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Changes to Letter signed by 140 history department housekeeping alumni asks Duke to schedules nixed

By Bre Bradham Editor-In-Chief

The proposed changes to housekeeping shift schedules—resulting from housekeepers having to rebid for hours and locations— have been scrapped.

The changes were set to go into effect in January. In a letter to employees in the environmental services department that was sent Friday, John Noonan, vice president for facilities, wrote that the changes would not occur.

“I am writing to let you know that we will not be implementing the proposed January shift schedule changes,” Noonan wrote.

The Chronicle first reported in September that housekeepers were informed they would have to re-bid for their positions.

“These changes are made after careful consideration for how to best meet the operational needs of the university while balancing our staffing and housekeeping resources,” Leslye Kornegay, director of university environmental services, wrote in an email to The Chronicle in September.

The re-bidding was set to occur Oct. 1 to 5 and would be based completely on seniority.

All four of the housekeepers The Chronicle spoke with about the rebidding wanted to keep their current shifts and locations.

“As we watched the bid results come in over the past week, we became concerned that too many could be left without an appropriate opportunity,” Noonan wrote in the email to staff. “We will explore other, less disruptive options to align assignments to the operational needs of the University.”

Noonan’s Friday letter, which The Chronicle was provided a copy of, only discussed the re-bidding changes and did not address that some housekeepers are now working on the weekends—a shift that sparked a student-led petition.

Charles Gooch, who was president of Local 77—the union that represents approximately 500 housekeepers and Marketplace staff—resigned in September to protest to the re-bidding.

“We heard you, and we value your service to Duke,” Noonan wrote to employees.

Shagun Vashisth contributed to this report.

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First came the history department. Then came Duke Student Government.

Now, after nearly 150 history alumni also signed a document in support of renaming the Carr Building, the push has continued to gain momentum.

“All the faculty think it’s a good idea and all the alumni think it’s a good idea,” said Bryan Pitts, Ph.D ‘13 and one of the three alumni crucial in coordinating the Oct. 1 letter to Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees. “The people who study in that building and are the people at Duke who are best equipped to study history—that seems to be a critical mass right there.”

Pitts, now associate director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University, searched far and wide to talk to history alumni with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the past 20 to 30 years, and some from further back. No one he or anyone else on his team spoke with was against changing the Carr Building’s name, he added.

Pitts said the team reached out to roughly 200 people and received 140 signatures, a number he said was significant given that he said the history department churns out just 10 to 12 Ph.D. students per year, roughly.

The Carr Building, which now houses the history department, was named after Julian Carr, a “virulent white supremacist” who spoke at the dedication of the Silent

The alumni join the history department’s faculty and Duke Student Government in calling for the removal of Carr’s name.

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The tobacco magnate was unambiguously racist in that 1912 speech, boasting about “horsewhipp[ing] a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds” because she “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady.”

The building was named in 1930 for Carr, who donated Blackwell Park to Trinity College. This donation enabled the college that became Duke University in 1924 to move to Durham.

Pitts said that Riddell acknowledged receipt of the letter, which denounced Carr and called for the building to be named after of Raymond Gavins, the first African American on Duke’s history faculty.

The history department and DSG also suggested using Gavins’ name.

“The irony that we did this work in a building named for Julian Carr has long been uncomfortable,” the letter read. “It has now become unbearable.”

An ad-hoc committee will submit its recommendation regarding the building’s name to President Vincent Price by Nov. 15. Price will then review the recommendation and make any amendments before it is funneled to the Board of Trustees for a final decision.

In 2014, DSG also passed legislation in favor of changing Aycock Residence Hall’s name. Six months later, its name was changed. The building—now East Residence Hall—was named after former North Carolina Gov. Charles Aycock, who had ties to white supremacy.

Pitts, who began building the coalition of alumni around when The Chronicle reported in August that the history department filed a request to

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‘We have lost a part of our institutional spirit’ Duke remembers physician, activist Brenda Armstrong

By Bre Bradham Editor-In-Chief

In Brenda Armstrong’s 69 years, the woman was a force to be reckoned with—and she was a force who made an indelible mark on Duke through her activism and care.

Armstrong, who died Sunday, grew up in Rocky Mount, N.C., before coming to Duke in the late 1960s, where she had no sooner arrived on campus than she began to change it.

Armstrong, Woman’s College ‘70, was a leader in the Allen Building Takeover in 1969, and she went on to become the second black woman in the United States to earn board certification as a pediatric cardiologist. As associate dean of admissions, she would mold Duke’s School of Medicine into a more diverse place.

“Dr. Armstrong represented the best of Duke’s ambitions and potential,” wrote Karla Holloway, James B. Duke professor emerita of English, in an email.

From her undergraduate days as an leader in the Takeover to transforming the Medical School’s admissions process to make it a more diverse community, Armstrong’s legacy at Duke lies not only in the barriers she broke but in the ladders she built for others to climb.

The activist Armstrong attended segregated Booker T. Washington Senior High School in Rocky Mount. When she arrived at Duke, black undergraduates had only been at Duke for a handful of years. It was not long before she became part of a growing movement to push back against racism on campus.

In an essay Armstrong wrote decades after her undergraduate years explaining her role in the Allen Building Takeover, she said that the Afro-American Society formed in 1968 as a result of “the living, breathing scourge on our attempts to get an education from Duke.” Armstrong would be chairperson of it. There were maybe 90 African Americans at Duke then, and some were the “onlies” in their dorms.

After Black Week—an annual event organized by the AfroAmerican Society that brought speakers to campus and fostered discussion—in Spring 1968, black students gathered together and came up with 13 demands for the University. They met with administrators to discuss the demands.

“We decided that we would demonstrate to the university our resolve,” Armstrong wrote. “We would demonstrate to the university that its racist ethos (and the pursuit of that ethos) was choking the academic, social and cultural life of some of the most gifted African Americans. We would not go down without a fight. Allen Building was on.”

In preparation, some students memorized the floor plans of

Chronicle File Photo Brenda Armstrong was an associate dean of admissions for the Medical School for more than twenty years.

Chronicle File Photo Armstrong was a participant in the Allen Building Takeover in 1969.

the building as others made plans to bypass Duke’s communication with the media to directly project their message.

They planned to secure the building in three minutes or less, and they would not take any weapons. The students would only notify their parents once they were safely locked inside.

“None of us slept that night. Sixty or sixty-one students showed up at 6:00 a.m. for that fateful trip in a dark U-HAUL truck down Campus Drive to the Allen Building,” Armstrong wrote. “I cried, trembled and prayed as I rode in the dark. When the doors opened, we ran into the building and secured it as planned.”

After the occupation ended, administrators tapped 13 students as the ringleaders and tried to put them on trial, but all the others surrendered as well.

“Most of [our parents] embraced us and supported us,” she wrote. “And all of them knew that their children had met their destinies without flinching, and had been ever defiant and undaunted. In choosing to confront Duke, we students had carved a place in history for ourselves.”

