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BATTLE FOR THE BALLOT

Trustee flushes $330,000 on New group, taxes for toilet professors removal push to get students to the polls

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ICE subpoena may stifle state’s turnout, professor says

By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

After being accused of removing toilets for tax breaks, a Duke trustee and candidate for Illinois governor found out that he couldn’t flush away his civic duty that easily. Trustee J.B. Pritzker, Trinity ‘87, says he will pay back more than $330,000 of property taxes after an inspector general’s report found that he removed toilets from one of his homes to reclassify the home as uninhabitable. This move enabled him to pay lower taxes on the house, which was classified as a “scheme to defraud,” according to the report. Pritzker has a net worth of $3.2 billion, Forbes reported Tuesday. “The evidence indicates that the use of these affidavits was part of a scheme for obtaining money by means of false representations,” wrote Patrick Blanchard, Cook County inspector general, in the report. The report advised Cook County to recover the money from Pritzker, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Pritzker’s campaign for governor told the Chicago Tribune Tuesday afternoon that he would pay back his tax refunds from the scheme. His wife, M.K. Pritzker, asked a contractor to remove five toilets from the home in 2015 to get a tax break, the report concluded. It also found that M.K. Pritzker’s brother and her personal assistant subsequently made “false representations” to the assessor about the timing of the toilets’ removal and the house’s overall condition. In his gubernatorial race, Pritzker holds more than a 15-point lead over Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner, according to RealClearPolitics. Rauner was not shy in broadcasting his disapproval of Pritzker’s actions, tweeting about the controversy over 12 times since the story broke as of 7:50 p.m. Tuesday. His campaign’s communications director, Will Allison, has also released a statement regarding the incident. “From the very beginning, Pritzker was devising a corrupt scheme to defraud Illinois taxpayers by ripping toilets out of his mansion,” Allison said in the statement. Pritzker released a statement of his own calling for an investigation into Rauner in response to the accusations. See TOILET REMOVAL on Page 3

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons J.B. Pritzker is on Duke’s Board of Trustees.

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In the 2014 midterm elections, just 17 percent of 18 to 24 year olds cast a ballot, according to the Campus Vote Project—a trend from which Duke students are not immune. In precinct 5, which includes Duke’s Central and West campuses, voter turnout has averaged less than one percent for municipal elections. There’s a lot at stake in North Carolina’s midterm elections Nov. 6. The ballot includes six proposed constitutional amendments, which could create a voter ID requirement for in-person voting and cap the state’s personal and corporate income tax rates. There’s also a North Carolina Supreme Court justice race and 13 U.S. House of Representatives seats up for grabs across the state. Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole professor of philosophy, promoted voter registration in an unconventional way: giving each of his 90 students a voter registration form and information about eligibility and what’s on the ballot. Rosenberg also offered to mail in students’ completed forms at his own expense if they don’t want to pay for postage. “Voting is not only your duty and easy but allows you to express yourself,” Rosenberg said. He explained that he decided to distribute the voter registration form to his classes because it’s not available online. But Duke students have no excuse not to vote. “University students are so much more welleducated, so much more affluent, and have so much more time on their hands, and all have cars,” he said. “What’s the explanation?” Outside of Rosenberg’s class, student leaders have coordinated since the spring with Duke’s Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service (POLIS) to push voting initiatives on campus. The group, called Duke Votes, had its first meeting in September. Historically, voting initiatives on campus have been led by multicultural groups, with each organization hosting their own voter registration drives and educational events. “There are tangible consequences to voting and not voting for our communities,” said junior Corey Pilson, president of Black Men’s Union and chief of staff of Black Student Alliance. “In the civil rights movement, in the women’s movement, you see large voter registration efforts because your voice is in your ballot.” Despite making strong individual campaigns, student leaders had often failed to communicate with each other. And with each presidential cycle and accompanying flurry of voting initiatives, previous student leaders graduated and younger ones took up the mantle of registering, education and mobilizing Duke’s campus. “A lot of the time, it’s like starting from scratch,” said Michelle Li, the president of Asian Students Association. “So instead, with POLIS’s involvement … we’re trying to create some kind of infrastructure so that we’re not starting from scratch and duplicating work every single cycle.” Volunteers who tabled recently on the Bryan Center plaza and in front of Marketplace registered more than 500 people, Li said.

Despite his voter fraud commission’s failure to find evidence of rampant voter fraud, President Donald Trump and his administration’s attempt to crack down on voter fraud has come to North Carolina. On Aug. 31, 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenaed 15 million documents of voting records from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The North Carolina records office was demanded to give voter registration applications, among other documents, sent from all of North Carolina between Jan. 1, 2010 and August 2018. This came one week after 19 foreign nationals were charged with voting illegally in North Carolina in the 2016 election, which one federal law enforcement official confirmed to CNN was the impetus for the subpoena. ICE declined to comment, saying it could not comment on an “ongoing investigation.” Critics have argued that these few instances of illegal voting are not enough to warrant the demands made in the subpoena. The subpoena is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to crack down on voter fraud, following a nowdismantled voter fraud commission. After an eight-month investigation, the team failed to find evidence of mass voter fraud committed by undocumented immigrants. Shortly after his election, Trump falsely claimed that millions of undocumented immigrants voted illegally, costing him the popular vote. Gunther Peck, associate professor of history and of public policy studies, fears that the Republican push to end so-called “systematic voter fraud” will decrease voter turnout. “There is a genuine fear that by linking voting to ICE, legal citizens might be anxious about Chronicle File Photo voting because ICE has detained and rounded up people that are citizens,” he said. Peck noted that news of the request for records may result in voter intimidation, making people with constitutional guarantees of the right to vote anxious. “It also weakens people’s trust in voting information, making them less likely to register to vote even if they are fully legal,” he said. In response to the subpoena, the state elections board voted unanimously to fight the federal demands at both the state and county levels, where 44 counties were also subpoenaed. Joshua Malcolm, state elections board vice chairman, called the demands “overly broad, unreasonable” and “vague.” “This board will....not stand idly by and consent to any agency attempting to obtain records and documents that violate the principles of overreach by the federal government,” Malcolm said. Additionally, the state election board called for the U.S. Attorney’s Office to delay the deadline of the subpoena. The U.S. Attorney’s Office granted this request, pushing the collection deadline until January 2019. Peck said ICE’s request is unreasonable because the federal government’s request for poll workers to round up 15 million

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‘Juuling is inevitable’: FDA targets Juul

Page Auditorium is being renovated until Spring 2019

By Rishi Dasgupta Contributing Reporter

The Food and Drug Administration has given Juul an ultimatum: prove they can keep their products away from minors within 60 days, or pull its products from store shelves and face criminal charges. But Jed Rose, director of the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation and professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, is skeptical of the FDA’s claims that Juul used flavored nicotine to attract teenage customers. “E-cigarettes are one of the most promising developments in the field of smoking cessation,” Rose said. “Currently, over 500,000 Americans die every year of smoking-related disease, a number that continues to rise. Cigarette smoking imposes a completely unacceptable burden of death and disease.” Rose, who has studied nicotine since 1979, has helped invent stop-smoking products such as nicotine patches and the prescription drug Chantix. Smokers don’t just crave nicotine—they also crave the physical action of smoking a cigarette, Rose said. “We’ve done studies where we’ve intravenously administered smokers with the same dose of nicotine they would get from a cigarette and found that this doesn’t satisfy their craving,” Rose said. “On the other hand, if they smoke a denicotinized cigarette, their craving is relieved quite a bit.” Unlike other cigarette alternatives like nicotine gum and patches, e-cigarettes replace the physical behavior of smoking and deliver nicotine in a way familiar to smokers. Rose said the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation is doing a Juul trial and that there is “good reason to believe” it can help people quit smoking. Although the FDA claims that e-cigarettes are introducing minors to nicotine, Rose said it is worth the risk. “The ‘epidemic’ of youth addiction is greatly exaggerated,” Rose said. “This isn’t good, but it has to be weighed against the 500,000 preventable deaths that can be lessened using e-cigarettes.” Rose disagreed with the notion that youth addiction to e-cigarettes is prevalent, but Duke students seem to feel differently. Out of 50 students that The Chronicle spoke to in the Brodhead Center, only six said that they use Juuls. But all 50 said they have close friends who use them, and 48 people said they knew someone whom they thought was addicted. “The impact on young people is clear,” said senior Ankit Rastogi. “People Juul in libraries, inside buildings, between classes— sometimes literally in class,” Rastogi said. “I think Juul is more than just an alternative to cigarettes. The company definitely targets a niche audience.” According to sophomore Hannah Park, social pressure may be one of the reasons Juul is so prevalent on campus. “At parties, juuling is inevitable,” Park said. “It’s like

