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Schewel discusses first days in office

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By Ben Leonard Staff Reporter

For the first time since 2001, Durham officially has a new mayor. Steve Schewel, Trinity ‘73 and Ph.D. ‘82, was sworn into office Monday. He recently sat down with The Chronicle’s Ben Leonard to discuss some of the challenges he faces as a new mayor. The Chronicle: You are replacing Bill Bell after his 16 years in office. Does that put more pressure on you or affect how you will act in office, especially in the beginning? Steve Schewel: No, not really. I know Bill really well. We’re good friends. I’ve been on the council for six years that he’s been mayor. I watched him and know what he did and totally respect him, but I don’t feel any extra pressure replacing Bill. I feel a great sense of responsibility to the people of Durham that elected me and that weighs heavily on me, but that doesn’t put any extra pressure on me.

Neal Vaidya | Staff Photographer For the past three years, there have been no female managers for the men’s basketball team.

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TC: All but one of the members on city council is changing positions. Do you anticipate that having any sort of effect— will it be a steep learning curve at the beginning? SS: Well first of all, two other council members besides myself will still be on the council. We’re getting new people, but three of us are there from the previous council. We have three totally new members and will be appointing the new member to my seat, so four of the seven will be totally new. That does present a real challenge, which is that there’s See SCHEWEL on Page 3

By Sam Turken Managing Editor

Duke’s men’s basketball managers are easy to notice if you’re watching the Blue Devils in the stands. At every timeout, the managers dash onto the court with one handing a clipboard to head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the others giving the players Gatorade and towels. They usually all dress similarly with each wearing black slacks, black Nike sneakers and a blue, black or white collared shirt with a Duke logo. But in recent years, another feature has been glaring— they’re all men. Although the team says that both men and women can become student managers, a woman has not served in the role since the 2014-15 season. And with Duke’s 2017-18 season underway and the undefeated Blue Devils ranked No. 1 in the country, a team spokesman confirmed that the program does not have a female manager again this year. Women have applied in recent years, but one student not affiliated with the program was directly told by a nowformer manager in 2014 that the team was not going to hire women anymore. A former female applicant also recently complained to the Office of Institutional Equity about the team not

hiring women. She said OIE told her it was looking into the matter. That applicant provided The Chronicle with a copy of a message from another former manager showing that the team has held female applicants to a higher standard than males. She and one other former female applicant also said that the application process and interview in front of only men is intimidating and uncomfortable for female applicants. The latter woman said she felt self-conscious about wearing a dress during her interview. A continuing trend Duke’s student managers are considered critical to the team’s success. The managers spend 30 to 50 hours per week with the players and coaches and travel with the team for away games. Their duties include setting up equipment for workouts, hauling luggage on road trips, retrieving balls at shoot-arounds and giving players water and Gatorade during games. The total number of managers each year varies from about 10 to 13. Although they work unpaid, managers are eligible to receive scholarships not given to other See MANAGER on Page 8

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New bike sharing programs come to Duke, Durham By Shannon Fang Staff Reporter

Lime green and bright orange bikes have been popping up around campus and in Durham as part of the city’s new effort to provide an affordable form of transportation. On Nov. 27, LimeBike and Spin launched their dock-less bike share program in Durham. The programs allow users to find, unlock and rent bikes with their smartphones. Rides cost one dollar for every every half-hour and are currently 50 percent off for students with a .edu email.

I don’t think one can expect, or even ask, students to consider using a bike share should they miss the bus unless various safety measures are put into place.

Duke professors, scholars participate in public hearings on torture By Bill McCarthy Staff Reporter

A grassroots commission involving several members of the Duke community is working to hold North Carolina accountable for its role in a controversial CIA program terminated by the Obama administration in 2009. In the years following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, North Carolina was home to a proprietary front company responsible for flying high-value terrorist suspects to and from CIA “black sites” overseas, where they were illegally detained and tortured. Aero Contractors, a Smithfield, N.C.-based aviation firm, has been linked to two planes—known as “torture taxis”— that transported detainees to the secret CIA prisons overseas. Several investigations, including a 2014 Senate report completed under the chairmanship of Sen. Richard Burr, have connected the firm to more than 40 such flights. The commission, known as the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture, is an independent nonprofit organization examining North Carolina’s role in

the program. During two public hearings on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the Raleigh Convention Center, the commission received testimony detailing how Aero Contractors used state infrastructure—such as public airports—to house planes for the CIA. “The group’s concern is that North Carolina allowed this company to operate under its nose and took no action,” said Jim Coleman, John S. Bradway professor of the practice of law, who sat on the NCCIT’s 11-person panel. “The point of the commission is to put on the record what the facts were.” Robin Kirk, faculty co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, joined Coleman on the panel. Rev. Ben Boswell, Divinity School ‘06, also served as a commissioner. “I was glad to see Duke so well represented,” Kirk said. “This commission and the participation not only of Duke faculty, but also of Duke students who helped prepare some of the materials for this inquiry, shows Duke in the best See TORTURE on Page 3

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Duke previously had a bike share program called Zagster that was discontinued due to underuse. Unlike Zagster— which had three docking stations on campus—the new bike share programs do not require the user to rent or drop off the bicycle at a permanent dock. Instead, they can be left anywhere, and bike locations can be identified on a map See BIKE on Page 3

Courtesy of Duke Photography (From left to right) Abdullah Antepli, Jayne Huckerby, Robin Kirk and James Coleman participated in the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture’s public hearings. Rev. Ben Boswell (not pictured), Divinity School ‘06, served as a commissioner.

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qualified Latino applicants. I would certainly look very favorably on them. But I have not made up my mind and will be open to all applicants.

