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Lisa Borders Lemur preschool is in session resigns from Curator focuses on animal well-being in Alzheimer’s research Time’s Up

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Lisa Borders announced her resignation Monday night as president and CEO of Time’s Up after taking the reins of the organization in October.

According to a letter to stakeholders from Rebecca Goldman, chief operating officer of Time’s Up, Borders resigned because of a family issue, The New York Times reported.

Goldman will serve as interim chief executive until the group finds a new leader.

“As Time’s Up continues to grow, I am proud of the work I have done to shepherd its continued development,” Borders wrote in a statement she tweeted at 5:30 p.m.

“Unfortunately, it is with deep regret that I must resign from Time’s Up to address family concerns that require my singular focus. I appreciate the opportunity to support this mission and I hope that my efforts will continue to resonate.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, provided a statement to The Chronicle after the resignation announcement.

“Lisa Borders is an extraordinary leader and person with many friends at Duke who support her and her family,” Schoenfeld wrote.

“We look forward to welcoming Lisa as Duke’s commencement speaker in May to inspire our new graduates.”

President Vincent Price announced that Borders would deliver the commencement See BORDERS on Page 3

Recess has ended, and it’s snack time at lemur preschool.

Meg Dye, curator of behavioral management, blows on her high-pitched whistle to ask Sophia, Randy, Nemesis and Narcissa to come over for bite-sized golden apple chunks. Sophia springs onto the cage door to grab her first portion from Dye. Sophia guides the tiny apple into her mouth and gnaws away with smacking lips.

As Dye explains, snack time is basic training for this ring-tailed lemur crew. Like at a preschool, she wants the lemurs to learn to take turns and focus on the teacher.

Dye has been at the Duke Lemur Center for about 11 years, seven as a full-time staff member. She first came to the DLC on a consulting stint to teach staff about positive reinforcement techniques. Having worked primarily with dolphins, sea otters and other marine animals, she didn’t know much about lemurs.

“One of my consulting contracts was the Duke Lemur Center,” Dye said. “Honestly, I fell in love with this place.”

After coming to the DLC, she stopped taking contracts from other wildlife centers. She devoted her days to the DLC’s approximately 250 lemurs, who she almost blends in with. Wide-eyed, Dye wears short grey hair and a black turtleneck. She pulls back her neck and torso, imitating a wary lemur preparing to retreat. She smudges her temple and cheeks mimicking Grendel, an aye-aye participating in early morning research with pretty bad bed head. She squeaks like a blue-eyed black lemur indulging in cantaloupe.

But unlike her effervescent lemur friends, Dye is naturally composed and calculated.

Kristi Sturgill | Contributing Photographer Meg Dye is the curator of behavioral management at the Duke Lemur Center.

“Working with animals on a daily basis definitely takes a certain temperament,” Dye said. “It’s a lot of patience and a lot of love for what you are doing.”

Pick me!

Next, Dye slides into a quiet, dark room tinted with red light and walled with spacious black lemur cages, or “condos.” She pulls out a syringe filled with pineapple juice, rattles it between the cage links and blows a peep from her whistle. Mushmelon, a particularly cheery lemur, wakes up. Dye beckons her into an approximately two-foot wide box that she attached to the cage.

Dye and two other researchers are ready See LEMURS on Page 3

Simran Prakash | Staff Photographer The lemur center houses the largest captive population of lemurs outside of Madagascar.

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Schewel calls for $95 million affordable housing bond referendum and Ph.D. ‘82. “We have to decide if we as a community really want to do something about Managing Editor gentrification and affordable housing, or if Durham Mayor Steve Schewel says he we’re just going to complain about it.” wants to make living in downtown Durham Schewel, who said he wants Durham to serve as affordable for all—not just “upper middle- a “progressive beacon for the South and the nation,” class white people.” will assemble an advisory At his second State of committee to explain the the City address Monday We will create an inclusive plan to Durham residents. night during a Durham City downtown in Durham...

In the five-year plan, as a Council meeting, Schewel part of the ambitious plan called for a referendum in steve schewel funded by 2.25 “cents on MAYOR the tax rate,” Schewel said November’s elections—for a $95 million bond issue for Durham will help create affordable housing and to “change the future 1,800 new affordable housing rental units and of our city forever.” preserve 800 more, mostly downtown.

“It’s a big lift, I know. But it’s time one He also called for moving 1,700 homeless city in this nation did it, and I know that city See SCHEWEL on Page 3 can be Durham,” said Schewel, Trinity ‘73

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Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor Mayor Steve Schewel delivered his second annual State of the City address Monday night.

Junior appears on hit-show ‘Survivor’

New art hall comes to Durham

Column: Lessons from the campaign trail

An undergrad by day and “Survivor” contestant by night, Keith Sowell talks about being on the hit show.

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Junior Keith Sowell competes on new season of ‘Survivor’ “The competitive mentality that everybody has, that ‘Oh, I have to get this A-plus, I have to get this grade, because if I don’t, my future’s going to be at stake,’” he explained. “Just the During the winter break of his sophomore year, as other competitive nature here helped prepare me for the experience— students enjoyed snow and a break from homework, Keith to want to always do good.”

Sowell auditioned for “Survivor.”

Sowell is majoring in African and African American Studies After creating an intricate audition tape for the reality and is on the pre-medical studies track. His dream is to be a show in his first year at Duke, he decided that his next doctor because he enjoys helping people and learning about the “Survivor” audition video needed to be more authentic. human body, he said. Plus, doctors tend to earn large salaries, He went into his living room and spoke into his camera and he wants to bring his family out of its current economic for three minutes. Months later, he received a call during circumstances. his Spanish class—he was going to be on the next season He emphasized those circumstances in his “Survivor” cast profile, where he notes that he has “already been living against of “Survivor.”

“I was like, ‘This is a [number] I don’t know, so decline.’ But the odds.” He does not come from a family of doctors—he said he would be the first in his family to graduate from then I saw the voicemail. I said, college—and he did not even know what class rank ‘Can I go use the bathroom?’ I How do you focus on work left class—[I] didn’t come back was until his junior year of high school, according to his biography. to class,” Sowell, now a junior, after living one of your In the biography, Sowell also wrote that if he said. “It was crazy how fast dreams? could bring three things to the island, he would things were moving.”

Sowell spent this past keith sowell bring his Bible, his poetry book and his Black summer filming Season 38 JUNIOR AND “SURVIVOR” CONTESTANT Panther jacket.

Sowell describes himself as religious. He was of the reality television show a youth pastor back at home in Fayetteville, “Survivor: Edge of Extinction.”

