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Dear Old Duke will be a multi-part photo essay series made up of photographs from decades past pulled from The Chronicle’s files and re-created with faculty members and administrators still at the University. What’s changed in their lives and at Duke since the original photos, told in their own words, will accompany each picture. Through their stories and images, we’ll take a glimpse at the history of the University and the people who have long been a part of it. The Meyers An archaeologist couple who came to Duke in the 1970s made waves for their excavations of ancient synagogues. Carol, Mary Grace Wilson professor of religion, and Eric Meyers, Bernice and Morton Lerner emeritus professor in Judaic studies, retired together from the University in 2015 so they would have time to do things together, which included teaching in Rome last year. They both maintain offices in the religious studies

Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson permanently barred Duke from suspending junior Ciaran McKenna over sexual misconduct claims, The Herald Sun reported Tuesday. McKenna sued Duke last year, alleging that the University mishandled rape allegations against him in the student conduct process. Hudson had previously issued a temporary injunction, but now converted it into a permanent injunction against the University. Emilia Beskind, one of See MCKENNA on Page 4

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the headlines all over the country read that ‘archaeologists find ancient Ark of the Covenant in the Desert of Galilee,’ which is one of the most heavily forested places in the world.” Carol Meyers: “1981 was the summer the first ‘Raiders [of the Lost Ark]’ film was released...So we didn’t know about that. We get back from the excavations, we send our kids off to summer

Senior Amy Kramer was elected as the undergraduate Young Trustee Tuesday. The young trustee election went to an instant run-off format because none of the four candidates won a majority of the vote. 30.1 percent of voters ranked Kramer first, followed by senior Chinmay Pandit with 27.7 percent. Senior Bryce Cracknell received approximately 24.8 percent of votes and senior Liz Brown received 17.4 percent. Junior Sabriyya Pate, Duke Student

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Left: April 23, 1981, by Dave Gerstenfeld | Right: Feb. 7, 2018, by Bre Bradham

departments and have been involved with Duke for almost 50 years. In 1981, they were featured in People Magazine for their work excavating the ancient Ark of the Synagogue. They were the first married couple to be tenured in the humanities and the first to hold distinguished chairs in the same department. Eric Meyers: “’Finders of the Lost Ark’— they did not understand it was the ark that held the biblical scrolls of the ancient synagogue, so

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Durham Public Schools superintendent talks redistricting, teacher turnover By Sam Turken Managing Editor

Pascal Mubenga became superintendent of Durham Public Schools in November. Mubenga, who was previously superintendent of Franklin County Public Schools, has since visited more than a dozen schools and spoken with community groups and parents to learn more about Durham. The Chronicle spoke with him about his current plans and how he aims to address some of the challenges facing DPS. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Chronicle: You’ve been superintendent for almost two months now. How is the transition going? Pascal Mubenga: Things are going really well. We have a lot of work to do. The community has been really receptive. We had three townhall meetings with different stakeholders, and the attendance was really what I was expecting. So we got really good feedback from those townhall meetings. We’re in the process of starting our strategic plan process, which is going

DUKE FROM PAGE 1 camp and we were about to fly to New York for a vacation on Shelter Island. We did what we always did, we prepared a typewritten report that we handed to the... Office of Public Relations. We said, ‘Here’s what we did, and tomorrow we are going to New York.’ [The head of the office] said ‘You should go to the movies tonight.’ I said no, we’ve got all this laundry to do.” EM: “This is on a Saturday afternoon, he calls! And we’re scheduled to go at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning.”

to start next month. We have 50 people that are going to be a part of those discussions. Out of those 50, we have faithbased involved community and civic organizations, PTA representatives, city representatives, county commissioner representatives and different staff at the school Special to the Chronicle level as well as at the district level. So I’m really pleased with the group that we have been able to put together to be a part of that discussion about our strategic plan. Other than that, things are going really well. We have had some quick wins that we’re putting in place so that we’ll be able to finish up stronger at the end of this academic year. All of the different stakeholders that I’ve met in the community—different organizations—they’ve

GPSC elects Amy Hafez as next Graduate Young Trustee Tuesday By Bre Bradham Local and National News Editor

Amy Hafez was elected to a three-year term as Duke’s graduate young trustee Tuesday night. Hafez is a sixth year Ph.D. student in molecular genetics and microbiology, with a research focus on cancer. She’s been a member of the Graduate and Professional Student Council through its executive board and general assembly. “I feel really great,” Hafez said. “I’m very excited to go to work for the graduate and professional students, and to be a representative for them.”

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CM: “I said ‘Listen, we just got back. We’ve been gone for two months and I haven’t done any laundry yet.’” EM: “And we were exhausted.” CM: “So we went, and we saw ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’” EM: “But after we saw it, we said ‘Oh my God, now I get it. Everyone’s going to confuse the Ark of the Covenant with the Ark of the Synagogue.’” CM: “So we get to our friend’s house [in New York], and no sooner do we get there than the phone starts ringing...We went on Good Morning America. We had to go shopping because we had bathing suits and blue jeans. We had no, you know, [clothes for] television...

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Left: April 1987, by Scott McConchie | Right: Feb. 7, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Among the many reporters that called was People Magazine.” Carol Meyers: “I was still a graduate student when he started [being a professor at Duke]. When I finished my Ph.D.—two children later—then I started in the mid-1970s... They let us keep our offices, even after retirement. I think we’re placeholders, because... one of the things that has changed is the interest in the humanities. Our department has shrunk, and we’re holding these spaces... But one of the great things is that Duke has become more diverse. When we started teaching, students were very white, not diverse at all in race, religion, sexual orientation.” EM: “More international students, especially at the graduate level.” CM: “I mean, these are wonderful transformations in my opinion.”

Left: 1988, by Tom Lattin | Right: Feb. 7, 2018, by Bre Bradham

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Eric Meyers: “The main thing that would concern us as teachers and researchers would be the decline in interest in the humanities, in favor of STEM subjects and professional placement. This is not a Dukeonly problem, it’s a national and international trend... So, that’s lamentable in general. I mean Duke, the campus—my God—is transforming itself every five years... The eateries, you know. Downstairs in the student union there used to be this grubby old place, and we loved it at the time! But I mean it pales in comparison to what you have over here with these lavish eateries. It is amazing... And the sports campus—Wilson Gym and the football stadium—those upgrades have been huge and physically transformative, but we still can’t fill the football stadium. We can’t even fill Cameron, bleacher seats are being sold to grownups each week.” CM: “We’ve been season ticket holders since the early 1970s.”

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That’s the kind of practices that I’m bringing to Durham that I was able to implement in Franklin County in a different scale, but pretty much the same.

FROM PAGE 2 been really receptive, and I’m really pleased with the progress I’ve made over the past two months. TC: While your were superintendent of Franklin County Schools, the district experienced a turnaround. The number of low-performing schools dropped from seven to one. And by the time you left, 13 of the district’s 16 schools met or exceeded growth. How is your experience in Franklin County helping you now? PM: We did some great work. I had four principles that guided my work. Those are the same four guiding principles that I’ve brought to Durham. The first one is that we have to make sure we raise the expectation pool, which means for students and staff as well. We have to believe in our students that they can reach they’re full potential. Number two—once you’ve raised that expectation, we have to make sure we’re providing appropriate support to our students and staff as well so that they will be able to meet our expectations. Number three, we have to hold one another accountable for the success of our students as well as our staff. Then number four—we have to be able to celebrate along the way because we’re working real hard. Working with our students is just hard work. We have teachers staying after school till five, six-o’clock. So we have to be able to celebrate with our students and staff as well. Those are my four guiding principles that I was able to use at Franklin County, and I’m going to bring them here and be able to get the same results. And so far, so good. I’ve been receiving some good feedback from the community. TC: Does the situation that you stepped into in Franklin County compare in any way to what you’re stepping into in Durham? PM: Definitely. Even though Durham is larger than Franklin County, you have that status quo where folks felt pretty much business as usual. We start the school year in August. Then we finish in May. Whatever results we get, then we just keep on moving. You have people that have been around for 25-30 years in the school system that felt like there was no need for change. That’s pretty much the safer mentality—laid back. You see that everywhere and when I came to Durham. So they did not feel a sense of urgency.