FROM PAGE 1 a huge learning curve when you’re new. It’s going to be really challenging for the new council to get up to speed on all the issues and procedures. It’ll be a lot to learn. TC: The council will have to appoint someone to replace you. Do you have any favorites at this point? SS: I definitely have not decided on any specific candidates to support. In Durham, we’ve done a great job of having racial power-sharing on city council, on county commission, on our school board, in our legislative races and our local offices between African Americans and whites. But, we’ve never had a Latino officeholder in Durham. Our population is about 15 percent Latino. I’m very interested to see if we get some good,

BIKE FROM PAGE 2 through the company’s smartphone app. “Students spend so much money on textbooks and tuition and things of that nature, we just believe that transportation should not be a massive cost to students. We can help alleviate that by providing affordable transportation and transportation that you don’t have to worry about time and scheduling,” said Kemba Neptune, a Spin communications team member. A document shared by Neptune noted that ride sharing is highly inefficient for last-mile transit. Therefore, Spin’s goal is to provide affordable and equitable transportation options, particularly for last-mile transit, such as the travel between a bus stop and the final destination. Neptune said that Spin decided to come to Durham because one of their local city managers is from Durham, whose wife is getting her MBA at Duke. It is important for Spin to have a personal tie to the city or university they are partnering with, she added. Bryan Poole, a transportation planner for Durham, said both Spin and LimeBike expressed interest in coming to Durham in July 2017. At the time, there were no bike share regulations in place. After reviewing the programs, both bike share companies were approved for the city with a permit. “I think it’s going to benefit the people that are doing a lot of those one to two mile trips,” Poole said. “That could be students that are going from East to West campus, or traveling from campus to downtown or from offices downtown back to Duke.” Poole explained that bike share is another great mobility option because it has become more difficult to park downtown and Durham has experienced increases in traffic congestion. The bike share programs are also beneficial for visitors to Durham by allowing them better access to downtown. Additionally, they help the city to collect data on bike traffic flow to decide where to improve infrastructure, Poole said. With its GPS technology, Spin’s local team in Durham is able to redistribute the bikes to areas where the bikes are more commonly used. Currently, each program has 300 bikes in Durham. The

TORTURE FROM PAGE 2 possible light.” Testimony from the hearings will be compiled alongside additional research to create a report. Kirk said the report—scheduled for release in 2018—would include a summary of findings and

TC: What’s the single-most important issue facing Durham today and why? SS: We need to work on affordable housing. That work is ongoing—the city is doing a lot of work on it right now—but we need to continue to do that and to do more of it. There’s a big community commitment to that. We need to succeed in implementing a lot of our affordable housing [policies].

SS: Democracy in North Carolina is definitely under attack from the Republican majority in the state legislature. There are two things going on. One is the gerrymander. The other is other forms of voter suppression. I agree that the robust democracy that we have in Durham and that we cherish in Durham is under attack from the state legislature. TC: What do you think of the new redistricting plan that has been proposed by Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy professor of law at Stanford Law School? SS: It’s an improvement.

TC: When you were sworn in, you called Durham a “riproaring democracy.” Some have said that North Carolina doesn’t meet the definition of a democracy because of gerrymandering of a lot of its districts—how do you feel about the state of democracy in North Carolina as a whole?

TC: Is it enough? SS: He had a fairly narrow mandate from the courts, and within that narrow mandate, he did a great job. It reduces the gerrymandering somewhat, but the effects of the gerrymandering are still going to be very powerful.

permit allows both programs to increase the number of bikes by 200 per month, with a cap at 2,500 bikes. Carl DePinto, director of parking and transportation at Duke, wrote in an email that Duke is planning to have a little less than 50 bikes on campus split between West, East, Central/ Swift campuses and the medical center. The transportation department will monitor the program over the next several months, he wrote. The University is currently collaborating with Spin and LimeBike to create designated bicycle pick-up zones on East, Central and West Campus, as well as the medical center. On campus, DePinto encourages students to place the bikes at a designated bike rack. Neptune said that Spin has had positive responses to their program from other college campuses that they have partnered with. She added that in some cases, ridership on campus for one day was greater than ridership for a week in a city. First-year Josh Coopersmith said he commonly used the two bike share programs back home in Seattle. “I used them for fun because I did not live somewhere where I could commute anywhere by bike, but I know a lot of people

do use them for what they’re for,” Coopersmith said. “I have a lot of friends at the [University of Washington] who use them a lot to get to class because they’ve had it a long time.” Coopersmith, who currently has a bike on campus to bike between East and West, added that he might not have bought a bike if he knew dock-less bike share was coming to campus. He explained that he could have saved money because the bike share programs are relatively cheap, and he now only bikes twice a week given the colder weather. He explained that he would often bike to East Campus alone because his friends would take the bus. But, with the new bike share programs, he and his friends to bike together back to East Campus, which he said would be fun. He noted, though, that it can be difficult to bike with a group using bike shares because bikes might not be clustered together, and they might have to “hunt” for bikes. First-year Stephanie Zhang also frequently used dock-less bike share in her hometown of Shanghai, China. She said she used it at least once a week, usually to get from her house to the bus stop. However, at Duke, she feels like the price is not worth renting the bike because places on East Campus are within walking distance, and there is a bus system. “No one is really going to ride for 30 minutes, so the dollars can add up really quickly…[If there were more bikes on campus], I think I would use it a decent amount, especially to go to Ninth Street,” Zhang said. “But that’s if cost wasn’t an issue. Factoring in cost, I feel like it’s a little too expensive to justify a five or 10 minute walk.” She added that because she has seen so few bikes on campus, she is afraid that if she uses the bike share to ride somewhere, someone else will take the bike and she will be without transportation on her way back. Ceri Weber, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in cell biology, wrote in an email that she is looking forward to the bike share service on campus, and many graduate students would definitely consider using them to travel to and from their parking garage when the buses are late or not running. However, she expressed concerns that there are no places to rent helmets and that the roads are not entirely bike-friendly. “I don’t think one can expect, or even ask, students to consider using a bike share should they miss the bus unless various safety measures are put into place,” Weber wrote.

Special to the Chronicle Spin, a bike share program which has 300 bikes in Durham, will increase the number of bikes by 200 per month.

why we tortured and the terrible negative effects of that torture, we risk repeating it.” The public hearings included testimony from two members of the Duke community: Imam Abdullah Antepli, chief representative of Muslim affairs and adjunct faculty of Islamic studies, and Jayne Huckerby, clinical professor of law and director of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic.