Traditionally, the show places strangers in an isolated N.C., after becoming one at about 14 years old. The junior location—this season it is Fiji—where they must provide for is also a poet. themselves. The number of competitors dwindle as they are “Becoming a youth pastor and getting involved in the voted out by others on the island. This season, eliminated poetry community—those were some of the things that took me out of my comfort zone, just because I used to be a shy players will have a chance to reenter the game.

Sowell explained that he fell in love with the show because child,” he said.

He added that these activities honed his skills for making of its competitive nature.

“I was like, ‘I can do that,’ even though I don’t camp, I don’t alliances and navigating the community on the island. Being a go outside and eat bugs or all this other stuff—fish, swimming. resident assistant for a first-year dorm last year also prepared That’s not me,” he said. “But just the game itself, I fell in love him for the experience, he said, by teaching him how to be more open. with.”

Sowell explained that during his first year at Duke, he Sowell said that he told everybody he would be on “Survivor” one day. Although some people were skeptical, he always told had two RAs who were impactful in easing his transition from high school to college. It was a tough transition for himself that it would happen.

At 19 years old, it has now happened for Sowell. He is the him, so he wanted to make the transition to college less youngest of the 18 players on this season and the youngest difficult for others.

However, Sowell has had his own difficult transition between African-American competitor ever. Being a student at Duke has prepared him for his “Survivor” experience, he said. a summer on “Survivor” and his junior year of Duke. A talkative

By Isabelle Doan News Editor

Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer Keith Sowell, a junior, appears on the hit-show’s 38th season.

and friendly person, he’s found it difficult to keep his big secret.

“How do you focus on work after living one of your dreams?” he asked.

When he did announce last month that he would be on Season 38, he said he had an outpouring of support from family and friends.

“It’s good to know that I have people to fall back on, regardless of how everything [turns] out, I have the safety net of people and people behind me,” he expressed.

Sowell’s season premieres Feb. 20 on CBS at 8 p.m.—one hour before the Duke-North Carolina game tips off.

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households into permanent living situations, to offer nearly 200 new “home ownership opportunities” and to provide additional assistance via eviction diversion and emergency rental assistance, among other things.

“We will create an inclusive downtown in Durham, a racially diverse downtown, the impossible dream for growing American cities,” Schewel said.

to run a memory game with Mushmelon as part of the DLC’s non-invasive research studying Alzheimer’s disease. Mouse lemurs are perfect for this research—their naturally short life spans allow for Alzheimer’s research at just about seven years old. Unlike actual mice, mouse lemurs are prosimian primates, an “ancestral root” to humans.

“Because they are a closer genetic match to humans than mice or rats are, researchers at the Duke Lemur Center hope that non-invasive research on these tiny primate cousins will help humans too,” according to the DLC website.

Just like with clinical research, volunteerism is fundamental to studying Alzheimer’s through lemurs.

“We use training to teach the animals to voluntarily participate in research,” Dye said. “It changes the conversation from, ‘You will get on this scale,’ or, ‘You will get in this kennel,’ to, ‘Will you please go into this kennel? Will you please get on this scale?’”

Lured with pineapple juice, Mushmelon thinks this is a game. From a grainy computer screen, Dye watches her dash across the inside of the black box toward the touch screen.

When Mushmelon touches the screen with a striped pattern on it, pineapple juice automatically dispenses in a small bowl behind her. Skitter! Tap! Munch. Skitter! Tap! When Mushmelon gets tired of playing, Dye says she can choose to go back home.

For Dye, seeing lemurs participate enthusiastically is one of the best parts of the job. When animals are relaxed, research data are more accurate. It’s a boon for the lemur and the researchers.

“I get excited that we can teach these animals how to answer research questions,” Dye said.“If they want to come over and participate, that’s great. But they don’t have to.”

She uses positive reinforcement training to encourage lemurs to volunteer, recycling these techniques from working with sea otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a variety of marine mammals at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.

‘Trust is up and crime is down’ Schewel also took time in the lengthy speech to offer his evaluation on crime in Durham, discussing the need to stop violent crime and earn trust from local residents.

He said the state legislature’s lack of “common-sense gun control” leaves Durham to use “every other resource at [their] command.” Schewel noted that all police officers now receive training in “racial equity,” “de-escalation” and domestic violence, and that 45 percent of officers have undergone advanced Crisis Intervention Training.

He also said policing has changed dramatically, slashing traffic stops by two-thirds and drug charges by half. Durham saw a steep drop in shootings in 2018, but Schewel said that such “amazing results” are unlikely to continue.

“But the trend in Durham is clear—trust is up, and crime is down,” Schewel said.

Schewel urges Duke to support the light rail With deadlines approaching, Duke and the North Carolina and Norfolk-Southern Railroads have not signed onto the Durham-Orange Light Rail project.

Schewel said he urged Duke University President Vincent Price and the railroads to agree to a deal that would let the light rail project move forward. The proposed light rail line would run for nearly 18 miles between Durham and Chapel Hill at a price tag of roughly $2.5 billion.

The current project route would necessitate that Duke give up land. Schewel said Durham needs the line for more affordable transportation and in order to stifle traffic, in addition to being “the single most important thing we can do locally to fight climate change.”

“If we don’t have these agreements signed by February 28, a 15year effort to fund and build the light rail will die a sudden death,” Schewel said. “The future of our region depends on it.”

Positive reinforcement Dye opens a closet and pulls out two white nets. Walking through a lemur family’s cage door, she places the nets on the ground and a cantaloupe chunk on top of it.

“Can you please walk on the net?” Dye asks the matriarchal lemur Sprite.

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Sprite doesn’t get on the net right away, but Dye encourages her over with a bit more fruit. Dye is teaching Sprite and her family to walk in the nets so that the DLC can administer vaccines and other medications to the ring-tailed lemurs.

Animal comfort is Dye’s chief priority.

“Animal welfare is always from the perspective of the animal, not from our perspective. What is in the animal’s best interest?” Dye says.

Excitedly, Dye says today is Sprite’s daughter Lulu’s first time stepping on the net. Lulu munches proudly on her cantaloupe and then pronounces she’s done by dropping leftover fruit on the ground.

Dye’s lemur preschool hasn’t learned about clean-up time quite yet.

BORDERS FROM PAGE 1 address for the Class of 2019 in a news release Friday.

“I will forever be grateful to the university for the experiences and exposures I had there which helped me become who I am today,” Borders said in the Friday news release. “Duke continues to play a tremendous role in my life and I am so honored to be returning to my alma mater to deliver this commencement address.”

