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The story behind Duke and Palantir, a company with ICE contracts By Mona Tong Local and National News Editor

A data analytics company that recruits at Duke has been the subject of recent controversy and student opposition over its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Students protested Palantir Technologies Sept. 24 while the company participated in TechConnect, an annual networking event for engineering and computer science students, and hosted an ethics workshop the day before. According to senior Cat Jeon, one of the students who helped to organize the TechConnect protest, “a lot of people were deterred” and left Palantir’s line at the event. She said that many students had not previously known about Palantir’s relationship to ICE and were shocked to learn of it. “Another girl and I had little handouts, and we basically went to every single person in the [Palantir] line, giving them our flyer and saying, ‘Hey, do you know this about Palantir?’” Jeon said.

What happened at the TechConnect protest

The day before the TechConnect protest, a group of around five students held a small demonstration at Palantir’s ethics workshop. The protesters, in addition to a few more interested students like Jeon, scrambled afterwards at 11 p.m. to brainstorm ideas for organizing a larger TechConnect protest the next day. One of the things they decided to do was place red posters over a few building signs, such as one reading “Humanity over Profits” at the Fitzpatrick building, Jeon added. At the TechConnect event, the protestors took shifts in small groups of four, their main goal being to block the recruiting efforts of the target companies. They aimed to protest multiple companies, including Amazon, as it provides cloud-computing services to ICE, Jeon noted. However, she said the protesters prioritized Palantir for their “direct connection to ICE.” The Palantir representative seemed “angry” and called the police on the protesters, Jeon said. During the time it took the police to arrive, the line had dwindled down to just one or two people, she added. When the police arrived, Jeon said that she and the other protesters had to relocate to outside the building, since under Duke policy students must file with the University Center Activities and Events (UCAE) Office before protesting. “At that point, it’s not really doing any kind of antagonistic thing anymore because it would be approved by the University,” she said, explaining why the group did not register their protest. Outside, they continued their efforts, shouting things like “No Tech for ICE,” and “Palantir, you work for ICE,” until the next shift showed up and went inside to protest. Those who were in the second shift of protestors were also asked to leave after another police call was made. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, affirmed Duke’s commitment to protecting See PALANTIR on Page 12

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (right) penned a letter to Vincent Price about Duke not renewing Evan Charney’s (left) contract last year.

GRASSLEY DIGS INTO DUKE By Bre Bradham Investigations Editor

Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy drew some ire when it decided not to renew Professor Evan Charney’s contract and he had to stop teaching at the end of the Spring 2019 semester. Now it has also attracted the official attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, mentioning several high-profile cases involving faculty academic freedom in higher education, and sent a formal letter to President Vincent Price requesting answers about Charney’s case. The letter noted Duke’s tax-exempt status and raised broader concerns about academic freedom in higher education. Charney, meanwhile, began a new job last month—right back at Duke. The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity hired him as a research scientist, and he began working there Sept. 2. The new role does not currently include teaching. “I’m working at Duke, believe it or not,” Charney said. “I was ready to leave, I was set to leave, and I got hired at the Cook Center for Social Equity.” Charney said he did not know about Grassley’s column until a student pointed it out to him. A staff member from Grassley’s office had reached out a few months ago about the topic and they had a phone conversation, Charney said, but he did not know what would come of it. A registered Democrat and self-described liberal, the former Sanford professor said he was not surprised that a Republican senator had picked up the issue. That reflects a larger paradigm shift in higher education, Charney said, as liberals suppress free speech on college campuses. Grassley’s letter, dated Sept. 25, comes a few weeks after the Department of Education prodded the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies about its representation of Islam and use of Title VI funds. In the wake of the Department of Education’s letter, Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth issued a statement on

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academic freedom. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations, pointed to the statement when asked about Grassley’s letter, saying it still stands. “No outside entity will determine what Duke faculty will teach, how they teach it, what they choose to research or write about, or who can speak on our campus,” states a line Schoenfeld highlighted from the message.

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Evan Charney was sitting outside Au Bon Pain on a sunny Saturday earlier this October, a ring rapping against the metal table with each emphatically-made point about free speech in higher education. At this time last year, he was regularly teaching a class called Policy Choice as a Value Conflict in the Sanford School of Public Policy and beginning a public fight against the University about its decision not to renew his contract. As an associate professor of the practice, he had been teaching at Sanford on five-year contracts for almost two decades and didn’t expect there to be problems when he came up for review this time. But in early 2018, the Sanford faculty voted not to renew his contract, citing a number of reasons. Charney appealed the faculty’s decision to Kornbluth, who upheld Sanford’s call. Then he took the case to the Faculty Hearing Committee, filing a complaint on the grounds that the Sanford decision had violated his academic freedom and due process rights. “The members of the panel were disappointed with Sanford’s handling of Professor Charney’s reappointment,” the FHC report stated. “Professor Charney was, for many years at Duke, a highlyrated, University-decorated, and—for many, many students—beloved and formative teacher.” The FHC unanimously decided to not take action on his request, effectively rejecting it, but acknowledged in its decision that the issue boiled down to his teaching style—“dissatisfaction with Professor Charney’s classroom @dukechronicle @dukebasketball |

performance was plainly the primary motive for his nonrenewal.” Charney appealed the FHC’s decision to Price, who also rejected the appeal. That finalized his departure from teaching at Sanford, and his last class ended in the Spring 2019 semester.

‘Serious concerns about the state of higher education’

Grassley, the chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Finance, published the opinion piece that included Charney’s case in the Wall Street Journal in late September. In “The Senate Takes on Campus Censorship,” the senator also mentioned Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College and Villanova University. “True cases of discrimination need to be investigated and handled with care,” Grassley wrote. “But media reports indicate many such complaints are frivolous and politically motivated.” In addition to the commentary and a news release, Grassley also fired off oversight letters to the four colleges with questions about their handling of the cases. In the letter addressed to Price, Grassley started by noting Duke’s tax-exempt status as an educational institution and noting that the senator has seen a “variety of media reports discussing incidents in higher education involving faculty suffering difficulties with or expressing concerns about teaching or researching topics that might challenge or encourage critical thinking about the conventional wisdom or a popular ideology of the day.” “The purpose of this letter is not to re-litigate Duke University’s decision not to renew Prof. Charney’s contract nor is it to question the adequacy of procedures afforded to Prof. Charney in the wake of that non-renewal,” the letter states. “However, Prof. Charney more generally raises serious concerns about the state of higher education.” The letter goes on to list 23 questions, some of which feature multiple parts, regarding Charney’s case and Duke’s Bias Response Advisory Committee. The questions range from the type of orientation See GRASSLEY on Page 4

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Duke adds a C1 bus to alleviate crowding Will examine changes to Swift Avenue Shuttle

By Tyler Long Contributing Reporter

In light of concerns of overcrowding, an additional bus was added to the C1: East-West route yesterday. Duke Parking and Transportation Services has added another bus for Monday through Thursday to run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, wrote in an email to residents of 300 and 301 Swift. PTS is currently investigating the times at which C1 and Swift Avenue Shuttle use is highest to be able to decide if the additional C1 will resolve the issue of overcrowding, he added. “After receiving valuable input from Swift residents regarding the bus service for 300/301 Swift, we relayed concerns and Duke Parking and Transportation has worked with us to provide increased service and alleviate overcrowding along the C1 route,” Gonzalez wrote.