By Kathryn Silberstein Health and Science News Editor

Ranging from orientation week events like True Blue to Sage the Gemini performing at the Heatwave concert, all Duke students have at one point been inside Page Auditorium. This year’s first-years, however, are a different story. By the time Duke’s students arrived on campus for the Fall 2018 semester, Page Auditorium—located next to the Duke Chapel—was undergoing renovations. This is the second time that Page has been renovated in the past five years, with the first round of work taking place in 2014 and 2015, but everything included in the original project couldn’t be done in the first stage of changes and construction. “For the second phase, it was Duke’s choice to go back and install a sprinkler system which will be completed in Spring 2019,” wrote Sharon Hamilton, director of facilities management, in an email. She wrote that due to the timing and infrastructure required, Page was completed with a two-phase approach, with the first of them occurring in 2015. The first renovation included new carpeting, painting the walls and ceiling, adding a handicap-accessible lift, refurbishing seating at the orchestra level and reconstructing a control room. As a result of the changes, seating was reduced from 1,238 to 1,100 seats. Additionally, the auditorium got a fire sprinkler system, a new hot water heating system, new house lighting, updated stage lighting mounts and new exterior roofing. Currently, the first event scheduled on Duke Calendar to take place in the new Page Auditorium will be a performance by renounced flamenco dancer Farruquito on Feb. 19, 2019. Until then, events that might typically take place in Page are relocated to other spaces on campus such as the Reynolds Industries Theater and Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center. O-Show, the collaborative a cappella performance on the first day of classes, took place in the Reynolds Theater, and Heatwave was performed on Abele Quad as intended. True Blue was divided between Reynolds and Griffith Theaters to accommodate the number of first-years attending each session.

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drinking water.” Students also mentioned the e-cigarettes’ visual appeal. “Juuls are marketed in the same attractive ways as cigarettes were in the ’70s and ’80s,” first-year Jessie Xu said. “In a way, Juuls are like Apple products: chill, modern and simplistic.” David Mallen, assistant director of the Wellness Center, advises against the use of e-cigarettes but acknowledges their presence on campus. “In order to remain as low risk as possible, it is advised that individuals abstain from consuming substances in general,” Mallen wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “But if an individual is choosing to partake in alcohol, vaping, etc., we want them to have as much information as possible so they can make informed decisions about how their current choices may affect them in the future.” Rose clarified that, while e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional ones, they still pose risks—including not just the obvious risk of addiction, but also the unknown effects of nicotine on adolescent brains and the trace amounts of cancerlinked compounds. Still, Rose maintained that e-cigarettes are a much safer alternative to the paper and tobacco. “Ultimately, if you’re going to do something, do the thing that’s less harmful,” Rose said. “We do that with things like safe sex and clean-needle exchanges for heroin users, so it should also apply to cigarette smoking—which kills more than all those other things put together.” In terms of e-cigarettes being gateways to tobacco, Rose was skeptical. “If anything, restricting e-cigarettes may incentivize youth to try combustible cigarettes instead,” Rose said.

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Duke’s Board of Trustees is rolling out a series of new measures to be more transparent. Going forward, the Board is implementing a three-pronged approach to transparency. The Board will post summaries of meetings—for committees, task forces and the full Board—and Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees, will brief certain student groups on upcoming board meetings. Riddell will host an open forum within two weeks of the meeting weekends, where members of committees and task forces will answer questions. He said the move will be the first of its kind in Duke’s history. Additionally, the Board’s new governance committee will review the policy on corporate records this academic year to check if it needs to be updated. “I think what we’re trying to do is address the issue that students, faculty or members of the Duke community don’t know what goes on in Board meetings, and they’re left to imagine what goes on in Board meetings,” Riddell said. The communication initiatives, which Riddell provided to The Chronicle Monday, were decided at the Board’s meeting this past weekend. The modifications will kick in for the December meeting, Schoenfeld said. The changes come as student activists push for greater Board transparency. Last year, students calling themselves the People’s State of the University asked for open board meetings as part of their platform. A recent

discussion with students interested in the issue laid the groundwork for the specific policy shifts that are now being rolled out, Riddell said. “Last spring, the People’s State raised this as an issue. Some of the Trustees heard about that last spring,” Riddell said. “We looked at ‘Well, what kinds of communications are we doing currently with the community?’ I think there was a sense could do a little more than the Trustees had been doing as of last spring.” The decision to introduce the three new transparency initiatives comes out of the Board’s first full meeting under the new governance structure. “We’ll experiment with this, but I think there was an interest by the students I talked to to have more information and interest on the part of the Trustees to provide more information,” Riddell said. “So that’s what led to the changes.”

Chronicle File Photo The Board of Trustees typically meets at the Washington Duke Inn.

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According to Brian Buhr, president of Duke University Union, POLIS seemed like an obvious partner because voting organizations are housed in political institutes at other universities across the country. “[POLIS has] lined up everyone in the administration -- from President Price to VP Moneta to various deans and vice provosts -- to get on board with this issue and understand why it matters,” Buhr said. POLIS also coordinated with the Durham Board of Elections and Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations to move the early voting site to Brodhead Center. “That’s a major breakthrough,” Buhr said. Past on-campus voting sites, including the Freeman Center and Devil’s Den, were less accessible to students and often blamed for low voter turnout. Duke Votes also hopes to promote voting among Duke employees. “This is a large population at Duke that’s demographically very different than the students, but their voice matters just as much if not more given that they’re actually from Durham or live in Durham and are impacted long-term by the decisions that are made,” Li said. Duke Votes is also planning a Party at the Polls event to drive traffic to the Brodhead Center during early voting, which lasts from Oct. 17 until Nov. 3. “Whether you’re conservative or liberal, you need to get out and vote because we’re too smart and there’s too many of us not to vote,” Pilson said.

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documents would be at the expense of administering an election, especially in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Peck said the subpoena could also open the door to racial profiling. “If you were to infer from how they do traffic stops, which is typically a form of racial profiling, it is possible that they would do the same thing from voting records: look at Hispanic surnames and try to see if there are any inconsistencies—and there probably are—but that wouldn’t prove vote fraud and that wouldn’t prove that people are not citizens,” he said. Ten civil rights groups, including The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and the ACLU, wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Ron Vitiello, deputy and acting director of ICE, on Sept. 26, 2018 in an attempt to get the subpoenas withdrawn. “The extremely broad and unprecedented subpoenas extend far beyond the scope of any legitimate law enforcement objective and threaten voters’ constitutional right to cast a ballot free from fear and intimidation as well as their expectation that their personally identifiable information… and their voting preferences will remain private,” they wrote in the letter. “Further, given the massive redactions necessary to avoid complete disregard for voters’ rights and the law, responding to these ICE subpoenas would interfere with the duties of North Carolina’s election officials at any point in any election cycle.”

TOILET REMOVAL FROM PAGE 1 “This is a politically leaked report without new information,” said Galia Slayen, a Pritzker spokeswoman, in a statement. “Instead of standing outside of J.B. Pritzker’s home, [former Illinois Republican Party Chairman] Pat Brady should be calling for an investigation into Sterigenics, a company Bruce Rauner owned that is emitting high levels of cancercausing air pollution that is poisoning Illinois families.” The two candidates are scheduled to have their second televised debate Wednesday night.

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DukeEngage group and independent project participants were invited to submit their best photos from the summer of 2018 in ﬁve categories: immersion,, partnership, education/reﬂection, gratitude and campus connection. These nine images were selected as winners in this year’s competition.

Please visit the exhibit in Perkins Library, October 1-November 30, 2018, to see the winning photos and ﬁnalists and read the artists’ statements.

