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Request says Carr Building’s name is at odds with its use
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The University released the text of the history department’s request to rename the Carr Building on East Campus Friday afternoon. “Our monuments and institutional landscapes, we believe, should be a reflection of our values as a community and as an institution,” the proposal states. “Julian Carr’s life and legacy certainly do not reflect these values today.” Last semester, the department voted unanimously to make the proposal to the Board of Trustees and officially submitted their proposal Aug. 24, 2018. The proposal will go through a process that was created by President Vincent Price’s Commission on Memory and History last year after the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the Chapel steps. It will be given to an ad-hoc committee for review, and the committee will be asked to return a recommendation to the Price by the end of the Fall semester. Then, Price will have the option to change or maintain that proposal before presenting it to the Board of Trustees for their approval. The text of the proposal digs into the history of Carr’s involvement with Trinity College and the reasoning behind their recommendation to rename the building after Raymond Gavins, who was the first African-American history professor at Duke and who died in 2016.
Professors sound off on federal court decision that leaves N.C. congressional voting map in limbo By Jake Satisky University News Editor
For the second time this year, a federal court has ruled that North Carolina’s congressional districts are unconstitutionally gerrymandered. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina has ruled that North Carolina’s congressional districts violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment by unduly favoring Republican voters
over Democrats. Although vote totals for Republican and Democratic candidates were roughly equal in recent elections, Republicans currently hold 10 of the state’s 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. “My concern is that what’s happening is...the constitutional political hardball that the Republicans have been playing in the legislature is turning into political constitutional screwball,” said Pope McCorkle, professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy. In January, the same three-judge panel
unanimously found North Carolina’s districts to be unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the district court in June, asking that it revisit whether the plaintiffs—Common Cause and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina—had proper standing. In a 2-1 decision Aug. 27, the district court came to the same conclusion as it had in January. The court’s opinion offered a variety See LINES on Page 12
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Plenty of options: Football surges past Army in season opener By Michael Model Sports Editor
Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor Daniel Jones connected with redshirt junior Aaron Young for a 61-yard pass in the second quarter.
Better consistency was preached throughout the offseason for the Blue Devils, who suffered six consecutive losses in the middle of the 2017 season. That was evident for redshirt junior quarterback Daniel Jones, who logged one of the more complete performances of his Duke career in the 2018 season opener. The Blue Devils cruised to an 34-14 victory against Army Friday night at Wallace Wade Stadium. Duke avenged an ugly 21-16 defeat by the Black Knights from last November—which capped the Blue Devils’ losing streak— with a near-perfect offensive outing. “Efficiency came into physicality. We averaged 10 yards a play the first half offensively,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It really was an outstanding performance mostly because we were so much more physical than we were a year ago.”
After struggling to generate plays down the field for much of last season, Jones looked more aggressive from the outset for the Blue Devils (1-0). The Charlotte, N.C., native converted on 13 of his 17 pass attempts in the contest, including three completions for more than 20 yards. Jones clicked with redshirt junior Aaron Young throughout the contest. Leading 10-0 with less than nine minutes to go in the first half, the Charlotte, N.C. native found Young downfield for a 61-yard pass to leave Duke first-and-goal at the one-yard line. Jones would take it himself to extend the Blue Devils lead to 17 on the ensuing play. The 61-yard connection was longer than any completion from Jones in 2017—Jones and Rahming linked up for a 58-yard touchdown pass against Pittsburgh last season.
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Duke EMS trains more than 350 first-years in CPR By Isabelle Doan
people with a basic knowledge of CPR—which is fantastic!” Several students who attended Although some students may these trainings found them to be get EMS-ed on Wednesdays, more useful. First-year Isabella Knox than 350 spent learning life-saving said that she found the training to skills from Duke EMS. be efficient and clear. Duke Emergency Medical “It just felt good knowing how Services offered optional CPR to save people,” first-year Annie and AED training to first-years Do added. in their dorms Tuesday and Zheng noted that the American Wednesday night. Heart Association donated Junior Kevin Zheng, CPR thousands of dollars of equipment Coordinator for Duke EMS, said that that made the trainings possible. the group has had CPR initiatives for Duke EMS Director Spencer years, but that this is the first time it Flynn, a senior, wrote in an email has brought trainings to first-years that he was excited to start this year on this scale. with these CPR trainings. “We do regular trainings every “Our [emergency medical year over on technicians] West Campus It just felt good knowing are always t h r o u g h working to Duke Sports, how to save people. make campus as well as safer, and it was annie do great to see the through some FIRST-YEAR Class of 2022 sororities and fraternities,” embrace this Zheng said. “However, this year, opportunity to learn life-saving we’re trying to branch out and do skills,” Flynn wrote. trainings for freshmen as well.” These CPR trainings come Senior Ian Jaffe, assistant director after a year of inactivity from Duke of Duke EMS and video editor EMS. Last year, 911 calls were no for The Chronicle, said that the longer dispatched to Duke EMS trainings saw a large turnout. due to county regulations. This “Over two nights, we trained year, however, Duke EMS has a new 363 first-year students in partnership with Duke LifeFlight. bystander CPR,” Jaffe wrote in “We’re very excited about this an email. “This is a little over 20 new partnership,” Zheng said, percent of the first-year class, adding that Duke EMS would be meaning your average first year staffing their first football game seminar should have at least a few that Friday with LifeFlight. News Editor
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Count trees, not lemurs, study finds By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor
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Counting endangered lemurs has been a crucial but painstaking task in the fight to save the species, but could now become much simpler. Instead of tallying individual lemurs, researchers can count something far less mobile: trees. This technique—detailed in a paper published by Duke researchers Aug. 30.—is a more straightforward method of determining a species’ endangered status and can be applied to other plant and animal species potentially facing endangerment. “These results are useful as a baseline to monitor species and predict changes in population sizes in the future,” wrote James Herrera, lead author of the paper, in an email to The Chronicle. “For example, with continued deforestation, hunting, and climate change, we can make forecasts of how population sizes may change in the next 50-100 years.” Herrera, a postdoctoral research associate in evolutionary anthropology at Duke, explained that 16 of the 19 species studied had population sizes greater than the threshold of 10,000 for being at threat of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The study documented remote areas in Madagascar that had not been previously surveyed. Ninety-five percent of all lemurs are currently at risk of extinction. Because nocturnal lemurs have been historically difficult to count, the study also shed light on the abundance of previously unstudied species. However, the field research itself was no simple matter. Herrera explained that a typical schedule involved waking up around 4:30 or 5 a.m., trekking around the Madagascar forests, stopping to rest and repeating the hikes at night. “Searching for lemurs at night is extremely tough in this environment, with steep muddy slopes and vine tangles to trip you up, while searching with flashlights for the tiny glint of eye shine that reveals the 30 gram house lemurs 30 meters high in the canopy,” he wrote.
