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Big-ass trough to replace Marketplace Disaffiliated frats excited to finally break rules

By Joe Pledge Investigative Reporter

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Duke just shut down Marketplace, and now we know the real reason: they’re replacing it one huge, all-you-can-eat trough. “Yeah, we just sort of dump all the food in it and let them chow down,” said Many Pieces of McPie, vice president for troughs. The trough, which reportedly cost $43 million, will replace Marketplace, the East Campus dining hall home to well-loved campus eateries and also Stix and Steam. Duke made the decision after watching first-years—who now get unlimited dining swipes and thousands of dollars in food points—go to town on their fourth serving of the day. “All the little first-year piggies go oink, oink, oink,” said Duke Dining Director Bobby Cappuccino.

The change also lets Duke make big moves on one of its main goals—making sure that students don’t have too much fun or make too many friends. “Selective dining is bad,” said McPie. “I got tired of people eating at tables with only their friends, so now everyone’s eating at this one big trough.” At the new East Campus Trough, instead of waiting in line for a “good morning” and a quick card swipe at the entrance, students crowd side by side and just absolutely go to town in the brand new, and really goddamn big, trough. “This is awesome,” said first-year Stuffin Myface, who goes by Stu. “I hated waiting in line for brunch on Sundays, and being able to just walk up and stick my face in the trough to grab a lettuce-sausage-hashbrown-crepe in one bite saves me valuable time.”

After decades of sterling compliance with University policies, Duke’s recently disaffiliated fraternities were “hype” to finally get to bend the rules, several members said. The new Durham Outerfraternity Council acknowledged that painstakingly following the University’s anti-hazing regulations for years—all while taking on countless philanthropy projects to better the community—had gotten old, and that the decision to disaffiliate would allow them to explore a more rebellious side. “Me and the boys would spend hours reading printouts of student conduct policy material, debating if an activity might be a Level I anti-hazing violation,” senior Vin Yardvines said. “I guess we’ll finally have time to do other stuff now.” Some students speculated that fraternities, once solely devoted to forming wholesome friendships and raising money for worthwhile causes, might use their recent disaffiliation as an excuse to distance themselves from their compliant past. “While that philanthropy thing we had at Chipotle last year did fully fund some drug that’s in Phase 3 trials, we’re kinda tired of shit like that,” junior Midad Wentere explained. “There has to be more to life than treating pledges like human beings deserving of love and respect, and we’re excited to find out what’s next.” And fraternities aren’t waiting long to revamp their policies. Sigma Apple Pie, no longer hamstrung by its previous decency and graciousness, has already begun thinking about the best ways to degrade its prospective new members. “That Duke anti-hazing guide has some pretty sick ideas,” junior Igota Paddle said. “Maybe we’ll start off with making them wear apparel in poor taste, and work our way up to more debasing acts of humiliation like force-feeding them Skillet for lunch.”

MisHandled CEO to run Duke housing By Iwantmi Stufback Staff Reporter

In an email to the Duke community, new Executive Vice President Dan McGoldvard announced a stunning shake up to housing administration. Current head of Housing and Residence Life Joe Schmozalez will be replaced by none other than Pour Lee Placed, CEO of MisHandled—the moving company that lost everyone’s shit last March. “Schmozalez has served Duke admirably during his tenure,” McGoldvard wrote, “but with COVID tightening our budget, we really needed someone like Ms. Placed who really knows how to cut costs.” When COVID-19 forced Duke to close after spring break, students needed a way to get their belongings back to them. After a thorough search, Schmozalez and co. picked the first result that came up on Google, MisHandled. They swiftly proceeded to lose everyone’s shit. “I came back to Durham and found my room was completely empty,” said junior Amy Gru. “My minions pajamas, my minions jewelry, my minions ‘magic wand’… all gone! I kept calling MisHandled and they just asked me if my refrigerator was running.” In a statement to The Chomicle, Placed expressed how excited she was to begin her new role. “Duke needs a housing leader who understands competence is so unattainable and expensive that it’s not worth even trying,” INSIDE — Yes, April Fool’s was four days ago. No, we don’t care. | Serving up laughs since 1905 |

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The aggressive emails admin left in drafts

By Gare Bear Vice Provost of Sending Mean Emails

Every Duke student who checks their email knows that the emails from administrators Mary Pat Mahomes, Gory Bonnet and Johnny Appleshear got steadily more aggressive and specific in their callouts as COVID-19 cases rose across campus. What you don’t know is those emails were not admin’s first choices. The Chomicle obtained the emails they left in drafts. Subject: C’mon you douchebags, stop partying Body: Dear asswipes, Stop partying. Stop it. Seriously, we mean it. Stop it. Why do you do this to us? We have provided the perfect atmosphere to attend Zoom classes, eat meals alone in your dorm and walk around but not in the Gardens. What else do you need? What urges you losers to flout the Compact in our faces while you drink warm beer in some apartment with some string lights?

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Go take a COVID swab and stick it up your asses (since we know not all of you are actually sticking them up your noses). Thank you all for your cooperation and sacrifice during these trying times. Go Duke! Subject: John Smith, WE SAW YOU WITHOUT A MASK Body: John Smith, yes YOU John in the Tinder brand ambassador shirt, we saw you pull your mask down to eat a sandwich on the BC Plaza—five and a half feet from your friend. I. SAW. YOU. You thought we didn’t know your name, punk? If you ever show your face on this campus again, we will super glue that mask to it. Students, if you see this man, you have our permission to hit him with a baseball bat. Thank you all for your cooperation and sacrifice during these trying times. Go Duke! Subject: Wonder why the Gardens have been closed? Body: We’ve had enough of y’all’s bullshit. We test you, we give you smoothie gift cards,

WaDuke residents decry bad hot tub, rude servants

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Duke offers $1 off tuition for getting surveillance tested at 10:20 a.m. on the dot BY THE C TEAM | 07/06/2020 we send emails. And still, you keep getting COVID. We have no other choice but to take drastic measures. Have you been wondering why the Duke Gardens have been closed all year, despite the fact that it’s entirely outside? It has nothing to do with performative measures to make Duke look safer. Effective yesterday, if you test positive for

COVID in the next two weeks, you will be kidnapped from your room and taken to our COVID pyre in the Gardens, where we will light you on fire. We were hoping we wouldn’t have to use this pyre that we have been building for months, but alas, we have no other choice. Thank you all for your cooperation and sacrifice during these trying times. Go Duke!

Duke’s conservative sounds off on dining By Ay Jee Ess Conservative Voices Reporter

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Students living at the Washington Duke Inn are “like, so pissed off” about the conditions in their suites. Sophomore Legga C. Admit noted that her servant forgot to add olives to her Monday morning martini. She told The Chomicle that her roommate, sophomore Ellie Bolton, dropped her phone in the jacuzzi while submitting a complaint that her steak and lobster were overcooked. Junior Icant Shootathree, a member of the men’s basketball team, told The Chronicle his hot tub jets were not strong enough. “They don’t help soothe my back muscles,” he said, “so now it’s harder for me to slap the floor and proceed to play horrible defense.” Shootathree also complained that his servant did not bow down to him or rub his feet when presenting him with his Advil and Pedialyte on Sunday mornings. Admit also had a particularly jarring experience with a servant. The servant offered her bofa tea instead of boba tea. When Admit inquired about what bofa tea was, the servant replied “bofa deez nuts.” When Admit reported the incident to her resident advisor,

Asked about his favorite dining location on campus, Duke’s Campus Republican gave his thoughts—on how oppressed conservatives are at Duke. “Well, I would say that I like Ginger and Soy, but I just feel like with a 85% liberal campus I just don’t think that my opinions would ever even make it into The Chomicle,” Vin Yardvines said. While listing the pros and cons of Tandoor versus JB’s Roasts and Chops, Yardvines ended up concluding that Duke’s conservatives have no choice but to tailor their opinions to professors, preventing them from expressing their full selves while on campus. Asked for input on where he’d choose to eat at Marketplace, Yardvines bemoaned never being asked for his opinions, which he said would never be tolerated at a liberal bastion such as Duke. “No one ever asks for what I think,” he said. Asked whether he had any input, really just any input at all at this point, on dining and which restaurants he would recommend to an incoming first-year, Yardvines laid out a 15-minute explanation of why Duke’s conservatives are unable to ever, ever talk about their opinions.

What students stockpiled for the lockdown You won’t BELIEVE number 5!! By Adder All Really Freaking Tired

Unable to stomach the possibility of an unproductive lockdown week, students sprung into action the Saturday before Duke’s stay-inplace order began, stockpiling essential items for a week equal parts productive and luxurious. Quarantine week arrived right smack in the middle of midterm season, so many students scrambled to secure enough adderall to ensure high-yield study sessions before exams and enough alcohol to drown out feelings of inadequacy afterwards. “People say most Duke students are substance-dependent,” reflected sophomore Nattie Light. “But I think it’s important to see the nuance there. We have different addictions based on the day of the week.” Some students, afflicted by another addiction, smuggled stolen spin bikes from the gym into their dorm rooms. “Quarantine glow-up!” first-year Brodie

Wilson said. “But really, when I saw it was going to rain all week, I knew I had no choice.” The shelter-in-place order also affected some students’ planned vaccination timelines. Unwilling to sacrifice even a 10th of a percent of effectiveness, multiple students reported convincing Greenwall pharmacy employees to let them store and administer their own second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. “They wouldn’t give it to me at first, so I had to ask them ‘Do you KNOW who my dad is?’’’ sophomore Dolly Jones said. “When that didn’t work, I told them I was pre-med and they finally agreed. It’s not like Greenwall cares about the rules anyway...” One student hid her off-campus boyfriend in her dorm room for the week. “No, I don’t feel bad about breaking the rules,” sophomore Dingle McDouble said. “I mean, yes, he’s in a frat, but we agreed that he wouldn’t go to any parties that week. Not with more than, like, fifty people.”