TC: What do you foresee the strategic plan including? PM: There is a strong need for good professional development of with our teachers. We have a high turnover of 20 to 25 percent of our teachers every year. As we’re hiring a lot of new teachers, they really need support to understand the standards and be able to teach at a rigorous level so that their students will be successful. As I go to schools and I see some impressive practices—we have some great teachers. We have great principals as well, like any other district. But there are some areas that need to be tweaked a little bit so we can make it better. TC: Why has there been so much teacher turnover? PM: We’ve been collecting a lot of data, which is going to be a part of the strategic plan. But some of the teachers felt they were not supported when it comes to discipline. They really wanted support from their principles when it comes to disciplining students. They were dealing with those challenges and that’s one of the reasons why they decided to leave. They also felt pressured from the central office that everybody is monitoring suspension rates and they have to be careful with that. TC: DPS has seen its enrollment decline in recent years. How do you address that? PM: We are going to make sure that we improve our lowperforming schools. That’s one of my focuses. And then we’re going to make sure that some of the programs that are doing really well in our district, some of the magnet programs that we have—some of our top students, our academic gifted students—we want to make sure that we have good offerings for them, so that they will be able to reach their full potential. The combination of making sure that we’re reaching out to our top students as well as fixing our low-performing schools—those are going to be the two focuses that are going to get us to be competitive and be able to be appealing to our parents and our students. TC: DPS has not had a comprehensive redistricting in which students’ school assignments change in more than 25 years. Several schools are now over-enrolled and others are under-

enrolled. Does DPS have a timetable for when it will redistrict and address those enrollment imbalances? PM: This is what I told community members when that question came up—they need to give me a year to make sure that we come up with our strategic plan. That’s going to be my focus for my first year. Throughout this conversation as well as developing this strategic plan, there may be conversation about redistricting. But I’m not promising to tackle that particular topic my first year. Maybe second year, depending on what the needs [are] going to be at that point, then that could be a topic of conversation.

HAFEZ FROM PAGE 2 Her vision for the position is to modernize graduate and professional education and to create stronger interdisciplinary networks on campus, she said in her presentation before GPSC’s General Assembly. Hafez earned her undergraduate degree at Salisbury University and her master’s of science at Johns Hopkins University. She plans to pursue a science policy career after wrapping up her Ph.D., and she’s expected to defend her thesis in March 2018. The GPSC GA held an instant runoff vote—in which voters rank their preferences and a candidate has to amass a majority of votes to win, and if needed the candidate that garners the fewest votes is eliminated and their voters’ second-choice votes are counted. After the votes were initially counted, there was a tie between the top two vote-getters. Following the third place candidate being eliminated and their voters’ second choices being counted, there was again a tie that was broken by a secret ballot as per GPSC’s bylaws, president Rashmi Joglekar explained. The Young Trustee Election Committee had 15 applications, of which they interviewed seven people and chose three finalists. The other two finalists for the position were William Brody, a graduate student in the Fuqua School of Business, and Kristin Wainwright, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Nursing. The new young trustee will spend her first year on the board as an observer, then gain voting rights for the second and third year.

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MCKENNA FROM PAGE 1 McKenna’s lawyers, told The Chronicle that the permanent injunction was based off only one of the several legal claims McKenna filed against the University.

The summary judgement motion was about the contract claim, that Duke has a contract with their students and in particular with this student, and that they violated that contract. emilia beskind

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However, she said Duke could not suspend McKenna even if the other claims went the other way because of the permanent injunction. “The summary judgement motion was about the contract claim, that Duke has a contract with their students and in particular with this student, and that they violated that contract,” she said. “The permanent injunction is based on the court’s finding on that claim.” Beskind said in the Herald Sun that McKenna would

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pursue damages due to the effect being “falsely labeled as a rapist” could have on his life. However, she also noted that Duke has the option of appealing the injunction. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment. In July 2016, a three-person Office of Student Conduct panel found McKenna unanimously responsible for violating sexual misconduct policy because the alleged victim had not verbally consented. However, the panel was not unanimously convinced that the alleged victim said “no” to the sexual encounter—though she claimed that she had. McKenna appealed the decision, and the appeals panel found that there was procedural error in the first panel. The issue was then returned to the Office of Student Conduct. Convened in November 2016, a second panel found that the alleged victim had not given consent, and that she had also explicitly denied it. At that point, McKenna appealed to a second appeals panel, which decided not to overturn the decision. McKenna was then suspended in January 2017 and sued for breach-of-contract thereafter. McKenna claimed Duke breached its own policy by allowing a second hearing panel to hear the case at all, when instead the appeals panel should have “resolved the case” as specified by university procedure at the time. Check back for updates on this developing story. This article was updated at 10:40 Tuesday morning to include Beskind’s comments.

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Special to the Chronicle Senior Amy Kramer, a Roberston Scholar and Schwarzman Scholar is also an Army ROTC cadet. She won the Young Trustee race by less than 100 votes in the third round of instant runoff voting.

Chronicle File Photo Junior men’s soccer player Ciaran McKenna was suing Duke and Dean of Student Conduct Stephen Bryan for mishandling his sexual assault hearings.

creating non-partisan Young Trustee candidate flyers.” She added she hadn’t received any complaints about campaign violations. Kramer’s campaign emphasized improving access and diversity at Duke. She was endorsed by organizations including the Duke Honor Council, Jewish Student Union and duARTS. On campus, Kramer is a Robertson Scholar and Schwarzman Scholar, as well as an Army ROTC cadet. Her thesis research focused on how to improve opportunities

Government Attorney General, noted in an email that there were three rounds of instant runoff recalculations. After the rounds of IRV, Pandit remained the second place finisher by less than 100 votes. She also noted this year had a “recordbreaking” voter turnout of 3,709 students. Last year, 2,504 students voted in the Young Trustee election. “It is very exciting to see more students actively participating in student-wide It is very exciting to see more students actively elections over,” Pate wrote. participating in student-wide elections over. Young Trustees “Young Trustees are supposed are supposed to share a ‘young’ perspective on the Board, to share a ‘young’ perspective on the Board, hence it is hence it is important that current students play an active important that current in determining who represents this perspective. students play an active in determining who represents sabriyya page ATTORNEY GENERAL OF DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT this perspective.” She attributed some of the success in voter turnout to the Board of Elections for women in the military. by “creating well-advertised resources for students to Graduate students will select their trustee this evening. learn about all candidates, encouraging candidates to pursue far-reaching campaigns, and for the first time Check back for updates to this developing story.

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‘good country people’ Duke Players adapts O’Connor, page 7

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I’ve always had black, pin-straight hair, a family trait on my dad’s side that the Hong clan is extremely proud of. I can’t count how many times my dad has told me the story of my grandma who still had inky black hair without a single trace of silver at 70 and therefore had become the talk of her small Chinese town. My mom, who has natural, frizzy curls – the complete opposite of my pin-straight hair – told me repeatedly how glad she was to find out that I did not inherit her rebellious curls, which had always given her such a headache in the morning when she was young. During our moments of mother-daughter bonding, she would often touch my hair and say, “Look at your hair! You don’t ever have to go to a salon to straighten it!” Thus, I was taught to be proud of my hair, too, though I sometimes secretly wished that I had ended up inheriting my mom’s natural curls, which are rare among Asians. How special would I be then! Nevertheless, I still appreciated my natural black, pin-straight hair for giving me such an easy time, and I kept it as it is for almost 19 years. In high school, a lot of my friends started dyeing, curling and doing all kinds of things to their hair. As for me, I just watched, gave my comments on their new style and shook my head “no” when they egged me on to play something with my hair too. It was not until college that I reconsidered the option. During the Fall semester of my first year, I was so excited, nervous, hopeful, scared, confident, insecure, curious and confused that I felt like I was thrown into a big whirlpool: being away from home for the first time, making friends

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and finding a group, making every decision on my own — the thrill and chill of this new college freedom. At the same time, I started to realize the narrowness of my previous view of the world and the smallness of my anti-climactic high school life, which consisted only of home, school and Tim Hortons. In high school, everyone could only be either a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or some figure in business. In college, I suddenly discovered so many paths that I’d never heard of or dared to consider before. As a result, I also began to examine myself and every decision I’ve made in the past. Did I take business classes in high school because I really liked it, or

staff note because my parents were in business and that’s what they wanted me to do as well? Did I let my pen, books and imagination gather dust in the corner because I was over those childhood dreams of creativity, or because I was actually afraid of others’ opinions? Did I ever prejudge people before I got to know them better? Did I ever easily deem people unforgivable when they’ve wronged me? What kind of a person am I? Who do I want to be? I felt like I was tearing myself down into pieces and reconstructing them to create a new self that belongs completely

to me. She would do what she loves to do, not what others tell her to do. She would reclaim the ownership of her love for the arts and stop pretending to like something else. She would try to make many friends, but would be content both by herself and in a group. In terms of physical look, I thought I should change it up a bit too, and the number one thing was my hair. Maybe I was a little sick of people asking me all the time (hairdressers among them), “Is your hair naturally that straight?” Maybe it was that I wanted to use my hair to show to the world my internal struggle and self-exploration. Maybe it was that I realized that pinstraight hair doesn’t actually suit me the best. Whatever the reason, I went home during winter break with the determination to change my hair. When my mom habitually touched and praised my hair again, I told her that I wanted to perm it. She looked surprised at first, but quickly smiled understandingly and replied, “Sure. I remember that I wanted to change my hair too in college.” My dad was a little less willing, but obviously he would be wise enough not to argue against something the two women in the household decided to do. So marching into a new year, I now have my new curly hair, though still the same questions in my head. Recently I’ve been wondering: Can I still go back to my pin-straight hair if I want to? What if I can never get back my innocent, black, pin-straight hair that nobody would believe is only natural? But then again, that would be another chapter in the book of college doubts. —Eva Hong