Since 2015, Borders has served on Duke’s Board of Trustees, and her term will last until 2021. She is a member of the Next Generation Living and Learning Experience Task Force and the External Engagement Committee, according to her biography on the Board’s website.

In October 2018, Borders stepped down from serving as president of the WNBA after two years to become the inaugural president of Time’s Up. Time’s Up advocates for those affected by sexual assault and harassment and was inspired by the #MeToo movement. The movement was spearheaded by Hollywood celebrities, in response to sexual assault allegations against prominent figures in the entertainment industry.

“As the president and CEO of Time’s Up, she is the leading the way toward building a more just, equitable future for women, a mission that she has carried with her throughout her career in business, public service, philanthropy and the WNBA,” Price said in a news release Friday.

Bre Bradham contributed reporting.

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In her 1964 piece titled “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Susan Sontag outlines a genre of art (but here, I’ll focus on films) referred to as “camp.” These films, which often have a following that is cultlike and niche, exhibit a “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” For most, this means hyper-stylized visuals, over-the-top dialogue, outlandish premises and cartoonish characters.

Sontag finishes her piece by stating that camp “is good because it’s awful” — that camp lacks self-awareness, and it is precisely its attempt at seriousness (and failure to succeed) that marks a truly campy film.

The cinematic landscape has drastically changed since Sontag published her piece, and camp has, too. Almost paradoxically, the recognition of the existence of camp has informed its newer incarnations — camp is something that can now be purposefully cultivated and imitated, which confuses its original definition as films that were rejected by the mainstream and embraced by a small group of admirers. Directors like John Waters, who gained recognition in 1988 with the film “Hairspray,” set out with the goal to make films that would explicitly serve this subset of consumers who craved bizarre, strange films.

Although it’s a delightfully uncanny treat, camp can often be alienating or disarming to the uninitiated viewer. So, here’s a short list of loosely campy films, that do the definition justice but are relatively more accessible and enjoyable.

I promise: Once you cross the threshold, you’ll never want to go back.

“What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” dir.

Robert Aldrich Aldrich’s 1962 psychological thriller explores an aging child star named Jane (played by Bette Davis), and her contemptuous relationship with her older and more successful sister, Blanche (Joan Crawford). After Blanche is hit by a car and paralyzed, Jane is later found in a drunken stupor, and everyone assumes that she is responsible for the crime. To atone for this supposed misdeed, Jane moves into her sister’s Hollywood mansion and cares for the wheelchair-bound Blanche, although her form of “care” involves forced captivity and

constant criticism, born out of her hatred of her older sister’s successful career.

Much of the film’s camp is derived from the histrionic acting by Davis and Crawford, whose bitter real-life rivalry heavily informed their respective performances. Although the melodrama and thrills are cheesy by contemporary standards, there’s something truly horrifying about the way Jane and Blanche simultaneously descend into madness, jealousy and paranoia — which is why Aldrich’s film is one of the most popular examples of camp.

“Scream,” dir. Wes Craven When Wes Craven released “Scream” in 1996, he permanently changed the landscape of

staff note American horror films. He infamously killed off the film’s biggest star power (Drew Barrymore) in its opening scene, upended every trope previously established in the genre and retained a fierce level of self-awareness throughout the film.

By most measures, “Scream” isn’t a particularly scary movie. The bloodshed is over-the-top and, at times, sardonic, easily mocked and parodied.

(Here’s looking at you, “Scary Movie” franchise.)

But there’s something so irresistibly charming about “Scream” that makes me revisit it time and time again — maybe it’s Sidney Prescott, the strong and level-headed protagonist, the hilarious and memorable dialogue or the sharply witty critique of its horror predecessors. Regardless, “Scream” has carved out its place in the camp canon, even if it wanted to resist the label.

“Clue,” dir. Jonathan Lynn Movie adaptations of board games don’t have a stellar track record. (I’m mostly just griping about

“Battleship” and the “Ouija” franchise, which are undeniably horrible.) And yet, Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 movie adaptation of the board game Clue is endlessly entertaining, brilliant and surprising.

Tim Curry plays a butler who navigates his guests through the murder-mystery, and with his alreadyestablished excellence in performing camp (see: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”), he elevates the film to a level of theatrics that never crosses into cheesiness. Lynn manages to deftly weave critiques of the “whodunit” trope into “Clue” while also leaning into them, and creates a film that is, in its simplest form, fun. Plus, the film concludes with three different endings, a wink to the board game’s endlessly possible outcomes — who doesn’t love choosing their own adventure?

“But I’m a Cheerleader,” dir. Jamie Babbit Natasha Lyonne (of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Russian Doll” fame) stars in this 1999 film as a high school cheerleader named Megan with a dark secret: She’s a lesbian! Suspicious, her parents stage an intervention, replete with an “ex-gay” (played

by RuPaul, wearing a shirt that reads, “Straight is great!”) who tries to convince Megan that she, too, can be cured of her gayness. They ultimately decide to send her to a conversion therapy camp with a fivestep recovery model that will seemingly heal her of her homosexuality.

On its surface, of course, this plot is horrifying, and reminds us of the fact that our current Vice President supports conversion therapy for gay people. But Babbit’s film deliciously satirizes and mocks these harmful beliefs, points out their deeply-flawed mechanisms, and fully validates its main character’s lesbian identity. With “But I’m a Cheerleader,” Babbit creates a cinematic space for young LGBT+ people that is affirming, funny, discomforting and relieving all at once. The superaestheticized visuals and endlessly quotable dialogue make this one an iconic film worth watching.

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Cecy’s Art Hall seeks to establish center for art in Durham’s Central Park

By Joel Kohen Staff Writer

With almost 10 percent of its undergraduate population hailing from New York, Duke’s student body may have a different idea of what constitutes “Central Park” than local Durhamites. Located just off Main Street and next to the YMCA, Durham Central Park features a playground and hosts the renowned farmers’ and art market that also bring food trucks, music and crafts to town.

Cecilia “Cecy” Henaine de Davis, owner of the Beadazzled by Cecilia jewelry design brand and founder of the weekly Art Market at Vega Metals, now has a new vision: to complement the regular market with a permanent art hall. The potential art hall would offer a wide array of artist studios and classes, a gallery and a place for community gatherings and events. It would be located in the building that used to house the now-closed Cole’s Transmission Shop on the corner of Hunt Street and Foster Street.

“My hope is that I can inspire somebody to get out of their skin and to try different things — opportunity doesn’t really come as often,” she said.

