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‘Loyal, hardworking and honest’ Remembering Kenna Tasissa, 1999-2021 By Anna Zolotor Local and National News Editor

Whether Kenna Tasissa was interacting with students through her student-teaching position at Charles E. Jordan High School, helping classmates in a study group or watching movies with friends, she brought her inquisitive mind, compassion for others and profound empathy. “Kenna was a warm, gentle soul with a captivating smile. She was loved by her professors, mentors, and classmates, and was admired for her ambition and diligent preparation towards her teaching career,” Tasissa’s family wrote in a statement to The Chronicle. Tasissa, who died unexpectedly Jan. 21, was a sociology major in the Class of 2021 from Cary, North Carolina. She was born on Oct. 21, 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to parents Tigist Gesessee and Gudeye Tasissa, and she is survived by her mother, father, brother, sisters and several other members of her extended family. Tasissa was enrolled in the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in the Program in Education at Duke and hoped to become a high school social studies teacher after graduation. She was also working to earn a certificate in markets and management. Brian McDonald, an adjunct professor in the program in education and a social studies teacher at Jordan High School in Durham, taught Kenna during the fall 2020 semester in a 12-person seminar specifically for students in the secondary education program. He remembers Kenna as engaging and modest, and felt confident that she had the potential to become a wonderful teacher. “She was amazing. Just a hundred percent amazing. She was thoughtful, engaging. She was quiet, and I mean that as a compliment. When she said something, it was thoughtful, and it contributed to the dialogue,” McDonald said. McDonald said that he was in contact with a teacher Tasissa worked with during the fall semester. Tasissa’s mentor teacher, according to McDonald, “raved about her,” stressing her organized nature, attention to detail and ability to form connections with students that the teacher himself hadn’t yet been able to reach in a meaningful way. “Early on, she was a rockstar, but you knew she was going to continue to be a rockstar in the classroom, given her ability to connect with students,” McDonald said. In addition to her dedication to teaching, Tasissa’s close friends remember her for her fierce loyalty, quiet presence and ability to truly listen to others. “Kenna was sweet, someone who was there through the ups and downs of the first year of college. She was loyal, hardworking, and honest,” wrote senior Lillian Needam, Tasissa’s first-year roommate, in an email to The Chronicle. Senior Adaora Nwosu, Tasissa’s former roommate, added that “Kenna was so kind. She had this amazing understanding of empathy, like nobody else I’ve ever met. And she was very intelligent, very inquisitive.” “Kenna was just such a great person to talk to. Her company was just amazing. She really did become my truest confidante,” Nwosu said. Both Nwosu and Needam recalled fond memories of their time with Tasissa, from the East Campus carnival on their first night at Duke to cold nights tenting in K-ville. “Even more than the big events, I will cherish the

Courtesy of the family of Kenna Tasissa Kenna Tasissa, who died unexpectedly Jan. 21, was a sociology major in the Class of 2021 from Cary, N.C. Friends and family remember her for her inquisitive mind, compassion for others and profound empathy.

smaller moments. Sitting outside the Chapel late at night with friends. Having movie nights in our room or in the common room. The many lunches, dinners, and late-night ice cream breaks we shared. All of these moments have helped shaped my college experience and Kenna definitely played a role in that,” Needam wrote. Tasissa loved watching movies, listening to 2000s pop music and reading books, Nwosu said, and she was also knowledgeable about celebrities and pop culture. She also had a big sweet tooth, her loved ones remembered, and loved chocolate and Coca-Cola. “Kenna loved puzzles and trivia games, often competing with her sister Hawi and cousin Siddisee. She was known for her particular tastes in food, such as combining ramen with her mom’s tibs (an Ethiopian beef dish), or enjoying her Aunt Hanna’s spaghetti. She famously had a sweet tooth, and could finish a can of soda in one sitting,” Tasissa’s family wrote. Susan Wynn, associate professor of the practice of education and director of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program, wrote in an email that she was “so impressed with [Tasissa’s] bright intelligence, compassionate spirit, organized soul, and beautiful smile.” “She was quiet, but it was easy to envision how she would shine in a history classroom with high school students. We mourn alongside her parents as we continue to wrestle with the incredible loss of this enormously talented young person,” Wynn wrote. Tasissa was buried at Raleigh Memorial Park on Jan. 24. In honor of her love of helping others, her family has worked together to open the Kenna Guda Foundation.

Kenna was a warm, gentle soul with a captivating smile. She was loved by her professors, mentors, and classmates, and was admired for her ambition and diligent preparation towards her teaching career. Kenna Tasissa’s family

Kenna was just such a great person to talk to. Her company was just amazing. She really did become my truest confidante. Adaora Nwosu

TASISSA’S FORMER ROOMMATE

She was amazing. Just a hundred percent amazing. She was thoughtful, engaging. She was quiet, and I mean that as a compliment. When she said something, it was thoughtful, and it contributed to the dialogue.

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SLGs adapt to rush changes By Damla Ozdemir Contributing Reporter

With in-person restrictions and a ban on recruiting first-years, many non-Greek selective living groups have been rethinking their usual rush processes in this unusual semester. In a January email to undergraduate students in non-Greek SLGs, Duke announced that non-Greek SLGs are permitted to conduct recruitment activities in the spring 2021 semester for sophomores, juniors and seniors. The Class of 2024 will not be able to rush until their sophomore year, per guidelines Duke announced in November when it established the Next Generation Living Learning 2.0 Committee to reimagine campus housing. The email added that all non-Greek SLG activities, with some exceptions, must be virtual and registered in DukeGroups. The Chronicle reached out to representatives of non-Greek SLGs to discuss their plans—or lack thereof—for spring recruitment. Cooper, The Cube, Maxwell, Mirecourt, Mundi, Nexus and Wayne Manor did not respond in time for publication.

Short notice, no first-years: Some groups cancel spring rush

The decision to allow non-Greek SLGs to host virtual recruitment came Jan. 28, which surprised some students. “We had gone into the semester assuming that there would be no room for any recruitment activities,” wrote Jerry Wang, a senior and copresident of Round Table, in an email. He added that although many Round Table members were excited at the prospect of admitting new faces, the logistics of the changed process soon caused reconsideration. In the end, Round Table decided not to proceed with spring 2021 recruitment, Wang wrote. Rush “requires planning, time commitments, and funding,” Wang wrote. “While a virtual rush would reduce many of these demands, it would still be a daunting task to put together in only a few weeks.” He added that “Round Table believes rush is a very important process, and those who participate deserve to be given the best possible experience, in both enjoying the activities we put on and connecting with current members.