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DukeEngage-Miami Photographer: Miguel Pichardo

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Independent Project: Christine Ford, Bolivia Photographer: Christine Ford

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DukeEngage-Rwanda (Suzanna Larkin pictured, left) Photographer: DukeEngage Rwanda Team

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Independent Project: Hope Jackson, Portland Photographer: Victoria Jackson

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DukeEngage-Rwanda (Rani Duff pictured, right) Photographer: DukeEngage Rwanda Team

DukeEngage-Seattle Photographer: Lara Breitkreutz

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Independent Project: Samuel Rabinowitz, Peru Photographer: Samuel Rabinowitz

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Independent Project: Christine Ford, Bolivia Photographer: Christine Ford

EDUCATION/REFLECTION DukeEngage-Togo Photographer: Angela Renne

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Christy Kuesel ................... nashvegas Sarah Derris........................... cinéma Will Atkinson ..........................reading Nina Wilder ............... i’m walkin’ here Selena Qian ........................goat yoga Eva Hong........................... time travel Alizeh Sheikh ...................... midterms Lexi Bateman ............. beach camping Sydny Long ........................... napping Jessica Williams ............. blacking out Bre Bradham......................roll shoots

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I hate asking for help. Ever since I was a very young child, I have striven for total self-sufficiency. I hated letting anyone do anything for me, even the more challenging tasks that most children reasonably could not handle alone. I was doing my own laundry by sixth grade and completing school projects and assignments independently well before then, refusing to let myself impose a burden on another person by asking for their help. Even my favorite childhood game involved me being entirely self sufficient. I pretended that I was a successful pediatrician raising two daughters by myself, which allowed me to construct a world where I was perfectly equipped to handle everything alone. This aversion has followed me throughout my life, initially presenting itself as a positive trait that was admired and praised, (“she’s so mature and independent!”) then slowly taking a more toxic form. I never requested extra help in the classroom, even when I struggled with a concept, which would negatively impact my grades. When there was a question at work that I could not immediately answer, I would freeze and try to escape the situation, rather than ask my supervisor. I felt a constant pressure to appear perfectly competent and feared that if I ever betrayed any sign of weakness or ignorance, my facade would crack and everyone would see me as a fraud. My time at Duke has done little to sweeten my sour relationship with help. While Duke offers a wide variety of resources — from tutoring services to help rooms for various courses, I rarely feel comfortable utilizing them. In fact, that pressure to maintain my cool, collected facade has only intensified since arriving at Duke. Oftentimes it

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seems that everyone is riding the tide with enviable grace while I struggle to remain afloat. I know in my heart that this isn’t the case and that everyone here is struggling to some degree, but I can’t shake the overwhelming impression that I’m an imposter who is just one misstep away from revealing her true identity. There are buzzwords associated with these feelings — imposter syndrome, effortless perfection — but none of them quite encapsulate how intensly I fear needing help. I am still convinced that my acceptance to Duke was a mistake, as I was initially deferred before

staff note being accepted during regular decision admissions. I walk this campus feeling like an intruder, an inept trespasser who can say all the right words and take all the right classes, but who will never measure up to the truly exceptional students around me. Asking for help would just emphasize how much I don’t belong and expose my many flaws. To compensate for my perceived shortcomings, I find myself engaged in a constant performance. I deflect attention from my mistakes with humor, trying to make people laugh so that they don’t have enough time to think too critically about my behavior. My jokes about being stressed and staying up too late and studying myself into the ground are exactly what they sound like — cries for

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help. But taken within the context of Duke’s academically rigorous and deeply competitive climate, these remarks are nothing more than relatable quips. I know that I am unconsciously seeking help when I make these comments, but I simply can’t find it within myself to stop performing and speak candidly about my struggles. I have spent so long trying to avoid asking for help that I genuinely don’t know how I would even start. This year, however, I have taken steps toward the vulnerability and honesty that asking for help requires. Instead of pretending that I know the material for every class cold, I am noting any gaps in understanding and I am staying behind after lectures and discussions to ask questions. When my roommate asks if she can lend a hand and quiz me for my midterms, I accept her offer, because I understand it is coming from a place of sincere compassion, not out of an assumption that I can’t handle it myself. I am trying to unlearn the notion that I am somehow less than or inadequate for needing guidance. My acceptance to Duke was not a mistake and no one is going to doubt that, no matter how many questions I ask or how much support I need. I can drop the act, I can express how I’m feeling without turning it into a joke and I now know that I can ask for help. –Sydny Long

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Album produced by Duke’s Eric Oberstein nominated for Latin Grammy By Will Atkinson Culture editor

In the course he teaches, “Introduction to Performing Arts Management & Entrepreneurship,” Eric Oberstein, Trinity ‘07, mentors Duke students in putting together the resources for a creative project, creating an ideal environment for artists and connecting with a network of alumni in the arts. He has applied many of the same principles to his work as a music producer. On Sept. 20, Dafnis Prieto Big Band’s “Back to the Sunset,” which Oberstein produced, was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the Latin Grammys. The award ceremony, whose winners are selected by the Latin Record Academy — a different voting body than the one that selects the Grammys broadcasted in February — takes place Nov. 15 in Las Vegas. With this latest honor, Oberstein’s productions have garnered eight nominations and four wins between the Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards. The result of a nearly three-year process of funding, recording and producing, “Back to the Sunset” marks another milestone for Oberstein’s career as a producer and represents a unique effort between Duke alumni. Oberstein, who is also the associate director of Duke Performances, said he met John Hahn, Trinity ‘74, after an album he produced for Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, “The Offense of the Drum,” won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Not long after, he began the early stages of planning the project with drummer Dafnis Prieto in 2016. Later that year, Oberstein connected with Harsha Murthy, Trinity ‘81, who eventually met with Prieto when the drummer performed at a gala in New York for the American Friends of the

Ludwig Foundation of Cuba in November 2016. “It was like watching a tennis match,” Murthy said of seeing Prieto behind the drums. “All the other musicians in [the] band just seemed to play better. The level of their game rose.” Hahn would serve as associate producer of the album while Murthy would serve as executive producer, helping to secure funds for its production. After selecting a roster of musicians with big band experience and playing the world premiere of the new band at New York’s Jazz Standard, Oberstein and Prieto entered the studio to record the album in August 2017. Much of the challenge in making “Back to the Sunset” was due to the great financial and personnel-related considerations required to produce any big band record. It’s safe to say that big band music is not what sells in 2018, and for this reason, shopping the project to a music industry reluctant to take risks was a difficult prospect. But for Prieto — who fell in love with big band music as a child in Cuba — packing 16 to 18 musicians into a studio was central to his vision for the project. It was clear, Oberstein said, “that this was something we’d have to make ourselves.” “[Big band music] is a very expensive kind of artistic production to mount because you’ve got so many musicians and all,” Murthy said. “It was kind of a sense that this is the sound they wanted to produce, and something magical would come out of it.” Once in the studio, Oberstein’s job as producer was to ensure the musicians had a creative environment that would bring out their best work, from organizing daily recording schedules and track sequencing to making sure everyone got fed. And from a creative

standpoint, he acted as something of a righthand man to Prieto—who was behind the drum set — giving an opinion on each take from behind the board. After months spent in its final mixing, mastering and design stages, “Back to the Sunset” was released in April. Since then, Prieto’s band has played a number of shows in support of the album, including a Duke Performances concert set for March 29, 2019, in Baldwin Auditorium. Although “Back to the Sunset” was effectively an independent effort — it was released on Prieto’s own Dafnison Music label — both Oberstein and Murthy emphasized the importance of their network of alumni in making the project possible. Murthy, whose contributions to arts at Duke include rooms in Bostock Library and the Rubenstein Arts Center, compared the artistic process to an investment in any field. “Producing an art project is a lot like

producing, starting up a start-up company. You look at the people and the talent and you say what’s the project,” Murthy said. “I trusted my gut that, between Eric and Dafnis, I had the real thing.” Oberstein, who has been in close proximity with the development arts on campus in his course and in his role at Duke Performances, noted that the increased role of arts on campus may mean Duke will see more projects like his. “As the arts at Duke have become more visible and more and more alums are working in the arts or arts management or arts business, you’re going to see more and more of those collaborations,” Oberstein said. “It’s one of the nice byproducts of being a part of this community. And it doesn’t happen everywhere.” In other words, it doesn’t appear that Oberstein will be Duke’s last Grammy nominee.

Special to The Chronicle Associate director of Duke Performances Eric Oberstein produced an album that has been nominated for a Latin Grammy.

