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EMPTY: ‘A POWERFUL STATEMENT’ Convocation

Price announced Friday the space where Robert E. Lee’s statue stood will remain empty, a plaque added nearby By Likhitha Butchireddygari Investigations Editor

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contextualize it, all we have are people co-opting it and making it idol to white supremacy,” he said. “So, I think it’s so important for us to contextualize, to remember, but not to celebrate that dark past.” Led by Harreveld, several hundred alumni—including Parks and Recreation actress Retta Sirleaf, Trinity ‘92—signed a letter vowing not to donate to the University as long as the statue stayed on campus. Earlier that day, the Robert E. Lee statue had been vandalized. Soon after, President Vincent Price—as his first major action in office—ordered the removal of the statue with unanimous support from the Board of Trustees.

One year ago August 19, in early morning light on a near empty campus, a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the Chapel steps. In the days leading up to the removal, events off of Duke’s campus had sparked a conversation about Confederate monuments. In Charlottesville, Va., white supremacists and counterprotesters clashed over a Robert E. Lee statue outside the University of What has happened since Virginia’s campus. When the statue was removed, Price wrote in his statement that Less than a week later, protesters toppled a Confederate statue it “will be preserved so that students can study Duke’s complex past just a few miles off of East Campus. Around the country, Americans were grappling with the and take part in a more inclusive future.” It is currently being held in question of what should be considered proper visibility of a “secured Duke storage facility,” according to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. Confederate iconography—the debates were making headlines, Although Price’s decision to remove the statue was met with filling column inches and saturating the cable news cycle. Once some criticism, many students also news broke of a Confederate monument that had been at the steps of the Chapel It will provide a powerful supported him. The next month, Price for nearly a century, the polarizing statement about the past, the created a commission to discuss what conversation sparked by outside events should happen to the space where the present and our values. Confederate general once stood. This suddenly permeated Duke’s stone walls. group—the Commission on Memory and “I think for a long time, especially in the South, we’ve had this complicit vincent price History—would also create guidelines on acceptance of a history of white PRESIDENT how to handle the names of buildings that supremacy,” said Adrienne Harreveld, honor controversial figures. A forum was hosted by Provost Sally Kornbluth on the subject of Trinity ’14, who has always lived in a former Confederate state. “I think that we needed activism. We needed people throughout the “American Universities, Monuments and the Legacies of Slavery.” Duke also announced the creation of the Truth, Racial Healing and country to start a dialogue on these emblems of racism.” Alumni like Harreveld, students and faculty had strong opinions Transformation Center. regarding the Robert E. Lee statue. Some thought that removing Price publicized the commission’s recommendations last December, opting to leave the empty space vacant pending an the statue would be akin to erasing Duke’s history. Others thought “open and deliberative process” to determine what to do about the that there were ways to preserve that history without the statue, including Rob Lee IV, M.T.S. ‘17 and a descendent of Robert E. Lee. See STATUE on Page 8 “It’s so important to contextualize our history and if we don’t

to be held in Cameron

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Nearly every year, bright-eyed first-year students pass under the portal of Duke Chapel on their first day of orientation week for convocation. But not this year. This year’s convocation of the class of 2022 will be held in Cameron Indoor Stadium instead of Duke Chapel. In the past, the ceremony has been held in the Chapel with live streams in Page Auditorium and Griffiths Theater–acting as overflow locations. Because of the number of attendees and ongoing construction in Page Auditorium, the location of convocation was changed. “Being in Cameron helps with space and students, parents and guests can all attend together,” Director of New Student Programs Jordan Hale wrote in an email. “Also, with Page being down this year, simulcasting the program would have been more challenging.” Page Auditorium has a seating capacity of 1,170, and Griffiths Theater seats 500. According to a Duke Chapel brochure, the Chapel’s main floor has a seating capacity of 1,650, as the nave and transepts seat 1,500, and the chancel seats 150. Cameron Indoor Stadium has a seating capacity of 9,314. Convocation of the class of 2019 was held in Cameron Indoor Stadium because of concurrent renovations of the Chapel. According to Hale, it is unknown at this point if the location change will be permanent, as they will “know more after this year.” Amongst the more than 37,000 applicants, over 3,000 were admitted to the class of 2022. Within the early decision pool, 875 applicants were admitted in December and 99 deferred applicants in March. Duke admitted just 6.4 percent of regular decision applicants–2,123 prospective first-years. Last year’s incoming first-year class had 1,751 enrolled students. While 864 students were accepted from the early decision pool, 859 of whom enrolled. Among regular decision applicants, 2,423 were accepted, and 892 applicants enrolled.

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Latin-American restaurant, local coffee shop join West Campus dining lineup By Stefanie Pousoulides Local and National News Editor

Ranging from new eateries to ongoing renovations, Duke Dining will be ushering in diverse changes this year. “Duke Dining is excited to be opening three new world-class venues on campus this fall,” Robert Coffey, director of dining services, wrote in an email. “Beyù Blue [Coffee], Sazón [Latin American Table], and Red Mango Café in Wilson Gym are all on schedule and will be ready to serve the Duke community for fall semester opening. Each venue will have grand opening events during First Big Week, offering free samples, giveaways, and more.” Beyù Blue Coffee will occupy Joe Van Gogh’s former space in the Bryan Center Plaza. According to a news release, the Beyù team plans to host a grand opening celebration featuring live music at the beginning of the semester. Dorian Bolden, Trinity ‘02, owns the new coffee shop in addition to Beyù Caffè in Durham. “My overall goal is for the students to help define this space as their community spot for great coffee that fosters great and even constructive social interaction,” Bolden said in the news release. Located next to Il Forno, Sazón Latin American Table will offer Latin cuisine and serve as the Brodhead Center’s newest eatery. Options on its menu vary from build-your-own arepas, tortillas, bowls or salads to daily regional specials. Junior Aryaman Gupta, co-chair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, explained DUSDAC’s reaction to the new dining venue in an email. “DUSDAC is extremely excited to have an on-campus location that serves Latin cuisine as it additionally diversifies the options at Duke,” Gupta wrote. As announced in February, Red Mango Café will replace Quenchers in Wilson Gym. Although the decision was met with some criticism, Red Mango Café will still offer some student favorites from the former smoothie bar, such as fresh fruit and protein smoothies. Gupta wrote that Red Mango Café will also have a “customer friendly redesign” alongside an “expanded

