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Duke computer science—aka the boys’ club

Illicit

By Paloma Rodney Guest Columnist

The 1980s were by no means the first time bonfires appeared on Duke’s campus.

In 1903, students lit fires in celebration when the Trinity College Board of Trustees declined to accept the resignation of controversial professor John Spencer Bassett, a major win for academic freedom.

Various bonfires for football games and pep rallies also cropped up over the years, but none ever reached the proportion of today’s tradition.

But there was precedent in the Triangle area, according to David MacMillan, Trinity ‘86 and former Chronicle sports editor. He wrote in an email that when NC State claimed its second NCAA Championship for men’s basketball in 1983, students set furniture ablaze in a bonfire on the university’s Raleigh campus.

It would only be a few more years until the Blue Devils had their own big game to celebrate. On March 29, 1986, Duke took a 32-2 record into the NCAA tournament. After the Blue Devils beat Kansas and advanced to their first National Championship in nearly a decade, the fires roared.

“Bonfires were primarily connected to Duke winning the Final Four National Championship game,” wrote Sue Wasiolek, who has served in Duke’s Student Affairs office since 1979, in an email. “Over time, this tradition evolved to include victories by the Men’s and Women’s

Duke claims to be committed to developing highly ethical adults who are dedicated leaders in their respective communities. Duke already has a great track record in this regard, so I’m certain that many of my peers will be future leaders in their industries. Notable alumni include Tim Cook, Melinda Gates and Louis von Ahn. However, we must also focus on the ethical standards that Duke is replicating on campus.

While Leah Abrams’s column for The Chronicle reveals the injustices that business-oriented groups are perpetuating on campus, something similar is occurring in the computer science groups. Let’s turn our attention to the application GTHC, created by Duke students for Duke students. The application eases the ails of tenting, with a scheduling tool as its main feature. Not only does GTHC automate a tent schedule based on availability, but it also alerts users of their upcoming tent shifts. Goodbye missed tent checks.

GTHC is also a great project to have on a resume for a computer science student. It is a project with real users that shows initiative and teamwork. To learn more about the GTHC team, a user can find the “Meet The Team” page. There, the user will find something that isn’t shocking in the tech industry—but is problematic, nonetheless. The GTHC teams consists of 16 males, ranging in age, role, and race, but there is not a single femaleidentifying team member.

GTHC does an astounding job replicating Silicon Valley’s heavily male-dominated culture in which gender inequality is still a huge issue. In general, the tech industry is a boys’ club with women making up only 26% of the computing work force. The way women are treated in these tech giants are only more indicative of the culture. On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google employees protested sexual harassment and misconduct at the tech giant.

Some people believe that the answer to getting more women into computer science is putting more women into the pipeline.

Silicon Valley executives have access to extremely qualified women through organizations like Girls Who Code and Grace Hopper. At Duke, GTHC had access to DTech, as well as a variety of all-female tech groups. The idea behind these pipelines is that educating girls early about computer science and streamlining their access to opportunities will close the gap. Even with these pipelines, the gender gap in tech is still

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Chronicle File Photos Main image: A bench ablaze after a Duke win. Circles: Duke bonfires from 2018 (top) and 1998 (bottom).

The fiery history of bench burning at Duke

By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

Lexi Kadis Senior Editor

This is part one of a three-part series about the raucous history of Duke students burning benches after major basketball victories. Read part two online at dukechronicle.com, and read part three online on Friday.

As the final buzzer seals a Duke victory over North Carolina, everyone knows what’s coming. Students living on West Campus stream out of their dorms to gather on the quad, while those watching the game from East Campus pack themselves onto overcrowded buses bound for the Chapel.

After all, the night of revelry isn’t complete without bench burning. Flames and voices begin to rise shortly after the game’s end, a stark departure from the darkness and hushed conversation that enshroud the quad on any other night. But this evening is far from typical—as the first bench is enveloped by fire, cheers rise from the onlookers. The conflagration soon reaches its peak as dreaded assignments and upcoming deadlines fall by the wayside.

But all good things must come to an end.

The crowd thins out as the fire dies down.

Some revelers will go to sleep, and others will continue the fun elsewhere. Bleary-eyed students—temporarily united by the triumph of Duke over the Tar Heels—file away to their respective corners of campus, wondering

when they’ll have the chance to watch the flames dance again.

Such is the tradition of bench burning after a triumphant Blue Devil victory.

There’s always been a mythology surrounding Mike Krzyzewski, and when it comes to bench burning on Duke’s campus, he’s the modern-day Prometheus. To burn benches, Duke had to win. And to win, Duke had to have Coach K and his recruits. The Final Four berths in the mid-1980s and National Championship victories in the early 1990s cemented bench burnings as the Blue Devils’ celebratory ritual.

But the practice hasn’t always been such a well-oiled operation.

As any chemistry major could tell you, combining alcohol and fire can yield uncontrollable flames. And combining alcoholfueled students and fire can yield several dozen arrests (or at least it did in 1992).

Ask former students and administrators what they think of the tradition, and you’ll get mixed responses. Is bench burning just another way to “have a good time” after a dominant victory, as one former student suggested, or is it “at odds with the elite university image [Duke] seeks to portray,” as a former dean argued?

Amidst the raucous revelry, tension emerged in the mid-1990s between students looking to celebrate and administrators who saw danger and liability written all over the burnings. After a series of tacit and overt clashes between the two parties, what was once officially prohibited by the University has now become a carefully supervised ritual.

This is the tale of how an illicit celebration

became an institutionalized tradition.

The first bench ablaze

The numbers behind rush

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We take a look at the rush statistics for Greek and Selective Living Groups.

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HRL increases 300 Swift rates Hospital braces for coronavirus

By Anna Zolotor Staff Reporter

Housing and Residence Life changed the price of living in 300 Swift apartments twice in January, and some students are frustrated with the raised costs.

In a Jan. 17 email to students, HRL announced that shared bedroom apartments would now cost $6,053 per semester and $12,106 per academic year, while single bedroom apartments would cost $9,164 per semester and $18,328 per academic year.

However, HRL sent another email Jan. 24 to modify that initial change, stating that “further review” had prompted the office to readjust. Now, a single-bedroom apartment will cost $7,524.00 per semester and $15,048 per academic year at Swift.

Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, said that several students reached out to him with concerns after the initial price change announcement.

“After those conversations, we looked at the rates again and recognized that a more appropriate increase would mirror the difference between a single and a double on West,” Gonzalez said.

Selective living groups Pi Beta Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, the Multicultural Greek Council, JAM!, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Nu and Delta Gamma currently have their sections at 300 Swift, as well as independent house Sierra.

Despite the newly raised prices, these organizations will not have the opportunity to change their section assignments “unless an opportunity presents itself,” Gonzalez explained, which usually only happens when two selective living groups trade houses with each other.

Some students in these groups are

frustrated because the raised prices are excluding certain members from living in section with their organization.

For instance, Swift pricing was a significant factor for first-year Mary Monti not living with her sorority next year.

“I’m already paying a lot of extra money every year to be a part of the group and can’t afford to also pay more for rent than I’d planned to,” Monti said.

First-year Parker Davis wrote in a message to The Chronicle that members of his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi, are “talking about trying to get the price down or asking to move section” because “nobody wants to be forced to live there if it’s more expensive.”

Despite student backlash, Gonzalez believes that demand for 300 Swift apartments will remain high.

“I think the apartment setting appeals particularly to juniors and seniors, and I don’t think that will change,” he said.

A Swift shared bedroom currently costs the same per semester as a single room on West. Gonzalez said that this was done in large part so that students receiving financial aid could live in those apartments without additional cost.

He explained that for the past two years, Swift apartments costs have matched West Campus single and double rates because they were housing “displaced populations.”

“Now that that phase was done, it was time to implement the more true rate,” Gonzalez said.

The initial housing update email also announced that first-year students will now be automatically linked with their firstyear dorm communities on their housing applications, and that the SPIRE and Wright Living Learning Communities will be added in the upcoming years.

By Lara Hansen Staff Reporter

Amid the current outbreak of a novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, hospitals throughout the United States are preparing treatment plans for patients infected with the virus.

Duke University Hospital is no exception.

As of Feb. 5, the World Health Organization reported 24,363 confirmed cases in China and nearly 200 additional cases in 24 countries, 12 of which have appeared in the United States.

Currently, there have been no reported cases in North Carolina, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculates a low risk of getting coronavirus in the United States.

If the virus makes its way to the Durham area, however, Duke Hospital has its own plan to stick to.

“We’ve been preparing for multiple years, really since 2009 H1N1, for the next respiratory viral outbreak,” wrote Associate Professor of Medicine Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at the hospital, in an email to The Chronicle.

