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Professors share their stories as low-income, first-gen students By William He Staff Reporter

Higher education institutions like Duke are gateways to opportunity and success for many low-income and first-generation college students. They are also home to professors who once stood in those students’ shoes and used their education to get into academia. Here are some professors from Duke who were low-income, firstgeneration college students.

Jen’nan Read

Jen’nan Read, Sally Dalton Robinson professor of sociology, chair of the department of sociology, was born in the United States and moved to Benghazi, Libya at six months old, attending an international school there. When the Reagan administration ordered attacks on a nearby town, Read immigrated back to Texas for high school. Read was a first-generation college student, as her parents did not complete their bachelor’s degrees. Growing up, her mother did not work and Read’s family received food stamps. While attending Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, Read worked at Albertsons and as a contractor for 30 to 35 hours a week to fund her education. In addition, she served as student body president and was working toward a degree in sociology. “Having worked three jobs through college gave me that little bit of edge because I never took anything for granted,” Read said. After graduating from Midwestern State, Read worked toward her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and did postdoctoral work at Rice University. During that time, Read’s

mother finished her bachelor’s degree at Midwestern State, an event Read described as an “empowering” experience. Read recognizes the impact that being a low income, firstgeneration student had on her. She emphasizes that her busy schedule forced her to allocate time and compartmentalize effectively, making her appreciate her time more. “That taught me that there is no way to do a little bit of everything,” Read said, “you’ve got to focus.” Read’s college experience has also impacted the way she interacts with undergraduate students in her sociology class. At the beginning of each course, she hands out a questionnaire to better understand her students’ backgrounds and struggles, as she acknowledges the diversity at Duke. “Just because students are at Duke doesn’t mean that they got everything handed to them,” said Read, “I see a lot of students who are really stressed out and I feel like I understand where they’re coming from.” Read’s current work focuses on Middle Eastern immigrants and assimilation, health care inequality and gender.

Terrie Moffitt

Terrie Moffitt, Nannerl O. Keohane University professor of psychology and neuroscience, grew up in rural North Carolina in a dairy-farming family. A low-income, first-generation student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Moffitt studied psychology as an undergraduate. To help finance her education, Moffitt worked at the parking lot for the city every night from 6 p.m. to midnight. Moffitt’s strict schedule of work and study held her back from See PROFESSORS on Page 3

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Board of Trustees learns about Durham economic development By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

At its Friday panels and Saturday meeting, the Duke Board of Trustees affirmed its goals of promoting development and entrepreneurship in Durham and discussed the limitations of the new NCAA rules. President Vincent Price and Board Chair Jack Bovender spoke with The Chronicle after the Saturday morning meeting.

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Special to The Chronicle From top left, going clockwise: Terrie Moffitt, Kishor Trivedi, Kenneth Brown, Jen’nan Read.

On Friday, trustees heard from three panels. The first dealt with Durham’s economic development, featuring city and regional leaders such as Durham City Manager Thomas Bonfield and Johnson Akinleye, chancellor of North Carolina Central University. The second panel informed trustees on Durham’s entrepreneurial scene. The panel was made up of business leaders, investors and researchers. Finally, trustees learned about what peer institutions like Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University are doing in regard to research commercialization. Price said that Duke’s long-term goal is to promote economic development and innovation in the region, which requires finding the best faculty, investing in science and technology and establishing formal systems for research commercialization. “More than anything else, it means cooperation with community leaders, local corporations to create a system where there’s as little friction as possible and as much promotion of these research discoveries as possible, so you shorten the timeline from when something’s discovered on campus and its See TRUSTEES on Page 3

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What’s the best hot chocolate on campus? A definitive ranking By Alex Leo-Guerra Recess Staff Writer

Preetha Ramachandran Staff Reporter

Days are shorter, nights are colder, break is almost here and the smell of peppermint makes everyone tremble with the spirit of the holidays. There’s no better season for curling up with a warm drink as you cram for finals. For some that might be coffee, for others it’s tea, but for many, it’s a good cup of hot chocolate. A cup of hot chocolate can be a great means of relaxation. Take in the flavor and you can often feel at ease, relaxed with the comfort of cacao’s liquid embrace and imparted with a sense of warmth within your soul. There are many places to get it on campus, but do you know which one is best? The Chronicle took a look into various vendors that serve the beverage to help make your cocoa conundrums a bit easier to resolve. The Chronicle selected seven places where a student is most likely to grab a cup: Au Bon Pain, Bella Union, Beyu Blue, Café, The Nasher Museum Café, Trinity Café and Vondy. We rated them from 1 to 5 (1 being the worst, 5 being the best) based on five factors. CHOCOLATINESS looked at the flavor and power of chocolate within each drink, discerning how noticeable its presence was and the impact it had on us. COMFORT FACTOR refers to the personal sense of comfort we felt while we were drinking it—think of it as a warm, chocolate embrace that results from each sip. MILKINESS refers to the presence of a milky flavor in the cup. BOLDNESS refers to how strong the combined flavors were. “HITS RIGHT” refers to the loving punch

that you feel within your soul as you take each sip. From here, we rated them individually and averaged our ratings from each category into one, and averaged all categories to come up with an overall score. Here’s what we thought. Last place: Au Bon Pain Chocolatiness - 1.3 Comfort Factor - 1.3 Milkiness - 2 Boldness - 1.3 Hits Right - 2 Overall - 1.6 We found that this cup was a bit too artificial. You could smell the sweetness within, which was basically all that it was. The chocolate flavor was lacking and it was generally watery. It didn’t impress us. Sixth place: Beyu Blue Chocolatiness - 1.8 Comfort Factor - 2.5 Milkiness - 3.3 Boldness - 1 Hits Right - 2.5 Overall - 2.2 Sufficiently foamy and marshmallowy, Beyu Blue’s offering is a relatively average hot chocolate experience. A whiff of the drink indulges the senses with fruity undertones but the flavor itself was lacking in depth. Fifth place: Café Chocolatiness - 3.8 Comfort Factor - 2.8 Milkiness - 3.5 Boldness - 2 Hits Right - 2.5 Overall - 2.9 Café’s hot chocolate has a more make-