If we don’t look at and understand why we tortured and the terrible negative effects of that torture, we risk repeating it. ROBIN KIRK

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a range of legislative recommendations. She added that it would be timely given President Donald Trump’s favorable view of torture. Trump promised during his campaign to bring back waterboarding and tried in January to push an executive order that raised the prospect of reviving the secret CIA prisons program. “We are on the brink of doing this again,” Kirk said. “If we don’t look at and understand

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Antepli spoke about the Muslim perspective on torture and the impact of its practice on Muslim communities. He said he has been involved with the commission for many years now. “It is our general human perspective that torture is a moral failure and a stain on our collective identity,” he wrote in an email. “As a Muslim, I not only outlined how torture is abhorred in Islamic theology. I also outlined

how and why torture and the lack of moral outcry to it is proving terrorists’ narrative of, ‘The West is at war with Islam.’” He said the lack of a legal and moral response to torture in the US has emboldened dictators in Muslim majority societies to adopt its practice as well. In her testimony, Huckerby explained how states and local authorities are bound, as a matter of international and domestic law, to comply with human rights treaties that the US has ratified—including the legal prohibition on torture. Federal governments cannot outsource torturous programs to states to avoid legal repercussions, she added. “The ban on torture is absolute and nonderogable, meaning that it cannot be infringed,” Huckerby wrote in an email. “State authorities are bound by international law and this includes obligations to regulate the activities of private companies that are reported to be involved in perpetuating abuse.” Kirk and Coleman said they appreciated hearing from Antepli and Huckerby, but that the most powerful testimonies came from individuals still suffering physically and psychologically due to torture they experienced years ago.

Kirk said one individual discussed being legally prohibited by the conditions of his release from speaking about his experience or leaving Mauritania, where he has been relocated. Another—a Sept. 11 conspirator represented in testimony by an attorney—was tortured so severely that he has a permanent, degenerative brain injury. “The pain and the damage that they suffer is not over,” Kirk said. “It’s not over for any of these people because the effects of torture last for the rest of life.” It was also clear from the testimonies that torture is not only morally reprehensible, but also ineffective, she said. For that reason, Coleman said that trust in the rule of law—as opposed to blind support for agencies like the CIA—needs to be restored. “If the United States has lost confidence in the rule of law to solve our problems— including terrorism—then we can’t hold anybody accountable under the rule of law,” he said. “I hope that people pay attention to this, because when our government openly rejects the rule of law as a restraint, it’s hard to know how we hold our government accountable for anything that it does.”

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Senior center’s career night fuels easy victory as Duke bounces back from loss at South Carolina By Riley Pfaff Staff Reporter

Aside from new faces on each bench and several more ACC title banners in the rafters, little seemed to have changed a decade after the Blue Devils last blew out UNC Greensboro in Durham 10 years ago. Just days after suffering its worst loss of the season thus far, No. 14 Duke took care of business against the Spartans Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, handling its Southern Conference opponent 85-54. The Blue Devils 54 were in control on UNCG 85 both ends of the DUKE floor, finishing with 24 assists and 17 steals as a team in a muchneeded win in the first of five straight home games coming on the heels of a humbling road loss at South Carolina. “It was a good game for us, I thought we got better. It’s important to get better in every game, and I think we did,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “It was more about us, just our team and about what we’re trying to do. We’re just getting different kinds of structures to how we want to attack.” Senior Erin Mathias shattered her career high with 24 points and scored eight in the first quarter to help the Blue Devils jump out to a quick eight-point lead. Duke (7-2) was particularly hot in the first half, shooting better than 61 percent from the field in each of the first two quarters. After building their early lead, the Blue Devils withstood a bit of a run themselves to begin the second quarter, as UNC Greensboro (4-5) scored

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Erin Mathias led the Blue Devils with a career-high 24 points, besting her previous high of 16 she set Sunday at South Carolina. the first six points of the period to cut the Duke advantage to two. The close game didn’t last long, though, as the Blue Devils quickly answered back with a run of their own to stretch the lead to 12 midway through the quarter. Duke extended its lead to 15 at the half, thanks largely to the outstanding play of Mathias and graduate student Lexie Brown, who drained both her 3-point attempts and had 12 points heading into the locker room. Brown finished fairly close to a triple-double with 20 points, nine assists and seven rebounds.

“Lexie’s game was just fluid and really focused and just really good, in all categories,” McCallie said. “That was just great to watch and see, especially the assists and steals, [and] creating everything on the floor.” The Spartans made a pair of free throws to start the second half, but Duke went into a full-court press early in the third quarter and immediately got back-to-back steals to help stretch its advantage to 18. The Blue Devils had four steals in a span of five UNC Greensboro possessions, allowing just one field goal for

the first nine minutes of the second half. The Spartans shot 30.9 percent from the field against a Duke defense that entered the game allowing opponents to shoot just 38.0 percent from the floor. “We’ve been working really hard on getting stops, keeping our hands up, getting deflections,” Brown said. “I’ve got to credit my team for doing well on our switches because we confused [UNC Greensboro] a little bit. We just made them hesitant with the ball, and when teams are hesitant, it’s easier to take it from them.” By the end of the third quarter, the Blue Devils’ 15-point halftime lead had stretched to 27 to put the game out of reach. The Spartans simply could not hold onto the ball in the face of Duke’s pressure after halftime, committing 13 more turnovers after coughing the ball up nine times in the first half. The Blue Devils, on the other hand, committed just 10 turnovers all game. Graduate student Bego Faz Davalos got the first start of her Duke career over freshman Mikayla Boykin after a disappointing team showing against the Gamecocks Sunday. Davalos adds considerable height to the Blue Devil lineup compared to Boykin and bolstered Duke down low after it was outscored in the paint by 22 Sunday. Although Duke did have a much better performance in the post thanks to Mathias, Davalos did not provide much additional scoring. But the Fresno State transfer was second on the team with six rebounds in 18 minutes, the most time she has seen on the floor this season. “Bego did some good things [against South See W. BASKETBALL on Page 7

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Blue Devils hit the road for ACC opener vs. Eagles By Andrew Donohue Assistant Blue Zone Editor

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Gary Trent Jr. made four 3-pointers against St. Francis Tuesday to improve to better than 30 percent from deep this year.

The Blue Devils finally put together a complete performance Tuesday night, putting up record-setting numbers in a 54-point blowout win against St. Francis. That came on the heels of another strong No. 1 showing last Saturday Duke against South Dakota, vs. Boston perhaps suggesting that College Duke has finally turned the corner after a string SATURDAY, Noon of slow starts and late Conte Forum comebacks. But those two games were against overmatched nonconference opponents, and now the top-ranked Blue Devils must turn their attention to the start of ACC play as they head north to take on Boston College at noon Saturday. The game at Conte Forum in Chestnut

