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Four finalists face off for Young Trustee

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‘Very fortunate’ J.B. Pritzker is a Duke alum and Trustee, governor, and richest current U.S. elected official

By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

Four finalists will vie to become Duke’s next undergraduate Young Trustee.

Seniors Archana Ahlawat, Brian Buhr, Luke Farrell and Trey Walk will run for the three-year position on Duke’s Board of Trustees in an election from noon on Feb. 12 to noon Feb. 13.

The Young Trustee Nominating Committee chose the four finalists from a pool of nine semifinalists, taken from open applications. The senior who emerges will serve on the Board of Trustees for three years, one year as an observer and two as a voting member.

The four finalists started a group chat together recently—Ahlawat said they want the campaign to be “positive” and “healthy.”

Who are these four finalists? Here’s a rundown of the candidates, listed below in alphabetical order by first name.

Archana Ahlawat At Duke, Ahlawat has gained a better understanding of the power of community.

The senior was formerly the president of Duke Conversations. She is also the former technology chair of the Duke Association for Business Oriented Women (BOW) and the founder of its diversity and inclusivity initiative, which she began after noting the organization’s homogeneity. She says she has brought people from different backgrounds together with BOW and Duke Conversations.

One big issue facing Duke is the experience of marginalized people on campus—there is a lack of support for them once they arrive on campus, Ahlawat said. Another issue is how to restructure the housing and campus model to facilitate different types of people meeting each other— not just in residence halls.

Brian Buhr Buhr is no stranger to the Board of Trustees. For the past two years, he has served as a student representative See YOUNG TRUSTEE on Page 3

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By Yuexuan Chen Staff Reporter

Duke Trustee J.B. Pritzker, Trinity ‘87, assumed office last Monday as governor of Illinois.

A businessman and philanthropist, Pritzker won the Illinois governor’s race last November as a Democratic candidate to become the wealthiest politician in the country, surpassing President Donald Trump.

Throughout his career as a businessman, Pritzker explained he has tried to advance public policy and to be philanthropic. He is especially committed to advocating for early childhood education for at-risk children. “[My goal is to] do good wherever I can with any resources that I had—and I think I have done that,” Pritzker said.

he sacrificed his career.”

Sanford was a white man who grew up in the rural South but was deeply engaged in the advancement of people of color throughout his lifetime. As governor of North Carolina, Sanford was dedicated to promoting civil rights and integrating schools in the early 1960s, when most southern governors were opposed to desegregation, Pritzker said. Sanford earned the sobriquet of “High Tax Terry” during his governorship for raising taxes to improve the state university and community college systems.

Most of Pritzker’s senior staff is made up of people of color, he pointed out. His lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, is an AfricanAmerican woman, and Jordan Abudayyeh, his press secretary, is an Arab American woman. Pritzker’s time at Duke also shaped an ‘A model for me’: How Duke shaped Pritzker interest in civil rights advocacy.

Pritzker said his career in public service and involvement in civil In the two classes Pritzker took with C. Eric Lincoln—professor of rights organizations stems from his experiences as an undergraduate religion and culture at Duke from 1976 to 1993 and author of books majoring in political science on Duke’s campus. on black Muslims in America—Pritzker learned a lot about civil rights As an upperclassman at the University, Pritzker helped to make advocacy and leadership, such as the relationships between Africanarrangements and preparations for former American activists and civil rights activists Duke President Terry Sanford’s public outside and inside government. appearances during Sanford’s campaign However, his parents had already for U.S. Senate. played a large role by instilling their Pritzker traveled all over the state values in Pritzker. spending time on the campaign trail with “I’ve spent my whole life as an advocate Sanford—who had recently retired from expanding civil rights and individual Billion dollars is Pritzker’s net worth rights because my parents were progressive his 15-year presidency—which took up most of his free time as a student. When Democrats and were involved in issues like Sanford won his election during Pritzker’s senior year, he headed to fighting for women’s rights,” Pritzker said. “My mother marched for the Capitol Hill to work for Sanford.

Equal Rights Amendment in the ‘70s and advocated for reproductive “Terry Sanford really became a model for me,” Pritzker said. “He rights around the time Roe v. Wade was decided.” was actually desegregating schools and built the state’s community See PRITZKER on Page 4 college system as desegregated from the very beginning. In many ways

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‘I just need Pitch’: A slice of life at 2 a.m. Pitchforks

By Rose Wong Staff Reporter

Simran Prakash | Staff Photographer Pitchforks, officially known as Cafe Edens, is located in McClendon Commons.

Like your sweet aunt who never judges, Pitchforks has seen you at your best and worst.

Tucked in the basement of McClendon Tower, the 24/7 eatery— known professionally as Cafe Edens and unprofessionally as “Pitch”—supplies Duke students with the greasiest of munchies, the most effective of hangover cures and the best of comfort foods for long nights of studying.

I spent five hours of my Saturday night at Pitch, writing for it the ballad that it deserves.

When I walked in at 9:57 p.m., all but one table was occupied.

Seeing a group of Cameron Crazies finishing up their post-game

victory meal after watching the team beat Virginia, I circled their booth like a hawk. I needed an outlet.

Once I was seated at the booth, I saw senior Jake Ukleja and junior Rani Duff come down the spiral staircase. They were setting up a pregame and needed chasers. We bonded over our mutual love for Pitch before they scurried off with the promise that they’d be back later that night.

At 10:45 p.m., my best friend Tan Vashist, a junior, joined me at my booth. She ordered a plate of tots and committed to observing Pitch with me for a few hours.

“Whenever I’m at Pitch, I always run into people I know, and it’s the smushiest reunion,” she said.

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Women’s tennis comes home

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Expanding K-Ville: Flex tents will claim Towerview Rd. corner

By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

In the aftermath of a walk-up line disaster last year, Krzyzewskiville is getting bigger.

The tent city is set to expand in the upcoming weeks to accommodate additional tents for flex tenting, which is set to replace the walk-up line, which devolved into a drunken mob that tried to push its way into last year’s home game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Flex tents will be located outside Ambler Tennis Stadium

near Towerview Road. A scavenger hunt called the Race to the Secret Spots will determine flex tent ordering, with the first 30 groups receiving white tenting spots and the next 30 heading to flex tents, according to co-head line monitor and senior Steve Hassey.

Tenting for the Feb. 20 UNC game at Cameron Indoor Stadium is divided into several categories—black, blue and white—each of which has distinct requirements and is admitted to the game with differing priority. Flex tents, however, are not guaranteed entry.

“We’re hopeful that every flex tent will get into the game, but unfortunately, due to the size constraints of the student section, we can only guarantee that black, blue and white will gain entrance,” Hassey wrote. “We picked the number of flex tents, however, with the goal that each one would get a spot in Cameron.”

Art Chase, senior associate director of athletics and external affairs, confirmed the flex tents’ location in an email to The Chronicle.

The flex tenting area measures slightly more than 4,600 square feet, according to measurements taken by The Chronicle.

Assuming the full capacity of 30 tents would fill the grass, this leaves around 150 square feet per tent.

The switch to flex tenting comes after the walk-up line implosion last year, when the walk-up line descended into chaos on gameday.

Students were eating signs, throwing full beer cans and cutting in line rampantly before a mob of students erupted, casting aside barricades in a drunken rush to try to get into the game.

David Mallen, assistant director of the Duke Wellness Center, told The Chronicle in April that there were four alcohol-induced emergency medical services calls that day—a number that was elevated due to calls in response to the walk-up line.

“It’s come to a point to where it’s not in the best interest of the University, of Duke basketball, of the line monitors and the people in the walk-up line themselves to continue having it this way,” former co-head line monitor Sara Constand, Trinity ‘18, told The Chronicle in April.

Duke Student Government approved the switch to flex tenting at an October meeting, sealing the walk-up line’s fate.

“The big problem we’re aiming to fix from the walk-up line last year is having a large number of people who are not guaranteed spots and are not sure if they can get in,” co-head line monitor Peter Potash, a senior, told The Chronicle in October. “The uncertainty of whether or not they’re going to get in caused a lot of that danger.”

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‘We will win’: Me Too founder discusses what makes a movement at MLK commemoration

By Stefanie Pousoulides University News Editor

To the civil rights activist Tarana Burke, 2018 was not just the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

It was also the year when the Me Too movement that she helped found “spread like wildfire.”

Sunday afternoon, in a packed Duke Chapel, speakers from the Duke and national communities discussed modern civil rights activism at the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, titled “Why Words Matter: From Dissent to Dialogue.” Amid singing, dancing and jazz, the speakers spoke about the legacy of King’s civil rights work today.

Burke, who founded the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault in 2006, was the keynote speaker. In 2017, Burke was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year along with other women who had spearheaded the movement that gained national attention recently.

During the talk, Burke discussed how she reflects frequently on the year of 2018, as the last of the “50th anniversaries”— such as King’s assassination and the signing of the Fair Housing Act, which is regarded as the culmination of the civil rights movement. But to Burke, 2018 was not the end.

“I immediately made a connection that this movement that I started in Selma was a part of a continuum of [the civil rights] movement,” Burke said. “It felt very connected to me, this 50th anniversary.”