The team slept in camps and went without electricity and running water for months. Herrera mentioned that sometimes, they would go hours without seeing a lemur—even in typical lemur habitats. Despite the difficulties, the model for counting lemurs is an improvement over those employed in the past, he said. Researchers have attempted conducting a “total census”—or simply counting all the lemurs—but this method is difficult due to the rarity of some lemurs and the large scope of regions to be covered. The results helped determine the threat status of nocturnal species, which had been so difficult to count in the past that scientists were unsure if they were threatened. Several species’ large observed populations—about one million dwarf lemurs and white-fronted brown lemurs and roughly 500,000 ring-tailed lemurs—surprised Herrera. “These numbers suggest good news for the conservation of some lemurs, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk due to habitat loss, hunting, and the pet trade,” he wrote. Herrera also added that similar methods could be applied to a variety of plants and animals, from rosewood trees or amphibians to birds and rodents. As for how Herrera endured the intense nature of the fieldwork, his secret is rooted in his fascination in the relationships between lemurs and their mutualistic food trees. “[Small mammals like rodents and tenrecs] are especially important because they are rare, nocturnal and tend to spend much time burrowing through dense undergrowth and underground, making them very difficult to study,” Herrera wrote.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons A Duke study has offered insight into a new way to count lemurs.
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Duke gets $5 million to study history of economics By Sean Cho Senior News Reporter
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University has recently received a $5 million grant. The grant, which was given by the Charles Koch Foundation, will help the center implement various improvements including adding faculty, expanding relationships with students and partnering with the Rubenstein Library to hire a digital librarian. “We’re excited to support Duke’s faculty as they continue to build on years of innovative work in the field of economic history,” said Ryan Stowers, vice president of the Charles Koch Foundation, in a press release. “The center’s study allows others to learn from and build on the lesson of the pathway different economic theories have played out in different societies.” Bruce Caldwell, director of the center, shared his own excitement about the new grant. “Duke has long been strong in the history of economics,” Caldwell said to Duke Today. “We’re excited to build on the strength that already exists here and take it to the next level.” The Center was founded in 2008 and serves to promote and support the research and teaching of economics within Duke. Visitors can participate in workshop programs and lunches hosted by the center or explore the center’s Economic Papers’ Archive, a collection of academic papers from more than sixty distinguished economists. The center also holds a fellowship program in which scholars can develop research in the history of political economy or complete a dissertation. Caldwell asserted that the grant will allow the center to bolster its already expansive programs and opportunities. “People literally come here from around the planet,” he said in the release.
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Jonah Sinclair | Associate Photo Editor Smalltown Records artist Apollo J performed at the Thursday concert.
Aaron Zhao | Contributing Photographer Snakehips headlined Heatwave Thursday..
Jonah Sinclair | Associate Photo Editor Apollo J and jiggy riKO are both affiliated with Smalltown records.
Heatwave started at 7:30 p.m. Thursday night on Abele Quadrangle. The concert’s headliner was British electronic duo Snakehips, joined by Small Town Records affiliates Apollo J and jiggy riKO, who opened the concert.
Aaron Zhao | Contributing Photographer Fans crowded Abele Quad for the concert as the first week of classes was nearly completed.
Aaron Zhao | Contributing Photographer The British electronic duo performed on Abele Quad.
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Eleven alums make November congressional ballot By Sam Kim Senior News Reporter
As primaries come to a close across the nation, some Duke alumni have seen their congressional hopes dashed, while others are doubling down for the general election. Eleven Duke alumni will appear on the ballot this November, including two hopefuls in North Carolina. And, in a twist of fate, one of the defeated candidates—Kelli Ward, Trinity ’91— may still have a second shot at the U.S. Senate. Rep. Bradley Byrne, Trinity ’77 Alabama’s 1st District, Republican Byrne, a two-term incumbent and a former member of what is now Duke Student Government, ran unopposed in the primary. He is now lined up against “mystery candidate” Robert Kennedy Jr.—unrelated to the Kennedy clan—in the general election, but Byrne is likely to keep his seat. The Alabama district has elected Republicans for the last 53 years. Rep. Mo Brooks, Trinity ’75 Alabama’s 5th District, Republican The former county commissioner and fourterm incumbent won a primary challenge June 5. He will face the Democratic candidate Peter Joffrion, a former city attorney whom Brooks accused of being a “socialist.”
Rep. Scott Peters, Trinity ’80 California’s 52nd District, Democrat Peters, the three-term incumbent and a former Gilbert-Addoms resident advisor, came first in a top-two primary June 5, defeating his six Republican challengers. His opponent in November will be Omar Qudrat—a former Pentagon prosecutor, son of Afghan immigrants and, if elected, the first Muslim Republican in Congress. Jesse Colvin, Trinity ’06 Maryland’s 1st District, Democrat Colvin is a political newcomer and retired Army intelligence officer who served four tours in Afghanistan. He won the Democratic primary June 26 and will advance to the general election, where he will try to oust the Republican incumbent. Seth Grossman, Trinity ’71 New Jersey’s 2nd District, Republican Grossman, who was the co-founder and president of a student conservative group while at Duke, won the Republican primary and will face a state senator in the election. In July, Grossman drew fire for sharing an opinion piece that claimed black people are “a threat to all who cross their paths”; the same day, the National Republican Congressional Committee withdrew its support for Grossman, denouncing him as a “bigot.” Grossman has denied the characterization and said that he does not agree with the claims stated in that article.
Mike Levin, Law School ’05 California’s 49th District, Democrat Levin finished second in a crowded field of 16 candidates, which pitted Democrats, Republicans and independents against each other under California’s “top-two primary” The other Duke alumni still in the system. He faces Diane Harkey, the chair of the running are Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.-03), Dan state’s tax administration agency, in a race that McCready (N.C.-09), Paul Wright (N.C.may determine control of the House in 2018. 12), Ken Harbaugh (Ohio-07) and Todd
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In a twist of fate, one of the candidates who lost their primary election may still have a shot at gaining a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Litton (Texas-02). Shannon Hader, Residency ’00 Washington’s 8th District, Democrat Hader lost in her state’s top-two primary, finishing fourth. A former senior official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she had been endorsed by Bill Foege, the former CDC director who was involved in the eradication of smallpox, and former Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Kelli Ward, Trinity ’91 State of Arizona, Republican Ward lost the Republican primary this
week, finishing well behind Rep. Martha McSally but ahead of controversial former sheriff Joe Arpaio. Though Ward will not be on the ballot, she may still have a chance for the Senate— the governor of Arizona will soon appoint a replacement for Sen. John McCain, who died Aug. 25, to fill the seat until 2020. Pundits say the governor will likely pick a safe Republican with broad conservative appeal, but both he and the McCain family— as well as the White House—have been silent on the matter, leaving Ward in play. Polls will open for the general election Nov. 6.