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Tenting for a wedding? How some couples reserve a day at the Chapel

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On the last day of each month, Duke plays host to a few more tents — but not in K-Ville. These tents sit underneath the magnolia tree between the Chapel and the Gray building, where couples can camp out to reserve their optimal wedding date. About 85 couples marry in the Chapel each year, wrote Rachel White, Trinity ‘14, who is the Chapel’s visitor relations specialist. Weddings at the Chapel only occur on Saturdays and occasionally on Sundays, and some Saturdays are already reserved for other events. So there is competition for the most popular dates and times, with 6 p.m. and 3 p.m. slots typically filling before noon ones, according to the Chapel’s website. Although White was not certain how many people tent for their weddings each year, she wrote that she has people camping out for popular spring and fall months. Sign-ups open at 8:30 a.m. on the first business day of the month one year before the desired wedding date, and in-person sign-ups have priority. So for Katie Wong, Trinity ‘12, to snag her desired August 2014 wedding date, she tented the evening of July 31, 2013 to be one of the first in line the next morning. Wong and her then-fiance, Andrew Wong, Trinity ‘12, had already set a firm date because they were in a period of transition — she was starting a new teaching job in Charlottesville, VA and he was in medical school — so it was important to them to have that specific day. Doctoral student Shelley Lanpher Patel, Trinity ‘10, had a similar reason for tenting. Patel wanted a June 2017 wedding and only had a few dates that she knew would work for

her and her fiance’s families. While wedding tenting is not required, tenting is embedded into Duke tradition. “It was just sort of an easy thing to do,” Wong said. “It was like, ‘Well of course you would tent for a Duke Chapel wedding.’” The bride and groom also do not have to be the ones tenting; in fact, some choose to ask students to tent for them. Andrew Kragie, Trinity ‘15, had an undergraduate friend start tenting for him about a week before sign-ups opened to hold their spot in line. Kragie then took over a few days in when he was able to take time off work. Others show up the morning of registration and join the line after tenters. Once everyone on-site has signed up, the Chapel then takes reservations via phone and email for the rest of the slots. The Chapel acknowledges Duke’s “robust camp-out culture” on its website but does not officially endorse or encourage wedding tenting. White wrote, however, that couples interested in wedding tenting must contact the wedding coordinator upon arrival to secure their spot in line. Contacting the coordinator beforehand also ensures the desired date doesn’t have other scheduled events. Other than that, tenters generally make their own rules. Patel has tented several times in K-Ville and in the graduate school’s Campout, but tenting for her wedding was quite a different experience. The procedure was much less stringent, only needing one person in the tent at night. When Wong tented, it happened to thunderstorm. She and the other five or so tenters agreed that they could go sleep in Page Auditorium for the night if they

Carolyn Chang | Staff Photographer In order to secure a wedding date at the Duke Chapel, some engaged couples choose to tent outside.

wanted to, but she spent the night huddled in her tent, unwilling to brave the rain. Her experience was different from her other tenting experiences at Duke, as well, as she was tenting for her wedding alone instead of with a large group. Even though Wong didn’t have friends in the tent with her, she said she still felt their support. The tent she used, for instance, was borrowed from a friend still living near campus. After securing a date, the other planning started up. Wong planned her entire wedding from New York, and at first she was worried it would be difficult to do long-distance planning. But the process went smoothly,

and even the most difficult part for her — choosing the music, because the Chapel has strict standards — turned out well. Kragie and his fiance, Hannah Brown, Trinity ‘14, plan to marry in June and are currently undergoing this process. They have to consider details such as the guest list, matching clothing, transportation, guest lodging, flowers, the photographer and more. “The modern wedding is a very complicated operation,” Kragie said. Planning from afar has its drawbacks, namely that they cannot visit potential reception venues in person. But it does have See TENTING on Page 14

Duke Players adapt Flannery O’Connor with ‘Good Country People’ By Sydny Long Staff Writer

“Good Country People” is the furthest thing from a pleasant read. Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story has few truly likable characters and ends on a sour, dismal note that leaves the reader discontented. The tale of Joy Hopewell — who takes issue with her sunny name and changes it to “Hulga” in an act of defiance against her mother — and her life on a Georgia farm is relatively straightforward and not particularly emotionally dense or politically charged. This raises the question of why the Duke Players chose to adapt this particular story for their spring lab production. “I’ve grown to love this play because it really feels like art for art’s sake,” sophomore Liddy Grantland said, who pulled double duty as the show’s dramaturg and as the role of Mrs. Freeman, one of the tenants. “The last play I was in had a really clear social message — it was actually really didactic in what you were supposed to take away from it. But this play — and Flannery O’Connor stories generally — is a lot less like that. You can take away from the play the importance of empathy and honesty, but you’ll also probably leave the theater thinking about just how weird and wild human beings are.” Indeed, the Duke Players’ last theatrical effort was an adaptation of Caryl Churchill’s “Vinegar Tom,” a damning exploration of sexual assault and female hysteria that was punchy and relevant in its subject matter and presentation. It had a message so obvious it bordered on ham-fisted,

but its mounting fit well into the current sociopolitical climate and made creative sense. Finding the purpose in “Good Country People” is a little more challenging: It is definitely an interesting take on the source material and the cast, while not perfectly polished, clearly had fun tackling their roles. As Grantland said, there is not the same level of meaningfulness present in

“Good Country People” as in other Players productions, which is far from a problem. With so much pressure for art to convey deliberate and deep messages, it is often a relief to settle in and watch a show that is not striving to educate or illuminate. Senior Ashley Ericson and sophomore Valerie Muensterman have respectively directed and written an unusual show that

Valerie Muensterman | Special to The Chronicle Duke Players’ adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People” ran last weekend.

confuses as much as it entertains. While this is often the fault of the source material, which does not lend itself to moral clarity or narrative engagement, the play can occasionally come across as jumbled. There is simply too much effort made to liven up the dullness or make a narrative beat land harder than it needs to for the sake of the story. It appears as though there was a bit of a rush to get this production together: The sparse set is sometimes a little too bareboned and the actors, though game, are not equally matched in terms of professionalism and ability to use their space. The show is definitely entertaining in the moment, but like O’Connor’s short story, the impression that it leaves is not always positive. However, the effort that was put into this production does not go unnoticed. Grantland’s work as dramaturg is evident in every line read: She has obviously done her research well. “Over winter break I compiled a glossary for the cast that took specific lines in the script and explained their significance, which was especially necessary for Bible references because they’re all over the place in this play!” Grantland explained, her enthusiasm for the project practically infectious. The understanding of the source material is well-demonstrated in every scene, even if the presentation of it is a little schizophrenic. While the play is far from perfect, it is definitely an experience far more enjoyable than what one might expect from a short story about deception and stealing prosthetic limbs. As Grantland so eloquently puts it, “it is art for art’s sake” — and sometimes that’s all one can really ask for from theater.

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Artists of all levels and ages feature in The Carrack Community Show By Jessica WIlliams Media Production Editor

Entering The Carrack last week, it would have been difficult for even the most experienced of gallery-goers to withhold amazement. An explosion of color from floor to ceiling, the one-room gallery displayed works of many styles and mediums — from sculpture to collage to photography — leaving not one nook or cranny uncovered. These pieces weren’t of a specific artist or curated exhibition, though: Each work was created by a different Durham artist. The Carrack’s Winter Community Show, which lasted from Jan. 18 to Feb. 10, began with an open call for art submissions. Without an entry fee or jury process, the show made itself an accessible environment for local talent to showcase a piece of their work. This inclusivity is central to The Carrack’s mission. Founded in June 2011 as a zerocommission, artist-centered gallery, the space has housed community shows biannually since its founding. While the Summer Community Show celebrates the anniversary of The Carrack’s founding, the Winter Community Show rings in each new year of exhibitions, performances and workshops. “It gives us the feeling of a jump start for the new year — doing something that has that much positive energy about it,” said Kerry Crocker, director of operations and fundraising event coordinator at The Carrack. Although it was exciting for The Carrack’s team to host

