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Friends remember Alex McIlvaine for his kindness Javiera Caballero

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MEET THE FINALISTS FOR SCHEWEL’S VACANT CITY COUNCIL SEAT

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By Bre Bradham Local and National Editor

Sheila Arias Abonza was busy planning a Martin Luther King Jr. day celebration when she got a Facebook message on Thursday afternoon.

“I actually had a good friend of mine send me a message and say ‘Congratulations!’ and I said ‘For what?’” said Abonza, a candidate for the open Durham City Council seat. “He said, ‘You are one of the seven finalists.’”

At their Jan. 4 work session, Durham City Council made their first round of cuts in the race to fill Mayor Steve Schewel’s vacated at-large council seat.

After initially receiving 20 applications, the council whittled the list down to seven names via a ranked-choice vote on Thursday afternoon.

In alphabetical order, the remaining candidates are Abonza, Javiera Caballero, Pierce Freelon, Kaaren Haldeman, Shelia Ann Huggins, Pilar Rocha-Goldberg and Carl Rist.

“I feel really good,” Haldeman said Thursday night. “I know some of the other candidates, have volunteered with

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Pilar Rocha-Goldberg

Pierce Freelon

some of the other candidates and it’s a group of people that I’m just really impressed by.”

Like Abonza, Haldeman—a gun violence activist who also works with Rise to Run, which seeks to empower girls to consider participating in politics—found out about making the cut via Facebook. Around 5:00 p.m., she saw that a friend had tagged her in a post about being one of the finalists, and

been in activism for a long time, to see this number of women jumping into the political landscape.”

For Abonza, who is a campaign associate at Moms Rising and owns a cleaning business, being one of three Latina finalists for the position on the council—which currently does not have any Latinx members—is exciting.

“Seeing those names, it’s amazing. It makes me feel very good as a resident of Durham knowing that there are Latinas out there that care so much about the community and want to make a difference,” Abonza said. “The fact that there are three different Latinas from three different countries in Latin America—and that we are three women—it’s even more amazing, because we’re making history and we’re breaking barriers, and these individuals on city council are seeing this.”

Caballero, a program coordinator at Alma Advisory Group and PTA President at Club Blvd. Elementary school, moved to the city in 2010. She currently serves on the Durham Open Space and Trails

This is a really powerful time for women.

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since then she’s received lots of positive feedback from her friends.

Haldeman is one of the five female finalists for the position. If chosen, a female candidate would make the city council majority-female.

“This is a really powerful time for women,” Haldeman said. “I can’t tell you how it feels for someone who has

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Testy Tapper butts heads with Stephen Miller CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off Duke alumnus heated interview about new book on White House.

By Ben Leonard Staff Reporter

There was never a dull moment with senior Alex McIlvaine, nor one where he did not exhibit positivity, genuine kindness and compassion for others, remembered his friends.

McIlvaine, who died Dec. 24 at age 22, is survived by his parents Charlie and Brooke and siblings Andy and Brooke, as well as many friends at Duke and beyond. His friends raved about his ability to stay positive, make people happy and put others before himself, regardless of the situation.

“He was a brother, someone you could count on to be available late at night, to cheer you up when you’re done studying for a test, someone who would make sure that his friends arrived safely,” said senior Ricardo AlvarezEstarellas. “He made Duke fun for me, regardless of how down I was...This is really, really hard to believe, like, he’s gone. It will hit me really hard when we get back to Duke to not have someone hit me up after class.”

McIlvaine was beloved by his friends and brothers in Kappa Sigma fraternity, for which he served as rush chair for several years. His friends said he was always willing to help lift others up in times of adversity and make people feel included.

He was a beacon of light, said Sachin Patel, Trinity ‘17 and former Kappa Sigma president. Patel added that McIlvaine took special care to include others who were not having a great time or did not feel comfortable.

“Any time anyone was down or struggling, he would step up and even come over to your place and talk to you about stuff,” Patel said. “He was really good at cheering people up and making people realize that a lot of things aren’t as serious as they seem they are in the moment. In college, everything seems super serious, even when it isn’t.

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Special to the Chronicle Senior Alex McIlvaine, a history major and member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, died Dec. 24 at age 22.

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new breakthroughs in care and make them available to patients near and far. My first goals are to take time to really engage with In December 2017, Thomas Owens was and listen to the team—understand what’s appointed president of Duke University working well and understand where we can Hospital, replacing the outgoing president spend more time and energy to deliver even Kevin Sowers. Owens has held titles as vice better care. president for medical affairs and chief medical officer for the Duke University Health System.

TC: Could you talk about what you value He is also an associate professor of medicine most in terms of health care? and pediatrics at the School of Medicine. The TO: We’ve really been rallying around this Chronicle sat down with Owens to talk about idea now of the quadruple aim—to focus on his new role and the future of Duke University outstanding outcomes, quality of care, with Hospital. This interview has been edited for access and convenience. Care being available length and clarity. and local where possible, that is efficient, and being good stewards of our resources as we The Chronicle: What do you hope to deliver this care. The last area of focus—it’s accomplish during your time as president? really been highlighted over the last couple Thomas Owens: I’m really honored of years—is to think about our health care and so privileged to be serving in this role team, recognizing that lack of resilience as university hospital president and to be and burnout have become increasing issues assuming the role at a time when our hospital in health care. It’s focusing on those three and our team are really doing phenomenally well. The hospital is not broken, the team does not need to be fixed. What we really need to do is we need to support the talented individuals we have to deliver the bold vision that we’ve created for Duke Health and for our Duke University Hospital—to deliver outstanding care, to continue to train future providers and leaders in health care and to help navigate these complicated times in health care. My goal is to, again, spend this initial time really listening to the team, understanding what works, identifying challenges and then helping create solutions so that we can continue to be successful and to be leaders locally, regionally and nationally in health care.

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aspects of care delivery, with the fourth being faces every day is through the annual the health and well-being of our team. assessment, the culture pulse survey, to help people provide feedback to us about the TC: Could you explain how the hospital environment in which they work and the has been focusing on these values? team and leadership that works with them.

TO: Some years back, we focused our This helps us understand how to improve values and as a team really identified that that environment, do their job better and feel our core values—caring for our patients, a greater sense of well-being and resilience their loved ones and each other—really as they do it. The other thing we’ve done is resonated with us. We’ve been using that that we have and will continue spending a lot approach when we make decisions about of time working with our talented managers who we hire so that they have that same and administrative leadership to help them set of values. We use that approach when be even more effective in that role, which is managing performance and also for setting certainly a hallmark of organizations that our strategic plan. Being even more sensitive have a workforce that is very resilient and and aware of the health and well-being of feels very healthy—having an engaged and our team, who work so hard every day, has effective leadership. been something relatively new in health care, something that’s been recognized nationally TC: What do you think are the biggest over the past couple of years. issues facing Duke Hospital right now?

The work that’s happening right now TO: We’re fortunate that we live and work to help identify the challenges our team in a growing market, so the demand for services is very high, so we have real challenges around access and capacity right now. Most days we don’t have the capacity, bed spaces or care space that we need to care for all the patients who want to come to Duke, so one of our first challenges is to continue to grow and be available to the patients who need us.

We have plans to add to our facility with a new bed tower, which is under construction.

However, that will take three to four years to be fully operational. In the interim time, we need to figure out how to use the space we have most efficiently and most effectively to meet our patients’ goals.

A second challenge is we have been a national leader in quality and safety, and we want to continue to be, so we have to challenge ourselves to be even more innovative and creative in the approach we take to raise the bar internally and push ourselves on quality.

I think the third is around the well-being and resilience of our workforce. First, as we grow, one of our goals is to educate and train tomorrow’s health care providers, and I mean nurses and doctors and other front-line caregivers. That leaves the last of the greatest Courtesy of Duke Photography challenges we face, which is the change in the

TC: What are your most important duties as president of DUH? TO: The first thing to say is that we have a wonderful university hospital that takes phenomenal care of patients and families and delivers great service, not only to the Triangle, but to the region and nationally. It’s a team of very talented individuals that work everyday, so first and foremost, my job and my goal is to support that team and help them Thomas Owens was previously vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer for the Duke continue to deliver outstanding care, discover University Health System.

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New Duke study presents new way of tracking giant pandas that may save money

By Likhitha Butchireddygari Editor-in-Chief

Stephen Miller, Trinity ’07, butted heads with Jake Tapper in a heated interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

The interview, which focused on details about President Donald Trump and his White House in Michael Wolff ’s book “Fire and Fury,” quickly turned combative. Miller, who first came into the spotlight defending facts during the Duke lacrosse scandal, began the interview, saying that the book contained incorrect information and misrepresented the president’s intellect and competency.

As the interview progressed, Miller talked at length about experiences on the campaign trail, his perceptions of the president, CNN’s negative coverage of the president and Tapper’s inability to relate to working class people. Whenever this happened, Tapper said that Miller was not answering the question he was asked and cut him off.

On Monday, CBS News reporter Arden Farhi tweeted out a transcript of Tapper and Miller’s exchange when the cameras were off.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Miller reportedly said.

“This is the reason they don’t put you on TV,” Tapper responded.

