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History department files request to rename Carr Building

By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

The Carr Building on East Campus might look like the other Georgian-style red brick buildings around it, but there’s much more to the edifice than what meets the eye.

Julian Carr, for whom the building was named in 1930, was a “virulent white supremacist” and former Confederate soldier who served on the Board of Trustees at Trinity College, which became Duke University when it merged with the Woman’s College in 1924.

In 1913, the tobacco magnate spoke at the dedication of Silent Sam, the statue of a Confederate soldier that was toppled Aug. 20 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His racist views were unambiguous, and he didn’t mince words.

Carr boasted about “horsewhipp[ing] a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds” because she “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady.”

“I...then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers,” Carr continued. “I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.”

Although he endorsed the Ku Klux Klan’s violent tactics and argued that blacks should not be able to vote, Carr was also crucial in the development of what is now Duke’s East Campus.

Carr donated Blackwell Park to Trinity College, which enabled it to move to Durham.

Just ahead of the first day of classes, the History Department has filed a request that Carr’s name be scrubbed from the Carr Building, where the department is housed, History Department Chair John Martin told The Chronicle. The department has proposed the building be named the Gavins Building in honor of Raymond Gavins, the first African American on Duke’s history faculty. Gavins died in 2016.

“The department believes that the proposed change, which we have thoughtfully considered, is in keeping with the highest educational ideals and mission of the University,” Martin wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

Any official proposals to amend the name would need to be

Sean Cho | Contributing Photographer The Carr Building’s name is currently being re-considered after the history department filed a request.

approved by the Board of Trustees.

Because Carr was instrumental in securing East Campus for the university, Academic Council Chair Don Taylor thinks that the decision-making process regarding a potential building rename would be more “problematic” than it was with East Residence Hall, formerly dubbed Aycock Hall for ex-North Carolina governor Charles Aycock. Aycock, whose name Duke scrubbed in 2014 because the University said he was “inextricably associated with the disenfranchisement of black voters,” had no ties with Duke.

“It is a reasonable assertion to say that Duke wouldn’t exist were it not for the generosity of Julian Carr. It is also true that he was a virulent white supremacist,” Taylor wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “Both of these things are true about Mr. Carr, and I think Duke needs to tell this story explicitly via a full, academically rigorous contextualization of Julian Carr, and then we all need to wrestle with what it means for us today.”

Student representatives had called for Aycock Hall to be renamed for several years before former President Richard Brodhead announced the change in 2014. Carr’s name has been removed from buildings outside of Duke—in August 2017, the Durham Public Schools board removed Carr’s name from the

Durham School of the Arts.

Robin Kirk, faculty co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center, led an April Bass Connections report calling for the Carr Building to have its name changed as well. The 100-page report, titled “Activating History for Justice at Duke,” analyzed 327 sites on Duke’s campus in an attempt to educate the community regarding the stories Duke has memorialized.

Although she wants Carr’s name off the building, Kirk argued that the history should still be acknowledged in some way. The report recommended that Duke preserve the record of the Carr Building and Aycock Hall’s names in an educational exhibit in the buildings and “as part of a larger, permanent exhibit.”

“Slavery and white supremacy are part of our lived world, so to ignore them is to ignore an important part of why the University is shaped the way it is and how it developed. It’s not by acknowledging these histories we bring them to light— they’re there,” Kirk told The Chronicle. “By acknowledging them, we recognize that and we recognize how those forces still continue to shape our lived reality. That’s especially true for See CARR on Page 11

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HOMECOMING 2018 September 21-23 homecoming.dukealumni.com For a full list of Homecoming Weekend events, visit alumni.duke.edu/campus-events/homecoming

Thursday, September 20 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM Equity, Accountability and Sports

Law School, Rm 3043 Olympic Gold Medalist and legal scholar Nancy Hogshead-Makar J.D. B.A.’86 will share her thoughts and perspective on gender equity and overall accountability in the current climate of collegiate, Olympic and professional sports. This discussion will be moderated by Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

Friday, September 21 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Alumni Welcome at ‘The Mary Lou’

Mary Lou Williams Center (MLWC) for Black Culture, Flowers Building, West Campus The MLWC is excited to welcome back Duke alumni for Homecoming 2018! Stop by the center all day Friday to connect with students, staff and fellow alumni. We look forward to seeing you!

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Graduate School Homecoming Career Coaching Sessions

Location TBD Career counselors will partner with you to develop an action plan for accomplishing your personal career goals. We can help you explore different careers, clarify your values and interests, practice articulating your story, find industry-specific resources and develop job search and application skills. Speakers: David McDonald PhD ‘13, Melissa Bostrom PhD, Jennifer Levy, Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Rachel Coleman

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Guac & Talks: Homecoming Edition

Devil’s Krafthouse Chats over GUAC with students and alumni working in creative industries. Hosted by Duke Alumni, DEMAN + Duke Arts.