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at-home flavor and composition: each sip is Hits Right - 2.8 more watery than the last. The foam on top Overall - 3.5 might’ve been the best part of the entire thing, Trinity Café’s Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate as it imparts a feeling of nostalgia upon the is just two pumps of pure chocolate with consumer as you drink it to good ol’ pop-in- hot milk stirred in. The drink’s simplicity the-microwave satisfaction. allowed itself to shine as one of the best cups on campus. The aroma was deeply chocolatey, Fourth place: Bella Union the foam was present as both a textural Chocolatiness - 2.8 element and a flavor enhancer, and the overall Comfort Factor - 3.8 experience was sublime. Milkiness - 3 Boldness - 2.5 And the winner is: Nasher Café Hits Right - 3.3 Chocolatiness - 4.3 Overall - 3.1 Comfort Factor - 3.8 If anything, Bella was the true neutral of Milkiness - 4 hot chocolate. We found that it had a relatively Boldness - 3.5 normal flavor and appeal and considered it an Hits Right - 3 average cup of hot chocolate. Neither terrible Overall - 3.7 nor incredible, this cup was something that you Coming in at the top is the most expensive could consistently feel good about. hot chocolate on campus, though worth all $4.50. We were particularly impressed by its Third place: Vondy smoky flavor profile and its overall comforting Chocolatiness - 3 feel, and believe it’s worthy of the crown of hot Comfort Factor - 3.8 cocoa royalty. Milkiness - 3.8 Boldness - 2.5 Hits Right - 3 Overall - 3.2 Vondy’s hot chocolate provides a cozy experience, making you want to cuddle up with a good book by the fireplace. With a slightly fruity flavor and a sufficient amount of foam atop, it gets the job done without making you fall in love with it. It’s reliable and will be there for you through your 10-page papers and problem sets. First runner-up: Trinity Café Chocolatiness - 4 Comfort Factor - 3.3 Milkiness - 4.5 Boldness - 3

Alex Leo-Guerra | Contributing Photographer The winner: Nasher Café hot chocolate.

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Brown—associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, FROM PAGE 1 associate professor of chemistry, associate professor of physics—attended the University a lot of activities that many of her classmates of Puget Sound, a private institution in Tacoma, were participating in. Wash., on financial aid. “I wasn’t able to do things like intramural “I think in the U.S., everybody thinks of sports or take junior year abroad,” Moffitt said. themselves as being middle class,” Brown said, Moffitt also said that being a LIFE student “so even though I was pretty low income, I limited her decision-making, often out of lack thought of myself as middle class.” of confidence. That false reality was broken in Brown’s As a young college applicant, Moffitt felt first-year English class about race, class and restricted to applying to UNC because she gender while reading an article describing thought that was the only way she would summer experiences of lower-class, middleafford college. class and upper-class students. While other Then, as a student, she students did not felt limited to studying think much of the elementary education I see a lot of students who are described middlebecause that would allow really stressed out and I feel class summers, her future husband to Brown thought have freedom to work like I understand where they’re them to be “like a wherever he wanted, coming from. dream.” since there are elementary “That was the schools everywhere, said moment when I Moffitt. jen’nan read realized I wasn’t “I should have gone CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT middle-class, and I pre-med,” Moffitt said was definitely out of of her third mistake, my socioeconomic “but I thought that because I came from a element in college,” Brown said. poor rural high school in North Carolina Like many other low-income students, that I did not have the background to take Brown worked various jobs to help fund his the pre-med courses.” education. Part of his financial aid package Moffitt is now a professor in the was a work-study component, and Brown department of psychology and neuroscience, worked in the computer lab, as a tutor and as and focuses on mental health disorders a residential assistant. and crime. In addition, she advises Working in the computer lab, he had undergraduates. This aspect of her work is access to the fledgling World Wide Web and strongly shaped by her experience. early exposure to new technology. Brown says “When I meet my advisees, I always want to that experience had an impact on his decision ask them, ‘What’s your background?’” Moffitt to study computation. said. “It makes me a better advisor.” After getting his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Brown worked Kenneth Brown as a professor at the Georgia Institute of As a low-income student from the small Technology, where he provided research logging town of Packwood, Wash., Kenneth opportunities through work-study programs

to low-income students. Having come to Duke recently, Brown says that he has not yet set up those opportunities for Duke students but is open to talking to low-income students seeking advice.

Kishor Trivedi

Kishor Trivedi’s father worked as a railroad station master in a small village in rural India. As a high school student, Trivedi, now Hudson professor of electrical and computer engineering, lived in a nearby town and attended school in the state of Gujarat. As a senior, Trivedi learned of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, an elite engineering school in Mumbai. Trivedi took the IIT entrance exam and was accepted into the school. Although his parents could not afford to send both Trivedi and his brother, who was attending veterinary school, to college, Trivedi received a scholarship for IIT. Upon arriving at IIT, Trivedi encountered some immediate obstacles. While professors teach in English at IIT, Trivedi had learned in Gujarati in high school. In addition, because of his low-income background and reserved personality, Trivedi had difficulties making friends. “People only talked to me when they needed help with studies,” Trivedi said, who would not want to go out to eat or even buy a bottle of Coke so as not to spend too much. Despite this, Trivedi performed at the top of his class. After graduating from IIT, Trivedi worked for two years to support his three younger siblings and retired parents. Then, Trivedi came to the United States for his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and he later became a professor at Duke in the department of electrical and computer engineering. Now, Trivedi is passionate about giving back to his community. He sponsors various schools and scholarships in India. “Coming from low income, giving back to education is built into me,” Trivedi said.