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Q&A: Meet Duke’s new executive vice president By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Chronicle File Photo There have been countless moments and meetings between North Carolina head coach Roy Williams and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski.

Roy Williams’ best moments with Coach K By Staff Reports On Thursday morning, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams announced his retirement from college basketball. Williams manned the Tar Heel sideline for 18 years, while leading Kansas for another 15 years before that, so countless meetings and moments between him and Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski were inevitable. We take a look back at some of those moments, from their bout in the 1991 NCAA Championship Game to that 2009 Guitar Hero commercial with Metallica.

April 1, 1991: Krzyzewski and Williams battle in national title game

The first notable meeting, and only second meeting overall, between Krzyzewski and Williams as head coaches came in the 1991 NCAA Championship Game. Led by forward Mark Randall and guards Terry Brown and Adonis Jordan, Williams’ Jayhawks came into the contest as the underdogs, as the Blue Devils’ Bobby Hurley-Grant Hill-Christian Laettner trio had already risen to national prominence following an upset win against undefeated UNLV in the Final Four. Duke led by eight at halftime, and Kansas was unable to claw back during the second half as the Blue Devils’ 56.1% overall clip from the field kept them in the lead for nearly the entire 40 minutes. Duke ended up victorious 72-65, with Krzyzewski claiming his first of five national championships. -Micah Hurewitz

March 19, 2000: Kansas nearly upsets top-seeded Duke

Three years before Williams would lead Kansas back to the national title game in 2003, he nearly led the eighth-seeded Jayhawks to a shocking upset of the top-seeded Blue Devils in the tournament’s always-wild first weekend. Led by freshmen Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison, Williams’ squad kept the score

close despite Shane Battier’s eight—yes, eight—blocks before Carlos Boozer’s late-game heroics sealed the deal for Duke, which would ultimately fall to eventual national title runnerup Florida in the Sweet 16. However, the most memorable moment from the matchup was a first-half squabble by the scorer’s table between Williams and Krzyzewski, well before the two would coach against each other in the famed Tobacco Road rivalry. -Jonathan Levitan

March 27, 2003: Williams defeats Krzyzewski for the first time as a head coach

The Krzyzewski-Williams saga has roots reaching back far deeper than 2003, but that year’s NCAA tournament marked a pivotal moment in the two legendary coaches’ rivalry— Williams’ first head-coaching win against Krzyzewski. Williams had long observed Krzyzewski from the opposing bench during his days as an assistant coach at North Carolina, but his first head coaching job at Kansas led to four showdowns between the two leading their respective sidelines, with Williams getting the best of Krzyzewski in this Sweet 16 matchup. Overall, Williams went 1-3 against Krzyzewski during his Kansas tenure, but he would have more luck against Duke during his upcoming days in Chapel Hill. -Jake Piazza

April 15, 2003: Williams takes head coaching job at North Carolina

The relationship between Krzyzewski and Williams changed forever when the latter was hired as North Carolina’s head coach prior to the 2003-04 season. The Duke-UNC rivalry as a whole changed as well. Prior to Williams’ hiring, the Blue Devils had won 12 of the two schools’ previous 14 matchups. And while Krzyzewski won his first three games See WILLIAMS on Page 11

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Daniel Ennis is Duke’s new executive vice president, taking over from Tallman Trask. The Chronicle spoke to Ennis about his past experience at Johns Hopkins University, his decision to come to Duke and his goals for his new role. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. This version has been abridged for print, and you can see Ennis’ response to more questions at chron.it/ennisqa. The Chronicle: How have you enjoyed your time here so far? Do you feel you feel acclimated to Duke yet? Daniel Ennis: I started Dec. 1 and overlapped with [former Executive Vice President Tallman Trask] for a month. So in the seat, let’s say you’re coming on the, I guess near the end of my third month in the seat really. I would say it’s a very steep learning curve; I have a long way to go. You know, the place is wonderful, just a wonderful institution, wonderful colleagues, wonderful community. Even in the context of coming into it in COVID, where everything’s remote, and you know, the degree of interpersonal interaction is so limited, [I] just really feel so warmly welcomed and feel just this great collegiality of the place, and very deep spirit and love of the institution. Very deep. It’s a really attractive feature. And I sort of had a sense for that before coming, but boy, I felt it tenfold since I’ve been on the ground, even in this sort of artificial context. TC: It seems like you sort of had a similar job at Johns Hopkins University, which is a peer institution. What was your rationale for coming to Duke? DE: Yeah, you know, essentially the same job. And in truth, [in terms of] scale of a budget, Hopkins was a bigger enterprise. But, you know, first I’ve always just had this great admiration for Duke: My brother went to medical school here, I got to spend time when he was here, and I had spent time with Tallman and had learned about the team over time. We all sort of compare notes and understand emerging talent in across these great institutions. So I had a sense there was a great team here. I had heard great things about President [Vincent] Price from his time at [University of Pennsylvania]. I had a lot of colleagues who overlapped with him when he was at Penn. And even the team here, folks I knew here had nothing but tremendous things to say about his leadership. So that was really attractive. And in general, you know, I had it 10 years in this job at an institution, and I felt like renewal for me, personally, the professional renewal and a new challenge and opportunity was exciting. I also think for these institutions, it’s a good idea to renew their leadership. So, you know, I’m thrilled to watch my colleagues take on new adventures without me there, even though they’re in the process of filling my role. So it was hard to leave. I love Hopkins, I have only the best thing to say about that institution. But I’m really thrilled to be here. Really excited to be honest that I got the opportunity. See EVP on Page 14

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Review: The Antlers’ ‘Green to Gold’ The album is the audio equivalent of a dandelion scattered by a summer wind. PAGE 8

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Students promote urban studies at Duke How Duke searches for By Preetha Ramachandran University News Editor

For sophomore Lindsay Hu, it was returning to Hong Kong because of the pandemic. For Charlie Colasurdo, a Duke Kunshan University sophomore, it was living and working in Southeast Asia. The members of the Duke Initiative for Urban Studies say their interest in urban studies and planning is personal, inspired by the places they have visited and grown up in. “I think just being able to stay back home and not be in high school where everything’s so chaotic is interesting because you get to see the city again,” Hu said of returning to Hong Kong. “I started getting interested in how people interact with the spaces that they live in and how the structure of society physically changes the way people live.” Colasurdo, who is also Kunshan Report editor for The Chronicle, said his interest in cities stemmed from his time in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore and, in particular, Kunshan. “Cities in China are at a scale that is kind of incomprehensible to an American,” he said. “It’s really these very chaotic, mega cities. And when I got to Duke, I was kind of interested in what kind of programs Duke had regarding not just urban planning, but the study of these cities in general.” It’s this interest that led to the birth of the Duke Initiative for Urban Studies, a group of 10 current and former Duke students who love cities. They’re interested in increasing appreciation for urban studies on Duke’s campus, and they’re advocating for a formalized program in the area. The group was formally organized in last fall by Colasurdo, first-year Zoe Macomber and Samantha Miezio, Trinity ‘20. Gradually, more students with similar interests joined the group.

“It started with the three of us. And then there were five of us. And then there were too many of us to meet in person. So we had to go virtual. Now, we’re at about 11 people that are officially interested,” Macomber said. The group is currently working to create a group of 10 faculty members to act as a governance committee and advocate on behalf of the students before presenting a proposal to upper administration. Macomber said she and the others created the Duke Initiative for Urban Studies with three distinct goals in mind: engagement, education and research. Engagement refers to “getting [the Duke Initiative for Urban Studies] off the ground,” Macomber said. Engagement with students, faculty the community are particularly important to the group. To that end, the initiative created a Facebook group for students and faculty interested in urban studies. As of Sunday, the group has 86 members, including faculty, staff, undergraduates and graduate students. “The fact that people have joined is really impressive to me in showing that we’re tapping into something that is a void on campus and is something that isn’t offered anywhere else,” Macomber said. The group is also working toward creating a structured education program in urban studies. They aim to start from a certificate program, as these programs allow for more flexibility than majors or minors, Colasurdo said. “It’s really flexible. That’s why starting with your certificate makes more sense than jumping immediately to a major or minor, because I think it lets us be more experimental and see what works and what doesn’t,” he said. The group members have a variety of interests within urban studies, adding a layer of complexity to their goal of formalizing an educational program in the discipline. See URBAN on Page 5

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COVID-19 variants By Ashwin Kulshrestha Health and Science News Editor

At least three coronavirus variants have been identified in positive Duke-administered tests since the start of the semester. Who are Duke’s variant hunters, and how do they identify different versions of the virus? Duke’s virus-sequencing efforts take place at the genome sequencing core facility in the Chesterfield Building in downtown Durham. University sequencing machines can identify changes on the level of a single base in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, which has nearly 30,000 bases overall. A small part of every surveillance test sample is tested for the presence of the virus. If a test is positive, the remaining sample is taken to the downtown facility for sequencing. “When the swabs are taken, if you’re infected, there would be virus in that swab. The virus’ genome is RNA, and so we have to first take that RNA, extract it and turn it into DNA,” said Gregory Wray, director of the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, which oversees the core facility. “And then from that DNA, we use an amplification process called [polymerase chain reaction]—it’s the same as the test uses, except instead of making one or two PCR products, we make products across the entire genome.” This technique allows the sequencing team to construct a map of the entire virus that has infected a person. Samples can be obtained, sequenced and processed in less than 48 hours, and every positive sample is sequenced. The core team consists of Wray, an operations manager and six technicians, two of whom are fully dedicated to sequencing. Wray explained that sequencing allows researchers to develop an understanding of transmission patterns. He added that sequencing data likely played a role in administrators’ decision to instate the undergraduate stay-in-place order in mid-March. The sequencing team does not have any information about infected individuals beyond de-identified case numbers, said Wray. Once a positive test has been analyzed, the sequencing group hands the information over to an epidemiology team, which is responsible for examining case-specific variables such as which dorm someone lives in. According to Wray, Duke’s sequencing core facility has existed for more than 20 years. The first coronavirus case sequences were completed at Duke in April 2020. Since then, the sequencing core has been working with the campus surveillance team and coronavirus researchers alike.