Hill, Mass., will be Duke’s last before a 10-day break for final exams. The 124-point offensive explosion against St. Francis was a statement by a Blue Devil offense that has been potent all year. Duke has been held to fewer than 80 points just once and ranks first in the country in offensive efficiency, according to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy. The team set a program record for assists with 34 in the game, including 11 from freshman point guard Trevon Duval. “We played well and hard for 40 minutes,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We tried to do a few things early in the second half that were uncharacteristic, but they got out of that. They shared the ball, even the group at the end.” Freshman Gary Trent Jr. had been mired in a shooting slump for much of the season, shooting worse than 30 percent from beyond the See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Ball family could be trend-setters for new model Let the record show that LiAngelo Ball made a bigger impact on diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China than he ever did on a basketball court. The freshman averaged zero points, zero rebounds and zero assists as he failed to play even a second of actual NCAA basketball. Oddly enough, though, contained within the international incident he may have started, LiAngelo and his family have evoked a new model of player development that seems more logical in the context of arcane college guidelines. LaVar Ball announced that he is having both of his younger sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, sign with agent Harrison Gaines as they prepare for a brief career overseas before trying their hand at the NBA Draft. Although all three Ball brothers committed to play at UCLA, it seems that only the oldest, Lonzo, will fulfill the promise of that commitment, and that may prove to be a mutually beneficial decision. On the other side of the country, Central Florida kicker Donald De La Haye was ruled ineligible for receiving payments as a result of ad revenue from his YouTube channel. The YouTube videos in question depicted De La Haye…kicking a football. It has long been thought that the NCAA’s model of amateurism is illogical and draconian, but now it appears that those rules are positively arcane, unwilling to be updated to reflect the changing market for sports. De La Haye quit the Knights’ football team to continue to make money off of his talent without running the risk of injury, and could still have a chance at an NFL career should he pursue the draft. Unlike the NCAA, the professional leagues do not necessarily care about college rules violations that do not

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involve actual crimes. For this reason, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball may be more justified in playing overseas. Although the level of competition in college basketball may be higher, and there is clearly higher exposure, young international prospects are scrutinized just like their one-and-done American counterparts. Marvin Bagley III is averaging a double-double playing against some of the best competition available, but that is not stopping NBA scouts from believing that Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic may be the best prospect in the 2018 NBA Draft. The Ball brothers can be evaluated on their American high school tape as well as their overseas performances while being compensated for putting their bodies at risk. LaMelo is already set to be a moneymaker, becoming the youngest athlete to have his own signature sneaker available for purchase. The Ball family has given no lip service to the act that the three boys were going to UCLA for an “education,” and it is honestly refreshing to be spared of the theatrics. They are basketball players, and it seems nonsensical to have them doing anything except playing basketball and getting paid in the process. From UCLA’s point of view, this could be a blessing in disguise. Not only does Bruin head coach Steve Alford avoid the struggle of dealing with LaVar’s theatrics, but the one-and-done model may spare Alford from a long-term roster construction standpoint. Both NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Mike Krzyzewski have made comments indicating that the one-and-done system is broken on both sides of the equation. College programs have to retool year after year to compensate for premature departures, and NBA teams get raw, undeveloped, difficult to evaluate talent that may or may not pan out at basketball’s highest level. Look no further than Lonzo Ball being outplayed night after night

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Lonzo Ball, now a point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, will be the only one of his three brothers to have completed a season at UCLA. by his older Los Angeles Lakers teammate and fellow rookie Kyle Kuzma. The key to consistent winning in college basketball remains veteran talent. Only the 2012 Kentucky Wildcats and 2015 Blue Devils stand as exceptions, and Duke likely would not have pulled out the win that season without the shotmaking of Quinn Cook throughout the year and the timely defense of Amile Jefferson. Even Duke and Kentucky, despite attracting the most coveted prospects and winning titles, have suffered numerous ignominious postseason defeats that veteran-heavy squads are more immune to. Duke began heavily recruiting one-and-done players with Kyrie Irving in 2011, and has been eliminated in the first or second round of the tournament three times. Kentucky missed the postseason just one year after

winning the national championship. Compare that to the teams usually making deep postseason runs—North Carolina has been to two of the last three national championship games, Wisconsin made two consecutive Final Fours, Michigan State consistently heats up in March and Villanova won a national championship thanks to its veterans. None of those teams started many freshmen, and they consistently make appearances in the Sweet 16 and beyond. In short, the Ball brothers appear to be ahead of their time in player development for their sport. Despite the media circus that will undoubtedly follow them everywhere they go by virtue of their brand and pundits’ incensed reaction about LaVar’s decision for his sons, the Balls may end up on the right side of history when it’s all said and done.

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Lexie Brown came close to a triple-double with 20 points, nine assists and seven rebounds against the Spartans.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 Carolina], being composed, being physical. While we have these games in December before the ACC season, we’re still working on our team and we’re still kind of experimenting,” McCallie said. “Mikayla was great off the bench. I thought she was very calm and composed and very good. It’s not so much about starting, it’s about trying to build the team, its about trying to figure out what works.”

Despite their general dominance, the Blue Devils struggled for the second straight game from beyond the arc, finishing 4-of-15 from deep. Graduate student Rebecca Greenwell had an underwhelming performance offensively for the second time in as many games and went 0-for-5 from the perimeter after entering the game needing just two 3-pointers to set a new Duke program record. Greenwell will get another chance to break the record in Duke’s next contest, a matchup with Winthrop Sunday at 2 p.m. at Cameron.

A week after Joe Giles-Harris earned first-team All-ACC honors, he is adding more to his collection of hardware. The redshirt sophomore linebacker was named a second-team All-American by the Walter Camp Foundation Thursday evening, becoming the eighth Blue Devil during head coach David Cutcliffe’s 10 years in Durham to earn that recognition. Giles-Harris led the team in tackles for the second straight year with 117 and added an ACC-best 15.0 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks and an interception. Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles has coached four defensive All-Americans since arriving at Duke in 2010, and GilesHarris is the first since safety Jeremy Cash was a first-team All-American in 2015. Six other ACC defensive players joined Giles-Harris as second-team AllAmericans, and N.C. State defensive lineman Bradley Chubb was the only local

first-team All-American. Giles-Harris will next take the field in the Quick Lane Bowl Dec. 26, when the Blue Devils will face Northern Illinois in Detroit.

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Joe Giles-Harris led Duke in tackles for the second straight season.

