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‘SHUT UP! HE’S ONE OF US!’ Coach Mike Krzyzewski yells at He apologizes to student section for Capel chant group of tenters

By Conner McLeod Sports Managing Editor

In Duke’s Tuesday night matchup against Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils finished the first half with a double-digit lead, but head coach Mike Krzyzewski was anything but pleased.

With less than a minute left in the first half, Duke’s student section erupted in a “Jeff Capel sit with us” chant targeting former Blue Devil assistant coach, now Pittsburgh head coach Jeff Capel.

Krzyzewski erupted from the sidelines, yelling for his fans to “Shut up!” After the half ended, an irate Krzyzewski walked over to the student section to continue his scolding, again yelling at his fans that “[Capel] is one of us!”

After the game, Krzyzewski was informed what chant the students were actually yelling, as he did not hear clearly during the game which caused him to blow up on the Cameron Crazies.

“I don’t know if I made a mistake on that, but I’ve never heard another coach’s name yelled out in the middle of the first half when we’re in a war with the team,” Krzyzewski said. “I d o n ’ t know if they

were saying ‘Come sit with me.’

“We got a different look at what the hell was going on. I thought it was something personal...I apologize to the students for that.”

However, in his apology, Krzyzewski still scolded the student section for the context in which they called out Capel.

“I don’t apologize for the timing,” Krzyzewski said. “You shouldn’t say that… In the middle of the first half and an ACC game, this isn’t some cutesy little thing.”

This was not the first time in recent memory that Krzyzewski disagreed with the student section’s approach to supporting the team. Just last year, Krzyzewski told tenters for the North Carolina game that he did not appreciate their berating of North Carolina State just a week before. In that game, Duke’s fans cheered with mockery as the Wolfpack scored their 24th point against the Blue Devils, after scoring just 24 points in an entire game earlier that season.

As for if the Capel chant was intended to be a taunt or a See CHANT on Page 9

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

A day after screaming at the Duke student section for a chant he thought was inappropriate, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski has taken a step to make amends.

At the end of the first half of Duke’s win against Pittsburgh Tuesday night, the Cameron Crazies broke out in a chant for Panther head coach and former Blue Devil assistant and player Jeff Capel to “sit with us.” This led to an enraged Krzyzewski to tell the student section to “Shut up!” He later approached the Cameron Crazies, yelling at the students that Capel is “one of us” while beating his chest.

After the game’s conclusion, Krzyzewski apologized for his outburst—sort of. The long-time Blue Devil leader said that he misunderstood what the fans chanted but stayed firm that mentioning Capel by name during the contest was inappropriate, even suggesting alternate chants for the Cameron Crazies.

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Chronicle File Photo Coach K was upset about a student chant. Photo not from Tuesday’s game.

Professor sues Duke for racial discrimination and retaliation

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Jason Locasale, associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, filed a federal lawsuit against Duke University on the basis of racial discrimination, which he alleged stalled his career and academic advancement.

Describing Locasale as a “Bi-Racial Asian male of medium dark complexion, with Asian features,” Monday’s complaint argues that the associate professor has had his promotion to full professor delayed while the pharmacology and cancer biology department has provided “promotion and/or support” of 14 white male and female employees.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that the University does not comment on ongoing litigation.

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“Duke is committed to ensuring an environment free of prohibited discrimination and our policies encourage an inclusive community that respects and values all of its members,” he wrote.

Locasale’s complaint detailed allegations of Duke’s “discriminatory culture,” “interference with [his] research program,” “unwarranted denial of access to his lab, students, classrooms and to the Duke campus” and restrictions on his freedom of speech.

The document also mentions “unwarranted investigations and audits,” “unwarranted harassment, bullying, retaliation and intimidation” and Duke compromising its contract by “[engaging] in fraudulent and negligent conduct.” He asserted that Duke’s alleged discrimination and retaliation on the basis of racial, color and/or national origin violated Title VII of the

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Automated house linking, new LLCs next academic year In its first year, the option to link was only offered to residents of Blackwell, Brown and Giles, and it was expanded to all East Campus dorms for the current academic year.

Previously, students had to opt in to the house link program, but they will now be opted in automatically, which Gonzalez hopes will make it easier for students to remain connected to their first-year communities.

However, students who participate in the house link program cannot select roommates from another first-year dorm. Additionally, more than six people need to opt in for a house to be linked, and blocks with six people or fewer will be rolled over into the independent housing process.

For those who may want to branch out from their first-year communities, LLCs could be a viable option. The housing website describes LLCs as “intentionally designed”

By Nadia Bey Staff Reporter

communities that combine residential, academic and social components of the college experience. Gonzalez said that these communities, like Visions of Freedom— Duke’s first LLC—are integrated within independent housing on West Campus, similar to how FOCUS participants reside with students who are not participating in the program on East Campus.

Likewise, the two new LLCs, SPIRE and Wright House, will reside within larger communities on West Campus.

The SPIRE LLC, which will be located in Hollows A, is the living community for the STEM mentoring program of the same name. SPIRE—short for “STEM Pathways for Inclusion, Readiness and Excellence”— supports students that are interested in pursuing studies in STEM fields, especially women and underrepresented minorities.

Looking for a new place to call your second home next year?

Last week, the Office of Housing and Residence Life announced several updates about housing options for the 2020-21 academic year.

The email sent out to students Friday Jan. 17 said that first-year students will automatically be placed in housing blocks based on their East Campus residence hall, a system referred to as house linking. The email also stated that two new living-learning communities (LLCs), SPIRE and Wright House, will be available as housing options in the coming years.

Additionally, there will be a new independent house in Edens 3B, according to the housing information session hosted on Jan. 23.

Fraternities Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon will not have housing sections next year, nor will the Arts Theme House.

“This will be the first time that the entire [housing] process is online in a number of years,” said Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, “which certainly makes it more user-friendly for students.”

First-year house linking is not a new process; the initiative launched a pilot program in the 2018-19 school year under the leadership of Gonzalez and Lizzie Speed, Trinity ‘18, former Duke Student Government vice president of campus life. It creates housing blocks of students who live in the same first-year dorm, and all students who choose to link will be placed in the same West Campus dorm.

“The House Link program was designed to aid continuity of the special communities that Sujal Manohar | Associate Photography Editor are so unique to East Campus houses,” Speed Duke is instituting housing reforms next year, like adding SPIRE and Wright House LLCs. told The Chronicle in 2018.

Prospective SPIRE Fellows apply to the program in the fall semester and remain in the program for the length of their enrollment at Duke.

The SPIRE LLC in Hollows A will be populated by the incoming class of SPIRE Fellows, who were accepted to the fellowship last October. “[SPIRE] seeks to create a sense of academic belonging among students who have historically been marginalized in scientific communities,” wrote Jennette Wood Crowley, academic dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and director of the SPIRE Fellows Program, in an email.

The LLC will be home to upperclassmen who are “dedicated to making Duke a more inclusive and friendly place” for STEM students through study groups, wellness activities and other forms of enrichment, Wood Crowley said.

Goals of the LLC include cultivating a sense of belonging and wellness among fellows, as well as creating a positive learning experience that will translate into graduate study and careers.

The LLC is also accompanied by a house course that allows fellows to discuss STEM education at Duke, campus culture and issues of diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

Wright House, which will be located in Craven Houses Y and Z, is the new LLC for African American students. Formed as a result of advocacy by the Black Student Alliance (BSA), Gonzalez described the house as an offshoot of the selective Black Cultural Living Group that existed previously.

“We’re excited to have this African diaspora living-learning community as an option for students,” he said.