There might also be a change to the schedule of the Swift Avenue Shuttle for Spring 2020, as PTS is considering for the bus to run continuously Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and midnight. This would be a change from its current weekday schedule of 8 a.m. to 2:11 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 12:11 a.m. Many changes to the bus routes have already been enacted this semester. Buses no longer run on the C2: East-CentralWest, C4: Central-West and CCX: Central Campus Express routes since the only undergraduates who live on Central Campus are those who live on Swift Avenue. Beth Campbell, director of communications for Duke Parking and Transportation Services, did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Since the beginning of the academic year, students have voiced issues with the new bus system, especially on the Fix My Campus Facebook group. “What’s up with the buses … can we get more?” one user wrote.

This prompted many comments concerning transportation. The main issue that was raised was the overcrowding of the C1 during high volume times, a problem that the addition of a C1 bus is intended to fix. Another Fix My Campus post addressed problems that have arisen with the C1X: East-West Express, which runs from East to West without making any stops in between the two campuses. One such concern is the C1X is designed to be a faster way for students to travel between East to West Campus, but it has been seen stuck behind the C1 as it makes its stops, negating this purpose. One user responded to the original post that the problem is the C1X runs more quickly than the C1, shedding doubt on the need for a C1X in the first place. “Especially with central gone, I still fail to see the need,” the user wrote. “Converting all the C1Xs to C1s and running C1s a little more often is the move!”

Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor The well-traveled C1 route was supplemented with an additional bus on Monday. Students have complained about crowded busses during high-volume times, including times between classes.

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Karsh Alumni Center changes depictions of African and Middle Eastern countries after student complaint By Stefanie Pousoulides News Editor

The day of the Center’s official launch, the Virtual Duke digital wall at the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center displayed images that represented Ghana with huts, Morocco with sand dunes and Jordan with someone riding a camel. After students called out the way those countries were portrayed on the wall, the Duke Alumni Association decided to use different images for the Center’s Duke Around the World feature on its technology wall, according to Scott Greenwood, chief operating officer of the DAA. “We appreciated the student calling our attention to the photos and replaced them with different ones,” Greenwood wrote in a statement sent to The Chronicle. “We will continue to strive to ensure that the images the Duke Alumni Association presents in the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center represent Duke’s rich diversity and core value of inclusion.” Senior Hadeel Abdelhy initially tweeted photos of the depictions Sept. 28, commenting that “the way African and Middle Eastern countries are represented is truly wild.” The digital wall is the largest interactive touchscreen in the state, and users can select features such as notable alumni and all-star awardees, donor impact and a campus map, in addition to exploring where around the globe members of the Duke community call home. The Chronicle visited the technology wall Oct. 2 and Oct. 14 and observed that the pictures had been changed. Jordan’s picture was changed to a coastal cityscape, Ghana’s to a waterfall and Morocco’s to a city square with a tower, palm trees and a horse-drawn cart.

Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor The Karsh Alumni Center’s digital wall displays images of countries home to Duke alumni.

Additionally, The Chronicle took pictures of all of the Middle Eastern and African countries depicted on the wall, and noticed that the wall lacked a picture for Nigeria in both of the times that The Chronicle visited. Abdelhy wrote in an email to The Chronicle that it’s “really good news” that the depictions have been changed and wondered whether the pictures of Ghana, Jordan and Morocco were the only ones that had been changed. Luksic was skeptical of the impact of Karsh replacing the photos and wrote in an email that the depictions are “part of a larger problem regarding Duke’s racism and colonialist legacy.” “This is not the first time Hadeel has pointed something out and I have messaged Duke’s social media to try to get it taken down,” they wrote. Abdelhy and Luksic both noted that images

Bre Bradham | Associate Photo Editor Ghana’s photograph after it was updated.

of huts, camels and deserts are stereotypical representations of African and Middle Eastern countries. Luksic argued that the stereotypes “justify anti-Muslim and anti-Black attitudes and violence,” adding that Abdelhy’s tweets demonstrated how “these stereotypes are naturalized and almost hidden in seemingly small instances, such as the photos in the Karsh Center.” “What baffles me is that Duke prides itself on being a global institution and celebrates its many international alumni but is incapable of representing them properly,” Abdelhy wrote. “This is especially the case for African and Middle Eastern students where incidents like this are not isolated, a quick look at many programs at Duke shows that this how the Bre Bradham | Associate Photo Editor university sees us: poor, underdeveloped, Jordan’s photograph after it was updated. underprivileged.”

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GRASSLEY FROM PAGE 1 programming Duke has around academic freedom, whether Charney’s non-renewal was “precipitated by students reporting him” to the Bias Response Advisory Committee and the accuracy of statements Charney made regarding awards he has won and his teaching evaluations. Grassley asked the universities to respond to the letter by Oct. 25. Schoenfeld confirmed that Duke has received the letter and that the University intends to respond to it. “While we cannot comment on personnel matters, I do want to be very clear that that there is no political litmus test for any Duke faculty member,” Schoenfeld wrote. “Duke faculty are protected by the university’s strong and longstanding commitment to academic freedom, which covers their work as teachers and scholars.” Nicole Tieman, deputy communications director for Grassley on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote that his office sends out a “significant amount” of oversight letters but that these are the first regarding academic freedom that she knows of. When asked what prompted Grassley’s interest in the topic, Tieman said that the office generally keeps an eye on the nonprofit sector and is becoming increasingly concerned about the scene in higher education. “It’s one thing to see political correctness go maybe too far at times, but when professors become afraid to teach what they believe in good faith should be taught to students out of a concern for their financial security, then that is something that is worth looking into,” Tieman said.

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Charney began looking for other jobs once he realized that he could not teach at Sanford anymore. He applied to all kinds of jobs, he said, but it became increasingly clear that he was not going to get hired elsewhere. “I think I’m an absolute pariah,” Charney said. “Any member of a hiring committee is going to Google my name, and when they Google my name, the entire first page of google results is full of articles about me and they are either going to agree with my losing my job, or they are going to be terrified of hiring someone like me because all they see is controversy.” William Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook professor of public policy and the founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, confirmed in an email that Charney is currently working at the Cook Center. He described Charney’s position as being senior research staff. The Cook Center is a research center and cannot make faculty appointments, so Charney is no longer on the faculty. “I will say Evan Charney is an excellent scholar, I did not support him being released from the Sanford School, and I am glad to have him as a colleague at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity,” Darity wrote. Charney said that he began the new position Sept. 2. His profile page has disappeared from Scholars@Duke, and his name is not listed on the Cook Center’s list of “people” as of Oct. 16. The new role allows him to focus on his research as he finishes up his book on genetics. Charney described the time table of the position as being “indefinite,” and said he may one day return to a classroom to teach about matters related to his research, but that he will never teach the type of courses he taught before. “At least, if I never got a job, I could be poor with my integrity intact,” Charney said.