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the office would look into the matter. The two women noted that the chair that they were forced When asked whether OIE is investigating the team’s to sit in was placed in an awkward position because it was a FROM PAGE 1 manager hiring process, Cynthia Clinton, assistant vice few feet away from the table. The woman who applied within regular Duke students. David Bradley, director of basketball president of OIE, said the office does not confirm nor the last three years said she was concerned that the position operations, oversees the managers. comment on individual situations. would allow the managers—who were all men—to see up the The shift to not hiring female managers in recent years Jackson did not respond to multiple follow-up emails bottom of her dress. has been stark. Media guides show that until 2015, women after The Chronicle learned of the message and the other “They sit you in a chair like slightly moved back from routinely served as managers. Each team from 2008 to 2015 exchange during which the manager said the team would the table. So I was forced to then make sure my legs were had at least one female manager, and there were some seasons not hire women anymore. The emails included questions put together at all times because I wasn’t hidden under the during which there were as many as two or three. about whether the team is doing anything to hire more table,” she said. “I [had] to hold myself in this one position The most recent female manager appears in Duke’s 2013-14 female managers. for like 30 minutes.” and 2014-15 media guides. She would have also appeared in the Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public relations and Throughout the interview, the managers ask basic 2012-13 media guide, but she was a first-year at that time and government affairs, repeated Jackson’s initial comment in an questions about each applicant’s work ethic, role models, the media guide pictures appear to exclude first-year managers. email that the manager positions are open to women. class schedule and why he or she wants to be a manager. All of the media guides since 2014-15 show only men. He declined to comment The two women who have The football team, by comparison, currently has 12 managers about the correspondence It’s incredibly daunting for women going in, gone through the interview and one has been a woman each of the last two years. Media and the other exchange let alone that it’s intimidating in the first said that the questions were guides on GoDuke.com also show that three of the 11 managers between the student and the gender neutral and did not place that you have to walk 15 seconds for the women’s basketball team are men. At least two men have manager. make them feel any more served in that role each of the last three years. The Chronicle also reached across the room looking at these guys. uncomfortable. In fact, the When asked why the men’s basketball team has not had a Drew Goldstein, a former FORMER FEMALE APPLICANT woman who applied in the female manager since 2015 and whether the team deliberately manager, by telephone. He last three years said she avoids hiring female applicants, Jon Jackson, senior associate referred all questions to the team. Ian left the interview feeling director of athletics and external affairs, wrote in an email that McKiernan, another former manager, could not be reached confident that she did well. manager positions are open to both men and women. for comment. She was denied the position less than a week later. He added that women make up a small percentage of The women said they understand that the interview and applicants, noting that one of 18 applicants this year was a ‘It’s incredibly daunting for women’ application process is supposed to be nerve-wracking. They woman. She dropped out of the process after hearing that she The Chronicle could not confirm how many women added that they do not think the men try to look up female received an interview, he said. apply annually, though at least two applied last year. And applicant’s skirts. But one student said a male manager—who was then a the woman who provided the message and another former But they agreed that the process is naturally more senior serving in the role for his fourth straight year—told her female applicant, who applied within the last three years, intimidating for women who interview in front of only men. in 2014 that the team was not going to hire women anymore. said the application process and interviews naturally put The men cannot understand how uncomfortable it is to be The student said the topic came up during a conversation female applicants at a disadvantage. the only female sitting in the room answering questions from with the manager about a first-year woman who wanted to The woman, who applied within the last three years, was a bunch of guys, the women said. become a manager. granted anonymity because she feared a backlash from the “Yes it sucks for everyone,” the woman who applied in the The manager said that having female managers was too much campus community for speaking out against the team. last three years said. “But if anyone of [the managers] were to of a hassle because the team has to make special accommodations Both women said the first round of interviews takes place be in my place, they’d realize how much harder it was.” for them like booking them their own hotel rooms during road in a conference room inside the Michael W. Krzyzewski trips and giving them a separate locker room. Center for Athletic and Academic Excellence, located next to Legal implications That student who spoke to the manager requested Cameron Indoor Stadium. All active managers participate Because the student managers receive tuition scholarships, anonymity and declined to say more for publication for in each interview. the program constitutes an educational opportunity and falls fear of retribution. The team instructs any applicants who arrive early to sit under the civil rights law, Title IX, said civil rights lawyers The Chronicle also obtained a copy of a message showing in the courtyard outside Cameron. When it is time for each Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Leto Copeley. that in 2014 the team held female applicants to a higher interview, a manager goes down to the courtyard and walks Title IX prohibits schools and educational programs that standard than men. The message shows that another male the applicant up to the conference room. receive federal funding from discriminating based on sex. manager—who was a senior and had already served in the Once inside, each applicant walks across the room and Hogshead-Makar and Copeley—who both work with Title role for three years—said the team would only accept female sits in a chair that is facing a conference table. At that point IX— said that prohibiting women from becoming managers applicants in special cases. all of the managers are already sitting in rows on the other would violate the law. The person, a former applicant, who provided the message side of the table. The woman who applied within the last “That is sex discrimination, period. It doesn’t get any more wished to remain anonymous for fear of repercussions from the three years said the senior managers appeared to sit in the blatant than that,” Hogshead-Makar said. “This is an educational campus community for providing the information. The Chronicle front row with the juniors on the side and the sophomores opportunity that is clearly covered under Title IX.” cannot disclose more information about the message because in the second row. Both lawyers added that any team practice against hiring doing so could give up the person’s identity. “It’s like you and this table of men,” she said. “It’s incredibly women could subject the school to federal penalties from the That person recently met with a representative from the daunting for women going in, let alone that it’s intimidating Department of Education. Office of Institutional Equity to complain about the team not in the first place that you have to walk 15 seconds across the Hogshead-Makar said that someone could file a Title hiring female applicants. The representative told the person room looking at these guys.” IX complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. If the office launched an investigation and confirmed that the manager program discriminates against female applicants, it could threaten to withhold federal funds from the University. Although the Department of Education rarely goes through with such a punishment, it usually forces universities into compliance, Hogshead-Makar said. When told about Hogshead-Makar and Copeley’s statements, Schoenfeld wrote in an email that Duke has policies that prohibit discrimination based on sex or gender. “Individuals who believe they have been subject to discrimination in the hiring process are strongly encouraged to report that through the designated channels so the University can review their specific complaint,” he wrote. The Office of Counsel, which provides legal representation for the University, did not respond to a request for comment. Hogshead-Makar and Copeley also noted that women who have been rejected in the last three years could file civil and class action lawsuits against the team for gender discrimination. The key for anybody who sues, they said, would be to prove that a discriminatory policy or agreement against hiring women exists. “It could be a class-action lawsuit in the same way that African Americans who are denied the ability to be a firefighter would be able to sue,” Hogshead-Makar said. If you have had experiences as a men’s basketball manager Neal Vaidya | Staff Photographer or as an applicant to become a manager that you would like Duke’s managers work about 30-50 hours per week, setting up equipment for workouts, rebounding for players and mixing to share with The Chronicle in a confidential manner, please Gatorade during practices and games, among other tasks. contact Sam Turken at sam.turken@duke.edu.