Throughout the Fall 2019 semester, BSA hosted meetings and conducted surveys to gather student opinions on the development of See HOUSE on Page 4

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Hospital archives work of Duke’s first black surgeon 4 NetNutrition Seeing what he deemed a frustrating lack of representation of African Americans in medicine, Akwari founded the Society of Black The Duke Medical Center Archives Academic Surgeons in 1989. This organization recently obtained the complete collection sought to expand opportunities for black of writings by Onyekwere Akwari, the first surgeons while providing equal healthcare African American surgeon at Duke University services for all Americans.

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For Damon Tweedy, an associate professor The Akwari Papers consist of his medical of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, findings, research papers, immigration meaningful representation is fundamental to documents, correspondences and assorted increase diversity. photographs. In coordination with the “Much too often, minority success, Department of Surgery, the DMCA spoke with particularly African American success, gets his wife, Anne Akwari, who was able to package pigeon-holed into sports and entertainment,” 32 boxes of material for Tweedy wrote in the University.

The more we can normalize an email to The Akwari joined the Duke Chronicle. “The more faculty in 1978, following success in other areas, the we can normalize his training at the Mayo more options young kids will success in other areas, Clinic. He immigrated the more options see for themselves. to the United States young kids will see for from his hometown in themselves. Despite Nigeria in 1962, receiving being a very good his undergraduate and student growing damon tweedy up, I couldn’t have medical education in the ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY United States. He passed myself AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES imagined away last year at 76. becoming a doctor or According to Lucy writer until I saw other Waldrop, assistant director and technical African Americans succeed in that way.” services head of the DMCA, the collection Beyond the hospital, Akwari was “should be of note to researchers interested instrumental in creating a more welcoming in studying the development of surgical Duke environment. As a member of the medicine and diversity efforts.”

Athletic Council, Akwari fostered strong In an email, Waldrop wrote that the bonds with coaches and encouraged more Akwari Papers are beneficial to those looking student-athletes to consider medicine. He at the progression of African Americans and served on Academic Council, the faculty immigrants in medicine. governance body. He fought tirelessly for the The School of Medicine had desegregated inclusion of women’s and minority studies for only a decade before Akwari’s arrival, and he undergraduates. was the second African American professor on Even those who didn’t know Akwari an academic tenure track in its history. personally felt his presence.

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“Although I didn’t get to work with him… [his] journey is certainly inspirational and helped comfort me in recognizing that I was part of a larger journey in terms of diversifying the medical profession, ” Tweedy wrote.

The DMCA was created in 1977 in response to a faculty-wide interest in formally collecting historical records. Before the DMCA, doctors would routinely dispose of old reports in this pap er-heavy era, but thanks to a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Special to The Chronicle Foundation, Onyekwere Akwari. the Duke Medical Library began to amass old information.

Now, the DMCA houses over 10,000 linear feet of documents from the past 70 years of the hospital’s activities—long enough to walk from the Washington Duke statue on East Campus to Duke Chapel.

The DMCA also collects items such as stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs and even a doctor’s bag from the 1940s.

In addition to the Akwari Papers, the DMCA includes a number of other famous works. Two Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, Robert Lefkowitz (2012) and Paul Modrich (2015), have their papers recorded in the DMCA, as well as collections from the previous chancellors.

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NetNutrition can help you avoid allergens and plan your diet, but some vendors and dishes are missing—and the information shows that there are some dining options at Duke with higher amounts of sodium, sugar or calories than one might expect.

The new online tool provides nutrition information for various Duke Dining vendors and enables customers to browse dining locations and select certain items to identify their ingredients. Duke Dining partnered with CBORD, a company that provides nutrition and food production services, to create the software behind the website, according to Toni Apadula, dietician physician and student health nutritionist for Duke Dining.

The process of adding recipes to NetNutrition requires a “significant amount” of work, Apadula wrote in an email to The Chronicle, so Duke Dining hired an additional full-time staff member to organize and oversee it.

“Kitchen testing and standardizing recipes takes time,” she wrote. “Additionally, each and every ingredient used in recipe production has to be evaluated for food allergen and gluten content.”

Here are four key takeaways from The Chronicle’s exploration of NetNutrition. Some nutrition values may change in the future, as Apadula commented that the website is “a work See NET NUTRITION on Page 4

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HOUSE FROM PAGE 2 the living group, including whether or not respondents would want to live there and where it should be located. According to a Google Form publicized on BSA’s Instagram, the options for the location of the LLC were Craven or Edens 3A, and it wound up in Craven.

The Chronicle reached out to junior De’Ja Wood, vice president of BSA, to learn more about the process of developing the LLC, but Wood did not respond in time for publication.

New LLCs are typically formed under the guidance of a faculty or staff sponsor and proposals are submitted to a committee consisting of faculty, students and staff in November. The committee reports directly to Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, and Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost/vice president for student affairs, who then decide whether to approve the LLC. Some students see living in communities like these as an opportunity to connect with others that have similar interests.

One reason junior Renata Starostka joined the Eruditio et Religio LLC was the desire to “be part of something unifying.”

“I liked the idea of LLCs because I think that independent houses sometimes don’t have as much community as [selective living groups],” Starostka wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “I think this idea of interfaith community-building work is a huge part of E&R that makes it different from other LLCs because we’re choosing to be part of a group that is very diverse and choosing to help redesign our community to be welcoming in those ways.”

Starostka also highlighted the benefits of having access to Mosaic—the interfaith worship space in Keohane—receiving mentorship from faculty and campus leaders and living near campus cats Peaches and Mama Bean. She is teaching the E&R house course next year.

“Ultimately, it’s a great community, and I’m so glad we have the resources and mentors to keep learning throughout the process,” Starostka wrote.

The 2020-2021 housing application opens Wednesday, Feb. 5 and closes Friday, Feb. 7 at 11:59 p.m.

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Not all dining options are available

Of the on-campus Duke Dining vendors, 19 participate in NetNutrition. For example, menu items from vendors like Marketplace and Il Forno are available, though Twinnie’s and Thrive are not.

“Our goal is to have all on-campus venues on NetNutrition,” Apadula wrote in a Nov. 4 email, “so you will continue to see new venues being added over the coming months.”

Since the time of that email, vendors like Beyu Blue Coffee and Sazón have been added to the site.

In addition, some items are missing from the menus of vendors that are available. Junior Adaora Nwosu pointed out that there is no nutrition information for the samosas at Tandoor as of Jan. 30, for example.

“If you’re gonna put some of the stuff on the menu, you might as well put all of it,” Nwosu said, though she emphasized that she liked NetNutrition on the whole.

Apadula said there are several reasons an item could be missing.

It could be new or a one-time special, or there may not be nutrition information available for one or more ingredients.

“In the case of Tandoor, samosas were not on the original menu submitted for recipe review and will be added as the recipe is reviewed and entered in the system,” Apadula said.

Get more than your daily intake of sugar in one dish

Many of the food options at Duke have high levels of sodium or sugar.

The Cajun & Jack cheeseburger at the Loop has 1,270 milligrams of sodium, the crispy chicken sandwich from Krafthouse has 1,620 and the Hong Kong bowl at Ginger + Soy has 1,890. The American Heart Association advises that daily intake of sodium should be no more than 2,300 milligrams for the majority of adults and should ideally be limited to 1,500 milligrams.

Meanwhile, the s’mores crepe at Cafe has 85 grams of sugar and the Reese’s peanut butter milkshake from the Loop has 105 grams. The AHA recommends limiting added sugar to 100 calories per day for women and 150 calories for men—25 grams and 37.5 grams, respectively—though their guidelines note that the entry for sugar on nutrition labels accounts for both natural and added sugars.