such a fun and inclusive show — especially during its jampacked reception for Third Friday Durham last month — the exhibition is perhaps even more alluring to local artists “I’ve worked on the last five community shows — so for the last two and a half years,” Crocker said. “I think it was below a hundred people when I began, and now we’re at 227.” With 175 local artists represented in the last Community Show in June, the Winter Community Show featured more than 50 additional artists. These 227 artists included people of all age groups and skill levels, although the quality of work submitted has been increasing over time. “It feels like it truly represents the entire range of artists who are based in or around Durham,” said Laura Ritchie, co-founder and director of The Carrack. “For example, in this show, we have artists who show their work internationally … but we also have five- and six-year-olds who are a part of a class together at Carolina Friends School. All in a show together.” With such a variety of art forms and subject material, it would be difficult for any curator to determine how everything should go up on the walls, even without the Community Show’s time constraints. For each show, after the never-before-seen works get dropped off on a Sunday, Ritchie and The Carrack’s team have four days to hang everything before the Friday reception. “We have so many artworks that you can’t even see them all laid out on the floor before putting them on the wall — there’s not even enough floor space. So I jokingly tell people

it’s like a big Tetris game,” Ritchie said. Reminiscent of an “I Spy” or “Where’s Waldo?” book, the small gallery is transformed into a jigsaw puzzle of color and composition. While it only spans one room, the Community Show could entice a viewer to stay for hours to examine the amalgamation of art. It was hard to believe all of the entries could fit into the gallery. “I think next time we’re going to have to reduce our size maximums,” Crocker said. “This time we said four feet in any direction, and next time we’ll have to reduce it so we can fit more on the wall.” Although The Carrack may have to limit entries in the next few shows to avoid running out of gallery space, it is unlikely that this limitation will hinder the Community Show’s popularity. Whether to buy a piece of local art or to see a family member’s artwork on the wall, Durham community members frequent the gallery. “It’s busy throughout the duration of the show. During gallery hours, we see more foot traffic for this show than during any other time of the year,” Ritchie said. A free exhibit featuring a huge array of local artists, The Carrack’s Community Shows are an accessible way to explore the state of art in Durham — and to gain inspiration for one’s own artwork. “People are just really excited to see their own work on the wall or their friends’ work on the wall or — even if they don’t know anyone in the show — to have an opportunity to imagine themselves displaying work here,” Ritchie said. “And we hope that the next time they bring us a piece.”

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From left to right: “Letting Go” by Kate Loughlin, “M.W.I.” by Raj Bunnag, “Flowered Chains” by Kevin Peddicord, “Fragments” by Alisson Coleman.

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An open letter to the Netflix offices after ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ By Wesley Caretto Contributing Writer

Dear Netflix, Hi, it’s me again. I hope you got the letter about “Bright” I sent last month, but after watching “The Cloverfield Paradox,” I’m not quite sure you did. Let me summarize: “Bright” was supposed to be the cornerstone of a new blockbuster franchise, but all it did was take a promising premise and churn out a bland-looking, poorly-written, heavyhanded, overall unenjoyable piece of content that will quickly get lost in the vast ocean of mediocre “Netflix Originals.” Considering you aren’t really making money, I can’t imagine that the critical response for “Bright” (which some estimate had a $90 million budget) encouraged many new subscriptions. Of course, everybody’s pretty much got a Netflix subscription already — or at least a buddy with one who’ll let them bum his password. How are you planning to stay in business when you hit the subscriber ceiling? When I saw the Super Bowl ad for “The Cloverfield Paradox,” I had hope, and not just because I spent my evening watching two teams I don’t care about play a sport I’m indifferent to, all the while aching to watch a movie instead. Surprise drops, made popular by the likes of Beyoncé and Frank Ocean – artists who know they’ve got a quality product that they can’t wait for the world to see — signal that the creators have faith in the movie they’re releasing. The original “Cloverfield” also had a successful and mysterious ad campaign back in 2007, and the trailers didn’t even include the movie’s title! “Cloverfield” put a “Blair Witch”-esque

spin on the monster genre, and for the most part (except for those poor people with motion sickness) audiences enjoyed it. It was raw and scary, and the sequel — excuse me, “blood relative” — “10 Cloverfield Lane” sidelined the monsters and found-footage look for a more psychological horror story. Unfortunately, since “10 Cloverfield Lane” came from a script that didn’t originally have any connection to the “Cloverfield” franchise, it felt cobbled together: It was one movie being pulled in two opposite directions. For “The Cloverfield Paradox,” it looked like director Julius Onah was sticking with the third-person perspective, and setting the story in space! Hey! This showed a lot of promise! Just like “Bright” did. Oh no. Now, I don’t need to remind you that maybe it would have been smart to secure the rights to “Cloverfield” and “10 Cloverfield Lane” so that curious viewers don’t go to your competitors, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, first. And I don’t need to tell you that Onah, whose only previous directing credit was a thesis project crime-thriller met with lukewarm reception, might not be the best choice for director of a sci-fi horror film. But with a cast that includes David Oyelowo, Chris O’Dowd, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Daniel Brühl, I certainly wouldn’t count this movie out from the jump. After sitting through the mess that is “The Cloverfield Paradox,” it’s clear nobody at your company actually watched it, so allow me to recap: A worldwide fuel crisis in the near future has brought scientists from all — er, seven — nations together, and astrophysicists from America (Oyelowo), England (Mbatha-Raw), Germany (Brühl),

Courtesy of Nerdist Netflix surprise-released “The Cloverfield Paradox” for streaming immediately after last Sunday’s Super Bowl.

China (Zhang Ziyi), Russia (Aksel Hennie), Brazil (John Ortiz) and ... Ireland (O’Dowd) are launched into space aboard a station satellite equipped with a particle collider. The crew hopes to successfully use the collider to generate enough energy to undo the crisis. Don’t understand particle collision? Neither do the screenwriters. Fortunately, big glowing displays aboard the space station flash red and beep to let the crew know when something goes wrong. After about two years of failed collisions, the crew finally gets a successful run, and it accidentally transports them to another dimension! Oops! Now the crew must try to find their way back to their dimension, while mysterious occurrences aboard the station have deadly consequences. If you remember the movie “Life” released last year, yes, it’s suspiciously similar. How does

the giant monster from “Cloverfield” factor into it? Uh, you tell me. It’s your movie. For a crew of astronauts, they seem incredibly ill-equipped for the repercussions of this experiment. Aren’t the nerds at NASA the only ones who might have a backup plan for interdimensional portals? Why, after two years of doing the same experiment, does Ortiz suddenly have second thoughts when some conspiracy theorist on cable news says the particle collider could bring monsters and aliens to our dimension? Why is he watching cable news on the space station right before they launch the collider, anyway? In fact, why does most of the stuff in this movie happen? Not to get too Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, but we’ve tested particle colliders successfully, See CLOVERFIELD on Page 14

On ‘Kill Bill,’ Quentin Tarantino and the fragility of adoration By Nina Wilder Recess Managing Editor

“You can’t be friends with me until you’ve watched Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill.’” It started out as a joke. I’d watched both volumes of “Kill Bill” when I was 11 years old — a rather ripe age for a film that deals with a sword-wielding assassin who’s seeking bloody revenge — but, perhaps because of my innocence, I was immediately enamored. I wasn’t yet knowledgeable of techniques like cinematography, direction, editing and screenwriting, but the way that Tarantino wove his story together, visually and sonically, was unmatched in any film I’d seen before. I was irrevocably moved. Of course, my fascination would only grow from that point forward. Tarantino’s passion for genre-blending and homage sent me tumbling down a never-ending rabbit hole of cinema, wherein I obsessively watched films helmed by the likes of Scorsese, De Palma, Leone, Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock — a hole that I still find myself digging into. But I always came back to “Kill Bill.” Over the span of the last eight years, I’ve revisited the film, in some form or another, too many times to count. I rewatch it at least three or four times a year, I’ve memorized innumerable scenes in their entirety and I even purchased a samurai sword when the opportunity (strangely) arose. When I turned 18, I had a strip of film tattooed on my inner forearm, emblematic of my undying love of cinema — a love that began when I watched “Kill Bill” for the first time, which I’m reminded of whenever a catch of a glimpse of the tattoo’s ink. So it’s really not that much of a joke when I say that I require my closest friends to watch “Kill

Bill” if they haven’t already. It is so deeply enmeshed in my understanding of myself, my passions and my day-to-day life that it’s almost impossible to know me completely without having watched the film. Of every single movie made in the world, across all decades of cinema, “Kill Bill” will forever be my favorite. Last October, The New York Times published an exposé about Harvey Weinstein, a famous Hollywood producer who cofounded Miramax and The Weinstein Company alongside his brother, Bob. The article and its evidence were damning

— more than a dozen women in the film industry came forward with allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault against Weinstein, claims that had circulated Hollywood for decades as a widely-known but well-kept secret. Quentin Tarantino, whose entire filmography has either been produced or distributed by Weinstein, was asked questions about the accusations soon afterward, to which he responded, “I knew enough to do more than I did.” Then, last week, Uma Thurman — who played the protagonist in “Kill Bill” — finally broke her silence on her working relationship with Weinstein. In a piece entitled “This Is

Nina Wilder | Contributing Graphics Designer Last week, Uma Thurman recounted an incident on the set of “Kill Bill” that permanently damaged her body.