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 arc before facing the Red Flash, but snapped out of it Tuesday, scoring 14 points and knocking down four triples. His shooting stretched the defense and gave Duke (11-0) another option on the perimeter next to senior Grayson Allen. Perhaps most surprisingly, the Blue Devil defense stepped up and held St. Francis to just 67 points, the fifth time this year Duke has held an opponent to fewer than 70 points. The Blue Devils’ size advantage allowed them to deter drives to the basket, and the perimeter length of Duval, Allen and Trent made things difficult for shooters. “We really got better on the defensive end,” freshman Marvin Bagley III said. “We were talking way more than we usually do in the past games when we were down and trying to fight back. We really tried to focus on our talking and our communication, and I could hear it, I could feel it. We’re getting better. We can only get better from here.” Boston College (6-3) has had a slow start to the season, losing to Texas Tech, Providence and Nebraska and barely scraping by against Colgate. The Eagles have had trouble scoring against better teams, as they failed to reach 70 in all of their losses. The team is led by the tandem of Jerome Robinson and Ky Bowman, who combine for almost 32 points per game, but lost graduate transfer forward Deontae Hawkins for the season this week due to a knee injury. Boston College does have a week to prepare for its ACC opener, but the Eagles struggle to take care of the ball and only have two players taller than 6-foot-8 in their regular rotation. Bagley will look to extend his six-game double-double streak, and fellow freshman Wendell Carter Jr. could also continue to crash the offensive glass and rack up rebounds and put backs. This is Duke’s second true road game of the year, following last week’s contest against Indiana, and the freshmen will get their first taste of an ACC road environment in preparation for away games against top-15 foes Miami and North Carolina later in the year. “They should be ready after Indiana. If they’re not, I don’t have anything to say to them. What we faced at Indiana is going to be one of the best crowds we’ll face all year,” Allen said. “These guys are very mature and poised for freshmen, so I don’t have any worries about them.”

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Nike names gym after Coach K By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Mike Krzyzewski celebrated Nike founder Phil Knight’s birthday a week and a half ago by coaching his Duke team to a title at the PK80 Invitational on Thanksgiving weekend. Now, the apparel company is returning the favor. With Nike expanding its World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., one of the new buildings it is constructing will be named the Michael Krzyzewski Fitness Center after the Blue Devils’ Hall of Fame head coach, according to a Nike press release Wednesday. The 47,000 square-foot facility is expected to open in early 2018 and will feature a basketball court on the third floor

“that pays homage to Coach K, his family and Duke University,” according to Nike. Nike released a rendering of what the building will look like in its release. Krzyzewski and Duke’s athletic teams have been outfitted by Nike since 1993, and the Blue Devils were one of the main headliners at this November’s PK80 Invitational in Portland, Ore. In an interview with The Athletic’s Seth Davis prior to the tournament, Knight named Krzyzewski along with North Carolina’s Roy Williams and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo as his favorite coaches he has partnered with. Nike’s expansion will also feature buildings named after tennis icon Serena Williams and former Olympic track athlete Sebastian Coe.

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ith reading period on the horizon and the onset of winter weather gracing campus, many Duke students and faculty members are already preparing for the holiday season ahead. One of the more difficult aspects of this time of year is hunting for those perfect gifts for the special people in one’s life. The Editorial Board has decided to alleviate some of that strain by collecting the wish lists of some prominent campus groups. As the collective voice of the student body at Duke, the Editorial Board has subsequently submitted these wish lists to the office of President Price. Among the many Duke student-athletes—or rather their academic tutors—who presented the wish lists of the athletic community to the Editorial Board, the following proved to be the most frequently mentioned. Bigger bluer backpacks, to “better show off the superior status of student-athletes in relation to all the weak nonathletic regular peoples on campus,” along with moped racks by Perkins seem to be the hot items on every athlete’s wish list. Moreover, less salt in the caviar at the athletic dining hall inside Blue Devil Tower would very much be appreciated.

Representing over thirty percent of all undergraduates at Duke, members of the Greek community on campus also submitted extensive wish lists. An overwhelmingly large number of fraternity members have requested that salmon shorts and Martha Vineyard shirts be made available for sale at the Duke store, along with the creation of another groundbreaking taskforce on sexual assault that seldom meets. Among sorority members who submitted wish lists, a pumpkin

Editorial Board spice dispensary in the Link was the number one requested item, followed by a #LIT Legally Blonde-themed darty to be held in the Gothic Reading Room (if sororities were allowed to hold parties of course). DSG senators have formally submitted their wish lists—scrawled on the backs of printed out budget summaries—and the following requests were the most popular. First, they requested legal counsel in order to file a cease-and-desist letter against Jackson Dellinger’s groan-worthy puns

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he United States of America: a land of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world, champions of liberty and justice for all. These are the grand values for which our nation claims to stand, yet with the simple act of taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick called them all into question. Catalyzed by controversial instances of black death at the hands of police, he used his powerful platform as an NFL player to call attention to the fatal effects of racial bias in law enforcement. However, the message

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and dad jokes. Additionally, they have expressed great interest in finding out the whereabouts of all the many senators who have strangely been absent since midterms. Along with that, many also wrote that they are wishing for a change in the DSG constitution to allow for pajamas and the use of student-subsidized dildos during meeting-times. Moreover, DSG senators also wish to provide a giant blue stress ball to be placed in the middle of Abele quad in order to alleviate the many mental health issues facing the student body. Finally, if you are considering gifting to the Editorial Board a holiday surprise, here are some tips and suggestions. To begin with, we would like more safe spaces on campus where we can peacefully sip our morning coffee (free-trade, and drunken black of course) while reading secondhand copies of The Communist Manifesto. Secondly, a designated room for our meetings in the Chronicle offices. If the sports section gets their own, why not us too? And, finally, we request far less fake news and far more useless opinion columns. Oh, and a revocation of Stephen Miller’s Duke degree wouldn’t hurt either.

