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CARR IS RENAMED By Bre Bradham Editor-in-Chief

The University has stripped Julian Carr’s name from the East Campus building that bore it for nearly 90 years. The change comes four years after Duke renamed Aycock Residence Hall on East Campus because of its namesake’s history and amidst a national conversation about removing Confederate or racist memorials. The Board of Trustees approved removing without dissent Carr’s name at its meeting this weekend, Board Chair Jack Bovender said. The decision was announced to the University in an email from President Vincent Price Saturday afternoon. “Our campus is first and foremost an inclusive community of people, not of classrooms and buildings,” Price wrote in his email to the Duke community. “With each new student or faculty member who arrives here, with each new discovery made or perspective shared, this community grows and evolves to better meet the challenges of its time. The renaming of the Carr Building represents one such evolution, at once a reflection of how our world has changed and a demonstration that our values and bonds will endure far longer than mortar or stone.” The Carr Building will be called the Classroom Building until a new name is chosen. Price told The Chronicle after the Board meeting that he does not have a set time frame for recommending a new name, adding that he is considering the building’s name in conjunction with other memorial

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efforts on campus. The Classroom Building was the Carr Building’s original name before it was renamed in honor of Carr in 1930. The decision to revert to the Classroom Building comes after the ad hoc committee did not make a recommendation on a new name, according to the Duke Today release. Instead, the committee deferred the renaming process to the Board of Trustees. In its request to rename the building, the history department asked that it be named after Raymond Gavins, the first African-American professor in the department. The Carr Building’s name came under scrutiny at the beginning of the semester, when Duke’s history department filed a formal request for the name to be reconsidered. The request stemmed from the department’s concerns about Julian Carr, after whom the building was named. Carr donated the land for East Campus to Trinity College—Duke’s predecessor—and served on its Board of Trustees. “It is a reasonable assertion to say that Duke wouldn’t exist were it not for the generosity of Julian Carr. It is also true that he was a virulent white supremacist,” Taylor wrote in an email to The Chronicle in August. “Both of these things are true about Mr. Carr, and I think Duke needs to tell this story explicitly via a full, academically rigorous contextualization of Julian Carr, and then we all need to wrestle with what it means for us today.”

The Board of Trustees renamed it to the Classroom Building until another name is chosen.

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‘Kind of revolutionary’: Researchers use cameras to save hummingbirds

Special to the Chronicle Stuart Pimm leads the project.

Story by Anna Gotskind Staff Reporter

Illustration by Joyce Er Staff Illustrator

Several Duke researchers spent last summer hiking through the rainforest installing camera traps to monitor hummingbirds, trying to identify the cause—and a solution—to their near extinction. Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke professor of conservation ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and a specialist in present-day extinctions, leads the project. The project is also affiliated with SavingSpecies, an organization Pimm founded in 2007 to protect threatened species by collaborating with local groups to buy land and create protected areas. Their study was featured in a recent New York Times article. “What you see in the newspaper is just the polished, beautiful, important parts that come

from hours and days and months and even sometimes years of grueling research,” said junior Andrea Kolarova, who has been on the team since her first year at Duke. During Kolarova’s first summer at Duke, she conducted a meta-analysis on hummingbirds. She compiled data on hummingbird feeding behavior, geographic ranges and elevation constraints and studied with other researchers whether any or a combination of the factors are related to the birds’ vulnerability to extinction. Along with Pimm and a team of Duke students, Kolarova travelled to Colombia and Ecuador in 2017 to conduct field research on hummingbirds that would be incorporated into the meta-analysis. They visited several reserves in the Western Andes, a biodiversity hotspot, and worked with local groups like the Hummingbird Conservancy of Colombia to study how hummingbirds feed and how that could correlate to their vulnerability to extinction. Kolarova said she and other researchers did camera trapping and flew drones over protected and non-protected areas to carry out basic land use mapping. Researchers went hiking with a local, who would point out the places that hummingbirds frequently fed. They then planted the camera traps, which were triggered by motion and body heat using infrared sensors. “It seems like a super simple idea, but it is kind of revolutionary because camera trapping is a new way of studying,” Kolarova said. “I mean, it’s been around for decades, but it hasn’t really been used in ecological or conservation research before.” Using camera traps allowed researchers to gather a wider variety of data than previously discovered. In previous hummingbird research studies, scientists observe an individual bush

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of flowers and notes the time and frequency of the birds’ arrival. This method limited the overall results especially because hermit hummingbirds tend to feed on individual flowers rather than large bushes. Pimm’s team not only observed big bushes of flowers but isolated flowers as well. “We think that the general data that exists is skewed because of how people have been doing research in the past,” Kolarova said. “This is kind of like a comparative study to see if camera trapping is going to give us a more realistic picture.”

Although the the study has not concluded yet, Kolarova shared some predictions researchers have about how feeding habits could play a role in a hummingbird’s vulnerability to extinction. Hermit species feed on specific types of flowers and fly long distances to find others of the same variety. Therefore, the population of the species will be affected as the flowers become rarer due to land degradation, climate change or even people hunting them to put in museums.