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TRUSTEES FROM PAGE 1 translation into a useful product or service in the community,” he added. Bovender and Price said that the University wants to build a region that’s attractive to entrepreneurs, businesses looking to add a headquarters and scientists alike, à la Silicon Valley or Cambridge. The Triangle is already in a strong position, Price said, but there’s room to grow. Bovender described this growing process as an iterative one, meaning Duke wants to build on past successes until it has reached a point where talented people are naturally drawn to Durham.

New NCAA rules: A ‘Pandora’s Box’

At Saturday’s meeting, Athletic Director Kevin White updated the trustees on the college sports landscape. One of the topics he went over was student-athletes making money on their name and likeness according to new NCAA policy. Bovender said Duke is in a tough situation because the rules aren’t clearly defined yet. But if the rules are structured in a smart way, then there shouldn’t be a problem. “There’s a part of me that says, ‘I wish this Pandora’s box had not been opened’,” he said. Price and Bovender pointed out two potential problems that students profiting off their likeness could bring. It could create an opportunity for “nonmarket-driven practices,” Price said. He and Bovender described how big boosters for a university could promise an advertising deal to a recruit, which could unfairly sway the recruit’s decision. There’s also the possibility that different states have different regulations regarding athletes being able to make money. In October, California became the first state to pass a law allowing student-athletes to profit off their likeness. Duke supports a set of federal regulations.

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Duke strikes late-game Gold in win at Virginia Tech By Glen Morgenstern Assistant Blue Zone Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.—Duke’s uber-talented freshmen have been waiting for suspense nearly their entire basketball careers. Now that they’ve got it, many don’t know what to do with it. But not junior point guard Jordan Goldwire. The 10th-ranked Blue Devils and Virginia Tech played on a teeter-totter throughout the second half Friday night, bouncing back and forth within three points of each other. With the game on the line, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski chose to play only one freshman— Wendell Moore. Goldwire and Jack White, a senior forward, more than proved their playing time worthy, aiding Duke in its final pull away from Virginia Tech. Surrounded in a sea of orange, the veterans led the Blue Devils to take Friday’s game in Cassell Coliseum 77-63. “This is the toughest week I’ve had in years for a basketball team because we played at Michigan State DUKE 77 in a 9:30 game and 63 got back at 4 a.m. VT on Wednesday,” Krzyzewski said. “For us to play those last 18 minutes like that—it’s just sensational.” Goldwire had perhaps the most spectacular game of his career, leading the team in rebounds and steals. He scored 10 points, including two treys, and played more minutes than anyone except Tre Jones. Goldwire’s poor shooting reputation preceded him. Last season, he had only hit three times from long range. His two deep bombs helped him match that total already this season. He was more than just a deep threat Friday, though. A telling second-half sequence explained his impact. Wendell Moore’s fastbreak layup was blocked, but Goldwire stole the ball back. Joey Baker missed the ensuing

three, but that was no problem for Goldwire, who snatched the offensive board and finished off the play. “I’ve been in close games before,” Goldwire said. “I just stay poised and do the little things that my team needs. I definitely felt comfortable out there.” The senior captain White solidified the interior, but more importantly, revved the team into motion. The game began to slip away from Duke (9-1, 1-0 in the ACC) in the beginning of the second half, and even Krzyzewski snapping his whiteboard over his knee didn’t push his team to offer more than a lackluster performance. But after a ferocious crowd-silencing, second-half dunk by White, Duke would never relinquish the lead. “I’ve been working on finishing in practice throughout the week and finishing strong,” White said. “I know it’s something I can do. I knew that play would suck some life out of them.” Against the Hokies (6-3, 1-1), the Blue Devils did not look like the dominant force that swept Michigan State off of its feet early Tuesday. Duke couldn’t buy a stop early and trailed by as many as 12 points. Double-teams choked off star center Vernon Carey Jr. from his paint artistry. Virginia Tech contested all shots, everywhere. Disciplined play kept the Blue Devils in the game, though. Duke came into the game ranked 238th in free throw percentage; it had been shooting below 70 percent from the charity stripe. Friday night, the Blue Devils went 10-for-10 from the line. By the end of the half, the Hokies’ lead had been whittled down to three. Duke’s bench, highlighted by Goldwire and White, played an instrumental role as well. The bench combined for 35 of Duke’s

Jordan Goldwire provided the spark the Blue Devils needed Friday night against the Hokies.

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Senior captain Jack White helped to solidify Duke’s interior defense against Virginia Tech.

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‘A WHOLE NEW THING’ Blue Devils show promise in resilience and adjustment in ACC opener By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.—With all due respect to the likes of Kansas and Michigan State, ACC basketball is a different animal. Friday night, it just took the Blue Devils a little bit more time to realize it. After a close first half that was anything but pretty, No. 10 Duke was able to show one of the most promising aspects of its season thus far in a gritty win against Virginia Tech. The young Blue Devils won in a raucous, hostile Cassell Coliseum thanks to a lot of heart, proving that they can adjust to their opponents and not beat themselves. “I was worried because we just had a big game and the travel that we might get worn out,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And our kids really showed a great spirit tonight, where I know they’re tired, but they didn’t play tired. They played like winners

tonight. And they had to because they were playing against winners.” Virginia Tech head coach Mike Young was baffled after the game when regurgitating Stephen F. Austin’s gaudy statline against the Blue Devils two weeks ago. Duke surrendered 64 points in the paint to the Lumberjacks, and early in the first half Friday, it looked like the Hokies were heading towards a similar number. Despite Virginia Tech scoring 30 of its first 45 points from inside, Duke was not willing to keep allowing easy looks near the basket. Thanks to a small-ball lineup and increased defensive pressure, the Blue Devils limited the Hokies to just 10 points in the paint the rest of the way. “Just really our guards’ defense because we went small on defense for the second half,” Duke center Vernon Carey Jr. said on what the team changed defensively. “Our guards just Aaron Zhao | Features Photography Editor

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Wendell Moore battled in the second half, with all 12 of his points coming after the break.