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Computer Science Department Open House

LSRC D106 Kick off Homecoming Weekend with fellow computer science alumni, current students, faculty and staff at this informal open house. Enjoy light refreshments, reminisce with friends and hear the latest news from the department.

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Economics Department (Graduate) Open House

SocSci Building Lounge Kick off Homecoming Weekend with fellow economics graduate alumni, current students, faculty and staff at this informal open house.

Enjoy light refreshments, reminisce with friends and hear the latest news from the department.

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Math Department Open House

Math Common Room, Physics Building Kick off Homecoming Weekend with fellow Math alumni, current students, faculty and staff at this informal open house. Enjoy light refreshments, reminisce with friends and hear the latest news from the department.

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Chemistry Department Graduate Open House

Atrium, French Family Science Center Kick off Homecoming Weekend with fellow Chemistry alumni, current students, faculty and staff at this informal open house. Enjoy light refreshments, reminisce with friends and hear the latest news from the department.

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Graduate Liberal Studies Department Gathering

GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive Kick off Homecoming Weekend with fellow graduate liberal studies alumni, current students, faculty and staff at the GLS open house.

Enjoy light refreshments, reminisce with friends and hear the latest news about the program.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Duke Black Alumni (DBA) Welcome Reception

Nasher Museum of Art, 2001 Campus Drive Join DBA for a welcome reception at the Nasher Museum of Art. Programming will feature a mixer with black faculty and staff and tours of the People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection exhibit, which highlights global art and includes work by artists of African descent.

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM First Four Young Alumni Happy Hour

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM DAA Awards Ceremony

Penn Pavilion Each year, DAA honors a handful of individuals who embody the spirit of Forever Duke and advance the Duke ideal of knowledge in service of society.

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sanford Welcome Back Tailgate

Devil’s Krafthouse Reunite with old friends at the Devil’s Krafthouse during the Young Alumni Happy Hour – exclusively for graduates of the classes of 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Fleishman Commons, Sanford Building, 201 Science Drive Alumni are invited back to their Sanford home to celebrate Homecoming Weekend and welcome the newest Sanford students.

Great food, fellowship and games will be available to kick off the new academic year.

5:00 PM - 11:00 PM DAA’s Party on the Plaza

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM DAA Pregame Celebration

Bryan Center Plaza Homecoming’s newest tradition! Duke students are invited to enjoy our newest Homecoming tradition! Celebrate with your friends and the Duke community while enjoying music from Small Town Records, performances by student dance groups, and activities such as Puppies on the Plaza, the Poetry Fox, two photobooths, screen printing and more! Snacks and beverages will be provided to help you get your Homecoming Weekend off to a festive start!

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Graduate School Homecoming Celebration

Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens Join Dean Paula D. McClain, the Graduate School Board of Visitors, and alumni, students and staff from the Graduate School to toast the celebrated history of graduate education at Duke. Dean McClain will give remarks honoring the distinguished alumni receiving this year’s Few-Glasson Fellowship.

Saturday, September 22 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Closed DBA National Board of Directors Meeting Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Flowers Building, West Campus This is a closed meeting to be attended by the DBA National Board of Directors members only.

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Brunch & Broadway: Hoof ‘n’ Horn Homecoming 2018 McClendon 5, West Campus Join Hoof ‘n’ Horn for our annual Homecoming Weekend event!

With a delicious brunch and performances of Broadway hits by current members, this is sure to be a Hoof ‘n’ Horn Homecoming for the books. We can’t wait to see you there!

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ‘The Mary Lou’ is Open

Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Flowers Building, West Campus The Mary Lou Williams Center is excited to offer a special open house to welcome back Duke alumni for Homecoming 2018! Stop by the center for an hour to see and say hello to students, staff and fellow alumni.

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM What Next? Duke Black Athlete Roundtable

Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library 153 Featuring former Duke black athletes from various sports and generations, this roundtable will allow participants to engage in a discussion about the black athlete experience at Duke.

12:00 PM Duke Motorsports Alumni Get-Together/ Workday Duke Motorsports Garage (under Hudson Hall), West Campus Duke Motorsports is a student organization which designs, builds, and races a Formula-style, open-wheeled race-car each year. We are happy to invite all of our alumni (and anyone else who wants to drop by!) to our weekly workday at our Hudson Hall garage. The team looks forward to reconnecting with our alumni!

