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Strong third quarter lifts Duke above Georgia Tech

How big is Duke’s endowment compared By Brian Guo to its peers?

By Ben Feder Associate Sports Editor

ATLANTA—With two minutes left in the third quarter, Bobby Dodd Stadium was about to explode. Facing third-and-12 at Georgia Tech’s 48yard line after having gone scoreless for nearly 30 minutes, Daniel DUKE 28 Jones dropped back in 14 the pocket, where he GT found a streaking T.J. Rahming down the middle of the field for a 48yard touchdown pass that all but silenced the Yellow Jacket faithful. Rahming’s touchdown kicked off an explosive 21-0 run in just 1:49 that fueled Duke’s 28-14 victory against Georgia Tech in Atlanta Saturday afternoon to spoil the host’s homecoming. The Blue Devils took advantage of three straight forced fumbles in the midst of their 21-point explosion, as they held the nation’s top-ranked rushing attack to just 229 yards on 3.8 yards per carry. “Big play. Big play. Daniel throws a perfect ball, T.J. gets behind them,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “A lot of the time I like to have a deep opportunity on third-and-10, third-and-11, because cornerbacks and safeties will sit at the sticks. And they sat at the wrong time.” An innocent-looking second down run got it all started for the Blue Devils (5-1, 1-1 in the ACC). Yellow Jacket running back Jerry Howard had already made it past the first down marker before he was hit by defensive tackle Axel Nyembwe, who jarred the ball loose into a fellow defender’s hands. See FOOTBALL on Page 9

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A slew of American universities released fiscal year 2018 endowment figures in the past several weeks, including Duke, whose endowment returned a 12.9 percent growth to a record $8.5 billion dollars. The growth marginally outpaced Duke’s 12.7 percent growth in the previous year. Managed by the Duke University Management Company, known as DUMAC, the Duke Endowment is the 10th largest private college endowment in the United States this year, and Duke’s 2018 growth was tied with the University of Pennsylvania for third among the top 10 endowments. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations, said that the expanding endowment is the result of DUMAC’s hard work. “Obviously, DUMAC had a very good year,” Schoenfeld said. “We had very smart and strategic investment managers in DUMAC, and having an endowment that grew at 12.9 percent last year will continue to provide Duke with a level of financial support and infrastructure that will make it possible to continue to do important things like expand financial aid, endow professorships and support programs.” Indeed, the Duke Endowment far outgrew the 8.3 percent median return attained by a wide range of US college endowments this year, according to preliminary data from Cambridge Associates. Among the top 10 private college endowments, only Princeton and

‘Trashy teen pop on repeat’: Staff, students discuss music at the Brodhead Center By Cynder Rodriguez Contributing Reporter

Charles York | Staff Photographer Daniel Jones finished the day throwing 17-of-27 for 206 yards.

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Ever wonder who chooses the music played in the Brodhead Center and why they love “Love Lies” so much? The Chronicle did some research and found out everything you need to know about the music played in the food hall. The job is bestowed upon the person working at the operations desk of University Center Activities and Events, which is located on the first floor of the Brodhead Center across from Café. Garrett Grimshaw, a member of the Campus Center Operations Team, said staff can play whatever they want as long as it is not vulgar or inappropriate.

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Typically, workers choose to play a Sirius XM channel. However, they also take requests Some students recently requested classical music to be played in the morning, but the music ends up being played for most of the day. But, many students are not aware that they can be apart of the music selection process. The Chronicle interviewed students about how they felt about the Brodhead Center music, and most had a similar response: it’s repetitive. Senior Mala Puri noted that she always hears the same 10 songs played over and over again. Sophomore Andrew Zheng described the music played in the Brodhead Center usually as “trashy teen pop on repeat.” However, Zheng asserted that it is not as bad as at Marketplace, where they only have five songs on

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rotation. Without hesitation, he then proceeded to name all five of the said songs. Similar to how the workers already use a Spotify playlist, Zheng suggested that students make a collaborative Spotify playlist for them to play instead. Yet, during peak hours, it can be quite noisy, especially on the plaza level. Puri acknowledged how this can make it difficult to discern what music is even playing. Customers can better hear the music in a section that is quieter and closer to the speakers, such as the tables above Skillet and JB’s Roasts & Chops. When asked how she felt about the music in the Brodhead Center, first-year Morgan Patton responded, “There’s music in West Union?”

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What does ‘selective social group’ Hyde House mean for the housing reform movement? By Shannon Fang Towerview Managing Editor

Hyde House is hoping to become Duke’s first selective social group—and as their members describe it, a more inclusive and open-minded alternative to selective living groups and Greek organizations. Lindsey Lovitt, a sophomore, said she believes Hyde House functions similar to a selective living group because Duke’s social culture is based upon affiliation, yet the organization has different founding principals and goals. An important distinction between Hyde House and other selective groups is that it is founded on inclusivity, Lovitt said. “One of our goals in starting the organization is to be able to provide a similar experience for people who aren’t affiliated with traditional selective groups,” Lovitt said. “It’s really easy to feel isolated on Duke’s campus and we wanted to provide a social experience that was more inclusive and community based.”

Chronicle File Photo Hyde House is a self-entitled ‘selective social group’ that is hoping to shake up the housing scene on campus by not requesting any.

Opposition to housing Although its members initially wanted housing and to become a SLG, Hyde House now takes a hard stance against group housing. Lovitt said that a housing section would limit the type of community and number of members able to join. Duke currently has a moratorium on housing for SLGs that is expected to remain in place until at least Fall 2019, according to the Housing and Residence Life website. Not having a house or base has not been an issue because the group’s members have

been active and motivated to attend events, Lovitt said. Hyde member Isabella DeCarlo, a sophomore, said it has been frustrating to find spaces, but getting approved by DSG would allow them to rent spaces, such as the Keohane Atrium, to hold parties. Lovitt said some students in DSG view Hyde House not only as a new student group but as a precedent of housing reform in the future, and those who do not want to decouple housing from selective groups are hesitant to approve the SSG. Sophomore Will Brodner, chair of Duke

