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DUKE’S FACULTY IS CHANGING

Some students on financial aid will soon have to pay for health insurance

In a decade, the faculty rank distribution on campus has shifted dramatically away from tenure-track positions.

By Julianna Rennie Staff Reporter

Last month, some families received a letter explaining that Duke University will no longer pay for their student’s health insurance. When junior Daria Patterson-Smith found out about the policy change, she realized that her plans for senior year may be derailed. Patterson-Smith’s family has health insurance through Kaiser Permanente, but their plan is not accepted at Duke. For the past three years, she has been covered by Duke’s student insurance plan, which was part of her financial aid package. But next year, she could have to pay for the student insurance plan out-of-pocket, almost doubling her costs for school. Patterson-Smith’s expected family contribution is about $3,000. She is a resident assistant on East Campus, and she works at a lab for 10 hours a week to pay for tuition. She also has been saving up so that she could live off-campus during her senior year. Now, she may not be able to afford it. Duke requires undergraduate students to either provide proof that they are covered by an approved health insurance plan or purchase its student insurance plan. The student insurance plan costs $3,535 each year and must be paid in full before the fall semester starts, according to the Student Affairs website. In past years, any students receiving need-based financial aid who did not report having approved health insurance coverage were added to the student insurance plan for free. However, starting in the 20192020 academic year, Duke will only cover that cost for students receiving need-based financial aid who have a calculated parent contribution of $0. Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of the Karsh Office of Undergraduate Financial Support, said that the financial aid office hopes most of the affected students can be added back onto their families’ health insurance plans to avoid having to pay for the student insurance plan. She said that the office sent letters home as early as possible to maximize families’ opportunity to figure out the new policy. “We understand that it’s going to be an additional cost to some families,” Rabil said. “For some families, it will be the additional cost of putting them back on your insurance, and for some it will be the additional cost of the Duke insurance. Hopefully, the cost will not be something that the families can’t manage reasonably.” If the cost is prohibitive, then families will have the opportunity to appeal. Rabil added that the financial aid office is still figuring out how the appeals process will work. In the meantime,

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The composition of faculty rank is radically changing at Duke and at some of its peers. From 2008 to 2017, the number of tenure track faculty at Duke declined by three percent. In contrast, the number of non-tenure track regular rank faculty grew by 66 percent. Non-regular rank faculty increased by 72 percent. This was not an intentional or strategic change, according to a new report presented to Academic Council this week. The pressures—tightened budgets and increased master’s programs—that drove the shift towards non-tenured faculty are not going away: a handful of new master’s programs were approved by Duke last year. “The faculty mix at Duke has unambiguously shifted away from tenure-track faculty toward non-tenure track regular rank faculty, and especially toward non-regular rank faculty,” the report states. The background After a task force on faculty diversity in 2015 noticed that there appeared to be a shift in the rank distribution of nonregular rank faculty, Gavan Fitzsimons, Edward S. & Rose K. Donnell Professor of marketing and psychology, said. Fitzsimons was picked to chair the follow-up ad-hoc committee, which sought to find out if there was a change in the rank distribution. At Duke, there are three categories of faculty rank: tenure track professors, non-tenure track but regular rank, and non-regular rank. Tenure track professors are assistant and associate professors, or full professors who have already gained tenure. They typically split their time between research and teaching, and

some take on service to the University. Non-tenure track but regular rank professors are ones who fall within the scope of regular rank, but not in tenuretrack positions. These are professors of the practice and research faculty. Nonregular rank faculty are adjunct faculty, who are hired on short-term contracts and paid on a per-class basis. If it sounds complicated, that’s because it is. Fitzsimons explained that most other schools don’t distinguish between regular rank and non-tenure track regular rank faculty, further complicating Duke’s academic alphabet soup. We’ll spare you further explanation of the titles associated with each rank, because according to the report produced by Fitzsimon’s committee, Duke uses almost 60 different ones. Here’s what their eight-page report says: the faculty distribution at Duke has shifted dramatically in recent years towards non-tenure track faculty. This is important for Duke for two key reasons: it marks a potential shift away from a research focus, and may impact “the sense of community across campus,” according to the report. The numbers Across the University, the number of tenure track faculty has declined slightly from 2008 to 2017 as the number of non-tenure track regular rank and nonregular rank professors has risen steeply. According to the report, the committee is “convinced that this shift in faculty rank is real, with [tenure track] faculty numbers not growing, while [non-tenure track regular rank] faculty and [non-regular rank] faculty numbers have grown substantially.” By the raw number of faculty at the University-wide level, there are nearly

900 more non-regular rank faculty members now in 2017 than in 2008—a jump from 1,227 to 2,113. The number of non-tenure track regular rank jumped by nearly 800, from 1,160 to 1,930. On the other hand, the number of tenure-track regular rank faculty declined by 60, from 1,730 to 1,670. Duke did not have reliable data for the non-regular rank faculty at Duke before 2008, according to the report. This trend towards non-tenure track faculty is not at all unique to Duke. The report included information about faculty rank distribution changes at peer schools in the Association of American Universities, although most schools do not have the non-tenure track regular rank category and instead lump them in with the non-tenure track category. Some schools have had even more dramatic changes than Duke. Columbia University has had a 161 percent increase in non-tenure track faculty, and a four percent decrease in the tenure-track faculty. The University of Pennsylvania increased its non-tenure track faculty from 155 to 486, a 214 percent increase. On the other hand, Harvard’s percentage of non-tenure track faculty dropped by 55 percent and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped its number of nontenure track faculty by 96 percent—from 220 to eight. What caused the shift? Fitzsimons’ committee spent a year meeting with all of the deans and leadership teams at each school, as well as leadership from the Duke Faculty Union. The resulting report highlighted See FACULTY on Page 12

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CLASS OF 2022 SURVEY

International students have lower incomes, Students of color attended private schools at higher rate report less interest in Greek life University News Editor

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Duke prides itself on its worldwide diversity, attracting hundreds of international students every year. How do statistics on income, school type, admissions counselor and opinions on test scores compare between domestic and international students? The data presented comes from The Chronicle’s survey of the Class of 2022. According to the survey, the average international student is generally less welloff than the average domestic student, especially in terms of income. The greatest number of both international and domestic students surveyed have family incomes between $125,000-$250,000, with 9 and 69 students respectively. Nearly 35 percent of domestic students surveyed came from families making $250,000-$500,000 or more than $500,000, dwarfing the nearly 11 percent of international students in those categories. About 55 percent of international students come from families making between $0-$125,000, compared to 36 percent of domestic students. Most international students have family incomes of $0-$40,000 or $125,000-$250,000. In terms of schooling, international students were more likely to have gone to private school than domestic ones. About 60 percent of surveyed

international students attended private school, whereas only 23 percent of domestic students did. The survey shows that international students hired a private admissions counselor to help with the college admissions process at a slightly greater rate than domestic students—28.6 percent compared to 22.6 percent, respectively. There was very little difference between reported SAT and ACT scores of domestic

and international students in the survey. Although international students reported a slightly lower SAT score, they also reported a slightly higher ACT score. Finally, around 68 percent domestic and 54 percent foreign students support Duke requiring standardized test scores for its application. Earlier this year, the University announced that it would stop requiring SAT essay and ACT writing scores.

