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What’s with all the mold on East Campus?

By Ashwin Kulshrestha Senior News Reporter

East Campus may be a dry campus, but this policy has not stopped mold from growing in several of its older dorms.

After reports of mold growth on East Campus, Housing and Residence Life contracted with Anabec, a third-party cleaning company, to examine every window and air conditioning unit in the residence halls.

Following the treatments, students and resident assistants on East Campus commented that the problem’s spread seems to have halted.

“As the semester has gotten underway and the seasons are starting to shift, North Carolina humidity levels cause elevated levels of mold in outdoor air and can impact people with mold sensitivity,” wrote Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, in a September email to East Campus residents. “This typically leads to an increase in student requests to have their air conditioner units inspected for mold, and this year is no different.”

Gonzalez explained in an email to The Chronicle that although the number of concerns submitted to Housing and Residence Life has increased this year, there were no severe developments.

Some students, however, said otherwise.

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NIH to lift restrictions

By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

Nearly two years after they were initially levied on research at Duke, the restrictions imposed by the National Institutes of Health are set to be lifted.

The loosening is contingent on two conditions, according to a memo by Vice President for Research Lawrence Carin obtained by Retraction Watch. The memo— sent Nov. 22 to research faculty, students and staff—indicated that the University would no longer be held to the special requirements if it continues to prioritize scientific integrity, and follows through on its corrective action plan before the start of 2020.

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BEHIND THE SCENES Meet the most important administrator you’ve never heard of Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor

By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

Richard Riddell has won a Tony Award and serves in one of the University’s most powerful administrative positions. But if you survey Duke’s student body or a gathering of theater aficionados, few would be able to recognize him.

That’s because Riddell’s work—formerly as a lighting designer and currently as liaison to Duke’s Board of Trustees— takes place out of the limelight, behind the scenes. He’s never the one delivering a soliloquy in the final act or issuing the final verdicts on University policy. However, Riddell’s quiet coordination of Duke’s most influential decision makers is essential for the institution to function smoothly.

Serving in the capacity since 2007, Riddell is set to step down as senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees at the end of the academic year—but his career hasn’t always focused on administrative tasks.

Riddell won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in 1985 for his work on “Big River,” and shortly thereafter came to Duke as a theater professor in 1992, before working his way up to an administrative role in the early 2000s.

“The theater is very much a collaborative art; it’s very rare that one person does theater,” Riddell told The Chronicle. “There are oneperson shows, but for the most part, it’s an awful lot of people working together to create a production … so you really learn to work well together as a team.

I think administration is the same thing.”

Riddell’s colleagues have high praise for his work. Former President Richard Brodhead—under whom Riddell worked as a special assistant to the provost and university secretary—cited his excellent judgment and efficiency.

“When you go to a great event in the theater, you don’t walk out and say ‘Boy, there was a really good lighting director for that,’” Brodhead said. “It creates the element in which everything works, but you don’t see the signature of the skilled craftsman behind it. And that’s really what Richard’s work has been like for the University.”

From Missouri to Manhattan

theater’s most prestigious prize.

His upbringing in the town, roughly 30 miles north of Kansas City, Mo., was a sort of “Norman Rockwell experience.”

In high school, Riddell found himself interested in the arts, performing in plays and musicals while serving as a disc jockey for a top-40 hits radio station.

“By the time I got to the end of high school, I didn’t see any reason I should go to college,” he said. “I was the drive-time disc jockey on the most popular station in this place.”

But to college he went. Riddell’s father recommended Knox College in Illinois, right on the train line from St. Joseph. The Knox campus had a new theater complex—but going in, Riddell did not have his mind set on the performing arts.

Rather, Riddell entered as a math major and switched to psychology before settling on theater. He began to dabble with backstage work and found the behind-the-scenes aspect of theater more fit to his skillset than acting, which would require a commitment that Riddell wasn’t sure he was ready to make.

“Being an actor just felt a little too out there in terms of a lifestyle, so I pulled back from that a little bit,” he said.

After graduating from Knox in 1972, Riddell’s newfound career goals led him westward to Stanford University. He enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts program but ended up getting a Ph.D. in theater history and design in 1978. Riddell completed his dissertation in Germany, where he worked alongside playwright Samuel Beckett, who had won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Riddell stayed in California following his doctoral work and accepted a job as a theater professor at the University of California, San Diego. Founded in 1960, the college was younger than Riddell when he arrived amid a boom cycle for UCSD’s theater program.

A professional theater company affiliated with the university was gearing up right as Riddell was getting settled on UCSD’s campus, and he hopped aboard. It was there that he worked as the lighting designer on the musical “Big River”—based on Mark Twain’s classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”—that would land Riddell his Tony Award for Best Lighting Design.

He explained that teaching students while working in the theater business was time-consuming, especially with the redeye flights between New York and California.

Growing up in St. Joseph, Mo., Riddell never imagined he’d one day stroll across a stage in Midtown Manhattan to accept

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with the NIH,” he wrote in the memo. “Additional guidance will be delivered to grant managers as soon as we have finished our discussions with the NIH.” The restrictions took effect April 1, 2018, after a series of high-profile research misconduct cases at the University.

The guidelines mandate that researchers submit more thorough itemized budgets of costs for grants exceeding $250,000. In addition, investigators would need to seek NIH approval to roll unused funds into the next budget period.

Carin cited several steps Duke has taken to place greater emphasis on scientific integrity, including establishing an Office of Research.

Other initiatives he highlighted in the memo were the creation of a faculty committee to address research practices, alongside the conclusion of a review undertaken by external consultants.

“Duke has made excellent progress, with all corrective actions promised to the NIH completed, or on track for completion, by the end of this calendar year,” Carin wrote in the memo.

The loosening of restrictions represents a step toward normalcy after a difficult series of consequences for Duke.