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Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer A Latin-American restaurant is opening in the Brodhead Center next to Il Forno. Its menu includes arepas, bowls and salads.

menu” that includes sandwiches and fresh juice. What then will fill the void of Red Mango’s former space in the Bryan Center? As of now, DUSDAC and Duke Dining are still deliberating. “At this time, there are no major updates for the space originally occupied by Red Mango but we are working with Duke Dining and the student body to make a decision,” Gupta wrote. In order to respect students and food from all cultures and origins, Gupta wrote that a “major theme” this year for DUSDAC is diversity. He explained that DUSDAC wants to consult students from various cultures in its decisions that “require information outside of our existing knowledge

and experience.” “As always, student feedback and communication are crucial for our success,” Gupta wrote. “We are currently developing better methods to inform the community about Diningrelated updates and ways for DUSDAC to receive constructive feedback. From freshmen to seniors, we hope to see many students apply for the committee this fall as age is not a barrier to becoming an integral member of DUSDAC.” Coffey explained that Duke Dining will be working closely with DUSDAC this year on three new renovation projects. The updates in the works are a new kosher deli in the Bryan Center, See DINING on Page 7

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DKU’s first undergrad class arrives on campus By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

Courtesy of Duke Today DKU’s first undergraduate class had orientation last week.

“Duke’s prestige and standing made us a desirable partner, but they also made us cautious,” Brodhead said. “The higher the reputation of a major university, the more jealously it guards access to its most priceless commodity—the degrees that bear its name.” Brodhead explained that unlike many other universities expanding into China, Duke began by offering graduate degree programs such as master’s programs in global health and medical physics. Only after examining the success of those programs did he set the wheels in motion for an undergraduate program to come to fruition. DKU’s undergraduate program— a partnership between Duke, Wuhan University and the city of Kunshan—was approved in 2016 by the Academic Council and Board of Trustees. “The thing the Trustees understand is that we’re not doing this because of the risks,” Brodhead said in December 2016. “We’re doing this because of the opportunities. I think the opportunity was judged to outweigh the risks.” The school’s 15 majors range from data science and material science/physics to political economy and global cultural studies, according to DKU’s website. DKU also features a common core of three required classes that students will take over their first three years “so that the common experience and development of communication skills extend across time.” Students will also be required to “develop conversational fluency” in Mandarin Chinese.

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Duke Kunshan University opened its doors to welcome its inaugural class of undergraduate students this past week. The DKU Class of 2022 boasts 266 students—175 of whom are from mainland China and 39 of whom hail from the United States. Twenty-two new faculty members were hired to teach the students, in addition to 11 Duke faculty who will teach DKU undergraduate courses this year. The University aims to reach class sizes of 500 students and hire a total of 120 faculty, according to a press release. DKU graduates would be considered Duke alumni and earn Duke University degrees. “The way people begin a project always has outsized impact on how the work continues,” former President Richard Brodhead told DKU students in a speech Wednesday. “Starting today, you will help set this school’s character and habits. Make it a place of open, spirited engagement with people and ideas and you will be creating a new thing in higher education—do your homework and keep to yourself and Duke Kunshan will be fine, but not all it could have been.” Duke President Vincent Price was unable to attend the festivities at DKU but welcomed the students with a recorded message. “I am particularly proud of the richly diverse and academically accomplished students who will begin their studies at Duke Kunshan this year, the innovative and distinguished faculty and the many people at Duke, Duke Kunshan and around the world who have made this visionary idea a reality,” Price said. Brodhead addressed the choice of Kunshan—at a relatively low population of 1.6 million—as the site for DKU, mentioning that it was possible for a famous university “to build the reputation” of a city. He likened his hopes for DKU and Kunshan to Stanford University and Palo Alto, California, which he said was mostly farmland until Stanford was built. Whereas many colleges in the United States have loose partnerships in China, he explained, few have gone the extra mile to form a joint venture university.

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Epworth? Out. Trinity? In.

First-year housing shifts for the Class of 2022 By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

First-years flocking to East Campus will find two mainstay dorms closed for the 201819 school year while Trinity House opens to welcome its inaugural first-year class. Southgate and Epworth—Duke’s oldest dorm—will shutter their doors for the year as central air conditioning and sprinklers are installed. Instead, students will live in Trinity House, which opened in January 2017. Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, explained that Trinity would serve as swing space as needed renovations occur. “We’ll continue to use Jarvis and East,” Gonzalez told The Chronicle in May. “Trinity is intended to replace Epworth, Jarvis and East, but we’re going to go ahead and use those buildings for a couple years as we get some of

these large projects done.” Trinity was designed to replace Epworth, East and Jarvis dorms. In January 2017, doors opened to students returning from study-away programs, complete with a movie theater, game room and arcade on the $25 million price tag for the dorm’s construction. Capable of housing 250 students, Trinity is the largest dorm on East Campus. On the other hand, Epworth is Duke’s smallest and oldest dorm, opening in 1892 and housing approximately 50 students. In October 2016, exterminators were called into the dorm during Fall Break in response to repeated cockroach sightings. Southgate, which will also be closed this academic year, opened in 1921 and is normally home to around 140 students. No other major housing projects on East are slated to take place this year, Gonzalez wrote in an email to The Chronicle in August.

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Epworth, left, is Duke’s oldest dorm. It will not be used to house students this year. Trinity, right, is the newest residence hall on East Campus and will host first-years for first time.