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According to a survey, white first-years come from wealthier backgrounds than first-years of color. Earlier this week, The Chronicle released survey data on the Class of 2022. The survey, which was taken by more than 250 first-years, asked participants questions about their backgrounds, interests and plans at Duke. There were stark differences between white first-years and first-years of color. It should be noted that only two Native American students took the survey, so statistically the results within that category will look extreme. One area of difference was family income. Although more than 43 percent of white first-years reported a family income greater than $250,000, only about 24 percent of Asian students, 9 percent of black or African American students and 16 percent of Hispanic students reported that level of income or higher. Similarly, there was contrast regarding majors of interest. Almost 40 percent of the white students who took the survey indicated being interested in an engineering major compared to about 25 percent of Asian students and 29 percent of Hispanic students. Almost 36 percent of black or African American students reported interest in biology, but only 14 percent of Hispanic students and 17 percent of white students chose biology. According to survey results, Hispanic students showed the most interest in Greek life and selective living groups—40 percent indicated that they were “very” or “extremely” interested in both. Similarly, there was contrast regarding majors of interest. See STUDENTS on Page 4

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Legacy students report higher incomes, more interest in tenting By Stefanie Pousoulides University News Editor

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interest in rushing Greek life. A little more than 22 percent of legacy students in the survey participants indicated that they were “very” or “extremely” interested in rushing Greek life compared to only about 17 percent of nonlegacy students. Although a higher percentage of non-legacy students have not watched a single Duke basketball game, 87 percent of non-legacy students are interested in tenting in K-Ville during their first year as opposed to 78 percent of legacy students. A greater proportion of legacy students also showed greater interest in tenting. About two-fifths of legacy students indicated that they were “probably” or “definitely” going to tent compared to about 32 percent of non-legacy students.

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Percentage of students

In The Chronicle’s survey of the Class of 2022, first-years were asked if any of their parents or siblings attended Duke University. Students who answered yes were defined as legacy— there were 37 legacy and 221 non-legacy students. The survey discovered that legacy and non-legacy students vary most in family income, interest in Greek life, the number of Duke basketball games viewed and tenting interest. But they have similar average test scores. A larger concentration of legacy family incomes is higher than average, as more than half of legacy-students

have family incomes above $250,000. Non-legacy students have family incomes that are more evenly distributed. Of all income percentage categories, the highest concentration of legacy students have family incomes from $250,000 to $500,000. About a third of non-legacy students have family incomes from $125,000 to $250,000. No legacy student had an income at or below $40,000, but 10 percent of non-legacy students do. In the survey, legacy students had slightly lower standardized test scores than non-legacy students. Legacy students have an average SAT score of 1520 and average ACT score of 33.5. Nonlegacy students have an average SAT score of 1525 and average ACT score of 34.3. While more legacy students expressed no interest in rushing Greek life at all, more also expressed extreme

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relocated to West Campus for the next academic year, as Central Campus will be decommissioned the day after commencement in 2019, according to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. However, some Central Campus residents will move to 300 Swift. 300 Swift will remain open past the end of the academic year, although administrators emphasized that the university does not intend for it to be a permanent undergraduate housing option. The building was bought to temporarily house upperclass students during renovations to Craven and Crowell quads, which were expected to last three years. “When 300 Swift was purchased, it was done so with the hopes it would only temporarily house undergraduates and that has not changed,” Gonzalez wrote to the Chronicle. The new dorms will have around 500 beds, Gonzalez estimated. 300 Swift houses 420 undergraduates for Fall 2018, according to the university. The increase in capacity will allow Duke to withstand future increases to enrollment without new construction.

“It allows us to comfortably meet the oncampus housing demand we foresee in the coming years,” Gonzalez wrote. Wish there was more construction at Duke? Moneta expressed hope that the project could The next five years may be for you, as plans for be completed within five years. While the opening new dorms on West Campus take shape. of the new dorms may be years away, the design Following up on comments to Duke Student and funding processes are already ramping up. Government last week, Duke administrators “We’re having a lot of conversations. I’m discussed plans for two new dorms on West talking to the President [Vincent Price], I’m Campus, including a new funding process, the talking to Larry [Moneta], I’m talking to implications for 300 Swift and the future of the architects,” Trask said. residential experience. He added that architects for the new Executive Vice President Tallman Trask dorms will likely be hired within the next confirmed two locations are being considered four to six months. as likely sites for the new buildings: one near What the new dorms’ residential experience the Duke Wellness Center, at the intersection of will look like is still unclear. Those decisions will Towerview Road and Science Drive, and a second be led by the Next Generation Living and Learning between the Hollows and Edens Quadrangle. Experience Task Force, which was established by The two new dorms will fulfill a long-term the Board of Trustees in May 2018. housing administration priority of bringing all Gary Bennett, vice provost for upperclassmen to West Campus, according to undergraduate education and vice chair of Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student the task force, said that while the plans for affairs and dean for residential life. the dorms predate the task force, it will play a Most students on Central Campus will be role in the dorms’ integration with the rest of campus life. While the task force will address the new dorms, it will also examine the rest of Duke’s residential experience. “The group’s goal is to consider all of our residential communities in our deliberations—not to focus on any specific locations,” Bennett wrote. The task force will meet at each Board of Trustees meeting this academic year, as well as with university stakeholders throughout the year. It will submit a report with recommendations by April 15, 2019, Bennett said. The new dorms will also require a shift in the university’s approach to funding residence halls, Trask said. Previous projects, Ju Hyun Jeon | News Photography Editor including Blackwell and Trinity on East Campus, and the renovations to Craven and Two new dorms are slated for West Campus, one near the Wellness Center and near Edens Quad. Staff Reporter

Crowell quads on West Campus, have been funded through debt paid back with housing revenue. However, there is no longer capacity for new debt out of current housing revenue, according to Trask. “We’ve always known that the Hollows was the end of the line for the traditional financing mechanism,” Trask said. Instead, the new dorms will rely on philanthropic contributions from donors. While the process is a new approach for funding on-campus housing, it is common both at other universities and for non-housing construction at Duke. “Except in dormitories, new infrastructure on campus tends to be philanthropy-driven,” Trask said.