Wilson Gym Get ready for some football at the DAA pregame gathering. The DAA will provide the food, beverages (beer, sodas, water) and fun for the whole family, including face painting and a photo booth. Don’t miss this pregame tradition!

3:30 PM Duke vs. North Carolina Central Football Game

Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium Coach Cutcliffe and the Blue Devils will take to the gridiron on Saturday in a Bull City showdown against the NCCU Eagles. Show your support for the #DukeGang by coming out in true Wallace Wade Wacko style!

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM Duke Band Alumni Association (DBAA) Homecoming Reception

Wilson Gym DBAA will host a reception for their alumni members again this year!

Members will receive more information directly, including how to register, in the coming weeks. Make sure to keep an eye out!

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM First Four Reunion

Brightleaf Square, 905 W. Main Street Light up Brightleaf Square as the #DukeFirstFour classes take over downtown Durham for a night under the stars. Catch up with fellow young alumni one last time before Homecoming Weekend comes to a close. *Please note: The time of this program is subject to change based on game time.

Sunday, September 23 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM University Worship Service

Duke University Chapel Duke Chapel is a Christian church of an unusually interdenominational character, with a tradition of stirring music, preaching and liturgy.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Pratt Student-Alumni Mock Interview Workshop

Teer Engineering Building, Duke West Campus Pratt Alumni will be offering Mock Interviews to Pratt Engineering students in advance of the TechConnect and Career Fair taking place September 25-26. The purpose of this is to give students practical interviewing skills while growing student-alumni engagement. All Pratt Engineering students (undergraduate and graduate) and Pratt alumni are invited and welcome to participate. Guidelines will be provided in advance. There is no cost to participants. Refreshments will be served.

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Researchers find missing link Duke gains one spot in U.S. for aggressive brain cancer News rankings

By Rishi Dasgupta Contributing Reporter

lab found that they lacked the protein— S1P1—responsible for enabling T-cells to enter the blood, so the cells remained trapped and useless.

The lab is currently working with Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012 for discovering this protein class.

Together, Lefkowitz and researchers at the Fecci Lab hope to find a way to restore the receptors to the surface of trapped T-cells, freeing them to the bloodstream so

Researchers at Duke have recently discovered a missing link that could be a breakthrough in treating glioblastoma—an aggressive form of brain cancer that doesn’t respond to usual treatment.

Part of the reason glioblastoma is so deadly is that patients with the disease have extremely low counts of T-cells— white blood cells that fight cancer—that can be as low as 200 compared to a healthy individual’s 7,000. T-cells are a major part See RESEARCHERS on Page 11 of the immune system, so glioblastoma patients face an incredible challenge: fighting cancer with the immune system of a person with AIDS. “It’s a beautiful balance that our bodies must achieve,” said Pakawat Chongsathidkiet, a postdoctoral student on the research team.

“In autoimmune disease, your immune system almost works too well—it starts attacking your own body. In cancer, your immune system doesn’t work well enough.”

After years of intensive research, the researchers in the lab of Peter Fecci, assistant professor of neurosurgery, has finally discovered why—trapped T-cells.

Initially, the lab believed that something was preventing T-cells from being produced— so researchers looked at the bone marrow, the site of T-cell production, expecting to find low Special to the Chronicle T-cell counts. Shockingly, they found hordes of trapped T-cells, blocked out from exiting the Glioblastoma has claimed the lives of Sen. John McCain and Beau Biden, but bone marrow and reaching the body.

When they analyzed the trapped T-cells, the researchers have now made a breakthrough.

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Duke regained its eighth position in the U.S. News and World Report rankings this year.

The University, which fell behind the University of Pennsylvania to ninth place last year, is tied with Penn for the 2019 rankings. The three years previously, Duke was in eighth.

Princeton maintained its position at the top of the rankings for the eighth year in a row, beating out Harvard, which again came in second. This year, there was a four-way tie for third place between Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago and Yale.

The four-way horse race was followed by Stanford, then Duke. Johns Hopkins moved back into the top-10 in a tie with Northwestern, bumping out the California Institute of Technology.

As Duke gained one spot in the national university rankings, Williams maintained its hold on the top of the list for best liberal arts colleges.

Aside from the best national university and liberal arts colleges rankings, U.S. News and World Report also publishes more specific rankings for a wide swath of college features.

In the “Best Values School” category, Duke dropped from its 10th position last year to 13th this year.

The Pratt School of Engineering moved up from 20th place to a tie for 18th place this year, compared to 18th in 2017.