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CARVING THROUGH THE DEFENSE Brittain Brown drives dominant ground game to spark offensive outburt against Army By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor
When Duke’s offense floundered last season, the Blue Devils had one group they could always rely on—their running backs. But without former starting running back Shaun Wilson, questions lingered over Duke’s offense and whether or not its ground game would be able to recover. However, in the Blue Devils’ opening night romp, Duke’s new stable of rushers quelled some of those concerns. “I thought [the running backs] were great,” Blue Devil quarterback Daniel Jones said. “Not many negative yardage runs at all when you think about it and a lot of five-yard, six-yard, seven-yard runs. That’s very comfortable to see as a quarterback and it gives you a lot of confidence. I thought they did a great job both of those guys.” Starting running back Brittain Brown was electric from the start, logging 54 rushing yards by halftime. The Canton, Ga., native’s explosive first half was highlighted by an 11-yard carry followed by a 12-yard explosion through Army’s front line to give the Blue Devils their first touchdown. Last year’s backup was also instrumental in initiating Duke’s drives, taking two of the the Blue Devils’ three kick returns for 26 and 32 yards a piece. By the end of the third quarter, Brown had averaged 6.8 yards per rush, establishing himself as Duke’s go-to man when Jones’ passes weren’t falling. It looked like Brown’s reign of terror had ended after a hard hit towards the end of the third sidelined the redshirt sophomore, but luckily for the Blue Devils, Duke’s ability on the ground is talented as it is deep. When reserve running back Deon Jackson
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Brittain Brown shined in his first career start Friday against Army. took to the field, he instantly made his presence felt with a seven-yard rush through the heart of Army’s defensive line for his first career touchdown. The Duke sophomore averaged only 3.6 yards per carry and Jackson ended the night with 25 yards after playing just more than a quarter. For head coach David Cutcliffe, the entire crop of running backs—including redshirt freshman Marvin Hubbard III, who got four touches for 15 yards at the end of the contest—
showed promise in driving Duke’s offense. “Those two backs are good football players,” Cutcliffe said. “[Hubbard] ran the football with force and effectiveness towards the end. [Mateo Durant] had a great camp, and we’re not going to be afraid to play him. It’s a good problem. You never have enough running backs.” The final piece to Duke’s robust ground game was from Jones himself. Early in the first quarter the third-year quarterback rushed for nine yards followed by a 14-yard drive to put
the Blue Devils in position for an opening field goal. Just over 15 minutes later, Jones plunged into the end zone to score his first touchdown of the season. In total, three of Duke’s four touchdowns came on the ground, with the Blue Devils outrushing the typically rush-heavy Black Knights, 184-168. Although Duke’s ball carriers have proven they have the talent and athleticism to break through stout defenses, the secret to the Blue Devils’ success with the run game starts with the offensive line. Starting center Zach Harmon, after playing left and right guard the last two years, showed that he had what it takes to stand strong in the trenches, leading fellow veteran lineman Julian Santos and newly minted starters Rakavius Chambers, Robert Kraeling and Christian Harris in giving the running corps the space they need to make plays. “You start with those guys up front,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s what Brittain and Deon should say and that’s what I think they would say... that was the most physical we’ve been in some time, and those guys knew it.... Whatever blocking scheme we asked them to do, they did a great job. “ In Duke’s season opener, the Blue Devils balanced yardage almost evenly on the ground and in the air. And Jones should be able to sleep easier knowing that if his passes are off target, Duke has the pieces to mount a dangerous ground attack. “It started with a strong running game,” Jones said. “Like we talked about, the offensive line and their ability to impose their will and to open up lanes was big, and only 17 pass attempts. When we did we were efficient with it and that was good to see.”
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Duke holds on for third straight win in Nike Classic finale By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor
Two first-half goals provided just enough offense for the Blue Devils to hold on for a third straight win in the Duke Nike Classic finale Sunday afternoon. No. 12 Duke dispatched Providence 2-1 at Koskinen Stadium after senior Taylor Racioppi and freshman Marykate McGuire each scored off impressive 1 assists in the first 40 PC 2 minutes. But the Blue DUKE Devils came away disappointed with their finishing in the second half, with nothing to show for nine shots, and their defense’s shutout streak that lasted more than 400 minutes ended on a strike to the topright corner by Friar forward Casey Estey in the final 15 minutes. “We came out pretty energetic. We started off with two good goals in the first half, and we really wanted more,” Racioppi said. “I don’t think we ultimately accomplished all of our goals for today. That being said, that energy is something that we realized we have to bring every single game. We’re good, but we have to bring it every single game. It doesn’t matter
who the opponent is.” Duke (4-1-1) controlled possession from the opening kickoff, taking several threats into the box in the first 15 minutes. Kayla McCoy was knocked down 12 minutes into the match at the edge of the penalty area, leaving Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church screaming for a foul, though the referee swallowed his whistle. On Duke’s next trip down the field, McCoy received a cross from senior defender Chelsea Burns in front of the net but had to rush a shot high of the frame. Midway through the half, Duke finally secured the lead when Ella Stevens passed to McCoy, who delivered a ball to Racioppi at the edge of the box. The senior brought the ball to the ground to the right of the net with one touch and fired a shot past goalkeeper Shelby Hogan inside the far post. “We did a really good job of keeping possession in the buildup. We found some good pockets,” Racioppi said. “It was a great combination through the midfield, and then all I had to do was take a touch and finish, so they made my life pretty easy.” The Blue Devils kept pressing forward and Samuel Zhang | Associate Photography Editor
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Taylor Racioppi got the Blue Devils on the board first in Sunday’s contest.
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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 The third-year quarterback found Young again at the beginning of the fourth quarter, connecting on a 25-yard touchdown to Young to extend the Blue Devils lead back to 17 at 31-14 with 13:27 remaining. The Murrieta, Ca., native would finish the contest with 114 receiving yards, his first career 100-yard receiving game. “He’s a big playmaker,” Jones said of Young. “[Explosive plays] help the pace of the offense ARMY 14 to where you’re able to have those drives DUKE 34 where you’re two or three plays and a score rather than down the field in 10 or 12 plays... being able to push the ball down the field and keep the defense on their heels has been an emphasis of ours. Redshirt-senior Collin Wareham looked solid in his Blue Devils’ debut. Wareham put Duke on the board early with a 25-yard field goal midway through the first quarter and also converted on all 4 of his PAT attempts. Taking advantage of miscues was a major theme for Duke throughout the contest. Army (0-1) fumbled four times in the first half, losing half of them. The Blue Devils turned those into 10 points at the other end. Duke also took advantage of a missed field goal by the Black Knights, which ended in a 12yard touchdown run by redshirt sophomore Brittain Brown to extend the lead to 10-0. “It’s what we preach, day in and day out. Create havoc. Create turnovers,” linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “Our guys buy into that.
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Daniel Jones completed more than 75 percent of his pass attempts Friday. Extra pursuers, our defensive line, backside safeties and linebackers did a great job today of running to the ball. If you run to the ball and they don’t see you you can put your hand on the ball, helmet on the ball, and it’s going to come out. We did a great job at that.”
Brown shined after earning the starting nod with Shaun Wilson in the NFL. Brown ran for 75 yards on 11 carries in the contest, barreling his way through for an average of 6.8 yards per rush. Jones looked shaky to start the second
half, suffering a strip-sack fumble with 12 minutes remaining in the third quarter, setting Army up at its own 45. The Black Knights would take advantage, compiling an 11-play, 55-yard drive which resulted in the Duke lead getting cut to just 10 at 17-7 with 20 minutes to play. The Blue Devils would respond, however. “There was a little lull in the third quarter. That hurt us,” Cutcliffe said. “It was good to see us turn it back on them. Defense doesn’t give up a point in the fourth quarter and offense again became dominant physically.” On the ensuing kickoff Deon Jackson returned the ball to the Duke 32. Jones then connected with Lloyd for 14 yards and a personal foul put the Blue Devils in enemy territory. Lloyd would later receive an 18-yard pass from Jones and Jackson picked up where Brown left off, scoring on a seven-yard run, the first touchdown of the sophomore’s career. Duke did have a scary moment with 3:49 left in the 3rd, however, when Brown went down after a 5-yard carry. Good news for the Blue Devils, however, as he would leave the field on his own power and returned later in the quarter. “He’s good right now,” Cutcliffe said about Brown’s status. “He was stiff, a little. I was scared to death, but his knee is stable. I do know that, but it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be sore tomorrow. He can be sore tomorrow as long as he’s not sore on Tuesday.” The Blue Devils will go on the road the next two weeks taking on Northwestern and Baylor. Duke played both teams last season and emerged victorious in each outing.