H1N1 was a novel influenza virus that broke out in the United States in 2009 and quickly spread around the globe. There were cases of the pandemic in more than 100 countries, whereas only 25 countries have confirmed cases of coronavirus at the moment.

The foremost step to handling a potential case is risk assessment, Wolfe explained.

“It’s all about figuring out who’s at risk based on their symptoms and travel history,” he wrote. “If you haven’t been to China within 14 days, you’re probably exceptionally low risk.”

He added that whether patients will be admitted to Duke Hospital depends on their level of sickness.

“Many people with mild illness may be managed at home, if they can quarantine and isolate themselves,” Wolfe wrote. “But if they’re sick enough, absolutely we will admit them.”

The hospital can only take in as many patients

as they have beds and resources with which to treat respiratory disease patients. Since recent renovations and additions to the building such as the new isolation capacity, the hospital now has a greater capacity to handle more severe cases.

Wolfe did not rule out the possibility of an outbreak in North Carolina.

“I worry about coronavirus because our community has no real immunity to it yet, nor any vaccine way of assisting with protection,” he wrote.

While the individual case fatality or severe illness is rather low—lower in comparison to the 2002 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus or the 2003 SARS coronavirus— Wolfe noted that the greater issue might be the number of people at risk.

Recently, Duke banned all University-funded travel to China in an effort to curtail the spread of the virus. On Feb. 2, President Donald Trump’s administration introduced a mandatory 14-day quarantine for U.S. citizens who have been to the Hubei Province of China—the epicenter of the coronavirus—within the past 14 days. Foreign nationals traveling from China who are not immediate family of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be denied entry.

Although Wolfe hoped that the travel ban might delay the spread of the disease at least in the United States, he expressed considerable doubts at the same time.

“I think our risk of an outbreak is just as proportional to how many other cases pop up in other countries, because if they do, then a single travel ban to China won’t stop the flow of people and the virus from other places,” he wrote.

In order to stop the virus before it could wreak havoc, Wolfe stressed the importance of early identification and following the sick person’s contacts.

For now, Wolfe advised students and residents to be careful and protect themselves as in any respiratory viral season.

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The numbers behind Duke’s Greek and SLG rush season Selena Qian | Graphics Editor

By Matthew Wang Contributing Reporter

Disappointed with rush? The numbers say you are not alone.

The spring rush process, lasting almost all of January, has now concluded, with Duke’s 13 fraternities, 10 sororities and 15 SLGs accepting new members.

“The amount of people participating in rush is almost the exact same as last year,” said senior Harrison Labban, president of the Interfraternity Council, about fraternity rush. “The total number of accepted bids have also remained consistent.”

According to Labban, approximately 360 students rushed fraternities and 245 students accepted bids. Labban pointed out that since 2019, two fraternities lost recognition—Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Sigma Phi—reducing the number of IFC chapters on Duke’s campus from 15 to 13.

The IFC declined to release data on individual chapters.

Junior Maya Rinehart, Panhellenic vice president of recruitment and membership, oversees formal sorority recruitment on campus.

“Seventy-four percent of the women who initially signed up for formal recruitment decided to join one of our 10 chapters,” Rinehart wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “We had 281 women join a chapter formally.”

Rinehart did not comment about Panhellenic’s previous years’ recruitment trends.

A comparison between class surveys conducted by The Chronicle between the class of 2022 and 2023 suggest that the interest in Selective Living Groups is increasing. The proportion of survey participants who expressed interest in SLGs increased from 85% to 91.7%.

The Chronicle reached out to SLGs for their 2020 rush statistics.

According to sophomore recruitment chair Kate Leonard, Brownstone accepted 29 out of 343 applicants. Illyria, an all-female SLG, offered bids to 37 rushees out the 140 who rushed, according to president Madison Catrett, a junior. Out of the 37 new Illyria members, 27 are first-years and 10 are sophomores.

LangDorm, an SLG aimed at students with various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, had 96 students rush with 51 submitting final applications by the end of the three-week rush process, according to junior Sweta Kafle, LangDorm vice president. Out of that pool, 31 new members joined LangDorm, out of which 23 were first-years, five were sophomores and three were juniors.

Sophomore rush chair Gloria Kim stated that Fusion, an Asian cultural interest SLG, does not cut rushees between rounds during rush. Halfway through rush, there were 62 rushees, and 30 were accepted. Among the 30 accepted are 26 first-years, three sophomores, and one junior transfer. Seventeen of the 30 new members are in-section, all of whom are first-years.

For entrepreneurship SLG The Cube, 50 rushees continued the process through the final week of rushing, out of which 18 were accepted, according to a message from the group’s Facebook

page. Fifteen of the 18 new members are first-year students.

Nexus, an SLG that promotes inclusiveness of all sexualities and genders, has had a 100% acceptance rate the past few years for all who submit an application, according to a message from the group’s Facebook page. Nexus declined to disclose the number of new members.

SLGs Ubuntu and Round Table declined to comment.

Wayne Manor, Cooper, Mundi, Mirecourt, Maxwell and JAM! did not respond in time for publication.

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YOUNG TRUSTEE ENDORSEMENTS Jewish Student Union

Engineering Student Gov’t

Duke Honor Council

It is with great excitement that the Jewish Student Union has chosen to endorse Leah Abrams for Young Trustee. Her commitment to hearing the voices of undergraduate students, passion for building relationships and activism in supporting a stronger relationship between Duke and its neighbors have led us to our enthusiastic endorsement. We believe Leah’s vision is well suited for both the Jewish community and the Duke community at large.

We appreciate Leah’s commitment to lifting up the voices of others, especially in spaces where those voices struggle to find a platform to speak. Her experience as Opinion Editor of The Chronicle has given her insight and perspective on topics that Duke students care about. Her impressive work with the Duke Community Empowerment Fund, Legal Aid of Durham and leadership in student activist spaces on-campus show her understanding that actions speak louder than words. Leah’s commitment to staying engaged in campus affairs, personal connection to the Triangle and involvement throughout organizations on campus make us confident that she will do her best to represent student voices to the Board, even after her time as a student has concluded.

We were impressed by all four candidates and the genuine love for Duke each demonstrated through their experiences and visions. We were inspired by Maryam’s dedication to promoting inclusivity on campus, grateful for Ibby’s significant work advocating for the needs of low-income students and

by Tim’s honest candor about the need to reimagine the role of the Young Trustee position. Still, as an organization that believes that building community is grounded in building strong and meaningful relationships, we believe Leah Abrams best exemplifies our mission and vision for making Duke a better place and will serve our community well on the Board of Trustees.

Signed, Kenny Green, T’20, JSU President, on behalf of the 20192020 JSU Exec Board

The Engineering Student Government endorses Tim Skapek for the position of Young Trustee. All four finalists, Tim Skapek, Ibrahim Butt, Leah Abrams and Maryam Asenuga are candidates with incredible potential and have done amazing jobs as on-campus leaders in their four years at Duke. Having listened to each candidate talk about their passions and reasons for running for the YT position, the executive board collectively believes that Tim’s diverse experiences, institutional knowledge of Duke and ability to identify flaws and push through boundaries makes him the best candidate to assist Pratt’s continued advancement and growth as one of the country’s preeminent engineering institutions.

Tim not only possesses qualities of a team-player but also of a leader and someone who embraces change. He is a candidate that has demonstrated initiative and a drive to innovate. He co-founded the company Protect3d that designs customized, 3D-printed protective wear for athletes and won the NFL’s 1st and Future Competition at the 2020 Super Bowl. We believe that Tim’s experience as a leader his company equips him to continue advocating for students in the boardroom.

As an engineer himself, Tim understands that the engineering community (both students and faculty) is an important addition to a diverse body. Tim was also a walk-on football kicker and is the president of Dukes and Duchesses. As a member of a range of different communities on campus, Tim has experienced a various key aspects of being part of the Duke community, and ESG believes that this has positioned him to best influence the Board of Trustees.

As an organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for the Pratt undergraduate student body, we hope that the Young Trustee will continue to work with us to represent the university as a whole. As such, ESG is confident Tim Skapek is the best candidate for Young Trustee.

Polin Liu, Pratt 2021 Duke Engineering Student Government, President

Duke University Honor Council is pleased to formally endorse Ibrahim Butt for Young Trustee. After hearing from all four candidates on February 3, Honor Council believes Butt best embodies honor, integrity, and moral courage, the values that define our Duke community.

Inspired by his background as as a low-income, firstgeneration student, Butt has worked to make Duke more accessible to students of all backgrounds. For instance, he fought against cutting student healthcare funds. Also, he has served as co-President of the Duke Low-Income First-generation Engagement, advocate for the Community Empowerment Fund and executive member of the Center for Race Relations.

Council members were impressed by Butt’s authenticity and directness in his responses to our questions. For instance, when asked about how he would handle working primarily with people significantly older than him if elected as Young Trustee, Ibrahim explained that he would voice his perspectives as a student, while remembering that there is much to learn from those who are more experienced.