Duke dropped from 10th last year to a tie for 16th this year in the “Most Innovative Schools Category.” For “Undergraduate Teaching,” Duke maintained its hold on 10th place, compared to

ranking 14th in 2017.

The Blue Devils, however, remain firmly ahead of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, which moved into a tie for 30th from its ranking of 30th last year. UNC ranked tied for fifth this year among the best public schools.

The U.S. News and World Report rankings are based on statistical and qualitative measures to parse out the rankings, and the rankings take into account a wide variety of factors. In order of their weight, the factors they consider are graduation and retention rates, undergraduate academic reputation, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance and alumni giving rate.

In recent years, Duke has hovered safely inside of the top-10 bubble. Its highest ranking in the last five years was a tie with the MIT in 2014 for seventh place.

The rankings for the top-10 universities are somewhat stagnant from year to year. From 2013 to 2018, the same 12 schools—Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Penn, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins and CalTech—have floated in and out of the top-10 spots. This year, Northwestern entered the mix.

For the last seven years, Princeton has held the top spot, beating out its repeated runnerup Harvard each year since the schools tied in 2013.

Previously, the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings Duke slipped to seventh place position for U.S. schools from fifth.

The University maintained its tie in the WSJ rankings for first in graduate outcomes, tied with Harvard and Yale.

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‘They gotta eat’: Staff weathers the storm to feed students

By Isabelle Doan News Editor

Deepti Agnihotri Health and Science News Editor

As Hurricane Florence approaches, Duke’s dining staff will serve students as usual.

Duke cancelled classes after 5 p.m. Wednesday and activated the severe weather policy noon Thursday, after which most offices closed. But some staff members—such as the dining staff—will still be working during the storm.

Despite the forecast, several dining staff members said that they have no issues with working through the hurricane.

“I feel great about working during the hurricane,” said Joseph McDowell, a chef at Il Forno. “I have to feed Duke students. They gotta eat.”

McDowell added that he was not worried about the wind and the rain, and that he would be “right here” at Il Forno.

Devon Furgeson, an employee of Sprout, also said that he was not too worried about the weather. He explained that he has been keeping up with the forecast, and the weather here does not look severe.

“No one told me that I had to work. I told them if it was crazy, I wouldn’t come in, but if it was fine, I’d most definitely come in,” he said.

Furgeson added he has been in the same position before.

When the severe weather policy was activated for snow earlier this year, he could not come into work because his car was snowed in.

However, it seems that many workers will not have to drive to work during the hurricane. According to McDowell, Duke has arranged housing for some workers.

“They also put us in hotels so we could be available for you all,” he said, although he noted that he is staying at his own home.

Saladelia, a restaurant service which owns several dining locations on campus, is also taking appropriate measures for its workers.

Tyler Whitten, a worker at the Saladelia-owned dining

location Cafe, said Saladelia has shut down most of locations in preparation for the storm, although he and his colleagues continue to work on campus.

“It’s not bad,” he said. “They’re cutting our hours appropriately, and they’re not making anyone work that doesn’t feel safe or can’t come in.”

Whitten added that Saladelia has made sure that staff have reliable transportation, and that they will be able to get in and out of work safely.

Antwan Lofton, assistant vice president of human resources, wrote in an email that in severe weather, positions such as police officers, bus drivers, housekeepers and food workers are considered essential employees.

“Unlike many other employers, Duke never closes during times of severe weather or emergency conditions,” Lofton wrote in an email. “We are a residential campus for thousands of students, we provide critical care for patients in our hospitals and we support a complex research environment 365 days a year.”

Duke provides support, such as transportation, housing and meals, for the employees.

“During such extraordinary times, we consistently see our essential service staff members come together to provide exceptional service to ensure we maintain critical operations and support for those entrusted to our care,” he wrote.

Chronicle File Photo Dining workers were expected to come in to work during the storm, but the employees The Chronicle spoke with said they did not mind.

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‘A POWERFUL STATEMENT’

Space where Robert E. Lee statue stood will remain empty

By Likhitha Butchireddygari Investigations Editor

Kenrick Cai Investigations Editor

One year ago, in early morning light on a near empty campus, a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the Chapel steps.

In the days leading up to the removal, events off of Duke’s campus had sparked a conversation about Confederate monuments.

In Charlottesville, Va., white supremacists and counterprotesters clashed over a Robert E. Lee statue outside the University of Virginia’s campus.

Less than a week later, protesters toppled a Confederate statue just a few miles off of East Campus.

Around the country, Americans were grappling with the question of what should be considered proper visibility of Confederate iconography—the debates were making headlines, filling column inches and saturating the cable news cycle.