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We did not want to put something together that SLGs to have sections in Edens in 2021-22 academic year would fail to live up to those expectations.” Brownstone similarly canceled rush this year. BY MONA TONG | 02/10/2021 Since Housing and Residence Life would not allow All Greek and non-Greek selective living groups “in good standing with the university” first-years to rush, the group was left with only the will have the option to live in Edens Quad for the 2021-22 academic year. prospect of recruiting sophomores. “Traditionally, we take fewer sophomores than Some students opt for spring leaves of absence amid freshmen during rush, and so there would be quite a bit of effort by both parties to allow only a few continuing pandemic, changed life plans (maybe 4-6) new members in,” wrote Brownstone BY MADELEINE BERGER | 02/10/2021 President Alex Oesterling, a junior, in an email. According to Oesterling, the peculiarity While many students are experiencing on-campus living for the first time this of taking only sophomores during this online semester, others decided to take leaves of absence after being at Duke in the fall. semester is that “the dynamics around sophomores are traditionally different because many have an advantage by knowing existing members.” A friend of a Brownstone member would have an advantage over other independent sophomores, Since the SLG has never experienced a fall rush, APO hopes to continue its goal of bringing and this would be compounded over Zoom, where nor limited their recruitment to sophomores, students into a friendly, accepting family, while it is already difficult to meet new people, he wrote. juniors and seniors, “it will be a weird experience also performing service toward the Duke and for all of us,” Wang wrote. Durham communities,” he wrote. Delaying to an unknown future However, Wang expressed confidence that LangDorm has also decided to continue with Oesterling wrote that SLGs generally rush to they can pull it off, with some adjustments to rush this semester, which will happen for three fill section and comply with the HRL policy of the usual programming depending on whether weeks around March, and will only be open to filling beds in their building for the upcoming first-years will be allowed to rush. Many events, sophomores. According to sophomore Lindsay year. Brownstone has gotten no information such as Marketplace brunches, field day on East Hu, LangDorm social media chair, the SLG from HRL on their housing status for the fall, Campus and faculty dinners, have been designed has been trying to make the best of the virtual Oesterling wrote, and thus does not intend to with the idea that most rushees are first-years, situation through organized international events, hold rush just to fill beds. and new events will likely be centered on West movie nights and other programming, but there Brownstone plans to delay rush to the fall Campus, Wang wrote. are worries among the community. 2021 semester and amend their constitution to Because there will be no new first-year “It’s a bit uncertain what the future might look allow juniors to rush, so that the Class of 2023 members this year and rising sophomores will like for LangDorm,” Hu said. “We obviously don’t can get a second chance. no longer be there to fill a large portion of the want it to die off, but there’s the fact that we can’t Oesterling added that Brownstone has also beds in section, Round Table “will have to await recruit freshmen anymore, plus the fact that this year been impacted by their inability to live together further guidance on housing,” Wang wrote. is disrupted. I came into LangDorm as a freshman, during the pandemic. and next year I’m going to be a junior, and we have “I think the SLG’s social activity has definitely Some groups to proceed with rush no idea what next year will even look like.” been damaged, and our overall community isn’t as In the midst of some SLGs postponing their She added that LangDorm has basically been close as it had been before,” Oesterling wrote. In the recruitment, Alpha Phi Omega is choosing to “cut in half.” spring, Brownstone plans on working internally to hold a pledging process this semester. Junior “We’re already one of the smallest SLGs, so it’s foster community in a COVID-safe way. Adam Lin, service vice president of APO, wrote scary in a sense, to keep it alive and make sure that Ubuntu has also recently decided to delay in an email that recruitment events will run we have a presence on campus,” she said. rush to the fall. President of Ubuntu Evelyn from Feb. 10 to 28, and there will be a recorded Oesterling wrote that on the other hand, there Chen, a senior, wrote in an email that the virtual open house on Feb. 10 to accommodate have been some advantages to the disruption in leadership believes that it would make more the different time zones of students. traditional recruitment. sense to do “more events in person,” rather than Lin added that APO has modified the “This year really showed people that you “holding rush entirely virtually.” pledging process by relaxing social and service can have a lot of fun living independent, and They await further information from HRL requirements. The pledge master will “take into hopefully this will decrease interest in rush which about what the next semester will look like, and account special circumstances that may make it will make the process less toxic for both parties specifically how rush will change. difficult to complete meeting, social, and service involved, with rush planning being smaller and Round Table also raised questions about mandates,” Lin wrote. the level of competitiveness decreasing as well,” the logistics of a rush happening next semester. “Through the modified pledging process, Oesterling wrote.

More than 4,500 students fill out Duke Marriage Pact By Navya Belavadi Staff Reporter

On Feb. 2, an algorithm facilitated about 2,250 possible future marriages among Duke students. Originally created by Stanford University students in 2017, Marriage Pact has a simple premise: fill out 50 questions about your preferences and values, and get matched with someone you’re compatible with. Students recently brought the service to Duke, an initiative that was born among members of the Duke Student Government. “The purpose of the Marriage Pact is to just find your most compatible match with the questions and the personality traits that are derived from the questions that you answer,” said first-

year Chase Barclay, a DSG senator who was part of the Duke Marriage Pact team. With questions on topics ranging from politics to religion to sex, this survey served as a way for 4,507 Duke students to search for their perfect match. Since its start at Stanford, Marriage Pact has spread to other campuses including Yale University, Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of Virginia and now Duke. “One of my best friends goes to Yale, and she texted me about it,” said junior Meghna Mahadevan, a DSG senator. “She matched with her best guy friend so she had a really good story. Mahadevan texted Shrey Majmudar, DSG vice president of academic affairs. Majmudar, a junior, then messaged Liam McGregor, the founder and CEO of Marriage Pact, through LinkedIn, and they began talking in mid-October. “I was like, we’ve got to bring this to Duke, hell or high water,” Majmudar said. “We hopped on a quick call, and Liam kind of walked me through the process.” The next step was creating a Duke Marriage Pact team. “At that point in time I was just like, ‘Huh, who could we put together as a pretty representative cross-functional team?’” Majmudar said. “Meghna obviously because she told me about it, and then it was just friends in DSG.” The friends included Barclay; junior Christina Wang, DSG vice president of equity and outreach; and senior Tanisha Nalavadi, DSG director of international policy. Junior Sophia Patterson joined the team because had a friend who is involved in the Stanford Marriage Pact. “I kind of went into this blindly not knowing who else was involved on campus, but I definitely think having a large DSG presence on this team helped us a lot just because there were a

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lot of cool publicity things we were able to do,” Patterson said. After the initial connection was made with McGregor, the Duke team worked with Christine Manegan and Griffin Somaratne, members of the central Marriage Pact team. “I just want to underscore how helpful the Marriage Pact team was––we could not have done it at all without them,” Majmudar said. A breakdown of the students who filled out the Marriage Pact is below, according to numbers provided by the Marriage Pact and DSG team. In total, from the launch until the closing on Tuesday Feb. 2 at 5 p.m., 1967 straight men, 2075 straight women, 144 gay men, 65 gay women, 53 bisexual men and 260 bisexual women filled out the survey.

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Reflections at the East Campus tunnel By Chris Kuo Features Managing Editor

I like tunnels. Tunnels were veins leading to Boston’s Logan International Airport. Every summer, they coursed with anticipation, that thrill of navigating a crowded airport and lifting off the runway and beginning something new. Eventually, passing through a tunnel— that temporary eclipse, the re-emergence into light—became an act of wonder. You go in. You come out. In between, maybe, the world changes. I liked to imagine that other side. Who would greet us there? What worlds might we be entering? Don’t be surprised, then, to find me here, on this cold, wet morning in January, standing in the middle of a tunnel. Called the “free expression” tunnel, it’s the gateway to East Campus. A Chris Kuo | Contributing Photographer psychedelic array of paint envelops the walls: orange, white, neon The free expression tunnel on East Campus features a tattered yellow, black and baby blue. There are squiggles and splotches, swear words and Shrek faces; near the entrance, a flock of collage of New York Times front pages from May.