In the on-air interview, Tapper asked Miller about the Trump’s statement on Stephen Bannon, who said negative comments about the president in Wolff ’s book. Miller initially brought up Trump’s statement on Bannon’s quotes See MILLER on Page 5

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Previously, one way researchers tracked pandas was by testing DNA in fecal matter, which was very costly.

By Ben Leonard Staff Reporter

Although giant pandas are perceived as fluffy and docile, they can be elusive—something that has made conservation efforts difficult.

However, a newly published Duke-led study suggests a solution: footprints.

The Chinese government has been successful in giant panda captive breeding programs, but has struggled to find success in reintroduction efforts because of a lack of a cost-effective and reliable way to track the furry creatures once they are released to the wild. The new technology, Footprint Identification Technique, needs just a camera-equipped smartphone with a program from JMP Software and a ruler to correctly identify a

panda and its sex more than 90 percent of the time.

China’s researchers previously relied on testing fecal DNA, which was costly, or measuring bamboo stalks that pandas had munched on, a crude and rudimentary method that was inaccurate, explained Sky Alibhai, principal research associate at JMP Software and adjunct faculty member at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. The Chinese government was also opposed to the traditional method of collaring pandas to track them.

But the Footprint Identification Technique’s low-cost, accuracy and ease of use give researchers a leg up.

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CITY COUNCIL FROM PAGE 1 Commission, and stressed the importance of having “culturally sensitive, bilingual leaders” in her application for the position.

“If we want our community to be better, then we must all be involved and do our part in whatever capacity we are able to,” she wrote in the questionnaire the candidates submitted to the council.

Rocha-Goldberg, the president and CEO of Durham’s El Centro Hispano, is focused on the issues of affordable housing, inclusion and increasing the safeness of the city. She has previously worked with Duke on issues relevant to the Latinx community, and served on the Board of Directors for UnidosUS and as member and chair of the Governor’s Hispanic/Latino Affairs Committee under Governor Beverly Perdue.

“I feel very honored to be chosen for this last part of the process,” Rocha-Goldberg wrote in an email Friday morning. “I believe that my background and experience will serve inclusivity and give not only a voice to an important segment of the

PANDAS FROM PAGE 3 itself,” said Zoe Jewell, also a principal research associate at JMP Software and an adjunct faculty member at the Nicholas School.

Jewell noted that species such as the cheetah can take up to 500,000 steps per day. However, plodding pandas don’t take quite as many.

“Endangered species are elusive, but they leave footprints everywhere they go,” she said. “If all of us carried our smartphone and every time we saw a footprint we took a picture and submitted it, we would soon...have the data we need to protect them.”

Although no longer listed as “endangered,” giant pandas are under siege from climate change. Rising temperatures force mountain-dwelling giant pandas higher up mountain ranges to where it is cooler—they overheat at as little as 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Since they only eat bamboo, which tends to grow lower, that could make it difficult for them to eat the 30 pounds of bamboo they need a day to survive.

community, but will serve the larger community by increasing understanding and supporting integration and communication within the community.”

Two of the candidates for the vacant seat are familiar names to Durham residents who kept up with the recent municipal elections. Freelon, who finished third in the mayoral primary, is the founder of Blackspace, a digital maker space in Durham.

“If elected, I will be the sole millennial on Durham’s City Council and will bring creative perspectives and innovative solutions to the issues facing Durham… As someone born and raised in this city, I am excited about the opportunity to serve the community that has given me so much,” Freelon wrote in an email Thursday afternoon.

Huggins, a self-employed attorney with a focus on business law who previously worked as a city employee, ran against now-councilwoman Vernetta Alston in the recent race for the Ward 3 city council seat. During her time working for Durham, Huggins earned a Culture of Service award.

“Durham is at a crossroads, and the decisions we make now will determine the trajectory of our city for years to come,” she wrote in her candidate questionnaire.

One of the candidates is also a Duke alumni. Rist, who earned a Master of Arts in Public Policy Studies in 1991, has been a member of the People’s Alliance Political Action Committee for 25 years.

He highlighted his experience as a particularly relevant asset considering the youth of the current council.

“It is a great honor to be chosen as one of the finalists for an appointment to the Durham City Council,” Rist wrote in an email on Friday. “Ever since I graduated from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke in 1991, I have been involved in promoting progressive politics in Durham.”

With the field of candidates narrowed, the next steps in the selection process will be in-person. The candidates will be interviewed on Jan. 11, and the council plans to elect and swearin the new member on Jan. 16.

“People ask me, ‘What happens if you’re not selected?’

And I say that’s fine, I’m still going to be doing my work as an activist in the community, and this whole process has taught me so much about the city,” Abonza said. “I’m gaining so much knowledge and getting to know so many people that it continues to encourage me to make a difference.”

The new technique is similar to fingerprinting in humans, but Alibhai says there are more differences than similarities.

Fingerprints will pretty much leave the same mark every time, Jewell said, but footprints have many more complicating variables. Every time an animal makes a stride, they leave a different footprint, she said.

“The reason for that is that the footprint isn’t taken by using ink on the paper—it’s from the weight of the animal on the substrate—gravel, or mud or stone,” Jewell said. “It might be made when it’s walking or when it’s moving a little faster, it might be going straight or turning. Every time a footprint is made, it’s going to be slightly different because of the different factors that go in to make a footprint. It’s not as simple as a fingerprint.”

Alibhai said that FIT takes into account many features of the footprint, from the tips of the toes and the pads of the foot. It takes measures like distances, angles and areas in order to help the researchers discriminate between individual pandas, he explained.

By taking all these variables into account, the research team hopes that it can help make a difference in protecting the giant panda.

“Conservation biology desperately needs reliable data on the distribution of endangered species,” Jewell said. “If you don’t have data on where your animals are and how many there are, you can’t begin to protect them.”

The idea for the research began with Jewell and Alibhai’s tracking research for black rhinos in Africa. The duo collaborated with indigenous trackers, who said that collars were unnecessary and invasive. All the information they needed was in a rhino’s footprints, they said.

“That was a revelation to us,” Jewell said. “We always thought high technology and collaring were the answer.”

Binbin Li, assistant professor of environmental sciences at Duke Kunshan University and eventual leader of the research, suggested that they apply that same technique to giant pandas.

The research team now hopes that the new technology can also allow regular people—not just researchers—to become a part of the process to protect the vulnerable species.

“We want people to stop thinking that wildlife monitoring is the preserved job of professionals,” Jewell said. “We want everybody to engage in it. And we potentially have the ability to have everyone who has a smartphone going out there and taking pictures and make this a global effort for conservation.”

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TC: How do you think the repealing of the individual health care mandate will affect the hospital?

TO: That’s a great question. We are all anxious to see what effect that will have on enrollment in insurance. The Affordable Care Act had a very positive effect to reduce the number of uninsured individuals in North Carolina and the country in general. Our hope is that many health care consumers will continue to enroll and have access to care through an exchange insurance plan. I think in the first year, the enrollment here in North Carolina is down just a little bit, but still fairly strong, and we’ll have to watch very carefully to see if consumers make different decisions about enrolling in health insurance.

We know in general when folks decide not to have insurance, it reduces their access to care, and they tend to delay care for chronic conditions or what is perceived as non lifethreatening conditions. So, we see more folks with out-of-control disease, and morbidity and disability associated with that, and that’s something we certainly don’t want to see in our community. We need to continue to work

health care landscape. Some of that comes out of legislative activity or changes in the health care insurance market—both commercial and federal—and we need to be able to respond to those changes to help deliver great care for patients and families.

TC: Are there any other plans to increase accessibility and capacity of the hospital?

TO: As a health system, we’re also adding additional capacity with a new bed tower at Duke Raleigh Hospital and are working on plans to continue to operate, renovate and expand services at Duke Regional Hospital.

Again, we’re fortunate that our overall market is growing and the demand for services across Duke Health has been strong, so we want to create access and be available for care. We’re also working to help bring care closer to home for patients and families around the Triangle with new ambulatory facilities and specialty clinics, many of which have opened already, and many of which are under construction and planning to open in the next two to three

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to help encourage communities to make good to continue to grow and strengthen those decisions about health insurance and then partnerships because it is critical in enriching have good access to care. the health of our community.

TC: Is Duke Hospital collaborating with any community partners at the moment?

TO: The hospital and the health system certainly work very closely with other community health care partners locally in Durham County and other regions. We recognize that health and health care are very local, meaning they’re dependent on good care in local communities, but health and health outcomes are really largely driven by the environment, by psychosocial factors, by the overall environment in which people live and work. So, our goal is to enhance the health of our community, and I mean that broadly, but certainly speaking about Durham and our local community.

To be successful there, we need to have broad and deep partnerships with public health, with the Department of Health, with our state leaders. We recognize really strong partnerships with the county of Durham and other health facilities in Durham, with the community health center and other community health services that deliver care. We certainly want

about Trump’s ability to tap into a phenomenon that was overlooked by the political establishment, who he referred to as “so-called” geniuses.

MILLER FROM PAGE 3 in the book, in which he said that “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency.” Bannon was chief executive of Trump’s campaign and chief strategist at the White House, before he left Aug. 18, 2017.

“You worked hand in glove with Steve Bannon in the White House and on the campaign,” Tapper asked. “Is the president really arguing that Steve Bannon had nothing to do with him or the presidency?”