Students get their COVID-19 vaccines in a variety of ways By Evelyn Shi Contributing Reporter

employed by Duke were eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine through Duke Health. Sophomore Maile Lehrer is a resident assistant in the Gilbert-Addoms dorm on East Campus. She was vaccinated on March 9 through Duke, and some of her friends have

also gotten vaccines in various ways. “I actually took one of my friends to get vaccinated—it was a very different experience,” Lehrer recalled. “She signed up on a waiting list, and they called her back. It was organized, but definitely not hospital-grade organized.” Evelyn Shi | Staff Graphic Designer

It was midnight when first-year Christina Yoh saw a text in a group chat. It was her friend telling everyone to make a vaccine appointment because she had just scheduled one. “I frantically logged onto my computer, created a Walgreens account and clicked the first appointment I saw because I didn’t want to miss my chance,” Yoh said. Duke announced last week that students would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting April 1. However, the announcement noted that students might experience delays in scheduling appointments at Duke Health due to “uncertainties in the supply chain.” As a result, Duke encouraged students to explore vaccination options outside of the University. Now, many students have been receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations in a variety of ways. Some students simply waited at nearby Walgreens locations in hopes of receiving extra vaccines at the end of the day. “Two Saturdays ago, my friend and I decided to just go to the nearest Walgreens without an appointment,” first-year William King said. “I think they happened to have extra doses, so they gave me one. Honestly, I just got super lucky.” Others received vaccines through Walgreens by making an appointment on the pharmacy’s website. In North Carolina, the first portion of Group 4 became eligible to receive the vaccine on March 17, including those who live in “certain congregate settings.” Students living in on-campus housing took advantage of this policy.

Students who made vaccination appointments online had several Walgreens locations to choose from. Yoh chose the Walgreens on North Lasalle Street, a 10 minute drive from East Campus. She brought her passport and health insurance card, and at the counter, she received a form to fill out. The Walgreens employees called people one by one into a small room to get the jab, she said. “I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to get the vaccine since I’m not from the U.S., but they really didn’t care,” said Yoh, who is from Singapore. “I never thought I’d get vaccinated this semester, let alone in the U.S.” Lucky students like Yoh were able to reserve vaccination slots at Walgreens locations close to campus. Others went to great lengths to get the vaccine. Junior Sarabesh Natarajan was able to receive his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as February by driving to a site in Cabarrus County, which is two hours away from Durham. “In Durham County and Wake County— where my sister is right now for college— the demand for vaccines was just so high,” Natarajan said. “They were backed up in terms of the number of healthcare workers in Group 1 that had to get vaccinated.” The site in Cabarrus County was a drivethrough clinic. Natarajan said that all he had to do was roll down his windows to get the injection. “I know some other friends who also drove two to three hours to random places just to get the vaccine,” said Natarajan, adding that he even drove a friend to one of these clinics. Aside from Walgreens, some students

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places,” she said. “I thought, ‘Other people need to know about this. Other students need to FROM PAGE 4 know about that, too.’” The desire to consolidate resources and Miezio graduated in fall 2020 with a self- information related to urban studies is what designed Program II major in “Urban Studies: The motivated Miezo to get involved with the Socio-Spatial Politics of the Built Environment” Initiative for Urban Studies. This, coupled with and often meets with students interested in the desire for a program with more structure studying urban studies and planning at Duke. than a self-designed Program II major, she “Each student I’ve talked to has a different said, could benefit students passionate about facet of the field that they’re interested in, urban studies. whether it’s energy, electric vehicles, history, Macomber is considering a similar Program art, history, environmental science, climate II major related to urban studies, but she noted change. And the reality is that all of these things that a formalized program would be preferable are connected to the way we as humans take to the self-designed route. up space and move about space in our built “I think really what we want is to make it environment,” Miezio said. more accessible without everybody then having As for research, the one discipline that you’re group hopes to identify trying to connect to I know for me, it was just relevant scholarship and different areas of urban programs on campus so challenging to find studies,” she said. and connect students to opportunities related to the Hu, the only engineer those existing resources. involved in the initiative, is “The way that we field ... I thought, ‘Other studying civil engineering. thought about it so far is people need to know about She said that a formalized just that we want to take program in urban advantage of the existing this.’ studies would allow for research on campus. exploration as an engineer samantha miezio and act as validation for For example, the the field. environmental justice lab works with the Durham Because many community on some housing programs and resources related to urban studies already exist on stuff like that,” Macomber said. campus, the group views the formalization of a Miezo noted that she was able to participate program less as starting from nothing and more in various Duke programs related to urban as a feat in “taking what’s available and making it studies, including DukeEngage Detroit, a Data+ into something new,” Colasurdo said. program related to housing policy in Durham “Duke is a very global community. It has the and an urban politics DukeImmerse program. DKU campus, it has the Duke-NUS medical Finding these opportunities, however, was school in Singapore, and it has global sites and global students and alumni of the four corners sometimes difficult. “I know for me, it was just so challenging to of the world,” he said. The urban studies find opportunities related to the field. And I was program would draw on each of these in some often begging people for help—like, hey, what capacity, he said. can I do? How can I do this? And a lot of times, The members of the Initiative for Urban I found the resources in really unconventional Studies are aware of similar programs at other

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universities, including Yale and Stanford. Yale’s program in particular draws on courses from the Yale School of Architecture, which is reflected in the major’s focus on urban design, Miezo said. She added that the resources available at Duke would result in a different focus within urban studies. “Maybe focused much more on environmental science and public policy, thanks to Sanford and the Nicholas School. But then also the art history department here is really strong, so I could see a lot more like urban planning theory come out through that as well,” she said. Colasurado agreed, stressing the various departments and schools that would be tapped by urban studies. “Urban studies is kind of a textbook

example of an interdisciplinary field, because it’s everything. It’s looking at anthropology, geography, history. I think it also builds off of Duke schools, like public policy, environmental science, engineering. They kind of amalgamate all this together,” he said. “Urban studies doesn’t just mean the physical design of cities. It’s what is the thinking behind creative cities and how humans get disease and how cities create economies and things like that.” But to create a certificate, major or minor is no easy feat. Hu stressed that the future of an urban studies program is highly uncertain. “Especially [because] there’s no concrete deadlines chasing us. And it’s just a group of 10-ish students trying to do something,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of there’s a lot of excitement, but also a lot of uncertainty.”

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‘green to gold’ Indie rock outfit The Antlers return with their first album in seven years, page 8

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staff note Mainstream teen pop culture of the 2000s was ruled by blonde, skinny white girls taking center stage in hot pink: Regina George, Elle Woods, Cher Horowitz, Sharpay Evans and Hannah Montana, to name a few. It has been 15 years since the latter show premiered, and Miley Cyrus posted a letter to Hannah that made me reflect on my Disney Channelabsorbed childhood. Like many elementaryage girls of the time, I was obsessed: I watched every episode, belted every song and saw Miley in concert in 2009. As a kid, teenagers are the epitome of coolness: they ditch school and go out with their friends, they wear and say what they want and in

many movies and shows, they spontaneously break into song. So, as a girl growing up in the 2000s, I idolized the sassy teen queens on every screen. Also like many girls, I also resented them. Other than the fact that I was too young to wear crop tops and tight dresses, I was scared of being deemed, well, girly. At the time, being cool and being proudly feminine were mutually exclusive. Most of the aforementioned characters were villainized through their brazen styles and attitudes, and the opposite of who I thought I wanted to be. I was a little girl with a big heart, gapped teeth, plaid khaki shorts and if I was lucky, the occasional graphic tee from Justice. I was taught that the most important action was to be nice to others. But, thanks to the pink-

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demonizing patriarchal media industry, I thought being “girly” meant being mean. It’s been 15 years, and inevitably, I’ve changed: I have now exchanged Capri-Suns for coffee, library cards for debit cards, and the Youtube-to-MP3 converter for a PDF-toWord one. But the clothes are back in style. Yes, TikTok and Instagram influencers are embracing tube tops and low-rise jeans, but designer brands are incorporating Y2K trends into their designs too. Both the sequins decorating Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2021 show and the bell sleeves in Dior’s Spring-Summer 2021 collection are evocative of the ‘70s revival in the early aughts. The stylistic return to the time is not surprising: since the second half of the twentieth century, there has generally been a twenty-year cycle in fashion, in which trends from twenty years prior are borrowed and incorporated into modern styles. For the current Y2K revival, this means being fun and flirty and unapologetically feminine. It means being hot. The idea of “hotness,” of course, has obvious connotations associated with appealing to the male gaze. And yes, while the short skirts and slogan tanks of “Mean Girls” are revealing, they are also bold. Clothes, like words, carry the power we give them. The trends of the early 2000s, with its bright pinks, shining sequins and daring prints, contain the power to express and encourage confidence. Though they may not speak for you, when paired with courage and poise, they can highlight who you are. They allow you to make a statement before saying a word. It is important to note, though, that we are not simply repeating the trends from twenty years ago, but adapting them to