In March, the University announced it would pay $112.5 million to the federal government as a settlement for a whistleblower lawsuit.

The research at the center of the lawsuit was performed

by Erin Potts-Kant, formerly a researcher in the pulmonary, allergy and critical care department of Duke Health. PottsKant—who was recently barred from receiving federal funding—published falsified data in 39 papers. The lawsuit alleged that this data had been used to accrue more than $200 million in governmental grant funding.

Anil Potti, a former Duke professor and cancer researcher, was also found to have committed research fraud in a 2015 Office of Research Integrity report. He resigned from his post at the University but currently practices medicine at the Cancer Center of North Dakota in Grand Forks.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke, declined to comment on the memo.

Courtesy of Scott Mahon Residents complained about mold in several East Campus dorms.

MOLD FROM PAGE 1 First-year C.J. Tyson, a resident of Bassett residence hall, told The Chronicle that his mold situation was relatively mild in comparison to that of some of his friends: one friend had a buildup of mold and mildew in his room and later contracted bronchitis. Another was forced to move to a different dorm because she was allergic to the mold.

Another Bassett resident, first-year Scott Mahon, said mold could also be found growing in the common room and under the kitchen AC units.

First-year Ishika Gupta added that Alspaugh residents suspected that the mold growth in their rooms was making them sick.

“I think once HRL and facilities realized that several residents were having the same problem and that it wasn’t just a one-off occurrence, they realized they needed a more large-scale solution,” said an East Campus resident assistant who was granted anonymity. “I will say once they cleaned, we haven’t had any more residents bring up mold issues, so as far as I can tell, it worked really well.”

Mahon seconded this, writing that since HRL finished inspections and cleanings, he has not noticed any additional mold growing in his room.

Mold has been a perennial issue on East and Central Campus in recent years.

Gonzalez added that students can take preventative measures to stop mold from appearing in their rooms.

“Maintaining good room conditions plays an important part in maintaining a healthy environment,” he wrote. “There are things students can do to limit the accumulation of debris in their air conditioning unit, such as regularly sweeping or vacuuming the floor and laundering bedding regularly.”

But the work paid off when “Big River” claimed seven Tonys in 1985, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Lighting Design.

“It was unexpected—this was the first Broadway show for most of us,” he recalled. “It was thrilling.”

Despite the musical’s dominance, Riddell remained characteristically humble when discussing its success.

“Some years on Broadway are filled with just a whole bunch of great musicals, and there’s a lot of competition,” he said. “I kind of feel like that year, it was a little light on competition. We were very fortunate—we swept the awards.”

Riddell had started dabbling in theater in his hometown near the banks of the Missouri River, but now he’d moved on to a bigger river and stage, chronicling Huck Finn’s journey along the Mississippi on Broadway. This change in scenery brought Riddell face-to-face with a pivotal decision.

“For me personally, it was like a door opened. Do you want to walk through it? Do you want to do more shows on Broadway?” he said. “And I did do another show a few years later, but I was really more interested in work in the university as well as the professional side.”

‘Everyone totally trusts him’

Riddell made a pit stop at Harvard University for several years to spend time on its theater faculty, but he would eventually settle down at Duke in 1992.

The culture at Duke was different, he explained, as Riddell went from days working for university-affiliated professional theater companies to hours in the classroom teaching undergraduate students, many of whom were not going into showbiz.

Riddell also entered the University with the mindset of becoming increasingly involved with administration. He served as the department chair for theater studies, formerly the Program in Drama, from 1992 to 2003.

He co-taught a class with Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg, a longtime Broadway theater producer and Duke professor, for several years. The course aimed to cultivate students’ opinions about theater so that they weren’t judging a play by its author or prestige, but rather its contents.

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“Richard is much calmer than I am,” he said. “He was more reliable than I was, I thought. Much more inquisitive and much more intelligent. We made a very interesting combination. I’m more outgoing, and he’s very introspective.”

As the 2000s rolled around, Riddell became more intent on trading in his role as theater studies professor for a post in University administration. He began working in former Provost Peter Lange’s office as a special assistant, where he was an adviser for the arts.

The wheels began turning for his next advancement when newly elected President Richard Brodhead paid a visit to an Arts and Sciences Council meeting. Brodhead recalled watching a “very articulate” professor give a presentation on the arts—that faculty member was, of course, Riddell.

Brodhead assumed the University’s top post in the summer of 2004, and he was soon looking for a special assistant to assume the presidential chief of staff role. He settled on giving Riddell a trial run at the post, which he would later make permanent.

“You need someone who’s the intermediary, who hears things and brings them back to you, who gets a sense of direction from you and carries it out to others,” Brodhead said.

“Richard is just extraordinarily skillful at that.”

The duo would talk up to six times a day about a broad range of subjects, he added.

Brodhead explained that the special assistant job “ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime,” as Riddell worked on Duke’s first ethical investment policy and the finances behind the president’s discretionary fund.

“Everyone totally trusts him because Richard never brings any distortion to anything,” Brodhead explained. “If he speaks to me, and I tell him something, he doesn’t tell you a version of it at a different angle.”

Riddell was also involved with addressing fallout during the infamous lacrosse case, in which he developed the University’s first emergency response plan. Soon after, he would move into one of the top jobs on campus.

2007 marked another step in Riddell’s ascent when he

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succeeded longtime University Secretary Alison Haltom. The new job—one of the five posts in Duke’s executive leadership group—provided Riddell with more challenges, he said, as the position involves integrating the president’s and Board of Trustees’ priorities.

Riddell acts as an informational hub, working with the president and Board to identify initiatives and providing resources to guide the Board’s decision-making.

“What that means is that you have to gather materials to understand issues, but not to tell them what the answer is,” Brodhead said. “You have to frame the important questions and give people the ability to walk in and go to work on them.”