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Duke comes alive with Tiger Classic sweep By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor
After dropping both of its first two matches, Duke was looking to turn its young season around and inspire confidence in its inexperienced roster before reaching ACC play. A full sweep at the Tiger Classic this weekend in Baton Rouge, La., did just that. The Blue Devils defeated South Florida 3-1 (25-21, 25-12, 2426, 25-18) Friday morning before beating the hosts, LSU, 3-1 (2515, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21) later that evening at the Maravich Center. Duke then took on Texas A&M Corpus Christi Saturday afternoon and pulled out a five-set 3-2 victory (241 26, 26-24, 19-25, 25-10, 15-9). Each game USF 3 featured a standout performance from a DUKE new member of Duke’s roster, including DUKE 3 a triple-double performance from graduate transfer Andie Shelton versus 1 the Bulls, three 20-dig performances by LSU freshman Mackenzie Cole and a 28-kill showing from freshman Ade Owokoniran against the Islanders. “I’ve been telling our team that it seems over the past five matches that at different times we’ve had people step up to make key plays for us,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Everyone TAMUCC 2 else followed after that, getting great points or making stops. It’s not always 3 the same person doing that for us, DUKE which I think is really ideal for a team.” In the opening match of their trip, the Blue Devils (3-2) handily defeated South Florida (5-1), dropping only the third set 24-26 to force a fourth with the Bulls. The first set was back and forth, with Duke and South Florida knotted up at 17 apiece before two straight kills from Shelton, four subsequent errors by the Bulls and a couple of kills from Owokoniran and redshirt junior Leah Meyer sealed the set for the Blue Devils. After Duke dominated the second set 25-12, the third set was a different story, as the Blue Devils came out to a 5-1 lead early
but were unable to hold on. Four straight errors on the Duke side allowed South Florida to tie it up at five. The Blue Devils went on a 4-0 run to take the lead later 18-14 before the Bulls came back thanks to three straight kills and tied it at 21. An attack error for Duke and a kill for South Florida sealed the set for the Bulls 26-24. Three kills from Alex Amos, Jessi Bartholomew and Lily Cooper gave Duke the 23-14 advantage in the fourth set. South Florida then came back, tallying four straight points before a kill from Shelton and a block by Shelton and Cooper gave the set to the Blue Devils, and handed the Bulls their only loss of the season. By the end of the match, Shelton had tallied 11 kills, 27 assists and 15 digs, marking the first triple-double by a Duke player since 2006. She hit .391 on 23 attack attempts while also contributing three blocks and three service aces. “[Shelton] has been a very consistent performer for us and a huge piece because she’s doing so many different things—she’s setting and serve receiving,” Nagel said. “She’s a versatile player, especially with that extra year. We’ve really been the beneficiaries of an experienced player in a key role—the setting role. She’s so athletic and dynamic, she can do more than just that.” Meyer led the team with 12 kills and six blocks, with Bartholomew and Samantha Amos adding 10 kills each. The Blue Devils were dominant in this regard, putting down 61 kills total to South Florida’s 44. Freshman libero Mackenzie Cole passed the 20-dig mark for the second straight match and senior defensive specialist Kelli Kalinoski added 19. In the second match of the doubleheader, the Blue Devils and Tigers (2-4) split the first two frames. The third set saw a 12-6 start for Duke, which quickly extended the lead to 20-12. LSU was not done yet, however, and went on a 9-2 run to bring the set to 22-21, with the Blue Devils clinging to the advantage. A kill from sophomore outside hitter Payton Schwantz gave Duke the 25-22 victory and put the team up 2-1. By the fourth set, See VOLLEYBALL on Page 8
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Kelli Kalinoski added 19 digs in the Blue Devils victory over South Florida on Friday.
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CARVING THROUGH THE DEFENSE Brittain Brown drives dominant ground game to spark offensive outburt against Army By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor
When Duke’s offense floundered last season, the Blue Devils had one group they could always rely on—their running backs. But without former starting running back Shaun Wilson, questions lingered over Duke’s offense and whether or not its ground game would be able to recover. However, in the Blue Devils’ opening night romp, Duke’s new stable of rushers quelled some of those concerns. “I thought [the running backs] were great,” Blue Devil quarterback Daniel Jones said. “Not many negative yardage runs at all when you think about it and a lot of five-yard, six-yard, seven-yard runs. That’s very comfortable to see as a quarterback and it gives you a lot of confidence. I thought they did a great job both of those guys.” Starting running back Brittain Brown was electric from the start, logging 54 rushing yards by halftime. The Canton, Ga., native’s explosive first half was highlighted by an 11-yard carry followed by a 12-yard explosion through Army’s front line to give the Blue Devils their first touchdown. Last year’s backup was also instrumental in initiating Duke’s drives, taking two of the the Blue Devils’ three kick returns for 26 and 32 yards a piece. By the end of the third quarter, Brown had averaged 6.8 yards per rush, establishing himself as Duke’s go-to man when Jones’ passes weren’t falling. It looked like Brown’s reign of terror had ended after a hard hit towards the end of the third sidelined the redshirt sophomore, but luckily for the Blue Devils, Duke’s ability on the ground is talented as it is deep. When reserve running back Deon Jackson
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Brittain Brown shined in his first career start Friday against Army. took to the field, he instantly made his presence felt with a seven-yard rush through the heart of Army’s defensive line for his first career touchdown. The Duke sophomore averaged only 3.6 yards per carry and Jackson ended the night with 25 yards after playing just more than a quarter. For head coach David Cutcliffe, the entire crop of running backs—including redshirt freshman Marvin Hubbard III, who got four touches for 15 yards at the end of the contest—
showed promise in driving Duke’s offense. “Those two backs are good football players,” Cutcliffe said. “[Hubbard] ran the football with force and effectiveness towards the end. [Mateo Durant] had a great camp, and we’re not going to be afraid to play him. It’s a good problem. You never have enough running backs.” The final piece to Duke’s robust ground game was from Jones himself. Early in the first quarter the third-year quarterback rushed for nine yards followed by a 14-yard drive to put
the Blue Devils in position for an opening field goal. Just over 15 minutes later, Jones plunged into the end zone to score his first touchdown of the season. In total, three of Duke’s four touchdowns came on the ground, with the Blue Devils outrushing the typically rush-heavy Black Knights, 184-168. Although Duke’s ball carriers have proven they have the talent and athleticism to break through stout defenses, the secret to the Blue Devils’ success with the run game starts with the offensive line. Starting center Zach Harmon, after playing left and right guard the last two years, showed that he had what it takes to stand strong in the trenches, leading fellow veteran lineman Julian Santos and newly minted starters Rakavius Chambers, Robert Kraeling and Christian Harris in giving the running corps the space they need to make plays. “You start with those guys up front,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s what Brittain and Deon should say and that’s what I think they would say... that was the most physical we’ve been in some time, and those guys knew it.... Whatever blocking scheme we asked them to do, they did a great job. “ In Duke’s season opener, the Blue Devils balanced yardage almost evenly on the ground and in the air. And Jones should be able to sleep easier knowing that if his passes are off target, Duke has the pieces to mount a dangerous ground attack. “It started with a strong running game,” Jones said. “Like we talked about, the offensive line and their ability to impose their will and to open up lanes was big, and only 17 pass attempts. When we did we were efficient with it and that was good to see.”