Why Uma Thurman Is Angry,” she detailed his inappropriate and often malicious interactions with her over the course of her career, which blossomed in 1994 after the release of the Weinstein-produced and Tarantino-directed “Pulp Fiction.” More shocking, though, was her description of an incident that occurred during the final days of filming “Kill Bill.” All that was left to shoot was the scene in which her character, The Bride, is driving a powder-blue convertible to the destination where she will finally kill Bill. Tarantino insisted that Thurman needed to do the driving herself; Thurman, however, had heard from a teamster that the refashioned car wasn’t working that well, and she was scared and hesitant to shoot the scene. But she was making Tarantino mad and he told her she was wasting everyone’s time, she recalled. He promised her everything would be okay and coaxed her into getting behind the wheel. What resulted is as follows (corroborated by footage that Miramax withheld from Thurman for over 15 years): As Thurman was driving the convertible down a winding dirt road, the car began to drift erratically, and despite her efforts to regain control of the vehicle, the car smashed into a palm tree, pinning Thurman under the steering wheel as she heaved helplessly. “The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she told The New York Times. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again.’” And though she would recover from the concussion she received during the accident, Thurman’s neck and knees were irreparably See KILL BILL on Page 14

CLOVERFIELD FROM PAGE 13 like the Large Hadron Collider, and no wormholes have opened up because of it. Then again, why, in the middle of an energy crisis, can the space station afford to consume the energy necessary for two years worth of failed tests with nothing to show for it? Why are people on a space station walking around with normal gravity? Why does the crew have a 3-D printer for making bagels when there’s no way that’s more convenient than just having bagels onboard? I’m sorry, Netflix, I usually try not to nitpick movies, but you’re making it too easy for me. Well, the science is junk. How are the characters? You’d think having seven people trapped aboard a space station might lead to some interesting and diverse characters, but unfortunately each crew member is paper-thin, adopting their nationality as an archetype: The Russian guy is a jerk, the German guy is shifty, the Chinese girl can only speak Mandarin (but everyone can understand her? And she can understand English too?), the Irish guy is the comic relief, the American guy is the leader of the crew and congrats,

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Brazilian medic, you’ve got completely no character. All this leaves is Mbatha-Raw, playing the only human being in this movie, Ava Hamilton. It isn’t quite clear what Ava’s purpose aboard the station is, but that’s okay, because she has a tragic backstory involving her dead kids that gets the audience to root for her. Maybe if the movie didn’t drop viewers into the action two years after experiments started, we could get a feel for the escalating tension aboard the station. Unfortunately, the collider that discovered interdimensional travel couldn’t give this crew any dimensionality. As a subscriber, Netflix, I’m begging you to stop releasing this garbage. My dad’s not paying however many bucks per month just so that you can keep pumping out obtuse standup specials, ’90s sitcom reboots and Adam Sandler comedies. Give the people what they want, meaning more “Chef ’s Table,” another season of “Bojack Horseman” and all the gritty crime documentaries you can handle. Leave the spacetravel monster schlock for the Syfy channel. And before you plan to spring another movie on us with no warning, make sure it’s something people will actually enjoy watching. Sincerely, Wesley

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KILL BILL FROM PAGE 13 damaged, along with her thriving career as an action star and her professional relationship with Tarantino. Finally, a few days ago, a 2003 interview between Howard Stern and Quentin Tarantino resurfaced, in which Tarantino defended filmmaker Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in 1977. Tarantino claimed that the 13-yearold victim Samantha Gailey “wanted to have it” — “it” being sex with a 43-year-old, who had also drugged her with pills and alcohol beforehand. “Look, she was down with it,” he told Stern. Heartbreak and devastation are words usually reserved for break-ups and tragedies, not the slow realization that the filmmaker whose work you admire endlessly is actually a pretty horrible person. I’ve never been good at separating the art from the artist. Like the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, I’m of the belief that “cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate” — a film is born out of its filmmaker, and he alone has the final say over its conception and resolution, regardless of whoever else may be involved. It’s why I feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable viewing films by Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. And now, it’s why I feel downright hypocritical when I refer to “Kill Bill” as my favorite film and Tarantino as my tastemaker. Maybe it’s my fault for placing so much adoration on another human being, who will always have the potential to do and say awful, reprehensible things, who is imperfect in spite of any celebrity status. Maybe the blame should just be on Tarantino himself, as it’s arguably not the viewer’s burden to bear — but can I ever watch “Kill Bill” again without thinking of Tarantino’s actions on set, his complacency with regard to Weinstein, his abhorrent comments about the rape of a minor? (Not to mention, these revelations are compounded by his already well-established issues, particularly the excessive use of a certain racial epithet in his films.) I’m reminded that the good parts of “Kill Bill” — and the rest of Tarantino’s filmography, for that matter — are still there. And, in all honesty, my fixation with “Kill Bill” extends past its existence as a film at this point — it’s more of a time capsule, a work that is deeply sentimental to me, a relic of my adolescence that’s as familiar and meaningful as one of my oldest friends. I ask myself in earnest: Could I let it go? Perhaps it’s selfish and unbecoming, but I really don’t want to let go, even if I could. There’s no simple solution when faced with these dilemmas of morality, and there never will be. It’s easy to suddenly find that our beliefs are in contradiction with our emotions — especially those that are sentimental and unyielding. There will never be a moment, though, in which I’m not reflecting on the context in which my most beloved works of art were made, whether it’s with respect to their makers or their problems, and I think that’s the least any of us can do.

TENTING FROM PAGE 7 benefits as well. Since Kragie is not in Durham, he feels less pressure to be constantly thinking about the wedding. Kragie and Brown met at the Chapel. Both were part of the Wesley Methodist Fellowship there, and this played a role in their decision to come back and marry in the Chapel. “It’s very meaningful to us to get married in the place where we met and that brought us together through our values and our faith,” Kragie said. “And then also to be able to share that with our friends and especially with family and friends who didn’t go to Duke and maybe haven’t spent time in the Chapel before.” Wong also met her husband during their undergraduate years at Duke, and their faith is tied to the Chapel. She felt a sense of community and belonging there, and that encouraged her to come back for her wedding. “I think the best thing about tenting and getting married in the Chapel is just being at home,” Wong said. “It’s a beautiful place, and more than that, it was a place where we spent four years building community, friendship, and of course our relationship. … I hope that the Chapel remains to be a symbol of hope and love for many students who are coming through, graduating and looking back on their Duke experience.”

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With or without Marvin Bagley III, Duke in for tough test vs. red-hot Hokies By Sanjay Ravindra

have to pick up that slack since he’s not out there with us.” Now, the Blue Devils must turn their attention toward a dangerous opponent which has demonstrated its ability to compete

Duke isn’t really that good. There’s no getting around that. It rarely wins on the road, and it really just can’t play defense sometimes. But there has been an easy fix sitting right on the bench for a while. He might be unassuming and lanky, but he’s the only way that the Blue Devils can get out of their rut. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Alex O’Connell time. It was on full display Sunday night against Georgia Tech, when O’Connell finally got his first start of the season in favor of Trevon Duval. With Grayson Allen at point guard—not the player who retweeted his own flashy dunk almost immediately after losing to North Carolina—Duke’s offense ran much more smoothly. O’Connell only played for 22 minutes, but he was steady and collected—everything that Duval is not. His counting numbers weren’t flashy: three points and two assists. But O’Connell posted a plus-minus of 8, while Duval had by far the worst number of any Blue Devil in 25 minutes on the floor: minus-10.