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blue and yellow handprints hovers around a chapel silhouette. The walls stretch on for about twenty feet on both sides, like some enormous coloring sheet for a horde of crayon-carrying toddlers, or maybe for a stir-crazy Jackson Pollock. I lean my brown backpack against the railing that separates the road from sidewalk. Except for the occasional car rumbling overhead, or the water murmuring in the drain and trickling down the walls, the tunnel is silent, a catacomb. I walk on, my eyes and fingers tracing the walls, which feel warm compared to the frozen sky , my mind wandering and wondering what I will see next, but certainly not anticipating this image that reminds me of mangled flesh—a jagged, convulsing mural of New York Times pages. Dozens of pages hang from the wall, each bearing the same headline emblazoned from Sunday, May 24, 2020: “U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss.” An avalanche of names follows. Alan Finder, 72, Ridgewood, N.J., unflappable New York Times journalist. Eastern Steward Jr., 71, Annapolis, Md., veteran with a gift for peacemaking. Donald Raymond Haws, 88, Jacksonville, Fla., administered Holy Eucharist to hospital patients. The sound of a hundred thousand ragged breaths. A litany of those left behind. I remember seeing on Twitter that two 18-year-old twins from Durham did this. Leo and Oliver Egger wanted remembrance. They wanted to show a hundred thousand, to puncture the numbness of so many deaths. After putting up these pages, they painted “100,000 LIVES” in black at the top of the wall. In an image online, the twins hold paint rollers and pose in front of their work. One of them raises a fist. Behind them, the overlapping pages spread from top to bottom. It looks tidy, almost like art. That was from May of last year. Time and the pandemic have galloped forward since then. Now, many pages barely cling to the wall. Jagged lines slice through the names, like some grizzly bear came and mauled the pages. Blackened by dirt and jerked by the wind, the edges curl, flap and shudder. Entire patches are gone, unveiling memories of a gentler time—scattered letters, pink and blue paint, a yellow hashtag—a rainbow of flesh peeking through the scars. At the top, someone crossed out the 1 in 100,000. Next to it, they wrote 2 in bright red. That got crossed out, too. Same with 3. Now, we’re on to 4 and counting. New messages will come, creeping over the old. Some already have: “The blood is on his hands,” scrawled in red paint. One page has a streak of crimson with little rivulets running down, blotting out names. They look like trickling tears. Or ruptured veins. What does it mean to remember, when memory itself is besieged by time and fresh paint? Earlier, I saw a message at the tunnel entrance: “THIS TOO SHALL (under)PASS.” It’s funny, but also comforting, in a way. No tunnel snakes on forever. The grass withers, the flower fades, dust returns to dust. Just a temporary eclipse. You go in. You come out. In between, the world changes. Is that nihilism or hope? I touch the wall again. The paper is dry, rough. I grasp a corner and pull off a sliver. An act of wonder. It tears easily. It’s shaped like a miniature South America, or like some ragged cloud, tinged with red. The ink is fading. But I can still read the names. Ellis Marsalis, 85, New Orleans, jazz pianist and patriarch of a family of musicians. Richard Passman, 94, Silver Spring, Md., rocket engineer in the early days of supersonic flight. Albert Petrocelli, 73, New York City, fire chief who answered the call on 9/11. It’s in my pocket now. I hope Leo and Oliver don’t mind. Something tells me they won’t.

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Sarah Derris ................ kim cattrall

Stephen Atkinson ..... chris cuomo

Sydny Long .................. sleepy joe

Skyler Graham ......... trisha paytas

Kerry Rork ..................ella emhoff

Jonathan Pertile .........taylor swift

Tessa Delgo .........................t-pain

Eva Hong .....................baudelaire

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staff note The stories are based on common experiences and the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is most likely coincidental. Happy Valentine’s Day! I Once upon a time there was a girl, and all she ever wanted was to be an independent woman who wouldn’t take nonsense from anyone. She witnessed firsthand how her mother’s pride was slowly but brutally grated away by her father, chip by chip, year after year. So she declared marriage unreliable and announced to all her friends: I would never marry … most likely. Until she met this boy: smart, confident and just emotionally unavailable enough to pique her interest. He tried too hard to be casually cool and kept many “girl friends” (emphasis on the space) on the side. He claimed that he’d

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had X number of dalliances, tried Y kinds of drugs and made $Z worth of money from his stocks. And she always solved for their real values by adding 5 and then dividing by 2. She broke up with him every time she got drunk and flew to his bed every time she sobered up again. Sometimes, looking at his average looks, belowaverage height and less-than-average sense of humor, she wondered what exactly gave him the guts. But more often than that, she watched him admiringly as he tried to show her a cooking skill that her own mother had taught her years ago. Maybe it was the companionship. Maybe it was the thing in his eyes that made her feel desirable for the first time. Or maybe it was just that the sweet memories were too sweet to forget and the bitterness at least reminded her she was alive. She even began to doubt the whole idea of “independent woman.” Her pity for her still “independent” friends was both sincere and

condescending. It’s just an excuse people use to save face when they can’t get laid, she thought. Now comes Feb. 14. She just broke up with him again after three rounds of tequila shots the night before. But as she finally climbed into bed, she remembered to remind herself: Gotta get up early tomorrow to meet my Valentine at nine a.m. Moral of the story: Love? II Once upon a time there was a girl, and all she ever wanted was an extravagant romance that would make everyone else crazy jealous. She decided that her life was too “middle”: middle child in a middle-class family living in a middlesize city. And she desperately and secretly wished, under the guise of her “independent woman” banner, for a “He” to save her from the boredom of her average American life. She downloaded, deleted and re-downloaded all the dating apps on the market. She’d had many lovers and never ran out of love stories to entertain her friends: He was handsome but too flaky. He was sweet but too clingy. He was French but way too French … She was always on the hunt for the next one, hoping that this time it would be the one. The one to give her devoted attention, shower her with gifts and eventually propose to her by jumping out of a private jet to prove his love. She got around but she was a good girl. She had a little too much fun but she was a good girl. People often thought her crazy but she was a good girl. After all, we are liberated, independent women … right? Now comes Feb. 14. She was dreading that she’d be among the ones left alone on this day. Luckily, she discovered this new dating app called “Marriage Pact” and just got a date with her match. Apparently, the algorithm said that this will be the one. Moral of the story: Love!

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III Once upon a time there was a girl, and all she ever wanted was a once-in-a-lifetime relationship like the one her parents shared. She watched her mother gave her father a haircut in the backyard every other week, and her father pick up her mother’s hair from the shower drain every other day. I would like to have that love, or none at all, she thought. Ruling out everyone in the world but one, she went out to test all her potential candidates. She waited three days before replying to texts, made sure to always show up fashionably late or fashionably too late to her dates and never took the first step. If they can’t take it, they are not ‘meant to be.’ She was sharp-tongued and quick-witted, and her candidates resented and loved her for that. She frequently gave free and observant relationship advice to her friends who were stuck with the wrong boy. Poor thing, she often thought pitifully and condescendingly. As a result, she heard many horror love stories: He said that Tinder account is definitely old and inactive. He claimed to have X number of ‘girl friends’ (X=(X+5) ÷ 2). He was French but way too French… From time to time, someone would emerge into her self-indulgent world, just emotionally unavailable enough to pique her interest. She closely observed the arc of his jawline, found out from Google that he played sports in high school and tested their astrological compatibility. But still, she refused to take the first step. Maybe she just loved herself too much. Maybe she was just not brave enough. Or maybe she was afraid to find out that no relationship could ever live up to her expectations, not even her parents’. Now comes Feb. 14. She might try to get very drunk and then text him. Or she might just stay in and be a self-caring, independent woman again. Moral of the story: Love, —Eva Hong, campus arts editor

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‘White Noise’ documents the roots of modern racist violence