Holloway noted that part of Armstrong’s legacy and lesson for students is that the personal is political, and that there are direct means of having a voice that matters.

“Having a seat at the table is as much a responsibility as it is an opportunity,” Holloway wrote. “She handled both with grace.”

The physician Armstrong graduated from Duke’s Woman’s College in 1970 and completed a fellowship in Duke’s School of Medicine that ended in 1979. She became just the second AfricanAmerican woman in the country to earn board certification as a pediatric cardiologist.

As a physician, Armstrong was kind and caring.

“She had a real knack for being true with families and knowing how to communicate with them,” said Ross McKinney, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges and a former colleague of Armstrong’s in the pediatric intensive care unit at Duke.

She was an equally good colleague.

“If I had to call her at night, no problem,” McKinney said.

“She was as good as you can hope for—a truly committed, caring colleague.”

Armstrong would go on to spend more than 20 years as the associate dean for admissions at Duke’s School of Medicine, where she had a profound impact on the admissions process and the diversity of its classes.

Armstrong had a two-pronged approach to increasing opportunities for diverse candidates, said Mary Klotman, dean of Duke Medical School. Instead of just evaluating an applicant’s test scores, the school began to take a more holistic view of prospective See ARMSTRONG on Page 12

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Environment Hall renamed to Grainger Hall after $20 million gift to the Nicholas School

By Likhitha Butchireddygari Investigations Editor

Environment Hall, which houses the Nicholas School of the Environment, will be renamed Grainger Hall—thanks to a $20 million donation.

An “anonymous adviser,” who is described as a “1979 alumna,” recommended the Grainger Family Descendants Fund make the donation.

The 70,000-square-foot building is being renamed as a result.

“The forward-looking research and education that this gift supports will allow Duke to make vital contributions to a healthier future for the environment and the world,” President Vincent Price said.

Last year, the the Grainger Fund gave the University $11 million for a new marine lab research ship.

The $20 million donation will be used primarily to support a Nicholas School initiative to increase financial aid for Master of Environmental Management and Master of Forestry students, as well as new fellowship opportunities for doctoral students, according to the release.

Toddi Steelman, who began her tenure as the Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School July 1, credited the gift to her predecessor Jeff Vincent, who was the dean when the gift came in.

“To receive a gift of this magnitude, made so selflessly and with such clear and far-sighted purpose, is transformative for us,” Steelman told Duke Today. “It will have an enormous impact in helping our

Courtesy of Nicholas School of the Environment Environment Hall will now be known as Grainger Hall after a $20 million donation to the Nicholas School of the Environment by the Grainger Family Descendants Fund.

school chart a course to address today’s rapidly changing environmental landscape and prepare the next generation to manage this new complexity we all increasingly experiencing in our world.”

The money will also provide funding

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Some changes will include a new Ocean Engineering Lab at the Marine Lab campus in Beaufort, North Carolina and a redesign of the newly-renamed

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There will be a dedication ceremony for the newly renamed Grainger Hall next month.

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Duke scientists get $2 million for cancer research using CRISPR

By Anna Gotskind Staff Reporter

Armed with a seven-figure grant, Duke researchers hope to better understand how DNA changes can cause cancer.

Brought together by a new research project funded through a four-year, $2 million National Science Foundation grant, four professors of biomedical engineering are looking to look deeper into the structure of DNA and how it impacts cancer development.

Charles Gersbach, Rooney Family Associate professor of biomedical engineering, Brenton Hoffman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Michael Rubinstein, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and professor

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of biomedical engineering, and XiLing Shen, Hawkins Family Associate professor of biomedical engineering, will all combine their individual knowledge of gene editing, mechanical engineering and computational modeling.

The research is supported by the NSF Directorate for Engineering’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program, which aims to address large-scale engineering challenges.

The researchers hope to better understand gene function and how to control DNA structure, as well as the interaction of chromatin with DNA, which can cause cancer development in some conditions. The team is investigating how changes to the cell nucleus’s structure are expressed.

If the three-dimensional structure within the nucleus is perturbed, then the expression level of the various proteins produced is altered, which can impact cell signaling and behavior. This can lead to a disease state.

Using their newly developed technology, the team has discovered that these structures are mutable.

As for each team member’s role, Rubinstein makes predictions of the molecular model, Hoffman works on technology to test the model and Gersbach develops imaging tools, Hoffman said. Combining their skills, they hope to make improved tools to use with Shen’s models to start understanding how epigenetic structure regulates the expression of MIC, a protein found in cancer cells, especially colon cancer.

“There’s a structure, we can change it. We are looking at how and should you do that and then what can it do,” Hoffman said.

This is where Gersbach’s variation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system—engineered to manipulate the epigenome at very specific sites modeled by Rubinstein—comes into play. The team then uses Hoffman’s imaging technology to learn the effects of epigenome changes. Through this, they will be able to change the structure of the chromatin within DNA and see how different changes can cause cells to become cancerous in certain situations.

“There’s a three-dimensional structure within the genome and that structure effects protein level expression. It’s not just cool how it’s arranged. It has consequences for how much and what proteins are produced,” said Hoffman.

Hoffman explained that the feedback-loop nature of his collaboration with Rubenstein makes this investigation unique.

“He can make predictions, his prediction will hopefully be something that we can directly measure and then by using technology we can see essentially the two chromatin points come close together and then my data will help inform his model. And that’s never been done,” said Hoffman.

Previous research conceptualized chromatin structure as random. Scientists now know that this is not the case and are looking to understand how different formations have different effects on the protein produced from DNA. This can allow a better understanding of which part of DNA expresses proteins and how that can contribute to the development of diseases like cancer.

“From a scientist’s point of view, it’s great to understand that basic structure. From a societal point of view, it’s great to use that understanding to do something,” Hoffman said.

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behind bella Recess uncovers the history of the popular West Campus cafe, page 7

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Oktoberfest is not generally considered a wholesome activity; the word probably calls busty women in braids and binge drinking to mind. For me, though, it’s the time of year I feel closest to my family and to my community. It’s like Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July are wrapped together into a pretzel knot that I can only eat once a year.

Every fall break I’ve been at Duke, I’ve flown across the country to volunteer at an Oktoberfest celebration in my hometown of San Diego. Deeply involved in their local German American Club for decades, my grandparents were always two of the driving forces behind the festivities; my Opa led a team of men who managed the electrical and mechanical requirements for the event and my Oma directed the pastry booth and all of the fest’s vendors. As soon as I could walk, they brought me along. I learned the German drinking chants far before I would actually understand what they meant, and sauerkraut remains a comfort food for me to this day — but only if it’s cooked warm — the way I remember from when I was little.

Although I would just tag along with my dad to the event as a kid, I became more actively involved as I got older.

I began working with my Oma at the pastry stand, but through the years I have also sold pretzels and wurst.