Moreover, council members appreciated Butt’s dedication to student equality. Ibrahim co-facilitates meetings to discuss how male-identifying students can help develop spaces that are inclusive for students of all genders.

Honor Council also recognizes the high moral standards that all the candidates demonstrate. Honor Council commends Maryam Asenuga’s experience advocating for minority groups, Leah Abrams’ outreach throughout Durham, and Tim Skapek’s perspective on personal values over platforms.

Vice Chair Internal Gabi Marushack, Pratt ‘22.

Editor’s Note: Abrams is the opinion editor for The Chronicle.

The Opinion section played no role in the Young Trustee endorsement process, as outlined in this year’s endorsement policy. If your organization would like to submit an endorsement to The Chronicle, please read the policy.

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“Voting for Young Trustee”

By Richard Riddell, Senior Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Trustees

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ince 1972, the Duke University Board of Trustees has benefited from recent or c urrent students serving as Young Trustees. Next week, undergraduate students will vote for a new Young Trustee in a campus-wide election.

To the undergraduate students: As you consider which candidate to support, I’d like to share criteria trustees use when selecting new members of the board.

Trustees are fiduciaries—which is often thought to mean overseers of the finances of the university. But it means much more: fiduciaries hold the university in their trust. They are responsible for the long-term health of Duke, envisioning what faculty and students 30 years from now will benefit from, as well as paying attention to ensuring Duke thrives today. Trustees come from many backgrounds and constituencies, and when they join the board, they check their constituency-hat at the door and put on their fiduciary-hat: they are responsible for the whole university, expected to think broadly about issues that come before the board and not advocate for any particular group’s concerns (this is the main distinction between a fiduciary body and a representative one, like DSG). So you are electing a Young Trustee, not a Student Trustee.

Trustees are broad-thinkers and care about the overall mission of Duke. They have an interest in the role of the university in society, respect how universities are administered and governed, and are curious about issues that research universities face today.

Trustees speak and think independently and are able to discuss tough issues in a candid, confidential, manner. They value collegiality, knowing the importance of being a member of a group and respecting others. They exercise good judgment. As representatives of the university, they embody the values that define Duke—respect, trust, inclusion, discovery and excellence.

Trustees consistently comment that they find the perspectives of Young Trustees valuable and insightful: Young Trustees are close enough to the experience of being a student to help older trustees understand current campus issues, and they have been thoughtful about ensuring that Duke continues to be a vital institution for future generations of students.

As you prepare to vote next week, I invite you to consider which candidate best embodies the qualities we seek in a Duke trustee.

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BENCH BURNING FROM PAGE 1 basketball teams against UNC-CH.” In Clocktower Quad, students spent hours tossing notebooks and furniture into the blaze. Campus “resembled Times Square,” The Chronicle reported afterward, as students cranked up their stereos and heaved toilet paper into the trees.

“This is an intelligent school with a great basketball team.

But I think they’re going to have a hard time wiping their butts tonight,” business student Ron Goodstein told The Chronicle during the celebration.

Officers of Public Safety—as Duke University Police Department was known at the time—cut off the fuel supply midway through the fire, and there were no documented clashes between administrators and students.

Nearly 35 years later, Doug Chalmers, Trinity ‘86 and Law School ‘95, recalled the scene as “one of the most fun nights of [his] life.”

He said that University personnel didn’t try to interfere with the students, and that the revelers were rowdy but safe, not getting too close to the flames. The entire celebration was “spontaneous,” he added, with one fraternity taking the lead by burning a bench and others following.

“That was one of the most fun nights of my life, honestly,” he said. “We were hugely passionate about the team.”

Duke fell to Louisville in the championship, but the tradition gained steam.

Benches were thrown into the flames following the Blue Devils’ victory against North Carolina in the spring of 1988. But later that season, when students tried to start another bonfire following Duke’s NCAA tournament regional victory over Temple, Public Safety foiled their intentions to burn benches and furniture.

The planning for how Duke would deal with a victory had begun days before the game, The Chronicle reported. The security force more than doubled from the usual number, as around 35 officers were on the scene to monitor the postgame festivities. Guards continued to protect some benches on campus hours after the victory, and the benches escaped unscathed.

In 1990, however, following another berth to the Final Four after a victory against Connecticut, benches burned freely. Duke Public Safety and Durham police officers stood by watching in case of any over-the-top antics. And although the Final Four win over Arkansas sent more benches to their demise, UNLV’s blowout of the Blue Devils in the championship game prevented the ultimate celebration.

Duke men’s basketball would soon have another shot at the championship the team had been so tantalizingly close to, but that run of success would create clashes between students and administration over the future of bench burning.

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dampened by the restrictions. Toilet paper and tennis balls still flew freely through the air as firecrackers exploded and stereos blasted from around the quad.

Following the semifinal win against UNLV, the celebration was crazier but still manageable. Students poured out of Cameron Indoor, where they were watching the game on the big screen, and descended upon the Duke-sponsored fire in the Cameron parking lot. They also started their own on West Campus.

“The students and fans began running and dancing around the blaze, screaming and hugging friends and strangers in a delirious victory celebration,” The Chronicle reported. “The partying, which quickly spread throughout the bonfire, lasted late into the night.”

It was the danger from off campus, not the students themselves, that dominated storylines the next morning.

Seven larcenies were reported as off-campus individuals broke into dorm rooms and vehicles, and a Domino’s pizza driver had his vehicle stolen. Four non-University-affiliated individuals were arrested for the crimes.

Of course, it was beating Kansas and capturing Duke’s first championship that led to the loudest uproar on campus.

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Chronicle File Photo A 1998 victory against UNC led to bench burning and clashes between students and the police.

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Regulations began falling into place in 1991 following student injuries after the March 3 Duke-UNC game. After several students were injured in another common celebration— mudsliding—a committee was convened to discuss how to make the festivities safer.

In light of a fractured vertebra and dislocated shoulder, the committee decided to ban mudsliding and place limitations on bonfires. Students couldn’t nab benches without houses’ consent, and the University, not students, would organize and oversee the fire. Celebrants also weren’t allowed to stand on burning benches or run through the fires.

Krzyzewski even wrote a letter to the editor in The Chronicle encouraging students to abide by the new rules.

The policy’s first test came after the Blue Devils’ win against St. John to enter the Final Four, and it passed with flying colors.

No violations or injuries were reported in The Chronicle afterward, and the students’ quotes suggest that their joy wasn’t

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EXHIBITION OPENING & GALLERY TALK Thursday, February 6, 6 PM Diverse works of art from 100 BCE to the present illustrate how the ocean shaped the legacies of ancient cultures on the Central and South American coasts. The works are from the Nasher Museum’s permanent collection and many are on view for the first time. Duke students will give a gallery talk, followed by a light reception.

nasher.duke.edu/the sea BELOW: Nazca (Peru), Collar, 200–600 CE. Shell, 15 x 18 inches (38.1 x 45.7 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dukes, 1973.78.1. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion. The exhibition was organized by seven undergraduate students in the Curatorial Practicum: Exhibition Development and Design course in the Museum Theory & Practice Concentration, taught by Julia McHugh, Ph.D., Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum. This project is supported by the Sunny Rosenberg Endowment Fund and the Sandra A. Urie and Katherine Urie Thorpe Fund. Support from Duke University is provided by the Office of the Provost; Wired! Digital Art History lab; the Department of Computer Science; Duke Radiologya; and the Duke Lemur Center.

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Jack Rubenstein ............matt griff

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Selena Qian .......................iowans

Alizeh Sheikh ....................... mayo

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staff note On Jan. 26, NBA legend and Academy Award winner Kobe Bryant tragically passed away in a helicopter crash. When news of his death first broke from TMZ, I thought it couldn’t be true. No way could such an iconic basketball legend be taken away from this world so quickly. I could still vividly remember watching him drop 60 points in his last game against the Utah Jazz in

arguably the greatest farewell performance of all time, just like it was yesterday. But as the flood of news reports started to come in, I slowly came to accept that it was true — that Kobe Bryant, the Black Mamba, had died. Overwhelmed with sadness and shock, I broke down and cried.

As a kid, I absolutely loved the NBA. The league had the biggest and brightest basketball stars in the world, and being the six-year-old dreamer I was, I wanted to be just like them — especially Kobe Bryant.

Every time I watched the Lakers take the court, number 24 absolutely dominated,

terrorizing opponents and imposing his sheer will on the game. Whether he was hitting his patented fadeaway jumper over three defenders or locking down the opposing team’s best player for the entire game, it was clear to me that Kobe was the best player on the court. And because of his sheer dominance, I grew to idolize Kobe, wanting to mimic him in every way. From his silky-smooth footwork, to his famous jersey bite and, of course, taking heavily contested fadeaway jump shots (and yes, I 100% yelled “Kobe” while doing so), in everything I did, I tried to be like Kobe.

