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Meet the DSG president candidates Duke Health saw 4

virus safety complaints last year, all closed By Nadia Bey University News Editor

Carlos Diaz

Christina Wang

By Paige Carlisle

By Chris Kuo

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Duke Student Government presidential candidate Carlos Diaz, a junior, plans to work closely with student groups and make Duke more equitable for all. Hailing from a small suburb southwest of Chicago, Diaz is majoring in neuroscience on the pre-med track. He currently serves on the Latinx caucus within DSG and is the president of Mi Gente. With Mi Gente, he expanded the Familia program and implemented a peer mentorship program in Durham public schools. As a facilitator advocating for change and equity at the Center for Multicultural Affairs, he assisted in the creation of multiple databases such as a Black, Indigenous and People of Color Faculty/Staff, BIPOC Triangle Businesses and BIPOC Triangle Restaurants database. His campaign centers on his experience witnessing failures

Duke Student Government presidential candidate Christina Wang wants to work with administrators and student groups to make Duke more equitable, accessible and student-centered. “I know there’s a lot of room for Duke to improve in terms of becoming a really equitable space. I’ve seen that being on the [DSG] Equity and Outreach Committee for the past two years,” Wang said. “I have the experience and the relationships built, and the kind of platform set for all these changes that I want to make happen.” A junior from Phoenix, Wang is studying public policy and psychology. She knows the difficulties that can accompany socioeconomic inequality. Her parents fled China in 1991 with $100 between them, and Wang grew up in predominantly white schools where it was difficult to

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The Duke University Health System has played an instrumental role in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, from delivering vaccines to treating over 1,000 patients, but not without some raising concerns about worker safety. Between March and May, at least four COVID-19-related complaints were filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) against DUHS facilities, all of which were closed without additional inspections. Additionally, the Occupational Safety and Health division of the N.C. Department of Labor (N.C. OSH) opened an inspection into Duke Regional Hospital in December after an employee died of COVID-19, in accordance with guidelines that require it to open inspections after employee deaths. Sarah Avery, director of the Duke Health News Office, wrote in a statement in September that Duke had not received OSHA violations or actions related to COVID-19. “At Duke Regional Hospital, the safety of our team members and patients is our top priority,” wrote Katie Galbraith, president of Duke Regional Hospital and interim head for Community Health, in a statement to The Chronicle. She stated that the hospital experienced a 40 percent decrease in OSHA Total Recordable Injuries from 2010 to 2019, which are incidents that must be reported to the government. Overall, the hospital has an “A” safety grade from the nonprofit Leapfrog Group as of fall 2020. “The global pandemic in 2020 was challenging, yet Duke Regional and Duke University Health System have been unwavering in our commitment to safety through ensuring our team has necessary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and access to testing and contact tracing,” Galbraith wrote.

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Workers can file OSHA complaints if they feel that a serious hazard exists in the workplace or that their employer is not following national safety regulations. See COMPLAINTS on Page 2

UNC crushes Duke for regular-season sweep By Evan Kolin Sports Editor

CHAPEL HILL—The last time Duke went into Chapel Hill, two buzzer-beaters led the Blue Devils to a miraculous comeback win. there would 91 be But UNC no comeback this DUKE 73 time around, as North Carolina held on to a commanding first-half lead to topple Duke 91-73 victory Saturday night in the Dean E. Smith Center. The Blue Devils’ defeat marked their third loss in a row to close out the regular season, and they’ll now need a miracle in next week’s ACC tournament to try and sneak into the NCAA tournament. It was an all-around effort from the Tar Heels, with four different players scoring in double-digits. Kerwin Walton, Armando Bacot and Caleb Love each notched 18 points for the home team, while Garrison Brooks followed with 14 points of his own.