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Students for Housing Reform, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that SSGs are an encouraging development for housing reform. The fact that Hyde House has made it so far in the process shows Duke students believe social groups can exist without housing, he wrote. Brodner wrote that in a system without selective housing, SSGs can be an alternative social outlet for students. An inclusive rush Hyde House will have a rush similar to other groups on campus but wants to

make the process more authentic and fair, DeCarlo explained. She said that the group is not opposed to rush itself because it allows students to get a feel of the people and organization, but is rather opposed to the decision-making process. “A lot of times, when someone rushed a certain organization and didn’t get in, it’s almost like you thought you belonged to a community, and they essentially told you you didn’t,” DeCarlo said. Hyde House considers only event attendance and proper behavior when deciding who can join, Lovitt added. She said that a student would not be able to join only if they attended few events or displayed offensive behavior. Lovitt explained that she felt that this objective process is more inclusive than other selective groups, which judge people based on their personality and who they are. Junior Saheel Chodavadia, vice president of academic affairs for DSG, argued in Senate that Hyde House’s selection process was arbitrary and said its inclusive principles would not remain over time. Brodner responded to these claims by arguing that the selection processes of current SLGs are already arbitrary and non-inclusive by rejecting hundreds of students a year. “I think it’s hypocritical to hold Hyde House to a higher standard than SLGs, when SLGs deprive students of certain housing on campus and SSGs wouldn’t have housing at all,” he wrote. See HYDE HOUSE on Page 12

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Children’s Law Clinic attorney reflects on career in advocacy necessary questions.” Completing her bachelor’s degree from Andrews University and her Master of Social Work degree from Motivated because of her disabled brother’s struggles the University of Michigan, Grant went on to study law at in school, Crystal Grant—recently named a supervising Michigan State University and graduated with a certificate attorney at the Duke Law School’s Children’s Law Clinic— in child and family advocacy. knew she was going to pursue a career in children’s law from Grant started her law career with a clerkship under Chief a young age. Judge Janelle A. Lawless in the family division of Ingham “As I started to study in school, I understood what was County Circuit Court in Michigan. happening with him,” Grant said. “There were times when my “I learned so much from doing research and writing for parents should have done more but they didn’t because they did her and from observing seasoned attorneys day after day and not know what to ask for.” reading their pleadings,” Grant said. Grant also noted that after watching Clair Huxtable—a From 2010 to 2017, she worked as a special education lawyer character on the Cosby Show—she was inspired to attorney. Representing students with disabilities, she went pursue a future in both law and social work. to their schools, supported their parents and advocated in “One of the things that my social work training has done for individualized education program meetings. Grant later went is to help me understand the importance on to become a clinical fellow in the of self-determination for clients”, said Pediatric Advocacy Clinic at the University Grant. “As an attorney, there’s only so I am here to make sure of Michigan Law School. many things I can fix with my legal they have looked in every Reflecting on her work, Grant degree, but I like putting my clients in a shared how she has focused on systemic direction and asked the position where going forward they can advocacy throughout her career so necessary questions. advocate for themselves.” that she could “make a difference for Grant, also a senior lecturing fellow, many students and many children.” crystal grant She also said enjoyed training others joined the Children’s Law Clinic at SUPERVISING ATTORNEY AT THE DUKE LAW Duke School of Law in July 2018 as a on how to advocate for children with SCHOOL’S CHILDREN’S LAW CLINIC supervising attorney. Staffed by Duke law disabilities—many lack the knowledge students, the Children’s Law Clinic is a to do so. law office that gives free legal advice and representation to lowIn discipline cases, Grant observed high suspension rates, income children. especially for students of color and students with disabilities. In her role as supervising attorney, Grant supervises She says this trend has motivated her to make parents and second and third-year law students who represent clients schools aware of evidence-based and more effective methods in special education, discipline and social security appeals. like “restorative justice” that minimize the detrimental Grant is also teaching a clinic seminar through which effects on students’ health and well-being. students learn client interviewing, cross-cultural lawyering In bringing her advocacy work to the Children’s Law and legal strategies. Clinic, she said that she wants to ensure that those involved are “The clinical model of the Children’s Law Clinic is one where “responsive to needs of the community” and to “[see] what the law students do everything from interviewing a client to coming community is seeing and experiencing.” up with a legal strategy,” Grant said. “If we go to a hearing, they “When I was in Michigan I thought that there aren’t will argue the case, and they will write the complaint. I am here enough people doing this kind of work,” Grant said. “But to make sure they have looked in every direction and asked the I am excited to see that families in the Triangle area have a By Priya Parkash Staff Reporter

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Nominations are now open for the Samuel DuBois Cook Society 2019 Awards. The presentations will be made at the annual dinner and awards ceremony on Tuesday, February 19, 2019.

The DuBois Cook Society was founded in 1997 to Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook November 21, 1928—May 29, 2017 honor the first African American faculty member hired and tenured at Duke University, and to recognize his contributions as a member of the Duke University Board of Trustees. To nominate a Duke faculty member, employee or student, please visit oie.duke.edu (click on the “about us” dropdown to see the Cook Society page link) to download a nomination form. All nominations must be received by November 16, 2018. Table sponsorship and individual ticket information is also available for download. Questions? Please email: carla.peraza@duke.edu

Special to the Chronicle Crystal Grant, a supervising attorney at the Duke Law School’s Children’s Law Clinic, joined the clinic in July 2018.

lot of options.” In the future, the clinic will partner with the Education Justice Alliance, which aims to end the “school-to-prison pipeline.” “I believe there is power in numbers,” Grant said. “It is one thing when an attorney goes before the school board to say you should not suspend this student, but another thing when they go equipped with a community sitting behind them saying we do not support the suspension.” Jane Wettach, William B. McGuire clinical professor of law and director of the Children’s Law Clinic, praised Grant and her “wealth of experience” in advocating for children with disabilities and an overall commitment to social justice. “At the same time, her calm and thoughtful demeanor makes her an excellent supervisor of the law students who are learning the skills of interacting with and representing clients,” Wettach said.

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After drunken mob, line monitors plan to kill walk up line By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

Jim Liu | Opinion Photography Editor Each year, students tent for weeks to get into the UNC game.

After Krzyzewskiville devolved into a drunken mob last spring, the line monitors plan to kill the walk up line. Co-head line monitors Steve Hassey and Peter Potash, both seniors, told The Chronicle that they will replace the walk-up line for the North Carolina game Feb. 20, 2019 at Cameron Indoor Stadium with a new “flex tent” system. The system will begin at the same time as white tenting— roughly 10 days before game day—and spots in the “flex tenting” system will be determined by the same race to the secret spot. The change will have to be approved by Duke Student Government Senate—something Hassey said will happen in the next few weeks. Other students in K-Ville who are among the other 100

