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TRASK TO RETIRE By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

After more than 20 years with the University, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask will retire in Fall 2020. The University announced the departure in a news release Friday morning. Trask has served as Duke’s EVP since 1995, working for three different presidents—Nannerl Keohane, Richard Brodhead and current President Vincent Price. During his time as EVP, he has overseen dozens of construction projects, including renovations to the Bryan Center Plaza, Brodhead Center and Wallace Wade, and has helped the endowment grow from $790 million to $8.6 billion. He directs the University’s construction, campus planning, finances, administration and other services like Duke parking and stores. He is on the Board of Directors for the Duke University Management Company—which manages the University’s endowment—and the Health System. As chief fiscal officer, he helped guide the University through the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008. Trask also expanded Duke’s off campus presence into Durham, as the city has seen tremendous growth in the past two decades. His tenure has not come without controversy, however. The Chronicle reported in 2016 that he hit a parking attendant with his car two years prior. He was also accused of calling her a racial slur, which he denied. Trask was also Duke’s lead negotiator for the light rail project that it pulled out of earlier this year.

By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

Taking in his whole body of work throughout the past quarter-century, Trask said he is pleased with his work at the University. “I’m quite happy with it,” Trask said in his heavily decorated office, with his signature T3 moniker stitched onto his shirt cuffs. “I mean, look, in 25 years, there’s been hundreds of little things you’d do differently. But in general, I’m not troubled by it.” Trask led the recent overhaul of the BC Plaza area—now

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has been at Duke since 1995. Acting as the leading administrative and financial officer, Trask’s responsibilities have been wide-ranging, from managing the university budget to overseeing architecture and construction. As the University now announces Trask’s decision to retire, The Chronicle sat down with him to discuss his journey to a place he didn’t envision working at and the highs and lows of his nearly 25 years at the University. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Chronicle: I’m curious how you ended up here. I imagine when you were growing up, you weren’t saying, ‘I want to be a university vice president,’ so how did you end up in university administration right out of school? Tallman Trask: Well, I was an undergraduate history major, and I had decided to get a Ph.D. in American history. And then I thought about the consequences of that, which was like, six or seven years, and there’s no end strategy necessarily. Even in those days there weren’t lots of jobs. And so I decided I didn’t want to do that. All my friends were going to law school. And I thought about that, and I decided, I don’t want to go to law school. I don’t want to be a lawyer. And so at the time I had this bizarre idea: I’ll go to business school, which not many people did. Well, a lot of people did, but not my left wing friends. So, I just applied to business school, and I ended up going to Northwestern. And then coming out of business school, since I didn’t know why I had gone, I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I got out. There were a couple of jobs that looked sort of intriguing, but I wasn’t really enamored

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His time on campus

Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor Tallman Trask, Duke’s executive vice president for over twenty years, will be retiring in the fall of 2020.

Q&A: Trask reflects on his past 24 years at Duke

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Other buildings of note*

Renovated: Washington Duke Inn, Fuqua and Law School Built: JB Duke Hotel, Doris Duke Center, Scott Center

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A vision for Central Campus

Five observations from Countdown

Duke football trounced by Virginia

Duke will use Central for parking in the short term, but could it one day be a premier research park? PAGE 2

Duke still needs to work on its outside shooting, and its freshmen are the real deal. PAGE 6

5 turnovers and a mistake-filled afternoon marked the Blue Devil’s worst loss to the Cavaliers since 2006. PAGE 7

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‘Interesting corporations’: A grand vision for Central Campus By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

Could Central Campus go from student housing to premier research park? Outgoing Executive Vice President Tallman Trask thinks it’s doable. Trask outlined his vision for Central in an interview with The Chronicle. He hoped it becomes something like the Stanford Research Park, where companies and organizations can set up shop on 50 acres of land near a premier research institution. Central closed down this summer, and the University is currently demolishing the apartments. “I’m assuming there will be a gravitation of interesting corporations and institutes around here, and a lot of them would like to be near a university,” Trask said. The University announced Friday that Trask will retire in Fall 2020, so he won’t be around to see the development of the nowvacant campus. He has advised current administrators against rushing construction on Central with one-off projects in order to yield the best results long-term. Trask mentioned that the Triangle is the fourth-most educated region in the United States, and the cost of living is cheaper than in other major hubs like Silicon Valley. Given that Durham is home to a growing downtown, a top-10 university and now, more available land than either Raleigh or Chapel Hill, he believes the city has exciting potential for organizations to come here. Currently, Trask added, Duke cannot let forprofit companies work in on-campus buildings because those buildings were debt-financed on a tax exempt basis. If Duke allowed for-profit companies to operate out of buildings like the French Family Science Center or Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and

Applied Sciences (CIEMAS), the University would be jeopardizing its nonprofit status. “If this naturally evolves, it’ll be really interesting,” he said. “If you try to force it, you’ll get the wrong thing.” Buildings on Central Campus still have to be torn down, which Trask believes has been progressing “slow.” He remarked how the asbestos in the buildings was more pervasive than the University thought it was going to be, so the demolition is taking a lot longer and costing a lot more than they had planned. However, he said all apartments should be torn down in a couple months. Around a decade ago, Trask explained, the

grand plan for Central was to be a place on campus where seniors would want to live. Then the Great Recession hit, plus Student Affairs wanted classes dispersed across campus, so the idea got killed before it could begin. Another master plan for Central was the New Campus, which would have put residential, academic and arts buildings along Campus Drive. Trask said that administration realized Campus Drive was too far away from existing structures on West Campus, and Duke decided to construct the Brodhead Center and Hollows Quad instead. Duke has realized students want to live on West, Trask noted. He is looking for places on

the main campus to put new dorms to replace apartments at 300 Swift, which he said should be for graduate housing. He’s thought about places by Edens Quad, possibly even somewhere between Hollows Quad and Edens. The corner of Towerview and Union Drive is another option, he said, but it would have to match the architecture of Crowell Quad. Per-bed, Hollows is the most expensive dorm Duke has built—but having a hypothetical new dorm look like Crowell would cost 50% more, he added. He would like the new dorms on West to be built by 2025, but could not guarantee a set date.

Henry Haggart | Assistant Sports Photography Editor There are several proposed development plans for the land that makes up Central Campus, which housed students for the last time last spring.

