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‘A weird tradition’ Film on city’s desegregation Meet Cammy, the basketball baby doll premieres at the Carolina RECESS

By Ben Leonard

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In 1971, civil rights activist Ann Atwater and KKK leader C.P. Ellis struck up an unexpected friendship that led to school desegregation in Durham. Now, their story is coming to the big screen.

“The Best of Enemies” held a red carpet premiere at the Carolina Theatre Tuesday, with many of Atwater’s family members and the film’s star Taraji P. Henson in attendance.

Following Brown v. Board of Education, Durham school remained largely segregated, until a Durham district court ordered the desegregation of local schools in 1971. Bill Riddick invited Atwater and Ellis to co-lead a charrette, involving 10 days of town meetings to resolve issues related to the court order. By the end of the meetings, Ellis publicly ripped up his KKK membership card.

“Ann was able to put her differences aside and see C.P. Ellis as a human,” Henson said.

“She was able to tap into his heart, and by doing that, she changed his heart.”

Atwater and Ellis realized their similarities and started a lifelong friendship. They proposed major changes to the Durham school curriculum, including more instruction on how to deal with racial violence and an expansion of the choice in textbooks to include AfricanAmerican authors.

The film is based off Osha Davidson’s book “The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the South” and Diane Bloom’s documentary “An Unlikely Friendship.”

Davidson’s book was the required summer reading for Duke freshmen in 2011.

The producers honored the story of school desegregation by hosting a screening for 600 Durham school students Tuesday morning, the film’s first public audience.

Director Robin Bissell, who previously worked as the producer on “The Hunger Games” and “Seabiscuit” first heard of Atwater and Ellis’ story after Ellis’ death in 2005. “The Best of Enemies” marks his writing and directorial debut.

“It taught me a lot about where hatred comes from and how to get through the hatred,” Bissell said.

Atwater died in 2016, but she knew Henson would accept the role and the movie would be made prior to her death. Her reputation as a powerful, caring civil rights activist lived on at the premiere.

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If you’re inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, you can’t help but notice it.

No, it is not Zion Williamson’s gargantuan frame whizzing by. It’s not even head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s hefty golden ring(s).

It’s an old baby.

Duke’s line monitors who run the arena’s student section have passed down the baby doll with blue horns and a rip in her leg for decades. Cameron, nicknamed “Cammy,” has been used in cheers that millions have seen on ESPN and viral videos.

Opposing players take notice and wink.

Jack White stops by to give her a kiss. Antonio Vrankovic even headbutts her.

“It’s nice she gets so much love for being such an ugly child,” said senior Alexa Moses, her current mother.

Cammy gets passed down from line monitor to line monitor every year, Moses said—and certain characteristics make for a suitable mother.

“You have to be really enthusiastic because people like seeing the baby,” Moses said. “You have to be okay with little kids and parents wanting to take photos with it. I’ve really enjoyed it.”

Time has left its mark on Cammy—leaving a tear in her right knee, that line monitors have unsuccessfully patched, and a slightly frayed white Duke bib around her neck. She’s been through a lot, including getting slapped in the

Sujal Manohar | Photography Editor Senior Alexa Moses, a line monitor, is the baby’s current mother.

head in a ESPN clip that went viral.

The clip from Duke’s game against Tennessee State in 2016 shows Cammy’s exmother, then-junior Sara Constand, slapping Cammy in the head.

“Are we really just gonna sit here and pretend like this woman was not just slapping the s*** out of her baby?!,” read a tweet caption for the video, which has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times in the one tweet alone and has made the rounds on YouTube as well.

“I was hitting her head solely because it

is difficult to clap and hold her,” Constand, Trinity ‘18 and former co-head line monitor, wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “Many of the Duke chants involve clapping, and if you don’t have free hands it’s easier to make a sound using the plastic of her head.”

Just after the Tennessee State game, Constand was driving home for winter break when her phone rang at 7 a.m. It was a friend from high school.

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OPINION

New Zealand and the moral imperative to defeat white supremacy

Editorial Board The Chronicle

On March 15, a white supremacist carried out a massacre across two mosques in New Zealand, leaving 50 dead and many more wounded. The gunman was met with “Hello brother,” as he entered the door of a Christchurch mosque before opening fire on worshippers inside, stripping them of their humanity.

For Muslims across the globe, Friday prayers at local mosques offer a sanctuary for practicing their faith among a loving community. A faith that western media outlets, American political leaders and even those within our own Duke community scrutinize, misrepresent and attack.

New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, called the attack “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence” that added to a growing list of mass murders stemming from white nationalism. This

organized, premeditated slaughter of innocent individuals in their place of worship is only the latest manifestation of white supremacy ideologies making headlines.

Last Friday afternoon, the fascist terrorist was delusionally intent on fighting so-called “white genocide” by targeting a population he saw as a threat. Muslims being viewed as a violent invasive community is the result of decades-long large scale campaigns of vilification targeting both the faith and its people by some of the most powerful international actors—including American political leaders like President Trump.

From college campuses to the national political stage, when marginalized communities push back against white supremacist rhetoric, they’re often met with cries for free speech and the insistence that anti-immigrant sentiments are nothing more than opinions in the marketplace of ideas.

However, the past few years especially have been ample evidence for the magnitude

of ramifications these right-wing ideologies have. The consequences of tolerating white nationalism has included the murders of fifty Muslims in a New Zealand mosque, nine Black worshippers in a Charleston Church, six Sikhs in Wisconsin, a woman in Charlottesville, and eleven Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

To separate the racist, xenophobic and sexist ideals at the foundation of white supremacy from white supremacy’s role in the murder of millions through the centuries is nothing less than inexcusably disrespectful to the countless victims.

The normalization of white nationalism and white supremacy we are witnessing unfold before us must be taken as a serious, existential threat to humanity. It is our obligation to call out politicians, media outlets and institutions that—under the guise of free speech—give it a platform.

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DukeEngage director steps down

Paddleton portrays realistic platonic romance

Opinion: Housekeepers deserve better

After more than a decade at the helm of the program, Eric Mlyn is walking away.

