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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The end of your time at Duke has been anything but typical. The coronavirus pandemic has swept away the gatherings and ceremonies, the goodbyes and see-youlaters, the little moments of significance that mark the passage from one stage of life to another.

But you don’t need us to tell you that, and you probably don’t want to dwell on it.

So in this year’s commencement issue, The Chronicle is celebrating your success in much the same way we always have.

We haven’t ignored this historical moment. We’ve included a preview of the virtual Marking the Moment ceremony, and we’ve covered the unprecedented end to the Spring 2020 semester in our summary of this year’s most important news. Our focus, however, will be on the things that made these four years memorable long before the coronavirus. We’ve aimed to capture the

highs and lows, the events that defined this period of Duke’s history and the moments that made your time here special.

We’ve reprinted articles and photographs documenting historic moments over the past four years, from the People’s State of the University protest to Coach K’s 1000th win.

We’ve included seniors’ graduation photos at the Chapel and an interview with planned commencement speaker Ken Jeong. As is tradition, we’ve devoted a section to baby photos of the graduating seniors.

I hope this issue helps your graduation feel special, even in this strange moment.

But I know that things may not feel normal again for some time, and that the future may be scary right now. So I also wish you well, Class of 2020, and I hope that, when you have made it this together, you will step out into the world stronger, kinder and closer to each other.

All the best, Matthew Griffin, Editor

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What is Marking the Moment?

By Matthew Griffin Editor-in-Chief

Commencement has been postponed, but seniors will be able to celebrate online while they wait for the real deal.

Marking the Moment, a virtual platform designed to celebrate the Class of 2020’s graduation, will go live May 10. It will feature a collection of videos and a videoconferencing tool for live events, according to Lawrence Kluttz, director of communications for the Office of the President.

“We’re trying to design content that captures that spirit of celebration that’s so important to spring of your final year at Duke,” Kluttz said.

The prerecorded videos will include advice and well wishes from notable alumni, performances, art content and more, all intended to create such a celebratory mood.

In an April 27 email to the Duke community, the Marking the Moment team asked for submissions of short video

messages celebrating the Class of 2020.

The email included prompts for the videos, including “What is your advice for this year’s graduates?” and “What should they be looking forward to?”

The videos will be sortable by topic and group, Kluttz said, and there will be landing pages for different schools. In addition to individuals, programs and departments have submitted videos.

The live platform will be “essentially like a Zoom room,” Kluttz said. Among other things, it will allow graduates to interact with people who were important to their Duke experience and participate in live events like musical performances.

The team is planning for there to be several University-wide events the day Marking the Moment goes live, spaced out to allow graduates in different time zones to participate. After the first day, departments and programs will be able to host events.

Planned commencement speaker Ken Jeong, Trinity ‘90, will participate, Kluttz

wrote in an email, though the form his participation will take is “a surprise.”

A variety of University groups came together to plan Marking the Moment, according to Klutz, including the Office of the President, the Office of University Communications, the Office of Special Events and University Ceremonies, Student Affairs, the Alumni Association, individual schools and departments, and graduate and undergraduate students. The Marking the Moment team is made up of members from the different offices and programs.

“We’re trying to encourage participation from everyone in the university community to make this a really special experience for the 2020 graduates,” Kluttz said.

However, Kluttz emphasized that Marking the Moment is not a replacement for commencement. When President Vincent Price announced that commencement would be delayed, he emphasized his commitment to having an in-person celebration on campus at some point.

Q&A with Commencement speaker Ken Jeong

By Maria Morrison Managing Editor

Ken Jeong, Trinity ‘90, is an actor and comedian best known for roles in the TV show “Community” and “The Hangover” film series. He was announced in March as this year’s commencement speaker. The ceremony has since been postponed, but Jeong will be participating in the virtual Marking the Moment ceremony.

The Chronicle spoke with Jeong about basketball, his time at Duke and his advice for graduating seniors. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

The Chronicle: To begin on a fun subject, I know you were a huge basketball fan at Duke. Do you come back to campus for games or watch them on television? Do you miss it?

Ken Jeong: Yes, yes to all those things. I came back a couple of years ago to a DukeCarolina game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and that was my first time back at Cameron in decades. It was an emotional reunion because I was a Cameron Crazie growing up. I camped out before all the tenting was organized.

My first Duke-Carolina game was in 1987, and we weren’t organized back then. We were skipping classes, we had people in tents, and we did shift work and were really disorganized.

I’m sure my grades suffered because of it, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world because I still remember my first Duke-Carolina game, and it was magic, it really was. To experience a Duke game at Cameron, as a basketball fan, is still the best.

In the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of being courtside at Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and even Miami Heat games. They’ve been amazing experiences,

but nothing beats being at Cameron. When the students saw me enter Cameron, they were cheering so loudly. I mean, it was so loud. Louder than any response I’ve ever gotten at an NBA game.

I started getting choked up because I was one of them, I really was. I was with a buddy of mine who was my roommate at Duke, and to experience that now with someone who I would go to games with as a kid, it really ranks up there as one of my favorite memories of all time. It was really amazing to come back, and it was such a full-circle moment for me; it was very, very special.

Afterwards, I walked around the quad on West Campus. I remember seeing this one kid running to Perkins Library. Running, just running. I just looked at my roommate like “that was me!” because that was me as a kid: just running, stressed out, hoping I would get into medical school.

TC: At Duke, you followed a pre-med curriculum but had briefly considered the acting program. Can you tell me a bit more about your time at Duke on the academic side?

KJ: I took an introductory acting course my sophomore year. I had never done theater, never done any acting until my sophomore year at Duke, but once I took my first acting class, I just got bitten by the acting bug, and it hasn’t been extinguished since.

I actually auditioned to get into Duke Drama at the end of my sophomore year and I got in, but I declined it because I didn’t think I could keep up with my premed studies and also the Duke Drama curriculum. Both are very intense, and it was really heartbreaking because my organic chemistry grade went from an A to a C- in an instant. The Duke Drama people were so supportive. They said “we believe in your talent; we also believe that you’re smart

enough to handle both curriculums,”and I was like “no, I’m not.”

I’m a hard-working guy, but I’m not a genius, and I have to work hard for what I’ve gotten. It was the most difficult decision to decline drama and repair my pre-med grades so I could get into medical school.

It was really tough, but it was because of that I discovered my love of acting, my love of comedy and my love of comedic acting. That’s where I first discovered my own comedic acting potential. I did not go to Duke with the intent of going into acting or comedy. Not at all. So, going to Duke was incredibly special, and I don’t think I would have the life that I have right now, or the value system that I have right now, if I didn’t go to Duke.

TC: I know Duke students, especially seniors, are sad to be missing your commencement speech this weekend.

Is there anything you’d like to tell our graduating seniors?

KJ: I feel that no matter what you choose in your life, never deny your potential. That’s while you’re at Duke, and especially after you leave Duke. If you go with that feeling, which I was able to cultivate at an early age and have never let go of, everybody who graduates Duke University can go way farther than I ever have.

I believe true success lies in your integrated self. Even when I was a practicing physician, I learned how to make my medicine my art. I learned the vocabulary and algorithms of clinical practice as an internal medicine physician. What I also learned through my comedy background is that medicine is improvisation. You’re listening to the patient, you’re listening to the symptoms, you’re reading the results of all the tests, you’re synthesizing information and you’re improvising off of

that information.

Behind the scenes, people say, ‘You have an amazing work ethic.’ No I don’t. I have a Duke work ethic. I have a work ethic that everybody at Duke has. I don’t work any harder, I don’t work any less. In order to survive at Duke, you have no choice but to work hard. In my head, I have a work ethic that I cultivated at Duke. There’s always a part of Duke University in me, no matter where I go.

This is what I want the graduating class to know and embrace. No one has the opportunity right now to embrace the uncertainty more than this graduating class.

In my own world, I had an uncertain future and I found a way to embrace my potential, not knowing where it would go, not knowing where the endpoint is. I still don’t know where my endpoint is. If I am 50 years old and still excited as to where my endpoint will be, I challenge each Duke graduate to have that same excitement.

That is the true value of a Duke degree.

It truly is.

Photo by Gage Skidmore Jeong will participate in May’s virtual grad event.

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SENIOR PICS TOP LEFT COURTESY OF GEORGIA LALA Senior Georgia Lala might not be able to throw her graduation cap into the air at a Commencement this May, but she got to give it a toss for this photo with a Chapel background.

TOP RIGHT COURTESY OF ABBY JUDGE Senior Abby Judge proudly displays her Duke 2020 flag in front of the Chapel.

RIGHT COURTESY OF SHAGUN VASHISTH Not everybody got a chance to actually take their senior pictures at the Chapel, so senior Shagun Vashisth had to get a little creative.

LEFT CHARLES YORK To commemorate the Class of 2020, students painted the East Campus Bridge, featuring the Chapel and signed handprints.

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Henry Yu Dance music group Cash Cash headlined the Heatwave concert that kicked off the 2016-17 year.

By Staff Reports Freshman year featured participation in local and national elections, the announcement of a new University president and an ACC tournament championship for the men’s basketball team.

With the excitement of a presidential election, many Duke students participated in civic activity for the first time. Both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump visited nearby cities in North Carolina.

The Chronicle anonymously polled a representative sample of 920 Duke undergraduates and asked them about their views on the elections. In the poll, Duke students showed a liberal tendency. Almost 76% of the 920 students planned to vote for Clinton, compared to 6.4% for Trump.

When Trump emerged as the winner, many students were upset and in disbelief.

Thereafter, both students and surrounding community members protested Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s executive orders banning immigration from Muslim-majority countries also incited protest. Additionally, several faculty members expressed concern about Trump’s proposed budget, which cut funding from the National Institutes of Health and other research organizations.

Students were also engaged in the gubernatorial race between Republican incumbent Pat McCrory and Democratic challenger Roy Cooper. McCrory is most famous for signing into law the highly controversial House Bill 2, which disallowed transgender people from using restrooms aligned with their gender identity. After a close voter margin that led to a contentious legal battle, Cooper won the governorship.

He was able to compromise with state Republican leadership on limiting HB2.

Just as Trump and Cooper entered their

respective offices, President Richard Brodhead served his last year as president of Duke. The Board of Trustees announced Vincent Price, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, as the 10th president of Duke University. As part of his transition, Price visited campus several times after the announcement.

In addition to Brodhead, David Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70, donated $20 million to endow the scholarship program for first-generation, low-income students formerly known as the Washington Duke Scholars Program. Now, it will be called David M. Rubenstein Scholars Program.

The student body elected a female President of Duke Student Government for the sixth year in a row. Junior Riyanka Ganguly, formerly vice president for equity and outreach, spoke of the importance of activism and advocacy in her campaign.

DSG elections this year faced low voter turnout compared to previous years, but not necessarily compared to student government elections at peer institutions.

The year also saw the reopening of West Union—later renamed to the Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life—after more than two years of construction. Containing 13 new eateries, it presented a financial threat to the food trucks, some of which left campus altogether. Still, Duke Dining was named best in the nation for college food. Additionally, the new Student Health and Wellness Center opened in January. However, some students had issues with accessibility.