Wearing a heavy dirndl in the heat and squeezing myself into its corset top, I interact with hundreds of people over the course of a 10 hour day of work. It’s always a long weekend — I’m currently writing this editor’s note sick and halfasleep in the air back to RDU — but it’s always more than worth it. With divorced parents, Oktoberfest is the only holiday I regularly spend with my dad’s side of the family. It’s an excuse for us to get together, and a way for us to connect with our grandparents’ roots. Even more,

it’s a way for us to share a few days of festivities, and some killer apple strudel, with the community we love.

That’s why it was so sad for me not to have been in California last fall break; it was the first San Diego Oktoberfest I’d missed as long as I could remember.

Also, I knew it would be my Oma’s last.

Planning the event as usual as long as her leukemia would allow her, she wasn’t well enough to attend the festival itself.

She passed away that October. Although it broke my heart to be away from home for the month of her passing, I was at the only other place she’d have preferred

staff note me to be: the real Munich Oktoberfest. I began studying German freshman year of college to be closer to her and her heritage and I studied abroad in Berlin last fall. As her prognosis became increasingly clear over the course of the semester, I sent my dad more and more photos of my daily life in Germany to share with her. In a sense, I was exactly where she wanted me to be. I was learning invaluable lessons and making lifelong friends in the place she was living when she was my age. Seeing photos of me and one of my best friends at the Hofbräuhaus tent in Munich, she must have known that my years with her at the German Club taught me a lot more than how to sell a few pretzels.

I knew that this fall break would be difficult the moment I heard of her passing last year. Until this weekend, it was hard for me to actually wrap my

mind around her being gone; no matter how much I rationalized it, the back of my mind still expected her to be at the pastry booth just as she’d always been.

When I came to volunteer and saw that she wasn’t there, I almost wanted to leave.

I didn’t think the event could possibly be the same without her. Just as I became overwhelmed with sadness, I noticed my Oma’s best friend, Olga, was there. She came and gave me a huge warm hug and, suddenly, everything was alright. She was smiling, I was smiling, loud polka music was playing and our obnoxiouslydelicious black forest cake was flying off of the shelves. Oktoberfest was Oktoberfest, and it was finally time to celebrate.

While my family was sorrowful that my Oma couldn’t be there with us, I know that we all felt her presence. Family and friends were all there and, more importantly, we were all there together.

As always, Oktoberfest was an excuse for us to take a break from our busy lives to focus on each other. It doesn’t matter which wurst you get or which beer you try at the festival, but only who you share them with. I always leave Oktoberfest weekend feeling closer to my family and thankful to my grandparents for helping us learn to celebrate those most important to us.

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From Beanery to Bella: Owner discusses history of Bella Union

By Ashley Kwon Social Media Editor

Finding Bella Union requires some exploration of Duke’s West Campus. The cafe lies secluded in Keohane Quad, away from the busy sidewalks in front of the Chapel and Brodhead Center. But once students discover the place, they often fall in love with the retro interior and menu items unavailable in other on-campus cafes, including their chocolate-coated animal crackers.

Bella Union did not have its current name until 2006. When McClendon Tower opened in 2002, the fourth floor cafe was called “Blue Devil Beanery.” The current owners of Bella Union are Sam Clowney and Rob Clay, former members of the band, Parklife, who worked part-time at the cafe from Monday to Wednesday. When the contract for Blue Devil Beanery opened in 2006, Clowney and Clay became the new owners of the coffee shop and renamed it “The Bella Union.”

Clowney first got an inspiration for the name from his favorite poem, “Autobiography”

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in which the speaker recalls seeing “Saint Joan of Arc burn / at the Bella Union.” The first line of the poem, “I am leading a quiet life / in Mike’s Place every day / watching the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor / and the French pinball addicts,” particularly fascinated Clowney as an aspiring musician.

“It just reminded me of the eccentric group of artists I looked up to when I was a college student and who I came to know as a musician, people ‘on the edge to the night,’ so to speak,” Clowney wrote in an email. “I hope that somehow I became one of them. I always dreamed of doing so.”

As Clowney and Clay looked more into the name, “Bella Union,” they discovered multiple meanings that made it even more appealing.

“Particularly, one of my favorite bands, the Cocteau Twins, a sort of avant-garde, ethereal wave [and] dream pop band from the ‘80s and the ‘90s, actually formed a record label called Bella Union,” Clowney wrote. “The guitarist of that band, Robin Guthrie, ... pioneered an effect-laden guitar sound that was at the time very unconventional.”

Just like its name paying homage to young and creative artists, Bella Union’s menu stays trendy, while maintaining some staple coffee shop selections like the cafe latte. Some items like Thai tea, which is among the most popular drinks in the cafe, are not even on the menu.

“We like that these unadvertised items can become our most popular items,” Clowney wrote.

“That kind of thing adds to the vibe of the shop.”

Bella Union is also notable for the framed photographs on its walls, which mostly depict the music scene in and around the Triangle in the ‘90s and early 2000s. Participating in the music scene, Clowney and Clay personally knew some of the artists and photographers in the pictures, including Scott Carle, a musician still active in Durham. A picture that is hung next to the cash register also shows Clowney and Clay themselves.

Besides having a space that reflects his experience as a musician, Clowney wrote that one of the best parts of being the owner of the coffeeshop is working and interacting with students.

“We have employed hundreds of Duke students over the years and watched them grow into adults,” Clowney wrote. “We have been so proud to see these folks blossom, and even more proud to play a part in their growth.”

Bella Union has also become a meaningful place for students, especially for groups that frequently have meetings at the cafe. Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity that holds a social

event called “APO Goes to Bella,” at the café on every Thursday at 10:56 p.m., is one such student organization.

“The reason for the unusual time is unknown to any current brother, but it has become one of our chapter’s most well-known and enduring rituals,” junior Angus Li, one of the members of the fraternity, wrote in an email. “Relatively few people actually buy snacks or drinks, but Bella’s constant low-level activity and association with tradition make it a nice place to talk with a larger group of friends.”

The cafe serves as a place for the members to have conversations on anything from academics to plans for breaks and build closer relationships to each other. Because of those events, Bella Union holds a special place in the fraternity members’ memories.

“Some of my best memories with our

members are at Bella,” junior Tiffany Wei, another member of the fraternity, said. “After I became a member, talking with some of the new recruits [at the cafe] formed a lot of my closest relationships within the organization.”

The social function of the space was also carefully considered when Clowney and Clay were naming the place; according to Clowney, Bella Union was also a saloon in South Dakota in the late 1800s, where town meetings were held.

“I guess ultimately that is what coffee shops came to be on some level, and what I hope the Bella Union is to Duke: a place where you can come and see ‘the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor and the French pinball addicts,’” Clowney wrote. “We meet over coffee to discuss the events of the day, politics, our personal lives ... and maybe you will meet someone who will change your perspective.”

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s ‘Addams Family’ brings frights and fresh talent to the Ruby

By Christy Kuesel Recess Editor

This October will be particularly spooky with Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s latest musical: “The Addams Family.”