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Kerry Rork reviews the film’s “truly intimate male friendship.”

Columnist Tim Kowalczyk pens open letter to President Vincent Price about the seven-day schedule.

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Admissions scandal rocks higher education

By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

Federal prosecutors charged 50 people last week in the largest college admissions scandal ever prosecuted, alleging parents bought their children admission to top universities through illegal methods.

The parents allegedly forked over $25 million to gain their children entrance to schools that included Yale, Stanford, Wake Forest and Boston University, among others.

College coaches were also ensnared in the charges for

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being accomplices in suggesting these applicants were “top athletes,” but some did not even play the sport they were allegedly “recruited” for. Among the parents charged include actress Felicity Huffman, who starred in ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” and actress Lori Loughlin—best known for her role in ABC’s “Full House.”

Duke has no coaches or administrators named or implicated in the charges. When asked if the admissions office was taking any action in the scandal’s wake, See SCANDAL on Page 12

Chronicle File Photo No Duke University administrators or coaches have been implicated in the FBI’s investigation or charged in the scandal.

Suspension for last fraternity lifted after hazing investigation

By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

The last of four fraternities that were under investigation for hazing has had its suspension lifted.

Nearly two months after its suspension was announced pending a hazing investigation, Delta Tau Delta is no longer suspended, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, confirmed in an email to The Chronicle Monday. “(We’re) happy that this matter has been resolved and look forward to the rest of the semester,” Delta Tau Delta president Matthew Gallardo, a junior, wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

Moneta told the Chronicle Jan. 25 that hazing allegations had prompted investigations and suspensions for Delta Tau Delta and Pi Kappa Phi, as well as a suspension of new member activities at Sigma Phi Epsilon.

On Feb. 7, Moneta also noted that new member activities had been suspended at Duke’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Order pending an investigation into hazing allegations.

“Duke University has no tolerance for hazing,” Moneta wrote. “As soon as the university was made aware of these allegations we launched an investigation.”

By Feb. 15, it became known that the fraternities Pi Kappa Phi’s suspension and Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma Phi Epsilon’s suspensions of new member activities were lifted.

That left just Delta Tau Delta on suspension at that time, according to Emilie Dye, director of student engagement for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Just more than a month later, Moneta wrote that Delta Tau Delta was no longer suspended in an email on Monday.

In emails, Moneta and Dye declined to comment further on the investigation’s findings.

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Eric Mlyn steps down after leading DukeEngage for 12 years

By Xinchen Li Local and National News Editor

After leading the DukeEngage program for 12 years, Eric Mlyn will step down June 30 as the Peter Lange executive director of the program and assistant vice provost for civic engagement.

In a news release, Mlyn said it has been an honor for him to lead the organization.

“It takes a truly great university to build a program like DukeEngage, with expertise and support from all parts of Duke,” he said. “We have benefited from the excellence and collaboration that are hallmarks of Duke University.”

Mlyn, also a lecturer in the Sanford School of Public Policy, previously directed the Robertson Scholars Program, a joint merit-based undergraduate scholarship program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Number of countries the program has sent students to since launching in 2007 In 2007, Duke launched the DukeEngage initiative, a fully funded summer civic engagement program that has sent Duke undergraduate students to 46 U.S. cities and 84 countries. Mlyn was appointed as the executive director the same year. The program was funded by two $15 million donations from the Duke Endowment and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the release, Provost Sally Kornbluth said Mlyn has made a significant contribution in making DukeEngage an integral part of the Duke undergraduate experience.

Courtesy of DukeToday Eric Mlyn, who built the DukeEngage program into one of Duke’s signature features, is stepping down after more than a decade at the helm.

“We owe much to Eric for his founding vision, energy and creativity which has enabled DukeEngage to have made such an impact on students and society,” she said in the release.

When celebrating DukeEngage’s 10th anniversary in 2017, Mlyn said in an interview with The Chronicle that he hoped the entire Duke community would “celebrate and congratulate what we’ve built together and what has become a well-recognized, signature program of the University.”

Charlie Piot, professor of cultural anthropology African and African American Studies, will succeed Mlyn as DukeEngage director.

Piot launched and leads DukeEngage-Togo, a program where students conduct service projects such as teaching

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computer classes in Western African countries including Togo, Nigeria and Benin.

DukeEngage is undergoing another leadership transition as well—it will remain under the Office of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education but will also become an affiliated program of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, whose director Suzanne Shanahan and associate director Ada Gregory will participate in leadership.

“I am thrilled that DukeEngage is becoming a program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics,” Shanahan said in the release. “As long-term program directors in Ireland and New York, Ada and I look forward to working with Professor Piot and the fabulous team at DukeEngage to lead the next chapter of this invaluable undergraduate experience.”

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‘Hatred and intolerance will never define us’ MSA hosts vigil following New Zealand mosque massacres

By Maria Morrison Staff Reporter

Candles flickered in the evening wind as hundreds gathered around a group performing Maghrib prayer, the fourth of five daily prayers that takes place right after sunset.

Muslim students knelt on prayer rugs on the lawn of the Chapel as fellow students and other onlookers gathered around them in solidarity at a vigil for those recently killed in a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A man who appeared to be a white supremacist allegedly shot and killed 50 people Friday during

prayer at the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood mosque.

Ibrahim was one of many Muslim students who met at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden deemed the the Chapel to mourn and come together. killings a terrorist attack. Tuesday’s “At this time more than ever, every vigil, organized by the Duke Muslim We must fight against hatred person from every direction of life, on Students Association, was designed to this campus, in this state, in this country, demonstrate the unity and love among in the only way that is and on this planet, must stand together students to alleviate any fear among possible—with compassion. and stick together,” Ibrahim said. “We Duke’s Muslim community. must fight against hatred in the only way “This past Friday, we saw terrible aman ibrahim possible—with compassion.”

JUNIOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE MUSLIM acts of terrorism, of hate, of evil. Yet It was not just Muslim students who STUDENT ASSOCIATION gathered. Faith leaders and students from today we stand united as a community to show that hated and intolerance various religions attended and spoke to will never define us,” said junior Aman Ibrahim, president offer their support. Senior Cheenu Tiwari, a representative of the MSA. of the Hindu Student Association, addressed the group, discussing the harm that comes to all minority communities when there is violence against one group.

Elana Friedman—Campus Rabbi and Chaplain for Jewish Life at Duke—also spoke, emphasizing the Jewish community’s support during this time.

“If unrestrained hate is the source of the world’s brokenness, then we can discern the way to repair... unbounded, free-flowing love,” Friedman said. “We must not let hate win. We must not be hushed to indifference. We must turn our heartbreak to acts of connection and loving kindness. We must turn to love.”

During the vigil, 50 candles were lit as the names of the victims were called out. Speakers offered prayers for the dead.

However, the vigil was not solely dedicated to grieving. It was also a call for everyone, not just Muslims, to stand together against such attacks.

“Here at Duke, it is not enough to just condemn hate and violence,” said graduate student Anisa Khalifa. “Yes, we mourn. Yes, we pray. But also, we stand up, we speak out, we act.”

Tears ran down candlelit faces.

“I believe a community is most important in mourning and fighting against injustices,” said sophomore Jamal Burns. “I hope Duke students take away the fact that we can come together and be there for each other in times like this.”

Danielle Oakley, director of Duke’s Counseling and Psychological Services, reminded students of the mental health and counseling options available for those who wish to talk.

“I’m so happy with the number of people that came out and the diversity of the people that came out,” Ibrahim told The Chronicle. “It shows that, as a Muslim, we have friends among the community. We can have a support system with one another.”

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playing the hits Recess culture editor reflects on value of compilation, page 7

love and loss ‘Paddleton’ explores platonic love and mortality, page 8

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When I began questioning my sexuality as 13 or 14 year-old, the imperative question was “Why am I the way I am?” I believed that the end of my inner turmoil was contingent on answering this question in some way, preferably with a concise answer. But I found myself caught up in descriptors, with the names I’d rotate between never sticking and always lacking the explanatory power that I sought. Gay? No. Bisexual? Maybe. Queer? And what about gender identity and/or expression? Woman but butch? No. Woman but femme? No. Woman but neither? Or, perhaps, woman who’s too afraid to figure out what the hell is going on?

I’ve spent six or seven years attempting unsuccessfully to figure out the answer to these questions, and I’m starting to settle on the possibility that perhaps my whole set-up, from the get-go, was flawed. I’d presumed that questioning was a means to some later stability guaranteed by my maturation, and that its realization would be indicated by my finding the right self-descriptor.

But the better question was, and is: Can this turmoil, this questioning, ever end? Or does its purpose go beyond being a mere rung on a ladder?

As a brown, queer, Muslim American woman, I live in an external state of contradiction that I consider to be part and parcel with my inability to find a stable gender identity and sexuality to map onto my own body. I’ll play chicken-or-theegg games with myself: Is my inability to make sense of my own body borne out of my living at the intersection of a supposedly dichotomous East/West? Or, is my inability to own and proudly represent any sort of coherent, self-contained immigrant identity a result of my failure to make sense of something so fundamental as my own, living, breathing human body?

When doing research on immigrant identity, I once met an individual who argued that it was the children of immigrants, not immigrants themselves, who are deviant and dangerous.

“They have cognitive dissonance,” they said, because they are caught between two countries, unable to confer allegiance to one or the other. I deemed the comment prejudiced (perhaps a bit self-righteously) and preemptively discarded it.

But I later met an immigrant father who asserted that first-generation kids’ struggles with identity merited greater empathy, not derision, and something I’d never expected to come full circle suddenly did so. It was like flipping between the two faces of a coin passed between palms, a truth revealed in the fleeting transition between two states. I’ve at times wondered whether I’ve fulfilled the prophecy of cognitive dissonance, and whether that makes me deviant or pitiable. Or, perhaps as I’ve done with my body, I should just label the aberrant space I inhabit “queer” and pretend that naming it is enough to explain it.

Much of my attempts at figuring myself out have involved trying to parse between the internal

staff note and the external, an effort I now realize is trivial.

I just can’t tell the difference between the two.

And Judith Butler would say that that’s the point, that trying to do so is completely futile, that body and identity is society. “What’s me?” and “What’s affected me?” are easy to ask but difficult to answer, because oftentimes they are one and the same.

Different influences overlap in a way that makes it impossible for me to make sense of myself and my body, to figure out what, if anything at all, can be salvaged under the weight of those external forces.

Would I still be queer if I was born and raised in my parents’ country? If I were more religious? If I were blonde and white and American would I still be queer? Would I still be me? If I grew out my moustache and body hair would I still recognize myself in the mirror? Would I like what I’d see?

My attempts to make sense of my body have been obscured and complicated by my living between supposed opposites. I cannot tell the

difference among external influences, let alone between them and the idealized, unadulterated me that I’ve perpetually sought out. I fear the consequences of growing out my body hair and moustache not merely because it will challenge my self-conception of womanhood, one that hangs more on the thin thread of convention than any sort of internal consensus, but also because it will embody the unique shame of being a hairy brown body in a Western world. Body hair on brown bodies is not only unwomanly, but it is uncouth, uncultured, dirty and barbarian in a way that has been racialized and colonialized. And even if I can semantically differ between these forces, my fear feels like a homogenization of them all, a general pulse that traces back to nowhere in particular. As Roxane Gay has written, the shame of an unruly, undisciplined body can feel so visceral that it seems to come from within.

Dichotomies and categories are the organizing principles we use to make sense of ourselves, to identify ourselves and to recognize our allegiances.

But, if as Fatima El-Tayeb suggests, my embodying supposed opposites reveals the artificiality of their distinction, then I must lack a vocabulary by which to definitively and absolutely identify myself. I am neither East nor West, immigrant nor American, masculine nor feminine. I am somewhere inbetween, but “in-between” is a flimsy descriptor (to say nothing of its inability to explain) because it doesn’t describe me as I am. it describes me in relation to others, in relation to some artificially imposed binary. And “queer” isn’t much more helpful, either, because it describes a subject relationally to the norm, outside of it or as some funhouse mirror version of it.