That year, faculty considered a new undergraduate curriculum, which would have removed the foreign language requirement and not counted Advanced Placement courses for credit. Many departments— especially in foreign languages—had issues with the new curriculum. In April, Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts

and Sciences, explained that the Arts and Sciences Council would take a pause on the curriculum to evaluate the next steps to revamp the Trinity curriculum.

The University also faced its fair share of scandals, primarily involving lawsuits.

A former lab analyst at Duke accused faculty and administrators of mishandling allegations of research misconduct, which could have lead the University to pay close to $600 million in fines. The University brought forth a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which a federal judge rejected.

A men’s soccer player filed a lawsuit against Duke and Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, for a violation of his due process rights.

OSC and Duke’s student conduct process also came under fire from legal experts, as well as former and current students.

The football team took a step back in the fall, winning just four games and failing to reach a bowl game for the first time since 2011. But the up-and-down season did have a couple high points, with wins at Notre Dame and at home against North Carolina.

Victories against the Tar Heels were a common theme of the year, with the Blue Devils taking two out of three from their rivals in men’s basketball and also topping them in men’s lacrosse, field hockey and twice in women’s basketball.

After finishing both 2015 and 2016 without any ACC championships, Duke finally broke out of its slump in the spring, winning the conference in men’s and women’s golf and men’s basketball. The Blue Devils’ triumph in Brooklyn was the highlight of the year with four wins in four days, but the preseason No. 1 team could not keep its momentum going in the NCAA tournament and bowed out against South Carolina in the second round.

Special to The Chronicle Duke students took part in the Women’s March on Washington after the Trump inauguration.

were more people—more creativity, more love,” Quirici said. “It was all incredibly peaceful and positive, and I can’t describe the feelings of hope each time I entered a new area of the protest.”

First-year Victoria Grant said she was pleased the march fostered a sense that change was possible, and first-year Niyah Shaheed said she believes the march’s worldwide influence would help reaffirm America’s global image.

“I thought the march definitely achieved its purpose of showing the American people and the rest of the world that the bigotry and hate surrounding Trump’s campaign wasn’t representative of the attitudes of most people in this country and that we would actively fight to keep this bigotry from prevailing,” she said.

The march’s attendees should fight for everyone’s rights, said first-year Alexandra Kunzle, such as those of marginalized women.

Quirici agreed, arguing that it is imperative to sustain the movement in the long run and not just fizzle out after one march.

“I am so encouraged and impressed that so many people turned out for marches all over the world this weekend,” she said. “But it isn’t enough to listen to Ashley Judd and be entertained by Alicia Keys.”

Duke heads to DC for Trump inauguration, Women’s March

By Alethea Toh

January 27, 2017

Duke community members made their way to Washington D.C. this weekend for two very different events—President Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington the next day.

Among those who attended Trump’s inauguration were first-year Jake Chasan and junior Colin Duffy, both of whom support the new Republican president.

Chasan said he believes that being in D.C. for inauguration weekend was a rewarding experience.

“I have friends who came to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration and others who came to the Capitol in protest,” he wrote in an email. “This is democracy, the ability for people to share their opinions.

Without this, America would not be ‘land of the free, home of the brave,’ in the words of our ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’”

Duffy, who is chair of the Duke College Republicans, wrote that he was inspired by many Trump supporters whom he met and who come from all walks of life. The people who stood next to him at the ceremony, he wrote, included “a gay pilot from Missouri, a school teacher from Tennessee and a Latino husband and wife.”

To Duffy, one of the most inspiring parts of Trump’s speech were his references to the “forgotten men and women,” and the hope that the speech could start the country on a path of unification.

“While coming from different identities and perspectives, they all shared a beautiful vision of hope and pride in their country,” Duffy wrote. “A lot of them said this was the first time they had a politician who truly stood up for them.”

But Saturday featured the Women’s March on Washington, which drew in a crowd of about half a million in protest to the inauguration the day before. Although Duffy

and Chasan attended the inauguration out of a sense of optimism, other students and faculty attended the marches to overcome feelings of powerlessness and despair.

Marion Quirici, a lecturing fellow at the Thompson Writing Program, was among the march’s attendees. Quirici said the march created an environment that empowered a large number of citizens to actively protest the Trump administration.

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Jayson Tatum carries Duke to ACC title

By Amrith Ramkumar March 11, 2017

NEW YORK—Even with the No. 5 seed Blue Devils trailing 56-48 with 11:25 left in the ACC championship game after two Grayson Allen turnovers, Duke’s players and coaches looked calm as could be.

The Blue Devils had been in the same spot Thursday and Friday, and a third straight come-from-behind win seemed inevitable.

And luckily for Duke, it was able to muster a gritty comeback in a matter of minutes, riding a 15-4 stretch and an impeccable finish from swingman Jayson Tatum to its first ACC title since 2011.

A Tatum free throw with 2:02 remaining broke a 65-65 tie, then the freshman blocked a shot and went coast to coast for a layup to make it a three-point game with 1:35 left.

After a pair of Matt Farrell free throws, Tatum found senior Matt Jones on the right wing for a huge 3-pointer—Jones’ first triple of the ACC tournament—to stretch the lead to four.

Tatum then threw down an emphatic slam through contact with 25.4 seconds left to make it a five-point game and hit the ensuing free throw to seal the first conference tournament title won with four wins in four days with a 75-69 victory against third-seeded Notre Dame at the Barclays Center Saturday night.

“It didn’t click until we won that we actually did it. The entire week, we had the mindset that we wanted to be the first to ever do that,” Tatum said. “We wanted to overcome everything we’ve gone through this entire season. A lot of people counted us out when we were losing games or guys were hurt, but we just wanted to show the world that we’re still going to be a special team.”

The 22nd-ranked Fighting Irish (25-9) looked like the fresher team after intermission, quickly overcoming their four-point halftime deficit to tie the game at 38, then going ahead for the first time on a Rex Pflueger triple with 17:12 remaining. Although the No. 14 Blue Devils (27-8) answered a few Notre Dame buckets to stay within one possession, the Fighting Irish pushed the lead to seven when V.J. Beachem put back a Bonzie Colson miss with 12:34 left in the game.

Notre Dame hit five of its first seven shots and outscored Duke 19-8 to start the second half, taking advantage of five Duke turnovers to get easy baskets, with Colson pouring in 29 points.

After a pair of Allen turnovers, it looked like things were in danger of going off the rails for the Blue Devils for the third straight day.

Yet looking at Duke’s players on the court, you would never have known it.

“During timeouts, the looks on guys’ faces were the looks of champions, even when we were losing,” graduate student Amile Jefferson said. “So it made me and Matt’s job easy to lead guys who want to be led, to lead guys who are fighters and to have players like Tatum and Luke Kennard, who are just dynamic scorers and always tough players.”

Jefferson would not let his team go down without a fight, putting in back-to-back hoops inside to pull Duke within four with 9:46 remaining in the contest. Frank Jackson responded to a Colson turn-around moments later with a corner triple to quickly make it a three-point game.

The Blue Devils then set up the exciting finish, with Tatum and Jefferson scoring inside to put Duke back in front 59-58 following a 7-0 spurt.

Jackson added another important secondhalf hoop in response to a Farrell jumper, then Kennard hit a mid-range elbow shot to give Duke a three-point edge with 4:55 left. The ACC tournament MVP finished with 16 points as he and Tatum became the highest-scoring duo in conference tournament history.

Ian Jaffe Jayson Tatum was key in taking down the Fighting Irish to capture the ACC Championship, finishing with 19 points and 8 rebounds. Duke won four games in four days to win the ACC title.

“I think there should have been coMVPs,” said Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who won his record-setting 14th ACC tournament title. “You couldn’t split a hair on them…. They were remarkable.”

Notre Dame would not let Duke go ahead by more than one possession, however, with Beachem free throws and a game-tying Colson triple from the top of the key with

2:27 remaining bringing the Fighting Irish faithful to their feet.

But Tatum would not let his team fall behind late, carrying the team down the stretch to cap a surreal four-game sequence and finishing with 19 points and eight rebounds. His pass to Jones set up the shot of the tournament by the Blue Devil co-captain, who has been heavily criticized by fans all

year for his inconsistent shooting.

“Me and Amile, everything we’ve been through, we told each other we weren’t going back to the dorm without [this championship],” Jones said. “So that was the big motivation for us at least, and we just made that message known to all the other guys.”

“Matt, no matter if he misses 100 shots, we always think he’s going to make the next one,” Tatum said. “So when I drove, he called my name and as soon as I passed it to him, I knew it was a bucket.”

Almost 50 seconds earlier, the St. Louis native had made yet another signature play by stuffing Steve Vasturia at one end and taking the ball the length of the floor himself to make it a three-point game.

“How the hell did you do that?” Krzyzewski said of his reaction to the play. “It gave everyone energy, like, ‘Somebody on our team could move that fast right now.’”

Duke was in control to start the game, never trailing in the first half by jumping out to an 8-2 lead and going ahead by nine points two different times. But Colson never let his team fall behind by double figures, closing the half strong to give Notre Dame a good chance heading into the second period.

Although the Fighting Irish looked ready to pull away, the Blue Devils reeled them in and finished strong yet again. Duke beat three top-25 opponents in a row on its way to the title, becoming the first No. 5 seed ever to win the conference tournament.

The Blue Devils will now await their NCAA tournament fate Sunday evening. The latest projections as of Saturday evening had Duke slotted as a No. 2 seed after its big week in New York.

“There were so many plays that turned the game around and sparked the game made by a bunch of our guys,” Jefferson said. “I’m just really proud to be on this team with this group of guys at this time where we’re becoming pure.”

‘Spectacular’: West Union opens for students

By Samantha Neal August 23, 2016

The West Union will be opening its newly renovated glass doors and serving food to all next Monday, Aug. 29.

The building is holding a soft opening this week and will began serving just lunch this Monday, wrote Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, in an email.

The West Union—which contains 13 new eateries operated by nine vendors—will be fully open to students and the public Aug. 29, the first day of classes. As a part of its “First Big Week” programming, there will be a “West Union First Big Welcome” event the afternoon of Sept. 2 before the annual Heatwave concert, and Duke University Union will also be hosting a trivia night that Thursday in Devil’s Krafthouse.

Students said that they are looking forward to finally enjoying additional food options on campus and having a central location to eat and socialize.

“I’ve been really excited just walking by it and talking with incoming family members about West Union and what it has to offer, so when I actually get a chance to go eat inside of it and see everything, I think it will be really nice,” sophomore Analese Bridges said.

In the last few weeks of the summer, workers have been putting final touches on the $95 million construction project, such as installing doorknobs and glasswork. With the exception of a few minor tweaks that will wrap up as students begin to use the West Union, Moneta said that the construction on the building is complete.

“It’s a spectacular building, and I think students are going to be blown away by it,” he noted.

Senior Paola Vallejos worked for the Conference and Event Services office this summer and was able to see the progress in the final months of the West Union’s transformation, which was open only to summer camp participants. She noted that the building’s design combines both modern and classic elements.

“I had gone in the West Union for Blue Devil Days, and it was really musty and dark,” Vallejos said. “It’s the complete opposite now—it’s bright and very inviting. I think everyone’s going to like it.”