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Duke holds on for third straight win in Nike Classic finale By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor
Two first-half goals provided just enough offense for the Blue Devils to hold on for a third straight win in the Duke Nike Classic finale Sunday afternoon. No. 12 Duke dispatched Providence 2-1 at Koskinen Stadium after senior Taylor Racioppi and freshman Marykate McGuire each scored off impressive 1 assists in the first 40 PC 2 minutes. But the Blue DUKE Devils came away disappointed with their finishing in the second half, with nothing to show for nine shots, and their defense’s shutout streak that lasted more than 400 minutes ended on a strike to the topright corner by Friar forward Casey Estey in the final 15 minutes. “We came out pretty energetic. We started off with two good goals in the first half, and we really wanted more,” Racioppi said. “I don’t think we ultimately accomplished all of our goals for today. That being said, that energy is something that we realized we have to bring every single game. We’re good, but we have to bring it every single game. It doesn’t matter
who the opponent is.” Duke (4-1-1) controlled possession from the opening kickoff, taking several threats into the box in the first 15 minutes. Kayla McCoy was knocked down 12 minutes into the match at the edge of the penalty area, leaving Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church screaming for a foul, though the referee swallowed his whistle. On Duke’s next trip down the field, McCoy received a cross from senior defender Chelsea Burns in front of the net but had to rush a shot high of the frame. Midway through the half, Duke finally secured the lead when Ella Stevens passed to McCoy, who delivered a ball to Racioppi at the edge of the box. The senior brought the ball to the ground to the right of the net with one touch and fired a shot past goalkeeper Shelby Hogan inside the far post. “We did a really good job of keeping possession in the buildup. We found some good pockets,” Racioppi said. “It was a great combination through the midfield, and then all I had to do was take a touch and finish, so they made my life pretty easy.” The Blue Devils kept pressing forward and Samuel Zhang | Associate Photography Editor
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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 The third-year quarterback found Young again at the beginning of the fourth quarter, connecting on a 25-yard touchdown to Young to extend the Blue Devils lead back to 17 at 31-14 with 13:27 remaining. The Murrieta, Ca., native would finish the contest with 114 receiving yards, his first career 100-yard receiving game. “He’s a big playmaker,” Jones said of Young. “[Explosive plays] help the pace of the offense ARMY 14 to where you’re able to have those drives DUKE 34 where you’re two or three plays and a score rather than down the field in 10 or 12 plays... being able to push the ball down the field and keep the defense on their heels has been an emphasis of ours. Redshirt-senior Collin Wareham looked solid in his Blue Devils’ debut. Wareham put Duke on the board early with a 25-yard field goal midway through the first quarter and also converted on all 4 of his PAT attempts. Taking advantage of miscues was a major theme for Duke throughout the contest. Army (0-1) fumbled four times in the first half, losing half of them. The Blue Devils turned those into 10 points at the other end. Duke also took advantage of a missed field goal by the Black Knights, which ended in a 12yard touchdown run by redshirt sophomore Brittain Brown to extend the lead to 10-0. “It’s what we preach, day in and day out. Create havoc. Create turnovers,” linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “Our guys buy into that.
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Daniel Jones completed more than 75 percent of his pass attempts Friday. Extra pursuers, our defensive line, backside safeties and linebackers did a great job today of running to the ball. If you run to the ball and they don’t see you you can put your hand on the ball, helmet on the ball, and it’s going to come out. We did a great job at that.”
Brown shined after earning the starting nod with Shaun Wilson in the NFL. Brown ran for 75 yards on 11 carries in the contest, barreling his way through for an average of 6.8 yards per rush. Jones looked shaky to start the second
half, suffering a strip-sack fumble with 12 minutes remaining in the third quarter, setting Army up at its own 45. The Black Knights would take advantage, compiling an 11-play, 55-yard drive which resulted in the Duke lead getting cut to just 10 at 17-7 with 20 minutes to play. The Blue Devils would respond, however. “There was a little lull in the third quarter. That hurt us,” Cutcliffe said. “It was good to see us turn it back on them. Defense doesn’t give up a point in the fourth quarter and offense again became dominant physically.” On the ensuing kickoff Deon Jackson returned the ball to the Duke 32. Jones then connected with Lloyd for 14 yards and a personal foul put the Blue Devils in enemy territory. Lloyd would later receive an 18-yard pass from Jones and Jackson picked up where Brown left off, scoring on a seven-yard run, the first touchdown of the sophomore’s career. Duke did have a scary moment with 3:49 left in the 3rd, however, when Brown went down after a 5-yard carry. Good news for the Blue Devils, however, as he would leave the field on his own power and returned later in the quarter. “He’s good right now,” Cutcliffe said about Brown’s status. “He was stiff, a little. I was scared to death, but his knee is stable. I do know that, but it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be sore tomorrow. He can be sore tomorrow as long as he’s not sore on Tuesday.” The Blue Devils will go on the road the next two weeks taking on Northwestern and Baylor. Duke played both teams last season and emerged victorious in each outing.
