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Williamson, Barrett named Uni. to create new ID for voting in NC first-team All-Americans By Mona Tong Staff Reporter

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Add another accolade to the illustrious freshman seasons of Duke’s R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson. On Tuesday, AP voters tabbed Barrett and Williamson first-team All-Americans. This is just the second time in history that two freshmen from the same team were named to the first team, and the Blue Devil duo joins the 2010 Kentucky pair of John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in this club. This is the second consecutive year that Duke has a freshman on the AP All-America first team, as Marvin Bagley III took home the honor in 2018. Williamson received all 64 votes, making him the only unanimous selection. Grant Williams of Tennessee, Ja Morant of Murray State and Cassius Winston of Michigan State join Williamson and Barrett on the first team. Duke’s season ended on Sunday night, as Winston’s Spartans took down the Blue Devils 68-67. The 6-foot point guard had 20 points, 10 assists and four steals in the contest.

At the ballot box in November 2018, North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment to require photo identification for future elections. Duke’s current student ID didn’t meet the standards imposed by the subsequent law, so the University is making a new option for students who want to use Duke-issued cards to vote. “Students who want the card will have to agree to have their identity verified according to the law, will have their picture taken by the University and will receive the card in time to vote in the 2020 election,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email. As a result, beginning in 2020, Duke students without other legally acceptable forms of identification and who wish to use a Duke ID to vote in North Carolina will have the option to obtain a “Duke Voter ID card” approved by the Board, which would only be valid for voter identification purposes and not for any other Duke transactions. Duke students will be able to use a form of student IDs to vote in the upcoming 2020 election, but some students in the University of North Carolina system will not. Other

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schools like Elon University, however, have used the same provision as Duke to have a separate voter ID card approved. “The requirements mandated by the voter ID law would have been impossible

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to implement with the current Duke Card, but we are utilizing a provision of the law that permits colleges to issue a separate ID card that is only valid for voter identification so that Duke students will be able to full participate in the civic life of the community, state and nation by voting,” Schoenfeld wrote. On March 15, the North Carolina State Board of Elections determined which ID cards from government agencies, universities, community colleges and Native American tribes met the security standards outlined by the state’s new photo voter ID requirement law. In total, 81 colleges and universities in North Carolina submitted an application to have their student and employee IDs approved

for voting. Of these schools, 72 were approved. But IDs for either students, or both students and employees, at 12 of the 17 UNC system universities—including UNC Chapel Hill— were rejected. The law resulted from the state voter ID constitutional amendment approved by 55% of voters back in November. “What we know now is that the problem about faking votes in the system has way more to do with absentee ballots than this whole issue of fake voter IDs,” said Pope McCorkle, professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy. “The idea that there are lots of people who are willing to go to the polling places, fake their See VOTER ID on Page 4

Introductory economics course moves to pass/fail grading system By Xinchen Li Duke’s introductory economics course will no longer give students letter grades. The economics department recently announced that, beginning in Fall 2019, Economics 101 will use “satisfactory/ unsatisfactory” grading only. The course will still count towards the economics major. The change in the grading criteria is an effort to make the course and the major as a whole more welcoming to students, said Connel Fullenkamp, director of undergraduate studies and professor of the practice of economics.

He added that the economics department adopted the change in response to the initiative to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning pushed by Valerie Ashby, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. “In our opinion, this is congruent with what Dean Ashby is wanting us to do,” Fullenkamp said. Students with scores of four or higher for both AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics may receive credit for Econ 101. Students may also receive credit for the course using scores from other international standardized exams. Roughly half of the students who intend to major or minor in economics do not have such credits prior to college and must take Economics 101 at Duke, Fullenkamp said. He has taught the course

multiple semesters and will teach it next fall. Most of the students in the class have no prior experience in economics, he added. Ashby’s recently-launched initiative aims to ensure every course offers a “learning experience of the highest quality,” she said in a Q&A with The Chronicle this past March. In a 2018 memo to faculty and staff in the Trinity College, Ashby said she has requested all Trinity department chairs to redesign their curriculum so that students in introductory or service courses “will se[e] [the’ importance and relevance” of the subject and will be stimulated intellectually. “This is something all departments are doing across Duke,”

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A junior shares the family dish that takes her back to her childhood By Rose Wong Staff Reporter

We eat for several reasons—to survive and procrastinate, yes, but also to reconnect with home. Nothing transports us back to the family dinner table faster than tasting our grandma’s three-cheese mac n’ cheese or baba’s pork and preserved egg congee. Junior Dina Daas lived in Jordan until she was 12, when her family moved to New York. Her favorite childhood dish is Musakhan—a “layer of bread, covered in caramelized onions

with a special spice and chicken”—which Daas described as the Palestinian national dish. It holds a special place in her heart because Daas’ grandfather, an “affectionate hugger,” would cook it for her growing up. Daas agreed to cook the dish with The Chronicle, recreating a taste of home in a dorm kitchen here at Duke. As the chicken browned in the pan, Daas chopped the onions and shared the stories behind Musakhan. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

The Chronicle: What is the special spice? Dina Daas: It’s called sumac. It’s a traditional spice in many Middle Eastern dishes. It’s not really present in the United States, but I managed to find some, which is exciting. TC: What are the ingredients? DD: We have bread, chicken thigh, onions, salt and pepper, lots of olive oil, pine nuts and sumac. TC: What is the origin of this dish? DD: It’s Palestinian. It’s the national dish.

the national Jordanian dish. My favorite days is when he would make Musakhan. As Daas cut the onions, she teared up from the pungent odor. TC: You’re crying. DD [laughs]: Yes, it’s a very emotional dish. My grandpa was a very scary man, according to anyone you would ask. People talked about him with such fear and admiration, but I didn’t know that until he died, because he always had a soft spot for me and my little brother. My grandpa did a lot of things. He opened up a school in Palestine... So I think he would be very happy if he knew I was making this dish. The last time I properly had this dish was at his funeral. This dish reminds me most of home, and makes me feel most like myself again.

TC: Are you Palestinian? DD: Yeah. I’ve never lived in Palestine, but my grandpa lived in Palestine where he worked for the Palestinian government. We lived in Jordan and my grandpa lived in Palestine. Every couple of months, he Daas finishes making would come home. Before the dish and helps herself to he’d come, he would call a bite. and ask me, ‘What do you want me to make you?’ I’d TC: How does it taste? always give him a list of all Selena Qian | Staff Graphic Designer DD: I’m really happy. the foods I wanted him to make, and this was It reminds me of when I was really little my favorite one. He would barbecue outside and I would eat this. I haven’t had this in on Sundays. He would make Mansaf, which is so long. Emily Qin | Associate Photography Editor Junior Dina Daas cooks Musakhan in a dorm kitchen.