By Stephen Atkinson Culture Editor

Feb. 10, 2015, three college students in Chapel Hill were killed in a vicious anti-Muslim hate crime. Six years later, as racist violence against people of color in the United States has only intensified, Duke faculty and guests gathered to discuss “White Noise,” a feature-length documentary film produced by The Atlantic that zooms in on white supremacy and the alt-right movement responsible for this violence. The panel discussion featured Duke professor and Imam Abdullah Antepli, Sanford School professor David Schanzer, historian Ruth BenGhiat and director Daniel Lombroso. Moderated by Kenan Institute director Suzanne Shanahan, the panel used “White Noise” as a springboard for commentary on the nature of violent extremism in America and abroad. The commentary in “White Noise” is largely implied — there are no voice-overs, no expert interviews, no explanatory asides. Instead, as the camera follows the lives of three alt-right personas, the subjects are allowed to speak for themselves. In the process, ridiculous true life characters emerge: Mike Cernovich, a self-hating misogynist sex blogger and grifter, Lauren Southern, a Youtuber and global ethnostate lobbyer and Richard Spencer, perhaps the hardest-to-stomach of them all, a blatant neo-Nazi and white supremacist who incited the 2017 Charlottesville riot. To focus too much on these outrageous public personas, however, misses the key take-away: Racist extremism is a structural issue that extends into institutions and collective psyches. These altright influencers rose to mainstream prominence in a media landscape that rewarded hate with clicks and reaped profit from racism. As BenGhiat said, hatred is “an aspirational brand” for the followers of these racist celebrities. If that’s the case, though, why make a whole

movie about people like Richard Spencer in the first place? Doesn’t that fuel the mediadriven machine of hate speech? Addressing this question, director Daniel Lombroso pointed to his background as the grandson of Jewish Holocaust survivors, which he said informs his approach to journalism. “We have a duty to shine a light on evil when it rises,” Lombroso said. “As a young journalist, I have an opportunity to really help people understand what’s outside their doors and what modern America looks like in all of its glory, but also in all of its bad side…. These three individuals have platforms in the millions. We can choose to ignore them, and that leads to events like Charlottesville, it leads to things like the Capitol Hill siege.” While interviews with the three individuals expose their hateful racism in glaring, unadulterated fashion, the camera’s attention to their hypocrisy and their aesthetic brand (Greek statues abound) hints at an underlying global crisis of extremism. Where “White Noise” gestured toward this deeper problem, the panel members provided interpretive clarity. Ben-Ghiat, who defined extremism as “people who embrace violence as a way of changing history,” praised the film for skewering the hypocrisy of alt-righters and their irrational obsessions with Western history, eugenicist breeding and personal celebrity. She also pointed to parallels between today’s GOP and far-right nationalist movements in India, Turkey and Greece. Antepli, whose work at Duke studies interfaith relations, explained the psychology that leads people across the world to extremism, paradoxically producing a sort of globalist nationalism. “As vile and disgusting as [extremist ideologies] are, ... they respond to a need,” Antepli said. “They provide very convincing and compelling answers to very complicated questions… I have seen this all over in every

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Duke faculty and guests gathered to discuss “White Noise,” a feature documentary film produced by The Atlantic. Muslim terrorist organization that I have studied and fought against. We have to understand what need they respond to, what void they fill, that many people from very diverse backgrounds are finding [extremism] incredibly compelling.” “White Noise” highlights some of this seemingly peculiar diversity at the seams of the American alt-right. Cernovich and Southern are married to non-white spouses, Lucian Wintrich makes an appearance as a gay Trump supporter and the wealthy and poor alike partake in the far-right frenzy. How these white supremacists or any other extremists are “de-radicalized” is not explicitly addressed in the film, although Lauren Southern is nearly granted a redemption arc. From the start, the camera offers the white nationalist a measure of sympathy. One shot lingers on her stoic reaction to a man’s comment that “women ruin everything,” and in another scene, she openly expresses her struggle to reconcile her personal life with her public persona, showing some awareness of the reactionism that fueled her internet fame. Whether these figures deserve those sympathetic glimpses, though, is a charged debate. (Lauren Southern has, since the documentary’s filming, returned to conspiracy-fueled racist

punditry.) But you can at once seek to understand extremism and, at the same time, take action to restrict its influence. Schanzer pointed to cancel culture as a constructive tool to do just that. “When people say, ‘I’m not gonna support that person anymore, I’m not gonna buy the products that they are sponsoring,’ I mean, that’s what cancel culture is, and that’s actually making free speech work,” Schanzer said. “That is so consistent with the First Amendment ... it’s part and parcel of how it’s supposed to work. So I think that is a very important way that the average person can fight against this hatred.” Antepli added policy solutions, individual reflection and cross-spectrum dialogue as important ways to counter hate and extinguish its root causes. “White Noise” documents the disease, but, according to Antepli, we all should rise en masse to diagnose and heal it. “What we are discussing and studying is an American reality,” Antepli said. “These are American citizens. This is part of who we are. As uncomfortable as it makes us, as much as we want to throw up when we think about it, these cancers, these tumors are grown in our own body. And we have every ethical self-interest, moral reason to deal with it as our problem.”

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New ESPN+ series ‘Why Not Us?’ spotlights NCCU basketball By Ben Smith Staff Writer

The North Carolina Triangle is known as the “mecca of college basketball.” Storied athletics programs at UNC, NC State and Duke comprise thirteen total NCAA championships and sport some of the most recognizable figures in college athletics. But there are many more successful athletics programs in the Triangle than just these three ACC powerhouses. There is more to college basketball in North Carolina, and around the country, than the predominately white institutions (PWIs) that are featured on TV. Within the world of NCAA basketball, HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) are not “supposed” to get the best recruits. They are not “supposed” to win NCAA tournament games or to reach the Sweet 16. The balance of resources, including revenue from games and merchandising, heavily favors the PWIs. Despite all those challenges, HBCU programs are some of the most vibrant and important teams in the country. Yet, at least for head coach LeVelle Moton and the North Carolina Central University’s men’s basketball team, even greater achievements are well within reach. Moton’s ambition is not unique. Almost everyone involved in NCAA basketball has dreams of making a deep run in the tournament or getting drafted to the NBA, but the balance of power and national recognition skew heavily towards PWIs. According to producer Luke Williams, ESPN and The Undefeated (ESPN’s platform focused on telling stories on “the intersections of race, sports and culture”) have been looking to cover HBCU athletics in greater depth for a while. This goal was then amplified by the highly-publicized police brutality of Black Americans and the growing Black Lives Matter movement throughout 2020. So when the opportunity presented itself to create an ambitious docuseries following the NCCU men’s basketball team through the tumultuous 2020-21

season, they jumped on it. That’s when the show’s executive producers, NBA All-Star Chris Paul and legendary sports persona Steven A. Smith, got involved. Paul, who played college basketball at Wake Forest University, is now finishing his degree at Winston-Salem State University, an HBCU which happens to be Smith’s alma mater. Paul was familiar with Coach Moton at NCCU, so the endeavor to cover the upcoming NCCU basketball season in intimate depth was born. “‘Why Not Us’ will spotlight the importance and uniqueness of HBCUs by chronicling the NCCU men’s basketball team and the challenges they encounter throughout a season in my home state of North Carolina,” said Paul in an ESPN / NCCU press release on the series’ mission. In the series’ first episode, we see the team celebrating their third MEAC conference championship in a row and working towards future successes, as well as the ambitious Moton expressing how NCCU will be the first HBCU team in the NCAA Sweet 16. Moton’s passion for the game of basketball and the future success of his players jumps off the screen. He knows that if NCCU and HBCUs in general are to get the respect, resources and national attention that PWIs receive, then they have to be successful on a national stage first. They have to exceed expectations with less. NCCU’s men’s basketball team has a long history of excellence, with John McLendon, a basketball hall-of-famer and student of James Naismith, once serving as the program’s coach when the university was still called “North Carolina College for Negroes.” McLendon invented several core concepts of the game, such as the “fast break” and the “four corners offense,” the latter of which is commonly attributed to Coach Dean Smith of UNC. In 1944, McLendon’s Eagles, who were all Black, played what is now called “The Secret Game,” defeating Duke University Medical School’s all-white team 88 to 44, at considerable risk to both parties due to the

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segregation laws of the time. This game was the first integrated college basketball game ever played in the American South. So what changed? How did NCCU’s team go from being more talented than Duke’s to a team that has yet to win an NCAA D1 tournament game, even if they could not participate on the same national stage? In the words of Moton, “[PWIs] started recruiting our athletes from our programs… and put them over there. They saw the [revenue benefits] from just guys shooting a basketball.” As PWIs began to desegregate their teams, they recruited the best athletes, so they recruited Black men. Moton’s philosophy on PWIs recruiting Black athletes is particularly striking. In the series’ first episode, he speaks of how he “wants to get [their] athlete back” and how doing so would be ”supporting your own black businesses.” Williams, himself a graduate of the HBCU Clark Atlanta University, wants viewers to appreciate and take note of the authenticity in the series. Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, the showrunners

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were able to live with the team and capture the essence of the HBCU athlete experience. While the series may be somewhat reminiscent of “Earn Everything,” which covered the Duke men’s basketball team before the 2018-19 season, “Why Not Us” strives to be more intimate and capture the unique energy and challenges the team faced. “The team has been hyper-focused on making sure that the show is authentic to [the HBCU experience],” said Williams. The intimate interviews and lengths to which the showrunners went to contribute to this authenticity. Cameramen lived with the team, got COVID-19 tested alongside the team and traveled with them as they competed, all in the search that authenticity. As additional material for the program and to further celebrate Black excellence, Chris Paul interviewed several HBCU graduates, including Jerry Lorenzo, Florida A&M graduate and founder of the fashion brand “Fear of God.” “Everything that I do, I want it to feel like when I was at homecoming at Florida A&M,” Lorenzo said to Paul on the power that HBCUs have. “I want everything I do to feel like that.”