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Har vard professor discusses contemporar y architecture By Joel Kohen Contributing Writer

Although Duke is widely known for its neoGothic West Campus towers, most students know little about architecture’s elements of style or alternative forms. To curb this trend, the Literature department invited architectural theorist and historian K. Michael Hays to give a public lecture titled “Phenomenality, Materiality, and Inscription: Trends in Contemporary Architecture” Wednesday. Hays, the Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, discussed the structure of contemporary buildings, some of which were designed only in the last few years, often by architects in their ‘30s or ‘40s. An exhibition titled “Inscriptions: Architecture before Speech,” which Hays and his colleague Andrew Holder had put together earlier this year, served as the background for the buildings discussed. “Architecture is something that you experience in distraction,” Hays said, paraphrasing philosopher Walter Benjamin. Hays said individuals sometimes lose sight of the architectural wealth they experience. “Architecture is a background phenomenon for most of us — when we watch a movie, we attend, we focus,” Hays said. In architecture, you don’t tend to focus if you’re not an architect.” The designs in the presentation included the PS1 Dolmen by First Office, Wolfsburg Science Center by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam or Project 28 by Preston Scott Cohen. Hays said that they were generally “immature and experimental, but very now.” Interestingly, very few of the designs presented were ever used in reality, rendering them “paper architecture.” Citing philosopher

Nelson Goodman, Hays explained that this had to do with architecture’s status as an “allographic art,” similar to music. This means that unlike classic sculpting or painting, music and architecture have “notational systems” that rely on others to be put into practice. Architectural drawings thus become the object of heightened interest because “an architect is thinking as they draw.” In general, contemporary architecture can be understood as a reaction to its preceding movement: postmodernism. Although the term is widely used in several fields, ranging from literature to politics, postmodern architecture was particularly prominent in the 1970s and 80s, when it was first theorized by Robert Venturi, Denise Brown, Aldo Rossi and Manfredo Tarfuri. Prominent examples include the Portland Building by Michael Graves and the Haas School of Business in Berkeley. Along with many other factors, postmodern architecture itself had been driven by a rebellion against the functional and plain style of modernism, as exemplified by the works of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier or Frank Lloyd Wright. A focal point of the drawings and pictures shown was the question of materiality, defined as the combination of material and form. Several young architects explicitly emphasized their decision to use dirt, hay, concrete or materials won from recycled waste in their designs. One of the projects presented even featured several cow bodies used as construction material — an attempt to escape traditional notions of material in an endeavor to become “post-natural” or “post-rock.” Hays said that all this may not produce anything like “direct meaning,” as had been the main concern for their postmodern predecessors, but it certainly incorporates an increased environmental conscience.

Ariana Gallegos | Contributing Photographer Harvard professor K. Michael Hays noted that people do not take notice of the archetecture they encounter each day.

Theoretically, the lecture drew heavily on the thought of Immanuel Kant, Duke Professor Fredric Jameson and, most importantly, Jacques Lacan. Hays’s approach uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as a systematic tool for the study of architecture, which allows for a categorization of style and form, along with the relations between individual elements. Although he was probably not the first to combine Lacan and architecture, Hays said he was the one who had done it with the most enthusiasm, citing the biases around psychoanalysis that persist in academia. “We can also make buildings legible, not by turning people into designing architects

but just talking about elements, principles and processes,” he said. Those interested in acquiring a deeper apprehension for the buildings around them are in luck, as Hays and his colleagues at Harvard now offer a free online course titled “The Architectural Imagination,” but it is not a traditional course on the history of architecture. “We tried to show in several historical examples what the parameters were for understanding the underlying value systems,” Hays said. “Buildings, including Duke’s neoGothic campus, have a lot more to say than what we presume.”

Duke CommuniTEA brews a strong cup of conversation By Jack Rubenstein Contributing Writer

Sujal Manohar | Photo Editor Duke CommuniTEA seeks to educate students on the history and culture of tea-drinking.

Many Duke students view tea as merely an alternative to coffee. The new club Duke CommuniTEA seeks to educate students on the history of the drink. This club meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Oasis at the Wellness Center to engage in discussions, meet new people and drink lots of tea. Students make their own tea bags from a line of loose leaf teas, including black, green, oolong and white

tea. They can also get creative adding things such as rose hips and lemongrass to boost the flavor. In addition, one special tea is always shared between the members that is brewed using traditional Chinese methods by the club president, sophomore Vincent Liu. “My mom found tea master nearby [in China], and I started taking lessons from him,” Liu said. “It was just very fascinating

to learn about the culture, the history about tea ... By learning about tea culture, I learned more about Chinese culture, which connects me back to my roots.” Last year, Liu partnered with the Wellness Center to start this club, which he felt was an important addition to the Duke community. “Tea is all about sharing,” he said. “If you have the best tea, and you don’t share, it’s meaningless.” Liu’s goal for the club is to share his passion about tea and interest in tea culture with people from different backgrounds. “I expected college to be more inclusive and more like a community, but sometimes it doesn’t feel like that because people just stay in their comfort zones and don’t talk to people who are superficially different from them,” he said. “I just want to create this club so that we have a platform to connect people together, meet, talk and relax.” Other students agreed that the club was a meaningful addition to the wide array of organizations on campus. “I really like the sense of community that the club brings,” junior Max Bartlett said. “I always learn something new about tea and I collect tea myself. I think it’s a great way to meet people.” Some members have been introduced to new teas. “I used to just drink black tea, Robioos, which is a tea from South Africa, because I’m from Zimbabwe and that is just the household tea,” said sophomore and executive board member Bernice Meja. “Then I started experimenting with green tea, and drinking that a lot, and lighter teas

in general. When I came to Duke and saw there was a tea club forming, I wanted to join. Now I know about a variety of teas like oolong and white tea.” Last year, the club held two tea ceremonies, using the methods Liu learned from the tea master back in China. Liu hopes to host these events again, but the are not the only items on the club’s agenda. The club plans to plant tea trees around the Wellness Center or in the Duke Gardens, depending on where soil conditions are better. Club members will take care of the plants, pick leaves and brew tea. They also hope to host a conversation event. “People gather together and sit together and everyone would be drinking tea, and discussing some topics and themes: Either some issues on campus or something related to stress, just anything you feel like you want to talk to others about,” Liu said. Tea isn’t just important to the members of the club. On average, 184 million people in America drink tea a day, and in 2017, the U.S. consumed 84 billion servings of the beverage. Tea also has health benefits beyond providing caffeine. Black tea is said to help lower stress levels and blood pressure. Green and white tea have antioxidants that can help fight off illness. Duke CommuniTEA wishes to focus on not simply drinking tea, but also teaching students more about this popular drink. They want to host events where students can watch documentaries and read excerpts about tea, though this is still in the planning stage.

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Nasher program creates community among those affected by dementia By Kerry Rork Contributing Writer

Those affected by Alzheimer’s often suffer from feelings of isolation, but a Nasher program seeks to create an opportunity for individuals with dementia to engage with art and new ideas. According to a recent study on human lifestyles, the Association for Psychological Science concluded, “Actual and perceived social isolation are both associated with increased risk for early mortality.” These results remain consistent across gender and racial lines. In fact, isolation ranks equal to or in some cases, higher than, risk factors like smoking or pollution on the health and well-being of individuals. Isolation impacts all aspects of health: emotional, mental, and physical. It can lead to depression, obesity, weakened cognitive abilities and, ultimately, less life satisfaction. The Reflections Program seeks to foster community for those with Alzheimer’s in partnership with the Duke Family Support Program. It is based on a similar program at the Museum of Modern Art called Meet Me at MoMA. Senior Brittany Halberstadt, the educational assistant for the Reflections program, said the program is all about empowerment. “It’s alright if you have a pause or you lose a word or if it takes you awhile to come up with your thought,” she said. She said that those who come every month become more willing to speak up and engage, showing proof of the program’s impact. The Reflections program, founded in 2014, consists of free public tours on the fourth Tuesday and group tours for those

with dementia and their care partners on the third Tuesday of each month. The public tours are 60 minutes long and involve groups engaging with three to four art pieces in the museum. The group tours offer a similar 60-minute program along with an interactive portion, typically music or art activities that connect to the pieces presented. Halberstadt recalled one particular instance when the group was listening to a Spanish guitarist and the musician had some extra drums available, and an individual who had not spoken much on the tour came up and played. He started saying that he had been in his cousin’s band in high school and college, a fact that even his wife, who was on the tour with him, did not know. This showed the program’s ability to create new memories and empower those involved. Within the Duke community itself, the museum is attempting to strengthen its bonds with the Duke Hospital, studying how the brain sees and appreciates art along with the relation to Alzheimer’s. The Nasher and the hospital even hope to research the impact of the program itself on its members through quantitative methods with hopes to further grow their community and knowledge. The Nasher wants to expand the program’s impact beyond the museum walls into Durham and further to the nation as a whole. The museum strives to make Durham more dementia-inclusive, namely through dementia-friendly training that offers guidance on the stages of dementia, what happens to the human body with dementia and engagement with these individuals. They also hope to add more diversity to the program so that everyone

feels welcome in the museum, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. On a national level, the Nasher was also the first museum to host the Museums and Dementia Symposium in 2017, bringing together 70 different museum professionals from 23 states and three countries to brainstorm programs and bring together a community. This interaction aided in bringing the Nasher’s work to the global stage on issues associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s patients. Beyond its commitment to community and outreach within Durham and the world, the Reflections Program is working to destroy the

stigmas attached to Alzheimer’s. Halberstadt said the program is “inviting [these individuals] to participate and saying they have the power to do that.” The program is a community of people who understand everyone’s struggles and welcomes them. The museum makes a point of holding the tours when the building is open to the public. Halberstadt said she hopes that other visitors seeing those affected by Alzheimers outside of an assisted living facility or in a nursing home and in the gallery will break down those stigmas and create a more inclusive Durham.