Although Henaine de Davis has already leased the space, substantial expenses still need to be covered, for which she has started a crowdfunding campaign on iFundWomen, a website dedicated to female-led enterprises across the country. The current funding goal sits at $35,000, of which $3,735 have been donated with a little less than three weeks remaining. Plans to use the money, which can be found on the website, are ample: a new garage door, various fixtures, bathroom facilities and some exterior reparations all depend on donors’ support. Those unable to make a financial contribution, however, are still invited

to participate by supplying “elbow grease,” or helping clean the space with power washers and industrial vacuum cleaners.

Established in 2008, the Art Market at Vega Metals has long been a staple in the Triangle’s creative scene. Its relatively low fees make it very accessible to smaller vendors, among whom many have gone on to build successful careers after their first exhibitions at the Art Market. Henaine de Davis, who moved to Durham with her child in 1999, came up with the idea after working with women in domestic violence recovery. Many of her clients there could not attend information sessions because of their abusive spouses, so she went on to found a jewelry-making group that would combine creative work with counseling.

“It allowed women to talk, network and build a skill that could allow them to become financially independent,” she wrote in the crowdfunding campaign’s description. “Through that, I learned the power of unlocking your inner creativity.”

In 2008, she approached the owners of Vega Metals, an award-winning metal forge that has been influential in the Durham art community since its foundation in 1987, about a regular art market. Through their help, the market expanded onto the street and has since blossomed into a major component of the Triangle’s arts scene.

“I’m not only sharing my story of domestic violence during my childhood, but also something about being a woman and an entrepreneur,” she said. “You will find a lot of obstacles — people often don’t take you seriously because you’re a woman. But in spite of all the obstacles, you should just do it.”

The proposed hall would complement the larger Nasher Museum of Art at Duke and North

Carolina Central University’s art museum along with the many smaller galleries that Durham has to offer. One of the project’s central ideas is its focus on community and local artists. This seems especially vital given Durham’s rapidly changing structure, which has often been described as gentrification. Soaring rent prices, massive construction plans and the displacement of poorer residents or people of color are all telltale signs of such a process, which is said to have affected larger cities many years ago, making them unaffordable for low-income households.

Since many of those who are forced to leave the once-deserted downtown areas are artists, Cecy’s vision would help preserve a space for the arts in such an unwelcoming environment.

“The support from the community has been wonderful,” Henaine de Davis said. “People would like for us to continue to be here because there are a lot of changes so now, given the rapidly changing

district. You often don’t see much of the ‘old Durham’ anymore. I want to conserve this little place and make it Durham.”

Although there remains a lot of work to be done, some activities have already started at Cecy’s: a free Zumba class, a community paint day and a public Tai Chi session during the art and food truck market last week. Similar events are sure to come once the space gets closer to its final form.

Helping fund the project comes with specific premiums, such as a 25 percent coupon for the holder’s first purchase at Cecy’s for donations of $50 or a free Durham-themed watercolor painting

by Asheville-based artist Adrienne Oates.

Heinane de Davis is planning a soft opening for Cecy’s March 1 and 2, which will feature a twoday special exhibit of works by local artist Mable C. Bullock. Funding for the art hall will be accepted until March 9, and Henaine de Davis expects the hall to be fully operational by mid-March.

Photo Courtesy of Flickr Cecy’s Art Hall will be located in the now-closed Cole’s Transmission Shop, next to Durham Central Park.

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‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ raises questions about the valorization of art

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How we attribute value to art has been a question since the origins of the art world. Those who determine what is valuable, an immense power that is often granted to critics, determine the kinds of art produced by artists.

“Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining,” the opening line for Dan Gilroy’s newest film perfectly captures the satirical caricature of the art world through the eyes of a critic who destroys careers and artistic futures but feels “limited” in his own expression. Premiering at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and then picked up by Netflix, “Velvet Buzzsaw” presents a dark warning against greed in the art world, particularly in aesthetic valorization. For Gilroy’s movie, supernatural spirits found within the art itself give voice against those who profit from art with no connection to it.

The film tells the story of a previously unknown and recently deceased artist, Vetril Dease, being uncovered by his neighbor and art consultant, Josephina (Zawe Ashton).

Upon its discovery, Josephina’s boss Rhodora Haze (Rene Russo) and other art collectors attempt to capitalize on this haunting series of paintings, buying off pieces for museums and personal investment. They do not care so much about the art as about the profit, arbitrarily granting values to this deceased artist’s paintings. Even eccentric art critic Morf Vanderwalt (Jake Gyllenhaal) stakes his own claim in Dease paintings by writing a novel about the artist and his mysterious past. He immediately begins to uncover the life of this artist, marked by a disturbing past filled with abuse and maltreatment. Quickly, the dark past of the artist seems to take over and destroy those who attempt to attribute value to it. In a supernatural twist, the art itself takes matters into its own hands, revolting against the greed and corruption in the world of art.

As a thriller with a satirical side, the film provides an interesting intersection of genres. Through its haunting and violent scenes, “Velvet Buzzsaw” cautions against those who lose track of the true value of art for profit. Those who choose money are doomed to be harshly punished.

Because the story is often told through the perspective of a critic, Gilroy is able to emphasize the disconnect between the artist and the viewer, particularly the viewer with a critical lens. To capitalize on the work of another is ultimately deemed a criminal offense by the art itself.

The most compelling aspect of this film is the power of the art as a character in the film. The art plays an active role in this film, a perspective rarely considered relevant. It is able to take control over its own fate and damn those who betray the artist’s true intentions. This leads the viewer to consider the art outside the art world, as an entity in itself rather than a piece granted value by the world around it.

Critics’ responses to “Velvet Buzzsaw” have been varied, with most feeling as though Gilroy is making a claim against all commercial activity in relation to art or against art criticism as a whole. In reality, Gilroy seems to be presenting a fine line to the viewer, the line between an appreciation of art and the artist and its extreme commercialization.

Where the film falls flat is in the extremity of its caricature of the art world. Gilroy seems to get lost in the satirical side of the film, weakening its persuasive power.

His film misrepresents the art world, reducing it to its most extreme attributes and generalizing those who give value to art as simply heartless greedy masses. Even as a satire, some elements should hold an element of authenticity to present a valuable argument. To present the art world as it truly is, the other side should have been represented, the side that gives value to art out of passion rather than for monetary gain.

Regardless, the director leaves the audience with a number of pressing questions about the role of money in art. How should art be valued? Gilroy clearly presents an extreme in which the art itself rebels, but how do we find the middle ground to allow for both commercial activities without the degradation of the artist or their art? Does such a middle ground exist?