Vegan Flava Cafe redefines vegan cuisine in the Triangle By Meredith Cohen Staff Writer

Although it’s nothing to be ashamed of, it is fairly common for college freshmen to put on a few extra pounds, lovingly named the freshman fifteen, during the school year. With less time to exercise and relax, many find themselves eating the foods that might be the most immediately satisfying, such as french fries, chips, cake or even the occasional crepe from Cafe. With the many stressors of being a first-year, it becomes difficult to give much thought to eating a healthy, balanced diet. Too much junk food, however, can contribute to sluggishness and low energy, and first-years like myself often wish for something healthier that’s still convenient and tastes great. This is where Vegan Flava Cafe comes in. The owner and chef, Yah-I Ausar, strives to make food that is healthy for your body but will still make your taste buds sing. If you have social media, then you might be familiar with promotions from influencers, such as James Charles and Kim Kardashian, for the newest hair vitamin gummies, weight loss tea or diet trend. This has made some skeptical of buying products that claim to have all these health benefits, but Vegan Flava is serious about their clean menu: no weight loss tea to be found. Vegan Flava only serves non-GMO, glutenfree, and soy-free foods on their menu. Ausar added that he is committed to “making sure everything [he] serves has great flavor — not doing traditional burgers and fries and not deep frying anything.” Eating healthy does not mean that the food doesn’t taste great, however. Ausar is committed to putting items on the menu that he is passionate about and that he thinks taste wonderful.

“Anytime we added a menu item, it was quite frankly something that I love to make and I love to eat,” Ausar said. “I’m not going to do something just for the sake of making it plant-based.” Ausar also showed concern for representing vegan food properly: “I want to give [customers] what they want, but I have to make sure it tastes good,” he said. “The name of being ‘vegan’ is on the line. I’m representing vegan food. I think about that every single time I make food for someone.” However, the restaurant’s focus is not only on making delicious, healthy vegan food. Vegan Flava is community-oriented with a strong emphasis on serving the Triangle and helping customers achieve their health goals. “[We] match with the needs of the folks who were looking to eat better…,” Ausar said. “They knew they could come to us and feel great.” Actions speak louder than words, though, and Vegan Flava not only talks the talk—they walk the walk, too: Their program “Being Better By Eating Better” is a comprehensive program unique to Vegan Flava that aims to help people not only change their eating habits but also improve unhealthy mindsets around eating. “I laid [the program] out so that you focus on one component a week,” Ausar said. “There are things that have to do with food, but there are also things that deal with your mental state. I don’t want people to just order food from me every day.” It is clear that this program is not a moneymaking scheme; Ausar genuinely wants people to improve their eating habits beyond the scope of his restaurant. Some components of the program focus on redefining snacking while others focus on developing mindful eating habits. Overall, the

program is “getting people to think differently about eating,” according to Ausar. The restaurant also pursues an alkaline philosophy. As chemistry minds might guess, his alkaline philosophy of food essentially entails consuming food with a more basic pH (rather than acidic). “The alkaline movement is based on the philosophy that disease cannot survive in an

health issues, some of their most popular menu items are alkaline, such as the walnuts for their famous walnut tacos. (Yes, walnut tacos.) It sounds like an unlikely combination, but is one of Vegan Flava’s more popular menu items. “Walnut taco landed us on the cover of Indie back in 2015,” Ausar said. “That was what put us on the map. The walnuts don’t taste like

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Vegan Flava Cafe, an eatery in Chapel Hill, serves up their famed walnut tacos, a popular menu item. alkaline body,” Ausar. “Our body’s natural pH is 2.5 on a 0 to 14 scale, and we are drinking Dasani, Aquafina and all of your popular waters. If you were to test the pH of them, they all fall in the acidic category. When you look at folks who work on addressing health challenges, they’re going to point you in the direction of alkaline food.” Though not definitively proven to solve

walnuts. They taste like taco filling.” Although Vegan Flava has moved to Chapel Hill from its previous Durham location, Duke students can still find them on Doordash for a great price — their walnut tacos are only $8! For your next fix of healthy, affordable food, shake it up a bit from your normal Happy + Hale salad and get yourself some walnut tacos delivered to your doorstep.

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Big man duo leads Duke to dominating win, and could hold the key to a March Madness bid By Jake C. Piazza

it’s translating in the games, so we’re just gonna try to keep getting better at it.” It’s difficult to quantify exactly how much The towering figure that is Mark having Williams on the floor improves Hurt’s Williams is no longer just the 7-footer that performance, but it’s worth recognizing that Hurt spells Matthew Hurt whenever the latter tied a career-high with six 3-pointers against the gets into foul trouble. Wolfpack in a game in which Williams set careerWilliams has been more than that for a few highs of his own in points, blocks and minutes. On games now, but Duke’s win against N.C. State top of that, Williams was on the floor for seven of Saturday proved that the freshman center can Hurt’s eight made field goals. be the difference between whether or not this “As far as the assists and stuff go, I think team sneaks in the back door of the NCAA again working with the coaches, making tournament. And that’s not solely because those right plays, making the right passes, of Williams’ ability to fill up the box score, whether it’s to shoot or attack,” Williams although that helps. What truly sticks out said. “And then setting the screens—my about the Virginia native is the effect he has teammates find me in the right places for on Duke’s leading scorer, Hurt. me to get those easy finishes.” “Me and Mark do a lot of stuff everyday A perfect example of Williams’ ability to together with our bigs coach, Coach [Nate] spring Hurt open came with 3:27 left in Saturday’s James, and he does a great job with high- contest. Williams flashed past the top of the key Courtesy of the ACC lowing,” Hurt said. “When I have a small guy, and, while receiving a pass from Jordan Goldwire, Matthew Hurt totaled 24 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the floor against N.C. State. having Mark flash; or Mark has a small guy, I drew the attention of both N.C. State’s bigs, giving flash. So I think we do it every single day and Hurt the necessary space to sink the 3-pointer off of a Williams handoff. being able to help Hurt in defending both the That wasn’t the only time that Williams rim and the N.C. State big men. helped create a quality look for Hurt, Even on the nights in which Williams isn’t though. Early in the game, Hurt got himself able to complement Hurt on offense as well as open by setting a ball screen for Wendell he did Saturday, the value that he brings in terms Moore Jr., but Williams impacted the play of keeping Hurt out of foul trouble is essential to because of what he chose not to do. Instead the future success of this team. of flashing to the high post or attempting to The Blue Devils have had a revolving door of set a ball screen for Hurt, he opted to stay No. 2 options behind Hurt this year, and although in the low post, forcing Wolfpack big man Williams doesn’t have the transition capabilities of Manny Bates to sag down on him and not Jalen Johnson or the smooth outside stroke of DJ rotate onto the open Hurt. Steward, he’s proven he complements Hurt best. Another aspect of Williams’ presence that In late January, the cohesiveness of specifically helps Hurt is quelling the latter’s biggest Johnson and Hurt was a big issue facing weakness: foul trouble on the defensive end. Duke, and while Williams may not have Take Duke’s loss to North Carolina Feb. seemed like the most likely solution at the 6, for example. Hurt struggled to defend time, it has worked out well thus far. the Tar Heel bigs and ended up fouling out Next, the Blue Devils will face Wake Forest in with four minutes left in the contest, leaving Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, and if the past the Blue Devils without their best offensive is any indicator of the future, Duke could be in for weapon in crunch time. another evening of the Williams-Hurt show. Against N.C. State, Williams played almost “If there’s a big guy playing like Mark is, you’ve Courtesy of the ACC double the amount of minutes he did against got to play him,” Krzyzewski said. “Mark and Mark Williams notched career highs across the board in Saturday’s win. North Carolina, and the result of that was him Matt, they were really good today.” Blue Zone Editor