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As for what happens once Duke returns Grassley’s letter, Tieman declined to say. “I can’t really give you an answer on that, because we haven’t received any letters back from universities,” she said. “That’s a question for a later date, depending on the content of the letters See GRASSLEY on Page 12

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it’s hip to be vinyl WXDU Fall Record Fair returns to the Ruby, page 7

‘fairview’ and race Pulitzer Prize-winning play subverts the white gaze, page 6

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Who won the debate? Nina Wilder .......................... not me

Kerry Rork ..................... corn pop

Will Atkinson .............chevy cruze

Sydny Long .......... not gay people

Miranda Gershoni .....bern’s heart

Jack Rubenstein ............ alligators

Sarah Derris ................ tom steyer

Selena Qian ........... cnn’s graphics

Alizeh Sheikh .................... fascists

Eva Hong ........... marie antoinette

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staff note Nadia Shanaa is a Palestinian, hijab-wearing, Virgo energy-radiating character from “Elite,” a show that Vulture aptly described as “Netflix’s best horny teen drama.” It’s the kind of edgy teen show that guarantees a hefty allotment of second-hand embarrassment, much in the vein of “Riverdale” or the cringe-classic “Glee.” It’s also where I least expected to encounter a narrative that centered a hijabi Muslim woman and her gay older brother. What was meant to be an idle, guilty-pleasure show for retaining my Spanish-language skills during off-semesters morphed into a Western treatise on the Muslim teen woman and all of trappings that come with her adolescence: identity, growing pains and, of

course, sexuality. As much as I would like to, I am not merely providing a normative assessment of Nadia’s characterization, because its faults are the same obvious and tired ones you see in almost all media representation of Muslims, and identifying them is fairly easy with an application of the “Riz Test.” There’s a wealth of analysis that her narrative arc generates, from the dynamic with her tyrannical father to the conspicuous symbolism of her hijab, but what draws me to her character the most is her sexuality and its representation. Alongside Adena of “The Bold Type” and Dena of “Ramy,” Nadia’s one of the few Muslim women characters who’s had an on-screen sex scene — real or imagined. This leads me to ask: How do we go about representing sexualities that have never been represented before? Problematic as it may seem, the decidedly non-Muslim

directors and writers of “Elite” are setting a precedent in their representation of Nadia. What is that precedent, and what does it reveal about Western views of Muslim women? The dramaturgical approach is a sociological concept that, in its simplest terms, compares social interactions to following the script of a play. From small talk to sex acts, we follow “social scripts” that delineate how we must behave and what we must say when we are with other individuals. The dramaturgical approach helps us in understanding the concept of sexual pedagogy, a theory on pornography forwarded by the controversial yet important feminist writer Andrea Dworkin. According to sexual pedagogy, standard pornography –– and I would extend the term to include the “soft porn” of mainstream media — consistently presents sexual relations in narrowly conceived, often gendered scripts, thereby establishing what is both “sexy” and “normal.” Pornography is an embodied practice because the user experiences it not as cerebral contemplation but as a pleasurable bodily experience. In short, depictions of sex tell us how to have sex, and what pleasure we should reap from it. Although I consider Dworkin’s views on sex work to be extremely limited, her theory of sexual pedagogy is immensely helpful in understanding how Muslim women in the West make sense of their own sexualities. It also impels us to critically evaluate “Elite”’s representation of teen sex as a calibrator of what’s “hot or not.” Because Muslim women are rarely, if ever, depicted engaging in sex acts, they lack the kind of sexual pedagogy that their Western peers likely take for granted. This dearth of knowledge is a double-edged sword: It’s freeing in that women themselves can set the terms of their sexuality, but it also engenders years of isolation and confusion. In “The Real Sex Lives of Muslim Women,” an

The Chronicle article that I highly recommend reading in full, Bangladeshi writer Fariha Rousin and PakistaniAmerican artist Ayqa Khan discuss how they navigated, without oar or compass, their burgeoning and tumultuous sexualities as queer Muslim women. They delve into a lot, including religion, internalized shame and cultivating self-sufficiency, but what defines both of their experiences is a profound sense of being alone. “I wanted advice and guidance — navigating a sex life as a Muslim is difficult! — but I ended up having to figure out my body and sexuality on my own,” Khan laments. It is here where shows like “Elite” do work — whether good or bad — in filling this gap. Since Nadia was written by a largely white, male and Spanish staff (though Abril Zamora, one of the second season’s screenwriters, identifies as a trans woman), a reading of her character reveals Western conceptualizations of Muslim women’s sexuality. Like the other female characters on the show, Nadia initiates sex when she wants it, and she has it on her own terms. She also does not express guilt or shame after having sex. The fact that I identify with Nadia as a Muslim woman myself makes the implications of her reading both personal and painful. She’s a reminder that my sexuality, while completely belonging to me, must continually combat the forces of what others think it is or should be. But in the context of Dworkin, Rousin and Khan’s work, Nadia’s characterization also reminds us that lack of precedence also means the freedom to determine the representations that will come forth. And given the role of media in shaping our sexualities, we cannot mishandle it. We have the opportunity to acknowledge a diversity of experiences beyond the Muslimwoman stereotype. Are we going to take it? —Alizeh Sheikh

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How the Pulitzer-winning ‘Fairview’ subverts the white gaze By Hannah Miao Contributing Writer

When I walked into Theater for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center this past summer, I couldn’t help but wonder what “new audience” it was referring to. As I sat down, I counted myself as one of a small handful of people of color in the theater’s 299 seats. I was disappointed, but the whiteness of most theatrical spaces no longer surprises me. I wouldn’t have thought twice about that first impression if I had been there to see any other performance, but I was there to see “Fairview,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Drury knew exactly what I was thinking, and she was about to throw it back onto the audience in one of the most explosive commentaries about race in America of our generation. “Fairview” begins as a comfortable comedy about a Black American family, the Frasiers, then veers into a conversation about race between four unseen white voices as they watch the Frasiers. As the discourse continues, the spectators become so emboldened that they physically insert themselves on-stage as friends and family of the Frasiers. In projecting their vision of blackness onto the Frasiers, they misconstrue the narrative into an absurdist and increasingly violent spectacle until Keisha, the Frasiers’ teenage daughter, rips down the fourth wall and steers the play into a breathtaking landing. For most of the performance I felt sick to my stomach. When the conversation about race began in the second act, I tensed in my seat, nervous about what I might hear next. “Every Asian I know is like tortured by their parents’ expectations...” “With Latinx people it’s like, they don’t think, they just are what they are, like this pelvic, spicy, bright bold thing...” “I wouldn’t want to be a rich black person. You know? It wouldn’t be… very authentic…”

With each casually horrifying statement, I grew more disturbed by the indifference, and even amusement, of most of the white audience members around me as the unseen voices carelessly tossed around race as though it was as trivial as discussing what they wanted to eat for dinner. And when those white characters burst on stage and began taking over the Frasiers’ narrative, I wanted to scream. It was all too familiar to me, watching white folks who think reading our books and watching our movies and listening to our music and wearing our clothes and eating our food and using our words means they have an authority over our experiences, too. Drury finally offered me relief in the play’s dizzying finale. Ending in an impassioned monologue, Keisha breaks the fourth wall and dares to ask white audience members to switch spots with the black actors on stage to make space for us, the small handful of people of color in the theater’s 299 seats. As I saw all the white bodies that began to empty the seats and fill the stage, I marveled at Drury’s genius. Using the immediacy of theater as a medium, Drury makes white audience members confront their own white gaze within the racialized

performer/spectator power dynamic. At the same time, she validates the experiences as a person of color by making the space change to fit us, in contrast to our internalized habit of changing ourselves to fit white spaces. But we never really escaped. At the end, Keisha tries to tell a story “about us, by us, for us” but finds herself unable to do so. “It’s difficult because I’ve already heard so many stories,” she says. “It’s hard to find the one I’d wanted to tell.” In a country where whiteness is synonymous with default, and you’ve had to define yourself in relation to that default your whole life, how do you even begin to tell your own story? How do you rip away the whiteness that has been watching you for generations and how do you find the footing to leap into a new, radically different world? I’ve felt the white gaze my whole life. It’s being watched from a lens of otherness that is sometimes violently obvious, and sometimes so subtle that you find yourself wondering whether you made it up entirely. It is fetishization and repulsion, appropriation and persecution, misrepresentation and erasure, all at once.