VOLLEYBALL
Duke comes alive with Tiger Classic sweep By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor
After dropping both of its first two matches, Duke was looking to turn its young season around and inspire confidence in its inexperienced roster before reaching ACC play. A full sweep at the Tiger Classic this weekend in Baton Rouge, La., did just that. The Blue Devils defeated South Florida 3-1 (25-21, 25-12, 2426, 25-18) Friday morning before beating the hosts, LSU, 3-1 (2515, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21) later that evening at the Maravich Center. Duke then took on Texas A&M Corpus Christi Saturday afternoon and pulled out a five-set 3-2 victory (241 26, 26-24, 19-25, 25-10, 15-9). Each game USF 3 featured a standout performance from a DUKE new member of Duke’s roster, including DUKE 3 a triple-double performance from graduate transfer Andie Shelton versus 1 the Bulls, three 20-dig performances by LSU freshman Mackenzie Cole and a 28-kill showing from freshman Ade Owokoniran against the Islanders. “I’ve been telling our team that it seems over the past five matches that at different times we’ve had people step up to make key plays for us,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Everyone TAMUCC 2 else followed after that, getting great points or making stops. It’s not always 3 the same person doing that for us, DUKE which I think is really ideal for a team.” In the opening match of their trip, the Blue Devils (3-2) handily defeated South Florida (5-1), dropping only the third set 24-26 to force a fourth with the Bulls. The first set was back and forth, with Duke and South Florida knotted up at 17 apiece before two straight kills from Shelton, four subsequent errors by the Bulls and a couple of kills from Owokoniran and redshirt junior Leah Meyer sealed the set for the Blue Devils. After Duke dominated the second set 25-12, the third set was a different story, as the Blue Devils came out to a 5-1 lead early
but were unable to hold on. Four straight errors on the Duke side allowed South Florida to tie it up at five. The Blue Devils went on a 4-0 run to take the lead later 18-14 before the Bulls came back thanks to three straight kills and tied it at 21. An attack error for Duke and a kill for South Florida sealed the set for the Bulls 26-24. Three kills from Alex Amos, Jessi Bartholomew and Lily Cooper gave Duke the 23-14 advantage in the fourth set. South Florida then came back, tallying four straight points before a kill from Shelton and a block by Shelton and Cooper gave the set to the Blue Devils, and handed the Bulls their only loss of the season. By the end of the match, Shelton had tallied 11 kills, 27 assists and 15 digs, marking the first triple-double by a Duke player since 2006. She hit .391 on 23 attack attempts while also contributing three blocks and three service aces. “[Shelton] has been a very consistent performer for us and a huge piece because she’s doing so many different things—she’s setting and serve receiving,” Nagel said. “She’s a versatile player, especially with that extra year. We’ve really been the beneficiaries of an experienced player in a key role—the setting role. She’s so athletic and dynamic, she can do more than just that.” Meyer led the team with 12 kills and six blocks, with Bartholomew and Samantha Amos adding 10 kills each. The Blue Devils were dominant in this regard, putting down 61 kills total to South Florida’s 44. Freshman libero Mackenzie Cole passed the 20-dig mark for the second straight match and senior defensive specialist Kelli Kalinoski added 19. In the second match of the doubleheader, the Blue Devils and Tigers (2-4) split the first two frames. The third set saw a 12-6 start for Duke, which quickly extended the lead to 20-12. LSU was not done yet, however, and went on a 9-2 run to bring the set to 22-21, with the Blue Devils clinging to the advantage. A kill from sophomore outside hitter Payton Schwantz gave Duke the 25-22 victory and put the team up 2-1. By the fourth set, See VOLLEYBALL on Page 8
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Professor found guilty of sexually harassing student.” For many students and academics, this news title has become an all too common occurrence in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Another iteration of this headline sent shockwaves throughout the academic community last month when a Title IX investigation implicated a NYU faculty member in a case of sexual misconduct against a graduate student. The plot twist? The professor was female, and the accuser identified as male. The investigation ultimately found Avital Ronell, a superstar professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, responsible for sexually harassing Nimrod Reitman, a former graduate student and current visiting fellow at Harvard University. In response to the accusations, numerous academics drafted a letter in support of Ronnell, including Judith Butler (a leading scholar on gender and sexuality at UC Berkeley). The academics wielded language that passionately venerated Ronell’s work, presented themselves as overly concerned on how the legal proceedings would damage her prominent reputation and insinuated malicious intent behind Reitman’s legal action. This frighteningly pervasive problem of sexual harassment and assault in academia comes off a long series of similar cases of faculty misconduct. Last April, a Title IX investigation at Princeton found Sergio Verdu guilty of sexually harassing a graduate student, but the engineering professor was only disciplined with an eight-hour training session and was neither suspended nor terminated. Last September, 11 women, a group of faculty members and one former graduate student filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against a professor at the University of Rochester for years of rampant sexual misconduct. Right here at Duke, former visiting professor Tony Rivera
was ultimately found responsible for violating the sexual harassment policy. This past year, three science professors at Dartmouth resigned from their positions after being investigated for sexual misconduct. What may superficially appear startling about Ronell’s case is that a female professor abused her authority over a male graduate student—what some may call a reversal in gender dynamics. Ironically, Ronell listed “feminist and queer letters” as one of her areas of research/interest in her
Editorial Board faculty profile, and identifies as a lesbian (Reitman himself identifies as gay.) However, it is important to emphasize that the sheer occupation of a female-identifying body does not entail feminist beliefs or practices and that sexual orientations do not limit people’s abilities to transcend such boundaries and violate others’ sexual and bodily autonomy. Behind the layers of gender and sexuality lies the problem of power dynamics, particularly between graduate students and faculty advisors. The process of applying to graduate school typically requires the specific identification of a research mentor whose interests overlaps with those of the applicant, which is mutually reciprocated. Once taken in, the graduate student’s future, success and career prospects largely depend on the faculty advisor who closely guides them through thesis work, writes recommendation letters, supports them in publishing papers and helps them along the tenure track. This chasmic power differential is easily exploited, as evidenced by the aforementioned documented incidents, and leaves the burning question of how much the problem is being underreported out of fear over future prospects,
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retaliation, hostility, isolation and case mismanagement. This is likely to be exacerbated by worker precarity for the job-insecure, among them graduate students, untenured faculty and adjunct faculty. Here at Duke, the Duke Graduate Students Union (DGSU) has created a “Working Group on Harassment and Discrimination” and a resource guide for situations involving faculty misconduct. As welcomed as this is, it is frustrating that once again, our university and other universities take a reactive rather than a proactive approach to the issue. Only when Title IX investigations are filed and gain public notoriety do universities do less than the bare minimum. There must be achievable alternatives for a safer, healthier space on campus. In too many cases academics are given a “slap on the wrist” with very little scholarly consequences. The University must take serious responsibility by establishing institutionalized offices and organizations tasked specifically with keeping scholars and students both accountable. Here at Duke, there exists a harassment grievance board, but it is unclear whether the available resources are impactful or useful for victims of faculty misconduct. Perhaps more fundamentally, the culture of an academia must be held accountable. Currently, graduate school is imagined and assumed as such to be a place that “should destroy you” (quoted from an unnamed professor at NYU) as “a kind of indentured labor.” Clearly, there must be a reorientation of how graduate school operates, away from a power structure that enables predatory academics who subjugate their graduate students through emotional and academic abuse. Instead, in the age of #MeToo, we should seek to reorganize the ancient power structure of the ivory tower toward a more a healthy, equitable mentorship structure, where faculty mentors are held accountable for their actions, and where prestige and power do not absolve predators of their abuses.
When bad things happen
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here is a difference in noticing that you are not like everyone around you and feeling like those differences ostracize you. Noticing my own Blackness comes when I recognize how little Black people there are in the social circles I find myself in. Whether it be my social group, my major, my extracurricular clubs and
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activities, or my work-study job, I am constantly noting the disproportionately low number of familiar faces in a concentrated environment. These moments, however, are not what concerns me about Duke’s commitment to Black students. With the semester only days underway, we’ve already seen some of the worst of our nature in and around our campus— racial epithets, skirmishes around Silent Sam and likely dozens of other incidents that never rose to the attention of public scrutiny—often without any clear offender to blame. Our reaction in such situations is usually to double down on the need to hold offenders accountable by making more policies, rules and laws that carry with them a swift and sure punishment. But such crime-and-punishment approaches often do little to prevent reoccurrences or repair the pain and harm left in the wake of the offender’s actions—the harm that festers and compromises what should be a supportive learning environment for everyone. And when no offender can be pinpointed, we too easily shrug off the obligation to answer hard questions, as if there is nothing we can do beyond denouncements that provide no path to change. Perhaps a new way forward can be found in the very old tradition of restorative justice: focusing on the needs of those harmed while acknowledging that we are all better than the worst thing we’ve done. Restorative justice looks at offenses not as isolated incidents, but consequences of deeper systemic issues that must be confronted to repair the collective harm to the community and to decrease the likelihood of recurrence. In restorative justice, victims, communities and wrongdoers together discuss the harms created by an offense and what should be done to make amends—a process does not preclude formal sanctions through typical retributive justice mechanisms. Restorative justice is far from perfect. It may be just as time-consuming as our current approach with the added complexity that it depends on offenders owning their wrongdoing and victims
willing to speak to their offenders. And therefore, it is simply not appropriate in every instance. However, the emphasis on repairing and preventing harms, rather than blame and punishment, seems to offer a chance for something better, particularly when those affected don’t trust the institutional systems meant to address them. An expansive notion of restorative justice practices is emerging that fosters restorative community by proactively developing positive relationships, creating shared values, and managing conflict through social discipline that restores relationships by acknowledging and repairing harms—even when they may not reach the threshold of a clear law or policy violation or when the wrongdoer is unknown. These practices include restorative inquiry, circle processes, informal conferencing and affective expression/ questions to give individuals a space to express feelings, ideas and experiences and reflect on how their behavior affects others by emphasizing listening, trust-building and the collaborative identification of solutions to complex problems as a part of everyday life as well as in response to emerging crises on campus, in the community or in the world. We need to make Duke that kind of restorative community and integrate these kinds of practices into the Duke experience. This summer a group of faculty, staff and students came together through the Building Restorative Community (BRC) initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics to introduce these concepts in summer workshops, Resident Advisor training, FAC Board activities and soon in Greek life programs. But so much more work remains and we need your help. To be sure, some may say that building restorative community to combat hate speech, sexual harassment, racial incidents or any number of harms on campus sounds like magical thinking, but it appears to be magical thinking with promising results in K-12 schools, universities and communities around the world who have tried it. Is that really any more fanciful than pretending that conventional punitive responses meet victim and community needs and reduce the recurrence of problems in the future? Perhaps we have enough hope left to transform how we approach each other and prevent more of these incidents from happening in the first place. If we want true and lasting change, we need to talk together about what we do when bad things happen. Ada Gregory is the associate director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. If you are interested in getting involved in the BRC initiative, email ada.gregory@duke.edu.