Burke talked about the role of women in the civil rights movement and their connection to King.

She said that the figures of the civil rights movement who typically come to mind are charismatic male leaders. According to Burke, although King was an actor of the patriarchal system that kept women from standing by his side, he would not have been able to accomplish his goals without black women, who had selected him to lead the national movement.

“He answered the call, but often the call was made by black women,” Burke said.

She also described the implications of how today’s world, focused on instant gratification, often creates movements that lack an expansive vision and fizzle out. To Burke, movements are

Mary Helen Wood | Associate Photography Editor Tarana Burke launched the Me Too movement in 2006, and she spoke at the Chapel Sunday afternoon.

incremental—built over time, strategic and thoughtful.

“But mostly they are grounded in a belief of human capacity for change,” Burke said. “We have to believe in something that seems impossible to others that is actually possible.”

A year after Me Too gained national fame, Burke said some people now want the movement to end, asking when “we are going to go back to normal.” But, according to Burke, the discomfort a movement creates should not stop its momentum.

“We will win, because love always wins,” Burke said.

In addition to Burke, President Vincent Price, Durham Mayor Steve Schewel and Thomas Owens, president of Duke University Hospital, gave speeches. Junior Ashleigh Smith, vice president of Black Student Alliance, also spoke at the event.

Price asked the audience to reflect on how King’s example can inform them about their own roles. He also noted the educational ties to King’s commitment to freedom and justice for all, telling the audience to “take stock of our continuing progress and setbacks on the road to equality.”

“What can our University do to deliver a future that is more equitable and just than the present?” Price asked.

YOUNG TRUSTEE FROM PAGE 1 to the Board of Trustees’ External Engagement Committee. Buhr is also the president of Duke University Union and the former program director for pre-orientation program Project BUILD. Buhr has interned for the Women’s Center and is a Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow. He also served as a Duke Student Government senator for Durham and regional affairs, something that he says allowed him to become more aware of Duke’s relationship with Durham. Buhr sees many challenges for Duke, from regional and community development issues, to Duke’s relationship with government and financial institutions, to how to respond to being a majority-minority campus in the future.

Luke Farrell Duke has inspired gratitude for the University in Farrell, but his time at Duke has given him a sober understanding of where the University is and how it can change for the better, he said.

The former chair of Student Organization Financing Committee now advises President Vincent Price via the Presidential Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. He has also been a voting member of the Board of Trustees’ business and finance committee.

Farrell says he has written transparency policy for the Board of Trustees and fought for fossil fuel divestment.

Farrell, who is also a columnist for The Chronicle, argued that financial aid is an issue that needs to be addressed. Other important issues include investments abroad, like Duke Kunshan University, and hate and bias on campus, which Farrell says will be a difficult problem to solve.

Trey Walk Growing up, Walk’s family instilled the importance of getting an education that could help make the world a better place.

The Robertson Scholar is involved with many on-campus organizations, including People’s State of the University and the Black Men’s Union. Walk has served on the President’s Working Group on Community and Dialogue, the search committee for the new Vice Provost for Campus Life and the Undergraduate Student Conduct Board. Walk is also a columnist for The Chronicle.

Mental health and wellness is one of the issues that Walk sees, and one that is exacerbated for those of marginalized backgrounds. The University will also have to deal with racial justice issues, Walk said, in addition to making “dollars work” with financial aid to make Duke accessible.

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before, or at 3 a.m. coming to a revelation about race.”

Azim agreed.

“With my girlfriend gone abroad, the rain and it [being] The restaurant was still bustling with people decked out in Duke cold out, I just need Pitch,” he said. gear at 11:21 p.m. when junior Azim Dharani plopped down in our I looked around the room for signs explaining Pitchforks’ booth. We had run into each other that morning at the venue and magnetic draw. Hung on the only yellow wall was an oddly eaten breakfast together. I had told him earlier that I would be back small and flimsy-looking sign stating “Café Edens,” Pitchforks’ between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m., and he came to see if official name, used only by uninitiated first-years and the I was bluffing.

Whenever I’m at Pitch, I official Duke Dining website.

“I wasn’t sure if I wanted food, but I wanted to see if you were actually gonna be always run into people I Compared to the architecturally here,” he said. know, and it’s the smushiest intricate Brodhead Center, Pitchforks As Tan and Azim ate their food—Azim is a humble basement with a couple of tables and chairs. The space is frank in had realized that he could not enter Pitch reunion. its simplicity and function. without ordering—we talked about what tan vashist late-night Pitch meant to us.

The unfussy setting allows the STUDENT “Once, Rose and I sat on the floor of people within it to characterize Pitchforks at 3 a.m. talking about how we’re the space.

By 12:15 a.m., basketball game-goers had cleared out and not white,” Tan said. I laughed at the memory. “I feel like Pitch is a place to debrief and analyze everything, like the morning the nightlife began rolling in. during a hangover when you analyze what happened the night At 1:30 a.m., a sudden surge of people entered Pitch. The line FROM PAGE 1

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extended from the cashier to the soda dispenser. As our booth began crowding with people who either knew me or Tan, Azim decided that it was time to retire to his dorm.

The circle of people around us grew with mutual friends.

By 2 a.m., the restaurant was so crowded that employees had to shout names several times for people to hear that their food was ready.

Tan noted the diversity in people and conversations that had shuffled in and out of our booth. By 2:45 a.m., most of my friends had left. Fighting fatigue and an oncoming migraine, I felt a strange contentment. In those five hours, I bonded with best friends and reunited with old friends. Soaking in each other’s presence, we indulged in both the deepest and most nonsensical of topics.

I felt so present. Perhaps Pitchforks is one of the few places where Duke students spend time, purely for the sake of spending time.

The restaurant was just as crowded at 3 a.m. as it had been hours before, but I was exhausted and ready to leave everyone to their Saturday night business.

See you in the morning, Pitch.

PRITZKER FROM PAGE 1 Pritzker: The scion and businessman Pritzker lost his father when he was seven and his mother when he was 17, but his parents’ commitment to engaging in public service stuck with him.

“My father and mother built a very successful motel business that turned into a very successful hotel business,” he said. “I have an amazing family and am very fortunate to have had the opportunities that I’ve had and to have grown up around a group of highly successful people.”

That very successful hotel business, Hyatt, was founded by his uncle Jay Pritzker. J.B. Pritzker’s father, Donald, stepped in to help grow the business into the chain it is today.

Pritzker is an heir to that fortune. With a net worth of $3.2 billion, he is the second-wealthiest American politician ever, only behind former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

His sister Penny—a businesswoman and billionaire—was commerce secretary for President Barack Obama. His brother Anthony was his business partner for 17 years in running a private equity firm until 2017, when Pritzker decided to run for office.

“I’m a businessman for my whole career,” Pritzker said. “I’m an attorney also but I don’t practice law. It’s just my degree and background. I’m a businessman who has built my own business and am very involved in building the technology community here in Illinois.”

He invested in many technology businesses including Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and is the owner of several manufacturing and industrial service companies.

Pritzker helped lead the creation of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center that teaches more than 60,000 students and teachers every year to fight bigotry, hatred, and intolerance.

“I am a Jew who comes from a family that is only alive in this country because they were going to be killed in their home country of Ukraine when Jews were being chased and oppressed and killed,” Pritzker said.

Pritzker has a wife and two teenage kids.

“I’m very fortunate that I married a terrific, amazing woman who is smarter than I am and as committed as I am to the idea that we needed to do public service,” he said.

Moving forward as governor Field organizer Danielle Elliott described Pritzker as charismatic, funny and making a difference using his power and experiences.

An Illinois native, Elliott joined the campaign because she “really wanted to flip that seat” as part of the “blue wave.”

In November’s Illinois governor election, Pritzker beat the Republican incumbent—and fellow wealthy businessman with a self-funded campaign—Bruce Rauner 54 to 39 percent.

Rauner accused Pritzker of dodging property taxes and even included a dramatized reenactment of toilets being removed from Pritzker’s uninhabited mansion in Rauner’s TV ad. Pritzker said that the home was under renovation and “a lot of things were being removed from that home in the process.”

Between a toilet scandal and controversies including two campaign workers being fire for a video that resembled blackface, the Pritzker campaign had a difficult couple months leading up to the election.

Elliott said that amidst all of these scandals, the campaign continued to focus on early childhood education and expanding access to affordable healthcare.

Aside from Pritzker’s other obligations, he joined Duke’s Board of Trustees in 2017 and came to the board meeting in December. He serves on the Resources Committee and the Next Generation Living and Learning Experience Task Force.

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Our childhoods are ruled by borderline obsessions. At least, mine was. Often still indicative of my personality is my all-ornothing approach to my interests. Either I loved something and would express that love at every opportunity, or I had no interest in it at all. I loved ancient Egyptian history, reptiles, hiking, rollerblading and watching television at home with my mom. All of these things I loved fiercely and still do. But some of my former passions have disappeared with age. I no longer have a collection of Polly Pockets hidden in my dorm room or a Tickle-Me Elmo sitting on my bed.