The secretary’s role ranges from “high-level tasks” to “blocking and tackling,” Riddell added, which links up with his past in the theater business.

“There are nine productions that have to be conceived of, developed, scripts written, leading actors identified and executed,” he joked, referring to the four annual Board meetings and five executive committee meetings.

His duties aren’t limited to coordinating Board meetings and helping to set the agenda, however. Riddell has also assisted with major administrative searches during Brodhead’s tenure, including the committee that selected President Vincent Price as Duke’s 10th president.

Jack Bovender, chair of the Board of Trustees, said that Riddell’s work on the presidential search committee and improvements to the Board governance structure were “invaluable.”

“He has the absolute total respect of every member of the Board of Trustees, and I can’t say enough about how important he’s been to the University,” Bovender said.

Riddell also recalled meeting with students from People’s State of the University, who gained attention after interrupting an alumni event featuring Price in 2018. Talking with them alongside other students, Riddell said he found it “rewarding” to learn about the tactics they chose and their motivations.

“I was very pleased that the students found ways to achieve some of the goals they had through dialogue with administrators and different parts of the University,” he said.

“I think that the students helped me see that students come to Duke with all sorts of different experiences with someone in my position.”

Riddell is proudest of the Board’s evolution during his tenure, as he explained that it has transformed into a group of trustees more focused on strategic thinking.

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beyond the Board and president.

“If you want to know what Richard’s legacy is, his legacy is the success of others,” he said. “And that’s not just the president, it’s actually many people at the University.”

‘That was a lot of fun’

Over the past 10 years, Duke has made strides in the right direction, but that doesn’t mean that everything is perfect, Riddell said. The University faces similar challenges to other top colleges around the nation, namely attracting students from different backgrounds given Duke’s finite financial aid resources.

He hopes that Duke can become a place where students who are concerned or want to learn more about an issue feel comfortable meeting with administrators—and where both sides will listen.

As for his post-Duke plans, Riddell doesn’t have anything set in stone. He retains his post as professor of the practice in theater studies, so perhaps a return to teaching lies somewhere in the future. Hiking and reading might also be on the table, as they’re activities he enjoys in his spare time.

After his retirement, he will leave behind a community of admiring colleagues.

“Richard is the most modest person in the world,” Brodhead said. “You’ll never find his fingerprints on anything.”

Sally Churchill, vice president and secretary of the University of Michigan, explained that she has been working with Riddell for more than 10 years.

“Richard has a great sense of humor, a deep love and respect for higher education and the education provided at Duke, and an abiding commitment to students,” she wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “He has unquestionable integrity and always takes the long view, which we need to do in these positions supporting governance. I will miss him greatly at our professional meetings; they simply won’t be the same without him.”

However, not all of Riddell’s fondest memories from his time at the University are work-related—he fondly recalled watching the Rolling Stones when they came to perform in Wallace Wade Stadium in 2005. He watched the concert with a small group, atop a sports medicine building next to the field.

“I remember the people I was watching with were about my age—so 50s, 60s—and they were just rocking out to these songs. It was a warm, beautiful night, and there was Mick Jagger running around the stage in Wallace Wade Stadium,” he said. “That was a lot of fun.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Duke suffers first nonconference home loss since 2000

By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

Nineteen years, 150 games and one mind-boggling record... all gone in a similarly crazy night.

For the first time since before six Blue Devils were born, Duke lost to a nonconference opponent at home.

In a sloppy game full of turnovers and fastpaced action, No. 1 Duke fell in an overtime nail-biter 85-83 against Stephen F. Austin Tuesday night. With the ball loose and the clock winding 85 down in overtime, SFA DUKE 83 the Lumberjacks’ Nathan Bain came up with the ball, escaping for a buzzerbeating, game-winning layup in front of a stunned Cameron Indoor Stadium crowd.

The Blue Devils’ last home nonconference loss came Feb. 26, 2000 to St. John’s.

“No one on our team got back on defense really when the shot went up,” Vernon Carey Jr. said on the final play. “I think it happened like four times in the second half, so it felt like it was just bound to happen.”

After the Lumberjacks tied the game up with a lay-in from Gavin Kensmil, the Blue Devils missed two chances to win in regulation on shots from Tre Jones and Cassius Stanley. The teams went into overtime tied at 81.

“We were not good, and [Stephen F. Austin] made us that way,” Duke head

coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “This isn’t just about us not showing up or whatever.

They played really well. Sometimes when I’m talking about what we didn’t do, I don’t want to disrespect their performance. Their performance was outstanding and they deserve recognition for that, not that we didn’t do something. They did it to us. They made us look bad.”

With the final four minutes of regulation still a back-and-forth affair, Stephen F. Austin took a three-point lead after a Stanley charge and things looked grim for Duke. Then, Carey pulled the Blue Devils within one, while Stanley gave the Blue Devils the lead back with a triple. The Lumberjacks answered back with a three from David Kachelries to take a 78-77 lead with under two minutes to play.

“We just felt like they out-fought us tonight, that’s what hurts,” senior captain Jack White said. “That’s something that we want our identity to be, you know. No one plays harder than us, no one defends harder than us. I know we all regret it.”

Stephen F. Austin ranks tops in the nation in turnovers forced per game with almost 26 per contest, and, despite the experience of Jones, the Blue Devils coughed the ball up 22 times. The Lumberjacks also matched Duke in its own game, tying the offensive rebound battle despite the Blue Devils leading the country in that category.

“They’re an old group, older guys,” Jones said on their opponent’s defense. “They’re strong, athletic guys, but they gamble a ton. So

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Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devil squad suffered its first loss in Cameron Indoor Stadium to a nonconference opponent since 2000 Tuesday. if you’re not strong with it, if you’re not sharp, then you’re definitely going to turn the ball over and that was our issue tonight.”