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Jake Piazza elected as The Chronicle’s Vol. 117 sports editor By Max Rego Assistant Blue Zone Editor

In a department-wide meeting over Zoom Friday night, Jake Piazza was unanimously elected to serve as sports editor of The Chronicle’s 117th volume. Piazza, a sophomore from Simi Valley, Ca., officially received the nod to replace Evan Kolin starting April 22, the day before Duke’s last day of classes for the 2021 spring term. “I am extremely excited and honored to be our sports editor next year,” Piazza said. “Being a part of this department has meant so much to me these past two years, and I’m looking forward to giving future writers the same experience that I was so fortunate to have.” In his platform, Piazza expressed a desire to develop a strong community within the department, something that he feels will generate increased engagement with newer writers. On the reporting side, Piazza plans to incorporate more of a focus on feature stories to give a unique insight into Duke athletics. He also outlined his plans to expand coverage of Duke sports to video and audio formats. “What jumps out about Jake is his passion for journalism as well as his passion for The Chronicle,” Kolin said. “It’s been a

pleasure watching him grow as a writer, reporter and leader, and there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind he’ll be a fantastic sports editor.” Piazza is currently serving as Blue Zone editor this year alongside Assistant Blue Zone Editors Alex Jackson and Max Rego. He has covered a multitude of Duke sports during his time on campus, serving as a beat writer for women’s basketball, baseball, football and men’s basketball. Piazza has also covered volleyball, field hockey and women’s soccer. “I can remember back to the first day Jake joined our department thinking that he had an incredibly bright future ahead of him,” V. 115 Sports Editor Derek Saul said. “Since day one, he has been wholly committed to growing as a journalist, and I can’t wait to see the new heights that he will take our section to.” Piazza is pursuing a major in economics with a finance concentration and a certificate in policy, journalism and media studies. “I am very passionate about what we do as a sports section and what the Chronicle does as a newspaper,” Piazza said. “Being sports editor is not something I will take lightly, and I can’t wait to be a small part of the historic legacy of this paper.”

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Joe Robertson shines in long-awaited return By Evan Kolin

in a little bit. [I] definitely had butterflies in my stomach last night, and the whole week, just thinking about this game. It’s been a Joe Robertson led Duke in both points and while since I played.” goals in 2019, including the overtime gameRobertson wasn’t done, however. winner to send the Blue Devils to the Final Just over three minutes later, defenseman Four. While Duke would lose in the national Braden Burke sprinted down the pitch and semifinal to Virginia, it was a dream season for shoveled a pass to Robertson, who fired the then-sophomore. in his second goal of the game to put the Little did Robertson know that the loss to Blue Devils ahead 5-0. And less than three the Cavaliers would be his last competitive minutes after that, Robertson secured the lacrosse game for 630 days. first-quarter hat trick, wrapping around the The Virginia native tore his ACL just before left side of the cage and firing it in himself the 2020 campaign began, ruling him out to give Duke a 7-1 advantage. for the season before anyone had any idea When all was said and done, Robertson COVID-19 would cut it short anyway. finished with four goals and an assist as the Then, just hours before Duke’s 2021 top-ranked Blue Devils walloped Mercer 17-8 season-opener last Friday against then-No. 5 in Koskinen Stadium. After surprisingly having Denver, the team announced that Robertson’s to come from behind in each of its two games long-awaited return would be put on hold, as last week, Duke’s early domination Saturday he and two of his teammates would have to finally displayed the potential the team has. miss the Blue Devils’ opening two games due And Robertson’s return was undoubtedly a to “the school’s health protocols” (when asked large reason for that. about the trio’s absence postgame last Friday, “Having Joe back [Wednesday] in head coach John Danowski was only able to say practice, it was just a big lift,” Danowski said. it was “due to Duke University protocols”). “He settles everybody down, he understands But in Saturday’s win against Mercer, how we play offense—even though he didn’t Robertson finally donned the blue and white play last year through the abbreviated season, and took the field for an official game. And he is a student of the game. It’s like having now he knows to cherish every second of it. another coach on the field. He understands “It’s just taking it all in,” Robertson said exactly what we’re trying to accomplish on regarding the emotion of finally returning. “It’s offense. And so I was really happy for him definitely been a long road since I’ve been back that in his debut back this year that he was and been out on the field, so just taking it in, able to hit the net a couple times.” moment by moment. Every time I’m on the As Danowski mentioned, Robertson’s field, just having fun.” presence on the field had a big impact on his Despite the lengthy absence, it didn’t take teammates, especially Sowers. The superstar long for Robertson to find his groove. Less transfer from Princeton had an underwhelming than four minutes into the contest, graduate first two games as a Blue Devil—at least relative student attackman Michael Sowers dished the to his insane expectations coming into the ball from behind the cage to Robertson, who season—but seemed to play more relaxed was camping right in front of the goal and put Saturday, totaling four goals of his own in in the easy score. It was already Duke’s fourth addition to two assists. goal of the game, but as Robertson’s first, this “I think it settles Michael Sowers down one definitely meant a little extra. a little bit, because [he and Robertson] live “Yeah, it was cool,”The Robertson said Syndication of together the same house, and those guys New York Times SalesinCorporation Eighth York, 10018 bit,” Danowski said of how notching the early goal. “It 620 helped meAvenue, settle New can talkN.Y. a little

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Robertson’s return impacts the offense. “It kind of defines Michael’s role a little bit more and it defines [sophomore attackman Dyson Williams’] role a little bit more when Joe’s out there.” That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly through Saturday’s win, though. After leading 8-1 after one quarter and 13-3 at halftime, Duke (3-0) started to give in a little bit, with Mercer (1-2) hanging around throughout the second half and cutting its deficit to as close as 14-6 midway through the third quarter. Part of the reason for that was certainly Danowski’s choice to start playing around with his rotations and give his bench guys some game action. Another contributing factor was the Blue Devils’ 21 turnovers on the afternoon, a number that has to improve before the team gets into the heart of its schedule and ACC play. But from what we’ve seen from the Blue Devils in recent seasons, it’s safe to assume that there will be a lot of growth between now and then. “In terms of our offense, I think we’re just getting started,” Robertson said. “Really just trying to get some chemistry going. It’s been a little different with getting guys back from

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Gait: The theater of personal movement

global pandemic robs our lives of innumerable and diverse things, many of them components of our social correspondence which have understandably been reduced and restricted for the sake of preserving our lives.