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Duke University Hospital continues top-20 run in latest national rankings By Shannon Fang Towerview Managing Editor

Duke University Hospital was recently ranked the 19th best hospital in the United States, according to the U.S. News and World Report 2018-19 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Duke University Hospital has consistently placed high in the national rankings, ranking 17th nationally in 2017 and eighth in 2012. It was also nationally ranked in 11 adult specialties and nine children’s specialties, with the hospital’s highest ranking in ophthalmology, where it placed sixth in the country. This year, U.S. News and World Report analyzed 4,656 hospitals in the United States in 16 different complex specialties and nine “bellwether procedures and conditions,” according to the well-known ranking group’s website. Rankings for 12 of the specialties are data driven, whereas the other four are based on reputation and physician surveys due to lack of data. Only 158 hospitals were qualified to be nationally ranked in one or more specialties. The Honor Roll consists of the top 20 hospitals scoring the highest on a point system, based on the hospital’s specialty care rankings along with procedure and condition ratings. Duke University Hospital was rated highperforming in one adult specialty and eight procedures and conditions, including aortic valve surgery, heart bypass surgery and hip replacement. Within adult specialties, Duke was ranked in the top 20 in cardiology and

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DINING FROM PAGE 2 renovations to Café Edens in McClendon Tower and a new eatery in the former Red Mango space in the Bryan Center. “I look forward to seeing DUSDAC act as an effective liaison between the students and the administration; as the primary voice in this communication, it is our responsibility to make sure the student body’s desires are heard and acted upon,” Gupta wrote. Duke Dining recently took a step toward advancing its sustainability efforts by banning the use of disposable plastics in all dining facilities. According to a July 11 news release, paper bags have supplanted plastic bags, and cups, straws and utensils are now fashioned from polylactic acid—a biodegradable, plantbased plastic alternative. “This is [a] great step in shifting away from single-use plastics toward compostable or recyclable options, while continuing to provide award-winning dining services to our students,” Coffey wrote.

Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor The Duke University Hospital was ranked the 19th best hospital in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report in their 2018-2019 rankings.

heart surgery, nephrology, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology and ophthalmology. Duke was ranked in the the top 20 in three children’s specialties—neonatology, pediatric cancer and pediatric nephrology. Based on hospital surveys, Duke scored five out of five stars on satisfaction with the hospital overall, willingness to recommend and

satisfaction with nurses’ communication. The hospital scored the lowest on satisfaction with hospital room cleanliness, with just two out of five stars. Duke Hospital was also rated the best hospital in North Carolina, with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in second and University of North Carolina Hospitals in third.

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he said. “I commend President Price’s decision to stick to what he believes is right and I support it 100 percent.”

space. Last week, he decided that the space will remain vacant for the foreseeable future with a plaque in the foyer of the Chapel explaining the empty space. In his email to the Duke community, Price referred to Dean of the Chapel Luke Powery, who suggested the empty space could represent “a hole that is in the heart of the United States of America, and perhaps in our own human hearts—that hole that is from the sin of racism and hatred of any kind.” Price stated that he told the Board of Trustees his decision over the summer, and received their “enthusiastic endorsement.” “It will provide a powerful statement about the past, the present and our values,” he wrote to the Duke community Thursday. Lee also expressed support for Price’s decision to leave the space empty. “I think it’s important to reflect and recognize that a portion of our history was really dark and really hard for a lot of people,”

‘You don’t hide from these pasts’ Prior to Price’s announcement, Harreveld suggested some sort of exhibit to show the history of different buildings and emblems on Duke’s campus. Price announced that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask will be tasked with finding a location for rotating exhibits about the University’s history. Robin Kirk, a lecturer in the department of cultural anthropology and faculty co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center, noted that the University had initially stopped short of addressing the full issue by singularly removing the Lee statue. “Many universities think, ‘Okay, we dealt with the slavery part. But that ended in 1865 and that’s the end of it.’ And it’s like, no, that was just the beginning,” she said. Per a Bass Connections report supervised by Kirk, many members of Duke’s postwar faculty were associated with or sympathetic toward North Carolina’s white supremacy campaigns. These include former presidents Braxton Craven and John Franklin Crowell, who have West Campus quadrangles named after them, as well as philanthropist Julian Carr and faculty member William Pegram—the namesakes of two East Campus residence halls. The Duke administration, Kirk said, should address the University’s connections to white supremacy, the Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement and its integration of new student populations. Kirk applauded certain groups, such as Brown University and the city of Chicago, for their dedication to open dialogue and decision to build more inclusive memories. She said that moving forward, these are positive models for Chronicle File Photo Duke to follow. The statue was vandalized last August and “You don’t hide from these pasts—you removed shortly after. delve into them, you understand them,” Kirk

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Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor A plaque will be installed near the Chapel’s entrance expaining why the space where the statue of Robert E. Lee stood remains empty..

said. “Then, you find a way to talk about them a Southern poet after the war—or other relics in the context of what the University wants to to controversial post-war figures at Duke that do better.” are located elsewhere on campus. On Thursday, Price wrote he would task the ‘Wishlist for the University’ President’s Art Advisory Committee to “identify Price’s charge to the Commission on a location and an appropriate form” to recognize Memory and History to look “specifically individuals’ whose labor built Duke’s campus, at the Chapel space,” as Schoenfeld noted as one to commemorate the University’s first in December. African-American students. Despite its narrow focus, the commission Kirk, who spoke to The Chronicle prior to still acknowledged in their report five Price’s Thursday announcement, said the onus statues of individuals “who may not be is on the students to prioritize and be vocal aligned with the mission and highest values about the issue. of this university.” “I think the students don’t realize how In Price’s email to the Duke community much they are really listened to,” Kirk said. “If Thursday, he did not mention the other students bring this up as part of their wishlist statues—such as that of Sidney Lanier, a for the University, I think that we may see some Confederate soldier who rose to prominence as real action.”

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Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett shine together during Duke’s Canada tour By Michael Model Sports Editor

LAVAL, Quebec—Entering the 201819 season needing to replace its entire starting lineup, Duke took advantage of an opportunity to take a foreign tour hoping to use extra practice time and team bonding to accelerate growth on and off the court. According to the Blue Devils’ players and coaches, the Duke Canada Tour 2018 achieved just that. Duke closed out its first foreign tour since 2011 with a 103-58 victory against McGill at Place Bell Sunday afternoon. The win secured a sweep of the three-game set north of the border, which included game action, tourism and team bonding activities between Toronto and Montreal. “This tour has been unbelievable for us,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “To play against three very different teams, well-coached and in packed venues, it’s been classy the whole way.... As good as we thought we would feel about the whole experience, it’s exponentially better. Thank you for that and the three coaches and their teams. They were fabulous in preparing and testing us.” The tour provided the first look at the nation’s top two recruits in R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson wearing a Duke uniform. Barrett electrified the crowd in his return to Mississauga, Ontario earlier in the week. Between contests against Ryerson

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Freshman Zion Williamson closed out Duke’s Canada tour with 36 points and 13 rebounds Sunday afternoon against McGill. and Toronto, the 6-foot-7 forward averaged 34.5 points and seven rebounds per contest, failing to disappoint his hometown faithful. Barrett shined once again Sunday, adding 23 points and 10 assists including a couple of alley-oop passes to Williamson—a running theme throughout the tour. McGill had no solutions to Williamson’s size and athleticism anywhere on the floor.