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NetNutrition can help you avoid allergens

NetNutrition contains filters for common allergens, such as peanuts, tree nuts and shellfish. When applied, the filters exclude items with the allergens from the visible choices on the site.

“The primary goal for NetNutrition is to help students and other diners with food allergies or special dietary needs more easily identify food ingredients at Duke Dining venues,” Apadula wrote.

For example, on the page for Ginger + Soy, the tabs for “Make Your Own Bowl (Sauce),” “Everyday Plates,” “Poke Bowl (Protein-Choose One),” “Poke Bowl (Choose dressing)” and “Ramen” disappear if soy is selected as an allergen. Several individual options, such as the beef and tofu under “Make Your Own Bowl (Protein-Choose One)” disappear as well.

There are also two preference options, vegan and vegetarian.

When one is applied, the website only displays options that meet the selected dietary restriction.

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There are also many high-calorie items on the menus around campus. The Cafe s’mores crepe has 1,150 calories. A “bigger plate” at Panda Express with orange chicken, Beijing beef, “super greens” and white steamed rice runs to 1,385. The Loop’s Reese’s peanut butter milkshake isn’t just the king of added sugar—it also comes packed with 1,650 calories.

The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s 2015-20 dietary guidelines recommend a daily intake of 1,600 to 2,400 calories for adult women and 2,000 to 3,000 calories for adult men, though these are only estimates and individual caloric needs may vary.

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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 37 | JANUARY 30, 2020

mettlesome is no joke Durham comedy collective brings out the best of the Triangle, page 6

oscars (still) so white This year’s nominations reveal a lack of growth, page 7

i should watch these movies But let me explain why I won’t, page 8

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Who would you give an Oscar to?

Nina Wilder............. adam sandler

Kerry Rork ...........................kesha

Will Atkinson .........the lighthouse

Sydny Long ...........................joker

Miranda Gershoni ........... rushees

Jack Rubenstein .......... jake’s toes

Sarah Derris ......carrie brownstein

Selena Qian ....................... myself

Alizeh Sheikh .................karl marx

Eva Hong ... [insert french person]

On the cover: Mettlesome’s Vaudeville Varieties. Photo by Areon Mobasher.

staff note I’m obsessed with music data. At this point, I might as well just call it what it is: an addiction.

The more I can get, the better. How many songs do I listen to each day? What genres do I listen to the most? Unfortunately for me, there’s an enabler for this addiction. Its name is Last.fm.

When I first connected my Spotify account to my Last.fm account on the last day of September last year, I thought it would be a harmless way to track my listening habits. Little did I know that

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within a month, it would irreversibly change how I listened to music. The problem, you see, is that having constant running charts with more data than I could ever want inevitably leads to competition on those very charts. Even though the top spot in each chart has not and likely will never change (thanks, Taylor Swift), there’s plenty of fighting to be done for each and every spot below.

The constant competition on my personal Last.fm caused me to start listening to certain artists just for the sake of causing them to rise up (or to cause others to fall down!) the charts.

While it’s not very entertaining or novel to

see John Mayer so high up, I can simply stop listening to him. And how can I profess to know anything about music if I don’t actually keep up with the Billie Eilishes and Lizzos of the world?

Granted, this self-enforced purging of my music taste certainly does have its success stories. It made me explore and eventually adore Maggie Roger’s discography, led me to Rihanna’s standout album “Anti” and even brought me around to the entire Lauv aesthetic. But for every Lauv there’s a Meghan Trainor, somebody unpopular enough who I can neglect in favor of a spiraling free fall at the hands of data.

Perhaps worst of all is that Last.fm has gotten me away from listening to what I love.

A quick glance at my top artists chart plainly tells of my partiality for Taylor Swift’s music. What you might not be able to see is that recently I tried to cut back on the time spent listening to her songs. While the effort may not have been very effective, it was still a symptom of a larger problem with my Last.fm addiction. If I’m not listening to what I love, then what’s the point of even opening up Spotify?

I don’t seem to be the only one with an unhealthy obsession for data. If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter, you are sure to have encountered stan culture. On the social media platform, fans go mad over their chosen artist’s stats, streams and sales. Constantly promoting and feuding, accounts use Twitter as a battleground to pit their favorites against each other. Profiles dedicated solely to charts proliferate, often with multiple for a single artist. I even follow a few of them, if only to stay up to date with the artists I love most.

While our obsession with our favorite singers’ performance on the charts may arise naturally from our competitive nature, it certainly doesn’t help that a handful of artists lean into their devotees’ fixations on these data points. Recently, Justin Bieber practically begged his fans to stream and buy his rather disappointing comeback single “Yummy” in order to achieve a number one debut on the Billboard Hot 100, resulting in constant livestreaming, five separate vinyl releases and a whopping nine music videos to boot. Much to the glee of the stan Twitter accounts that despise Bieber, “Yummy” failed to top the Hot 100, debuting at number two behind Roddy Ricch’s viral hit “The Box.” Thankfully for Twitter, stan culture is very slowly lessening its dependence on charts. Artists have warmed up to the “we all have crowns” mentality and are increasingly more willing to support each other, even if it means giving up a number one for themselves. Some, including Roddy Ricch, will even join in their opponent’s chart campaigns.

Lately, I’ve decided to fight back against my obsession with my Last.fm charts. Although I’m not going to go cold turkey on the website, I’m not going to let it dictate my music choices either. If you happen to check out my Last.fm, hopefully you’ll find me listening to what I love: “Sweetener” on repeat, a dash of Post Malone and yes, some Taylor Swift. Maybe I’ll even set aside some time for Meghan Trainor’s new album come Friday.

—Jonathan Pertile

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Durham’s Mettlesome sets the stage for indie comedy in the Triangle

By Tessa Delgo Staff Writer

Durham’s creative collective Mettlesome specializes in improv comedy, but they’re certainly no joke.

In three years, Mettlesome has evolved from a small group of comedians performing in the garage of founding stakeholders Ashley Melzer and Jack Reitz to a full-fledged company producing a myriad of local comedy shows. Currently run by six stakeholders — all accomplished improv performers themselves — Mettlesome was born out of frustration with the lack of autonomy within the local improv scene.

“Six years ago, the way it worked was you would sign up at a theatre and then you would just do whatever they told you to do,” Reitz said. “You were either affiliated with a theatre or you didn’t exist. That model still exists right now, but we [at Mettlesome] are really trying to reward people who want to make cool shit.”

Living up to the spirit of their name, Mettlesome’s calendar is brimming with their various endeavors, from regular improv comedy classes to a weekly live show based on secrets submitted by audience members. Much of the group’s programming involves a form of collaboration with other creatives, best exemplified by their biweekly project Golden Age. According to Reitz, the performance is “part talk show, part art exhibition, part comedy show” and features a new local maker each time.

“Comedians interview [the artists] about who they are and what brought them to their work, and then there’s a comedy show based on that,” Reitz said. “I love the way that Golden Age is a show where art inspires other art. It’s a great way of reaching out to other artistic communities.”

Reitz’s journey in improv began in high school, parlaying into a stint performing with UNC’s improv and sketch comedy group CHiPs and eventually a professional career in the industry. A native of Chapel Hill, he returned to the area after several years spent studying theatre and comedy in New York City.

“In New York, I learned to respect [improv] as an art form that is both fun and also really challenging. The improv that we teach at Mettlesome is specifically focused on the art of improv comedy, and not just the art of improv,” Reitz said. “The work that we do and rehearsals that we run are drilling our performers to be better comedians. Though we’re improvising, we try to be smart and deliberate about the comedy that we make.”