possibly posture. We’re not totally destitute of communicating channels, however, and while some of these social forms are muted for a time and for a good purpose, others that might otherwise be ignored have surfaced as lively tells of

haven’t guessed from the title of this column, I’m talking about the way we all walk. If you apply any moment of focus to the diversity of pedestrian traffic on campus, you’re met with a rich landscape of characters that tell you volumes about their personalities and identities in the absence of saying it outright. Anyone who wanted could spend a dissertation cataloguing the mechanical details of observed gait cases and their correlates to COLUMN personality profiles, but I have neither the time nor sufficient data to do something so Conversation between long-time friends personality and association. Since returning scientific. Instead I offer to readers a few of the or just-acquainted strangers is dampened and to campus at the beginning of January this anecdotally observed archetypes that I’ve come compressed to only the information conveyed year, one such form has struck me as totally across so far, mapped unseriously onto animal by muffled sounds of masked words and enrapturing now that I notice it, and if you forms for reference and visualization. THE CAT: Eyes wide and focused, the hot take of the week feline ambler stalks across the campus grounds with an interior curiosity uninhibited by their outward indifference. Usually alone but “Deep under the chapel, past secret doors of metal and stone, there is a great uncommonly affectionate when with others, machine. Few know of its existence, and fewer still have seen its fuel.” il gatto glides very quietly, sweeping the air —Mihir Bellamkonda, Opinion Editor, on February 14, 2020 with their hands as their feet tap the ground noiselessly, balanced perfectly by an invisible counterweight. You have never seen them fall or trip, not even over the most egregiously raised stone section of the path between the WUKilgo Arcade and the HRL Arches of Craven. THE DOG: If the cat is quiet and curious, their canine counterpart walks like noise is of least concern. Sometimes galloping and Direct submissions to: sometimes trotting, there is an affection and The Chronicle welcomes submissions in the form of letters to the editor E-mail: happiness in their gait so obvious not even a or guest columns. Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, chronicleletters@duke.edu department or class, and for purposes of identification, phone number and local face mask could obscure it. Tripping, falling, address. Letters should not exceed 325 words; contact the editorial department catching a foot on a broken stone section and Editorial Page Department for information regarding guest columns. The Chronicle somersaulting through the air—nothing can The Chronicle will not publish anonymous or form letters or letters that are Box 90858, deter the coverage of der Hund. They are most promotional in nature. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters and guest Durham, NC 27708 frequently demonstrating every ounce of their columns for length, clarity and style and the right to withhold letters based on joy playing frisbee or spikeball on the main Phone: (919) 684-2663 the discretion of the editorial page editor. quad, infecting passersby with their joy. Fax: (919) 684-4696 THE SQUIRREL: Curious like the cat and as prone to ambulatory failures as dogs, the squirrelly walker is everywhere. You cannot traverse a surface of the campus that isn’t Est. 1905 Inc. 1993 steeped in their presence—they seem to be on the quad every moment you are, and never MATTHEW GRIFFIN, Editor without a purpose. Either in pursuit of a meal EVAN KOLIN, Sports Editor from WU or a COVID test in the BC, they move MARIA MORRISON, Managing Editor so quickly it’s frightening, usually ferreting MONA TONG, News Editor nuts of books and packages from one place CARTER FORINASH, Editor-at-Large ROSE WONG, Senior Editor to another. While they are far from menacing, JAKE SATISKY, Digital Strategy Director affectionate does not here apply. SIMRAN PRAKASH, Photography Editor THE OWL: More frequently spotted late MIHIR BELLAMKONDA, Opinion Editor at night than during the day, this avian ambler SARAH DERRIS, Recess Editor is not uncommonly bespectacled and very CHRISSY BECK, General Manager commonly wide-eyed. 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alongside the avians, felids and canids, the bear is never in a rush. Frequently guarding posts around the bus stop, or as students, stepping out of their pleasantly warm cave rooms to gather honey from the apiary we call WU, there is full contact between their heel, arch, toe and the ground as they walk. No one wishes to disturb a bear, but since they walk in such a way that they take up the center and majority of a path at a stolid, slow pace while the raven or cat wishes to move past them, perhaps they should be. THE BUCK: Conversant with the ursine tendency to take up an entire path while walking, the buck usually travels with others of his kind, considerably exacerbating their problematic negotiation of the space. Blanketed in the sartorial antlers of gray sweatpants, Nike ankle socks, jerseys, letterman jackets and ball caps, the buck walks with a swagger to impress secondarily the does but primarily his fellow bucks. Sometimes it’s fun to watch them butt heads, but most of us know well to stay out of their way when walking about. THE DOE: Counterpart to the buck, the doe is also rarely alone, and never without a partner in conversation. A restless stream of dialogue with an interlocutor by phone or by her side fills her heels with so much energy that they bounce when making contact with the ground beneath her. With eyelashes swooping up black and long from her light-filled eyes and the ideal long coif framing her face, she fills the quad with buoyant steps and talkative kindness on her walk across the greens. THE TORTOISE: Slow. Ancient. Possibly bitter, but you can’t always tell. Tortoise is never seen laughing. No bounce, no swagger, no failure and very little speed. Never disturbed by passersby out of esteem, this dinosaur may just as well be a student as a professor emeritus. Don’t wait up for them, and please remember to forgive them for being late. THE HARE: Quick, naïf, and hasty, the hare sings the tortoise’s counterpoint word for word. Imagine a time long past when wood-pulp papers had to be physically deposited in a metal box by a certain time for an assignment to receive full credit. Now imagine you have worked on that assignment until the last available minute and must overcome whatever considerable vertical and horizontal distance separates you from that metal box at the base of a science building with a language name. You don’t have much time, so whatever animal archetype you previously exemplified melts away and you become the swiftest mammal on campus, determined not to let the outdated fetters of physically turning in an assignment rob you of full credit. You are faster than the wind and oblivious to obstacles as you race your race and converge at the box with your fellow hare satisfied with your determination. (Obviously, this has never happened to me.) Now equipped with the above renditions of Duke’s pedestrian ensemble, I urge you to take a closer look at the people walking around you each day. Mundane gaits are transformed into a spectacular theatre of personalities when you’re present enough to notice them. You could pass by everyone you see on campus and ignore the way they walk because it doesn’t matter and no one is grading you on how many you identify or remember. But if you risk noticing, you’re rewarded with an uncommonly rich perception of the humanity around you. Nicholas Chrapliwy is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Fridays.

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We should divorce the Duke Marriage Pact Right now, The Marriage Pact does not even have an option for you to access your data.

e’re here to crash your (algorithmically-selected) weddings.