The Spartanburg, S.C., native stole the show with a dominant team-high 36-point, 13-rebound performance. Williamson was a menace defensively as well, adding three steals and two blocks to his ledger. It appeared the freshman tandem had been lifelong teammates despite playing in their first week of action together. The duo sparked the Blue Devils’ offense throughout

the tour, scoring 64 percent of Duke’s points in Canada. “I just think it’s a matter of us wanting to feed off each other and make each other better,” Williamson said of his chemistry with Barrett. “People know us for scoring, but when you make the pass and your teammate does the amazing play, that’s even better than scoring yourself.” The Blue Devils have a hole to fill after Grayson Allen’s graduation in terms of leadership. But it appears that void is being filled by a growing upperclassman core including role players Javin DeLaurier and Jack White, who learned from Allen last year and Matt Jones and Amile Jefferson during the 2016-17 season. “Obviously, Grayson is a highly valuable guy to replace,” White said. “Those guys before us...that were there when we were freshmen really paved the way and set the standards for us. It’s just kind of like a seamless transition for us to step into that leadership role and put these guys in the right direction.” White added that the hard work and motivation by the incoming freshmen has made that transition a lot easier in the early going. “Everyone has been stepping up in their own way,” White said. “They’ve bought in, they’re all into the program, they’re all about winning, they do all the little things off the See CANADA on Page 12

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Quinn Cook returns to Durham to host camp By Liz Finny Associate Sports Editor

The Emily K Center was filled with shoes squeaking, basketballs banging against the backboard and the floor, and children’s voices on Saturday morning—the first day of Quinn Cook’s Basketball Camp. Cook could be seen helping instruct some of the 125 campers in the gym, chatting with the coaches, or trying to make the children feel more comfortable. A little boy who had been nervous when he got to the camp, and was standing in the corner of the noisy gym dribbling, was approached by Cook, who talked to the boy for a little while. “One of the big reasons for the camp, and why coming here is so special, is because this is where it all began,” Janet Cook, his mother, said. The Washington native took some time after winning the 2018 NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors to continue his children’s basketball camp. This is the third year the camp has taken place, but the first time it’s being held outside of Maryland. “My mom wanted to bring it here,” Cook

said. “It’s a second home for us...so many fans, friends and family down here. For us to have it here at the Emily K is truly a blessing, and I’m thankful. There are a lot of great people who’ve been supportive.” Cook attended Duke from 2011-15, winning the NCAA championship with Duke during his senior season. “That was the beautiful thing about that team—there was no superstar,” Cook’s mother said. “They all jelled. That’s why they won I believe.” After going undrafted in 2015, Cook played in the Las Vegas Summer League and in the NBA G-League, where he was rookie of the year in 2016 as a member of the Canton Charge, the affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers. “To wake up every day and go play basketball is something that’s been my strongest passion,” Cook said. “Obviously it wasn’t where I wanted to be, so it was more motivation and something that made me tougher. I didn’t have the easy way. I didn’t think I would have to take that road, just with all I’ve done with basketball, but I had to. See COOK on Page 12

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Quinn Cook brought his annual summer basketball camp to Durham for the first time this week, hosting 125 campers.

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Don’t take your eyes off Daniel Jones this season Daniel Jones probably wished the 2017 season didn’t have to end. When the Blue Devil quarterback lifted the Quick Lane Bowl trophy in Detroit, it was the culmination of the best stretch of his collegiate career. In Jones’ first season, Duke never won back-to-back games and it missed out on the postseason for the first time since 2011. And although his second season began with four consecutive victories, one was a blowout of an FCS side and another came against arguably the worst Power 5 team in the country. The Charlotte, N.C., native then found a way to help

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his team overcome six straight losses, close out the regular season with a pair of wins, and then earn the Blue Devils’ second bowl title in the last 56 years. But much can change in an offseason. Duke will begin its 2018 campaign with at least four new offensive starters, including three on the offensive line. One thing, however, can’t change: Jones’ steady play. During the Blue Devils’ session at ACC Media Days last month, the word “consistency” was mentioned 14 times. In Jones’ 25 games as a starter, he never strung together three games with multiple passing touchdowns—until the end of 2017. The Charlotte native had also never rushed for at least one touchdown in three straight games—until the end of 2017, when he did so in the last four contests.

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And perhaps most importantly, Jones completed better than 60 percent of his passes, the median for qualified FBS quarterbacks in 2017, in three of Duke’s final four games. “They say people are measured when your back’s to the wall,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said last month when asked about his group’s late-year response. “This team never quit working.” Thursday morning Duke will return to the field, kicking off its 2018 preseason with less than a month until it opens at home against Army. In that time, there will be plenty of discussion about linebacker Joe Giles-Harris and cornerback Mark Gilbert, a pair of potential All-American defenders that could make this Blue Devil defense one of the best units in the conference. There will also be chatter surrounding running back Brittain Brown, a redshirt sophomore who showed flashes in his first on-field season for Duke, but could finally break out as a full-time starter. Other names like sophomore tight end Noah Gray or former four-star defensive tackle Tahj Rice could make waves by the end of fall camp. If Jones isn’t at his best from Day 1 this year, though, none of that matters. Just as likely as it is that the Blue Devils start 2018 with a 3-0 mark, they could also begin 0-3. Consider this: In 2016, Clemson used Heisman Trophy finalist Deshaun Watson on 60.9 percent of its offensive plays (either pass attempts or Watson rushes). Alabama leaned on its quarterbacks for less than 55 percent of its offense in both 2015 and 2017. Those teams were all national champions. Duke, albeit with less overall talent, relies on Jones more. He made up more than 61 percent of the Blue Devils’ offense each of the last two years, and given that Jones is now a redshirt junior playing behind an inexperienced line, chances are that Cutcliffe and his staff will ask even more of their quarterback. None of that is unreasonable. A little more than a year ago, Duke’s head coach called Jones “a special young man” and “an outstanding talent,” superlatives that seemed like empty words until late in the fall. But the end of Jones’ second season hinted that the young quarterback may be on the ascent. A season opener against what was a top-25 Black Knight pass defense last season should be a strong litmus test of Jones’ continued evolution.