Moneta added that the role of the West Union in student life will ultimately depend on the students.

“I’d like to think that it will contribute to community,” Moneta said. “If we’ve done our jobs right, we’ll see all of this contribute to a sense of belongingness and community.”

The West Union will offer a larger, more centralized dining location that had been lacking on West Campus for years, many students noted.

“I think that it will foster an atmosphere that’s similar to Marketplace but for upperclassmen, serving as a main hub of a dining hall for all upperclassmen on West Campus,” Bridges said.

Junior Megan Conroy added that she is looking forward to grabbing dinner with friends once the West Union opens.

“I’m hoping that they have some cheaper options, and it’s not just restaurant-style food

Han Kang The $95 million West Union opened August 2016.

but more home-style food,” she said.

Although students are excited for the opening of West Union, upperclassmen have some mixed emotions as most have never experienced the West Union during their time at Duke.

“Sophomore year, I lived in Kilgo and my room overlooked the construction, and my room would shake sometimes,” Vallejos said.

“I’m just happy we at least have it for a year.

We never had it to begin with so we kind of have a low expectation.”

Moneta said that he recognizes the disruption to student life that the construction on the West Union created in the last few years, noting that food options in the Bryan Center and Penn Pavilion were meant to alleviate those difficulties.

“I certainly think students rose to the occasion,” Moneta said. “I would be remiss not to acknowledge the inconvenience. Hopefully, everyone will see how much it was worth it.”

Abigail Xie contributed reporting.

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FIRST YEAR TOP IAN JAFFE Jayson Tatum celebrates Duke men’s basketball 86-78 win against UNC in Cameron Indoor Stadium with the Crazies going crazy. Tatum finished with 19 points in the win, with Grayson Allen contributing 25 points and Luke Kennard scoring 20.

BOTTOM HAN KANG Remember your move-in day? Cheering FACs grabbed all your stuff from your car, lugging it to your dorm as you just tried to take in everything East Campus had to offer. Thankfully, it was a beautiful, sunny day.

RIGHT YUFAN ZHANG Duke is full of talented artists, from painters to actors to dancers. Here, a group performs for the 2016 Dance Council Showcase, one of many dance groups who got to show off their choregraphy and hard work.

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SOPHOMORE YEAR TOP LEFT MARY HELEN WOOD Vermont independent senator Bernie Sanders (pictured) and Rev. William Barber II, M.Div. ’89 spoke in the Chapel in April 2017 about a moral economy.

TOP RIGHT IAN JAFFE One of the first major decisions for President Vincent Price was what to do with the Robert E. Lee statue in front of the Chapel. In the summer of 2017, Price elected to take down the statue. He later chose to keep it empty.

RIGHT CHARLES YORK A thick layer of snow blanketed Krzyzewskiville in 2018, allowing tenters a brief respite from their tenting duties (hopefully their tent didn’t get crushed).

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Sophomore Year

By Staff Reports Sophomore year witnessed new aspects of campus life—from the welcoming of a new University president to the softball team playing its inaugural season—and a number of high-profile guests visiting campus.

President Vincent Price took office in July as Duke’s 10th president and soon faced a controversial decision about the vandalism of the Robert E. Lee statue outside the Chapel. He ordered the statue’s removal and launched a Commission on Memory and History in September to recommend a replacement for it. The commission delivered its report in November, and he accepted the recommendation of leaving open the spot at the Chapel’s entrance.

Price was formally inaugurated as Duke’s president at an October ceremony on Abele Quadrangle, followed by a reception in the Brodhead Center. The night before the inauguration, a carnival named PricePalooza took place on East Campus, which provided a ferris wheel, inflatables and food.

In addition, Jack Bovender, Trinity ‘67 and Graduate School ‘69, became the new chair of the Board of Trustees. He took the helm from David Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70, who stepped away after serving as chair since 2013.

In early September, a Duke LifeFlight helicopter crashed in eastern North Carolina. A memorial service took place Sept. 20 in the Chapel for the four people who died in the crash.

Housing became a topic of serious discussion after Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, announced in late September that 2018-19 would be the last year undergraduate students lived on Central Campus.

Steve Schewel, Trinity ‘73 and a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, became the mayor of Durham after winning

the November election. He appointed Jillian Johnson, Trinity ‘03 and his former student, as his mayor pro tempore.

In response to President Donald Trump’s plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, students established a new organization called Define American for DACA students and their allies. Later in November, some of the students traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby members of Congress to support protections for individuals who would be affected by the end of the program.

In late November, the men’s basketball team jumpstarted their season with a comefrom-behind victory against Florida to win the PK80 Invitational’s Motion Bracket in Portland, Ore. They eked out the victory by three points, beating the Gators 87-84. Duke would make it to the Elite Eight of March Madness before bowing out to Kansas in an overtime loss.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski also notched his 1,000th win at Duke in a November win over Utah Valley.

The team split the regular season rivalry with the Tar Heels before falling to them in the ACC tournament semifinals. Grayson Allen closed out his career in Cameron with a win over the rivals on senior night, but the walk-up line for the game got a bit out of hand. Krzyzewskiville also ran into some issues, including an indefinite shutdown being called due to the flu and the line monitors being sued in the Duke Student Government Judiciary.

Over winter break, Duke’s football team routed Northern Illinois in the Quick Lane Bowl to take its second bowl win in three years. Duke, which finished the season 7-6, closed the season on a three-game winning streak—the first time since 1962.

Duke gained a new varsity sport during sophomore year as well, with softball officially becoming the University’s 27th varsity offering.

The Blue Devils finished the regular season ranked seventh in the ACC and gained their first All-ACC honoree as sophomore pitcher Raine Wilson was named to the conference’s first team. First-years Rachel Abboud and Peyton St. George were also named to the conference’s All-Freshman team.

This year also saw the opening of the Rubenstein Arts Center, a new arts facility on campus. Rubenstein funded the creation of the new arts center with $25 million. The opening party in February drew a crowd of 3,000. The building is home to WXDU and the von der Heyden Studio Theater, a theater that hosted a production of Chicago soon after opening.

Several high profile public figures also visited campus.

Reince Priebus, former White House chief of staff to Trump, discussed the 2016 election and his service in Trump’s White House when he spoke on campus in December.

Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Convention, talked about the evolution of Juan Bermudez the party when he visited in April, and Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rev. William Barber II Grayson Allen enjoying his senior night.

Coach K gets 1000th win

By Hank Tucker

November 12, 2017

Saturday night was not the first time Grayson Allen sat in front of his locker with a white 1K t-shirt on, though he didn’t have as many media around him last time.

Allen is the lone active Blue Devil that was on the team when Mike Krzyzewski picked up his 1,000th career win against St. John’s Jan. 26, 2015. Krzyzewski then made up five years worth of wins at Army in less than three more years at Duke, becoming the first men’s college coach ever to win 1,000 times at the same school with a 99-69 victory against Utah Valley.

Allen just played three minutes against the Red Storm, before he emerged as a hidden weapon in the national championship that year, but made a bigger impact on this achievement with 18 points as a senior captain.

In total, Allen has been at Duke for 90 of Krzyzewski’s wins—with many more likely to come this season.

“It’s pretty awesome to be able to be a part of two pretty historic moments for a coach,”

Allen said. “This one, being in Cameron, I felt a lot more love for Coach. I think this one was the coolest just because of the fan support and being at home, being in Cameron with all the Crazies cheering him on.... I can’t believe I got to be a part of two of them.”

After the game, Duke President Vincent Price and Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White presented Krzyzewski with a game ball.

Price and former national player of the year Shane Battier then spoke briefly to honor Juan Bermudez Krzyzewski in an on-court ceremony.

Krzyzewski took the microphone for a few minutes to thank the crowd and started his remarks by reflecting on his first three years with the Blue Devils from 1980-83, when his teams went 38-47. At that rate of wins, it would have taken almost 79 full seasons to get to 1,000, and at that rate of losses, thenathletic director Tom Butters surely would

have let him go well before that time was up.

“My first three years, I could have never imagined winning 100 games,” Krzyzewski said. “I had a president in Terry Sanford and an athletic director in Tom Butters who believed in me.”

Butters, who died last spring, gave his coach another chance with a contract extension in 1984. Krzyzewski made his first Final Four two years later and he has been entrenched at Duke ever since, turning down several offers from NBA teams and watching Butters refuse his letter of resignation when he offered to step down in 1995 due to back surgery.

That happened before every player on his current team was born, but that didn’t stop them from becoming a small piece of history themselves.

“It was a special night, to even be part of this team and to go out and play hard for that and to win this game for him,” freshman big man Marvin Bagley III said. “He’s a great coach. I enjoy getting to be around him every day and learning from him every day.

I’m just happy to be here and I’m just looking forward to learning a lot from him.”

Saturday’s game was just another earlyseason 99-69 win, the latest addition to the Blue Devils’ 134-game nonconference home

packed the Chapel for their re-scheduled April talk on a moral economy.

Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visited campus in April to talk about Russian relations and the U.S. embassy in Israel.

Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, stopped by in May to discuss political risk.

During alumni weekend in April, approximately 25 students took the stage as President Vincent Price stood at the podium.

The students, affiliated under the People’s State of the University, presented a dozen demands for the University. The Office of Student Conduct originally sent notices to these students about possible disciplinary action but eventually chose to informally resolve the cases.

The end of the year was marked by racial incidents. A student was exposed on the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page for using a racial slur in a Snapchat. A student resident of the 300 Swift apartment complex had a racial epithet written across her door, and a pair of anti-Semitic posters were found along the East Campus wall and sidewalk.

In May, it was reported that two baristas at Joe Van Gogh had been fired due to a rap song that was playing when Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, entered the store to buy a muffin.

Internationally, Duke Kunshan University welcomed its first cohort of faculty for the undergraduate program in preparation for the inaugural undergraduate class arriving in Fall 2018.

Duke undergraduates elected junior Kristina Smith as their next Duke Student Government president to replace outgoing President Riyanka Ganguly, a senior, and chose senior Amy Kramer as their Young Trustee.

The Class of 2018 lost a member of their class in December, when senior Alex McIlvaine died at age 22. McIlvaine was remembered in a memorial service at the Chapel in January. winning streak. Krzyzewski coached it like any other win, and it showed on the bench, as he leapt off the bench to growl at the officials in the opening minutes when Allen and point guard Trevon Duval were both whistled for two quick fouls.

He was doing the same job he has done for the last 38 years at Duke, and enjoying it.

“I’m the luckiest guy to coach ever. I coached at my alma mater, coached the U.S. team for 11 years and I’ve coached what I think is the greatest basketball program in the country,” Krzyzewski said.

“I think there’s more to come, I’m just not sure how many.”

After he left the court, Krzyzewski shrugged off the accomplishment to start his postgame press conference, preferring to talk about his team’s play on the court.

Win No. 1,001 with the Blue Devils may be as hard to get as any of the last 1,000 Tuesday against No. 2 Michigan State, and in his remarks to the crowd, he finished by trying to shift the focus from his own legacy to his current players.

“What was is great, and what will might be great, but it won’t unless we consider ourselves fully invested into now,” Krzyzewski said. “Let’s embrace now with this group and see what the hell happens.”