Courtesy of Soho Rep “Fairview,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, tackles race and the white gaze.

For me, it’s the white professor who not only felt authorized to give a lecture about the Chinese American experience, but started the lecture by asking the class to identity what was strange about a picture of Chinatown. It’s the incessant questions of “But where are you really from?” It’s yellowface and white-washed casting and racialized caricatures in everything from “The Nutcracker” to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” It’s the white girls who wear Urban Outfitters versions of the qipao as if it were just another t-shirt. It’s the internalized Eurocentric beauty standards that make me feel not enough. It’s the “I don’t date Asian girls,” but also the “I’ve always wanted to hook up with an Asian girl.” It’s strangers who drive by me slowly and yell “konichiwa” out the car window, then follow me until I am afraid for my safety. It’s also a particular violence toward Black people that Drury portrays through a contemporary exploration of minstrelsy. As much as Drury deconstructs the white gaze for all people of color, she also illuminates a specific anti-Blackness that cannot be ignored. What makes “Fairview” so compelling is Drury’s ability to tackle both the subtle consequences of the white gaze and the obvious ones, and demonstrate how one enables the other. Those seemingly innocuous ways of reducing people of color to archetypes for white consumption are exactly what give the white characters the agency to affect their own agenda onto the storyline. For white-identifying folks, how can you recognize your own white gaze and make space for people of color? For people of color, how can you deconstruct the power of the white gaze and reclaim space for yourself? I’m thinking through questions of identity and culture and how we create it and how it creates us, and sometimes it feels so daunting that my head spins from the weight of it. “Fairview” doesn’t offer any answers, but in the communion of the other people of color around me, I found a comfort and strength that has stayed with me ever since.

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WXDU Fall Record Fair returns for second year at the Ruby By Stephen Atkinson Contributing Writer

A former Duke student and longtime DJ at WXDU, Stephen Conrad began collecting vinyls before it was cool. Now, he’s ready to share them — or, at least, the ones from his extensive home collection he can bear to part with. As an individual vendor at this year’s WXDU Fall Record Fair, Conrad, alongside other local collectors and representatives from Carolina Soul and Bull City Records, will display for sale some of his best finds — records your Barnes and Noble does not carry. The fair will be held Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Rubenstein Arts Center from 11 a.m to 4 p.m. In a world where Spotify’s algorithmic curation threatens to limit the environment of musical exploration to our earbud-attached phones and laptops, the Fall Record Fair encourages communal exploration of music you can touch. Visitors to the fair can browse and purchase from hundreds of records (and, perhaps, some cassettes and CDs) provided by local vendors. In addition, a screen printing station will allow visitors to make their own WXDU T-shirts. Conrad, who organized the fair himself while a student at Duke, has witnessed both vinyl’s resurgent popularity and the changing faces of the WXDU record fair. He traces the event’s origin to 2005, where it began with the initiative of the radio station librarian. Soon after, the record fair became a yearly WXDU tradition. In past years, the fair was held at the Duke Coffeehouse, with vendors’ tables set up inside the venue and beneath a tent in the parking lot, but the location had its challenges. “It would always rain,” Conrad recalled. “In 2010, one of the years I was [running the record fair], the Nasher had an exhibit called ‘The Record,’ about vinyl in arts and whatnot. And so we kind of talked the Nasher into letting us have the record fair there. That was pretty high profile.” In the late 2000s, as digital technology dulled interest in the oncedominant CD, the “vinyl revival” offered an appealingly nostalgic alternative to MP3 players. By the 2010s, vinyl sales started to grow rapidly — and they’ve continued to ever since. “When we started the fair in 2005, it was not quite the audience it is now,” Conrad said. “It was a little more niche in a way, and it was a little more contained. But now there’s way more record fairs.” It remains to be seen how long records will continue to enjoy

Will Atkinson | Contributing Photographer Last year’s Fall Record Fair, pictured, was the first held in the Rubenstein Arts Center.

their renewed popularity. While some have suggested the cassette will succeed the record as the next musical fad to move from hipster to mainstream, records are still going strong: In 2019, vinyls will likely outsell CDs for the first time since 1986. Streaming still dominates the industry, but more and more people are investing in a different kind of interaction with music. “It might sound cliche at this point,” Conrad said. “But I think people really do want to connect with a physical format.” After a one-year hiatus, the WXDU Record Fair returned in 2018 to its current home in the Rubenstein Arts Center. Watson Goh, the WXDU promotions director and organizer of this year’s fair, recalled the success of last year’s event. “It was packed,” Goh said. “It reached a state where it was a constantly moving line of people.” Goh expects to have 40 percent more vendors than last year, and he is enthusiastic about what this growth means for Duke and the radio station. “I think that more people coming into support this scene really

shows that Duke is a community,” Goh said.“You get to learn so much from different people, come off the beaten track, try something new.” Exploration is an important part of the WXDU philosophy. The station aims not only to entertain but to inform and educate the local community on and off Duke campus. DJs feature a broad range of musical genres — many of which are not common in mainstream tastes and may initially sound off-putting to some ears. But WXDU encourages its listeners to learn to be comfortable with the music, even if it does not come naturally. “The whole point of WXDU,” Goh said, “is just to be uncomfortable with the music and learn to be comfortable eventually.” For those looking to broaden their musical tastes, contribute to the Durham arts scene or find a hidden gem record, this Saturday’s record fair offers the perfect start. “These are the kind of things that make up the university as a community,” Goh said in his final pitch to students. “Come enjoy it, come feel the vibes.”

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Highlights from Duke’s preseason media day By Derek Saul Sports Editor

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With the regular season less than three weeks away, Duke hosted its annual preseason media day. Here are some of the best quotes from Wednesday morning, on everything from the ‘J’s’ to the development of Onome Akinbode-James: Jayda Adams on helping from the sidelines: “[I’m] trying to help out in every way I can—trying to be those set of eyes that you can’t see when you’re playing during the game, taking things that the coaches say and helping them out so that everybody knows what’s going on…. I come to practice, I help out, I encourage everybody.” Head coach Joanne P. McCallie on Onome Akinbode-James’s development: “Onome [Akinbode-James] has always had

an amazing game. She’s a great example of somebody who just said, ‘I want the highest academics, I want the best possible basketball’. Nobody works harder than her. She’s had a tremendous summer…. As freshmen, what Meila [Goodchild] and Onome were exposed to: starting as freshmen, dealing with no point guards and trying to figure it all out, they’re amazing and both of them have come back very strong.” McCallie on Leaonna Odom: “She can play every position but 5…. She can elevate, she can go past people. We want all of those shots. We got a lot of 3-point shooters [already].” McCallie on if she’s okay with Odom taking midrange jumpers: “Oh yeah, am I cool with it? She’s got the best riser in the country by far.” McCallie on maximizing her players’ impacts: “We’re gonna squeeze, just like orange juice. We’re going to squeeze every little bit out of everybody. Lineups will change, rebounding will be rewarded, defense will be

rewarded. We could be dominating a game [and] there could be a different lineup out there. Productivity is the name of the game. You’ll usually see our rebounders…. Everyone needs their opportunity, and everybody can play, so you should see everybody play…. We will play what is best, and we have multiple defenses and we will use them and we will work hard to confuse people.” McCallie on confusing the four similarly named players (Jaida Patrick, Jada Claude, Jade Williams and Jayda Adams): “Listen, I got [Invisalign] this year. It is hard to talk, let alone get those words out. Let’s keep it real. I can barely speak and then I’ve got all these J’s? I’m 54 with braces— check that out.” McCallie on the freshman class: “We don’t have any freshmen. Jada Claude stayed here all summer, so she’s turning into sophomore status. Jaida Patrick and Azana [Baines] weren’t here for both, but with their game and their mentality, I don’t see us having freshmen. [Jennifer Ezeh], who we don’t have—now that’s missing a player.”