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New Writing 101 class teaches through black feminist lens By Cameron Oglesby Staff Reporter

A new Writing 101 tackles writing skills through a novel and underrepresented angle—the black feminist movement. Jessica Covil, a third-year doctoral candidate studying English, African and African American studies and gender, sexuality and feminist studies, is the creator and instructor of the Black Feminism in Pop Culture course. This class presents the principles of effective communication through the lens of feminist activism in the 1970s and 1980s, a revolution that experienced a resurgence in 2013 in the form of the modern Black Girl Magic movement. Covil, who is white, explained that she created this course around the idea of building “a safe space where people could call out problematic statements, [and] where voices that are already marginalized in society are not going to be re-marginalized in the classroom.” She cited her approach to teaching a course of this nature to a class she took called “Teaching Race, Teaching Gender,” as it allowed her to listen more thoroughly as a teacher and stimulate open discussion around student experiences and backgrounds. “Something told me that a class like this doesn’t show up a lot in the course catalog,” Covil said. “I remember as an undergrad myself, I went to college as a low-income student and it was that sort of position as a lower income woman, that always attracted me to narratives of struggle and striving.” One first-year student in the class, who requested anonymity, questioned whether the teacher’s identity reflects the values being reinforced in the course. “She is an amazing instructor, and the way she’s teaching is on point, but maybe it would be better to give that post to a black feminist, just because white women already have a lot of positions of power and influence in the feminist movement,” said the student. The student emphasized their hope that Duke will take lived experiences and racial backgrounds into consideration in the future. Covil said she doesn’t pretend to have every angle on the

black feminist perspective, noting that she hopes that a course like this can bring unheard voices to the forefront of modern discussions. “This is something I’m constantly aware of in my academic research, in my writing and in my teaching of the class,” she said. “I want to ensure I’m never re-perpetuating the trope of a

Special to The Chronicle Jessica Covil teaches Black Feminism in Pop Culture, a new Writing 101 course for first-years.

white woman coming in and telling students what to do.” First-year Ayesham Khan attributed her choice to take the course to the feminist movements she’s seen in her hometown of Lahore, Pakistan. “I wanted to learn about the black feminist movement because I think it would be good to understand its history, organization, and how it took traction,” she said. “I personally relate to black feminism more than I do white feminism, and

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the discussions in this class make me feel like I can speak without someone policing [me].” Khan noted that her learning in the class has impacted how she views nascent movements in Pakistan. “We have the Aurat March, or the Women’s March, and it’s grown exponentially in the last two or three years,” she said. “However, compared to here, I think what I’m learning from the class is that we have a long way to go back home.” First-year Raymond Zhang added that he hoped taking the class would allow him to experience a new culture. “When I was looking through all the lists for Writing 101 classes, I chose this because I’m from China and this is a part of the public sphere here in America that I didn’t get to interact with at all in China,” Zhang said. “This is something that I wanted to reach out to as someone who hasn’t experienced this culture.” At this point in the semester, the course is delving into the modern era, with conversations surrounding slam poetry, music and the artistic makings of black female empowerment. First-year Kristin Ankoma-Sey, from Houston highlighted how the course has augmented her view of colorism. “I’m just grateful that I was able to take this class and learn more about black feminism,” she said. “In high school, I didn’t really get the chance to read many black female writers in a classroom setting, and having an open space where everyone is able to speak their truth has made me extremely grateful.” Khan had one suggestion for future course offerings, stating that she feels there is a need for a better representation of the diversity of black feminism outside of the United States. “[The course is] very American. Since it’s black feminism there’s been a lot of diasporic longing in the readings, but there aren’t a lot of voices that are actual African,” she said. “I think both types of voices need to be given importance, especially given the need for a more global outlook at a place like Duke.” Covil explained that there is real potential to expand this sort of coursework and programming into other departments at Duke. Next year, she said she would be teaching a 1990s English class that would incorporate black feminism.

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made that choice. I’m not stupid, I didn’t decide to go to Duke just so I could go to Duke—I thought about what it meant and where it was and where I thought it was headed. And so there are not a whole lot of places that I would leave here for. I really do think this is the best job doing what I do in a company, because it’s got enough money where you can actually do stuff, and it’s not so historically entrenched that all the choices were made in 1938, and you can’t undo them. So it’s an interesting set of circumstances. TC: What is it about being a university president that doesn’t appeal to you or that doesn’t suit your personality? TT: I’m not solicitous enough. I’m not politically correct enough. I tend to tell people what I think, which is not necessarily a good attribute to be president when you sometimes have to tell them what’s facing. Presidents don’t build things; presidents don’t figure out the payroll works; presidents don’t figure out the HR policy, presidents don’t deal with the daily operations of IT— all that stuff that I do. Most presidents don’t know how to do it, and most presidents shouldn’t worry about it. That’s not what they’re supposed to do. TC: Presidents are basically like figureheads? TT: No, they’re more than that, but they set a tone—they’re increasingly external, but it’s also increasingly important they are seen as the leader of the faculty. In my early career, I was on the academic side. I switched to the administrative side because somebody asked me to, and I thought it was sort of intriguing. But it came to me one day—this was in my 30s—that even though I had a Ph.D. from UCLA, it was in education, which meant I would never become the provost at any university that I would want to be the provost at. Provosts have to be scholars. And I had no interest in being the provost at some second-rate state university— that’s just not what I do. TC: It seems that it’s been a priority of yours to try to balance the administrative and the

academic side. How do you do that? TT: Vince [Price] has remarked on this. Usually the person with my job and the Provost are at each other constantly. We don’t have that problem here. In general, it’s just been a friendly conversation for 25 years and, you know, we disagree on the margins. But I think a lot of places become very fractured. TC: Do you think Duke has gotten too administrative or too bloated in the bureaucracy of it? TT: Maybe, but a lot less than most other places are. But that’s a constant problem—my view has always been, every dollar spent in the bureaucracy rather than on the academic programs, is a bad idea. And I’m not sure that is the prevailing thought around here anymore. TC: Is that a mindset you would want your successor to also have? TT: Yeah, I hope so. I mean, you know, if you look at the last decade, you know, we took a big hit in ‘08, ‘09—I took out 125 people. They’re all gone. None of them ever came back. On the academic side, they came right back. TC: What has your relationship with the medical school been since you’ve gotten here? TT: It’s been up and down. When I got here, I was told how incredibly interdisciplinary Duke was and I couldn’t see it, couldn’t figure it out. I didn’t know why they thought that until I realized that was code for, ‘The medical school’s actually on campus. And occasionally we bump into them and we talked to them, so therefore we’re interdisciplinary, right?’ And what had never dawned on me is just by luck, I happened to have come from the two places that are structurally more interdisciplinary than Duke. UCLA and Washington both have medical schools on the campus. There is not the historic divide there had been here, and there is a lot more cooperation across the channel. But it never occurred to me that I was used to that. If you looked at us compared to Harvard or Yale, we were a whole lot more interdisciplinary—I was