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tents are there for weeks, if not months, securing their for entrance to the game. All 100 tents are guaranteed entry. Last year, additional students who wanted to go to the game joined the walk-up line, which began three days before the game. Now, those who “flex tent” would potentially not be promised entrance. Hassey said the line monitors are still determining the exact number of those who will be able to “flex tent.” By limiting the number of people who are uncertain about whether or not they will gain entry, the line monitors said that they hope to reduce the chance of chaos. “The big problem we’re aiming to fix from the walk-up line last year is having a large number of people who are not guaranteed spots and are not sure if they can get in,” Potash said. “The uncertainty of whether or not they’re going to get in caused a lot of that danger.” Ahead of the game last year, cutting in the line to get registered for the walk-up line was rampant the day before the walk-up line officially began. The chaos spilled into game day, when a drunken mob tried to push through barricades to get into the game, trampling people in its wake. Students were seen eating signs, throwing full beer cans at each other and even threatening each other with table legs. Ali Wisner, Trinity ‘18 and then-line monitor and co-vice president of game day operations, said she was trampled. At the time, line monitor Jaxson Floberg, a junior, penned an op-ed entitled “Kill Walk-Up Line,” in which he argued fraternity brothers made walk-up line “essentially inhospitable to anyone who doesn’t want to be at a frat party.” Fraternities did get into turf wars—one that included throwing full beer cans at each other due to an apparent misunderstanding. In a separate incident, one fraternity tried to use “the People’s Elbow”—a move popularized by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during his WWE years—to break another fraternity’s beer pong table. There were four alcohol-related emergency medical service incidents on North Carolina game day last year, higher than normal “due to the calls for the walk-up line,” said David Mallen, assistant director of the Duke Wellness Center. The drinking and mad rush to get in the game culminated in disaster. “It’s come to a point to where it’s not in the best interest of the University, of Duke basketball, of the line monitors and the people in the walk-up line themselves to continue having it this way,” former co-head line monitor Sara Constand, Trinity ‘18, told The Chronicle in April. The co-head line monitors said they have established a committee to create more programming for those who don’t want to drink, and have already reserved Card Gym for these activities. No one claimed responsibility for enforcing alcohol policy last year. According to the line monitors’ policies, K-Ville residents are “expected to adhere to all university policies​ relating to the consumption and distribution of alcohol.” Last year, Constand said she requested “A-team” support—a group of student, faculty and administration volunteers who Constand said enforce alcohol policy and monitor safety—but did not receive it. Clay Adams, associate dean of students, told The Chronicle he denied the request, citing the Bonfire Safety Program document, noting the A-Team was “limited to ensuring the safe and successful execution of an approved bonfire.” John Dailey, chief of Duke University Police Department, wrote in an email that alcohol policy is enforced “administratively”—not by police. At the time, he did not respond to a follow-up question about which department specifically is to enforce alcohol policy. “The police can only enforce obvious violations of the NC law,” Dailey wrote. The Chronicle also asked whether being drunk and disorderly would be an enforceable violation of North Carolina law and if DUPD observed any drunk and disorderly people in K-Ville on game day. Dailey did not respond in time for publication. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, declined to comment when asked who is supposed to enforce alcohol policy after The Chronicle said that Dailey said it was enforced “administratively.” Potash said that the line monitors are working with the administration in order to have more people out in K-Ville to help with any safety issues that may arise on game day. The line monitors hope that reducing the number of people with uncertain fates will decrease the chances of mania. “Last year we had hundreds and hundreds of people in the walk-up line and a lot of them had the expectation that they were going to get into the game. That created a lot of the pandemonium,” Hassey said. “This is reducing the number of people that are uncertain about whether or not they’re going to get in.”

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Freshman Chris Rumph II sparks strong defensive effort with dominant performance in his first start By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor

ATLANTA—In Chris Rumph II’s starting debut against Georgia Tech, the redshirt freshman turned the Yellow Jackets’ offensive line into swiss cheese, dominating Georgia Tech’s rushing unit with four tackles for loss and a sack to his name. Rumph and the rest of Duke’s defense were not about to let last year’s six-straight losses happen again. Facing an opponent that had just notched 129 combined points against its last two opponents, the Blue Devil defense

locked down the Yellow Jackets. A combination of dominant linebacker play and quick adjustments at the defensive line led to Duke stifling Georgia Tech on its homecoming, limiting the home team to just 14 points and its lowest-scoring tally of the season. “We prepared all week, like crazed animals,” redshirt junior linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “We were hungry and wanted to be the most physical team out there. We wanted to dominate at the line of scrimmage. We know that their fullbacks and their quarterbacks are phenomenal athletes and if you let them get some space, our whole thing was get them

before they could start moving.” Without junior linebacker Koby Quansah—who notched nine tackles against Army, another option attack, in the season opener—it was a question whether defensive end-turnedlinebacker Rumph would be able to put a stop to Georgia Tech’s version of the scheme. Tied 7-7 with just more than five minutes left of play in the third quarter, Rumph pitched the tide for the Blue Devils to put the game away. When a hard hit on Yellow Jacket running back Jerry Howard sent the ball sailing, Rumph dove on it to put Duke in the driver’s seat at its 43-yard line. That play flipped the momentum for the Blue Devils, leading to back-toback fumble recoveries that Duke capitalized on for 14 points and a comfortable advantage. “Chris Rumph has just grown up in front of our eyes,” Giles-Harris said. “He’s a phenomenal football player. He’s just feeling it out right now. He’s not even close to where he’s going to be in a couple years. That kid is going to be a phenomenal player…. He had a big role in place of Koby Quansah, he stepped up, and he played lights out.” And Rumph was just the tip of the iceberg for Duke’s defensive unit. Giles-Harris earned 15 tackles and senior Ben Humphreys contributed another 11 as the rest of Duke’s linebacker corps systematically tore apart Georgia Tech’s offensive scheme. The Blue Devils held the No. 1 rushing team in the nation to just 229 yards on the ground—its second-lowest rushing output of the season. Even when fifth-year senior defensive tackle Edgar Cerenord was taken off the field with what was later diagnosed as a ruptured Achilles, replacements Axel Nyembwe and Ben Frye held strong in the trenches. Georgia Tech would only score once on the ground through the whole contest with See DEFENSE on Page 9

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Freshman Chris Rumph II continued to display the Blue Devils’ “next man up” mentality Saturday, racking up four tackles for loss and a sack in his first career start.