To this, Miller responded by stating that the president has been talking about trade, immigration and other salient issues to the working class for years. He proceeded to talk

I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time. Thank you, Stephen.

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TC: Is the hospital taking efforts to move toward patient-centered and valuebased care?

TO: Yes, we absolutely are, and we have been focused on that transition for several years through efforts to fundamentally redesign and enhance the way we deliver care to always—first and foremost—improve outcomes of care, quality and patient experience, and to focus on affordability and the overall cost of care. We’ve participated in a number of programs that have helped us lead thinking about not only care redesign but engaging in different ways that we are paid to help reinforce value. We’ve participated in several CMS demonstration projects and innovation projects. We learned a lot from that, which help us continue to evolve and enhance the way we deliver care to folks. We are also really working with our teams because this is new for many providers and physicians, so we are doing a lot of work educating our team how reimbursement and management has changed.

made billionaire who revolutionized reality TV and who has changed the course of…”

Tapper interrupted Miller there, saying, “I’m sure he’s watching and he’s happy that you said that.”

Miller called Tapper “condescending” and attempted to say that CNN has 24/7 negative coverage of Trump and the viewers deserved to hear three minutes of the truth. At the same time, Tapper was trying to ask Miller about Bannon’s role in the travel ban executive order, of which Miller was a chief architect, and other policy issues taken on by the White House.

After a few more exchanges like this, Tapper decided to cut Miller off for good.

“I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time,” Tapper said. “Thank you, Stephen.”

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MCILVAINE FROM PAGE 1 He was great at making people realize that.”

Senior Melissa Carrico, who lived a couple doors down from McIlvaine in his first-year hall, said he was very generous with his time.

If she was having a bad night out, he would leave the party to make sure she got home safely, a concern she said that he constantly exhibited as a friend. One time, Carrico had to be late to a date function. And when she arrived, stressed about being late, McIlvaine was there with her favorite drink ready and saying that he was glad she was there.

“He was so kind,” Carrico said. “He was just a really great friend in every way, very thoughtful and conscientious.”

McIlvaine also supported everyone around him with his energy, which turned many everyday moments into exciting ones. Patel’s fondest memory of McIlvaine was when he had to pick up some supplies and return a U-Haul truck.

With five inches of snow on the ground, McIlvaine volunteered to help Patel and got behind the wheel.

Once they picked up the supplies, McIlvaine figured that since they had paid for the U-Haul already, they might as well have some fun with it, Patel said. McIlvaine tried to drift the truck in a parking lot covered with snow, which led to a fun time.

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opportunity to help out and get these tasks done. But at the same time, he made it really fun and entertaining. Classic Alex shenanigans ensued when it came down to what could have been a very simple, vanilla task at the end of the day.”

Many of his friends also described McIlvaine as having a larger-than-life personality that helped him make great friendships and maintain a positive attitude, a characteristic Patel said he always looked up to him for. Patel said that McIlvaine’s personality helped unite their pledge class, which had a very diverse set of people.

“Explaining it to people who didn’t know him is sometimes really tough because they don’t understand,” Patel said. “When he would walk in a room, he would make an entrance. He would say something funny and announce himself to an extent and everyone would get really excited that Alex was there.”

Alvarez-Estarellas echoed Patel’s sentiments, adding that he was comfortable in breaking the mold that some at Duke might feel forced into.

“In a place where a lot of people fit a certain mold or attempted to fit a certain mold or a certain definition of success, Alex was unique,” Alvarez-Estarellas said. “His happiness truly came from making others happy and he was unique in his ability to empathize with everyone, to relate to everyone regardless of their specific mold.”

In addition to his brothers, those who worked with him at Duke Student Broadcasting—where he was the sports

Any time anyone was down or struggling, he would step up and even come over to your place and talk to you about stuff. He was really good at cheering people up and making people realize that a lot of things aren’t as serious as they seem they are in the moment.

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When it was time to return the truck, the rental vehicle just couldn’t make it up a hill and got stuck in the snow.

Luckily for them, a couple came out of nowhere with a truck and helped push it up the hill.

“It was a really funny day that highlighted a lot of his personality,” Patel said. “One, he just jumped up at the

director for a year—raved about his passion for the job.

Alvarez-Estarellas said McIlvaine wanted to pursue a career in sports media and that his personality would have suited him perfectly as a commentator or a broadcaster.

Patel raved about his storytelling ability—he could get a lot of people to sit down and listen to a pretty long story just

because he told it in such an entertaining way, he said.

With DSB, he worked mostly on sports, men’s basketball in particular, where he would film games for highlights and reaction from coaches and players after the game. He also interned at Fox Sports in Los Angeles this past summer.

He was incredibly passionate about sports, his friends said. A native of Darien, Conn., McIlvaine was an avid Philadelphia sports fan. That love of sports was something that Patel and Alvarez-Estarellas bonded with McIlvaine over—especially basketball.

Senior Soren Chargois, who worked with McIlvaine on shooting video of Duke men’s basketball in their first and second years for DSB, added that he was a hard worker and someone that made the job fun.

“It’s really funny because I would always get Snapchats from friends of us on the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and he’d always be the one filming,” Chargois said. “I’d be sitting on there on my phone sending Snapchats, and that was one of the great memories. He’d always work hard, and he was okay with me being myself.”

Chargois’ favorite memory of McIlvaine was when the two traveled to Chicago in the fall of 2015 to shoot for the men’s basketball Champions Classic against Kentucky. After the game, the two were in the hotel around 11 p.m., and McIlvaine decided they should head out and do something.

They ended up walking along the Chicago River for over two hours, talking about life.

“It was a sentimental and serious side of him that I had never known before,” Chargois said. “Being able to spend time with him helped me see a deeper, more serious side. It’s one of my favorite memories.”

In the press room for one of the biggest college basketball programs in the country as an underclassmen, McIlvaine impressed Chargois with his poise.

“Even when he was clueless as to what was going on, he had this ability to fake confidence unlike anyone else I had ever known,” Chargois said.

Chargois added that while McIlvaine would wait for head coach Mike Krzyzewski to come in the media room for his post-game press conference, he would talk with reporters from ESPN and other outlets and ask for their business cards.

“It was this total persona that should not have been coming out of a little freshman guy,” Chargois said. “I had always been inspired by that.”

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AMES 476S/ AMES 576S/ ICS 411S/ AMI 476S/ Lit 476S/ VMS 476S/ HISTORY 448S/ DOCST 476S ARCHIVING AND VISUALIZING ASIA Tu/Th 1:40PM - 4:10PM

AMES 252S/ AMI 287S/ LIT 250S INDIGENOUS JOURNEYS IN SOUTH ASIAN FILM AND LITERATURE Tu/Th 3:05PM - 4:20PM

A survey of real or imagined journeys in South Asian film and literature from the anxieties of modernity towards traces of the indigenous. Combines an interest in travel literature and road movies with inquiry into human values.

Examines aesthetic representations of journeys that are made to idealize a particular past or to valorize contemporary traces of indigenous communities, while exploring the perspectives on modernity afforded by these real or imagined journeys. Seminar (CCI) (ALP) Satti Khanna

Engages students in the practices and theories of archiving, documenting and curating marginal histories. Hands-on research in the archives of Duke's Rubenstein Special Collections and elsewhere. Examines histories of movements and encounters between the "West" and "Asia." Teaches original archival research and documentary methods through guided excavations in digital, audiovisual, and material resources. Directed readings and special guest lectures guide students on how to think critically on the theories and praxis of knowledge production, collection, documentation, circulation, and consumption. Students curate projects for final research assignment.

Seminar (CCI) (R) (CZ) Nayoung Aimee Kwon

AMES 479S/ PUBPOL 417S/ HISTORY 417S/ ICS 408S/ LIT 417S CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES AND POLICY Tu 1:40PM - 4:10PM

Surveys foundational and contemporary scholarship in Middle East Studies through area studies, cultural studies, history and policy lenses. Students examine both the development of the field, as well as its critical themes, questions and concepts. Comparative analysis of key texts, paradigmatic theories, and a variety of cultural and political sources. Concepts include secular modernity, Orientalism, gender, historiography, identity, postcolonialism, religious practice and Middle East policy. Intersection with regional historical and geopolitical developments. Develops skills in academic analysis and interpretation.

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Introduction to the History and current trends in language teaching with the goal of acquiring the knowledge and skills for informed, effective and reflective language instruction. Focus on psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic dimensions of second language acquisition, key concepts of second language teaching and their applications, and integration of culture and literature in language instruction. Compares features of the target and source languages. Assignments include review of teaching materials, creating lesson plans and modules, and writing an essay stating teaching philosophies. Open only to students who have a background in Asian languages. Seminar (CCI) Hae-Young Kim For additional information about AMES course offerings, please contact 919 668-2603.

Language classes offered through AMES: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Turkish.

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hoof ‘n’ horn returns Winter production “Company” opens soon, page 10

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on the cover: A Ziggy Stardust puppet at Atlanta’s 2017 Shaky Knees Music Festival.

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It’s 1:45 a.m. and after four months of reading, I’ve just finished “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” In about 12 hours, I’ll be on a plane back to Duke, but right now my mother’s house is quiet and the Christmas tree is still up, warming the room, the light of one hundred little bulbs refracted off the glass ornaments.