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Duke dominates, Gorecki surpasses 1,000 career points By Cam Polo

the fourth quarter, holding the lead with timely makes and a couple of blocks on the defensive end. The Blue Devils finished with 13 steals, forcing Boston College into 19 total turnovers. The only time Duke seemed to falter was about midway through the second quarter, when Boston College brought the game to 28-26 with a few

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Duke fans came to Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday afternoon to watch the Haley Gorecki show and were treated to a dominant performance not just from Gorecki, but from the Blue Devils as a whole. In a game destined for celebration with Gorecki nearing the 1,000-point mark for her career, Duke delivered further cause for celebration, beating Boston College 85-73. Gorecki broke the 1,000-point barrier with a smooth jumper in the second quarter, but it was business as usual for the graduate guard, who committed a foul on a shot block attempt on the next possession, getting dirty in the paint. The Blue Devils followed her example, fighting to make the lives of the Eagles very difficult on every possession, with Gorecki’s 27 points, seven assists, five steals and leadership pushing Duke to the comfortable victory. “Haley’s aggression, her steals, her anticipation, her 73 assists and of course BC DUKE 85 her scoring [were good to see],” said Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie. Gorecki followed up her 12-point first half performance with a strong drive on Duke’s first possession in the third quarter, converting an and-one, and she had no intention of stopping there. Her 27 points were a game high and she had Eagle defenders dizzy trying to follow her. Freshman guard Azana Baines also caught fire for the Blue Devils, scoring six of her 15 points in the third quarter, helping Duke to a 62-49 advantage at the end of the period.

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Haley Gorecki’s 27 points were the most among all scorers in Sunday afternoon’s contest. Staunch defense won the day for Duke (7-3, 1-0 in the ACC), which consistently outrebounded the Eagles and contested every shot taken. The Blue Devils’ efforts on defense translated quickly to offense, with steals setting up fast breaks at every turn. Boston College (5-5, 0-1) shot only 35.7 percent on the day, finishing a poor 25-of-70 from the field and 7-of-32 from beyond the arc, not nearly enough to beat a Duke team that hit 50 percent of its shots, including a 10-of-20 mark on 3-pointers. Duke has its head coach to thank for the rebounding explosion, with Leaonna Odom, who finished with 14 rebounds, pointing to McCallie as

motivation for her performance on the glass. “[McCallie] basically told me that [she] could out-rebound me even if she’s a lot older than me, so that ignited the fuel right there,” said Odom, eliciting laughter and more than a little vindication on the part of Odom. To Duke’s credit, the entire team seemed to take this to heart, attacking the glass with poise and might. The scoring for the Blue Devils was evenly distributed despite Gorecki’s utter dominance, with three other players getting into double-digits, necessary buckets being provided by a different player every time. Duke locked the game down in

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Leaonna Odom crashed the boards effectively, pulling in 14 rebounds.

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Blue Devil supporting cast shines bright against B.C. By Spencer Levy Sports Features Editor

Morale might be low around Duke’s campus due to finals week, but a victory Sunday afternoon gave the Blue Devils a reason to smile. In their victory against Boston College, the Blue Devils used a multi-pronged approach in order to take a win into their break for exams. Even though Duke’s top scorer hit a career milestone and continued to sink basket after basket, the team did not rely exclusively on its star guard, Haley Gorecki. Instead, along with Gorecki dropping 27 points, three other Duke players scored in double-digits. Off the bench, Azana Baines scored 15 points while starters Miela Goodchild and Leaonna Odom recorded 14 and 13 points, respectively. Gorecki scored five points in the opening frame on two made baskets, the latter of which came after she was fouled making a layup, adding an and-one to her stat sheet. She scored seven more in the second quarter, highlighted by a 3-pointer which gave her 1,002 career points. In the third quarter, Gorecki contributed five more and finished the game with 10 in the fourth to seal the contest.

“You guys probably won’t believe me, but we did want to limit her touches in this game,” Boston College head coach Joanna BernabeiMcNamee said. “We didn’t do a very good job of sticking to that game plan.” For Boston College, focusing too much on Gorecki opened paths for other Blue Devils to score. That opening came by way of a connection between Odom and Goodchild, who worked together to put away the Eagles. With less than two minutes remaining in the opening quarter, Baines drove into the paint and kicked out to the wing for an open 3-point attempt from Gorecki. She missed the shot, but Odom elevated to grab the rebound before she spun out of traffic with a dribble. She then fired off a strong pass to Goodchild, who took a few steps up to the 3-point line. The Australian native quickly made the long-range shot to extend Duke’s lead to six, which forced Boston College to use its first timeout. “If everyone is crashing the board and you get an [offensive rebound], then there is no one to guard the three-point shooter,” Odom said. “Just an easy find and kick it out.” That was only the first of many assists from Odom into the open hands of Goodchild. Three minutes into the second

quarter, Boston College trailed by seven points and implemented a full court press. After Duke found its way around the press, Odom, opted to not take her defender off

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One of four Blue Devils to score in double-figures, Azana Baines scored 15 points off the bench.