Duke broke out to a 15-point lead in the opening period, but a response by the opposition made the second half a back-andforth affair, with the Blue Devils failing to stretch the lead to anything more than seven points. Stephen F. Austin easily found points in the paint, and Duke struggled from the

free throw line all night. With eight minutes to play in the contest, the Lumberjacks took their first lead since the opening minute of the game, at 64-62.

After six straight victories to start the season, a 2K Empire Classic title and a No. 1 ranking, the Blue Devils simply collapsed.

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FOOTBALL

Blue Devils topple Miami in regular season finale

By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

Duke had always known that it would be playing the Hurricanes to end the regular season. It just happened to turn out that it practically played in one, too.

In a rainy, offensive struggle for both teams mirroring last year’s contest, the Blue Devils ultimately prevailed on Senior Day 27-17 against Miami Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium. Defensive end Chris Rumph II wreaked havoc on the Hurricane offense, recording 3.5 sacks, the second-most alltime in a game at Duke.

“The [defensive] tackles got pressure and the ends got up the field,” Rumph emphasized on the 17 defensive pressure.

MIA DUKE 27 “We played relentless and with our hair on fire tonight, and that’s where the end result came from.”

Despite the win, the Blue Devils’ season is over with the team missing a bowl game for the first time since 2016 and for just the second time in eight years. There was a chance coming into the game that Duke could sneak into a bowl game with five wins, but enough teams ended the day with six wins that the season is now officially over.

“Everybody has a team when things go bad, let it get worse and check out,” Duke

head coach David Cutcliffe said. “With really no opportunity to play in a bowl game and all of those things, it didn’t matter. That’s not what that effort is about. That effort

was about pride, about the program. We talked about it all week long.”

After a timely stop early in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils would get a

much needed break. Taking over from the Hurricanes’ 40 yard line, they used an 18yard reception from freshman Jalon Calhoun to set up a two-yard touchdown from Deon Jackson. The score gave Duke a 20-17 lead, one it would not relinquish.

The Blue Devils stopped Miami yet again moments later, and quarterback Quentin Harris would ice the game with a 49-yard touchdown pass to Calhoun.

“I made [the staff] look at a reel of every explosive Miami has given up this season, run or pass,” Cutcliffe said. “We sat there and we watched it, and in reality, there was nothing necessarily perfectly executed. It was the attempt itself, allowing playmakers to make plays. So I think the point was taken.”

In the final game of his career, Harris completed just 10-of-24 passes for 156 yards. However, the redshirt senior stepped up big late, totaling two of the Blue Devils’ three touchdowns. On the other side of the ball, Hurricanes’ signal caller Jarren Williams played a similar game, completing just 42.3 percent of his passes.

“We practiced for it a lot. It’s not easy, I would say,” Harris said on throwing in the rain. “The biggest thing is just timing because guys are a little bit slower out of their cuts.

But it can work both ways as you kind of saw with the pass to Jalon there; the defender lost

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Quentin Harris accounted for a pair of touchdowns in his last game as a Blue Devil.

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Baker goes on spree in Duke’s Black Friday win

By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

After losing a 19-year home nonconference winning streak earlier this week in embarrassing fashion, there was only one thing left for the Blue Devils to do... start a new one.

And that’s just what they did Friday night, though it wasn’t pretty—and it certainly looked familiar.

No. 1 Duke overcame a rough first half to pull away late from Winthrop 83-70 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. In what was supposed to be the relatively easy portion of their schedule, the Blue Devils struggled to gain any momentum throughout the night. Freshman Matthew Hurt paced all scorers with 20 points, while sophomore Tre Jones pitched in 13 points and six assists in the win.

Most notably, though, sophomore Joey Baker chipped in a career-high 16 points on four made long-range bombs.

“It was a big win for us, especially coming after Tuesday,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We played hard and well tonight, not all the 70 time, but much WIN than DUKE 83 different Tuesday. If we had played this way Tuesday, we would have won.

We had to play this way to win tonight.”

Many of Duke’s problems from Tuesday, when the team gave up 64 points in the paint, were evident again as the Eagles scored 20 of their 35 first half points in the paint. The once offensive rebound-dominant Blue Devils were controlled for the second straight game, with Winthrop winning that battle 11 to eight.

Down by seven after the final media timeout of the game, Eagle guard Chandler Vaudrin missed the front end of a one-and-one, and Vernon Carey Jr. promptly put the Blue Devils (7-1) up by double-digits with a hoop and the harm. Baker would go on to hit two triples under the threeminute mark to seal the game.

Holding just a 57-53 advantage midway through the second half, Duke rode the energy of a massive dunk from Carey to slowly pull away from

STREAK BROKEN FROM PAGE 6 not respond well to winning in New York,” Krzyzewski emphasized. “No matter what we set or attain, my feeling is they thought that they were just going to win. I’m not even going to say they thought it was going to be easy because nothing is ever easy. But they just assume you’re going to win, instead of ‘we’re going to be in a fight.’”

Although Duke (6-1) came into the game just 171st in the country in fieldgoal percentage, the Blue Devils shot 57.7 percent during the first half, including a 9-for-11 start to the contest. A shooting performance of that caliber should spell trouble for the underdog Lumberjacks.

However, 11 turnovers in the first frame allowed for Stephen F. Austin to erase a 15-point deficit. Duke took just a 45-40 lead at the end of the first half.

“We didn’t respond at timeouts or at halftime to a different level of emotion, and we lost,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s a very difficult loss, but it’s also a loss where if we

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Joey Baker had a career night against Winthrop, putting up an efficient 16 points.

Winthrop stayed on cue, with no player scoring more than 11 points against Duke.

