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Head Coach John Danowski picks up 400th career win

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A look at Trump’s legal situation Prof. Lisa Griffin breaks down how indictments of associates affect the president

By Shane Smith Staff Reporter

The start to any season can bring a lot of excitement to a team, but to a program eagerly wanting to move on from a devastating loss in last year’s national championship, a commanding win in the season opener for your head coach’s milestone victory means a whole lot more.

DUKE 17 The No. 2 Blue Devils were able to ride an assertive spurt during the 9 FU second and third quarters to gain their first win of the year against Furman Saturday night in Greenville, S.C. The win marked the 400th career victory for John Danowski in his 36th season as a collegiate head coach.

“I thought our guys were really excited to play,” Danowski told GoDuke.com. “It was a beautiful day today here in South Carolina. It was a nice crowd and a terrific opponent.”

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Pres. Price responds to biostatistics emails

By Sean Cho Senior News Reporter

Friday evening, President Vincent Price and 35 other members of the University’s leadership sent an email to all students, faculty and staff, in response to a controversy that erupted last weekend after a director of graduate studies sent an email telling students to not speak Chinese in the building.

The email addressed the biostatistics department’s controversy regarding Chinese-speaking masters students, as well as similar See EMAILS on Page 4

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Two important questions remain and Leonard B. Simon professor of as President Donald Trump begins his law—told The Chronicle that the legal third year in office. What have been some entanglements of Michael Cohen of the main legal in particular issues underlying stood out to her.

Everyone who has T r u m p ’ s According to entanglements in stated publicly that the admissions Cohen the past two years, investigation is about to wrap made in court, and where can we Cohen said he expect it to take us up has been wrong so far. was directed by in 2019? the president to lisa griffin pay two different Since Robert CANDACE M. CARROLL AND LEONARD B. Mueller was Stormy SIMON PROFESSOR OF LAW women, appointed as Daniels and special counsel Karen McDougal, overseeing the ongoing Russia in order to maintain their silence investigation, there have been 37 during the campaign. indictments—six of which were “Both of those payouts were associates of the president, including unrecorded, unauthorized campaign Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and, expenditures of $130,000 each,” Griffin most recently, Roger Stone. said. “The failure to document and Lisa Griffin—Candace M. Carroll account for campaign expenses is an

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offense, and the effort to conceal [those expenses] compounds the offense.”

In August 2018, Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty in a case handled by the United States attorney’s office in the southern district of New York, stating that Trump directed him to make the payments in order to quiet the women during the campaign. Trump has argued that the payments were under his personal expenditures.

Griffin said that it is highly unlikely for Trump, a sitting president, to undergo a criminal trial and be charged with a crime.

“It is true, though, that the president was named as a criminal actor and as a co-conspirator, [or], an un-indicted coconspirator,” Griffin said.

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Jake Satisky elected editor-in-chief of Chronicle V. 115 He plans to diversify The Chronicle’s coverage in a digital era.

“I will focus on innovating our content Sophomore Jake Satisky will serve as and engaging with our readers in new the editor-in-chief of The Chronicle’s ways,” Satisky said. “As we continue 115th volume. moving into a digital sphere, we should In a staff-wide election Friday evening, think of ourselves as more than just a members of The Chronicle chose traditional newspaper.”

Satisky to follow junior Bre Bradham as Aiming to expand the types of content, editor and president Satisky added that of the Duke Student I will focus on innovating our he wants to include Publishing Company, different forms of Inc., the publisher of the content and engaging with media like video and independent, student-run our readers in new ways. more feature stories daily newspaper. in The Chronicle.

Satisky will begin his “I want to focus jake satisky EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ELECT on the untold stories one-year tenure as editor-inchief April 24. The Raleigh, at Duke, and I want to N.C., native currently revitalize Towerview, heads the university news department and our news magazine,” he said. is majoring in public policy with a minor in Satisky noted that he also wants to expand computer science. He was previously a staff See SATISKY on Page 4 reporter in the university news department.

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Sujal Manohar | Photography Editor Satisky is a sophomore from Raleigh, North Carolina, and he will be the editor-in-chief for The Chronicle’s 115th volume.

How does Duke prepare for a recession?

Tre Jones shuts down Shamorie Ponds

Socioeconomic class isn’t a competition

As experts brace for a possible pullback, the University gets ready.

The freshman point guard held St. John’s leading scorer without a basket in the first half.

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Column: Tyler Goldberger argues that it’s time for low-income students to speak up.

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Real facts in real-time: Duke team works to make fact-checks faster

By Rose Wong Staff Reporter

A team of Duke students and faculty is developing a technology that will offer onscreen fact checks during television broadcasts of political events, just in time for the 2020 presidential election.

The product would first convert detected audio to text, then match the politician or political pundit’s claim to previously published fact checks drawn from a database. Finally, the fact check will be displayed onscreen for viewers, according to Bill Adair, project director and Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

“I think live fact-checking has the potential to disrupt the political discourse in a significant way,” Adair said. “If politicians know that every word they utter is being automatically factchecked, they will definitely be more careful.”

As part of the Duke Tech and Check Cooperative, a $1.2 million project to automate fact-checking, the project involves a team of journalism faculty, computer scientists and undergraduate and graduate students.

The project builds on an app called FactStream, another product developed by the Duke Tech and Check Cooperative. During the 2018 State of the Union address, FactStream users viewed live manual fact checks of the president’s claims, according to an article by the Duke Reporter’s Lab. Last summer through Data+, a 10week summer research program, three undergraduate students developed the first version of an automated pipeline that matched audio-converted texts to existing fact checks, said Jun Yang, the team’s faculty co-lead and a professor of computer science.

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development of the automated pipeline, which will be tested in the State of the Union address Tuesday, according to Yang.

Yang said that the Tuesday test will be halfautomated, half-manual. An algorithm will transcribe Trump’s words and draw relevant fact checks from a database powered by the Washington Post, FactCheck.org and Politifact, a Pultizer Prize-winning fact-checking organization founded by Adair.

Monitoring the livestream, human factcheckers will curate the potential matches and make corrections before submitting a summary of the fact check and a URL of the relevant source onto FactStream, Yang explained.

In October 2018, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the user experience of onscreen fact-checking, according to an article by the Neiman Lab.

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The sample group of 15 Republicans, Democrats and Independents watched fourminute excerpts of speeches by Barack Obama and Donald Trump, which had been modified to include onscreen fact checks.

The article stated that participants unanimously agreed that they would like live onscreen fact checks during broadcasted political events.

Participants also provided feedback on the display of the fact checks, saying that they prefer fact checks appearing on the bottom of the screen rather than in one of the corners and that fact checks should appear one to two seconds following the statement.

The Tech and Check Cooperative aims to offer the product on live television by the upcoming presidential election, but the team will need to overcome certain challenges before

then, Yang explained.

“From a technological standpoint, automated live fact-checking with human vetting can be done by the presidential election,” Yang said. “But from a more business standpoint, it is not clear whether networks will commit to carrying that additional signal.”

Wary of letting an outside vendor control what appears on their screen, television networks may be concerned with the risk of an inaccurate fact check, or viewers assuming the information was a political attack, according to the Associated Press.

Adair suggested that viewer demand could successfully persuade networks.

“I hope television networks would see the value in doing this,” Adair said. “What we heard when we did the tests was that viewers really like this feature, and that many of them would choose television networks that have this feature over networks that do not.”