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local arts FILM FROM PAGE 1 “Ann was the leader of the low wealth people who were living in the black community,” Riddick said. “Basically, she was the only voice they had, and she represented them well.”

Henson watched videos about Atwater prior to filming to ensure an accurate portrayal.

“She went up against a bunch of powerful white men, and she was very bold in doing so,” she said. “She was a voice for the voiceless.”

Atwater’s daughter said Ellis and Atwater were the best of friends, in part because they had to be.

“He lost all of his friends when he decided

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to take on this challenge. She lost a great deal of people in community because they were working together,” she said. “So they kind of stuck together as best friends. And it was a wonderful relationship.”

The film’s premiere coincides with the 150th anniversary of Durham’s incorporation, shining a light on the city’s civil rights history. But Davidson felt that the story was timely in more than one way.

“The problems that [Ellis] was facing as a poor white person, he had been taught they were caused by black people,” Davidson. “He was being used by the wealthy elite in Durham to keep poor whites and poor blacks at each other’s throats so that no one would challenge the standing order. This story resonates today because we have the same problems, and we

need to do the same work on these issues.”

Despite being set in Durham, “Best of Enemies” was filmed in Georgia due to more favorable tax incentives for film crews.

“Even though I wanted to shoot here, we only had so much money,” he said. “And we could put more of that money onscreen if we shot it in Atlanta.”

Danny Strong, co-creator of the show “Empire” on which Henson was a star, gave Henson the script. Although the script was written in 2013, she signed onto the film in 2016.

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“It was important to me because of the story and where race relations are at right now in the world,” Henson said.

Duke will host a panel about “Best of Enemies” following a screening of the film Wednesday at 6 p.m., and the film will debut in theaters nationwide April 5.

As much as Ellis and Atwater accomplished in 1971, some feel that more progress still needs to be made.

“That was 1971, and things still look like that now,” Henson said.“We still have a lot of work to do.”

Christy Kuesel | Contributing Photographer “Best of Enemies” star Taraji P. Henson discusses the film’s legacy at its red carpet premiere.

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Shut up and play the hits: The value of greatest hit compilations

By Will Atkinson Culture Editor

My first introduction to the album format came through three records that, to many people, don’t even qualify as “albums,” in the strictest sense of the word: The Beach Boys’ “The Greatest Hits – Volume 1: 20 Good Vibrations,” The Monkees’ “The Essentials” and Squeeze’s “Singles – 45’s and Under.” With their bloated tracklists and curious obsession with the en dash, each of these titles has the designation not as an album but as a greatest-hits compilation, that dreaded domain of aging artists and cash-strapped labels.

Not that I cared — for all I knew, the glorious excerpts from “Pet Sounds” simply belonged on the same disc as, say, “Kokomo.” (I remember finding the former too quiet and melancholy for my ears, the latter much more memorable.)

As for the other two, it was enough even to have “Daydream Believer” or “Up the Junction” on demand, and I usually didn’t bother with the back half anyway.

Only now, jaded by years of being conditioned to prize the cohesive album as the highest form of pop music, do these selections feel at all unnatural to me. Even though singles compilations have been around for as long as the music industry has existed, the ontological debate over whether a compilation — which is often put together by a label, independent of the artist’s input, and has an explicitly commercial motivation — actually constitutes an album has continued to be a controversial one, at least among some circles. Can Bob Marley’s “Legend,” a collection whose apolitical selections were explicitly geared toward white audiences, really be the 46th greatest album of all time, as Rolling Stone says it is? Is Buzzcocks’ “Singles Goin’ Steady” a seminal document of the punk era, or must it always have an asterisk next to its name?

According to the general public, at least, the answer seems to be clear. Just last year, The Eagles’

“Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)” leapfrogged Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” as the best-selling album of all time. The Beach Boys’ “Greatest Hits – Volume 1” went double-platinum — a distinction “Pet Sounds” never achieved — while “Legend” continues to outsell every other reggae album on the charts. What this means is that, for those who still purchase physical releases, the greatest-hits compilation remains the most desirable way to consume music.

And who could blame them? Before the vinyl renaissance brought 180-gram repressings to every doorstep, those hits CDs were one of the only options this side of oldies radio for accessing the sounds of a previous generation.

It comes as no surprise to me that this was how I found an introduction to those same sounds, retrofitted for a new era and readily available at the local Best Buy. Yet the fact of these albums’ mass production in no way diminished my experience of them.

In a way, they were even more personal: As far as I knew, there was no world beyond the CD I held in my hands, a collection that was specific to my time and place. The Monkees album, I would later discover, was a fairly run-of-the-mill compilation distributed by Rhino Entertainment that cropped up on shelves in 2002 and gradually faded into commercial obscurity. (It’s difficult even to find much information about the release online.) So why did it feel like such a definitive portrait of the band? Unencumbered by the need to couch everything I heard within a set of established canons and acceptable opinions, I experienced the music as it was, which is to say however a label felt like cobbling together an artist’s body of work at that particular time.

Although the circumstances of the release may have suggested otherwise, everything from the cover art down to the liner notes told me I was listening to something special, with as much claim to the title of “album” as any other.

At a certain point, of course, most of those CDs simply disappeared, falling into disuse and getting buried in the attic. The Squeeze disc I accidentally destroyed; it got caught behind a dresser and snapped in two. Years before streaming made it possible to access every one of these collections at will, this loss was quite literally irreparable. It was as if an entire era had gone with it, and even if we did replace it, it wouldn’t be quite the same.

When it comes to culture, we tend to prefer things as we first encountered them. The first track always sticks; the debut album will always be the best one; the director’s sophomore feature always disappoints. From time to time, I’ve attempted to salvage the greatesthits compilations with which I grew up from the offerings of streaming, drawing from an incomplete memory of tracklists and titles.