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Vincent Price inaugurated as president

By Nathan Luzum October 5, 2017

As the sun descended behind Page Auditorium Thursday evening, Vincent Price ascended to the stage in Abele Quad to become the 10th President of Duke University.

In an inauguration ceremony in front of the Duke Chapel, students, faculty, representatives from other institutions, trustees and two former presidents—Nannerl Keohane and Richard Brodhead—looked on as Price assumed his new role.

In his address, Price highlighted the importance of regeneration and growth of the University in a new age while reaffirming Duke’s commitment to the highest standard of teaching. He emphasized interdisciplinary research as an essential component in tackling modern challenges and making new discoveries. Reflecting on the University’s role in North Carolina and abroad, he pledged to use Duke’s intellect not only to better the world as a whole but also improve the local community in which Duke resides.

“We are called upon to answer the challenges of the day,” he said. “So let us think of today not so much as a beginning but as another renewal, both a renewed commitment to values that guided the choices of our predecessors at Duke, and a renewed charge to make bold choices of our own.”

He touched on the history of Duke’s landscape to draw a comparison between the trees and the University itself. Just as the land that Duke sits on has undergone ecological changes through the years, Price explained, Duke itself has experienced similar periodic renewals.

“Throughout our history, each iteration of this institution has risen with purpose to meet the great challenges of its day, and has shaded and seeded the ground for grander things to come,” he said.

He noted that Duke’s renewal originates in the classroom with passionate faculty and eager students. Hinting at the importance of transforming education in an age of technology, Price explained that all facets of life have been altered by the digital age— likewise, the education system must also adapt to suit those needs.

Price called upon the University not to shy away from, but to instead embrace the new age of technology.

“Our new century calls for a university audacious and visionary enough to fundamentally redefine teaching and learning in higher education,” he said. “I believe Duke can and will be that university.”

In the past, research along strict disciplinary lines has led to a number of discoveries over the years, Price explained. However, he noted that modern research requires interdisciplinary communication to achieve its goals. He cited several interdisciplinary endeavors that Duke had already created and declared his commitment to continue embracing this new brand of research.

“As our collective knowledge has grown, so too has the realization that the most pressing problems and far-reaching opportunities of our world do not fit into one discipline or profession,” Price said. “We must prevent our research from ossifying around practices that were designed to confront another century’s challenges, and that limit our ability to confront the emerging problems of today.”

Price then addressed Duke’s role in the community—both locally and internationally—and emphasized that the University’s work “does not stop at Duke’s gates.” He encouraged members of the University to seek out others different from themselves in order to understand—and ultimately better—the world.

The inauguration ceremony also featured several other speakers, including Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania. As president of the university

at which Price previously served as provost, she offered her strong endorsement of Price as Duke’s next president.

“We’re absolutely thrilled for our good friend Vince, but it stings,” she said. “Truly, if ever an academic match were made in Heaven, this is the one.”

She emphasized the linkage between Duke and the University of Pennsylvania, explaining that West Campus architect Julian Abele was in fact a Penn graduate. Price is just the latest example of the qualities and values shared by Duke and Penn, Gutmann said.

Noting that Price grew up with five brothers, she humorously added that his upbringing gave him “a true gift for staying cool under fire” and for “fostering affinity out of difference.”

Durham Mayor Bill Bell also attended the ceremony and praised Price for several decisions during his first three months as Duke’s 10th president. To considerable applause in the audience, Bell lauded Price for his commitment to raise Duke’s minimum wage to $15 by July 2019 and for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.

“Both of these actions, in my opinion,

were the right actions at the right time,” he said. “They demonstrated his leadership and sensitivity to the moral and human conditions of justice and equity in our city.”

Bell added that the relationship between the city and University had gradually improved throughout his terms on the Durham County Board of Commissioners and eventually as Durham mayor, which has spanned the tenure of four—and now a fifth—Duke presidents.

Jack Bovender, chair of the Board of Trustees, also spoke during the event, noting that Duke has long been characterized by its “outrageous ambition.”

“In investing Vincent Price with the power of this office, we are selecting him to be the vehicle of our collective and outrageous ambition,” he said. “We are putting our trust in him and urging him to be our guide through the many challenges and opportunities to come.”

Bovender also reminded the audience that Duke’s enduring values remain steady even as a new president comes to the helm.

“At William Preston Few’s inauguration as president in 1910, outgoing president John

Kilgo suggested that while this institution’s administrators change, its purpose and principles remain the same,” he said.

Charles York Vincent Price was formally inaugurated in October 2017 after coming from UPenn.

Group of students protests Price’s address

By Adam Beyer Sarah Kerman April 14, 2018

A group of organized students disrupted President Vincent Price’s address to alumni Saturday, calling for institutional change in labor practices and student support, among other demands.

Looking back to the legacy of the 1968 Silent Vigil, approximately 25 undergraduates—who identified themselves as being from diverse backgrounds—took the stage in Page Auditorium as Price was about to accept class gifts.

“President Price get off the stage,” the group chanted, while rushing the stage with signs and a megaphone. Once they gathered onstage, the group continued chanting “Whose University? Our University.”

Junior Trey Walk took the megaphone first, connecting the protest back to the Vigil.

“These events would later be summarized as a turning point for Duke, but 50 years later so much has still remained the same,” Walk said. “We are still here.”

Walk continued, noting that task forces and other measures are still being used to pacify students.

After he passed off the megaphone, Price attempted to interject before relenting. Many in the crowd began shouting.

Amid the shouting, the protesters continued listing their demands—ranging from guaranteeing need-blind admissions for international students and loan-free financial aid to opening Board of Trustees meetings to the public and banning medically unnecessary surgery for intersex newborns at

Duke Hospital.

Many alumni did not respond positively, booing to drown out the student’s explanation of their demands, some standing up to turn their backs to the stage. Among the comments heard from alums in the audience “get off the stage”, “not the time or place” and “a**holes.”

After approximately 10 minutes, Sterly Wilder, Trinity ’83 and associate vice president for alumni affairs, initially announced that the talk would be canceled. Five minutes later, the students left to further address their demands in front of the Chapel.

Before they got onstage, student protesters reported receiving fliers titled “Got something to say? Here’s how to get your message heard...” from Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, which outlined Duke’s policies on protesting.

One bullet point states: “Disruptive picketing, protesting or demonstration on Duke University property or at any place in use for an authorized university purpose is prohibited.”

The Page Auditorium talk eventually continued, with alumni presenting class gifts followed by an address from the President.

In the question and answer session, one alumnus asked Price about his thoughts on the protest.

Price said he would review the demands and listen to the students, but noted that he thought they might have a “misunderstanding” about the minimum wage issue. He explained that Duke has committed to raising its wage for employees and contract workers.

“The challenge now in a culture that confuses shouting back and forth with conversation, we just have to find vehicles to

have honest discussion and I’m happy to take up any of the issues which the students raise,” he said. “I disagree deeply that this was an appropriate way to handle these issues.”

Students also protested in April 2016 for some of the same causes during the weeklong Allen Building sit-in, including raising minimum wage to $15/hour. The Allen Building sit-in was originally sparked by allegations that executive vice-president Tallman Trask hit a parking employee with his car and called her a racial slur. It called for Trask’s firing, but also focused on other concerns regarding labor at the University.

Outside Page Auditorium, the group of student gathered in front of the Chapel to further explain their demands.

Approximately 50 onlookers surrounded them to watch.

Sophomore Gino Nuzzolillo characterized the demands as a living document that is subject to change over time.

“The future we imagine is one free of oppression, suffering and exploitation,” Nuzzolillo said. Because there are many issues that exist on this campus and the world beyond, the issues and demands listed here are not comprehensive and only scratch the surface of the work we have yet to do.”

The students later offered onlookers the opportunity to speak. One alumna from the Class of 1993 expressed support for the students’ efforts.

“I wasn’t very excited to be in that presidential meeting but boy was I excited when I found up what you guys were up to,” she said. “Thanks for making the reunion for me and for being the future of what’s right about the University and the country in general.”

Bre Bradham A group of students, calling themselves People’s State of the University, issued 12 demands on stage at President Price’s alumni address.

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Junior Year

By Staff Reports Junior year saw seen the renaming of an infamous building, an array of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.

In August 2018, the history department filed an official request to rename the Carr Building on East Campus, which houses the department.

Named after Julian Carr, a wealthy white supremacist who donated the land that would become East Campus, the building came under fire from history alumni, People’s State of the University and Duke Student Government.

At the December Board of Trustees meeting, the Board decided to officially rename Carr to the Classroom Building, which was the building’s original title. The history department had requested the University rename it after Raymond Gavins, Duke’s first African American history professor. But Duke decided the Classroom name was here to stay until another formal request is filed.

Throughout the year, student activists were key in bringing attention to, and even changing, certain Duke policies.

Students received a letter in the fall that said financial aid would not pay for Duke health insurance unless their expected family contribution was $0. After student advocates for health care pushed back, President Vincent Price reversed the decision in a letter to the editor.

Students advocated for workers’ rights as well. When housekeepers were forced to work weekends, a student organized a petition to return them to their normal Monday through Friday schedules.

Additionally, facilities staff were told they had to rebid for their shifts based solely on seniority, which meant they could have lost their existing shifts and buildings. Administration later scrapped the rebidding plans.

The year also featured a variety of scandals.

The first half of the year saw several incidents of hate on campus. A wall at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture was defaced with a racist slur in August, and a swastika was painted over a mural honoring victims from a shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue in November.

In January, Megan Neely, director of graduate studies for the Master of Biostatistics program, sent an email to the department urging Chinese students to speak English outside of class. She stepped down the day after, when screenshots of the email were posted online.

Duke agreed to pay $112.5 million in March to settle a lawsuit alleging that a Duke scientist falsified data that was used to obtain $200 million in research grants.

While all these incidents were taking place, Duke was intensely negotiating with regional transit authority GoTriangle about the proposed light rail from Durham to Orange County.

The University ultimately announced Feb. 27 it would not sign a cooperation agreement in a letter to GoTriangle, all but killing the project.

Duke did not want to give up land alongside Erwin Road in the heart of its medical corridor, and it was concerned about the effects of electromagnetic interference and construction on the medical facilities’ operations. Students and Durham officials were not happy with the University’s decision.

But in Cameron Indoor Stadium, freshman phenom Zion Williamson had everyone smiling.

For sports, Duke basketball captivated the University and the nation. The team featured R.J. Barrett, Cam Reddish and Zion Williamson, the top three recruits in their class, as well as fellow top-10 recruit Tre Jones. The year got off to a strong start with a 34-point throttling of Kentucky

in the Champions Classic. Arguably the year’s along Towerview Road, the Hollows. It helped best win, however, came against Louisville, when absorb around 700 of the students moving Duke came back from 23 points down with just from Central to West Campus when the more than nine minutes remaining.

University tore down Central the next year.

The team’s fireworks extended beyond In the year’s student elections, the court too—Coach Mike Krzyzewski lit the undergraduate students chose junior Liv menorah on the Bryan Center plaza one night McKinney to be the next DSG president, during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. replacing senior Kristina Smith. Trey After a trivia test determined who could Walk, a senior, was elected to serve as the tent, students camped out for weeks in undergraduate Young Trustee.