The fundamentals of improv comedy that Mettlesome teaches transcend pure silliness — the group regularly facilitates

Courtesy of Mettlesome Belief in the Triangle’s creative, independent spirit drove the inception of Mettlesome.

professional workshops for corporate clients, emphasizing principles of team building and communication.

“It’s very easy to think comedians just get on stage and act goofy … but it’s not just that,” said Hillary Yonce, one of Mettlesome’s stakeholders. “When we do those workshops … you see this ‘aha’ moment where people are like ‘Wow, I didn’t realize this is something that could be helpful to my life.”

Yonce, also a professional hydrologist, touts her 12 years of improv experience on her academic resume. After finding her way into improv during college as a member of CHiPs, she encountered a local comedy community rich with multi-faceted performers. Fellow members of CHiPs, she recalled, included statistics and music majors.

Yonce herself earned a degree in environmental science.

“Of course I wish I could be doing comedy full-time … but I also love my job as a scientist. I think the fact that everybody [in the Triangle] is wearing multiple hats is what makes it so interesting,” Yonce said. “Everyone here is so smart … that when you bring them into a room, you’re just going to get such explosive energy.”

Alongside her husband Tristan, Yonce produces and performs in the project Vaudeville Varieties, the latest iteration of which

will take place this weekend from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. The project, a “hodgepodge of music, comedy, clowning and ‘feats of amazement,’” was created to showcase the varied talents of the couples’ friends and creatives in the community.

“I think if you ask the average Joe outside of [the state], ‘Does North Carolina have a good improv comedy scene?’, they probably would be like ‘I have no idea,’” Yonce said. “But the answer is yes … we have some really amazing talent here.”

Belief in the Triangle’s creative, independent spirit drove the inception of Mettlesome and continues to drive it today. According to Reitz, the level of talent in the area rivals that in bigger creative communities like New York and Los Angeles.

“There wasn’t a doubt that there was a capacity for independent comedy [here] — I think it just took a couple of talented folks to start doing something,” Reitz said. “In New York, nobody’s going to give you stage time, so you have to make it yourself. I took that lesson with me when I moved back to Durham. That’s a lot of what Mettlesome is about — if you have something that you want to make, Mettlesome’s goal is to help you make that thing. We want to help you take your vision and make it into a reality.”

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This year’s Academy Award nominations got it wrong, again

By Sydny Long Culture Editor

Once considered one of the most esteemed and coveted prizes a filmmaker could win, the Academy Award’s luster has since dulled under the corrosive influence of time and progress.

The Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has seen massive backlash in recent decades for failing to acknowledge the contributions and achievements of artists whose visions do not conform to the narrow, highly Americanized ideals of cinema maintained by the institute. What were once considered “snubs” are now recognized as systematic dismissal of films by and starring people of color, women and artists from outside the United States, purposefully excluding them from the glitzy proceedings to prevent their work from being perceived as prestige cinema or — as is often the case of foreign films — reaching a wider audience.

This year’s nomination announcements were met with this very criticism, echoing the same condemnation the organization faced just last year for a largely white slate of nominees, and for allowing a film directed by an alleged pedophile into the ring (where it won four Oscars, proving that #TimesUp and #MeToo have done little to rectify Hollywood’s problem with rewarding serial assaulters).

There appears to be greater resentment toward the upcoming event now than the year before, when the Academy was embroiled in a new scandal every other week. Audiences have become tired of the movies they loved and connected with not receiving industry praise. The ever-increasing accessibility and diversity of cinema has transformed the standards for the medium at an incredible pace, bringing films by contemporary masters like Alfonso Cuarón directly to living rooms across the nation and widening the narrative scope to encompass every voice.

With that in mind, it only seems appropriate to view the nominees through the lens of who was deliberately left out and who the Academy will honor instead.

Best Actress The Snubbed: Lupita Nyong’o The Shoo-In: Renee Zellweger Another familiar situation: A woman of color starring in a horror movie is overlooked in favor of a white woman’s convincing turn as a famous celebrity. Daniel Kaluuya managed to snag a nomination for Jordan Peele’s directorial debut “Get Out,” but history has failed to repeat itself with Nyong’o in spite of her knockout performance as

not one but two characters. The chilling whispers of her Tethered self will likely resonate throughout cinematic history much longer than Zellweger’s fine imitation of Judy Garland. It seems that, unless she’s playing a slave, Nyong’o is invisible to the Academy as a black woman whose range expands beyond period dramas and racial torture porn.

Best Actor The Snubbed: Adam Sandler The Shoo-In: Joaquin Phoenix As strange as “Academy Award-winner Adam Sandler” might sound to some, many were expecting him to at least be nominated for his jittery, sweaty performance in “Uncut Gems.” While transitions from comedy to drama have previously been embraced by the Academy, Adam Sandler is no Robin Williams or Jim Carrey in the Academy’s eyes: He is the fool from “Saturday Night Live,” the lazy schlub whose cinematic aspirations seemed limited to which filming location would make the best vacation spot for himself and his famous friends.

However, Sandler more than proved himself as a gambling addict, using his obnoxious mannerisms and sometimes weasely charm to really sell his character’s desperation. This turn just couldn’t measure up to Phoenix, who lost a great amount of weight for the role (which, as we all know, is the only criteria an actor needs to meet to be considered great, despite the fact that actresses often have to change their bodies for every role they take) and danced on some stairs. Phoenix is indeed excellent as the Joker, but his reputation as a serious actor definitely precedes him, at least to the Academy.

Best Supporting Actress The Snubbed: Jennifer Lopez The Shoo-In: Laura Dern Jennifer Lopez’s performance in the glittery crime-drama “Hustlers” is, in a sense, star-making. Despite already being Hollywood royalty, her captivating role as stripper Ramona was a reminder to audiences everywhere that Lopez is a star for a good reason: She is an immensely talented woman, her dramatic chops just as impressive as her ageless physicality. However, she was left out of the nominations — along with the rest of the “Hustlers” cast — presumably for the film’s uncensured depiction of sex work and Lopez’s identity as a Latina, whose reputation seems inextricably linked to her body rather than her talent.

Laura Dern’s performances in both “Marriage Story” and “Little Women” were characteristically wonderful, brimming with the snappy warmth that has made Dern so beloved, but her victory

Courtesy of STXFilms Jennifer Lopez’s performance in “Hustlers” was royally snubbed.

will inevitably ache when one remembers that only certain roles for women — confidant, mother — are “appropriate” for the Academy voters.

Best Costume Design The Snubbed: “Midsommar” The Shoo-In: “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” The verisimilitude captured by “Once Upon A Time” was unquestionably breath-taking, from the spaghetti western costumes to the streets seemingly lifted right out of 1969. Like most winners of this award, though, the film had bountiful sources of inspiration to draw from, including photographs and movies themselves.

Why the award for Best Costume Design so frequently goes to a historical drama has remained baffling for years, especially in light of genre films that often require the creation of entirely new wardrobes.

One such film was “Midsommar,” a movie that has quickly become iconic for its clean white frocks and the elaborate flower crown and dress that protagonist Dani wears upon becoming the May Queen.

Horror movies rarely manage to even catch the Academy’s eye, but this snub felt especially egregious after a Halloween season that spawned countless imitations of the May Queen dress.

The movies and TV shows that I want to watch but probably won’t

By Jake Satisky Editor-In-Chief

You know the feeling. You’re at the movies, probably watching the newest “Avengers” movie or something, and you see a kick-ass movie trailer.

Turning to your friend excitedly, you exclaim (in a hushed voice, so as not to disturb the theater’s fellow patrons) that you really, really want to see that movie when it comes out.

Then it comes out, and you don’t see it. Maybe you see it after it goes out on demand months later.

Maybe you never see it at all.

This phenomenon happens to me constantly.