Looking at myself now, obviously I’m not anywhere close to the basketball player Kobe was.

I never developed an unguardable fadeaway jump shot. I never developed impeccable footwork.

And my defense is suspect at best.

But, despite not really obtaining anything from Kobe’s basketball skills, I arguably obtained something far more valuable from him: his attitude.

Beyond his amazing play on the court, the one thing that set Kobe apart from all of his peers was his unbelievable work ethic.

Known for spending nights in the film room, early mornings in the gym and offseasons on the court, Kobe always believed in working hard, pouring everything you have into your craft and leaving yourself with no room for regret. It’s this mindset that I carried over into my life. Throughout elementary, middle and high school, I gave it my all in every endeavors. Whether it was work, school

The Chronicle or volunteering, in every avenue I tried to emulate Kobe’s attitude of working hard and trying your absolute best. It was this attitude that allowed me to accomplish things in life I didn’t think I was capable of accomplishing.

It was this attitude that pushed me not to give up easily and to fight through difficult times. And most importantly, it was this attitude that encouraged me to live life to its fullest.

Kobe’s attitude still fuels me to this day.

In everything I do, I promise myself to work hard, give it my best effort and have no regrets. While these things alone don’t guarantee any level of success, what they do guarantee is a life lived to its fullest potential. No, I won’t be the smartest student, nor will I be the most successful person. But at the end of the day, I can always confidently say I worked hard and gave it my all.

In life, really, that’s all you can ask of yourself.

Even though I never knew Kobe beyond the TV screen, his death still meant a lot to me. He was an enormous part of my life and a guiding figure for my growth and development. I am still numb that Kobe is gone, and maybe I will never stop being numb. But one thing’s for sure: He will not be forgotten. His legacy will live on through me and millions of other people that he had impacted. Even though the Black Mamba isn’t physically with us anymore, his spirit and work ethic still are, and quite honestly, always will be.

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GOVERNANCE, Inc., where performance art meets academia

By Stephen Atkinson Staff Writer

When the Rubenstein Arts Center opened Feb. 3, 2018, one of its first exhibits was an installation titled “sound/play/space,” which invited children to play with a “Synthball.”

This device, a silicon ball, produced different synth sounds as it was lifted, spun, dropped or moved in any direction. In a short video clip of the exhibit, the children are fascinated by the product, which is just one of several experiments from a speculative agency called “GOVERNANCE, Inc.” You could call GOVERNANCE a band, a performance art duo or a “speculative cyberperformance and bio-memetic product design agency,” as its website brands itself.

But essentially, the name is a catch-all for the common intellectual and artistic pursuits of students Rebecca Uliasz and Quran Karriem, the sole inaugural members of Duke’s Computational Media Arts and Culture PhD program. At a prospective student event, the two connected over audio and visual synthesizers; soon after they both made the PhD program, they formed an artistic collaboration. In the last three years, Uliasz and Karriem have developed products like Synthball, held a residency at the Rubenstein Arts Center and performed at venues across Durham.

Uliasz thinks she might have scared students away at her Duke Coffeehouse performance this past January. At the event, the duo was stationed behind their respective equipment — a live video processor for Uliasz and a modular synth for Karriem. Rotating, glitching prisms projected behind them while the blare of synth drones and irregular beats filled the room. The two PhD students realize that performances like these are not universally popular, but popularity is not their aim.

“Our goal is to create some sort of effective dimension, some sort of impression that is left without necessarily knowing

exactly what it is,” Uliasz said. “We’re not trying to convince the audience of anything. ... I think it’s more interesting to think about how to create that resonance in a way that is significant to people.”

Karriem agreed: “[Our performance] scares some people away, yet some people ask questions like, ‘What were y’all thinking when you did this?’ or ‘What kind of gear were you using?’ Different people come at it from different perspectives, and I think that’s fine and to be expected.”

Still, Uliasz and Karriem try to articulate the complex theories surrounding their performances, even though they realize most of the audience doesn’t understand them. Much of this explanation is in writing — on the duo’s website and in their academic papers — but often, the language is nearly as challenging to process as their performances.

“The object of my writing is obscure or arcane,” Karriem said. “And I think I have a problem with that: the obscurity of technology or infrastructure or systems that affect people’s lives very profoundly.”

“It’s like, how do you write clearly about something that is intentionally opaque?”

Uliasz added.

According to Karriem, a common thread across the work of GOVERNANCE is an exploration of “the politics of algorithms and machine learning systems.” At performances like the one at Duke Coffeehouse, Karriem claims to “think in terms of the systems [he] is creating.”

“I’m really trying to listen to the different analog and digital oscillators and filters,” Karriem said. “And listen to how the system is responding and think about how I’m able to get certain frequencies out. … I’m really trying to be in the moment of the sound as much as possible.”

For SOMA, a 2018 project of GOVERNANCE, Uliasz and Karriem synthesized live organisms on stage with the

Courtesy of GOVERNANCE, Inc. SOMA, a 2018 project of GOVERNANCE, grew out of a residency at the Rubenstein Arts Center.

use of “custom electronic tools, signals, digital DNA, speculative philosophy and genome sequencing.” What started as simply an aesthetic impulse, however, developed a greater meaning for the duo.

Karriem explained the theory behind SOMA: “Science is already a performance, so how can we overtly draw attention to the performativity of objectivity? What are the postures and gestures of performing authority or subjectivity of

knowledge? That’s where [SOMA] went. And that’s motivated a lot of our performances.”

In the meantime, GOVERNANCE will be on a brief hiatus as Uliasz and Karriem prepare for their qualifying exams. Still, they expect to be playing shows over the next few months. Next time, Rebecca Uliasz hopes, undergraduates won’t be intimidated.

“Come to our show!” Uliasz said. “We aren’t going to bite.”

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Local candle artisans are illuminating positive representations of Blackness

By Tessa Delgo Staff Writer

There’s plenty of brilliance to be found in the Triangle’s local arts scene, but Bright Black Candles and Bougie Luminaries contribute more literally than most. The two companies, both Durham-based family businesses, are built on philosophies of imbuing great care and culture into each of their candles and drawing greater attention to the artistry of candle making.

Bougie Luminaries’ founder and creative director Erika Parker-Smith’s affinity for the medium began during childhood, when her Girl Scouts troop made candles out of crayon wax. The spark, she said, ignited then and stuck with her into adulthood. As loved ones fell in love with the candles she’d make them as holiday presents, she saw an opportunity to merge her “eclectic” interests in pin-up art, cinema and fragrances into a full-fledged brand.

“Certain fragrances conjure up happy memories, or make you think about a certain moment,” Parker-Smith said. ”When you light a candle, it speaks to your soul.”

Each Bougie Luminaries candle is a work of art both visually and olfactorily. In creating fragrances, Parker-Smith is often heavily inspired by her favorite pieces of culture, from “The Wiz” to Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Illustrated by ParkerSmith’s husband, Jamaul Smith, much of the brand’s packaging is inspired by pin-up art she grew up loving.

“I’ve always admired the illustrations of Norman Rockwell and [Gil] Elvgren, but there were never any women of color in them. And I was like, why is that?” Parker-Smith said. “AfricanAmerican women particularly get a little beat up by the media, and so [I wanted to be able] to serve as a mirror … showing us in a way that’s loving and tender, or just in everyday life — ways

that we don’t always get to see.”

Bright Black Candles, co-owned and founded by Tiffany M. Griffin and husband Dariel Heron, upholds a similar mission. The roots of the company began as a date-night activity for Griffin and Heron, whose mutual love of hip hop and burgeoning love for each other gave them the idea to create candles based on hip hop love songs. But as their passion for candle making grew, they began to believe the medium had the capacity for a larger impact. “[Candles] are one of the oldest sources of light on the planet.

They transcend cultures, language, geography, race and religion,” Griffin wrote in an email. “The presence of a candle can spark exchange or symbolize solidarity — think vigil, passion, security, warmth, hope, spirituality, new beginnings ... birthday candles, health, protection, blessing, memories, calm.”

Griffin, who holds a PhD in social psychology, worked as a researcher and a policymaker in the federal government prior to starting Bright Black. In founding the company, she wanted to “challenge” herself to combine research, data and lived experiences to tell stories through scents — in particular, positive Black narratives.

“On a super basic level, I’m creating a positive experience by just pairing the word ‘bright’ with ‘Black’ and then coupling that with beautifully blended scents,” Griffin wrote. “People are having a positive experience before I even say a word.

Psychologically, that’s triggering thousands of receptors, tapping into memories and creating an opening for dialogue and connection.”