Kolarova explained that the non-hermit species are not able to fly long distances and have a diversified diet, and will have to defend their territories against other competing bird species. “They are constrained to one area,” she said. “Sure, they’re able to feed on a lot of things, but because they’re social animals and they’re

defensive and aggressive, they tend to be less mobile when changes occur.” Researchers also collected elevation data because hummingbirds tend to live within different ranges. They are concerned that as the global temperature increases, species

will have to move up to remain cool, but once they reach the top of the mountain, there is nowhere else to go, putting them at a higher risk for extinction.

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Trustees name Chapel carillon for Samuel Hammond By Stefanie Pousoulides University News Editor

At its quarterly meeting, the Board of Trustees discussed naming the Duke Chapel’s carillon after J. Samuel Hammond. The Board passed a resolution to dedicate the Chapel’s 50bell instrument to Hammond, after he played it every workday for more than the past 50 years. Hammond, Trinity ‘68 and Divinity School ‘96, was named university carillonneur emeritus and is retiring at the end of December. “Sam Hammond has been playing the carillon for 50 years and is a remarkable member of the Duke community,” President Vincent Price told The Chronicle after the Board of Trustees meeting. “It was among the most delightful parts of the meeting this weekend to be able to honor Sam in this way.” Playing the carillon for the first time when he was a firstyear in 1964, Hammond has played the bells every year nearly 300 times. During his time at Duke, Hammond has “played a 15-minute interlude at the end of the work day more than 15,000 times,” according to Duke Today. In addition to receiving master’s degrees in theological studies and library science, Hammond has also served as a music librarian for 41 years. “Sam has brought intelligence, excellence, humility, charm, and grace to his work every day, and has brought joy and meaning to the Duke community through his deep knowledge of his craft and his superb musicianship, creating the unmistakable sound of the pealing of the bells across West Campus,” the trustees wrote in their resolution. Hammond will have two interim replacements: Paul Bumbalough, senior adviser with Duke Visa Services, and Joseph Fala, organ scholar at the Chapel. The Board of Trustees discussed the Triangle light rail— which Price has voiced concerns about—but no action was taken on the matter, he said. The members also voted to remove Julian Carr’s name from an East Campus building and renamed it to the Classroom Building until another name is proposed.

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CARR FROM PAGE 1 Carr supported the Ku Klux Klan’s violence, and bragged about “horsewhipp[ing] a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds” because she “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady” when he spoke at the dedication of the Silent Sam statue—a Confederate monument pulled down by protesters earlier this semester—at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Duke Today release about the name change noted Carr’s contributions of moving Trinity College from Randolph County to Durham in the 1890s, but noted he was “an active proponent of white supremacy throughout his adult life.” “He boasted about being a member of the initial Ku Klux Klan and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white supremacist platform,” the release stated. The push to rename the Carr Building kicked off in the spring, when student protesters included it as one of their demands when they interrupted an alumni reunion event where Price was speaking. After the Robert E. Lee statue was removed from the Chapel steps last year, Price created a formal process for requests to be made concerning names and places of memory on campus. At the beginning of this semester, the history department faculty members—who work in the Carr Building—filed a formal request to strip Carr’s name and requested the building to be renamed in honor of Raymond Gavins. Following the request, support for the change emerged from various parts of the Duke community. The student protesters, who formed a group called People’s State of the University, held a rally at the building in support of the change. More than 140 alumni of the history department sent in a signed letter that encouraged renaming the building, and Duke Student Government unanimously passed a resolution calling for a name change. This is not the first time a building on Duke’s campus has been renamed after its namesake’s questionable past has come to light. The first-year residence hall Aycock—named after an early 1900s North Carolina governor active in the white supremacist movement—was renamed in 2014 to East Residence Hall, though the decision to rename Aycock was reached through a less formal process.

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The Board also supported the committee’s recommendation to create a display inside the Carr Building explaining “why the university chose to name the building in his honor in 1930, and why it chose to remove his name nearly ninety years later,” according to the Duke Today release. The committee’s report said that it received more than 900 responses to an online survey requesting input and heard from multiple members of Carr’s family. The educational installment is a key part of the recommendation, according to the report. “The unanimity of the committee’s support for the recommendation to remove the name is contingent on the creation of means to present educational and historical information on Julian Carr in order to preserve the record on Carr’s contributions to Trinity College and help the community understand his complex legacy,” the report stated. “We note that no individual is perfect, and we do not pretend to sit in judgment on any individual as a human or citizen,” the report said. “But the white supremacist actions that Carr pursued throughout his life, even when considered in light of the time in which they were held, are inconsistent with the fundamental aspirations of this university, and removing the name will be a powerful statement that lifts up our values as a diverse and inclusive institution.” Per the formalized process, the request was reviewed by an ad hoc committee Price formed in response to the request, which delivered a proposal to him. Price reviewed the proposal and delivered it to the Board of Trustees, which supported removing Carr’s name. Bovender said he appreciated the formalized process. “Julian Carr’s legacy is complicated. His leadership of and philanthropy to Trinity College helped ensure that the small liberal arts school would remain independent and would have the means—and the land—to transform into the great university it has become,” Price wrote in the email. “But this same person also actively promoted white supremacy through words and deeds that, even by the historic norms of the time, were extraordinarily divisive and caused serious harm to members of his community. It is for these reasons that I agree with the History Department, the committee members and the trustees that removal is the appropriate course of action.”

