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The Chronicle T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 9
ACC releases First-years react to added meal swipes Duke men’s basketball schedule Selena Qian The Chronicle
Staff Reports The Chronicle We already knew the opponents Duke would face in conference play this year, but now you can set your calendars for the dates. The ACC released the 2017-18 men’s basketball conference schedule Thursday afternoon. The Blue Devils’ slate is highlighted by matchups against North Carolina Feb. 8 in Chapel Hill and March 3 on Senior Night in Durham. Duke has won at least one regular-season game against the Tar Heels in each of the last eight seasons. After traveling to Chicago for the Champions Classic against Michigan State Nov. 14, Portland, Ore., for the PK80 Thanksgiving weekend, and Bloomington, Ind., to face Indiana Nov. 29, the Blue Devils will make their See M. BASKETBALL on Page 5
Free food is always nice, but the days of scouting out events for food are over. For first-years, at least. Starting Sept. 11, first-years can eat dinner all seven days of the week and still have brunch on the weekends. Previously, first-years would need to skip two dinners during the week to use those saved swipes for weekend brunch at Marketplace. Many students were excited about the change, noting that they would not need to worry as much about their next meal. “People ran out of our dorm in Pegram and just started screaming outside on the quad,” first-year Jamal Burns said. “They were like, ‘Yes!’” First-year Jabril Wilson said the change is “just amazing.” Wilson said he enjoys that he will no longer need to budget his meals throughout the week. Burns and Wilson both said the former policy led them to search for free food, often in a group with their friends. They even created a group message and notified each other of free food events on campus. Burns said he also had trouble keeping track of his swipes, so he would skip several days, unsure if he needed to save a swipe for later. “I never really understood why Duke did that anyway,” Burns said. “This just
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seems more logical. The meal plan before was super complicated.” First-year Alina Perez also said planning her meals with seven brunch or dinner swipes was difficult. Although she was able to find free dinners in the first week, it became more difficult as classes started. She said she was also very aware of the limited amount of food points. “[The change has] definitely taken a weight off my shoulders,” Perez said. Some students also said their upperclassmen friends had mixed reactions
to the change, since it was not implemented in previous years. First-year Valeria Silombria said her resident assistant was happy for the first-years, but also jealous. Wilson said his RA had much the same reaction. “They were like, ‘I am high-key upset about your meal plan,’” Wilson said. Robert Coffey, director of dining services, wrote in an email that the change was prompted by “feedback from our customers.” See SWIPES on Page 8
Durham public schools ban Confederate, Nazi symbols Bill McCarthy The Chronicle
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The Durham Public Schools Board was unanimous in its decision to ban Confederate and Nazi symbols in the dress code.
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Last Thursday, the Durham Public Schools Board voted unanimously to ban representation of the Confederate flag, Ku Klux Klan and Nazi swastika from its dress code. In addition to banning the racist attire, the seven members of the board decided to strip the name of city philanthropist Julian Shakespeare Carr from the Durham School of the Arts middle school building, citing Carr’s historical support of white supremacy. With the ban, students are now prohibited from wearing attire that could be “reasonably expected to intimidate other students on the basis of race” or “any other classification that is protected by law, regulation or Board policy,” according to their published policy. The dress code ban puts Durham up to speed with the Orange County and Chapel HillCarrboro school districts, whose boards issued similar bans last month.
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“The board was very much aware of the controversy and the tragedy in Charlottesville and thought that it was important to clearly emphasize that symbols of racial intimidation are not appropriate for Durham public schools,” said Chip Sudderth, director of public information for Durham Public Schools. Both changes follow in the wake of community backlash to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which spurred national debate on the relevance of historical symbols associated with racism. In August, Durham protestors toppled a Confederate monument at the front of the old county courthouse, and Duke University President Vincent Price ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee outside the University’s chapel. This new revision in dress code represents more of a formal change in language rather than practice, Sudderth explained. Local principals had already been monitoring hallways for students dressed in symbols of
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racial intimidation. “Principals have always had the authority to ask students to remove or cover articles of clothing or symbols that are disruptive to learning,” he said. “The changes to this policy simply makes it more clear that symbols of racial intimidation are presumed to be disruptive.” Natalie Beyer, a member of the Durham Board of Education, said the council wanted to formalize its current practices after the events in Charlottesville and leave no room for confusion. “We went back and thought that it was really important to put this into policy so that everyone is clear—students, teachers, family members—that on school property we don’t have any tolerance for those specific hate symbols,” she said. Jay Pearson, assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, said that the board was correct to draw a connection between their banned symbols and the general idea of white supremacy.
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