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‘Total chaos’: How the North Carolina Neurosurgeons walk-up line devolved into a drunken mob team up to lose 205 pounds UNIVERSITY

By Shayal Vashisth Contributing Reporter

In a team effort, six Duke neurosurgeons lost a combined total of 205 pounds.

Kyle Walsh, associate professor of neurosurgery, and Anna Terry, assistant professor of neurosurgery, are among the professors who lost weight as part of the Healthy Duke initiative.

Walsh said he decided to make lifestyle changes after moving from San Francisco to Durham in July to assume his current position.

“When I got here, I saw Peter Fecci, one of the neurosurgeons participating in [the weight loss],” Walsh said. “I hadn’t seen him in six months and he had lost a bunch of weight. I had to ask him how he’d done it.”

John Sampson, chair of the department of neurosurgery, also encouraged Walsh. The department chair began the push towards healthier habits by exercising and making diet changes himself. Walsh said seeing change coming from the top down was motivating.

Walsh—who has lost about 25 pounds—said that his family’s lifestyle in San Francisco did not

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Students eating signs. Throwing full beer cans. Keeled over, vomiting in the bushes. Threatening others with table legs. And finally, two drunken mobs.

Welcome to Krzyzewskiville.

It’s March 3, the day all of Duke has been waiting for: Carolina gameday. Students have been waiting for months in tents to get into Cameron Indoor Stadium. The phenomenon known as ‘K-Ville’ appears on a grassy quad outside the entrance to the stadium, before Blue Devil men’s basketball home games—and is always raucous.

This year, something was wildly different.

A mob of students in the walk-up line, which also convenes on the plaza outside Cameron just days before the game for those who don’t want to commit to living under a glorified sheet of plastic for months, erupted. Some were trampled and barricades were cast aside as students broke free in a drunken rush to try and get into the game.

So how did all of the norms of civility break down at one of the nation’s top universities? The Chronicle spoke with more than a dozen people involved with the walk-up line—administrators, students and line monitors—to find out.

‘At any point, the rules could be discarded’: How the madness started The tent city outside one of the most storied venues in college basketball had been standing since early January and has a penchant for rowdiness even months before the game.

Heavy drinking is extremely common, if not expected, to get through long nights in the cold—on any day of the week—while

waiting for the piercing wail of sirens signaling a tent check.

They come in the dead of the night to ensure that no one has skimped out and spent the night in the comfort of their own dorm room. Some opt to just stay up until those checks, sometimes making a ruckus that prevents others in tents just inches away from sleeping.

So who’s organizing all of this? A group of 31 Duke students: line monitors. Spot them on ESPN on the sideline, toting a baby doll with devil horns, blue and white pinstripe overalls or...anything, really.

When there’s not a game going on, they register tenters and those who wish to walk up to the game and monitor the various lines to get into home games. While intoxication is the norm, serious safety issues with the line have been rare, if not non-existent.

But the Tuesday before the North Carolina game, walk-up liners imported another level of madness into K-Ville. Walk-up line officially started on the Wednesday prior to Saturday’s game at noon, but eager walk-up liners started joining an unofficial line as early as Tuesday.

Soon, swarms of students took over the line, which line monitors advertised as self-policing until the official registration started at noon.

Very little, if any self-policing ended up happening, according to co-head line monitor Sara Constand and several walk-up liners with whom The Chronicle spoke.

Hoards of students were mashed up in more of a blob than a line, hoping to get a chance to get in. Many were laying in sleeping bags on a muddy slope. Students set up tables to play beer pong and other drinking games, eventually leaving trash and crumpled blue Keystone cans littering the wet earth.

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Cardi B or Goldlink: ‘I can get ‘em both’

By Jake Satisky Staff Reporter

Duke students cannot wait to see Goldlink perform on the LDOC this year. Wait, did we say Goldlink? We meant Cardi B. Yes, Cardi B might be giving Duke students a free concert on LDOC. Duke is one of eight universities left in the Campus Swipe Off Contest, sponsored

by Tinder. The contest divides the number of right swipes made by the students on campus by the total student population, and the schools with the highest percentages move on to the next round.

The winning university receives a free concert April 25 from Cardi B, the popular rapper best known for her hit single “Bodak Yellow.”

“We’re living in an era where a reality star can be our nation’s president and an 18-time NBA All Star can win an Academy Award—anything can happen,” first-year Grace Jeffrey said. “Cardi B playing a free concert at Duke University seems to be the least strange of those three things.”

Although she said she does not condone Cardi B’s past transphobic and colorist comments, Jeffrey supports the “nonsensical” aspect of the contest.

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Two professors named Guggenheim Fellows

By Lexi Kadis Senior News Reporter

Two Duke professors have been awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships to pursue studies in their fields.

Christopher Bail, Douglas and Ellen Lowey associate professor of sociology and public policy, and Anne Yoder, Braxton Craven professor of evolutionary biology, will receive six months of support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Bail and Yoder— alongside 173 other recipients—were chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.

Bail will study a phenomenon know as the social media “echo chamber,” in which social media amplify or reinforce public opinions, and Lowey will research on the family tree of mouse lemurs.

“It’s exceptionally satisfying to name 175 new Guggenheim Fellows. These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the foundation, in a press release. “It’s an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do.”

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Duke researchers create a ‘reinvented toilet’

By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

One thing that unites people around the globe? We all have to use the toilet. But in some countries, waste management is more of a challenge than in others.

Duke researchers recently installed the first experimental “reinvented toilet” at a textile mill in Coimbatore, India, as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. This toilet is part of a decentralized waste processing system that can reuse water, which is helpful in areas with frequent droughts. It works using energy from solar panels, reducing power needs. “[Poor sanitation] is an epidemic that affects the poorest of the poor who live in an area that cannot afford treatment,” said Brian Stoner, research professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, who began the project.

Launched in 2011, the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge aims to create solutions for the estimated 2.5 billion people who don’t have affordable sanitation systems.

This is especially important for women, who are disproportionately affected by poor sanitation options.

“This is really an amazingly important area that only in the last 10 years has become in the public eye,” said Jeffrey Glass, professor of electrical and computer engineering and a project co-leader.

The researchers were assisted in their project by Namrata Jha, the Bangalorebased director of Duke University India, who helped foster their partnership with the textile mill. They began by surveying more than 2,000 households to understand the social needs involved in sanitation, finding

that the facility would need to be safe but also he said. “There are people who can’t work and have a comforting look. become productive members of community The team then spent time in labs at because of sickness.”

Duke and RTI International, a non-profit Women also suffer more than men organization based in the Research Triangle, when proper sanitation options are not developing a prototype. The toilet operates available because of cultural norms, Stoner through a corkscrew conveyor belt that noted. He said there are parts of the world separates liquid and solid waste. The solid where open defecation is the only option, waste is dried and then burned as fuel, but women are not supposed to expose which can be used to further power the toilet themselves openly. and disinfect the liquid waste. After being “Women and girls are persecuted if they disinfected, the liquid bare themselves in public,” waste can be reused Women and girls are Stoner said. “They have to go out for flushing the toilet in morning or late in the persecuted if they bare early or safely disposed. evening and open themselves up The prototype themselves in public. to everything from harassment was first sent to to sexual assault.” brian stoner CEPT University in The project leaders are RESEARCH PROFESSOR IN THE Ahmedabad, India, for DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND also trying to find the best testing before being COMPUTER ENGINEERING way to dispose of women’s installed in Coimbatore, menstruation products, which where it will operate for a full year. could prevent them from having to stay home Throughout the testing, the researchers from work or school when menstruating. hope to gain information about how the “If girls have access to a safe sanitation community responds to the toilet system. solution in their schools, they are much less The women at the textile mill will be able to likely to drop out of school,” Stoner said. choose between the regular toilet facilities In the future, the scientists hope to and this new system. Their feedback will be partner with manufacturers who can turn useful in designing future interactions to best the toilet into a commercial product. They’ve suit women’s needs and wants. already teamed up with sanitation technology “It’s a prototype toilet, so we’re learning company Biomass Controls, which is based in what things need to be changed, and then Connecticut but has a Durham office, to help we’ll feed those back into the engineering them with field trials. team,” Glass said.

Soon, the team will launch another toilet He explained that this work is important in South Africa. They will also present their because providing better sanitation options technology at a showcase event in Beijing, can prevent people from getting sick and China this fall. make them more industrious, positively “I expect we will expand number of impacting their economies. prototypes, and with each prototype, we’ll “For every dollar we spend on sanitation, make improvements and enhancements,” the return on investment is extremely high,” Glass said.

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NEUROSURGEONS FROM PAGE 1 lend itself to healthier actions. Since moving, he has tried to focus on eating better and improving his work hours, he said.

“I was doing a lot of late night work, and I think that lends itself to bad eating habits and bad exercise habits,” Walsh said. “I worked on trying to force myself to be a morning person and eat a good, hearty but low-calorie breakfast.”

Since making the changes, Walsh said he has noticed a difference in his work. Since he began eating better and hiking, he sleeps better and has more energy.

“If you sleep better, generally you feel a little

more rested at work,” he said. “The neurosurgery group is on a rather early morning schedule, and so trying to keep up with Peter and the others when they’re showing up bright and early for 6:30 a.m. meetings has been much easier.”

The Healthy Duke program launched last April, aiming to promote healthy lifestyles among staff and faculty. Terry lost 40 pounds with the program after gaining weight during her second pregnancy. She started with gradual diet changes, including meal planning and cutting out added sugar.

“I found out that I was not being very mindful about how I was eating,” Terry said. “I wasn’t always making the most healthy choices, sometimes just making convenient choice.”

Terry said that she has noticed increased

CARDI B FROM PAGE 1 Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page, including Jeffrey—she posted April 3 to promote a Google Chrome extension that auto-swipes on Tinder.

Unfortunately, auto-swipers are banned, according to the official contest rules.

Despite the number of positive memes, there are students who oppose the contest. Senior Wesley Caretto’s opposition hinges on the rules in fine print.