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Daniel Jones led Duke to a 7-6 record and a Quick Lane Bowl victory last season.

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Illinois stuns No. 3 Duke to end opening weekend By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

When your team has to replace six starters from a group that reached the College Cup semifinals last season, it’s only a matter of time until you hit a bump 0 in the road. OSU Ask Duke head 2 DUKE coach Robbie Church. ILLINI 2 After the Blue 1 Devils opened their DUKE 2018 campaign with a shutout of No. 23 Ohio State Thursday night, winning 2-0 at Koskinen Stadium, Illinois stunned No. 3 Duke 2-1 in Durham to wrap up the Carolina Nike Tournament Sunday afternoon. Senior Taylor Racciopi scored her second goal in as many games, but a pair of first-half Fighting Illini tallies in response were enough to secure the victory. “Obviously, [I’m] disappointed overall with our performance,” Church told GoDuke.com. “It starts with me as a head coach.... I didn’t think we felt the game, I didn’t think we moved to support for each other.” Just more than 15 minutes into Sunday’s match, senior Kayla McCoy slipped one to Raccioppi, and the Ocean Township, N.J., native did what she does best, putting it into the back of the net. The Blue Devils (1-1-0) would not manage to do that the rest of the day, however, thanks to an immaculate performance from Illinois goalie Jaelyn Cunningham. The

Illini netminder made four saves and looked comfortable at the back, even as Duke pushed late for an equalizer. And two minutes after the Blue Devils opened the day’s scoring, Illinois (1-1-0) leveled things on a gorgeous long-range strike by Makena Silber, who placed it in the upper left-corner. The Illini then pulled ahead just before halftime, taking advantage of a Duke own goal. A corner kick fell into traffic at the near post and bounced off Blue Devil junior Ella Stevens to put Illinois up just before halftime. “I didn’t think that even with the first minute that we were really set and ready to play,” a frustrated Church said. Duke turned up the heat after intermission, pouring in 11 shots as a team—three from freshman Marykate McGuire and another from classmate Delaney Graham that glanced off the far post in a one-on-one breakaway with the goalie. The Blue Devils started five freshmen Sunday, something they hadn’t done since 2014, the year in which all of last year’s seniors began their Duke careers. “We need to work extremely hard every time we step out here, and everybody has to be thinking together, playing together and really keep tactics on the same page,” Church said. “We had to move a lot of people to help in positions they’ve had to be in, which is unusual for the last couple of games that we’ve had.” Thursday night was not nearly as frustrating for the Blue Devils.

Although it took more than a half for Duke to get on the board, it was another freshman that scored the first Blue Devil goal of the year. Mackenzie Pluck grabbed the ball in the early minutes of the second half and blasted one past the Buckeye keeper to put Duke up 1-0. With sophomore goalie Brooke Heinsohn keeping a clean sheet in the back, sophomore Lily Nabet nearly scored her first-ever collegiate goal in the 68th minute. Racioppi later slammed the door shut, knocking one home in the 81st to salt away the contest.

Next up for the Blue Devils is a true road contest, as they head to Washington for a matchup at Georgetown Thursday. The Hoyas kicked off their season with a 1-0 win against Georgia Friday before drawing Virginia Tech 1-1 Sunday. “It’s early in the year,” Church said. “It’s the first time we’ve had to turn around from Thursday to Sunday, but it’s a disappointing effort from us and it’s one that if we have an effort, we have to have a maximum with us to be successful.”

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Senior Taylor Racioppi scored the game’s first goal Sunday, but Illinois responded with two goals to pull off the upset.

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The Blue Devils insist the injuries are not serious, and the on-court success this week has increased speculation of this FROM PAGE 9 team’s ceiling when healthy. court and on the court.... It’s just been a pleasure to work “I feel like we’re going to be a very great team,” Williamson with them so far.” said. “They weren’t able to play on this trip, so they missed The tour did have one major blemish a little building the chemistry on the when Alex O’Connell suffered an orbital As good as we thought we court with us, but I think Alex, Cam, Tre bone fracture after taking an elbow to would feel about the whole are going to fit in well with us.” the face against Ryerson. With the Despite the injuries, O’Connell, injury, O’Connell became the third Blue experience, it’s exponentially Jones and Reddish still traveled with the Devil sidelined along with freshmen better. team throughout the tour, and off-theCameron Reddish and Tre Jones, who court growth flourished. mike krzyzewski sat out the tour due to minor groin and “We bonded a lot,” Williamson said. head men’s basketball coach hip injuries, respectively. “We would always go and do team The injuries allowed Krzyzewski to give extended playing activities, and I think when a team bonds off the court, their time to some of Duke’s role players. DeLaurier, White and chemistry on the court gets even higher.” sophomore Jordan Goldwire all averaged about 25 minutes per The Blue Devils’ next public game-like action will take contest, and even walk-ons Mike Buckmire and Brennan Besser place Oct. 19, when Duke hosts Countdown to Craziness in played a few minutes in the last two games of the week. Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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R.J. Barrett and classmate Zion Williamson scored 64 percent of Duke’s points in Canada.