Nonetheless, Adair said that the goal of the project extends beyond the presidential election.

“Our goal is to empower democracy,” Adair said. “We’re trying to give people accurate information about what their politicians are saying, so they are making wise decisions when they vote.”

Junior Ethan Holland, a member of the Data+ team last summer, said that working on the fact-checking project inspired him to pursue computer science within the journalism field.

“There’s so much data being collected all the time. If you have the computer science skills to collect, clean and analyze it, it could allow journalists to write really good and interesting stories,” Holland said. “I think journalism does a lot of good, so if I can apply my computer science skills to journalism, I think that would be a really fulfilling career for me.”

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How is Duke preparing for a possible recession?

By Rose Wong Staff Reporter

As concerns about a potential upcoming recession grow, Duke has contingency plans to combat the effects of a potential economic downturn on the University.

Fears of an impending economic drawback have grown in recent years, with 82 percent of surveyed U.S. chief financial officers indicating they expected a recession to occur by the end of 2020, according to a recent Duke survey.

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Million dollars is how much Duke cut from its budget during the last recession So how is the University preparing for a potential pullback?

Duke University Management Company—which oversees the Duke Endowment—has been preparing for a recession and developed a strategy to alter its portfolio in case of economic woes, explained Tim Walsh, Duke’s vice president of finance.

A recession would also increase the demand for financial aid and limit Duke’s ability to create new programs.

“Regardless of families’ ability to pay, Duke will find ways to pay for it,” Walsh said.

“If there are more families who need financial

aid, Duke will just need to take more of its other money to pay for it.”

If there is an economic downturn, the University would also likely receive less revenue through philanthropy, Walsh added.

Although a tightened budget will limit investments in new initiatives, he said that Duke’s current programs would remain unaffected.

“We have a strong financial base for existing programs, which are very stably positioned,” Walsh said.

Amidst the 2008 recession, the University responded by aggressively reigning in spending. In February 2009, Duke created the Duke Administrative Reform Team program to decrease the University’s budget. DART mandated the switch to online pay statements, curtailed external hires and instituted a staff retirement incentive plan.

The three-year process of implementing the reforms aimed to cut Duke’s operating budget by $125 million, according to Duke Today. The program ended up cutting around $100 million from the University’s annual budget, said Patricia Morton— Trinity ‘77 and Board of Trustees member— at the Board’s recent open forum.

The Board discussed employing “aggressive oversight” when crafting the University budget “to ensure that excessive expenditure growth is not pursued,” according to the November meeting summary.

In the event of a recession, there would be a greater challenge searching for jobs and internships, said William Wright-Swadel, See RECESSION on Page 4

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Lawsuits allege Duke’s ‘negligence’ led to sex abuse at camp for sick kids who want to contribute their time and effort to benefit children with chronic medical conditions,” Duke’s response filed in one of the A trio of lawsuits allege that children were suits stated. “All defendants involved with the coerced into sexual acts by another child due camp exercised reasonable care and diligence in to “negligence” at the now-shuttered Camp their respective roles at the camp...”

Kaleidoscope, a camp for chronically sick The University declined to comment on children operated by Duke. the lawsuits.

The University denies the allegations— “Duke is committed to protecting “conspiracy to hide child sexual abuse that the privacy of minors and their families, took place as a result of their negligence”—that and will thus decline further comment came in a set of three on this lawsuit,” lawsuits filed in 2017 Duke is committed to Michael Schoenfeld, and last week, which protecting the privacy of vice president for were first reported by public affairs and minors and their families... government relations, IndyWeek.

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University Children’s Hospital for observation, Richard Riddell, senior vice president and according to the allegations, where one of the secretary to the Board of Trustees, did not boys told a psychiatry fellow that they were respond in time for publication to an email “sucking on each other [sic] penises.” asking if the discussion had to do with the A week later, IndyWeek reported, Duke allegations about Camp Kaleidoscope and shuttered Camp Kaleidoscope. what specifically was discussed. Schoenfeld “Camp Kaleidoscope has operated for over wrote that the “committee discussion was 30 years and provides a free camp experience for not about any specific incident but the issue Duke patients and is entirely staffed by volunteers in general.”

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TRUMP FROM PAGE 1 If Trump loses the 2020 election, the charges could be brought up against him after he leaves office, since the statute of limitations for most federal offenses is five years, she explained.

“If [Trump] does not win re-election, in January of 2021, when he leaves office, the statute of limitations will not yet have run on those offenses and he could be charged,” Griffin said. “That said, I think it is still highly unlikely that we will ever see a criminal trial of the president. I think it is possible that he will negotiate a plea or an immunity deal or pardon that precludes a criminal trial.”

Impeachment as a viable form of punishment also seems exceedingly unlikely, given that impeachment is a political concept rather than a legal one, Griffin said. She added that it is implausible that the currently Republican-controlled Senate would vote to convict Trump.

“There are still a number of ways in which the president, the president’s businesses, the president’s financial interest and the president’s family face jeopardy,” Griffin said. “The same concerns that would apply to a sitting president, of course, do not apply to [a] member of his family nor do they apply to potential charges involving the Trump Organization’s business activities which [increasingly] seem to include money-laundering.”

Due to how secretive, leak-free and unpredictable the special counsel has been thus far, it is almost impossible to predict where the investigation will go next.

“Everyone who has stated publicly that the investigation is about to wrap up has been wrong so far,” Griffin said.

The special counsel’s office could issue more indictments, or they could issue a report detailing the findings so far.

There has been even more uncertainty since Trump nominated William Barr, former Attorney General in the first Bush administration, to replace Jeff Sessions in December 2018.

Barr, who has yet to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, had previously written a memo that was skeptical about the Mueller investigation, specifically criticizing Mueller’s inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice as being “fatally

misconceived.” At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Barr said it was “vitally important” for Mueller to be able to finish the investigation.

Griffin points out that Mueller’s report may not necessarily become publicly available and certainly wouldn’t be publicly available in its entirety.

“The special counsel’s regulations require Robert Mueller to issue his report to the justice department [first],” she said.

“Most likely he will be issuing that report to attorney general [William] Barr after his confirmation, and then the attorney general will issue a report summarizing those findings. Perhaps there are some things he may choose not to report.”

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events that have recently occurred at Duke.

“Over the past year, we have experienced a series of events that have been exhausting and hurtful for many, most recently students from China who were criticized for using their native tongue in a social space,” the email read. “These events are not restricted to one school or group—to a disturbing degree, they are widespread on our campus.”

The message came in response to an email sent by Megan Neely, assistant professor and former director of graduate studies for the Master of Biostatistics program, last weekend. In her email, Neely told students that two faculty members had complained about students speaking Chinese “very loudly” and asked to write down their names, in case they applied to work with them in the future.

Neely then urged students to speak only English on campus to avoid “unintended consequences” against their academic and professional endeavors.

Controversy has erupted since the release of screenshots of the email, leading to major national news outlets covering the story, as well as Neely’s apology and resignation from her role as director. Neely remains on the faculty as an assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics.

After reiterating Duke’s Statement of Diversity and Inclusion and affirming the importance of valuing the identities of everyone on campus, the email ended on a hopeful note.

“Our excellence is built on the experiences and perspectives of each person,” the email read. “And all of us—leaders, students, faculty and staff—must hold ourselves accountable for strengthening this community so it lives up to its great promise.”