just used to a different standard. TC: What are the parts of the job that you’d say you like most and least? TT: I like to build stuff. I’ve probably built couple billion bucks worth of stuff. And I like getting the IT stuff straightened out. It was a disaster when I got here, and I think it’s actually in reasonably good shape now. Obviously, managing the money has been interesting and complicated, and I’ve set a bunch of policies that ended up more or less where I wanted it to. If you look at the number that’s in many ways most surprising from while I’ve been here is the endowment at $8.5 billion. It’s also 10 times what it was when I got here. TC: You told me about what you did for the endowment. For capital campaigns and stuff, what is your involvement with that? TT: Well, I tend not to be detail-involved because I want campaigns to be pushed toward academic programs and financial aid. I don’t want money to be raised for me. There’s really a trade-off is when you have a campaign: I would like to raise all the money for endowment. Others would like to raise all the money so they can spend it next week, right? And there’s a tension between those two that I don’t think we got quite right. We ended up with less endowment than I would’ve hoped. TC: Do you think there will be more endowment push in the future? TT: Absolutely, I mean I hope a lot more endowment. TC: Why so much endowment focus? TT: It’s especially endowment for financial aid because it’s a long-term commitment and need. We don’t have it, and so it just clobbers the operating budget. TC: Do you think Duke’s financial model is sustainable? Is it going to keep going in the future? TT: I think there are a lot of dark winds out there, but I think for most places like us See REFLECTIONS on Page 12

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5 observations from Countdown to Craziness By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

In 2019’s annual Countdown to Craziness, the Vernon Carey and Cassius Stanley-led Blue Team trounced the Tre Jones and Matthew Hurt-led White team 47-38. Here are five observations from the night: Player of the night: Cassius Stanley Although not nearly as hyped as some of Duke’s other top prospects, Cassius Stanley still came with the buzz as the final piece to round out Duke’s No. 2 recruiting class. However, the young Blue Devil made waves for himself Friday night, making a clear case for why he could make the starting lineup. Posting 12 points on a surprising eight rebounds, Stanley’s quickness and verticality could not be matched, easily blowing through his defender to get to the basket. With someone as explosive of a scorer as Stanley, Duke continues its tradition of highly lethal wings. “You can expect to see a lot from him,” junior point guard Jordan Goldwire said. “He’s a really straight shooter, he plays defense and he’s really athletic. It’s a lot of different things from him.”

on the other end of the floor with a block on Tre Jones. With 15 points on the night, Duke’s highest-rated recruit should be a monster in the paint this season.

Vernon Carey is the king of the low post Vernon Carey made his presence known early as the bruiser in the paint he was touted as throughout the summer. After opening scoring by beating senior Javin DeLaurier for a low-post floater, Carey picked up the pace

Matthew Hurt is the real deal The second of Duke’s top-10 recruits, Matthew Hurt contrasts a slender frame with a lot of length and excellent scoring ability, showing it all night. A constant threat from inside and outside, Hurt’s quick

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Cassius Stanley dazzled in Friday night’s action, scoring 12 points and grabbing eight rebounds in an all-around standout performance for the California native. release coupled with slick dimes from Jones kept the Blue Team scrambling. With a roster boasting elite inside players in Carey and Stanley, the Rochester, Minn., native’s skills will be invaluable, especially if the Blue Devils face a cold night from beyond the arc. “I just try to be a matchup nightmare,” Hurt said. “I can play inside, I can drive it, I feel comfortable posting smaller guys up, and I want to keep working on that.”

Are Duke’s shooting woes behind them? Undeniably, last season’s crop of Blue Devils’ achilles heel was 3-point shooting, barely cracking 30 percent shooting and allowing Duke’s opponents to sag far into the paint. At the start of the night, those woes looked like they were behind the Blue Devils, with Alex O’Connell and Hurt pouring in their expected barrage of threes, with Goldwire and Carey also getting in the mix to showcase a Duke roster with range and slashing ability. However, just as Duke began to heat up, the proverbial monkey didn’t seem to get off the Blue Devils’ backs. Both teams threw up brick after brick form outside as the night progressed. Of the many questions surrounding this year’s Duke roster, shooting is one the Blue Devils must address before the meat of the season approaches. “[Shooting] is definitely something I’ve been working on a lot,” freshman forward Wendell Moore said. “Coach wants me to take shots, and I thought they were on target. They just didn’t go down.” Tre Jones’ offense still looks limited A near-unanimous selection for the preseason All-ACC team due to his slick passing and stellar on-ball defense, one of the keys to this year’s team will be Jones and his ability to lead on the floor. However, while the Apple Valley, Minn., native hounded the ball relentlessly on defense, he struggled mightily to earn any baskets himself. If Duke wants to avoid some of the pitfalls from last season, Jones must give opponents a reason not to sag off him on offense.

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‘TONIGHT WAS OUTSTANDING’ Duke freshman center Vernon Carey emerges in spectacular night By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

Though Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has built a balanced roster unfamiliar to Blue Devils fans in recent years and the lights may not be as bright, the college basketball world is about to take notice of a new Blue Devil freshman star: Vernon Carey Jr. A star emerged during Friday night’s Countdown to Craziness at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The top prospect in the highly touted Duke recruiting class put on a show all over the floor in the annual Blue-White scrimmage, displaying versatility that the NBA has come to treasure in big men. Carey finished the 20-minute game with a game-high 15 points along with three rebounds and two assists, also connecting on his only 3-point attempt. When Carey got the ball down low, he looked like a seasoned veteran with a precision on his moves that makes the fact that he didn’t spend much time at all in the paint before coming to Duke a shock. “He’s 15 pounds lighter and he’s playing where he knows he can get the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “Literally, he has not played in the post [before]. His footwork and all that comes from his work with us and our staff since about the second week of July. Tonight was outstanding