STUDENTS FROM PAGE 2 Almost 40 percent of the white students who took the survey indicated being interested in an engineering major compared to about 25 percent of Asian students and 29 percent of Hispanic students. Almost 36 percent of black or African American students reported interest in biology, but only 14 percent of Hispanic students and 17 percent of white students chose biology. According to survey results, Hispanic students showed the most interest in Greek life and selective living groups—40 percent indicated that they were “very” or “extremely” interested in both. Religious beliefs are another area where students differed based on race. The religious beliefs with the highest proportion of Asian first-years was agnostics and atheists. Also, Christianity was very popular among white and Hispanic students.

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FRESHMEN SHINE IN CAMERON DEBUT Five observations for Duke men’s basketball’s scrimmage at Countdown to Craziness Friday

By Hank Tucker

shooting the lights out.” Freshman Joey Baker did not start the scrimmage but was the first Duke player to knock down a 3-pointer on the White team, and he could earn more minutes than expected if he becomes a reliable shooter.

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Freshman forward Zion Williamson led the White team to a 44-39 victory against the Blue team in Friday night’s 20-minute Blue-White Scrimmage at Countdown to Craziness. Here are five observations from the first look at the 2018-19 Blue Devils: Player of the night: Zion Williamson Williamson got the biggest cheer of any player in the introductions prior to the scrimmage, and he BLUE 39 delivered on the hype, WHITE 44 throwing down a dunk for the White team’s first points of the game. He added four more slams, including a powerful left-handed dunk that classmate R.J. Barrett declined to challenge in the paint. The 6-foot-7 forward finished with 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting and added a team-high five rebounds. The sole point of concern on his performance was two early fouls that may have sent him to the bench in a real game. Williamson also won the team’s Iron Devil award for his offseason conditioning. “What he does with his body is remarkable. He’s a competitor, he’s really a good passer, he dunks pretty well,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He has got really powerful hands, where he took it out of one guy’s hands early and it was kind of a loose ball and he grabbed it and went off. We can’t teach that. That just comes from him.” Barrett led all scorers with 23 points, but took more than half of his team’s shots.

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Freshman R.J. Barrett led all Blue Devils with 20 points, providing more than half of his team’s scoring Friday. Javin DeLaurier is a versatile starting option Duke’s five-star freshmen split up, with Zion Williamson and Tre Jones playing together on the White team and R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish teaming up for the Blue squad. Javin DeLaurier, Alex O’Connell and Antonio Vrankovic rounded out the starters for White, and Jordan Goldwire, Marques Bolden and Jack White also started for Blue. The quartet of freshman starters combined for 58 points, and DeLaurier was the member of the supporting cast to separate himself from the pack the most. The 6-foot-10 junior showed off his range with a pair of triples and finished in double figures with 10 points. “That was one of the glaring weaknesses in my game, so I was pretty upset last year when

teams would effectively just not guard me,” DeLaurier said. “That’s something I took pretty personally and I just spent a lot of time in the gym working on it.” Perimeter shooting is a question mark Reddish, expected to be Duke’s biggest threat from beyond the arc, missed a pair of triples in the early going, and no Blue Devil was able to get hot from long distance. The teams combined to shoot just 8-of-26 on 3-point attempts. “Cameron hurt his rib on Tuesday, had a displaced fracture to the 10th rib, so he played really well tonight, considering that,” Krzyzewski said. “Cam did a good job, but he wasn’t where he would be. Cam has been

Solid point-guard play It did not appear to be a coincidence that Jones led the winning team in the scrimmage, as he played all 20 minutes and did not commit a turnover. Meanwhile, the Blue team mostly ran its offense through Barrett and looked slightly less cohesive, finishing with eight giveaways. “Either team that had Tre would be better. He controls the ball well and he gets it to people,” Krzyzewski said. “He can score, but he’s looking for us to score, so that’s something that can really help this group. He’s obviously a really critical player for us, tough kid.” Fuzzy offensive identity Krzyzewski said at Duke’s media day Monday that the Blue Devils plan to use a five-out motion offense this season, but they have not gone all-in on this style just yet. With Vrankovic needing to be on the floor a lot in a 5-on-5 scrimmage, a pure fast-paced motion was difficult for the White team to run, but the Blue team did try several high pick-and-rolls with Bolden at the top of the key to free Barrett. “It’s a great offense. It opens up the floor for everybody. Cam and R.J. and Tre, when they’re knocking down threes, it just opens up driving lanes for me, and when they’re driving, it opens up the 3-pointer for me,” Williamson said. “If we move the ball so much, then we’ll create for each other just like the Warriors and the Celtics.”

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Williamson unfazed by possible NCAA allegations By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor

It was clear throughout the Blue and White scrimmage that Zion Williamson will be the most impactful player on Duke’s young team. The freshman shot 7-of-11 from the field and appeared to do a little bit of everything for his team, from blocking shots to knocking down floaters and of course, crushing rims. But despite the pomp and circumstance of Countdown to Craziness, a cloud hangs over Williamson. Just days ago, the Spartanburg, S.C., native’s name came up in an ongoing Adidas FBI college basketball trial. In a taped conversation, Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend discussed alleged financial requests from Williamson’s family with former Adidas employee Merl Code. If the implications of Williamson’s family receiving impermissible benefits prove fruitful, the freshman Blue Devil could be deemed ineligible for his likely lone season at Duke. However, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski did not seem worried at all. “We’ve done exhaustive things with the NCAA in the summer,” Krzyzewski said. “They

have an eligibility center now and an exhaustive process where these kids and their parents go through everything. We feel very comfortable not only with him but all of our freshmen. We feel very comfortable with that.” Whether or not these recent allegations have been troubling Williamson, he did not let it show on the court Friday night. The No. 5 recruit of 2018 notched 14 points and five boards while also terrorizing his teammates on the defensive end, adding two steals and a monster rejection on senior Antonio Vrankovic. For a team that seemingly lacks in experience, Williamson showed himself to be the complete package for the Blue Devils, a recruit who could attack and defend with confidence, showmanship and fearlessness. Even with rumors swirling around of possible ineligibility, the freshman did not seem to let them get him down. “Honestly, I didn’t pay no attention to it,” Williamson said. “I was just happy it was Countdown week because I’ve been very excited for it since I came on my visit last year, and Countdown was everything I thought it would be.” As the season begins in just two weeks, we

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Zion Williamson led the White team with 14 points and five rebounds just three days after surfacing in the FBI college basketball trial. will undoubtedly see Williamson as Duke’s unabashed star on the court. Losing him would be a devastating blow for a team that’s looking to substitute collegiate experience with pure talent. For now, the young Blue Devil is ready to just leave it on the court.