Bright Black’s Diaspora collection highlights cities of “Black greatness,” capturing the stories of everything from Ethiopian history in an Addis Ababa candle to the local history of Durham in a candle that blends scents of tobacco, cotton and whiskey. The

company just released a Harlem Renaissance candle in honor of Black History Month.

“My experiences of Blackness are quite positive and those are the stories I want to tell,” Griffin wrote. “Essentially, we’re telling [those] stories through scent. Scent artistry isn’t wellrecognized as art, but it should be. After all, what is art? It’s sending messages and meaning through some sort of medium.

Our medium is scent.”

In the future, Griffin hopes to partner with museums to illuminate the potential and significance of scent artistry.

Both Griffin and Parker-Smith emphasized a need for greater appreciation of the craft and science that goes into making candles.

“People think [candle making is] really simple, but then you talk to them and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, I tried to make candles and I could not get them to come out right,” ParkerSmith said. “There’s a lot more to it than it’s given credit [for] sometimes.”

For now, though, their businesses will continue to serve as vanguards for the form’s power. Bougie Luminaries will soon expand their collection of film-inspired scents with upcoming candles inspired by “The Breakfast Club” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” and Bright Black, fresh off of a project commissioned

by NorthStar Church of the Arts, will soon release a “Genres” collection in homage to Black music. Long-term, both hope their efforts will improve the narrative around both their artistic medium and Black culture.

“Ultimately, I really am working towards a world where ‘Black’ ... doesn’t inherently conjure up negativity,” Griffin wrote. “It took hundreds of years to get to this point, but I’m committed to doing my part in dismantling those cognitive associations, one beautiful and brilliant candle at a time.”

Photos Special to The Chronicle There’s plenty of brilliance to be found in the Triangle’s local arts scene, but Bright Black Candles and Bougie Luminaries contribute more literally than most.

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Billie sweeps and Ariana’s snubbed at an uninspiring Grammys

By Jonathan Pertile Staff Writer

The archetypal Grammy performance is a slow, sad piano ballad. It’s a relatively safe choice for an artist — at worst it’s slightly boring, but when done right it can be transcendental. So it’s fitting that the artist who gave exactly this kind of performance, Billie Eilish, is the one who walked away with all the biggest awards.

Safe and well-deserved, it was no surprise that Billie had such a great night, but it made for an anticlimactic ceremony to say the least.

When Eilish took the stage to accept the Album of the Year Grammy for “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,” her fourth prize of the night, she did so with exasperation. “Can I just say that Ariana deserves this?” she confessed.

Twitter agreed. “#Scammys” trended afterward on the website, with many fans decrying one of the biggest surprises of the night: Ariana Grande’s grand total of zero wins for her monumental album, “thank u, next.”

However, the Recording Academy loves to attach itself to one artist and never let go (see: Adele), so it really isn’t that surprising that Eilish won the award, sending Grande home emptyhanded despite her five nominations.

Before they could even return to their seats, Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell would have to return to the stage to accept one more award: Record of the Year for “Bad Guy.” With this award, Eilish completed the sweep of the big four categories — Best New Artist along with Album, Record and Song of the Year — a feat only accomplished once before by Christopher Cross in 1981. Eilish didn’t even give a speech, seemingly having run out of things to say. It was

a boring end to a boring night.

The performances certainly did not help.

Beyond Eilish’s fairly standard rendition of “when the party’s over,” Demi Lovato debuted her new ballad “Anyone” and Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton sang their new duet “Nobody But You.” A handful of other artists joined in during the ceremony for a few more forgettable performances.

Making matters worse, these subpar performances were often programmed back-toback, causing long droughts between the actual presentations of the awards. In the first two hours of the three-and-a-half-hour ceremony, only three awards were handed out, and one of these was “Best Comedy Album.” The pace of the awards distribution picked up toward the end of the night, but this backloading wasn’t a good look for the Grammys — there wasn’t even enough time for a commercial break between the last two awards.

The most entertaining moments, in the absence of any drama with the awards, were the dynamic performances. Lizzo opened up the ceremony with a fiery combo of “Cuz I Love You” and “Truth Hurts,” bringing a level of energy that wouldn’t be matched for the rest of the night. Best New Artist nominee Rosalía performed her new song “Juro Que” alongside hit “Malamente.” Lil Nas X sang all the different remixes of “OId Town Road” on a rotating stage before joining Nas (the original — yes, it’s confusing) on a remix of “Rodeo.”

Ariana Grande may have left Staples Arena without an award, but she didn’t fail to make an impression first. Given a significant amount of time to work with for her performance, Grande was able to create the best show of the night.

Her three-song mashup of “imagine,” “7 rings”

Courtesy of Getty Billie Eilish swept the four major categories at the Jan. 26 Grammy Awards.

and “thank u, next” ended with her symbolically putting a ring back into its case, closing out the most commercially and critically important era of her career.

Although it may be disappointing that Eilish gobbled up nearly every award in sight, it’s encouraging to see a new vanguard of

artists winning at the Grammys. Along with her five awards, Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Rosalía went home with three, two and one awards, respectively, representing a standout night for performers nominated for best new artist. Are the Grammys finally ready to move on to a new fleet of artists? Only time will tell.

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Why can’t Baker and O’Connell play well Joey Baker ignites Blue Devils with late-game cooking in the same game?

By Evan Kolin Assistant Blue Zone Editor

CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.—It’s been over two years since Duke last visited Conte Forum. That meeting, Boston College spoiled Marvin Bagley III and company’s ACC opener en route to an 89-84 upset win.

The Blue Devils would make sure to avoid that outcome Tuesday night, in large part due to Joey Baker.

Baker was the spark No. 7 Duke needed in the second half.

Despite scoring no points in just two minutes of play in the first half, the sophomore finished with eight points on 3-of3 shooting from the floor including a DUKE 63 made triple as the Blue Devils eked 55 out a 63-55 victory in front of a hostile BC Conte Forum crowd.

“I think we kind of realized it was go-time for us and we couldn’t mess around anymore,” Baker said. “We can’t do that in the ACC, it’s such a good league. But we locked in and started playing. Tre [Jones] was getting penetration, Vernon [Carey] was getting inside and we started making plays.”

With just under eight minutes remaining, it seemed as if an Eagle run was brewing, as a Boston College second-chance bucket put the home team up by four points for the first time in nearly seven minutes. The crowd was roaring, and Duke promptly called timeout.

After that, the Blue Devils finally looked like a top-10 team in the country, as Baker hit the team’s first three of the contest right out of the break to cut the Eagles’ lead back down to one.

It was an ugly night from beyond the arc, with both squads combining to miss the first 26 3-pointers of the game. For a while, it looked like Duke was at risk of losing its streak of 1,080 consecutive games with a trey, a run that dates all the way back to 1989. Baker made sure that wouldn’t be the case.

Overall, the Blue Devils finished 1-of-15 from downtown.

Carey led Duke’s offense, finishing with 17 points and 10

rebounds on 5-of-13 shooting. Jones added a team-high 18 points to go along with four assists and two turnovers.

Jones also proved to be the Blue Devils’ go-to offensive option down the stretch, scoring eight points over the final six minutes.

“Just sticking with it and trusting our work that we put in,” Jones said of his team’s late-game surge. “We didn’t have the right mindset before the game. We were focused on the game, but we weren’t hungry like we should be. They came out and hit us early. We had to recover from that, but in the second half we came back, we were playing hard in the last eight minutes.

I think it started with our defense getting stops and helped us break them down on offense.”

Duke (19-3, 9-2 in the ACC) trailed 49-48 as late as the 6:12 mark of the second half. It was then that the Blue Devils went on their final game-clinching run.

First, two Carey free throws. Then, a Jones mid-range jumper.

In desperation, Boston College (11-12, 5-7) called timeout, but to no avail.

Jordan Goldwire poked out a steal on the Eagles’ next offensive possession, with a Wendell Moore Jr. transition layup finishing off the play. All of a sudden the Blue Devils were up five, their largest lead of the game up to that point, and were in control.

One of the biggest motivators of that run was a change head coach Mike Krzyzewski made on defense, allowing his team to comfortably defend while in the bonus for much of the second half.

“We went to something we put in during our bye week,” Krzyzewski said. “Some little change in defense—it’s not a three-quarter or a half-court, it’s in between, like a 2-3. We call it a 22. And it can stand you up a little bit. And I thought it stood [Boston College] up.”

Duke has struggled with slow starts for the good portion of its conference slate, but this one wasn’t quite like the rest.

The Blue Devils began a treacherous 1-of-14 from the field over the first nine minutes of the contest, missing shots from just about every spot on the floor, including countless right under

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—Most Blue Devil games, you can expect a solid outing from either Joey Baker or Alex O’Connell. But you can’t expect both.