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Last month, Duke lost a heartbreaker to the top team in the ACC, and perhaps the best team in college basketball. But Saturday night, a red-hot Virginia Tech team was able to pull off what the Blue Devils could not. No. 12 Duke will host Virginia Tech Virginia Wednesday at 7 p.m. Tech at Cameron Indoor vs. Stadium and look to No. 12 continue building on a Duke strong showing against WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. Georgia Tech. The Cameron Indoor Stadium matchup is the first of two meetings with the Hokies this month, as the Blue Devils will travel to Blacksburg Feb. 26 in their final game before hosting archrival North Carolina. The visitors come to Durham with major momentum after defeating their own rival, current No. 1 Virginia, in a monumental 61-60 overtime victory Saturday. After a two-game skid, with losses to unranked St. John’s and the Tar Heels, the Blue Devils were desperate for a win Sunday night in Atlanta. With freshman forward Marvin Bagley III out of the lineup due to a mild knee sprain, the Blue Devils needed big men Wendell Carter Jr. and Marques Bolden to deliver. Carter turned in a quality performance in his hometown,

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With Marvin Bagley III’s status still uncertain for Wednesday’s game, Wendell Carter Jr. may have to continue to carry the load in the frontcourt. scoring 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds, and Duke held off a second-half rally by the Yellow Jackets to win 80-69. “We just have to step up,” Carter said of playing without Bagley. “Marvin comes and plays hard every day. Every game, he plays hard on the offensive and defensive end, so we just

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Blue Devils come up short in ITA indoor semis By Spencer Levy Staff reporter

This weekend provided ample opportunity for the Blue Devils to see where they match up with their peer programs, and the results showed just that. Although No. 8 Duke will not return to Durham with a championship from the ITA National Team Indoors, it will arrive back on campus after going toe-to-toe with schools at the pinnacle of college tennis nationwide. The top 16 teams gathered DUKE 1 in Madison, Wis., all 4 vying for a chance to UNC pick up quality wins before conference play commences in a week. After picking up two top-20 wins, the Blue Devils were ousted by No. 3 North Carolina 4-1 Sunday afternoon at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. “You have to recover emotionally, and that’s where we came out a little flat in our doubles today. I told them afterwards that it’s something we have to learn…. At the beginning of the year, I told them we’re not going to win every match 7-0 and we’re going to have some adversity,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “If we want to win the ACC tournament or NCAA tournament

or whatever it is, we have to be able to play at a high level for three straight days and compete at a high level and emotionally be at a high level with no letdown.” In the competitive semifinal match between the Tobacco Road rivals, the Tar Heels (9-0) jumped out to an early advantage with two victories in doubles to open the match lead to 1-0. In the quarterfinals a day earlier, Duke (6-1) lost the doubles point, which is an area of concern moving forward, especially given the success seen in the fall individual tournaments. Duke went down early across the board, with scores of 0-5 and 1-4 giving North Carolina room to operate and close it out. The Blue Devils inched back to being down 4-5 on all three courts, but the Tar Heels put their foot down and defeated No. 5 Samantha Harris and Kelly Chen on the top court and No. 2 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Ellyse Hamlin in the second position. “It’s such a different mindset playing doubles in dual matches and in individual tournaments. A dual-match setting is quicker. You have to be more aggressive and more vocal. I think that we have to really work on our aggressiveness and work on finishing balls and going after the ball,” Ashworth said. “Our dual-match play doubles has not been good this semester and is something that

we have to address immediately when we get back this week before we start conference play.... Our doubles have to be the catalyst. We can’t just go through the doubles to get to the singles.” With the doubles point behind them, the Blue Devils looked to use their strong singles play to win four of the six matches for a trip to the finals

Monday afternoon. The lone victory came by way of sophomore No. 106 Meible Chi, who bested North Carolina’s No. 21 Jessie Aney 6-4, 7-5. The Weston, Fla., native remained undefeated in seven dual matches with two ranked wins, the See W. TENNIS on Page 17

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Meible Chi took down a top-25 opponent in Jessie Aney in straight sets to provide Duke’s lone point against North Carolina.

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Duke struggles to eighth place in spring opener By Drew Johnson Senior Sports Reporter

After a difficult opening round for Duke, the team needed to rally the following two days to begin its spring season how it ended its fall one: with a victory. Instead, the Blue Devils remained stagnant during the final 36 holes, failing to make up ground on the leaders and resulting in the team’s worst stroke-play finish of the 2017-18 campaign. No. 4 Duke finished with a three-day, 41-over-par total of 893 at the Northrop Grumman Challenge, netting an eighthplace finish among an elite 18-team field that included many of the nation’s best teams. During Sunday’s first round of competition at Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes, Calif., the team dug itself into a hole by

carding just four birdies and an eagle among the five golfers, and though the frequency of red numbers improved as the event went on—the team averaged 12 birdies per round Monday and Tuesday—a slew of bogies prevented the Blue Devils from moving significantly up the leaderboard. Duke’s final-round score of 20-over-par was worse than the three-day total of 15-overpar accumulated by the tournament’s champion, No. 1 UCLA. “It just wasn’t a very good day today,” Blue Devil head coach Dan Brooks said. “That’s just the way it is, plain and simple. The course was set up a little bit tougher today, so you saw some pretty high numbers from a lot of teams, but that doesn’t explain 20-over for Duke. We’re better than that. It was the third day of seeing it. We’re going to probably chat with each player—everybody’s

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O’CONNELL FROM PAGE 15 Duval has been reckless with the ball at times, which was on full display against the Tar Heels and Virginia, when his mindless pass at the end of the game cost the Blue Devils a chance to tie it or take the lead in the final minute. The numbers back it up: per 100 possessions, Duval has coughed the ball up more than twice as much as O’Connell, and nearly twice as much as Allen. And even though some might argue that Duval is a better offensive weapon, that simply isn’t true. He has struggled mightily from deep and has a much lower offensive rating than O’Connell according to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s metrics, sitting at just 106.9 compared to O’Connell’s explosive 130.6 mark. For context, O’Connell’s rating is in fact the highest on the team, albeit in fewer minutes than the five starters. O’Connell shoots it better from beyond the arc, and though he might not throw down the glitzy dunks like Duval, he also doesn’t make the maddening mistakes that Duval does. In the O’Connell vs. Duval debate, you also have to take Allen’s shooting woes into account. At this point, it seems unlikely that he will be able to work well with Duval and shoot consistently. He simply cannot be the

force he once was if the same tired starting lineup stays constant, and defenders often do not help off him since they can usually sag off Duval as much as they want. With Gary Trent Jr. and O’Connell by Allen’s side, Duke has three threats from deep instead of two. This will allow Allen’s trademark drive-and-kick game to work much more effectively, giving him a more diversified offensive portfolio to keep opponents on their heels. Allen is not a natural point guard, but he makes fewer mistakes than Duval and is a better scorer at that position. And Allen won an ACC tournament at point guard last year, when the Blue Devils were on fire. Is that really worse than trotting out a guy who seems far too focused on his own highlights? This sort of energy will translate to the defensive end, where Duke has been up and down this season. O’Connell and Allen have the fire on defense, if not the quickness, but don’t resort to the risky cherry-picking and reaching for steals that Duval goes for. He might snag a few, but he ends up called for a lot of fouls and missing more than he grabs, which takes him out of the play and miles from the player he was supposed to be defending. Simply put: Duke’s offense—and defense—runs best with Allen at point guard and O’Connell and Trent by his side.

an individual in this game—and just find what we can work on and see if we can do better next time.” For the fourth time in fifth events this season, Leona Maguire posted the team’s lowest score with a ledger of 8-over-par on the 6,017-yard course. The senior failed to card a birdie in her opening round en route to a 75—her highest score so far this season—before bouncing back Monday with five birdies and a 2-under-par 69. Maguire’s struggles returned during her final 18 holes, though, as a lone birdie countered by a stretch of five bogeys in six holes contributed to a Tuesday score of 77. One of the lone bright spots of the week’s performance came from sister Lisa Maguire, who tied for 41st. Brooks hinted before the event that the senior made great strides in her game during the winter offseason, and her performance on the par-71 course this week showed it. The Cavan, Ireland, native opened with the team’s second-best score of 74 Monday by hitting 13 greens and seven fairways in regulation, and followed it with two rounds of 76 for a 54-hole total of 226— her lowest three-day tournament score since the 2016 Windy City Classic. “She will shine. It’s a matter of when it’s going to happen, but she’s really hard on herself,” Brooks said. “So I’m trying to remind her of all the good things she did not only in the qualifier but in the tournament itself. Both [were in] extremely challenging conditions, and she’s done some great things.” Freshman Jaravee Boonchant has established herself as a reliable presence in the top half of leaderboard this season, and that trend continued this week in Palos Verdes. The Bangkok native had her worst finish of the season in a tie for 34th, but still was the second-best Duke competitor, finishing three strokes behind Leona Maguire

by following a team-best opening round of 73 with scores of 73 and 78 Monday and Tuesday, respectively. After an illness caused Virginia Elena Carta to be replaced in the lineup by Miranda Wang, the freshman tied for 49th at 15-over-par. Wang, from Beijing, struggled Sunday with an 81 in a round that included three double bogeys before bouncing back the final two rounds with scores of 74 and 73. Ana Belac rounded out the Duke scores with a 17-over-par result, the secondhighest score relative to par of her career. The sophomore—who earned an individual victory in the team’s final fall event—was one of the event’s best performers on the par-5s, but struggled mightily on the par4 holes, where she averaged more than 0.5 strokes over par to contribute to a tie for 60th place finish. In a field of 96 golfers, just three of them finished better than par, with No. 13 Arizona State’s Olivia Mehaffey, No. 7 Kaitlyn Papp of Texas and the Bruins’ Lillia Vu sharing co-medalist honors by finishing at a 1-under-par total of 212. On the team side, behind victorious UCLA came No. 2 Alabama and No. 5 Stanford, while the only other ACC competitor in the field—No. 25 Wake Forest—finished in 14th place with a score of 911. Despite the tough competition on a daunting course, Brooks emphasized that every team in the field faced the same difficult circumstances and that the Blue Devils need to handle such tests better in the future. “There’s a lot of slope on these greens,” Brooks said. “Sometimes you can’t see the slope, so it’s a challenging golf course, and it’s challenging for everybody. We didn’t handle it as well as our opponents did.” Duke will have a chance to redeem itself in its next tournament, the Evans Derby Experience, March 18-20 in Auburn, Ala.