Freshmen Mark Williams and DJ Steward tallied 18 and 16 points, respectively, for Duke, but it wasn’t enough to make up for a Blue Devil offense that looked ugly all night en route to 15 turnovers, a 40.6% overall mark from the field and an 18.5% mark from three. Sophomore forward Matthew Hurt totaled 14 points but on a mere 6-of16 shooting from the floor and 2-of-10 from deep. The ACC Player of the Year candidate has struggled against the Tar Heels throughout his career, scoring no points in 15 minutes in two matchups last season and only seven points in the Blue Devils’ loss to North Carolina earlier this season. “[North Carolina head coach Roy Williams] had his team really prepared. You know, it’s senior night and their fans were great. And I didn’t have my team prepared the way they did,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Coming off these two tough losses, I thought the things we did in

practice were really good, but they didn’t come into fruition. They didn’t work out. So that’s on me, because they really knocked us back.” Duke (11-11, 9-9 in the ACC) appeared to be generating some momentum in the middle of the second half, with graduate transfer Patrick Tape stealing a Tar Heel inbound pass and the Blue Devils eventually finding Hurt for a three to cut North Carolina’s edge to 54-40 with 13 minutes remaining. Just under a minute later, a Jordan Goldwire steal seemed to be leading to a wide open breakaway layup, but Tar Heel junior Leaky Black swatted Goldwire’s attempt out of bounds, firing up the limited capacity crowd of 3,200. Then, after a few minutes of quiet backand-forth scoring, five consecutive points from Brooks on a jumper and top-of-the-key three

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Courtesy of the ACC North Carolina took down Duke 91-73 on Saturday, dealing the Blue Devils their third loss in a row to close out the regular season.

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Duke’s first step toward integration Looking back at grad school desegregation on the announcement’s 60th anniversary Push for desegregation

By Hannah Miao Staff Reporter

Before the famed first five Black undergraduate students enrolled at Duke University in the fall of 1963, the Board of Trustees took the first step toward desegregation with a decision years in the making. On March 8, 1961, the board announced Duke’s graduate and professional schools would accept applicants without regard to race, creed or national origin, effective the following fall. “Grad Schools Desegregated,” The Chronicle’s front-page headline read that day. “In a move actualizing the University’s leadership potential, the Trustees set a commendable example for other Southern institutions and increased the University’s prestige from a national standpoint,” a Chronicle editorial two days later said of the board’s decision. Duke changed its admissions policy for financial and reputational gain, rather than for moral or ethical reasons, records and archival documents show. “Look at the world we’re living in today and look how decisions are made in this country,” Jacqueline Looney, senior associate dean for graduate programs and associate vice provost for academic diversity, said in an interview with The Chronicle. The Duke Graduate School hired Looney as the university’s first minority student recruiter in 1987. “Moral suasion—I don’t know. It just has not worked,” she said. Administrators and trustees wanted Duke to become a leading university in the country. A segregated admissions policy threatened the sources of money that would bolster Duke’s acclaim. The process of desegregating the university—first its graduate and professional schools, and then its undergraduate student body—reflected Duke’s incrementalist approach to reform. “I am a ‘gradualist,’” Arthur Hollins Edens, Duke president from 1949 to 1960, wrote in a 1953 letter. “It is my firm conviction that Duke University can and should admit negroes only when the community and constituency are prepared for it.”

COMPLAINTS FROM PAGE 1 Closed complaints, such as the ones filed against Duke facilities, are published on the OSHA website, while pending complaints are posted online with redactions. According to OSHA’s data processing guidelines, complaints are closed if they are deemed invalid, necessary inspections have started, no further action is planned, the complaint is transferred elsewhere or the employer notifies OSHA that they are aware of the issue and correcting it. Of the four OSHA complaints filed and closed from the beginning of the pandemic until Feb. 7 against DUHS or its facilities, three pertained to personal protective equipment. On March 12, a complaint was filed against Duke Regional Hospital alleging the hospital did not permit staff to wear PPE like masks and gloves, though the hospital had COVID-19positive patients. This caused staff to “fear their health may be compromised.” An OSHA complaint against Duke University Hospital was filed May 2 alleging that staff treating COVID-19 patients were “instructed to reuse personal protective equipment such as N95 respirators.” Another OSHA complaint filed against Duke Clinic May 6 said environmental services staff were at risk of exposure to COVID-19 due to their work entailing “tasks where the face could be splashed, such as cleaning toilets” but not being given eye protection or moisture resistant masks. The fourth complaint, filed May 13 at Duke Health Center South Durham, alleged that the center was not enforcing six feet distances