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modern standards. Since the release of the aforementioned movies and shows, there has been a surge in media diversity and inclusion, plus-size models and anti-consumerist selflove movements. Being hot is not correlated with a size or measurement or price tag — it is about self-assurance. Granted, the twenty-year fashion cycle may be a marketing gimmick and a product of the ever-growing fast-paced fashion industry — the faster trends change, the more they will offer at your local Forever 21 or fast-fashion establishment of your choice. But it may also be a chance for personal reinvention: 15 years ago, I would have never dared to wear bright pink or sequins to school to avoid the dreaded label of girlygirl. And five years ago, my body insecurity shuddered at the mini-skirts, crop-tops and bralettes trending at the time. (I did appreciate the high-waisted jeans, but I can’t say I will be tucking oversized band tees into them again.) Although these trends move through cycles, my mentality and confidence continually grow. Each time an old trend returns, it is more than a chance to reuse accessories. It is a chance to reclaim childhood dreams. It’s been 15 years, and inevitably, I’ve changed. Now, I’m a woman with an even bigger heart, a more refined wardrobe and the confidence to replace the once plaid khaki shorts with low-rise jeans. I’ve learned that love is not a choice between self and others, but a cycle. Loving yourself — yes, knowing that you are hot — will help you spread love to others. —Skyler Graham, culture editor

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Durham company provides renewable source for big energy consumers By Meredith Cohen Staff writer

No generation has felt the terrifying effects of climate change quite like ours. The responsibility has been placed on Gen Z to shift the course of our current path. A Durhambased company, aptly named Windlift, seeks to combat climate change and set the United States on a course towards a sustainable future. According to Windlift’s background, “Windlift’s mission is to produce energy for a sustainable civilization … by developing a renewable energy technology that could become the world’s lowest-cost energy source.” Windlift affects the Durham community in ways beyond creating renewable energy, however. According to Mary Claire McCarthy, Strategic Communications Specialist at Windlift, they have new hires from the area and have also reached out to the technical colleges around Durham. During the difficult time of this pandemic, Windlift has created jobs, which helps residents of Durham get back on their feet. “It was hard to hire people during the pandemic but we took our time and found some pretty amazing people,” CEO of Windlift, Robert Creighton said. “They are wonderfully talented, enthusiastic and curious individuals who bring a lot of expertise and creativity to Windlift.” Windlift is looking to positively affect not only larger, global community issues, but also the local Durham community in which the company is based.

So what exactly is Windlift, and what is the “Our mission and ultimate vision are to achieve this goal, we plan to scale the APG for concept underlying the company? It is fairly adapt the APG to the consumer space. We offshore energy production. This method is complex, but essentially Windlift uses Airborne want to create a technology that can help powerful enough to power thousands, if not Wind Energy (AWE), which, according to civilization mitigate climate change. To millions, of U.S. homes,” McCarthy said. McCarthy, is “a new category of wind energy using a tethered flying device.” This tethered flying device is a miniature aircraft that flies in a Figure-8 pattern to generate energy. To harness wind energy, Windlift uses an Airborne Power Generator (APG) to create electrical energy, which is similar to the way a traditional wind turbine works but uses only 5% of the materials. According to the Windlift Communications Team’s FAQ Sheet, some key advantages of Airborne Wind Energy are that it requires fewer materials and is highly mobile, portable, cost-effective and adaptive to different environments. Right now, Windlift’s primary customer is the United States Department of Defense. “Windlift is the only AWE company to make inroads with the U.S. military. We have worked with the U.S. Marine Corps for over a decade to define and refine the APG requirements,” McCarthy said. In 2020, we enriched our partnership with the Marine Corps with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) addition. We hope to extend our partnerships into other military branches as well.” Currently, McCarthy said, the Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of oil in the world and that they are leaving a massive footprint. Windlift claims to be helping the Department of Defense reduce Courtesy of Windlift their carbon footprint. The Durham-based company uses Airborne Power Generators to create renewable electrical energy.

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Even if beloved cult indie band The Antlers had never returned to the music scene, their reputation would remain not just untarnished but scintillating. Peter Silberman’s dream pop outfit first found widespread acclaim with 2009’s “Hospice,” an operatic concept album filled with quietly devastating songs that soon became as iconic as the record’s firework-red cover art. The two albums that followed — the impossibly lush “Burst Apart” and the selfreflective “Familiars” — were met with equal praise, cementing the band’s legacy as a lyrical, soundscape-driven powerhouse. Bolstered by universal critical acclaim and adoration from loyal listeners, The Antlers seemed poised for a precipitous rise to indie fame. However, the release of “Familiars” in 2014 was followed by seven years of silence, suggesting that The Antlers were content with retiring near the top. This assumption was countered by a sudden burst of activity from frontman Peter Silberman, who announced that The Antlers would be returning in 2021 with “Green to Gold.” While this news was met with excitement, the question of what kind of music the historically melancholy band would be making after nearly a decade-long hiatus was on everyone’s minds. The answer is ephemeral music, songs as evanescent as a rainbow on a cloudy afternoon. Gone is the band’s achingly tender sense of loss, replaced by a surprisingly optimistic tone that imbues each track with a golden porchlight glow. Silberman’s signature falsetto is used not for whispery eulogies and the occasional mournful wail, but breezy refrains that seep easily into beds of sunny guitars. For those who latched onto The Antlers’ previous endeavors for their stormy, piercing themes, the utter lightness of this album might come as a

massive shock — and not a welcome one. However, “Green to Gold’’ does still contain some shadows in the midst of all the sunshine. “Just One Sec” sees Silberman begging the listener to wait, to free him from himself in a muted chorus redolent of a hushed conversation at twilight. Though ostensibly summery, the album at times seems to be pushing against a wintry heaviness, bravely striving to preserve and enjoy every solitary moment of light lest it all disappear. There is a gentle sadness to all the pastoral beauty, best embodied by the single “Wheels Roll Home’’ and its periodic lapses into a silence where the listener becomes painfully aware that all of this is only temporary. That ephemeral nature, though fitting for such a peaceful record, sometimes allows songs to fade out before they can truly begin. The Antlers often take advantage of soundscapes that encompass the entire album, blending songs into a stream-of-consciousness blur without losing their sonic uniqueness or distinct perspectives. “Green to Gold” attempts this cohesiveness, but instead stagnates in arrangements that sound too similar or unsubstantial and flow unobstructed through one ear and out the other. The periodic orchestral flourishes are spaced too far apart to sustain anything sturdier than a soft morning melody; guitars create a fuzzy instrumental foundation, oscillating between straw-like folksiness and muted fireside strumming. Aside from the distinct layering of vocals and swaying chords in the excellent “Volunteer,” most of “Green to Gold” melts in on itself like the lazy hours of a long quiet afternoon in the countryside. The Antlers seem to carve out and occupy a specific musical niche with every release, reinventing what the vaguely-defined indie genre can truly sound like. While “Green to Gold” is far from ambitious or even striking,

Photo by Shervin Lainez “Green to Gold” is the Antlers’ first album in seven years and is markedly brighter than their previous works.

it does follow the band’s legacy of novelty, however softly. There are few records that achieve such verdant ambience with so little pomp: the simple beauty of nature is expertly personified here, laid out like clean white linens on a clothing line. Silberman appears to have reached a sort of thematic nirvana with this album, stripping away the

more frenzied synths and ominous brass of previous projects to give listeners something that feels homemade and homesick in equal measure. There are no heady metaphors and no sonic gimmicks. “Green to Gold” is the audio equivalent of a dandelion scattered by a summer wind — a brief, low-key spectacle as sweetly peaceful as it is fleetingly bittersweet.

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MEN’S LACROSSE: TAKES DOWN NO. 2 UNC • WOMEN’S SOCCER: BLANKS N.C. STATE

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Joe Robertson’s game-winner sends No. 1 Duke past No. 2 North Carolina By Sasha Richie Staff Writer

Picture this: it’s the top two teams in the country, both undefeated, each boasting arguably one of the top two scorers in the country, and they just so happen to be one of college sports’ most historic rivals. That should make for a good lacrosse game. And it was. In a riveting night at Koskinen Stadium Thursday, No. 1 Duke edged No. 2 North Carolina 12-11 in the first-ever 1 vs. 2 meeting the two 11 between UNC programs. They DUKE 12 fought tooth and nail, with most of the game being played at a one-goal margin. And after a back-and-forth grind for 60 minutes filled with highlight-reel goals and clutch saves, the blockbuster matchup went into sudden-death overtime, where it was anyone’s game. That is, until Duke’s Joe Robertson sent a point-blank diving shot into the back of the net with less than a minute left in the first overtime period. Cheers erupted from the home sideline, and the Blue Devils flooded the field—they’d won this historic contest. “That’s the best part about being goalie—you see all that happens in front of you, and to see the whole bench swarm and all the defensemen run to the corner of the field was so awesome, and you’re just screaming the whole time,” graduate student goaltender Mike Adler said. Just moments before the winning score, the Blue Devils (10-0, 2-0 in the ACC) were

playing their typical zone offense: passing around the outside, waiting for an opening and carrying it in from behind the net after a missed shot. After an unsuccessful pick attempt by Robertson, graduate transfer Michael Sowers passed the ball to Robertson to regroup, with the senior attackman nonchalantly jogging the ball out from behind the net to seemingly restart the team’s passing cycle. However, the Tar Heel defenseman covering him hesitated for a split second, just long enough for Robertson to take full advantage. He sprinted at the net, and the rest is history. “[Defenseman JT Giles-Harris] actually called it,” Adler said, referring to their vantage point from the other side of the field. “He was like, ‘Watch, we’re going to score right now.’ And he was right.” As for Robertson himself: “I’m probably gonna have to watch [the tape] a little bit more. I kinda blacked out there.” The goal was Robertson’s fourth of the night to go along with three assists. He led all players Thursday with seven points, his second-highest point total of the season. After missing the entirety of the shortened 2020 campaign to injury, it’s clear Robertson has returned to dominance. Despite Robertson’s spectacular performance, the game’s MVP had to have been Adler. He made a season-high 17 saves, many in makeor-break moments, and kept the Blue Devils in the contest as they adjusted to North Carolina’s high-octane play. One stretch late in the first

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half saw Adler stop a point-blank shot and then another just a second later as the Tar Heels (8-1, 1-1) fired the rebound. “It gives the defense confidence and allows the defense to relax, to know that you don’t have to be perfect playing defense,” head coach John Danowski said of Adler’s play. “That if you do slip up and make a mistake, there’s a chance that your goalie’s going to bail you out.”