Coach K can no longer waste crucial time for getting this team ready for March by throwing Duval back on the court to start. The freshman is capable of taking over games on rare occasions like he did against Florida State, but at this point, Duval’s potential far exceeds his performance. It won’t make him happy to ride the pine, but he needs it to settle down and figure out

his role if he wants to have any semblance of success at the next level. He is still the quickest player on the team and is capable of getting to the rim as well as any of Duke’s guards, but he doesn’t maximize those strengths when he has to run the offense for a whole game. If Duval is starting, everyone but him is losing.

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 15 with the best the NCAA has to offer. The Hokies (18-7, 7-5 in the ACC) have won five of their last six games, with their only loss in that stretch coming at the hands of Miami. In addition to their statement win against the Cavaliers, they defeated then-No. 14 North Carolina by double digits Jan. 22. Duke (20-5, 8-4), on the other hand, has gone 0-2 against those two teams. Last season, Virginia Tech defeated Duke 89-75 despite a 34-point performance by Luke Kennard when Grayson Allen was suspended for tripping Elon’s Steven Santa Ana. The Hokies relied on a balanced offensive attack to wear down Duke’s defense, with six players scoring in double figures. This could once again be a problem for the Blue Devils in Wednesday’s

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matchup, as Virginia Tech boasts one of the most balanced offenses they have faced all season. Four of its five starters average between 11.4 and 13.8 points per game, led by junior guard Justin Robinson, who is also a proficient passer with 5.7 assists per game. Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel said Monday that a decision has not yet been made regarding Bagley’s status against Virginia Tech. Speaking with the media Tuesday, Carter added that Bagley has not been practicing with the team this week. With the big man averaging 11.4 rebounds per game uncertain to play Wednesday night, Carter and Bolden will once again be tasked with filling the voids left by his absence in rebounding and in post scoring. Carter noted the cohesiveness of Virginia Tech’s squad and said that Duke will need to sustain a high level of energy to come away with a win. “Recently, we’ve been playing well in the first half, but something’s not there for us in the second half,” he said. “As long as we come out and play hard for 40 minutes, I believe we’ll come out on the victorious side.” Freshman guard Gary Trent Jr., who has established himself as a premier threat from deep in the second half of the season, concurred. Trent has made 15 of his last 24 3-point attempts and will look to stay hot against Virginia Tech. In Tuesday’s press conference, he had high praise for his opponent, but the 19-year-old feels confident in his teammates’ mutual trust in each other and in their gameplan. “They’re a great team, they’re well-coached and they have some phenomenal players,” Trent said of the Hokies. “But we’re just going to go out there and play hard, and I feel like if we play our basketball, play Duke basketball and do what we came to do, we should be successful.” Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting.

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first arriving Saturday against Georgia’s No. 71 Morgan Coppoc. In October, Chi lost to Aney in straight sets, but now is playing better. “She’s just herself in the spring.... She’s someone that we need to count on, we need rely on, and she’s answered the door every time we’ve asked her to do that. It’s been great to see and hopefully she keeps getting better and doesn’t become satisfied with anything at all,” Ashworth said. “To know that the work that she’s put in is paying off is a great thing for our entire team.” But after Duke evened the score, juniors No. 65 McCarthy and No. 119 Hamlin both lost in straight sets to leave the Tar Heels one win away from victory. All three of the final singles matches went to the third set, which gave Duke a chance to sweep for the win. But one day after No. 30 Chen was celebrating with her teammates for the Walk to Duke! (919)-309-9765 clinching point against second-seeded Georgia, www.TrinityProp.com Tar Heel No. 10 Makenna Jones was the one hugging her teammates on the other side. Chen West Campus East Campus was defeated 6-2, 3-6, 4-6. No. 9 Harris had her Georgetown Poplar West match left unfinished at 6-3, 4-6, 6-6 (1-2), and Governor Campus Walk Murchison freshman Hannah Zhao was up 6-3, 6-7(2), 4-3 Anderson in the third singles position before the match was decided. To open up the tournament, Duke bested No. 16 South Carolina 4-0 Friday morning with a doubles point win and victories from McCarthy, Hamlin and Chi. In the quarterfinals, it was Georgia’s turn to face Ashworth’s team. The Blue Devils knocked out the Bulldogs 4-3 with wins for McCarthy, Chen, Hamlin and Chi. Both Harris and Zhou were defeated in two sets. The New York Syndication The Newall-around York Times Times Syndication Sales Corporation Corporation “It was a great effort [Saturday]Sales 620 620 Eighth Eighth Avenue, Avenue, New New York, York, N.Y. N.Y. 10018 10018 after losing the doubles point, coming and For Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Information Information Call:out 1-800-972-3550 believing thatFor we can win six singles matches ForRelease Release Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Unique and historic properties

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recent study conducted by the Duke Alumni Association found a high correlation between satisfaction with the undergraduate social experience and future alumni donations. This alone has pushed the Housing and Residential Life to scramble to put together a new housing model. “We’ve heard current undergraduate students repeatedly say that they want to see change in the housing and social scene, but those experiences were just stories and weren’t backed by any data, so we couldn’t trust their credibility. It was really seeing that there was a high return on investment on social life that convinced us.”

Amy Fan FANGIRLING In the future, the University will put out a RFP (request for proposal) at the end of each academic year. Any group interested in applying for a social block must submit a detailed proposal that includes a list of officers, a budget for the year, and a specific list of social events the group plans to hold throughout the year. They are expected to follow this calendar, and must go through an extensive review process to make any changes. The first group to react to the proposed changes was the American Enterprise Institute’s executive council, which issued a strong statement in support of the policy. “Let’s face it, the quality of Duke’s housing and social scene sucks,” the statement starts off. “People have said for years that independent houses lack community, but nothing has changed because no better alternative has come in to replace it. We need to inject more competition into the model. Only the best social groups should be allowed to continue. The principles of the free market are universal and have helped make America the greatest country in the world. Let’s apply it to Duke’s social scene. People must have the right of association. That’s the first amendment.” A representative from Duke Students for Housing Reform immediately noted that the statement ignores the fact that independent houses consistently have had to work with smaller budgets, have students who likely come from poorer families on average and must abide by stricter policies. The council thus far declined to comment in response. Other proposals that the AEI board put forward include providing dues vouchers for low income students in Greek life, which would allow any student to join any social group, regardless of the zip code in which they grew up or their socioeconomic status (of course, only students who could get into the groups and can socially fit in would be eligible for the vouchers). The group has also proposed increasing the resident to resident assistant ratio, and the resident to social chair ratio, in order to cut down on operating costs and to maximize efficiency.

In order to ensure that groups are deserving of their sections, each group must face stringent accountability standards. To help quantify their success, the University introduced a new metric: a standardized test, developed by university officials, many of whom haven’t stepped in a dorm common room since their own college days. Every individual in the group will have to take the test at the beginning and the end of each year, and they must demonstrate personal growth. Of course, test scores can’t measure everything. That’s why HRL also had the Statistics department build a model to calculate a “value-added” score to capture how much each student contributed their peers’ social development. The model uses complicated methodology that really only those with a PhD in statistics can understand, and is norm-referenced by a survey from students from our peer institutions in the “Ivy Plus” category, deemed as such by The New York Times. The model will be consistently applied, whether it’s for a block of six, or for a new group of 100. The creators insist that there is no possibility that the model has too much variation for to make an accurate judgement. “I mean, we can’t exactly explain why your social group sucks if you actually wanted to improve, but we can tell you that your group isn’t effective. And in some cases, your group might not even suck, but we need to see improvement. If you got a good, cohesive group together where everyone scored 100 percent on the pre-test, then our models predict that they need to score 103 percent on the post-test in order to demonstrate improvement.” If the resident assistant and the social chair are deemed not to have a statistically significantly impact on their peers for two years in a row, they are required to leave the section. Many students have protested the changes, saying that education and socialization should happen naturally and that many of the most important social experiences they’ve had were not in pursuit of a test. In response, the University issued a statement saying that data has the potential to revolutionize social life at Duke, and they insist that the system is designed to help breed innovation. Any student is welcome to apply for funding to start their own social group. Already, there are students and outside investors brainstorming ideas. Many of the likely groups will mimic current selective living groups, including ones centered around arts, entrepreneurship, languages, community service and social justice. Other groups being discussed include “white flight” groups, as well as groups specifically designed for low income students and students of color. Duke University officials noted that if students are frustrated with the model, they are free to leave the school and return to their local charter school. Amy Fang is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “fangirling,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. Editor’s note: this is a satirical column.