Photo Courtesy of Sundance Institute Dan Gilroy’s satirical film “Velvet Buzzsaw,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Morf Vanderwalt and Zawe Ashton was released on Netflix Feb. 1.

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Five things: Can Duke slow down North Carolina?

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the Tar Heels’ top dog this season, it’s been his disappearances in some games have led to his team’s losses. In North Carolina’s five defeats, Maye is averaging just 10.2 points per game, compared to more than 15.5 in wins. His team-leading 9.6 rebounds per game could be key, in a contest that could be decided on the glass.

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Some things never change. So, when the topranked Blue Devils and No. 8 North Carolina face off in a top-10 battle for the 46th time in their rivalry’s history—32 more than the next closest duo—all eyes will turn to Durham to see the greatest rivalry in college sports.

On paper, yes, it’s just another regular season game. But, with Duke vying for its first conference regular season championship since 2010, the fact that the Blue Devils have beaten the Tar Heels at least twice in all of their championship seasons, and serious bragging rights on the line, you’d be a fool to ever think this is just a regular season game.

Of course, Duke will look to avenge its 74-69 loss in last year’s ACC semifinal matchup, where North Carolina was able to hold off the Blue Devils late. But, it’s a new crop of youngsters taking the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Wednesday night, including one megastar that the Tar Heels will need to place all their focus on.

Which Tar Heel is (Zi)on Williamson?

Like many teams this season, finding someone to matchup on Duke’s star freshman is almost impossible. But for a North Carolina team that usually utilizes a big man alongside its go-to option Luke Maye, the Tar Heels may have a matchup nightmare on their hands.

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R.J. Barrett will look to continue his efficient shooting stretch and build on the fourth tripledouble in program history.

Nassir Little had an debatably viral highlight in the McDonald’s All-American game defending Williamson, and seems like a good fit to take on the potential top pick. But Little is coming off an ankle injury against Virginia, and although he should play, he may be hampered by it. This would also move Maye over to defend a Duke guard like R.J. Barrett or Cam Reddish, which could be equally bad for the Tar Heels. Another big question mark for the visitors is if their senior can show up on the offensive end.

He Maye show up The last marquee outing that North Carolina played in was a gut-wrenching loss to Virginia at home, and it’s an understatement to say that Maye had an off night. The Huntersville, N.C., native scored just four points on 2-for-10 shooting. The last time Maye was in Cameron he got off to a nice start, but faltered down the stretch, going 3-for-10 from the field in the second half.

With the 6-foot-8 forward finally set as

Re-Bound to be a battle Wednesday’s matchup will feature the two leaders in the NCAA in rebounds per game, with the Tar Heels in the top spot and Duke right behind. The Blue Devils have been dominant this season fighting for multiple opportunities, and the only game when they failed to win the second-chance points battle was against Auburn in Maui. Williamson and Barrett have combined for nine doubledoubles thus far in ACC play thanks to their rebounding, including the latter’s triple-double against N.C. State last Saturday.

If Duke decides at any point to make North Carolina pick up the pace and go small, Jack White would be the perfect addition with his outstanding abilities as a rebounder, no matter that his shot has gone awry. The junior averages 5.3 boards per game—more than starting center Marques Bolden—and will be one of the Blue Devils’ key, but few, substitutes off the bench.

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Blue Devils to face tough task in No. 5 Notre Dame

By Jonathan Browning Staff Writer

On Feb. 7, it looked like the Blue Devils had finally turned things around.

They had won two straight—both in blowout fashion and the most recent in Chapel Hill against their Tobacco Road rivals. The next two teams up were Virginia and Virginia Tech, both of which were dwelling near the bottom of the ACC rankings.

Duke held 20-plus game winning streaks against both of them. In what has become typical Duke fashion, the Blue Devils vs. dropped them both.

No. 5 With only four games ND left in the regular season, THURSDAY, 7 p.m.

Duke will not break .500 PURCELL PAVILION in the ACC. At best, the South Bend, Ind. Blue Devils will have their worst ACC record since 1993-94 when Duke went 7-9.

A win Thursday doesn’t appear likely.

The Blue Devils will take on No. 5 Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. at Purcell Pavilion at 7 p.m.. where Duke hasn’t won since the Fighting Irish joined the ACC. Notre Dame is coming off a championship season and returns four starters

from last year.

It’ll take a perfect game from the Blue Devils, and then some, to hold off the Irish. Notre Dame has only lost one game at home—to Connecticut in December. The Fighting Irish have the No. 3 offense in the country, sitting at 87.2 points per game, and a jaw-dropping plus-24.8 scoring margin over their opponents. They lead Duke in nearly every major statistical category.

“It’s pretty simple,” McCallie said after Thursday’s loss. “The heart and hustle, the spirit it takes to get a loose ball is what lost [the Virginia Tech] game for us. It’s not about perfection but it’s going to have to be gutty, it’s going to have to be really gritty.”

If the Blue Devils (11-13, 3-9 in the ACC) want to keep it close, they’ll have to hit their threes. The one spot of hope comes from Jan. 27, when Notre Dame played North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The Fighting Irish dropped that contest 78-73. The next week, Duke walked in and blew the Tar Heels out. Don’t count the Blue Devils out of this one yet, but it’ll take a level of grit that hasn’t been sustained throughout an entire game yet this season.

Duke will look to Haley Gorecki, its leading scorer with 18.0 points per game, to take over and lead by example.

“She plays with a level of intensity and grit, the

grit that I’m talking about,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “If you could spread it like peanut butter, you could just spread it around, and that grit could go around. Haley’s like that kind of player. She’s the talented player with the grit.”

Notre Dame (24-3, 11-2) is coming off two blowout wins—a 50-point beatdown of Boston College in Boston and a 23-point win against No. 9 N.C. State in Raleigh. The Irish have five players averaging in double figures, with senior guard Arike Ogunbowale leading the way at 21.0 points per game.

Duke’s tournament hopes look nearly nonexistent at this point. It’ll take a run of brilliance down the stretch and a strong showing in the

ACC tournament. Even then, nine conference losses are a lot to overcome with the committee.

It hasn’t been all bad though—the Blue Devils have shown stretches of strong play but they just seem to be unable to close out close games.

Their last seven losses have come by an average of six points.

Coming up after Notre Dame, the Blue Devils will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C. to take on struggling Wake Forest. They’ll finish up the regular season at home in Cameron—first against a tournament bubble team in Clemson and then against North Carolina for the second time this season, with the Blue Devils hoping to complete the season sweep.

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Haley Gorecki will need to dominate Thursday if Duke wants a marquee win.