Like their 15-point lead against Stephen F. Austin, the Blue Devils came out of the gate strong in the second half, running the offense through Jones to push their lead. However, like Tuesday, the hosts got sloppy and the lead was cut to as close as four points.

The Blue Devils certainly needed a win to forget about their 85-83 overtime loss to the Lumberjacks, a game that snapped the aforementioned 150-game streak.

“Just getting back to ourselves tonight,” Jones said on the team’s mindset. “We had a tough couple days of practice. We had meetings, film.

Felt like we learned a lot about our team, about ourselves over the last couple days. We just wanted to get back to our basketball tonight. Get back to Duke basketball and get back to doing what we do best.”

Despite the win, it didn’t come without a price for Krzyzewski and his squad. With just over a minute left, Jones found a wide-open Cassius Stanley streaking towards the basket in transition. While the Cameron Crazies expected a high-flying jam, the freshman guard seemed to take an awkward step when he jumped, missing the lay-up and crumpling to the floor holding his left leg. He would go to the locker room and not return to action.

“For Cassius, right away we thought it was his knee, heard something pop,” Krzyzewski said. “Structurally, based on what our doctors say right now, it’s not the knee. Something happened with his hamstring that he heard pop, so it’s muscular. He’ll have an MRI tomorrow. But we don’t think it’s a knee injury, which is very very good. He’s going to be out for a while… Hopefully right after Christmas.

That’s my hope.”

Next week, the Blue Devils will once again leave Durham, this time for the ACC-Big Ten Challenge against No. 3 Michigan State. Then, the young Duke team will open ACC play on the road against Virginia Tech. It remains to be seen if the hostile environments will overwhelm the Blue Devils or will give them the perfect opportunity to rid their current Cameron demons.

the Eagles. However, the Blue Devils could never seem to put the nail in the coffin. From the slam to a Joey Baker drawn charge to a steal and layin from Jordan Goldwire, Duke never found the moment to ice the game comfortably.

“Just continuing to try to grind them out, possession by possession,” Jones said on the team closing out games. “I think we wanted to come out tonight and explode right away, try to go up 20 right away… we were all trying to make the home run play in just one play, and that’s impossible. So, I think we were trying to get ahead of ourselves a little bit.”

Thanks to those easy looks in the paint and a 1-for-7 start from the floor for Duke, Winthrop (4-4) kept it close for the first 16 minutes of the first half with neither team able to gain more than a three-point lead. With the game tied at 32, the Blue Devils were able to create their first inches of separation thanks to a seven-point spurt capped by a Jones deep ball. Jones struggled with ball security once again with 10 combined turnovers this week. However, he certainly didn’t lose his scoring aggression on the offensive end.

“Well, we’re playing good people,” Krzyzewski emphasized on Jones’ play. “Look, we were horrible on Tuesday. So you can take that game and whatever stats you want. That’s not who we are. Tonight, you would have turned the ball over about 80 times if [Russell] Jones was guarding you… We’re happy with Tre. He’s got the ball in his hands all the time.”

Along with Hurt, sophomore Joey Baker played a key role in keeping the game close in the first half, hitting his first three shots ,including two triples for eight first half points. Hurt led all scorers at the break with 18 points, but Duke carried just a 42-35 lead heading into halftime.

“We have a really balanced team,” Baker said. “A lot of different guys can play and it just depends on the team and the matchups, whoever’s got it going that night.”

The Eagles are yet another group that relies on forcing turnovers. That, combined with a balanced scoring attack provided a huge challenge for the Blue Devils. With its leading scorer averaging just over 12 points per contest coming into the night,

would have won, we would not be deserving of winning.”

Stephen F. Austin (5-1) was paced by leading-scorer Kevon Harris, who finished with 26 points on 11-of-19 shooting. The senior physically overwhelmed Stanley and fellow freshman Wendell Moore, scoring 20 of his points in the first half. However, the Blue Devils came out with an answer for Harris, who scored just six points in the second half.

“We just decided to take it personal,” Stanley said on how the team adjusted on Harris. “Coach told me, ‘Don’t let him score in the second half,’ and that’s what I tried to do. But, other guys stepped up and it’s a team thing, not just an individual thing. We deserved to lose for sure.”

Things didn’t exactly go the Blue Devils’ way coming out of the break either. Three minutes into the second half, Cameron started rocking. Jones found Stanley on a baseline out-of-bounds play for an intense slam, then Duke forced another turnover with a jump-ball.

Despite the crowd, it wasn’t enough to keep the Lumberjacks down.

Stephen F. Austin’s Kevon Harris torched the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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defense with a fake to Deon Jackson before breaking through to the secondary, making FROM PAGE 6 a man miss and scoring his seventh rushing touchdown of the season. The 24-yard his footing.... For the most part, I think we scamper gave Duke a 10-7 lead early in the did a pretty good with that. I think the ball second quarter. gets a little heavier sometimes. Sometimes “I think [Miami] wore a little bit,” it slips and goes a little bit higher, but for Cutcliffe said on what clicked for the Blue the most part it was pretty normal I think, Devils late offensively. “Our defense helped handling the ball.” wear down their defense. Our defense was After giving up at least 38 points in each getting off the field. We weren’t just doing of the last three weeks, a rejuvenated Duke nothing offensively. We were going fast defense was stout to open the game. Miami’s every time they came out there. We were first three possessions all ended with three- making them compete. Finally, when you and-outs with the secondary specifically start running the ball again, they didn’t coming up big with pass breakups. On his have a really good answer. I think tempo Senior Day, safety Dylan Singleton as well as allows you to run the ball better than it does linebacker Shaka Heyward led the defense anything else.” with 10 tackles apiece.