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Duke demolishes Stetson behind an efficient offensive performance from freshman R.J. Barrett By Conner McLeod Blue Zone Editor

After facing four consecutive potential NCAA tournament participants, the Blue Devils took advantage of a matchup against a Stetson team that had yet to defeat one of the other 352 members of NCAA Division I. No. 3 Duke easily put away the Hatters 11349 Saturday night with the help of a near-triple double from freshman R.J. Barrett, who finished with 26 points on 11-of-14 shooting, seven rebounds and seven STET 49 assists. The Blue Devils’ DUKE 113 suffocating full-court press stifled Stetson and made it nearly impossible for the Hatters to cleanly bring the ball up the court, let alone find any offensive success. Duke, on the other hand, ran up-and-down the court all night, with fast break dunks and alley-oops galore. “Our guys played really hard, that was the main thing today,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “If we play hard like that, it’s gonna be hard to score against us.” Headed by freshman Tre Jones, Duke’s 1-22 full-court press was the difference maker in Stetson’s discomfort throughout the match. The Hatters turned the ball over 14 times in the first half, leading to 24 fastbreak points by the Blue Devils (7-1). Duke’s constant backcourt pressure destroyed Stetson’s confidence, made clear by a sequence in which Barrett earned a steal and a fast break dunk on back-to-back possessions, forcing a Stetson timeout. In the opening minutes it seemed as though Stetson (1-8) could potentially keep the contest close. The Hatters’ Abayomi Iyiola had seven

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R.J. Barrett had the most efficient and best all-around game of his young career Saturday with 26 points, seven assists and seven rebounds. quick points, giving his team a 12-11 lead five minutes into the match and forcing head coach Mike Krzyzewski to call an early timeout to regroup with his players. Immediately following that huddle, the Blue Devil defense tightened up immensely, forcing turnovers left and right, helping Duke go on a 32-4 run. “When we’re in transition we’re very hard to beat because we have so many guys who can bring the ball up and make plays,” Krzyzewski said. “So we just exploded there.” Not only did the Blue Devils make it

difficult for Stetson to run its offense, but they also dominated the paint, outrebounding the Hatters 52-31 thanks in large part to junior Jack White, who finished with nine. The Hatters only earned nine second-chance points and could not stop the Blue Devils from pulling down 20 offensive boards. The second half was not any kinder to Stetson, as Duke increased its lead to 50 points in the first five minutes of the period. The Blue Devils’ freshmen looked very comfortable in the open court, with Cam Reddish and Zion

Williamson both earning wide-open fast break dunks and Barrett scoring 12 quick unanswered points. Jones forcing a Stetson turnover in its backcourt was the icing on the cake for Duke’s 20-4 second half run. Barrett’s efficiency anchored the Blue Devils’ offense, as his 7-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio left the opposing defense lost and confused on how to guard him. Barrett also opened the floor for his fellow freshmen, as Reddish and Williamson both had monster performances with 23 and 17 points respectively. Reddish, who shot 4-of9 beyond the arc played very well coming off a subpar outing against Indiana. If the Norristown, Pa., native can be more consistent and play like he did Saturday every game, Duke’s offense will become nearly impossible to stop. The Blue Devils seemed to be having a lot of fun from top top bottom, as sophomores Alex O’Connell and Jordan Goldwire along with junior co-captains White and Javin DeLaurier had big impacts in Saturday’s game with the outcome pretty much decided. Goldwire, in particular, again did a good job of leading Duke’s press, earning himself two fast break layups for his first points of the season. “That’s just what happens when we play hard and play together,” Barrett said. “Everybody’s dunking and hitting threes, and it’s fun to play.” Jones also had another efficient game with seven assists, zero turnovers and three steals. His unselfish play against the Hatters added to what was a dominating performance from the Blue Devils. Duke will follow this dominant effort with another nonconference home game against Hartford Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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Blue Devils eliminated by Loyola Marymount By Anne Crabill Staff Writer

Entering their first NCAA tournament since 2014, Duke’s seniors were tasked with Loyola Marymount in the first postseason appearance of their careers. The Blue Devils were swept 3-0 by the Lions Friday evening at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, Calif. Despite DUKE 0 pulling a Boeheim 3 to reach the NCAA LMU tournament for the first time in four seasons, Duke could not find the strength to take down Loyola Marymount, struggling to slow down the Lions’ fast pace. “Certainly, I think Loyola Marymount did a great job serving the ball tonight and really did a good job of putting pressure on with that serve so we it was difficult for us to get anything going offensively as much as we would have liked to,” said head coach Jolene Nagel. “So that’s the initial thing so we didn’t handle that as much we had hoped to or would have liked to.” After an offensive slurry in the second

half of the opening frame, the Lions stole the first set 25-16. Sara Kovac commandeered the opposition’s offensive firepower, smashing down seven kills on nine attempts with zero errors. Kovac dominated off of the quick set and her high-octane arm and put down a game high 22 kills Friday. Loyola Marymount hit .443 as a team in the first set and led in kills, digs, and blocks. Duke, by contrast, hit only 0.143. The Lions proved to be a formidable opponent for the Blue Devils and have played well as their season winds to a close. To finish the regular season, Loyola Marymount knocked off then-No. 1 Brigham Young in straight sets. The Lions’ win handed the Cougars their only loss of the season. Even Stanford, the topoverall seed of this year’s NCAA tournament, was not able to knock off Brigham Young. Despite Loyola Marymount leading for most of the match, the Blue Devils kickstarted a run midway through the second frame. Freshman Ade Owokoniran caught fire in the second and consistently found open space on the Lions’ side of the court. Owokoniran smashed down a team-