“I’m just a college kid,” Williamson said. “I’m out here just having fun with my classmates and just looking forward to stuff like Countdown and our first game, because you only get one chance at a college experience, so I’m trying to enjoy it while I have it.”

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Blue Devils plagued by defensive miscues in loss By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

On a dreary Saturday afternoon, Virginia had the energy that Duke failed to provide. In front of a sparse crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium, the Blue Devils looked sluggish, falling to the Cavaliers by a 28-14 margin, as the hosts failed in their first chance to secure a bowl bid. Virginia dominated Duke in every facet of the game, outpacing the Blue Devils in total yards, time of possession and turnovers. “We really shot ourselves in the foot quite often,” offensive lineman Zach Harmon said. “It’s frustrating. You work so hard all week and everyone would tell you we thought we had a great week of preparation. It didn’t really show today.... But props to Virginia. 28 They got off to a hot UVA DUKE 14 start and they came ready to play.” Joe Reed set the tone for the Cavaliers (5-2, 3-1 in the ACC), returning the opening kick for 37 yards. The Virginia offense quickly capitalized on the favorable field position with a 23-yard touchdown run from quarterback Bryce Perkins capping an eight-play drive of 61 yards. The Cavaliers’ second possession began similarly to its first, with a 43-yard punt return from Tavares Kelly giving the offense strong field position again. The Duke defense, however, finally showed some resistance, and the drive ended with an incomplete pass to Kelly in the end zone. Duke’s offense was lethargic from the start, generating just one first down on its first two series. The sole sign of life in the first quarter came on a deep target to Jarett Garner, who saw his first career target bounce off of his hands and fall to the turf.

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Wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus led the Cavaliers in receiving yards Saturday with 66 on 10 receptions. Throughout the first half, poor special teams tackling plagued the Blue Devils. A punt return of 27 yards from Chuck Davis allowed Virginia to begin its third drive at Duke’s 38-yard line, and Perkins punched in another touchdown to put the Cavaliers up 14-0 in the early part of the second quarter. On its first four drives, Virginia’s average field position was the Duke 49-yard line, giving the defense little margin for error. “We still had opportunities to get off the field. It’s on us to execute,” Blue Devil linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “If they put the ball on the one-yard line, we have to defend it.” After two key third-down conversions, there seemed to be hope for the Duke offense. However, quarterback Daniel Jones threw a

jump ball towards the end zone into double coverage, and Virginia safety Juan Thornhill came up with the interception, his third off of Jones in the teams’ last two meetings. Jones has now thrown nine interceptions and just three touchdowns in three matchups against the Cavaliers. The second half seemed to bring better fortune for the Blue Devils, as they needed just more than a minute to score their first points of the day. Chris Taylor carried the load, with a pair of catches for 60 yards and a touchdown on the opening drive of the half. Still, mistakes tormented Duke (5-2, 1-2) nearly all afternoon. In addition to poor tackling on special teams, the Blue Devils’ third-down defense and costly penalties were also factors.

Perkins’ mobility allowed him to withstand the Duke pass rush, and as a result, his pass catchers were able to find space against an exhausted Blue Devil secondary. On a thirdand-4 in the third quarter, the former Arizona State recruit and junior college transfer scrambled for what seemed to be an eternity, eventually connecting with Jamari Peacock for a gain of 18. That play eventually led to a Brian Delaney field goal, and Duke would never get closer than six points all afternoon. “Perkins is a tough guy to tackle, and it all came down to managing him,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I thought one of their best plays today was a quarterback scramble. I didn’t do well enough responding to that.” Duke’s six penalties were its second-most in a game this season, and the infractions were often boneheaded—the most glaring mistake coming when Javon Jackson received a personal foul for making contact with Cavalier returner Chuck Davis, who called for a fair catch. Appropriately, the final touchdown of the day, which quashed any hopes of a Blue Devil comeback, came as a result of a long punt return and a scramble. Perkins eluded numerous defenders after starting inside the Duke 30-yard line, eventually finding Evan Butts in the end zone. The loss essentially eliminates the Blue Devils from contention for the ACC Coastal crown. They now sit two games behind firstplace Virginia Tech with matchups at Miami and No. 3 Clemson still to come. “When you take another ACC team and you make it easier for them, which is what occurred, it falls on the head coach,” Cutcliffe said. “We won’t react to this, we will respond to this.”

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Jones’ struggles against Virginia continue By Liz Finny Associate Sports Editor

Duke’s offense—the very same group that scored three touchdowns in less than two minutes against Georgia Tech—was nowhere to be found Saturday afternoon Despite a second-half start that was reminiscent of the powerhouse offense that flashed at times against Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils fell to Virginia 28-14, and they didn’t put up much of a fight. Duke, unable to string together long drives on a consistent basis, dropped yet another contest to the Cavaliers— extending its losing streak to four and ensuring that this year’s senior class will go winless against Virginia. Daniel Jones and the Blue Devil offense had some impressive plays, including a 46yard touchdown from Jones to wideout Chris Taylor and a trick play that saw T.J. Rahming toss a 22-yard rainbow to Davis Koppenhaver for another score. However, these plays were few and far between. The Blue Devils had logged only five first downs by halftime, and all too often, Duke was behind the chains playing catch-up. “We have a lot to work on, but I don’t

think we can lose our confidence in what we do,” Jones said. “This season we have found ways to find explosive plays and push the ball down the field, and that’s what we have to keep doing.” Jones was 22-of-40 in Saturday’s contest, with one touchdown and 240 yards. The redshirt junior quarterback showed off his legs on multiple plays when the pass wasn’t available, running for 37 yards as Duke’s rushing leader. Jones also picked up three first downs on the ground. Brittain Brown’s presence was greatly missed, however, with running back Deon Jackson managing only 17 yards on 11 attempts. “It impacted a lot to not be on schedule there,” Jones said. “Being able to run the ball, finding ways to run, get 3 or 4 yards, that opened up the pass game. That’s what we have to do.” The first quarter was disastrous for the Duke offense. The Blue Devils had one first down and Jones finished the opening 15 minutes with six yards on 1-for-4 passing. Jones threw a bomb down the field to freshman Jarett Garner that would have been a huge pickup for the Blue Devils and put them in the red zone, but Garner couldn’t hold on. Two consecutive three-and-out drives in the

second quarter dug Duke farther into a hole after Perkins scored for a second time, putting the Blue Devils down 14. When Duke started to find some momentum during an offensive drive, Jones threw into double coverage for an interception. Throughout the day, the offensive line couldn’t gain much traction inside to make Jones’ job easier. A five-yard carry by Jackson was his longest of the day, and the Cavaliers

sacked the Blue Devil quarterback twice in the span of three plays in the fourth quarter. “We were preparing for both a three and four man down front, but expected more three down looks,” center Zach Harmon said. “As the game progressed, they ran more four man schemes. To get the inside zone working, we have to get more movement up front, and we See FOOTBALL on Page 9