At 636 pages, the Michael Chabon novel should not have taken me so long to read. All the way back in August, a day or two before classes began, after I’d just spent the spring semester working in Atlanta, I sat on a bench under one of those magnolia trees in Duke Gardens and began “Adventures.”

Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my poor reading habits, but I suspect that, after spending the previous eight months with family and old friends, the novel’s thoroughly rendered characters — Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and Rosa Saks — felt like the members of a small community I could be comfortable in. As I found my footing at Duke again, “Adventures” became a sort of security blanket with Chabon’s sentences as its fine threads. In between starting the book and finishing it, I read John Updike and Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith, all the while slowly savoring and rereading “Adventures.”

And then, with maybe 100 pages to go, I came home for winter break.

I caught up with real-life friends; all of us sat around in a basement, drinking wine and talking over the events of the previous semester, and then, emboldened by a slight buzz, reminisced about high school — those memories as murky as they’ve ever been. So much of what we said revolved around the future. Talk of internships,

graduate school and majors congealed in the space between us and thickened the air with nervous expectation.

In the universe of “Adventures,” things unfold the way they do for a reason. Old friends and loves don’t go away but instead circle back through unexpected and inexorable means. To observe a handful of fictional lives unfold over more than a decade is to draw inevitable connections between discrete events — to the characters living in those moments, they mean nothing; to the reader they’re everything. And, of course, it helps that a rigorous exploration of themes and character requires a novelist to play the long game and sprinkle in motifs.

staff note One of the things I most enjoy about reading Chabon is his arrant mastery of plot. In the breadth of the novel, he sees the possibility of slowly constructing, piece by piece, some grand, sweeping portrait of a place. The finely detailed threads wind together until at the end of a chapter — or after a couple chapters — the rope is pulled tight and suddenly the whole becomes clear. He formulates the kind of payoffs and resolutions that are so graceful, they make your chest warm with satisfaction.

I suspect that if my old friends or I were to read the stories of our lives

without any regard for our personal stakes in the outcomes, there would be plenty of apparent motifs. That, however, doesn’t make the future any less uncertain or nerve-wracking. The distance afforded by reading about life as it happens to someone else is comforting — you feel for fictional characters only when you want to.

To experience it yourself, with other real people, is harder, and the ends of things are more difficult to discern.

Last night, my friend came over for dinner, and we went for a drive.

Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” played lightly over the car speakers, and she directed me toward some place I had never been.

We drove past the grocery store where my classmates used to shoplift candy bars and cigarettes, then past the park where we once built fires and talked about girls. She told me to turn into a neighborhood and I did, and as we winded up a long incline, she said, “Don’t look in the rearview mirror until we get to the top.”

When we reached the apex, I circled the cul-de-sac and parked. There was the Atlanta skyline, glittering with industrial blues and reds and silvers. I felt far away from the city and the professional aspirations it has come to symbolize for me. I felt uncertain about the future in that metropolitan glimmer, but also warm and contented. The person in my passenger’s seat — someone who I’d fallen out of touch with for a year or two — was there again, her hand comfortable in mine.

As an end to the chapter that was winter break, I couldn’t have hoped for a better payoff.

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Duke news editor Steve Hartsoe on his new album ‘The Big Fix’

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In the middle of Steve Hartsoe’s debut solo album, “The Big Fix,” alongside a spate of original compositions, is a cover of Tom Petty’s “Trailer.” The deluxe edition of the album, released Dec. 1, came less than two months after the death of the beloved rock star, but for Hartsoe, Petty’s influence spans back much further.

The Raleigh-based musician, who is a senior editor in Duke’s Office of News and Communications, recalled attending a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers concert in San Francisco in 1983. The show came during a particularly trying period of his life: A former college baseball player, he had just been cut from the team, and his grandmother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Initially, he and his brother were reluctant to go, but the concert proved to be a formative experience for Hartsoe, spurring him to begin writing music and form a band.

“I’ve never seen a guy relate to the audience as well as [Petty] did,” Hartsoe said.

“You just felt like you were all in the same garage band rehearsal or something.”

Beyond Petty, “The Big Fix: Deluxe Edition” echoes the likes of Son Volt, Wilco and Jason Isbell in its blend of Americana and rock — in Hartsoe’s words, “the guys who can sort of rock it out but still keep a pedal steel nearby.”

After originally releasing “The Big Fix” in September 2016, Hartsoe and sound engineer Kevin McNoldy, who mastered the original album, decided to remix and remaster the record when some singles gained traction on

online radio. The resulting product, which also includes two new bonus tracks, makes up the deluxe edition. Together, the two versions of “The Big Fix” are the culmination of over two dormant decades in Hartsoe’s musical career.

Hartsoe started out playing in bands in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1980s and early ‘90s, including London Down (later named The Raging Marys).

Once that band broke up and adult life set in — with kids and a full-time job, first at daily newspapers, then with the AP, then at Duke — Hartsoe had little time for music, occasionally laying down ideas on cassette tapes and digital files but never imagining he’d break into the music world again.

That changed when a Father’s Day gift of recording studio time led to a solo EP, 2014’s “Neo-Traditional.”

“It just kind of grew from there,” Hartsoe said, leading to a successful Kickstarter campaign where friends and former bandmates helped fund the new album.

Of the material written for “The Big Fix,” Hartsoe estimated about half came from those scattered demos throughout the years and the other half was written more recently. Lyrically, the songs deal with life as a husband and father, with road-ready geographical touchpoints abounding in songs like “Salt & Wine” and “Seven Miles to Wilmington.” At times, the songs seem to allude to Hartsoe’s faith, which he acknowledged may bleed through into his music. He cited a quote by the songwriter T-Bone Burnett: As a Christian artist, Burnett said, “You can write songs about the light, or you can write songs about what you can see from the light.”

Kate Coogan | Special to The Chronicle Duke senior news editor Steve Hartsoe performs with his band at the Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh.

“You could do your music and just preach to the choir all the time,” Hartsoe said. “Or you could sing about how your life goes and how you see it in these songs, which I much prefer.”

For “The Big Fix,” Hartsoe has also found help from his son, Eli, who plays drums on the record and with Hartsoe’s live band, The Beacon Souls. Having learned to drum by playing along with recordings of his dad’s

band, the younger Hartsoe has shown no signs of struggle in keeping up with the band, offering a younger voice in rehearsals and recording sessions. (Even if it means he has to get a “big old ‘X’” put on his hands at many venues.)

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn reimagines Sondheim’s classic musical ‘Company’

By Keyin Lu Staff Writer

Duke’s Hoof ‘n’ Horn will present Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy “Company,” opening Thursday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. at Sheafer Lab Theater in the Bryan Center.

This winter production is a revival of famed composer Sondheim’s 1970 concept musical revolving around a central character Bobby. With the help of five pairs of married friends, he sets out on a quest to understand the pros and cons of marriage and his own continued bachelorhood. Set in New York City on Bobby’s 35th birthday, Bobby contemplates the meaning of love, loneliness and commitment in a series of vignettes where he visits his friends and his three girlfriends.

“Company” was written by George Furth with music and lyrics contributed

by Sondheim. With a career spanning six decades, the now-87-year-old composer has been hugely influential in the world of musical theater. Sondheim’s resume includes an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards and eight Grammy Awards among other accolades. Characterized as the “greatest and perhaps best-known artist in American musical theater” by The New York Times, Sondheim gave Lin-Manuel Miranda feedback when he was writing the now celebrated musical “Hamilton.”

The upcoming show is not the first time Duke and Durham audiences have heard Sondheim’s music. In the fall of 2016, Hoof ‘n’ Horn presented “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” a musical about a vengeful barber on a murdering spree in Victorian England.

Funded almost exclusively on ticket sales and donations, Hoof ‘n’ Horn was established in 1936 and is the oldest student-run musical

theater group in the South. The production council for each show is chosen by the producer and includes the director, musical director, choreographer and numerous other positions, all of which ensure the success of a show.

For this production of “Company,” senior and director Alex Felix wanted to make the musical as relevant as possible to Duke students.

“I really wanted to make the show modern,” Felix said. “It highlights the effect of technology and is not flashy or in your face. It’s very modern and sleek.” She hoped viewers will leave the show with “an appreciation for the different kinds of love and relationships.”

Trained as an actor, Felix’s directorial style takes into consideration each actor’s individual voice and allows them ample creative freedom to explore their characters.

During casting, Felix did not look for specific qualities or actors who fit a certain preconceived mold but rather sought out people who could make their own decisions and bring something unique.

Jenna Clayborn, a sophomore who plays Joanne in the play, said Felix encouraged her to engage with the emotions behind her solo number.

“The hardest thing was getting away from being a perfect, technically trained singer to actually portraying a very prominent action through a song, rather than just having it sound amazing,” Clayborn said.

For the cast and crew of “Company,” the final show that is presented to the audience comes at the end of nearly eight weeks of rehearsals. Although the entire cast is not called to rehearse every night from 7 to 11 p.m., it was crucial to producer Sonali Mehta that the entire group works well together and cultivates a positive atmosphere.