Once news broke of a Confederate monument that had been at the steps of the Chapel for nearly a century, the polarizing conversation that was sparked by outside events suddenly permeated Duke’s stone walls.

“I think for a long time, especially in the South, we’ve had this complicit acceptance of a history of white supremacy,” said Adrienne Harreveld, Trinity ’14, who has always lived in a former Confederate state. “I think that we needed activism. We needed people throughout the country to start a dialogue on these emblems of racism.”

Alumni like Harreveld, students and faculty had strong opinions regarding the Robert E. Lee statue. Some thought that removing the statue would be akin to erasing Duke’s history. Others thought that there were ways to preserve that history without the statue, including Rob Lee IV, M.T.S. ‘17 and a descendent of Robert E. Lee. “It’s so important to contextualize our history and if we don’t contextualize it, all we

have are people co-opting it and making it idol to white supremacy,” he said. “So, I think it’s so important for us to contextualize, to remember, but not to celebrate that dark past.”

Led by Harreveld, several hundred alumni— including Parks and Recreation actress Retta Sirleaf, Trinity ‘92—signed a letter vowing not to donate to the University as long as the statue stayed on campus.

Earlier that day, the Robert E. Lee statue had been vandalized.

Soon after, President Vincent Price—as his first major action in office—ordered the removal of the statue with unanimous support from the Board of Trustees.

What has happened since When the statue was removed, Price wrote in his statement that it “will be preserved so that students can study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future.”

It is currently being held in a “secured Duke storage facility,” according to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Although Price’s decision to remove the statue was met with some criticism, many students also supported him. The next month, Price created a commission to discuss what should happen to the space where the Confederate general once stood.

This group—the Commission on Memory and History—would also create guidelines on how to handle the names of buildings that honor controversial figures.

A forum was hosted by Provost Sally Kornbluth on the subject of “American Universities, Monuments and the Legacies of Slavery.” Duke also announced the creation of the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center.

Price publicized the commission’s recommendations last December, opting to leave the empty space vacant pending an “open and deliberative process” to determine what to do about the space. In August, Price decided that the space will remain vacant for the foreseeable future with a plaque in the foyer of the Chapel explaining the empty space.

In his email to the Duke community, Price referred to Dean of the Chapel Luke Powery, who suggested the empty space could represent “a hole that is in the heart of the United States of America, and perhaps in our own human hearts—that hole that is from the sin of racism and hatred of any kind.”

Price stated that he told the Board of Trustees his decision over the summer, and received their “enthusiastic endorsement.” Lee also expressed support for Price’s decision.

“I think it’s important to reflect and recognize that a portion of our history was really dark and really hard for a lot of people,” he said. “I commend President Price’s decision to stick to what he believes is right and I support it 100 percent.”

‘You don’t hide from these pasts’ Prior to Price’s announcement, Harreveld suggested some sort of exhibit to show the history of different buildings and emblems on Duke’s campus.

Price announced that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask will be tasked with finding a location for rotating exhibits about the University’s history.

Robin Kirk, a lecturer in the department of cultural anthropology and faculty co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center, noted that the University had initially stopped short of addressing the full issue by singularly removing the Lee statue.

“Many universities think, ‘Okay, we dealt with the slavery part. But that ended in 1865 and that’s the end of it.’ And it’s like, no, that was just the beginning,” she said.

Per a Bass Connections report supervised by Kirk, many members of Duke’s postwar faculty were associated with or sympathetic toward North Carolina’s white supremacy campaigns.

These include former presidents Braxton Craven and John Franklin Crowell, who have West Campus quadrangles named after them, as well as philanthropist Julian Carr and faculty member William Pegram—the namesakes of two East Campus residence halls.

The Duke administration, Kirk said,

should address the University’s connections to white supremacy, the Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement and its integration of new student populations.

Kirk applauded certain groups, such as Brown University and the city of Chicago, for their dedication to open dialogue and decision to build more inclusive memories. She said that moving forward, these are positive models for Duke to follow.

“You don’t hide from these pasts—you delve into them, you understand them,” Kirk said. “Then, you find a way to talk about them in the context of what the University wants to do better.”

Students’ ‘wishlist for the University’ Price’s charge to the Commission on Memory and History to look “specifically at the Chapel space,” as Schoenfeld noted in December.

Despite its narrow focus, the commission still acknowledged in their report five statues of individuals “who may not be aligned with the mission and highest values of this university.”

In Price’s email to the Duke community, he did not address the other statues—such as that of Sidney Lanier, a Confederate soldier who rose to prominence as a Southern poet after the war—or other relics to controversial post-war figures at Duke that are located elsewhere on campus.