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Want to live a happy life? There’s now a class for that By Glen Morgenstern Contributing Reporter

Nearly a quarter of Yale University undergraduates signed up for a class on how to live a happier life in 2018. Now, a similar course is coming to Duke. Laurie Santos, professor of psychology at Yale, drew 1,200 students to register for her course Psychology and the Good Life. For the 2019 spring semester, Bridgette Martin Hard, associate of professor of the practice of psychology and neuroscience, was inspired to construct a similar class in the form of a first-year seminar, the Psychology of Student Success. “We are thinking about how to help students live their best lives,” Hard said. “We try to build a bit more on students’ more immediate needs and how to live their best lives over the rest of the year and in the rest of your time at Duke.” Hard taught an introductory psychology class at Stanford University before recently coming to Duke. This academic

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was a freshman—the things I wish I had known,” Pate said. She also advised for the course to have a tenting simulation as another activity aimed at learning time management skills. Hard’s course also teaches students how to apply their knowledge of happiness to moments where the feeling may be absent. For instance, the class read research regarding how stress can improve performance, academic and otherwise. Last week, the class explored emotional regulation—how to handle getting bad grades back, getting rejected and so on. Positive psychology, the relevant branch of psychology to Hard’s course, was the foundation of the original happiness course at Yale. Hard said that positive psychology underscores the importance of developing well-being in everyone’s lives—not just those whose psychology has gone awry. First-year student Malorie Lipstein said she appreciates the variety of content the seminar investigates.

“I’m happy to do the readings and all the assignments,” said first-year Malorie Lipstein. “All of the class discussions are very well-rounded, and people feel comfortable to speak.” Hard’s course will be taught again, though Hard will not instruct it herself next year. Hard predicts that the class’ size will grow, though she feels a lecture-style instruction would damage the integrity of the individualized discussions. Hard said that she foresees a slightly larger course with 30 to 40 students, comprised of a mix of lecture and active learning. Hard does plan on teaching Psychology of Student Success sometime in the future, and surely many students plan on taking it, even if the course strays off the beaten path. But it’s the unorthodox character of the course that grants it its attractive quality. “We get to talk about things students just never get any experience talking about,” Hard said. “I love that.”

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Number of students who registered for the class at Yale year marked the tenth year she has instructed an introductory psychology course. Hard, though, wanted more than teaching a beginning lecture in psychology. A “long-time fan of first-year seminars,” Hard wanted students to encounter some of the more difficult questions in life that she feels aren’t directly answered in any mainstream college courses, such as what psychology can teach us about being a good friend or how to achieve academic success at college. Hard feels a personal connection to the trials and tribulations of her students. “I’m a human being, and I’ve been a college student, and I’ve been a college freshman, so I have experienced all of these things we’re talking about in class,” Hard said. “In fact, my first year of college was a really stressful experience. I was very anxious and unsure of myself.” After Hard initially drafted the proposal for the course, Rick Hoyle, professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of undergraduate studies, contacted senior Sabriyya Pate in April 2018 to enlist her help in formulating the course. Pate’s experience as a Duke student informed the framework of class activities. Discussions about belonging and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs incorporated Pate’s understanding of Greek life, selective living groups and independent housing. “I can draw experiences from having interacted with the highest level of institutions down to my own experiences when I

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VOTER ID FROM PAGE 1 identities and put their votes in was always on the ludicrous side of things.” In a statement explaining the reasons for some of the rejections of the types of identifications, Kim Strach, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said that requests were rejected under the voter ID law if the ID photo was not taken by the school or a contractor. Another standard of the law that proved a barrier for some institutions required that the IDs be issued after confirming the student or employee’s social security number, citizenship status and birthdate during the enrollment or employment application process. Or, ID cards issued after enrollment must have a way to confirm the owner’s identity, which can include but is not

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limited to these options. Based on the current law, rejected institutions cannot reapply for approval until after the 2020 presidential election. Strach said she hopes changes would be made to the laws so that more ID cards could be approved before the 2020 election. Lawmakers did vote to delay the start of photo ID requirements until the 2020 elections. Therefore, photo IDs will not be required for any of the elections this year, including the special elections in the 3rd and 9th congressional districts. “It is my desire that every student and employee of eligible institutions will be able to use their student or employee ID to vote,” Strach said in the statement. “However, the State Board of Elections is bound by the language of state law, which does not allow discretion to approve applications from institutions that do not attest to the statutorily required criteria.”

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COURSE FROM PAGE 1 Fullenkamp said. “We are all doing it in different ways but it is an initiate started by Dean Ashby and followed through by all the departments.” Fullenkamp said that he has informed some students of the upcoming change of grading criteria, and that the students reacted positively. “I think they see this as a way to reduce some of the stress— especially of the first semester or first year experience—being at Duke,” he added. Varun Prasad, a junior majoring in economics and a member of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board, said he thinks the workload of the class is reasonable. He added that he thinks the course content itself is not particularly challenging but some of the students may welcome an adjustment of the course structure. “I don’t think a satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading style would change the actual ability [to understand] course content, but would make the course less stressful for students who don’t necessarily do well under the current metrics of grading,” he added. When he took the class in the fall of his first year, the class was taught in a “flipped” format, in which students watched lecture videos ahead of classes and then raised questions and solved problem sets with the instructor during class time. Prasad recalled that there was one problem set due each week. Although the problem sets were definitely challenging, they were “aligned closely to the lectures that they followed.” “I thought it was nice to be able to follow along with the lecture videos at my own pace and take notes or come up with questions to ask versus the traditional setting, but I know others who hated it,” Prasad said. Some of Duke’s peer institutions changed their grading system for first-years a long time ago, Fullenkamp said. Although it is still uncertain if the grading criteria for Economics 101 will remain satisfactory/unsatisfactory in the long term, the economics department hopes the change could benefit the students. “We may leave [the change] in place forever or may change it back in the future, but we thought this is a change worth trying,” he said.