The plot of this performance differs from both the original cartoons and the two ‘90s movies, though it follows the same family of aristocrats who enjoy all things macabre and gruesome, not realizing that others find this fascination strange. A more grown-up Wednesday Addams brings her boyfriend and his Midwestern family home to meet her family, and chaos ensues.

“It has all of the classic ‘Addams Family’ beats that create the classic story we think of, but so much of it is also this story about change,” director and senior Jackson Prince said. “It’s not just a plain gag comedy show, which is what you might expect.”

Prince is a former opinion editor at The Chronicle.

Producer and junior Jenna Clayborn said the story will be familiar to all parents, but the music updates the show and revamps the story line.

“This is really a story of how we relate to people, regardless of what time we set it in,” she said.

“The Addams Family” stands out from other fall Hoof ‘n’ Horn shows with its emphasis on ghoulish hair, makeup and costumes. The company usually uses a less complicated style of hair and makeup, but for this show, the cast members all had to learn how to do horror makeup and will be wearing more elaborate costumes.

Hoof ‘n’ Horn always tries to put on a big fall show; in past years they have produced “The Producers,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Assassins.” A bigger fall show allows the company to pull out all the stops, investing in set building, sound and lighting.

“The biggest selling point was being able to show off what we can accomplish as students in every aspect of what it takes to produce a show,” Clayborn said.

The larger cast and crew, boasting an 11 person

ensemble, also allows more freshman to become involved, both onstage and behind the scenes.

Prince said he was impressed by the number of firstyears from Project ARTS, the arts pre-orientation program established in 2015, who wanted to become a part of the Hoof ‘n’ Horn family. Prince served as the co-director for pARTS last year and spearheaded the program this year.

“This year we had an exceptional number of first-years come out to do the show,” Clayborn said. Hoof ‘n’ Horn expanded the ensemble to accommodate all the new talent.

For junior Tim Clayton, playing Gomez has taken him out of his comfort zone. He has performed in five other Hoof ‘n’ Horn shows and has been involved since his first semester at Duke.

“Gomez is a pretty big, loud, sort of ringleader personality,” Clayton said. “It’s been a lot of fun, but it’s been something I’ve had to work a little harder to find.”

Hoof ‘n’ Horn calls itself the South’s oldest student-run theater group, dating back to 1936. The company has grown to include people of diverse interests and backgrounds.

At least 80 people are working on the fall show, said Prince. In addition to the cast onstage, publicists, graphic designers and set builders work with the crew.

“Don’t just think about what’s going on onstage,” Prince said. “Also think about how many people, how much passion, how much energy is behind the five weeks of work that you’re seeing onstage.”

“The Addams Family” will be the second show the company puts on at the von der Heyden Studio Theater in the new Rubenstein Arts Center, following their production of “Chicago” in the spring.

Prince said he was struck by the fact that the arts center allowed Hoof ‘n’ Horn to stage their show in von der Heyden over Parents Weekend, when the center could have surely secured another performance. Tickets for that Friday and Saturday

are already sold out.

“It’s the smartest thing that Duke has ever done,” Prince said. “Duke is bold enough to say, ‘We believe in our arts students. We believe that they can put on content that will give us a good name.’”

Working in the Rubenstein instead of the Bryan Center’s Sheafer Lab Theater, where Hoof ‘n’ Horn traditionally puts on its shows, does present its own challenges. For the spring production of “Chicago,” Clayton and Clayborn said they needed to find a new location for the pit orchestra, which ended up being onstage. In Sheafer, the pit was offstage.

“Since [the arts center] is so new, we haven’t figured out exactly how to make that work as perfectly as it did in Schaefer,” Clayborn said.

Clayborn said the arts center allows for more creativity with the set, due to the theater having multiple levels. In Sheafer, the company had to focus on building large set pieces, but in the von der Heyden Theater, they can be more creative with

furniture use.

“The Addams Family” is more commonly staged in high school settings. According to Playbill, the show was the most-produced full-length musical in high schools for three years in a row.

But bringing the show to the college level allows for more in-depth character study, said Prince. The depiction of the relationships in the show is more nuanced due to more experienced actors taking on these roles.

“We’ve approached each of these love stories with more of an understanding of what we’re talking about,” said Prince. “It allows for a lot of the jokes to hit harder.”

Hoof ‘n’ Horn also gave the show the company’s own flair and played around with the script, updating some of the humor from the original 2009 version.

“It’s the best coming-together of the Hoof ‘n’ Horn community that I’ve seen,” Clayborn said.

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Freshman Maria Mateas advances to ITA All-American championship, falls to No. 35 Whittle

By Spencer Levy Associate Sports Editor

The Blue Devils may have begun the season later than expected this fall, but no one would have known it watching Duke play this week.

Freshman Maria Mateas won four matches en route to an ITA All-American championship appearance Sunday afternoon. The Blue Devil newcomer fell to Gonzaga’s No. 35 Sophie Whittle 4-6, 7-5, 3-6 at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The Blue Devils were the only school to have three players in the final 16 and two in the quarterfinals. “[Maria] let the moment get to her a little bit being her first college event and the finals of one of the three biggest tournaments of the year,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

“It was a great learning experience for her and hopefully something that she can build on as the year goes on.”

The freshman earned a spot in the main draw thanks to her place atop the ITA Newcomer List. In the first round, Mateas defeated Wisconsin’s Sara Castellano 6-2, 4-6, 6-0. She then rolled past No. 60 Alexa Graham 6-2, 6-3 after the Tar Heel knocked out No. 10 Michaela Gordon.

Mateas defeated Wake Forest’s No. 16 Emma Davis and North Carolina’s No. 2 Makenna Jones to reach the championship, only losing nine games total in those two matches.

“I was impressed with how she handled her emotions. She didn’t get too up or too down. One thing that we kept talking about was don’t play

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Kelly Chen advanced to the quarterfinals alongside Maria Mateas at the ITA All-American tournament this week in California. the score, play the ball,” Ashworth said. “She was trying to play each point the exact same.”

Whittle got out to a strong start in the final, as she held serve twice and broke the Blue Devil for an early advantage. But Mateas came right back, knotting the first set at 3 apiece.

Ashworth noted that nerves got the better of Mateas to start, but she quickly settled in and hit the ball well. Whittle took three of the next

four games to secure the set.

In the second set, Mateas and Whittle each were broken three times to start the set as they struggled serving. The Gonzaga senior held serve for a 4-3 lead and had two match points that Mateas saved to even the set at 5-all.

“I was questioning the moment because the free points and the double faulting had not been an issue the entire tournament,”

Ashworth said. “You can simulate pressure all you want, but it’s just not the same thing.”

In the deciding frame after the freshman won the final two games of the second set, Mateas took an early 2-1 lead, but eventually lost the decider 3-6.

The Blue Devils’ No. 12 Kelly Chen knocked off Michigan’s No. 33 Giulia Pairone and Oklahoma State’s Katarina Stresnakova to advance to the quarterfinals. But the sophomore met her match in the eventual champion, who won 6-2, 6-3.