COOK FROM PAGE 9 It was humbling and I had a great support system. I had so many people in my corner. I just kept pursuing my dream.” His deceased father was from Cleveland, and he had many fans supporting him at games in Canton. “It was tough...still being in the G league,” Janet Cook said. “I think he feels a sense of gratitude. He feels very fortunate to have had those opportunities. And that’s segued into his actual dream of being in the NBA.” After a series of 10-day contracts with the Dallas Mavericks and the New Orleans Pelicans, Cook signed with Golden State. He got his first NBA start in December and picked up more playing time at the end of the regular season during Stephen Curry’s injury absence. He had a number of high-scoring games in March, with his career-high 30-point game coming at the end of the month. “I was just staying ready,” he said. “My coaches, my teammates always instilled confidence in me—they always had belief in me. So it was easy for me to just go out there and be myself. I had some bad games, but I just stayed ready. And my team just really believed in me.” In April, Cook was signed to a two-year contract with the Warriors. He went on to play in the postseason and even got some minutes in the championship series, when Golden State beat the Cavaliers. “[Playing in the postseason] was fun...something that you always dream of,” the former Blue Devil said. “I grew up watching every playoff basketball game that I can remember. To actually play in the payoffs, and to contribute, is something I’ve always been waiting for. I was ready, I was excited...a whole bunch of feelings.” Cook is looking forward to the coming season with the Warriors, when he hops to continue to use the opportunities to get better and learn from people around him. “I know in the organization I’m in, I have all the right tools to do it,” Cook said about taking his game to another level. “Just being around these great players, seeing how they work and getting to pick their brain for another year, I know this opportunity I have is special and I just want to keep being a great teammate.” He hopes to use this basketball camp to let kids have fun and teach them life lessons about basketball. “Anybody who you ask or encounter who’s played basketball can tell you that they’ve learned various life lessons from basketball,” Cook said. “Really having fun and teaching life lessons is the biggest thing that we try to emphasize.” In the coming years, Cook’s mother hopes to not only continue with the basketball camp, but wants to emphasize an anti-bullying campaign, as she thinks this is an issue that is affecting kids nowadays. “In today’s society, especially with social media, people don’t realize how powerful words are and how [bullying] affects people,” Cook said. “It’s something that my mom is really passionate about.” Janet Cook hopes that her son can make an impact on these children’s lives. “If one parent has told me, 50 have told me, what an inspiration Quinn is. Just from his resiliency, his tenacity, and his belief in self,” Janet Cook said. “He feels it is his duty to help other young people do the same, on the court and off the court.”

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from the 11 decades between the first volume of the paper and today. There was no advice for first-years exactly 100 years ago, in 1918, because the first issue of Volume 14 of the Chronicle was delayed until November. This, the editors explained, because “for awhile there was no one to assume the responsibility for its publication,” due in part to World War I. The editors promised to “print from time to time news from the boys overseas” and concluded by “wishing that the return of peace may bring joy and happiness to your lives.” Editors of Volume 2, from 1906, wrote in their first issue to freshmen that “everything is new and strange to you, and realizing this from past experience, we shall be glad to do anything that we can to make your stay with us pleasant and profitable, both to you and to ourselves.” One columnist in 1962 defined the FAC program as “one of the various forms of legalized illegal rushing encountered by a freshman during his first semester.” Some things never change! Advice for the Class of 1984 from the staff of Volume 78 is “RELAX!”

More formally, the editors of Volume 33 in 1936 wrote “advice has been extended to you. Counsel is open to you should you ever desire more. You have been introduced to college life. Your future is now in your own hands, to do with it as you will, as now you enter upon another stage of your life.” Counsel is open to you if you should ever desire more, not only from your RA, your FAC, your advisor and CAPS, but also here, in the pages of the Chronicle! The Chronicle is launching an advice column this semester, and I’m writing it. I’m qualified to do this because I screw up a lot, my mom is a therapist, and also because I’m 21 and as such, I know everything: I’ve passed, like, several classes, I have been in AND ended at least one relationship, I’ve held almost a dozen parttime jobs but have never gotten fired, I cry during advising meetings only about half the time, and I’ve been able to legally drink for almost two months. What more do you need? Please send your questions to chronicleletters@duke.edu. Advice from Volume 114 has yet to be written! Frances Beroset is a Trinity senior.

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ear Duke Freshman Boy, Sexual assault is not only one of the most harmful actions committed on Duke’s campus, but it is also one of the most frequent. As one of many Duke students who did not understand the pervasive nature of sexual assault when I came to college, education on the subject has taken time. I am writing this column in an effort to start the discussion earlier, particularly for freshmen and sophomores at Duke, whose awareness could protect

Maxx Goldstein GUEST COLUMNIST victims and prevent rape. Nationally, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, about one in five women are “victims of forced sex” in college. However, just one in ten women report the crime. At Duke, these statistics are twice as horrific—two in five undergraduate women report having been sexually assaulted during their time here. What is sexual assault? What is rape? It may seem strange to define these terms. However, without looking them in the face, it is impossible to combat the problem. Per Merriam-Webster, sexual assault is “illegal sexual contact that usually involves force upon a person without consent or is inflicted upon a person who is incapable of giving consent (as because of age or physical or mental incapacity).” Rape is “unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person’s will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception.” If these definitions read as nebulous, then you are the individual this article is written for. If these definitions read as inconceivable, then you are the individual this article is written for. The importance in including these definitions is to bridge the gap between viewing sexual assault and rape as too immoral to seem tangible and viewing them more objectively: understanding that many of your classmates for your first Duke classes will become the perpetrators and victims of such actions. What about you? If you’re a girl who feels comfortable enough to socialize at this university, you are in the most danger during your first semester—the “Red Zone.” This refers to a freshman’s first six weeks at college, when, according to RAINN, 50 percent of campus sexual assaults occur.