Adam Beskind | Special to The Chronicle Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s production “Company” opens Thursday, Jan. 25 in the Bryan Center’s Sheafer Theater.

Mehta not only wanted people to “buy into the show” but “buy into each other” and ensure that “they have the freedom and creativity to do the best work possible.”

The audience can expect a “contemporary” and “accessible” sound from the show, said sophomore and musical director Adam Beskind. He has worked closely with Felix to bring her vision to life.

While the show is older, Felix saw many parallels to the lives of Duke students and to how they approach relationships.

“People are very big on not engaging people in a way that is meaningful because we’re always all going somewhere and doing something,” Clayborn said. “We all have this very surface level interaction with each

other and that’s kind of the central problem of ‘Company.’”

Felix’s “Company” aims to force the audience to confront loneliness in the age of social media and commitment at a place like Duke, where academic pursuits and professional ambitions often take precedence.

“I hope people come away thinking about how it can apply to their own lives and situations,” Beskind said.

“Company” will run in the Bryan Center’s Sheafer Theater for two weekends, starting Thursday, Jan. 25 and ending the first weekend of February. Showtimes will be at 8 p.m. every night from Thursday to Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

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‘The Disaster Artist’ only scratches the surface of Tommy Wiseau

By Sarah Derris Staff Writer

Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film “The Room” went from box office flop to profitable cult classic within just a year of its premiere.

Dubbed the “best worst movie ever made,” “The Room” continues to captivate audiences at midnight screenings. Fast forward 14 years to James Franco’s Golden Globe-nominated film “The Disaster Artist,” which permits viewers to examine how Hollywood’s most infamous film came to be. The film is largely based on “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room,” written by one of “The Room”’s lead actors Greg Sestero.

Wiseau, portrayed by James Franco himself, retains a mysterious aura — although claiming to have grown up in the “bayou” of New Orleans, his heavy (Eastern European?) accent seems to suggest otherwise. Franco nails the impression; his investment in the “character” of Tommy Wiseau is as clear as his convincing impression of Wiseau’s accent and stringy black hair, bearing a stark resemblance to the writer-director-producer himself. His efforts earned him both a Golden Globe for Best Actor and a helping of controversy this past Sunday.

Conversely, Dave Franco’s interpretation of Greg Sestero seems flat and rather unconvincing,as if Dave is playing himself rather than Sestero. That said, (Dave) Franco’s performance does culminate in a

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The real Tommy Wiseau, whose film “The Room” is the subject of Franco’s “The Disaster Artist.”

solid conclusion as Sestero and Wiseau’s friendship becomes strained after production of “The Room” and in his reluctant but comforting presence at the premiere.

Although “The Disaster Artist” is branded as a comedy and supplies enough genuine laughter to maintain that status, the film is striking for its poignancy. Aspects of Wiseau’s quirky personality may be comical to audiences, but perhaps that is attributed

to an inability to accept personalities that deviate from the norm. Wiseau is a complex character in the scope of the film — he retains insecurities regarding his limited friendships and Hollywood ridicules him, withholding its acceptance.

To be clear, I thoroughly enjoyed the film upon the first viewing. The film was hilarious, emotional and (mostly) wellacted. Notable appearances from Seth

Rogen (script supervisor Sandy), Zac Efron (Chris-R), and Josh Hutcherson (Denny) made for an amusing novelty. But, there was a bit of a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that something wasn’t right. After some meditation on “The Disaster Artist,” I pinpointed the film’s shortcoming on the shallow portrayal of Wiseau’s character.

Wiseau’s clingy, controlling nature and brash mistreatment of his cast and crew easily vilifies the mysterious figure. Perhaps this vilification coupled with Franco’s overeager impression creates false justification for making Wiseau an object of ridicule, as it is easy to overlook the causes of this behavior. Where the film lacks is in its failure to explore and meditate upon the perceived flaws of Wiseau’s personality — the fact that he is very protective of his friendship with Sestero and that he is afraid of betrayal and abandonment can likely be attributed to unknown occurrences in his past.

Don’t get me wrong, many of the actions of Wiseau are inexcusable, including the shocking treatment of Juliette Danielle (Lisa) during the “lovemaking” scene and lack of empathy towards a suffering cast and crew. Yet Franco took the simple route, opting for humor rather than probing at the underlying implications of Wiseau’s behavior, generating a collective cringe among the audience.

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Pratt’s Envisioning the Invisible photo contest puts lens to science

By Selena Qian Staff Writer

Liver cells, water droplets and crabs.

Wildflowers, ion beams and protein models.

These have all been subjects of winning photos in the Envisioning the Invisible photo contest hosted by the Engineering Graduate Student Council.

The EGSC puts on an awards reception each year to announce the winners. This year, that reception will be held Jan. 19 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Fitzpatrick Atrium. Trisha Dupnock, president of the EGSC and fourth-year PhD student, said the judges decide the winners of the top three places, while attendees of the event will vote on a People’s Choice award. Each of the awards comes with a cash prize: $500, $300 and $200, for first, second and third place respectively, and $100 for the People’s Choice.

In past years, people could vote online for the People’s Choice award, but Dupnock said this year there will be an in-house ballot at the event. EGSC members will pass out tickets for attendees to place into boxes under each submission. For those who cannot attend the event, Dupnock said there will be early voting available if they can stop by earlier in the day.

Jennifer West, associate dean for PhD education in the Pratt School of Engineering, has been involved with the contest for the past three years. West said they typically receive 40 to 50 submissions each year, and Dupnock said the photos will be displayed throughout the year in the Fitzpatrick Atrium, starting a few days before the awards reception.

“Ideally, visitors to the show will find

images visually compelling and then learn about the exciting research behind the image,” West wrote in an email.

Dupnock said the event and the contest aim to “bridge the gap” between the sciences and the arts as well as to include the wider Duke community beyond the Pratt School.

“Anybody from the Duke community is able to submit a photo,” Dupnock said.

“We’ve been trying to really branch outside of the Pratt department and get other schools like the medical school, the Trinity School, the Nicholas school involved, so a big push this year was to find the communications people for those schools and get the word out about the event.”

Another way the EGSC is branching out this year is by creating a partnership with the Pratt recruitment event, which Dupnock said is also happening Jan. 19.

That event typically has a reception at the end of the day, so this year’s reception will occur concurrently with the reception for the photo contest.

The submission period for the contest started in the fall and ended Dec. 22.

Dupnock said the contest looks for photos that either come from highly scientific research presented in an artistic way or from everyday life presented in an extraordinary way that “captures the scientific underlying” of the subject. The judges then consider both of these qualities.

Last year’s first place winner was Asli Unal, a fourth-year PhD student in biomedical engineering. Her winning photo of liver cells came from a construct she made in a lab by encapsulating three kinds of cells into a hydrogel. Unal said she heard about the contest from an EGSC

Asli Unal | Courtesy of Duke Engineering The winning photograph from last year’s photo contest depicts liver cells growing in a petri dish.

announcement and wanted to show others what she was seeing in her work.

“Winning was of course awesome,” Unal wrote in an email. “I didn’t expect it — there were so many beautiful images that were submitted. I was really happy that people liked my photo as much as I did.”

Unal’s submission represents the theme of the contest, Envisioning the Invisible, by capturing images on a very small scale.

George Truskey, senior associate dean in the Pratt School of Engineering, said the

Winners of the 2017 contest, from left to right: Changyong Cao, Kristen Collar, Talmage Tyler, H. Alex Guo.

contest originally started in 2010 as a memorial to a graduate student who was murdered, but it has since removed the student’s name from the contest title in order to shift the focus.

“By emphasizing the invisible, it’s trying to use photography and other imaging methods to explore the beauty that exists at all different levels, particularly the microscopic, and how some things that we view as scientific can actually also be viewed as beautiful art,” Truskey said.

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Grammys preview: Duke artists and more make up nominees

By Eva Hong Staff Writer

The Grammys will hold its 60th ceremony Jan. 28, and as you sit anxiously and excitedly in front of a screen to watch Lady Gaga, P!nk and Childish Gambino perform and confirm your predictions, be sure to pay attention to two Grammy-nominated Duke musicians: Christopher Jacobson and Patrick Douthit.

Duke Chapel organist Christopher Jacobson’s album “Tyberg: Masses,” a collaboration with Brian Schmidt, who was assistant conductor of music at Duke Chapel when they first started the project, is nominated for Best Choral Performance. Sung by the South Dakota Chorale, the album is also nominated for Best Engineered Album – Classical and Best Surround Sound Album, and is associated with a nomination in the category of Producer Of The Year – Classical.

“Tyberg: Masses” features Viennese composer Marcel Tyberg’s masses. Equally as beautiful as Tyberg’s music is his story: At the height of World War II and the Holocaust in 1943, Tyberg was a young, neo-romantic Catholic composer. Anticipating his possible capture, Tyberg gathered his friends in a nearby church and played through his music one last time. Then he gave all his compositions to his friends, hugged them and bid farewell.

Two days later, he was arrested by the Gestapo. His death was recorded at Auschwitz.

Six decades later, Tyberg’s life works traveled to the United States with Enrico Mihich and was eventually rediscovered in a basement in Buffalo, N.Y. Jacobson and Schmidt were thoroughly enthralled by Tyberg’s sacred music and story and decided to present them to the rest of the world for the first time since Tyberg played them himself.