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Haley Gorecki on whether she gets the ‘J’s’ confused: “Yeah, all the time. They’re all spelled differently, too, so it’s funny. In practice, we’ll be like, ‘JC, I mean, JP, come here. One of you, come over here.’”

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Blue Devils to test 11-game unbeaten streak By Riley Pfaff Associate Sports Editor

On Aug. 25, the Blue Devils fell 2-0 to rival North Carolina. Classes started the next day. In the seven and a half weeks since then, Duke students have seen a lot, from the removal of an “unsettling” painting in Keohane to the opening of a brand-new Alumni and Visitors Center to a particularly prominent ‘nut.’ One thing they haven’t seen, though, is another Duke women’s soccer loss. After two games in a row in the friendly confines of Koskinen Stadium, the No. 9 No. 9 Blue Devils will look Duke to keep up their 11vs. game unbeaten streak No.14 in Kentucky against No. L’Ville 14 Louisville at 5 p.m. FRIDAY, 5 p.m. Friday in Lynn Stadium. Lynn Stadium The teams’ sixth annual Louisville, Ky. matchup, this year’s will be another steep test for Duke as the Cardinals have also dropped just one game this year, also a loss to North Carolina. “Louisville is having a career year. They’ll be up for the game. They’re an older team, they’ve been together a number of years and they work really well together,” said Blue Devils head coach Robbie Church. “They coordinate and press you, and they’re very good on set plays.

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Pluck has been a big part of Duke’s successs. We have our hands full.” Indeed, this year’s Cardinals team is likely the best that Duke will face in six years of contests since Louisville (11-1-1, 4-1-1 in the ACC) joined the ACC in 2014, replacing the University of Maryland. The Blue Devils lead the all-time series 2-0-3 since that first year of conference play and

have won in back-to-back years after three years of scoreless ties. However, Duke’s wins haven’t come easily. Last year, the then-10th ranked Blue Devils required a late penalty kick to escape an upset in Durham, while the previous year they needed double overtime to avoid an even more crushing loss as the then-No. 4 team in the nation. One familiar face Duke (7-1-5, 2-0-4) will have to contain Friday evening is Louisville midfielder Emina Ekic, who notched goals in each of those Blue Devils wins the past two seasons and is off to a torrid start to her junior year. Through 13 games, Ekic has seven goals and six assists with a total of 20 points, more than double the next highest player on her team. Though Ekic has been superb, the Blue Devils defense has also been extremely impressive as of late. In six of its last nine games, it has held its opponents scoreless, and during its 11-game streak without a loss it has surrendered more than one goal just twice, both times in 3-2 victories. Part of the reason for Duke’s defensive success has been a new formation that brings an extra player back on defense, taking away an attacker in favor of solidifying the team’s back line. This is partially a response to injuries to key threats Sophie Jones and Mia Gyau, both of whom are out for the remainder of the season. “There’s a huge resiliency in this team. They pride themselves on being so hard to break down defensively. They pride themselves on getting

clean sheets and putting up zeroes on the board,” said Church. “We understand if we [hold our opponent to] zero we’re not going to lose. We may not win but we’re not going to lose a game. We’ve gone 11 games in a row without losing which is really remarkable with the quality schedule we have this year and where we are.” Indeed, in this 11-game stretch without a loss, the Blue Devils have hung tough with some of the best teams in the country, including top-five teams Virginia and North Carolina as well as No. 17 Clemson, whom Duke dispatched easily 4-1 last weekend. The Clemson game was a perfect model of how the Blue Devils plan on attacking out of their new formation, as they relied heavily on capitalizing on the Tigers’ mistakes to score. “Because of the change in our formation we’re going to continue to work on our buildup and how we can create more offensive chances,” said Church. “And then we’ve just got to be ready when those chances come. There’s not going to be a ton of them, but they will be there. And when they come, we’ve got to be ready to finish them.” Factoring heavily into their ability to capitalize on chances is sophomore Mackenzie Pluck, who was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week after tallying five points in the win against Clemson. Pluck and her fellow sophomore forward Marykate McGuire will need to carry the load this weekend against the Cardinals as Duke hopes to keep its run going with the ACC Tournament looming in the near future.

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Scouting the opponent: Duke and UVA set for Coastal clash By Evan Kolin Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Here comes the heart of Duke’s schedule. After beating up on Georgia Tech this past weekend, the Blue Devils will head to Charlottesville, Va., to take on Virginia at Scott Stadium Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The contest begins the team’s run of three road games against ACC Coastal rivals over the next five weeks. The matchup with the Cavaliers may be the toughest of those road games, however, with Virginia entering the season as ACC Coastal favorites and reaching as high as No. 20 in the AP Top 25 Poll just a few weeks ago. Two consecutive losses—including a brutal offensive showing at Miami last week—have forced the Cavaliers out of the Top 25, but that doesn’t mean this weekend’s game is any less crucial for Duke. “Big challenge this week for our team,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Obviously [we’re] going on the road, but we’re going on the road against a team that may be as balanced as any team I’ve ever seen, and it’s kind of become their culture. Offensively, defensively and in the kicking game, in all elements of playing football we always talk about the blend here. They’re as good as you get at doing it.” Let’s take a look at key questions for Duke as it prepares for its matchup with the Cavaliers. Can the Blue Devils contain Bryce Perkins? Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall has done an admirable job overhauling the program, improving from a 2-10 finish in his first season at the helm to 6-7 in 2017 and 8-5 last year. A key part of that turnaround has been the play of quarterback Bryce Perkins.

The dual-threat senior took over the Cavaliers’ offense last season, passing for 2,680 yards, 25 touchdowns and only nine interceptions while adding 923 yards and nine scores on the ground. Perkins torched Duke in 2018, tallying three touchdowns and 250 total yards. “[Perkins] is a terrific passer,” Cutcliffe said. “I hear people talk about him running. He is a terrific pinpoint passer. He throws about as well from any body position as anybody I’ve ever seen.” How has Virginia revamped its offensive weapons? Entering the year, Virginia was tasked with replacing the production of one of Perkins’ top targets in Olamide Zaccheaus, who posted a team-leading 1,058 receiving yards in 2018 before signing with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent. The Cavaliers’ new crop of senior receivers have stepped up in his absence, with Hasise Dubois pacing the team with 427 yards and Joe Reed adding 355 yards and four scores of his own. Virginia’s rushing attack also needed some revamping entering the 2019 campaign, with last year’s leading rusher, Jordan Ellis, graduating and signing with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent. While junior tailback P.K. Kier was expected to be replace Ellis atop the depth chart, a spring concussion paved way for the emergence of sophomore Wayne Taulapapa, who leads the team with 210 yards and five touchdowns on the ground. “They’ve got a good array of young backs,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re strong. They’re not as experienced just yet, they’ve lost some linemen, so they can find their way. They run the ball well at times… I think their receiving core overall is the best we’ve seen them be, top to