for him.” While the departure of Williamson, Barrett and Reddish was certainly expected, this season seemed like the first in a while that a new proready prospect wouldn’t immediately shoulder the load of a go-to guy. The 2019 recruiting class was the first crop of freshmen in seven years to not feature a recruit ranked in the top three of ESPN’s top 100 rankings. Enter Carey, the No. 6 overall prospect, who often flies under the radar thanks to his soft-spoken demeanor, something Krzyzewski says he has been improving on in terms of communication on the court. The Florida native has a frame similar to what Duke fans saw from Jahlil Okafor, but is in no way limited to the paint like the 2015 national champion. “Just wherever coach puts me,” Carey said on where he feels most comfortable on the floor. “I feel like I can just produce from [the 3-point line] or wherever coach puts me. Like I said, I’m just working on my versatility to be honest.” After a shaky start, the Blue team’s offense got into a rhythm that ran through the 6-foot-10, 270- pounder, especially with fellow freshman Cassius Stanley working off Carey for easy drives to the basket. Things will only get easier for the young center

when he teams up with an experienced floor general in Tre Jones and another front-court mate who is always a threat to fire from deep in Matthew Hurt. “Especially with someone like Matt Hurt, who will at times be our best shooter on the floor for us. When our bigs can spread the floor, it definitely opens up the floor for us more and we can move the defense,” Jones said. This year’s Blue Devils will have a flow very different from last season’s team, as the ball is now out of the hands of ball-dominant players and into those of a heady point guard and new weapons that can score from all over the court. The 2018-19 Duke squad could survive off nights with a monumental performance from one of their stars. These Blue Devils can survive off nights because there are so many scoring options to choose from. “There’s a lot of guys who weren’t really hitting shots tonight that have hit shots in practice, and there’s guys that hit shots tonight that will have off days as well,” Jones emphasized. “That’s something about our team that, like I mentioned, we’re a lot more balanced this year and we have a lot more depth.” The Blue Team went right to Carey on the See CAREY on Page 9

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In his first action in a Duke uniform, Vernon Carey Jr. performed brilliantly.

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Blue Devils buried in loss to Virginia By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Heading out of the locker room down 17, Duke desperately needed a spark on offense in one of its most important games of the 2019 season. A shot at the ACC Coastal championship, a crucial win at the mouth of the gauntlet of its schedule and an opportunity to eliminate past demons were all on the line. Instead, the Blue Devils opened the second half with the same pitfalls that completely derailed their first half. Deon Jackson DUKE 14 attempted his sixth 48 rush of the game, UVA but was sniffed out by the Cavaliers’ Noah Taylor, who laid the junior Blue Devils running back out for a forced fumble that Virginia recovered, setting the table for a quick home team field goal. Although the play far from decided the game, it was a microcosm of Duke’s offensive showing Saturday afternoon—a disjointed mess that could not back up a gassed Blue Devil defense. Duke fell 48-14 to the Cavaliers at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday afternoon. Despite a strong defensive effort that made the most of difficult field positioning thanks to a litany of Blue Devils turnovers—five for the afternoon— and resounding stops from the Cavaliers’ defense, Duke could not contain Virginia’s

Bryce Perkins once Virginia’s offense got rolling, handing the Blue Devils their worst loss to the Cavaliers since 2006. “I’ve got to give [the Cavaliers] a lot of credit, they had a good game defensively,” Duke quarterback Quentin Harris said. “They did a good job getting coverage of us on passing downs and a good job of penetrating the line of scrimmage on run plays. They eliminated our run game a little bit and did a good job in getting pressure in passing downs.... [Turnovers] are definitely frustrating, you definitely don’t want to turn the ball over. But they happen and they’re part of the game.” Throughout the opening half, the Blue Devils offense was completely anemic against Virginia’s stifling defense. The Blue Devils settled for screen passes and short rushes for minimal effect through a majority of the opening 30 minutes, which the home team greeted with with a defensive brick wall. The Blue Devils’ first half play-calling was questionable at crucial junctures of play. Down 10 after just giving up a field goal set up by a Virginia interception at the Duke 21-yard line, the Blue Devils (4-3, 2-2 in the ACC) opted to try a fourth-andinches attempt on its own 34 to give their offense a much-needed spark of life. The attempt, fresh off of four straight threeand-outs, failed spectacularly, earning no yardage and setting the Cavaliers up nicely in Duke territory again, leading to yet another Virginia touchdown.

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Deon Jackson fumbled on the first play from scrimmage of the second half, opening the scoring floodgates for the Cavaliers. The Blue Devils’ ineffective offense was dominated by the Hoos in the second quarter, with three straight drives cut off early thanks to turnovers deep in Duke territory. Luckily for the Blue Devils, Duke’s defense held strong enough to limit the bleeding stemming from offensive blunders, holding the Cavaliers (5-2, 3-1) for much of the contest. “We just weren’t getting it done,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I thought

[Harris] got hurried himself. You have to give [the Cavaliers] some credit with their ability to rush the passer. I mean he was trying to throw the ball away on the one interception and he overthrew one to no one. “That can happen sometimes, but don’t throw the ball away downfield. Throw the ball away just across the line of scrimmage. See BURIED on Page 9

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Duke’s ugly defeat marked by 3rd quarter collapse By Benjamin Chen Associate Sports Editor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—In each of its last five games, Duke went on an unanswered scoring run of 24 points or more to put the game away or make a furious comeback. After an ugly offensive first half in which Duke totaled just 73 yards, the Blue Devils went to the locker room facing a 17-0 deficit, desperately needing one of its patented scoring flurries to compete in a critical conference contest. But Saturday afternoon it was Virginia that scored 24 points in the third quarter to extend its lead to 41-7, putting the game out of reach. Things utterly fell apart in that third quarter, which was doomed from the get-go— literally. The very first play from scrimmage became a disaster when Deon Jackson coughed up the football on a bad exchange at the Duke 21-yard line, which quickly became three more points for the Cavaliers. Turnovers were a common theme for the Blue Devils, as quarterback Quentin Harris sailed a pass well over his receiver’s head for an interception while also losing a fumble on a blind side hit. The offense simply could not string together first downs with mistake after mistake. “Staying on the field offensively and staying off the field defensively is what it comes down to,” Harris said. “Definitely, we have to continue