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It’s time to stop talking about Trump’s hands

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he tantalizing target of Donald Trump has dominated the liberal comedic scene ever since he stepped into politics. Comedians and political writers have ridiculed everything from his hair, to his weight, to his voice. Audiences love it, as many news networks have seen ratings bumps with increased coverage of Trump. The jokes sometimes challenge his performance as president, but often simply attack him as a person. These personal jokes can be funny and can serve to rally resistance, but they provide little substance. They fail to expose his flaws to those who do not already despise him. They play into his strategy of turning politics into reality television, as they promote personal insults rather than substantive debate. Comedians often ridicule Trump for his “tiny hands,” intending to exploit his defensiveness regarding his hand size and the implied size of his penis. The joke has rattled Trump for years. In 1988, Graydon Carter, a recent editor of Vanity Fair, called Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian” in a Spy Magazine piece. Popular liberal comedians like John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert have mocked his hand size on their shows. During the Republican primary, Marco Rubio mocked Trump’s hands at a rally, implying that he had a small penis and that this influenced his fitness for office. Trump responded by

overtly defending his penis size at rallies and in a televised presidential debate. Mocking Trump’s hand size is an example of phallocentrism, the conflation of male genitalia with masculinity, and masculinity with power. The “tiny hands” accusation rattles him because it symbolizes a small penis, calling his masculinity and power into

conflation of “balls” with toughness, imply that in order to be tough, masculine or powerful, you must have male genitalia. While jokes about Trump’s hands easily frustrate him and can entertain an audience, their use validates his insecurity and reinforces harmful ideas connecting the penis with masculinity, and masculinity with power.

male genitalia? Instead of insulting Trump’s hands—or his hair and weight, for that matter—we must mock the way he performs the office of the presidency. I’d much prefer a president with small hands who promoted a living wage than an attractive president who promoted mass incarceration. We must shift our attention back to substance. After all, Trump’s detrimental Instead of insulting Trump’s hands—or his hair and weight, for policies and inadequacy as a leader should provide more than enough fodder for that matter—we must mock the way he performs the office of the comedians and political pundits to captivate presidency. audiences, providing comic relief while Duke Men’s Project challenging the structures that underlie biweekly manwich American politics.

question. Trump defends his hand size so fiercely because it challenges his penis size, and he views challenges to his penis size as challenges to his masculinity, authority and power. Hand size and penis size are not the only examples of phallocentrism. In May 2017, Stephen Colbert derided Trump’s mouth as Vladimir Putin’s “cockholster,” implying that Trump submits to the power and authority of Putin. This joke, and colloquial use of “sucking d**k” as a euphemism for submission, ascribe power to the penis and weakness to the performer. Other common phrases, like the

Associating masculinity with male genitalia Ethan Ready is a Trinity sophomore and a implies that those with male genitalia must be member of the Duke Men’s Project. The column, masculine, and those without male genitalia “biweekly manwich”runs on alternateWednesdays. cannot be. It erases the identity of many transgender men, suggesting that in order to . fully be men they must have a certain body. Associating male genitalia with power implies that those without male genitalia do not have power, perpetuating systems of oppression against women and other gender nonconforming people. If having small hands, and supposedly a small penis, challenges one’s authority or presidential candidacy, what does that mean for a candidate that might not have

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Mythbusters: Housing reform edition

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ince the front-page column penned by Duke Students for Housing Reform, there has been a considerable response from students, administration, faculty, alumni and parents. Many people responded extremely positively, and a few extremely negatively. Most, I can confidently say, were slightly intrigued. That’s a job well done in the newspaper business these days. However, there are a few myths that have trickled down from the piece, mainly considering just how much the Reform group has done and what the group wants. As a member of the movement, I’ve talked to independents and members of selective organizations who are anxious about our work, our mission and our actual, tangible power (hint: it’s not much without their support). I hope it’s a misunderstanding I can address. I’m a member of a fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), though admittedly a more inactive participant than most of my brothers. Last year, I was friend-of-house to Wayne Manor; I scored a sweet single overlooking K-ville and lived a few doors down from some extraordinary friends. This year, I currently live among another group of extraordinary friends in AEPi’s section. I’ve gotten lucky. Both of my experiences of selective residential housing have been comfortable, eye-opening and really, really fun. Each have provided or led to essential moments that make up my Duke experience. Yes, the homogeneousness of each community bothers me—especially as my hindsight self-corrects—but we were all once first-years looking to fit in somewhere. I’ve tried to combat the lack of diversity within my West Campus housing situations by spending the majority of my time outside of my dorm rooms, falling deeply into organizations that graciously welcomed me and gave me much-needed perspective. But the majority of Duke University is not Jackson Prince (that would get too loud, and pretty irritating). Nor is the majority of Duke University Greek. Nor is the majority of Duke University in an SLG. There’s been relatively little noise about

there is a future Duke in which selective housing is no longer relevant, though I recognize that today might not be the day to join some of our peer institutions with that motion. So I joined Duke Students for Housing Reform to immerse myself in the realities of housing today, and to question if the housing model is truly doing its best for everybody. What are the pros and cons of sorority sections—which are a recent addition to the housing model—and how we can set aside safe, common spaces for sorority members (and, for that matter, all Blue Devil women) in a West Campus housing model? How can fraternities practice better methods to combat toxic ideas and actions that can arise from their homogeneous living situations? How can respective SLGs’ cultures be improved, and how can their hyper-selectivity be better legitimized? And what do independent students think about all of this...what do their communities look like? For me, I believe that living amongst people who don’t necessarily Duke Students for Housing Reform look or think or socialize like me would have been beneficial to my hopes to give Duke individuals a chance to to influence one another. To challenge and Duke experience. to empathize, perhaps even to compromise Jackson Prince relatively less important aspects of Editorial Page Editor their housing experience for the sake of dramatically improving another’s Duke We want to initiate what plenty of Duke who aren’t convinced. If there’s something you experience. Perhaps even, ideally, to make a students see as a necessary conversation. We want changed about housing but you don’t united statement to the administration and want more say in our University’s destiny, care for the models Duke Students for Housing Board of Trustees that we demand better and the futures of Duke students to come. Reform has proposed, you should absolutely than what HRL might force onto us. At our forum this Sunday, entitled No, Duke Students of Housing Reform be contributing to the conversation. is not playing Settlers of Catan on a map As a “selective” myself, I believe that the “Public Forum on Housing at Duke” which of West Campus in President Price’s locked most selfish action is to ignore or silence will be held in Schiciano Auditorium B at office. There have been no sections stripped budding conversations surrounding housing 7 p.m., Duke Students for Housing Reform nor communities disturbed. There have and those that stem from it—conversations will simply open up the conversation. Nothing’s better than some healthy been no commissions created, no solutions about diversity, happiness and safety. To endorsed, and—most importantly—no reject an invitation to self-reflect and to listen debate. It’s why I’ve been editing these doors closed. is to regard the perspectives and backgrounds opinion pages since the day I accepted my Duke Students for Housing Reform of other Blue Devils as lesser than yours, as bid into a fraternity. has extended an invitation, not a threat, unworthy of being incorporating into your to members of selective residential Duke experience. organizations of all kinds—fraternities, For me, I believe that living amongst sororities, SLGs, even academic- or people that don’t necessarily look or think or Jackson Prince is a Trinity junior. He is the scholarship-based living situations—to socialize like me would have been beneficial reflect on their experiences of housing, to to my Duke experience. I also believe that Editorial Page Editor. housing since the model changed in 2012. A few weeks back, The Chronicle reported on homogeneous communities within Greek life through a deep data dive of their senior classes. A panel on “The Future of Housing at Duke” concluded that “the current housing model makes it difficult for students who live in independent housing to have a strong community.” And a data brief dated Sept. 21, 2017, “found that only 56 percent of Duke students graduating in 2017 agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that ‘Duke houses provide a sense of community and sense of belonging.’” Duke Students for Housing Reform was founded as a response to the resurgence of disjointed discussions about housing, with an eye out for 2019 and the departure of Central Campus. We want to synthesize these factors and craft informed responses to administration and the Board of Trustees.

defend their individual ideas and values regarding housing and, most importantly, to listen to other people’s residential experiences. We rarely afford ourselves the opportunity to listen to one another, independents and affiliates alike, and yet we expect a united, healthy Duke community to magically—gothically—create itself. While we stubbornly shut ourselves away from one another and lean back into the comforts of our insular communities (many of which are currently situated on a Central Campus doomed for destruction in two years), Dean Joe Gonzalez and a shortstaffed HRL will determine the future of West Campus, affecting all of us. There will be no self-determination. We’ll get what we get and we might be upset—and helpless. If you’re happy with the current housing model, you should share why that is the case with those people who are on the fence or

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