Photo Courtesy of Jason Caldwell Mark Wells performs in the Nasher galleries during the Reflections program for those living with dementia.

New interdisciplinary arts leadership award dedicated to Duke student By Eleanor George Contributing Writer

A new award will recognize student excellence in arts leadership, and it is named after a Duke arts student and trailblazer. The Graywill Award for Arts Leadership & Service, dedicated to former duARTS president Kelsey Graywill, was created to recognize students who have contributed to the arts community, even outside of their respective majors. “The award needs to go to students who think beyond themselves and make art for everyone,” Graywill said. Graywill is not a traditional arts major. She created her own major, entitled Human Creativity: Evolutionary Neuroaesthetics, through Duke’s Program II. By studying the intersection of art and STEM, she wanted to explore why people make art and what makes art beautiful, both questions required her to also explore what it means to be human. She took a more interdisciplinary focus while studying at Duke and tried to link subjects from multiple classes together in order to get a deeper understanding of material. “Problems today require interdisciplinary knowledge, and education needs to change to teach students subjects across multiple disciplines,” Graywill said. “I hope that the award can be a push towards this change.” “The award recognizes Duke students who have made important contributions to the arts through advocacy, organizational skills, and programming vision,” said Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts. “Such students are unsung heroes who help the arts thrive on campus.” Katy Clune, arts communications

specialist for the Rubenstein Arts Center, hopes the new space also becomes a legacy for Graywill’s arts efforts on campus. “duARTS hopes to fill the galleries with student art after being inspired by Graywill’s work, since she was the first to host an exhibit in the Ruby,” Clune said. Graywill said she hopes the award will inspire other students to continue to improve the arts community, like she and her predecessors have done. She would have felt guilty leaving Duke without trying to include all artists. “If an award like this had been around when I was a freshman, it would have completely changed my perspective on the art community and made me want to become a leader sooner,” she said. Ali Shumar, the assistant director of arts and media, knew that Graywill would become the president of duArts after she first encountered her work. “I am excited to continue Graywill’s legacy with the award and see how other art leaders try to make the impact that she did,” Shumar said. Graywill helped create an art gallery at the Brodhead Center where students can submit solo pieces of natural science. She taught art groups at The Loop and expanded the duARTS festival into a nine-day event. Graywill stated that the arts are for everyone, not just those who make it, and that student body will ultimately shape the arts community on campus. This community support requires leaders who encourage the students to explore the incredible artistic talents that their classmates have to offer. “I want the award to be for the people who make the kind of art that moves

others,” Graywill said. It can be easy for Duke students to become interested in succeeding for themselves, and it can be hard for students to invest in things that aren’t about themselves. “The issue is not that students aren’t interested or don’t have time, it’s more a matter of meeting students where they are at,” Graywill said. One duArts exhibit at the Brodhead

Center was a wall of buttons, which included such phrases as “photographer,” “writer” and “singer.” The exhibit was made for students to take buttons of the label they most associated with. Unexpectedly, the buttons that ran out first were those labeled “art appreciator.” “This exhibit showed us that Duke’s student body wants to support student art and that there is an interest in expanding the arts community,” Graywill said.

Sujal Manohar | Photo Editor The Graywill Award for Arts Leadership & Service honors student arts leaders beyond those majoring in the arts.

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Netflix’s mini-series ‘Maniac’ is a disorienting dystopian spectacle By Alyssa Wilson Contributing Writer

Photo Courtesy of Youtube Netflix original series “Maniac” is a dystopian drama starring Emma Stone as Annie Landsberg and Jonah Hill as Owen Milgrim.

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“It begins like this,” says the soothing voice over as “Maniac” opens with the colorful image of an amoeba. But wait, that isn’t the beginning — we need to go back even farther. Too many “connections” have been skipped and you need to be taken back even further — so the show introduces the idea of an “infinite cosmic orgy,” or The Big Bang Theory. What ensues is a description of the creation of the world as we know it with comically sexual references. Trippy images of amoebas becoming plants, plants morphing into clouds, clouds into animals and animals into humans. We are launched into a world parallel to our own, and yet altogether unfamiliar. And if what I’ve described has confused you, well that’s what Netflix’s “Maniac” is in a nutshell — an infinitely disorienting, and yet aesthetically alluring spectacle. The 10-episode miniseries is set in a retro-futuristic New York City, with similarities largely resembling that of a 1980s science fiction b-movie: computers that look like they have been taken straight from the set of “Back to the Future” coexist alongside an AI Supercomputer capable of empathy, a friend proxy service sends actors who pretend to your friend, advertisements are replaced with “Ad Buddies” — real people who follow you around and bombard you with ads — and people chain smoke as if it can’t cause fatal disease. In an statement given to Indiewire, Director Cary Joji Fukunaga said the show is essentially set in a new plane of existence that mirrors our own. “As [creator Patrick Somerville] and I started working on it, I think we both thought that the real world should also be a heightened reality, and I don’t think we knew exactly why we were doing that, initially,” Fukunaga said. “It just felt like an instinct.” The show follows addict Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and schizophrenic Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill) as they participate in a pharmaceutical drug trial led by Doctors Azumi Fujita (Sonoya Mizuno), James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), and Robert Muramoto (Rome Kanda). The drug aims to rid the need for therapy and cure all mental health problems. As Dr. Mantleray puts it, the procedure ”will unlock the secret mysteries of the mind and replace old-fashioned talk therapy ... forever.” Unfortunately, during the study tragedy strikes and the empathetic computer system malfunctions, intertwining Owen and Annie’s psyches and creating multiple realities that range from a lemur kidnapping in Long Island, to a seance in the 1940s, to becoming a mafia member, a medieval tour guide, an Icelandic Spy and CIA operative. The end result is an interesting medley of sound and visuals, and the production of a genre-hopping series with nods to government thrillers, fantasy adventures, crime dramas and more. It’s basically a funnier version of “Inception.” Despite the cinematic feel, all the different elements often resulted in a hard to follow, bizarre plot. There were times when it felt like the show was trying to be so unconventional that explanations were foregone and plotlines were left unfinished. At one point, it is implied that Dr. Marumoto is addicted to reliving his old traumas — similar to Stone’s character — but no further information is given and the topic is never revisited. This was especially true of the first episode, where lines such as “anonymous hammerhead” and “12-bullet short-termer” are used freely and without definition. Their meanings can’t be derived with context because the context is just as puzzling. At one point a Russian tour guide introduces a Statue of Extra Liberty that has wings and wields a sword — a 10-second detour mentioned once and never addressed again. Underneath all of the surrealism and quirkiness, at its core the show broadcasts themes of acceptance and connection. Both Owen and Annie are haunted by their past trauma, but by series end both characters are able to learn from their experiences, and look forward to the future. All in all, “Maniac” is a moving commentary on the chaos we so often see in society and the importance of moving on and moving forward — a story of growth and learning from your mistakes.