25,000 matches. And the Pact is continuing cybersecurity and privacy. The Marriage Pact takes “til death do us to expand, with the survey rolled out at Princeton, Dartmouth, Villanova, and part” a little too seriously—your data is held by their organization “in general… until it’s no longer needed to run the Marriage Pact,” which is vague language for “indefinitely.” The Marriage Pact offers a manual process for editing your responses or withdrawing from the matching process, yet does not Washington University in St. Louis alongside mention the word “delete” once. McGregor, the company’s CEO, said Duke this semester. In other schools’ newspapers, such as that the company does honor data deletion The Tufts Daily, concerns about data privacy requests, which is nowhere to be found on their website, their privacy statement or have been briefly mentioned. Yet, it seems as if many of our peers have the Typeform itself. And ultimately, if you been reassured by the sheer existence of the haven’t submitted a data deletion request, “Data Principles & Practices’’ document it’s unclear how long The Marriage Pact will be able to hold onto your data. distributed alongside the school projects. C’mon, even Facebook offers a data Just because a privacy policy simply exists does not mean that it meets the standards deletion section within its privacy policy. As a corporation doing business in we should be holding for our most sensitive information. Every major tech company California, eventually The Marriage Pact out there has a privacy policy, but that may be legally required to clearly outline doesn’t mean we consider all of them to be why they collect your data in order to comply with state privacy law. California’s completely trustworthy. The Duke Marriage Pact’s data privacy Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 gives statement—really, a brief outline of ideals— California residents the right to access and is housed in a Google doc (seriously, a delete personal information collected about Google doc) owned by one of the Stanford them, as well as the right to opt-out of their students behind the national operation information being sold. These requirements could kick in as of The Marriage Pact. Within five quick pages, the authors define the types of data soon as The Marriage Pact matches over they collect and proclaim, in this “informal 50,000 California residents (which includes policy,” that The Marriage Pact will not sell California residents attending school outof-state)—not too high of a threshold for your data. And to that, we say, “Congrats for doing a company that has supposedly created the bare minimum!” Seriously, not selling over 25,000 matches via its existing college our information doesn’t mean a company brands. But right now, The Marriage Pact does is taking enough measures to secure our data. In fact, The Marriage Pact’s privacy not even have an option for you to access statement doesn’t make any mention of your data. As noted in their data privacy statement, cybersecurity, which is a key principle. There’s no privacy if your data is out there individuals do not create user accounts on for any amateur hacker to grab during their the platform. This reality means that The Marriage Pact leaves you with no way to keep lunch break. A representative of the Duke team track of the information you submitted. directed The Chronicle to The Marriage Unless, of course, you’d like to submit the Pact’s CEO, Liam McGregor. When we asked form again and have your data duplicated in McGregor about what kinds of cybersecurity their system. On the flip side, you might really trust practices, certifications, and training the company relies on, he wrote, “[W] The Marriage Pact to handle this sensitive e do our best to apply the most rigorous data, and, ultimately, that’s your prerogative. industry-standard practices around data But when you input your data in the survey, handling,” with no mention of whether the you’re also handing it over to Typeform, team’s practices actually meet the industry an independent third-party with its own privacy policy, its own ways of storing and standard for cybersecurity practices. When you submit the form, your name handling your data, and its own history of and email are presumably linked to the a data breach. The idea of falling in love over a rest of your responses. The Marriage Pact doesn’t say if they’ll encrypt this data or Typeform might be romantic enough during separate out your contact information so this pandemic to convince you to hand over that a hacker could only associate your your data to a nameless, faceless group of answers to deeply personal questions with students. We don’t deny that they’ve made attempts to protect privacy, but it’s not an anonymized ID number. Do you really want anyone on the enough. Not nearly enough. Every time we mindlessly hit “Submit” on Internet—not just now, but 20 or 30 years from now, future employers and friends a questionable Typeform or hand over our alike—reading about whether or not you email to an organization that we don’t know think you’re smarter than your Duke peers? much about, we’re ceding our privacy for The Marriage Pact’s privacy statement little in return. Just think, was your match may not address any cybersecurity risks, but really worth it? Maybe The Marriage Pact that doesn’t mean the risks are negligible. says they won’t sell our data today, but then Last year, hackers infiltrated a similar project again, in the earliest days of Facebook, Mark at Stanford via SQL injection, potentially Zuckerberg told The Crimson he wouldn’t accessing the names and “crushes’’ of one sell anyone’s email address. Things change. People change. thousand survey respondents. Who’s to say that Duke is immune to Organizations change. Often, an organization edges in the similar action? Furthermore, while “no student on the direction of commercialization for years Duke team can see any individual response,” before it becomes a behemoth. And it looks it remains unclear how much access our like The Marriage Pact may be headed in Stanford peers have to our data or what that direction, with a “Join Team Marriage training they have received with regards to Pact” call for market designers, machine

Niharika Vattikonda & Jess Edelson ON TECH Last week, Duke was abuzz with the giddy excitement of undergraduates who received the results of the now-infamous “Duke Marriage Pact” survey. The Marriage Pact was the latest attempt to address the loneliness problem on campus in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the week leading up to the highlyanticipated matchmaking night, students were encouraged via social media posts, text threads, and Duke Student Government emails to take the online questionnaire. In an era of socially-distanced encounters and mostly-digital interactions, The Marriage Pact offered, at first glance, an unbeatable opportunity: the chance to meet your campus soulmate with minimal effort. To receive matches in their email inboxes, students completed a short questionnaire, letting an algorithm run its magic to determine who they’ll head to the altar with. The process was so easy and compelling that, by February 2, more than 4,200 students had submitted the survey, answering questions ranging from the mundane “What is your major?” to the more compromising “Is it okay that your partner does harder drugs?” and “Do you prefer kinky sex?” When we asked our friends who completed the survey what they thought about it, we were met with responses such as “It’s just for fun, it doesn’t matter.” Yet, regardless of whether people took the survey seriously or completed the form “for the meme,” we’re here to bear the news that The Marriage Pact actually does matter. Launched as an unreviewed, “independent student initiative” at Duke, what many of us likely were not aware of was that The Marriage Pact is not just a fun school project; it’s a full-spanking corporation, registered in Delaware and doing business in California. Students were encouraged to contribute to the construction of a massive database of our most intimate personal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) such as names and email addresses, sexual preferences, attitudes towards drug use, and political and religious views. Now that the matches have been sent and the deed has been done, The Marriage Pact is not providing sufficient information on how they are planning to protect and handle this trove of information in the future. We deserve better. The idea behind the Duke Marriage Pact originated on another college campus across the country: Stanford. The algorithm behind the project was first developed as a class project in 2017 by two undergrads. According to a Stanford Daily article, “An algorithm for stable marriages [filters] through the profiles and find[s] each student their most compatible long-term partner—a ‘backup plan’ in case both people end up single later in life.” The Duke version of the survey was actually a continuation of this Stanford project, now branded as “The Marriage Pact.” The matching algorithm was launched previously at multiple schools, including Cornell, Yale, Columbia, UVA, Northwestern, and Tufts, and has made over

learning gurus, content writers, and data scientists. That’s a lot of specialized people to run a handful of Typeforms. The algorithm right now relies on some lonely college students completing a survey. But you don’t need any significant business knowledge to see how this can be commercialized—just look to the massive market of dating apps vying for our attention. Your data, once in this system, could be used to train models that affect not just your campus, but your whole world. We’re all curious, of course, about the survey results—The Marriage Pact has already given people a list of their own “hot takes.” But more importantly, what will The Marriage Pact’s “takes” say about Duke’s students? The Marriage Pact could tell us what percentage of people think they’re smarter than the average Duke student or would only be comfortable dating someone within a specific race or ethnicity. What would this information mean for Duke? For all the future Blue Devils who might see this information? For parents paying almost six figures of tuition a year? For recruiters on campus who we see at coffee chats? We have no idea what the insights will be, but even aggregate statistics could irrevocably change how we think of ourselves, our classmates, and our institution. Maybe The Marriage Pact will head straight for another commercialization opportunity—selling the organization, its algorithm, and its database to the highest bidder. Maybe Facebook or Tinder or Hinge will fork over the cash to understand how today’s college students are looking to find love. We’re not saying that The Marriage Pact will do this. Right now, it seems like The Marriage Pact is a fun startup run by some talented college students, but their attempt at a privacy statement leaves us with far more questions than answers. We hope that they’ll take this moment as an opportunity to re-evaluate their privacy practices and make real commitments to securing and de-identifying user data, routinely deleting personal data, and building out a binding privacy policy that provides greater transparency. We’re now in the same position as those Harvard students were in 2004 when thefacebook.com launched. And this time, we know how this works. The onus should not be on us, as college students, to investigate every potential startup’s data privacy and cybersecurity practices. We believe that The Marriage Pact and those involved here at Duke need to have a conversation about how they can ensure the security and privacy of student data. In the meantime, now that the matches are out, The Marriage Pact really has no reason to hang on to this massive trove of personally-identifiable information. Unless, of course, there’s a few secondary purposes beyond finding your true love. So, break up with The Marriage Pact! You’ve (hopefully) already found your soulmate, and it’s time to request that The Marriage Pact deletes your data (hit ‘em up at hello@marriagepact.com). Jessica Edelson and Niharika Vattikonda are Trinity juniors. Their column, “on tech,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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