RECESSION FROM PAGE 3 the Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Duke Career Center and assistant vice president of student affairs.

“Unlike the last [recession], the market will first be affected in the internship pool,” Wright-Swadel said. “Students’ ability to get experience will be challenged.”

He advised students to take advantage of programs such as DukeEngage and DukeImmerse.

“The University has created a significant number of programs in the last eight or 10 years for students to get practical experience, which should help our students be prepared for potential downturns in our markets,” Wright-Swadel said.

In the anticipation of a recession, many students may consider enrolling in graduate school rather than entering the workforce upon graduation, but he reminded students that graduate school is not an automatic solution.

“If a student is going to graduate school because of a recession, they need to be really strategic about what experience it’s going to add and in what ways it’s going to enhance their story, while not pricing themselves out of a market that they want to be in,” WrightSwadel said.

The Duke Career Center has begun implementing preventative measures to soften a recession’s blow to students, such as diversifying their portfolio of employers, he added. This will “increase the range of employers that students engage with.”

Wright-Swadel said that since the 2008 recession, the undergraduate Career Center has also strengthened its partnership with career centers across all schools within the University, thus providing undergraduates with a wider support network.

“Nothing will completely insulate our students, but I think we got a lot as an institution and a Career Center to make our response to a downturn agile,” he said.

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Bradham emphasized Satisky’s dedication to The Chronicle.

“He has a great vision for what The Chronicle should look like as a digitalfirst news organization and for the type of community he wants to build here,” Bradham said.

She added that he has been a “great reporter and editor” who has consistently taken on challenging stories and been a mentor to new writers.

News Editor Isabelle Doan, a junior, said she watched Satisky develop as a journalist since his first year at Duke.

“I think Jake is the kind of outgoing person who will breathe new life into this office,” Doan said. “I’ve known him since the beginning of his first year at Duke, and I think he has grown into a great journalist.”

Doan added that Satisky has a good plan for streamlining the news department editing process.

Junior Lexi Kadis, who currently serves as a senior editor and is also from Raleigh, N.C., knew Satisky before he came to Duke.

“From the moment he joined The Chronicle, Jake worked really hard to get to know the staff,” Kadis said. “Having good relationships with the people he works with will benefit him greatly during his tenure as editor.”

Kadis said that she thinks Satisky’s interpersonal skills will help him lead the various departments of the paper.

Junior Winston Lindqwister, sports managing editor, said he thinks Jake will be a great leader next year.

“He’s always taking great interest in everything going on, so I look forward to working with Jake in a sports setting or just seeing him in the office on print nights,” he said. “I can’t think of a better person to take up the mantle after Bre.” One of Satisky’s goals for next year is to reach out to the “untapped talent of Duke” to get more students involved with The Chronicle.

“I want to really expand recruiting and bring people into The Chronicle who didn’t think that The Chronicle was the best outlet for their skill sets and give them the keys to thrive,” Satisky said.

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Duke storms past St. John’s, avenges last season’s 81-77 upset at Madison Square Garden

By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

Almost one year ago to the day, an unranked St. John’s team toppled thenNo. 4 Duke 81-77, led by a herculean 33-point effort from Red Storm point guard Shamorie Ponds.

Saturday afternoon, the Blue Devils took on an unranked St. John’s squad that relies on Ponds for offense once again. However, the Red Storm were not so lucky Saturday, and No. 2 Duke dismantled St. John’s 91-61.

Zion Williamson had eight points in the final two minutes of the 61 opening SJU period DUKE 91 to give the Blue Devils a 10-point advantage heading into the locker room and Duke would open up a 20-point advantage early in the second period.

While Williamson stole the show with 29 points and numerous highlight slams, it was the play of point guard Tre Jones which led to the lopsided showing on the scoreboard.

With three minutes remaining in the first half and just a two-point Blue Devil lead, Jones stole the ball from Ponds, and took it himself for a right-handed layup to make the score 37-33. The Jones takeaway incited a 26-6 run spanning both periods that gave Duke a 61-39 lead, leaving no doubt of the game’s outcome just a few moments into the second half. The Blue Devil freshman completely shut down Ponds, who was held scoreless by Jones in the first half, missing all five of his attempts in the period. “[Tre] understands the value of his defense,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It’s not a personal stat, but if he’s doing his job, then they’re going to shoot under 40 percent. He’s as good at defense as anybody

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Tre Jones shut down one of the nation’s most prolific scoring guards, Shamorie Ponds, Saturday in the Blue Devils’ blowout of St. John’s. else in the country.”

“How does he play defense like that?” Blue Devil forward R.J. Barrett said. “I’m trying to learn.”

It was not until nearly five minutes into the second half that Ponds, who averaged 20.9 points per contest heading into Saturday afternoon, connected on his first field goal, with his team already in a 24-point hole.

“I just wanted to come out and set the tone defensively from the start,” Jones said.

“He’s their best player and the key to their team, so I know if I was able to affect how he is playing, then that would have a big effect on their team.”

Despite an early scoring barrage from Marvin Clark II, who had nine points at the

game’s first media timeout, St. John’s was unable to recover from the lockdown defensive effort from Jones.

The Blue Devils (19-2) opened the game on an absolute tear—Duke scored on each of its first five possessions. Jones immediately proved his worth on the offensive end as well.

To begin the contest, he found Cam Reddish on the left wing for a 3-pointer, before making a shot from beyond the arc himself the ensuing possession.

Reddish had perhaps his strongest half of the season, with 13 points in the opening period. In addition to strong outside shooting, the Norristown, Pa., native finally looked confident creating his own offense, and got to

the line on a fast break drive on two occasions.

Reddish’s 16 points marked his best output since his 23 points against Florida State Jan. 12, and he had shot just 22.2 percent in his last four contests.

“Instead of just having him focusing on shooting, I’ve tried to say, ‘Look, you’re a good basketball player. Just play, and the scoring will come,’” Krzyzewski said. “And it’s come, and he’s on an upward trend.”

As Duke frequently does, it practically ran the Red Storm (16-6) out of the building at the end of the first half, grabbing a comfortable 10-point advantage by halftime.

With Jones dominating defensively for Duke, it was Williamson who made everything happen on offense. The fellow freshman tallied another extremely efficient performance, shooting 76.5 percent from the field, and caused Cameron Indoor to shake on numerous occasions as Williamson added five more dunks to his ledger.

Following a solid seven-point, six-rebound night against Notre Dame Monday, Blue Devil center Marques Bolden impressed again, with 10 points and six rebounds on 4-of-6 shooting.

Although Bolden struggled to keep up with the quicker Clarke in the beginning of the contest, the DeSoto, Texas, native recovered nicely, playing a key role in the huge Duke run that gashed the game open.

“Since Christmas break, he’s played so well,” Krzyzewski said. “It was beautiful what he was doing, and once we started defensive rebounding in the second half that’s when we blew it open.”

With the St. John’s game behind it, Duke officially has wrapped up its regular season nonconference slate. Next week, Duke will host Boston College Tuesday at 7 p.m. before traveling to face No. 3 Virginia Saturday evening in Charlottesville.

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Williamson displays physicality in 29-point showing

By Shane Smith Staff Writer

Teams have tried everything this year to limit Zion Williamson, and looking at his overwhelming highlights and National Player of the Year resume, it’s safe to say no one has cracked the code.