bottom. Reed is a terrific threat, not only in kickoff returns but in the pass offense.” Will Duke’s offensive line hold up? On the other end, Duke will face off against another defense that excels at getting to the quarterback. The Cavaliers rank second in the country at 4.5 sacks per game, with linebackers Jordan Mack and Noah Taylor leading Virginia with six and five sacks, respectively. After the Blue Devils allowed only one sack over their first four games, opposing defenses have brought quarterback Quentin Harris down five times over the team’s past two contests. “Pittsburgh and Virginia are kind of two different things as to how they go about doing it,” Cutcliffe said. “Virginia does a great job of rushing the passer. The first thing it has to always be is throwing the ball on time. If you hold the ball and you put yourself in a circumstance— turnovers were created in our game. You get put in a situation where you hold the football, good things aren’t going to happen.” Can Virginia’s secondary continue to dominate the Blue Devils? The other portion of Virginia’s 11thranked defense is its secondary, a unit Duke particularly struggled against last fall. Daniel Jones had one of his worst performances of his senior season against the Cavaliers, completing just 22-of-40 passes for 240 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Virginia will be without cornerback Bryce Hall, though, who underwent season-ending surgery for an injured ankle Monday. The All-American— who was a projected first-round draft pick prior to the injury—hurt his ankle on a punt return in the Cavaliers’ loss to the Hurricanes.

“They’re a little different in the coverage mechanics,” Cutcliffe said. “One of the things that they do really well is mix coverages. They do a great job of disguising them, and they have really good athletes back there. So if they’re matching you man-man, which they will, you got to work hard to separate. It takes athleticism. If they’re playing variations of zone or zone blitz, you got to recognize in a hurry where things are and you got to get yourself available.”

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Duke’s offensive line will have its hands full.

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Recruiting roundup: Blue Devil recruits to get crazy By Andrew Donohue Associate Sports Editor

Countdown to Craziness has become Duke basketball’s premier recruiting event as the Blue Devil coaching staff looks to reload the roster with more highly-ranked recruits. While the basketball on display at this year’s Countdown may not be as exciting as last year’s Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett dunk fest, the most important developments may be what happens off the floor with the recruits. Previous editions of the event have featured recruits like Williamson, Vernon Carey Jr. and Jalen Johnson, and Duke fans can only hope this Friday will be similarly successful. The Blue Devils will have four recruits in attendance this Friday night, including one current commit and three they hope to bring into the fold. Duke has nearly finalized its 2020 recruiting class with five current commitments—earning it the current No. 1 rankings from 247Sports—but are still searching for another player to fully complete next season’s roster as well as keeping an eye to the future with the Class of 2021. Committed: Jaemyn Brakefield (No. 38, PF), 6-foot-8 Brakefield committed to Duke just under

two weeks ago and this weekend will be his first visit to Durham. The Huntington Prep student has 3-point range and can be a dynamic threat off the dribble. He has good passing touch for his size and should develop a solid partnership with Jalen Johnson, the highest-ranked Duke commit of the Class of

2020, on the wing. Uncommitted: Hunter Dickinson (No. 34, C) , 7-foot-2 The one thing the Blue Devils’ 2020 recruiting class is missing is size. Dickinson would certainly fill that void, as the 7-foot-2

Maryland native is a bruising inside presence. He is not a dominant athlete, but knows how to use his height to get easy baskets and anchor a defense. According to 247Sports’ Crystal Ball, Michigan is the favorite to get Dickinson’s signature with new head coach Juwan Howard leading the recruitment, but Coach K will certainly give the big man the hard sell. Paolo Banchero (No. 3, PF) *Class of 2021, 6-foot-9 Recruiting for the 2021 cycle is already in full swing, and while Duke has yet to secure a commitment, Banchero may be the first domino to fall. The Blue Devils are locked in a battle with hometown Washington for the Seattle native, who boasts an elite physical profile and has a similar playing style to former Duke star Wendell Carter Jr.

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Countdown to Craziness is a huge recruiting tool for Duke, bringing many top recruits to town.

AJ Griffin (No. 8, SF) *Class of 2021, 6-foot-7 Duke’s coaching staff has made Griffin a top priority for 2021, visiting him on the first day of the summer recruiting period. The smooth swingman would fit right into the stretch four position pioneered by players like Jayson Tatum and Justise Winslow. There will be a war for Griffin’s services, as he holds offers from virtually every major program, but the Blue Devils like their chances as the New York native has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Coach K.

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he first time I heard someone admit to having an STI was last spring. I was in the dressing room of the Ruby Studio Theater, sitting with the women of All of the Above. Performing our monologues had brought us pretty close—but the candor of their conversation still left me stunned. “Yeah, I’ve had chlamydia before. And then I took some antibiotics and got rid of it. It was no big deal.”

Rebecca Torrence COLUMNIST A couple of other girls acknowledged their own histories with STIs or told stories about their friends’ experiences. I was amazed. Not only were these women brave enough to open up about such a heavily stigmatized topic, but they didn’t dramatize that bravery. They treated a conversation about STIs just like any other conversation—normal. Our collective unease about STIs rises from a multitude of sources. Many of us were taught about STIs in middle or high school with graphic pictures and fear-inducing language, an effort intended to emphasize the importance of protection. There’s not much data about the efficacy of these strategies, given that many schools still lack adequate sexual education. The point is, I don’t remember any details from those lectures. I don’t remember any statistics about the prevalence of chlamydia or how to treat gonorrhea. I only remember the pictures—and the classroom’s groans of disgust. Duke offers many sexual health resources, including both STI education and testing. Unfortunately, the apprehension about STIs that we learned to feel in our youth hasn’t dissipated. In the time I spent as a PASH responder last year, I can count the number of students I saw take advantage of our resources on one hand. The free monthly STI tests offered by DuWell or the HIV tests offered by Know Your Status don’t receive much attention, either. This isn’t surprising—these things don’t feel normal to us. They unsettle us because, despite our desire to create a sexually progressive culture, we still won’t talk about our STIs. Now would be a good time to note that I’ve never had an STI. I know this because I’ve been tested within the past six months and haven’t had any new partners since then. I’ve had conversations with each of my past sexual partners about our statuses, and it’s never been the horribly uncomfortable conversation I assumed it would be. But if I did ever contract an STI, I suspect I’d feel