But recently I rediscovered one of my childhood interests, an animated television series “Yu-Gi-Oh!,” based on the Japanese manga series by the same name. In re-watching the show that used to consume so much of my time, I was surprised to find that I can still learn from it, that it still applies to my life today. How much can our childhood interests tell us about ourselves now that we’ve outgrown them?

And, perhaps even more importantly, what do they have left to teach us?

“Yu-Gi-Oh!” first aired in North America in September 2001, though I wouldn’t discover it until 2003. By then, I was a first-grader who had just moved across the country from her small midwestern hometown to Denver, Colorado with her single parent. I had left all sense of familiarity behind — traded amber waves of grain for jagged mountaintops and started anew in a foreign school.

I don’t remember much about my school days: the lessons we learned or even who I befriended as I grew more comfortable in my new environment. What plays instead in my mind like a soundtrack to that year is the “YuGi-Oh!” theme song. Each day after school I had just enough time to make myself a snack of green apple slices and peanut butter before I’d be called to the couch at the song’s first notes. I followed along as Yugi and his friends climbed to the top of the Duel Monsters championship and won enough money for Joey to buy his sister’s sight-saving eye surgery. I collected trading

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cards so that I could duel longtime adversary Seto Kaiba alongside Yugi and his Pharaoh-spirit counterpart, Yami. I memorized each card in Yugi and Yami’s deck, and I sat as an armchair quarterback, coaching Yugi and Yami through their duels.

The show ran for five seasons, all of which I watched with bated breath. But sometime after the series ended, my love and devotion began to fizzle. I soon forgot about the binders of “Yu-GiOh!” Cards I had collected over the years, or the love I carried for Yami. I moved on to the next thing, my next fascination, as young children are wont to do.

It wasn’t until recently that I rediscovered

staff note “Yu-Gi-Oh!” I don’t know what prompted me to seek it out, but suddenly I needed to see it again.

I prepared to scour the internet for some bootleg copies, but I was pleasantly surprised; all five seasons of the original series and several spinoff series are streaming on both Netflix and Hulu.

As I began re-watching the show, I was surprised to find that my love for the characters, my love for Yami, hasn’t died or dwindled. At 22, I feel no different watching than I did at seven. I still find myself telling Yugi which card to play when he’s being bested in a duel. But the series struck me differently on this second watch; I was able to finally grasp what it was all about.

Without my even knowing it, my favorite childhood show had been instilling in me important messages of the power of friendship and self-confidence. Throughout the series, Yugi and Yami are able to win every duel they face not

because they are dueling superheroes, but simply because they believe in the Heart of the Cards and are continually supported by their friends. They believe that the cards in their deck will work with them rather than against them. They know that their friends are cheering for their success. They believe they can win, and so they do. At the root of the show is this message: you can achieve even what seems impossible if you have faith in the universe and faith in yourself.

Like the rest of spring-semester seniors, I’m facing the end of my college career. In a few short months, I will no longer be a Duke student, but a Duke graduate. I will have a million doors open to me, and no idea which one to walk through. The weight of this next step can be crushing. Perhaps now more than ever before — certainly more than in first grade — I needed to hear that my faith in myself and in my choices is what’s important. In re-watching “Yu-Gi-Oh!” I have rediscovered an invaluable piece of advice that this time, has come to me at the exact right moment. It is not that I suddenly know what to do, which route to take, but that I know as long as I believe in myself, the Universe, and can lean on friends and family for support, I cannot possibly fail.

Although the uncertainty of life after graduation can be daunting, I’m learning to be a little more courageous each day. More confident like Yami, more supportive like Joey and Téa, more compassionate like Yugi. And I’m learning that once-important things may still have something to teach me.

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Duke Performances director Aaron Greenwald departs after 12 year tenure

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When Aaron Greenwald first came to Duke, Duke Performances was a newly formed arts organization creating local programming.

Over the next 12 years, he transformed it into a world-class arts presenter.

Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, announced that Aaron Greenwald had resigned via a Facebook post Jan. 10. Eric Oberstein, former associate director of Duke Performances and Trinity ‘07, will now serve as interim director while the office of the vice provost for the arts conducts a nationwide search for the next director.

Greenwald joined Duke Performances as interim director in 2007 and was appointed director in 2008. He decided to step away from Duke Performances after realizing he had achieved all of his goals for the organization, including rethinking its programming structure and creating a collaboration with a world-class arts brand, which manifested in a three-year collaboration with the American Ballet Theater.

“After doing all those things, I felt it was a good time to look for the next challenge,” Greenwald said.

Perhaps the greatest change during Greenwald’s tenure was shifting the programming structure to rely more heavily on Durham venues.

“It coincided, or maybe it was a little ahead of the real renaissance Durham is having right now,” Greenwald said. “I think we’ve been a pioneer in terms of that, and I actually think that’s super uncommon among university-based performing arts presenters.”

Oberstein views this switch as a crucial part of the identity of Duke Performances.

“It has become a part of our brand, and I think it’s something that we’ll continue to do because of how it resonates with the community,” he said. “It allows us to match artists with spaces, whether that’s on campus, or in Durham.”

Oberstein was Greenwald’s first intern, having previously worked for Greenwald’s predecessor Kathy Silbiger.

“From the moment I met him, I knew he had a voracious appetite to learn about all sorts of arts, which made him so wellequipped for the job,” said Oberstein.

He emphasized that the mission of Duke Performances would remain the same, including continuing to present world-class artists on and off campus, engage the Duke community with artists and commission new work.

Greenwald estimated that Duke Performances commissioned 70 new pieces during his tenure, including work from artists with national recognition, such Jason Moran, current Kennedy Center artistic director for jazz.

“We’re part of a field that supports world class artists in making their word,” Greenwald said. Commissioning new work is a much more involved process than paying an artist a fee to perform, letting arts organizations participate more directly in the creative process.

For the last five years, Duke Performances has been averaging around a hundred performances a year, including local and national acts in a variety of venues.

“We’ve been an additive creative force, not just for Duke, not just for Durham, but for the region,” he said.

Greenwald fondly remembers “Monk@100” in 2017 as one of his favorite performances during his tenure. The 10day event at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the birthday of jazz icon and North Carolina native Thelonious Monk garnered enough attention to merit a New York Times article, he said proudly.

“That was successful beyond my wildest dreams in terms of the quality of the work, the execution and the reception,” he said.

Greenwald has also worked to increase student engagement in the arts, creating vertical artist residencies, where artists visit classes and perform through Duke

Special to The Chronicle Aaron Greenwald was appointed director of Duke Performances in 2008 and resigned Jan. 10.

Performances. He said the arts organization has gone from selling 3,000 student tickets a year to a consistently selling over 8,000 student tickets a year.

In Greenwald’s 12 years, Duke has made a bigger commitment to the arts, most notably in the construction of the new Rubenstein Arts Center. But rather than these new resources being an end result, Greenwald views them as a stepping stone to a new chapter of the arts at Duke.

“I think that the Duke arts community is more robust and has more resources than ever,” he said. “But part of what comes with that is figuring out what all that means.”

The next step is to learn how to use the new resources to step up the Duke arts scene, necessitating input from Duke administration, students and Durham community members.

Lindroth said he now plans to restructure Duke Performances to be more in line with other performing arts presenters. The arts organization is current led by one director, but Lindroth plans to split the job into two positions — a managing director and an artistic director. Both positions would report directly to the vice provost of the arts.

Oberstein said he would speak with Lindroth and senior Duke administrators

to discuss possibilities for him and the organization moving forward, but that no decisions had been made yet.

“I hope Eric will be able to stay with Duke Performances, perhaps as managing director going forward,” Lindroth said. “I think he would be an excellent managing director for Duke Performances, but that’s a conversation we’d still need to have.” He said he would like to find a new artistic director by July 1.

Lindroth is set to step down in 2020, and Vincent Price has convened a arts planning committee to determine how the office should be organized going forward. The committee plans to take into account recent developments in the arts on and off campus.

“We are committed to continuing to support Duke Performances and to keep it as a vibrant participant in the arts scene on campus and in Durham,” Lindroth said.

Greenwald does not know where he will be next, but he is searching for a place to put his talents to use.

“I am actively trying to figure out what the next big opportunity is,” he said. “I really believe that art can impact communities and I really believe in the power of world-class performance.”

Nasher symposium focuses on technology’s impact on art history

By Kerry Rork Staff Writer

The 21st century technological evolution has promoted visualization and digitization for historical representation. As more materials become available to the public, the possibilities and opportunities for increasingly comprehensive research have grown, as evidenced by a recent Nasher event.

On Jan. 17 and 18, the Nasher, in collaboration with the Wired! Lab for Digital Art History and Visual Culture, held a symposium and workshop entitled “Visualization and the Holocaust.” Event organizers hoped to add to previous generations of scholarship with a technological emphasis to further explore and understand these moments in history.

“From the synagogue to the street, from the ghetto to the camp, from sites of liberation to the courtroom, the Holocaust and its history have occurred in spaces of so great a number that only digital methods are capable of analyzing them in all of their complexity,” said Paul Jaskot, professor of German art and architectural history and Wired! Lab director.

Jaskot’s studies have contributed substantial scholarly work to art history and to this growing visualization field, namely in books like “Geographies of The Holocaust” with Anne Knowles and “The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right.” At the symposium, he presented some of his scholarly work and discussed future possibilities for research.