My friends will ask, “Have you seen ‘Uncut Gems’ yet?” and I’ll say, “No, but I really, really want to.” And I do want to see it! But there’s school and Chronicle work, and I could just rewatch “Inception” on Netflix without having to pay $2.99 to rent it. I sincerely hope I watch “Uncut Gems,” along with “Little Women,” “Parasite” and the countless other movies on my list, but I probably won’t, at least not any time soon.

So without further ado, here are the movies and TV shows coming out in 2020 that I genuinely want to watch when they come out… but like won’t, because I know myself: “The King’s Man” I really liked “Kingsman,” because I’m a sucker for sharp action-comedies. But I never saw the second “Kingsman” movie, even though I told so many people I wanted to see it. What makes me think I’m going to see “The King’s Man”? The movie, directed by Matthew Vaughn, looks like it’s following a similar formula to its British predecessors.

“Birds of Prey” Margot Robbie? Ewan McGregor? An R-rated anti-hero flick? Sign me up. This movie follows

Harley Quinn from 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” which — to put it nicely — was unoriginal and boring. Plus, I’ve seen quite a few superhero movies in my day, and I’m not invested in any of these characters, all of which are new to the franchise except for Quinn.

“Sonic the Hedgehog” Like “Cats,” I’m sure I’ll joke with friends that we should go see it for the meme and to laugh at how bad it is. Then I won’t actually go see it, because who’s trying to waste $12 and two hours to see a mediocre movie? And, if we’re being honest, now that the studio fixed Sonic after the infamous first trailer, I’m a lot less interested.

“Top Gun: Maverick” I saw “Top Gun” once with my mom. I enjoyed it, I think. It was a while ago. Sometimes I think to myself, tepidly, “Oh, I should rewatch ‘Top Gun.’” Then I rewatch clips of “The Dark Knight” on

YouTube instead. I’m sure I’ll promise my mom that I’ll go watch this sequel with her, but it will take a big push to actually get me in front of a screen with 57-year-old scientologist Tom Cruise flying a jet.

“Curb your Enthusiasm,” Season 10 Don’t get me wrong — I think Larry David is hilarious. I watched the ninth season of “Curb” two years ago, and a girl that I liked told me that I was beginning to talk like David. So it’s not that I don’t want to watch season 10, but my family deactivated our HBO account after the finale of “Game of Thrones,” and am I really going to buy a subscription just for this show? I’m pretty, prettyyy, prettyyyy sure I’m not going to watch it, at least not until I decide to pony up for HBO one of these days.

Wondering what I’ll actually see? That’s much harder to predict. I know I’ll try to watch some

Courtesy of HBO Jake wants to watch the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but he probably won’t.

Oscar-bait movies come fall and winter, but I don’t know what those are yet. Here are some other movies and TV shows I’m much more likely to watch: “Barry,” Season 3 Bill Hader was one of my favorite “Saturday Night Live” cast members, and “Barry” is one of my favorite TV shows right now. It’s the perfect mix of comedy, action and darkness that keeps me hungry for more. I will reactivate my family’s HBO account for the first time since “Game of Thrones” ended to watch this.

“Bojack Horseman,” Season 6 Part 2 While we’re on the subject of dark comedy TV shows, I feel so bittersweet about this. On the one hand, Bojack Horseman might be the best show on TV, and no other show can give me a deep existential crisis after every episode quite like this show about an anthropomorphic horse. On the other, it’s the last season. Here’s to seeing if Bojack will somehow be able to atone for his sins and come to peace with himself.

“Tenet” Yes, I greatly enjoy Christopher Nolan’s movies (yes, “The Dark Knight” is my favorite movie of all time.) Yes, I realize that Nolan movies are masterpieces if you don’t think about them very hard, and sorta ridiculous if you do. But I liked John David Washington in “BlacKkKlansman,” and though the trailer makes no sense, I know I’ll be feasting on Nolan’s insane set pieces come July.

“Coming 2 America” There’s a chance this sequel to 1988’s classic “Coming to America” might stink, but I believe in the Eddie Murphy comeback tour. He may not have the same dynamite energy that carried the first film, but I loved Murphy’s “Dolemite Is My Name” and recent appearance on SNL, so I’m definitely curious if he can pull this off.

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Duke outworks Pitt, survives late comeback bid

By Conner McLeod Sports Managing Editor

The late basketball legend Kobe Bryant was known for his relentless effort on the court and meticulous attention to detail.

The ninth-ranked Blue Devils, who honored Bryant, his daughter and the rest of the victims who lost their lives in the tragic helicopter crash over the weekend before the national anthem Tuesday night, seemed to embody the five-time NBA champion with their 79-67 win against Pittsburgh in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“I think the whole basketball community has been extremely down and hasn’t been like this for a long 67 time,” Tre Jones PITT DUKE 79 said. “Everyone who looked up to him.

He was an idol for almost all basketball players out there.”

Duke’s ‘Mamba Mentality’ showed against the Panthers, as blocked shots, offensive rebounds and overall hustle were abundant for the home team. Freshman Cassius Stanley set the tone early for the Blue Devils, diving to secure an offensive board before throwing down a one-handed, rim-level slam. Stanley

who finished with just 11 points in only 26 minutes, made his impact outside of the box score, as his tenacity was echoed by the rest of his teammates. Stanley and fellow freshmen Wendell Moore and Michael Savarino wore Kobe’s in Duke’s warmups.

Despite trailing for most of the game, a late second-half spurt by Pittsburgh provided a scare to the Blue Devils (17-3, 7-2 in the ACC), as the lid on the rim seemed to close up for Duke. A 24-6 run by the Panthers brought them within five points with six minutes left in the game. Matthew Hurt’s fourth foul hurt the Blue Devils, as Krzyzewski sat the forward to prevent him from fouling out. This opened a defensive hole in the paint, which Pittsburgh took advantage of.

“Sometimes when you get tired, I don’t know.

It’s that ebb and flow,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s what makes human beings human beings. Sometimes the other guy is just better.”

The Panthers (13-7, 4-6) eventually brought the game within three points, as Duke relinquished an 18-point lead. But just when things seemed to get out of hand, Stanley kept the Blue Devils in check, draining a 3-pointer in the clutch to help Duke come away victorious. A late block from Jack White put an exclamation point on a hard-fought

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Vernon Carey Jr. notched his ninth double-double, tallying 24 points and 13 rebounds. win by the Blue Devils.

“In the second half, it looked like we were tired, and we weren’t as aggressive,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s a lot of game pressure on our kids. Then in the last four minutes, they were magnificent, which says a lot about the character of our guys.”

Duke’s early offensive struggles weren’t the only things giving head coach Mike Krzyzewski headaches. Near the end of the first half, a Cameron Crazie chant of “Jeff Capel sit with us,” was met with scorn and anger as See SURVIVES on Page 9

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Emotions run high with Bryant tribute and Capel return

By Jonathan Browning Associate Sports Editor

Tuesday night marked a few emotional firsts for Duke: it was the first time former Blue Devil assistant Jeff Capel coached in Cameron Indoor Stadium since becoming Pittsburgh’s head coach and the first time the Blue Devils played since the deaths of basketball icon Kobe Bryant and Duke alumnus and former ACC Commissioner Gene Corrigan.