Krzyzewskiville to see Williamson and the This year also featured Duke “banning the Blue Devils face off against North Carolina. box,” meaning applicants don’t have to disclose Even former President Barack Obama their criminal records when initially applying. attended the game. Unfortunately, Williamson Durham had its 150th birthday as well. broke through his shoe 30 seconds into the Finally, this February marked the 50th game and would not return in a game Duke anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover, ultimately lost to the Tar Heels. when black student activists took over the Duke got its revenge in the ACC administrative building and demanded tournament semifinals, and the team went change. The anniversary served as a reminder on to win the tournament. Duke’s season of how far Duke has come, and how much work ended in the Elite Eight against Michigan is still left to do.

State when Kenny Goins hit a go-ahead three in the game’s waning seconds.

Led by quarterback Daniel Jones, the football team finished the regular season with a 7-5 record. The season featured wins over North Carolina and Miami and blowout losses to Clemson and Wake Forest. The team capped off the year with a comeback win against Temple in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl.

The New York Giants then drafted Jones sixth overall in the NFL Draft, making him the second Duke quarterback ever taken in the first round.

Like Jones, this year was the last for Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Duke named Tufts University administrator Mary Pat McMahon to succeed him as the new vice provost/vice president for campus life.

Walking around Duke’s campus, one couldn’t help but notice all the construction.

Bre Bradham The largest project was a brand new dorm Rallying against gerrymandering at SCOTUS.

Duke pays $112.5 million to settle research fraud case

By Ben Leonard March 25, 2019

Duke will pay $112.5 million to the federal government in a settlement for a lawsuit regarding its handling of falsified data that the suit alleged was linked to $200 million in federal research grants.

“This is a difficult moment for Duke,” President Vincent Price wrote in an email to the Duke community. “This case demonstrates the devastating impact of research fraud and reinforces the need for all of us to have a focused commitment on promoting research integrity and accountability.”

The lawsuit, filed by former lab analyst Joseph Thomas, alleged Duke used the data to obtain grants and covered up the fraud.

The lawsuit came from fraud allegedly committed by former Duke researcher Erin Potts-Kant. A researcher in the pulmonary, allergy and critical care department of Duke Health, Potts-Kant has had more than 12 scientific papers retracted since word broke of the allegedly falsified data.

Potts-Kant admitted to changing parts of the data but said that experiments actually were run. Thomas brought the case under the False Claims Act, which could have

forced Duke to fork over as much as $600 million.

Thomas alleged Potts-Kant falsified data in research on mice’s lungs. From these data, labs at the University were able to secure additional federal funding, calling roughly $200 million in grants into question.

Others were also implicated in the lawsuit, including two of Potts-Kants’ supervisors: William Foster, ex-professor of medicine, and Monica Kraft, former division chief of the pulmonary division. The two supervisors were accused of negligence and ignoring warnings of misconduct.

The National Institutes of Health implemented additional regulations for Duke researchers in April 2018, requiring those applying for grants for less than $250,000 per year to provide a detailed budget of their proposed costs.

The email went on to outline steps Duke has taken to promote scientific integrity.

Price wrote that the University has taken many steps in recent years in order to “promote an environment and culture of scientific integrity,” such as creating the Office for Scientific Integrity and appointing Geeta Swamy as associate vice provost and vice dean for scientific integrity.

Duke brought a new data management tool, established required “science culture and accountability plans for all School of Medicine units” and created a program to monitor clinical quality, Price wrote. He added that the University established education efforts on integrity for all faculty and staff and made a committee to review “review scientific programs that have commercial potential.”

Price also announced new initiatives in the email.

Duke will appoint an Advisory Panel on Research Integrity and Excellence that will provide recommendations to the University on how to “promot[e] research integrity”

by June 30. It will create a new research leadership structure and create an Executive Oversight Committee, which will be chaired

by A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs, to oversee the changes.

“To be clear: fraudulent and unethical behavior violates the fundamental values of our academic community and must be addressed,” Price wrote. “However, we know that it does not reflect the vast majority of our students, faculty, staff, and trainees. We are very proud of the work you do every day, and the contributions you make to Duke’s enduring and essential mission of excellence in teaching, learning, discovery, service and healing.”

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Carr Building officially renamed

By Bre Bradham

December 1, 2018

The University has stripped Julian Carr’s name from the East Campus building that bore it for nearly 90 years.

The change comes four years after Duke renamed Aycock Residence Hall on East Campus because of its namesake’s history and amidst a national conversation about removing Confederate or racist memorials.

The Board of Trustees approved removing without dissent Carr’s name at its meeting this weekend, Board Chair Jack Bovender said. The decision was announced to the University in an email from President Vincent Price Saturday afternoon.

“Our campus is first and foremost an inclusive community of people, not of classrooms and buildings,” Price wrote in his email to the Duke community. “With each new student or faculty member who arrives here, with each new discovery made or perspective shared, this community grows and evolves to better meet the challenges of its time. The renaming of the Carr Building represents one such evolution, at once a reflection of how our world has changed and a demonstration that our values and bonds will endure far longer than mortar or stone.”

The Carr Building will be called the Classroom Building until a new name is chosen. Price told The Chronicle after the Board meeting that he does not have a set time frame for recommending a new name, adding that he is considering the building’s name in conjunction with other memorial efforts on campus.

The Classroom Building was the Carr Building’s original name before it was renamed in honor of Carr in 1930. The decision to revert to the Classroom Building comes after the ad hoc committee did not make a recommendation on a new name, according to the Duke Today release. Instead, the committee deferred the renaming process to the Board of Trustees. In its request to rename the building, the history department asked that it be named after Raymond Gavins, the first African-American professor in the department.

The Carr Building’s name came under scrutiny at the beginning of the semester, when Duke’s history department filed a formal request for the name to be reconsidered.

The request stemmed from the department’s concerns about Julian Carr, after whom the building was named. Carr donated the land for East Campus to Trinity College—Duke’s predecessor—and served on its Board of Trustees.

“It is a reasonable assertion to say that Duke wouldn’t exist were it not for the generosity of Julian Carr. It is also true that he was a virulent white supremacist,” Taylor wrote in an email to The Chronicle in August. “Both of these things are true about Mr. Carr, and I think Duke needs to tell this story explicitly via a full, academically rigorous contextualization of Julian Carr, and then we all need to wrestle with what it means for us today.”

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Carr supported the Ku Klux Klan’s violence, and bragged about “horsewhipp[ing] a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds” because she “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady” when he spoke at the dedication of the Silent Sam statue—a Confederate monument pulled down by protesters earlier this semester—at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Charles York A slab covers the Carr name on the now-Classroom Building.

The Duke Today release about the name change noted Carr’s contributions of moving Trinity College from Randolph County to Durham in the 1890s, but noted he was “an active proponent of white supremacy throughout his adult life.”

“He boasted about being a member of the initial Ku Klux Klan and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white supremacist platform,” the release stated.

The push to rename the Carr Building kicked off in the spring, when student protesters included it as one of their demands when they interrupted an alumni reunion event where Price was speaking.

After the Robert E. Lee statue was removed from the Chapel steps last year, Price created a formal process for requests to be made concerning names and places of memory on campus. At the beginning of this semester, the history department faculty members—who work in the Carr Building—filed a formal request to strip Carr’s name and requested the building to be renamed in honor of Raymond Gavins.

Following the request, support for the change emerged from various parts of the Duke community. The student protesters, who formed a group called People’s State of the University, held a rally

Duke doesn’t sign light rail cooperation agreement

By Bre Bradham

By Ben Leonard

February 27, 2019

Former President Barack Obama is in Cameron Indoor Stadium for this year’s Duke-North Carolina game.

After much speculation leading up to the game, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was in attendance for Wednesday night’s colossal matchup between arch-rivals No. 1 Duke and No. 8 North Carolina. He was seen in the stadium at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Reports had circulated earlier in the week that Obama was expected to be in attendance, but Duke did not officially announce his appearance, nor could The Chronicle independently confirm it.

Obama has scrimmaged with the Tar Heels in the past and picked them to win the NCAA championship in 2012, but also met Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his 2010 and 2015 national championship teams at the White House. Krzyzewski has sometimes clashed with Obama’s politics, such as when he criticized the president’s policy on fighting the Islamic State in 2014.

Former President George H.W. Bush also attended a basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium after his presidency ended. President Donald Trump also attended the Duke-North Carolina game in 2004, sitting under the basket and appearing for an interview on ESPN.

Duke will not sign onto a cooperation agreement for the Durham-Orange Light Rail project before a Feb. 28 deadline.

Duke joins North Carolina Railroad, according to a WRAL report, in not signing onto the plan.

In a letter sent to GoTriangle Wednesday morning—signed by President Vincent Price, Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask—the University said it would not sign on.

“Significant efforts by many people from Duke and GoTriangle have been made over the past year to resolve a number of critical issues connected to the proposed DurhamOrange Light Rail Transit (DOLRT) project,” the letter stated. “Notwithstanding these many good faith efforts, it has unfortunately not been possible to complete the extensive and detailed due diligence, by the deadlines imposed by the federal and state governments, that is required to satisfy Duke University’s legal, ethical and fiduciary responsibilities to ensure the safety of patients, the integrity of research and continuity of our operations and activities.”

For the current plan, Duke would have to donate land for the proposed route.

In the letter, the University expressed

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at the building in support of the change. More than 140 alumni of the history department sent in a signed letter that encouraged renaming the building, and Duke Student Government unanimously passed a resolution calling for a name change.

This is not the first time a building on Duke’s campus has been renamed after its namesake’s questionable past has come to light. The first-year residence hall Aycock—named after an early 1900s North Carolina governor active in the white supremacist movement—was renamed in 2014 to East Residence Hall, though the decision to rename Aycock was reached through a less formal process.

The Board also supported the committee’s recommendation to create a display inside the Carr Building explaining “why the university chose to name the building in his honor in 1930, and why it chose to remove his name nearly ninety years later,” according to the Duke Today release.

The committee’s report said that it received more than 900 responses to an online survey requesting input and heard from multiple members of Carr’s family. The educational installment is a key part of the recommendation, according to the report.

“The unanimity of the committee’s support for the recommendation to remove the name is contingent on the creation of means to present educational and historical information on Julian Carr in order to preserve the record on Carr’s contributions to Trinity College and help the community understand his complex legacy,” the report stated.

“We note that no individual is perfect, and we do not pretend to sit in judgment on any individual as a human or citizen,” the report said. “But the white supremacist actions that Carr pursued throughout his life, even when considered in light of the time in which they were held, are inconsistent with the fundamental aspirations of this university, and removing the name will be a powerful statement that lifts up our values as a diverse and inclusive institution.”

Per the formalized process, the request was reviewed by an ad hoc committee Price formed in response to the request, which delivered a proposal to him. Price reviewed the proposal and delivered it to the Board of Trustees, which supported removing Carr’s name. Bovender said he appreciated the formalized process.