“Kelly handled herself well. She played a little more mature than she had in the past,” Ashworth said. “She played very disciplined.”

Both Mateas and Chen qualified for the Fall National Championship in Surprise, Ariz., Nov. 7-11 by advancing to the quarterfinals.

The Blue Devils’ success this weekend did not end with Mateas and Chen. No. 31 Meible Chi defeated SEC opponents from Vanderbilt, Florida and Alabama in the qualifying draw while only giving up 11 games for her place in the Round of 32.

The junior upset Florida State’s No. 11 Carly Touly 6-3, 6-1 to set up a match with the reigning champion Fernanda Contreras. The Vanderbilt senior defeated Chi and then lost to Whittle. Ashworth believes that Chi is hitting as well as anyone in the country.

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Wendell Moore becomes first commit for 2019

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

In four of the last five years, Duke has finished with the nation’s top recruiting class, bringing names like Jahlil Okafor, Marvin Bagley III, R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson to Durham.

Until Monday evening, the Blue Devils’ 2019 cupboard remained bare, leaving some fans anxious as to the program’s future—especially with the departure of lead recruiter Jeff Capel.

But after a couple of defeats on the recruiting trail, Duke has its first commitment for next season.

Wendell Moore, a 6-foot-6, 215-pound Charlotte native and the No. 18 recruit in ESPN’s Class of 2019 rankings, announced in a ceremony at his high school Monday that he will join the Blue Devils, opting to play for the five-time national champions instead of one of a trio of in-state ACC foes—North Carolina, N.C. State and Wake Forest.

“Just seeing how the guys come back and that really hit home for me and I wanted to be a part of that,” Moore told 247Sports’ Evan Daniels. “When I was on the visit down there and just seeing all the guys...like Grayson Allen came back and Luke Kennard and

Marshall Plumlee, and the day after I left, Jayson Tatum and Kyrie [Irving] were back. Just seeing the whole family atmosphere just put it over the top.”

The five-star small forward gives Krzyzewski and his staff an initial piece of the puzzle for 2018-19, as Duke continues its quest for a few more blue-chippers. The Blue Devils remain in the hunt for four of the nation’s top six prospects, all of whom remain unsigned, including point guard Cole Anthony and big man Vernon Carey Jr.—who is slated to be at Duke for Countdown to Craziness next Friday.

Moore, out of Cox Mill High School, played for Team USA at the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup, helping the Americans to a gold medal in Argentina this summer, after earning backto-back honors as the N.C. Coaches Association Player of the Year and state title game MVP in both 2017 and 2018. Moore has also averaged 25-plus points per game in each of his three high school seasons.

Although he was only a junior last season, Moore was pegged by one North Carolina-based recruiting expert as the state’s top player ahead of seniors Coby White and Devon Dotson, who committed to the Tar Heels and Kansas, respectively.

Moore is not regarded as a great long-range shooter, but he has a nearly seven-foot wingspan and plenty of athleticism

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to play on the wing as a slasher. Some have also pointed to a high basketball IQ—his dad played college hoops and his cousin, Derrick Reid, played at Virginia Commonwealth from 2001-05.

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Second-half flurry propels Blue Devils

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After one of its offense’s quietest halves of the season, Duke came alive out of the locker room to overwhelm Virginia Tech.

The No. 17 Blue Devils beat the Hokies 2-0 Sunday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium, with senior Kayla McCoy and sophomore Karlie Paschall each contributing late goals.

Duke pressed forward for 13 shots and several dangerous scoring 0 opportunities in the VT DUKE 2 second half after only managing three shots before the break, and the Blue Devils held Virginia Tech to just two shots all afternoon.

Duke head coach Robbie Church credited associate head coach Erwin van Bennekom for making a tactical adjustment in the halftime locker room that opened the field up for more opportunities.

“At halftime, we read where the spaces were and how we attacked with it, we made that change,” Church said. “It led to real domination in the second half, so great move by him, great move by the staff and great execution obviously by the players to create some overloads in different parts of the field.”

Neither team threatened to score throughout a physical first half, but Duke (10-2-2, 4-1-1 in the ACC) immediately put together a flurry of chances in the first 10 minutes of the second half.

Senior Taylor Racioppi ran onto a pass a few yards in front of the goal and lunged for a shot that Virginia Tech goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn dove to stop. Moments later, Racioppi spun to dribble past her defender and shot from a tight angle at McGlynn, who saved it with her chest and fell on the ball to prevent a rebound opportunity. McGlynn, the reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Week, finished with eight saves to keep the Hokies (7-4-3, 3-3-0) in the game.

“We knew going into the second half we needed to pick it up a little bit. The energy was a little bit lacking and we weren’t exactly playing the type of game that we wanted to play,” McCoy said. “Robbie really told us that we needed to bring the energy, bring a little bit more fire onto the field.”

Racioppi had another golden opportunity eight minutes into the half when she received a pass from Delaney Graham right in front of the goal but drilled the shot just over the crossbar. McCoy took her first crack at the goal in the 62nd minute, firing a shot while falling to her left that McGlynn corralled, but the Duke senior finally put the Blue Devils on the scoreboard five minutes later.

McCoy was all alone in the box and took a pass from senior captain Kat McDonald, spun around and struck a perfect shot into the bottom left corner of the net while Virginia Tech’s defenders pleaded for an offsides whistle to bail them out.

“It was a great slip ball through [from

said. “That definitely gave her a lot of confidence moving forward.”

Chi teamed up with Kaitlyn McCarthy in doubles, but lost to UCLA’s No. 29 Elysia Bolton McDonald],” McCoy said. “I just kind of and Jada Hart in the opening round. popped off the outside defender and had an The tandem, which hadn’t played with open shot on goal.” each other in two years, saw success in the Duke kept the pressure on in its attacking back draw. After defeating UNLV’s No. third after its first goal and found another 37 Aiwen Zhu and En-Pei Huang 8-7(3), breakthrough with less than five minutes to McCarthy and Chi blew past Wake Forest’s play when Paschall placed a free kick from No. 5 Davis and Chandler Carter 8-1, but just outside the box into the top right corner fell short in the semifinals to Stanford’s No. 3 of the net.

Gordon and Emily Arbuthnott.

“You go into that last 10 minutes, you’re “If they can be aggressive and always like, ‘Okay, what are we going to communicate really well together, then they do? We’re going to keep playing forward or could beat anybody in the country,” Ashworth we’re going to drop back a little bit,’” van said. “If they’re going to sit back and not be Bennekom said. “That second goal allowed overly aggressive and a little bit on the passive us to keep playing and not be nervous about side, they may struggle.” maybe conceding.”