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Former Duke women’s basketball star Lindsey Harding blazing a new trail as Sixers scout By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

If she had her choice, Lindsey Harding would’ve played basketball for the rest of her life. The Duke alumna and former No. 1 overall WNBA draft pick had spent most of her time on the hardwood, dating back more than a decade to her days at Cy-Fair High School just outside of Houston. But after spending time with 13 teams all around the world, Harding began to look to the future. “Playing in a different city from where you might live and having to go to Europe for seven or seven and a half months, you miss everything,” Harding said. “You miss birthdays, graduations, babies being born, and I knew I wasn’t going to do it forever. I knew there needed to be something next.” That “next” was an opportunity with the Philadelphia 76ers, who hired Harding as a pro personnel scout in August. Harding is the second-ever full-time female scout in the NBA, and the 2007 Naismith Player of the Year joins Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon, Mavericks assistant Jenny Boucek and Clippers assistant coach Natalie Nakase among the very few former WNBA players who are now working in the world’s premier men’s basketball league. Harding will link up with a couple other former Blue Devils in the City of Brotherly Love—veteran shooting guard J.J. Redick returns to the Sixers for a second season and Elton Brand, the top overall selection in the 1999 NBA Draft, is at the helm of the front office as the team’s newlyhired general manager.

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After starring as a Blue Devil and earning a spot as a No.1 draft pick in the WNBA, Lindsey Harding continues her basketball career as a newly minted scout for the Sixers “I think it’s kind of unheard of for someone to retire and two years later be the GM. I want to be on that path,” Harding said of Brand. “I know he’s excited. We have a really solid group there and we’re all there. He’s not just there on an island. He’s the boss, but it’s all of us pitching in.” ‘I’m used to tennis shoes’ Harding’s path to the NBA began when she retired from pro basketball in 2017. Harding then joined the NBA’s basketball operations associates program, working

in the league office and traveling to visit different teams. Harding acknowledged that there was plenty to learn, including what she didn’t like. “From playing, that’s what you know, and from coaching, that’s what you know. You don’t know everything that’s around the game and there are other things you can do to be a part of basketball,” Harding said. “Threehour meetings [were] really tough. Corporate [attire], having to wear business suits every day was different—not that I won’t get there in the future, but I’m used to tennis shoes.”

The constant search for knowledge has been a part of Harding’s identity since her first days on the basketball court. Former Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors, who recruited Harding to Durham in the early 2000s, said she’s seen an evolution of those same characteristics within Harding over the years. “It’s a great thirst for knowledge that she has and a passion for competition, pushing herself to be the best,” Goestenkors said. “She wanted and needed to understand the game at a very high level because as a point guard, you need to not only know the plays, but also where everyone needs to be.” Harding developed relationships with many teams, networking throughout her years at Summer League as well as during her time with the league office. Eventually, she interviewed with teams that were hiring for multiple positions. The Sixers first looked at Harding in a coaching role, something that she had done a few years prior with the Raptors at Summer League. But without a position available, they instead opted to hire Harding as a pro personnel scout, meaning she will primarily look at talent in the G League and internationally, as well as on other teams in the NBA, trying to find the pieces to help the Sixers complete their roster. Still, Harding has her eyes on an eventual return to the sidelines. “I’m not going to lie—being able to be on the floor and teach the game, that’s awesome. I’ve done that for years,” Harding said. “But being able to put the team together...I’m really See HARDING on Page 13

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Duke’s offense back on track in win over Wofford

By Shane Smith Staff Writer

For any squad gearing up to play Duke, it’s a given that the Blue Devils will come out firing. It’s often just a question of whether or not those shots will connect. Luckily for Duke, a second-half surge led the No. 23 Blue WOFF 2 Devils past Wofford 4 4-2 Tuesday night at DUKE Koskinen Stadium. Duke’s four goals matched their highest scoring output of the season—a tally they haven’t reached since their blowout against San Diego back in August. “We’re really good at approaching that final third, and then maybe we have to make some adjustments to understand a little bit more with our finishing touches,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said, “But I’m happy with how we played, happy with our approach to the game and happy with the result.” Duke (5-3-1) controlled the ball for most

of the game. However, despite outshooting the Terriers (1-7-1) 15-3 in the first half, Kerr’s squad found itself in an early 1-0 hole after Zach Aversano found the back of the net in the 11th minute. The sophomore midfielder collected a cross off his chest from Saviour Anyagri and lifted it over the outstretched glove of goalie Will Pulisic. In response, the Blue Devils upped the tempo on their already aggressive attack. Junior Brandon Williamson made a nice touch off a feed from Max Moser and fired a shot past the goalkeeper into the lower left side of the net. After one period of play, the two teams were knotted at one apiece, something that no one saw coming from Wofford—a team that has struggled with just one win to its name thus far. “Every ACC team has trouble with these games midweek because we beat each other up on the weekends,” Kerr said. “These are difficult games for all of us.”

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Daniel Wright notched a goal midway through the second period to give seal the evening for the Blue Devils After so many matches with failed opportunities for the Blue Devils, the home team knew that if it kept attacking,

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Don’t worry about Duke men’s basketball’s 2019 recruiting If you have stayed up to date on Duke basketball’s offseason, then you should be familiar with the fact that the Blue Devils still have no recruits yet for next year—zero. Why is this the case? There are two simple possible explanations for this. The first is that former associate head coach Jeff Capel, the man widely credited with attracting several talented players to Durham, left for Pittsburgh and is no longer leading Duke’s recruiting. The other reason is that head coach Mike Krzyzewski could be nearing the end of his tenure at Duke. Many of the younger players who would normally spend four years developing now might have have no interest in wearing the blue and white since they might not see the court under Coach K. Okay, I’m glad you’ve followed me this far. However, the Blue Devils are fine for next year and you don’t have to worry. Here’s why: First off, let’s take a look at the Blue Devils’ typical recruiting timeline starting with the Class of 2014, the first major one-and-done haul for Duke. Since 2014, Duke has had 20 top-25 recruits, according to ESPN’s rankings for those seasons. The breakdown of when they committed is as follows:

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Before August of senior year in high school (early in cycle): Three commits August: Two commits September: Two commits October: Zero commits November: Seven commitments After November: Six commitments Thirteen of the 20 recruits committed after October, including some of the Blue Devils’ best recruits in Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett, Wendell Carter Jr., Marvin Bagley III, Gary Trent Jr., Brandon Ingram, and of course, the trio of Tyus Jones, Justise Winslow and Jahlil Okafor. “Oh, but this year is different.” Some would say that Duke has been losing to other programs more often than usual, with top-25 recruits like Nico Mannion, Armando Bacot and Josiah James committing to Arizona, North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, instead of the Blue Devils. While this is true, Duke still has cast a wide net. The Blue Devils are in the running for five of the top 10 players in the Class of 2019, and are considered strong contenders for top point guard Cole Anthony, second-ranked center Vernon Carey Jr. and No. 18 overall prospect Wendell Moore. Also, don’t forget that Duke already had a Class of 2019 recruit in freshman Joey Baker, who committed last October, reclassified this spring to join the 2018-19 squad and will likely stay more See RECRUITING on Page 13

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Zion Williamson capped off Duke’s highly touted 2018 recruiting class. However, the Blue Devils are yet to snag a prospect for 2019.

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The Blue Devils look overseas to round out roster By Ramona Naseri Staff Writer

With one of the top programs in the nation at one of the top academic institutions to boot, it’s no surprise that players from around the world are interested in joining the ranks of Duke men’s soccer. With athletes from soccer-dominant countries like Germany and Argentina, the Blue Devils’ international group of players has settled in Durham and plays alongside American teammates in a country where the sport is only just beginning to catch on. Giving college a chance The ratio of foreign to domestic players within Duke’s roster has risen over the years. Foreign players currently make up 39 percent of the team, a stark contrast to the predominantly American lineups the Blue Devils have put together in the past. In 2015, just 23 percent of the players were foreigners, and in the 2012 season, these players made up just 12 percent of the roster. Duke head coach John Kerr attributed the increase of international recruits to two things. “Some of these players that we normally get domestically are going pro early either here in the United States or abroad, and the other element is that the international players have decided that this is a more viable option for them and they’re very talented,” Kerr said. “If they don’t end up on Duke’s roster, they’ll end up on UVA’s

roster or UNC’s roster.” Some of these international recruits have come to America despite professional contracts they were offered in their home countries. At the age of 16, junior Ciaran McKenna was offered a professional contract with Celtic, a soccer club based in his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland. Despite the opportunity of playing under the green and white banner, a dream of his from age 9, he rejected the offer to pursue a more academically-focused path. “I’ve grown up in a culture of football,” McKenna said. “I’ve seen so many people leave school and then to be injured or to lose form and then two or three years later, they’re not playing football and they don’t have the education to go and get a good job. I know how dangerous that was, so that is what inspired the decision to come here and it was more that I felt I would mature as a person socially, academically and athletically.” Reeling them in The recruitment process for foreign players is much different than that of their American counterparts. While recruiting usually begins around a domestic player’s sophomore year in high school, the process starts much later for international recruits. International players are not sought out and are instead expected to reach out to Duke during their senior year if they’re interested in playing for the team. This initial step is accompanied by a

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Ciaran McKenna is one of many international players on Duke’s highly talented roster highlight tape and transcript sent to Kerr. After this introduction, the Blue Devil head coach requests a tape showing the player’s performance within a 90-minute game. To conclude the recruitment process, Kerr will then travel to the player’s home country to see him play and meet him in person.