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Faced with nearly impossible odds at cracking the lineup, just how can a team member tangibly aid the group’s success? Many benchwarmers—as they are affectionately referred to by their counterparts who receive more playing time—focus on lifting the spirits of their teammates, essentially serving as extra cheerleaders. But for Clark Bulleit and Kevin Gehsmann, both seniors on the Duke football squad, their contribution to the team is as real as it gets. Bulleit and Gehsmann are rarely called upon on the field—the two have a combined 17 career snaps in their four years on the Blue Devils. And yet, when Duke’s star quarterback Daniel Jones fractured his clavicle against Northwestern Sept. 8, the pair sprung to action, designing and creating a 3D-printed brace that allowed Jones to return from a fractured clavicle in just three weeks. “This is definitely a first for Duke football,” Gehsmann said. With Jones’ injury potentially putting the Blue Devils’ season in jeopardy, Bulleit and Gehsmann did not decide to merely spend more time in the weight room or film room. The duo instead opted to focus their efforts at the Innovation Co-Lab—a campus center that hosts all sorts of creative student projects—and take advantage of their respective biomedical and mechanical engineering majors. Bulleit had extensive experience at the Innovation Co-Lab, as he completed an independent study last semester that focused on creating a 3D-printed wrist brace. Stumped by what to do when it came to protecting Jones, Duke’s executive director of athletic medicine Hap Zarzour turned

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Daniel Jones missed a pair of contests after suffering an injured clavicle on a third-quarter sack against Northwestern. to two unique assets he had at his disposal: Bulleit and Gehsmann. In order to implement any of their ideas, Bulleit and Gehsmann needed approval from the team’s medical personnel. The training staff did more than just simply give the okay, opting to fully collaborate on the process. “The training staff helped us to identify pressure points, and took Daniel through his range of motion, telling us where the brace could or could not go,” Bulleit said. “We would determine how to change the shape of the brace to cover the collarbone and retain its integrity while not hitting the pressure points.” The duo began to mock designs for a 3D-printed clavicle brace. 3D-printing

allows users to fully customize their object and works by printing small layers of material consecutively. The potential braces drawn up by Bulleit and Gehsmann were certainly nontraditional and did not resemble a standard brace in the slightest in terms of size and shape. They hoped to create something that would ensure maximal levels of security and mobility for their quarterback. To ensure full comfort for their teammate, the two engineers made use of scanning technology from the Innovation Co-Lab, customizing the brace to Jones’ body and fitting the brace perfectly to his previously fractured collarbone. Overall, the two created nine prototypes.

For each model, Bulleit and Gehsmann printed on a relatively basic 3D printer before advancing to a more advanced PolyJet unit for the final brace. “If we are able to help Daniel [Jones] get healthy, then we are helping the team to win games,” Gehsmann said. Eventually, Jones, the medical staff and the two innovators decided upon a model that custom-fit his collarbone and distributed impact from any hit away from where the initial fracture happened. In his first two games back from injury, both occurring before his projected recovery time, Duke’s signal caller looked fully comfortable, a testament to the work of Bulleit and Gehsmann. Jones wore his hightech brace in every practice and game since his return and continues to wear it as he returns to full health. Perhaps the only area of concern when it comes to Jones’ health affecting his game is his apparent hesitancy to run the ball, with only five rushing yards in his last two contests. However, this is likely a result of increased poise in the pocket, where he is excelling this season. He appears to be the same player that he was at the beginning of the season, completing 64.5 percent of his passes to go along with four touchdowns and two interceptions. More importantly, the Charlotte, N.C. native can sustain hits without a worry about his collarbone—a banged up Blue Devil offensive line allowed Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech defenders to sack Jones on seven occasions. Each time, he sprang back up from the ground and stayed in the game. Bulleit and Gehsmann teem with pride when speaking of their creation, which is See JONES on Page 9

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Five observations from the 2018 Blue/White game By Shane Smith Staff Writer

The Blue Devils kicked off the 2018-19 season with their annual intrasquad scrimmage on Sunday in Cameron BLUE 50 Indoor Stadium. The WHITE 84 White team prevailed against the Blue team 84-50 thanks to a barrage of three pointers in the first half. Here are the five biggest takeaways from the first look at this year’s Duke squad. Gorecki ready to fill the Splash Sisters’ shoes After graduating their two stars Rebecca Greenwell and Lexie Brown, Duke desperately needs someone to step up and fill their roles as playmakers. Redshirt junior Haley Gorecki answered that need within the first few minutes of the game, as she led off with a perfect 4-for4 mark from downtown. The guard finished with 24 points and six assists, but was also able to push the offense from baseline to baseline with five rebounds. “I’m a shooter, so Coach is always telling me to just keep on shooting. It’s easy when my teammates pass me the ball in a perfect position,

so if I’m open, I’m going to shoot it,” Gorecki said. “We have weapons.... We did lose great players last year, but I think we’re more than capable of doing the same work this year.” Blue Devils look to push the pace The Blue Devil offense came out with a rapid pace and looked to push the ball down the court after every make or miss. Gorecki repeatedly pulled down rebounds and found junior Leaonna Odom with an outlet pass to start the fast break. The White team scored 12 points on fast breaks and 29 points after forced turnovers. “I think the emphasis with this team is we have more people handling the ball and hopefully we’re getting up there faster on the pass a little bit,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “[We] definitely want transition, uptempo, more people stepping up. There’s a lot more work we can do in transition with different screening and stuff, but we’ll get to that.” Newcomers not afraid to be playmakers The Blue Devils brought a talented See OBSERVATIONS on Page 9

