligence analysts. Palantir products have been leveraged by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to detect Medicare fraud, by the FBI in criminal probes, and extensively in the ongoing global war on terror. Even more recently, the World Food Programme has partnered with Palantir to streamline supply chains for emergency relief operations around the world. I have even had the opportunity to use Palantir-products firsthand during a summer internship and they are—simply put—fantastic. We ought to not only roundly applaud Palantir for this work, but we should recognize how and why some of our fellow students may want to work for the firm and support such efforts. In addition, on-campus critics of Palantir seem to be suffering from misplaced priorities and are dishing out criticism in an inconsistent and seemingly hypocritical manner that becomes obvious upon looking at the myriad of other ICE contractors. For instance, a band of activists on this campus, while small in number but disproportionately loud, have made a crusade out of pursuing Palantir but are conveniently silent when it comes to other firms that contract with ICE– several of whom recruit strongly here at Duke. Here are a couple of notable firms (including Palantir for reference) along with the approximate dollar figure of their cumulative ICE contracts since 2010: General Dynamics Corporation ($276 million) Deloitte ($249 million) Booz Allen Hamilton ($148 million) Palantir Technologies ($121 million) Dell ($37 million) McKinsey & Co. ($26 million) U.S. Bancorp ($38 million) Microsoft ($15 million) I presume that critics of Palantir also take issue with the efforts of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) as well. So, I have taken the liberty of noting two of their prominent contractors that recruit strongly here as well: Northrop Grumman ($328 million) Accenture ($161 million) While I find the DSG Senate’s efforts towards Palantir to be misguided in the first place, I would at least ask them to be consistent in their actions and avoid hypocrisy by passing similar measures aimed at the above-named firms and renouncing their desire to work / participate in recruiting with the above-named firms. I am not holding my breath. I have heard that DSG Senate participation looks great on resumes when it’s time for consulting recruitment…. Instead, I’ll propose an alternative, more probable, and ultimately sane solution: individual choice and responsibility. Duke prides itself on the intelligence and free-thinking of its student body. Thus, it is reasonable to think that each student here is capable of deciding for themselves if they want to work for a firm that contracts with ICE—be it Deloitte, McKinsey, Dell, or Palantir. In other words, we should allow members of this student body to make their own decisions rather than preempt them with particular notions of social justice. We certainly do not want a small and aberrant minority of voices to dictate the employment opportunities available to the entire student body. Thankfully, Michael Schoenfeld, our vice president for public affairs and government relations here at Duke, seems to agree with this thinking. He stated in an email to The Chronicle in October that Palantir is still “welcome” on campus and that “students can and should be able to make their own choices about their future work and given the wide range of backgrounds at Duke, we should expect there to be an equally wide range of interests.” The DSG Senate would be wise to take note and emulate this reasonable stance.

& Transportation is an exploitative, money-making arm of the “non-profit” that is Duke University. While the estimated cost of attendance at Duke is already a staggering $78,608 per year, that number does not include the toll that Duke Parking & Transportation will take on your finances. For many Duke students, having a car and a spot in which to put it is a necessity, given that getting around, whether it be to a job, internship, volunteer, or family obligations, requires a car. Nonetheless, this necessity costs Duke students a whopping $423 per year, the price of a Blue Zone permit. While there are free “After Hours” permits, this does not suffice for those who live on campus. At Duke, 47 percent of students receive needbased financial aid. Despite financial aid support, many students still pay more than they can afford to attend Duke, working several jobs all the while. It seems willfully ignorant to charge such an abhorrent price. Although the Blue Zone Permit is inconvenient and absurdly priced, it’s harmless in comparison to Duke Parking & Transportation’s ticketing system. Before every football game-day, Blue Zone permitholders are required to move their cars out of the lot they paid for into other designated Duke lots to make room for game-goers within a severalhour time-period. The day after the game, students are required to have removed their cars from the alternative parking lots by 2 p.m. Several times, after getting out of a late rowing practice, I have had to move my car in the late evening. On these occasions I had to walk home alone at night from the Flowers lot to West Campus. Needless to say, it is extremely unsafe to be a young woman alone at night on Duke’s campus and this policy puts women in explicit danger. Moreover, I was an athlete and was required to travel on weekends to compete. Several times, when I returned to my car Monday morning, I had to beg Duke Parking & Transportation to allow me to simply exit the parking lot, as I had missed the “exit window.” One game-day, I had an athlete pass on my car signifying I didn’t need to move my car. Unsurprisingly, I was still ticketed and towed for a whopping $250—$100 to be ticketed, $100 to be towed, and $50 for taking up a spot in the lot I was towed to. Although I was notified that I was towed, I was not given my car’s new location. I spent much of my Sunday roaming Central Campus in search of my car, for fear that I might be charged $50 for another night in the lot before they informed me of my car’s whereabouts. Although I have now accrued $753 of Duke Parking & Transportation fees—from my Blue Zone permit to my game-day tow, to my two parking tickets, I’m sure I’m not the department’s most severe victim. Last year, Senior Kezia Matson’s car battery died while her car was in Blue Zone and she knew she wouldn’t be able to afford to buy a new one until she got her paycheck the following week. She was as proactive about the situation as possible, leaving countless emails and voicemails. Of course, she