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So, this is my last editor’s note ever. I’ve reported for The Chronicle since the first month of my freshman year, and have thought about what I’d write in this specific piece since then. During the last few years, I’d occasionally wonder: What infinite wisdom will I be able to impart in my last words as a graduating senior? What experiences will define my Duke career, and will be interesting enough to share with the rest of campus? As a reader of Recess, the answer is not be unexpected: I’ve discovered that I really, really love art. On this STEM-oriented campus, it’s hard to come by people who declare their love for the arts so unapologetically. I certainly didn’t, even as a full-fledged art history major with a voice in campus arts journalism. When asked my major by strangers, I quickly learned that I couldn’t just say art history. That answer would always be returned with a puzzled face, and the tentative question of “... Well,what are you going to do with that?”, as if my four years at Duke could be written off due to a major with the word “art” in its title. And honestly, I wrote it off too. When nervously calling my parents to alert them of my major declaration, I consoled them with the fact that art history, just like more traditional humanities majors such as history and English, could also get me into law school if I worked hard enough. My reasoning was this: Art makes me happy, which makes my GPA happy, which makes law schools happy. As senior year began and my daunting graduation date drew nearer and nearer, the reality of having to plan a life after college really sunk in. By the end of 2019, I will have relocated to a completely different part of the country, and will have a life completely different from that of a Duke student. Graduate school goals and possible career options are no longer vague daydreams motivating me through long days in Perkins.

They are real, and they are now. I needed to stop and be honest with myself. Although I felt this pressure — even though it was mainly self-applied — to be pre-professional throughout college, was a law career what I actually wanted? What kind of a person did I want to be in 30, 40 years? Most importantly, what makes me happy? The answer had been with me for years, a disregarded justification for a major I shouldn’t have needed to justify in the first place: Art makes me happy. My art history classes and opportunities through the Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department are what get me out of bed in the morning, and what have kept me

staff note relentlessly excited and humbled to be a Duke student the last four years. I’ve traveled to other countries on research projects, worked with many amazing professors and have taken classes that have genuinely impacted the way I view the world. I am currently writing a thesis on the historiography of Gothic architecture, a topic I knew virtually nothing about a year and a half ago, and have loved every (albeit sometimes stress-filled) second of it. The experience of writing my thesis is what I think solidified my decision to pursue a Ph.D in art history after Duke; it helped me realize how impactful a career in academia can be. After a long day of thesis research at the Royal Institute for

British Architects in London, I stood up to collect my things and realized a pair of my longtime mentor’s works had been sitting on a bookshelf behind my desk the entire time. I was so surprised. Not only did she write books being used by scholars four thousand miles away from Durham, but she sent me there as well, to have my own experience in researching the topic she loves. Working with my thesis advisor, another professor, has been greatly influential as well; while he has many more important things to do as an important academic rather than help with my research ideas and essay structure, his guidance has made me a better writer, researcher and scholar. These two role models, as well as many others in the Art History Department, have made clear to me just how much studying and sharing art with others can impact another person’s life. When I called my parents last semester to tell them my change in graduate school plans, my always supportive father just laughed and said, “You know, Jessica, I thought you’d do this all along.” While I wish he’d told me this nugget of information before I spent all of last summer studying for the LSAT, he didn’t actually tell me something I didn’t know. This is going to sound cheesy as heck (how else would I end my last editor’s note?), but I believe somewhere, beneath my pre-law, arts-denying exterior, that I always knew it too. —Jessica Williams

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AMI Faculty Filmmaker Spotlight showcases professors’ latest projects By Alizeh Sheikh Interviews & Reviews Editor

Students often come to know their professors over the course of a semester-long class, where instructors serve more as mentors and advisors than writers, researchers or filmmakers. The 2019 AMI Faculty Filmmaker Spotlight, held this past Thursday at the Rubenstein Arts Center, highlighted the role of AMI professors as artists in their own right through a screening of their most recent filmmaking projects. Some works are concept driven, offering a peephole into a larger theme. Alex Cunningham’s “Lovemoon Battlefield,” a multi-projector performance, is a recurring experiment that attempts to stoke narrative out of a random selection of footage and poetry. As part of his performance, Cunningham projects onscreen a series of 1-minute film-clips, which include outtakes from his previous works as well as several footage selections specially filmed for this project. He pairs each clip with a randomly selected verse from Frank Stanford’s 15,283-line epic poem, “The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You.” Before the performance, Cunningham described “Lovemoon Battlefield” as an attempt to prod at the moviegoer’s engrained desire and expectation for narrative. When verse and film serendipitously coincide in theme or sequential clips fall spontaneously into one another, the very human capacity of the viewer to make something out of nothing is made explicit. “We’re so trained in watching narrative film that flows a certain way,” Cunningham said at the screening. “If someone holds up a lemon, the lemon means something, and maybe the next shot will have something to do with the

lemon. But [experimental filmmakers] are now playing with shots and sequences that suggest a story but totally deny you that pleasure of something actually happening.” Other faculty pieces veer into commentary that is less abstract and more socially and historically rooted. Shambhavi Kaul’s pairing of the video loop “Safe Travels” and her reading of “In Flight,” an original collage poem consisting of excerpts from in flight magazines, recreates the daze of a long airplane flight while simultaneously questioning the ethics of tourism. Both pieces are part of Kaul’s larger gallery show that examines airplane spaces and the meaning of travel. “Post 9/11, we have a whole new way of thinking about travel, especially for people who come from different backgrounds, and are now pigeon-holed under a new race that has emerged called ‘brown,’” Kaul said in an interview with Mid-day.com. “In the abstract spaces of airplane travel and transit for this group, it would seem ‘tourist’ and ‘terrorist’ are uncomfortable subjectivities that are offered in equal measure.” Kaul’s screening at the Faculty Filmmaker Spotlight offers a small sample of this greater work. “Safe Travels,” which simulates looking out the window of an airplane onto a deserted island, feels hypnotic and trancelike, open-ended in a way that allows you to transpose almost any narrative on top of it. “In Flight” shapes meaning and story out of this landscape: It evokes colonial histories with magazine excerpts that present their publicized destinations as off-the-beaten-path paradises that are up for the taking. “One narrative is about the exotic tourist destination that you’re going to, but there’s also this other narrative that seems colonial, that talks about natives and colonies,” Kaul said. “There’s this idea of the world being

Courtesy of Alec Himwich The Rubenstein Arts Center hosted the 2019 AMI Faculty Filmmaker Spotlight Thursday night.