Saturday night, O’Connell played a pivotal role in Duke’s 97-88 victory against Syracuse, tallying 11 points, two steals and a block in 15 minutes of action, while Baker got to return to Durham with a clean uniform, not seeing any action against the Orange.

Tuesday night, their roles flipped. Baker’s eight secondhalf points were the difference in the Blue Devils’ ugly 6355 win against Boston College, while O’Connell scored no points in an uneventful eight minutes on the Conte Forum floor.

This drastic shift is nothing new for Duke, but rather further proof of the either-or situation that’s surrounded the two wings all season. O’Connell has nine games with eight or more points this year. Baker has seven such outings. Just two of those games overlapped, both of which were blowouts, as both Baker and O’Connell got it going against Wofford Dec. 19 and Miami Jan. 21.

Inconsistent playing time and offensive usage can frustrate any player, especially those who rely on getting hot from beyond the arc to succeed, a billing both Baker and O’Connell fit. Though the two both seem to understand their fluctuating playing time, the drastic changes can wear on them.

“Obviously, as a competitor, I want to be out there, but we have a great staff and the team is amazing, so I just try to stay ready and keep working,” Baker said about stepping up against See EITHER/OR on Page 13

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Joey Baker’s eight second-half points powered the seventh-ranked Blue Devils to a hard-fought victory Tuesday evening.

Alex O’Connell had a key role against Syracuse, but did not make an impact three days later against the Eagles.

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positive momentum on its side. Here are a few things to watch forTuesday.

It’s always a huge game when North Carolina ventures into Cameron Indoor Stadium.

With Duke’s arch rival making the short trip from Chapel Hill for a Thursday night battle, the Blue Devils must display an understanding of the opportunity in front of them. Coming off a game against N.C. State that “had a lot of dynamics to it,” according to Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie, the Blue Devils must regroup and prepare for another local clash.

North Carolina is clearly in the second tier of ACC squads behind Louisville and NC State. The Tar Heels, predicted to finish ninth in the conference, have exceeded expectations under first-year head UNC vs. coach Courtney Banghart. Banghart was Duke tasked with unifying a program that had just THURSDAY, 6 p.m. endured a scandal and Cameron Indoor Stadium the resignation of former head coach Sylvia Hatchell.

The former Naismith Coach of the Year arrived on campus after compiling a 254-103 record at Princeton over a span of 12 seasons, and so far, she has clearly been the right fit in Chapel Hill.

With North Carolina entering Thursday’s contest having won its last two games, there is some

Let it fly North Carolina (16-6, 7-4 in the ACC) has a distinct playing style that matches what Banghart is attempting to accomplish. Offensively, the Tar Heels strike from beyond the arc at a proficient rate, with heavy ball-screen action giving their guards the airspace to pull up from distance. Small ball allows North Carolina to utilize four-out sets, creating real mismatch problems for the defense.

This system has yielded an average of 75.8 points per game and a 35.4 percent mark from deep.

While it’s not quite identical to the Golden State Warriors of recent years, an offensive structure built around shooting will always compromise a defense’s ability to either go under screens or help off the pick and roll. As is usually the case with good shooting teams, North Carolina relies on spacing and skip passes to force off-ball help defenders to keep their head on a swivel. Senior guard Shayla Bennett operates as a skilled floor general, either taking her defender off the dribble or kicking it to junior center Janelle Bailey for a pick and pop.

Multiple Tar Heel opponents this season, including the Wolfpack, have made errors when guarding Bennett in the pick and roll. If her defender goes under the screen, Bennett has a quick enough release to get her shot off. Once her defender starts to overplay the pick, Bennett will either refuse the screen or attempt to draw other

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Haley Gorecki and Duke are looking to outduel North Carolina’s proficient backcourt. defenders into the paint by attacking.

This tactic does not only apply to Bennett.

Taylor Koenen is a savvy playmaker with a knack for finding the open teammate off the dribble. Look for Haley Gorecki to potentially match up with Koenen, with a combination of Miela Goodchild and Kyra Lambert also guarding Bennett.

Keep the pressure In Duke’s (11-10, 5-5) heartbreaking defeat to

North Carolina State, a main problem was giving up points off turnovers, as the Wolfpack capitalized on most Blue Devil giveaways. On the other end of the floor, the Tar Heels are aggressive and prone to forcing turnovers, with their opponents coughing the ball up an average of 14.8 times per contest.

Opponents looking to get the ball into the post will often have to deal with a defender fronting, making what is usually a simple entry pass an exceedingly more complicated ordeal.

With active hands and quick guards, North Carolina can get out in transition early and often.

Crisp screen setting and off-ball movement will be paramount for the Blue Devils, as the Tar Heels look to push the tempo off any offensive error made by their opponents. Lazy passes around the perimeter will get easily intercepted by North Carolina guards ready to pounce.

Duke has been close many times this season down the stretch, but as was the case again against NC State, the Blue Devils often cannot find a way to seal the deal. With McCallie stating after Sunday’s loss that she “loved our team defense, [but] looking for a little more offense,” look for Duke to find Gorecki and Leaonna Odom matched up with weaker defenders.

With Thursday’s matchup signaling the start of a softer schedule the next two weeks, now is the time for Duke to start a winning streak that could yield momentum in the push to March.

The Blue Devils must challenge North Carolina’s opportunities from beyond the arc and dictate the tempo in what will be a hard-nosed affair.

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“When we’re young, we try to shoot [under the basket],” Krzyzewski said. “When you’re by the bucket, you don’t try to shoot, you try to score. It’s a big difference.... Winning teams score the ball, they don’t shoot the ball by the bucket.”

But the Eagles proved unable to fully take advantage of Duke’s offensive ineptitude, never growing a lead larger than 12-2. A quick 83-second, 7-0 run by the Blue Devils cut their deficit to just 14-11 with over nine minutes left in the first half, with a Carey layup three minutes later putting Duke ahead for the first time of the evening. The

two teams traded leads from there, with Boston College taking a 24-21 advantage into the locker room.

The Blue Devils will get three days of rest before heading to Chapel Hill Saturday to take on a North Carolina team that lost to the Eagles 71-70 last week.

“They have a lot of adversity with me because they didn’t listen to me,” Krzyzewski said in response to a question of how his young team handled adversity on the road, referring to his players not being locked in against the Eagles. “So they’re in trouble with me. That’s the main adversity, because it’s stupid not to listen. I’ve been warning them for two days about it, and I knew—I’ve watched [Boston College’s] recent games.

They’ve been playing great.”

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Freshman center Vernon Carey Jr. helped keep the contest competitive in the first half.

EITHER/OR FROM PAGE 11 Boston College after not playing against Syracuse. “I know I’ll be able to help the team, so that’s what I kept in my head and stayed ready when my name was called tonight.”

O’Connell was more adamant in the toll that playing inconsistent minutes can take.

“The last few games I wouldn’t say have been rough, I just haven’t been in as much as any college player would like to,” O’Connell said following the Syracuse game Saturday.

“Tonight, I was taking advantage of the minutes I was given and I feel like I did that to a pretty good extent. I was just trying to attack the zone, get my guys open shots, or shoot the ball on my own.”

So, why is it that Baker and O’Connell seemingly can’t thrive in the same contest?

The answer lies primarily in defense and rebounding.

Each of the Blue Devils known for their knack to knock down 3-pointers often struggle to hang on the opposite end of the floor. O’Connell is a superior athlete, but he is limited by his strength and susceptibility to being beat off the dribble. Baker’s fundamentals are more sound, but his foot speed can make him a liability.

Despite his reputation as a subpar defender, Baker cites defense as his primary focus. In addition to his eight-point surge in the second half, the Fayetteville, N.C., native came up with a pivotal turnover with five minutes left in the contest, intercepting a Derryck Thornton pass.

“I just try to come in and do my thing on defense, provide energy,” Baker said Tuesday.

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“If the offense comes, then the offense comes.

It’s really just about making the right play. If that happens to lead to offense for myself, then so be it.”

Their similar playing styles are not the only way that Baker and O’Connell are alike—their season stats are eerily similar.

In 271 minutes, Baker has 126 points on 101 field goal attempts. In 277 minutes, O’Connell has 113 points on 111 field goal attempts. The advanced metrics also confirm their striking similarities, as the two rank eighth and ninth in box plus/minus among the ten Blue Devils that are in the rotation (Baker’s superior shooting efficiency is matched by O’Connell’s superior rebounding and defensive rating).

There’s no clear pattern for which night one will go off, so predicting which contest will be a Baker or O’Connell game is difficult.

O’Connell should be the more reliable option thanks to his quickness, elite hops and smooth jumper, but the junior guard has not lived up to his potential this season.

His 3-point shooting has wildly regressed, as O’Connell has made just 24.1 percent of his attempts beyond the arc this year.