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Ade Owokoniran dominated in the second set and led Duke with 11 kills Friday. high 11 kills in the contest. Leah Meyer’s ace gave Duke a much-needed boost of momentum in the second set to tie things up at 22-22. Unfortunately, the Blue Devils

surrendered a free point to the Lions on a service error before Ella Boehle’s ace forced set point. See VOLLEYBALL on Page 9

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Duke escapes with late run against Marist By Shane Smith Staff Writer

With the rocky start to the season that Duke is having so far, it’s becoming a trend to expect the unexpected, and for some time, it looked like the Blue Devils were on upset alert Sunday. Leaonna Odom wouldn’t let that happen. The junior posted a team-high 20 points on an impressive display from midrange as Duke avoided a 56 major upset against MAR DUKE 64 Marist 64-56 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. In a back-and-forth, physical game, the Blue Devils gained separation in the final minutes to hang on for the win. “[Leaonna] just has it and so does Haley [Gorecki] and so do other players,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I thought Miela [Goodchild] hit two huge shots. These players know how to play, and they want to compete. There’s just no doubt in my mind that they’re going to figure things out.” Odom has been adjusting to her new role as the team’s starting point guard, and although she made some mistakes with the ball, she put on a show of her natural abilities as a scorer. “From a point guard perspective, [Odom] has been running it, although she’s very difficult on herself,” McCallie said, “She’s tough on herself, but she’s been doing a superlative job, and that’s in her future too as a professional athlete.” The Blue Devils (5-3) looked very similar

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Leaonna Odom led the Blue Devils to victory against the Red Foxes with a double-double and a strong fourth quarter. to their performance at Wisconsin, turning the ball over 19 times. They often forced entry passes into the paint and failed to keep their footing when they got it in, racking up one traveling violation after another. Marist (6-2) relied heavily on its two leading scorers, as juniors Rebekah Hand and Alana Gilmer kept the Red Foxes in the game with timely buckets. Gilmer led the team with 25 points and Hand added 15 on three made 3-pointers. The first quarter was hardly a sight to see for either side, as the game flew up and down

the court with little control. The Red Foxes and Blue Devils finished the period with four and five turnovers, respectively. The score was knotted at 7-7 when Gilmer unleashed a quick six-point spurt, and Marist ended the quarter with a 13-11 lead. Duke shot just 38.5 percent in the first half, while the Red Foxes also struggled, shooting 33.3 percent. But Marist came out as the more motivated team, anxious to grab the program’s first victory against the Blue Devils. Things didn’t get much better for Duke

in the next period, going down by as many as five. It turned out to be a true freshman in Goodchild that sparked Duke with two 3-pointers in the midst of a 12-3 run. The experienced Red Foxes did not let it get out of hand, however, and an Allie Best deep ball at the buzzer sent Marist to the locker room with an unexpected one-point lead. Much of the pregame buzz came from the anticipated return of redshirt freshman guard Mikayla Boykin, who dressed and warmed up, but never saw the floor. The Clinton, N.C., native was cleared to play after a serious knee injury last December kept her on the sideline for most of her first season. “Mikayla’s not back until it’s time to be in a game,” McCallie said. “She’s worked so hard, she’s got to come back at the right pace. You don’t take somebody who hasn’t played in a year and throw them into a time and score game.” It was another game of runs in the third, with the Red Foxes grabbing a 41-36 lead before triples by Gorecki and Jayda Adams put Duke back on top by one heading into the final period. In the fourth, with Marist leading 43-42, Odom decided to take over. The Lompoc, Calif., native scored the next six Blue Devil points that put Duke up for good. Gorecki, who struggled from the floor all night, scored a timely layup and converted two free throws to go up 56-50. She finished the game with 17 points despite shooting 4-of-17 from the field. “Being a shooter, I know I’m not going to See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Cam Reddish breaks out with career night By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor

In Duke’s 113-49 win over Stetson, there were almost too many highlights to count. Tre Jones played impeccable defense and did not commit a turnover for the second straight game. Justin Robinson scored a careerhigh 13 points, including three conversions from beyond the arc. Even senior Brennan Besser scored his first career points in a Blue Devil uniform. But one headline that should not be lost is that coming off a weak outing against Indiana, Cam Reddish is back. The 6-foot-8 freshman, who rounds out the stellar four-freshman Duke core, scored 23 points and grabbed four rebounds. He converted four 3-pointers, the only triples that the Blue Devils converted the entire first half, and led the way with 18 of his points before the break. “I’ve been struggling a lot lately, so to hit those threes felt good. Even from the freethrow line I was struggling,” Reddish said. “Getting there and getting my free throws felt great. It helped my confidence a lot for me to kind of get back to who I am...I’m feeling pretty good right now.” Even before Reddish played his first game for Duke, he struggled with injuries. He was sidelined during the Blue Devils’ exhibition trip to Canada with a groin injury and played