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struggled with their stout defensive line.” one of the first documented instances of a At the start of the second half, it seemed 3D-printed brace being used at a high-end that Duke had found a way out of its offensive athletic level. funk. In the first minute of the first half, Jones “Hap [Zarzour] told me that this is the threw a 22-yard pass to Chris Taylor for a first most Duke thing that he has ever heard,” down. Three plays later, Jones threw a 46-yard Gehsmann said. “So I asked him if that beauty to Taylor for Duke’s first score of the meant he doesn’t like it, and he responded game after a 62-second drive. to me ‘No, it means I love it.’” Instead of continuing that momentum This innovation is the most recent on their next drive, however, Duke couldn’t marriage of Duke’s status as a top-tier capitalize on a 15-yard personal foul penalty. academic institution and its elite athletic The Blue Devils went three-and-out, wasting program. After all, the university checked the opportunity, and the rest of the third in at No. 8 in the U.S. News and World quarter, as well as the fourth, brought more Report national college rankings and at No. of the same. 11 in the 2017-18 Learfield Directors’ Cup The Blue Devils were able to pick up the standings—a measure of the overall success pace slightly in final stanza, with the second of a school’s athletics—joining Stanford as touchdown on a trick-play pass by Rahming the sole schools finishing in the top 15 of and with 10 of Duke’s 19 first downs. both rankings. It was far too late in the game, though. Duke is one of the only places in the world The Blue Devils’ inability to find momentum where this kind of idea from student-athletes on offense contributed to Virginia’s massive could be executed so effectively and with a advantage in terms of time of possession—the clear impact on the team’s success. Bulleit and Wahoos held the ball for nearly 37 minutes. Gehsmann accessed equipment, such as the Dropped balls were not rare in the game PolyJet printer, which is worth hundreds of against the Cavaliers, with Taylor, Daniel Helm thousands of dollars, all while being members and Rahming joining Garner in allowing balls of a football team that made an appearance in from Jones to slip through their hands. the AP Top 25 earlier this season. For Duke to get things right, it will need When Jones returned to the field Advertise here for a much-improved effort from its quarterback, against Virginia Tech after missing just two the best results who was projected by CBS Sports as a games, many Duke fans lauded him for a potential first-round selection in the 2019 superhero-like recovery period. But it was NFL Draft earlier this week. not just the redshirt junior’s commitment “There are a lot of things,” Jones said, when to getting healthy that deserved praise, as asked what he wanted to work on personally. two less heralded Blue Devils—Bulleit and dukechronicle.com “My decision-making and making sure I’m classifieds Gehsmann—were just as integral to Jones’ not putting the ball in harm’s way.” speedy return.

Depth could be an issue Like previous years, Coach McCallie featured the projected starters on the White team for the first half. The starting lineup featured four returners in Gorecki, Odom, Faith Suggs and Jade Williams, as well as the highly touted freshman Akinbode-James. From the opening tip, the Blue team was overmatched and found themselves in a 17-2 hole early. The projected reserves were unable to create anything offensively going up against the White team’s zone defense with the exception of Craig. Obviously they will benefit from playing with players like Gorecki, who can space the floor, but unless they begin to improve, the starters could be worn out when the thick of ACC play gets going.

freshman class into Durham that features two top-100 recruits in Onome AkinbodeJames and Rayah Craig. Akinbode-James played an active game while Craig controlled the offense for a struggling Blue team. The Scottsdale, Ariz., native contributed eight points while making the biggest impact on the glass with 12 boards. Perhaps the biggest contribution came from Australian Miela Goodchild, who looked to score early and often. The freshman connected on shots from downtown for 17 points and also dished out a game-high eight assists. “I thought that Rayah played well, I thought that Miela played well,” McCallie said. “But in terms of being young, I think it’s inspiring, and I think it doesn’t really matter. Any age you are, you can compete. I thought that Rayah really competed.”

Scout team enters in the 4th quarter After three quarters and the White team leading 73-32, Coach McCallie brought the two teams together to play against the scout team made up of volunteer Duke students. The scout team won the quarter 18-9.

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In an age of unprecedented concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and rising sea levels, one might ask why this data wouldn’t trigger meaningful, large scale change. In part, the inaction is due to a growing climate-change investment industry where, for example, a top JP Morgan Asset investment strategist advised clients to invest in seawall construction as sea-level rise is inevitable. Despite facing nearly certain deadly environmental destruction,

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relentless, expansion-centric capitalist logic is finding ways to frame destruction as ripe for profit. Under an unregulated market based economy, not even threats to Earth’s capacity to sustain human life can compete with the lure of further capital accumulation. However, while the wealthiest among us reap in the profits of a poisoned ecology, the rest of society is left to face the brunt of consequences. One only needs to turn to the aftermath of natural disasters such as Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, Hurricane Harvey in Texas, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to understand how climate change impacts vary based on class and race. It is not coincidental that people lacking material resources, financial stability and economic capacity to evacuate end up being left behind when storms bear down on land, leaving them with dire prospects and little to no recourse. So, the next logical question is, of course, what is to be done given our bleak situation? According to one 2017 study, the four most effective individual actions to take against climate change were having one fewer child, switching to a more plant-based diet, living carfree and taking one fewer flight per year. However, this neoliberal, individualist rhetoric misses the mark if our goal truly is to combat the main sources of pollution. Although advocating for changes with green consumerism and corporate environmentalist policies are certainly in vogue, countering studies have shown that these individualized approaches and small scale restrictions are not enough. Even with those changes to personal CO2 emissions, the United States would still far exceed its 2050 per capita emissions goal. In reality, the overwhelming source of carbon pollution stems not from careless litterbugs or airline passengers, but corporations. A study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project with the Climate Accountability Institute stated that 71 percent of global emissions come from just 100 companies and that more than half of global industrial emissions since 1988 originated from 25 corporate and state-owned entities. For example, as detailed in Dark Money by Jane Meyer, the “Koch Industries alone routinely released some 24 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere a year.” Furthermore, what’s especially alarming is the conclusion of three major empirical studies since the Rio conference: “absolute decoupling of GDP from resource use is not possible on a global scale.” In other words, we can’t just invest in more efficient technology

and dream up the right incentives. Efficiency has a limit and there are few convincing free market incentives to do right by the planet. We simply can’t simultaneously maintain current consumption rates and reduce our carbon footprint. We can side with capitalism or the well-being of the environment, but taking a bipartisan position is fundamentally impossible. This isn’t to say that change on an individual level is entirely useless, but personal changes alone will not be enough. Individual choices will only have their greatest impact when backed by an economic system that provides viable, environmental options for everyone, not the elite few. We need to be critical and multifaceted in our analysis, unapologetic and radical in demanding structural change and collective, not individualist, in our actions. Duke made a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2024 and, just recently, Duke Student Government Senate took an admirable step by unanimously passing a resolution in support of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s potential resolution calling for fossil fuel divestment. The Duke Climate Coalition had met with the ACIR back in April 2018 to discuss a fossil fuel divestment memo. Of interest in the report is how Chair Lawrence Baxter states that “direct investments are only a very small portion of the total investment portfolio Duke owns and divestment from fossil fuel companies would make only a minor impact” and how the committee expressed concerns on being “careful not to generate unnecessary polarization in an increasingly fractured environment.” This begs the question: fracture for whose environment? The environment of the people or the environment of wealthy CEOs of the fossil fuel companies that Duke is investing in—no matter how minimal (or intentionally minimized) the sum is? To further the question of divestment is to also examine who is investing in our university. About a month ago, the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University received a $5 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Not only is this a troubling acceptance of neo-conservative networks in higher education that advance regressive economic policies, it’s also a clear connection between Duke and the dirty money that’s tainting our planet. Ultimately, it’s hard to deny the cold reality of our current trajectory. Our planet is dying and those responsible for it will neither be held accountable for their damage nor will they face the brunt of the consequences to come. However, we still can commit to changes in the immediate future and within our capabilities towards greater sustainability, but it’s crucial to keep in mind that we must also expand beyond that. The necessary broadening of our environmental advocacy framework starts with not just holding each other accountable, but also the multinational corporations apathetically poisoning the Earth and their adjacent investors—like our university—responsible. While the prognosis is bad, but the end isn’t here yet. If we truly want to preserve this planet, we need a radical transformation of our economic system. Paper straws simply aren’t going to save us; it’s time for something more.