Together, these events resulted in a battle that was far tougher than the Blue Devils may have expected, not only physically, but also emotionally. Each team played with a heavy heart, as the evening began with a 24.8-second moment of silence while the players wore warmup shirts with a purple and yellow No. 8 on one side and No. 24 on the other, both tributes commemorating Bryant’s jersey numbers with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Though Duke would hang on for its seventh ACC victory, the night’s plentiful emotions stood out even more so than the game. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who coached Bryant in the Olympics, and the many players who idolized Bryant were visibly upset at times. “[Bryant] means a lot. To every kid in [Los Angeles], he’s Superman, he’s a hero,” freshman guard and Los Angeles native Cassius Stanley said. “He’s everyone’s superhero. We’ve been

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Both teams honored the late Kobe Bryant with their warmup shirts Tuesday night. hurting for the past couple days for sure. A couple weeks before my decision, [I got to] be around him a couple times. We sat down and actually talked for a good amount of time and he talked to me about my decision process.

He gave me advice that kind of steered me towards Duke. When I heard the news, it was

really devastating.”

The emotions would extend past mourning Bryant, however, as both head coaches would have unrelated angry outbursts.

After the Blue Devils got off to quick 9-2 advantage, the Panthers fought back, taking their own lead just a few minutes later. After a Tre Jones

basket, Capel began yelling at an official, picking up a technical foul.

Krzyzewski would not let Capel outdo him in Cameron, having an eruption of his own before heading to the locker room. Just before halftime, the Cameron Crazies began to chant “Jeff Capel sit with us.” Krzyzewski became irate and scolded the student section. Later, he acknowledged it was a misunderstanding, but reaffirmed his support of Capel and dislike for chants directed at opposing coaches.

“I love Jeff,” Krzyzewski emphasized.

“Jeff ’s my son, man. These guys, we’re part of a brotherhood. Playing against him is very difficult.”

Capel would voice support for the Cameron Crazies after the incident postgame, and also expressed his excitement to return to Cameron.

“It was great being back,” Capel said. “We came in here last night, we shot a little bit, and it was a little weird walking in here from a different entrance, and just being here not with Duke. It was great seeing so many familiar faces, seeing so many people I care about, and care about me.”

Tuesday’s game may not have been as pretty as the Blue Devils hoped or featured a programdefining ending as the Panthers hoped. But the contest still marked an important night for Duke basketball, featuring grief, anger and a welcomed homecoming.

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On Wednesday afternoon at about 3 p.m., Krzyzewski took further action to make up for what occurred the night before, holding a surprise private speech for tenters present in Krzyzewskiville. The 40 to 50 students were called by the line monitors for what seemed to be a normal tent check before line monitors informed them of a surprise, according to Robert Lane, a Duke senior and tenter who was in Krzyzewskiville at the time.

The present tenters and line monitors then entered the media room in Cameron Indoor Stadium to listen to a 30-minute speech.

Krzyzewski discussed the fragile emotional state—induced by Kobe Bryant’s recent death and his close relationship with Capel—that led to his reaction, as well as other stories involving Duke basketball over the years. He also showed a brief clip of Cameron Crazies in the past to instruct the students on how to act in the future, according to Lane.

“Today was about sort of clearing the air between Coach and the tenters, if there was any air that needed to be cleared,” co-head line monitor Ben Succop said. “Just to kind of bury the issue and grow and move past it.”

Debbie Savarino, an assistant director of athletics at Duke, as well as Krzyzewski’s

CHANT FROM PAGE 1 nod to Capel’s Duke ties was unclear to many, but co-head line monitor Ben Succop affirmed that he at least intended for the latter.

“When I heard the suggestion for the chant, my first thought was that it would be a fun and wholesome way to show Coach Capel our appreciation, considering his tremendous contributions as both a standout player and member of the coaching staff for Duke MBB,” Succop wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

“My decision on the timing was based on two things: I didn’t want to have it during a media timeout or a floor timeout to interrupt Coach Capel in the huddle, and I wanted to give the chant enough time to build in volume without taking away from the flow of the game. So I decided to wait until Pitt had

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daughter and freshman guard Michael Savarino’s mother, primarily orchestrated the meeting between Krzyzewski and the students, according to Succop.

“I immediately called Debbie during halftime and spoke to her,” Succop said. “She was confused because she couldn’t really hear, and she wanted to handle things with the respective folks on each side kind to communicate the message.”

When asked for a statement on the meeting, Duke men’s basketball spokesperson Mike DeGeorge directed back to Succop.

During Krzyzewski’s speech, he went into significant detail about his relationship with and grief over Bryant, which the coach said left him “emotionally charged,” according to Lane.

Additionally, a history of Duke’s student section jeering Capel when he played at Duke in the 1990s provide further fuel to Krzyewski’s fire.

“Coach K said that him and Capel were really close because Capel was a guy who was part of their program when they were having a tough time building the program,” Lane said. “Apparently Capel was having a really tough time when he was a senior because he was trying to figure out what he was going to do after graduation, and people actually were booing Capel for the first half of the season because he was doing so poorly. And he started figuring stuff out, but Coach K has

just been defensive after hearing stuff about Capel, so that’s why he got mad at the student section [Tuesday].”

After explaining his emotional state Tuesday, Krzyzewski continued on to tell the students a few other stories, including one about a tissue to help explain the pride his program takes in calling Cameron its home. “[Krzyzewski] said that he drops a tissue on the floor, sometimes before practice, every couple years or so,” Lane said. “And he sees if

two consecutive foul shots to start it. The wording of the chant was misunderstood by [Krzyzewski] as addressed in his press conference, and I can absolutely understand why he reacted in that manner. I accept that the onus was on me to consider the high emotions and possible alternate interpretations that could have occurred.”

Capel himself did not take offense, as the Panthers’ leader tweeted out postgame that he took “no offense” to the cheer.

Krzyzewski remained adamant that although his outburst was misguided, his care for Capel will always come first.

“I’m not going to go say, ‘Will you please tell me exactly what you’re doing?’” Krzyzewski said. “So it’s a mistake on my part, but I’d rather make the mistake and protection of my guy…. Let’s think of a different cheer.

“Jeff can sit with me any time, but not during a game.”

Derek Saul contributed reporting.

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Pittsburgh head coach Jeff Capel, who coached and played under Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, was the subject of a controversial cheer.

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anybody picks it up, and if nobody picks it up, he will host a team meeting and be like, ‘Why didn’t we pick this up?,’ and...nobody says anything. He’s like, ‘I picked it up because this is my floor. This is our floor.’”

Tuesday night was certainly bizarre for Duke basketball—this may be the only time a head coach was restrained by a referee from charging at his own student section—but Krzyzewski attempted to pick up the pieces, or tissues, at Cameron Wednesday afternoon.

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was angered by the students’ chant about Jeff Capel.

FROM PAGE 8 Krzyzewski told his fans to “Shut up”, later yelling “[Capel’s] one of us.”

Vernon Carey Jr. displayed what it means to outwork your opponent, something Bryant prided himself on throughout his career. Carey could not be stopped down low, scoring 24 points and corralling 13 rebounds, five of them offensive. Time and time again, Carey found a way to keep offensive possessions alive, also erasing opportunities for the Panthers, coming away with a block.

The Blue Devils also took advantage of a porous Panther perimeter defense, hitting nine of their 26 attempted 3-point attempts.

An unsuspecting Jordan Goldwire led the way with three long-range makes, continuing his surprising offensive breakout.

“He puts in the work every single day and he knows that if he wants to be out there, and if he wants to make the impact he can make, he has to do that,” Jones said. “When they’re

helping off him which they did tonight, he’s ready and he has the confidence. We all have the confidence in him to step up and hit those shots.”

Pittsburgh opted for a 2-3 zone late in the first half, which could have stumped the Blue Devils, who occasionally struggle from deep.

However, it was met with triple after triple, as Duke jumped out to a 11-point lead to finish the first half.

Still, the Blue Devils struggled at times offensively in their half-court set. Despite attaining multiple defensive stops and numerous near-double digit leads, offensive droughts allowed the Panthers to stay competitive through most of the first half.