However, Adler’s scarily accurate impression of a brick wall Thursday was not without some mistakes. In one of his rare blunders this season, Adler dropped the ball in overtime while running behind the net after making a save, which nearly cost the Blue Devils the game. “I didn’t know I actually dropped it See M. LACROSSE on Page 11

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Column: A return to normalcy at N.C. State It’s easy to forget how much you miss the feel of a crowd, and how little you pine for soccer fans’ yelling over offsides and fouls. Duke took the opportunity to remind me of both Friday. Em Adler A strong crowd energized the seventhranked Blue Devils, who were fresh off a tough loss to No. 4 West Virginia, to a 1-0 win against N.C. State at Dail Soccer Field. From warmups to postgame, the stands were active enough to make the match seem like a usual game at Koskinen 1 Stadium, with the DUKE Wolfpack NCSU 0 many students and fans drowned out by familiar faces for Duke, including players’ families and Blue Devil legend and NC Courage centre back Schuyler DeBree. “My mom and my aunt and my grandma were able to come to the game, and they’re not able to come very often. But back at Koskinen, we only have the cardboard cutouts, so it’s a little quiet,” said Blue Devil wingback Mia Gyau. “But the fans always add something, and it’s fun to hear the parents cheering your name. And it’s just like, ‘Oh, yay, we’re doing it for them too, to make them happy and make them proud, as well as ourselves and our teammates and our coaches.’ But it’s like that added boost for us.” Outside the ACC tournament in November

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Redshirt senior wingback Mia Gyau scored the game’s lone goal in the 61st minute. and the Oct. 23 match at North Carolina, Duke has had to go its 2020-21 season without familiar faces in the bleachers. And even in those events, the stands were much emptier than they’d be on most nights. Friday night was different. And not just because of the couple dozen people on either side of the stands, but because of Dail Soccer Field’s scale. The pitch and the bleachers and the booth are more comparable to a high school’s than the glorious stadia of Koskinen Stadium and Dorrance Field, and under the Friday night lights, that was the perfect atmosphere for a low-stakes game between conference foes that didn’t even count as a conference game. Duke came out back in the 4-3-3 alignment it’s used for years, switching from

the 4-4-2 box that had seemed so promising last month, on account of poor passing in Morgantown, W.Va., last week. The Blue Devils had some strong opportunities in the first half and dominated possession, but failed to generate much inside the 18, taking only five shots on account of not connecting on the final passes. As the Blue Devils came out of halftime, their side of the crowd cheered them on, energizing the frigid night. Duke would immediately make progress in the second half, attacking with a fervor, en route to 10 shots in the period. In the 61st minute, Gyau finally opened the scoring, driving down the left touch line, turning the corner at the box and shooting at Wolfpack goalie Maria Echezarreta, who deflected the ball back to

Gyau, presenting her with an open goal for her first score of the season. Duke would have several more close shots that barely missed adding onto the score. And as the Blue Devils became settled into comfort on the pitch, so too did their fans. While friends and family seemed at first to just be excited to be back together at a game, it wasn’t long before they’d all settled into a rhythm, back to the normalcy of loudly disputing every foul, yelling “yes, yes, NO!,” parents ribbing each other, etc. More than anything, the high school-esque structure of Dail and the warm familiarity of those in attendance simply condensed the ambience of the event. With North Carolina allowing limited capacity at outdoor events, colleges have been able to make nights like this more common. Sitting in Dail, having been vaccinated two weeks prior, it became clear to me that there wasn’t much standing between Friday night and a season in which fan-less games are just as unusual as they used to be. “Anything that makes the world become a little bit more normal’s great, ain’t it?” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “But I just heard all the girls saying, ‘Oh it was unbelievable to have fans here.’ And we had a good group when it was in West Virginia. We didn’t give them a lot to cheer for, but we had a good group up there. And this one, we gave them more to cheer for, so it is fantastic to have them.” Duke will play what should be its last fanless game of the season next Sunday, when it invites No. 18 Vanderbilt to close out the regular season.

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WILLIAMS FROM PAGE 3 against the Williams-led Tar Heels to extend Duke’s longest stretch of dominance in the rivalry to date, the tides began to turn quickly, with North Carolina winning seven of the next nine. Since then, the Tobacco Road rivalry has returned to a level state of unexpectedness. But had Williams not returned home to take the North Carolina job, who knows where the rivalry would be today. -Evan Kolin

after battling dementia. Smith and Krzyzewski had grown close after some heated battles on the court in the 1980s and 1990s, with Williams part of the action as a North Carolina assistant from 1978-1988. Duke and North Carolina faced off just 11 days after Smith’s death, with the hearts of everyone in Cameron Indoor Stadium that night still heavy. Before tip-off, both teams embraced and knelt together at midcourt for a moment of silence. Williams and Krzyzewski were next to each other during the tribute, marking a break from the intensity of the Tobacco Road rivalry and a nod toward a man that both coaches admired greatly. -Max Rego

March 29, 2009: Williams, Krzyzewski, Feb. 8, 2020: Vernon Carey Jr. Bob Knight, Rick Pitino and Metallica handshake appear in Guitar Hero commercial

What do Williams, Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino, Bobby Knight and Metallica all have in common? Maybe not much, but they did all co-star together in a 2009 Guitar Hero commercial. While the four coaches will all be remembered for their legacy on the sidelines, their commercial appearance while wearing a dress shirt and socks to imitate Tom Cruise’s acting performance in “Risky Business” will never be forgotten. -Piazza

In what was overshadowed by a dramatic comeback win, Duke’s chances against the Tar Heels in the two teams’ first meeting of 2020 took a hit when stud freshman Vernon Carey Jr. was called for a charge and fouled out of the game late in the second half. While certainly upset at the Blue Devils’ seemingly waning hopes against their archrivals, the eventual ACC Freshman of the Year surprisingly took a quick detour on his way to the bench to stop and shake (You can watch the video in the online version hands with Williams. Carey chose to attend of this article at chron.it/guitarherocommercial) Duke over North Carolina (and Michigan State) back in high school, but the respectful moment Nov. 13, 2009: Harrison Barnes commits between the two highlighted Williams’ ability to create lasting relationships, even with recruits to North Carolina over Duke Williams and Krzyzewski engaged in countless who went elsewhere. -Smith recruiting battles over the years, but none had as much hype and anticipation as Harrison Barnes’ Feb. 8, 2020: The final comeback college decision. Everyone around the sport had Williams and Krzyzewski squared off in a long expected the No. 1 player in the Class of 2010 number of classic Duke-UNC battles. Chris to don a Duke jersey, joining friend Kyrie Irving— Duhon’s layup in 2004, Marvin Williams’ gamewho committed one month earlier—and a Blue winner in 2005, the Austin Rivers game—the list Devil roster that would go on to win the 2010 goes on and on. But perhaps the most miraculous— national title. However, Barnes made a shocking emphasis on perhaps—of these down-to-the-wire commitment to North Carolina in a unique way: finishes came last year, when two buzzer-beaters a live Skype call to his future coach. Williams via Tre Jones and Wendell Moore Jr. capped off a answered the video call, signifying a massive get for Blue Devil win in one of the craziest Tobacco Road the defending champion Tar Heels, who had lost rivalry games in history. This of course was far many key players and were in the midst of an NIT from the only memorable finish to a Duke-UNC season. Krzyzewski responded to the recruiting contest, but it was one that perfectly encompassed defeat by signing 10 top-three recruits over the what the rivalry throughout Williams’ tenure at next eight years. -Shane Smith North Carolina was all about. -Kolin

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unknown at the time, the 91-73 win in the second game of the series ended up being the final home game of Williams’ career. Fittingly, after the final buzzer sounded, he went to the center of Roy Williams Court and kissed the North Carolina logo in a pictureperfect moment. While rumors of retirement swirled after the gesture, Williams said later that it was simply an expression of his love for his home arena. Whether or not he knew at the time that he was giving his time at the Dean E. Smith Center a goodbye kiss, the moment will live on as a touching finish to Williams’ career against Duke and at North Carolina. -Sasha Richie

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 until JT was like, ‘Adler, you dropped the ball!’ So my life flashed before my eyes, I ran back in the goal, slipped, and then next thing I know No. 4 for UNC is coming up the hash, and I’m playing with my hand,” Adler said. “I just tried to put a hand up. Luckily, he missed the goal, and [longstick midfielder] Tyler Carpenter did an awesome job of getting the shot backup.” All’s well that ends well, as the ensuing clear led to the game-winning possession and Adler’s flub became a funny story to tell about the chaotic final moments of a chaotic game. What lent itself most to the chaos was the skill of the teams involved, both offensively and

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defensively. Between Duke freshman Brennan O’Neill scoring two goals in 30 seconds early in the third quarter, Tar Heel junior Tanner Cook scoring a one-handed wrap-around goal, fellow Blue Devil freshman Jake Naso continuing his dominance at X with a 62.5% face-off win-rate, the Tar Heels holding Sowers to just one point and both teams effectively shutting the other down offensively in the fourth quarter, it’s safe to say that Duke and North Carolina met their match in each other. “I think offensively, we responded well. But defensively, they’re athletic, their goalie is terrific. But I think we handled seeing something different for the first time relatively well,” Danowski said. “[North Carolina is] just tremendously talented. They’ve got a lot of guys who can play, who have experience.” Tenacity ultimately prevailed, though, as the Blue Devils outshot the Tar Heels 6-2 in overtime and maintained the majority of possession throughout the period. “I think it was a team effort,” Robertson said on overcoming the pressure of overtime. “All around, we had four different guys take shots in overtime, which is really cool. Guys are not afraid to go out there and sling it and try and win the game.” Overall, the latest installment in the Tobacco Road rivalry delivered on the hype. From killer shots to Adler’s season-best performance, this game will go down as one of the best in the rivalry’s history. The biggest takeaway, though, came from Adler: “It was nuts,” he said with an ear-to-ear grin. “But it was so fun. I think everybody had an absolute blast.”