something that’s up for grabs. In a way, you could call [“In Flight”] a humorist critique of in flight magazines.” Gary Hawkins’ “The Accidental Man” evokes its own kind of hypnotic state, one that is encased in the screen of an old-time television set rather than in the stagnancy of an airplane. Set in the 1960s, the film follows a young boy who joins his plumber father on a trip to repair a leak in a local home. As hard feelings bud and quarrels ensue among his father and the adults of the household, the boy finds refuge in a remake of the old science fiction movie “Teenagers from Outer Space.” Hawkins’ short film stays true to the aesthetics of its setting, recreating a time and place that houses another context: the innocent revelry of an adventure in space. While Cunningham, Kaul and Hawkins’ projects are threaded through with some kind of narrative — albeit one that can be narrow at times — other pieces feel more perceptual, palpable and aesthetic. Anna Kipervaser’s untitled

2018 16mm film plays with motion and light, seamlessly melding together clips as disparate as flashing carnival lights, shifting black and blue abstract images and flowing water. Bits of film fall into one another in ways that are conceptually distinct but aesthetically consistent. In discussing her process of filmmaking, Kipervaser said, “When I’m shooting, I don’t know the film that the footage will fit into, if any at all. I generally shoot for the love of shooting, and I trust the process.” Other films included in the Faculty Spotlight were Lisa McCarty’s digital selection of photosites, Kamara Thomas’ music video “Good Luck America” with filming and editing by Jim Haverkamp and the short film “Between Dreams” with cinematography by Steve Milligan. All the projects showcased at the spotlight demonstrated the diversity of thought and approach among AMI faculty, offering a sampling of the work that goes on in the department and revealing talents and insights that students might want to be privy to.

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Hulu series ‘Shrill’ highlights body positivity, but almost too sweetly By Nina Wilder Design Editor

I’m fat. When I was younger, I preferred to use descriptors that minimized my body like chubby or curvy or plus-sized, but now I’m 20 years old, five-foot-ten and weigh over 250 pounds. My fatness is undeniable. I’ve hated my body for as long as I can remember. After I wedge into a seat on a bus or subway car, I flash a sad smile to the passenger beside me that I hope says I’m sorry my fat ass is taking up so much space. I layer strapless dresses with T-shirts because I can’t stand the sight of my upper arms. And when I let a man close enough to touch me, I’m overcome with melancholy at the thought that he’ll be the last person to ever want me. Maintaining this fraught relationship with my body is exhausting. I’m trying to be nicer to myself. All of those things I thought I wasn’t allowed to have — fitted clothes, sleeveless dresses, sex appeal, confidence, space — are beginning to seem attainable. On some days I can claim this is because my body no longer repulses me, but mostly, I’ve stopped giving a shit. If it’s hot, I’m baring dimpled thighs and stretch-marked skin. Look away if you don’t like it. When I first saw advertisements for “Shrill,” the newly-debuted Hulu series starring SNL darling Aidy Bryant, I was spellbound. In one ad, Bryant stands in a large seashell, dressed in a purple swimsuit and encircled by lush vegetation, an all-American image of Botticelli’s Venus. Her body reminded me of mine. The tagline, “Be loud,” hinted at a brash, fearless, fat-woman-led show that would upend media’s narrow beauty standards. Perhaps my high expectations were unfair.

“Shrill” was adapted from writer Lindy West’s memoir of the same name and follows Annie Easton (Aidy Bryant) as she navigates journalistic aspirations, a non-committal boyfriend and existing in a world that is hostile toward fat bodies. In many ways, the show is revolutionary — in the first episode, Annie has an abortion, a decision that she makes easily and feels no remorse about, and there are multiple sex scenes where Bryant’s lingerie-clad body is on full display. One much-discussed scene shows Annie at a “Fat Babe Pool Party,” where she dances alongside fat women in bikinis, her face displaying nothing but pure bliss.

And while much of Annie’s struggle for selfacceptance is highly relatable — she rebukes family members who equate weight loss with happiness, stands up to her fatphobic boss and wears clothes that show off her body — it’s almost too saccharine, less of a struggle and more of an unwavering thrust forward. The writing often comes off as heavy-handed: At one point, Annie’s friend tells her, “Honey, you’re being so mean to yourself. We need to untrain you from thinking of yourself in such a brutal way.” It’s a platitude I’ve heard from countless therapists and friends, as if unlearning is the same as loving. Really, it’s a trajectory as unforgiving as self-hatred. Love

ebbs and flows, strengthens and weakens and, sometimes, disappears into thin air. Then again, how many imperfect shows about skinny people are there? Admittedly, representation will never be fully realized in a way that centers the marginalized, at least while money is a factor in the equation. That doesn’t negate how downright good it felt to watch a fat woman bare her skin and have sex onscreen, to see bodies that look like mine on TV, to suspend reality for a few hours and dream of a world that allows me to take up space. “Shrill,” like self-love and my relationship with my body, is imperfect. Why does that have to be a bad thing?

Courtesy of Hulu SNL star Aidy Bryant plays Annie Easton in Hulu’s new series “Shrill,” which premiered March 15 and is based on Lindy West’s memoir of the same name.

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The Zion Williamson era was far too short For as much as Zion Williamson was discussed this season, it often became far too easy to gloss over the superstar freshman. Maybe it was because he set the bar too high. Williamson needed just 23 minutes in Duke’s season opener to score 28 points on 10-of-12 shooting against a Kentucky team that also came up one game shy of the Final Four. Maybe it was because you couldn’t turn on ESPN without a highlight—be it his magnificent 360-degree Mitchell Gladstone dunk against Clemson or his shoe blowout against North Carolina—or praise for the Spartanburg, S.C., native. Maybe it was because when he was sidelined for more than three weeks at the end of the season, Williamson stirred constant debate as to whether he should just sit the rest of the way, and whether other top college stars should follow suit. Maybe it was because when he came back against Syracuse in the ACC tournament, Williamson turned in a perfect 13-for-13, 29-point performance. Or maybe it was because even once Williamson returned, he was repeatedly asked why he wanted to keep playing for the Blue Devils, even if that meant risking tens or hundreds of millions, only to answer with class every time. “I’m just enjoying my college experience with

my brothers.” There’s a reason why Zion generated more talk than any college basketball player in recent memory. It’s because there will never be another talent like him in this sport. Ever. Saturday afternoon, prior to Duke’s Elite Eight matchup, Mike Krzyzewski was relatively honest about the changes that are coming down the line with the NBA’s draft rules. He knows that many mature, highly-talented players like Williamson and R.J. Barrett will more than likely opt to skip past college and head right to the pros. As much as it will benefit the college game to have more players who intend to stay for multiple seasons, it will also rob fans of the chance to see teenagers like Williamson dominate against their peers rather than immediately going toe-to-toe with grizzled professionals. “Having the opportunity not just to coach him but to get to know him, he is such a genuine young man and well advanced maturity-wise,” Krzyzewski said of Williamson. “He’s extremely intelligent book-wise, but [also] people-wise. And he’s humble. “He’s really got everything. This is not a phony guy. And he’s more than a dunker; he’s a lot more than a dunker. He’s a very, very special human being and player.” Before that season-opening game had even finished, it became crystal clear that 2018-