“Any contest that relies on having a bigger population of users to win, and then only rewards a small group of them, seems unfair to me,” he said.

Participants must be on Duke’s physical campus in order for their right-swipes to count toward the contest.

There is no scoreboard that tallies scores, just results posted on Tinder’s Instagram account at the conclusion of each round. And the concert is neither for all students nor guaranteed to be on Duke’s campus—entry is limited to 200 students and the venue is only guaranteed to be within 50 miles of the school.

Caretto also was wary of Tinder’s ability to substitute the concert with a different prize at their discretion and Tinder’s potential data-mining of new users’ personal

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attention toward healthy lifestyles among faculty over her last two and a half years at Duke.

She agreed that Sampson’s proactivity with promoting the changes made a difference.

“There’s been a lot of attention from Duke leadership on healthy choices,” Terry said. “It makes sense because people who are healthier are happier and better at their jobs.”

In addition to Fecci, Sampson, Terry and Walsh, Gary Archer and Peter Grossi, assistant professors of neurosurgery, also lost significant weight.

Walsh said the group dynamic was motivating for all six neurosurgeons. He noted that three of the neurosurgeons, including Fecci and Sampson, added a competitive edge to their healthy habits as well.

information. He also cited concerns over the logistical issues that come with having the concert on LDOC. LDOC co-chairs Andrew Oliver and Morgan Bird, both juniors, said in a statement that Duke University Union is aware of the contest, but they are not working with Tinder or Cardi B. They added that they are “very excited for [their] fully contracted concert line up featuring Smallpools, Quinn XCII, Seeb, and Goldlink!”

Regardless of one’s opinion of the contest, it is difficult to deny the buzz surrounding it on Duke’s campus. Caretto noted that the contest has seemed to be a success so far.

“I guess people really love Cardi B, and the contest seems fair to everyone who enters,” he said. “Or maybe they just really don’t like Goldlink. In spite of how cynical I am about the contest, I think it’s really heartwarming that there’s such a unified effort among our often divided student body.”

Jeffrey added that the absurdity of the competition contributed to its popularity.

“The contest is stupid and that’s what makes it so interesting,” she said. “That being said, if we win, I hope I get to go onstage and/or take a picture with Cardi.”

The final two schools will be announced April 13, and the winner will be announced April 18, both on Tinder’s Instagram page.

“It’s hard to appreciate the effectiveness of working out or changing your diet on yourself because you see yourself every day,” Walsh said. “On your coworkers, who you might see every couple of weeks, it’s a nice positive reinforcement.”

Terry said that self-care should be a priority for neurosurgeons, especially as they see the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in their patients every day, but it is often difficult to make those healthier changes themselves.

“We tend to push ourselves very hard and take care of ourselves last,” she said. “It’s very important to focus on self-care as a part of what our job requires. Many of us put that on the back burner and as a result, develop chronic health issues.”

FELLOWS FROM PAGE 2 With the Guggenheim Fellowship, Bail will study how nonprofits and other organizations influence public opinion on controversial social issues. His research will examine how these organizations utilize specific digital platforms to reach new and existing online audiences.

“There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating ‘echo chambers’ that insulate people from opposing views about current events,” wrote Bail on his website.

He also noted that this research will have important implications for the “interdisciplinary literature on political polarization” and the field of computational social science.

Yoder, who is the outgoing director of the Duke Lemur Center, will pursue a sabbatical project entitled “Building and Saving Trees in Madagascar.” She will study how mouse lemurs evolve into a distinct species from a field laboratory in northwestern Madagascar.

“My work integrates field inventory activities with molecular phylogenetic techniques and geospatial analysis to investigate Madagascar, an area of the world that is biologically complex, poorly understood, and urgently threatened,” wrote Yoder on her faculty page.

Yoder also noted that studying animals in Madagascar will help scientists understand the evolutionary processes that shape the overall diversity of species on the island.

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WALK-UP LINE FROM PAGE 1 Cutting became rampant.

“You can’t have people self-regulating themselves for the first 24 hours,” said first-year Daniel Landa, also a writer in The Chronicle’s sports department. “That’s what started the whole mess.”

One walk-up liner, a senior and fraternity brother who declined to be named because he has friends that are line monitors, set up camp on that Tuesday in the early evening in relatively good position. There were just 40 groups, or roughly 80 people, in front of him and his group in line. Walkup line groups are just two people each, with one of the two required to be in line at all times. He established his position with friends to make up multiple groups and spent much of the evening there until his shift was up and others in his group took over for the night.

At this point, line monitors were in K-Ville, but it was technically the unofficial line. When his walk-up line group woke up in the morning, they found themselves hundreds of groups further back than where they started—and highly unlikely to get

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into Cameron. another,” Constand said. “Somehow, Duke students at a top-10 So, instead of accepting their fate, the senior and his friends school weren’t able to do that.” decided to “counter-cut,” as he put it—they were worried about Starting the next morning around 9, a swarm of cutting not getting into the game. crusaders arrived.

“It was cut or be cut. I know plenty of people that showed There is a particularly large fraternity presence in walkup the night we did and should have been in the 40’s or 50’s and up line—and Delta Tau Delta brother Andrew Bates blames ended up in the 400’s and didn’t make it fraternity members for most of the cutting into the game,” he said. at this time. They even cut their own new People across the country After their cutting, they ended up being members, he said. much further back. He blamed the line line up for iPhones in “This set off a rather hostile monitors for not enforcing the cutting, sidewalks and cities in more environment in the walk-up line, with even though it was out of their jurisdiction some people blaming the line monitors respectful ways and are at that point. and some blaming ‘the frats,’” Bates Constand said they were surprised humane to one another. wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “But about the amount of people that showed the real blame lies somewhere in the sara constand middle, and ought not be dumped on up, even though it was clearly advertised CO-HEAD LINE MONITOR that the line would not officially start fraternities in general.” until Wednesday.

A scathing op-ed in The Chronicle But she was the most surprised about their inability to form from line monitor Jaxson Floberg read that fraternity brothers a simple line. have made walk-up line “essentially inhospitable to anyone who “People across the country line up for iPhones in sidewalks doesn’t want to be at a frat party.” and cities in more respectful ways and are humane to one Many fraternities put pledges in line to wait for their upperclassmen, who show up later, he said. Constand recalls an instance in which two pledges were holding a spot in line for roughly 30 people that showed up Wednesday morning.

By 10 a.m, line monitors began to set out barricades to organize the line ahead of its official start at noon. Constand said that the barricades were a new addition this year to try to add some semblance of order to the line. But the cutting didn’t stop—and the line monitors did nothing to end it.

The same senior in the walk-up line recalls one student who jumped over the barricades, right in front of a line monitor.

Another walk-up liner in front of him had been trying to convince the line monitor to stop the cutting just minutes prior, and the line monitor went up to talk to the cutter.

After talking to the cutter for a few seconds, the line monitor gave the cutter a high-five handshake and left.

“He just dapped him up and let him go,” a different senior in the same walk-up line group said. “That’s a pretty clear endorsement of some pretty sh---y behavior.”

Some in the line believed that the line monitors’ decision not to intervene in cutting set a dangerous norm that caused many of the problems that surfaced later in the week.

“From a very early point, it set a precedent that at any point, the rules could be discarded,” the senior walk-up line member said. “When Wednesday noon came along, people who jumped barricades were numbered as if they were originally there standing up.”

After registration, walk-up line went smoothly for the rest of the week. Routine line checks went with ease, and walk-up liners got grace to go home at night due to low temperatures. They stayed until Friday at noon, when the walk-up line officially ended after just 48 hours.

Then came gameday. And boy, did it come with a roar.

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The Battle of the Keystones It’s no secret: Duke students like to party. The appropriately named Cameron Crazies are by no means an exception.

Without a cloud in the sky on a balmy Durham Saturday, it felt like the entire school was out in K-Ville. Beer pong and every drinking game under the sun were being played amongst a sea of blue. At a school in which social life is heavily segregated by Greek organizations and selective living groups, it is a rare open phenomenon where all groups can mingle.

“It’s a great event for Duke because it’s pretty open,” Landa said.

“There were no exclusive areas, which was nice to see.”

Fraternities built elevated surfaces on the worn-out grass up to five feet high out of wooden pallets, letting people dance, probably to The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” more often than not.

On a sunny afternoon, fraternities flew their flags high and most people drank—perhaps with some other substances—to their heart’s content.

“It provided the perfect darty vibe for the fraternities,” Constand said.

And it started early.

Walk-up liners were told they were to receive their wristbands after ESPN’s College Gameday wrapped up in Cameron. After they eventually got wristbands around noon, it was showtime.

“Handing out wristbands in K-ville seven or eight hours before tipoff was a ludicrous idea that ensured the maximum level of blackout drinking for all parties involved,” Bates wrote.

According to two senior fraternity brothers, an all-out full beer can war raged. And it all started because of a mistaken shot heard ‘round K-Ville.

At one point during the festivities, a fraternity brother went up onto an elevated surface and “Stone Cold Steve Austin’ed” two beers. The move, dubbed after a WWE fighter and consisting of cracking open two cans, smashing them together above your head and then chugging them, all whilst crushing the cans, had some unintended consequences.

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“Say your name and your spirit animal.”

Those kinds of icebreakers always stress me out just a little — I never know what to say for my animal. Should I go with something vague, like some type of bird?

Should I go for generic and simple, like a cat? How can I sum up myself in an animal on the spur of the moment?

In the end, I just said that I didn’t have a spirit animal, to a chorus of good-natured boos. For the rest of the day, I fielded suggestions for my spirit animal, from people that I barely knew but had already found a connection with. It became one of our group-wide goals last Sunday, during Phoenix Ultimate’s Day of Play.

Ultimate has become such a big part of my life so fast. I was off campus until 2 p.m. for Day of Play. The week before, I was gone the entire weekend, and the Saturday before that, too — all for frisbee.

I don’t think anyone from high school would have predicted that I would join frisbee in college. I’d thrown a disc maybe once or twice. I was never particularly athletic, and I still don’t really think I am.