Students in the Duke Divinity School first raised the issue of desegregation to the Board of Trustees in 1948, through a petition. Over the next decade, various student and faculty groups and individuals urged Duke leaders to amend its admissions policy barring Black students. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled the racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The first Black undergraduate students enrolled at the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955. The Chronicle called segregation a “barbaric tradition” in a Dec. 13, 1955 editorial. “We charge that segregation is anti-democratic, antiChristian, harmful propaganda to the rest of the world and incompatible with the idea of a university. Anyone who refuses to believe that segregation implies inferiority is blind,” the editorial read. Historian Melissa Kean called the editorial the “boldest condemnation of segregation published at Duke in the 1950s” in

her book “Desegregating Private Universities in the South.” In 1957, Divinity School students again circulated a petition urging the Board to eliminate the school’s admissions policy barring Black students from consideration. The board voted on the issue for the first time. They chose to uphold the policy. “Our own school is missing financial and academic aid imperative to the growth of an educational institution,” The Chronicle editorialized in response to the vote. However, the paper’s editorials and student groups’ advocacy did not necessarily reflect an activist culture among the greater student body. At the time, Duke was a “finishing school for white privilege,” said Theodore Segal, Trinity ‘77, author of “Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University.” Maids made the beds and cleaned the rooms of male undergraduate students until 1968, Segal found in his See INTEGRATION on Page 12

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between employees and patients. Employees were Inspections are triggered by fatalities, crammed at the front desk, which did not have hospitalizations, or when a worker loses an shields or barriers, and there were “lines and lines” eye or other body part, according to N.C. of patients, according to the complaint. OSH. OSH may learn about an incident Avery, the Duke Health News Office director, from media reports or other government provided a statement regarding the complaints offices. Investigations focus on the cause of in September 2020. the incident, whether a violation of OSHA “Safety is our highest priority, and DUHS standards occurred, how much the incident has taken exemplary measures to assure a safe was affected by any violations and whether environment for patients, visitors and staff OSHA standards need to be updated. during the COVID pandemic. DUHS has In response to a records request from The received no COVIDChronicle, the N.C. related violations Department of Labor Three of Duke Health’s or actions from wrote that the inspection OSHA,” Avery wrote is still ongoing and four virus-related OSHA in a September email, information would be complaints, all of which although she did not released from the case offer comment regarding were closed without further file after any informal specific allegations. or possible inspections, regarded PPE. conferences contestments regarding Death investigation the findings are settled. The other alleged Duke Each year, Duke is Inspections can take Health Center South required to publicize anywhere from a few from Feb. 1 to Apr. 30 Durham was not enforcing weeks to six months, OSHA 300A summaries according to N.C. OSH. six-foot distances. for each of its facilities. Galbraith’s statement These documents, which did not address the death summarize all reported investigation. workplace illnesses and injuries that occurred in the previous calendar year, showed that Duke Illness among employees Regional Hospital was the only Duke facility to The OSHA 300A summaries showed that report a work-related death in 2020. all three Duke hospitals reported work-related Reba Beavers, a part-time operations respiratory illness in 2020. Duke University coordinator and former nurse at Duke Hospital reported 293, Duke Regional Hospital Regional, died of COVID-19 Nov. 29. reported 73 and Duke Raleigh Hospital N.C. OSH opened a partial inspection into reported 49. Duke Regional Hospital Dec. 8. “Partial” means None reported respiratory illness in 2019, that the scope of the inspection is limited to a and in earlier years each reported one or two certain area of the facility. cases at most, according to OSHA injury

tracking data beginning in 2016. Galbraith confirmed these numbers in her statement to The Chronicle. “Despite [our] vigilance, in 2020 there were 73 work-related cases of COVID at Duke Regional Hospital, 293 at Duke University Hospital and 49 at Duke Raleigh Hospital,” she wrote. “If we adjust for the COVID data, Total Recordable Injuries were in line with the last several years.” Documents posted on Duke Health’s public COVID-19 website reveal that healthcare workers were notified of the first reported illness among staff at Duke Raleigh Hospital March 20. By April 7, 67 out of 1,700 tests among staff had come back positive, or about 3.9%. This percentage decreased to 3.67% by April 21 and 3.5% by May 4, before increasing to 4% by May 29. “It is important that we do not become complacent with following best practices to prevent infection,” a June 15 memo reads. At that time, 4.46% of all tests were positive. By July 8, 5.9% of all team members who had been tested received a positive result. It is not clear whether these statistics are cumulative or how they varied across facilities. An Aug. 5 update stated that there had been a “significant decline” in the number of staff members testing positive, though the exact percentage was not stated. A Feb. 8 update said that there had been more than a 75% decrease in employee infections since the vaccination process began. The positivity rate among staff was also lower than the positivity rate for members of the general population tested by the hospital each time it was reported in a memo. Leah Boyd and Stefanie Pousoulides contributed reporting.