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Duke finishes first at Tar Heel Invitational By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

CHAPEL HILL—Duke had been knocking on the door throughout the fall. After a final-day collapse a little less than a month ago kept the Blue Devils off the podium in Minnesota and roller-coaster effort in Chicago led to a sixthplace finish, it was only a matter of time until they sealed the deal. This weekend, Duke did just that—and then some. The No. 10 Blue Devils went wire-to-wire at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, rolling to a win just a few miles from Durham at the Finley Golf Course. Duke seized the lead Friday on the par-72 6,379-yard track, and the Blue Devils never relinquished it, thanks to top-10 individual finishes by Ana Belac, Virginia Elena Carta and Jaravee Boonchant. Duke wound up 14-under-par, six shots ahead of second-place No. 6 Virginia. Belac responded from an ugly 3-over-par back nine Saturday to post a 2-under 70 in the final round with four birdies to lead Duke for the weekend. The junior from Slovenia earned a solo third-place finish, her best individual mark of the season and the second-best for her collegiate career. “It’s great to be rewarded for efforts that have been consistent throughout our fall so far. We just haven’t had the days come together for a win and we finally did,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “What we have on our team is a lot of passion and it’s

wonderful. There’s great desire on the team, top to bottom—everybody wants to do well and they’re willing to put in the work.” Back-to-back birdies on the third and fourth holes Sunday got things off to a strong start for Belac. She then played steady to the finish, going even over the final 14 holes with a birdie on the 18th to jump ahead of the Cavaliers’ Anna Redding at 6-under-par for the weekend. Carta joined Belac in the birdie-birdie club to start Sunday—the Italian made par on the first, but went 2-under on the next two holes, moving to minus-8 for the weekend. A double-bogey-6 on the fourth, however, brought Carta back to earth, and the senior never regained her rhythm. After posting rounds of 68 and 70 to start the tournament, Carta had a shot at her first individual victory since winning the NCAA title in 2016, her freshman season. Instead, she shot 2-over on the final 14 holes, ending the day in a tie for fifth. Boonchant rounded out Duke’s core for the tournament with an eighth-place tie. The sophomore got off to a fiery start, carding a firstround 66 to help the Blue Devils to the lead on Friday. Yet, the Bangkok native struggled her way to a 76 on Saturday and bogeyed the second hole Sunday before closing her tournament with 16 holes of 2-under-par golf. The trio of Belac, Carta and Boonchant will have the unenviable task of replacing former top amateur Leona Maguire, who graduated in May, but thus far, they have all shown that they are more than capable of stepping up to the plate.

“Ana, Virginia and Jaravee are all great players in their own right. Leona was something special, to be at the pinnacle for so many weeks, but these are very good players and I think they’re blazing their own trails, so it’s exciting,” Brooks said. “[Ana] is the most in control of her emotions. She’s evenkeeled all the way and that’s great for golf.” Sophomore Miranda Wang limped to the finish in Chapel Hill after opening with by far the best round of her fall. Wang birdied her very first hole, setting the tone for a 3-underpar 69—all four Blue Devils to score Friday shot in the 60s. But the good times didn’t last. Wang turned in a second-round 76 despite three birdies Saturday, and Sunday, she bogeyed four of the first 11 holes en route to another 4-over 76. It was the exact opposite for Gina Kim. The freshman from Chapel Hill had some nerves in her first homecoming, and after a birdie on the first, she bogeyed the second and doubled the third. Things didn’t get much better after

that—Kim went 5-over-par on the last 15 holes to finish the day at 79. “Anybody that’s playing in their hometown and you’ve played that course 100-plus times, your expectations are probably a little bit higher,” Brooks said. “You can’t help but put pressure on yourself.” Kim turned it around, though, and if not for a double-bogey on the 17th hole Sunday, the rookie would have finished her last two rounds at even par. Instead, Kim wound up with a 9-over-par 225 for the weekend, tying her for 48th. Regardless, Brooks is optimistic about what lies ahead for his team as Duke readies for one last fall event—the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, N.C. in two weeks. “I think it’s been a good fall, I really do,” he said. “I hope some people get after it a little bit in the offseason—nothing too big but just sharpen things up a little bit after Wilmington and keep a club in their hands so when we get back in January, it doesn’t feel like it’s a new game.”

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Junior Ana Belac led the Blue Devils for the weekend with a 6-under-par finish.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Racioppi’s game-winner caps comeback By Ramona Naseri Staff Writer

After going down a goal just eight minutes into the game, the Blue Devils fought back and barreled their way through the Tigers to another ACC victory. No. 11 Duke defeated Clemson 3-2 Saturday afternoon at Riggs Field in Clemson, S.C, breaking DUKE 3 a streak of losses at Clemson that CLEM 2 dated back to 2011. After falling behind on an early goal by the Tigers, the Blue Devils pushed past their opposer’s momentum and

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brought a win home. “I thought we did a really great job in the final third. We had three really nice goals but also we had a whole different mentality in the second half,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We went after them and found that first goal which was really important...it was being much more aggressive in the second half and it was a change of mentality of our players.” With the score tied midway through the second half, the Blue Devils (11-2-2, 5-1-1 in the ACC) were desperate for a goal to give them the upper hand, and senior Taylor Racioppi was there to deliver. Racioppi, who received a yellow card in the 73rd minute, scored the team’s game-winning goal only

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three minutes later. Lily Nabet assisted on Racioppi’s sixth goal of the season, which came from 24 yards out and landed perfectly in the bottom right corner. “She just absolutely caught it perfectly, it was a bomb that just went to the forward motion,” Church said. “It was a great goal, once she received it she had space to run forward and she attacked that space and then she really caught the ball low hard ball and it was a tough one with the keeper and it was just a great winning goal by one of our seniors,” Both teams continued to fight, as back-to-back shots at goal were attempted on either side. However, the Blue Devils were able to close out the game after a long fought victory. The game did not look good for the Blue Devils as the Tigers (9-6-0, 4-3-0) came storming out of the gates, getting off two attempts at goal both in the seventh minute of the game. Highlighting the teams’ aggression and being unwilling to accept their misses, senior Mariana Speckmaier came through for Clemson’s first goal just one minute later. This first shot set the tone for the rest of the first half to follow. Through the 45 minutes of the first half, the Tigers had eight attempts at goal compared to just two by the Blue Devils. Clemson, a team which doesn’t give away many goals, was clearly showing its dominance on home field. Going into the second half, the Blue Devils had a decision to make on how they were going to react and how they were going to battle such an offensive team. See W. SOCCER on Page 9

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 On Georgia Tech’s next set of downs, quarterback TaQuon Marshall coughed up the ball behind the line of scrimmage. After Jones found tight end Davis Koppenhaver for a one-yard touchdown pass, backup running back Mateo Durant forced a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, sending the Blue Devil faithful into a frenzy. “It can be a tidal wave so to speak if your team plays with energy and you play the kicking game the way we played the kicking game,” Cutcliffe said. Jones finished 17-of-27 for 206 yards and three touchdowns, all but putting the finishing touches on the game with a perfectly-thrown six-yard fade to redshirt senior wideout Johnathan Lloyd for Cutcliffe’s squad’s last points of the afternoon. But before Rahming’s catch, things were looking grim on Duke’s side. After a quick four-play 52-yard first drive that culminated in a 12-yard touchdown rush by sophomore Deon Jackson—who received his first career start with starter Brittain Brown sidelined—the Blue Devils made some key errors after getting stopped on a fourthand-one opportunity, as Jones tossed an interception inside two minutes and Rahming misjudged a punt that nearly resulted in a safety. “We took a shot on fourth-and-1 believing,” Cutcliffe said. “Then, a sack fumble. Then in another possession we get it back and drive a two-minute drill…. It was a really bad decision, it was a bad play. We stopped ourselves.” Luckily for the offense, Duke’s defense was