through a fractured rib to start the season. Reddish also sat out the second half of Duke’s game against Eastern Michigan Nov. 14 with another groin issue. Reddish is a key piece of the Blue Devil offense and is second on the team in 3-point percentage, shooting 43.3 percent behind Alex O’Connell’s 45.0 percent clip. He averages 16.3 points per game, behind only fellow classmates R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson. For a team that has struggled to shore up consistent shooters, Reddish’s ability to effortlessly knock down 3-pointers sets him apart as one of Duke’s only consistent floor-spacers. “Coach just made us defend and push the ball,” Reddish said. “We did just what he said and it worked out for our benefit. Everyone was playing and working together, and it was really fun. Our communication has improved a ton since Gonzaga. We’re talking, we’re switching—everything Coach wants us to do, we’re doing.” Coming out of high school, Reddish was the third-ranked recruit nationally. He was a McDonald’s all-American and committed to Duke last September. However, the freshman wing’s tendency for non-flashy plays left him dwarfed in the limelight behind the likes of Williamson and Barrett. But Reddish’s smooth play and steady performance should not be overlooked. Reddish showed his playmaking ability

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Cam Reddish caught fire in the first half Saturday and finished with 23 points. against the Hatters. He made smart decisions and increased defensive intensity for the Blue Devils. The Norristown, Pa., native was integral in creating key Duke possessions by generating Stetson turnovers, notching two steals on the evening. As Duke inches closer to ACC play, the Blue Devils will need to see strong performances from all of their freshmen. Reddish’s play Saturday sends a strong signal that he is

capable of being a major part of Duke’s success this season. He will have another chance to maintain his groove Wednesday when the Blue Devils take on Hartford. “I’m looking to improve my defense and my communication,” Reddish said. “Make sure I’m energetic defending and talking. Once I get that down, I’ll get better and the team will get better. So that’s the goal. I’m just going to continue to work on that.”

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Duke unable to create separation in sloppy first half By Ramona Naseri Staff Writer

There’s no doubt that Duke’s 64-56 win against Marist was hard-fought in the first half, and that the Blue Devils had a difficult time breaking away from tight competition. Although Duke rode a strong fourth quarter to victory, the Red Foxes hung around for much of the contest due to strong shooting and poor offensive execution by the Blue Devils. Early in the first quarter, junior Leaonna Odom made a layup that was quickly countered with a 3-pointer by Marist. This set the tone for a good portion of the game. The two teams went back and forth in turnovers and in the lead. Four minutes into the game, Duke had two turnovers while Marist had one. The Blue Devils led for a couple of minutes, only to have the Red Foxes come back on top. By the time the two teams were called off the court for their first media timeout, they were tied at seven. However, Marist quickly came out of the timeout with a shot by Alana Gilmer and held the lead for the remainder of the first quarter. The Blue Devils tried to fight offensively, but their attempts resulted in a lot of missed shots and turnovers. By the end of the period, Odom had three of her team’s five turnovers to her name, but she wasn’t the only one responsible for them. “[Odom] is adjusting to a new role as [head coach Joanne P. McCallie] said, so we have to

make it an easier pass for her,” redshirt junior Haley Gorecki said. “I think we’re putting ourselves in different situations or not good situations for her, so yeah, we have to get open a lot better, but set good screens or whatever, but I guess that’s our fault. Her turnovers are our faults.” The second quarter was centered around Duke catching up and the Red Foxes having some foul trouble. About one minute into the quarter, Marist scored and the Blue Devils were down by four. Duke began slowly reeling in some points when a few fouls were called on the opposition. Sophomore Jade Williams and freshman Miela Goodchild made free throws, but the Red Foxes responded with three 3-pointers in a row. Although Goodchild responded with a couple of triples as well, Gorecki missed shots which could have assisted in picking the team back up. Gorecki struggled to find her shot in the first half, as she walked into the locker room just 1-for-9 from the field with her team trailing by one. Based on the sloppy mistakes from the first half, there were some adjustments that the women had to make in order to come out of the game with a win against Marist. There needed to be less turnovers, better shooting from Gorecki and better perimeter defense. The Blue Devils knew what they had to do and locked down the win. “It would be nice if the whole fourth quarter

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Haley Gorecki’s scoring struggles continued Sunday as the Palatine, Ill., native managed to convert on just 4-of-17 attempts from the field. was the whole game, but I thought the team figured it out, went for strengths and looked for each other. Haley found a neat slip,” McCallie said. “[Leaonna] coming down for the shot there I think it’s part of the game.” Although the Blue Devils initially had a tough time getting into the game, the struggle and learning from mistakes were part of the team’s

growth process to figure out how to improve and more quickly adjust to games as a team. “If you want it to be easy all the time, you’re not really a competitor,” McCallie said. “Timeand-score games, these are a blast, they are hard and you must execute and stick together. We were connected today in a very good way and that’s something we’ll play off of.”