Even as I’ve expanded my knowledge beyond those limited selections, I’ll always long for the thrill of discovery they gave me. I’ll probably never sit down for an entire Squeeze album — in my defense, they were more of a singles band anyway — but I can always get down to “Cool for Cats.” And with all respect to “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.,” I’ll probably just skip to “Pleasant Valley Sunday.”

Among musicians and critics, there’s a lot of talk of the “first album,” the one that changed it all (the one that, in the old days, meant rushing to the record store on release day). For me, there were three, and none of them were albums, exactly. I would later develop the patience to sit down for a full 40 minutes, to value things like concept and sequencing and production. But at that point, and sometimes still today, all I really needed were the hits.

Alexandra Bateman | Design Editor The debate over whether a compilation actually constitutes an album continues to be a controversial one.

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By Kerry Rork Staff Writer

Movies about friendship are a commonplace in the film world. Yet, many times, these films ignore the platonic relationships between men, instead replacing them with hyperbolic or unrealistic versions.

Recognizing this trend, “Paddleton,” written by Alex Lehmann and Mark Duplass, is a comedy that tackles the controversial and taboo topic of assisted suicide through the lens of this platonic romance. The film stars Ray Romano as Andy and Duplass as Michael, a pair of archetypal loners and neighbors forming an unexpected friendship, until Duplass’s character is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of spending the last few months suffering in unendurable pain, Michael chooses to die on his own terms with prescribed medications. He asks his neighbor and best friend to support him through the process by going to pick up the medications with him and even being by his side until the very end.

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friendship, portions of the movie were filmed through their seemingly ordinary and fine-tuning and refining each line. The speech in Solvang, California, a town known for unchanging lifestyle. Until the very end, itself acts as a vehicle for Andy to express the its Danish-style architecture and extensive the pair is unwilling to express authentic emotions and love he has for Michael that wineries. In a sense, the location choice seems emotions, simply referring to each other as are left verbally unstated until the end. And to mirror the unique characters themselves: only neighbors.

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HRL reinstates two of three RAs it fired related to tenting

By Kenrick Cai Investigations Editor

The name of one student has been changed to protect their identity.

Three resident assistants were recently fired related to their decision to tent for the men’s basketball game against North Carolina.

They were dismissed by L.B. Bergene, associate dean for East Campus, for violating a policy regarding nights away from the dorm and were accused of an “intent to deceive.” Bergene did not respond to multiple emailed requests for comment from The Chronicle.

Trio quickly appealed their dismissals.

Housing and Residence Life reinstated two RAs, but upheld the decision for the third.

“RAs black tent every single year and have never, in my knowledge, gotten fired for it,” said Taylor, one of the three RAs, whose name has been changed to protect their identity. “In the past, so many people have done it, so none of us thought we’d get immediately terminated.”

One long week With Duke-UNC being the most watched game of the college basketball season, many eyes were turned to the screen, including the eyes of some residence coordinators.

For the three RAs, the saga began when some RCs spotted one of them on TV. RCs, who are adult HRL staffers rather than students, are tasked with supervising RAs and sustaining positive communities within residence halls.

Each neighborhood on East Campus is headed by one RC. For the three RAs, that was Carina Carpenter, residence coordinator for Bell Tower and Trinity residence halls.

When other RCs relayed what they saw to Carpenter, she took the issue up with Bergene, provoking a cascade of disciplinary action. Carpenter declined to comment to The Chronicle.

After meeting with Carpenter, Bergene notified the RAs Feb. 25 that they had been fired. They were told they needed to move out of their dorm rooms by March 1.

“I was honestly surprised I was fired. I thought I would be put on probation,” said senior Ryan Bergamini, one of the three RAs, in an interview prior to receiving his appeal result.

On Feb. 27, the RAs then filed appeals with Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life.

Two of the resident assistants, including Bergamini, were reinstated on probation March

Chronicle File Photo All three of the Resident Assistants worked in the same neighborhood on East Campus.

4. The other was not, and HRL set a deadline for that RA to vacate their dorm.

HRL policy states that RAs may participate in tenting “in a limited manner.”

In an email, Gonzalez declined to respond to a list of questions sent by The Chronicle, but provided a general statement about the policy.

“RAs are allowed to participate in tenting,” he wrote. “RAs who wish to do so are expected to discuss this with their RC prior to the beginning of the tenting period to review how participation can be pursued in a manner consistent with the expectations of the RA role.”

HRL policy requires RAs to inform their RCs of their plans to tent. However, Bergamini and Taylor claimed that this policy has not been enforced in recent years. This year, other RAs black tented in the same manner without consequences, they said.

‘RAs are allowed to participate in tenting’ Around campus and in Krzyzewskiville, Bergamini is a vocal member of the community.

Bergamini said he was “really open” with other RAs and his graduate resident about his time tenting. However, per HRL policy, RAs are expected to notify their RCs of their intent to tent.

When Bergamini met with HRL after the UNC game, he—like the other two RAs—was accused of an “intent to deceive.”

Carpenter told him she had seen some of his belongings and efforts to build community in K-Ville, but did not consider it evidence that Bergamini was tenting.

In mid-January, each of the three RAs decided to black tent, the longest and most ‘It’s a policy that is almost a joke’ From Jan. 12 to Feb. 14, black tenters popular form of tenting, for the UNC game.

Starting Jan. 12, most black tenters spent more generally spent a double-digit number of nights in their tents. than 10 nights in their tents.

BABY FROM PAGE 1 “Sara you are all over Twitter,” he said.

The messages kept flooding in for her entire eight-hour car ride home.

For Christmas, Constand’s boyfriend, also a line monitor, made Cammy a Duke helmet that she wore to games in the spring.

More than two years later, Constand wrote she gets still tagged in the video a couple times per month. Many of her new medical school peers had already seen the video when she brought it up.

Cammy also has younger fans that may not be on social media. Constand would walk over to a young fan that particularly adored Cammy and sit courtside with her parents to let her hold Cammy during the games.

The players also are Cammy fanatics, both Constand and Moses noted. Junior Jack White sometimes gives her a kiss. Seven-foot, 269-pound center Antonio Vrankovic likes to headbutt her, Moses said.