But in part because of that, I knew I needed some kind of organized group to make myself exercise. I found frisbee, and frisbee welcomed me.

I’ve grown to love the game in and of itself, to love getting on the field and playing to the best of my ability. But the spirit on Swerve, Duke’s women’s ultimate club team, was what initially brought me back to practice every week. Everyone on the team was inclusive, approachable and fun, and they made learning the sport unintimidating. We grab food after practice, celebrate each other’s birthdays and mix with the men’s team on occasion.

Just last week, we had a movie night and watched “The Greatest Showman” together. For me, it’s the perfect balance of fun and competitiveness.

The wider ultimate community has that same spirit. I find it so much easier to connect with people and talk to people in the setting of ultimate. I’m more outgoing and willing to put myself out there — in any other group, I think I would have spit out some random animal instead of admitting to not knowing. I’m a lot more inclined to start a conversation, to walk up to people and introduce myself even if I have no idea who they are.

So it was easy for me to decide to play in winter league through Triangle Ultimate, with men and women that I didn’t know.

I had the chance to meet people at all different stages in their lives, from high school to married with kids. The women’s ultimate coach at N.C. State was one of the captains of my league team.

staff note That’s not to say, though, that the ultimate community is without its issues.

I learned a lot from playing mixed, both about different play styles and about the social issues that seep into all communities, even those that strive to be inclusive. While it didn’t happen to me in particular, I noticed that women on other teams often weren’t thrown to even when they were wide open. That bothered me, and it definitely showed that social issues do manifest in ultimate.

Other people on my team have also mentioned that playing mixed can make them feel inadequate or intimidated.

Women’s ultimate, for example tends to have an online livestream less often than men’s: At the last tournament Swerve went to, the men’s games were streamed but the women’s were not. Ultimate is not without its difficulties, but people are actively working to improve the sport as it continues to grow.

That improvement often comes from within, using ultimate as a platform to address some of the external social issues that influence the sport.

For instance, Swerve did a photo campaign last year, where people wrote sentences on the backs of discs starting with “I need feminism because...” This year, we’re doing much the same, but starting instead with “I need gender equity because...” to emphasize equality and make the language more inclusive.

Ultimate’s effectiveness in addressing social issues comes from the sport’s selfrefereed nature. We all play with “spirit of the game” in mind, assuming that everyone is trying to be fair and make the right calls. We high-five each other after every point, and have spirit circles to recognize great players on the other team. This spirit encourages self-advocacy throughout the entire community.

I’ve been playing ultimate for less than a year now, but I already feel like part of the community, part of the culture. And I plan to be involved with it for as long as I can.

I encourage everyone to keep an open mind and find your ultimate frisbee, something that you love both for the community and the activity itself. Something that provides you a platform to elevate issues that you care about and want to make a difference in.

Something that encourages you to be your best self and helps you find your spirit animal.

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‘Long Exposure’ brings pinhole photography to the 21st century

By Milena Ozernova Contributing Writer

In the era of digital cameras, it is very easy to forget what photography looked like before lenses were even invented. Pinhole photography is a great example of how a seemingly forgotten art movement can regain its strength and, once again, come into the lives of hundreds of people.

When people realize that there are no buttons, flashing lights or displays to take away their attention, photography becomes a form of art rather than a boring chore. This is why in the art world, pinhole photography is becoming a new trend, and one that Duke students should be aware of.

A new pinhole photography show, titled as “Long Exposure,” will run from April 12 through April 29 at The Carrack, a community art space based in Durham. The show will combine an exhibit of pinhole photographer Gregg Kemp’s work with work from collaborative workshops, where visitors will have the opportunity to create their own cameras, take photographs of downtown Durham and then use a darkroom to develop the pictures they took.

“Long Exposure” would not exist without the efforts of photography teacher Jon Twietmeyer and writer and curator Chris Vitiello. On a Sunday morning, I had the chance to talk to Vitiello himself and ask him about his passion for pinhole photography and what led him to create the show.

“I remember the magic of the first moment when I put a sheet of photo paper into a developer and had an image appear out of nothing,” Vitiello said. “I think at that moment, everyone falls in love with this kind of photography.”

Vitiello and Twietmeyer created their show

so that other people, too, could experience the magic of seeing their photographs come to life. Some people have never taken an analog photograph in their whole life, and for them, pinhole photography has become a great way to go back to the origin of the medium and get a real sense of it.

“I’ve always done pinhole photography,” Vitiello said. “You really just need a box, a pinhole, photo paper and some chemicals. Everywhere I’ve lived, over my whole life, I’ve always set up a darkroom in my bathroom, put trays of developer in the bathtub and made photos.”

Pinhole cameras can be made out of anything — wood and metal, cereal boxes and cookie containers, even seashells. Back when I lived in Russia, I remember seeing a blurry photo of my not-yet-hairless dad inside one of these such handmade seashell cameras, and ever since I have always dreamt of practicing this magical type of photography myself.

Luckily, fate led me to Durham — home to Gregg Kemp, a visual artist whose photographs are focused on long exposures of pinhole photographs of nature and nightlife.

“Durham shaped Gregg’s work dramatically,” Vitiello said. “He took a lot of photographs around town and around his house and there was a real community of other photographers in the area that were using analog processes and supporting each other.”

Vitiello also mentioned that living in North Carolina gave Kemp access to a variety of different geographies such as foggy mountains, deserted beaches and misty forests. Pinhole’s infinite depth of field gave Kemp’s photographs a sense of mystery while placing every little detail of the natural world into focus and eliminating the boundaries between fantasy and reality.

Vitiello and Gregg are not the only ones who

Gregg Kemp | Special to The Chronicle Kemp’s work is featured in “Long Exposure,” running Thursday through April 29 at The Carrack.

fell in love with the magical realism of pinhole photography. Third-year Henry Yu, the cofounder of the Duke Photography Club, also could not stop smiling when he described his experience with the art of long exposure.

“Once, I went to the Duke Gardens to practice some night photography,” Yu said. “It was a truly spiritual experience. It was so quiet and dark, and I spent hours taking pictures all by myself, breathing in the moonlight and all the surroundings.”

Yu explained that in pinhole photographs, the image always has a very foggy, soft effect.

This happens because all the motion in the pictures has been blurred out – the absence of a lens makes the camera take its time to soak in the light and literally translate the image onto the photo paper.

“Pinhole gives your pictures have a poetic feeling,” Yu said. “You can create a myriad of

very interesting effects by simply moving the camera or not moving it at all. In a water shot, for example, a still camera captures the essence of the lake, and not the waves’ movements, and it creates a feeling of being in a paradise.”

Yu is genuinely excited about a pinhole photography show finally taking place in Durham, especially, because the city has so much scenery to offer – scenery which is often underappreciated.

“Pinhole photography is an art that can depict urban surroundings in a new, previously unknown light,” Yu said. “I’m beyond excited to see what ‘Long Exposure’ has to offer and how many amazing photographs I can take with a camera literally made from a box!”

“Long Exposure” pinhole photography show will take place from April 12 until April 29 at The Carrack. The pinhole workshops will be hold on April 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 at 1 p.m.

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For the second time in four years, senior Jerry Chang wins concerto competition

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While talking with music instructor PeiFen Liu about one of her students, senior Jerry Chia-Rui Chang, a number of superlatives kept cropping up: “extraordinary,” “fantastic,” “dedicated.” But by the end of our conversation, Liu had settled on one word to describe the senior, whom she has taught piano since his first semester at Duke: “fearless.”

Chang will perform Wednesday with the Duke Symphony Orchestra for the ensemble’s final concert of the semester. In doing so, he has already reached one of the high-water marks for student musicians as a two-time winner of DSO’s annual concerto competition. Although it is not unprecedented, it is a rare feat within the department, one that Liu attributed in part to her student’s attitude.

“A lot of students feel if they put too much effort into this or this, then the other areas will be [over]shadowed,” Liu said, pointing to the difficulty of balancing schoolwork with music.

“But Jerry is fearless.”

For Wednesday’s concert, Chang will play Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, accompanied by the orchestra.

Beginning at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium, the concert is centered around the theme of “American Masters,” featuring works from American composers Leonard Bernstein, George Walker and Aaron Copland in addition to the concerto.

The first time Chang won the concerto competition — as a first-year student in 2015 — he played Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor. This year’s piece, he said, presented a contrast from his performance three years ago.

“That piece is more lyrical,” Chang said of

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the Chopin concerto. “I kind of wanted to try different kinds of styles, so for the Liszt concerto, it’s more flashy, more exciting.”

His preparation for the concerto began last summer, though his practice did not start in earnest until the school year, having had other pieces on his plate. For Chang, piano competitions are nothing new; he had already competed in numerous international contests even before arriving at Duke or winning the first concerto competition. But he acknowledged that the Liszt piece presented its own set of challenges as a more technically advanced concerto, something that is no surprise coming from Liszt, known as one of the most virtuosic pianists in history.

This year’s concerto also has one major difference from the first one that has nothing to do with the music: This time, Chang has a thesis to defend not long after the concert is over.

“I’m probably more stressed this time, because I’m a senior,” Chang, who is a statistics major, said. “So it’s a lot busier for me in terms of schoolwork.”

Nevertheless, Chang began rehearsing alongside DSO last week, about one week after the orchestra began practicing the concerto on its own. As opposed to having a guest soloist, who may not be available to practice with the orchestra ahead of the concert, having a student soloist presented students the rare opportunity to play combined as soloist and orchestra.

Professor of music and DSO director Harry Davidson remarked on the unique nature of adapting Liszt’s piece in this setting.

“In many ways, this is kind of an episodic concerto, in that there are these utterances by the orchestra and the solo and you have these long sections,” Davidson said, describing Liszt’s writing as “quasi-improvisatory.” “It’s not

Special to The Chronicle Senior Jerry Chang won the DSO concerto competition for the second time in his four years at Duke.

something where you can sit there and count X number of bars.”