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Despite losing three pitchers to the 2018 MLB Draft and seeing another regular starter from last season graduate, the Blue Devils continued to excel on the mound in the first week of the season Tuesday evening.

No. 22 Duke comfortably dispatched Davidson 7-3 on a chilly night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park to stay unbeaten as junior Bill Chillari and senior Hunter Davis 3 combined to no-hit the DAV 7 Wildcats through the DUKE first five innings. The Blue Devils struck out 14 Davidson hitters and allowed only three hits to shut down a lineup that scored 32 runs in a weekend sweep of Towson.

Chillari struck out all six Lehigh batters he faced in his appearance in Friday night’s season opener, and the southpaw picked up where he left off to start Tuesday night’s game. He quickly rolled through the first two innings and surrendered his first baserunner on an error in the third frame, but left him stranded with two strikeouts. Chillari has now worked 5 2/3 innings this season without giving up a hit.

“It was awesome. He pitched to contact, he was getting a lot of quick outs, he was efficient, really managed the game well,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “I think his offspeed is better [than last year]. I think in particular, his slider is better, and that’s a big difference.”

While Chillari silenced the Wildcats’ bats, the Blue Devils (4-0) did most of their damage on offense with a five-run third inning. Speedy

junior Chase Cheek led off with a walk and a stolen base, and he scored on an RBI double down the left-field line from Rudy Maxwell, the freshman’s first career extra-base hit. Freshman Ethan Murray drove Maxwell in with a single, and a three-run 384-foot bomb from Cornell graduate transfer Kyle Gallagher over the Blue Monster and onto the patio of the Tobacco Road Sports Cafe put an emphatic exclamation point on the inning.

“Obviously, the home run was a big blast, but he had other really good swings too,” Pollard said.

“Their second baseman took two hits away from him up the middle of the field. He could have had a three-hit night, but he’s seeing the ball well and taking good swings.”

Duke tacked on another run in the fourth, with Cheek’s speed once again playing a role in the rally. He hit a tailor-made double play ball right at the shortstop after a leadoff single, but got down the line fast enough to beat the throw from second baseman Matt Frey. After another stolen base, leadoff hitter Joey Loperfido drove him in with a two-out RBI single.

Cheek wasn’t the only Blue Devil to make things happen on the base paths—Duke finished the night with four stolen bases.

“Chase really disrupted the game with his speed, got down the line good, did a good job of reading downward flight,” Pollard said. “We were able to apply some pressure today. We were really good in the run game.”

Davidson (3-1) pushed across its first run in the sixth inning with the help of some selfinflicted damage for the Blue Devils as Davis’ command faltered. He walked the leadoff man

and then gave up the Wildcats’ first hit on the night on a single to right field. Davis hit the next batter to load the bases with nobody out, but minimized the damage with only a sacrifice fly to Davidson’s credit the rest of the inning.

“Tip the hat to Hunter Davis for being able to kind of wiggle and manage his way through that with only one run scoring,” Pollard said.

“When you load the bases with nobody out and you only allow one run across the plate, you almost recapture momentum because it’s so deflating for an offense.”

The Wildcats tacked on two runs thanks to a single, walk and double off Ben Gross in the eighth inning. But Duke added a run in the bottom half, and everybody in the Blue Devils’ lineup finished with at least one hit.

Duke will continue its homestand with a three-game series against Northwestern this weekend starting Friday night at the DBAP.

You’re my favorite, but that much?

Duke opened in Las Vegas as as huge favorites to take home the first leg of the rivalry, surprising for a matchup that hasn’t been decided by more than 10 points in five years. According to Josh Goodson, the Blue Devils have taken the last seven meetings at Cameron when they are favored, but are just 3-7 against the spread in their last 10 games as at least a nine-point favorite.

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One of the biggest differences between the two Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams have had has been how deep their benches go. Williams has 10 players currently averaging double-digit minutes per game on the season compared to Duke’s eight, which includes Alex O’Connell, a player who has barely seen the floor in the last three games. The Blue Devils have not been hurt by a short bench and tired legs in previous matchups of the rivalry, but it’s something to keep an eye on.

With few substitutes, there’s also more pressure on those not starting for Duke to come in and make an impact, whether that’s rebounding from White, active hands on defense by Javin DeLaurier, or tough onball defense from Jordan Goldwire, who has come on strong as of late. The Blue Devils will definitely need some contributions from those three if they want to live up to their billing for opening as an 11-point favorite.

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s Cameron Crazies prepare for one of the most anticipated games of the season, the jubilant anticipatory buzz has been disrupted slightly by a recent administrative decision regarding the annual pre-game gathering in K-Ville.

Last week, administration announced that only those who tented for the Carolina-Duke game would be granted entrance to Krzyzewskiville between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. This procedural change comes after last year’s drunken mob fiasco and lax alcohol enforcement. As a result, a Facebook event has surfaced—with over 400 students marked as either going or interested— entitled “K-Ville Peaceful Protest”. The description of the event states that the protest will primarily be a tailgate and linked to another event called “Abele Quad ‘Kville’ Tailgate.”

The concern at hand is not necessarily the frustration that students cannot congregate to participate in drunken camaraderie over sports— the quintessential collegiate pastime. Rather, it’s the amount of vigor and energy behind rallying for something so trivial compared to the limited student mobilization around issues such as threats of health care being taken away from the financial aid package or current ICE raids across North Carolina.

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event follows a history of consumer-oriented student “activism,” such as outrage over Grace’s Cafe and Quenchers shutting down. Another recent example is the energized momentum behind Young Trustee campaigns which are, by and large, facetiously pitched to students as bringing about progressive change on campus, when it will mostly just serve the university as an institution, powerful people with investments in the university and

Editorial Board the Young Trustee’s résumé. While a large portion of the undergraduate population is hesitant to get involved in organizing around issues like a much-needed hate and bias policy or graduate student financial precarity, students jump to rally around the famous campus cat, Peaches, for housing and healthcare. Or to bring Cardi B to campus through Tinder. Or to donate to a GoFundMe for bringing former UMBC point guard K. J. Maura to attend the Duke men’s basketball home game against Virginia. The list goes on.

This editorial isn’t a crusade against fun, but rather a suggestion that students think with more depth about their energy and how it is mismatched between minute issues and systemic issues, between the self and the greater fabric of society. One only needs to read a few articles each semester to realize that Duke is chronically embroiled in scandal. The question is how we can form community around social joys, but also social injustice—towards a more just and equitable world for all. Current—and some

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evergreen—issues that desperately require more student engagement include annual tuition increases, formation of a Hate and Bias policy, housekeeping schedule and locations changes that have now been scrapped, ICE raids breaking apart families in Durham, and Duke’s ethically concerning investments.