O’Connell’s upside can be mesmerizing— he’s been my pick for breakout player the last two seasons—but the stability of Baker is what the Blue Devils need right now. Cassius Stanley is an elite slasher, minimizing the team’s need for O’Connell’s athleticism. Baker is someone Duke can rely on to knock down shots on the perimeter and not get blown past on drives, making him the better bench option for the Blue Devils. Just don’t hold this against me in a week, when O’Connell will invariably and inexplicably thrive while Baker watches from the bench.

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e thank Victoria Priester for her opinion piece in the Chronicle and for making her voice heard on issues of great importance to this campus. We value all our undergraduate majors and minors and take their perceptions of the Duke English Department very seriously.

guest column That is why we are responding to Ms. Priester’s article in print. We were puzzled and saddened

by Ms. Priester’s initial representation of Duke English, not only because it contained inaccurate factual claims, but also because the correct version of those facts suggests that the Duke English major is flexible enough to meet the demands Ms. Priester makes of it.

To consider the facts first, there are currently 80 English majors and double majors and 67 English minors, for a total of 147 majors and minors. Even more important, though Ms. Priester is correct that the number of English majors at other institutions has declined in recent years, this is happily not the case at Duke, for our number of majors, double-

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majors, and minors has increased substantially over the past several years. (Since fall 2016, for example, we have seen a nearly 40% growth in majors and double majors.) And as both the Alumni section of our departmental webpage and recent strong representation of Duke English alumni among the DEMAN keynote speakers make clear, Duke English majors are extremely successful in finding rewarding (and financially remunerative) jobs once they graduate.

We think that our major has grown in recent years in large part because Duke English enables precisely that wide breadth of study of works produced in English for which Ms. Priester calls. The Duke English major indeed allows students interested in Shakespeare, to take Ms. Priester’s example, to enroll in multiple courses on that author. But the Duke English major also enables students interested primarily in more recent, non-European, non-male authors to focus on those writers.

For example, the following trajectory within the major, which emphasizes women and writers of color across the centuries, fulfills the 10 required courses of our major: ENG 101 (e.g., “Living with Others”); “Languages and Society”; “Queens of Antiquity”; “Classics of World Literature”; “Emily Dickinson”; “African Diaspora Literature”; “Asian American Gender & Sexuality”; “Remembering the Middle Passage”; “Black Feminism”; and “Contemporary Black South.” All of these courses were taught within the last year and a half.

This semester, seven English originated or crosslisted courses focus exclusively on, or feature multiple, authors of color. In addition, students may propose Independent Studies on topics of interest and such courses can fulfill major requirements.

We are also in the process of creating a “Best Practices for Navigating the Major” webpage, which will explicitly advise students to take literature courses that expose them to the diverse communities and continents

that have produced some of the best literature in the English language. We offer courses in African, Asian, Caribbean, diasporic, and minority literatures and we firmly believe that English is a global language. Each of our majors is assigned a faculty advisor who can help a student navigate these many possibilities of the English major.

Our commitment to a global approach to literature written in English is underscored by our commitment to the African Studies initiative, which—if our bid for a faculty line is approved—will allow us to build on, while also expanding, an existing strength within the department, and in this way offer not only breadth but also even more depth for students interested in African and African-American diasporic literatures.

Our commitment to featuring minority perspectives is also exemplified by upcoming artist residencies and visits (e.g., Caryl Phillips, later this month, and Asian-American writer Gina Apostol, in March); our long-running Representing Migration Lab; our Toni Morrison tribute last fall (and a crosslisted undergraduate course on Toni Morrison three years ago); and many, many course offerings including “Modernism in the Arts,” “The Contemporary Novel,” “The Art of the Slam,” and “Zora Neale Hurston” just to name four. Should Ms. Priester elect to remain an English major—and we very much hope that she will!—we look forward to helping her to fulfill the major requirements by means of precisely those kinds of course for which she calls.

Robert Mitchell is the Chair of the Department of English. Aarthi Vadde is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of English. Editor’s note: Priester’s figures were supplied by the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies for the English Department.

Letter: Coach K should apologize

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oach K should apologize.

I agree with Dick Vitale when he opines that Coach K is one of he greatest coaches ever; in any sport. No one man, apart from maybe James Buchanan Duke himself, has done more for Duke University than Coach K.

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But to go off on the Crazies without even having heard what was being chanted like we were a chair in Bob Knight’s way while losing a non-conference game on his home court was just wrong.

I consider myself a Crazie, albeit forty-some years removed. When I was there, the front court was manned by Terry Chile, Willie Hodge and Mark Crow. And they played their hearts out. One game, down 8-0, referee Lou Moser, who we always thought had—shall we say—an inappropriate relationship with North Carolina State Coach “Storming” Norman Sloan, called yet another foul on the Blue Devils prompting Duke head coach Bill Foster to run down the court after Moser waving his white handkerchief in surrender. Moser called a technical foul on Foster which, in turn, caused one of Duke’s linebackers to leap over eight rows of students so that he might run down the court to have a conversation with Moser.

The next day, Foster said that he had to control

himself after that incident, as he was truly afraid that we would riot. I was there when Dean Smith, who definitely had an inappropriate relationship with referee Hank Nichols, came into Cameron and ordered Phil Ford to hold the ball for the first 20 minutes. No one chanted “Go to Heck Carolina” that day (some readers might remember when Athletic Director Tom Butters asked the Crazies to stop chanting “Go to Hell Carolina” ). Score at the half 7-0 Duke; final score 47-40 Duke. I was there when group of guys always walked in behind Lefty Drisell wearing skull caps, (except for the year it was skull caps and crutches, as Lefty had broken his leg) mimicking Lefty’s baldness. And I was there when Clemson sent in tough guy Stan Rome to rough up Duke star guard Tate Armstrong, and I can assure the reader that “Rome still Sucks.”

The point is that the Crazies are Duke. Without us, there is no show. With us there is a show, no matter how good the team. “Jeff Capel, Sit With Us,” was almost ‘Jeff Capel, You are One of Us.’ It was innovative, playful, not improperly timed, and at least a little funny, chanted by fans who had slept outside for a chance to get a ticket. Don’t presume to tell us what to cheer.

Coach K, next home game come sit with us.

Spend some time with us, and apologize to us so that we can love you again just as much as before. And Let’s Go Duke.

Steve McCullough graduated with the Class of 1978. Forever Duke.

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BOYS’ CLUB FROM PAGE 1 enormous and doesn’t seem to be improving much. Google reported in 2018 that 30.9% of its employees are women as opposed to 30.6% in 2014. Facebook has increased from 31% women in 2014 to 36% in 2018. Our progress is minuscule and cannot be expected to accelerate on its own.

The issue with the gender inequality in tech is not just a pipeline problem, but also a bias problem. When tech companies are recruiting, they look for candidates who fit their established culture. When companies come across female candidates who are described as temperate, women are negatively impacted not because they are unqualified, but because of the stereotype that women must be quiet and should submit—which translates to the bias that women cannot hold their own in the workplace.

When tech companies defend their gender inequality by saying they have not come across enough qualified female candidates, they need to check their biases. And GTHC is no different. I applied to be a member of the GTHC team and was told that the most important reason I was not given the position on the team was because I would not be able to hold my own on the team and get in people’s faces. At first, I thought the response was perhaps a little biased, but it wasn’t until I saw 16 male faces staring back at me that I realized just how representative my experience was of Silicon Valley.

Time and time again, tech companies seem to value product over ethics. Facebook, for example, chose to not change their policies for political advertisements in order to preserve the core integrity of their product as an advertising tool. Similarly, GTHC

At first, I thought the response was perhaps a little biased, but it wasn’t until I saw 16 male faces staring back at me that I realized just how representative my experience was of Silicon Valley.

placed more priority on finishing the product than on pursuing the high ethics that Duke claims to teach us. The only excuse that the GTHC team has is that gender equality was not a priority for their team, which is no different from the current culture of Silicon Valley. That status quo is a nightmare because if our future leaders have no regard for the ethical importance of gender equality, we will never see sustainable change in the industry.

Paloma Rodney is a Trinity senior.

Letter: Increasing racism in the Coronavirus pandemic

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n the last few years, there has been a noticeable shift in the rise of anti-Chinese tensions in the United States. These tensions have been expressed in the trade debate, the presidential stage and the oncoming McCarthyism on college campuses. The recent media coverage is also beginning to display an anti-Chinese urge in renaming the Coranavirus the “Chinese Flu.” This racism is most visible in the renaming of the Coranavirus to the “Chinese Flu.” Yes, there is the precedent of the Spanish Flu, but are we going to follow the precedent of the 1920s? Attaching the name of a country to a disease is nothing more than a step to blaming that country for the disease. The media are increasingly reinforcing this by the discussion of Chinese culinary culture.