His initial interest in the topic of visualization and art history originated from this early work,

particularly “The Geographies of the Holocaust.” “[The book] stems from the initial gathering of historians and art historians interested in the space of the Holocaust as well as scholars who use GIS on non-Holocaust topics put together by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in summer 2007,” he said.

With an increased availability and digitization of Holocaust records, scholars have been able to develop a deeper understanding of this historical significant time period and its lasting impacts. Jaskot said that the digital tools provide an exciting opportunity to extend questions and analyze evidence in new ways.

One of the interdisciplinary groups studying this time period, the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, hopes to use the new access to data to examine the Holocaust from a geographic perspective with the use of maps and geo-visual methods, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Jaskot has worked with this interdisciplinary group for over a decade, studying the politics involved in buildings and environments, particularly the architecture of the National Socialist Germany.

Jaskot became involved with the foundations of the symposium and workshop because of his extensive work through the Wired! Lab, a research group who contributes to art history and visual studies,on the environment of Krakow during Nazi occupation in World War II. To prepare, those involved spent a year discussing their ideas for the symposium and workshop with the Mandel Center at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in addition to

local co-sponsors.

The scholars leading the symposium and workshop wanted to create a conversation between academics on the future of visualization in fields like art history and on a variety of mapping methods, particularly as they can be used to understand time periods of mass human oppression through a new lens.

But the worked accomplished at the symposium is not done yet. A number of questions were left unsolved, including what new insights can computational approaches yield, and what digital methods can integrate large volumes of diverse historical evidence traditionally only used in locally focused case studies.

The first day consisted of a public symposium of both Holocaust and nonHolocaust scholars discussing these changing fields, and the second day was a closed workshop with conference participants discussing the future of these methods.

“In this sense, every panel is comparative, with both a Holocaust and non-Holocaust scholar engaging in a dialogue about how visualization helps us understand the complex history of human atrocities,” Jaskot said.

In discussing the future of these projects, Jaskot said, “the collaborative will continue its work on analyzing the ghetto system, of which my work on Krakow is a part.”

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Nasher and the Wired! Lab hosted the “Visualization and the Holocaust: A Symposium” Jan. 17 and 18.

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Cheney biopic ‘Vice’ wastes stellar work from Christian Bale

By Jack Rubenstein Staff Writer

Everyone on “Vice”’s marketing team deserves a raise. I could not wait to see the movie, mostly due to a stellar trailer that focuses on the conversation where George W. Bush asks Dick Cheney to be his Vice President. The scene is tense and captivating, but nothing else in the movie comes close to echoing its greatness. I expected the film to focus on Cheney’s time in Bush’s administration, but it instead focuses on the totality of Cheney’s life, with mixed results.

The movie’s main issue is that it does not know what it wants to be. Director Adam McKay tries to mimic the tone of his previous movie “The Big Short,” a movie that deftly straddled the line between comedy and drama. The film was witty and satirical while still managing to passionately skewer the banking industry for the 2008 recession. It overflowed with directorial style with cut away scenes explaining complex financial topics and characters speaking directly to the camera. “Vice” tries to follow a similar formula but struggles to do so, as comedic moments distract from the story and the dramatic ones fail to resonate. Tonally, it is all over the place. McKay alternates between a satirical feel and a by-the-numbers biopic, and this lack of narrative direction ultimately sinks the film.

“Vice,” like many other movies based on true stories, struggles to accurately depict its subjects. It over-dramatizes George W. Bush’s incompetence to almost offensive levels. Sam Rockwell’s portrayal of Bush, while frequently amusing, is wholly inaccurate with regards to his involvement and influence over important policy decisions in his White House. The film paints Cheney as the true man in charge, controlling every important decision of the Bush White House, which is simply untrue. Cheney

played an instrumental role in this White House, of course, but the way Bush is portrayed in this movie is actually counter-productive, since it abdicates his responsibility for some of the worst policy decisions of the 21st century.

Sam Rockwell may have missed the mark in his depiction of Bush, but there were some truly outstanding performances in this movie.

Christian Bale as Cheney is cold, calculated and heartless, all while infusing all of the nuance necessary for a character study of this complex figure. Bale, known for his commitment to weight gain and loss for roles, put on over 40 pounds for this role. This transformation, coupled with the fantastic work by the makeup artists on set, made Bale almost indistinguishable from Cheney himself, which only amplifies the effectiveness of Bale’s performance. “Vice” may not deserve any accolades, but Bale certainly deserved his recent Golden Globe win for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Bale also secured an Oscar nomination for his role, and the film overall received six Golden Globe wins and eight Oscar nominations.

Steve Carell shines as secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. He haunts every scene he is in, generating fear from subordinates in the film and the audience using his wicked sense of humor and power hungry attitude. In addition, Amy Adams plays Lynne Cheney, Dick’s wife, and she turns in a great performance, as usual, though her character has limited screen-time and is only given few moments to shine.

Unlike “The Big Short”, McKay has nothing to add to the conversation about American politics. He opts for a shaky by-the-numbers biopic that does not raise any new or interesting questions about Cheney. The movie has interesting moments, simply because Cheney’s life and time in government is so intriguing. But it fails to capitalize on its subject matter, leading to a disappointing film overall.

Photo Courtesy of Youtube The Dick Cheney biopic “Vice” was released Dec. 25 and garnered eight Academy Award nominations.

James Blake’s ‘Assume Form’ ponders complexities of human connection

By Aaron Paskin Contributing Writer

On “Assume Form,” James Blake’s fourth studio album, the London genre-bender is enamored and overwhelmed by the many facets of human connection. An immediately accessible approach to pondering such an abstract area would be to ground it in something tangible, be it technology or simply the physical sensation of touch. But James Blake is an intuitive personality type: He perceives information from within rather than from the outside world. So instead, he is most inclined to look inward for answers to the age-old questions of human connection, and these internal reflections on external behavior

couldn’t have found a better home than Blake’s already nebulous and wintry music.

Each song here is an intricately layered piece of musical poetry, with consistently wise production decisions, resonant imagery and tasteful features all serving each other to deliver purposeful messages. The opener and title track of “Assume Form” is haunting in its hazy and out-of-time piano riffs and strings, which aptly reflect Blake’s desire to get out of his own head and assume a “touchable” and “reachable” form. The songs that follow show Blake pondering different aspects of human connection in an only sometimes successful attempt to pull himself out of his feelings of absence and depression.

On the Metro Boomin-produced “Mile

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons James Blake, who just released his fourth studio album “Assume Form,” performs at the Melt! Festival in 2013.

High” and “Tell Them,” Blake twists the sexually boastful nature of modern hip hop and trap to emphasize the fear of connection evidenced by, say, a one-night stand. Metro and Blake work masterfully together to create deeply unsettling atmospheres while Travis Scott and Moses Sumney complement Blake’s melodies seamlessly.

Later on the explicitly titled “Where’s the Catch?” Blake enlists Andre 3000, who is himself no stranger to depression and anxiety, to help him reflect on the consuming doubt he feels when a relationship is too good to be true. Andre 3000’s word play here is otherworldly (listen for “pessimistic” in the verse “all my pets are mystic, keeps me in a cage”), and Blake’s voice takes on numerous forms in the outro, each shifted to a different pitch to create an overwhelmingly dark sensation of paranoia.

Elsewhere, James Blake is simply enamored by his love interest’s ability to connect with him in ways that he struggles to return. He’s presumably referring to his current girlfriend, actress Jameela Jamil, whom he claims is the “reason this album exists,” but these songs speak to fundamental social and romantic truths. On album highlight “Barefoot In The Park,” Blake and 2018’s breakout star ROSALÍA wonder at the liberating quality of a new love. Their voices alternate with ease, and when they sing together in the choruses the result is one of the most beautiful collaborations in recent memory.

Meanwhile, “Into The Red” describes how Blake’s partner unhesitatingly sacrifices “everything that she had left” to help him. “I’ll Come Too,” on the other hand, depicts Blake awkwardly struggling to return the favor by dreamily following her wherever she goes. He’s similarly caught in a dream on the glitchy “Can’t Believe The Way We Flow,”

further portraying his wonder at the chemistry of his relationship.

“Assume Form” builds up to its mission statement in lead single “Don’t Miss It.” The track collects all of the record’s ideas into five haunting minutes, opening with James Blake’s biggest fear: “If I give everything, I’ll lose everything.” His voice then morphs into a demonic caricature of his depression, declaring “everything is about me, I am the most important thing.” Blake proceeds to bluntly list the ways he could continue to let his depression keep him from developing relationships. He “could switch off whenever” he likes, even though he knows he needs to “Power On” to maintain his own relationship.

He “could sleep whenever” he likes, even though he understands on “Lullaby For My Insomniac” that he needs to sacrifice things like sleep to return his partner’s dedication.

Blake emphasizes here that happiness and human connection require effort and leaving his comfort zone, and at last, he’s once again in awe of how lucky he is to “hang out with [his] favorite person every day.” After years of losing opportunities for personal relationships to his depression, love pulled him out of his own head. Underscored by raw piano and staticky production, this lead single leaves us with the record’s most important message: “Don’t miss it like I did.”