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Zion Williamson electrified Duke crowds all season. 19 would be Williamson’s only season in Durham. Although there were initially some questions as to whether he was well-rounded enough to be a one-and-done player, they vanished in a matter of minutes. After many games, I ran out of words to describe what Williamson had just done. His dunks often are effortless, his leaping ability (almost literally) out of the gym. When this block happened at Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena in February, I was just a hundred feet away, yet I didn’t really think much of it upon first glance. Then, upon watching the replay, I was

stunned. How does a player do that, let alone an 18-year-old college freshman? It was undoubtedly the highlight of the college basketball season, but it didn’t even seem remarkable in the moment because it was—at least to an extent—what we came to expect from Zion. In the coming days, he’ll be named National Player of the Year and a first-team All-American. In a few months, he’ll be the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. And chances are that, soon enough, he’ll have one of the richest, if not the richest, shoe deals in basketball history. See WILLIAMSON on Page 9

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The 2018-19 Duke campaign will forever be remembered as a rollercoaster ride. Entering the season ranked No. 4, the hype train never came to a stop once the team first took the court in Canada back in August. The Blue Devils showed periods of greatness throughout the season, prompting debate on whether or not they could compete with the NBA’s bottom-dwellers. Duke fought through the adversity of an injury bug during conference play to the high of an ACC

championship, before the season came to an abrupt end Sunday in the Elite Eight. Here’s a breakdown of the moments that will define this past season:

20,000-plus fans in attendance north of the border—Williamson averaged 29.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game while Barrett averaged 30.7 points.

Aug. 14, 2018—Williamson dunks from the free throw line during Duke Canada Tour Zion Williamson’s Duke highlight reel began during practice prior to the team’s first exhibition matchup in R.J. Barrett’s hometown of Mississauga, Ontario. Williamson leaped from 15 feet away from the basket and slammed it home. The duo did not disappoint during three games in front of a total of

Nov. 6, 2018—Duke freshmen make grand entrance in blowout against Kentucky Despite starting four freshmen, the Blue Devils looked unfazed when they took the court against the No. 2 team in the country on opening night. The quartet began the contest with makes in the order of their commitments and spurted out to a 21-point edge in less than nine minutes. Barrett, Williamson and Reddish took the world by storm, combining for 83 points—nearly outscoring the Wildcats—in a 118-84 blowout. Duke drained 12-of-26 shots from downtown, en route to the strongest offensive performance of the season across college basketball and arguably the most impressive in program history.

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Duke opened the season with a bang, beating then-No. 2 Kentucky 118-84.

Nov. 21, 2018—Barrett goes 0-for-5 in final minute as Duke falls to Gonzaga in Maui No. 3 Gonzaga was unstoppable out of the gates in the Maui Invitational championship game, draining 64.5 percent of its first-half shots and opening up a 16-point advantage early in the second half. But the Blue Devils climbed back behind 17 points from Tre Jones,

and a jumper from Williamson with 1:45 left knotted the game at 87. Unfortunately, Duke could not take advantage of four consecutive misses at the line from the Bulldogs, and Barrett’s contested miss at the buzzer ended any talk of an undefeated season—yes, people actually thought this could happen. Jan. 5, 2019—Williamson throws down 360 slam against Clemson During nonconference play, Williamson’s signature dunk was the windmill employed against both San Diego State and Indiana. However, Williamson dug deeper into his bag of tricks in the Blue Devils’ conference opener. After knocking the ball away from Clemson’s Shelton Mitchell midway through the second half, Williamson unleashed a 360-degree slam to electrify the Cameron Crazies. That slam was arguably the highlight of the season, and it became impossible to watch a Duke game down the stretch without seeing that dunk played at least three times throughout the broadcast. Jan. 12, 2019—Reddish drains buzzer-beating triple at Florida State Reddish entered the contest with a maximum of 10 points during the previous See MOMENTS on Page 9

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One thing that Williamson won’t have, however, is a jersey hanging in the rafters at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Unlike former Duke standout Jason Williams, I’m not of the belief that Williamson should be given an honor that is bestowed upon only those that have earned their degrees. Of course, if he ever returns to Durham to complete his coursework, then absolutely raise that No. 1 jersey right next to J.J. Redick’s No. 4 and Shelden Williams’ No. 23. But that’s almost certainly never going to happen. Maybe the eventual fading of the oneand-done era will mean that the Blue Devils get the chance to retire more numbers in the coming years. But it will also mean that there won’t be more Zions. Sunday’s loss to Michigan State represented more than just the end of Duke’s season. It brought a close to the discussion of Williamson the Blue Devil and kickstarted the talk of pingpong balls that will ultimately decide which jersey he gets to don come the fall. That doesn’t mean we should stop talking about what Zion Williamson did at Duke. There have been few seasons as remarkable as the 6-foot-7, 285-pound freshman’s campaign. Maybe Redick’s senior year in 200506 and Jason Williams’ junior season in 200102 come close—both those teams also failed to make the Final Four, losing in the Sweet 16. But Williamson is unique, special, incredible and a freak athlete, something unlike any of us have ever seen outside of LeBron James. They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. The Zion era at Duke was far too short, and it didn’t give us the time to appreciate all that he did.

six games, but with Williamson sidelined for the second half after getting poked in the eye, Reddish and Barrett carried the Blue Devil offense. Barrett stepped to the line with five seconds on the clock and a chance to tie the game at 78. After making the first, Barrett missed the second, but the ball was deflected by No. 13 Florida State, giving Duke a chance down one to go for the win. On the inbounds, Reddish found himself wide open on the perimeter and drained the go-ahead triple as time expired.