The start to the second half was very “These seniors work too hard and they’re similar to the first offensively for Duke, just leaders. We just wanted to send them however, the defense made sure to keep out on a high note,” Rumph said about the things close. The defensive line hounded team’s effort. “We played hard the whole Williams all game and finished with nine game, no matter the weather. The coaches sacks. Duke may have beaten Miami, but gave us a great game plan going into the neither team could beat the rain. The game, and we just executed.”

Hurricanes would extend their lead to 17Despite the defense coming up big, the 13 midway through the quarter thanks to a Blue Devils (5-7, 3-5 in the ACC) struggled huge punt return from K.J. Osborn to the to put the ball in the end zone to start. Duke 14-yard line.

Throwing a wet ball, Harris couldn’t get a “Couldn’t be more proud of the effort great grip on the ball on throws down the that guys put together tonight,” Harris field. One of his most accurate throws of emphasized. “We talk about getting fourth the night, however, bounced off the hands quarter victories all the time and we have of an open Darrell Harding Jr. in the back of them posted up in our weight room, just the end zone, and A.J. Reed would miss the games that we were down in the fourth ensuing 46-yard field goal attempt. quarter and found a way to win. But I think It was only a matter of time before that perfectly encapsulates the mindset of Miami (6-6, 4-4) broke through offensively Duke football and just playing four quarters, and it came with the help of some trickery, out-willing your opponent.” as punter Lou Hedley took the snap on a The 2019 campaign has now come to fourth-and-1 for 21 yards and new life. The a close for the Blue Devils, who were on Hurricanes took advantage five plays later a five-game slide before Saturday. The with Cam’Ron Harris scoring from eight program now turns its attention to a new yards out. era with Harris’ time at Duke coming to an With the passing game faltering, Harris end. The Blue Devils will return 16 starters decided to take things into his own hands next season as they try to put themselves the following drive with back Sales in ACC Coastal Division contention Thethe Newhighlight York Times of Syndication Corporation Eighth off Avenue, N.Y. 10018 the half. The redshirt-senior620 looked the New forYork, 2020.

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When the unexamined becomes the unlived

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y junior year literature teacher wore colorful scarves and sang the Rolling Stones. His recounts from his life along with the works of Shakespeare and Jane Austen and others made his class a collection of stories.

Honor Council INTEGRITY OVER IMAGE As the leaves turned from green to orange outside the classroom window, he had our class read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” for a homework assignment one day. The story is about a speaker trapped in his own mind. He goes through cycles of questioning the surrounding world, which leaves him feeling paralyzed and unable to take action.

I recalled this story as I began to craft a Chronicle article about religion and morality. I was writing after an interfaith panel Honor Council hosted about religion framing moral compasses and lifestyles. The discussion was exceedingly nuanced. Processing this event for me became perpetual extrapolation, which caused the writing to seem too lofty. I considered how the article would be more like a potential object of satire for other Chroniclers.

hot take of the week “Duke students are pre-professional because they’re afraid to value themselves.”

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Writing the article critically and truthfully while acknowledging its limitations and that my ideas are in constant flux presented a challenge. One thought led to the next until I was approaching the article with such a broad sweep of multifaceted issues, and I was essentially becoming trapped in my mind—I began seeing my arguments like a nearly unsolvable one-thousand piece puzzle that malevolent designers created without borders or a picture to go off of.

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the speaker exists in the world of the mind. There is a tension between “going where the evening is spread out against the sky” and the command “let us go where the evening is spread out against the sky.” This tension is between critically analyzing our selves and our worlds and actually living in them. And per my mother’s impeccable advice—yes, I need to think critically, recognize ambiguity, seek to understand complex themes, but I also need to brush my teeth. I need to step out of the clouds and into my world.

I am ironically considering this elusive balance between considering things all the time and allowing my mind to rest from considering things all the time. Living an examined life calls for both examining and living out the multitudes of mundane moments that constitute living. The balance reminds me of a mountain, which has a surrounding valley—I need time in the valley to spend time on the mountain and vice versa.

This time in the valley is the margin. It is watching the rain without thinking about anything in particular at all. It is being lost in a piano piece just to play, or joining in a basketball game at the end of a day. It is walking around without a destination in mind, or talking with a friend who on the plaza you happen to

find. It is an action that breaks up the time the mind is spent in the clouds covering the mountain. In this time, the focus is on the mundane—the teeth I am brushing, the rain I am watching—and it is an embracing of my self and my world. The time on the mountain is also vital in learning and growing. It is a time examining our lives, engaging in necessary and difficult conversations about the crux of issues, and asking questions about purpose and meaning.

Honor Council is a group seeking to climb the mountain, with one foot in the valley and one foot on the peak. We aim to reconcile margin and productivity.

We focus on action—the most important part of the Community Standard is indeed taking action in the face of moral wrong—and we also think critically about what is moral wrong, having a higher moral standard for a diverse community, and many other ethical questions. There is a balance between analyzing our organization and focusing outward on taking action in the community. My call to action is finding the balance between taking time to introspect and taking action to make positive change in our community.

When I read and consider opinions and ideas, I find myself recalling again my scarf-donning teacher and his class and how the balance between the margin and mountain meets in stories. Stories bring humanity to the lofty ideas trapped in my mind, and they bring magic to the moments of living.

This column was written by Margaret Gaw, a sophomore Trinity student. Honor Council’s column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Editor’s note: This column was originally published online on November 26.

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he Chronicle Opinion section has a reputation for being a sounding board for complaints— and rightly so. Every day, opinion writers (myself included) release new pieces slamming Duke, its faculty or its students.

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is not to say that atrocities are rare, but rather, that for every noted horror story, there is an unwritten, unnoted story of love and happiness.

Research shows that the cost of this hyperconsumption of negative news can contribute to issues such as agoraphobia, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, religious and racial intolerance and depression. While there is an artillery of data proving the detrimental effects of this phenomenon, it seems intuitive that as empathetic social creatures, we feel pain and anxiety when confronted with an infinite daily stream of human suffering.