James Blake’s fourth album is not nearly as musically groundbreaking as his self-titled debut, but in trading experimentalism for clarity, the singer-songwriter has provided just enough accessibility to let us into his head.

With its brooding production and brutally honest lyrics serving each other, “Assume Form” is a stunningly resonant commentary on human connection from the perspective of a typically self-isolating introvert.

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Oscars 2019: ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ lead among predictable contenders

By Sydny Long Student Life Editor

This awards season has been an excruciating roller coaster ride, zigging past worthwhile contenders in favor of zagging into Bryan Singer’s trophy shelf. If the Golden Globes marks the start of a slow climb up the hill of anticipation, the announcement of the Academy Awards nominees marks the summit.

This peak, reached this morning, punctured all those weeks of cautious excitement and sent the riders down an anticlimactic slope of mediocrity and unsurprising snubs.

We can’t be blamed for having hope. In a year of genre standouts — from the action thriller “Widows” to the horrifying smash hit “Hereditary” — there were thinkpieces aplenty about the potential for an awards ceremony that would honor more than just dramas and biopics. Looking at the crushingly bland contenders set to clinch nominations, one couldn’t help praying that maybe the academy would look beyond the usual suspects and honor some more unconventional performances and films. Could Toni Collette earn a nomination for her unforgettable role in

“Hereditary”? Would Bo Burnham’s excellent cringe-comedy “Eighth Grade” be recognized for its perfect depiction of middle school drudgery? Was there a chance — any chance at all — of a woman earning a Best Director nomination?

Of course not. A computer that had been fed the outcomes of this year’s lesser award shows could have predicted this roster and saved poor announcers Kumail Nanjiani and Tracie Ellis Ross an early morning. Perhaps the only surprise is that Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Favourite” are the scoreboard leaders with 10 nominations apiece, edging out “A Star is Born” and “Vice”, which pulled in a still impressive eight nods each. These four films are also up for Best Picture, along with “Black Panther”, “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Green Book.” Most notably left out of this coveted category is Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk”, his highly praised follow-up to 2017 Best Picture winner “Moonlight.”

The rest of the categories are largely a jumble of these eight films, a depressingly homogenous docket. What exceptions there

are fail to surprise: Melissa McCarthy’s performance in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is up for a Best Actress award, which should shock no one familiar with the extensive praise she received for this dramatic role, and Willem Dafoe’s turn as Vincent Van Gogh in “At Eternity’s Gate” will likely see an award as the Academy tries to rectify its horrifying snubbing of his work in “The Florida Project”. Some might consider “Black Panther”’s Best Picture nomination a bombshell, but with the stupefying amount of acclaim and cultural clout the movie earned virtually overnight — as well as the Academy’s past failures to honor superhero films such as “The Dark Knight Rises” — there was little question about its fate.

The narrow field of films competing is especially depressing given how many sincerely excellent movies were released this year. In addition to the exclusion of “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Damien Chazelle’s efficient Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” Ethan Hawke’s performance in “First Reformed” and the previously mentioned “Eighth Grade” more than earned a place on this list. The nominations feel safe,

striving to satisfy audiences who thought a 10-minute reenactment of Queen’s “Live Aid” performance stapled to the end of a crushingly boring biopic and the movie “Green Book,” in which structural racism was vanquished by good ol’ Frank Vallelonga and his thickas-pastrami Jersey accent were the cinematic highlights of a stacked year.

This list seems rather fitting for an Academy Awards ceremony that likely won’t have a host. In fact, the computer that generated these nominees could just take over and distribute the awards in 10 minutes, saving everyone the posturing and pageantry of sitting through three hours of fangless sketches about “Oscars So White!” performed by guilty white celebrities and Lady Gaga performances just to watch “Green Book” take the award for Best Picture.

The Academy Awards are nothing if not predictable: One can only hope that another “La La Land”/”Moonlight” debacle occurs and makes this year’s ceremony at all worth remembering. Otherwise, this will be yet another thrill-less drop in the roller coaster before the cart rolls back into the station to recharge for future award seasons.

“A Star is Born”

“Minding the Gap” “Roma”

“The Favourite”

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Bertolt Brecht and reading my way through post-Cold War Germany

By Joel Kohen Staff Writer

When my parents moved to East Germany in the 1990s, Stalinist memorabilia still adorned many corners and offices. “Real socialism” had broken down a few years prior, but the bleak relicts of empty houses, gray skies and scarce infrastructure still made it a rather unwelcoming place. My parents probably did not pay too much heed, then, when they enrolled me at a school named after writer Bertolt Brecht, who had once been persecuted for “un-American activities” under Joe McCarthy. Neither did I, as it was simply the only school in the area. So I began my schooling walking past the bust of a Socialist icon without even noticing.

For my first few years there, I cared little for Brecht’s writing, as I preferred to spend my time with comic books and action figures.

It wasn’t until I was 14 that I developed into a restless reader of prose. At first, I plowed through random books I ordered off of Amazon with my allowance, but soon my appetite exceeded my resources and I decided to venture into the sparsely-frequented library my tiny, postSocialist town had to offer. Our library, another artifact from the times of German division, carried little to no Western authors. Instead, its shelves were filled with the classics of Socialist realism: Maxim Gorki, Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Johannes R. Becher, Bruno Apitz and many more. Alas, their earnest stories of suffering, loyalty and proletarian work ethos didn’t appeal much to the short attention span my teenage self had to offer, so I flipped through their pages, yawning with growing disinterest.

One Friday afternoon, however, I emerged from the library with a slim, red volume in hand and quickly retreated to my room. Its arcane

title, “Bertolt Brecht’s Domestic Breviary,” had caught my eye and at least seemed to promise something more jovial than the East German classics I usually read. The late cultural critic Mark Fisher once asked: “Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records and films have between the ages of 14 and 17?” and I like to think that no, nothing might ever speak to me so cogently as the “Domestic Breviary” did that afternoon. The collection of ballads, songs and sonnets was unlike anything I had read until that point, so effortlessly witty, tongue-in-cheek, and yet hopelessly melancholic at times.

Contrary to common belief, German does lend itself quite well to poetry; the author just has to resist the temptation of overly complex vocabulary and syntax. Although this tendency has at times marred some classic writers like Rainer Maria Rilke or Paul Celan, the poetry of Brecht carries with it a disdain for all things vain and convoluted.

In “Reminiscence of Marie A.” he writes plainly: “And yet I know what you are trying to say / But what her face was like, I know no longer / I only know I kissed it on that day.”

From that afternoon on, Brecht provided the literary backdrop to my dreamy, awkward teenage angst. His “Three-Penny Opera” was the first play I ever saw on stage, and it also happened to be the first time that I genuinely disliked a play’s adaptation. My prom night, I anxiously quoted Brecht, hoping to impress my date while waiting to get our photo taken (my attempt was hardly successful, as I now know).

I left East Germany when I was 18, first settling in Berlin and then coming to Duke. “In the grey light before morning the pine trees piss / And the vermin, the birds, raise their twitter and cheep / At that hour in the city I drain my glass, then

throw / The cigar butt away and worriedly go to sleep,” Brecht writes in “Of poor B.B.,” echoing the distance between the quiet yet painfully boring life in the countryside and the suffocating rush of the city. Brecht himself was forced into exile by the Nazis, fleeing to France, Denmark, Finland and the Soviet Union before relocating to Los Angeles in 1941. More than anything, he was a figure that symbolized the first half of the 20th century in its historical entirety: the roaring parties of the 1920s Weimar Republic, the displacement and existential fear suffered under the Nazis, and lastly, the continent’s long separation under the Iron Curtain.

Brecht’s books continued to stick with me as I got older. My high school required students to submit

a thesis before they graduate, and I chose to write mine on Brecht’s contemporary, Max Frisch, whose dramatic philosophy I compared to Brecht’s.

Being in college has certainly altered my reading habits and I now happily inhabit the fourth floor of Perkins rather than the postSocialist village library of my hometown. And yet, I might not be where I am without its velvet red Brecht edition that once began my journey into literary studies. Even as I write this article, there looms above me a reflection paper on Brecht’s “Mahagonny” that I have procrastinated successfully for the last few hours. Most likely this isn’t the last thing I’ll write on Brecht, but in retrospect, Brecht’s influence has rarely let me down.

Alexandra Bateman | Design Editor 20th-century German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht is well known for his play “Life of Galileo.”

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Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett lead Duke football will Duke in road test against Pittsburgh be fine with Quentin Harris

By Conner McLeod Blue Zone Editor

PITTSBURGH—Jeff Capel might have recruited freshmen Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett, but his team couldn’t stop them Tuesday night.

No. 2 Duke easily defeated Pittsburgh 7964 at the Petersen Events Center. Capel clearly improved the outlook of the Panther program from a dismal 2017-18 season, but his team was outmatched by the talented roster he helped compose as an assistant for the Blue Devils before accepting the job in Pittsburgh. Barrett and Williamson combined for 51 points as the freshmen silenced a raucous crowd in the opening minutes.