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brought the energy and I really feel like they picked it up for us.” Just one minute after the second half began, Krzyzewski took a timeout that turned heated as he appeared to break a whiteboard while trying to spark his team. He must have finally found the secret ingredient to Duke’s success in that timeout, as the Blue Devils would pull ahead in an impressive second half effort. “We just didn’t start the way [in the second half] that we knew we needed to,” senior captain Jack White said. “It was something we had talked about in the locker room before we came out and I felt like we really responded after that [timeout]. It was a bit of a wake up call.” Duke’s defense was critical to the win, especially on Landers Nolley II. Virginia Tech’s star freshman came into the game ranked third in the ACC in scoring, yet was held to just seven points and a whopping nine turnovers. Blue Devil freshman Wendell Moore played a major role in defending Nolley, who has a similar frame to Stephen F. Austin’s Kevon Harris, the man who torched the Blue Devils for 26 points. “Just doing what I do best,” Moore said on the strategy for defending Nolley. “Coming in, keying in on guys. Our coaches made a great game plan for us defending offenses and we just executed the game plan.” The young Duke team didn’t seem to be phased by the rowdy Hokie fans, draining all 10 of its free throw attempts. Carey led the way with four makes from the charity stripe and has now made 20 of his last 26 shots from

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the line, a positive sign for things to come in physical conference play. This isn’t new territory for the Blue Devils in an ACC opener. Last year, Duke had to pull away in the second half against Clemson in a game where freshmen struggled under the heavy weight of a conference game. R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish combined to shoot just 6-for-21 from the field for a serious wake-up call as to how the game changes when ACC play begins. “Different physicality out there, but also our

record is 0-0,” Tre Jones said on his message to the freshmen before the game. “This is a whole new thing, and we wanted to go out there and kick off our ACC season the right way.” From the opening tip, the crowd was loud, shots weren’t falling and Virginia Tech was physical. It would have been easy to wilt under what was once a 12-point deficit, but in Cassell Coliseum Duke showed something deeper than just the number of stars next to a recruit’s name. “I feel like we were just more alive in the

second half,” White said. “I felt like we were just giving up our energy and our emotions to each other… Overall, we played a lot harder than we did in the first half, a lot stronger, a bit more emotional.” With almost two weeks until their next game and a couple nonconference games after that, this road victory will soon seem like a distant memory. However, the Blue Devils showed a resiliency and spark against the Hokies that should help come the thick of ACC play and beyond.

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Virginia Tech’s star guard Landers Nolley II was a nonfactor against the Blue Devils.

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77 points, and the Blue Devils coasted in the final four minutes. “We were just hungry for [the win in Blacksburg]” White said. “For the seniors, in our last time around, I didn’t want to visualize not winning it. No way.” The Blue Devils had fewer than 48 hours between their road games against Michigan State and Virginia Tech. With conference play officially underway for Duke, the players have time to take a breather—if you consider final exams a breather—before its next game. Duke has two weeks before it takes on Wofford Dec. 19 back in Durham.

quick threes and a layup. The 8-0 run by the Eagles was followed directly by a timeout by McCallie, who looked irate talking to her squad. The timeout seemed to work, as the Blue Devils put in a quick bucket and slowed the pace of the game. The lockdown defense resumed, and the Blue Devils finished the half up 40-34. “They’ve got nothing to lose, they’re just trying to come back,” said McCallie of the message coming out of the timeout. “[Our] response was good.” The Blue Devils will take a break for exams after notching their seventh win of the season, but will be back in action Dec. 19 against South Carolina before another break for Christmas.

3-pointer. With about three minutes left in the third quarter and the Blue Devil advantage cut to just six, Odom stepped up and knocked down an open deep ball—her third of the season on only four tries—off an assist from Baines. On the next possession, Odom grabbed the defensive board, and pushed it ahead to Gorecki, who missed the shot, but Odom was there for the offensive rebound. She looked up and saw Goodchild in the perfect location, only a few feet to the left of where Odom made her own triple. Odom’s

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Jack White is one of the veterans that sought revenge for past losses in Blacksburg, Va.

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Haley Gorecki was the star of the show Sunday afternoon.

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perfectly placed pass to Goodchild allowed her to set her feet and drain her third shot from behind the arc. A little more than a minute later, Odom brought down another offensive rebound by tipping the ball up and grabbing it. Falling out of bounds underneath the basket, Odom once again found Goodchild open at the top of the key. Odom launched the ball over the top of the defenders crashing the boards and Goodchild’s efficient stroke put her team up by 13 points. Odom and Goodchild’s tag-team effort allowed Duke to pull away from the Eagles, as the team did not have to solely rely on Gorecki for scoring in crunch time. Hopefully for Duke, this trend of balanced scoring can continue as it begins a two-game road trip in just under two weeks.

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Sophomore guard Miela Goodchild had a prolific performance from beyond the arc.

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The holiday season is an important time for CEF—a time to raise funds and gain support, both on campus and off. This year, our development team announced a new initiative aimed at doing just that: a CEF partnership with Campus Enterprises. At some point in my life, I don’t think I would’ve seen a problem with this. Sure, I could have acknowledged that Campus Enterprises was an elitist organization that restricted membership to students able to pay its $7,000 buyin. Sure, I would’ve been uncomfortable with the idea that 19 year-old kids with money would be in charge of adults with children and utilities bills cleaning dorm rooms for a living. But in the end, I would have justified a partnership, asserting that the end—more money for financial empowerment and community justice—made up for the means. I can’t see it like that anymore. CEF is an organization fighting against all forms of economic exploitation in Durham and Chapel Hill. It aims to uproot a hierarchy that would allow some to play with money and others to sleep on a bench because they lack it. Pursuing this partnership with an organization entrenched in that hierarchy compromises those values. And the hypocrisy was built into the partnership. At CE x CEF hosts Devine’s on Thursday night, partygoers were invited to spin a wheel to win a free Maid My Day clean or $20 in GoBringIt credit. The cleaners and the drivers actually executing those services could be coming in to CEF for financial assistance, based on their wages. According to the CEO and CFO of Campus Enterprises, cleaners for Maid My Day—three adults who signed noncompete contracts in order to work for CE—make $20 per hour, below the average hourly rate across the US. In comparison, the photographers hired by Enterprise Entertainment to work sorority formals—most of whom are Duke students with no dependents—make $30 an hour. The student DJs hired to work these same events make $60 an hour, three times the wage of a cleaner. Finally, there’s the labor contracted to deliver SushiLove and the Loop to Duke students for GoBringIt—15 drivers from around Durham paid $4.25 an hour plus tips (though CE guarantees at least $11 an hour, paying the difference on slow nights). The injustice here isn’t just in the low wage for community members, though. It’s in the cut that CE takes from every transaction. If a sorority wants to hire a photographer for their party, they’ll be charged $65 per hour—more than twice the wage that the photographer actually keeps. For a DJ, they’d pay $110 an hour, meaning CE takes a 45% cut of the deal. And of course, for Maid My Day, the margins are similar. If I wanted to have my off-campus house cleaned, I’d be charged the standard rate of $45. Even if the cleaner