Like Chang, many students in DSO are not music majors, instead using music as a passion and an extension to their academic studies.

Both Davidson and Liu commented on the openness of DSO’s competitions, including the concerto competition — which began over 20 years ago — and the student composition competition, which began more recently. These competitions, Davidson said, create an air of excitement within the music department. Liu praised the variety of competition musicians encounter, since the concerto competition is open to any instrument, whether voice, piano, violin or otherwise.

Chang expressed a similar sentiment when reflecting on his own concerto experience.

“I think, by participating in the concerto competition, it’s a way for me to still keep my pursuit in musical activity,” Chang said. “So even though I’m not a music major, I still got a chance to play the piano, I still got a chance to work with a piano professor.”

The professors emphasized, however, that plenty of deserving musicians do not end up winning the competition. Stories like Chang’s are rare, requiring equal doses of skill, circumstance and old-fashioned luck — and fearlessness doesn’t hurt.

“It’s a snapshot,” Davidson said of the competition. “You never really know.”

Duke Symphony Orchestra’s “American Masters” is free and begins at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium. For more information about the concert or DSO, visit dukesymphony.com.

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In ‘Faith in Color’ exhibit, spirituality is both political and personal

By Alizeh Sheikh Contributing Writer

When first observing Evan Nicole Bell’s photographic exhibit “Faith in Color,” which explores the deep roots of religious influence in black communities, I was initially met with a sense of cognitive dissonance. From afar, the photographs that Bell pairs together in a series of diptychs appear to have been taken in the same setting. However, upon closer inspection, one notices that they find their bearings in diverse contexts.

Two diptychs exhibit this phenomenon most strikingly: in one photographic pairing, we see hands folded together in an act of religious devotion, and it is only once we read the captions below the photos that we see that one was taken in the Duke Center for Muslim Life and another was captured in a local Durham church. In another diptych, two religious texts dominate the frame, beckoning to be read, and it is once we move closer that we see that one is written in Arabic — the Quran — and the other in English — an African American hymn book. Why did Bell bring such seemingly divergent worlds together? And how do they manage to blend together so seamlessly?

When named the Duke Chapel C. Eric Lincoln Theology and Arts Fellow, Bell endeavored to immerse herself in a wide range of religious black communities and explore what it means to be a black person of faith in America.

As a photographer and activist, she seeks to challenge traditional notions of documentation in historically racist fields of study such as anthropology and documentary, which have their roots in imperialism. Photographers working for publications such as National Geographic or Time historically held a great deal of power, having the capacity to control and manipulate the narratives of the marginalized

communities they documented.

Bell emphasized the importance of allowing individuals within such communities to document their own culture and history.

Documentation of one’s own history and culture allows marginalized communities to foment their own collective consciousness, attaining empowerment through self-understanding. Bell takes part in this empowerment process as she pairs her photographic work with poetic verses

by C. Eric Lincoln, an African-American scholar and former Duke professor.

“There’s power in telling your story yourself as a member of [a marginalized] community because so often marginalized communities have been denied that power, our history has been written for us, and it hasn’t been written honestly,” Bell said. “That’s one reason why I feel so strongly about documentary work, because the images that I’m taking now are photos that people ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred years from now will look back on to understand what life in 2018 was like for black people.”

Bell’s techniques of finding both cohesion in supposed contradiction as well as conflict in union serves to challenge preconceived notions of faith and social justice. The former method is most evident in her pairings of photographs, as images of various faiths fuse together and defy preconceptions of difference. The serene, elegant photograph of a woman performing salat in the Center for Muslim Life contrasts sharply with the denigrating representations of Muslims in popular media. Bell’s adept synthesis of various faiths serves to emphasize the reality of shared humanity; we certainly hear the phrase often, but Bell allows us to see it too, making it more palpable and much less clichéd.

Additionally, all of Bell’s photographs focus on the personal, encapsulating an individual and the aura of devotion that surrounds them, whether it be a nun, a child, a churchgoer or

Evan Nicole Bell | Special to The Chronicle Bell’s photography exhibit “Faith in Color” examines the deep roots of religion in black communities.

a mourner. Through the erasure of religious difference and the emphasis on personal fervor, Bell highlights the communal nature of religion: The act of devotion is common to all, regardless of faith. She thereby juxtaposes the social reality of the church as a “political space” with the distinctly insular, personal role that religion plays for the individual.

“Today in 2018, the political nature [of the church] is being exacerbated, and I think this exhibit is an important reminder of our shared humanity,” Bell said. “When you look at these photos, you can’t tell if they’re a Christian or a Muslim. Whether you meditate secularly, whether you pray to Allah, or whether you pray to God, you can identify with that person in the picture…we’re not as different as we like to make things out to be.”

Bell also presents an uncomfortable truth when she cohesively pairs verses by C. Eric Lincoln with her photographs taken in a 21st-century context. In one diptych, a verse from Lincoln proclaiming that “those who died for freedom / shall at last / be rescued from / the nameless

thousands gone” stands alongside photographs of unknown marchers from the Fight for $15, one of whom carries a poster of famed Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks. Bell has formulated a historical narrative, and that narrative is graceful in its continuity even as it demonstrates that disparity and disenfranchisement exists as potently now as it did fifty years ago.

Bell emphasized this poem, stating, “‘The nameless thousands gone are not the hotshots who we memorialize. They’re not the Rosa Parks, the Martin Luther Kings, the Malcolm Xs … We have people doing the exact same thing as these figures, but they aren’t getting any recognition for it. They’re doing it because they have to. They have to fight, because what other choice do they have? How else will change happen if we don’t fight? If you don’t make your voice heard?”

Bell’s exhibit magnifies these voices that have long been hidden, and it does so with grace and power.

“Faith in Color” is on exhibit in Duke Chapel through May 1.

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‘Isle of Dogs’ is a bold statement by a director at the top of his game

By Wesley Caretto Contributing Writer

The city of Megasaki, with its monumental neon skyscrapers crowding the evening sky, looms ominously over a small village of tiled-roof homes and merchant houses.

This dichotomy of technology over tradition reappears in many forms over the course of “Isle of Dogs,” the latest movie from Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Moonrise Kingdom”). Anderson’s movies often romanticize the past in simple ways, emphasizing the nostalgic value in a record player or flying a kite.

Here, Anderson filters that nostalgia through Japanese cultural imports. Megasaki itself resembles the sprawling metropolises of “Kaijū” movies — monster movies like “Godzilla vs. Megalon” — or the futuristic cities of “Neo-Tokyo” and “New Port City,” respectively from the animated movies “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell.” Anderson’s reverence for the samurai fables of Akira Kurosawa or the contemplative framing of Yasujirū Ozu emerge as the movie’s driving force.

Even his choice in using stop-motion animation (which he’d done previously in 2009’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”) mimics the old-fashioned artistry of Rankin/Bass cinematography expert Tadahito Mochinaga.

The vision of dystopian Japan constructed in “Isle of Dogs” denies the contemporary reality of the area, instead creating an assemblage of cultural allusions and references that would resonate not only with Japanese culture nerds in America but with a

nostalgic generation of Japanese adults.

Discussion over whether to label Anderson’s latest movie as culturally appropriative has been coursing since the first trailer for “Isle of Dogs” appeared last September. Such conversations are necessary when reckoning with the shameful history of Hollywood’s orientalism. The jury is out on “Isle of Dogs,” as debates about the movie’s role in reinforcing or propagating Japanese stereotypes range from comprehensive to vitriolic. I can’t speak to whether or not the film is appropriative; I can only recommend that readers defer to the cornucopia of opinions of those who have the room to discuss their own representation on screen.

“Isle of Dogs” begins with a fable about a young samurai boy overthrowing his corrupt uncle who sparked war between dogs and cats thousands of years ago. Sure, it’s an absurd and heavy-handed setup, but Anderson has never been one for realism or subtlety. The fable parallels the near-future, where Megasaki’s mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura, also on the movie’s story team) orders the mass deportation of dogs as a response to an epidemic of “dog flu.” Scientists are on the verge of a cure, but Kobayashi’s anti-dog propaganda has swayed the public.

Again, the metaphor isn’t particularly subtle, as most viewers can draw comparisons to the fear-mongering of many contemporary leaders, including Japan’s own Prime Minister, Shinzū Abe. The Orwellian Kobayashi, often framed with a massive poster of his face behind him, hides his dictatorial tendencies behind the illusion of choice; he “allows”

Courtesy of Fox Searchlight “Isle of Dogs” takes place in a dystopian version of Japan, wherein all dogs are banished from the country.

dissenting opinion, while suppressing information that threatens his reign and threatening his opponents.

Soon, all dogs in Megasaki, stray and purebred, healthy and diseased, are dropped from chutes onto Trash Island. Here, a democratic pack of dogs, all bearing monarchical names — Chief (Bryan Cranston), Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Boss (Bill Murray) and Duke (Jeff Goldblum) — stumble upon a 12-year-old boy who crash lands on the island. They discover he’s actually Atari Kobayashi (Koyu Rankin), the mayor’s nephew, on a mission to rescue his dog, Spots (Liev Schrieber), the first dog to be deported. The pack takes up a quest to reunite the dog with his boy.

Unfortunately, the human storyline is less

interesting. It plays as a pretty straightforward dystopian thriller, punctuated by the occasionally annoying Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig). Tracy, as her name might imply, is an American exchange student and she joins up with her school’s activism group in opposition to Kobayashi’s policies. Anderson sets her character up so intriguingly — a hot-headed outsider, only pushed to action when her own dog, Nutmeg (Scarlett Johannson), gets deported — that it’s a shame she barely gets explored. Though she’s not exactly a “white savior,” as her participation with the activists is rarely effective, she toes the line a bit too close for comfort.

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‘Of Fathers and Sons’ is a portrait of the sons of jihad in Syria

By Keyin Lu Staff Writer

Imagine a 12-year-old child growing up in Syria. The place that he calls home is a country ravaged by civil war. He plays with his brothers among hidden land mines. His father is a soldier, part of the Islamic extremist and jihadist organization al-Nusra Front. His name is Osama — named after the man responsible for the September 11 attacks.