“We beat a good team tonight and a crowd that was ready,” head DUKE 79 coach Mike Krzyzewski 64 said. “What a great PITT atmosphere that is back at Pitt. [Capel’s] team plays so darn hard, and they were ready for us.”

On Duke’s first possession, Barrett set the tone with a strong drive to the basket to give his team the first points of the game. Without freshman point guard Tre Jones for the second full game in a row, Barrett took on more of a playmaking role than usual, and although his final statline didn’t show it, with only three assists, his ball movement and ball security against the zone helped Duke (16-2, 5-1 in the ACC) put the Panthers away.

The Pittsburgh offense initially provided problems for the Blue Devils, as freshman guard Trey McGowens attacked the lane again

from the field.

“What they lack in depth and experience,

Look, it never feels good to say goodbye to one of the most talented players in school history. With Daniel Jones declaring for the NFL Draft, Duke loses its three-year starting quarterback, who projects to be the Blue Devils’ highest-drafted player in more than three decades.

It is only natural to expect the worst from Jones’ replacement—a program like Duke rarely gets somebody with the physical tools that he possesses, plus how could somebody be as handsome as Jones?

Yet, although he may not be able to replicate the success of his predecessor, the Blue Devils should be just fine with Quentin Harris at the helm next season.

Harris, who will be a redshirt senior if and when he slides into the starting quarterback role this fall, has accumulated significant experience in his time as a backup. The Milton, Conn., native, served as Duke’s primary signal-caller while Jones was sidelined with a broken clavicle last September, which

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Zion Williamson contributed 25 points and seven rebounds in Duke’s road victory against Pittsburgh. and again, forcing multiple switches in Duke’s man-to-man defense. McGowens led his team in points with 14 points on 7-of-14 shooting

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Blue Devils set for home opener against Elon

By Ben Feder Associate Editor

At this point in the season, every match represents an opportunity to build the foundations toward something greater.

Coming off a victory against then-No. 9 Oklahoma State in the Bahamas, the fourthranked Blue Devils are looking to work on just that. With two freshmen—including one of the best in the nation in singles play Elon in Maria Mateas— vs. joining the mix for Duke a team that reached the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament last WEDNESDAY, 3:00 p.m.

Sheffield Indoor Tennis season, Duke is hoping Center to iron out its rotation, specifically in doubles play.

After an 11-day break since their trip abroad, the Blue Devils will welcome Elon for their first home match of the season Wednesday at

3 p.m. at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Duke is looking to continue its recent success against the Phoenix, overwhelming them the past few seasons with three straight 7-0 shutouts.

“It shouldn’t matter who’s on the other side of the court, whether it’s Elon or a team that’s ranked No. 1 in the country,” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We have to play to a certain standard for us to achieve what we want to achieve, and that’s really what our focus has been about.”

Against the Cowgirls, Ashworth opted to start the freshman duo of Mateas and Margaryta Bilokin against the 18th-ranked doubles team in the nation, throwing them into the fire instead of seniors Ellyse Hamlin and Kaitlyn McCarthy, who finished last season as one of the best duos in the country.

Bilokin and Mateas toughed out their first match together in a 6-4 victory, a promising sign moving forward for Duke (1-0).

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Former Duke assistant coach Jeff Capel leads Pittsburgh in right direction

By Michael Model Sports Editor

When the Blue Devils last came to Pittsburgh—Jan. 10, 2018—it was evident the home team was in dire straits.

The Petersen Events Center was barely twothirds full with a half pro-Duke crowd as fans watched the seventh-ranked Blue Devils open up a 26-point halftime advantage without role players Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier.

Pittsburgh would fall to 0-4 in the ACC, en route to a dismal 0-18 conference ledger just shortly after a run of 13 NCAA tournament appearances in 16 seasons from 2002-2016.

A little more than a year later, the matchup would have a totally different feel—the result of the beginnings of a turnaround from firstyear head coach and former Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel.

“He knows it’s a day-to-day fight no matter what level if you want to be really good, so I think you all are lucky to have him. He’s lucky to be here because Pitt had a great brand that needed to be reignited, and he’s done that, but he also has added his stuff to go with the past, and I think he’s added the city more,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said to the local media. “He’s always been a big Pittsburgh fan.

He loves Pittsburgh. He loves it now, but he’s always loved it, so this is a great situation for all of you I think and for the ACC because they’ll be a force to be reckoned with and they’ll be a tough out, especially at home.”

The program change was evident from the onset as the Oakland Zoo—Pittsburgh’s famed student section—had every seat filled more than 90 minutes before tipoff. Boos from students taunting the Duke’s young phenoms R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson rained down an hour before tipoff. And by the time players were announced, every seat in the building

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 11 amounted to nine quarters of action against Northwestern, Baylor and N.C. Central.

When Harris took over for Jones, concerns loomed about whether or not he would be capable of running an offense— he had attempted just 13 passes before the Northwestern game, and primarily seen action only as a runner in shortyardage situations.

In Harris’ first significant game action, his performance was not particularly impressive, but it didn’t need to be. When Jones exited with his injury in the waning moments of the third quarter, all Harris needed to do was control possession and help the Blue Devils hang on to their 21-7 lead against the eventual Big Ten West champions, which he did. Although the 6-foot-1 field general did not lead any scoring drives, he showed flashes of his abilities, including a 25-yard scamper on third-and-8 that prevented Northwestern from receiving favorable field position.

My real reason for optimism comes from what Harris did against Baylor the following week. In his first career college start, Harris led a Duke offensive onslaught that resulted in a 23-0 lead at the half for the Blue Devils against their Big 12

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Jeff Capel has spent years as a Blue Devil, wearing a Duke jersey in the late ‘90s and staying as an assistant coach for seven years under Mike Krzyzewski.

excitement in the building. With Duke leading 11-6 early the Panthers fought back to tie the game early. A triple from Jared Wilson-Frame knotted the contest at 11 in the opening minutes and ignited the raucous crowd.

While Pittsburgh could not match Duke’s athleticism, the fight was there throughout the contest. Even with the Blue Devils leading by 20 after the break, the Panthers would not back down, showing a gritty spirit to cut the lead to 15. Pittsburgh has already shown significant strides this season especially after the emergence of four-star guard Xavier Johnson, whose strong play helped lead the Panthers to home wins against Louisville and Florida State.

“I’ve watched all their conference games in preparation for this game, and one of the key things is they’re together,” Krzyzewski said. “He and his staff have done a great job of building great camaraderie and belief in one another, so they play as one. They play as one and they go to their strengths.”

The relationship between the coaches was not a distraction throughout the contest, but the coaches admitted emotions were plentiful before and afterwards. Capel and Krzyzewski have become extremely close over the years with Capel spending four years playing under Coach K in the 1990s and another seven on his bench in the 2010s.

Capel was also known for his strong recruiting abilities and played a big role in helping Duke become a one-and-done powerhouse. Despite leaving before their arrival, Capel has a strong relationship with the freshmen that took down his Panther squad Tuesday, recruiting them last season and convincing them to take their talents to Durham.

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was filled. Even Jay-Z wanted in on the action, sitting courtside for the matchup.

“Yeah it was different, I mean yeah. It’s my alma mater, it’s a place that I love, it’s people that I love on that bench. It’s a coach that means the world to me. It’s a man that means the world to me,” Capel said of facing Duke.

“So that was very weird, walking out of that tunnel, and watching that team warm up, that I wore the jersey, and all those kids, I know em, for that Duke team. Once you tip it off, that’s competition. But it was surreal a little bit.”

On the court Capel’s team reflected the

opponent. For the first time in his college career, it was not Harris’ legs that stole the show, although he ran for 83 yards—the Taft School product threw for three touchdowns without turning the ball over, including a 66-yard touchdown pass to Johnathan Lloyd that was an absolute dime.

Despite his clear moments of brilliance, Harris did only complete 12 of his 30 pass attempts in that contest against the Bears, struggling to connect on his shorter reads.

Maybe this is being overly optimistic, but I do not anticipate that the issues with accuracy stop Harris from being an effective option behind center for Duke head coach David Cutcliffe. Harris has a solid deep ball, is quick on his feet and is highly effective near the goal line, where Cutcliffe frequently utilized him even when Jones was healthy.

In terms of intangibles, Harris seems to truly have what it takes to be a leader for the Blue Devils this fall. When I have had the chance to speak to Duke’s likely 2019 starting quarterback, I have been absolutely astounded with his football knowledge and energy. If my brief interactions with Harris are any indication, the Blue Devil offense should have a strong leader at the helm in the fall.

With a decades-long history of disappointment and futility, it’s certainly easy to lose faith in Duke football. Just don’t let Quentin Harris be your reason for doing so.

Although Quentin Harris has not seen the same meteoric success as Daniel Jones as Duke’s starting quarterback, the redshirt junior has been solid under center this season.

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throw line.”

Jack White all had at least five rebounds to With Duke leading by 22 points at the cap off defensive stops and give their team end of the second half, Pittsburgh made a 18 second chance points on the offensive small run to try and get back into the game, side of the ball. but to no avail.

After the win, the Blue Devils will travel No Panther had enough size, speed or back home to Durham and face Georgia Tech athleticism to keep up with Williamson, as Saturday afternoon. he bullied his way to the rim time and time again, not missing a shot in the first half and finishing with 25 overall on 11-of-13 shooting.