The established and non-established media are beginning to point fingers to a seafood market in Wuhan as culpable. This is nothing more than a metaphor attacking the eating habits of a Chinese minority. Eating habits that are not all that rare in the world. I know from personal experience that it is common in Texas to eat armadillos and pretty much any animal that can be hunted. In Kentucky, a traditional delicacy is squirrel brains. So, blaming a pandemic on Chinese eating habits is nothing more than ignorance of human culture and at worst overt racism.

The Coronavirus is a frightening disease that is pushing people’s prejudices and ignorance to the forefront. As Duke students, we should not fall under that trap. Instead of being frightened, we should ask our Chinese colleagues if their families are safe.

More significant effort should be made to connect our campus with our Kunshan campus. I recommend that our prestigious biological program hold public talks and discussions. The student body should actively push this information to the greater North Carolina community. Only through knowledge can we prevent an increasing rise and reinforcement in anti-Chinese attitudes.

Francisco Reveriano is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering department.

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Impact investing actually unlocks enormous good

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cross Duke, the term “impact” has been used so many times to selfcharacterize one’s long term goals that it can feel trite. Thus, I wasn’t particularly

for moral hazard andhave taken action: 45 countries have adopted public frameworks for impact investing and 20 have created legal definitions for “social enterprise.” These

Luke Qin GUEST COLUMN astounded when I read a recent Chronicle column criticizing impact investing not only as superficial but even harmful, funded by unethical capital sources and used by the rich to deflect accountability.

This is an important conversation to have, one that has been heavily discussed within the Duke Impact Investing Group (DIIG), so I’d like to thank Gino for bringing this to the public light. However, impact investing is not just some mechanism for the rich to hide their sins, but rather a field with enormous potential for good despite the risks that it must be held accountable for.

Impact Investing Though it is true that sometimes, the capital used to make investments has been unjustly acquired, it would be a mistake to generalize these instances of bad actors to the entire field of impact investing. In reality, many impact investors are government funds, foundations, or pension funds. A quarter of impact investment assets under management are owned by government-backed development finance institutions (DFI) that specifically invest money into economic development projects.

These are impact investment funds that are composed of tax dollars and public donations, not by financial gains from fossil fuel companies or weapons manufacturers. The effect of these government projects has already been felt, with domestic DFI impact funds creating 1.5 million jobs and rehabilitating 2.1 million housing units for low income Americans. Rather than perpetuating inequality, impact investing can empower marginalized voices in a time when economic disparity is at an all-time high.

These positive effects are true not only on a domestic level but also on a global scale. For just one example, look towards the energy crisis in developing countries. The energy demand of developing nations is expected to increase by 45% in the next two decades. Fortunately, Actis—an emerging markets fund—is helping these nations diversify their energy consumption into sustainable sources. In 2015, Actis created a $1.9 billion dollar clean energy fund that currently provides enough solar and wind power across Africa for nearly one million homes, homes that now belong to people that lived for years without proper electricity. On a broader scope, half of all impact investments are in developing nations, demonstrating that it has the potential to level the playing field not just between people, but across entire continents.

Despite this, many rightfully still worry about accountability in the field. If impact investing is shaped by the rich and powerful, then what’s to stop it from becoming just another glorified PR scheme? Governments and NGOs have already realized this potential

Ultimately, the checks and balances of this industry as well as the direction of impact investing will be decided by our generation of students...

numbers will only grow as impact investing proliferates, ensuring that the future is shaped not just by corporations, but by a diverse array of perspectives from public servants to nonprofit leaders.

In addition to increased regulatory frameworks, certain impact investors are already putting impact above everything else.

While some prioritize above-market returns, many funds are “impact first.” This means that they explicitly target below market returns in order to focus on the most socially beneficial companies. A survey of 266 impact investors that collectively manage $239 billion reported that 34% of respondents are impact first companies that prioritize their investments into socially impactful companies. This means that many funds do not simply treat social impact as a label to be slapped on after a financial return is made; rather, it is considered to be more important than profit.

The Duke Impact Investing Group DIIG has always been more than just an investment fund. Duke didn’t just throw $100,000 at us as a haphazard redress for moral grievances. In reality, the funding came after two years of designing and teaching house courses for students wanting to learn more about the impact space. Through this educational program, our various divisions have empowered entrepreneurs looking to serve underrepresented minorities and explicitly advocated an alternative route away from traditional pre-professional roles.

With the funding we have been given, DIIG is already making an impact. Our investment clients range from startups that provide affordable STEM education to low income school districts or ones that create insurancecovered clothing for chronically ill patients.

On the client advisory side, our members have had the opportunity to work with startups that focus on more than just the bottom-line.

In fact, we’ve gotten over 60 students involved each semester with the Durham community, helping startups that create sustained impact— from improving access to supplies in refugee camps to moving our city towards a no-waste future. DIIG and impact investing as a whole have provided an interface for students to have tangible benefits on the local community while also demonstrating that there exist more than just a handful of career paths to take.

On a broader scope, impact investing is indeed an emerging field, one in rapid need of definition, but when done with the proper accountability, it is not an empty label that thrives off or perpetuates inequality. Rather, it’s a systematized framework developed and encouraged by the United Nations, global NGOs , foundations and government institutions in addition to wealth managers, banks, and pension funds.

Ultimately, the checks and balances of this industry as well as the direction of impact investing will be decided by our generation of students—students who are exploring the meaning of impact investing at DIIG and similar organizations at schools across the nation.

Luke Qin is a Trinity sophomore and the Director of Research for DIIG.

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into the fire and others struck by flying bottles.

“We spent a whole year in preparation to FROM PAGE 5 make this a safe celebration, and the students made our jobs as difficult as hell,” Public Safety Students undressed to dance naked around the Chief Robert Dean told The Chronicle at the bonfire outside Cameron Indoor, as toilet paper time. “We weren’t out there to spoil their fun. and jubilant cheering once again covered West Fortunately, no one was killed.”

Campus. Several students were injured and There were reports of guns and knives being went to the emergency room, but after security wielded on campus, and fights broke out in had been tripled and Towerview Road closed, dorms. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon common fewer off-campus individuals were arrested in room was the site of a tussle after the fraternity the celebration. refused to give beer to a student, leading to a “The first bonfire in 1991 was quite different fight that knocked someone unconscious. than the ones today, Despite the dozens as we currently have When I remember those of injuries, several a plan in place that Duke alumni told The involves extensive nights, I don’t remember them Chronicle that the preparation, planning for tension with Public Safety. injuries and conflict don’t and collaboration and dominate their memory focuses on safety,” of the events. paul hudson Wasiolek wrote.

“When I remember TRINITY ‘94 AND FORMER DSG PRESIDENT those nights, I don’t ‘Hurled into the remember them for flames’ tension with Public Duke’s string of success would continue, but Safety,” said Paul Hudson, Trinity ‘94, who 1992 would be the year that put bench burning served as Duke Student Government president. under increased administrative scrutiny. Although “I think overall, when people remember them, the University began further limiting campus they remember having a good time, remember access to non-Duke personnel, the celebrations being excited—maybe doing a couple stupid became wilder than ever and forced the University things—but there wasn’t any kind of policeto reconsider how it approached the issue. state feeling to the evenings.”

Public Safety was unsuccessful in stopping He attributed the more raucous behavior to bench burnings after a North Carolina win in a few bad apples, but added that most students March 1992, and one student described the were just there to have fun. celebration at the time as “lamer than usual.”

Michael Saul, Trinity ‘94 and a Chronicle That attitude was soon to change. reporter who covered many of the bench While the celebrations for the iconic Christian burnings, said that the conflict between police Laettner-led, last-second win against Kentucky and students was generally limited to those in the Elite Eight and the Final Four triumph who chose to celebrate in crazier fashion. How over Indiana were lively but manageable, all hell students would remember those nights is very broke loose after the Blue Devils won it all for the dependent on perspective, he explained. second consecutive year.

Sara-Jane Raines, Trinity ‘83, has been “The 10-foot high scorching blaze built working for Duke University Police Department and ignited by the University for students since 1989. She was an officer assigned to work was not high enough—within minutes, the during the bench burnings after the 1991 and possessed fans obtained a dilapidated couch 1992 National Championships and called the and a section of metal bleachers ripped spontaneous bonfires “very, very dangerous.” from Wallace Wade Stadium,” The Chronicle “My recollection of most altercations on reported afterward. “Both the couch and the bonfire nights was that the arguments were bleachers were hurled into the flames as the generally between a group of students who students yowled with delight.” wanted to burn a bench and the students who The official fire outside Cameron spread, as wanted to protect the benches that they worked students started bench-fueled bonfires of their hard to build and paint,” she wrote in an email.

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Special to The Chronicle After the Blue Devils beat Kansas and advanced to the National Championship, benches went up in flames across the quad. Here is the front page of The Chronicle after the fiery celebration.

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