“Of Fathers and Sons” is director Talal Derki’s second feature length documentary set in his home of Syria. The film won World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Derki gained access to this extremist family by posing as a jihad-supporting photojournalist trying to document their cause.

I didn’t know what to expect of this film, included in this year’s Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham. Sitting in Cinema One at the Carolina Theatre, I experienced just about every emotional extreme.

For most Americans, trying to understand how Islamic extremists think is like trying to hear a conversation through a concrete wall.

“Of Fathers and Sons” breaks that wall. We hear loud and clear as the phrase “Allah is great” is repeated methodically after the father, Abu Osama, shoots down an enemy fighter from his sniper’s nest.

Although the film follows the father, it also tells the story of his sons who are devoted to him. The oldest, Osama, adores his father and wants to follow in his footsteps. As part of the indoctrination that happens within the organization, Osama and boys his age are sent to military camp. The training is rigid, harsh and terrifying. The boys sleep on concrete floors huddled together for warmth

and companionship. Training involves everything from jumping through literal hoops of fire to lying flattened on the ground as trainers fire bullets next to their faces or at their feet. They are expected to forget fear and remain unflinching.

These boys have not yet reached puberty.

They have no understanding of a world outside of Syria, one untouched by violence and war.

They have no concept of a God that is uncolored by extremist ideology. They have no experience of a childhood devoid of games where they take turns jumping on homemade bombs to see whom they would explode on.

Throughout the film, I was overwhelmed by feelings of shock, fear, disgust and anger. I saw an intimate portrait of how these jihadists think and behave, but I was all the more confused by how they were able to justify their way of life. In many scenes, Osama and his father show their love for each other, proving that they are capable of caring deeply about each other. When Abu Osama loses his leg to a mine, the son sheds genuine tears of distress as the elder comforts him and assures him that it was part of God’s plan. Then I remembered that this was the same man who was ecstatic about the fact that one of his sons was born on September 11, a day marking the deaths of almost 3,000 people.

This narrow definition of love is perhaps the most dangerous tactic used to indoctrinate children into al-Nusra. Love is reserved for male family members and those who advance the mission of jihad. Everyone else is not deserving and their murder can be justified under the name of God. These children grow up amid burning debris. Surrounded by a sense of hopelessness, perhaps the only solution is a blind faith in jihad and mindless devotion to martyrdom.

Talal Derki | Courtesy of Full Frame Documentary Film Festival “Of Fathers and Sons” offers insight on a family of young boys trained by their father to become jihadis.

The tension between love and hate is felt most clearly when Abu Osama talks with another male member of the militia about his two-year-old niece. The male mentions that she is not wearing a hijab and Osama says that if a boy ever saw a girl without a hijab, he should “go shoot her.” The glaring absence of females in the entirety of the film suggests the invisible workings of a powerful patriarchy.

Derki allows us to decide for ourselves by being unapologetically intimate, at times explicit and emotionally honest. He takes us into the home and heart of the main character Abu Osama. As he beats his son for starting a fight, we remember when he also told the same

son not to hurt a bird he had captured. We remember the moment when he killed a man without a second thought and when he held his baby son up to his face and grinned brightly.

The presence of both love and hate, tenderness and violence, creates a dizzying paradox.

The film ends with a shot of the director.

He trudges along an unremarkable dirt road.

The desolate land of Syria is sprawled out around him. Derki says that he will return to Germany, away from the nightmare of the last two years and away from a homeland he no longer recognizes. I left the darkness of the theater with an unshakeable sense of loss and weariness and an intense urge to escape.

Kahn’s ‘The Price of Everything’ questions the accessibility of fine art

By Ashley Kwon Staff Writer

In the contemporary art world, artwork has become more available to the public in various places, including public bathrooms — for example, people wait in a long line to use Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet, titled “America,” in the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

But at the same time, the film reveals that the greatest artists of today’s society are those who provoke more of a sensation around their artworks and sell more of them, not necessarily those with artistic skills. Outside of the museum, Louis Vuitton shops display handbags made in collaboration with Jeff Koons, another contemporary artist known for creating bizarre sculptures. Koons does not create his artworks on his own, but hires numerous assistants that turn his ideas into tangible products. Once the works go out into the art market, they are worth tens of thousands of dollars, though Koons did nothing but provide the blueprints of the works.

The juxtaposition of Koons’s brightly lit studio with a high ceiling and Larry Poons, a Japanese abstract painter, in his small isolated cottage in a countryside sheds light on the contrast between the artists who know how to “play the game,” as Khan says, and those who do not. Once a sensational contemporary artist, Poons suddenly disappeared from the public eye, even convincing some people that he was dead. One scene that shows the artist solitarily working on his painting in his studio, covered with old paint, reveals what happens to an artist who fails to attract the public.

This structure of the market also makes it difficult for female artists to become successful.

Marilyn Minter, whose blurry, photorealistic paintings were recently discovered, says that people admire a few lucky female artists, usually “after they are really old or dead.”

Those “failed” artists beg the question of who gets to dominate the contemporary art world, in which only those with the marketing skills to advertise their works and the privilege to have numerous wealthy collectors buying their works are remembered.

The film sheds light on another debate about what works get to be displayed in museums, which are considered as the “gatekeepers” of culture, only showing works that are worthy of being preserved.

Although many artists want to have the honor of having their works displayed in museums, a lot of them end up on the walls of wealthy collectors’ apartments. Art critic Jerry Saltz says seeing an artwork being sold at an auction is like “saying goodbye” to the work, because the collectors rarely reveal their works to the public again, bequeathing their artworks to their children. As if to verify Saltz, Edlis, as he donates his massive collection of contemporary artwork to the Art Institute of Chicago, says the only reason he made such a donation was that he had “no grandkids.”

With collectors like Edlis, museums have to compete to acquire works of art and prevent them from disappearing into extravagant, gated mansions. Amy Cappellazzo, chairman of the Fine Art division of art dealer Sotheby’s, even said that letting museums acquire artworks and display them to the public is like a “socialist

Nathaniel Kahn | Courtesy of Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Director Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Price of Everything” examines the commodification of art in the modern world.

democratic” way of “avoiding rich people who want them.” But often not having enough funding to purchase high-quality works, museums rely heavily on private donations, which give collectors the right to choose what can be displayed in galleries.

I walked out of the theater, thinking contemporary works that get to be admired in

museums may not necessarily be masterpieces but simply lucky enough to catch the eyes of rich collectors. But realizing how subjectively the value of contemporary artwork is determined, I became eager to find works I could relate to and feel a connection to, instead of admiring whatever museums have on their walls.

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Blue Devil faceoff men Joe Stein and Brian Smyth pick up where previous stars left off

By Sid Bhaskara Associate Sports Editor

Before the opening whistle in February, most media outlets had Duke ranked atop their polls. Boasting experience, athleticism and physicality in the attack, midfield and defensive units, it seemed as though the Blue Devils had a perfect roster.

A perfect roster with one large question mark.

After years of excellent faceoff play from veterans like Brendan Fowler—the 2013 NCAA Championship Most Outstanding player—and Kyle Rowe, who ranks fourth all-time in the nation in career ground balls, Duke entered 2018 without a clear heir apparent on the draw.

Enter the four-man team of freshmen Joe Stein and Trey Bender, sophomore Brian Smyth and senior Tom Palisi. Although Stein and Smyth have seen the vast majority of game action so far this season, every member of the unit has worked to turn a question mark into a two-headed monster.

Despite a shaky start to the year, the Blue Devils have come around, winning 17 of 24 faceoffs against North Carolina and 20 of 32 against Syracuse, critical conference games in which the team needed a possession advantage. Smyth started the year as the primary faceoff man, but after an injury left him unable to go in a road win at Loyola, Stein took over the top spot. The two have begun alternating depending on the opponent and situation, giving Duke a unique combination ready for anything.

“Tom is the leader of the faceoff group,” Stein said. “He’s our senior, and I think he makes sure that we’re in line for practice and schedules what we’re going to do and what we’re going to drill every day.... Brian is

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Freshman Joe Stein has been Duke’s starting faceoff specialist since the Blue Devils’ win at Loyola and has won possession more than half the time. extremely scrappy and is extremely good at ground balls.”

Stein and Smyth came to Duke ranked No. 2 and No. 3 at the faceoff position in their respective recruiting classes, but the duo won more than half of their draws in only two of their first six games.

With neither having played significant minutes at the college level, the new level of competition proved initially jarring.

“In high school, I never really practiced faceoffs,” Smyth said. “When I’d go against guys, I’d swipe the ball out, and the biggest difference [now] is ground balls. Guys are bigger, faster and you’ve got to tuck your stick and go in two-handed…. Being in the weight room is important, getting stronger to be able

WALK-UP LINE FROM PAGE 4 One of the cans hit a member of a different fraternity, who misinterpreted it as an act of aggression. The two fraternities then got into a back-and-forth aerial assault with full beer cans.

“A beer hit me in the left arm. It was like it just fell out of the sky,” the senior fraternity brother said. “It hurt, but it was funnier than it was painful. TFM could have picked it up because it was that ridiculous.”

Separate from this incident, the fraternity that got struck first went after another fraternity. This time, the target was another fraternity’s beer pong table. The fraternity sent brothers on a mission to break it, attempting to use the “People’s Elbow” to do so. The move was popularized by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during his WWE years—he kicked his right leg up and threw his elbow down on his opponents’ heart.

Unfortunately for that fraternity, the table didn’t succumb to the elbow.

“That caused a bit of a scuffle. It was all pretty funny as a bystander, to be honest,” the senior said.

That wasn’t all for the shenanigans in K-Ville that day.

Sophomore Cade McCurdy said he saw one guy throw cold pizza slices, frisbee-style into the crowd. Another threw

to hold your own.”