Douthit, known in the music industry as 9th Wonder, is a lecturing fellow in the African & African American Studies department. As Professor Douthit, he co-teaches “The History of Hip-Hop”; as 9th Wonder, he produced the final track “Duckworth” on Kendrick Lamar’s best-

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 9th Wonder helped produce Kendrick Lamar’s album “DAMN.,” which is nominated for Album of the Year at the upcoming Grammys.

selling album “DAMN.,” which has been nominated for Album of the Year. In 2015, his work on another Lamar album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” was also honored by the Grammys. Likewise, Douthit produced many of the songs on North Carolina-based rapper Rapsody’s album “Laila’s Wisdom,” which is nominated for Best Rap Album.

However, this is not the first time that the Grammys have recognized Duke musicians. Eric Oberstein, associate director of Duke Performances, has won four Grammys in the past two years in Latin jazz and instrumental.

Will Duke staff have the honor of bringing trophies back home Jan. 28? According to the experts at the betting

website Gold Derby, the Grammy nominations announced in November were surprising, with especially tight competition in the general field.

Jacobson faces tough competition in the Best Surround Sound Album and Best Engineered Album – Classical categories; his competitor “So is my love” in Best Surround Sound Album is sung by the second-time Grammy-nominated chamber choir Ensemble 96. In the Best Engineered Album – Classical category, Gary Call’s “Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs” is hailed as See GRAMMYS on Page 13

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Open to students of all levels of experience, this class is a primer in interdisciplinary choreography. An enquiry into the construction of reality, whereby students learn to develop their personal artistic voices.

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What makes a powerful performer?

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GRAMMYS FROM PAGE 12 the likely winner, as Call has won two Grammys before.

However, “Tyberg: Masses” might have a good chance to win Best Choral Performance, as all nominees in the category have no Grammys on their resume and stand at the same starting point.

Meanwhile, for Album of the Year, Gold Derby’s writer Charles Bright and senior editor Daniel Montgomery supported Kendrick Lamar as the winner, which means that Douthit might receive the honor of contributing to a Grammy-winning album in a few weeks. The experts’ only worry is Bruno Mars (“24K Magic”) and the over-performing Jay-Z (“4:44”), who might split votes with Lamar.

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But no matter the results, with the two Grammynominated Duke musicians, this year’s Grammys is bound to bring much excitement.

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Duke will get another chance at a road ACC win at Pittsburgh after dropping its first two

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Elon, Utah Valley, Furman, Portland State, South Dakota and St. Francis.

These teams have all been better than Pittsburgh on offense, according to Ken Pomeroy’s efficiency rankings, not to mention every major conference team Duke has played so far.

With a defense in tatters and fresh off a rock-bottom performance against N.C. State Saturday, the Panthers present a No. 7 chance at redemption Duke for a Duke team that vs. has given up at least Pitt 89 points in every ACC game thus far.

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Wednesday to take on the Panthers, who return just two players from last season’s roster and have struggled to find any sort of offensive rhythm.

In its second conference road loss of the season to the Wolfpack Saturday night, Duke’s interior defense was sliced up in the paint—breaking the mold of its usual struggles from defending the perimeter. N.C. State shot just 35.7 percent from deep after both Boston College and then-No. 24 Florida State rained in 15 threes in the Blue Devils’ two previous conference games.

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Grayson Allen scored just eight points against N.C. State and is shooting 33 percent from the field in conference play. and that’s all you can do,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the ACC’s weekly teleconference Monday. “We may have done a few certain segments, like at the end of the Florida State game and stuff like that, but part of it too is the development of a little bit more bench strength, so maybe even for a couple minutes at a time, we can stay fresher.”

Duke (13-2, 1-2 in the ACC) will be without two of his biggest weapons off the bench, post players Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier, which should give others some

more minutes. Even with Bolden out with an MCL sprain Saturday, Krzyzewski used a six-man rotation with just DeLaurier playing significant minutes off the bench.

The 38-year Blue Devil head coach said that Antonio Vrankovic, Justin Robinson and even Jack White should be ready to see more time as bigs with DeLaurier out with a hamstring injury. The group of three has seen an average of just 14.4 minutes per game combined this year, and though White plays more as a guard, Krzyzewski thinks he

has the size to fill in at the post.

Especially with Wendell Carter Jr.’s tendency to fall into foul trouble, that depth will be crucial, even against a Panthers team that has not been good on offense.

Pittsburgh (8-8, 0-3) will also likely be without its leading rebounder and secondleading scorer, Ryan Luther, for the sixth straight game.

The Panthers will roll out plenty of fourguard lineups with little post depth behind Luther—Terrell Brown and Kene Chukwuka have largely been ineffective in trying to replace Luther. Among the problems for Pittsburgh: turnovers. The Panthers rank among the worst in the nation in turnovers per possession, and have also struggled mightily from beyond the arc.

But Pittsburgh has done well in one of Duke’s vulnerable spots against N.C. State— around the rim. The Blue Devils gave up 44 points in the paint to a less talented Wolfpack team, as Bagley and Carter struggled to stop pick and rolls and transition buckets.

And one of the Panthers’ top guards— Shamiel Stevenson—has excelled around the basket, taking nearly 70 percent of his shots at the rim this season, according to Hoop-Math.com. For context, Bagley takes just 55.3 percent of his shots at the rim. And Stevenson has been remarkably efficient in those attempts, making nearly 64 percent of his tries.

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DeLaurier, Bolden both sidelined with leg injuries

By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Duke only scored four bench points Saturday at N.C. State, and it will not be getting any deeper Wednesday night.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said on the ACC’s weekly teleconference that sophomore big man Marques Bolden will not play at Pittsburgh due to the knee injury he suffered in practice last week and might miss Saturday’s home game against Wake Forest as well. Krzyzewski also said on the team’s podcast Tuersday that Javin DeLaurier will be out as well with a hamstring injury he suffered in practice Monday—the sophomore forward missed the Blue Devils’ game against Evansville Dec. 20 with a tight hamstring.

Krzyzewski said after Saturday’s loss that Bolden has a grade 1 MCL sprain and was hopeful at the time that he would be back on the court this week.

“Jack [White] fell into his leg early in the week, and he’s actually making good progress,” Krzyzewski said at his postgame press conference. “We weren’t sure until today if he was going to be able to play, and then we didn’t feel comfortable enough for it.”

With both of its key frontcourt reserves sidelined, Duke may look deeper down its bench to junior Antonio Vrankovic and former walk-on Justin Robinson for meaningful minutes.

“Antonio has to be ready, Justin Robinson, and we’ve used Jack as a second big, too. Even though he’s 6-foot-6, he’s 225 [pounds],” Krzyzewski said on the teleconference. “They have to get the reps in practice to be ready.”

Duke has been fortunate on the injury front compared to last season, with nobody in its starting lineup missing a game yet. The Blue Devils have started the same group in their first 15 games for the first time since the 1983-84 season.

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Marques Bolden will miss his second straight game Wednesday due to an MCL sprain he suffered in practice last week.

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Lexie Brown scores career high in Blue Devils’ win

By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

It was the second straight day that the Blue Devils and the Wolfpack faced off. But Sunday afternoon, the result left the Duke faithful with a smile on their faces.

In its return to Cameron Indoor Stadium, No. 17 Duke took down N.C. State 69-56.

The Blue Devils saw a strong performance from graduate student Lexie Brown, who scored a career-high 56 34 points on 7-ofNCSU 69 13 shooting from DUKE 3-point range. The showing was a stark improvement on the Suwanee, Ga., native’s season-low eight points Thursday at Louisville, which ended her 23game double-digit scoring streak. A new streak began before even the first quarter of play was complete, and was something Brown expected before the game began.

“The last two games have been super frustrating for me. I’ve been in the gym a lot. I’ve talked to Coach P,” Brown said.

“She just wanted me to get back to being confident in my offense and take the shots and just react to the defense a little better.

Of course, credit to my teammates. They’ve given me all the confidence in the world and keep getting me the ball.”

In her first career start, freshman Jade Williams connected on a layup to kick off the scoring. It was first of three baskets in an impressive all-around game. In the first

quarter alone, The Colony, Texas native registered two blocks, two assists and three rebounds. The freshman, who played a careerhigh 31 minutes in her last appearance, saw the floor for 27 minutes, which led to six points and a career-high seven rebounds on the afternoon.

Midway through the opening quarter, redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki knocked down her first shot from long range to extend Duke’s impressive 10-0 start, and the Blue Devils (12-4, 1-2 in the ACC) were not done yet. N.C. State missed its first 11 field goal attempts and was held scoreless for more than seven and a half minutes to open the contest. The Blue Devils stretched their lead to 18-0 before a basket by senior Akela Maize put the Wolfpack on the board.

“I did really like our first quarter. I thought that was great execution,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Kind of special to hold a team down in the first quarter like that.”

Brown and Gorecki both scored in double figures in the first period, accounting for 21 of Duke’s 23 points.

“I don’t know that our defensive effort was quite where it needed to be,” N.C. State head coach Wes Moore said. “Of course, Lexie Brown was phenomenal, and maybe we, as a coaching staff, should have figured out something else to slow her down.”