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Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer Paper straws were introduced in Duke dining venues this semester as a replacement for plastic straws.

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Dear Noah: Conquering distraction in the name of Cherie Berry

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ear Noah, It’s been over a month since our last public correspondence here in the paper and I’m sure a lot has happened in the meantime. Your first round of midterms. Your second time doing laundry. Your third time

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a carnie at a state fair trying to take your tickets. In the aforementioned situation, you could have spent your tickets on what you actually wanted (food, experiences, The Berry Herself), but you became enticed by a carnival game which you didn’t actually care all that much about. Distraction, that sly fox, prevented you from spending your currency how you wanted. Our lives are much the same way. Everyday, we have 86,400 seconds to spend, no more, no less. We don’t get those seconds back once we spend them and they don’t carry over to the next day. Truly, time is our most valuable asset and as such, our attention (how we choose to spend it) is vulnerable to that sneaky, cunning thief named distraction. I’ve found that in college, and possibly in life, there are three main disguises that distraction wears in order to perpetrate such robbery. The first is the distraction of comfort. This form of distraction appeals to the part of us that really doesn’t want to go to for a run or take part in a conversation that will challenge our biases or face the potential rejection of asking someone on a date or perform the self-scrutiny to unpack our greatest insecurities. It’s easier to not have to do any of these things because trying to maintain balance

in our lives and grow is hard. It requires constant attention and care and it’s so much easier to sleep the day away or talk about familiar topics with similar people or not try to understand ourselves. Distraction wants to take your focus away from that which will ultimately be beneficial for you in the long-run by constantly bombarding you with tools of instant gratification. We grow the most when we are uncomfortable, when our muscles or our egos break down and have to rebuild. The next guise is that of comparison. Distraction wants you to look outward instead of inward and make you feel bad about yourself by contrasting your life to that of others. Why are all these people so much more “____” than I am? This form of distraction is perpetuated by technology and social media, but it has no basis in reality. It’s just another distraction, trying to steal your attention away from focusing on growing yourself. Finally, complacency is the most socially reinforced form of distraction, and it’s the one that is the most difficult to evade. Complacency keeps us in situations we dislike because we become too unmotivated to think critically about how we are spending our time and attention. This manifests most often in the student who ends up graduating with a major they dislike, in the employee who hates their job and but continues to work at the same company for several decades, and even in the couple who marries and has a family despite a toxic relationship. Complacency keeps us in a trance of structure, preventing us from re-evaluating our decisions and changing trajectory. Your time and attention are all that you really have. How you choose to spend them will define both your time at Duke and your life after graduation. I’m not saying you should be a personal-growth zombie who needs to focus on self-awareness and intentionality 24/7. Rather, make sure you are spending your tickets on long term rewards: friendship, knowledge, self-awareness, adventure and fun. To close, I will say that wisdom is the ability to take one’s own advice, and even now as I write this article, I’ve checked my phone 14 times, daydreamed about my impending unemployment and taken a nap. I haven’t defeated distraction yet, and I doubt that one ever does. However, next time you go to the State Fair, make sure to spend your tickets on something that matters…like an autographed portrait of Cherie Berry.

losing your Duke card. It’s all really exciting stuff and I’m proud of you for making it this far! This column will be the last in my three-part preachy life philosophy series so thanks for bearing with me! These probably don’t make too much sense right now as you must certainly be worried about more pressing matters such as “who are my college friends going to be?” and “what groups do I want to join?” Yet, it is my hope that as the puzzle pieces of this grand collegiate jigsaw begin to fall into place, these words of advice will serve as the corners, providing a grounding basis on which to connect all the rest. As a refresher, in Parts I & II, we defined growth as the goal of college and balance as its means. Here, I’d like to discuss what I believe to be the obstacle: a sneaky, common-place phenomena known as distraction. Distraction, loosely defined, is something that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Imagine you are going to the North Carolina State Fair and you are given 86,400 tickets. How will you spend them? Surely, you’ll want to buy the friend ice cream, as well as admission on the vomit-inducing centripetal motion machine of death. Perhaps, you’ll even drop a few on the autograph of North Carolina Commissioner of Labor and infamous elevator celebrity Cherie Berry. As you are going on the spending spree of your life, you get roped in by one of those carnival games where you toss an over-inflated ball into an angled bucket and have to get it to stay in. Of course, you don’t win the first time, so you try again and again and again. Three hours of ball tossing later, you’ve finally won a human-sized banana, hooray! But wait…now you’re down to just 17 Grant Besner is a Trinity senior who one day Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons tickets. What gives? aspires to operate his own alpaca farm. His column, This is the face of distraction: Cherie Berry is the Labor Commissioner of North Carolina. “Dear Noah,” runs on alternate Mondays.

A letter to Christine Blasey Ford

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o the woman who raised her hand, thank you. Thank you for standing up to a sea of male faces. Thank you for representing the college woman who is too scared to raise their hand in a lecture hall, or the female student who chooses not to raise her point of opposition during a

of the message itself.” This country has branded Ford with a scarlet letter for having the courage to stand up. The bravery to stand up in front of a room of men, in front of a nation of strangers, and share her truth - a truth, that as a female, makes me check that I have locked my apartment door every night,

Isabella Arbelaez GUEST COLUMNIST classroom discussion. Thank you for raising your hand and speaking life into words that few have the courage to share. My stomach twisted as I heard you speak, the same way it twisted when my best friend told me she was sexually assaulted the summer after her freshman year. In October 1991, Anita Hill warned the country when she said, “I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content

look behind me twice as I leave the library late at night, and lock my car as soon as I get in it. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee in late September, told her colleagues, “This is not a trial of Dr. Ford, it’s a job interview for Judge Kavanaugh.” So why is Ford the one facing the death threats? I do not write to express my opinion on the confirmation vote of Supreme Court

Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh; that is not the focus of this column. I choose to look at the person who sat in his seat before—the professor, doctor, mother, expert witness, wife and woman who is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Growing up in Maryland, Christine Margaret Blasey Ford went to Holton-Arms School, an all-girls preparatory school. Having spent 11 years at an all-girls school, I understand the empowering and unique education provided by all-girls school. The confidence built in young women in a classroom of female counterparts is invaluable, and my all-girls education instilled in me the drive to speak my mind courageously. But when I came to Duke, this boldness was confronted with an overwhelming sense of doubt and anxiety. Sitting in seminars with male counterparts, I recognized their boldness, their audacity and realized my “courage muscle” would never be as strong. I became disappointed and defeated. So why do I speak now? Because it is a challenge for women to

be their own advocates. I see it now as a senior in the job application process. We as young women are too polite with our words. We label ourselves as “communicators, organizers and assistants,” when in reality, we are “managers, directors and facilitators.” We want to be lawyers, doctors, mothers, and even president. So why do we not claim these titles now? Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is a doctor. She is a professor. She is mother and wife. But she has another title attached to her name: “sexual assault survivor.” This is the one title no woman ever wants, or deserves, to claim. I write to Ford to thank her for her vulnerability, for her bravery and for her promise to tell the truth, her truth. It is because of the raising of her hand that so many others raised theirs in protest on Capitol Hill following Kavanaugh’s confirmation. For you, Dr. Ford, we will continue to raise our hands, whether on Capitol Hill, in a class or in a courtroom. Isabella Arbelaez is a Trinity senior.

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FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 the numerical change, but also named key factors the committee found to be behind the change. An important one was the 2008 global financial recession, which forced schools to look more closely at their budgets. Fitzsimons explained that the committee thought this was one of the most important factors that explained similar changes at other schools. The cost per class is cheaper for nontenure track regular rank or non-regular rank to teach the class than for non-regular rank faculty to teach them. Even if non-tenure track regular rank faculty are paid the same as regular rank faculty, they typically are expected to spend less time on research and therefore cost less per class because they can teach more classes. Another key shift highlighted in the report was the growth of master’s programs. Those are largely staffed by non-tenure track faculty, whether they are non-regular rank or non-tenure track regular rank faculty, Fitzsimons said. “Unambiguously, a source of new revenue are these master’s programs. So I don’t see that pressure letting up,” Fitzsimons said. Another factor is the medical center’s growth. If you remove schools with large populations of clinical faculty—specifically the School of Medicine and School of Nursing— the numbers are slightly less dramatic. Under these constraints, tenure track faculty population grew by three percent, while the non-tenure track regular rank faculty grew by 34 percent and the non-regular rank faculty grew by 36 percent. A key concern is that it was not a strategically planned shift. “That’s a big shift,” Fitzsimons said. “If

you go back, it’s not as if somebody said ‘Hey, collective bargaining agreement to mitigate that, here’s the plan.’” Fitzsimons said at the council meeting. Shreve said that maybe it’s not a good or What this means for Duke bad change—but just a change. Going forward, Christopher Shreve, instructor in the committee recommended a few ways to be biology and president of the Duke Faculty more transparent about the shift. Union, said that the findings of the report Academic Council should receive a report do not surprise him. The sharp uptick in every year on the makeup of the faculty, the non-regular rank faculty was one of the committee said, and diversity should be a goal driving factors in forming the faculty at all levels of hiring. union, Shreve explained. “It is not acceptable to have dramatic Because adjunct positions were originally differences in the approach to faculty diversity envisioned as temporary roles, they needed to across both groups,” the report stated. be adjusted as faculty began to hold them for All tenure-track faculty should be longer terms. committed to teaching alongside their other The collective bargaining agreement that roles and the use of titles should be more the faculty union signed with the University last standardized across the schools. year helped with that, Shreve explained, letting The committee suggested that each dean the adjunct faculty take on longer contracts and should submit a plan every five years regarding introducing minimal levels of pay. the composition of their faculty, and that any new “The committee unanimously felt that master’s programs that are proposed should be one couldn’t earn a living wage on the transparent about how they plan to staff it. amount of money paid to adjunct faculty,” Additionally, the committee said, there Fitzsimons said. should be transparency in curricular Another key impact of the change that discussions about how changes may affect the the report highlighted was the potential makeup of the faculty. effect on the University’s research output and “We’re really talking about what the interaction between researchers as professors faculty is going to look like in the future,” and students. Fitzsimons said. At Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, the faculty governance body discussed the report. Provost Sally Kornbluth suggested that FROM PAGE 1 the shift may be augmented by increasing segmentation within some schools, and Sara families can reach out to their student’s financial Beale, Charles L. B. Lowndes professor of law, aid adviser with questions or concerns. said that the change in the law school’s faculty “This is an effort to steward the University’s has largely come from their creation and funds in the best possible way,” Rabil said. “I growth of law clinics. can understand the concern but we are hoping that most students will be in a position to re‘What the faculty is going to look like in establish their coverage at home and that the the future’ cost will be manageable.” If the University decided it wanted to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of dramatically undo the shift, it would not be public affairs and governmental relations simple. Cost pressures remain an issue, and there wrote in an email to The Chronicle that are now institutional constraints tied in with the with this move, Duke will join a number of

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universities with a similar policy. “This will make Duke’s practices consistent with our peer universities, and will ensure that our financial aid funds are used in the most efficient and effective way,” he wrote. Caleb Kornfein, a first-year who is currently covered by the student insurance plan at no extra charge, said that his family is considering switching health insurance providers to avoid having to pay for Duke’s student insurance plan. But switching plans would be difficult because his family would have to reconfigure his sister’s care. She has a rare medical condition that requires her to see more than eight specialists. “I’ve been thinking more about money than I normally would in the last week, like what extra work study could I do? Or, I’m not going to go out tonight,” Kornfein said. Kornfein has a job working at the front desk at Lilly Library for at least seven hours a week. “I feel like it’s just another way to save a few thousand dollars, but it puts the burden disproportionately on families that aren’t the most financially stable out of all of the families at Duke,” he said. Patterson-Smith echoed that it seems strange that Duke would choose to change a policy that was helping low-income students afford health care. Since she became an RA, she has been less stressed about money. She has joined Outing Club and a selective living group. She even bought a moped so that she could volunteer off-campus at an animal shelter. But if she had been charged for health insurance, she thinks she wouldn’t have had the same experience at Duke. “I would have done so much less at this school,” Patterson-Smith said. “Outing Club, Illyria—I probably wouldn’t have joined those because it costs money. Less groceries, too, since I cook my meals so I can save food points. Just kind of less of everything.”

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