St. John’s forward Mustapha Heron thought he’d try to limit the star freshman by getting in his head and riling him up. Spoiler alert, it’s best not to wake a sleeping giant.

With the Red Storm getting as close as a two-point deficit, Williamson sparked the Blue Devils to victory by scoring 10 straight, pushing the Duke lead to double-digits at the halftime break.

For the Spartanburg, S.C., native, all he needed was a little spark.

That came with 11 minutes to go in the first half, when fellow classmate Cam Reddish

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Zion Williamson has showed an ability to adapt to the flow of any game as he turned on the intensity late in the first half Saturday. poked a loose ball down the court and drove the lane. St. John’s forward Marvin Clarke II

jumped with the freshman and hit him with a hard foul, which was determined through

review to be a flagrant one foul. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski ditched his blazer in an attempt to fire up the crowd and get the team going, a power move that the Hall of Famer has been using for years.

“It gets me pumped,” Williamson said.

“When Cam got fouled and he took the jacket off. He said, ‘Are you going to let them do that to your brothers?’ and we’re like ‘No sir, No sir.’ From there we started bringing the pressure to them.”

Then it was Heron, who right before an inbounds play stuck his hand on Williamson’s chest, which he brushed aside. When the transfer from Auburn put his hand onto that number 1 again, the referee had to come over and defuse the situation. It was one of many scrappy moments throughout the day from the two See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Blue Devils fall to Boston College in 2 overtimes

By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—After struggling in the third quarter in their effort to upset No. 13 Syracuse Sunday, the Blue Devils desperately needed to put four quarters together to keep from falling to 1-7 in the ACC. With only nine sets of legs available, Duke could not maintain early momentum and fell to Boston College in double overtime 92-90 Thursday night at DUKE 90 Conte Forum. The BC 92 Eagles made three straight buzzerbeaters, the final off the hands of Makayla Dickens with two seconds remaining in the second overtime to seal the victory for Boston College.

“Obviously we had a tough time with [Dickens]. Didn’t do a great job there,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “But again, just being focused together as a team is important and playing great defense...you have to get stops.”

Entering the final two minutes of the fourth quarter, Duke had a 65-61 lead.

A Boston College three gave the Blue Devils (9-11, 1-7 in the ACC) a one point advantage at 65-64. Duke made two straight defensive stops and had the ball with approximately 30 seconds remaining before Gorecki stepped out of bounds on the sideline to give the Eagles back the ball.

Boston College (14-7, 3-5) missed its attempt on the floor and the Blue Devils were able to corral the rebound. Freshman Onome Akinbode-James got the foul call and she went to the line for two shots to protect the Duke lead.

Akinbode-James missed both. But, a lane violation from the Eagles gave her another opportunity and she converted. The Blue Devils had a 66-64 lead with 25 seconds remaining in the game.

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Makayla Dickens knocked down a double just a few ticks before time expired in double overtime as Duke fell to 1-7 in the ACC Thursday.

Duke got the defensive stop but Boston College got the jump ball on the rebound.

They had six seconds to convert a shot. The first attempt did not go down but the rebound and second attempt went in at the buzzer, sending the game into overtime.

“Obviously a great basketball game. A really intense basketball game. Both teams played really hard. A really offensive basketball game—a lot of good attacking,” McCallie said. “I was really proud of our team’s fight and their attacking and how

we played. It came down basically you have to get a few stops in these offensive games. You have to stop people. And we didn’t do that.”

Three of the Eagles players had four fouls going into overtime, so the Blue Devils continued their strategy in the paint. Jade Williams hit two early free throws to give Duke the advantage but a floater and a three gave Boston College the 71-68 lead.

Haley Gorecki came through for the Blue Devils and hit two straight 3-point shots. The conversions improved her overall clip from 1-for-6 and gave Duke the 74-71 lead. The Blue Devils held on to a 76-75 lead until the Eagles converted another last second shot to give them the 77-76 lead with five seconds left in the game.

“It’s important to just control the tempo.

Take care of the ball, do the little things,” Gorecki said. “Making the extra pass for the easy shot. And rebounding. It was good that we won the boards. But just doing the little things is important.”

Gorecki was put on the line and hit one, sending the game into a second overtime.

She finished the game with her fifth doubledouble of the season, tacking on 24 points, half of which came in overtime. Gorecki played a career-high 50 minutes and corralled 14 rebounds.

Freshman Miela Goodchild provided the spark plug for the Blue Devils, finishing with 23 points and shooting 5-of-6 beyond the arc.

Her career performance was particularly vital to ending several Boston College runs in the first half.

Goodchild was perfect across all categories at the half, converting three triples, a couple free throws and a shot from the short corner.

She had 13 of Duke’s 34 points in the first half and was supplemented by eight points apiece from Gorecki and Leaonna Odom.

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Q&A with St. John’s athletics director Mike Cragg

By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor

St. John’s athletic director Mike Cragg was back in the familiar confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Red Storm’s 9161 defeat Saturday after spending 30 years working his way up through Duke’s athletic department, most notably as a deputy director of athletics under Kevin White and the senior administrator overseeing the Blue Devils’ men’s basketball program.

The Chronicle’s Hank Tucker sat down with Cragg Friday morning to discuss the biggest things he learned from his time in Durham and his first impressions of his new job after getting hired by St. John’s last September. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

The Chronicle: How does it feel to be back here where you worked 30 years with your own school this weekend?

Mike Cragg: It feels pretty surreal. Obviously

I’m familiar with the place, so I can go and get my cup of coffee where I need to go, but it’s great to be back and it’s fun to see the things that we’ve been a part of and maybe have a fresh appreciation.

TC: You worked under three athletic directors here. What did you learn from Tom Butters, Joe Alleva and Kevin White that you’ve taken into your job now?

MC: First and foremost, from Tom Butters, for giving me the opportunity to advance in my career at a young age—that means recognizing people in your organization, look for their strength that maybe nobody else sees, so I learned that. But also the number one thing from Tom Butters was the phrase of being in the kid business. Our student-athletes, at the end of the day, we’re here for them. We serve to better their education, to better their experience and help them perform at the best of their athletic skills, so I learned that from Tom Butters at an early age too, where he would always remind us, when you’re making decisions, make the

decision of what’s best for the kids.

With Kevin White, there’s no better athletic director in the country today in a very modern business-centric world that we live in. We’re here to serve the kids, we’re in the kid business, but you’re not naïve, and you can’t be to the fact that we’re in a very huge business. How you treat

people, but how also you focus on the brand, the experience, the opportunities in revenue, those are all vital to the success. There’s nobody better in the country than Kevin White at doing that in his career, so I think through his thinking See CRAGG on Page 8

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The teams continued to trade off taking the lead, but after some more effective 3-point shooting by Pittsburgh’s Cassidy Walsh, the Panthers ended the first quarter with a twopoint lead over the Blue Devils (10-11, 2-7 in the ACC).

Within seconds of the start of second quarter, Walsh continued to prove herself effective beyond the arc, making a 3-point look for the opposition. Pittsburgh (9-14, 0-9) dominated up through halfway into the second quarter, until a much-needed shot beyond the arc by Gorecki tied the teams up.

Duke came back on top after seven minutes of losing the lead and would never look back. Shooting picked up a lot more in the latter half of the second quarter, and the Blue Devils put up a streak of eight successful

shots over the Panthers.