A big hit with the kids and players alike, Cammy also stars in chants. One of the more prominent ones comes when Cammy’s mother Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor holds her up and the Cameron Crazies chant Cammy takes flight during a home men’s basketball game.

“Oh, baby!”

For the three RAs, this comes in violation of an HRL policy that requires them to spend no more than eight nights away from their dorm. A “night away” constitutes any night where the RA has not returned to their dorm by 3 a.m.

Taylor said the nights away policy is unfair since RAs are capable of doing their job well without following it, and Bergamini labeled it as vague.

“When I’ve followed up on four separate occasions with HRL about a written statement I could share publicly explaining purpose of the policy, I’ve yet to receive an answer,” he said.

Bergamini, who has been re-hired, said his worst case scenario would entail HRL refusing to reconsider the nights away policy.

“Then the next year, they [can] crack down even harder on black tenting,” he said in an interview before he was re-hired. “I just think it doesn’t have to be that way. We can work together on this.”

In an email responding to Bergamini’s appeal viewed by The Chronicle, Gonzalez wrote that he had reversed his firing decision because he felt “HRL needs clarity added to some of our supervision communications.”

Gonzalez did not respond to an email from The Chronicle about how HRL would address the policy moving forward. However, Bergamini noted that in their meeting, Gonzalez appeared to be receptive to his complaints about the policy.

Still, Bergamini said he was disappointed that HRL did not reinstate all three RAs in light of the policy.

“About the end result of who was rehired and who wasn’t, I’m not happy with the outcome and I think that the reasons that HRL gave for that outcome never would’ve been an issue in the first place if this nights away policy wasn’t a thing,” Bergamini said.

Support systems About 800 people signed a petition to HRL after students initially discovered that the RAs had been fired. The RAs said that many students also sent emails directly to HRL, and some even took to the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page to vent.

Many of the comments on the petition showed that the trio received widespread support due to their strong performance as RAs. “Throughout the entire time that we were tenting, on numerous occasions, our RCs See HRL on Page 12 “It really freaks players out when we put our hands out and go ‘Oh’ and the baby’s there,” Moses said. “I see the opposing team seeing me.

They’ll look at the baby. I’m like I see you, and they’ll wink at me. And I’m like, okay.”

Cammy hasn’t changed much over the years, Moses said, donning the same outfit over time. A staffer at Cameron Indoor bought her another outfit, but it doesn’t fit her quite right, Moses said.

“She’s a pretty abnormally sized baby. Very large,” Moses said. “My mom tried to buy her shoes, but her feet are too fat.”

The stitches in her knee have grown bigger—a “battle wound” that probably needs to be sewn back up, Moses said.

“Her legs are really the weak part of her body,” Moses said.

In spite of her wounds, she’s still feisty.

“She’s very animated. She’s very scary,” Moses said. “She has a bit of a twitch in one eye sometimes.”

Now after Duke’s last home game of the season, Moses said she knows who she will likely pass Cammy onto, but won’t reveal that publicly yet.

“It’s one of those weird things,” Moses said. “A weird tradition for the Cameron Crazies—let’s have a baby doll and draw horns on it!”

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For the cynics among us, this scandal may not have seemed so scandalous. The college admissions process is rife with glaring—and entirely legal— inequity on nearly every front.

Both recruited athletes and students with high SAT scores are disproportionately wealthy, and their ability to jettison to these ranks is largely due to the resources their class status affords them. In fact, even the College Board’s own data shows that wealthy students from college-educated families are more likely to excel on the test.

Zip code income disparities and fewer educational opportunities play an influential part

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in limiting lower income students’ options as well.

The National Center for Education Statistics found that even after local and state governments increased education spending, educational inequity persisted, in part because many states primarily finance schools through local property taxes. In terms of the federal funding, chronic funding problems for public schools will only be exacerbated as President Donald Trump

Editorial Board calls for a 12 percent—or $7.1 billion—cut to funding at the Department of Education, a major budget cut for the third year in a row.

A year ago, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report, “Public Education Funding Equity: In an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty and Resegregation,” on how residential segregation led to inequity in educational opportunities. It allows for higher-income neighborhoods to fund predominantly white school districts with larger sums of local tax revenue, while lower-income neighborhoods with more people of color are left with comparatively undersubsidized facilities, teachers and class materials. This issue has led to desperate parents being sent to jail for lying about residency in an attempt to get their children into the better school districts with better opportunities.

Despite a diversifying overall population, the United States still remains deeply segregated according to census data. This is especially true for Black Americans due to the legacy of de facto segregation from the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras and endemic racial preferences among white people who choose to live with other white people.

There are still a number of legal ways rich parents can cheat the supposedly meritocratic college admissions game. Duke has not been scathed by this scandal, but at the University and beyond, the legacy preference persists as a nepotistic mechanism to ensure that power and wealth are preserved inter-generationally within predominantly white, affluent genealogies that are already disproportionately represented in college.

At Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn, Brown and 33 other colleges (including Duke), there are more students from families in the top 1 percent than from the bottom 60 percent. University attendance has always been a status symbol to facilitate a branding and perception of successful parenting for rich families.

As such, meritocracy is a myth, and it would be irresponsible and myopic to pretend otherwise.

Outrage over the boogeyman of the undocumented valedictorian student or that Black or Latinx student with the “race card” maliciously “stealing” a spot from “deserving” students is misplaced and disingenuous. With the cards of historical socioeconomic inequity stacked up against them, disadvantaged low-income students of color know best how they have had to move heaven and Earth in order to get their feet into the doors of prestigious universities. The rules of the game have always been unfair, and the legal parameters around what actions are acceptable feel rather meaningless when you were never meant to win in the first place.

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

Duke’s rate of sexual assault is a campus health emergency

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n a recent article in The Chronicle, the results of a survey given to Duke undergraduates in 2018 showed that almost 48 percent of women respondents at Duke were sexually assaulted, a number which does not include coerced sexual contact and sexual harassment. This is unacceptable.