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took an hour and a half to finish that gig, they’d still only make $30 out of the $45 I paid. The other third of the price goes to the company, for serving as the middleman. When I asked about these wages, I was given some justification—apparently, the cleaning team gets a bonus every semester of about $100. Meanwhile, the shareholder dividends guaranteed to the active student members of CE are between $1,000-$1,500 per semester, depending on performance. The success of what is often called a “rewarding experience” or a step to a “dream job at Facebook” hinges on working class labor, exploited and managed by college students. And even then, only a few college students—the company relies on reinforcing classism at Duke in requiring “shareholders” to buy-in for equity. What college student actually has that kind of cash? According to the CEO and CFO, only one out of their 41 shareholders is Black. When I asked if there were any shareholders from Durham, they told me there were three or four from the triangle. And though CE offered financial aid to six members in its new class of 15 shareholders, one has to wonder—who is being discouraged from applying in the first place? All of this isn’t to name and shame my peers. But it is to give an answer to those who wonder how so many Duke students will go on to work at Palantir and McKinsey and become complicit in locking children up at the border. Duke raises us to replicate the elitist, oppressive conditions that got us here in the first place—especially those of us that come from wealth. Duke teaches us to ignore human rights violations and dismiss them as a “necessary evil.” Duke teaches us not just to be complicit but to actively propagate injustice, and then turn around and slap a donation on top to make it all okay. The CE shareholders of today are the billionaires of tomorrow, the ones convinced they are good people because they participate in “corporate social responsibility” and give 10% of their sales revenue to CEF. I refuse to replicate that. And I hope that—if not for our own principles, then for our community members’ livelihoods—CEF would too. In my time working for housing justice in Durham, I have seen people lose cars, homes, and lives to just $200 in hospital bills or electricity fees. With all due respect to my classmates, f*** your buy-in. Leah Abrams is a Trinity senior and the Editor of the Editorial Page. Her column, “cut the bull,” apparently runs only in the first and last issues of the semester because that’s the only time she can get it together.

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hether it manifests in the hate-filled rhetoric around the border crisis or the too-loud chatter of a neighboring dorm room or the emotional boundaries we all hide behind sometimes, we’re all pretty well-acquainted with walls. It makes sense, then, that we’d be well-acquainted with the Wall lurking on the periphery of our own campus. And indeed it lurks. It’s an annoyance when we’re attempting to cross East Campus and approach Broad Street or Markham Avenue. It’s absolutely unsightly (and I mean this strictly hypothetically) when one places a foot on the top of the wall with the goal of gracefully hurling oneself over—and the too-tight jeans finally decide to rip. But beyond these particular inconveniences, the Wall is relatively unnoticed. First-years are the main

Lily Levin OVERCAFFEINATED CONVICTIONS inhabitants of East Campus—yet we hardly venture past its boundaries—and West Campus is a community within itself. The Wall fits the theme of our siloed lives; we often forget there is a world outside this Institution. Sometimes this forgetting is unintentional. Like when our idea of adventure is the harrowing, shoe-muddying trek to Cloche Coffee or Mad Hatter’s. But sometimes the forgetting is a Facebook comment about the “rural wasteland” of Durham. Sometimes it’s more purposeful. The Wall has historically been a physical manifestation of the divide between Duke and Durham. However, in 2012, Duke added two access points for pedestrians to venture into Duke without a jean-ripping attempt to hurl

oneself over the East Campus periphery. In Duke Today, Mark Hough, campus architect, wrote that the access points “will make the Bull City Connector stop at Broad and Main more accessible for students and employees.” Moreover, Duke students could travel beyond the once-completely enclosed boundaries of their institution. Nonetheless, the decision to add two access points was negated by other administrative decisions. Last year, Duke pulled funding from the aforementioned Bull City Connector, one of the only two buses servicing the Durham public that stopped on Duke’s campus. This decision showed Duke’s disregard for those passengers—the majority of whom were working class and Black. In many ways, the 2012 addition of access points to the Wall is representative of the well-intentioned but meager attempt to bridge the Duke-Durham divide. I interviewed my friend Bethlehem Ferede, a Durham resident and now a first-year at Duke, about her perception of the Wall as a Duke student. She told me that “even before the idea of physical barriers determining borders were in public discourse the way it has been lately, the wall around East Campus was still a conflicting presence. Growing up and driving past that wall with my family made the university seem like this magical but inaccessible place, and there were definitely other reasons for that as well (such as who I would see within the confines of the wall and who I’d see living on the outside... and which group looked more like me), but the wall was this physical manifestation of what was already institutionally true.” Alternatively, growing up as a white girl in Raleigh, I was aware of the language used to describe Durham. It was “sketchy,” “unsafe,” and “crime-ridden”—especially See BUBBLE on Page 15

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ast year when I was interviewing a source for an article, he gestured toward me while saying something about “Chinese.” I swallowed my anger. I am not Chinese.