Price also wrote he would task the President’s Art Advisory Committee to “identify a location and an appropriate form” to recognize individuals’ whose labor built Duke’s campus, as one to commemorate the University’s first AfricanAmerican students.

Kirk, who spoke to The Chronicle prior to Price’s announcement, said the onus is on the students to prioritize and be vocal about the issue.

“I think the students don’t realize how much they are really listened to,” Kirk said.

“If students bring this up as part of their wishlist for the University, I think that we may see some real action.”

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‘Above and beyond’: How David Cutcliffe lifted Duke football to new heights in his first 10 years

By Michael Model Sports Editor

Ten years ago, Wallace Wade Stadium was filled with optimism and hope, a rare occurrence for a program plagued by incessant defeat.

More than 32,000 spectators filled the stands for the 2008 season opener against James Madison—the stadium’s largest attendance total at that point since 1994—despite the fact that the Blue Devils were coming off of a dismal 1-11 campaign. In head coach Ted Roof’s entire four-year tenure, which ended following the 2007 season, they won just six games.

Newly-hired head coach David Cutcliffe had somehow inspired Duke students and fans to show up, despite his program having gone without a bowl victory since 1961 and in the midst of 13 straight losing seasons.

“I remember very vividly a feeling coming down the tunnel versus James Madison in the first game here,” Cutcliffe said on a conference call in early August. “There was a nervousness that’s always there, but such an energy and enthusiasm and an appreciation for working with these young men…. The guys that are coming down the tunnel [today] are products of a culture, and that culture started fast.”

Cutcliffe was a proven winner, earning SEC Coach of the Year honors in 2003. He also had a strong track record developing quarterbacks, most notably both Eli and Peyton Manning at Ole Miss and Tennessee, respectively.

“Everyone wants to win, but you have to have the knowledge of how to do it, and he knew

Ian Jaffe | Special Projects Photography Editor David Cutcliffe is in his tenth season as head coach of the Blue Devils.

how to do it,” said former Blue Devil athletic director Joe Alleva, who now holds the same position at LSU. “When I interviewed him, it took me about 10 minutes to realize he was the right guy…. He had the right philosophy and the right plan to get it going. It all started with recruiting and he’s done a great job of bringing in quality players that can play in the ACC.” ‘Tired of losing’ While Cutcliffe’s initial recruiting class would not take the field until the following season, much of the foundation and culture change was established from the get-go. In the first eight months of his tenure, prior to the 2008 opener, Cutcliffe stressed the need to improve his team’s conditioning and focus.

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“We had to get serious about football,” said Thad Lewis, the Blue Devils’ starting quarterback from 2006-09. “We weren’t focused as a team, going out on Thursday night before a game on a Saturday. He cut all of that out, and so he made something that was pretty funny and laughable to the rest of the ACC, he made us contenders.”

Duke was bullied throughout Roof’s tenure. From 2004-07, it lost by at least three touchdowns on 22 occasions, and there was no clear path out of the rut.

The Blue Devils’ facilities were also nowhere near the elite level of their ACC counterparts.

Alleva said the plans for the recent renovations in and around Wallace Wade were drawn up prior to his departure in 2008, but

at the time of Cutcliffe’s arrival, the team’s recruiting ceiling was low. Due to the lack of indoor facilities and no full practice field or stadium solely for football—Wallace Wade had a track around the field until 2014—in addition to the lack of a competitive product on the field, Duke was far from a destination for top prospects.

The university realized major changes needed to be made to rebuild the program, and Cutcliffe was tasked with bringing the Blue Devils back to national prominence.

“A university has to make a commitment to a sport like football, and I think Duke finally made a commitment to do that,” Alleva said. “Duke was just tired of losing. It was an embarrassment to the school to have a football team with that kind of record, so I think the embarrassment kind of got them going to support the program.”

Using the renovation plans in addition to his culture changes, Cutcliffe was able to effectively pitch his vision to recruits and convince those who would be fringe role players at larger schools to come to Duke, where they could be a major part of the program’s new era.

“People thought I was crazy,” said current Blue Devil radio analyst and former captain Dave Harding, who chose Duke over Florida State and South Carolina. “I had a coach in high school stop talking to me when I committed to Duke.”

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CUTCLIFFE FROM PAGE 9 Harding. Although the trio all redshirted as freshmen in 2009, their growth with the team and the program provided critical leadership later on—but it wouldn’t have been possible without the upperclassmen working to change, believing and buying in from the beginning.