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One of the few bright spots of Saturday afternoon, punter Austin Parker ran for two first downs on punt fakes, finishing the contest as Duke’s second leading rusher. to convert on third downs to keep drives alive and then, defensively, we need to find ways to get off the field sometimes as well. It doesn’t help the defense when we put them in bad situations with turnovers.” Defensively, Duke simply could not stop the two-headed monster of quarterback Bryce Perkins and running back Wayne Taulapapa,

who each rushed for a touchdown in the quarter. The two accounted for all five offensive touchdowns for the Cavaliers, with Perkins doing his damage on the ground with three rushing touchdowns. Rather than big plays, Virginia largely relied on methodically driving down the field. “They didn’t do anything differently [in

the third quarter],” Blue Devils safety Dylan Singleton said. “We just didn’t make the plays we needed to make.” Even special teams was a mixed bag for the Blue Devils. Ironically, a mishandled snap on a punt proved to spark the offense as punter Austin Parkers scampered for a fourth-down conversion. His speed inspired Duke to call for a fake punt the next time around, which became yet another first down on the Blue Devils’ lone touchdown drive to make it 27-7. However, any chance for a comeback was immediately dashed on the ensuing kickoff, as Virginia speedster Joe Reed returned the football 95 yards to the house. The play, in which multiple players could not get off their blocks or make a tackle, was emblematic of a dejected team that lacked energy. With the offense sputtering, the defense looked worn down as it stayed on the field for long periods at a time. The Cavaliers dominated time of possession, holding the ball for 34:29. “Here’s the thing that has to be repaired the most: blocking and tackling, period,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “No matter what you run, no matter what you call offensively, inside or outside, we did not consistently block. Not a schematic issue—just didn’t get it done.” While the first half was ugly, the game was See COLLAPSE on Page 9

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Takeaways from Duke’s Blue-White scrimmage By Spencer Levy Sports Features Editor

For their first game since bowing out of the ACC tournament last March, the Blue Devils returned to action, coming out playing aggressively and showcasing a balanced scoring attack in their annual Blue-White intersquad scrimmage Sunday afternoon. In the first half, the White team, made up of the starters from a year ago, took on the Blue team, which featured three of the Duke freshmen, at Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday afternoon. The 2019 edition of the Blue-White exhibition resulted in the White team taking the victory 89-71, with the men’s scout team playing as the Blue squad in the second half. Player of the game: Haley Gorecki Gorecki, assuming a leadership position for the second year in a row, attacked the basket relentlessly Sunday. She finished the first half with 12 points, three steals and three rebounds. The Palatine, Ill., native knocked down all five of her free throws and dished out a pair of assists. After being double-teamed four minutes into the second half, she dribbled out and continued the team’s ball movement and eventually got the ball back, resulting in an open triple. Gorecki ended up scoring seven points in 13 second-half minutes and picked up a pair of assists and rebounds.

Leaonna Odom holds down the point Odom began the game as the White team’s point guard and pushed the ball off made baskets in the opening quarter. When she came out of the game, Goodchild assumed the point guard responsibilities until Odom returned. Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie noted after the game that Goodchild “could not run the point last year,” but will be taking the reins this season at times. Odom and freshman Azana Baines will see the majority of the point guard minutes until graduate student Kyra Lambert and Mikayla Boykin return from their respective injuries sometime during the season. In the second frame, Odom continued to look comfortable as floor general and looked to get the ball inside to junior Jade Williams on a few different occasions. With the clock winding down in the first half, Odom drove past her defender and was fouled. She drained the pair of free throws to finish the first half with five points. “She’s getting comfortable with that role,” junior Jade Williams said regarding Odom’s point guard play. “I just know to run the floor and she will find me. She’s very good at drawing defense and creating openings and gaps.” Forty seconds into the final period, Odom pushed the ball down the floor and completed an and-one to put her team up double-digits. She scored a team-high 10 points in the second half on a perfect 4-for-4 shooting. Emily Schubert shows a veteran presence

pass as she ran down the floor on the next possession. At the end of the first half, Schubert finished with eight points on 4-of-7 shooting and three rebounds. “Now she’s settling down in her complete game,” McCallie continued. “In the past, I thought she shot it quick all the time... today, you saw a very mature player.”

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Haley Gorecki attacked the basket all afternoon, finishing the first half with 12 points. In the first half, Emily Schubert teamed up with freshmen Jaida Patrick, Jada Claude and Azana Baines on the Blue team. As the only returning player on that team, Schubert looked for the ball on both fast breaks and the half-court offense. “Emily’s a special person,” McCallie said. “A complete team player…. Never complains, always leads.” Schubert, a team captain alongside Gorecki and Krya Lambert, drained a midrange jump shot in the first quarter and received an outlet

Jade Williams attacks the basket In the first half, Williams situated herself near the 3-point line and would take her defender to the basket repeatedly. She finished the first half with 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting and six rebounds, three of which came on the offensive end. Williams was also the recipient of one of Odom’s inside passes when she pushed the ball off a made basket. Williams dropped in seven points in the second half and brought down two rebounds. The Colony, Texas native also went one-for-two from behind the arc. First-team defense comes out strong McCallie emphasized strong defense and the White team racked up a multitude of steals and blocks. In the first half, Gorecki’s three steals and Onome Akinbode-James’ two led the way. In the second half, the Blue Devils mixed up their defensive sets and utilized some looks that the freshmen trio had not practiced this fall. “That was actually funny because it confused the offense and the guys generally turned it over,” McCallie said. “But the bottom line was nobody knew what they were doing.”

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CAREY FROM PAGE 6 first play of the game, which ended in a smooth baby hook shot falling for the NSU University School product, but there wasn’t a spot on the court where he was limited to, finding shots from the top of the key, the short corners and in transition. He’ll face a tough first test in Kansas against Udoka Azubuike, but Carey’s competence around the floor could give the Jayhawk center trouble if he has to chase the freshman outside of the paint, where the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year makes his living. The new-look Blue Devils certainly look like a more balanced, versatile team with a number

of guys who can contribute meaningful minutes. Even in the absence of an alpha-dog top scorer like Williamson or Barrett, Carey flashed glimpses of a lottery pick like those before him and that he can be the catalyst for Duke’s offense this year. “He was actually a guy that you could play through tonight and that was something really good to see,” Krzyzewski noted. “As a result, his team didn’t take as many threes, they had more assists, it kind of gave a rhythm to his team.” Though he isn’t going to make headlines with every word he speaks and he claims his multifaceted skillset is “just something he wants to get better at,” Carey is already making himself known as the next Blue Devils freshman sensation.

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Though the quiet Vernon Carey Jr. may not speak much, his game will speak for him this year.