ready for the Yellow Jackets’ triple option attack. In his first career start, redshirt freshman Chris Rumph II dominated, racking up four tackles for loss and one sack, as the Blue Devils forced five fumbles and finished with 11 tackles for loss on the afternoon. As the teams went back and forth trading punts and fourth down turnovers—the teams combined to go 1-for-4 on fourth down opportunities in the half—the game began to get chippier with multiple confrontations after the whistle. After Jones’ interception, the Yellow Jackets (3-4, 1-3) were able to knot the score up at seven as Marshall found wideout Malachi Carter down the right sideline for a 32-yard pass to tie the game up at seven before halftime. On the ensuing kickoff, Jackson kept moving after taking a few initial hits, but the action was far away from the ball carrier. Ahead of the play, backup Blue Devil safety Brandon Feamster and starting linebacker Victor Alexander kept going after the whistle, with the Yellow Jackets’ Alexander ejected after throwing a series of punches at Feamster. But once the game settled down, Duke was able to pull away and secure its first conference victory of the season. “[The 21-point swing] was phenomenal. When you get turnover, touchdown, turnover, touchdown, when there were 30 seconds left and we scored two touchdowns in the end of the third, it was phenomenal,” redshirt junior linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “That’s just an unbelievable feeling when you can keep getting turnovers.” Next week, the Blue Devils will get their first crack at bowl eligibility when they host Virginia Saturday afternoon.

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a meaningless rushing drive in the final “Obviously the momentum was going eight minutes of the match. against us there,” Church said. “I thought “We have a systematic approach to an Clemson was better than we were in the first option offense,” Duke head coach David half but I think one of the big keys was it was Cutcliffe said. “We put this system in only 1-0 at halftime. And then in the second 11 years ago in the first spring knowing half we came back with a completely different that we had Georgia Tech every year in formation, and completely different mentalities our division and that we were playing that kind of took over the game.” Army and Navy multiple times…. We The second half burst quickly into life. In basically have a playbook that we work the second minute, senior Kat McDonald in the spring for an option offense so our blasted a shot from 20 yards out that found players have an understanding of what the top right corner of the goal. the expectations are.” But the Blue Devils weren’t finished In response, the Yellow Jackets adjusted just yet. Before the Tigers were able to their attack, opting to throw their original react to this change in aggression from the rush-centric playbook out the window Blue Devils, senior Kayla McCoy added and try for some attacks through the another goal seven minutes later. McCoy’s air. However, safeties Marquis Waters ninth goal of the season was assisted by and Dylan Singleton were there with sophomore Tess Boade, and shot ten yards nine combined tackles to shut down any from the left side. explosive plays. Duke’s lead lasted ten minutes, as As tensions on the field rose thanks Clemson’s redshirt senior Miranda Weslake in-part to Duke’s frustratingly stingy tied the game at 2-2 in the 65th minute, but defense, Singleton thrived in the chippy Racioppi would put the Blue Devils back atmosphere. The junior dominated backon top just minutes later. to-back attempts in the fourth between Although Duke played well in the second small scuffles between plays. half, there are still some improvements “We don’t like them, they don’t like it would like to make moving forward. us,” Singleton said. “We play every play…. With two home games in the coming When things like that happen, you just weekends against two of the better teams want to get everybody calm so nothing like in the league, the Blue Devils are hoping that affects the game.” to remain consistent throughout and play With the level of defense the Blue Devils better in the first half. unleashed Saturday, Duke is shaping up Duke will return to Durham to finish up to be one of the toughest defenses in the ACC play by hosting Louisville Thursday, The New York let Times Syndication Corporation nation—one that won’t mistakes of the Salesand Boston College Sunday, when the Blue 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 past come back to haunt it. Devils will honor their four seniors. For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For ForRelease ReleaseThursday, Monday, October October15, 11,2018 2018

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Dissecting Dixie: Is the South really more racist?

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n cinematic depictions, news broadcasting and a myriad of other forms of media, the South has typically been othered and pathologized by the rest of the United States as backwards and plagued by a monolithic culture of racialized violence. The images of Black student protestors being hosed and chased down by police dogs in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama or Oxford, Mississippi on national television have contributed to cementing this depiction into the national conscience. Yet, the race riots that broke out in Northern and Western segregated cities such as Detroit, Newark and Los Angeles during the same time period have been conveniently ignored in these geographical comparisons. Even now, the racist disenfranchisement that was endured by many in the supposedly enlightened liberal bastion of the North well into the 1980s—through segregated country clubs and racist, exclusionist housing policies—continues to be forgotten. This ahistorical myth-making of the states below the Mason-Dixon Line as a the one, true home of white supremacy is fundamentally revisionist. These beliefs abstract the reality that all regions of this country—in its liberal ethos, institutions and public spaces—are indelibly implicated in the violent racism that has dispossessed Black

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populations, indigenous tribes and other people of color for centuries. The debilitating nature of racism has never been geographically confined, instead its various forms and implications have crisscrossed the expanse of this country in different manifestations for centuries. Even as these antiquated notions about racism are a symptom of Northern and Western moral elitism, they are also a product of classism. Popular culture conceptions of what a racist looks like are often bound up in caricatured imagery of redneck Confederate loyalists in rural, Southern areas. In the wake of the Trump election, the mythos of the angry poor white racist pushing him into the White House has continued to endure, despite the fact that 54 percent of college-educated white men voted for Trump. Racism is often filtered through a classist lens— it’s imagined as symptomatic of a lack of knowledge or a product of undereducation. The implications of this widespread myopic perspective are not only felt in our