Imagine if almost 50 percent of students contracted an illness which affected their health, school performance, and may impact the rest of their lives.

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If this were anything but sexual assault, it would have been seen and addressed as a public health and campus emergency.

Unfortunately, these numbers come as no surprise to me, nor, I imagine to many of my colleagues in the area. I have been a physician for Duke students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as Duke faculty and staff, across many departments and disciplines since 1985. In my office, I have treated many women—too numerous to count—who have been victims of every sort of sexual misconduct. Women who were sexually assaulted by fellow students, their lives shattered while their assailants went free, often going on to lucrative careers unmarred by the experience. Female students who told of being touched inappropriately by their advisers, taking it as a matter of course, undergraduates raped by fellow students, seduced by professors. Women graduate students relay that their principal investigators have harassed, humiliated and/or propositioned them. I have seen medical students whose attending physicians or research advisers had an expectation of sexual favors, graduate students who were stalked and harassed, and resident physicians who were victims of sexual misconduct by attending physicians.

This is but a brief recounting of the types of incidents heard over the years, all of them occurring at Duke. And I am but one psychiatrist seeing a minute portion of the Duke community, most of them privileged enough to seek and afford treatment.

It has been an honor to work with these women, to be entrusted with their pain and the difficult journey they undertake to process these grievous wounds, knowing that, even when healing occurs, the scars can be permanent. As a psychiatrist, I have validated and supported, prescribed medication, provided psychotherapy and trauma work. These women took time away from their own work and used their own financial resources to try to heal themselves and return to their lives and careers. That is another, often overlooked, cost of sexual misconduct, discrimination and misogyny.

Duke’s responses to this issue are better than they used to be, but still inadequate. Requiring that incoming undergraduates take online classes, “AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates,” is a step, but no substitute for in-person required training and institutional responsibility. While the Office of Gender Violence and Prevention offers other options and training, those programs are based in the Women’s Center, a tacit implication that this is a women’s problem, not a Duke problem.

And yet, despite the clear and pervasive problem, there seems to be no urgent response by Duke to these numbers. Inviting the head of “Time’s Up” to be the 2019 graduation speaker is a gesture, (now complicated by her resignation), but while men in power at Duke continue to abuse their privilege with impunity, it is not enough. The cultural climate facing women at Duke is pernicious; it is in need of meaningful and swift action to make Duke a place where all can thrive.

Mindy Oshrain, M.D.’83, H.S. ’83-‘87 Mindy Oshrain is a consulting associate in the School of Medicine’s department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

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We need to redefine Duke right now

uke is riddled with contradictions. In the campus culture, it’s evidenced by the rigid social hierarchy in spite of general distaste for exclusivity. It’s also seen in the suffocating notion of “effortless perfection” and the precarious facade students put on in order to conform.

But in the wider institutional scheme, these incongruities are more evasive, slipping through the cracks and crevices of the administrative infrastructure. My previous article not only explored the importance of intentionality for first-years, but also alluded to just how decentralized Duke is.

This past week, I had the opportunity to reflect on my Duke experience more deeply through Spring Breakthrough,

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a four-day seminar in specialized topics. By participating in this program, my perception of Duke and this institution’s place in the orbit of higher education fundamentally changed.

As I attempt to to sort out this tidal wave of insight and new information, I want to disseminate these perspectives as widely as possible.

A quick disclaimer: to re-evaluate how Duke’s complex hierarchy provides for its students, this column will make some broad strokes. Truthfully, a single column isn’t enough space to disentangle all of these components. So my goal is to ask questions about the power dynamics and encourage more discussions across all institutional levels.

What is the role of a university?

Capitalizing off of the intelligence and productivity of young people, universities brand themselves as places to hoist up the next generation of movers and shakers. To an extent, four-year undergraduate programs thrive off of the professional necessity of a diploma, catering to those who see education as a gateway to financial security.

But aside from strategic marketing, colleges, in my view, are the ultimate loci of knowledge production. This knowledge is dynamic and ever-shifting; more importantly, it is also inextricable from the world, the communities, and the people outside of academia. At Duke, the history of our institution is rich with archival materials that demonstrate the complexity of

adhering to this lofty mission.

On April 10, 1968, the Academic Council held an emergency meeting in response to student activism erupting on campus following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The activism was in part inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam war protests. But beyond the galvanizing culture of the 1960s, students used this national devastation as a charge to remedy Duke’s history of unjust treatment towards nonacademic workers; thus the Silent Vigil unfolded. While this snapshot of student activism epitomizes students rallying for administrative accountability, it is also a moment of re-evaluating the function and role of the university as a whole. Now 51 years removed, I think it’s time to begin to re-evaluate again.

At that 1968 emergency meeting, the Academic Council drafted a response to these underlying issues, writing: “A university is often defined as a community of scholars, and it must be such a community if it is to carry out its purposes in learning and research. But a university cannot carry out those purposes if it disregards justice and morality in the larger community in which it operates or in the non-academic community within its own bounds…”

Every action and every policy implemented by the university has repercussions, catalyzing a domino effect that stretches across Duke’s institutional dominion. It echoes from the privilege and power concentrated in the Allen Building; it reverberates in the dorms of over-worked, over-stressed emerging adults; it resounds within the homes and families of Duke’s workers— academic and non-academic alike.

Even today we see these issues of “justice and morality” bubble up to the surface: soaring sexual assault statistics, rising tuition, mandating an alternating seven-day work week for housekeeping staff—the list goes on. While these problems may not be strictly academic in nature, they still impact individual lives and the day-to-day function of the University.

So where is the central hub of Duke’s motivations? Who does Duke serve? How does Duke identify as an institution?

What’s in Duke’s DNA? According to the Duke’s governing Mission Statement, James B. Duke actively charged members of the University to “provide real leadership in the educational world.” From developing this leadership, Duke’s overarching ambition is to provide a “superior liberal education” to its undergraduate students. After

all, Duke is a liberal arts school, right?

Interestingly enough, Duke’s defining mission paints an ideal of student leadership and enterprising faculty scholarship without laying out comparable standards for the institution itself. But to be a true leader among our peers, Duke needs to stop imitating other institutions and start committing to a central identity.