While the Chronicle and its reporters and columnists are not in pursuit of providing click-bait, the presentation and consumption of bad news without account of the good runs rampant in both the Opinion and News sections of the Chronicle. We as columnists and reporters, perhaps unintentionally, model what we see from professional news sources. Plus, Duke, being the problematic institution that it is, is an easy target.

If someone who doesn’t go to Duke was to learn about our school through the lens of the Chronicle, they might assume its students to be a miserable bunch, learning from ignorant professors, studying at an institution that corroborates evil powers in support of ICE, all within a social culture that breeds exclusivity and greed. While these are realities, they do not tell the full story.

For every hate group or immoral person who comes to speak at Duke, there is an altruistic group and a speaker in pursuit of peace and justice. These just don’t make the headlines.

For every scamming researcher, there are over a thousand researchers pursuing ethical work. While it makes perfect sense for a disturbance of the peace to make a headline, the peace itself should be highlighted, too.

Although critiques of Duke may not weigh as heavy on the heart as headlines of war, political corruption and human plight due to climate change, consuming negative news about the space we inhabit is likely to contribute to a negative perception, or negative “availability heuristic” of our surroundings.

The Chronicle could be a source of celebration of the joy, love and greatness that exist at Duke just as much as it is a platform to expose its problems. It’s time I do a better job of striking a balance.

This work, I believe, is part of what makes the Chronicle so important—it is highly critical of how we function as a powerful institution. We should interrogate and critique the power hungry finance and consulting culture, toxic masculinity and rampant “effortless perfection” on campus. Nonetheless, I think the opinion section is on the verge of being a homogenous outlet for campus critique.

This is not unique to the Chronicle, as the majority of news sources present their consumers with stories of disaster, corruption, and violence. With this in mind, the impossible question is whether or not the majority of the world’s happenings are actually that… negative.

Worryingly, a high proportion of negative news is capable of distorting our perceptions of the world.

Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman coined the term, “availability heuristic,” people’s estimate of the probability or frequency of an event based on the ease with which it comes to mind. When people are presented day after day with stories on shootings, murders, airplane crashes and kidnappings, they are likely to assume these improbable events present an imminent danger, eliciting constant anxiety and paranoia.

While these are tragic realities of the world, news outlets are more inclined to present readers with news likely to trigger an emotionally negative reaction.

The amygdala, the fear and rage response center in our brains, scans our sensory input, remaining alert of any potential dangers.

The amygdala may be critical to our survival, but it calls our attention to negative news coverage. Consequently, the world’s many evils get wrapped into click-bait, or, “something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on it.”

As a result, readers are inundated every day with Bella Miller is a Trinity senior. Her column, “make Duke countless headlines of the latest manifestations of evil in weird,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. Editor’s note: This column the world and offered little evidence of its many joys. This was originally published online on November 26.

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Duke, do you hear me? Accessibility for the Deaf

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hen I was thirteen, I failed my hearing test. I had faced problems with my ears before—recurrent ear infections led to a childhood ear surgery, as well as some reduced hearing ability. But this time, something was different. Unbeknownst to me, what had started as a small hole in my right eardrum had become an expanding perforation that, by the time it was caught, was the size of my eardrum itself. It would end up taking two surgeries and about a year to reconstruct my eardrum, leaving me nearly half deaf in the meantime. The reconstruction was successful (though I am still mildly hard of hearing), but this experience transformed the way I view the world.

positive terms like “Deaf gain” and “differently abled” to describe themselves, instead of negative ones like “hearing loss.”

As I learned the hard way, though, this doesn’t mean the Deaf don’t face accessibility challenges.

The problems I’ve faced as a hard-of-hearing student are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to accessibility issues for the Deaf. Because I can use and understand oral English, I can interact easily with hearing people. Though there are some strategies the Deaf can learn to interact with oral language users, such as lip reading, speech therapy, and cued speech, these are not languages in and of themselves, and they are not always effective—an experienced lip reader, for example, may still only

Bailey Bogle GUEST COLUMN Even at the peak of my half-deafness, I did not miss my hearing. What I did miss, however, was being a full participant in our hearing-centric society. I pretended to laugh at jokes I couldn’t hear in the cafeteria, missed out on educational videos without captions, and mourned the loss of whispered middle-school gossip in the library. When taken together, these small, everyday inconveniences caused me great frustration and isolation. Accessibility is not always a consideration or priority for people to whom everything is accessible, and many of my friends and teachers, though wellmeaning, didn’t always understand how to accommodate me and ensure I was included.

Being deaf or hard of hearing is not a bad thing—it’s just different. Deaf people live their lives just like hearing people do, from driving cars to enjoying music. There is also a flourishing Deaf community and culture with which many Deaf individuals strongly identify. This is why many Deaf people prefer more

catch 40% of what is being said, and cued speech is not widely known and used. It’s because of this that Sign Language is one of the best options for the Deaf.

In America, the Deaf use American Sign Language, or ASL. Just like spoken languages, there are many different sign languages, and each one has its own grammatical structure, vocabulary, and regional dialects. Everyone deserves language, whether they are hearing or not, and Sign Languages allow the Deaf to fully communicate in ways spoken language often cannot.

One of the greatest barriers to accessibility for the Deaf is the lack of ASL education and cultural knowledge in the United States. Imagine boarding a plane and missing out on vital safety information, or being unable to communicate with paramedics during a medical emergency. Or, imagine being unable to communicate with a police officer who doesn’t understand your culture, needs, or language—will she know that you’re not disobeying orders, and that you need your hands to talk?

These are some of the very real challenges that ASL users face, in addition to general inconveniences, social isolation, and educational or occupational barriers.