very alone. That conversation in the AOTA dressing room was not only the first time I’d ever heard someone mention having an STI, it was the only time. Besides those women, I couldn’t name anyone at Duke who has or has had an STI. But I definitely know those people—the statistical probability is far too high to suggest otherwise, with national data indicating that one in two sexually active people will contract an STI by age 25. So where are they? Where are you, Duke student reading this column who tested positive for HPV last month? Where’s the girl who started presenting symptoms of gonorrhea a few days ago or the boy who doesn’t know how to tell his partner about his STI status? I want to hear from you—we all do. That kind of nonchalant courage is admirable, not least because it has the potential to make a lasting impact on Duke’s sexual health culture, as well as on our own perspectives. While I believe the Duke community as a whole is ready and willing to have these conversations, I understand that there are many people who fear the stigma that is assumed to accompany STIs. In particular, women often shy away from talking about their STI status for fear of being labeled a slut. This isn’t an unfounded concern—the sexist narratives that dominate popular culture teach us to associate STIs with women who “get around.” But let’s get something straight: A person’s STI status has nothing to do with their character, nor it does it give you an excuse to make assumptions about their life. As my friend Jane so poignantly put it, “Having an STI doesn’t make you a ho. And even if you are a ho—who gives a s***?” In addition to reducing shame about a person’s STI status, having these conversations can keep you informed in case you ever contract an STI yourself. Did you know you can have chlamydia, gonorrhea, HPV, or herpes without presenting any symptoms? Do you know which STDs can be treated with medicine? Do you know the difference between an STI and an STD? Rather than frantically Googling these questions when you notice a symptom or two, educating yourself could reduce your panic and allow you to treat an STI like any other medical problem. Having conversations about your STI status may seem uncomfortable or embarrassing, but it doesn’t have to be. The only way to make STIs will seem as normal as they actually are is to talk about them. None of us want this to be a big deal. So let’s pretend it’s not. Until it isn’t. Rebecca Torrence is a Trinity junior who is fully expecting to receive several texts from friends about their STI status upon this article’s release. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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was 20 years old before I took my family’s history seriously. A month in Atlanta for a fellowship, where I listened to a friend share his ancestral stories, finally shook me from my self-absorbed daze so I could reflect on my place among familial roots teeming with stories to listen to, research, carry with me.

though he never stood more than 5’4’’. Born in Morcone, Italy in 1923, not far from Naples, Eugene immigrated to the United States in the 1940s (two decades after my uncle Pellegrino, who made it to New York as a stowaway—a story for another time). He married Marie Russo in Hempstead, New York, and settled in

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et’s play “Guess the Candidate.” Imagine a presidential candidate who threatened to “opt out” of NAFTA if they could not secure a better deal. Suppose this candidate opposed “amnesty” and wanted “to secure our borders… for the sake of [America’s] sovereignty.” This individual argued that immigrants must “pay a fine,” “learn English” and not take part in “criminal activity” if they wanted citizenship. The unidentified candidate was also proudly “opposed to Iraq from the start” and affirmed that marriage is a sacred “union between a man and a woman.”

study indicates that just under 30 percent of the electorate holds a heterodox grab bag of positions including enthusiasm for Social Security, opposition to immigration, skepticism of free trade, and concern about economic inequality. Disaffected and alienated, these voters believe the system is rigged and thus tend to gravitate towards outsiders and changemakers. Which explains a peculiar phenomenon: over 9 percent of 2012 Obama voters also voted for Trump. These ObamaTrump voters were overwhelmingly populists. Narrowly concentrated in the Midwest, they delivered the 2016 election to Trump.

Reiss Becker ROUSED RABBLE Who could this be? Maybe it was the triangulator in chief, Hillary Clinton, in one of her many manifestations. But, of course, it can’t be Hillary! She supported Iraq from the start, only abandoning the war after she felt the breeze shift. Clearly, George Bush and John McCain are eliminated on similar grounds. Perhaps Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, authored these quotes? Nope, Bill passed NAFTA in the first place. Let’s not neglect the obvious: could it be Trump? A trade skeptic, an immigration hawk, and an instinctive isolationist, Trump’s views roughly match these sentiments. But it’s not Trump. The preceding Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, is not the answer either. The author of these statements is Barack Obama. Does anyone remember 2008? Sure, we all remember the soaring rhetoric, the optimism, the Hope and the Change. We certainly remember Obama’s smashing electoral success, the product of a coalition that was broad enough to win the electoral college by 192 votes and deep enough to win the popular vote by over 7 percent. But we don’t remember the voters. The voters who delivered swing states like Ohio, Florida, Colorado and Nevada. The voters who breached Republican strongholds like Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Nebraska’s 2nd district. Alongside black Democrats, these voters laid the foundation for a 60 vote filibuster-proof Senate majority by delivering crucial seats in West Virginia, Iowa, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Neither party is their true home. But both parties need them. They are moderates, but they have nothing in common with Duke’s “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” population that progressives so despise. Fiscally progressive and socially conservative, they are the median voters of the American electorate. Meet the populists. Is there a logical reason why churchgoing traditionalists who oppose abortion must also be in favor of lower marginal tax rates and NAFTA? Apparently not. A recent

Last Tuesday, the Democratic Mayor of Dayton, OH begged leading Democrats to pay attention. Ohio is the “canary in the coal mine for matters that affect the entire country,” she argued, and “working class voters…,” those that twice delivered Ohio for Obama, “rolled the dice with Mr. Trump.” To fix this, Democrats must “[make] voters feel heard and respected” while “not overpromising or compromising on our values.” Implicit in her plea is a nod towards doomsday, a silent sentence: “or else Trump might be reelected.” Democrats have made voters feel respected—just not all voters. Uniformly progressive voters, the voters least likely to ever defect from the party, have been pampered like never before. By contrast, populists, the voters Democrats need, have not received such concern. For immigration-skeptical voters, Democrats offer de-facto open borders policies. On abortion, Democrats refuse to endorse any sort of limit. Democrats should not imply that social conservatives are bizarre outcasts or incels, as Elizabeth Warren did the other evening. That, like Hillary’s “deplorables” moment, is a recipe for disaster in 2020. Democrats have a choice. And no, that choice is not “move towards the right or lose.” A leftwing economic platform is an electoral asset that Democratic candidates should keep. A leftwing social platform is not. Obama won the Presidency twice because he unified disparate groups of people. Simultaneously, he drove historic turnout amongst black voters and won over white working class voters. He did this by emphasizing his leftward economic policies, embracing populist positions on key issues and by showing toleration of socially conservative voters. Is it controversial to argue that Democrats should heed the lessons of their latest and greatest victory? Reiss Becker is a Trinity junior. His column, “roused rabble,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Of course, the irony of a History major who failed to know his own was not lost on me. Later that night, stirred by my friend, I remember calling my maternal grandmother to ask for any and every story about her side of the family. My grandma told me about Amache Ochinee Prowers, her great-grandmother. Amache, a member of the Southern Cheyenne Tribe in late 19th century Colorado, operated multiple businesses and raised ten children with her husband, a white man named John Wesley Prowers. Amache was also the daughter of Cheyenne Peace Chief Ochinee, who was murdered in 1864 along with 160 other indigenous people by Colonel John Chivington and the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. Amache petitioned—and won—reparations from the federal government for her family’s loss. She used her compensation to build wealth and stability for her family while persistently maintaining ties to her indigenous heritage. The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame inducted Amache in 2018 for her activism, a ceremony attended by my grandmother. Today, Prowers County in Colorado is named for John and Amache’s family. (To be very clear: I don’t claim indigenous identity, and I don’t pretend to understand the full weight of this history for Native American communities today. This distinction is critical given centuries of violence against indigenous communities, which Amache experienced firsthand. For more on issues around claiming indigenous identity via genealogy, read scholar Kim TallBear, here.) Knowing Amache, however, gives me a small glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman who left a better world for her descendants. Hers is one of many emerging, long-ignored stories about the lives of Native American women in the 19th century American West. Amache’s story also opened a new connection between my grandma and me, one I’d failed to appreciate growing up. We found a way to spend time together despite hundreds of miles of separation. More, I knew my grandma differently. She had inherited a fierce dedication to her family—a dedication I saw clearly whenever she brokered peace among warring siblings or tagged my cousins and me in viral Facebook memes about the joy of having grandkids. Digging through Amache’s story naturally made me curious about my Dad’s side. Eugene Nuzzolillo, my grandfather, looms large—