Three-point shooting became more notable for the Blue Devils, as Goodchild went 4-for-6 in the first half, putting the Blue Devils up to an overall 55.6 shooting percentage from deep.

Overall, Duke went into the locker room at the end of the half with a more promising ninepoint lead.

“Miela gets on herself so I know her frustration’s on her shot, but seeing the ball go in is one of the best things for a shooter,” said Gorecki. “When she’s knocking them down, I’m happy for her.”

Coming back out onto the court, the Panthers proved their spirits were not at all beat, and Walsh kicked off the second half with another triple. However, just like the opening period, the second half also began with a very

slow start as the Blue Devils lost the momentum they had gained right before halftime.

Within six minutes of the third quarter, Duke only put up two points while Pittsburgh fought back with eight points of their own, cutting the deficit to three. After the Blue Devils missed eight shots in a row, Odom came through and broke Duke’s four-minute silence, with a lay-up followed by a free throw.

The Blue Devils quickly picked up the pace in the latter minutes of the third quarter, and the tables were turned as they held the Panthers down from shooting for almost six minutes.

“I think the players just stepped it up. I liked our poise I thought we had both offensive and defensive poise when that lead was cut, and we were able to drive it the other way and drive it hard which is important,” said McCallie. “When you can drive it hard you need to separate and that was a really good separation of execution on both sides of the ball.”

Going into the final quarter of the contest, Duke had a 12-point lead against Pittsburgh.

The Blue Devils continued to control the court, and Williams put up some good shots.

However, the Panthers kept on fighting, cutting Duke’s lead down to seven points. But the Blue Devils were even stronger, closing the game out with a 17-point edge.

The Blue Devils have a big game up ahead, as they will look to travel to Chapel Hill next as they take on the Tobacco Road rivals. In the next coming weeks, Duke will play four out of five games away from home.

“Records or anything else is not of our interest right now, the only interest we have is that we need to be better on Thursday than we were today,” said McCallie. “We need to get after it and be better and take it out on the road again, it will be good for us to do that.

It’s a process.”

every single coach, every single student-athletes, every single person, and we accomplished that.

If you look around, there’s not a program that’s not touched by what we did over the last eight years, so that’s what I’m most proud of.

I think people going into that felt like they’re doing for football, or they’re doing this for basketball, and it couldn’t have been further from the truth. We did it for football and basketball, but we did it for all of the student-athletes, so I’m excited for the future of Duke athletics in the next 5-10 years when these infrastructure facilities are really going to create huge dividends as world-class athletes come here and want to be trained here and be a part of an educational experience second to none.

TC: What made this the right time and the right fit to leave?

MC: I’ve always said it has to be the right fit, and you’ll know it when it is. For us, St. John’s clearly was that, a school where athletics are important in the big picture for the university, obviously a focus on men’s basketball in particular. There’s a lot of work to be done in fundraising and increasing revenues, and at the end of the day, it’s about the quality of kids and the teaching that goes on and the coaching, just like at Duke. St. John’s has that same importance, so as we’ve met people, they’ve been terrific and

it’s been a great decision.

TC: What kind of challenges do you have with revenues and branding without having a football team?

MC: There’s a whole lot of challenges, but we’re in a great place of opportunity in New York City, Madison Square Garden, Big East, so we’re at a place where we’re competing with nine other schools in the Big East that are all coming at it from a very similar way, so the football factor isn’t a factor in that none of the schools really have that. Villanova does, but none of the schools have that, so it’s all a matter of how our institution’s priorities can make it the best it can be, so I see it as we’re on 10 equal playing fields.

With Madison Square Garden, we have something very unique in all of college athletics.

In New York City, we have something very unique, so using your assets to be the best you can be, those are appealing opportunities, so for us being able to capitalize on that with fundraising and organization, we can do that.

Those are the things we did here at Duke.

TC: How does a big game at the Garden compare to a big game at Cameron?

MC: Totally different. The good news is I’ve seen lots of big games in the Garden for Duke, so I know it’s a magical place, but there’s nothing like Cameron. We have an on-campus

arena that seats about 5,200, so for us, we need to make that a loud, fun place for students, active, so we have that opportunity as well.

We kind of have the best of both worlds. We have on campus and then MSG. There’s only one Cameron in the world, but there’s only one MSG in the world, so I think that’s been a successful formula for Duke to have that as a quote ”home court” for the last 20 years once a year. Now, we have the opportunity that that could be our home court for our Big East season, and we’ll create some big nonconference games as well, so we’ll expand our relationship with the Garden.

TC: You’ve only been in New York for a few months, but is St. John’s a place where you feel like you could spend the rest of your career?

MC: Yeah, for sure. The people are great, the school is a very intentional opportunity for all that want to be educated. The example of our basketball team, we have a lot of kids that have transferred from other schools, but they want to be educated and they want to have an opportunity. The same thing applies to the whole entire university. There’s a lot of transfers, it’s very diverse, it’s a multicultural campus, so we love that as a family. We’re very proud of being at St. John’s, and that’s what you want to be. Can you see yourself there? I’m proud to be there every day, so the answer’s yes.

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Entering the contest with a lowly 1-7 conference record, the Blue Devils found success against a foe it has dominated of late.

Duke defeated Pittsburgh, 74-55, in an initially back and forth game Sunday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils had a slow start but came back by the end of the first half and held that momentum until the end, extending their win streak against the Panthers to 10.

After a nail-biting contest with Boston College—one that brought season or career highs for numerous players—redshirt junior Haley Gorecki and 55 freshman PITT Miela DUKE 74 Goodchild stood out Sunday. Goodchild delivered as the contest’s leading scorer with 20 points, while Gorecki finished off with the eighth triple-double in Duke women’s basketball history.

“I’d like to know who has played 50 minutes and then followed the next game with a tripledouble,” said head coach Joanne P. McCallie.

“That might be an extraordinary stat to look at. I was concerned for Haley in terms of body and banging and I thought that she really handled that well.”

The contest started off with a bucket

by Pittsburgh’s Cara Judkins, but the Blue Devils quickly responded with a layup by Jade Williams. The teams went back and forth to make attempts at the basket, but the score remained at 2-2 for the first three minutes of the game.

It was a sloppy start for both Duke and the Panthers, as the players struggled finishing their shots.

CRAGG FROM PAGE 7 virtually every day, and now being in the chair, that’s made me look at it even differently.

Then obviously with Coach K, there’s no more important influence in my life day to day, on and off my job than Coach K. A day definitely doesn’t go by that I don’t think about while I was here and since I’ve been gone of how he would look at something at the highest level, and again always looking at it as opportunities. He beyond anybody else, if there’s a vision for what can be done, then it can be done, and he lives that every day here at Duke basketball. I think I lived that every day here at Duke basketball and it’s how I live at St. John’s athletics now.

TC: When you walk around here and you see the state of the men’s basketball program and look at the facilities you helped manage, what are you proudest of accomplishing in all your roles at Duke?

MC: I think I’m most proud of just being able to provide the best possible opportunities for the student-athletes at Duke, especially through facilities. When we set out with the Bostock Group and all the efforts to have a master facilities plan, which by the way, we’re going to do at St. John’s, is that we were going to impact

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W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 7 “Miela plays super hard. Not only in making her shots but also defensively she was super,” McCallie said. “I also thought Haley was super. Jade did some nice things, especially being in foul trouble. Talk about a limited bench, we also had foul trouble...you just have to keep attacking.”