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behind Kaepernick’s stance—or perhaps, lack thereof—has been buried beneath a furious flurry of presidential tweets, inciting outrage mostly at his method of protest. The flag, our sacred stars and stripes, is off-limits, say Trump and much of white America, and people are really mad. People are mad because apparently attacking our flag is attacking our veterans, who sacrifice everything to protect our freedoms, including the freedom to protest peacefully. But America has a history of neglecting its veterans, and the average American probably couldn’t even tell you when Veteran’s Day is (it’s November 11th), so the idea that Americans are suddenly enraged isn’t terribly convincing. No, in reality, people are mad because with his protest, Colin Kaepernick committed a cardinal sin: he made white people uncomfortable. Time and time again, movements of black agency like Kaepernick’s have been co-opted. The rewriting and at times erasure of racial history have occurred repeatedly: Rosa Parks was a tired old lady, Martin Luther King loved everyone and was saintly in his non-violence, Jackie Robinson fixed baseball, and Paul Robeson? Never heard of him. Each of these figures has been simplified to the parts of them that are most palatable to the American public and the white dominant group. Movements of black agency have been labelled “disruptive” because they challenge the social norm of white supremacy and call attention to the darkest parts of our history. White America has touted values of equality and justice with an in-yourface, flag-on-the-lawn kind of nationalism all while

black folks have been treated as second-class citizens and withstood egregious abuse, but shh, don’t say it too loud, or you’ll wake us from this elaborate dream of American exceptionalism. In America, the celebrated “good negro” does not offend or challenge, but comforts white society. Ever the gentleman, he accepts his position and is “grateful” for any opportunities that come his way. He smashes heads dutifully every Sunday, but doesn’t try to “run the prison,” as goes Bob McNair’s totally non-literal metaphor. In the words of Jackie Robinson, the man contractually obligated to fulfill this role, the “good negro” is a “patient black freak.” The loud blacks, on the other hand, the “bad actors” and Colin Kaepernicks of the world, unapologetically offend. With their voice, they disrupt our nation’s comfortable equilibrium of ignorance and force us to question the values we claim to stand for as a nation. And whites aren’t used to being uncomfortable, so yeah, people get mad. The ousting of Kaepernick from the NFL is a desperate attempt to return to a comfortable, ignorant equilibrium, but his actions have sparked a conversation that the owners, fans, sponsors, and even Trump haven’t been able to silence. The time has come for Americans—including myself— to get uncomfortable and face racial issues. As an avid Patriots fan (read: winner), I am now forced to question if I can continue to give my blind support to the team I grew up loving. Brady and Belichick are the greatest of all time, yes, so I tried to overlook their reported support for Trump, but if owner Robert Kraft participated in a gentleman’s agreement to ostracize Kaepernick, the organization’s heart may prove too dark. On a larger scale, we can no longer refrain from challenging white comfort. Of course, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” is soothing in its simplicity, even if the founders really meant, “…and black men are three-fifths of a white man and women are not men at all.” Since 1776, we’ve clutched our grand values and red-white-and-blue, burgers-on-the-barbeque brand of patriotism like a child does a security blanket. But it’s bedtime, America, and reducing Kaepernick’s protest to just the flag is not a night light sufficient enough to keep us from facing the darkness. No matter how many movements are coopted, eventually, American society will have to confront the monster under the bed. And eventually, it will find that it was the monster all along.

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his spring, I was a finalist to give the commencement address. I tell you this not only because I’m still a little bit bitter, but also because it wasn’t a surprise to me at all. I had watched at least a dozen prior speeches to figure out what I had to do to get noticed by the selection committee. Pithy introductory story about my extracurriculars

Annie Adair DUKE, FORWARD

to frame my speech? Got it. Reference to a philosopher? Got that. Quote from a dead Duke president? Yep. Duke basketball joke? Absolutely. Ending with a grand call to action despite the fact that I was a 22-year-old with a nascent bachelor’s degree and was in no place to be imploring classmates with seemingly sage wisdom about how to live their life? Check, check and check. Despite the fact that I had figured out the equation to achieve a perfect commencement address, I was passed over for a different classmate. And despite the fact that I auditioned the same speech for my major graduation, I was rejected from that too. Still persevering like a good transfer student, I managed to take my talents to the big stage—class day, to be exact. And if you’re asking yourself what class day is, you’re not alone. So was I. But I delivered my speech to an exuberant audience of giddy parents and classmates, many of whom I had forced to come nonetheless. That room of laughs gave me a high unlike anything I’ve experienced before, but time and the number of instances I’ve watched the speech on my private YouTube link remind me

that the speech was pretty pedestrian at its core. It achieved everything it needed to and nothing it didn’t, using the sorts of language and philosophical references that would make any liberal arts professor proud. The problem was that in perfecting my pristine address that culminated in a grand conclusion and call to action that would inspire others for years to come, I gave up what made Duke so special to me and all my classmates: all the messy parts in the middle. This will serve as my last column in The Chronicle, and perhaps—for fear of exposing my true political beliefs to the rest of the world—my last column in any newspaper ever. And while I’ve loved this little reprieve back into the heaven that is Durham, North Carolina, I need to move on and to move forward for myself. Moving on from college—no matter where you move to or how many of your best friends you move in with—is a process of loneliness, confusion and sometimes regret. I’m learning to move forward and I say the word “Duke” fewer times each day. But there are things I wish I’d done, Lucky’s sandwiches I wished I’d had and some Happy+Hale salads I wish I hadn’t. Each of my columns in this “Duke, forward” series should serve as a mini graduation speech that will never be. I don’t doubt that the lessons the 2018 commencement address will bestow unto the class of 2018 and their families will be uniquely impactful. But high philosophy or an acronym for Go Duke! is not enough to comfort anxious graduates gripping the edge of their seats, fearful of what’s to come. That’s why this series explores the messages that I think are important— actually, really important—to any Duke student looking for a message from the great unknown that consists of being an alumni. It’s why I wrote that you should appreciate