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collective imaginations, they are experienced structurally in cities such as Chapel Hill and Carrboro, places imagined as liberal and educated, but also where the largest opportunity and achievement gaps between white students and students of color continue to persist. And it’s felt on Duke’s campus too. In the wake of multiple racist incidents that have consumed our collective energies, and the ever-enduring financial disparities between Duke’s campus and the rest of Durham, we often fail to grasp that part of what makes Duke racist is not its location, but the fact that this university is so deeply organized around the production and accumulation of wealth, at the expense of poor black and brown people in (and beyond) Durham. As alum Zachary Faircloth, Trinity ‘18, wrote, “Duke is not unlike the old Southern planter

class: it exists because of value extracted from the labor of poor, mostly Black and Brown people.” These racist extraction logics are not confined to state borders or the Appalachian mountain terrain; they are embedded within private, governmental and social scaffoldings across the United States. Duke’s foundational reliance on the labor of poor, Black and Brown people isn’t a geographically unique tradition—it’s an American institution. Ultimately, racism is not a flaw unique to particular regional areas. To imagine that it is a uniquely Southern artifact is not only to enact historical revisionism, but to erase the existence of those who are both Southern and poor, Black, indigenous, brown, queer, trans—those who live and work here, as well as those who resist racism, settler colonialism, capitalism and cisheteronormativity everyday. Many white people struggle to admit the totalizing existence of racism, because to acknowledge its ubiquity necessitates a reckoning—an admission that they have benefitted from and identified with institutions that are the site of white supremacy. It means that white people, particularly those who imagine themselves as progressive, have to contend with the fact that racism does not always come neatly packaged in codified laws or swastikas. It also appears in the form of your favorite politician stereotyping Black men as “superpredators” and in broken-window policing. In order to truly address racist institutional violence we will need to deeply introspect—we will need to think critically about the everyday things we do that ensure white supremacy’s endurance. That type of conversation is not nearly as easy as pathologizing the South as the epitome of American racism. Instead, it is uncomfortable. It requires self-implication—and it requires an admission that this country you love so much is racist from coast to coast.

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have written about introversion and social anxiety, but now it’s time to talk about their dear friend: awkwardness. This newcomer is a little harder to define. Some people are consistently awkward and earn themselves a reputation for spreading social discomfort. And all of us have committed some social faux-pas at some time or other. Yet, what is awkward? Is it a word dredged up from our middle school years, when kids declared themselves awkward (they were usually not kids who were genuinely awkward) and people like me glared at them for stealing our rightful title and failing to understand the pain accompanying it? Ty Tashiro, a psychology researcher, examines the causes of awkwardness in his book Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome. Tashiro explains that awkward people fail to meet normal social expectations. They often don’t

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recognize facial or other social cues and can’t grasp the flow of a conversation. Awkward people almost always know that they’re being awkward, but are unable to understand why or how to fix it. Tashiro has found that a number of correlating traits can predict awkwardness in an individual. They are usually people of high intellect and low self-control. Awkward people view the world with a spotlighted focus and see things differently than others. They often have a few passions in which they are deeply invested and prone to talk a lot about. They are well-adjusted to repetitive tasks and do not tire of them. This is where the stereotype of the awkward intellectual stems. By themselves, these characteristics are not bad. In fact, they are quite useful in someone conducting scientific research, for instance. Nonetheless, they don’t transfer well to social situations. Awkward people’s spotlighted focus means that they can’t get an overall understanding of a conversation. Bits and pieces stand out to them; this enables awkward people to sometimes be very funny and reimagine things in a novel light, but usually results in social discomfort. Awkward people may not realize they are boring others with talk of their love for chemistry

or philosophy, yet easily grow disinterested when topics veer towards sports or pop culture. On top of this, many awkward people have social anxiety or are introverted, and thus are not inclined to explore new social scenes. It’s hard to know feel as though everyone else in the world got a manual in middle school for how to act, but you somehow didn’t get a copy. Awkwardness is nuanced—most people are not awkward all the time, just in new situations or around certain types of people. Awkward people are usually not hard to interact with once you get to know them, but are dismissed based on their off-putting behaviors. Awkward people are well-intentioned, but clueless as to how they can stop being offensive in dinner party circles or meet-and-greets. There are many times at Duke where everyone is prone to some social unrest. SLG rush, O-Week and small talk in West Union come to mind. These experiences are necessary, but it quickly becomes apparent who is awkward and who is not. The rapid fire of small talk questions is draining to all involved. Some people are able to jump from small talk to deep conversations seamlessly, while others exhaust their budding acquaintances by failing to lead the conversation. I felt like I was one such individual. I had no idea how some people were so good at immediately being likeable and reading social tones. There are plenty of charismatic people at Duke, but there are also many, many people of a more awkward bent. Being awkward is fine; there is nothing wrong with it. Despite this, navigating the world is made a bit easier when one is socially on par with their peers. Awareness of how one’s behaviors are affected by traits that create awkwardness has been helpful for me. I see when I am failing to notice social cues or when I focus in too much on certain points of talk. I understand the overarching social expectations that dictate interactions. I am not perfect at not being awkward, but I am more informed. On the other hand, people who are not awkward should be understanding of their awkward counterparts. Awkwardness is not a malicious attempt to force you to endure social discomfort; it comes from a place of misunderstanding and often a genuine desire for connection. Many awkward people, myself included, have felt terribly about themselves because of how dismissive or unkind others were when their actions were socially incongruent. Camille Wilder is a Trinity junior. Her column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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t’s a cool autumn day in K-ville. The cloudless sky is a rich Duke blue and a slight breeze tosses a few browning leaves down the sidewalk. A large crowd of students has gathered here today for an important announcement from their tenting overlords. Framed against the noonday sun stand two co-head line monitors. (Why are there two? No one knows for sure, but maybe it’s because their mascot is redundancy). “We have an announcement,” they announce, speaking in a

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deep baritone. Murmurs among the assembled students. What could this be? Another line? A surprise tent check? “The walkup line is dead,” they shout. “And you all killed him!” Gasp! Everyone quickly looks around for a drunken frat boy to blame, but they’re all off playing spikeball somewhere. “In its place, we have a new idea.” The co-head line monitors begin to laugh, quietly at first, but quickly building to a manic crescendo. “More tents!” they scream. “You get a tent, you get a tent, YOU GET A TENT!” The Oprah reference is well-received. Everyone is cheering. Tears of joy glisten on every cheek. So. Many. Tents. You look down. The once-pristine grass of K-ville is gone, replaced by the black mud of spring rains and trampling feet. Thrusting up through the muck are bony, grasping hands. They claw at your boots, trying to drag you down. These are the ghosts of tenters past, unfortunate souls who died while waiting in line for a Duke basketball game. They’re grabbing you, dragging you down into the ground where you’ll join them in the soil. You missed a tent check, they whisper. Now you belong to us. A cold hand wraps around your throat and dirt fills your mouth as you scream.