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the Spurs hired her in 2014, and she became the first woman to be the head coach of a Summer League team in 2015. Hammon was also one of the first people to congratulate Harding once she was hired. But Harding wants to drastically expand the group beyond the elite few that it has now. “I’m doing this because I wanted to do it,” Harding said. “If any woman wants to be a coach or wants to be a scout or wants to get in the front office or wants to work for an NBA team, nothing should discourage them from doing it and they should pursue it and do it. Again, you want to know what you’re talking about, you want to have some experience, but I think now, more teams are open to it.”

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offense kept the ball in the attacking zone for a majority of the second half and leading goal scorer Daniele Proch put the Blue Devils ahead with a strong individual play to the net in the 50th minute. The junior fielded a throw-in and brushed off contact toward the middle of the field FROM PAGE 12 before firing it off the keeper’s hands for his eighth goal of the year. visit and I saw the facilities and how “I feel much better mentally,” Proch said prestigious the university was and it was of his improvements from last season. “Last hard to change my mind after that. Straight year was very useful in letting me understand after the visit, I knew that I wanted to what type of game we’re playing, knowing come here and I didn’t consider any other my teammates, knowing what the coaches schools after that.” want from me, and I think it’s making a big An international recruit can be posed difference this year.” with difficulties off the field as well. Some of Duke’s offense never looked back, as the players aren’t familiar with Greek life, or Daniel Wright collected a Jack Doran with the general social life that comes along rebound shot and scored in the 58th minute. with being an athlete. While home is much Freshman Ian Murphy sealed the match in further away for these players, struggling the 76th minute with his third career goal off with distance and long periods of time two great feeds from Kristofer Gardarsson without family is natural. and Torbjorn Alseth. However, foreign players also come to The Blue Devils, who came into the America with an upper hand. match averaging five corner kicks per “Typically, these guys are older, so their game, racked up 14 opportunities on school system takes them until they’re 18 corners. Their defense stayed strong or 19, where ours takes them to 17 or 18,” throughout the second-half push, not Kerr said. “So typically the international allowing a Terrier shot for the first 34 guys are one year more mature, more minutes out of the locker room. Wofford physically developed than our guys, so scored the last goal of the night with less that’s a big advantage for them.” Although drawing from around than three minutes left when the outcome the world poses its own challenges, of the match was already decided. Duke’s recent resume of a brief No. 2 “We had some trouble finishing our ranking earlier this season and an NCAA plays,” Proch said. “But the key was keep tournament berth a year ago has shown trying and be patient, but at the same time The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation keep creating chances. In the second half, that the Blue Devils stand to benefit from Eighth Avenue, New York, 10018 looking overseas. we were more620 determined and decisive to N.Y.

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‘Basketball is basketball’ The WNBA has grown in recent years. Its television ratings have increased and the FROM PAGE 12 players are inching toward earning bigger salaries. Although the league is nowhere near as than one year. profitable as the NBA, its players are speaking The other reason not to worry is that next up, hoping to negotiate a deal in which they season Duke will have its arguably its largest can earn a similar proportion of the league’s veteran presence since the 2010 national revenue as their male counterparts. championship team with the likely returns of But it goes without saying that there are seniors Marques Bolden, Javin DeLaurier and not enough women working in the NBA. Jack White, and juniors Alex O’Connell and Even in an age when women and men work Jordan Goldwire. alongside one another in almost every Even if the Blue Devils only get two of the occupation, there are currently just three seven top-25 recruits still considering them, female assistants. three of the above players would be more than “It’s just [about] more men being open,” capable of starting. Duke would also still have Goestenkors said. “They’re in the power the other two, plus Baker and then-redshirt positions, at this point, to do the hiring, so as senior Justin Robinson. they see Becky Hammon and some of the other In short, don’t worry about Duke’s recruiting females coaching men, and they see them be just yet. The Blue Devils still have a high chance successful, more and more will be hired. The of fielding a formidable squad next season. If Duke still doesn’t have a recruit in January, then bottom line is basketball is basketball.” Hammon is often regarded as the trailblazer— we can begin to worry, but as of Oct. 2, the 2019 she became the first full-time female assistant in recruiting cycle is not much different than any of any of the four major professional sports when the five that came before it.

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Why haven’t you heard about the killing of Durham college student DeAndre Ballard?

n September 17th, DeAndre Ballard, a 23-year-old senior at NC Central University, was shot and killed by a private security guard outside of his off-campus apartment. Even as community members demand answers, the details of the details surrounding the shooting being released are vague and inconsistent. DeAndre’s family was left in the dark about what happened to him until three days after the shooting. In the days following, there was a lack of information communicated by NCCU, the security company, N.C. Detective Agency, and Durham police. The vice president of the security company immediately conducted an interview proclaiming full support of the security guard’s actions—insisting that they were done in self defense—and NCCU came out with a statement preserving their image and completely disassociating the university from the incident. Tragedies like DeAndre’s killing are painfully

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commonplace not just in the national news cycle, but also in the city of Durham—where the same structural forces that prevent accountability for police violence across the country are at work facilitating extra-judicial execution of black people just outside our campus walls. The number of Durham resident deaths at the hands of the police and in the Durham County jail are staggering. While DeAndre was killed by a guard from private security company, rather than city or state-employed officer, this agency hired by the apartment complex has its own shady past and has had three separate documented violations filed

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by the state since 2010. These incidents include allowing “armed guards to carry a firearm during the course of performing their duties, without first having met the qualifications of the board” and failure to “properly register armed guards.” More disturbing still, DeAndre Ballard was shot more than week ago and Durham police have yet to release any specific information on the investigation. After the shooting, the guard was placed on administrative leave for a week, but returned to work at a different site on Monday. Issues of the militarization of police forces and the discrimination that continues to be ingrained within their construction extend far beyond DeAndre Ballard’s death, and solutions to these problems may be out of the scope of what any one person can implement. However, these events are cause for reflection on our presence as a neighbor to NCCU and our relationship to a peer institution in the same community. News of DeAndre’s death barely trickled into the walls of Duke’s campus. Little was said of the traumatic event and even less was done. Duke students—particularly white, upper-class students—are largely insulated from from the full effects of state violence or this type of gross injustice while on campus. While the University maintains a large contract with Allied Universal, a massive security agency that brought in roughly $5.5 billion in revenue last year (in addition to maintaining a separate security force and police department), these institutions exist to shelter students from consequences and surveil Durham community members that may enter campus. The interactions between a largely white and wealthy student body and figures of authority look vastly different from the encounters between police or security guards and the citizens of cities that are as racially segregated as Durham is. As students at a neighboring institution and residents

of Durham, we ought to stand behind DeAndre’s family and peers at NCCU and be a pillar of support. The lack of this solidarity when the story of DeAndre’s death broke can be chalked up to a nearly nonexistent relationship with the university, despite geographic proximity. For all of the outreach, collaboration and collegiality that exists in the relationships between Duke and UNC or with NC State, NCCU—the sole historically black university in the area—remains an outcast. The relative lack of awareness and outrage raises the question of which people we are taught to value and who is seen as worth rallying around. It isn’t just coincidence that the reactions at Duke to the student protests at UNC and the toppling of Silent Sam rang much louder than any responses to the other grievous injustices still unfolding right outside of our walls. Our apathy, while loosely attributed to the “Duke bubble” and midterms season, is clearly a product of the selective allegiances that Duke students have chosen to create, excluding HBCUs or smaller community colleges like Durham Tech. There exists a repulsively elitist sentiment—steeped in racism and classism—that prescribes a lesser worth to NCCU as an educational institution and its students. It rears its head in conversations about the Bull City Connector, a free bus that ran between downtown and Duke which was kept from stopping at NCCU and, more alarmingly, in conversations about the Duke lacrosse case. We must critically confront why it is that these beliefs continue to be fostered at Duke and how we can push back against their prevalence. DeAndre Ballard’s tragic death and the events immediately surrounding it are a manifestation of a series of broken public and private systems. From a structure of authority that engages in the perpetual murder of black men and a lack of regulation that exists for private security contractors to a government and University administration that have remained steadfast in promoting their own self-interests: DeAndre has been the victim of a heinous injustice at the hands of powers that we can only hope to change. What we do have the power to change, however, is our own understanding of why even in this bastion of liberalism and exchange of ideas, we continue to devalue the lives and pain of those outside our small, immediate collegiate community. It is our moral obligation to demand justice for our peers, as well as those who are victimized by state-sanctioned or privatized forms of violence outside of Duke. Part of this is challenging the way many of us have been taught to value lives based on socioeconomic status, institutional affiliation and proximity to us. May DeAndre rest in power and his family find justice.