BURIED FROM PAGE 7 When I said it when he came off, he knew. It won’t be the last error he makes, I will have many more that I’m going to make, and we move forward.” Late in the third quarter, Duke finally put some points on the board thanks to a pair of trick plays to discombobulate Virginia’s defense. On back-to-back fourth downs, the Blue Devils ran formations for punter Austin Parker to rush for a first down, punching it through each time to finally make it into Virginia territory—the first time of the half. Harris followed it up with a 36-yard rainbow to Scott Bracey for the Blue Devils’ first score of the day, making the score 27-7. But just as Duke found a slim glimmer of hope, the Cavaliers’ Joe Reed took the Blue Devils kick back to the house for a 95-yard touchdown return, sealing Duke’s fate Saturday afternoon. With this loss, the Blue Devils’ chances at a Coastal title have slimmed considerably. With Duke facing a date with North Carolina next Saturday, the Blue Devils will have to shake off the loss lest their Coastal chances fall away for good. “This is a game that we knew the implications of it,” Cutcliffe said. “It doesn’t define the Coastal division, but there’s implications in every Coastal division game period. Whether it was Pitt, whether it was Virginia Tech, you move forward. “We’ll get over it. We’ve always had the ability to do that. We’ve got great young people, we’ve got great staff. That’s how you go about getting it done.”

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COLLAPSE FROM PAGE 7 clearly lost in the third quarter, a large part of which consisted of the Blue Devils shooting themselves in the foot. While Duke appeared to be stunned, particularly considering the implications of the match for the ACC Coastal division, Virginia took advantage and never looked back. “Certainly, I have to give Virginia some credit, but a big part of this was malfunction on our part,” Cutcliffe said. “People are going to ask, ‘What are you going to do?’ You practice football. You also try to heal people emotionally.” With the Blue Devils heading over to North Carolina next week in the battle for the Victory Bell, that emotional healing needs to come quickly for Cutcliffe’s squad if it hopes to stay competitive in the division.

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Quentin Harris threw two interceptions.

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ne thing you won’t find in a Duke packing list is to bring a good pair of basketball shoes. Rain boots, yes. Shower shoes, yes. Dress shoes, of course. It’s all there, primly assorted. But not basketball shoes. They’re the sort of item, like extra towels, or air freshener, that are only brought by the people who think of them.

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I was not one of those people, declaring to my parents the only footwear I needed were a pair of running shoes. Utility over specificity, I thought, picking out a pair of blue Nike sneakers that looked like they needed a diligent owner. In the two months I’ve been here, my shoes have served me well. They’re quick to put on after I wake up ten minutes before class. They’re useful for sprinting after rogue C1 buses departing the East Campus bus stop. And they’re easy to take off after a long and arduous day. But they aren’t designed for hardwood. It’s not codified anywhere, your feet are yours to squander, but just trust me on this one: do not wear running shoes to a basketball court if you are not prepared to fall. Crouching in a low stance, I stalked my friend Jerry who was dribbling the ball. I knew I couldn’t give him space to shoot, so I decided to close the space between us. Jerry must have expected my defensive adjustment. He suddenly changed his pace, dribbling towards my left side with his right hand. I pawed at the basketball, touching it briefly before Jerry immediately switched to his other hand. By this point, my forward momentum had already destabilized my legs, which collapsed under me like putty as Jerry transitioned into a smooth layup. Game. In basketball vernacular, when an overzealous defender falls over themselves, they call the action

“breaking one’s ankles”. But it’s more of a euphemism for the breaking of one’s soul. Since then, every time I went to Brodie Gym to play basketball, I harbored this fear. I did not want my ankles to be broken again, so I stayed back on defense. I covered the zone instead of the man. I let the dribbler blow by my left side without reaching for the ball. I gave them all the time to shoot. It’s an incredibly passive playstyle. It’s also incredibly mundane, and it ignores a salient reality of our time at Duke. Whether it happens in a gymnasium or not, eventually, we will have our ankles broken despite playing perfect defense. We will contest the ball and still get dunked on. We will make every shot and still have the buzzer-beater ricochet off the backboard. We’ll prove we can do everything- that we can hustle, playcall, set screens, and reboundand still be the last pick on the team. In the words of Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” But who says we need to follow the rules? Life in the absence of mistakes is just a scoreless basketball game. Why wear running shoes if I’m not going to take a risk to steal the ball, even if it means hydroplaning into hardwood? Why take a challenging class just to play it safe? Why come to Duke University just for the degree? I know I can always buy a pair of basketball shoes, or simply not go to Brodie Gym at all. But there is an intangible satisfaction, running up and down the basketball court in my infirm Nikes, of committing to things that don’t make conventional sense. A few weeks later, I’m crouching in front of Jerry again. I don’t zone him this time, or hide in the paint. He dribbles forward. We both know he’s going left. I shift my stance. Jerry suddenly does the familiar, dribbling towards me, the ball outstretched in his hands. I lunge. He crosses. I stagger. He scores. But I’m not on the ground this time. I can still feel my ankles, and they’re ready to go again. Michael Cao is a Trinity first-year. His column, “marketplace of the mind,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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The case for well-behaved women (and men)

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ome show Duke pride: GTHC, white letters in an unequivocally Duke-blue circle. DDMF, in any way it comes. “Bull City,” tracing the figure of a Durham bull. “Anyone but Carolina.” “Forever Duke.” Others represent wide-ranging special interests: Feel the Bern. Warren 2020. “Home” plastered across the state of your choice or the three-lettered identifier of one’s airport or ski

Lizzie Bond COLUMNIST resort of choice. “Climate change is real” and “There is no planet B.” The occasional Greek lettering or selective living group identifiers (think “Cooper” with infinity-sign o’s). Rainbowlettered “Love is Love” and “Love Wins.” “#BlackLivesMatter” and “Black Girl Magic” and “Melanin Poppin’.” And then, of course, there many are unabashedly feminist: “The Notorious RBG” encircling an image of, well, RBG’s face. #GirlPower or #GirlBoss. “The Future is Female” lining the knuckles of a fist ready to #ResistthePatriarchy. “My Body, My Choice” and “A Woman’s Place is in the House and the Senate.” While the typical Duke students gloss their eyes over these all-too-common stickers as unthinkingly and automatically as they paste them on their own laptops and water bottles, one, in particular, should give us pause. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Virtually no truly #empoweredwoman at Duke, it seems, can claim to boast an acceptable repertoire of #unapologetic and #woke feminist stickers without this one. And yet, as I noticed my peer’s laptop splattered with the phrase sitting across from our Oxford tutor while studying there this summer, at one of the most rule-laden, restrictive, tradition-bound, and uptight places in the entire world, I couldn’t help but wince with latent unease. Was it irony, to tacitly endorse disobedience and insurrection while at a 900-plus-year-old institution whose very existence lies in its patrons’ acquiescence to its strictures and deep-rooted conventions? Or, was it, instead, a visceral protestation against the idea that my well-meaning peer, and now perhaps the modern world, equates being well-behaved with being sheepishly reticent, lamentably submissive, so worthless as to be forgotten, complicit and culpable in the ills that mark our history as those who committed the wrongdoing themselves? As with so many of the conundrums I face, David Brooks helped give voice to my instinctive disquiet with the message