How can higher education be democratized to allow for increased community input?

The previously mentioned 1968 Academic Council report also reveals inconsistencies between the goals that the institution touts and the actions that it ultimately takes: “...We wish for exploration of additional ways in which the University can contribute to the larger community as it carries out its unique functions as a university. It contributes much to the community in an economic sense but there are inequities within the University.”

I am just one voice on campus: one among 6,994 undergraduates, 8,898 graduate and professional students, 3,774 faculty, 39,525 staff, and looking beyond campus, an alumni network amassing 167,848 Duke graduates. So I realize that my opinion in The Chronicle is infinitesimal juxtaposed with the magnitude of these 227,039 lived experiences.

As for what direction I believe Duke should be advancing towards, I would recommend several things: a stronger commitment to unifying the Duke community as soon as students arrive on campus, more student input in the classroom setting, fortifying networks of communication across Duke’s institutional silos, and altogether encouraging a stronger focus on undergraduate exploration.

But I believe that we all have a responsibility to redefine Duke. So I encourage you to take a step back and be reflective.

Re-definition can only come with a collective paradigm shift that aggregates the many ways in which we perceive ourselves as members of the Duke community. And it culminates with the stark realization that we are ultimately the enforcers of our own conformity. We have the charge and the ability to establish higher expectations. Whether or not those can be met is another question entirely, but as former President John F. Kennedy once said: “every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

Catherine McMillan is a Trinity first-year. Her column usually runs on alternate Fridays.

Not just donations: What it really means to give to Duke

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s a Duke student, getting flooded with emails is something I’m familiar with. But as a senior this year, a new type of email has made its way into my inbox: emails about giving to Duke. We

without the generous financial aid package I received. Once I got here, I participated in DukeEngage, study abroad programs and paid summer research activities that were not only been highlights of my Duke experience

Ethan Ahuna COLUMNIST are asked repeatedly to donate money, with incentives including Chapel climbs, being able to pick where our money goes, and the refrain that even one dollar counts.

But money is not the only way to give to Duke, and it should not be treated as such.

Last semester, I attended a Senior Student Leaders Dinner at the Washington Duke.

It was presented as an opportunity to talk with notable administrators about “what it means to be engaged alumni.” While the event was well-executed, I quickly realized that “engagement” just meant donating money. And as the night went on and very few of the administrators or event organizers even asked me what leadership positions I even held on campus, it became clear that “leadership” was just a way to narrow down which seniors got an invite to dinner.

I am the first to admit that I have benefited greatly from philanthropy at Duke. Coming to Duke would not have been an option for me

but impacted my worldview. Donations are indubitably important. Without them, students like me could not partake in the Duke experience, and the Duke experience itself would not be the same.

And I also know that 5 percent of the ranking criteria for the U.S. News and World Report college rankings is “alumni engagement,” the percentage of the graduating class that donates to the school.

And staying high up in those rankings keeps our stock up as alumni in the job market, if only in our own psyche.

But to equate engagement with giving money paints an incomplete picture. For one, it feels weird and wrong that Duke is already asking for money when my parents just finished giving up a large chunk of their life savings so that I could go here. There is also the question of whether I fully agree with what Duke stands for.

I absolutely want to support future students and help them have the most fulfilling and accessible

college experience possible, but do I want to make a monetary contribution to an institution that refuses to enact a hate and bias policy to protect marginalized students? And yes, no one is asking me for an exorbitant amount of money. But to create great events for the senior class but only make them open to donors makes it feel like we are being bribed—you can come to a ball at the Nasher or climb the Chapel, but only if you pay us.

For me, there isn’t a clear reason why being solicited for money before I even graduate feels wrong. Duke has contributed so much to my self-development: intellectually, interpersonally and ethically. But the notion that my only value to the university now is as a potential financial resource feels hollow, like the strides I made here as a person are not as important as the financial contribution I can make once I leave.

One of the invaluable aspects of Duke is the alumni network we join. And it’s not just alumni who give money; it’s alumni who give time and energy. Duke alumni are very willing to talk to you about their jobs, give you advice and help you navigate the world beyond Duke. The alumna who did my alumni interview when I was a senior in high school still visits campus at least once a year and takes me out to dinner every time. These connections and their interpersonal nature are priceless, and they exist because of the positive experiences and fond memories these people have with

their alma mater. There is a sense of pride that many feel when it comes to being a Duke graduate, and that camaraderie is not something money can buy.

Again, I understand that financial donations are crucial. I’m not suggesting that giving money to Duke is necessarily harmful. If you can give, and you want to, you should. But being guilt-tripped into giving does nothing to boost engagement.

And to not consider the full scope of alumni engagement is to omit the importance of the alumni network and the human capital that it provides for current and former members of the Duke community.

If Duke has impacted you the way it has impacted me, then you should give to Duke.

You can give by donating money toward scholarship programs that have impacted you. Give by taking the time as an alum to talk with undergraduates who are interested in your career trajectory. Give by working to actively make the world outside the Duke bubble a better place, doing so with the skills and disposition that Duke has provided you. But give because you care about Duke students, because you want the institution to do better, because you are proud of your alma mater. A $1 donation and a Chapel climb is not what it means to be meaningfully engaged.

Ethan Ahuna is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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FROM PAGE 9 and GRs were telling us how good of a job we were doing as RAs and how they didn’t even need to do anything because we were so on it,” Taylor said.

Still, Bergamini said his primary motive for black tenting was to build community. In a peculiar, roundabout way, Bergamini explained that he thinks the firings have helped.

“My residents joked ‘Is this just another scheme to build community?’ I said ‘I don’t know, but it’s working,’” the senior recalled.

Bergamini and Taylor spoke of a longstanding push by HRL for RAs to be friends, not just coworkers, with their GRs and RCs. After he was reinstated, Bergamini said the team dynamic would require a “rebuild,” but said he was excited to help.

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SCANDAL FROM PAGE 2 Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, wrote in an email that the office would continue to review its process.

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