If you’re a guy who’s just starting out at Duke, you might be entirely oblivious to the dangerous reality your female peers will be facing this semester. You will be too caught up in your classes and impressing older kids to realize. Moreover, nobody will tell you about assault for at least a year, because the female victims of these attacks don’t want you to remember them as “the girl who got raped.” You may hear about one or two questionable instances during your sophomore year, but you won’t ask more questions because Duke has treated you well, so why would it not treat anyone else well? Then you’ll go abroad, and when you come back you’ll look at things more critically. In doing so your eyes might open to the reality that your close girl friends struggle with at Duke. By the end of junior year you’ve only just been able to wrap your head around its severity. And, by senior year, you are too checked out to do anything about what you’ve learned, and too self-centered because of the pedestal you’re on (which, by the waym you’ve done nothing to earn), to care about the health of the teenagers you meet at your O-week darty. You are the perpetrator. So What? Most importantly, the victims (or eventual victims) of sexual assault and rape, will be playing icebreakers with you and your FAC group, picking up your pencil for you on FDOC, and eating in the booth behind you at Marketplace. They are the most important. If you cannot see Maxx Goldstein them as sisters of your community, guest columnist shared you will not treat them as such. The reason this problem persists is a failure to care for another as you do for yourself. This is why the point at which Duke boys begin to understand sexual assault comes as their relationships with their girl friends at Duke deepens—they begin to care for their female peers like they would their sister. I challenge you to show this respect from day one, and hold your “bros” accountable in the same way. Over my time at Duke I have watched this topic of conversation surface at a younger and younger stage for Duke students. On one hand, this represent proactivity and progress. On another hand, this represents severity and necessity. It is my sincere hope that by the time you, freshmen boy, are graduating, you could not write this same article. With hope, Duke Senior Boy

By senior year, you are too checked out to do anything about what you’ve learned, and too self-centered because of the pedestal you’re on to care about the health of the teenagers you meet at your O-week darty. You are the perpetrator.

Maxx Goldstein is a Trinity senior.

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t was in the gloaming at Duke University in late fall of 1966. There was a wet chill in the air, most of the trees were leafless, and a low cloud cover added to the gloom. I was trudging across West Campus from my freshman dorm to the library, overburdened with a load of books and overwhelmed by the pressures of a demanding university. My small-town school had not prepared me for the academic rigor at Duke, nor had my home life hardened me for living on a few hours of sleep a night. I was struggling, scared, worn down, and mindful that flunking out of school could result in a trip at government expense to the exotic landscape of Southeast Asia.

Bob Williams GUEST COLUMNIST

As I walked past the Chapel, head hanging low, out of the bell tower rang the strains of a familiar song. I stopped and listened, silently filling in the lyrics to the pealing bells’ melody: “M-I-C / K-E-Y / M-O-U-S-E.” I couldn’t believe my ears. It was the theme song of “The Mickey Mouse Club,” a Walt Disney television program of the 1950s that virtually everyone in my generation grew up watching. My mood lifted, my step quickened, and I hit the library with a lightness of being and a renewed sense of purpose. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, that was a pivotal moment for me at Duke. Fifty years later, almost to the month, my wife and I moved to a house on Woodburn Road in Durham. It turned out that our neighbors—Sam and Marie Hammond—were undergraduates at Duke during my time. Marie pointed out that Sam was also the University Carilloneur; that he’d been playing the carillon in

Duke Chapel since he was a student. I looked at Sam, and asked, “Were you by any chance the person who played ‘The Mickey Mouse Club” theme song back in 1966?” “I was,” said Sam, with a smile and a characteristic twinkle in his eyes. “Well,” I told him, “you may have saved my life.” And I followed with my story. Several months later, I persuaded Sam to take me up to the carillon chamber to watch him play the instrument. My son Chip, my friend Tom and I met Sam at the elevator to the Chapel tower. Sam gave us a tour, opening doors to the magnificent vistas offered by the tower and giving us background information about the bells and the instrument. The Duke Carillon was given in honor of James B. Duke by George G. Allen and William R. Perkins, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Duke Endowment. The bells were cast in Loughborough, England, by John Taylor Bellfounders, Ltd., a firm that traces its roots to the 14th century. The carillon comprises fifty bells that range over four chromatic octaves. The largest weighs 11,200 pounds; the smallest, 10.5 pounds. The carillon room is a comfortable space that contains the instrument and a practice console. Sam has added personal touches to warm it up a bit. On one wall there are prints of early Christian art; family photographs appear here and there; and a framed quotation in German from Albert Einstein hangs in a conspicuous place. It reads, Was ich zu Bachs Lebenswerk zu sagen habe: hören, spielen, lieben, verehren und—das maul halten. (“What I have to say about Bach’s life’s work: Listen, play, love, adore and—keep your mouth shut.”) It is both a reflection of Sam Hammond’s love of the music of J.S. Bach and a testament to Sam’s sense of humor. We were there on a Tuesday. Sam began with a short vorschlag (ornamental prelude), and then followed by striking the foot

pedal of the largest bell five times to mark the hour. After a brief pause, he followed with a short recital of Mozart dances. The bells peal loudly from Sam’s perch, especially with the doors open—which is the way he likes it. But they are notably louder when one ventures outside and along the space between the chamber and the tower walls. There one can feel them. It is, as it was meant to be, a moving and a humbling experience. Sam, who has been playing the Duke carillon since 1965, is the second person in Duke’s history to be named “University Carilloneur.” And quite frankly, if you were asked to conjure up the ideal carilloneur, you couldn’t do better than Sam. He is a most congenial man—shortish, bespectacled and in his seventies. His countenance could be described as “elfish,” complete with twinkling eyes and a ready giggle. But when J. Samuel Hammond takes his place on the carillon bench and begins to play, he is transformed into an altogether different human being. His facial features change and his body seems to become part of the instrument. He morphs into a rhythmical artist, hands and feet moving in a directorial ballet, commanding the bells to his purpose. It is an impressive, hypnotic scene to behold. For my part, the experience was spiritually uplifting— as it always is when I am privileged to bask in the presence of a true artist at his work. Sam Hammond is one among many on campus whose art is readily accessible to the Duke community. I can only hope that Duke students take the occasional break from their organized busy-ness and their cell phones to absorb and reflect on the beauty that is all around them in myriad forms. My advice to them, as an alumnus fifty years removed from Duke, is to take time to smell the roses, watch the sun set, and by all means listen to Sam Hammond play the carillon. Bob Williams is a Duke graduate, T’70.