“Julian Carr’s legacy is complicated. His leadership of and philanthropy to Trinity College helped ensure that the small liberal arts school would remain independent and would have the means—and the land—to transform into the great university it has become,” Price wrote in the email. “But this same person also actively promoted white supremacy through words and deeds that, even by the historic norms of the time, were extraordinarily divisive and caused serious harm to members of his community. It is for these reasons that I agree with the History Department, the committee members and the trustees that removal is the appropriate course of action.”

lingering concerns about electromagnetic interference, vibration from the construction of a proposed elevated line near Duke Hospital and the Duke Eye Center, potential disruptions for utilities and power and liability, since Duke is a private institution.

The letter said that Duke would “require insurance or indemnification in an amount high enough to protect Duke University’s ability to operate as an ongoing entity” in the case of a “major disruption” to Duke’s operations or tragedy as result of construction or operation of the light rail. The amount or form of that coverage was not able to be agreed on.

“I know you understand Duke’s highest priority is the health and safety of patients who have entrusted us with their care at the most perilous times of their lives,” the letter

stated. “The acceptable tolerance for risk in these circumstances must be as close to zero as possible, and we have an obligation to our patients and the community to uphold that standard.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that the Board of Trustees were briefed at their meeting this past weekend but took no action.

The letter concluded by re-affirming Duke’s interest in working with GoTriangle.

“Duke remains dedicated to working with GoTriangle and our community to advance sustainable and workable public transit solutions that serve the needs of all citizens, especially those who depend on public transportation,” the letter stated.

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JUNIOR YEAR TOP BRE BRADHAM Zion Williamson electrified Cameron Indoor Stadium in his sole year on the men’s basketball team. Here, he completes a 360 slam dunk against Clemson that brought the house down.

He would eventually become a no-brainer number one pick in the NBA Draft.

BOTTOM BRE BRADHAM During the fall, Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina. Durham was fortunate in that the deadly hurricane largely missed Durham, just leaving Duke’s campus rainy for a few days.

RIGHT HENRY HAGGART President Barack Obama, an avid college basketball fan, attended the Duke-UNC game at Cameron. Unfortunately for Duke fans and game attendees, Zion Williamson ripped his shoe 30 seconds into the game and didn’t play for the remainder of the game.

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JUNIOR YEAR TOP LEFT CHARLES YORK Daniel Jones had a strong redshirt junior season, defeating UNC (pictured) and winning the Walk-On Independence Bowl against Temple with 423 passing yards and 6 touchdowns. The New York Giants then drafted Jones 5th overall in 2019 NFL Draft.

TOP RIGHT HENRY HAGGART The men’s basketball team captured the nation’s attention with the top three 2019 recruits. The team went on to win the ACC tournament and make it to the Elite Eight.

From left to right: R.J. Barrett, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones, Zion Williamson, Marques Bolden.

RIGHT DAN GARCIA Before the Board of Trustees officially stripped the Carr Building of its namesake, students protested outside the building for the name’s removal. Julian Carr donated land to the University, but he was a virulent white supremacist who spoke at the commemoration of Silent Sam.

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By Staff Reports In the end, senior year may only be remembered for the last two months. Still, before the pandemic—before Zoom classes and empty quads and a postponed commencement—the year saw student activism, construction and basketball games for the ages.

It was a busy year when it came to student life. First-years were barred from O-Week parties, and fraternity rush sobered up.

Electric scooters rolled onto campus, though the University placed restrictions on their use. Elections took place, with junior Tommy Hessel elected Duke Student Government president and senior Ibrahim Butt elected undergraduate Young Trustee.

Senior year also saw its share of controversy.

Over the summer, Duke agreed to pay $54.5 million to settle a class action antitrust lawsuit.

The Department of Education sent a letter criticizing the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, after which President Vincent Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth reaffirmed the University’s commitment to academic freedom.

Two fraternities faced disciplinary action: Duke’s Delta Sigma Phi chapter was closed in September, and the University suspended its Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter in November and required its members to move out of their housing section.

Students made their voices heard throughout the year, protesting tech company Palantir and a talk by former national security advisor John Bolton. During a weeklong global climate strike in September, students also held a rally on the Bryan Center plaza.

The year also saw alumni, students and faculty win prestigious awards. William Kaelin Jr., Trinity ‘79, School of Medicine ‘83 and a member of the Board of Trustees, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on how cells sense

and adapt to oxygen availability. Senior Gabriella Deich was named Duke’s 50th Rhodes Scholar, and Jenny Tung, Trinity ‘03, Graduate School ‘10 and an associate professor in evolutionary anthropology, won a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant.

Demolition, construction and renovations changed the face of Duke. Construction crews began tearing down Central Campus, and students moved into Hollows Quad for the first time. Ahead of the Spring semester, popular eatery Pitchfork’s also got a new look.

Meanwhile, some familiar faces announced their departure. Richard Riddell announced Oct. 1 that he was stepping down as senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees in June, and Duke announced Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s retirementtwo weeks later. Mary Pat McMahon became vice president and vice provost for student affairs, succeeding Larry Moneta, and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek—or Dean Sue—announced that she would move into a new advisory role during the 2020-21 academic year.

The Duke community mourned the losses of three of its members this year. Former student Morgan Rodgers died in July, and senior Grey Spector and sophomore Raj Mehta died in March.

The last two months of the academic year were anything but ordinary. The first hint of the coming storm came Jan. 25, when Duke Kunshan University announced that classes would be suspended until mid-February. DKU courses moved entirely online Feb. 24.

Back in Durham, life went on, but Duke banned University-funded travel to China and eventually announced that students who traveled to areas with a high risk of COVID-19 exposure would have to self-quarantine before returning to campus.

On the athletic front, the baseball and softball teams had breakout seasons. Bryce Jarvis pitched the first nine-inning perfect

game in the baseball program’s history, and had formed to help members of the Duke it seemed possible that the team would make community impacted by the pandemic. it to Omaha for the College World Series. The The University created three relief funds softball team finished 23-4 and was ranked with seed funding of $9 million, and Duke 25th in the last ESPN/USA Softball poll after researchers turned their attention to creating a nine-game win streak, their first time being a vaccine for the virus. ranked in a major poll.

Now, during an unprecedented time in Duke football had a lackluster season, Duke’s history, the future remains uncertain. finishing with five wins and missing a bowl International students don’t know when game for the first time since 2016. The women’s they will be able to go home, and seniors’ basketball team got off to a rocky start but ended post-graduation plans have been upended. the regular season third in the ACC. The University has frozen hiring and halted The men’s basketball team posted a pair of construction to head off the financial impact dazzling wins over rival North Carolina. After a of the pandemic. Committees are working comeback for the history books in Chapel Hill, to guide Duke’s short- and long-term plans, Dean Sue sat atop a bench to stop students including whether students will be able to from burning it. The pyromaniacally inclined return to campus in the fall. got their chance a month later, after a second Still, life has gone on. Students celebrated win that featured a spectacular senior night the last day of classes with a Zoom concert. from Justin Robinson.

Commencement is postponed, but a virtual But neither of the basketball teams got celebration called Marking the Moment will the chance to prove itself in the postseason. commemorate seniors’ graduation.

Three days after Robinson’s shining moment And on a quiet campus, the bells of the in Cameron, and midway through spring Duke Chapel continue to ring. break, the emails about Duke’s response to the coronavirus started coming: Classes moved online. Athletic activities were suspended.

Students were told not to return to Durham to collect their belongings. By the end of a tumultuous, extended spring break, the pandemic had upended the final semester of senior year.

Students and professors adapted to holding classes on Zoom, and undergraduate classes became satisfactory/unsatisfactory by default.

Research labs adjusted to restrictions. Durham Mayor Steve Schewel issued a stay-at-home order and local businesses closed. Only 400 students remained on campus, and seniors processed an abrupt farewell.

Yet amidst the hardship, the Duke community came together. Within days of the announcement that classes would move Simran Prakash online, the Duke Mutual Aid Facebook group Coach K and Tre hug it out after beating UNC.

After Duke win, Dean Sue stops illegal bench-burning effort

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After a win for the ages against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, students were fired up to burn benches. There was only one problem—Duke didn’t have a permit.

Students dragged the bench for Sherwood House onto the quad, but Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek planted herself atop the bench for around 45 minutes to prevent students from lighting it on fire. As students chanted at Wasiolek, others attempted to give her a handle of vodka and White Claws, which she declined to drink. Some students also approached the bench with lighters and a small blowtorch, but did not set it aflame.

Eventually, when they realized a bonfire wasn’t in the cards, students began filing over to Cameron Indoor Stadium to welcome the team back.

“I have great appreciation for the school spirit, and I love to encourage that in any way I can,” Wasiolek told The Chronicle after stepping down from the bench. “But I just felt it was very important not to burn that bench. I really want to preserve the opportunities in the future to be able to burn with a permit. If we do it illegally now, we’re not going to get a permit in the future.”

Bench-burning permits are granted for only four games out

of the year, she explained. The University has permits for both the men’s and women’s home basketball games against UNC, in addition to the men’s and women’s National Championship game—but none for an away game in Chapel Hill.

“What I didn’t want to have happen is any students get in trouble by burning the bench,” she said. “It’s not a matter of whether we could have controlled it and tried as best we could to make it safe, but it’s illegal. It’s against the law. I’m not sure students understand that. I don’t mean that in a condescending way, but the law is very clear.”

Wasiolek knew that she might have to intercede even before the Sherwood bench was dragged into the quad following the Blue Devil win. Students have reacted this way to close victories in the past, she said, noting that this was the third time in her career pacifying a group of students dead set on burning benches.

“I didn’t think it was going to happen tonight because of the weather,” Wasiolek explained. “And then I called Duke Police just to see if they knew of anything going on, and they called me back and said it might be helpful for me to find my way to the main quad.”

In response to being handed several alcoholic beverages by students begging her to allow a fire, Wasiolek noted she wasn’t tempted to crack one open.

“Someone handed me some vodka, some White Claw,” she said. “This is not an appropriate time or place for me to

be consuming alcohol, frankly. There’s a time and a place, but this wasn’t it.”

As students continued to surround the bench and serenade Wasiolek, Mary Pat McMahon—vice president and vice provost for student affairs—was surveying the fray from the edge of the quad. She told The Chronicle that they were trying to get a bullhorn to Wasiolek. However, students filed away before she could receive it.

Despite several students approaching the bench with lighters and a blowtorch, Wasiolek said she wasn’t afraid that the bench would burn.

“The good news is that the collective levelheadedness of the crowd, other students made sure that didn’t happen,” she said. “I was greatly appreciative of that.”

As the crowd thinned out, students began climbing atop the bench and taking selfies and pictures with Wasiolek, which she described as “awesome.”

There also wasn’t a possibility of acquiring a permit on short notice. Associate Dean of Students Clay Adams and McMahon said that the permits had to be granted 90 days in advance, so there was no chance to apply for one on the spot.

In 2001, benches were burned without a permit in Duke’s legendary comeback win against Maryland. After students set them aflame, the Durham fire marshal rescinded the permit for a future game, but was persuaded to return it days later after discussion with administrators.

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Why Duke won’t bar Palantir from campus

By Mona Tong

January 9, 2020

Should Duke reevaluate its process of deciding which companies can recruit on campus?