With multiple and-ones and a stepback FROM PAGE 12 3-pointer, Williamson put his already wellknown talent on display. Was it the energy acquire that type of talent at Pittsburgh and from Duke’s game against Virginia carrying hopes that he can return the program to the Big over to tonight’s contest, or was it the fact that East powerhouse it was during the Jamie Dixon Jay-Z—the rapper Williamson chose to walk era of the 2000s. out to at Countdown to Craziness—sat front “I want to get outstanding players that want row? Regardless of the answer, Williamson’s to be a part of what we want to do, what we’re performance played a big part in Duke’s building and be a part of this university and dismantling of Pittsburgh. a part of this community and a part of this “Quote me on this, Jay Z is my favorite program,” Capel said. “I knew it when I took it. rapper,” Williamson said. “I listen to Jay Z I’ve been fortunate in my head coaching career before every game.” before where I’ve had outstanding players…. I Another factor that propelled the Blue don’t have any doubt that we’ll be able to attract Devils past the Panthers was the fact that that type of talent here.” they shot the ball slightly better beyond Despite the emotions of facing a former the arc. Duke followed up an abysmal 14.3 player, Krzyzewski is not new to having his percent 3-point shooting against Virginia players go on to take the helm elsewhere. After with an 7-of-23 showing against Pittsburgh. his departure Capel is now one of six former Freshman Cam Reddish had a pretty good Blue Devils coaching in Division-I. outing from downtown against the Panthers, And, while he wants his former players making 3-of-10 shot attempts from long to have success and build their respective range. The Norristown, Pa. native also programs, getting a win for his team is still at played well in other aspects of the game, the forefront of Krzyzewki’s mind. finishing with six rebounds, four assists and “It was tough before and now it’s tough after three turnovers. because one of us lost, but I’d still rather have Duke dominated the painted area, him lose,” Krzyzewski said. “I love him, but I outrebounding Pittsburgh 39-34 and love us a little bit more. I know that’s a selfish seven blocks with junior Marques Bolden’s kind of love I guess. Unless you love yourself, The New York Times Syndication four rejections and nine boards leadingSales you Corporation can’t love anyone else, let me put it that 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 the way. Williamson, Reddish and junior way.

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“I want to see how we are as a team. One of our goals is not just in wins and losses, but to be the best team in the true sense of the word.

It’ll be exciting to see where we are as a team as far as supporting each other and playing for each other. It’s all stuff that we’ve talked about, but now it’s time to put it into play.”

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If they can evolve into one of the Blue Devils’ strongest pairings, they will be tough to best for the doubles’ point and form a strong 1-2 punch with Hamlin and McCarthy.

“Margaryta and I really fit together. Our game styles are really good, and we’ve been getting along as well,” Mateas said. “It’s nice that we’re both freshmen, so we’re kind of going through the same motions.”

In singles, the freshmen experienced different outcomes as they continue to adjust to the dual-match style of play, where players often transition from a doubles match directly FROM PAGE 11 into singles. While Mateas had little difficulty dismantling her opponent on Court 1, Bilokin they make up for in grit, togetherness and had trouble with one of the better singles really tough play,” Krzyzewski said. “Every player in the country in No. 40 Marina Guinart, game I watched them in, they played hard the dropping her match in straight sets. whole time, and that’s what I would expect Almost certainly, the two talented first- from [Capel’s] team.” year players will experience their ups and Johnson kept his team in the game early, as downs this season. the Panthers (12-7, 2-4) battled to force four And Ashworth is confident that with each lead changes and two ties in the first half. match, Mateas and Bilokin will grow and Without Jones’ excellent man defense, become more prepared to handle adversity Duke found it difficult to stop McGowens’ later in the season, especially with teammates drives until Krzyzewski switched to a high boasting tons of experience after last year’s 2-3 zone about midway through the first half. impressive turnout.

This defensive adjustment stifled Pittsburgh’s “The more comfortable they can get in a offensive game plan, as McGowens and fellow team setting long term, the better we’ll be. It’s a guard Xavier Johnson no longer had free different mentality, a different kind of pressure range to attack the paint as much as they when you’re playing for not just yourself— would have liked. Soon after, Duke went on when you’re playing for 10 other people and a a 29-9 run to turn what looked to be a close, program, a school, that kind of stuff,” Ashworth back-and-forth game into a 19-point blowout said. “The more opportunities they have to by the end of the first half. perform with that kind of pressure on them, “With [Tre Jones] out, we’re a different long term will be better for us.” team, so I thought the zone was good,” After Elon (2-2), Duke jumps into a hectic Krzyzewski said. “The best thing for us, it string of weeks concluded by the ITA Team kept McGowens and Johnson off the free-

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s it does every year, January brings with it the usual seven-minute C1 conversations: discussions about experiences while studying abroad, arguments over every part of the rush process, surface-level complaints about Duke’s destructive academic culture. And finally, exasperated sighs of how awful it is to sleep in an unheated tent for six weeks in anticipation of one basketball game inside Cameron in late February. These topics help to make easy small talk with acquaintances that for a short time we can consider friendly, but scratching at the surface of these experiences avoids a deeper analysis of these events.

Amidst all this small-talk of potentially winning a sixth nation title, campus seems to have glossed over problems that plague our basketball program and athletics as a whole.

There are numerous issues related to the existence of sports on college campuses. These include the advantages student-athletes for sports played by wealthier people receive in the admissions process, the negative health consequences that plague players of contact sports like football and the way that the NCAA protects athletes who are perpetrators of sexual assault. However, the most pertinent issues surrounding our obsession with sports and athletes involve how athletics at Duke and schools like is uses the free labor of revenue-generating

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student athletes, particularly those of color, for the onesided benefit of the University.

In 2017 alone, Duke Basketball recorded revenues of $34,398,285, up 10 percent from the year before.

By comparison, the program’s expenses were only $3,142,715. Duke men’s basketball made over $31 million dollars in profit in 2017, and yet NCAA rules make it impossible for student athletes to profit at all from their own accomplishments and image, cheating them

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of compensation many see them entitled to while the schools themselves rake in huge profits. However, the effects of the profit motivations of sports for schools do not stop at money itself. When students are brought to a school like Duke for the purpose of the University’s financial gain, they cease to exist as students and individuals and instead become commodities. The injury of a basketball player raises concern, not out of the pain that the player is in or how that injury impacts the rest of their daily life, but of how that player’s injury affects Duke’s chances of winning a game. Our campus values its student-athletes, particularly those of color and those in revenue-generating sports, not as people but mainly for the entertainment that they bring.

The effect of this commodification of our students is also the perpetuation of stereotypes that follow athletes, both revenue and non-revenue generating. Why is it that supposedly easy courses have labels like “Rocks for Jocks” or that student athletes are told by advisors to opt for classes and majors that may be less “time-

consuming”? By defining student athletes solely by their athletic merit, Duke is complicit in patterns that lead to athletes, especially black athletes, being disgustingly characterized as “physically gifted and intellectually stunted” or that lead to fans vilifying and jeering at athletes for not living up to expectations.

However, these problems by no means start and end with college athletics. Because sports like basketball require a year in college before becoming professional, athletes for those sports are treated differently by the university. There are larger systems in place that allow for the exploitation of these students. All of this is also not to say that being an athlete and performing at a collegiate level does not have its benefits. Access to athletic scholarships provides a means for students to be able afford an otherwise extremely costly education. The provided community of teammates and pure passion for the sport itself are obvious reasons for one to pursue athletics at school, but this does not mean that universities are absolved of treating those students as students first.

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 studentathletes, they are still students at this University.

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hen I first read my fellow columnist and co-worker, Lizzie Bond’s, latest column, my gut reaction was to issue a quick fortification of my previous case for Selective Living Groups—”A greater defense for SLGs” if you will. After reading her column, and trying to see Duke social life through her lens, however, I can truly only say two words: “thank you.”

While we may disagree on a few key issues, Lizzie’s response to the article I wrote was simply brilliant if

Ryan Williams COLUMNIST for no other reason than that it publically propelled an important campus conversation. Since coming to Duke, I have seen few instances where the content in the Chronicle result in a public discussion on what is best for Duke students as members of this community.

But, since the day my previous article was published, I have seen story after story about the ways people interact with and experience selective living on campus.

From one columnist’s rush FAQ, to another’s hindsight on not receiving a bid his freshman year, even to the more public display of anti-rush banners in West Union, the fact that Duke’s campus is engaging in a lively conversation about what this time of year means for students and their place on their campus encourages me to no end.

What I have seen since rush season began is an undying conversation about the best way for students to integrate into a larger campus community while finding places where they can feel more at home. It is precisely this undying conversation that excites me most about the work my fellow columnists are producing and encourages me to seek out the tough campus conversations that I came to Duke to have.

Whether that is in the pages of the Duke Chronicle or on the couches in Au Bon Pain, these past two weeks have been some of the most intellectually engaging I have had at Duke. This is all thanks to different viewpoints and perspectives about rush being continuously brought to the attention of the greater Duke community.