Mateas and Chen picked up their first The Hokies never put together a real doubles win of the season, but the pair fell in scoring threat, and their only shot on goal the second round of qualifying. After a less was a desperate attempt from outside the box than perfect doubles outing this week, the in the second half that goalkeeper Brooke Blue Devils will look to improve in the next Heinsohn easily controlled. Sophomore Remi two weeks. Although McCarthy and Ellyse Swartz started and played the whole game on Hamlin entered the season ranked No. 1, the back line for the first time of her career, the pairings are not set as Ashworth looks to filling in after classmate Taylor Mitchell went create a championship team. down with a leg injury in Thursday’s 3-2 win “We always had the mindset in the fall of against Wake Forest, and helped the Blue trying some different things with our doubles Devil defense turn away every threat. and trying to find three really good teams and “Anywhere, any player, just always be ready, not one great team,” Ashworth said. and somebody gets hurt, then somebody No. 84 McCarthy fell to LSU’s Keenan steps in,” van Bennekom said. “She did a great Johnson in prequalifying in singles. job over both games this weekend.”

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again. As a young, feminine bisexual with a boyfriend and only one girl on my track record, I didn’t feel valid in the queer community. To many, I simply wasn’t “gay enough.”

Towards the end of my senior year, I overheard my classmates decide that my 15-month relationship with a woman was just a phase.

I didn’t feel entirely comfortable with straight people anymore, either. When I finally began to slip anecdotes of my bisexuality into otherwise heterosexual conversations, I couldn’t help but notice these people shift awkwardly in their chairs. To their credit, they always fought to maintain eye contact, a classic attempt to feign open-mindedness in the face of their internalized homophobia. It was disheartening. I stopped bringing it up.

As I usually do in times of torment, I turned to the Internet. There, I found a community of people who recognized sexuality as a spectrum. Labels applied to broad interpretations of the laws of attraction. Some chose to forfeit labels altogether. But the message was clear: all experiences were legitimate.

I know that these perspectives exist. But unfortunately, even at Duke, I still feel unqualified to call myself gay. There’s a pervasive implication in the LGBTQIA+ community that the bisexual experience is less valid than the homosexual one. I’ve been told more than once that because I can pass as straight, I “don’t count.” As if queer people don’t have it hard already, now we have to turn against each other, too?

This form of imposter syndrome is a source of distress for many bisexuals. In fact, bisexual women are 3.5 times more likely than homosexual women to contemplate suicide, while bisexual men are 4.1 times more likely than homosexual men to do so. Bisexual individuals also experience higher rates of anxiety and depression, alcohol abuse, and psychological trauma, as well as greater risks of socioeconomic obstacles.

All because they encounter prejudice from both sides — from the LGBTQIA+ community as well as from the rest of the heteronormative world.

I’d love to date more girls. But I’m frustrated by the

pressure I feel to date girls in order to prove myself to the gay community. I’d still be bisexual if I only dated men for the rest of my life. My sexuality is not contingent on my relationship status.

I’d also like to feel less weird about mentioning pretty girls in front of straight people. To all the straight girls I never loved: no, I’m not into you. You’re not exactly my type. And to all the straight men: this doesn’t make me “one of the guys.” My attraction to women doesn’t mean I suddenly enjoy locker room talk. Oh, and I definitely don’t want to hear how hot you think it is that I like girls. Take your misogyny somewhere else.

Why should the gender of the person I’m interested in change the conversation? I’m just a human being occasionally attracted to other human beings. I’m not easy, I’m not fickle, I’m not just a lesbian too afraid to come out.

And I’m not doing it for attention.

I’m proud to call myself bisexual. I don’t need your opinion about my qualifications, nor do I feel compelled to fulfill some arbitrary definition of what you think my sexuality should look like. I belong here. If I ever need you to validate that, I’ll let you know.been disenfranchised by their arrest records and looking into other laborrelated demands made by People’s State of the University.

Additionally, broader expansion of the state expungement procedure. In North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper has already begun this by signing into law a standardized expungement process in the understanding that criminal justice “should end at restoration.” While there is still much work to be done to untangle the complex web of state violence, racial discrimination and mass incarceration, this step taken by Duke is not only one that recognizes these harsh realities and seeks to ameliorate them, but further evidence that students can truly be the change they want to see on campus.

Rebecca Torrence is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

Are the humanities fake?

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ast week, news outlets reported that a group of three authors had produced 20 hoax papers that were submitted to several academic journals over the course of a year. The authors stated it was their goal to expose the tendency of certain academic journals to publish “grievance studies,” which they argue function as a form of pseudo-scholarship for individuals who have experienced social ills to wage a sort of ideological war. Commentators have both derided and congratulated the efforts of these authors, with some congratulating the authors for supposedly exposing the ideological biases prevalent within certain fields in the social sciences, while others have criticized the group for their glorified attempt at trolling.

Regardless of the intentions and results of the group’s undertaking, this incident is in part a tangible manifestation of the biases against the humanities and social sciences, specifically the academic disciplines’ perceived lack of academic rigor. Complaints levied against humanities often cite the inability to “quantify” the findings produced by humanities research. In North Carolina, former Governor Pat McCrory provoked controversy earlier in the decade

Editorial Board when he publicly stated that he would rather subsidize education that would get someone a job in response to a joke a host made about gender studies courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Here at Duke, humanities are seen as less rigorous compared to the “hard” sciences in the STEM field.

Sociology, the once esteemed Weberian study of human society, has become stereotyped at Duke as an “easy” major prevalent among student athletes. History, once viewed as subset of the humanities, is considered a social science

by Trinity. The study of politics, once colloquially known as “political philosophy,” has morphed into the more quantifiable “political science.” These changes are not simply nominal. They convey that these academic fields possess a certain heft that stretches far beyond theory and that there is a practical purpose each discipline fulfills.

It is important to also consider the origin of the social sciences and its value to society. In the West, the origin of the social sciences can be tied to the values of the Enlightenment, which transplanted the developing scientific empiricism prevalent in the “natural philosophies” (the precursor to the

modern natural sciences) to broader facets of the human experience and culture. Out of this application of the socalled scientific method onto various human experience— the mind, society, culture, the market—gave birth to the “social sciences”: psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics. In contrast, the humanities—subjects such as history, English, literature—became associated with “subjectivity” and thus “unprovable” in an academic world focused on empirical objectivity.

Certain aspects of the humanities invoke claims of political bias. Since the 2016 election, there has been an increasing rallying cry amongst conservatives that “the left” is pervading academic institutions at the expense of conservative ideology. The stereotype of the “elitist liberal” and “ivory tower” are often invoked by public figures on the right to disparage not only higher education institutions but disciplines that fall under the humanities. This criticism is hollow in that the critics seem to want a university or college that teaches the benefits of supply-side economics or the ethical considerations of abortion while shying away from exploring topics such as gender studies and queer theory and linguistic frameworks that may challenge the status quo. If a marketplace of ideas is desired, then the humanities ought to be engaged with in a rigorous and honest matter.

This controversy, although seemingly isolated to the academic ivory tower, echoes a similar sentiment prevalent among students at Duke. “Pratt stars” and STEM majors, crowned with their future six-figure salaries on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, seemingly sit atop the academic totem poll, boasting of their countless hard-science labs in which they are so busy curing cancer and solving world hunger.