Duke returned home to take on Pittsburgh Sunday and won 74-55 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Panthers are the only team in the ACC that have not won a conference game and the victory kept the Blue Devils from falling to last place in the conference.

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 1 Searching for new leadership after the departure of All-American Justin Guterding, Duke may have found it in sophomore Joe Robertson, who tallied four goals and an assist on the night. He was aided on the night with hat tricks from both sophomore Cam Badour and senior C.J. Carpenter, who missed all of last season due to injury.

It was a slow start for the Danowski’s squad, as they found themselves only up 6-4 over the unranked Paladins with the first half coming to a close. It was Carpenter and Badour, however, who scored back to back goals in just 31 seconds to put Duke up four.

Furman would answer when Carson Sorrells made a strong drive to the net and finished through a penalty, but the Blue Devils would

fire right back, as Nakeie Montgomery—a star of last year’s title game run—sent a beautiful cross crease pass to Robertson to finish off an easy goal.

“I thought Cam Badour really handled himself very well. Certainly scoring three goals is terrific and there’s much room for improvement,” Danowski said.

Duke (1-0) would go on to score the first five goals of the third quarter to put the visitors up 14-5 and effectively end the game. The Paladins would go on to score three straight of their own, but Robertson ended any hope with a bounce shot that just snuck in the top left corner over the stick of goalie Alec Van de Bovenkamp.

“I was really blown away a little bit by the pace of the game,” Danowksi noted. “Both teams played so hard for a February 2nd game. I was very impressed with Furman, with their size, how they came after us. But, very impressed with our ability to move the ball on offense and come up with some timely stops.”

Furman (0-1) was led by Sorrells and senior William Holcomb, who each had two goals, but failed to spark their team when it mattered most. The Paladins did not convert any of their three extra man situations, and despite keeping it close in the first half, were outshot 28 to 12 over the first two periods.

Out of the 400 wins for Danowski, 181 of them have come in Durham since he took over in 2007. The three time national champion has also coached at C.W. Post and Hofstra, where he spent 20 years. Danowski is just the third head coach to reach the 400 win plateau over all collegiate divisions.

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steal and thunderous slam—two of his 29 points on the night, coming on a 13-for17 performance from the floor. St. John’s would briefly cut the Duke advantage to single digits to start the second half, but never got close enough.

“It wasn’t a 10-point game, but it was because of that explosion,” Krzyzewski said.

“We play defense. We scored a few buckets tonight on our denial. In the first half we got a couple and [the dunk] was a big one.”

Those are the type of moments and situations that the projected top-overall pick FROM PAGE 6 feeds on, which gave him extra motivation teams, as the veteran Red Storm team to get going. With the crowd picking up and looked to win the mental battle over Williamson locked in, it was easy to sense Duke’s freshmen. that another classic Cameron run was about “He put [his hand] back and the ref to occur. was like ‘Hey, you can’t do that, you With chippy plays coming left and right can only put your forearm.’ I think it from the Red Storm, Williamson thought just shows the physicality of the game,” back to his younger days when he was nine Williamson said. years old. He remembered how he would Physicality is one of the first things play pick up with the adults in a local park, people notice about the 6-foot-7, and how they would bully him on the court, 285-pounder, but it goes both ways, as making him stronger mentally. defenders try to gain any edge possible “They said if you want to make it big, to slow down Williamson, whether it’s you’ve got to be mentally tough,” Williamson an arm bar on the inbounds or getting recalls. “When I get in a physical battle like bodied in the post. that, I think it elevates my game and I think “They all try to physically challenge it makes me a better player.” me,” Williamson noted. “They’ll try to If there was any question of whether or give me a bump to see how I react. But, not the young Blue Devils were mentally some people will get caught off guard, ready for this stretch of the season or not only am I strong, I’m quick. So, then not, it’s been answered, and Duke’s latest it’s a lot to keep up with. But, every team phenom will be the stalwart for a team does try to play me physical.” getting ready for its toughest stretch of With the Blue Devils leading 37- the season. The Blue Devils have four 33 with just over two minutes to go, consecutive matchups against currentlyWilliamson found his stride. He made ranked opponents looming, starting with New York Corporation a trio The of layups, hitTimes two Syndication foul shots, Sales a rematch against No. 3 Virginia next 620 Eighth 10018in Charlottesville, Va. and then capped off Avenue, the halfNew withYork, a N.Y. Saturday

It’s been a thrill to work with young men, whether it was at C.W. Post, or at Hofstra, or here at Duke. I’ve been very lucky along the way and to work with some great men,” Danowski acknowledged.

The Blue Devils will return to Koskinen Stadium for their home opener when they welcome High Point Wednesday. Then, all eyes will shift to a pivotal matchup with No. 8 Denver a week later at home.

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alph Northam, the current Democratic governor of Virginia, is currently facing demands for his resignation in response to a racist photograph from his medical school years that was included on his yearbook page. In his page from the Eastern Virginia Medical School’s 1984 yearbook, reporters have identified a photograph that depicts a young man in blackface and another dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes. Northam immediately issued an apology, admitting that he was one of the individuals in the yearbook before recanting his statement.

Despite his statement on Friday, Northam now denies that either of the individuals in the yearbook is him, but does admit that he apparently did once darken his face for a Michael Jackson impersonation contest in 1984. The incident has resulted in nationwide calls for his resignation from the likes of fellow Democrats such as Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which Northam has responded to swiftly by saying that he would continue to serve the state of Virginia despite his past actions.

As a moderate Democrat in a state that is characterized by a deep partisan divisions, Governor Northam has generally supported liberal causes, from backing reproductive rights to advocating for more stringent gun control policies. Regardless of party lines and his voting record, Northam’s actions are yet

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another instance in the long legacy of racism in the United States. Coincidentally, Duke alum Justin Fairfax would become Northam’s successor if he ultimately does step down from the governorship. Fairfax made headlines last month when he was the lone state official to sit out during Virginia’s annual tribute to Robert E. Lee. He later commented that it was disrespectful to partake in the ceremony given Lee’s connection to the

to widely be seen as a cultural practice that is outright racist. If Northam’s misdeeds were revealed while he was practicing medicine, it might be tempting to say that he should simply be ousted from his position, but that may not be the best course of action when trying to address a history that is as storied and controversial as the United States.

It is reassuring that the American people from all walks of life have issued calls for Northam’s resignation. One need only go back several decades to find individuals who committed egregious crimes and were let off the hook, either by a lack of accountability of our political institutions or due to the human Confederacy and the legacy of institutional racism in tendency to immortalize the dead and focus on the the United States post-slavery. positive aspects of a public figure’s life. President Unfortunately, scandals of this nature will John F. Kennedy sexually harassed numerous women undoubtedly happen again whether it be a public while Senator Ted Kennedy was driving the car in official or a celebrity of some sort. If we look back at any an accident that resulted in his secretary dead in a yearbook, we are bound to find fault with a photo done in lake—both Kennedy brothers received relative wristpoor taste or something outright abhorrent. A page from slaps for their offenses. Prominent white men getting the 1956 Chanticleer, for instance, contains a photograph away with killing, sexual assault and racism are not of merry white Duke students dressed in yellow-face at an anomalies in our current political system; they make “Oriental”-themed frat party—nearly fifty years before up the legacy that the United States has struggled to 2013’s “Asia Prime” incident. address for centuries.