“He told us this is not going to be an overnight job and the first few years are going to be rough,” Lewis said of Cutcliffe’s message at the end of 2009. “He said, ‘You guys that are sitting in this room won’t be playing in the game when we’re playing for an ACC championship. But you guys are more than welcome, and I’ll make sure you guys are able to come back, because you’re the stepping stone of that.’”

‘Getting closer and closer and closer’ The Blue Devils made quick progress in 2008, jumping out to a 3-1 record with Cutcliffe earning his first conference win in a 31-3 onslaught against Virginia on Sept. 27. Duke finished that season 4-8, however, after struggling down the stretch in conference play.

“Disciplining and conditioning hasn’t changed at Duke. We don’t want to change that,” Cutcliffe said of initial changes that are still around today. “Our commitment to team, and the focus on team and not self— our early teams, our ’08 and our ’09 teams, were exceptional at that.”

The next three seasons proved to be much of the same with records of 5-7, 3-9 and 3-9. With recruiting improving and the program becoming more in the Cutcliffe mold, the Blue Devils set the stage to break their 17-year bowl drought in 2012.

Entering its matchup against Virginia Tech on Oct. 13, 2012, Duke finally had an opportunity to clinch bowl eligibility after getting off to a 5-1 start. The Blue Devils fell 41-20, putting immense pressure on a contest against North Carolina the following week with a pair of top-15 matchups looming.

After being outscored 21-3 in the first 12 minutes of the fourth quarter, Duke found itself down four. Needing 87 yards to guarantee their first bowl appearance since 1994, quarterback Sean Renfree led the Blue Devils down the field and connected with Jamison Crowder in the end zone on a fourth-and-2 with 13 seconds remaining.

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It was Duke’s first victory against North Carolina since 2003 and certainly the peak of the Cutcliffe era to that point.

“We could feel ourselves getting closer and closer and closer, and that’s when we finally got up over the hill and were finally able to get over whatever had been holding on to us,” Harding said. “Once that 2012 team got a taste of victory, it wasn’t something that we were going to give up.”

The Blue Devils fell to Cincinnati 48-34 in a Belk Bowl heartbreaker that December, finishing the 2012 season with a 6-7 record.

While the Blue Devils—led by thenseniors Harding, Sarmiento and Cockrell— were confident in the growth of the program entering 2013, the media did not have the same optimism, picking Duke to finish last in the ACC Coastal.

The Blue Devils got off to a 2-2 start with starting quarterback Anthony Boone forced to miss nearly a month due to injury, but they clicked upon his return, closing out the regular season with eight consecutive victories including a pair of wins against ranked Virginia Tech and Miami teams. Duke won the ACC Coastal title, setting up a battle with Jameis Winston and top-ranked Florida State in the 2013 ACC championship.

“It was just a bunch of people that were highly motivated and had all been recruited to Duke to do that one thing, and that was to win the ACC Coastal Division and get to the championship game,” Harding said of the Blue Devils’ run. “We believed going into the year, regardless of what the press said, that we were going to make waves, and we ended up doing it.”

What’s next?

Although Duke did not emerge victorious against the Seminoles or against Texas A&M in the Chick-fil-A Bowl— despite a 21-point halftime lead against quarterback Johnny Manziel’s Aggies—the 2013 Blue Devils’ run is largely considered the highlight season of the Cutcliffe era, coming in just his sixth year with the school.

Cutcliffe finally helped the Blue Devils to their first bowl victory since 1960 two years later. After a 7-5 2015 regular season, Duke earned a trip to New York to take on Indiana in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

After narrowly losing three consecutive

CARR FROM PAGE 2 students of color, women or LGBT folks.”

Kirk said that Taylor’s point about Carr being crucial in Duke’s development is valid, but countered that Carr’s name is still not worthy of recognition on the building.

“What does he have to do with history? He was a businessman and donor, but that doesn’t mean the only way to recognize his contribution is through naming the history building for him, especially when that is such a sensitive subject given his support for white supremacy,” Kirk said. “There may be other ways to recognize Julian Carr that aren’t so prominent.”

Others that have pushed for the Carr Building to be renamed include senior Kristina Smith, president of Duke Student Government, and William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin professor emeritus of history and former history department chair. The Duke People’s State of the University also listed changing the Carr Building’s name as one of its demands.

Smith cited the defacing of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture discovered Sunday as further reason why Duke should rename the Carr Building. A racial epithet covered the word “black” on a foyer wall that read “Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.”

“Now, more than ever, Duke must support its Black students, staff, and faculty by no longer memorializing a former confederate soldier,” Smith wrote in a statement to the Chronicle. “The renaming of the Carr Building would not erase the memory or donations of Julian Carr, but, similar to the renaming of Aycock, would serve as a statement that Duke does not support the confederate legacy and white supremacy.”