that to behave well, to act politely and treat one’s neighbors graciously and respectfully, is to render oneself pathetic and ultimately insignificant. While reflecting in his well-known The Road to Character on the value of self-mastery to the formation of inner righteousness that George Marshall embodied, Brooks writes: “Marshall’s polite social manner matched his polite inner makeup. The French philosopher André Comte-Sponville argues that politeness is the prerequisite for the great virtues: ‘Morality is like a politeness of the soul, an etiquette of inner life, a code of duties.’ It is a series of practices that make you considerate of others.” Far from arbitrary and antiquated—and even oppressive— standards of behavior, then, politeness, a well-behaved way of interacting with one’s fellow man and in the world, stands as a conditioning for a soul ordered in virtue, with an eye to both the common good and the good in human existence. With this in mind, our social and cultural conventions which erect the strictures of well-mannered conduct, in this way, prove neither atavistic nor haphazard, neither unjust nor repressive. Rather, they represent man’s accumulated wisdom on how to govern human behavior in such a way as to condition internal virtue. By unburdening human interactions from coarseness and discomfort, standards of politeness and expectations of wellbehaving individuals serve ultimately to liberate and provide him or her with the space (and luxury) for moral introspection and growth while operating in civil society amongst his or her fellow man endeavoring to do the same. Inherent within this understanding, however, lies a deeper message which modern calls towards insurrection against “well-behaved women” and men forgo: not only do traditional expectations for good manners sculpt, at the very least, a society within which we can more securely pursue the good alongside our neighbors, but undergirding the notion of manners itself is the fundamental wisdom of the equal humanness which we share, most especially in our interactions with one another. To be equally made; to possess inherent and equal dignity, irrespective of worldly difference; to suffer amidst the same human fallibility and to rejoice in another’s graciousness towards you, if for nothing else than a sense of common human experience—this is the best of what it means to be well-behaved. Even as a woman who strives (albeit imperfectly) both to be “well-behaved” and to “make history” (especially by pushing back against regrettable behaviors that have become norms), I sympathize with the motivations to break the mold, as it were, of well-mannered social convention in a noble effort to liberate all human potential and dignity. For Harriet Tubman, in escaping her slave owner’s legal possession over her, was

not well-behaved; American patriots, in revolting against the British crown’s imperial hold over them, were not wellbehaved; Rosa Parks, in occupying a legally whites-only seat on the bus, was not well-behaved. These brave souls, I would argue, were right to not be well-behaved. At the same time, however, today, to glorify defiance and vilify well-mannered-ness, is to slice deeper the already abysmal divisions which not only debilitate our society, but which fracture even our own campus. Where are manners when our peers commit sexual assault at a nauseatingly high rate at Duke? Where are manners when our peers incite hatred through public messages of racism and anti-Semitism? Where are manners when our peers, desperate

Standards of politeness and expectations of well-behaving individuals serve ultimately to liberate and provide him or her with the space (and luxury) for moral introspection and growth. Lizzie Bond columnist

for a sense of community, feel forced to endure the gruesome rush process, or even hazing, simply out of a desire to fit in on an otherwise socially fragmented and exclusive campus? Where are manners when our peers seek to impeach members from a student group, or to blacklist them from others? On a campus—and in a world—so preoccupied with being #nasty, with overturning oppressive power structures, with prevailing as the loudest voice in the room, with name-calling as a and with exposing societal ills, even if that means storming stages, perhaps it would do us good to heed the wisdom of Brooks (and Comte-Sponville), to be “considerate of others,” to focus on cultivating the “great virtues,” even if that means appearing lackluster or conformist or meek. The question of virtue begs a further one: should we be more concerned with making history—with acquiring fame or even notoriety—or with being well-behaved, with conditioning the inner order of our souls with virtue? I would like to think that the two prove not mutually exclusive, but, between the two, I would choose the latter. I hope you would, too. Lizzie Bond is a Trinity junior. Her column, notes from the girl your mom wants you to marry, runs on alternate Mondays.

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lright, I have fifteen minutes.” Sweat beads down my forehead as I storm through the doors of Penn Pavilion, darting from table to table. A mountain of papers rapidly accumulated in my hands: Study Abroad, Academic Resources Center, Psychology, History,

Catherine McMillan THE DEVIL’S ARCHIVE Public Policy—the list goes on. I circled the perimeter of Penn twice, making rapid-fire stops to absorb as much insight as possible while knowing that I had to run to my 11:45 a.m. class in three minutes. The Majors Fair came and went in a flash. As I sped-walked my way to class, I flipped through the massive stack of handouts clutched tightly in my hands. My mind swept thoughts of insecurity away, a momentary respite only to be reactivated by an everlingering reality: I needed to make some concrete decisions, and fast. Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, the Majors Fair acts as a harbinger for the spooky and quickly-approaching Bookbagging season. And if you’re anything like me, Bookbagging season elapses as a series of avoidant behaviors up until the cusp of the even more terrifying registration window.

When I confirm that multi-factor authentication and click on the ‘Registration’ tab, maybe I’ll glance at some of the disciplinary course offerings. Or, perhaps, DukeHub will be a ubiquitous tab on my desktop, providing assurance but remaining altogether untouched to evade catalyzing the scheduling process. More likely still, I’ll open Dukehub out of necessity, browse around for a few minutes and quickly flee from the task out of sheer choice fatigue. But inevitably, and much to my dismay, registration hits. While these specific Bookbagging travails may be largely unique to me, the embedded fears are widely applicable. Am I choosing the right classes? Is this the right major for me? What do I really want to do with my life? “Alright, I have a semester.” Granted, Bookbagging and registration are worrying timeframes, marked by midnight pro-con list-making, opinion soliciting from friends and interrogative rate-my-professor searches. But beneath these processes lies a deeper question: “What should I major in?” A certain cadence seems to mark the interactions I have had with empathetic listeners of my majorless saga. They begin with the all to-be-expected “What are you interested in?” “A lot of things,” I reply, unenthused. “Which are…” they prod encouragingly. I then proceed to relay a laundry-list of disciplines that have any remote interest to me, exhausting all possibilities until the severity of my quandary is adequately translated.