There’s a recurring lack of critical, meaningful political education at Duke encouraging the growth of more rigorous student-citizens. Duke students ought to reorient themselves towards an “and” rather than an “or” mentality. You can be bummed about the K-Ville changes and recognize the larger issues that need student attention; the two aren’t mutually exclusive, but to have the former without the latter is a troubling allocation of time and investment. Your quickly disintegrating paper straw and your overpriced samosas are surely ills to be rectified, but maybe also keep that same energy to also grapple with the timeless, overarching systemic injustices that have plagued Duke for years.For those shivering in their tents in K-Ville, it is not wrong to love sports and to tent and to want to watch Duke’s basketball team obliterate UNC next month. What is wrong is to participate in events that are supposed to bring Duke students together without critically analyzing how our individual actions and those of the University deflate the value of certain students. Despite how much profit the University gains from the labor and entertainment value of its student-athletes, they are still students at this University.

This was written by The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, which is made up of student members from across the University and is independent of the editorial staff.

I smoked weed with Kamala Harris

uring an interview with The Breakfast Club, Senator Kamala Harris confessed that she smoked weed in college, and “did inhale.” It’s a tale as old as time: Charlamagne Tha God asked what music she listened to, and she responded “definitely Snoop. Tupac for sure.” Controversy erupted when

Jordan Diamond COLUMNIST reporters pointed out that Harris graduated from undergrad in ‘86, and both rappers didn’t debut their music until the 90s. Her critics have it wrong—I would know, I smoked weed with her.

I remember it like it was yesterday, give or take 35 years. The future California senator pulled out a doobie after Intro to Poli Sci, cranked up the radio from her backpack to Snoop, and asked me for a lighter. My backpack those days was home to only my textbooks and a backup pair of leg warmers. Harris walked away.

But turning around, my gawking stare directed at her bold resolve must have sparked some curiosity within her. “C’mon, kid,” she said, as she signaled for me to join her. “Are we smoking or what?” I’ll admit I was intimidated; a random girl from my class was talking to me, a freshman without many friends. But nevertheless, “Gin and Juice” was on, and so I wiped the sweat from my palms off on my hammer pants.

We sat on a bench by Randolph dorm, passing the blunt back and forth, not caring who saw. It was the 80s, and the carelessness of the era seemed to follow us everywhere we went. “F*ck the war on drugs,” she said after a long drag. “F*ck the establishment. And f*ck Reagan. If I ever end up like him…” Her voice trailed off, like smoke into the crisp October air. She laughed as I coughed; it was my first time smoking pot, and Harris knew. “Am I doing it right?” I managed to sputter. “Take a deep breath, and relax.” I did as she said, and as that fire filled my lungs, I felt my anxious body finally relax.

The two of us became fast friends. We settled our munchies at Marketplace, feasting on pizza and frozen yogurt. Our conversation was boundless, a medium for escaping the confines of time and space: classes, class, our favorite Tupac songs. Nothing was off limits.

We dreamed about the future. I wanted to be a writer, sharing my experiences with the world. And Kamala?

With a gleam in her eye, she shared that she just wanted to make something of herself. Maybe politics, maybe academia. “You could be President one day,” I told her, inspired by this shared vision of the future I was now privy to. “Maybe,” she said, shaking her head.

Our imaginative moment passed. “You won’t believe what I have in my room,” she whispered across the booth, giggling as we came down from our high.

I wouldn’t have believed it: the desk drawers of her Alspaugh single were filled to the brim with weedinfused edibles. Though my first impulse was to ask, “you can eat pot?” I managed to slip a quick “far out,” trying to keep my cool. F*ck it, right?

We each took a bite, and soon found ourselves at Shooters 1. It was 80’s night themed—like every night.

Glam metal was in its peak, and so was I. “Let’s go request a song, I’m not much of a Bon Jovi girl,” Harris screamed as we each handed a fiver to the bouncer.

So we headed to the DJ, and soon “California Gurls” blasted from the speakers. Greetings loved ones, let’s take a journey. And a journey I did take: I danced in a cage. I puked in the bathroom. I ate my first Waffle House. All with my new friend, Kamala.

Anyways, the rest is history. We remained friendly for the rest of our time together at Duke. Kamala graduated, took a job as California’s Attorney General, and is now running for President of the United States. I’m still at Duke, writing columns for the Chronicle, and smoking dope with any Presidential hopeful that comes my way.

Harris and I grew apart, keeping in touch through family holiday cards and the occasional Facebook update that rekindles a familiar flame of nostalgia.

How do I explain the anachronisms of undergrad?

The Mandela effect. A mixtape that leaked to radio stations. I don’t know—it was the 80s, and anything was possible. They say that pot impairs memory, but I never did forget that fateful Wednesday afternoon right as the season was changing. The weed was strong, the hip-hop stronger, and I… well, I finally felt like I belonged.

Jordan Diamond is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “Diamond in the Rough,” usually runs on alternate Mondays. His editor would like you to know, in case you could not tell, that Jordan Diamond is joking, has not actually been a student since 1985 and has never, to her knowledge, engaged in illegal behavior.

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Lessons from the campaign trail

his past Wednesday the Duke undergraduate community elected Trey Walk to be the next Young Trustee. When the Chronicle released election results, I couldn’t help but be happy for my friend, Trey. I have seen the hard work that he has put into making Duke a more aware and accepting campus and feel like he will bring a refreshing voice to Duke’s Board of Trustees.

Despite my happiness for Trey, Wednesday afternoon brought an overwhelming feeling of disappointment. I was not on Trey’s campaign team. I was on Luke Farrell’s team. The decision that we got was nowhere near the decision that we wanted. Yet, at no point during the campaign did I lose faith in

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Luke or regret taking on the role of a campaign manager. Even after the air was knocked out of my lungs, I considered the three weeks I spent with Luke and our team a victory.

Why’s that? It’s because this campaign opened my eyes to a side of Duke and a side of myself that I rarely see.

For three weeks I was devoted to a cause that I believed would benefit Duke in the long run. Out of that came three important realizations: 1. Duke is a much more accepting community than I thought Reaching out to every student group on campus—Luke’s goal for outreach—proved to be a pretty difficult task. Emailing presidents, treasurers, and point people was the least satisfying part of my job. Receiving responses from groups that were willing to meet was gratifying up until the scheduling of campaign meetings began. Running from meeting to meeting on what our team dubbed “Super Sunday” and managing to fit 22 student groups in a 12-hour block of time was nothing short of exhausting. In my sprints from WU 248 to Old Chem

or the trek from Languages to BioSci, however, I realized that the communities that I often cast off as not being places for me are much more than the sum of their stereotypical parts.