There is a growing emphasis on developing faceoff players in an era when the faceoff game has become highly specialized, technical and competitive. In the past, teams were content to put midfielders with quick reflexes out on the draw, but faceoff play has become a massive point of expertise, as faceoff men are now built more like wrestlers than attackmen.

Players are developed as faceoff-specific athletes from a younger and younger age, often playing the draw exclusively at the youth and high school level.

Duke, specifically, has been home to some of the most storied faceoff men in the history of college lacrosse, from the consistent brilliance

empty plastic alcohol handles into the crowd. Both for no apparent reason.

“The tailgate this year was hardly different from years past, or even from other tailgates this year—lots of heavy drinking, cans everywhere and big crowds,” Bates wrote.

But the need for medical attention for drunkenness was at a level not usually seen, even for K-Ville, according to David Mallen, assistant director of the Duke Wellness Center. There were four alcohol-related EMS incidents on North Carolina gameday—higher than what Mallen has traditionally seen “due to the calls for the walk-up line.”

Senior line monitor and co-vice president of gameday operations Ali Wisner said she saw several people keeled over and vomiting in bushes by K-Ville.

The senior fraternity brother said that he thought the pregame in K-Ville was rowdier than in years past because of the way that the walk-up line was handled—walk-up liners let out their frustration with drinking.

According to the line monitors’ policies, K-Ville residents are “expected to adhere to all university policies relating to the consumption and distribution of alcohol.” That includes the University’s policy prohibiting drinking games and glass containers. Hard liquor was flowing openly throughout See WALK-UP LINE on Page 12

of Rowe and the heroics of Fowler in the 2013 and 2014 national championship games to the iconic play of C.J. Costabile, whose overtime faceoff win and fast-break shot won Duke its first national championship in 2010.

From the beginning of head coach John Danowski’s tenure, rarely have the Blue Devils been without a dominant player at the X, but the coaching staff is unwilling to admit that they had any great effect on faceoff play through 11 years now.

“I think they came to us as kind of finished products,” Danowski said. “I don’t know that we did too much. Brendan Fowler was a wonderful three-sport athlete and faceoff man all throughout high school. Kyle Rowe was a great faceoff man at Stony Brook before he transferred here, and his brother Jack Rowe was our faceoff man here as well.”

With those players in mind, Danowski and assistant coach Ron Caputo will attempt to work with their young talent, which is heating up during the stretch run toward the ACC and NCAA tournaments. The Blue Devils are 10-2 and, despite an 0-for-3 start from Stein, Smyth recovered to win five of 10 draws in a win Saturday Notre Dame.

“From day one, faceoffs are a very technical position,” Palisi said. “The subtleties that make the difference between winning and losing are milliseconds, and [Smyth] is extremely strong and [Stein] has extremely fast hands. I am extremely knowledgeable about the position, and as long as the team wins at the end of the day, I don’t care who’s playing.”

Regardless of who plays, Duke has positioned itself well at a critical position going into the end of the year, and with two young, productive players, it may be positioned even better going forward.

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for A-team support in K-Ville and cited the Bonfire Safety Program document, saying FROM PAGE 11 that A-team’s scope on March 3 was limited the afternoon—something banned in the to “limited to ensuring the safe and successful University’s policies. execution of an approved bonfire.” Constand But seemingly little was done to enforce said she explained to Adams that she didn’t these policies, according to many who were think the bonfire was as much of an alcohol in K-Ville. John Dailey, chief of Duke police, risk as K-Ville. said in an email that alcohol policy is enforced When asked why he denied the request, “administratively”—by departments other he simply said A-team is “not available to than police. He did not respond in time for K-Ville.” Constand said that Adams rejected publication to a follow-up question about her request for A-team support in alcohol which department specifically is to enforce policy enforcement in K-Ville because not alcohol policy. enough people would volunteer.

“The police can only enforce obvious When asked if this was true, Adams violations of the NC law,” Dailey wrote. said he didn’t remember the specifics of The Chronicle also asked in that follow- the conversation because it was in “midup email whether being drunk and disorderly December.” Moneta did not answer a would be an enforceable violation of North question from The Chronicle in an email Carolina law and if DUPD observed any directly asking if A-team should have drunk and disorderly people in K-Ville on supported line monitors. gameday. Dailey also did not respond in time “The only thing we wish we could have for publication. done differently was harping a bit more on Vice president of student affairs Larry the administration to get their help,” coMoneta declined to comment when asked head line monitor David Duquette said. “We who is supposed to enforce alcohol policy made the effort to talk to admin to try and get after The Chronicle said that Dailey said it A-team out there during the walk-up line and was enforced ‘administratively.’

Carolina gameday to get resources for water “The policy exists precisely because and food, anything really to help out with people fail to pace themselves; letting them that, because we don’t think it’s possible for self-police does absolutely nothing,” Bates a team of 30 students to police thousands of wrote. “An unenforced their peers.” alcohol policy is no We don’t think it’s possible Mallen thinks the key policy at all.” to reducing the number of for a team of 30 students Constand said it is incidents isn’t in stricter not the line monitors’ to police thousands of enforcement, but helping job to enforce alcohol their peers. students learn how to policy—something drink more safely. david duquette unrealistic and outside “This really isn’t CO-HEAD LINE MONITOR of their jurisdiction. a question about “It’s tough to be out there, where all your enforcement by any one authority or friends are and tell them, ‘No, you can’t drink.’ another because that takes the focus off of People don’t respect that, especially if they’ve the individual’s responsibility to celebrate seen you at parties before,” Wisner added. safely and places it on another person to look “There’s a certain amount of authority in after them,” Mallen said. “Our goal has been having an adult telling you not to drink as to inform individuals about safer strategies opposed to a student.” toward drinking and how to actively take care The line monitors asked for support from of themselves and others.” the administration in enforcing alcohol He added that line monitors participated policy, but were denied. Associate Dean of in DuWell’s social responsibility training, Students Clay Adams met with Constand in and DuWell provided signage that promoted December, when she requested support from “safer drinking strategies.”

“A-Team” in enforcing alcohol policy.

A-team is comprised of student, faculty and ‘You’re such a b****. You don’t know what administration volunteers who Constand says you’re doing at all.’ enforce alcohol policy and monitor safety on Getting the walk-up line in the game has LDOC—one of the biggest drinking days of always been the most chaotic part of K-Ville the year on campus. A-Team also helps ensure for line monitors. safety at the postgame bonfire on the main In 2017, Constand said line monitors faced a quad if Duke beats North Carolina. similar mob scene, though not close to the same Adams said he denied Constand’s request extent. That year, walk-up liners walked up on

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the grass area where tents are pitched, but formed with a couple of colleagues, Dean Sue nothing close to a line—more of a blob.

Wasiolek also came and stood with the From there, line monitors had to call out line monitors while walk-up liners were individual groups one-by-one in order—a assembling in the barricades after hearing total mess. about the chaos. Wasiolek was on her way This year, the line monitors tried to remedy from East Campus to West Campus when she some of the anarchy by erecting barricades by heard of the rowdiness and called on some of the tennis courts adjacent to K-Ville to form her colleagues to come assist her. narrow rows where walk-up liners could When the line monitors called for the stand up. first section of walk-up liners, from 1-75, Once again, the chaos reigned. Some changes didn’t stop the He was like, ‘I’m just going who were confused drunken mass of chaos. as to which line they to start punching you or While tenters were were supposed to be something and maybe they’ll in saw people in their entering Cameron, the line monitors tried to listen and let me in.’ group going ahead and organize walk-up line ali wisner decided they had to groups in groups of 75 SENIOR LINE MONITOR follow, the senior said. in the barricades, lined Then, people in the up side-by-side between metal dividers. But second line, 76-150, saw people in their line there was some confusion as to which line was leaving, so they believed they had to go to which—the sign for groups 1-75 was on the earn a spot too, the senior said. first barricade, but 76-150 was on the third This created the first mob—the “mini barricade, one senior walk-up line member mob,” as McCurdy called it. He said people said. He also declined to be named due to also believed that they could get in regardless friendships with line monitors. of the order on their wristband, incentivizing The senior said he went up to Floberg and people to just make a run for it. told him that it could have been confusing The second group of walk-up liners for walk-up liners to understand where to knocked down the barricades and rushed to congregate and predicted that a mob scene the end of the line for tenters—closer to the would ensue. Floberg shrugged him off, the metal detectors. senior said.

“It’s strange to me because there That conversation was overheard by who the shouldn’t be any confusion as to your place senior said was the rowdiest member of the walk- in line—it’s on your wristband,” Floberg up line. He ripped the sign off the barricade and said. “We’re standing there calling out the took a bite out of the corner of it. group that should be going right now.

“I have no idea about the specific question It’s hard to explain the confusion because being asked. Line monitors are being asked it doesn’t seem like there should be any hundreds of questions just walking by the confusion. But in those high-pressure line,” Floberg said. “Half of them are like situations, people panic.” ‘are we going to get in’ so it just becomes And the panic didn’t stop for anything. desensitizing to hear people asking questions.

When the mob rushed the back of the tenting If you hear someone say that they’re confused line, Wisner got caught up in the jumble. The about where to line up, I’m going to help as first group tried to push its way forward and much as possible.” the second group came running behind them— Floberg agreed that it was confusing sending her to the dirt. The 5-foot flat line because the signs were not centered, and said monitor got trampled by the stampede. he tried his best to communicate to the 800 “I’ve never seen anything like that at registered walk-up liners. He used a bullhorn Duke,” Wisner said. “We always expect it to be to tell people when to go and went around to crazy, but nothing like this. I had some pretty the back of the line to move people back to bad bruises.” let more in. They didn’t listen and ended up Some good samaritans did end up helping packed near the front. her get up—then she took to the top of a “People just look at you and don’t do trash can to try to control the crowd, shouting anything,” Floberg said. “When you have 400 orders from a megaphone. extremely drunk and stressed people trying to Somehow, the “mini” mob was just the get into this game, it becomes extremely tough beginning. to communicate messages to them.”