Administrators and students have clashed over this question since controversy ensued about the revelation that Palantir Technologies—a data analytics company that recruited at Duke’s fall TechConnect career fair—holds a $42 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Duke Student Government passed a resolution in December urging the University to cease its relationship with Palantir. However, administrators have struck a different tone.

Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, wrote in an email that it is “core to Duke’s values to strongly encourage critical thinking and open discussion” around the ways that companies and their policies impact people and other issues.

“Toward this end, we should not limit how students wish to raise critical questions with a prospective employer,” she wrote. “Some students may want to work for change from within a company, others may steer away from the same organization altogether. Others might want to learn more from a recruiter before deciding, and some may want to catalyze change from outside the process.”

McMahon said that she does not foresee the recent DSG resolution changing the administration’s decision.

Sophomore Jeremy Carballo wrote in a message to The Chronicle that permitting a company such as Palantir—“regardless of their other good work”—to recruit on campus is helping “a rogue federal agency take part

in their acts of fear and oppression.” This, he argued, does not align with Duke’s value statement.

Among the listed values in the statement are that Duke “avoid[s] activities, pursuits or financial interests that are not compatible, in reality or perception, with our responsibilities” and that Duke “encourage[s] questions and challenges, holding individuals and organizations accountable for their actions and decisions.”

Duke’s process

Bill Wright-Swadel, assistant vice president of student affairs and Fannie Mitchell executive director of Duke’s Career Center, noted that as long as employers “have legitimate jobs and are involved in hiring practices that don’t discriminate,” they are eligible to recruit at Duke.

He added that, while some companies reach out to Duke, Duke also contacts employers first.

In Palantir’s case, he doesn’t remember which it was, but he wouldn’t be surprised if “either of those directions happened.” As a company engaged in both the private and government sectors, he said that Palantir attracts students from a variety of majors and career paths.

Wright-Swadel said that the Career Center’s mission is to provide students with the broadest array of opportunities as possible.

These opportunities should represent the curriculum, students and faculty while also letting students have choices, he said.

Therefore, Wright-Swadel explained that the Career Center shouldn’t be “in the business of prescribing [values]” through a vetting process.

“I don’t think you want me using my personal values to decide who’s coming, so we try to reflect the community,” he said.

McMahon said that if the University gets

into “the process of vetting the values of an employer,” it would set the precedent of granting individual administrators the power to determine where students’ opportunities lie.

Ravi Bellamkonda, Vinik dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that although Palantir’s technology is “used to enforce immigration policies that are deeply disturbing,” Duke cannot restrict “access to our campus to [all] people and companies that we find objectionable.” He also wrote that he does not believe that a subset of students “should decide for everyone which companies are okay or not.”

The Pratt School of Engineering hosts TechConnect in partnership with the department of computer science and with support from the Career Center.

Senior Sandra Luksic said that Duke students having direct access to Palantir’s table at TechConnect should not outweigh the lives and safety of undocumented students.

They added that by choosing to not reform its vetting process and allow Palantir to continue recruiting on campus, Duke is inherently contradicting itself, as “the lack of action is an action.”

A ‘confounding’ situation

Wright-Swadel added that one of Duke’s values is “free speech and openness and choice.” Sometimes, it is very difficult for an institution to meet all of its beliefs concurrently, he said, but he broadly considered this a “case of representing our values and empowering students to make choices.”

McMahon said that the “confounding” part of the situation is that Duke is abiding by its ethical and moral principles through recognizing that it is not administrators’ role to perform a value assessment of companies and make decisions for the entire student body.

Q&A with Executive VP Tallman Trask

By Jake Satisky

October 18, 2019

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has been at Duke since 1995. Acting as the leading administrative and financial officer, Trask’s responsibilities have been wide-ranging, from managing the university budget to overseeing architecture and construction.

As the University now announces Trask’s decision to retire, The Chronicle sat down with him to discuss his journey to a place he didn’t envision working at and the highs and lows of his nearly 25 years at the University. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Read the full version online at www.chron.it/traskqa.

TC: What prompted you to want to come to Duke?

TT: I had no interest in coming to Duke. If you’d asked me six weeks before I came here, ‘What are the odds you would move to North Carolina?’ I would have asked you if they could possibly be below zero. It just wasn’t on my radar. It was out of the blue. I mean, I had no interest, no knowledge and then events in Seattle convinced me that maybe I ought to think about it.

It was fairly quick. I went from, ‘I don’t even know where North Carolina is’ to ‘I’m going to go there in probably less than six weeks.’ I agreed to come in maybe late April, early May. TC: And August, you’re here?

TT: And August I was here, but in between that I had to sell a house, buy a house, get kids into schools, do all that stuff.

TC: Did you ever think you’re going to be here for 25 years when you got here?

TT: I have never wanted to be a university president in large part because I don’t think I’d be very good at it. I think I’m actually pretty good at what I do. I am not a jumper—I don’t jump from place to place. I had no idea.

People used to come after me all the time, and it was like, ‘No, I made a choice to go to Duke.’ I made that choice. I’m not stupid, I didn’t decide to go to Duke just so I could go to Duke—I thought about what it meant and where it was and where I thought it was headed. And so there are not a whole lot of places that I would leave here for. I really do think this is the best job doing what I do in a company, because it’s got enough money

where you can actually do stuff, and it’s not so historically entrenched that all the choices were made in 1938, and you can’t undo them. So it’s an interesting set of circumstances.

TC: What is it about being a university president that doesn’t appeal to you or that doesn’t suit your personality?

TT: I’m not solicitous enough. I’m not politically correct enough. I tend to tell people what I think, which is not necessarily a good attribute to be president when you sometimes have to tell them what’s facing.

Presidents don’t build things; presidents don’t figure out the payroll works; presidents don’t figure out the HR policy, presidents don’t deal with the daily operations of IT—all that stuff that I do. Most presidents don’t know how to do it, and most presidents shouldn’t worry about it. That’s not what they’re supposed to do.

TC: Presidents are basically like figureheads?

TT: No, they’re more than that, but they set a tone—they’re increasingly external, but it’s also increasingly important they are seen as the leader of the faculty. In my early career, I was on the academic side. I switched to the administrative side because somebody asked me to, and I thought it was sort of intriguing.

But it came to me one day—this was in my 30s—that even though I had a Ph.D. from UCLA, it was in education, which meant I would never become the provost at any university that I would want to be the provost at. Provosts have to be scholars.

And I had no interest in being the provost at some second-rate state university—that’s just not what I do.

TC: It seems that it’s been a priority of yours to try to balance the administrative and the academic side. How do you do that?

TT: Vince [Price] has remarked on this. Usually the person with my job and the Provost are at each other constantly. We don’t have that problem here. In general, it’s just been a friendly conversation for 25 years and, you know, we disagree on the margins. But I think a lot of places become very fractured.

TC: Do you think Duke has gotten too administrative or too bloated in the bureaucracy of it?

TT: Maybe, but a lot less than most other places are. But that’s a constant problem—my view has always been, every dollar spent in the bureaucracy rather than on the academic programs, is a bad idea. And I’m not sure that is the prevailing thought around here anymore.

Carballo said that he understands the argument that Duke shouldn’t be deciding if companies are “ethical” enough to recruit students. However, he noted that Duke cannot foster “free choice without the weight of the irreparable effects that these companies cause,” and Duke should at least use its role as an institution to publicly denounce companies holding contracts with ICE. Luksic emphasized that temporarily banning Palantir from having a table at TechConnect would be in “no way” taking away students’ abilities to make their own free choices or preventing students from working for the company.

Rather than pausing Palantir’s recruitment on campus, McMahon said she is open to discussing other ways that Duke can “foster meaningful community engagement and address the same thing, which is supporting migrant communities and undocumented students.”

She talked about the possibility of having an open forum or working group that brings people in a conversation to better understand the situation.

Bellamkonda wrote that Duke can continue to “facilitate discussion of immigration policy and advocate for policies that are consistent with our values” and “shine a light on what it means to be a socially responsible corporation, so that our students can make their own informed choices about career opportunities.”

However, he wrote that it is also fundamental to Duke’s values to respect student’s right to protest policies and corporations counter to their beliefs.

Family separation policies are “abhorrent to say the least,” Bellamkonda noted, explaining that engaging in political activism and encouraging students to be involved in civic life is the best way to effect real change.

TC: Is that a mindset you would want your successor to also have?

TT: Yeah, I hope so. I mean, you know, if you look at the last decade, you know, we took a big hit in ‘08, ‘09—I took out 125 people. They’re all gone. None of them ever came back. On the academic side, they came right back.

TC: For capital campaigns and stuff, what is your involvement with that?

TT: Well, I tend not to be detail-involved because I want campaigns to be pushed toward academic programs and financial aid. I don’t want money to be raised for me. There’s really a trade-off is when you have a campaign: I would like to raise all the money for endowment. Others would like to raise all the money so they can spend it next week, right?

And there’s a tension between those two that I don’t think we got quite right. We ended up with less endowment than I would’ve hoped.

TC: Do you think there will be more endowment push in the future?

TT: Absolutely, I mean I hope a lot more endowment.

TC: Why so much endowment focus?

TT: It’s especially endowment for financial aid because it’s a long-term commitment and need. We don’t have it, and so it just clobbers the operating budget.

TC: Do you think Duke’s financial model is sustainable? Is it going to keep going in the future?

TT: I think there are a lot of dark winds out there, but I think for most places like us I think we’ll be okay in the short run and the intermediate run.

TC: Just that eventually you can’t keep raising tuition?

TT: You can’t keep raising tuition and then discount it for financial aid to the point there’s no money left. And some people are over 50% discount right now.

TC: What is more sustainable? What should we change to?

TT: If we had another $2 to $3 billion in endowment, our model is sustainable for a very long time, as long as we pay attention to expenditures. I mean, what makes our model work is, as Tim Walsh calls them, ‘the 3 Ds.’ We have development and if we bring in $500 million a year, that helps. If we don’t, that’ll be a problem. We have DUMAC, whose returns historically have been very good. And then we have DUHS, which is probably the best performing health system in the country. If any of those three go away, then our current model is not sustainable at our current size and expenditure.

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SENIOR YEAR TOP SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 Bench burning has been a Duke tradition since the 1980s. It’s much more regulated today than it used to be, but there’s still nothing quite like seeing a bench set ablaze after a fiery Duke victory over UNC. After not being allowed to burn benches following the away UNC game (see below), students got their chance in March.

BOTTOM ERIC WEI After Duke men’s basketball buzzer-beating win in Chapel Hill, students were itching to burn benches. One problem—they’re only allowed to be burned after home victories. Dean Sue (pictured) sat on a bench to make sure students didn’t break the law.

RIGHT ERIC WEI John Bolton came to speak on campus in the spring. The former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump had been in the news prior to the talk about whether he would testify about the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s impeachment. Students protested his talk outside Page Auditorium.

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SENIOR YEAR TOP LEFT HENRY HAGGART Central Campus housed students for around 40 years until 2019, when Duke demolished the apartments. Duke even allowed the Durham Fire Department to burn some of the apartment buildings for drills.

TOP RIGHT AARON ZHAO Say what you will about North Carolina weather, but it sure is pretty when all the leaves change colors in the fall.