As of now, I’m three semesters deep into my undergraduate experience and I still don’t have a clue what I want to major in. And that’s okay. Catherine McMillan the devil’s archive

“Oh, well…” they sputter out in resignation. “Don’t worry—uh, you still have time!” In the effort to comfort, this illusion of infinite time is at best a petty white lie to quell unease and at worst a false expectation that imposes stress and guilt upon students. Because the reality is that the major declaration deadline for sophomores is just shy of a semester away. Where’s that infinite time now? That’s not to say that one is incapable of changing their major after the fact. But the very act of choosing a major has a sense of fatal determinism to it, as if this one decision dictates the rest of your life. This perception is imposed culturally. From the day we are thrown onto East campus as first-years, the two questions we are asked from the get-go are: “Where are you from?” and “What is your major?” The question directly feeds into the implicit stigmatization of being undecided. Last semester, I was restless with worry that I was undecided, especially as my peers began to shape up their four-year plans. Although, looking back, it’s a bit

ludicrous that some people were so set on an academic trajectory before they even had the opportunity to take any classes. While categorizing yourself into a “major bucket” can be a heuristic for peers—to gauge interests and grasp if there are any curricular overlaps that are suitable to form study groups, commiserate, or probe for opportunities—there’s not much, if any, added value to posing the question. Rather than copy-and-paste these dull scripts, I propose a new set of questions, namely: “What excites you?” and “What are you passionate about?” By asking these questions, students can transcend essentializing people down to their major and instead provoke more meaningful conversations on identity and areas of interest. Yes, these columns have been done before, and will inevitably be written again, but it’s important to reiterate that it is developmentally important and even normal to have these doubts when choosing a major. As of now, I’m three semesters deep into my undergraduate experience and I still don’t have a clue what I want to major in. And that’s okay. If you get anything from this column, let it be validation: that your pace, your own academic timeline is unique to you, whether you decide in the first month of classes or change your major four times before junior fall. You are not your major. Catherine McMillan is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “the devil’s archive,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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and close down Central Campus this year. Trask pushed Duke to invest in Durham as well. The University donated $7.5 million to help Durham construct the $46.8 million Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC). It has also placed hundreds of employees in offices downtown during the last two decades. By renting out thousands of square feet in the American Tobacco District and other downtown properties, Duke helped attract investors to the area. “We wanted Duke to be a ‘credit-worthy client’ and did not want downtown Durham to be downtown Duke,” Bill Kalkhof, the inaugural president of Downtown Durham Inc., said in 2014. “By Duke not owning the property, the property stayed on the tax forms for Durham. Duke stepped up to the plate in a very big way at a critical time.” But last year, the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project came to a halt when Duke would not agree to sign a cooperation agreement. The project became a major point of contention between Duke and Durham. Duke—with Trask as its main liaison—and regional officials spent 20 years negotiating a light rail connecting Durham and Chapel Hill. When Duke decided to not sign a cooperation agreement to donate land by its medical center to GoTriangle, the regional transit authority, in February 2019, the University effectively put the final nail in the coffin for the light rail. His biggest controversy came in February 2016, when The Chronicle reported that Trask hit parking attendant Shelvia Underwood with his Porsche before a football game in 2014. Underwood accused Trask of calling her a “stupid n******” as he drove off, which he denied. She filed a lawsuit in March 2016 against Trask and Duke, alleging battery, negligence, civil conspiracy and obstruction of justice, which was dismissed in 2017 after an insurance settlement.

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known as the Campus Center—which was designed to be the center of student life. The project featured the new Health and Wellness Center, Penn Pavilion and elevated walkway, as well as restorations for Page Auditorium. Most notably, West Union— now the Brodhead Center—was rebuilt for $95 million into the glass-walled dining hub students know today. The birth of the Campus Center coincided with other construction in the last five years, as Trask oversaw renovations to the Chapel, Wallace Wade Stadium and Baldwin Auditorium and the building of the Rubenstein Arts Center. Additionally, three residence halls have been built since 1995: The West-Edens Link (now Keohane Quad) in Fall 2002, Trinity Dorm on East Campus in 2017 and Hollows Quad in August. Numerous others have been modernized, including Craven and Crowell Quads and Southgate Dorm in the past few years. In 2003, the American Institute of Architects elected him as an honorary member. “Tallman will rightfully be remembered at Duke for his steady transformation of our campus, as he delivered a modern, indeed spectacular physical plant that better promotes the health and well-being of all who work and live here,” President Vincent Price said in a news release. Trask helped navigate Duke through the Great Recession, when the University endowment fell by 25% and Duke had to postpone or cancel major projects. He made spending cuts and helped to keep Duke afloat during the crisis. He told Duke Student Government Senate in February 2009 that the University was running a deficit of around $130 million. By March, the endowment—which supports Duke’s budget, Beware the lollipop of mediocrity In 1994, Duke was not on Trask’s radar. The especially for financial aid, faculty salaries and other services—was down from $6 billion to $4 third-generation Los Angeles native had lived most of his life on the West Coast, and he was billion, and Duke was looking to save money. Trask explained to The Chronicle in 2009 at the time the executive vice president of the that he prioritized maintaining academic University of Washington, another research funding levels while focusing on administrative institution with close ties to its hospital. “I had no interest in coming to Duke,” he told spending cuts so that faculty and students didn’t have to suffer too many consequences. He stuck The Chronicle in October. “If you’d asked me six weeksSales beforeCorporation I came here, ‘What are the odds you with the University throughout theYork pastTimes decade The New Syndication 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, move N.Y. 10018 would to North Carolina?’ I would have until it could orchestrate a construction boom For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Friday, October 18, 2019

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REFLECTIONS FROM PAGE 4 I think we’ll be okay in the short run and the intermediate run. TC: Just that eventually you can’t keep raising tuition? TT: You can’t keep raising tuition and then discount it for financial aid to the point there’s no money left. And some people are over 50% discount right now. TC: What is more sustainable? What should we change to? TT: If we had another $2 to $3 billion in endowment, our model is sustainable for a very long time, as long as we pay attention to expenditures. I mean, what makes our model work is, as Tim Walsh calls them, ‘the 3 Ds.’ We have development and if we bring in $500 million a year, that helps. If we don’t, that’ll be a problem. We have DUMAC, whose returns historically have been very good. And then we have DUHS, which is probably the best performing health system in the country. If any of those three go away, then our current model is not sustainable at our current size and expenditure.

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