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Blue Devils to face Temple in the Independence Bowl By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

Duke looked nothing like a bowl-caliber team in its regular-season finale against Wake Forest last weekend. But on the heels of another strong nonconference slate, the Blue Devils will return to the postseason for a second straight year. After finishing its 2018 campaign with a 7-5 record, Duke will head to Shreveport, La. for a Dec. 27 matchup with Temple in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl at Independence Stadium at 1:30 p.m. The Blue Devils have never faced the Owls in program history. Duke opened its season with a home win vs. Army before going on the road to take out Northwestern and Baylor, a game in which the Blue Devils played without starting quarterback Daniel Jones. A win against crosstown rival N.C. Central then pushed Duke to 4-0 before Virginia Tech came to Durham and handed the Blue Devils their first loss of the year in Jones’ return to action. Duke won in just one of its first four ACC games, but the Blue Devils showed some grit to come from behind in the rain at Miami in order to reach six wins and secure bowl eligibility. Duke then won again to claim the Victory Bell in a rivalry matchup

with North Carolina before getting blown out by Clemson and the Demon Deacons in its last two games. The Blue Devils were plagued by injuries throughout the season with much of its defensive unit injured throughout the season including leaders Ben Humphreys and Joe Giles-Harris. Temple finished the season strong after a disappointing 0-2 start, winning eight of its last 10 games capped by a blowout 57-7 victory at Connecticut in its season finale—almost the exact opposite of the way the Blue Devils finished. The Owls are led by senior running back Ryquell Armstead, who ran for more than 1,000 yards and 13 touchdowns in the regular season, and scores 35.6 points per game. Junior wide receiver Isaiah Wright was named the American Athletic Conference’s Special Teams Player of the Year, and Temple also had four defensive first-team All-AAC selections. A win in Shreveport later this month would give the Blue Devils a third bowl win in the last four seasons. Duke earned its first postseason victory in more than 50 years when it beat Indiana at the Pinstripe Bowl in 2015. The Blue Devils then, after missing out on a bowl game in 2016, won in their season finale last year to snag a spot in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, where they dominated Northern Illinois 36-14.

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eorge H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died Friday, marking the end of a career in public life that has spanned over five decades. A World War II veteran and a Connecticut yankee, Bush moved to Texas after graduating from Yale to pursue a career in the region’s booming oil business. The newly branded Texan then pursued a career in Republican politics beginning in the 1960s, serving as a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, and director of the CIA throughout the next two decades. Picked up by Ronald Reagan to be his vice-president in 1980, Bush eventually succeeded Reagan in 1988, easily defeating his Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis in a landslide victory. As president, his administration is probably best known for directing a U.S-led military intervention in the Gulf region, which was widely seen as an American foreign policy victory in the wake of a lingering “Vietnam Syndrome.” After being defeated by Clinton in the 1992 election, Bush retreated from political life, devoting his time between various humanitarian activities and public speaking— even serving as commencement speaker for Duke’s Class of ’98.

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In the wake of Bush’s death, various news outlets and commentators have begun the usual process of eulogizing the former president and his political legacy. The New York Times published a photoessay titled “‘I Love You, Too’: George Bush’s Final Days” that recounts the last few days of a seemingly

Editorial Board feeble, well-loved dying man surrounded by close friends and family in the comfort of an elegant suburban Houston home. Various political leaders, including former president Barack Obama and current president Donald Trump, have sent out public statements commemorating Bush’s legacy, with Obama praising the “legacy of service” Bush left behind as the 41st president of the United States. In particular, news commentators have also focused on the seemingly hallowed relationship Bush had with his late wife, Barbara Pierce Bush, further cementing his patriarchal legacy as a good politician, good father and good husband. In eulogizing former President Bush, we should be careful not to simply whitewash his legacy for the sake of honoring a grandfatherly national leader in the wake of his death. Especially in today’s divisive and partisan political climate, individuals can often-times fall into the trap of looking back at past political leaders and their agendas with a more benign, nostalgic eye. A “Bush nostalgia” has set in where both Republicans and Democrats look toward the Bush dynasty’s 12 years in Washington with a sense of romanticized wistfulness. In this revisionist mindset, although George Bush was by no means perfect, his purported level-headedness, moderation and civility are fondly remembered in comparison to the disgraceful and embarrassing behavior of the White House’s current occupant. Behind the façade of this canonized conservative

hero, all the president’s flaws are seemingly forgotten. Never mind that Bush failed to properly address the AIDS crisis and exacerbated its effects by turning a blind eye to proper health and research funding until the early 1990s. Operation Desert Storm was successful in liberating Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s invasion, yet U.S. bombers killed thousands of Iraqi civilians in the conflict despite assurances that there would be little “collateral damage” in an American military intervention post-Vietnam. Sure, the blue-blooded Bush dynasty injected respectability and a touch of aristocracy into “moderate” conservativism, but the social and political effects H.W.’s presidency had on the greater American people would have been similar under any Republican president: steadfast adherence to trickle-down economics, cutting the safety net and an aggressive foreign military policy. There seems to be a taboo in the direct aftermaths of the death of great national figures like George H.W. Bush and John McCain to not “speak ill of the dead” and to instead eulogize their accomplishments as eminent men of politics. Yet political leadership often entails responding to forces that will inevitably have negative consequences to individuals regardless of one’s intention. Even seemingly storied presidents like John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt left behind legacies that have undermined their images; Kennedy’s philandering is well documented while Roosevelt had few qualms about Japanese American internment during World War II. In remembering George H.W. Bush, we should examine his legacy with a critical eye, and not neglect the many flaws in a presidency that some have romanticized as a paragon of moderate Republican leadership. 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.