RIGHT HENRY HAGGART Duke’s softball team, in only its third season as a team, had a breakout season this year.

The team finished its shortened season 23-4, with a huge win against No. 4 Texas.

Pictured: outfielder Caroline Jacobsen.

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PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR EDUCATION MINOR

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Arabic Madison Cullinan Morghan Ruth-Marie Cyr Allison Rose Geary (1st)***

Alycia Nicole Parker Natasha Mia Rothenbucher** Bryan Hoyler Rusch*

Chinese Juyoung Ban Charles Shepard Berman Nicolas Andres Cort (1st) Kathryn Hadley Devine Sonia Fillipow

Dahyeon Kim Jessica Marlow (1st)*** Jennifer Susan Marsh Francesca Philips Andrew Ming-An Tsai

East Asia Jack Sherwood Malsin

CASSANDRA GALEANO SOCIOLOGY MAJOR EDUCATION MINOR

Interregional William Jackson Swofford (1st)

More information about the certificate program is available at

Japanese Shalini Arimilli

https://childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/students/child-policy-research-certificate/, or by contacting Clara Muschkin (muschkin@duke.edu).

Michael Blake Chandler

Middle East Sajidur Rahman-Kader William Harold Close Giacomo Beresford McCarthy (1st)** Samuel David Taylor

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*Graduation with Distinction **Graduation with High Distinction ***Graduation with Highest Distinction

Minors

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Language (LNG) & Literature Tracks

Arabic Maryam I. Asenuga Maxwell McGillivray Bartlett Usamah Nazir Chaudhary Georgia Simone Lala Natalie Rene Larson Emma Kate Marek Hannah Catherine Palczuk (LNG)

Chinese Lydia Barrios Eric Paul Biehn Samantha Julianna Garland Shiyu Jing

Outstanding AMES Honors Thesis Award

Ryan Richard Piersma (LNG) Yousuf Ataur Rehman Alexander Cole Rubin Harry Iain Sanderson Rachel Serebrenik (LNG) Stefano Ralph Watchi

Angela Chen (LNG) Hazel Grey Horvath (LNG) Dana Park (LNG) Trilok Sadarangani

East Asia Yuuta Rikki Kendall (LNG) Hindi Lauren Ashton Carr Japanese Lingrong Jin (LNG) Parker Samuel Levi (LNG)

Kehan Yang (LNG)

Turkish Claire Gibbs

CAH Critical Asian Humanities MA Program

Ruoyi Bian Zhuyuan Han Fatima Anisa Khalifa Ziyang Li Chuxu Lu

Andrew Chi Tran Xinran Wang Luming Zhang Wenxian Zhang

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Class of 2020 Political Science Award Winners ClassClass of 2020 Political Science Award Winners of 2020 Political Science Award Winners

Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law Alona E. Evans PrizePrize in International Law Law Alona E. Evans in International Lamma Hantash & Maximilian Moser Lamma Hantash & Maximilian MoserMoser Lamma Hantash & Maximilian

Elizabeth G.Verville Verville Award Elizabeth G. Award Elizabeth G. Verville Award

Francesca Philips Julia Searby Francesca Philips && Julia Searby Francesca Philips & Julia Searby

Robert S. Award Robert S. Rankin Rankin Award in in American Robert S. Rankin Award inAmerican American Government andConstitutional Constitutional Government and LawLaw Government and Constitutional Law Breanna Bradham Breanna Bradham Breanna Bradham

Robert S.S.Rankin Award American National, Robert Rankin Award ininAmerican National, Robert S. Rankin Award in American National, State, and Local Governments State,State, and Local Governments and Local Governments Kevin Solomon Kevin Solomon Kevin Solomon

Robert Rankin American Gov’t Award for for Robert S. Rankin American Gov’t Award for Robert S.S.Rankin American Gov’t Award Leadership & Achievement Leadership & Academic Achievement Leadership & Academic Academic Achievement Bo Bo Carlson BoCarlson Carlson

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Ole Holsti Award ininAmerican Foreign Policy Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy Ole R.R. Holsti Award American Foreign Policy and International International Relations and International Relations and Relations Esha Esha Sha &Sha Elise Sweezy & Elise Sweezy Esha Sha & Elise Sweezy

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PROGRAM II CLASS OF 2020

CONGRATULATIONS! Nick Berray Trenton Bricken Gabriella Deich Manish Kumar Dezmanique Martin

Sarah Mumbert Olivia Neely Rebecca Ross Sahil Sandhu Kristine Stanners

Emma Stein Alina Walling Jared Wong Michelle Wong Carter Zenke

ROMANCE STUDIES SALUTES OUR 2020 GRADUATES! French Majors

Maria Espinosa Arguello Sophia Claire Laettner Eli Weed All Majors awarded the Robert J. Niess/ Alexander Hull Award

French Minors

Nefer Norbetine Batsuli Avery Timothy Boltwood Ioana Camui Grace Alice Carlson Rose Kimberly Graves Rasulan Inayat-Khan Maya Isabel Iskandarani Sandra Kerry Kendall Anne Katherine Kornack Anna Elise Kreiling Anna Kustar Anysia Minhyung Lee Stephanie Lynne Mayle Hannah Catherine Palczuk Akanksha Ray

Ethan Edward Ready Gillian Elizabeth Samios Jennifer Mabel Uzcategui Owen Jacob Zighelboim

Hee Su Park Julia Flynn Searby Anna Lucille St. Charles

Italian Majors

Ariana Allen Joseph Aurelio Beck Charles Shepard Berman Brianna Buford Cassia Caruth Ariyani Challapalli Sara Tess Chandler Emily Coffey Nickolas Cox Ryan Dant Morgan Grayson Dickerson Elizabeth Minnie Edel Brooke Cutrer Erickson Christine Ann Ford Paige Sutton Hetley Alexandra Brooke Kadis Samuel Logan Kahane Bailey Chase Kaston Carolena Wong Leon

Jason Everett Beck Mia Julia Borger Katelyn Dorothy Luck (Guido Mazzoni Award)

Italian Minors

Quinlan Michael Ferrante

Spanish Majors

Julia Rose Araneta Andrea Blancarte Ball Jared Allen Edwards Tyler Jonathan Kopp Kavita Desai Krell Jason Lee Carter Lovvorn (Graduation with High Distinction, Richard L. Predmore Award)

Spanish Minors

Jacqueline Lee Levitan Emily Feng Liu Vincenzo Malo Miranda Metz Olivia Morales Belanie Nagiel Olivia Ann Nagpal Samuel Barry Osheroff Lauren Owens SarahAnne Billingslea Perel Alicia Jane Porile Brooke Chanel Porter Logan Alexander Pucci Elena Anne Puccio Jennifer Ricano Katherine Olivia Rodgers Paloma Jasmine Rodney Avital Naomi Schweitzer Julianne Jiyoung Sohn Madelyn Louise Stoddard Julia Marie Thielhelm Barbara Lynn Weaver Georgia Kalla Young

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Congratulations to the Class of 2020 from the Duke University Libraries with special appreciation to student employees of the Libraries

Congratulations to our 2020 Graduates!

Lilly Library

Goodson Law Library

Toniya Brown Noelle Li Jessica Needleman Sarah Putney Esha Shah

Nabiha Aziz, J.D. Sam June Onuoha Odim Samantha Olson, J.D. Catherine Prater, J.D. Caleb Punt, M.Div. Rebekah Punt, M.Div. Niyah Shaheed Dara Sontan Samuel Tuffuor, M.B.A. Katarina Von Kuhn, M.Div.

Music Library Robby Meese Amy Whisenand, Th.D.

FIRST MAJORS Hadeel Abdelhy 2nd Major in International Comparative Studies

Tara Smith

Saumya Sao 2nd Major in Global Health

Amelia Windemuth 2nd Major in Global Health

SECOND MAJORS Melanie Camejo Coffigny 1st Major in Neuroscience

Jennifer Mabel Uzcategui 1st Major in Biology

Kyra Elise Citron 1st Major in Psychology

Jay Wolf Zussman 1st Major in Biophysics

MINORS Syed Ameen Ahmad Major in Neuroscience

Naomi Adiah Lilly Major in African & African American Studies

Gillian Margaret Card Major in Psychology

Isabella Florentyna Miller Major in Psychology and Global Health

Mackenzie Alexis Coles Major in Public Policy

Mehreen Shafqat Major in Biology

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Rubenstein Library Lucy Dong Christopher Dutra Sonia Fillipow Bethany Lynch, M.A. Ashton Merck, Ph.D. Holly Ren Jessica Q. Stark, Ph.D. Alanna Styer, M.F.A. Coleman Williams Gretchen Wright

Ford Library Christina Li Justin Farmer, Th.M. Katherine Owensby Kayla Bloodgood, M.A.L.S. Kiran Pant, M.S. Natalie (Ngoc) Bui Renee Ragin, Ph.D. Tommy Moehlman, Th.M.

IN ONE WORD, OUR GRADUATES DEFINE THEIR SANFORD EXPERIENCE...

Perkins & Bostock Libraries and Smith Warehouse Seung-Woo Choi Emily Coffey Morghan Cyr Ashley Hare Marcello Hwang Mikaela Johnson Mokshada Mahajan, M.E.M. Tommy Moehlman Nithin Palle, M.E.M. Ally Perez Nick Simmons Pradeep Tamilmani, M.E.M. Jenna Thompson Xiran Wang, M.A. Libby Wheeler Yaming You, M.A.

Congratulations Graduates!

Sanford School Class of 2020

Kelly L. Alexander PhD, Cultural Anthropology

Julie Morris PhD, Theology

Joella W. Bitter PhD, Cultural Anthropology

Nora Irene Nunn PhD, English

Elizabeth Anne Crisenbery PhD, Music

Sasha Ann Panaram PhD, English

Annu Dahiya PhD, Literature

Cole Alexander Rizki PhD, Literature

Alyssa M. Granacki PhD, Romance Studies

Jessica Quick Stark PhD, English

International Master of Environmental Policy

Shannan Lee Hayes PhD, Literature

Farren Elizabeth Yero PhD, History

Master of Public Policy

Joyful

Recognizing 344 graduates from these programs: BA in Public Policy

Master of International Development Policy PhD in Public Policy

Inspiring We celebrate all graduates!

For events and stories, visit sanford.duke.edu #PubPol2020

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Congratulations to our

2020 FOREVER DUKE STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD WINNERS! MORGAN BIRD ’20 TIM SKAPEK BSE’20

AVANI GUPTA MS’20 TINASHE NYANHETE PhD’20

FRANCISCO CRESPO MBA’20

LUSINE STEPANYAN MIDP’20

RASHMI JOGLEKAR PhD’19 SHYAM PRADHEEP ’20

DANIEL GARDNER ’20

DIAMOND ZAMBRANO JD’20

SAM LESTER BSE’20 ROSE GRAVES ’20

RENEE RAGIN PhD’20 LINDA ZHANG ’20

The Forever Duke Student Leadership Award recognizes graduating students from across campus who embody the “Forever Duke” spirit in their service to the university. Recipients are individuals of high integrity who have done great things not only at Duke but for Duke, and they are leaving the university a better place than they found it.

Congratulations and welcome to the Duke Alumni family!

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