If more hearing people took ASL courses, though, things could look much different. A person who’s learned about Deaf culture may later work for a theater and advocate for inclusive performances, and a doctor who knows even basic ASL may be able to get life-saving information from her patient before the interpreter arrives. In order to change our society for the better, it’s vital that hearing people have the ability and willingness to learn about Deaf culture, accessibility, and language.

We need our future teachers, doctors, and politicians to understand the necessity of accessibility and to practice it in their own careers. At Duke, though—at least as things stand—this is not an option. We are shamefully behind when it comes to introducing American Sign Language to the curriculum, despite overwhelming student interest and the examples set by our peer schools.

In the two years since I started the Duke American Sign Language club, hundreds of students expressed interest in ASL or taken our free, weekly lessons. As a tour guide, I’ve had multiple hard-of-hearing students join my tours–and every one of them has left disappointed that Duke, unlike its peer schools like Harvard and Yale, doesn’t offer ASL education.

By not offering ASL, Duke is both limiting its students and harming our school’s accessibility and reputation. If Duke wants to realize its stated values of inclusion and leadership, then the University must offer ASL education and begin to broaden the scope of its accommodations for Deaf and hardof-hearing students on campus.

Bailey Bogle is a Trinity junior and the founder of the Duke American Sign Language Club. If you are a Duke student or faculty/staff member and you agree, please sign Duke ASL’s petition to introduce ASL courses and call on the University to do better—because quite frankly, we can.

The confidence of a mediocre white man

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y junior fall, I spent many weekend nights with my roommate working on internship applications. In our double facing main quad, we’d sit at our desks or curled

the confidence of a mediocre white male, but we weren’t the first to use the phrase. The internet seems to agree that it first showed up in a tweet by the Canadian writer Sarah Hagi back in 2015. Etsy has a whole slew

and didn’t feel like I needed to be heard, every networking opportunity I skipped or botched, every time someone’s made me question whether I belonged in a space, every time I got (probably unconsciously)

of mugs, shirts, tote bags, buttons, crossstich patterns, and stickers that say: “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

The confidence gap is well-documented, with terms like “imposter syndrome” and the need to “lean in.” One study found that men would apply to a job if they felt like they met 50% of the listed qualifications, while women wouldn’t apply unless they met 90% of the qualifications. Professionally, women “choose” to go into less competitive fields.

Men consistently overestimate their abilities relative to women.

Part of me used to and still does live in awe of that confidence. I wonder what it’s like to move through spaces without questioning your assumptions, without having to wonder whether your voice is interesting or relevant.

Sometimes I want to know what it’s like to be less qualified and more confident. I worry about how these kinds of day to day interactions will bleed into my post-grad life, both in my personal interactions and in the professional world.

At the same time, every time I hear an extra voice because I decided to keep my mouth shut, every difficult experience I can speak to and give advice on because I’ve experienced some variety of it myself, it feels worth it to not subscribe to those norms of confidence. Because of course, confidence is the product of so many other societal factors.

Every seminar class where I didn’t speak up

interrupted, every time I felt like I wasn’t being taken seriously, every email where I go back and recalibrate the number of exclamation points to convey the right balance between seriousness and friendliness, every weird glance I’ve gotten when I take up “too much” space, whatever makes me feel like I have to make my points concise and be insightful witty and thoughtful all in one breath. Sometimes I’m pretty sure it wasn’t sure if it was all just in my head.

And after all, this is Duke, and we all got here in part by playing the system remarkably well. Perhaps it’s not productive to spend so much time dwelling on confidence, or lack thereof. All the effort put towards having confidence took away from answering very real questions, like: How do I balance the very real need to have summer plans with

Amy Fan FANGIRLING up in bed, typing away at our computers, editing cover letters and resumes, filling out applications, doing coding challenges, recording video interviews, emailing recruiters, preparing for interviews, updating our internship spreadsheets—all the things that made up “recruitment.”

There were a lot of benefits to going through this process with a friend. We’d share resources, ask, “does this sound impressive?” about specific language on our resumes, read email drafts aloud to each other, question how to navigate the foreign network of LinkedIn (Why does my resume need to be visible to the world? Why are people posting their internship offers? Should I change my privacy settings? Maybe I should just get off LinkedIn?). We’d commiserate about the vagueness of job descriptions (Am I really exceptionally detail-oriented and organized?), give each other pep talks, trying to bring some human emotion into what otherwise felt like a cold and uncaring process.

But what’s stuck with me the most is the time we spent on conversations.

Am I qualified? Am I that good? When will people find out that I’m a farce? Why am I applying to all these jobs? Why are people going to judge me so much based off of where I work? What if I don’t live up to “their” expectations? How much time could I save by not worrying about this?

I’m not sure when we started talking about

wait, do I actually want to do this? Had preprofessionalism seeped so far into my life that my roommate couldn’t just be my friend on a Friday night rather than my informal career coach?

Sometimes, on those weekend nights, when the pep talks were just too many words, when the concern was there but the emotional energy wasn’t, I probably spat out the words “MEDIOCRE WHITE MALE” at her, as a shorter version of: Just apply to the position. You’re probably not going to get it, but that’s not a reason not to do it. There’s someone out there more confident and less qualified than you who’s throwing their name into the hat with much less concern. The world is going to work this way. It’s not fair.

We’ve given each other all the reassurances like “You’re not the one to make the judgement.

Don’t reject yourself before they reject you.”

There’s enough rejection that happens on this campus professionally, academically, socially— that sometimes there just needs to be an acknowledgement that it happens. I hear you.

Just apply to the position.

But of course, that’s much easier said than done.

Amy Fan is a Trinity senior. Her column, “fangirling,” typically runs on alternate Thursdays. Editor’s note: This column was originally published online on November 26.

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