Duke for what is, and that the real world is notably bereft of Larry Moneta. Or that it’s okay if you lack some grand life plan, because sometimes it’s worth it to wait for success. And most importantly, outrageous ambitions come with outrageous failures—enough that they should be embraced, rather than hidden in shame. For my final mini-graduation speech, I’ll bestow upon you—my last readers ever—the greatest lesson I can impart to anyone looking toward the future. It isn’t about success or finding the truth or failing. It’s about finding solace in the little things. While my time in Durham was tied up nicely with a degree, the fake leather cover with an engraving of the chapel hardly represented the experiences that got me there. By the time I reached that particularly hot and pretty miserable Sunday in May, Duke wasn’t about the classes or the grades or the amalgamation of poorly done problem sets that had (by a miracle) gotten me there. It was about the people who sat beside me, the agony and ecstasy we’d shared, and the collective experiences that came to shape our lives as students. My Duke degree wasn’t just about “pubpol”—a loaded term that most people will learn the hard way means nothing in the real world. Rather, it was about the other seemingly trivial things that propelled to graduation day. I had discovered “my people” and “my place” through a string of lesser paramours. I found solace in thai sweet coconut chili wing sauce in a backyard on Clarendon Street and a lot of clarity in houses with names like “The Compound,” “The Hall” and “The Church.” There were cruises around Durham in a Lincoln MK-X that couldn’t have been safe for the environment, late nights over ginger tea at apartments on Main Street and Central Campus, and a three hour seminar

that would transcend time and best friendship. The paper-thin walls at Erwin Mills weren’t so problematic, considering that meant only about an inch of budget drywall separated me from some of those I cared about most. Elmo’s brunches, Wednesday Night Senates from Schiciano, rides from Central Campus to Wilson, “Sexual” by NEIKID, late night postPerkins trips to Cookout, one vacation in the mountains of Gatlinburg and an iconic hotel in North Myrtle Beach add up to three years well spent. I could go on for hundreds more words, dropping hints at stories I know will mean something to individual readers, hoping they find them and fondly remember some good time we had together. All this is suffice to say that college isn’t just about the way classes and grades and activities and internships add up on a resume. It’s about the way Duke made you feel, and the experiences outside class that made this feeling so significant. The early days of the real world—you know, the ones premarriage, pre-promotion and pre-children— aren’t totally bereft of these sorts of instances. They simply just aren’t as concentrated. So with whatever time you have left, I beg and plead that you do something sort of useless and fun with it. Do what you love with whom you love—and if that means staying in Perkins LL2 until 4 a.m. alone while working on a problem set, so be it. But if that means sitting on a couch with your friends all afternoon watching YouTube videos or walking the WaDuke trail to avoid your responsibilities, go unto those without abandon and appreciate them while you still can. I sincerely miss you and every experience that made you, my Dear Old Duke. Annie Adair is a Trinity ‘17 graduate.

Of hope and the ‘homeland’

srael was hard for me. I don’t mean in the culture-shock, language-barrier way, though that was a challenge too. Israel wasn’t hard because it came with new food or new people or dry heat—in fact, these were comfortable changes. Nor because of the long bus rides, or the early wake up calls or the long hikes. Israel was hard because it forced me to look it in the eye. I grew up Jewish in the south, where middle school jokes about penny-diving and ovens were never so out of the norm. There is a quiet introspection that distinguishes my childhood Judaism from the Judaism of my peers from the north: for me, my faith was the opposite of ubiquitous, something for quiet contemplation and not outward display. Of course, the one exception was my bat mitzvah—the only one my peers would attend and still considered the party of the century by all of Culbreth Middle School. But for the most part, Judaism was something that informed my values, something that led to an intense dedication to social justice and human rights. I stopped believing in God when I was ten, but cultural context continued to influence my worldview, pushing me to understand that I had some higher call. “Justice, justice shall you pursue,” I learned, and I took these words as my purest purpose. I was meant to change the word for the better, work on behalf of and in conjunction with the world’s most oppressed voices. I felt a call to fight inequality wherever it reared its ugly head. I read every Holocaust book and heard every story from my grandparents’ generation. I wanted to feel a sense of community among other Jews and understand the pain and pride

of a shared history. I suppose I wanted reasons to feel more Jewish in a place where Judaism was uncommon and strange. But in the end, I never developed a close attachment to Israel. It was just a faraway place with faraway people, and my people were North Carolinians, battling every day against a restrictive state government. My values were put to use in service of racial equality, voting rights and public education. Progressivism became my religion, fed by the morals I reaped from a Jewish upbringing. And so spending time in Israel was hard.

people with no hope of leaving. At home, I was an ardent defender of the separation of church and state, a crusader for equitable public schooling. In Israel, I met students in “secular” public schools who still got districted differently depending on their ethnicities. At home, I was an avid political organizer, working in solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Durham and Charlotte who were marginalized based on a system of institutional racial inequality. In Israel, I heard people make racially charged comments about Arabs and looked at segregated cities.

I have been afraid of the disapproval of my friends in both my faiths: progressivism and Judaism. Leah Abrams CUT THE BULL

Israel was hard because all of the connection I wanted to feel but couldn’t and all of the blind love my birthright peers could display but I hadn’t found. It was hard to feel intense adoration of the soldiers on our bus and their smart, familiar humors and then intense discomfort with their armed compatriots patrolling the streets. It was hard to reconcile the emotion I felt for my family and ancestors in Yad VaShem with the anger I felt to hear that Israeli cab companies allow you to request either an Arab or Jewish driver. I felt love when I stood atop Masada and bartered in Tzfat but shame when I looked down from the hill and saw the fencedin borders of Gaza and nearly two million

would blindly accept discrimination and possibly provoke violence. I texted my Israeli friends, Noa and Adi, to find out how they felt. The two are female members of the Israeli Defense Force, and intelligent women. They told me that people were mostly happy, some were worried and that they felt safe. In this sense, Israel is still hard, despite the fact that I’m no longer there. It is hard to have amazing, loving friends all the way across the world who would lay down their lives for a country with which I often disagree. But I’ve learned that my love for them cannot outweigh my commitment to justice. Nothing could make me turn a blind eye to oppression or inequality, and nothing could stop me from acting on the core tenets I derived long ago from my Jewish morality. Jewish exceptionalism will never be an acceptable political strategy, and its continuation will never draw us closer to peace between Israel and Palestine. Israel forced me to confront the direct conflicts within my personal identity and made me think I had to pick a clear and concrete side. The Trump administration— like most people in the world—expresses clear and unequivocal answers to the question of Israel, obstinately blind to the complexities of the region. It’s hard to live in the gray zone of uncertainty, being pulled in different directions by the religions that I hold dear. But perhaps if more of us did, we might reach a place of deeper compassion.

It has taken me months to write about Israel, and it’ll perhaps take years for me to feel confident doing so. I have been afraid of the disapproval of my friends in both my faiths: progressivism and Judaism. I have been afraid of my own ambivalence and inability to find an answer—or even a clear opinion. However, Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital necessitated response. Bad policy may instigate violent response and further conflict. What’s more, dictating possession of a holy place for Jews, Christians and Muslims casts murky uncertainty over respect for religious freedom and sanctity. I don’t have a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Leah Abrams is a Trinity sophomore. Her crisis, but I condemn an administration that column, “cut the bull” runs on alternate Fridays.

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