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T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2018 DUKECHRONICLE.COM

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 79

STUDENTS RUSH STAGE AT ALUMNI EVENT

Photo by Bre Bradham Associate Photography Editor

By Adam Beyer Digital Strategy Director

Fifty years ago, approximately 1,500 students occupied the Quad for several days in response to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, silently calling for institutional change at Duke. Fifty years later, approximately 25 students took the stage during President Price’s alumni weekend speech Saturday, loudly demanding other institutional reforms. Although their tactics may have been different, the students who organized the protest said they follow in the activist tradition of the 1968 protesters—many of whom were present in Page Auditorium as the protest unfolded. Unlike the 1968 Vigil and other recent campus protests, there was no single triggering event for this protest, which was planned weeks in advance, the student protesters said. Sophomore Gino Nuzzolillo said he and several other students had been asked to help publicize and promote alumni weekend events commemorating the Silent Vigil and activism at Duke. However, for Nuzzolillo and fellow students, including junior Trey Walk and senior Bryce Cracknell, more needed to be done. “We felt that you don’t honor activism with panels and things that keep it firmly in the past as an artifact,” Nuzzolillo said. “It’s something that’s viable and visible and present now and in the future.” They decided to contact student leaders from a variety of organizations on campus in an attempt to assemble a coalition. In a meeting among the campus leaders, they began hashing out what would Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor eventually become their “manifesto.” The final document was a collection

Some alumni turned their backs to the students protesting on the stage at President Vincent Price’s address.

Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor After leaving Page Auditorium, the students took their protest to See STUDENTS on Page 3 the Chapel steps.

How will Trump’s new tariffs affect N.C.? Professors weigh in By Xinchen Li Staff Reporter

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China would generate a negative impact on the U.S. economy—especially on economies that largely depend on agriculture—according to Duke scholars and local agricultural workers. After the United States proposed a tariff on $50 billion worth of goods imported from China on April 3, China retaliated the next day by proposing a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of U.S. imports. Although the United States targeted Chinese steel and aluminum exports with its tariffs, China focused primarily on U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans, tobacco and pork. “When it comes to trade tariffs, we really

need to focus on their real-life effects and not corn and livestock—are among the potential the political hysteria that we read in the news,” victims of China’s retaliatory tariffs. said Corinne Krupp, associate professor of The tariffs will increase the prices of the practice in the Sanford School U.S. agricultural of Public Policy. “At this point, products in China’s It is not likely that a trade we hope both [the United market, Krupp States and China] can look war will be good for anybody. said. This will cause back from the brink and make American farmers a compromise.” corinne krupp to lose access to ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE IN the market if the According to data from the Department of Agriculture, THE SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY heightened price China was the largest exceeds what agricultural export market for the United Chinese consumers could get locally or from States in 2016 and the second largest in 2017, other producers. with soybeans, pork and cotton as primary With the tariff, U.S. farmers have to either export products. find another market big enough to absorb all North Carolina farmers—who specialize the products or accept a lower price, Krupp primarily in growing tobacco, soybeans, added. Chinese consumers will also have to pay

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a lot more than what U.S. producers charge. “It is not likely that a trade war will be good for anybody,” Krupp said. A 2015 report by North Carolina State University showed that agriculture is the pillar of North Carolina’s economy. It accounts for roughly 16 percent of the state economy and provides 17 percent of all jobs in the state. North Carolina soybean producers harvest from approximately 1.7 million acres, the highest acreage of row crop in the state, said John Fleming, president of North Carolina Soybean Producers Association. North Carolina farmers are among the top producers of poultry, turkeys and hogs, for which soybeans serve as the primary feed, See TARIFFS on Page 4 @thedukechronicle | © 2018 The Chronicle


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