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Jan. 14, 2019—Jones suffers shoulder injury The Blue Devils pulled off a historic comeback on the road against Louisville Feb. 12. vs. Syracuse, Blue Devils fall in OT Duke got out to a 12-0 advantage against a late 6-0 run by the Blue Devils proved to be the the Orange despite playing without Reddish, difference in the contest. Duke went on to sweep Feb. 17, 2019—Barrett notches 4th triplewho was ill. But when Jones went down six Virginia, winning the rematch in Charlottesville double in program history minutes in, the Blue Devils showed a rare sign three weeks later behind a James Harden-esque first Overshadowed by Williamson’s circus of vulnerability. The Blue Devils could not stop half from Barrett. Williamson did not disappoint act, Barrett etched his name in the Blue Tyus Battle, who dropped 32 points, and Duke LeBron James in the stands, defying gravity with the Devil history books after one of the great ceded a season-high 95 points. Williamson block of the year: individual seasons, which included breaking went 1-for-2 at the line with the team down the freshman scoring record. Barrett’s most one in the final seconds of regulation, and he Feb. 12, 2019—Duke mounts 23-point impressive performance, however, came in an and Barrett could not carry the Blue Devils comeback for the ages at Louisville otherwise insignificant blowout of N.C. State. to victory in overtime as Duke fell 95-91 for The Blue Devils trailed 59-36 with a The freshman phenom completed the fourth its second loss of the season. The Blue Devils little more than nine minutes remaining triple-double in program history with a pass to went just 9-for-43 from downtown, including at the KFC Yum! Center—and the rest is Williamson in the final minute. Barrett finished 10 misses from Jack White. history. Williamson and Reddish caught with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, fire, finishing with 27 and 22, respectively, becoming the first Duke player to accomplish Jan. 19, 2019—Without Jones, Duke knocks and Jordan Goldwire emerged on the scene the feat since Shelden Williams back in 2006. off unbeaten Virginia with stifling defense to spark the offense. A Jones would miss two games with an AC joint Reddish triple off a between-the-legs pass Feb. 20, 2019—Williamson suffers knee separation, but the Blue Devils did not miss a beat. from Barrett tied the game at 69 with 1:29 injury in opening minute vs. North Carolina Turning around to host undefeated No. 4 Virginia, remaining, and Reddish followed that up It’s hard to imagine a more-hyped DukeBarrett and Williamson exerted their dominance with a level of clutchness Duke could have North Carolina game—which included a The New New York York Times Syndication Syndication Sales Sales Corporation Corporation The against an athletically inferior Cavalier squad. The used in March, draining aTimes pair at the lineYork, to 620 620 Eighth Eighth Avenue, Avenue, New New York, N.Y. N.Y. 10018 10018 Read the rest of this story at dukechronicle.com. duo combined for 57 of Duke’s 72 points, and seal a 71-69 victory. For Information Information Call: Call: 1-800-972-3550 1-800-972-3550 For For April2,3,2019 2019 ForRelease ReleaseWednesday, Tuesday, April

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ver the weekend, 13 Yale professors announced that they would be stepping down from their positions at the university’s Ethnicity, Race & Migration (ER&M) program. Their resignations were not the result of scandals or misconduct, but rather the acts of protest against Yale’s alleged refusal to support both the program and it’s larger mission. Yale created the ER&M program in 1997 as an interdisciplinary major, but then neglected the program, leaving it without an official department, autonomy or adequate funding. In the words of one of the program’s former professors, ER&M “has essentially been sustained by voluntary labor for the past 20 years.” The issues that exist in academia, specifically when it comes to inequality, are vast and deeply entrenched into the foundations of our academic institutions. This includes the unseen and uncompensated obligations and responsibilities taken on by professors, graduate student and staff members from marginalized backgrounds. Consistent calls for creating more inclusive spaces in college for students from marginalized identities can be found across numerous universities as they increasingly diversify. Most frequent among these demands are pushes to increase diversity among faculty to more accurately reflect the student body. The mere

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Editorial Board with similar backgrounds or identities. While these responsibilities can take up a large portion of faculty members’ time and mental capacity, there is no additional compensation for the professors who end up taking on this labor. Additionally, often their obligations to students are overlooked when being reviewed for career advancement. Over the course of their careers, these professors go unsalaried for the time that they dedicate to their institutions. In some cases, the conflict between a faculty member’s identity and the institution which they are meant to support can even negatively impact their chances of promotion. Faculty who sign onto petitions or support movements that seek equality for students that belong to similar marginalized identities then have to deal with the potential blowback from speaking out. And, though the tenure system is designed to protect faculty who take stands on issues, the university is increasingly turning away from tenure-track or regular rank faculty and looking more to non-regular rank faculty, who face even more precarity. Faculty of color and LGBTQ+ faculty are entangled in a series of limbos, having to exist as support systems for students—while not making themselves a target for administrative backlash—and as a mentor, while also

knowing that this time spent could be put towards the narrow definitions of labor that academia rewards and deems valuable. Both of these dynamics play out on campus at Duke. Raymond Gavins, the first African-American to join Duke’s history faculty, was celebrated for serving “as a mentor to countless graduate and undergraduate students alike in a career that has spanned forty-five years at Duke.” We paint these actions as acts of generosity more than we analyze the structures that made this type of mentorship necessary for the preservation and advancement of black students at Duke. The same can be said of the efforts of faculty members, students and staff who are involved in trying to get an Asian-American studies program set up at Duke; those fighting for representation for Native communities among faculty and staff; or those who took over the Allen building in 1969 in order to fight for the creation of an African-American studies department, among other necessary demands. Individuals at Duke and across the country are engaged in a constant struggle for programs that reflect the backgrounds and interests of students, as well as faculty who can relate to the lived experiences of marginalized students on this campus. We cannot forget, however, to also push for corresponding compensation for faculty members who reflect the overlooked commitments they inevitably take on. While it may be too late for the Ethnicity, Race & Migration program at Yale, it is our obligation to continue to fight for fair faculty treatment and review for those who take on the extra labor of supporting the most vulnerable and underserved students. This was written by The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, which is made up of student members from across the University and is independent of the editorial staff. The editorial board did not meet quorum for this editorial.

