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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020 DUKECHRONICLE.COM
The Chronicle answers FAQs about Young Trustee position
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 35
FEATURE
UPSCALE CUISINE IN A DORM?
By Matthew Griffin University News Editor
The list of candidates in this year’s undergraduate Young Trustee election has been released. Before voting begins, The Chronicle answered some common questions about the process behind electing the newest Board of Trustees member.
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What is a Young Trustee?
Since 1972, the graduate and undergraduate Young Trustees have had the opportunity to serve on Duke’s Board of Trustees, a post that today sees them sitting alongside figures like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker. Young Trustees each spend one year as a nonvoting observer before becoming a full voting member of the board for one or two years, alternating yearly.
All photos from Alex Leo-Guerra | Contributing Photographer Sophomore Rishabh Jain prepares dessert for his hungry patrons at The Black Tile, the pop-up restaurant he runs in a 300 Swift apartment.
economy and liberalize its politics. In a fit of Panglossian arrogance masquerading as political science, many leading Americans truly believed that China, a civilization that was ancient before Columbus arrived on Hispaniola, would march to the beat of our drum. The opposite has occurred. In the last year, dozens of American multinational corporations have revealed that they are multinational first and American second. Infamously, the NBA apologized to the CCP and chastised See KUNSHAN on Page 10
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What are their responsibilities?
As board members, the Young Trustees are charged with caring for the long-term health of the University. The Board is Duke’s governing body. It is charged with making sure Duke’s “strategic direction, educational policy, finances and operations” align with the University’s mission, and it oversees the Duke University Health System and Duke University Management Company through affiliated boards. Young Trustees are “fiduciaries of the whole university, not advocates for any particular agenda or issue,” wrote Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the board, in the email to undergraduates in which he shared the application for undergraduate Young Trustee. The website of the Graduate & Professional Student Council, which is charged with selecting the graduate Young Trustee, lists some of that position’s responsibilities, which include serving on one of the Board’s standing committees and strategic task forces.
debate and speculation. But for those in the know, the Black Tile is the one place where all questions of “best” are erased. All you need to do is book a reservation and head to 300 Swift to Jain’s restaurant. Jain always had an infatuation with cooking. One can say that he’s been building up to this concept for years. In high school, he often invited family over to try out recipes and taste a variety of dishes whose flavors he believed were worthy of sharing. His upbringing was a large influence in developing his passion— being inspired by his mother’s cooking and approach to cuisine, he decided to experiment in the kitchen. He learned cooking techniques in high school by watching YouTube videos from Gordon Ramsay, Binging with Babish, Bon Appetit, Munchies and more, all of which would help him refine his craft. Yet all throughout first year, he found himself not cooking at all. So in order to keep in touch with this passion, he decided to revamp his multi-course dinners for students this year, allowing his creativity to flourish once again. Jain inquired about using a friend’s kitchen at 300 Swift for his cooking, and once he was given the OK, he began to make magic. After he hosted his first dinner in September and was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews, he decided to make them a weekly occurrence. The beginnings of the The Black Tile were in motion. I arrived at 300 Swift a half-hour before our meal began to help Jain with some preparation. In the time I spent assisting him, I got a glimpse into the mind of a truly devoted chef, and one who has a fond appreciation and respect for food and the power manifested within it. Watching Jain approach mise en place with a distinct tenderness and precision allowed me to recognize how much care he brought to this endeavor—he wanted to be certain that everyone was given an equal experience, each course rooted in
By Alex Leo-Guerra
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Four courses prepared with the precision of an esteemed chef for $15, a rotating menu with profits going to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, merely six seats per dinner and all of it in an apartment at 300 Swift—meet The Black Tile. Duke’s own Rishabh Jain, a sophomore, has managed to cook up his own take on the dorm restaurant through his own pop-up concept, The Black Tile. The use of dorms as a means of expressing culinary passion isn’t unheard of—Jonah Reider’s Columbia University dorm restaurant as well as Alex Chang and Robert Kronfli’s underground dining operation at the University of Southern California are both prime examples of students using their dorm’s kitchens for a greater purpose than microwaving ramen. They set in place a foundation begging to be built upon. There’s no question that meals at Divinity Cafe, Sazón or other venues can be considered superior to those of other universities, with the best meal on campus subject to heated
OPINION
Duke Kunshan University is a trojan horse By Reiss Becker Columnist
It’s worse than anyone ever thought possible. Snatched from the foul, frothing maw of China’s depraved security state, the Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crimes against the Uyghur Muslims of East Turkestan. Haunted by the legacy of Soviet leniency that he blames for the USSR’s ultimate collapse, Chairman Xi Jinping commanded his apparatchiks to “use the organs of dictatorship” with “absolutely no mercy” as they extirpate the “virus” of “religious
extremism” embedded in East Turkestan. To accomplish Chairman Xi’s directive, the CCP has placed anywhere from 800,000 to 2 million Uyghurs in labor, concentration and prison camps where they are, in typical doublespeak, being “reeducated.” Loyalty pledges, religious persecution, mass surveillance, forced abortions, medical experimentation and sexual assault are common practice. Although the Uyghurs are the primary victims of the CCP’s brutality, a secondary victim is a seductive theory—the notion that tighter Sino-Western ties would both augment China’s
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