The Panthers did not make it easy for the Blue Devils to find open shots, and if not for Duke’s efficiency on fast breaks, Pittsburgh might have kept the game close. However, once the Blue Devils earned their cushiony lead, they never looked back.

The Blue Devils will travel to Syracuse this Saturday to face the Orange, continuing the team’s ACC slate.

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Junior point guard Jordan Goldwire had an impressive first half, scoring 11 points on three 3-pointers against the Panthers.

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The land Duke West Campus sits on was not stolen from anyone, but purchased in the 1920s. The tribes you list were not in the area by then; maybe the treatment of Native Americans is not a source of pride for modern-day descendants of European settlers, but that is a different topic. The land Duke East Campus sits on was not stolen, but donated to Trinity College by Julian Carr around 1892, when Trinity College moved to Durham.

Maybe you were disappointed by Duke’s opposition to the light rail proposal, but the opposition was based on valid considerations; reasonable people can differ. Rail is a very expensive way to move people around; just look at Atlanta.

“Union busting” is an inherently political term, so I disregard it.

Is Duke University guilty of “hate and bias crimes?” Recent events in the chronology linked to your column are mostly a collection of individual vandalism incidents and a self-congratulatory list of demonstrations and petitions.

Your column alleges that Duke has a “moniker of ‘the plantation.’ ” But Duke University was established around 1930, more than six decades

that, decades before Duke or Trinity was established. North Carolina ceased to be a UK colony in the late 18th century.

7. Duke University does not “hoard” its $8.6 billion endowment; in fact, the endowment spends 5.5% of its funds (over $400 million?) every year to support the University, and over 20% of the endowment is ear-marked for financial aid, as you know. One of my favorite sayings: “No good deed goes unpunished.”

I have a suggestion: you should pretend that Duke University was liquidated before you arrived, and please make sure there is no reference to Duke on your resume or CV. Duke will be around for the rest of your life, whether you like it or not. And Duke doesn’t need your money, so quit worrying about it.

By the way, I dare the Chronicle to publish this letter.

Very truly yours, Charles H. Ogburn Class of ’77

Editor’s note: “The plantation” is a popular nickname used by some staff and activists in reference to the University. Read about its history online.

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ost days, I find myself in West Union nibbling on a salmon and kale poké bowl while dreaming of the next controversial topic to whine self-righteously about in my esteemed Chronicle opinion column. One drab and monotonous day, as I choked down another piece of unseasoned fish, Duke did my work for me—President Price announced that a small group of “impact investors” had passed the proverbial “GO” and would receive $100,000 in Monopoly money to boost their chances at being the next Goldman Sachs executive to cause a financial crisis.

logic of impact investing is completely incoherent. When an investor or a firm, at their own discretion, decides some venture is a worthwhile investment, no one asks why such dramatic wealth disparities, or why the problem they want to fix, even exists in the first place. Wealthy investors would much rather slap their name on a “do-good” initiative boosting their public image (while still earning a decent profit) than equitably redistributing their wealth through higher taxes or living wages and job security for working-class people.

BlackRock is certainly not the only firm pooling wealth

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Sorry—that perhaps came off a little harsh. Rather, the undergraduate Duke Impact Investing Group received funds to generate “social and environmental impact[s]” alongside financial returns, a classic example of using knowledge in the service of society. I, of course, salivated over another opportunity to condemn my peers and earn mention in Matthew Noles and Mitch Murphy’s next column.

I’ll admit: At first, I knew little about impact investing.

And, friends, I’ll admit something else: Once I did my research, I was blown away. Everyone—and I mean anyone with a couple million or billion to spare—is all aboard the social impacting train. The industry’s collective assets have risen above $500 billion and will approach $1 trillion in the next decade. As I read more, I felt deeply relieved to learn of so many corporate heroes taking their societal responsibilities seriously. (Don’t just take my word for it: start your own investigation here).

Here’s a fun example: BlackRock, a global investment management corporation with assets of nearly $7 trillion (yes, trillion) has boldly established itself as a leader in sustainable investments. The company has fought the good fight against climate change, war, and poverty while remaining one of the world’s largest investors in coal production plants, weapons manufacturers, and real estate acquisitions displacing poor tenants. A not insignificant number of Duke students past and present have bravely suppressed cognitive dissonance to secure lucrative positions at BlackRock, and perhaps some of Duke’s current impact investors will join this storied tradition.

The core lesson from my research, however, is that the

made possible by mass exploitation. The entire social impact industry, in incredibly complex ways, is underwritten by illgotten wealth, and functions largely as a thin moral cover for an unjust economic system. Accountable only to shareholders, impact investors make the rich richer while claiming to make life slightly more tolerable for everyone else (that is, if impact investing generated any real “impact” in the first place). Writer and recovering McKinsey consultant Anand Giridharadas thinks along the same lines. “Impact investing gives [the investor class] more influence and the moral glow to continue practicing pillage economics elsewhere.” In other words, impact investing depends on economic and social inequality for its very existence, insulating the privilege of the rich and powerful above all else.

I can only conclude, then, that Duke seeks to train future donors in the fine art of avoiding accountability while hoarding power and wealth. We shouldn’t be surprised—the university has been practicing the same subterfuge its entire existence, and scandal after lovely scandal in recent years are the rule.

Alas, I am but a naive, sanctimonious 21 year old (un) paid by Opinion Editor Leah Abrams to spew my thoughts: what do I know? Yet, some of my fellow opinion columnists seem to have the same concerns about the choices our university community makes. In recent months, we’ve read about how Campus Enterprises, much like DIIG, teaches our future billionaires to give lip service to social good as long as they get to call the shots and never have to sacrifice their “hard-earned” wealth. We’ve engaged in anxious debates over whether making six figures upon graduation

justifies family separation, eviscerating poor neighborhoods, enabling the US military’s violence abroad, or making opioid manufacturers more efficient at murder. In response, administrators and students alike assure us that all of these bright and level-headed Duke students will create “change” from the inside. I’m not holding my breath for evidence of such change when the year-end bonuses start rolling in.

At what point do we give up the fiction that Duke University and its students are a moral beacon in a dark and scary world, but rather far more comfortable growing powerful and wealthy off the status quo? Those who rise in defense of impact investing, greedy corporations, and careers with other global purveyors of inequality likely know they will never face the violent consequences their work produces.

The maintenance of poverty, white supremacy, war, and xenophobia aren’t so terrifying when cast as necessary evils in intellectual debates. In true Duke form, supporting future careers at companies like BlackRock, Palantir, and McKinsey empowers students to act with impunity while fooling themselves into believing they can make the world a better place. President Price’s gift to DIIG is just another example of doing good masquerading as doing justice, which should require us to think critically about who has power and resources and who doesn’t.

Since I’m starting to detect a strange odor from my salmon and kale poke bowl, I better start wrapping up this latest addition in my ongoing series of complaints. This conversation reminds me of a quote from an interview with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, discussing the legacy of public historian and civil rights activist Howard Zinn. She says: “[Zinn] writes in the book that he would tell his students that he’s not a neutral person, that all ideas do not carry the same significance, that the level of injustice and inequity in the world requires that we take positions. Those positions should absolutely be rooted in facts, in history. But life is really too short to equivocate. We have to take positions on things and then fight for them.”

Where we choose to work is not neutral. Neither is the choice about which companies recruit on campus. We normalize morally bankrupt choices under the false notion that any option is fair game. Zinn instructs us to recognize that working at Palantir or McKinsey is not solely a decision about future career paths, but a question of life-or-death for millions. I’m tired of those with power, authority, and security telling us otherwise.