Monday Monday NOT NOT TRUE Growing up, microagressions and even straightup racism were normalized for me. I often recall a moment in fourth grade when my science class was designing a food web. One student put “human” above “cat” in the food web, and other students shouted at him that humans don’t eat cats. “Wait a minute,” the teacher said, “Some people do eat cats—right Isabelle?” She looked at me. Everyone’s eyes followed. Cat eater, small eyes, always Chinese. Never mind the fact that I was born in America and my parents are decidedly Vietnamese. I thought that these things would stop when I grew older. Last year when I went to go pick up a paycheck, I was waiting in a lobby with someone else. That person asked me about the Great Wall of China—had I ever been there? I was absolutely bewildered when he thought he could just ask any Asian-looking person on the street about China, as if we were Lonely Planet travel guides. My first year, when I was shopping at a store on Ninth Street, the cashier told me pointedly about the Chinese daughter he adopted seven years ago. This semester, while I studied abroad, I drunk men in Rome shouted “I love Chinatown” in caricatured accents. Strangers in London greeted me with “ni hao.” Uber drivers told me that I looked Chinese. Maybe their certainty is somewhat better than all the times that people thought it would be fun to try and guess my ethnicity like they were trying a mystery Dum Dum flavor. At some point during my college career, I realized that it is not normal to brace myself for a comment about my ethnicity, to brace myself for a ‘where are you from?’ or a reference to something something China. When I hear these comments or see these things, it reaffirms my sense of otherness. You can imagine, therefore, how nice it is to write an anonymous column where no one will look at my face and pass a judgement. I wanted to write just to write, because this is

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in comparison to the racially homogenous land of suburbia, which infiltrated many aspects of my childhood. A white woman recently inquired if my parents were afraid to send me to Duke given the lack of safety in Durham. I said no, and she responded with, “Well, at least the campus is safe.” Duke was and continues to be an entirely different institution than the city in which it resides. The Wall distances us from Durham by seemingly protecting ‘us’—us being white Duke students. In order to investigate the consistency of the messaging behind the Wall (and whether or not it was always meant to “protect”), I emailed my professor, Dean LB Bergene, to ask some questions about its history. She wrote, “The wall was built back in 1916 and was co-funded by the Duke family and the city of Durham... My guess is that the wall was probably in part to mark the boundary of campus since it [wasn’t] as clear as it is today.” The creation of clear boundaries makes sense. Students want to know when they are setting foot off campus. The purpose, while meant to necessitate separation, was not overtly malicious. And today, the Wall distinguishes the periphery of the running trail, used by countless members of the community, even beyond Duke students, faculty and staff. Dean LB comments: “What I like about the wall is that it marks the location of the walking trail around East Campus… probably one of the spaces where Duke and Durham intertwine

one of the few ways in which I can speak and people will listen to my words alone. And what a pleasure it has been. As Monday Monday, I’ve been able to try new formats outside of the usual column. I’ve been able to write a quiz and old-timey Fix My Campus posts; I’ve forced The Chronicle to publish the word “yak” and narratives from the perspective of grass. However, the most exciting part was being able to write for The Chronicle in a different capacity after serving three years on the news staff. Leah approached me about applying for Monday Monday while I was still news editor. Was this even possible? Could a journalist turn into a humor columnist? I consulted many people to find this answer. People like Nathan and Cathy were ever-present sounding boards for my ideas and jokes. Other friends found out along the way— like Kevin, who determined that only I would write a tiny love story about Alex O’Connell— but encouraged me nonetheless. And of course, Leah, a gem of an editor, was always there to inject extra humor into whatever I wrote. So the answer to my question: yes, I could. I love to write and I love to tell jokes, so combining the two was natural. There may not be many female Asian-American comedians, but I think I was able to add a little bit to that space. And I know that for every humorous effort made by someone like me, it is somehow met with an equal and opposite racist force. Like a few months ago, when Saturday Night Live hired Bowen Yang—the first cast member of full East-Asian descent—at the same time as Shane Gillis, who likes to make fun of “chinks” and the “Chinee.” Or last year, when stars like Ali Wong and Awkwafina rose at the same time that Louis C.K. returned with jokes that mocked Asian men. So I understand. But this is my effort. I will be funny, and I will simultaneously be met with the racism I have always encountered. I will write, and I will have a source assume my ethnicity. I will still write. My name is Isabelle Doan, and I’ve enjoyed being your Monday Monday. Isabelle Doan is a Trinity senior. She served as V. 114 News Editor and the Fall 2019 Monday Monday. in a visible way. At any given moment, you see a cross-section of Durham on the trail.” So how is it possible that this Wall can be both inviting and exclusionary? How can it be both a physical manifestation of the Duke-Durham divide and the Duke-Durham convergence? The answer, I believe, lies in the spaces it cultivates— the individuals welcomed within its boundaries and those kept outside of its periphery. The Wall operates within the cultural context of our community. Bethlehem said, “I do think [the Wall] symbolizes and represents so much more about this school than people think.” When we pull funding from the Bull City Connector or use classist and racist terms to describe Durham residents—especially following the Gilbert-Addoms robbery—we are communicating the type of people kept out. But when we expand the entrances or jog alongside the fellow members of our new hometown or act as citizens of Duke and Durham, we’re chipping away at the Wall. We’re allowing people inside. Dean LB wrote: “Each year on the bus tour, Dr. Malone always asks if the wall is meant to keep people in or keep people out. I think both are true.” I think both are true as well. We, as Duke students, have a decision to make. Will we continue to operate within the marked boundaries, afraid to muddy our shoes and rip our jeans? Or will we walk out of our dorms, embrace the gravelled path, and, with care, climb over the artificially-placed stone? Lily Levin is a Trinity first-year. Her column, “overcaffeinated convictions,” runs on alternate Fridays.

ometimes, Duke feels like paradise. We’re sheltered by our own private police force. We’re consistently offered to use a host of innovative gadgets courtesy of Duke’s favorite private companies. We’re flooded with so much technology, such elaborate new buildings, and so many private amenities that it almost feels like they’re hiding something.