The roles shifted in the second quarter, as the Wolfpack (12-5, 1-3) began to inch back into the game, scoring 10 early points

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Lexie Brown rebounded from two quiet games to start ACC play with a career-high 34 points against N.C. State. to close the gap to 13. But four straight Duke points, including a jumper from senior Erin Mathias, stopped N.C. State in its tracks.

After being held to only five first-quarter points, the Wolfpack brought their tally up to 25 as the road team headed to the locker room within 11 points.

The start of the third quarter was similar to that of the second, as the Wolfpack used an 8-0 run to bring the Blue Devil lead to only four.

“We started to be a little spoiled. We took quick shots and we did things that we stepped outside of ourselves a little bit, which provided them an opportunity, so that’s a great lesson for us,” McCallie said. “One of my messages to my team was you don’t have to be down to come back and be aggressive.”

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Duke’s defense hits rock bottom vs. Wolfpack

By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

RALEIGH—It’s no secret that Duke’s defense has been bad all year.

The Blue Devils have given up at least 80 points in eight of their 15 games and an average of 92.7 points in their three ACC contests.

But none of their earlier struggles came close to the level of incompetence on display at PNC Arena Saturday night.

N.C. State did not bombard Duke with a flurry of 3-pointers like Boston College and

Florida State when they each knocked down 15 triples in staggering shooting performances.

The Wolfpack’s points came much easier—they attacked the Blue Devils where Duke should be at its strongest and met little resistance.

Although Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. were more highly recruited, more talented and more athletic than anybody on the Wolfpack’s roster, N.C. State’s veteran frontcourt of Omer Yurtseven, Lennard Freeman and Abdul-Malik Abu went toe to toe with the Blue Devil phenoms. The Wolfpack had eight dunks to pad their shooting percentage and enjoyed

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s young team is having trouble stopping ACC opponents in both man-to-man and zone defense.

several other easy looks around the basket, guys. If they see us getting a little bit tired or scoring 44 points in the paint. not approaching it for a certain amount of “We’ve got to figure out how to get stops. I time, they’re going to take advantage of that,” can’t tell you an exact thing. We’ve just got to do it Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. and it’s got to be all five guys. Nobody’s pointing “We’re their opportunity, and [the freshmen] fingers anywhere like somebody’s a bad defender have never experienced anything like that, on our team,” senior captain Grayson Allen said. where a team that you see on tape isn’t the “We’ve just got to get stops—we’re all athletic team that shows up against you. We have to be guys, so we should be able to do it.” able to handle that.”

There was no consistent culprit that caused Duke has improved its defense in past years. The N.C. State’s easy buckets. Sometimes Duke was easy example to point to is 2015, when an unranked late getting back in transition. Other times, it Miami team walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium was slow to recover on basic pick-and-rolls, and poured in 90 points in a blowout win, less and the Blue Devil frontcourt was often forced than three months before the Blue Devils won the to help on guards Lavar Batts and Allerik national championship.

Freeman after they penetrated past one of But that Duke team still had not unleashed Duke’s perimeter defenders, leaving their men its hidden weapon, a zone defense it used to shut wide open under the hoop. down Louisville on the road a week later, and it “If we had the answers, it would be easy never sunk nearly as low as the Blue Devils are for us right now,” Bagley said. “It’s obviously right now. After that Miami loss, Duke dropped not the case.” to No. 67 in basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s The Blue Devils have been able to mask adjusted defensive efficiency rankings. The Blue some of those recurring deficiencies by Devils are now No. 104 in that category and have eliminating second chances and dominating the shown almost equal levels of ineffectiveness in glass on both ends to help outscore opponents both zone and man-to-man. in shootouts for most of the season. That The Blue Devils also suffered an ugly loss wasn’t the case Saturday—the Wolfpack won to N.C. State last year highlighted by poor the rebounding battle 34-32 and grabbed 14 defense and immediately followed that up with offensive boards that resulted in 20 second- an impressive seven-game winning streak, but chance points. as underachieving as that Wolfpack team was, On one occasion, at a critical juncture with it still had Dennis Smith Jr., a bona fide star at the score tied at 41 in the final seconds of the point guard who was a top-10 pick in June’s first half, Bagley stood and watched on the block NBA Draft. Duke was not the only opponent as Yurtseven hustled through the paint and rose that had trouble containing him.

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After taking the ball from coast to coast, the graduate student hit a layup with a foul.

On the next possession, Brown knocked down a 3-pointer and picked off a pass.

She scored seven straight points to spark a 14-0 run that stretched into the start of the fourth quarter.

“I thought Lexie led us big time,” Gorecki said. “If that doesn’t show what a senior captain is, I don’t know what does.”

N.C. State finished the afternoon strong, but did not pull within single digits again.

Graduate student Rebecca Greenwell returned after missing the last contest against Louisville and five of Duke’s last six games with knee pain. She did not attempt a shot and finished with two rebounds.

The Blue Devils travel to take on Wake Forest Thursday night in search of their first ACC road win and looking to score 70 points for the first time in a month.

“It was nice to see the ball go into the basket…. I got a little mental—I wouldn’t say unstable, but my mind was in a million different places the past few games,” Brown said. “So today, I just had to calm down and my teammates did a great job of feeding me and keeping me hot the whole entire game.”

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Despite his 31 points and 10 rebounds, Marvin Bagley III struggled defensively.

Antonio Vrankovic could see the floor more Wednesday with two key reserves hurt.

back on track. Allen has shot just 33 percent from the field in conference play, including an abysmal 5-of-23 from deep.

“He’s not played well in these three conference games, and he knows it. We have confidence that he will play well,” Krzyzewski said. “I think part of it is the adjustment of playing with new guys. He has to hunt his shot, and we have to get something in transition. We haven’t really hit a transition three in a while, and that’s a major part of our offense, especially for him. He really hasn’t had that, and that kind of gets him going.”

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Haley Gorecki scored 10 points in the first quarter Sunday and has now scored in double figures in seven straight games.

is unlikely to send anybody to the NBA next year and has nobody that can sniff the talent of the Blue Devils’ several McDonald’s All-Americans.

Saturday’s loss is a new rock bottom for a program that once prided itself on its defense, the culmination of years of becoming younger and less cohesive on that end of the floor and a shock to the system that has the Blue Devils grasping for answers.

“The word of the day is communication....

Whenever we talk, we click,” point guard Trevon Duval said. “We know how to do that. We’ve got it in us, we just have to do it on the court.”

Duke will find out if the solution is that simple in another road game against an inferior opponent Wednesday at Pittsburgh.

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section has devoted itself to commenting on a wide variety of news topics—whether it be international, national, local or campus-specific—in the spirit of facilitating important discussions within the Duke community. Editorials on Greek life, housing, the never-ending tuition hikes or maybe even a think-piece centered on campus dining—someone pitches it, we write it!

Editorial Board Here at Duke, the experience of being a student on campus is by no means an easy one. Along with finding friends, keeping up with club commitments, maintaining one’s GPA, evading the sexual assault epidemic on campus, fighting mental illness—all the while maintaining that façade of “effortless perfection”—the Duke bubble can often leave us speechless and at a loss for words. As a member of a news body designed to be the mouthpiece of such frustrations, the editorial board is a perfect avenue to express such anxieties in an anonymous manner—whether it be through editorial critiques of the rush process or a condemnation of the administration’s response to sexual assault

“Who are these women who allow themselves to be used in this manner?”

—Gus Barkley, on Cameron Beach’s Dec. 11 column, “‘Progress’ since progressive parties”

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cases. Of course, being a diverse body of student journalists, such editorial discussions by the board often involve pushback and heated debates (in a civil manner of course) before we come around to a consensus opinion everyone can agree on. Though the many detractors of our student-oriented opinion journalism may lay claims of “fake-news”, we like to see ourselves as we truly are: just a group of like-minded Duke students from all walks of life giving a voice to what is happening (or falling apart) around us.

If pitching, discussing and commenting on everything happening at Duke, the nation and beyond with other Duke students is something you are interested in, then join us! Every Duke student possesses a different voice and perspective on campus, and we would love to have on board with us anyone who is willing to put that viewpoint to words. For more information, contact the chairs of the Editorial Board, Sydney Roberts (srr30@duke.edu) and Alan Ko (ak365@ duke.edu) for the application.

And as always, good night, and good luck Duke!

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new semester is upon us, and with it comes a new set of Chronicle columnists. In the Opinion section, we strive to start conversations on campus, provide commentary to contextualize global events and create discourse about meaningful experiences.

This semester, we hope to produce even more engaging content by asking sharp questions and highlighting new voices within the Duke community.

The fall of 2017 will be a tough act to follow.

Throughout the semester, our columnists ventured into unchartered territory, shared personal stories and attracted more hits than ever before. In an effort to honor their accomplishments and share some of their insights, the editors have compiled a list of our favorite columns from last semester.

Enjoy them below (in no particular order), and look forward to reading exciting new opinions this spring:

Editor’s Note 1. “Sisters hold monthly meeting on quitting sorority” Monday Monday sparked an important—and hilarious—conversation with this piece on the frequency with which sorority members bemoan the problems of Greek life without taking action.