As a society we are left to grapple with the aftermath If Ralph Northam is in the business of making amends of numerous scandals involving race and personal ethics in response to past racism, he should step down and let which call into question the merits of call-out culture. Fairfax occupy the Executive Mansion in Richmond.

We must ask ourselves how much time is necessary First and foremost, elected officials are supposed to before one ought to step back from the spotlight, and represent their constituents in good faith to the best of what exactly must be done by the transgressor to ensure their ability. If at any point, they lose the confidence of that the harm caused is repaired. Northam was an adult the people they serve, they have a responsibility to do man in medical school when he decided to dress up and what is right: to abdicate authority. appear in the photo, which he originally said he was This was written by The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, in. Although a commonly accepted comedic practice which is made up of student members from across the from the 1850s to the 1950s, blackface has since come University and is independent of the editorial staff.

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Confronting being a low SES student

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aybe the taboo is finally broken.

Not only do students with low socioeconomic status (SES) exist on campus, but we have a voice, too.

I have spent a large part of my Duke experience coming to terms with my status as a low SES student.

Duke’s campus serves a constant reminder of wealth (and lack thereof)—from the $95 million restoration of West Union over my first year to the annual four percent increase in tuition to the $8.5 billion endowment that Duke proudly displays at any and all opportunities.

Due to the juxtaposition between Duke’s commitment to parading its expansive wealth in front of the world and my financial background, I often feel isolated living in this type of environment.

However, it is not just the institution itself that creates these feelings of solitude. In fact, I find that I normally experience the largest insecurities surrounding my financial status when spending time with peers. Let’s face it—49 percent of Duke students are able to pay the full, ever-increasing price of attending this university.

The median household income of Duke students sits at around $186,700. About 20 percent of Duke students have families who make over $630,000. Over 70 percent of Duke students have families who make over $100,000.

And then there’s me, and my family’s annual income, which places me in a bracket with approximately the

Tyler Goldberger GUEST COLUMNIST bottom four percent of Duke students.

The vacations I cannot take, the meals I cannot eat off campus, the books professors require without a second thought, the extra work shifts I need to pick up because I am always thinking about what I will need to purchase next. The awkward dinners where friends boast about their extravagant travel, the burden of knowing that laundry cannot be covered by my generous financial aid donors, the extensive research and application processes to apply for summer grants to be afforded the same opportunities as many other, wealthier students on this campus. The uncomfortable conversations where food points are not considered “real money” even though I depend on them to eat, the brushing off of comments that “I am so lucky” to be on full financial aid without confronting what it actually means, the quiet shrug when people question

why I work so many jobs. These are the realities of a low SES Duke student. Not just on the weekends, or in one class, or in one social organization, but every day at a university that mutes dialogue which actively challenges the perception of low SES students.

Many of us share these experiences of embarrassment, shame and discomfort. Of stress, anxiety and uncertainty. So, we should not tear each other down when we all struggle with certain aspects of being a low SES student. We should not assert our financial burden over burdens that impact other students. Instead, we should validate our peers’ concerns related to their personal challenges of existing on a campus where low SES identities are often neglected. We should say “yes, and…” to validate that low SES status impacts you and me in similar and different ways. We should stand together to amplify our voices to bring a greater understanding to students who cannot empathize with the struggles of being a low SES student at Duke.

I will admit it: I am guilty. I am guilty of hearing a prestigious private high school that my peers attended and rolling my eyes without a second thought. I am guilty of stereotyping certain groups of people based on their perceived wealth. I am guilty of assuming the worst intentions of those I know who come from an extremely wealthy background. These are guilts that I am actively working to fix, although admittedly not easily, because I know it is not fair to judge my peers based on their income bracket.

On the other end, however, I am not guilty of poor budgeting. Or prioritizing my social life over the legitimate financial burdens I face as a low SES student. Or perpetually spending irresponsibility. Or invalidating the struggles of other low SES students on this campus. Or for being in my current financial state.

Or questioning why I could not be a part of Duke’s wealthy sector. Or blaming my loved ones for the support and community they fostered for me growing up. Because I do not deserve to be judged or invalidated based on my income bracket, either.

It has taken me four years to come to terms with this part of my identity on campus and find my voice; to confront my struggles and incorporate these lived experiences into who I am. I am proud of the low SES community which has started to raise its voice, and I can only hope that this dialogue persists and develops so that we normalize and validate our peers regardless of their financial background coming into Duke.

Tyler Goldberger is a Trinity senior.

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Activism isn’t supposed to be comfortable

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The compostable utensils you’re using are probably not much good for the environment

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n Oct. 2, Kanye West tweeted a photo of sautéed insects captioned, “My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer. No more fear.” The picture was utterly horrifying.

No, it’s not the bugs that were disgusting.

It was the plastic to-go box holding them.

Plastics undeniably pose a profound danger to our environment and ourselves.

A conglomeration of hundreds of compounds, plastics are known to contain molecules that interrupt our hormones and cause cancer, in addition to housing numerous unstudied substances.

Thankfully, more and more organizations are trying to reduce our dependence on plastic, including our own campus. In July, Duke University slapped a campus-wide ban on disposable plastics, opting for containers made of compostable, plant-based material. And in September, Duke Student Government went further, approving a 25 cent “responsible diner fee” on disposable containers given out on

Neither of these are equipped to compost our new “eco-friendly” garbage.

Disappointing, yes, but at least we can fall back on Duke’s new 25 cent tax on togo boxes, right? The fee should deter people from using disposable products in the first place, right?

Sadly, this too is a bit more complicated than it seems. The reusable to-go container may not be as environmentally friendly as intended. A Danish study found that reusable cotton bags would need to be used 7,100 times just to match the carbon footprint of single-use plastic bag! Making a single-use plastic bag requires far less energy and produces far lower carbon dioxide emissions. So while Duke’s reusable container option may at first seem like an obviously better alternative to single-use containers, it’s not necessarily so.

Moreover, the new fee is what economists call a “regressive tax”: it’s hardest on the people who have the least money. On a campus where 51 percent of the student population is on financial aid,

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campus, aimed at encouraging students to use a “reusable” to-go box instead.

By the start of the school year, vendors were using to-go boxes made of sugarcane fiber. We got disposable utensils labeled “Compostable,” made from a corn-based plastic called polylactic acid, or “PLA.” We are on track to receive our reusable to-go boxes next semester. It seems like great news for the environment all around, right?

Not so fast.

The manufacturer’s description of the PLA fork used on campus reveals that it is compostable in “commercial compost, but unfortunately not in your home compost.”

This warning can be found on other PLA objects at Duke. Even the sugarcane boxes must be commercially composted in order to turn into soil.

Commercial composting involves mixing the plant-based containers and utensils with carbon, water, oxygen, and nitrogen. Bacteria also play an important role, munching down these plastics but only if the temperature is high enough— often as high as 160 degrees. This special environment of heat, gases, and microbes is impossible to find at landfills.

Turns out, Duke’s “eco-friendly” products are actually eco-friendly only if they find their way to a home with some very specific furniture. Unfortunately, the waste bins around Duke only take our trash to two facilities: landfill and recycling.

that’s a big problem. As students, we will now pay even more to eat with utensils that will fail just as miserably as what we were using before—annoying for everyone, but a major burden for those whose families are cash-strapped. And indefensible when an actual potential solution is staring us in the face.