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am a month away from graduating and reminiscence. This column is a collection of concluding the most transformative memories from my time at Duke that hold a four years of my life. It fills me with special place in my heart. equal feelings of fear, excitement, and deep 1. O-week banter sorrow. My last year and a half were nothing During Orientation week (O-week),

Nathan Heffernan COLUMN like I expected, and gave me even more appreciation for the memories I made at Duke. It was a grueling, complex experience that I will have to learn how to move on from. But for now, all I can do is reflect and

ride home, chatting and goofing around. A first-year girl who was observing us asked me, “Did you do theater in high school?” to which I responded, “no, I’m just gay.” My friends cackled and I smiled to myself, knowing that

interrupt their main character moment. It reminded me that a new class of first-years were beginning to make their own special memories. 7. Snow day sophomore year In the December of my sophomore year, there was a luxurious snowfall of 6 inches. With the other sophomores in my selective living group, we dressed in snow gear and fun onesies to build snowmen, throw snowballs, and ignore the approaching finals season. After a long semester of being isolated as an RA on east, this moment made me finally feel connected to people in my class. I also had not seen much snow in my home state of Texas. 8. Black Balsam Knob Before going abroad my junior fall, I staffed the ProjectWild pre-orientation backpacking trip, a 10-day excursion into Pisgah National Forest. One morning, with my crew of adventurous first-years, we woke up early to hike up a nearby peak to watch the sunrise. We got the top and sat in anticipation, whispering to each other in excitement. When the red edge of the sun emerged from the horizon, we all went silent. It was one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my life, and I felt humbled by my place in the world. 9. Drag performance at Mirecourt Rush Returning from abroad, I helped out with recruitment for the selective living group I was in, Mirecourt. We have a karaoke-themed event we do each year that involves dressing up as music icons. Two of my gay friends and I decided to dress up in drag as Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, and Jessie J. We walked in with faces full of make-up and hilarious outfits, and performed lip syncs throughout the night, ending with the masterpiece “Bang Bang.” I was happy to show first-years that queer-inclusive spaces did exist within pockets of the Duke community. 10. UNC gameday On UNC gameday last year, none of us realized that it would be our last Duke game, and our last social event on Duke’s campus. It was a beautiful sunny day, and thankfully we got to burn the bench after all. After the festivities, I was exhausted, and separated from my tent, but I found a few friends who were headed to Chicken Bee, the Korean Fried Chicken restaurant. There we ate, alone in the restaurant, the most heavenly meal I have ever experienced. Adele’s “Someone Like You” came on the radio, and we all paused in between wings to sing along. It is hard to remember what campus life at Duke was like before the pandemic, and I am sure that everyone had vastly different experiences. I am happy to leave behind the endless studying, competitive atmosphere and policing administration. I do hope to remember the moments that made it worth it, even as they seem so distant from the lives we are currently living. What is at the center of these dear memories are the people I have met at Duke, who can still be in my life after graduation, and are the reason I will always think fondly of my time at Duke.

hundreds of first-years were packed into I did not have the confidence to make that buses and shipped to Durham Convention joke a week prior. The rest of O-week was center to listen to the author of our summer filled with equally silly moments of bliss. reading book, Richard Blanco, speak to us. I 2. Backyard to the Main Quad was with my newly made friends, on the bus I treasure so much of my first fall semester, especially the late night conversations with my friends on random weeknights, that hot take of the week ended with me walking from Blackwell dorm back to my room in Brown. I was so happy on those walks, at 2am across the quad, since “Just go to a state school. Architecture’s worse, but drinks are better. And the I felt the freedom of adult life and the leisure machine under the chapel won’t turn you into a consultant.” of being a teenager. One particular night, —Jake Satisky, Editor-in-Chief, on February 2, 2020 I stopped in the exact center circle quad outside Marketplace, and took in all of my surroundings with a deep breath. I felt more at home than anywhere else. 3. The Dancing Queen In addition to the tranquility of casual Direct submissions to: hang-outs, many of our first semesters are The Chronicle welcomes submissions in the form of letters to the editor E-mail: defined by chaotic nights out when our social or guest columns. Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, chronicleletters@duke.edu department or class, and for purposes of identification, phone number and local batteries were overridden with energy. As a address. Letters should not exceed 325 words; contact the editorial department self-described socialite, I love nothing more Editorial Page Department for information regarding guest columns. 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It is a privilege to put your political differences aside

t is no secret that our nation is deeply, corrosively divided. Many of us, including recent writers in this publication, have longed and called for unity, to bridge our divides and put aside partisanship. While the basic premises of such articles may be correct, I believe the conclusions they reach are not. To unite as a country and as a Duke community, we must probe deeper and understand that disagreeing

environment. What he fails to mention, though, is that during Scalia’s 1987 confirmation, the United States Senate was made up of two women and two Japanese-Amercian men with the remaining 96 members being cis, publicly-straight, white men. We often long for what appears to be “unity” in our history, when that history is of oppression and homogeneity in our politics, in which those with power were the ones who have always

Robby Phillips GUEST LETTER about politics is not what divides us, nor will putting aside political differences be the solution. As these articles point out, Duke’s undergraduate population is skewed majorly to the left politically—this is also no secret (it is of course worth noting, however, that Duke programs like American Grand Strategy and the Alexander Hamilton Society frequently host conservative speakers and provide space for conservative discourse). What does this mean, according to the author? Conservatives are apparently afraid to speak out, and discourse and debate are hard to find. Ignoring the fact that Duke students do have an incredibly diverse spectrum of political views that are not limited to a clean-cut dichotomy of liberalism and conservatism, this apparently means that “as a member of the winning team [as a liberal], [the author’s] political existence here has been anything but fulfilling. After all, what’s the point of playing a fixed game?” Perhaps the answer to that question is that politics are not a game at all, but for many people—particularly those of us who are not cis white men—a matter of life or death. This mischaracterization of our political division is made clearer in an attempt to contrast today’s division with that of the past. The author points out that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed unanimously which seems impossible in today’s politically polarized

yielded it, and seldom been on the receiving end of its harm. Is it really considered unity when the people uniting do not represent America, and the system was explicitly built by and for them and their communities? This is not the path to unity we should pursue. We also should not seek “unity” with people who publicly support white supremacist murderers like Kyle Rittenhouse or the people who committed insurrection against the US Capitol and planned to murder the Speaker of the House and Vice President. You may make friends who are “nothing like the cruel zealots [you] had pictured all Republicans to be...but rather kindhearted,” but what does it mean if someone is not this or that, but regularly supports and votes for elected officials and policies who are? Actions matter more than words, and someone can be both kindhearted and racist. In truth, no matter how badly we wish everyone’s political views were fundamentally about improving the world, such is not reality. We’ve seen prominent elected officials lie about COVID-19, allowing it to spread undeterred and kill over 500,000 Americans to date. We’ve seen them lie about the election, saying it was stolen without any evidence and inciting the insurrection. We’ve seen them elevate hatred over policy, lies over truth. We can’t separate these actions and words

from their policies—if you vote for one, you also vote for the other. At Duke we should indeed strive to foster an environment of communal growth and learning, but that does not mean excusing or accepting lethal propaganda and bigotry from our classmates—and if they vote for those values, then they are upholding them, no matter how decently they may treat us. One may point to the conservative members of Congress who acknowledged that the election was not stolen, for example, to illustrate space for policy debate. Yet, the recently passed American Rescue Plan—which will cut child poverty in half, bolster unemployment insurance, support small businesses, and much more—garners sweeping bipartisan approval in poll after poll, despite the fact that zero Republicans in Congress voted for the bill. Partisanship is not what divides us, but instead archaic notions of “political” views and a public that fundamentally misconstrues the relationship between us and the government. The unity we should seek is not one that accepts zero Republicans supporting this bill even after concessions and compromises were made, but rather that which unites nearly three-quarters of the country behind policies that will address the pandemic and lift millions out of financial hardship. Politics are not a game; people’s livelihoods depend on them. Of course, though, not everyone’s lives depend on politics to the same degree. Politics affect everyone, no doubt, but for cis, financially stable white men in particular (such as myself), it is easier to forget that politics are not a game and that our purpose should not be to just to debate people. For those of us with such privilege, I do agree that we should not excommunicate or hate those whose political views differ from ours, but at the same time, we should spend less time urging people to forget that their classmate votes against their skin color, religion, sexual orientation, or the food stamps their family relies on, and more time trying to convey to that classmate the harm their political actions may inflict on others. It is nobody’s responsibility to “stand up for Duke’s

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conservative voices.” It is our responsibility as Duke students, especially those with privilege, to stand up for our Asian-American classmates after a year in which conservative politicians and public figures have blamed the coronavirus pandemic on Chinese people. It is our responsibility to stand up for our trans classmates as conservative politicians introduce anti-trans legislation in state legislatures across the country. It is our responsibility to stand up for our Black friends and neighbors when conservative politicians restrict their voting access “with almost surgical precision.” These issues, and so many others, are not ones that I can comfortably agree to disagree on, nor should any of us. It is true that “we [Duke students] must understand that our future corresponds with the future of America and the world.” As members of this institution, we have a tremendous responsibility. Exactly for this reason must we not seek to endlessly debate the woes of the world for the fun of it, but instead embody our convictions, develop real solutions to the issues facing our communities and so many others, and fight for them. If our classmates are the ones who will influence and lead the world, we must hold them (and ourselves) to account. Again, this does not mean shutting down discussion or ideas, but thinking critically enough to separate solutions from lies, bigotry (no matter how veiled or implicit), and pseudoscience. As sweeping support for the American Rescue Plan demonstrates, we are not nearly divided as we are told to believe—at least, not on policy. We need a new kind of unity, not a unity of conservative and liberals going out for a beer. Instead, let’s unite against racism, homophobia, climate change, transphobia, and poverty; let’s unite against corporate influence on our politics and politicians who spread lies and propaganda to mislead and divide us; let’s unite to create a better world for all of us. Robby Phillips is a Trinity sophomore.