One step forward, one step back

alking is one thing I love most about being at Duke: down long stretches of Campus Drive, under stone arches on West Campus, up and down the hills of the Al Buehler trail–but mostly, through the gardens. While wandering through their maze, Duke felt the most right it ever has, as if the winding paths were leading me to exactly where I was supposed to be at exactly the right time. Maybe it’s because when I am

Jamie Booth COLUMNIST walking, I feel more like myself than under any other circumstance. Walking feels like a devotion, a prayer with my feet. Today, though, I deviated from my usual routine: I went on a run. I laced up my shoes and turned up my music and kicked up a path of dust behind me. I’m not graceful, and I’m not fast, but I keep going anyways, the cracks on the sidewalk giving rhythm to my strides. It’s easier to move fast through the world without stopping and staring. It’s also easier to move through the world by running away from difficult people and difficult situations. I can usually run far enough that there is distance between me and a problem, a way that I can leave behind my thoughts and frustrations and anxieties and focus only on the pavement and breathing in and out. In and out. But in reality, running only works for a while. Legs tire, muscles ache. And what then? I walk. Deliberate and slow. Observant and careful. The sidewalk no longer keeps time to my steps; instead I meander in circling patterns that seem to have no clear direction. The music no longer drowns out the world around me; instead I listen to the whispered hum of cars passing by and the sound of birds calling. I walk so I can slow down the speed of the world and take it all in, at my own pace. My thoughts wandered back to walking this week, but walking of a different kind. In training to become

an orientation counselor, my FAC group did an activity called a “privilege walk,” in which steps are taken forward and backward to demonstrate the advantages that a few have over many. Things like having two parents at home, a pantry full of food, and a house with books on the shelves. To talk about privilege among a group of so many varied backgrounds brings an inherent discomfort. In most settings, we resort to metaphors to make it easier: a relay race with different starting lines, or a playing field in need of leveling. But maybe walking is the most relevant, especially here at Duke. The activity is meant to be a visual representation of our positions in life, and a way to examine the societal structures that placed us there. But in our discussion of these issues, we didn’t touch on why it’s called a walk in the first place. One step forward, or one step back. These illuminate the privileges each of us carry, or lack, in a way that can be measured in tangible distances instead of abstract identity markers. Maybe it’s uncomfortable to frame privilege as a walk because it means that we can’t run away from it. I’ve had to slowly and deliberately come to terms with this the longer I’ve been at Duke–the fact that my privilege informs nearly everything I do here, and nearly every decision that brought me here. I can try to outrun it, but catches up anyways. Walking–and with it, looking and thinking and listening–will be what leads to understanding where I might go from here upon graduation. To walk is to notice all of the things around you at a heightened sense. To walk is realize how two feet carry the weight of your body. To walk is to realize that you don’t do it alone. I think back on the last four years, on what I’ve really, truly needed. It wasn’t the prestige that comes from a Duke degree, or front-row spot in Cameron Indoor. It wasn’t a shiny resume or an A+ in Orgo II. What I needed was a pair of comfortable shoes and people who will walk beside me on the journey. Janie Booth is a Trinity senior. Her column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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An open letter to the Class of 2023

he other day, I finished giving a campus tour and stood around on Abele Quad to answer any last remaining questions that the visitors had. One mother came up to me and said, “So you’re graduating soon—” “Whoa, slow down!” I had to stop her. But she looked back at me blankly and said, “Well, you’re a junior, right?” As I fumbled for the words to explain that “no, I still have over a year left” and “I can’t be ‘graduating soon,’ I’m not even legally allowed to drink in the States yet,” I realized that I won’t even be on campus anymore when the people that I give tours to now enroll in the future.

“You only got that job because you’re black.” You might hear this at home, and it won’t magically stop when you step foot on this campus, but the ironic thing about imposter syndrome is that the real imposters rarely feel it. You’ll hear Duke referred to as an “elite institution,” and sometimes people will mistake it for one of the Ivy League schools. This affects the way that people treat you and the level of access you have in ways that are much more subtle than an alumni network—if you haven’t experienced this yet, you will soon. Also, think about what it means for a place of higher education to even be considered “elite” in the first place. When you come to Duke in the fall, there’s

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I get defensive about confronting my seniority because I’m anxious about the future and the uncertainty that it presents. But there’s something intimately human about not knowing… and there’s so much that I have yet to know. To the Class of 2023: Some of you already received your acceptances to Duke in December, and some of you just heard good news a few days ago. Congratulations! I remember opening my acceptance email, my eyes darting back and forth as I read it and re-read it before finally concluding yes, this is real, I really did get accepted, and then running out of my room to ask my parents to read it for themselves, partially to celebrate but also partially so they could verify that I didn’t misread it. Take the time to celebrate, because this is no small achievement. You worked hard to get here. But at the same time, there’s a nuanced middle ground that acknowledges both the hard work you put in as well as the fact that there are various structures in place that work in your favor and give you access to privilege. These two are not mutually exclusive. Recently, Operation Varsity Blues exposed a problem that we’ve already known existed for a long time. While no one affiliated with Duke was indicted, our school is not free from this problem. There are fully legal ways to have a leg up in the admissions process—perhaps your parents went to Duke. Meritocracy is a myth, and identifying the structures that uphold a rigid hierarchy under the guise of meritocracy is an important step in gaining a better understanding of Duke as an institution. This is different than situations in which people may wrongly attribute your deserved success to factors such as your gender or racial identity. Examples are ”You’re so lucky that it’s easier for girls to get accepted into Pratt!” and

going to be so much here that you will love. It was at Duke where I saw the gradual process of leaves changing color and falling for the first time, and it was also with Duke friends when I saw my first snow in Pisgah National Forest. There will be nights when you unintentionally stay in Marketplace for three hours because you keep running into someone else that you know, so you keep them company while they eat their dinner even after you’ve finished yours. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get assigned to live in Randolph, where you can hold your roommate’s hand while you guys are both in your own beds—not because the rooms are “small,” but because they’re cozy. You’re also going to learn about major events in our institutional memory—from the Silent Vigil of 1969 and the Allen Building takeover in 1969 to the more recent Allen Building takeover in 2016 and the People’s State of the University protest in 2018. You’ll bear witness to our housekeepers being exploited, and scandal after scandal. Take the time to make a visit to Rubenstein Library and spend an afternoon digging around our University Archives. Learning the history of our university provides context for what’s happening here today and better equips you to enact change. Don’t be afraid to criticize Duke, and don’t underestimate how much weight student voices carry on this campus. Loving an institution means that you want to see it improve as well. I frequently joke with my friends that I’m afraid of freshmen. While that may not necessarily be true (or is it?), it is true that your status as a first-year is not an inhibiting factor in any way. Not only are the same number of doors open to you, but people are willing to help you open those very doors. This campus is yours now too, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Welcome to Duke. Emily Liu is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