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Duke isn’t racist: And other O-Week lies we’ve loved
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hink you know us? You have no idea. Like the cool breeze that heralds a storm, the first two weeks of school always carry a hint of things to come. Free food from student organizations, first-years making awkward conversation on the C1, a new restaurant in West Union, and racial slurs defacing our Gothic walls. Wait, what? Yes, new students, First Big Week is over and the bright-
Monday, Monday NOT NOT TRUE eyed innocence of O-Week has long since evaporated. In a vain attempt to follow the O-Week Shooters schedule, you are sleepdeprived and hungover. You can’t seem to master the C1 (a fruitless task, for a true C1 knows no master except Big Mike). You haven’t seen Nugget in three days, 8:30 classes are slowly draining your life-force and your first essay is due Wednesday. And most importantly, your inbox is clogged with emails from President Price as he reaffirms Duke’s commitment to tackling racism by … sending emails. The school year is off to a great start! Walking across Abele Quad during the end of O-Week, I heard a young first-year remark to his FAC, “Wow, I can’t believe someone at Duke would deface the Mary Lou with a racial slur like that. Are all these ‘Duke Values’ just an O-Week thing, or do people actually care about each other here?” I watched as that FAC’s face flickered through a baker’s
dozen of emotions. For a moment we locked eyes, and I felt as though my headphones had accidentally paired with her brain: What are Duke Values? What Duke believes is right, or perhaps more accurately, the wrongs we refuse to punish. What is right? That which is permitted. A fact: we enable hate speech to occur on campus because we choose to do nothing. Complacency. When something happens, the emails tell us we need to come together. Inch by inch, we get closer, until there’s no room left. I feel like I’m being crushed. Wait, what was the question again? I blinked and the connection broke. Her face twitched like a broken robot. “Oh wow, is that a C1?” she stammered, pointing with a shaky hand towards the bus loop. The second her FAClets backs were turned she bolted, a haunted expression on her face. Yikes. But that first-year’s question stuck with me all through the day. So to the young man that almost gave his FAC a nervous breakdown, I dedicate today’s column to you. Let me try to answer your question in the least sardonic way possible. Dear first-year student, It’s embarrassing to say but here it is: we’re not who you thought we were. We’re like a kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar, except our cookie jar is an extensive history of hate speech. Also, there’s no cookies involved. Whether it’s the n-word scrawled on a door at 300 Swift or posted on a Snapchat story, or a noose hanging from a tree on the Bryan Center Plaza, it’s clear that Duke and racism have quite a history. Hate speech here is like an ex-boyfriend from a bad breakup: our official stance is that we’ve moved on because we’re too good for him, but there’s still a part of us
that keeps coming back for more. Why can’t we solve these problems? Maybe because we’re afraid for people to see us struggle. Of course the best university in North Carolina, the Harvard of the South, the Oxford of the West, doesn’t have problems. Other universities might struggle, but not Duke. Not our students. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves. It’s bullsh*t. Ask anyone in a math or econ class if they’re struggling and they’ll give you a pained smile, take a sip of their coffee, and say, “I’m fine,” even as their GPA burns around them. Now, if administrators were writing this column, the headline would probably read, “Courageous Duke Admin Fights for Students!” and it would have a picture of President Price with a little speech bubble and his most recent platitude: “Such a cowardly and hateful act has absolutely no place in our community.” Awkward. That’s like pointing to the 10,000 ants that have infested your Central apartment and loudly proclaiming, “Don’t worry everyone, these ants have absolutely no place in my room.” Class of 2022, in my experience, ants won’t just pack up and leave your apartment on their own, even if you send them a bunch of really heartfelt emails. If you really want to get rid of them, there’s a lot you can do. Buy a broom, call an exterminator or actually punish racist speech (wait what?). But do nothing, and sooner or later those “ants” will eat you alive. Monday Monday would like to shout-out Professor Kate Bowler of the Divinity School, whose book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved inspired the title of today’s column. Stop reading articles in the Chronicle and go read her book!