Once this mob formed, captain Shannan Floberg was one of just three line Tiffin, chief of police, told Constand that monitors stationed at the barricades—one See WALK-UP LINE on Page 13 more than is typical, Constand said. Along

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“Total chaos ensued,” McCurdy said.

“When they said that, people were just like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been giving up this whole week and now I won’t be getting into the game,’” Landa said.

Some followed their orders and headed home, but some tried to push their way through. One senior explained that many tried to get through because they simply didn’t trust the line monitors’ word.

“A lot of people who were ahead of me left because they decided to listen to the rules. That further points to the fact that the line monitors couldn’t be taken at face value,” he said.

Athletics staffers and police had to form a human barricade linking arms to prevent hundreds of pushing students packed in a small area from rushing through the metal detectors.

That didn’t work. The entire walk-up line burst through the barricades, pushing through into the plaza outside Cameron.

In the process, the line monitors were subject to threats of violence and intimidation. One walk-up liner broke a table, ripped off a metal leg and threatened to strike Constand with it.

In the midst of trying to stop people from breaking the metal detectors, one man threatened to strike Wisner.

“This guy said to me, ‘You’re such a b****. You don’t know what you’re doing at all,’” Wisner said. “I was like, ‘I’m so sorry, what group number are you?’ He was in the 300s. And he was like, ‘I’m just going to start punching you or something and maybe they’ll listen and let me in the game.’”

The line monitors then shouted over megaphone for everyone to get back to the Wilson Gym doors. Few could hear. When they moved back, there were no line monitors there, and people decided to head back to get closer—they believed the line monitors would just let people in regardless of order.

“We couldn’t trust the line monitors by their word,” the senior explained. “Everyone just kept running up back to the metal detectors.”

After nearly an hour of sorting out the mess, line monitors started letting walkup liners into Cameron. By then, it was far too late to fill up the student section. Once the game started, Bob Weiseman, associate director of athletics/athletic facilities, game operations and championships closed the doors. Roughly 300 of the 800 that registered got in the game—fewer than in previous years.

“It’s sad that people think we were intentionally not trying to get people in,” Constand said. “We’ve devoted hundreds of hours of our lives to this. I wish students would be more upset with each other and hold each other accountable as human beings instead of pointing fingers at us.”

What now?

Line monitors are in the process of crafting a new system, working alongside athletic director Kevin White and Moneta.

“The whole point of the walk-up line is for entry beyond the 1,200 students. 1,200 is guaranteed for the tenters, and the rest is for any remaining spots in Cameron,” Constand said. “There needs to be a new system for filling those remaining spots.”

Constand supports expanding white tenting.

She cites the strong interest in white tenting—54 tents were on the waitlist this year.

Any changes would have to be approved

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“Several of us are still processing the event and determining how best to respond and avoid a recurrence in the future,” Moneta said. “Thus, as we continue our review and planning, I’m unlikely to want to say anything more at this time.”

In an April 6 email to The Chronicle to a series of follow-up questions, Moneta said he had nothing to say at the time because they are “still in discussions.”

After Floberg’s op-ed, entitled “It’s time to Kill Walk-Up Line,” was published, many walk-up liners were enraged at the suggestion of getting rid of walk-up line.

Assuming the same general time-frame, this Juan Bermudez | Sports Photography Editor action would push the start date back weeks Students paint themselves and party in K-Ville for those who want the least intensive way every year before the North Carolina game. to get into the game.

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We started the conversation on the future of Duke by asking President Price about his environmental vision for the University. Broadly speaking, Price emphasized that he would “like to see us be a leader that propagates environmentally responsible behavior in our own community and around the state of North Carolina.” Emphasizing the University’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2024, Price expressed a commitment to reducing Duke’s ecological impact, but nonetheless noted that it will be difficult to accomplish. Additionally, the conversation included a brief mention of the controversial Combined Heat and Power Plant, which has recently been delayed due to environmental concerns. Another plank of his vision for reducing Duke’s environmental impact includes a desire for increased bicycle usage or other nonmotorized forms of transportation on campus and in Durham—a suggestion that is likely a carryover from

his many years spent in Philadelphia.

President Price also spoke potently about the future of the University when he addressed the role of technology in education, particularly in regards to online courses. He optimistically noted, “I think Duke is well positioned to a leader in these areas [related to online learning].” Having played an important role in implementing Coursera at Penn, he feels actively that online courses have the ability to fundamentally impact the way faculty members can teach at Duke. Price strongly emphasized a

Editorial Board need to think about technology and the ways it can open access to modules that support our teaching.

That being said, he expressed skepticism that online courses or open course-ware would ever be able to completely replace the current university model. He ultimately envisions this technology as a way of augmenting knowledge transfers within the University structure, but not as a wholesale replacement for the campus community.

In defining his long-term academic vision for Duke, President Price spoke fondly of the academic

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guilds of the past and how he values the diverse, close communities of scholars that they once created. Echoing this traditional intellectual structure, Price explained that “I’d like to think that when a student graduates from Duke, they’re not graduating from Duke, they’re graduating into the school of Duke alumni.” While he noted his appreciation for the social aspects of post-graduation events and class reunions, Price also explained that he desires more alumni development in terms academic and professional engagement. Through the development of this new Duke community—in his words “a continuously developing, growing human development cooperative”—Price hopes to redefine the role of the University among students and alumni alike moving into the 21st century.

All in all, President Price expressed a great sense of enthusiasm in his work, which many Board members felt was akin to seeing a first-year student come alive at Duke with fresh, optimistic eyes. When explaining what main role he sees himself as occupying at Duke, President Price spoke of himself primarily as being someone to help channel the University’s collective ambitions. We wish him well as he completes the first year of what is to be a noteworthy tenure, and look forward to seeing what progress Duke can accomplish under his continued leadership.

What Greek Ally Week means to me

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ast weekend a friend asked me if I had any wise senior advice for the incoming Class of 2022.

My immediate reaction was of shock that I was actually a senior and that I only had a month left at

Lukas Gschwandtner GUEST COLUMNIST Duke. But the question prompted me to start reflecting on my time at Duke, what I may have done differently, what I really “learned” over the course of my academic experience. When I think back to my biggest regret— besides missing out on the Alfred Hitchcock class or sleeping through my first Chem 101 exam—my answer always stems back to spending the first 19 years of my life in the closet.

I pretended to be straight for 19 years, repressing my feelings so far back that I actually convinced myself that sexuality was a choice. But everything hit the fan sophomore year. My grades were awful, I was skipping class multiple times a week. I drank too much and let many friendships fade away; my mental health was at one of its lowest points ever. For a while I could not pinpoint what was wrong, except I knew that sometimes when I drank a bit too much that my attraction toward men would begin to creep its way out and cause me to drink even more in an attempt to cover up those feelings. I remember drunkenly making my way back to my fraternity’s section, crawling up to the third floor bathroom and looking myself in the mirror. As I looked in the mirror I felt so lost and confused and let the shame I was feeling completely take over and I started sobbing on the floor of our section bathroom. After this incident, I spent the rest of the semester trying to figure out my identity, but doing so in private. I didn’t tell anyone for the longest time and bottled up my feelings for at least 5 months.

When my big, former Greek Ally Week director Tyler Nelson, asked me to get involved with Greek Ally Week as a straight ally facilitator, I felt an urge to say yes even though I knew I wasn’t exactly straight. I figured in some weird way that this might give me insider knowledge of the Greek community’s acceptance, if any, of the identity I still hadn’t fully accepted. As someone who identified as “straight,” I was tasked with leading the ally discussion group. Through breaking down the issues that plagued our campus and coming up with questions for discussion, I started to question my own sexuality even further. Years of repression because of bullies and heteronormative social spaces began to unwind. For the first time since early high school, I allowed myself to reflect on the feelings and thoughts

I had toward men. What I previously brushed off as admiration was actually attraction, and I was finally able to admit to myself those three seemingly terrifying words: “I am gay.”

One of my most fond memories of the week was seeing the turnout of my own chapter. Members of my chapter from all political, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds turned out in support of the already out gay members of our organization. After seeing how my chapter and other chapters turned out in large masses to support their LGBTQ members, I felt inspired to begin the coming out process myself. I started by coming out one-by-one to several close friends, including several members of my chapter.

By the time that I felt like this was complete I was studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was ready for the big coming out to the rest of the my chapter. I decided to write an email to my entire chapter about the authentic Lukas Gschwandtner. Hitting the send button on that email is to this day on of the hardest and most nerve racking things I have ever had to do. I had this feeling of “there’s no going back from here” looming over me as I watched the message move from my Outbox to Sent. I turned off my phone and computer and went to enjoy a bottle of wine with some friends to celebrate. When I returned I had over 50 messages and emails from current members and alums expressing their happiness for me and support for me living out my authentic life.

Recognizing the inherent issues within the Greek system, this year my co-director Claire Stout and I want to use Greek Ally Week as an opportunity to address social issues as they occur in the larger Duke Community. While we are bringing back events like Ally 101 training and a panel of Greek LGBTQIA+ students to speak about their experiences at Duke and as a part of Greek life, we have added Ally 201 training, aimed at bridging the gap between Greek life and the greater Duke community, as well expanding upon topics such as intersectionality and microaggressions. We have also teamed up with the campus organization, Empower Her Voice, to put together a panel of Greek women to speak about sexual and gender violence at Duke University. The entire Greek Ally Week team, made of individuals of all years, chapters and councils, is more than excited for the week to come and look forward to the opportunities to strengthen the community.

Two years ago, the support I received from the Greek Ally Week community and from my chapter helped me to fully accept my authentic self. Greek Ally Week allowed me to become more comfortable with myself, and as one of the directors this year, I hope that I can help the Greek Community as it helped me.

Lukas Gschwandtner is a Trinity senior.

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Duke voices: The Silent Vigil Reunion When history calls

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f you peer into the rearview mirror of time, at the Duke campus of the 1960’s, the image will likely be hazy. You might be influenced by course readings or Ken Burns’ specials. Or perhaps by dubious tales told by parents or grandparents about a freewheeling era of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.