Wait, can I really say the ‘n-word’?

n the music video for Chris Brown’s “Freaky Friday,” the white rapper Lil Dicky wakes up in Chris Brown’s body. Now, just because he’s black, he can throw the “n-word” around as much as he wants. Lil-Dicky-in-Chris-Brown’s-body running down the street shouting “n****” is funny in the video, but it brings up a societal rule that I find unsustainable: if anyone who is not black says “n*****,” it’s racist, uncalled for and out of line. Meanwhile, black people and black rappers can throw it around all they want, because “it’s acknowledging our mutual struggle,” or

Victoria Priester COLUMNIST “reclaiming” the power of the word. Earlier this year, Kendrick Lamar stopped a white fan who he had invited on stage to sing some of “m.A.A.d City” when she repeatedly said the n-word while rapping with him. She told him that she was used to singing it the way he wrote it. What we, as a black community, say when we enforce this rule is that everyone can support black rappers and listen to their music, but when we all sing along, those who aren’t black have to stop singing every time the rapper says the word “n****” out of respect. It’s wishful thinking, but unfortunately, it’s not a rule we can expect everyone to follow all of the time. As far as mainstream pop and hip hop music goes, both “Freaky Friday” and Drake’s “Nice for What” are some of the most popular songs this summer, and they both repeat the n-word throughout. This means that whenever we’re singing these songs with friends at a pregame, at a party or in the car—if we’re surrounded by people who are being conscious and respectful in the moment—everyone pauses for a second to let the word pass. Then, they keep singing. But let’s say three friends, none of them black, are in the car on their way to get ice cream. The person sitting shotgun has DJ privileges.

They’re driving fast down the road through town, singing the lyrics at the top of their lungs as lights and houses and shops fly past outside the window. And when Drake smoothly says “You really pipin’ up on these—” and drops the n-word, someone in the car lets it slip too. Now, what? Do we let it go as an innocent mistake? Does someone say “that’s not okay”? Is it okay as long as it was an honest mistake in the moment? Is it harmless because no one in the car is black? As cases of non-black teens using the n-word become more and more common, the necessity of answers to questions like these becomes more urgent. I can’t be in every car full of teens or adults driving down the road when these songs play on the radio. I can’t expect every car to have one conscious person ready to explain why saying the “n-word” even as a joke does matter. I can’t expect everyone, black or non-black, to agree that saying the n-word in a song lyric is problematic. But the majority of the people I know want to be respectful of black people’s wishes, and it is to them that we owe more concrete answers. Here are mine: I personally can’t stand hearing anyone say the n-word regardless of their race, have no desire to “reclaim” it, and think we should stop using it all together. I think that if a non-black person is singing and they know the n-word is coming, they should skip it. If it comes out by accident, telling them it’s not okay to say is enough—if they agree it is not their place to say it. If they don’t agree, this is the problem we as a black community need to address: whether supporting rap music is worth putting up with non-black people who now feel comfortable using the n-word. To the non-black person who says that it’s just a word or song lyric, and that they should be able to say the n-word: this word wasn’t used to antagonize, belittle and demean people who look like you for centuries, so it isn’t your choice to decide when enough time has passed for it to be okay to use again. To the black people who say the n-word is part of a redemptive counter-culture: we aren’t far enough removed from its malicious past to begin a redemptive revival. The word

hasn’t died out yet, so we can’t bring it back. To assume such a transformation is possible would be the same as expecting a caterpillar to sprout wings and instantaneously become a butterfly without first retreating into its cocoon. If the only place we saw or heard the n-word was in old Southern literature, professors could explain that this was a racial slur used to subjugate black people in the 20th century and that we don’t use it anymore. There are other racial slurs used in the past that most people wouldn’t even recognize if they heard them today, because as we as a society became more accepting of different races and religions, those words fell out of use. But we keep bringing the n-word back. If we left it in old movies and books and weren’t continually bombarded by it in popular music, I believe that the cases in which non-black people used it out of ignorance or out of malice would be fewer and far between. We are continually reminded of the persistence and potential power the “n-word” holds because we refuse to leave it in the past. I’m not saying that I don’t like rap or hip hop music. I’ve long believed that rappers and hip hop artists are just as equally valuable as more “traditional” black intellectuals in their assessment of the social inequalities and profiling that have plagued black people and other minorities for centuries. N.W.A was blasting police for thinking “they have the authority to kill a minority” long before Ta-Nehisi Coates penned many of the same ideas in “Between the World and Me.” But as rap music and rap verses in pop songs become more and more popular, we hear the n-word in more and more of our favorite songs, and it becomes more normalized in our minds. Then, people who “aren’t supposed to say it” feel empowered to do just that: say it. One could argue that perhaps, the common use of the n-word in popular music prompts more people to have conversations about who can say it. Or maybe after that one slip happened in the car on the way to get ice cream, that person puts more thought into being careful about using the n-word. But more often than not, it’s

probably shaken off as a harmless accident. We resume singing, we keep driving without thinking too hard about the implications, and we don’t have a conversation. Maybe some people regard cases like this as harmless. But for others, no matter whether it was an accident or not, hearing the n-word or knowing that non-black people use it reminds them of past violence, racism, belittlement and the institutionalized white privilege that still exists today. If we really want these cases to stop, one way is to call for entertainers to stop using the n-word in their songs. Kendrick Lamar’s music appeals to people of all races. Although he didn’t want his non-black fans to say the n-word, the fan he brought on stage was used to singing all of the lyrics the way Lamar wrote them, without pause. If rappers didn’t include “n****” in their lyrics, well-meaning fans wouldn’t be tempted to use it. Or, the fans who are tired of hearing non-black people say the n-word can also choose not to buy or download songs that have the n-word in the lyrics. If we don’t do anything to change the way the n-word is used in popular music, we’re going to keep hearing it. A friend likened the issues surrounding the n-word to growing pains as a result of social integration—black music and rap are finally being accepted by listeners of mainstream pop music, but the consequence is hearing those who will never understand the plight of black Americans take the music that we use as consolation in our oppressed state and sing it as if it is the soundtrack to their own experience. It’s not. The n-word is a souvenir we have stubbornly held on to from a past that no one wants to return to. We’re clearly not at the point where we can be surrounded by music that uses the n-word and still respect the wishes of those it was previously used to disparage. Its power to hurt outweighs its potential as a means of social redemption for the black race. As the consumers of hip hop and rap music diversify beyond black people, we need to give the n-word a rest and leave it out of popular music. Victoria Priester is a Trinity junior.

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