Christian Sheerer SHADOWS OF TOMORROW If there’s so much luxury to choose from the “oasis” Duke built for us, why question it? For those who traditionally bear the fruits of privatization, the age of neoliberalism might seem like some sort of utopia. For those of us concerned with protecting the sanctity of fundamental human desires like love, connection to our natural environment, and freedom from becoming cannibalized by an endless profit motive—a religious infatuation with the market threatens what we care about most. Despite Senior Annie Yang’s incisive portrayal of how neoliberalism manifests at Duke—by taking the money we don’t have to transform us into marketable objects for sale to the highest bidder—we’re left with responses claiming every social ill cannot be explained by a single concept. This confusion is to be expected as it is impossible to demonstrate every way the socio-political system dominating our world makes itself present. What we can do is isolate aspects of the theory of neoliberalism and highlight the examples of their fruition. The most pernicious feature of neoliberalism is its steadfast commitment to incorporating our most human capacities into the marketplace. David Harvey explains this underlying logic: “It holds that the social good will be maximized by maximizing the reach and frequency of market transactions, and it seeks to bring all human action into the domain of the market.” Luckily, we don’t need to imagine what a world, or a Duke, inundated by a dogma of marketization looks like. We’ve had one for 40+ years. We can easily draw connections between neoliberalism’s obsession with the expansion of market activity and the way Duke repackages and emblemates that mania, just on a smaller scale. Take the environment as a case study. The neoliberal epoch led to trading off state control of natural resources for market oversight, leading to a type of “aggressive capitalism” that prioritized profits in every dimension. Expanding corporate power stifled regulation and burned enough fossil fuels to solicit climate disruption the Earth has never seen before. We live in a world with ever-increasing emissions, seven million premature deaths each year from pollution, and an ever-shrinking window of opportunity to protect our way of life. Duke’s leadership follows suit. The prioritization of the market in the face of a humanist alternative has been thoroughly documented: it won’t divest from fossil fuels like UMass or Syracuse, it deals intimately with Duke Energy—the country’s secondheaviest polluter, and it defends these positions as good because they’re “profitable.” Energy companies have known for decades that their existence is wholly dependent on climate barbarism, Duke recognizes how “borderline uncomfortable” its fossil fuel returns are, but doing harm is good business. They were aware of and weighed the human costs and their checkbooks, and they decided the latter was more important. They have no room to plead ignorance. Likewise, Duke’s relationship with Durham residents is a microcosm of the way neoliberalism’s market forces displace marginalized people only to subsume them into the money-making machine. One of the first projects neoliberalism’s enforcers—the IMF, World Bank, and the U.S— took on in this new era was NAFTA: a

trade agreement that granted multinational corporations the power to sue local governments over loss of profits, displaced five million Mexican farmers from their land, and kickstarted the influx of immigration that American companies could use for cheap labor. It is eerily reminiscent of how, as the editorial board highlights, Duke amplified the process of Durham’s gentrification by using millions of feet of city land for private enterprise, spending millions of dollars on projects that indirectly force people from their homes, and capitalizing on that precarity by hiring many of those people for less than a living wage. But what does NAFTA have to do with Duke and Durham? Let’s follow the patterns: Both are reliant upon private, non-elected actors using public land and shaping local policy to enrich themselves. Both have the effect of dislocating people from their homes, then hiring them to work for less than they deserve. Both defend their work behind the shield of the market, even when public opinion was against them. The two sets of policies were enacted disparately, in different rooms at different times. Duke, The IMF, and the World Bank didn’t work together, but that’s the point. They didn’t need to coordinate. They were unified by an allegiance to the market’s power, intertwined by a “confluence of interests that create their own motor of self-justification.” No matter how tight the invisible hand’s grip on our collective conscious may seem, we should never think it to be unbreakable. Instead, our response should be to deconstruct the myths responsible for trapping our relationship with the world inside the market’s bounds. Even at the highest levels, shown by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests which set off a wave of action against the market’s doctrine, there are avenues to resist: More than 485,000 U.S. workers went on strike for better wages in 2019, the most since 1986. The Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion are rallying thousands in protest for unprecedented climate action. Protesters at the border are taking on powerful retaliation to stand in solidarity with those detained. Organizing against neoliberalism is possible, and necessary, at Duke too. Duke’s unions recognize the need to tussle against market fanaticism. Student-led groups like the Duke Climate Coalition and research triangle’s Sunrise Movement hub are awakening the salience of our school’s complicity in the climate crisis and the need to do something about it right here on campus. Others are rejecting Duke’s relationship with Palantir, the company most proud of helping detain people at the border. Just as neoliberalism’s pathologies reappear throughout the hierarchy of power, from the IMF and Mexico to Duke and Durham, its remedies follow. The only problem is that because of the market’s decades-long head start, we have a lot of catching up to do. Discrepancies in what is needed and what is being done should engender urgency, not fatalism. If you’re anxious about the state of the world that means you’re a person with a heart, and that you should find others like you to help fight the roots of that unease. What a world beyond neoliberalism would look like is not yet clear. However, a known, necessary prerequisite for achieving that world is a broadened framework that includes organization outside of market transactions, between humans with common goals. Not between buyers and sellers, lenders and debtors, or investors and entrepreneurs. We need to shift away from thinking of ourselves as individual economic actors towards understanding and mobilizing our power, as a collective, to demand that when the choice between people and profits presents itself: we choose people every time. Christian Sheerer is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “Shadows of Tomorrow,” typically runs on alternate Thursdays.

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