Good enough for Fauci, good enough for Duke

n March 2, President Price announced plans for a “limited, inperson commencement ceremony” for the Class of 2021, forbidding guests from attending due to public health concerns. This announcement was shocking for many families,

not—Dr. Fauci has long advocated that we “follow the science.” Rather than following Fauci’s advice, Duke is casting science aside to make room for a meager, sparsely-attended affair. What, exactly, does science say? The

Joseph Touma GUEST LETTER with the event representing the successful conclusion of a monumental chapter in their students’ lives. For some, their son or daughter will be the first in their family to graduate from college. For others, the occasion marks an important coming-of-age event observed in their family for generations. For all, the inability to witness graduation will be devastating. Elsewhere in the South, peer institutions like UNC-Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt have announced plans to allow students to invite two guests to their graduation ceremonies. What’s more, Dr. Anthony Fauci, our nation’s leading infectious disease expert, is speaking at graduation festivities for both institutions, publicly associating his name with the events. Would Dr. Fauci speak in these settings, implicitly approving their planning, if the events posed a public health threat? Certainly

transmission of COVID-19 in outdoor settings is quite rare, nearly 20 times less likely than transmission indoors. COVID-19 is primarily transmitted through the air, a mechanism thwarted by airflow and ventilation outside. Masking and social distancing further incapacitate the virus’s ability to spread. Duke’s commencement is slated to be held in Wallace Wade Stadium, a 40,004 seat venue on West Campus. This setting allows ample room for distancing, even if students were allowed two guests. Assuming all 1,600 graduates invited two guests, roughly 4,800 students and families would be in attendance. Add to that Duke’s 1,688 faculty members and you will arrive at 6,488 attendees (assuming every professor is invited, and decides, to attend). Ultimately, this (inflated) figure would still allow one person per every six seats, exemplifying social

distancing. With these facts in mind, a masked outdoor graduation ceremony poses virtually no transmission threat for its attendees. Even so, some might be inclined to argue that inviting guests to the ceremony would cause an influx of travelers to Durham, risking the health of these individuals and the local community. This argument holds little water. Many families are still planning to come to Durham on graduation weekend. Within 15 minutes of Duke’s announcement to move graduation forward one week, popular hotels (including the Washington Duke, JB Duke, and Hilton Garden Inn) were sold out for the weekend of May 2nd. Families want to be here for their child’s graduation, even if they are being shut out from the main event. In other words, this risk is already baked in—many loved ones will visit Durham regardless of Duke’s decision to preclude their attendance at the graduation ceremony. Such behavior also suggests that many families feel comfortable traveling to Durham, presumably a result of encouraging virus trends in the United States. The numbers of new cases have plummeted since mid-January, with daily infections falling by nearly 90%. Over a quarter of the US population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a number expected to rise dramatically in the coming weeks. Duke students will get access to doses

starting April 1, and access to vaccines for the entire adult population has already been granted in states from Texas to Indiana. It is safe to assume that many, if not most, attendees of the commencement ceremony will have received at least one dose by the end of April. Throughout the pandemic, Price’s administration has exhibited courageous leadership, setting the example for institutions across the country by taking bold, calculated risks. Why should now be any different? In his March 2 announcement, President Price promised: “Should conditions improve, we may consider expanding the scope of the ceremony.” Today, we find that conditions are improving on almost all fronts. Now is the time for President Price to keep his promise and to exhibit the courageous leadership Duke needs, taking advantage of the strides our University and country have made in fighting this pandemic. Graduation is a momentous occasion, maybe most of all for the families and loved ones who have invested so much in their students. They deserve an invite, just as they have received at peer institutions. If it’s good enough for Fauci, it should be good enough for Duke. Joseph Touma is a Trinity senior.

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And I my guess is when that he and the deans and [Provost Sally Kornbluth] come out with capital, the fundraising, the campaign TC: Speaking of Trask, I’ve talked with him planning, you’ll see, you know, a lot more several times last year. And, you know, he was professorships, scholarship funding than very explicit. He saw himself as a builder— building funding, and that may have been that was how he viewed himself. And so I’m different in the past. curious, especially in light of Price saying he TC: What do you see as your most urgent wants to focus less on building things going priorities in both the short term and maybe a forward, how do you see yourself as executive little long term? vice president? DE: In the short term? It’s, you know, DE: Yes. So, you know, as I’ve been saying obviously, it’s supporting the team. There’s in every forum, my job is to support and a very large and complicated operation, with leverage and advise and inform decision outstanding leaders playing large substantial making by academic leaders. The agenda and roles, facilities, [information technology], the priorities are set by the president, the [human resources], you know, there’s a provost and the deans. lot happening. The What we do is try to I’ve always just had this biggest thing you want inform that decision great admiration for Duke: to assure in the early making process and days are that is that strategic planning, and My brother went to medical that team is supported, then try to implement school here, I got to spend that I can be there to against that, support influence decisions that. I think what you’re time when he was here, when they need them, summarizing back to and I had spent time with but mainly assuring me from President minimum stability, if Tallman and had learned Price is an intense not also assuring we’re focus on investing in about the team over time making progress against our people. And if so, the priorities that the I think that there’s just President, the Provost, been an incredible and really impressive the deans have set forth for us. Then, of course investment in the campus and facilities; I there’s obviously this incredible learning mean, really, really significant enhancements. curve that I’m on for this multifaceted and But I would say on the margin—it’s there, complex enterprise, so it’s a lot of ground and this happens at universities—you go that I’m covering. I think, obviously, we’re in through cycles of capital need and renewal the situation where we’ve been through this and expansion. Then, you know, you need to kind of great shock. focus that capital allocation elsewhere. And We faced our ability to deliver on our what [Price] is attentive to is assuring that missions, as an operational matter, but then we’re raising money to be able to fund our obviously, real concerns about financials. faculty and their endeavors, our students— It is a little bit of, okay, what is the post in terms of financial aid, affordability and COVID landscape in terms of our financial accessibility—[and] the competitiveness of position? And what have we learned from our programs, which tie hugely on our ability COVID, to set us up to build for the post to fund financial aid. So, shifted emphasis. pandemic future? The good news there—

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huge credit to the leadership team is—it was moment to the institution, administratively, nowhere bad, nowhere near as bad as we had operationally, financially. So relative to feared. And I can say “we’ve” because I was meeting our missions, how do we go about fearing similar things at Johns Hopkins as this in a smarter, more efficient, more this team was fearing for Duke. So, that’s collaborative way? But those questions are really encouraging. It’s nice that we’re in a best directed to the provost. place where we certainly have work to do TC: So another question I find very on strengthening financial performance fascinating is Central Campus, which I’m and ensuring we get scarce resources into sure is not a high priority right now. But mission priorities, but that’s always the it’s something that Duke is proud of, this name of the job. 60 acres of land, and they’re excited to do TC: I know that there’s a task force or something with it. I’m not going to ask committee, Team 2030, that’s looking at how what you’re going to do with it. But I’m curious, how do you Duke can separate itself plan to approach taking in the next decade. I was curious what your My guess is when that advantage of Central? thoughts are on the [Price] and the deans and What is your thinking kind of investments or toward it? DE: Well, it’s the things that you can [Provost Sally Kornbluth] obviously an incredible do that can make Duke come out with capital, stand out by 2030? asset of the institution DE: Yeah, you the fundraising, the as you suggest, and we know, that’s really an campaign planning, you’ll are just so fortunate academic effort. What see, you know, a lot more to have that kind of opportunity to expand I would say is that the emphasis is, how can professorships, scholarship and develop with we be smarter? How can funding than building others. I am not far we better deliver on the enough into the role educational experience, funding, and that may have to give you an answer. But I can tell you, on the research been different in the past. mission? So I would you can dream of a say within it there’s lot of things. We have big themes. Climate is a very big theme for graduate student housing as a real need President Price and Provost Kornbluth and that we’re trying to work hard to address. the deans, so I feel like a lot of substantive President Price has a very big effort on stakes were put into the ground early in research and translation. And so you can President Price’s tenure, and those aren’t imagine hat a place where we could dream shifting. We believe in those. Now this effort of and develop with maybe private sector, has a little bit more of the character. How partners, industry collaborations—really do we best support getting there? I think expand our R&D-oriented activities. So it’s it’s influenced by the pandemic, like life has exciting, and it’s really a fortunate place changed. Our resources are tighter. Given for an institution like ours to be in to have that construct coming out of the pandemic, that kind of development capacity, so close we still have huge ambition, but we’ve to the heart of so much in the heart of the now lived through a pretty threatening place, and the heart of the campus.