You wake up in a cold sweat. You’re in a tent. Somewhere in the distance, the mournful air-raid siren of a tent check wails. You breathe a relieved sigh. It was just a dream. Right? If you’ve ever wanted anything at Duke, chances are good that you’ve waited in an obnoxiously long line for it. Why? Some people are addicted to lines of cocaine, but we’re just addicted to … lines. The regular ones. Big lines, thin lines, long lines, short lines. To each their own, right? But every question demands an answer, so I set out to discover the truth: why do Duke students wait in lines? What hidden desire moves them to wake up at ungodly times in the early morning just so they can go stand around and wait for someone to give them something that they’ll probably just turn around and sell to someone else? There’s only one place I could go. So Thursday morning I rolled out of bed and set out. My destination? Countdown to Craziness. The first rule of a Duke line is this: no matter how early you get there, people will always be there first. When I arrived in K-ville at 3 a.m., a sizable line had already formed. A gaggle of first-years lay sprawled on the sidewalk, nothing but a Hello Kitty blanket between them and the wet pavement. I asked a young woman how she and her friends got to K-ville so early. “We slept in Perkins,” she murmured. “Everyone else wanted to go back to Trinity, but I made them stay. I figured, it’s gotta be worth it if everyone’s waiting, right?” I asked her why she thought it was important to attend Countdown to Craziness. Her brow furrowed. “So,” she began hesitantly. “We have a very good basketball team.” I nodded. “And we need to go support them when they play.” I motioned her on. “And even though I need sleep, it doesn’t matter.” Yes, almost there! “Because in the end, we’re all just slaves to the system.” I was practically jumping with excitement. “This isn’t a school. This is a basketball program in university clothing.” Bingo! She rolled over and returned to sleep. By then, more people had showed up. It was only 4:30, but now the line wound down the entire length of Wilson Gym

and curled back into the trees. My next interview subjects were farther back in the line. They wore neon colored tank tops and athletic shorts. Aha, the Greek contingent arrives at last. One of them lay sprawled in the grass listening to music, while the other Juuled quietly in a lawn chair. I asked Chad (for that must’ve been his name) what he thought of this year’s line monitors, who were circling the line like vultures in blue jackets. “Look man,” he said, exhaling a huge cloud of mangoflavored smoke. “These line monitors, they think they like, own the place or some sh*t. They keep coming up to me all, ‘Dude, stop Juuling in the line, you’re bothering everyone,’ and I’m like why don’t you mind your own f***ing business!” Yikes, Chad. Just then, a Line Monitor approached us and pointed at the empty Chick-fil-A bags at Chad’s feet. “What are you, some kind of environmentalist?” Chad asked. “Maybe they should call you guys litter monitors!” He burst out laughing, and the line monitor just shook his head and walked off. Chad just took another long drag on his Juul. I caught up with the Line Monitor as he surveyed the tail section of the line. I asked him why, of all the times to choose for releasing Countdown tickets, Thursday morning at 6 a.m. was the best option. “It’s probably not,” he said with a shrug. “But it’s basically our job to be as inconvenient as possible, so we’re honestly just doing our best here.” He looked out over the line, a hint of wistful nostalgia in his eyes. “All these lines and checks and tickets,” he said with a sigh. “I feel like we’ve forgotten about the basketball. No one’s hyped up—they’re just exhausted.” He sat down in the grass. “I’m exhausted.” Well ain’t that just the way. Monday Monday wonders why, if we need an effective tool to stop people from cutting in line and maintain order in K-ville, we don’t just use something like, I dunno, metal barricades. Or maybe some traffic cones? At least traffic cones wouldn’t be so condescending.

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s volunteer advocates at the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), a nonprofit that works with individuals toward goals of financial independence, we often work alongside justiceinvolved community members (those who have come into contact with any part of the criminal justice system) who routinely confront a society that continues to punish them long after they leave detention in the criminal-legal system. As they begin the slow work of rebuilding their lives and rejoining their respective communities,

“ban” the Box. In other words, Duke University and Duke Health System would remove the question asking for criminal conviction history on the initial round of employment applications. This development should be celebrated: not only does it reflect the fruits of persistent community pressure, but it also signals that Duke’s administration is taking seriously the concerns and opportunities of Durham’s justice-involved population (which grows, on average, by more than 700 people each year) as part and parcel of the University’s role in bringing about economic

Gino Nuzzolillo, Trey Walk, Leah Abrams and Uwa Ihionkhan GUEST COLUMNISTS they must navigate limited housing options, employers who refuse to hire them, bureaucratic and nightmarish expungement processes and a public conditioned to fear and disregard them. One consistent barrier is the “Box”—a question on the initial employment application asking if the applicant has ever been convicted of a crime. Resulting in the disproportionate rejection of African-American and Latinx job applicants, this Box represents a prejudice ingrained in so many employers against the formerly incarcerated. It is a codification of denied opportunity to those seeking economic stability for themselves and their families. We witnessed countless individuals confront the disappointment, discouragement and rejection generated by the Box, and being forced to start over again. More often than not, we witnessed this rejection when CEF members applied to jobs at Duke University and its Health System. On Sept. 25th, in a major breakthrough long pushed-for by the formerly incarcerated, community groups, student activists with People’s State of the University, and Duke Student Government, Duke announced that it would

justice in our community. We are thrilled for CEF members and other justice-involved individuals who will encounter one less barrier to finding employment and starting a career with the largest employer in Durham. Nevertheless, this development is not sufficient. Banning the Box only addresses one symptom of a racist and unjust criminal-legal system, and it has a limited impact in reversing the myth that the formerly incarcerated are unworthy of a second opportunity. Even in places that have banned the Box, there is still some evidence of discrimination against African-American applicants. In other parts of the University, like undergraduate admissions, Duke still retains the Box, despite the Common Application announcing it would remove the disclosure on its application. Justice must not end at banning the Box. We must continue to push and advocate for policies that dismantle the myth of perpetual guilt that is thrust upon the formerly incarcerated. Duke must implement a complete Second Chance Hiring policy. Second Chance Hiring, also known as Fair Hiring, is a suite of policy choices designed to

mitigate barriers for the formerly incarcerated at every stage in the application process and in employment. We don’t have to look far for a shining of example of Second Chance Hiring at work—the City of Durham has taken robust steps to create opportunity for justice-involved populations. In 2011, the City of Durham banned the Box and since then, not only has the number of formerly incarcerated people hired steadily increased, but Mayor Schewel and his office’s Bloomberg Innovation Team have prioritized reforming city government to make it an even more accessible place for justice-involved individuals to start a career, and encouraging local businesses and schools to follow suit. Duke can—and should—do the same. At Duke, a Second Chance Hiring program could look like: • Duke support of non-profit and community organizations providing wrap-around services to applicants. • Targeted recruitment of justice-involved populations with certain benchmark thresholds for hiring; • Active review of hiring policies to ensure non-discrimination by race, gender, ability or type of charge (felony or misdemeanor); • Increased transparency and clarity on Duke’s hiring policies published online; • Regular, thorough and recurring racial equity training for Duke Human Resources staff. After the hiring process is completed, Second Chance Hiring also means that those hired would receive a living wage, access to continued job skills training and fair opportunities to receive promotions and begin a career, rather than just simple entry-level employment. A fair process for justice-involved individuals goes far beyond the Box, because we know that removing the initial disclosure alone doesn’t make Duke a better place to work, eliminate bias in hiring, cultivate accountability, improve Duke’s community relationships, or, most importantly, tangibly increase the number of justice-involved people that Duke hires.