What I wish I had said to the boy who groped me at Shooters
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he last time I went to Shooters was mid-March. Until then, I felt relatively safe when I “rolled Shoots.” Besides the risk of being squeezed to death by a mass of intoxicated Duke students, I never felt like I had that much to worry about. In the handful of times I went first semester, nothing super eventful happened. I sang along to songs like Mr. Brightside. I tried to act like I could dance. I pretended not to see those couples that make out for hours on end on the fringes of the dance floor. I watched as some of my friends danced in the cage. My first Shooters experiences were fairly wholesome. I didn’t see anything grimy happen, and certainly never anything that I felt like I had to speak up about. I had heard
Luke Sallmen COLUMNIST about how uncomfortable it could be for my female friends, but when we went to Shooters together, nothing major happened to any of us. Looking back, it was probably idealistic to believe that would continue indefinitely. On March 21, I went to Shooters with some of my friends from Randolph, my first-year dorm. By the time I got there, I was mostly sober. I did my usual Shooters ritual—took a quick walk around the place and looked for any other friends who had decided to come to Shooters on the same night. I saw a few friends that had come from a Mirecourt party. We hugged, chatted for a bit, and then I moved on. I eventually went to dance with the group that I had come to Shooters with. I sang and danced, and then saw a few people that I knew in one of Duke’s dance groups. I again gave a few hugs, said hi, and then danced with their group for a bit. I was having a pretty good time, shouting the lyrics with everyone else
and trying (in vain) to dance as well as the real dancers. You were in their circle, dancing with them as well. I recognized you because we followed each other on Instagram, although we had never spoken online or in person. You walked up to me and started dancing in front of me. I continued to dance and shout the lyrics. You made eye contact with me, and then ran your hand down my body in an apparent attempt to be sensual. You started at my chest and then stopped after your palm rubbed against my genitals. It only took two or three seconds. I realized what happened a couple of seconds later. I was incredibly uncomfortable, but I didn’t let it show. I knew you couldn’t hear me over the music, and I didn’t want to make a scene. I felt embarrassed. I didn’t know what to say, so I tried to make you understand that I didn’t want you to touch me again. I said “I’m straight. Sorry.” I walked off the dance floor, up the stairs, and tried to cool down as I contemplated what to do next. I didn’t want to dance anymore. I left a few minutes later. When I got back
to my dorm, I felt strange, but I wasn’t that traumatized. Just disappointed. Disappointed that people believe their own needs for sexual gratification supersede others’ rights to feeling safe and comfortable. Disappointed that I didn’t say anything to you, or make a scene, or scream or at least tell you that what you did wasn’t okay. That I didn’t want it. Since I didn’t tell you anything in person, I made a short list of suggestions here so that you (and others like you) can understand how to act in Shooters and in life. 1. Do not treat people as objects that are solely used to fulfill your sexual needs. I (and all people) have this right called “bodily autonomy”—it means that we have ownership over our own bodies and that we can choose who/what does things to our bodies. We shouldn’t be thought of as sex objects. You do not have the right to do whatever you want to people simply because you’re horny. Having even a shred of empathy should allow you to realize that others do not like it when you revoke their right to bodily autonomy. If they don’t clearly indicate that they want you to touch them, or are unable to consent, don’t
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touch them. Don’t rub any of your body parts on theirs. 2. Do not use alcohol as a tool for sex, and do not use it as an excuse. You didn’t seem very intoxicated, but maybe you were. Either way, drunkenness isn’t an excuse. You don’t magically lose control of your body when you’re drunk. Your judgement might be worse, but if it wasn’t abhorrent in the first place, you would leave people alone unless they clearly accepted your advances. And, something you didn’t do, but others like you try all the time: don’t try to get other people blackout drunk so that they will have sex with you. If you’re caught, you deserve sexual assault charges for being a horrible human being. 3. Do not let anything happen to others. If you manage to master the other two, watch out for people who are potential victims. If you see that a classmate is trying to get someone else drunk or is getting too handsy with someone that looks uncomfortable, try to help out them out. And god forbid, if they sexually assault someone, report them and help the victim out as soon as possible. You’ll be helping out a person that really needs it and making a positive contribution to the sexual misconduct atmosphere of Duke. Although sexual harassment and sexual assault happen to women and LGBTQ+ identifying individuals at disproportionate rates, they can happen to men too. But being a man who has been groped has a small silver lining—I understand a little better what girls at Duke mean when they say that they’re uncomfortable at places like Shooters, and I can better see why they may not want to go to parties alone. And to you, boy who groped me at Shooters, since I don’t want you to forget: watch where you put your hands. Luke Sallmen is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.
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The building was constructed in 1927, the proposal said, and was originally named the Classroom Building. It was relabeled to honor Julian Carr in 1930 “in recognition of his earlier institutional role in support of Trinity College.” “Carr’s selection for commemoration, however, was already problematic at the time, since unlike most others on the list of those approved for commemoration by the Board of Trustees that year, Carr’s influence was exclusively financial and had ended decades earlier before the transformation of the college into Duke University,” the proposal states. The history department noted that Carr was a benefactor to Trinity College, donating the modernday East Campus, but added that was Carr’s “last significant involvement” with Trinity. “Carr’s commitment to forms of historical distortion that supported his white supremacist politics make it particularly inappropriate for his name to be honored in the building occupied by the university’s Department of History,” the proposal says. The name of the building is at odds with what occurs inside of it, the history department stated in its proposal. “In 2018, in the wake of decades of intensive and ongoing struggle within our institution and society at large to undo the effects of that political project, the presence of his name is not appropriate, as it quite literally conflicts with the work of education that goes on in the building on a daily basis,” it reads. The department then outlined what it intends to do if the request is successful. “If the change of the name is approved, as a department we hope to use this as an opportunity for further educational work through a symposium, thematic classes and workshops, and perhaps the creation of a plaque inside the building narrating the history of its renaming, so that both the past name and present name are understood as part of a broader historical process,” the petition states.
of potential remedies, but did not mandate exactly what must happen in November’s election. Primaries took place in May, and candidates have already began campaigning in their districts. There is no clear sign about what will take place this November. Republicans have not been shy about their partisan intent in drawing districts. State Representative David Lewis, a Republican, admitted in 2016 that party affiliation was taken into account when drawing the new districts, but race was not. “I propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats because I do not believe it’s possible to draw a map with eleven Republicans and two Democrats,” Lewis said. In February 2016, the North Carolina General Assembly was forced to redraw the congressional districts after a federal court ruled that they were unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered. After the 2014 midterm election, Republicans controlled 10 seats. Much of the evidence that demonstrated North Carolina’s extremely gerrymandered districts came from a team of Duke professors and students. Professor of Mathematics Jonathan Mattingly has spearheaded research into quantifying gerrymandering and presented his evidence before the district court. He—along with faculty, a student writing her senior thesis and students in the Data+ program—has created a distribution of over 24,000 sample district plans. They showed that the districts the GOP drew in 2011 and 2016 were statistical outliers, almost perfectly optimized to guarantee 10 Republican districts. Some members of Mattingly’s team are optimistic that their tools can be used nationwide, as they’ve already studied congressional districts in Wisconsin, Maryland and Pennsylvania. “With this case, we have a new methodology at a federal level that could carry the torch on with a method of detecting and combating gerrymandering,” said Greg Herschlag, assistant research professor of mathematics and member of the Quantifying Gerrymandering team. With the ruling, however, there is a potential for chaos come election time. “There’s an open question about what can be done between now and the election,” McCorkle said, calling the timing “extraordinary.” Judge James Wynn recommended in his 321-page opinion that the districts be redrawn, and that a general election either be held in November without a primary or in January with primaries in November. McCorkle noted that the court was in a tough spot—having ruled
The Chronicle that the districts were unconstitutional, how could it advocate for unconstitutional elections? Mattingly and Herschlag said they were not sure what would happen, but they speculated that the Supreme Court would stay the lower court’s ruling so that elections are held with the current districts. “If you take the court’s rulings as they stand, we’ve been without legal maps for every election in this decade,” Mattingly said. Districting questions and elections are supposed to be handled by the legislature, McCorkle said. However, he added that the GOP seems “heckbent” to “try for the most extreme things [they] can do in the short term” and grab as much as power as they can. He commented that their strategy is politically reckless and sets a dangerous precedent. The Republicans are not setting up a durable governing regime in North Carolina, he argued, by taking such extreme measures and eschewing public committee meetings for important legislation. They’re also forcing the judiciary to become political, since so many of their actions are being taken to court. “Every explanation is politics, politics and my opponent against me,” McCorkle said of the Republican attitude. “Well, really? Maybe if you had had committee meetings and had subjected yourself and your ideas to criticism… you might have even had a law no court could say is unconstitutional.” All of the court battles over the past decade do naturally raise a question—how bad is North Carolina’s district map compared to the rest of the country? “From what we’ve seen, it’s the worst,” Herschlag said. Bre Bradham contributed reporting.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons North Carolina’s congressional districts have been tied up in the courts all year.
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