But as those of you who attend the panels and workshops at the coming Duke Vigil 50th Reunion symposium, April 12-15, will learn, it was about a good deal more. Our generation challenged the way America— and, to some extent, the world—understood racial and gender equality, sexual expression and orientation, economic disparity, the environment and U.S. foreign policy.

Having said that, this is also true: We weren’t that special. When we got here, the student body was a lot whiter, mostly native-born, and largely privileged, with men well outnumbering women. We were middle-class kids from affluent, Northern suburbs; or from small and midsize North Carolina towns and cities; and a smattering of military brats and urban working-class kids on scholarship. And, yes, the very first handful of African-American undergraduates.

For the most part, we weren’t particularly idealistic or altruistic; prescient or socially conscious; or brave—much less fearless. We arrived in Durham with the same complacent, unquestioned assumptions about American life as our parents and grandparents. Then we were transformed by real life. We only managed to wake up when history grabbed us by the collar, shook us, and turned our world upside down.

True, there was a small but visionary group of activists already on campus who were way ahead of us. For them, the Vigil would be less an awakening than an opportunity to express long-held beliefs in a way that would speak to the university community and the world.

At Duke and elsewhere, our generation was inspired and led by this cadre, whom one writer called “a prophetic minority.”

But for the majority, it was the times that swept us up and carried us along: civil rights and antiwar movements, followed in short order by the women’s movement and what would later be

called the LGBT movement. Then we made the times, first as movement foot soldiers; and later, where our skills, abilities and passions took and sustained us.

So it was just days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—who was in Memphis to support the union representing the city’s predominately African-American sanitation workers—that the Duke Vigil erupted. It began with an occupation of the university president’s house, continued with a silent, peaceful sit-in on the main quad and ultimately involved 1,500 students. One of

a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.”

In our time, we learned from the Kent and Jackson State killings, Watergate and IranContra that there are only three justifiable ways to view governmental authority: skepticism, cynicism or contempt. From our own experience, we learned that it was easier to stop an ill-conceived war thousands of miles away than a local freeway that flattened historic African-American neighborhoods.

“No generation—certainly not mine—has a monopoly on righteousness or sparking social change. You can be more than we were. You can have a greater impact on this nation.”

Mark Pinsky, Trinity ‘70 our primary demands was that the university recognize the striking nonacademic workers’ union, which was fighting to raise the pitiable 85 cents per hour wage to $1.15 for its predominately African-American members.

At Duke in the ’60s, many of us began to recognize that the message of the weed-fueled geniuses of The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe was correct: “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” Once removed from our insular home environments, our minds were opened. All (or most) of the cultural and political attitudes we brought with us to Durham were to be challenged, reexamined and, in some cases, revised, discarded or fought against.

While we may not have invented sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, we did learn a few things worth passing along. We learned about America’s deeply rooted racism from towering academic figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke’s John Hope Franklin and Samuel Dubois Cook.

They and others ignited our moral obligation to battle all forms of inequality. Of special note was Frederick Douglass, who admonished us—from across a century—that the struggle for justice “may be a moral one, or it may be

In the days and weeks to come, leading up to the Vigil Reunion symposium, you may have the opportunity to hear from Duke veterans of the Vigil, as well as of other marches and demonstrations, about how the ’60s shaped their lives. This is not to say that the ’60s experience meant a lifelong commitment for everyone. Over the past half-century some of us have burned out, sold out, trimmed our sails—or, alas, to mix another metaphor—even turned our coats.

Like many of you, many of us stepped out on Marches for Our Lives around the country on March 24, led by the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. They’re teaching us all a lesson about not giving up against seemingly insurmountable foes such as the NRA. That reinforces another lesson we’ve learned along the way: Struggle continues and evolves, even in what seem like fallow or quiescent periods of history.

Thus, like others of my fellow travelers, I was prouder of the pioneering Duke Student AntiSweatshop Labor Movement of the late 1990s than I was of any national championship. And I never felt more invigorated than when I laced up my old marching shoes in 2011 and joined my

local Occupy movement, led by young people chanting: “Stand up! Fight back! This is what Democracy looks like!” Or, watching from afar, as members of the Duke community, including area alumni, participated in Moral Mondays in Raleigh, demonstrating the enduring power of bearing witness. And sometimes, as Durham’s recent mayoral election will no doubt demonstrate, political insurgencies can yield incremental change. Similarly, so can the battlefield of the courtroom.

Although there may be a bit of reminiscing, our intention is for the Duke Vigil Reunion symposium to be more about mobilization than nostalgia. We hope the performances, panels and workshops—along with the Reverend William Turner Jr.’s Chapel sermon on Sunday—will provide you with a useful road map to continued activism. One of our rallying cries was, “Dare to struggle, dare to win.” Even when we lose in the short run, as we often have, we know that there is joy in struggle.

So, here is my geezer message to you: No generation—certainly not mine—has a monopoly on righteousness or sparking social change. You can be more than we were. You can have a greater impact on this nation. History is happening to you now, calling you to action.

It’s your turn. A Caligula is in the White House, denying climate change and implementing a draconian refugee and immigration policy. He’s enabled, if not egged on by the hooded wing of the Republican Party, exercising a stranglehold on Congress and Sunbelt state legislatures. The latter is brought to you by the real deep state: organizational thugs such as the NRA, the Koch brothers and ALEC. There is much for all of us to do, together.

Journalist Mark I. Pinsky (Trinity ’70) is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan, which begins on the third floor of Flowers Building, where he once wrote a regular Chronicle column called “The Readable Radical.”

Duke Vigil reunion: A tribute to Oliver Harvey

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ne chilly early morning in 1964 when I was an undergraduate at Duke University, a friend and I made our way across campus to find Oliver Harvey, a janitor on the night shift who had been involved in the black freedom movement in Durham since the 1940s.

Harry Boyte GUEST COLUMN Harvey explained to us why nonacademic employees like maids and janitors needed a union, but I didn’t need convincing—the maid who cleaned my room was paid something like 50 cents an hour. I also constantly saw her slighted by the college students on the hall of my dorm, reflecting affluent backgrounds unaware of racial indignities.

Harvey asked us if students from the Duke chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, which I had helped to organize, would back the workers’ effort to affiliate with Local 77 of the American Association of State, County, and Municipal Employees. We did.

Over the next several years, a growing number of students became active in support

of the unionization campaign, and we organized a group called “Friends of Local 77.” Highly charged discussions and debates about nonacademic employees and the union spilled out of classrooms into countless conversations.

The organizing generated a myriad of “free spaces” across the campus. The year after I left Duke—1968—more than 1,000 students staged a Silent Vigil to support the union. The following year, university trustees chose a new president, Terry Sanford, who recognized Local 77. I don’t think there are longitudinal studies of our cohort of students, but I am certain that the organizing effort shaped our education and view of the world in profound ways. My own lessons included learning about what makes for great teaching.

Oliver Harvey, invisible according to the customary credentials at Duke, was my civics teacher in public work. He played a similar role for many others. Harvey taught me about union organizing among white and black tobacco and textile workers in Durham in the 1930s. He told me about a campaign in Texas he had been involved in against the poll tax used to keep poor whites as well as blacks off the voting rolls. I learned from him about the rich blues tradition of the city.

Most important, he taught me about everyday politics. Such politics are not about trying to get other people to agree with you or do what you want. They begin with understanding where people come from and the public possibilities stored even within one’s enemies.

This is what I have come to call “public love” in the tradition of Martin Luther King’s philosophy of nonviolence. In practice, this meant that the language of the organizing campaign of the maids and janitors was framed by deepening the public purpose of their work, enabling them better to contribute to Duke University.

Indeed, nonacademic employees often championed the purpose more eloquently than faculty and students, as Harvey’s comments in a debate with an anti-union faculty member in 1966, illustrate. He challenged the grievance procedure created by the administration, called the “Proudfoot” system, because he felt it was stacked against the maids and janitors.

But he ended with an eloquent statement of nonacademic employees’ aspirations to contribute: “Each authority that these maids will face along the road of the grievance procedure knows that the authority above him wants

the Proudfoot system to work… No one along the line of authority that we must travel can possibly be unbiased when listening to our complaints. Until there is neutral arbitration of these grievances...[we] have no job security, no dignity, no chance of becoming employees who share in the goal to make this a great and quality institution.”

This is a lesson in nonviolent citizen politics that I have never forgotten.

Drawn from Prospect Park United Methodist Church Lenten Devotional, 2018. I also tell the story of Oliver and the Duke organizing in Boyte et al, Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming 2018).

Harry Boyte (Trinity ’67) is the Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg University and Senior Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. The Boyte Family Papers are housed at the Duke Archives.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS arts.duke.edu

APRIL 9 - APRIL 14

Department of Theater Studies presents

Dreaming: Little Nemo Revisited Friday, April 13 & Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm April 15 at 2 pm Sheafer Theater Free admission theaterstudies.duke.edu

Original puppet workshop features Duke undergrads adapting a classic comic with multiple puppet techniques set to live music.

Directed and designed by Professor Torry Bend, Jim Henson Foundation grant winner, and scripted by Howard L. Craft, author of Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green.

MFA|EDA THESIS EXHIBITION Through Saturday, April 14 Duke and Durham mfaeda2018.org

DUKE UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY: SOUNDS OF CINEMA WITH BOSTON BRASS Thursday, April 12 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium Free admission music.duke.edu

CHOREOLAB 2018 Friday, April 13 & Saturday April 14 7:30 pm Reynolds Industries Theater danceprogram.duke.edu

MURAL DURHAM: SATELLITE PARK Saturday, April 14 1–4 pm Duke Arts Annex Free muraldurham.com

ARTIST TALK: JOHN AKOMFRAH Thursday, April 19 7 pm Nasher Museum of Art nasher.duke.edu

SCREEN/SOCIETY--AMI SHOWCASE— PARADJANOV’S “SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS” [35MM] Thursday, April 19 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater ami.duke.edu/screensociety

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society and Theater Studies.