2. “The trouble of being ‘busy’” In under 1,000 words, Cameron Beach perfectly encapsulated the experience of nearly every Duke student. Reflecting on her own struggle to balance relationships, work and free time, she encourages each of us to reconsider our priorities.

3. “The internal conflict of young black girls” This early column from first-year Victoria Priester outlined the toxic racist structures by which American beauty standards are shaped. In doing so, she explored the role that these standards have impacted her experience as a young black woman at Duke.

4. “When the male gaze falls on male gays” Throughout the fall, we had the pleasure of featuring biweekly columns from members of the Duke Men’s Project. Jeremy Gottlieb penned an editor’s favorite that detailed the objectification and sexualization of men in the gay community that contributes to a narrow conception of masculinity.

5. “An Americana death” The Editorial Board published some of its greatest works last semester, exploring topics from healthcare

to campus housing. Yet no Editorial seemed to better capture the gripping and devastating nature of last fall’s shootings than this piece written in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre.

6. “My Duke” Jaxson Floberg’s ‘My Duke’ started with his parents’ love story. After meeting and getting married at Duke, Floberg’s parents left him with a stable, unyielding love of their school—even when their marriage ended. Floberg reconciles his love of Duke with the aspects of its culture that isolates his peers, coming to terms with Duke’s peaks and pitfalls through this complex lens.

7. “I dare you, California” In his wittily named second column, Mitchell Siegel warns against the dangers of single payer health care. As one of the Chronicle’s most vocal conservative columnists, Siegel ardently warned against universal coverage with a well-crafted argument based in comprehensive research.

8. “On female empowerment and its gatekeepers” Sabriyya Pate wrote on the exclusive nature of many outlets for female empowerment, drawing on both personal experience and years of observation. In her inspiring voice, she encourages all women to feel confident in their own abilities despite the criticism and obstacles they face.

9. “A big tent party” Just before the Virginia election, sophomore columnist Max Labaton addressed the need for expansion in the Democratic Party. His thorough political analysis noted a motive to include centrists that certainly will remain relevant in upcoming months.

10. “Vineyard Vines: Clothing brand or character flaw?”

Sami Kirkpatrick constantly takes on the important questions in life. In one of his most popular pieces, Kirkpatrick criticized a culture that mindlessly dresses according to brand and social status.

11. “Milky pink” In his most recognizable piece to date, first-year Mihir Bellamkonda began his pursuit by asking people on the C1 bus about their least favorite colors. When he arrived on the Pepto-Bismol-esque color of “milky pink,” Bellamkonda recalled a childhood story of storm-chasing and sky-watching.

12. “On Colin Kaepernick and white comfort” Tara Pal submitted a guest column that provided imperative commentary on the nature of politics and sports. Pal called out white sports fans for their implicit dismissals of Colin Kaepernick, encouraging her readers to elicit empathy for the struggles of black athletes.

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Duke community remembers McIlviane This section is dedicated to the passing of senior Alex McIlvaine.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Alex McIlvaine was a St Andrews School junior when our son, a freshman, decided to try his hand (or feet) at cross country. Alex was one of several gifted runners on that team but that excellence did not prevent him from dropping back from the lead on training runs to talk with the newer runners, encourage them and build the kind of rapport that made training runs fun ST. THOMAS P’16 for everyone.

Alex and I met when I was encouraged by their coach, Dan O’Connell, to join the XC team on Fall training runs. At age 68 in my son’s first year, I was the ideal person to symbolize to the team the benefits and joys of lifelong training and competing. But to Alex that life lesson was not needed. To him I was simply a new friend, a fellow runner. To Alex I wasn’t an object lesson.

I was just me.

Thereafter, when we’d run into each other on campus, or after St. Andrews on Facebook, Alex would break away from other things he was doing and come over and ask how I was doing, where I was competing and how my latest races were going.

That was Alex. A quick, ready smile, a great laugh, an easy camaraderie, genuine warmth, authentic interest in everyone and kindness that overflowed. One of a kind. Irreplaceable. Immortal.

John Thomas

Alex was the best friend anyone could ask for. Even if you hadn’t spoken to him in weeks—months even—his demeanor never changed.

His warmth, good humor and irrepressible energy made our lives better.

I apologize for how TRINITY SENIOR few words I can share, I just find that the more I type, the more I obscure his wholesome, pure nature.

We all lose loved ones. We can always go back and remember the many ways and moments in which they made us happy. This is more difficult with Alex, because his mere presence was a blessing. A party was only good if Mac was there. A meeting was much more enjoyable and tended to go on much longer. He made us who we are today, he brought friends into our circle, his capacity for love was boundless. He, his heart, his intelligence, were larger than life, and I believe that is precisely why he was meant for more than the perils of this simple, stupid world.

You are an angel, Alexander McInnes McIlvaine. I love you brother.

Puj Adusumilli

There are no words to express the sorrow and condolence held over the passing of Alex. He was my oldest friend at Duke, and although we grew apart in the last few years, he was always such a comforting and cheering presence on campus. The last time I saw Alex was during parents weekend, when he took his time to greet and talk with my mom, which she TRINITY SENIOR notes he never failed to do.

We spent a lot of time together in a class sophomore year. Before and after class we would reminisce about middle school and joke about campus going-ons, and during class Alex always had an insightful insight or comment.

When I look back on the conversations I had with Alex, I am reminded of his constant compassion and humor. To know him was to know his warmth and caring spirit. I am thankful for the moments I got to share with him and will keep him in my memories forever.

Liza Rebold

Mac held a special place in so many people’s hearts. He was selfless, loving, charismatic and all around genuinely one of the best people I have had the privilege of knowing. Mac was always someone that was on my side and TRINITY JUNIOR that I knew I could count on if I needed anything. I felt comfortable being myself around him. When I came out, Mac was one of the first people in the frat to reach out and let me know that he fully supported me and had my back; he has always made me feel like I truly belong. There is so much we can learn from him and we must let his legacy live on. Mac, I love you so much and will never stop loving and missing you like crazy. You were truly one of a kind. Rest In Peace.

Yash Bajaj

I’m a sophomore at Duke University and a friend of Alex’s. I just wanted to write that Alex was a bright light in the lives of everyone that knew him.

He impacted everyone with his selfless and loving personality and TRINITY SOPHOMORE deserved nothing but the best.

Everyone will miss Alex, and I am thankful that I got to know such a kind, caring and passionate individual.

Bobby Schneider

Downtown Durham: New South or Newer South?

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here was once a time when Durham along with the other 99 counties in North Carolina revered the rule of law to such a degree that the courthouse was its tallest building. Looking at the skyline today, the relatively new county courthouse (opened in 2013)—the fourth iteration— continues to attempt to assert its supremacy.

However, it is not without competition. The Hill Building—home of the former Durham Bank & Trust (completed in 1937)—is more centrally located within the city, more vertical in its architectural style (as chosen by the famed New York City firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon), and now a more interesting place to step inside as it houses the art museum boutique hotel, 21C. More than a symbol of the pervasive power of finance, the Durham Bank & Trust’s Hill Building headquarters was a manifestation of the preeminence of the tobacco industry, which could not express its largesse solely in the architecture of its sprawling warehouses.

The Duke Chapel (completed in 1932)

may be superficially a stalwart symbol of eruditio et religio but it is too secluded from the city center and public view to challenge either the bank or the courthouse. In fact, it is just as much a paean to the power and prestige of the tobacco industry as the Hill Building at 111 Corcoran Street. Whether in American Art Deco or American Collegiate Gothic, the American Tobacco Company solidified its dominance in Durham until it ceased production in 1987. The following year another tall building was erected in downtown known as the People’s Security Insurance Building. Now known as Durham Centre, the postmodern bulky blue glass and stone building barely managed to persuade anyone of its importance as Durham lost its national and regional significance, the basketball team notwithstanding.

Twenty years later the Duke Clinical Research Institute began its takeover of the 14-story tower and in so doing began to assert Duke’s new ascendancy in the city from which it had been secluded. Biomedical

research supplanted tobacco as the income stream of the future for this non-profit and made it confident enough to put its name on a building downtown.

Finally, feeling the pressure from the university and the bank (then SunTrust), the county broke ground for its newest and tallest courthouse yet in 2010. Its overhanging roof presents a powerful example of horizontality as equality and acts as though it is an actual roof for the entire city—a silver (as opposed to red) line which is not to be crossed. At its rear is an even more elegantly designed jail (ahem, “detention facility”) which has won an award from the American Institute of Architects and despite appearing newer and being designed by the same firm was actually completed eighteen years prior.

The pursuit of justice and equality before the law have been elusive in Durham as in other American communities struggling with criminal justice reform. Not even five years after the people of Durham reasserted their supremacy in the belief that no one—

neither a person nor a corporation (nor a corporation which identifies as a person)— is above the law, the construction of One City Center will be completed. The future residents of this mixed-use skyscraper will tower over the roof of the courthouse and look down on their neighbors from million dollar condominiums through floor-toceiling glass windows. No other buildings will be able to compete with the luxury or “cosmopolitan flair and amenities” (read: rooftop pool) promised by the developer.

It is unlikely that the people of Durham will find it expedient to build a taller and newer courthouse, but at least they are known to be successful in tearing down those structures which offend their sensibilities of citizenship.

Nathan Bullock is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate studying architectural history in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.

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