Connecticut to work and raise his 4 kids. Eugene worked as a plasterer and lived on Marion Avenue near a few more Nuzzolillo’s—Libero, Vito, Domenick, Catherine and Benjamin. Each Nuzzolillo was employed as a plasterer, custodian, or construction worker. Like millions of bluecollar immigrants, Eugene worked diligently, sent his adult kids off to college and careers, and retired early from his final job repairing motors at General Electric. I’m named for Eugene, but I knew him as Papi and he called me Gino. Though it’s been over six years since he passed and my memories of him continue to fade, I still remember walking together through his small vegetable garden, watching attentively as he crafted his homemade biscotti and pasta and tomato sauce in the kitchen. I remember telling him about my first kindergarten love, Natalie, and spotting slightly confused amusement in his smile. I don’t have much left of Papi besides small clues in old documents and my family’s memories. When I find or hear of any small piece of his life, an unrelenting sense of curiosity and awe pulls me to know him more, reminds me of his legacy living in my Dad and his siblings who match Papi’s humor, soberness, and thoughtfulness. Even in his death, these fragments bring me closer to him. Knowing him allows me to understand myself as the consequence of intergenerational love and hard work. We need these touchpoints to our families, especially in college. Many of us struggle with isolation and anxiety at school, made worse by the knowledge of our inevitable plunge into an uncertain adulthood. We struggle with knowing ourselves and what we want in a period of disorienting change. Learning our family’s history can tether us to some sort of lineage and ground ourselves in deeper relationships with living family members. Still, family histories can be painful, messy, incomplete; they might reopen wounds long since closed. Not everyone claims the same type of family, and family isn’t always (or even often) defined by biology. Yet, for whoever and whatever we call family, we can only come to know ourselves by knowing where we came from. Tugging at these stories honestly, embracing them in their challenges and complexities, can radically change what we believe, how we act, and what we feel we’re called to do.

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on Indigenous culture, beliefs and history, and to avoid appropriating Indigenous culture. The designation of the Wekit can only be the start of the University grappling with its colonial history, listening to and amplifying the struggles and visions of Indigenous Peoples, and actively supporting a material decolonial movement towards reconciliation and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples.

FROM PAGE 10 However, even this designation of space to Native students speaks to the colonial nature of the institution—what does it mean for the University which sits on stolen, occupied land to afford a slice of its space back to Native students? Beyond a physical space, Native students have rightfully begun to ask for the hire of Indigenous faculty and the establishment of Native American studies. There have been calls for allies to uplift and make space for Indigenous voices, to show up to their events on campus and within the community, to actively educate themselves

Gino Nuzzolillo is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.

The Community Editorial Board would like to thank Native American Student Alliance and the Native students who gave us their time and who spoke with us about Native student experiences and visions at Duke.

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cancel its contracts with ICE, and we call on all students to join us in withholding our talent FROM PAGE 1 from Palantir.” The petition, which has thus far collected 112 the ability of students “to express their beliefs signatures, is part of a larger national “Students and positions in accordance with our policies Pledge #NoTechForICE” campaign. that protect the safety and rights of the Duke community” in an email to The Chronicle. HackDuke cuts off Palantir Palantir renewed a $42 million contract Student reactions to Palantir have extended with ICE in August. Under the contract, ICE beyond the two protests. will continue using Palantir’s Investigative Case HackDuke, a national hack-a-thon focused Management system, which allows agents to on social good, has been co-sponsored by Palantir. access and sort data on individuals suspected of After discovering Palantir’s collaboration with violating immigration laws. Heightened media ICE a few weeks ago, the group unanimously attention toward this connection has stirred voted to rescind the company as a sponsor for up student protests and resistance to Palantir’s their November hack-a-thon. recruitment efforts at Duke. “We do not believe they align with our goals ICE used Palantir’s ICM system in a 2017 and values, especially as we are a hackathon focused operation targeting the family members of on social good,” junior Sam Chan, co-director of unaccompanied migrant children trying to HackDuke, wrote in a message to The Chronicle. cross the border, according to an ICE document Chan wrote in an email to The Chronicle that, obtained by The Intercept. ICE also used after the group informed Palantir of its decision, Palantir’s FALCON mobile app, which has a the company asked to explain itself and address contract set to renew Nov. 27, to carry out its the group’s concerns with its privacy and civil nationwide investigation of 7-Eleven stores last liberties team. year, according to WNYC. According to a Palantir document on A spokesperson for Palantir’s recruitment “Protecting privacy and civil liberties,” the team division told The Chronicle that the company works to ensure that Palantir’s technologies meet has been recruiting at Duke for several years the company’s mission of “protecting fundamental now, holding several different types of events rights to privacy and civil liberties.” on campus each year. As one of Palantir’s 10 Palantir also has a council on privacy and civil target schools, Duke students have been great liberties composed of experts that further assist candidates and added value to the company, the company in “understanding and addressing according to the spokesperson, and around 25 the complex privacy and civil liberties issues Duke graduates currently work at the company. surrounding the use of our platform to aggregate Sophomore Jeremy Carballo Pineda started and analyze [data],” according to its website. an online petition on the day of Palantir’s ethics Chan wrote that HackDuke will not accept workshop asking Duke students to pledge not Palantir’s offer to engage in further discussion. to work with Palantir while it continues to work “After talking to other hack-a-thon organizers with ICE. who’ve dropped Palantir as a sponsor, it seems “We will not apply for jobs at Palantir, we will that they have similarly replied by asking to not interview for jobs at Palantir, and we will explain,” he wrote. “From what we know at least, not accept jobs at Palantir while the company the organizers usually don’t take them up on the is engaged in the business of deportation,” the offer, and we will not as well.” petition states. “We call on the company to Palantir’s spokesperson, however, emphasized

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the company’s desire to have open and honest dialogue with students on the issue. They noted that it can be both productive and powerful to explain the company’s perspective and engage in conversations about the issues surrounding private technology companies working with the U.S. government.

company intends to continue holding events at Duke for the remainder of the academic year. Schoenfeld wrote that Palantir is still “welcome” to continue recruiting at Duke based on the university’s longstanding practice of providing opportunities for students to explore a diverse range of career and employment opportunities. “Students can and should be able to make their own choices about their future work and given the wide range of backgrounds at Duke, we would expect there to be an equally wide range of interests,” he wrote.

The future of Palantir and Duke

Jeon and Chan both argued that Duke should drop its relationship to Palantir. Chan wrote that Duke should cut off connections with Palantir not only out of concern for their public image but also to empower their students. For HackDuke, Chan wrote that empowering their participants means fostering an inclusive space, starting with the group’s corporate sponsorships. In turn, Duke should also empower its students by enabling them to “develop professionally” and uphold “high ethical standards.” “Duke needs to drop their connections with Palantir,” Jeon said. “That means no recruitment, sponsorship, or partnerships here because that would effectively be challenging [Palantir’s] normative practices and their efforts to grow their work-base at elite universities.” Palantir’s spokesperson also said that the

GRASSLEY FROM PAGE 4 we receive back.” In the meantime, Charney is working on finishing his book. The former Sanford professor said he enjoys being on campus and catching up with students, but that teaching was a “particular kind of high” that research doesn’t quite bring. You won’t, however, find him around his old haunts anytime soon. “I won’t set foot in Sanford, won’t go near there,” he said. Stefanie Pousoulides contributed reporting.

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