Even Kanye tweeted about the damage plastics can do before mysteriously deleting his Twitter account several days later. We know the dangers as well. But we have to make sure that what we choose “solutions” that work, rather than theatrical gestures that will solve nothing while financially burdening the less well-to-do.

I am not the first to perceive something fundamentally incomplete about how Duke is approaching eco-friendliness. And unless we do better, I won’t be the last, either.

James Hwang is a Trinity senior.

emember Kony 2012?

A 30-minute documentary produced by Invisible Children, Inc. that spread like wildfire across social media, it was for many of our generation a first brush with activism and advocacy.

Though the film has since been criticized for oversimplification of the complex issues, promotion of “slacktivism,” and even some misinformation, its accessible form also undoubtedly led to an exponential increase in general awareness of the issue, and even awareness of activism itself.

However, there’s a difference between making activism accessible and simply allowing people to avoid uncomfortable action. Buying an “I love boobies” bracelet doesn’t do much to cure breast cancer.

And beyond uncomfortable action, it’s first and foremost about useful action.

Of the $495,969 that The Keep A Breast Foundation raised in 2008, only $6,723 went to breast cancer awards and grants.

Yet, it’s easy to slip into these forms of slacktivism; they’re safe and yet you often still receive the glory of being “woke.”

Junior Tyler Lian, current vice president of

Lindsay Ayling, a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill who has played an active role in the movement to remove Silent Sam, addressed this idea in the context of the history department at UNC when she spoke with me.

“A lot of historians study social issues, like racism or sexism or fascism,” she said.

“And I don’t know how you can study those issues without also realizing the incredibly high stakes and feel a call to oppose violent ideologies in your own time.”

I admire the labor and bravery of activists, protestors, and organizers greatly.

I also acknowledge that the activism space can be intimidating. I haven’t been as involved with student activism on campus as I want to be, but something I’m learning now as I get more involved is that it shouldn’t be so intimidating.

We can all think of tons of reasons why we’d feel uncomfortable with protests and activism in general. I know I’m definitely not eager to put myself in a position where I’m given trespass notices or arrested or have even more severe actions taken against me. But when it comes down to it, those who

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the Asian Students Association, said to me, “there’s this conflation of wokeness where people label themselves as activists and then forget that to be an activist, you actually have to act and organize.”

Today, I’m thinking of the members of Duke’s Afro-American society who occupied the Allen building 50 years ago in demand of increased support and protection for black students, who faced tear gas from police.

I’m thinking of the students who, in 2016, similarly occupied the Allen building to protest Tallman Trask III, and were threatened with disciplinary action. I’m also thinking of the students who, more recently, took the stage in front of hundreds of alumni to demand administrative action from President Price. As the corporate world says, “Big risk, big reward”... and in institutions like Duke, sometimes we are forced to take these risks just to get basic acknowledgement.

When they’re not taking place on our campus though, protests can often feel removed from our daily lives—we all acknowledge that Duke is a bubble. Maybe that’s why I’ve had multiple conversations with students here where they rationalize political apathy with the amount of schoolwork they have. This doesn’t sit quite right with me; the whole idea seems counterintuitive. When I ask people why they want to be insert whatever career here, the universal sentiment is always “Because I want to help people.” So, we study for these exams and write these papers so that eventually we can graduate and adopt those professional roles. But if our mission is ultimately to help people, why not start now?

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attend protests don’t do so because they’re not also afraid of the repercussions...they do so because their anger and proximity to the issue outweigh their fear.

These people who do show up often tend to be people of color or first-generation, low-income students, who often have so much more at stake. When people don’t get involved with activism in its varying forms (there’s more to it than just protests), it’s not simply because activism itself is uncomfortable—it’s the act of confronting your own privilege and your own complicity that is the true source of discomfort.

This also implies that if you are physically able to participate in these demonstrations, it is all the more reason for you to actually do so. Ayling spoke to this privilege: “It is much more of a risk for non-white people to counter protest so I would never judge somebody who wouldn’t come to a counter demonstration.”

As a result, those who are capable ought to step up. In the case of efforts to remove Silent Sam, it was people who did not have as large of a reason to fear white nationalists at demonstrations as their black peers.

Ayling said, “white academics have a duty to oppose white supremacy on the streets if they can.”

We’re nearing the 50th anniversary of the first Allen building sit-in, and I’m already beginning to see flyers for commemoration events. This university tends to celebrate activism from a distance, making it more palatable to the institution that fights it when it is actually taking place. Just two weekends ago, I was struck by the irony that the same people so excited to see speakers invited for Martin Luther King Jr. Day also call protests today futile and disruptive.

Protests were never made for institutions that prioritize law and order. It’s impossible for protest to be “popular” in these spaces. Yet, this university’s history was shaped by protest itself, and we are far from being finished.

Emily Liu is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

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IFC Statement on Hazing Allegations January 31, 2019

The recent allegations of hazing in Interfraternity Council chapters that have resulted in four interim suspensions are concerning and must be acted upon—there is no place for such behaviors in the IFC community. In response, we have determined a best course of action. Our decision is consistent with our commitment to creating a welcoming community that fosters a sense of belonging for anyone who wishes to join.

Following a convening of all IFC chapter presidents and dialogue with the University administration, our action in addressing the allegations will include: §

The creation of an internal task force to address hazing as it occurs and identify more effective ways to build meaningful bonds between members. This task force has already begun meeting and is led by Matthew Gallardo of Delta Tau Delta and Ben Wesorick of Sigma Phi Epsilon—individuals who have done critical reflection on the current state of our community and are committed to leading these change efforts.

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Mandated chapter-specific dialogues utilizing restorative practices to internally address the harms of hazing in order to better understand the impacts and determine the necessary obligations of chapters to their members and others affected by their actions. This will begin this semester, leveraging resources from DuWell and The Kenan Institute for Ethics.

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Within the next month, a day-long summit about the harms of hazing and ways to build brotherhood based on belonging, inclusion, and leadership. This event will be centered around a nationally recognized keynote speaker funded by the IFC, and it will be mandatory for at least 80% of each chapter's active membership.

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A commitment to educating all new members within the IFC of all policies, procedures, support services, and resources available to them related to risk reduction and hazing. This will begin immediately and will continue to be constructed to support future community members and their families.

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Formally partnering with the North American Interfraternity Conference to conduct an internal audit of all processes and procedures for the council and to begin utilizing their educational programming, resources, and staff to address challenges that face the community.

The IFC aims to serve chapters in preparing members to assume responsibility, accountability, and leadership in their lives. In doing so, we must hold true to our values—particularly, the value of accepting consequences for one’s actions.

If any additional hazing allegations come to light during these current suspensions, we fully oblige ourselves to temporarily suspend all IFC chapter activity. During this time, we will focus all energy on coming together to reevaluate the values of the chapter and council.

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William Willis Delta Kappa Epsilon Brendan Quinlan Delta Sigma Phi Matthew Gallardo Delta Tau Delta Calum Keeley Kappa Alpha

Jake Epstein Pi Kappa Alpha Charles Reiter Pi Kappa Phi Cooper Lair Psi Upsilon Gramal Ralph Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Kyle O’Connor Sigma Chi Jack Wood & Kiran Nagar Sigma Nu Ryan Dant Sigma Phi Epsilon Matthew Conley IFC President