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was met with a ticket rather than a response. She reforwarded the email and in response, received a towing followed by repeated daily fines each day she was unable to move her car from the lot due to her financial situation. To add insult to injury, they could

not even tell her where they had towed the car. In the end, everything totaled up to $450, a damning price given it was her financial situation that put her there in the first place. Kezia is a low-income student who already broke the bank to buy her $423 Blue Zone pass and get her car fixed, making the $450 fine nearly impossible to pay. According to Duke Parking & Transportation’s emails, one must pay the fines “unless there are circumstances that prevent you,” but when she contacted them about this policy, she received no response. One night, Senior Rachel Baber was parked in the Allen lot at 9 p.m., as the Blue Zone permit allows. At 10 p.m., her car wouldn’t start and she couldn’t get a tow until car repair shops opened in the morning. Knowing full-well she could get ticketed come morning, she called Duke Parking & Transportation to inform them of the situation and inquire as to what preventative measures she could take. Apathetically, they told her there was nothing she could do except appeal the citation once it had been given. Again, on brand with Duke Parking & Transportation, her appeal was denied and despite her proactive measures, she was charged for a $40 ticket. This brings me to the question, why are these fines so egregiously pricey? If the purpose is deterrence, I’m sure a $20 fine would suffice. Rather than a slap on the wrist, the citations hit you with a blow to the heart and the bank. A $423 permit with a $250 fine is enough to put serious financial strain on a student, especially if money is already tight. As senior Selin Ozcelik pointed out, “We pay 63% of a yearly pass to get kicked out of the lot we paid for if we just forget to move the car once.” I could keep going on with these horror stories. In fact, I was recently added to a Groupme conversation called “These fines are not fine.” comprised of Duke students fed up with Duke Parking & Transportation. As I’ve learned through personal experience and the stories of my peers, Duke Parking & Transportation seems to do nothing but make students’ lives harder—assailing them with pricey permits, egregious citations and extreme inconvenience. So, my fellow Duke students, I urge you all to resist Duke Parking & Transportation in any way possible. When you are met with unfair tickets and tows, I urge you to resist paying to the greatest extent possible. A member of Duke Class of 2018— whom I’ll leave unnamed for obvious reasons— graduated without ever paying his thousands of dollars owed to Duke Parking & Transportation. As a result, he was handed a blank sheet rather than a diploma (although he did in fact graduate), what he considers an easy price to pay in comparison to over 50 unfair tickets. While this Groupme is in its earlier organizing stages, I hope to collectively devise action steps to resist and reform Duke Parking & Transportation. I believe in this group and this movement, because if there is anything that all Duke students can collectively get behind, it’s that Duke Parking & Transportation is the worst.

Bella Miller is a Trinity senior. Her column, “make Duke weird,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly claimed that Blue Zone passes were priced at $423 per semester. The correct price is $423 per year. The Chronicle regrets the error. This column was originally published on November 13, 2019.

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