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Photo Courtesy of NCCU DeAndre Ballard was a senior at NCCU and was killed two weeks ago by a security officer outside his apartment building.

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Sleep isn’t like golf, and other midterm re alities

ow often do you see an acquaintance walking by on the quad and instinctively answer their obligatory “how are you?” with “I’m soooo tired.” I’ve said it so many times I can’t even count. Don’t get me wrong, I recognize that Duke students get far fewer hours of sleep than they should be getting; Duke has a way of creating such a stressful

the 10 percent of students who made the cut to attend Duke. And now, we are here, at one of the best institutions in the country, receiving a world-class education, and preparing for what successes lie ahead. So why do we still compete with one another? Sleep isn’t like golf. Getting fewer hours of shuteye doesn’t mean you’re a winner. It just means you’re at a much higher risk for depression and you’re probably going to die

a couple years earlier. When you get the impression that everyone around you is constantly busy, participating in this and that extracurricular and getting straight A’s in their classes, you naturally start to feel a little pressured. This kind of pressure builds up, enough so that eventually, you might feel the need to take drastic measures. Here, I recount some of the things that were said by real Duke

Duke Honor Council COLUMN environment that students should have the right to complain about the loads of work they have. However, when I think back to the countless times I replied with a dramatic sigh and lamented that I only got three hours of sleep the night before, I was almost always embellishing. Stress isn’t a competition. Advertising that you’re taking seven classes, pre-law and pre-med, a varsity athlete, working at a lab, volunteering at the animal shelter, and finding time to write a senior thesis as a sophomore doesn’t make you cooler or smarter. All it does is boost your ego and contribute to the slow but sure deterioration of Duke’s campus culture by creating and perpetuating ideas about seemingly “effortless perfection.” Yes, I’m exaggerating. But only a little bit. We are so incredibly lucky to be part of

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students, either in truth or jest, that signify a problematic trajectory in the personal values of the individual members that make up our community: I’m just going to take some Adderall. Let me see if I can find the answer on Chegg. Can you send me your answers so I can make sure I got the right ones? My friend took the class last year, he’ll give me the answers. I found the answers to the problem set online. These are all self-explanatory. Ask anyone walking on Bryan Center plaza why doing any of these things is wrong, and they’ll give you the exact answer you want to hear. We all know why these actions are morally questionable, but some of us still do them. Out of any random selection of Duke students, it is nearly impossible to find a student who is not guilty of at least one of the transgressions listed above. As humans, we are fallible, but the culture of competitive stress is contributing to the emotional contagion that precedes a stupid decision like plagiarising or taking a performance-enhancing drug. So the next time you meet a friend on the quad, don’t complain about how many caffeine pills you’re taking or how many hours you spent on Perkins last night. Instead, try to remember what it was like to be a human being before you defined yourself as a student. This week’s column was written by Megan Zhao, Trinity sophomore.

Response to Eladio Bobadilla on the Center for the History of Political Economy

n a column published in the The Chronicle on 24 September 2018 and reprinted on 26 September, Eladio Bobadilla attacked the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University in a completely irresponsible manner. Using the tactics of innuendo and guilt by association reminiscent of the McCarthy era, he seeks to associate the faculty and fellows of the Center with the despicable forces of bigotry and white supremacy. These scurrilous insinuations would be laughable if they were not so vile. It is hypocritical to group the Center among those for whom “history and truth are reduced to whatever

by Duke University Press. It hosts pre- and post-doctoral fellows and senior scholars from all around the world. It sponsors the most important annual conference series in the field. And it has worked closely with the Rubenstein Library to develop the single most important collection of economist’s academic papers in the world: the Economists’ Papers Archive, which houses the papers of eleven Nobel Prize winners and more than fifty other notable economists, as well as the official archives of the American Economic Association and the History of Economics Society. The Center has no ideological orientation and takes

Kevin D. Hoover E. Roy Wintraub Bruce J. Caldwell GUEST COLUMNISTS the powerful say they are” when Mr. Bobadilla has himself shown no respect for the truth and has not bothered with the due diligence that one might expect from a professional historian of checking the facts and gathering evidence for his assertions – for example, by visiting the Center and talking to its faculty and fellows and learning something about what they are and what they do. As the senior members of the Center, we are happy for the opportunity to put the facts on the table. Duke has a long-established tradition of studying the history of the economics discipline and how it relates to other disciplines, government, and the economy. The Center for the History of Political Economy was established in 2008 to promote research in this area and to secure Duke’s position as the most important center of research in the history of economics in the world. The Center edits the premier journal in the field, published for the past fifty years

no political positions. Were Mr. Bobadilla to examine the Center’s working paper series (available online) or attend some of its weekly workshops, in which a large variety of historical topics are freely discussed – he would see how absurd it is form him to characterize the Center as “a stronghold for Austrian economics.” In fact, only one permanent member of the Center has any academic interest in Austrian economics: the director, Bruce Caldwell, is the editor of the collected papers of Nobel-Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek (published by University of Chicago Press). The remaining permanent members of the Center are interested in a variety of other subjects, such as the history of the role of mathematics in economics, the history of art markets, and the history of macroeconometric modeling, with no relationship to Austrian economics. And the research interests of the fellows are even more diverse than those of the senior members.

It is true that the Center was founded with a grant from the Pope Foundation. Like other academic institutions, the Center receives funds from a variety of sources. The Center’s funding has included grants from George Soros’s Institute for New Economic Thinking and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All these funds are given for particular purposes, but none of them dictate what any member of the Center may think or write, and none of them seeks to engage the Center behind any political position. The funders do not require such strings, and the faculty in the Center would not accept such limitations on their academic freedom. Over the past several years, three distinguished scholars in the history of economics have retired from Duke, leaving a large hole in the faculty of the Center. The $5 million grant from the Koch Foundation is to be used primarily to support hiring faculty to fill that gap, as well as to provide support to the library for digital archiving. The funds do come with a purpose; but they come with no strings. Neither the university nor the Center would have accepted funds that in any way sought to limit or guide the scholarship of the Center or the faculty or fellows that it supports. The hiring process for these faculty is the completely standard one in which the donor has no voice whatsoever – much less a veto. Mr. Bobadilla has levied an ad hominem attack on scholars and a scholarly institution that is grounded in ignorance of them and their work. In associating them with white supremacists and racists, implying their support for views that they abhor, and in mischaracterizing their scholarly activities and interests, he engages in a truly ugly kind of name-calling that should have no place in a great university, and he skates very close to libel. It is distasteful to have to answer such charges in print. But it would be pusillanimous to leave them unchallenged. They are ugly, absurd, and false. To use the phrase of the philosopher/ economist Jeremy Bentham, they are “nonsense upon stilts.” Kevin D. Hoover is a professor of economics and philosophy. E. Roy Weintraub is a professor emeritus of economics. Bruce J. Caldwell is a research professor of economics.

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One Hurricane Season by Tamika Galanis Thursday, October 11 6 pm reception; 7 pm artist’s talk Center for Documentary Studies Visiting family in her native Bahamas in the summer and fall of 2017, artist/ documentarian Tamika Galanis (MFA|EDA ’16) witnessed the progression of her grandmother’s dementia as Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Caribbean. Incorporating contemporary images, experimental videos, and collages made with archival family photos and natural materials, One Hurricane Season, Galanis says, likens the experience with her grandmother to what happened to those countries forever altered by the storms: “What does it mean to wake up in a place, to wake up in a body, that’s different than it’s been for its complete existence?”

PEOPLE GET READY: BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION Saturday, September 1-Sunday, January 6 Nasher Museum of Art

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NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Saturday, October 13 7:00-9:30 PM White Lecture Hall

DANCING AT LUGHNASA Thursday, November 8-Sunday, November 18 Sheafer Theater

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