Gino Nuzzolillo is a Trinity senior. His column normally runs on alternate Mondays.

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uke has made it clear that it will not interfere with students’ career choices. In an article written in light of recent protests at Tech Connect and the Career Fair, multiple Duke administrators, from Bill Wright-Swadel from the Career Center, to Michael Schoenfeld from Public

Amy Fan FANGIRLING Affairs and Governmental Relations, to Ravi Bellamkonda from the Pratt School of Engineering, to Mary Pat McMahon from Student Affairs, have all said some variation of the statement that students should have the critical thought and ability to choose their own careers, and Duke wasn’t going to interfere with those efforts.

At a liberal arts institution, this makes sense. Our education isn’t meant to be explicitly preprofessional—that’s why fields like business, journalism, finance, and education are explicitly relegated to certificates or minors. Our information about careers is almost entirely circulated informally—through friends, student organizations, upperclassmen, social groups, parents, maybe a visit or two to the career center, maybe a professor or two and our own networking efforts.

Yet that process seems to lead students to careers with one explicit value—

efficiency. According to the Duke Senior Survey, technology, finance, and business/ management consulting are three of the top industries employing Duke students.

Finance claims to make the markets run more efficiently. Consulting helps businesses run more efficiently. And tech... well, it’s claiming to make every other aspect of life more efficient.

For a student body that likes to talk about the benefits of diversity, it’s bizarre that so many people’s career values converge into a few specific values. For a student, however, the logic may be clear: Financial stability is important—especially after receiving an education worth over a quarter million dollars. The job should provide transferrable skills that lend themselves to a future career.

The work ideally should be interesting, and the people should be good. Many of my friends are going down a similar career path—it gives us something to commiserate over and forms the basis for a professional network in the future.

Recently, however, that logic is being questioned more. Earlier this month, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal both wrote articles about the growing “techlash,” and they weren’t the first. ProPublica wrote a set of exposes on McKinsey’s contracts with ICE and its work with private prisons in December.

At Duke, the conversation has been growing too. Starting with the protests at the Fall TechConnect, to Annie’s column on Palantir, to, to DSG’s resolution to ask Duke to not let Palantir recruit on campus to the

protest at TechConnect and the Career Fair this semester.

Even if Duke doesn’t stop allowing the companies to recruit as many of the protestors have called for, there’s certainly more scrutiny within the student body towards people who choose to work at certain companies. Few people talked to the Palantir recruiter at TechConnect once the protesters showed up, and they weren’t present at this semester’s event.

I’ve heard from many of peers that a company’s work shouldn’t be invalidated because of one controversial project. And in most cases, these companies were simply providing logistical or technical help or advice, not actively taking part in the specific injustices.

My first column this year was questioning whether focusing on “transferrable skills” took away from other values in a career. In it, I asked whether merely learning “tools” was as value-neutral as it seemed. Which perhaps brings me to my last point: that in many cases, these widely applicable “tools” that claim to promote “efficiency” are actually tools for holding and concentrating power.

Efficiency can be a tool for democratizing power, or concentrating it.

I think back to the late Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer science professor at MIT who helped design the first computerized banking system for Bank of America in the 1960s. In a 1986 interview, he argued that “the computer has from the beginning been a fundamentally conservative force. It has made possible the

saving of institutions pretty much as they were, which otherwise might have had to be changed.” Furthermore, he goes on to say that in the process of designing the banking system, “[t]here were many very hard technical problems. It was a whole of a lot of fun attacking those hard problems, and it never occurred to me at the time that I was cooperating in a technological venture which had certain social side effects which I might come to regret.”

This complicates things a bit more. If my peers choose to enter the finance, consulting, and tech industries because they are powerhungry, hypercompetitive, and elitist, as I’m sure some like to see Duke students, then it’s easy to criticize their decisions.

But what if my peers see them as genuinely interesting—maybe even fun—pursuits?

Hasn’t this institution encouraged us to follow our interests from day 1? But does that absolve them from the effects of their future endeavors?

This is a question I could write a whole other column on, but in short: I’m not convinced it does. If anything, I’m more convinced that following your interests and valuing efficiency have become convenient rationalizations for going into the same few powerful industries—at the direct cost of other values.

Amy Fan is a Trinity senior. Her column, “fangirling,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Note: If you are hiring a fintech consultant, please email her at af192@duke.edu.

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Duke suspends travel to China amid coronavirus spread

By Nathan Luzum Managing Editor

University-funded travel to China is being curtailed in light of the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington wrote in an email to the Duke community Tuesday evening.

“The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that all non-essential travel to China be deferred due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus,” they wrote in the email.

“Therefore, effective immediately, Duke University is restricting all university-funded travel to China.”

The restrictions apply to faculty, staff and students from Duke Health and Duke University, but do not affect personal travel.

Duke employees who must travel to China for clinical work or research should contact their dean or department chair for an exception, Kornbluth and Washington noted.

“We urge any individual planning a trip to China to carefully review the latest health information from U.S. government sources, and be aware that anyone returning from China may be subject to screening and quarantine

guidelines in place at the time,” they wrote.

Duke Kunshan University has shuttered its doors for an extended period of time after the Lunar New Year, as classes have been canceled until Feb. 17. Students from areas not affected by coronavirus are being encouraged to return home, and the University has offered a $1,000 stipend to cover travel expenses.

There have also been issues with DKU graduate students obtaining passports to return home, as some are still in the hands of the Chinese government, WRAL reported.

“Because the government offices were closed for the weekend and the holiday, several of them were not able to get access to their passports,” Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations, told WRAL Monday. “We expect, if that has not been resolved already, it’ll be resolved in the next day or so.”

An individual who had traveled to China was also admitted to Duke Hospital Jan. 23 with respiratory problems resembling coronavirus, but doctors soon determined that the patient did not have the virus.

The Hubei province in China, where the coronavirus originated, was added to restricted regions list Jan. 26, according to Duke’s website on coronavirus response.

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also allegedly treated Locasale “negatively” by insisting on small talk and eye contact, even when McDonnell had allegedly been told that “this is not within Asian culture.”

Locasale was told in July 2019 that he would be subject to a “‘cultural’ audit,” the complaint describes, which did not find any evidence of misconduct in his laboratory.

Because the cultural audit was never defined, the complaint asserts that the audit was a mechanism to “harass, intimidate and bully” Locasale and undermine his reputation.

This lawsuit comes on the heels of Forbes’ employer diversity and inclusion rankings, which slated Duke as the top university, eighth-best nationally and best of employers in the education industry.

The Chronicle sat down with Locasale in September 2019 to trace his journey to Duke and the international prominence of his cancer research. In describing his proudest moment in his lab, he recounted that he was “one of the first people, if not the first” to incorporate many chemistry technologies to analyze metabolism in cancer, which are now ordinary practices in his field.

Nathan Luzum contributed reporting.

FROM PAGE 1 Civil Rights Act. “As a result of Defendant’s unlawful and bad faith actions, Plaintiff has suffered lost wages, lost benefits, lost leadership opportunities, emotional distress and other compensatory damages,” the complaint reads.

In describing Duke’s allegedly discriminatory culture, the complaint points to past negative treatment of Asian employees due to their Asian identity.

Although it does not explicitly name Megan Neely, the complaint mentions a former director of graduate studies who instructed students not to speak Chinese in the department’s buildings.

Donald McDonnell, who referred The Chronicle to Schoenfeld when contacted for comment, is mentioned more than a dozen times in the complaint. McDonnell, chair of the pharmacology and cancer biology department, allegedly ignored Locasale’s job expectations that he would lead an initiative related to cancer metabolism. He

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