Meanwhile, down below, useless “Trinitards” flip through their microfilm readers, dissecting the second comma out of the 766th page of War and Peace, hoping that their senior theses on the social perceptions of disease in colonial Korea will “inspire” and “challenge” society.

Needless to say, such a sentiment is misguided and corrosive to the values of a Duke education. Here at Duke, there should be no reason to bash one another just because one is a “hard science” major verses a humanities major.

Society requires different modes of inquiry and thinking to solve all of the pressing problems the world faces in the 21st century.

And besides, whether you major in sociology, English or physics, there is a good chance that most Duke students will just end up going into consulting anyways.

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‘Don’t boo. Vote.’

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Don’t boo. Vote.” President Barack Obama spoke those words to a heady crowd at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. I remember that night. There was a buzzing optimism in the air. Hillary Clinton was on track to be the next president. Trump seemed a farce: a side-show within the side-show of a Republican party scrambling to find anyone who stood a chance against Clinton’s momentum. On the day of the election The New York Times gave Clinton an 85

Tim Kowalczyk COLUMNIST percent chance of winning.

Obama spoke with a preacher’s verve, and that night was the closest he ever came to prophecy. CNN would report that voter turnout in 2016 fell to a 20-year low. Only 55.4 percent of Americans voted. Granted, Duke did beat the national average. Eighty-two percent of our registered voters went to the polls. But just over half of our eligible voters actually turned out. That is an embarrassment. We failed.

And now, the Blue Wave may be a nonevent. That future state on which we’ve pinned all our hopes of impeachment and dreams of rebuilding may never happen.

From CNBC, Democrats’ lead in polling “has been narrowing in recent weeks,” in an echo of the Republican midterm coup in 2014. As early as January, Politico cautioned against faith in the Blue Wave for a glut of reasons, from the failure of conventional polling to predict the outcome of the 2016 presidential election to idiosyncrasies in state election systems to changes in the President’s popularity.

The Washington Post puts the uncertainty gently: “Strategists differ on just how powerful and pervasive the forces are

ahead of the November balloting.”

In sum, Democrats’ chest-thumping about the coming Day of Judgment is increasingly precarious. If Democratic-leaning voters—especially young voters—are as irresponsible in the midterms as they were in 2016, then their hopes of ousting the powers-that-be will remain a pipe dream. If only there were some way to ensure that the Blue Wave comes crashing in.

It exists, and it is called “voting.”

The way we vote—the way that our government is designed, in fact—was designed to ensure that if something goes bellyup, We the People can fix it. Per The Atlantic, James Madison spent the two years preceding the Constitutional Convention researching how previous democracies had failed. America was purpose-built to right itself when something went wrong. There is nothing wrong in our country that your vote cannot fix.

Consider what happened this past week. Are you irate that the Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh? Vote and elect new senators. Are you mad that more senators did not fight the nomination of a judge whom you believed unfit to serve? Vote and elect senators who will better represent you.

Consider, per CBS, that the United States of America is currently holding 12,800 children in detention. Is that a good enough reason to vote? Consider, per The New York Times and a study by The George Washington University, that Puerto Rico’s recovery is still underfunded despite massive damage and a death toll after Maria near three thousand. Is that a good enough reason to vote? Consider the school-to-prison pipeline, gerrymandering, voter suppression or anything at all that sends us Duke students into a righteous rage. Are any of these a good enough reason to vote?

Problems happen in democracy. Voting is the solution. Not voting perpetuates the problem. All our line-toeing talk of taking back the country or taking to the streets will remain talk if we do not do the bare minimum and vote. Do you want someone to listen to you? Vote. Do you want your voice to matter? Vote.

It is anyone’s prerogative to ignore you. It is your privilege to compel them to listen with you vote.

So, go to sites.duke.edu/dukevotes and do what you must to vote in North Carolina or your home state. North Carolina registration closes on Friday and it takes a whopping five minutes. Early voting opens Oct. 17 and closes Nov. 3. Put your talk into action and vote.

I leave you with an axiom from Confucius: his steady rigor is a welcome relief from our current moment of new-minute, new-crisis.

Upon finding some problem, the good person looks first into themselves for fault. Imagine— and given the tenor of our campus discourse, I assume you believe—that there is something in our society that is simply wrong to you. If you can vote to fix it but do not, if you do not do the one thing that you as a citizen can do to make the halls of power echo with your voice, you have made the problem worse. You have joined the ranks of every apparatchik and “party man” who sat and fiddled while something burned.

We came to Duke because we wanted to change to the world. Go to the ballot box and do it.

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Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Wednesdays.

What’s beer got to do with it?

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n the Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, one word was mentioned more than others. Twelve times, in fact. It wasn’t “justice” or “remorse” or “assault,” it was a four-letter word that was just as common in the summer of 1982 as it is in 2018:

outside their fraternity house.

Boys will always be boys, the age-old adage goes.

There’s an important piece absent from the Senate confirmation debate: booze is only part of the problem. Every drink consumed goes into the body of a person

Janie Booth GUEST COLUMNIST Beer.

Judge Kavanaugh waxed poetic about his harmless love of beer, attempting to spin his youthful habit of debauchery into a chaste, wholesome activity. His own testimony: “I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer, but I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone.”

Whether he blacked out or not, Kavanaugh’s high school and college years were characterized by drinking to excess, at prep school and later Yale University.

I’ve seen all kinds of Brett Kavanaughs walking around our own campus. Boys who drink to excess on a Saturday night and still make it to mass on a Sunday morning. Boys who want to become doctors and lawyers and our future leaders of Congress, but who can’t remember how they got home the night before. Boys who worked so hard they got into Yale, but who pass the hours on a weekend by being passed out on a bench

with attitudes which have been societally mediated about women and power. A person who regards women with equality and respect, or one who does not. A person who either thinks it’s okay to assault women or one who thinks it’s not.

Kavanaugh took a break from yelling or crying to offer this conclusion in his testimony: “There’s a bright line between drinking beer, which I gladly do and which I fully embrace and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime. If every American who drinks beer or every American who drank beer in high school is suddenly presumed guilty of sexual assault, it would be an ugly new place in this country.”

He is right about one thing, that there is a distinct line between drinking beer and committing sexual assault. However, there is one common denominator between all sexual assaults committed against women: negative views about women. Variables like toxic masculinity, sexism and skewed power dynamics are much more accurate predictors of gender-based violence than alcohol intake.

Stories of sexual assault are whispered on our own campus with near terrifying regularity. Stories involving a party, typically one with alcohol and loud music, a bedroom, and a front door, like the one detailed by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on a summer night 36 years ago. The endings of these stories are sickening to hear, the kind that reminds you of the worst of humanity.

And then there are the stories that don’t warrant a whisper or even a mention, where I drink beer in the presence of boys and return home at the end of the night safely to my own bed, unaccompanied.

It isn’t lost on me that the outcome could be astonishingly different. This difference isn’t because of the clothes I am wearing, or not wearing, the words I am saying, or how much I am drinking. The only difference seems to be whether or not the men in my company feel it is okay or not okay to assault.