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hope everyone has read last week’s New York Times coverage of the current state of climate change. Climate change is the most important crisis facing our world, with greatest consequences for the disadvantaged. As an alum, I believe Duke must lead to alleviate the crisis. This includes vigorous support for the Durham-Orange light rail line. Working on The Chronicle from 1967-1971, I witnessed first-hand the University’s lumbering efforts to shake off its Jim Crow past. I arrived just a few years after the first black undergraduates were admitted. Racism still marked practices and results in admissions, curriculum, hiring, and work assignments. I witnessed the exploitation of black non-academic employees, which since the founding of Duke and Trinity contributed to the accumulated wealth of the institution. Decision-makers engaged in passive resistance and delay. Reasons aplenty were offered for not moving with all deliberate speed when it came to race at Duke. Duke’s racial history remains Duke’s eternal shame. Responding to light rail, President Price and the administration argue that the severity of problems Duke sees makes it impossible for the University currently to offer its support. But since the Duke administration has effective veto power, its arguments once again sound like indefinite postponement. I urge everyone who cares about Duke and climate change to write, to petition, and to speak out until Duke becomes part of the solution for light rail in Durham. Ask President Price to take the problems in hand and untie the knots so that DOLRT can begin its journey. Future generations will ask, “Where was Duke as climate catastrophe approached?” Climate change may be planetary, but let’s do what we can so that in Durham at least, future generations will note that Duke did what it could when it was needed. Clay Steinman is a Duke alum, Trinity ‘71.

o Duke University and president Vincent Price, I have been a resident of Durham since 1966 and have always appreciated the many levels of support that Duke has provided to the city that is Duke’s home. I am confused and disappointed that you would chose to take a position against the light rail proposal. Given the times we live in of climate change opposition, it seems critical that wherever educated people can take rightful stances to support efforts to protect our world, we must. There is no doubt that this light rail proposal will have significant positive impact on the environmental health of our city and area and I urge you to do the right thing and endorse this project. To do otherwise casts a dark shadow over your institution. Sincerely, Martha LeFebvre Martha LeFebvre is a Durham resident.

o the Editor: As a Durham native and Duke graduate student, I believe Duke University should support the Durham-Orange light rail. The project will provide a critical connection to UNC Hospital, NCCU, downtown Durham, and thousands of homes and businesses along the way. Duke’s 2018 update to its climate action plan is currently out for comment, and calls for Duke to “advocate for local transit options (e.g. regional light rail, efficient bus routes, etc.) that connect employees to Duke University.” Yet, Duke appears to desire that last minute design changes, potentially costing millions of dollars, be implemented as a condition of Duke’s support. Duke officials should work with light rail planners to come up with solutions that stay within reasonable cost parameters. If Duke will only advocate for the project if planners spend millions extra to benefit Duke, then it isn’t advocating for the project at all. Daniel Copple Daniel Copple is a second-year master of engineering and environmental management student.

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No one deserves to be at Duke

uke is full of people who have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Sometimes it seems like they have bought into the belief that they are the greatest thing since the sliced bread, or maybe even the quesadilla from Sazón. They believe that they are wealthy, accomplished or successful because they deserve it. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most Duke students are not nearly as self-made as they’d like to think. We are wealthy,

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accomplished and successful largely because of a complex set of factors in place before we were even conceived. Let’s look through the lens of current Duke students and see what we have in common. One statistic that you’ll notice about us, by reading any demographics sheet about any graduating or incoming class, is that most of our parents were wealthy. Our classes are made up of students whose parents are consistently rich. Or upper class. Or affluent. But certainly not, as we like to call ourselves, “upper-middle class.” Pew’s definition of middle class includes incomes from roughly $45,000 to $135,000, which represents incomes from two-thirds to two times the median in the United States. While cost of living certainly affects whether or not you are middle class, if your parents are bringing in $150,000-200,000 a year, you’re much more “upper” than you are “uppermiddle” class. Now, you could say that perhaps wealthy students just work harder or take their studies more seriously. Generally speaking, you may be correct. But regardless, hard work and studying are learned behaviors. You probably learned that school was important from your wealthy parents, or your uncle