For better or for worse, my social Duke experience has been about finding places where I think I fit in. In this scramble for acceptance, I have had to make calculated decisions based on presuppositions. I supposed that, because majority-white Greek organizations historically have not been welcoming to black men, I was not welcome in those spaces. I supposed that because my interactions with other black men at home have been lackluster, that I would not feel comfortable entering a Black Men’s Union meeting. I supposed that I would not know how to receive, process, and empathize with the concerns of Jewish Student Union because I had not made my first Jewish friend until coming to Duke. I could not have been more wrong about assuming my place on campus.

In each of my interactions with groups that I self-determined were not places for me, I found nothing but welcoming students.

I found that people were willing to have a conversation about how to make this campus work better for all of us. What I learned on the campaign trail was to never discount the potential relationships I could have with an individual or a group based on superficial characteristics or overshadowing stereotypes.

2. Networking is more than a transactional interaction Along those same lines, Duke students have a lot to offer one another. When Luke reached out to me about joining his campaign, I immediately agreed. Luke is a friend of mine—now a close friend thanks to the countless hours we’ve spent together in a shared state of sleep deprivation. I agreed because he was and still is someone I trust to lead his community in the right direction. But, to some degree, I agreed in blind faith.

I had no idea what this election would demand of me. Pretty early on I realized that the demand would be softened by the amazing team of people working alongside Luke and myself.

Over the course of the campaign I was fortunate enough to meet amazing Duke students, each with their own polished set of skills, who would teach me the importance of building a real connection with your network.

I remember walking into the first team meeting and being overwhelmed by the star power in the room. It was almost as if Luke recruited team members from the list of people I admire the most at Duke. It would have been very easy to use this opportunity to network with a Rhodes scholar, a Gender Violence leader, a social media content creator, and the most experienced student campaign manager on campus.

Thankfully, the sheer amount of time we spent together wouldn’t allow for that level of superficiality. In the three weeks leading up to the election, I formed genuine friendships with some of the people I admire the most on campus. Dealing with profile picture rollouts, a 24-hour deadline for a campaign video, and jokes about only having one collective brain cell really brings people together.

We all walked into the first core team meeting as individuals with a lot of experience to bring to the campaign. We hung our hats once the decision was released as a group of friends willing to do it all again.

3. Time is better spent doing what you’re passionate about I wouldn’t trade the time I spent holed up in “war rooms” creating memos and prepping Luke for meetings for anything.

The campaign took a lot out of me. I lost sleep, I lost out on my social life, I even lost out on a few grade points in more than one class. All of it was worth it, however, because this campaign made me realize that the people on the team are the people I need to be around to succeed. I realize, more importantly, gritty campaign work is what I want to do post-Duke.

In the spirit of former DNC spokesman, Mo Elleithee, it was important for me to “do it” and “just go” on this journey with Luke. It taught me more about Duke, my peers, and myself than anything has in my time here.

That’s why I count this campaign as a victory. Independent from the outcome, who I met and what I learned along the way has set me up for a promising next two years at Duke. All thanks to one phone call from Luke Farrell.

Ryan Williams is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Will I find a Blue Devil love story?

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ne hundred and sixty-eight years ago this January, Leo Tolstoy wrote what is possibly the greatest diary entry of all time. It read: Jan 25th, 1851 I’ve fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I didn’t need at all.

Janie Booth COLUMNIST Tolstoy might have well been a senior at Duke University, because these days my journal reads almost the same, except for the horse part.

Parties I’ve been to have often left me with a dramatic story to tell my friends about the person I made eye contact with across a crowded room and fell in love with at first sight—or imagined that I had—and then woke up the next day feeling like I’ve lost my head.

For as fun as college is supposed to be, a time of self-discovery and exciting new relationships— it hasn’t always been easy. I haven’t had the Blue Devil love story that the alumni magazine will chronicle a few years from now, the one where we met the second day of O-week or had our first date at the Nasher. My college love stories require a little more imagination and a slightly different map of landmarks.

A picnic blanket on the Chapel quad, a field playing frisbee, the couch where I’ve spent a lot of nights in the company of friends and occasionally more-than-friends. All the places where my cheeks have burned bright red and I’ve awkwardly smiled to cover it up. All the benches where I’ve sat inches away from someone who made me laugh. Every dance floor where I’ve shed my cares, let my hair down, and moved to the beat of the music until the stars came out.

The sum of these are not nothing.

It’s our imperative as college students to get wound up over labels, obsessed with the heightened drama of will we or won’t we. I can’t tally the number of times I’ve listened while a friend has spent hours debating whether or not to text a potential love interest first, or wondering if both parties are in agreement that it is, in fact, a date. Multiply that by the number of romantic partners that the average college student has and it’s hard to believe that we have time to talk about anything else.

So, how do you decide if you’ve fallen in love, or if you only imagine that you have? I read once about a sort of litmus test for a relationship in the form of the following question: “If I get the flu, are you bringing me soup?”

I can look back on college and think of a half-dozen ‘soup-bringing’ relationships. Times when I’ve depended on another person for encouragement, entertainment, advice, and, sometimes, soup. In sickness and in health.

And maybe that’s enough.

Not being in a long-term romantic relationship at Duke has pushed me to seek out treasured friendships, ones built on mutual trust and love and openness, relationships that will stay with me far beyond college. These might be the truest love stories of them all.

Tolstoy said something else about love that I also think is true. “If it is true that there are as many minds are there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” There are as many kinds of Blue Devil love stories as there are students at Duke: love stories that begin in a tent, or over a coffee in Vondy, or at a jazz concert. Love stories that change and grow, and are serious, or hilarious, or only last for as long as the song is playing. Love stories that involve a little bit of magic, too.

When I began Duke, the following words could have described me: uncertain, insecure, awkward, single.

Four years later many of those things have

changed. I am: curious, confident, ambitious, happy. And single.

Four years from now it’s possible that that last one will be completely different, that the biggest love story is one that’s ahead. Though, when I think of the many people who have come through my life along the way I’m not sure that it’s a word I’d want to trade for one perfect Blue Devil love story.

For now, I am still becoming me: stuck

somewhere between the right-now and the notyet. I’ve got mistakes left to make and a ten-page bucket list of things to do before I settle down into a long-term relationship.

I’ve got horses left to buy which I don’t need at all.

Janie Booth is a Trinity senior who is currently looking for a date to E-ball. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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