Conversations like these are why student publications, public discourse, and the freedom

of speech are so important. Exposing ourselves to opposing viewpoints allows for the greater engagement in a never ending public forum aimed at making Duke better for us all. Granted, that doesn’t mean every word printed in the Chronicle or spewed from a public platform is impervious to criticism. The second I wrote “The case for SLGs,” I prepared myself for any critique that could and would ultimately come my way. Moreover, as Nathan Heffernan pointed out in his recent column, the freedom of expression that comes with writing your own column does not mean that writers and readers should stop listening to, learning about,, and considering experiences different from our own—especially those coming from marginalized communities.

I have been glued to the words in the Chronicle since I have come to Duke. For better, what’s printed and published in this student newspaper forces the campus community to reconcile with its deepest sources of division. Appealing to students to send their money “just about anywhere” other than Duke put pressure on upper administration to spend their money more intentionally. A former line-monitors plea to kill the walk-up line after a mob-like scene led to its ultimate demise. The discourse over one student’s defense of recently appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh led to a public debate about the confirmation hearing, masculinity, and the future of politics. These and countless other examples showcase the power of the publication of different viewpoints.

With all that being said, if I am able to write something that leads to or contributes to the campus conversations that we need to be having, I am more than willing to stick my neck out for the sake of public debate. The jest Lizzie and I engaged in over the course of two articles shows me that students on this campus have the backbone to stand up for what they think is right. It shows me that I am surrounded by students who are willing to publicly proclaim their trust and let the chips fall where they may. That’s why journalism and public discourse is so important. So, Lizzie Bond, thank you for showing me the importance of speaking your truth even if it means speaking out against what’s normative.

Ryan Williams is a Trinity sophomore and current Cooper House Rush Chair. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Why are you chanting that?

n Saturday, I was one of the many people who crowded into Cameron Indoor for a Duke vs.

Virginia matchup that did not disappoint. I jumped, I screamed, and I sweated profusely. It felt, as it often does in Cameron, that everyone was united as a Duke community.

Except for one guy who was a few feet away from me and at least a few beers deep. Multiple times, he screamed the

Ethan Ahuna COLUMNIST name of a UVA player as loud as he could, and then yelled, “you suck d*ck!”

I love the overall energy of the student section. I love the dirt sheets. I have no problem screaming at the refs when they make bad calls. And chanting “UMBC” when Virginia was shooting free throws was maybe the best thing ever. Being ruthless to our opponents is part of what makes games fun, and what makes Cameron one of the most notorious arenas in college basketball.

But his comment made me uncomfortable, and looking around, I could tell that others felt the same. What makes “you suck d*ck” different from anything else we yell at our opponents?

It’s different because it’s not about a player, his mistakes in the game, or even his personal life. By using that phrase, the insinuation is that the player is gay, or at least engages in homosexual acts. And when it’s used as an insult, the implication is that gay equals bad.

If you don’t think it’s about that, ask yourself why no one insults men by suggesting that they engage in sexual acts with women.

That wouldn’t be considered as mean—if anything, it could be taken as a compliment.

It might seem like a harmless comment, and one could argue that

the guy didn’t mean anything by it. But the effects of words that target an identity can be hard to understand when that identity is not yours.

When I played Little League baseball, I didn’t fully understand why my mom was so upset that our assistant coach referred to us as “ladies” when we played poorly. He was, of course, equating our bad fielding to being female. He was equating femininity with weakness. Since it wasn’t my gender being used to chastise, I didn’t think much of it. But I have since realized how much comments like “grow a pair” and “don’t be a p**sy” can upset the female-identifying people around me.

“You suck d*ck” works in a similar way—if your sexuality isn’t the butt of the joke, it’s hard to understand how degrading and isolating it can make someone feel.

This kind of language is a symptom of a larger problem.

Many columnists have discussed the difficulty of finding a community at Duke. Comments that turn an aspect of one’s identity into an insult are an easy way to make someone doubt whether Duke is their place. A death threat written on

the wall of a first-year dorm three years ago made it clear that not everyone in our campus community was willing to accept LGBTQ-identifying individuals. And even when this group is not explicitly excluded, it is not particularly included in society at large. Movies, lyrics in popular music, Greek mixers between all-male fraternities and all-female sororities—in all of these, representations of anything other than heterosexuality are an exception to the norm.

And beyond this one incident, there is the general fact that we are often unaware of the degree to which intolerance can be built into our vernacular. A fellow columnist wrote about the importance of political correctness in terms of respect for historically marginalized groups. What makes this a hard but important ask is that it takes effort and intentionality to make changes to your daily language.

Coming into college, I didn’t understand how casually throwing around phrases like “I’m so OCD” or “I basically have PTSD” can contribute to the stigma around mental health. I’m still struggling to adopt gender neutral pronouns into my vocabulary. But I think the most important first step is to recognize the implications of our words, regardless of our intent.

When our opponents walk into Cameron, and when our players walk onto the court at other schools, they’re prepared to be subjected to insults and mocking—like it or not, it’s part of the game. But Duke students who flood into the student section are there to come together and cheer for Duke, against a common enemy, as members of this community. Duke students should not have to worry about peers attacking their own identity to distract an opposing player.

Duke students are good at thinking of creative ways to torment opponents during basketball games. I am confident that we can find clever and merciless ways to make Cameron even Crazier without insulting the identities of our peers.

Ethan Ahuna is a Trinity senior.

His column runs on alternate Chronicle File Photo Tuesdays.

Why you might already support Effective Altruism

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e think you might already be a supporter of Effective Altruism, but just don’t know it yet. To find out, let’s go through four claims. These claims are based on Sam Deere’s article, “Four Ideas You Already Agree With.”

First, helping others is important.

to help fewer people than to help more people? Sam Deere writes, “Imagine twenty sick people lining a hospital ward, who’ll die if you don’t give them medicine.

You have enough medicine for everyone, and no reason to hold onto it for later: would anyone really choose to arbitrarily save only some of the people if it was just

Effective Altruism COLUMN We think most people agree that helping others is important. I mean, imagine defending the opposite position: helping others is not important! wOf course, this doesn’t seem like a helpful or correct claim.

This is a pretty simple assumption, but its implications might be deeper than many people notice in the real world.

Second, all people are equal.

Do all people matter, regardless of characteristics like age, skin color, gender, nationality, or religion? Should we use these characteristics to determine whether or not to help someone? If you think that none of these characteristics should bar someone from a claim to a happy, healthy and free life, then we think you’re in good company.

Third, helping more people is better than helping fewer people.

Well, in what world would it be better

as easy to save all of them?” If you think we should try to do more to help people when we have the resources to help, then you’re in good company.

Fourth, we have limited resources.

If we had unlimited resources, then we’d be able to embark on every philanthropic venture we could imagine, from handing out malaria bed nets across all of Africa to distributing lollipops to all the children (and maybe adults too, why not?) of the world!

But if you agree with us that our resources are finite, meaning we can only devote so much money to each cause, then the idea of opportunity cost should help guide our actions. Fifty dollars to the Lollipop Charity might mean no money for the Against Malaria Foundation, which is estimated to save the life of someone who would have

otherwise died, for about $3,464.

If your answers are similar to these, or if these answers line up with your thinking, then you just might be a fan of Effective Altruism!

Effective Altruism is a movement of people around the world who are seeking to answer this simple question: how can we do good, better? Aspiring EAs apply multiple disciplines to work on this question, employing reason and evidence under the assumption that taking a step back and thinking about the best path forward to help the most people is not an obvious answer. It requires careful thinking, and our actions, donations, and decisions will be better if we take time to think through the possibilities.

To help reduce poverty, is it better to invest in malaria bednet distribution, deworming initiatives, or something else entirely? Does working with local governments for these projects improve the quality of the state, or does it potentially add strength and legitimacy to exploitative institutions?

Should we try to do things to prevent low probability events that could lead to the end of humanity, like nuclear war? How would we even know if we’re making progress on those causes?

Is factory farming a moral harm? And if so, what can we do to reduce the massive suffering animals experience everyday for our consumption?

Effective Altruism is a unique

movement. It can be difficult to define: some people call it a community, others a philosophy, and yet others a research agenda. It’s a mix of all of these things, and it is constantly evolving.

This column exists for members of Effective Altruism Duke to share the ideas that EA explores, especially ideas about effective giving and pragmatic philanthropy. We’ll use this framework to explore diverse topics. For instance, we will analyze how to choose your major and career, make the case for vegetarianism, and discuss how to prevent promising technologies from being abused.

These ideas aren’t settled. Indeed, as Helen Toner from the Open Philanthropy Project wrote, “Effective Altruism is a question,” rather than a set of unchanging beliefs. Even within Effective Altruism, there is plenty of disagreement. And that’s good! If you disagree with some of the ideas or methods or assumptions, you could be a valuable contributor, and we’d love to hear from you.

And if you’re interested in this approach to making the world a better place, we’d encourage you to keep up this column, and we’d love to hear from you too.

This column was written by David Wohlever Sánchez, a Trinity senior, with input from members of Effective Altruism Duke. If you have ideas, criticisms, or questions for Effective Altriusm, reach out via dukearetefellowship@gmail.com.

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