Dan with a law degree from Princeton. You saw them become successful through academics, so you knew you could too. The extracurricular opportunities and rigorous school curriculum you grew up with probably didn’t hurt your chances at Duke either. We can’t forget athletes, either. As much as we all love Zion and Jack White, there is doubtless some 5’5” guard that put in way more hours at the gym but could never play for Duke because of his height, or many more who inherited weak ankle joints that twist every time they play basketball (thanks, Mom)! If your metric of meritocracy is hard work, then a poor, firstgeneration kid from an underachieving school that scores a 1400 on the SAT deserves to be here way more than a rich legacy that got a 1530. That tiny guard deserves to be here more than our man Cameron Reddish. Meritocracy and “anyone can do anything!” mindsets never take context into account, and neither do we when we think of how we got into Duke. It’s like comparing the height of the plants growing through the cracks in the sidewalk to trees constantly sprayed with Miracle-Gro™; and saying that the sidewalk plant should have just tried harder. Just like little plants, we don’t get to choose who gives birth

to us or what school district we are funneled into. We don’t get to choose the rates of incarceration in our neighborhood, or whether or not our high-school boasts the best lacrosse team in the state. We do not choose how tall we will grow or how much guidance and help our community gives to us. It is a hard fact to accept, but more than anything else, our successes are the result of chance. They are not due to our own inherent superiority to others or because we are deserving of what we get. If coming to Duke, or, more broadly, achieving success, is making it to the end of a hidden path in the forest, some of us have been lucky enough that others have cleared a nice neat path in front of us and given us some really good guidance on where the path should be. Others blundered our way through the briar patch and happened to find ourselves here. If you can humor me for a second and believe—at least a little bit—that we are not so much the sole heroes of our Duke acceptances but smaller players in a chess game that we didn’t set up, then perhaps you are ready for an even more radical idea. As much as we alone are not to be credited for our successes, people in bad situations are rarely solely to blame for what happens to them. The average man who receives a prison sentence for selling heroin may have been born in a poorer part of town to parents that didn’t have as much money or time for him. Growing up, he may have been influenced by older, law-breaking friends and a lack of after-school opportunities in his district. A million other factors led him down that road, and you down another. Situations are rarely as simple, and outcomes are rarely as fitting, as we like to think them to be. In my mind, the questions “Who deserves to get into Duke University?” and “Who deserves to get busted for dealing heroin?” have the same answer: pretty much no one. You could easily have been born into a cycle of addiction and poverty, but instead you are here. You probably don’t deserve it, but you better take advantage of and appreciate this crazy opportunity that is Duke University. Luke Sallmen is a Trinity sophomore. His

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DSG denounces the deportation of Samuel Oliver-Bruno

uke Student Government Equity and Outreach and Durham and Regional Affairs condemns Samuel Oliver-Bruno’s deportation. His arrest came during his visit to the Cary U.S. Citizenship and

is absolutely horrendous, considering that Samuel and his community were following the legal procedure to renew a work permit. Samuel is a vital part of the Durham community as he is a husband to his wife, a father to his son, a friend

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Immigration Services (USCIS) facility for a biometrics appointment, necessary to further his path to legal residence. There, plain-clothed ICE agents arrested him the instant he walked in the building and those protesting his arrest were detained as well. This use of covert tactics

to many and a minister for CityWell Methodist Church. His deportation is devastating for not only his family, but the Durham community as well. His wife is currently receiving medical treatment that is not available in Mexico and his son is planning to attend college. Without

Samuel’s income in the house, Samuel’s son might be forced to put away his dream of college in order to pay for his mother’s treatment. As members of the Durham community, we wholeheartedly denounce the manner in which Samuel was detained and the expedited way in which he was thrown into removal proceedings, despite the fact that U.S. representatives G.K. Butterfield and and David Price called for an investigation into his case. Echoing the words of the CityWell church where Samuel was living in sanctuary, we are appalled by the collusion between USCIS and ICE to use a legitimate immigration process as bait for ambush, and believe this undermines credibility of United States agencies and government processes. We, the Duke Student Government Equity and Outreach Committee and Durham and Regional Affairs Committee, stand with

Samuel Oliver-Bruno and his family. This letter is co-signed by the members of the DSG committee for equity and outreach and the DSG committee for Durham and regional affairs. The committee for equity and outreach is led by junior Daisy Almonte and composed of Trinity senior Adam Bullock, Trinity sophomores Maya King and De’Ja Wood, and Trinity first-years Shirley Mathur, Nehal Jail, Christina Wang and Victoria Pinedo. The committee for Durham and regional affairs is led by Trinity junior Uwa Ihionkhan and is composed of Trinity junior Quinci King, Trinity sophomores Alyson Diaz, Jake Sheridan, John Honeycutt, Samia Noor, Turner Jordan and Valeria Silombria, Trinity first-years Ava Changnon, Kyle Melatti, Luke Evans, Sophie Daldorf, and Allison Bunker, and Pratt first-year Gabrielle Marushack. Sheridan is a staff writer for The Chronicle.

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Thank You and Best Wishes for the Holidays! *20% maximum discount allowed. Discount cannot be combined with any other discounts or promotions. Discount is valid on in-stock merchandise only.

Discount does not include: Academic Apparel, School Supplies, Greeting Cards, Food, Beverages,Candy, Health & Beauty Aids, Custom Orders, Electronics, Cameron and National Championship Floor Pieces, Class Rings, Alumni Chairs, Blazers & Sportcoats, Scrubs & Lab Coats, Professional Wear, Medical Equipment, Cameras, Film, Batteries, Textbooks, Computers, Computer/Printer Supplies, and accessories. All Duke Technology Center products are excluded from this sale. Divinity Bookshop: 20% off all regular price Divinity School clothing & gift items. East Campus Store: 20% off clothing & gift items. (Discount not valid on food, beverages, candy, health & beauty aids.)