Chafe said that the history department was not aware of Carr’s past when it moved to the Carr Building from the Allen Building in the early 1990s.

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Chronicle File Photo Former Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk has faith that David Cutcliffe is the man to bring the Blue Devils a first-ever football national championship.

postseason appearances, quarterback Thomas Sirk and the Blue Devils felt some extra weight on their shoulders.

“I remember the feeling that it wouldn’t be good enough to just go to New York and not win this bowl game,” Sirk said. “This was a game that we had to win and being a team leader and starting quarterback, I knew that we had to transform this program right here. This could be a defining moment for us going forward and can help the program continue to grow from what Coach Cutcliffe had already done.”

The Blue Devils filled the 55-year void, escaping with a 44-41 overtime victory as Indiana barely could not convert a long field-goal attempt to send the contest to double overtime.

With the Pinstripe Bowl victory and a Quick Lane Bowl win last December, Cutcliffe has assembled quite the resume during his first decade at Duke.

The Birmingham, Ala., native has led Duke to four winning seasons, five bowl appearances, two bowl victories and an ACC championship appearance while also transforming Duke football both on and off the field.

So what’s in store for the next 10 years?

“Over time, we’ve discovered how Carr—like Aycock— was not only a racist and a white supremacist, but was also guilty of criminal racist activities,” he said. “We have come to a conclusion that it’s important to address the consequences of identifying with this sort of history. We no longer have Aycock Hall and we need to change the Carr Building.”

Dan Garcia | Contributing Photographer A rally was held in front of the Carr Building in September to draw awareness to the history behind its name.

While so much progress has been made, Cutcliffe knows his program must continue to evolve and improve. Otherwise, Duke will be in danger of regressing to the program’s many fraught years. The 63-year-old coach has committed to finishing his career with the Blue Devils, dismissing the Tennessee head coaching job three different times during his tenure at Duke.

“You can’t hang onto anything,” Cutcliffe said. “There are so many things that we’re improving upon, and then you hopefully grow another area as you start recruiting well—our depth. You hope to become a combination of all that part of the culture while improving every step the way.”

Winning bowl games has quickly become the benchmark for the Blue Devils.

But ultimately, the program has higher expectations for the future.

“The next big step for our program is to win an ACC championship and eventually compete in the college playoffs and win a national championship,” Sirk said. “It’s not just about talking about the next steps— Coach Cutcliffe puts some things in place to achieve them.... Anything that we need to take that next step in our program, Coach Cutcliffe is going to go above and beyond to make that happen.”

RESEARCHERS FROM PAGE 4 they can fight cancer.

“We believe there is some interaction between the tumor and the surrounding brain environment that’s causing the T-cells to be trapped,” Chongsathidkiet said.

“Somehow, the cancer usurps the brain’s mechanism for regulating T-cells.”

The significance of this research is profound, even though the incidence of glioblastoma is very low. There are no more than five or six cases of the cancer per 100,000 people, with median survival only 15 months following diagnosis.

Patients suffer from seizures, memory loss and personality change amongst other torments.

“People might think that for the public health system as a whole, this might not be that important,” said Chongsathidkiet. “But you can’t evaluate the cost of losing even a single life. Even if it’s a small number of people, we can’t abandon them.”

The presence of glioblastoma is tragic and often very visible to the public eye. Beau Biden, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. John McCain were all victims of the cancer.

The research may prove contribute to future treatment of the cancer and of brain cancer more broadly.

“Whatever we learn from this study can be applied to brain metastases as well,” said Chongsathidkiet.

“Metastases is when cancer spreads from the breast and lung to the brain. Brain metastasis is far more common than glioblastoma itself. Ironically, as cancer treatment gets better, we will see more patients surviving long enough to get brain metastases.”

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An Extended Essay by William E. King

Julian Abele and the Design of Duke University An Extended Essay by William E. King Julian Abele and the Design of Duke University: An Extended Essay tells the story of how an African American architect came to design the new campuses for Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in the segregated South of the 1920s. Abele practiced his trade as chief designer of the architectural firm of Horace Trumbauer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which was selected by the benefactor, James B. Duke. Abele’s talent and contributions were well known in Philadelphia but his role was discovered gradually, both nationally and at Duke University. Since no records of the architectural firm exist, King’s essay pulls together scattered oral history interviews and articles written over a long period of time to place Abele’s role in the proper context of his life and times which also was a transitional period in the history of American architecture. The account is both an institutional and family history utilizing contributions of Julian Abele Jr. and the family of Julian Abele Cook whose son and daughter are graduates of Duke University.

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