Brett Kavanaugh felt, multiple times, that it was okay to use his power and force over a woman to make her intimidated, uncomfortable, or to fear for her life. That fact doesn’t have a thing to do with beer, no matter if it’s an IPA or a Pilsner.

On the night of the televised confirmation hearing last week, I sent a text to my roommate that said: “I’m sad. Meet me at Krafthouse.” Her lightning fast response: “I’ll be right there.” She pulled up a stool and together we unpacked the burdens that we’d carried on our shoulders that day, and many days leading up to it. How we were disappointed in our leaders, and the media, and in the allyship, or lack thereof, of the men in our own lives.

We each drank a beer and walked home together in the dark.

There it is again, beer. The same drink Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had one of on the night that changed the course of her life, the same drink that Judge Kavanaugh claims he never abused during that long, hot summer.

The same drink that’s led to good memories and a few funny stories in my own life, too.

It’s hard to hold all these difficult things in my head at once. Here’s what I know, and what the Senate committee, and, really, all of humankind should know as well: Women shouldn’t have to live life in fear of violence.

We should be able to have a beer without worrying about the motives of the person who handed it to us. We should be able to dance to loud music without worrying that there are cries muffled in the background of the party.

Most of all, we should be represented on the highest court of the land by a person who works to uplift the lives of all women, young and old, black and white, immigrant and native.

I’d like to see real change be made to improve the lives of women, and I think it starts with the people on this campus.

As long as the voices of women are silenced, we will stay angry. The topic of conversation of late among my female friends has been when we are going to take to the streets, light the patriarchy on fire and burn toxic masculinity to the ground.

Soon.

And perhaps we will celebrate at a bar afterward.

Janie Booth is a Trinity senior. She does not condone the use of real matches to set the patriarchy on fire, but she will see you at the Women’s March.

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students, considering their diversity as part of the equation.

“She changed the way we look at applicants,” Klotman said. “She actively went out and developed relationships and partnerships with undergraduate institutions—some of those were traditionally black colleges and universities—and actively recruited the very best.”

The change in the diversity of Duke’s classes began to reflect this effort in the 1990s and early 2000s.

“I was really in awe of how much she changed the profile of the Medical School’s student body,” Klotman said. “It was kind of a national buzz.”

Holloway, who was on the executive committee of the Academic Council at the time, remembered noticing a shift in the school’s academic quality and diversity.

“It was as clear an indication as Duke would ever want that pushing ourselves to create a more inclusive campus would also elevate our academic standing,” Holloway wrote. “She knew that would be the metric. And she delivered.”

change the Carr Building’s name, said that Carr’s name does not reflect what Duke should be going forward.

“Duke for a long time has profited from...and been a scion of the legacy of slavery and segregation in the South,” Pitts said. “We don’t name buildings after people in order to preserve our history, we name them after people because we admire them or respect them. It’s an expression of who we are—and it’s not who we want to be anymore.”

In recent years, debate has surged about the presence of Confederate monuments—and Durham has been at the forefront of these discussions.

“The erection of Confederate monuments in the first quarter of the 20th century was part of a deliberate effort to obfuscate the past,” the letter reads.

In August, Duke decided it would to leave the spot where a statue of Robert E. Lee once stood in front of Duke Chapel empty. A year before, protesters toppled the Durham Confederate Monument, which stood in front of the Durham County Administration Building on East Main Street.

One alumnus who signed the letter, Kirsten Delegard—M.A. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘99 and now director of the Mapping Prejudice Project at the University of Minnesota—said she thinks America is at a crucial point in reckoning with its past.

Some might argue that Carr’s contributions to Duke’s growth need to be recognized, but Delegard pushed back on the notion that Carr’s history had to be recognized on a building.

“He can be recognized, but he doesn’t have to have his name on the building that houses the history department,” Delegard said. “It matters who we honor.”

That’s why the alumni recommended Gavins’ name grace the building at 1356 Campus Drive.

The letter notes Gavins was a “key architect” of some of the history department’s most important work. That included oral history projects, the Center for Documentary Studies and the Behind the Veil project, which all charted the black experience in North Carolina.

“He was a giant in the field of history,” Delegard said.

“He changed the field of history and our understanding of

‘She cared a lot about the University’ The mark Armstrong leaves behind is as big as the intense effort and care that she poured into Duke for five decades.

“She cared a lot about the University,” President Emeritus Nannerl Keohane said. “She was an undergraduate, a professor and a dean.

Both as an administrator and as a faculty member—and I gather from the records, as a student as well—she pushed really hard to make Duke a better place. She cared about the institution and she wanted to make Duke live up to some of its high ideals.”

Memorial services for Armstrong have yet to be announced, but Duke lowered its flags for the physician.

“She was remarkable in her courage, her joy and her example,” Holloway wrote. “I feel we have lost a part of our institutional spirit.”

Although Armstrong died four months short of the Takeover’s 50th anniversary, the physician and activist knew well the mark those early change-makers left behind.

“Our enduring legacy would be one of leadership, commitment, extraordinary academic and professional productivity. Indeed, such achievement through struggle and the ensuing myths created would be the stuff of legends,” she wrote in her essay about the Takeover.

“And, on our shoulders would stand generations of black students to complete their unfinished business at Duke.”

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race in this country. I can’t think anyone better to honor.”

The letter says that Gavins’ greatest legacy at Duke was that he “refuted the legacy and narrative of white supremacy.”

Waldo Martin Jr., Trinity ‘73, signed the letter and said Gavins inspired him to become a historian after he took what he said was the first African-American history class at Duke in 1970. Martin said that the the first half of the class—the part taught by Gavins— covered black history from African origins to the Civil War. Martin said that many of those in the class were those that agitated for the class.

“It was an epiphany,” said Martin, now the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Martin, who came from a historically black high school, said he found a place at a school that was “very, very white” at the time.

“I saw myself in this class,” Martin said. “You look for yourself, and you don’t see yourself a lot.”

Gavins was a “brilliant” professor who gave thoughtful lectures and was student-friendly, Martin said, but also knew how to push students.

“He knew how to provide firm, piercing criticism with a gentle hand,” Martin said.

After Duke, Martin earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and came to be friends with Gavins. A native of Greensboro, N.C., Martin would come home several times a year and visited Gavins whenever he returned. Gavins was a real “people person,” Martin said, and grew up working class. Gavins would befriend everyone and was deeply invested in the local community, Martin said.

A “regular person in a regular community” who did “great things,” Martin would be encouraged if Gavins’ name graced what is now the Carr Building.

“It would make me feel much better about the institution,” Martin said. “It needs to do the right thing, especially about black people and people of color.”

The letter also argues that changing the name to honor Gavins would be a step in the right direction.

“Renaming the Carr Building affirms history as the pursuit of truth about the past, in order to better understand the past and therefore build a better present and future, guided by role models like Dr. Raymond Gavins,” the letter reads.

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