We’ve finished that most sacred rite in the Duke year: men’s basketball. But never women’s. And also never any other sport even though they work hard too. For a senior, it’s a bittersweet moment. The last time seeing throngs of people descend on Cameron, the last time seeing people spend a month living in a tent to see a two-hour game, and the last time realizing how many hours we have poured out while achieving nothing more than our own amusement. On February 20, Duke lost to UNC at home. Cameron was packed, every common room filled, and campus deserted wherever there was not a television. We care a lot about basketball. On February 21, we learned that 48 percent of undergraduate women are sexually assaulted while on Duke’s campus. And yet those same crowds who descended to watch people their own age play a game did not find time to descend on the Allen Building to ask the administration what how they’ll exercise leadership on this problem. We mustn’t

flux of steady advocacy for their members and rapid, first response to the worst of the vitriol we spew at each other. There are individuals on this campus who make noise for the issues. More of us should join them. There is no abstract “culture” which compels people to treat other like objects. There are individuals who commit assaults and individuals who fail to intervene. But we still cheer loudly for our team. There is no “Duke Difference” that turns high school high achievers into self-loathing depressives. There are individuals who actively put others down, and individuals who do too little to help others up. But we still cheer loudly for out team. There is no “prejudice” that exists outside of the human mind. There are individuals who choose bigotry and individuals who do not check them. But we still cheer loudly for our team. When a team loses a game, we call it

Tim Kowalczyk COLUMNIST care very much about sexual assault. We cheer on the game with a roar. We try to fix life with a murmur. Imagine how much good we could do, if we treated any one thing in the menagerie of inhumanities on this campus the way we treat basketball. On the average game day, we’ll spend hours standing outside to get the chance to spend hours standing inside. Just standing. For the Game Day of All Game Days, we’ll spend no small pile on a tent and the appropriate accessories, spend hours coordinating who will be in the tent and when, spend over a month living in said tent, and schedule our lives around living in that tent, and for what? To watch a two-hour game. I have never seen us spend one whole month addressing any of the problems on this campus. I have never seen us care about real harm done in real life as we do about this game. The sexual assault report? We made it just over two weeks between the first report and the last op-ed. The rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidality? We’ve been self-medicating with our usual combination of partying, exclusion, and degradation. That business about not letting students speak their own language? There’s about a week and a half between when the coverage starts, and when the coverage stops. If you wonder why our administrators do not take these problems seriously, it is because we do not take these problems seriously. If you wonder why these problems persist it is because we allow them to persist. “Bad times, hard times—this is what people keep saying; but live well, and times shall be good. We are the time: Such as we are, such are the times.” St. Augustine understood what we are unwilling or unable to: our world exists in our image. We have the Duke that we make. There are groups who know this, and who refuse to excuse consistent personal failings as “the times.” Duke Students and Workers Alliance are in their eighth month of advocacy for fair conditions. Groups like the Black Students’ Alliance and Blue Devils United live in a strange

“heartbreaking.” When we see our peers being broken down, we say nothing. We cheer for “oneand-dones.” We are silent toward anyone present for the long four years. None of this is to say that nothing good comes of how we interact with all things athletic. They’re a reason to carve out time with friends, to share a common experience and cultivate bonhomie. (Not to mention that these teams net no small glory, laud and honor, monetary and otherwise.) I’d be a fool if I thought that the same experience I’m criticizing is not responsible for some part of the shared identity that pushes us forward. As a friend put it, “the game is usually the highlight of the tenting season, but I wouldn’t tent if I didn’t enjoy spending time bonding with 11 of my friends.” But she goes on to say, “we want to be the center of attention, and often our self-centeredness comes at the expense of our peers.” And that is exactly the problem. We spend so much time and energy and focus on something that often ends with ourselves. We choose to do this and we can choose to do otherwise. Just consider the infrastructure you have built around this game, and think of how much good it might do in life. How many people’s contacts do you have? How well do you know them? You can carve out hours, days for this game—why not to solve a problem in life? Just imagine how soon we’d be proud of this place, if we roared at what’s wrong like we roar for the game. You don’t win a game by watching it. The people who win, play. You won’t solve a problem by watching it. The people who win, play. Stop being a spectator to what is wrong here. Take charge. Play for the good and play to win. Earn the right to say of yourself as St. Paul said, that “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Wins in Cameron might get us another banner. Wins in the Allen Building bend Duke’s moral arc toward the good. Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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ChoreoLab 2019

Friday, April 12–Saturday, April 13 7:30 pm Reynolds Industries Theater ChoreoLab 2019, Dance Performance in Honor of Professor Julie Janus Walters (retiring at the end of this semester), is the Duke Dance Program’s Spring concert featuring Ballet, Modern, Jazz, and African Dance works by Duke faculty: Ava LaVonne Vinesett, Tyler Walters, Nina Wheeler, Andrea E. Woods Valdés, plus works by students: Akylah Cox (solo), Noelle Li, Gabrielle Cooper, and Jillian Suprenant (co-choreographed trio).

EXHIBITION: POP AMERICA Through Sunday, July 21 Nasher Museum of Art

MFA|EDA THESIS EXHIBITION Through Saturday, April 13 Duke and Durham

Antonio Dias, The Illustration of Art/Uncovering the Cover-Up, 1973. Screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 35.82 x 53.54 inches (91 x 136 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler, New York, New York and Rio, de Janeiro, Brazil. © Antonio Dias.

SPRING MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION: BAD ROADS Thursday, April 4-Sunday, April 14 Sheafer Theater

Katie King (’18) a tangle of branches

ANGELIQUE KIDJO Monday, April 8 8 pm Carolina Theatre

FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Thursday, April 4 – Sunday, April 7 Durham

RARE MUSIC PRESENTS VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL LAMENTS: CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI AND MATTHIAS WECKMANN Friday, April 5 | 8 pm Baldwin Auditoriam

SCREEN SOCIETY: I AM NOT A WITCH Thursday, April 11 7 pm Rebenstein Arts Center

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, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image’s Screen/Society, Theater Studies and Duke Performances.