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Dueling graffiti found on the East Campus bridge the night of March 31.

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Despite Duke asking students to stay home during wellness days, some ignored those rules for a weeklong getaway in Cabo. Among those: Steven Kinzer, a Trinity junior who asked to remain anonymous. “Dude, I’ll talk to you, but you really can’t put my name in this story,” Kinzer said while waiting for a Bud Light at the beachside bar. “My boy back home’s taking one for the team and doing my ‘rona tests and you’ll blow my whole cover if my name’s in this.” Kinzer, who feared retribution from administrators, has brown hair, brown but sort-of-hazel-in-the-right-light eyes and goes by Kinz to his friends. “My Duke ID says Steven though, but come on man, you really can’t put my name in it,” he added. He told The Chomicle that he decided to leave town as soon as he saw the built-in wellness days this spring but spent weeks planning to make sure that he wasn’t caught. He has friends using his ID on campus—”they’re even dropping by JB’s so it looks like I’m grabbing a steak”—and sticking cotton swabs up their noses to make sure he isn’t caught. “This is all off the record though, right man?” he said when explaining the details of his plan. “My name’s definitely not going on the website or in print right?”

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North Carolina will lift its mask mandate and gathering limit in advance of Duke’s last day of classes, Gov. Chicken Coop announced Wednesday. While North Carolina has outperformed its neighbors in its handling of the pandemic, state officials have said in recent days that they’d rather handle a new surge in cases than hear college students whine about not being allowed to party. Also, they’re really sick of this shit. “F*** it,” Coop told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Duke spokesperson Michelle Spinmaster said the Health System would invest in additional ICU beds before the end-ofyear concert. “First we give them to the first-years who get alcohol poisoning, then we give them to the old people who get COVID a week later,” she said. “It’s a win-win.” For the concert, the Duke Union for Underwhelming Programming plans to hire pirate cosplayers to sing sea shanties popular on TikTok, a student familiar with the thinking of DUUP leadership said.

Frat diversifies by giving members COVID-19 variants Africa, Brazil, U.K. and California strains of COVID-19. The frat gave its members the five different strains this past weekend at a 50-person rush event that definitely didn’t happen. The Phi Omicron Omicron fraternity has listened to calls Senior Aaron Fauci, president of Duke’s chapter of Sugma by students to diversify their makeup, Nuts, told The Chomicle he and they have exceeded everyone’s was hoping his fraternity Being a part of Durham expectations. would be able to undertake a In a statement to The Chomicle, Outerfraternity Council has similar initiative. He proposed Phi Omicron Omicron proudly boasted changed my life. Now, my lungs eating at Pitchfork’s at 10:01 that the fraternity had representatives p.m. and putting two people from five different strains of COVID-19. work at a diminished capacity on one of the swinging “We are proud of Phi Omicron and I have three different sets of benches on the Bryan Center Omicron’s efforts and hope this move Plaza as the most effective will make our organization more COVID-19 antibodies. ways of introducing new representative of the diverse corona strains around his fraternity. strains in this world,” the president of “Being a part of Durham the fraternity explained. Council aaron fauci Outerfraternity SENIOR, PRESIDENT OF SUGMA NUTS has changed my life,” Fauci After being inspired by Sigma Apple Pie’s diversity of New York said. “Now, my lungs work boroughs, Phi Omicron Omicron went out of their way to at a diminished capacity and I have three different sets of make their fraternity a safe space for the New York, South COVID-19 antibodies.” By No Bid

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‘MEN’S BASKETBALL’

A day with Coach Mike Knickerbockers By Bench Warmer Still Hoping To Get Minutes

After Duke men’s basketball failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since the Unabomber Manifesto was published, Coach Mike Knickerbockers invited The Chomicle to spend a day with him at his sprawling Durham mansion (it’s all he can afford, he told me, given his “peasant’s salary”). Here’s how the day went.

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Winfrey?” The mensch that he is, he wore his mask throughout the day. Well, other than when he would pull it down to talk to me. Or when he was yelling at one of his butlers.

4:30 p.m. After a long day’s work, Coach Knickerbockers decided it was time for his late-afternoon drink. When I suggested we go somewhere in Durham, he spit out his tea onto his Coach K bobblehead collection, stood up from his chair with Tom Lizzo’s face 7:00 a.m. on it and laughed in my face, mask down. “You think I’d f*****g go to some s***hole His alarm blared, sounding like a crowd of cheering students. I looked over to the foot of a** bar in this town?” he said, with an unusual his bed, where animatronic students rose up lack of swearing for him. and begin bowing down to him. We proceeded to drive to the airport, where his private jet lay in wait. His butlers dropped rose petals behind him as we strode toward the jet. 7:30 a.m. Several butlers served us a breakfast of leftover Chicago deep dish pizza. Hurriedly, 7 p.m. the butlers whisked up towels around Coach We landed in some remote location for the Knickerbockers to provide cover as he chowed rich and famous, he told me. The limousine took down—quite noisily, might I add—on his dish. us from the airport to the “Champions Bar,” I happened to make eye contact with one of the where I noticed John Calamari outside arguing butlers and recognized him as a manager on the with the bouncer. Coach Knickerbockers walked right past him, scoffing, “multiple-time basketball team. champions ONLY, John.” We sat down to order drinks. I got a nitro 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. He spent the majority of his day working at cold brew, but right when I put it to my lips his home office. I had no idea how much time Coach Knickerbockers violently slapped the glass out of my hand onto the floor, shattering he spent calling random NBA superstars. “Have you ever heard of LeBron James?” it. “You can’t f*****g drink that!” he exclaimed. he asked me. “I’m getting tacos with him and Oprah Winfrey next week. Ever heard of Oprah “It has NIT in it.”

‘SPORTS’

Ranking Duke’s stadiums by how easy they are to break into

By E. Legal Will Do Anything To Get A Story

Every fan dreams that they could be the one on the field, under the bright lights. And countless people who have watched Duke football have asked themselves whether they would really look out of place in that starting lineup. Here at The Chomicle, we believe in following your dreams. Which is why we decided to break into all 10 facilities that Duke uses for athletic competition. Ranked from easiest to most difficult:

Morris Williams Track

Sheffield Tennis Center

Another entry into the esteemed category of “sometimes they leave the back door open.” Only there’s a lot of doors into Sheffield and I got lost. It’s very dry in there.

Jack Coombs Field

Turns out Duke has a completely idle baseball stadium just sitting behind some trees in the athletics campus. The fences are tall, but it’s not like there’d be anyone to notice you in there anyway. Mess around, exercise squatter’s rights, really make it your own.

Even if the fence weren’t 2 feet tall, they Duke Softball Stadium don’t even lock the gate into Morris Williams. The outfield fence isn’t particularly tall, but Sprint your heart out. with the stadium facing directly onto an open field and the East Campus Loop running trail, you’re a Koskinen Stadium dead duck in broad daylight if you’re not careful. Do you stand taller than 3-and-a-half feet off Best save the softball stadium for midsummer the ground? Well then congratulations, you’re nights, the kind free of hanky-panky. tall enough to step over the fence and onto the hallowed turf of Koskinen, home to the soccer Ambler Tennis Stadium and lacrosse teams. The view from the field is You’d think, with Ambler being an outdoor magnificent, especially at sunset, though turf stadium and having no mechanism by which always leaves something to be desired. to restrict its stands, that it would be easy to break into. Unfortunately, its fences feel a lot Wallace Wade Stadium taller than they look. I may be walking in an You’d think a bowl with tall, sharp fences ankle brace, but I was also the sole person to would be more difficult to get into—but rally in Ambler this past summer, so who’s the sometimes they just leave the back gate open! real winner here? You can simply bike right onto the football field from Cameron Blvd. It’s so easy to get onto Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion Brooks Field, you’d think subtext was dead! (Editor’s note: at time of field research, the author was unaware Duke had a swimming and Jack Katz Stadium diving program.) With a mild amount of physical exertion required, Jack Katz manages to distinguish Cameron Indoor Stadium itself from the easiest stadia. Step over a 3-foot It turns out that you can simply lock the doors fence, walk down some stairs, and scale a fence to a building. The Chomicle regrets its hubris. no higher than 10 feet tall. Congrats, you play (For legal reasons, this is all a joke. Don’t try field hockey now. this at home, kiddos.)

Someone get rid of the loud-ass Chapel bells I have had enough. I get it. The bells have a long and storied not to produce responsible journalism. And I Every weekday, as I’m sitting down to my history at Duke. Most people think they swear to God, there is something about hearing important work as editor of The Chomicle, I’m sound nice. The guy who plays them is called a Christmas carols played at the volume of a rock concert that is going to make me lose it. I hear them in my dreams, taunting me in their deep, booming voice. Okay, I’m making that up, but at least once a week I’m in a EDITOR’S NOTE meeting and I can’t hear myself think over the sound of some lame classical piece. interrupted by the most hideous, earsplitting, carillonneur, which is objectively badass. “DING DONG DING DONG,” the Chapel obnoxious sound known to man: the Chapel This opinion section of this newspaper, bells said when I asked if they had anything to bells. however, exists to air my personal grievances, say for themselves.

Matthew Griffin

Am I too cheap to buy noise-canceling AirPods? Yes. Do I care? No. Should Duke cease a decadesold tradition to suit my needs? Absolutely. So sign my petition to help correct this injustice. Matthew Griffin is the greatest Chomicle editor-in-chief of all time. Because this is satire, it’s up to you to decide whether he means anything he wrote here. Also, he thinks the University carillonneur should get with the times and add some hits to the mix. Who doesn’t want to hear “WAP” on the bells?