Each of these policy options are within Duke’s power to implement. This means that Duke can play an active role in mitigating the barriers which prevent healthy and productive lives for justice-involved people and their families. Duke, as one of the most powerful institutions in North Carolina and a global university, can recognize and seek to address the disproportionate societal effects of mass incarceration on Black and Brown men and women, LGBTQIA+ folks and many others. In going beyond Ban the Box and implementing a Second Chance Hiring policy, Duke can spearhead initiatives to encourage other businesses and universities in Durham and beyond to take steps toward justice for the formerly incarcerated. Together, we must push Duke to become this leader. As students and community members in partnership with the formerly incarcerated, the City of Durham and community organizations like the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Inside-Outside Alliance, StepUp Durham, All of Us or None and Southerners on New Ground, today we celebrate this step toward a more just hiring process and the University’s existing efforts to reform its practices. But tomorrow, and in the days, weeks and months ahead, we will continue to push for more change. On campus, join People’s State of the University in moving toward economic justice for the formerly incarcerated through persistent and collective action that holds Duke accountable to the place it occupies in Durham. Duke must take this opportunity, too, to facilitate frank conversations with community partners directly and hear directly from the communities directly impacted. We applaud Duke for taking the step to ban the Box. Our work, however, is far from over. Trey Walk is a Trinity senior. Gino Nuzzolillo, Leah Abrams and Uwa Ihionkhan are Trinity juniors.

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HYDE HOUSE FROM PAGE 2 Lovitt explained that she is not worried about having too many members because students naturally self-select into social organizations. By the last week of rush, she said that students had figured out which group was their community, so not everyone rushes the same group. If Hyde House ends up having a lot of members, Lovitt said they will find a way to accommodate the size. “If you feel that you are a part of a community, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to be a part of the community,” Lovitt said. Hyde House’s dues are currently $100 per semester, but Lovitt mentioned she expects them to decrease as the organization gain membership. Members can also apply for a fee waiver or take time off if they are abroad. The group uses the dues to hold events, she explained. Building community Hyde House started as a joke that became a reality. Lovitt and a friend—now Vice President Peter Candelora, a sophomore—were talking about making their own social group after not being accepted into the SLGs that they rushed last year. They felt that the rush process was fake and inauthentic, and they wanted to bring a sense of community to those in independent housing. They reached out to people who were also rejected from the organizations they rushed, and many were interested and supportive of their idea. Lovitt said a few students this year have already approached them wanting to join. DeCarlo was approached by Lovitt and Candelora last year and decided to join because Hyde House served a role that was missing from campus. “Before I did Hyde House activities, I definitely had a diverse group of friends,

but there was usually a common interest,” DeCarlo said. “I feel like with Hyde House, it’s nice because I know that a lot of these people I wouldn’t have met otherwise.” She said that during events, there is a strong sense of community, and everyone is excited and open to each other. Lovitt said Hyde House wants to hold events similar to other social groups, such as parties and community-building events, but also expand to provide a more well-rounded social experience. The group plans to hold events that engage the entire Duke community through discussions and presentations, and they hope to do community outreach in Durham, she added. “We want to be able to build a community that exists within ourselves but also reaches out and engages the entire Duke community,” Lovitt said. Although the process to become a recognized student group is simple on paper, Lovitt said it has been long and complicated for them. After filling an application on Duke Groups, they met with Duke Launch to prepare for their SOFC hearing. SOFC initially delayed their vote to charter the group until narrowly approving them. DSG then brought in Hyde House members to argue their case as senators hotly debated whether to approve them before the senators narrowly voted against chartering. Lovitt said they are now going through an appeals process and a petition to the judiciary branch of DSG to try to get Hyde House chartered. DeCarlo said that though there have been setbacks, the members feel optimistic they will get chartered. “The message our current system sends is this: If you want a social community at Duke, you’ll need to fight hundreds of your classmates to get it, because there’s not enough for everyone,” Brodner wrote in his email. “There’s no reason for us to live that way.”

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ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had higher returns. The Duke Endowment’s 2018 returns also beat the 8.4 percent gains that a typical 60-40 portfolio of S&P 500 stocks and aggregate bond index investment grade bonds would have returned in fiscal year 2018, as determined by Markov Processes International. The endowment’s growth also surpassed the S&P 500’s 10.8 percent growth over the same period. The endowment includes around 5,200 funds as of June 30, according to a snapshot of the endowment released by Duke. Long-term targets for investment are 48 percent invested in equity, 15 percent invested in credit and the remaining percentage doled out among commodity, real estate, rates and more. “Diversification across investment exposures is central to generating strong investment returns while moderating portfolio risk and volatility,” the report reads. Spending from the endowment is divided into several pools, with 21 percent devoted to financial aid, 19 percent to professorships and 10 percent to instruction and research. Another 27 percent is devoted to the “unrestricted support of the university or one of its schools or budget centers,” according to the report. Schoenfeld declined to comment on specific asset allocations. One of the most significant uses of college endowments is financial aid, and colleges have been increasingly vying to provide better financial aid packages to attract the best students from around the world. “Over the years, Duke has continued to increase and expand opportunities for financial aid,” Schoenfeld said. “Affordability and access are very important to this institution.” Many universities with smaller

endowments—such as Amherst College, Brown University and Davidson College— only provide no-loan financial aid packages. Rice University, with a $5.5 billion endowment, announced in September that it will begin offering full-tuition scholarships to undergraduates whose families earn less than $130,000 a year, with students whose family incomes are lower than $65,000 also receiving grants covering the total costs of room, board and fees. “How [financial aid] gets done is really highly specific to every institution, but in recent years, we have significantly reduced the amount of loans that are in financial aid packages,” Schoenfeld said. Regarding the potential for increased endowment funds towards financial aid, Schoenfeld noted that Duke cannot repurpose donations towards financial aid if they were initially endowed for other purposes. In fact, even the investment return on a gift “has to be used for the purpose for which [the gift] is designated.” Therefore, Duke’s fundraising priority has been to raise money for financial aid endowments to lessen the burden of financial aid on the operating budget, he said. Although the endowment’s 2018 performance is encouraging for the University, plans to improve Duke’s financial aid with endowment funds may be hindered by the 1.4 percent endowment tax legislated this year in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. “We expect we will be impacted eventually, but it’s unclear because the rules have not been confirmed yet,” Schoenfeld said. “There’s going to be less money that goes to financial aid, there’s going to be less money that goes to scholarships, there’s going to be less money that goes to maintaining the infrastructure, and that’s just contrary to everything that both an endowment and public policy towards education should stand for.”

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