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After seeing how the pandemic disrupted community, Wang also helped establish the FROM PAGE 1 Blue Devil Buddies mentorship program. The three prongs of her platform are geared towards strengthening these past speak up. “I’ve really learned to channel a lot of initiatives while also implementing new ones: that discomfort into doing work that creates ensuring greater equity, building a “Duke change,” she said. community for all” and pushing for more Though Wang said she was never the student student-centered resources. To foster a more equitable environment, government type in high school, she was inspired to join DSG after hearing the convocation speech Wang hopes to expand the Student Advocate’s from former DSG president Kristina Smith, Office to include support for issues related Trinity ‘19, who encouraged her to join the to financial aid, hate and bias, and sexual harassment. She also wants to expand the equity and outreach committee. During her first two years as a senator on course cost transparency tool and support the committee, Wang increased the financial the Disability Alliance’s initiatives. As for strengthening the community, Wang aid offered to pre-orientation participants. She also saw early on wants to make Blue Devil Buddies a permanent the inequities festering I think DSG really can program. Wang is also beneath the University’s a member of the Next shiny veneer: she become a mechanism for witnessed the defacing of student advocacy and lifting Generation Living and the Mary Lou building Learning 2.0 Committee, and she said she wants and went on a listening up the work that student to ensure that student tour with victims of groups are already doing. voices are taken into gender violence. christina wang account as the University When Duke moved DSG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE transforms online, Wang saw residential life. She also hopes to how the pandemic work with Duke Sexual Harassment and Assault exacerbated existing inequities. “Students of color, first-gen low-income Prevention and Education to increase awareness students have been facing a lot of extra about the persistence of gender violence. pressures and Duke has to step up to meet Her third goal is to create more studentcentered resources, particularly regarding those,” she said. Wang helped pioneer the S/U grading policy in mental health. “I think everyone is super aware of ... how spring 2020 and spearheaded the creation of the Student Advocate’s Office, which she described people are struggling with mental health as a “one-stop shop for students to receive peer right now,” Wang said. Wang helped 1000 Duke students gain support on any institutional issue.” When DSG paused its sessions for the premium access to Headspace, the popular summer, Wang kept working. She drafted mindfulness and meditation app, as a pilot the proposal for the official Ombuds office. program. She wants to expand that program

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MORE DSG ELECTION COVERAGE ON DUKECHRONICLE.COM Executive vice president candidate profiles Meet the three candidates for the EVP role: Ramya Gunjupalli, Jackson Kennedy and Zac Johnson.

Videos with each candidate Our video department will be speaking with each candidate about their platform and values. Videos will be posted online later in the week, before the election.

Endorsements for the presidential race Endorsements from student groups for DSG president will be published in our opinion section, ending Monday at 11:59 p.m.

Check in on Friday to see who won! We’ll publish the results of the election as soon as we know them, and we’ll also report on any developments in the election before then.

to include all interested Duke students. Even as she campaigns to be president of DSG, Wang is aware of the organization’s pitfalls. “I know in the past DSG has failed to support student groups. I imagine that it is really, really tiring to listen to a student government that hasn’t in the past been super supportive,” Wang said. “Moving forward, I think DSG really can become a mechanism for student advocacy and lifting up the work that student groups are already doing.” To reform DSG, Wang would revamp the recruitment process to promote greater diversity among senators, pursue more regular communication with student groups and promote greater transparency about DSG’s work. Robert Thompson, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience, said that he Front-page photos: Carlos Diaz by Photo Editor Simran Prakash, Christina Wang by News first met Wang when she took his first-year seminar on empathy and identity. He said Photography Editor Jackson Muraika.

teaching the seminar allows him to explore what motivates his students. “Being of service has always been a cardinal aspect of how I’ve known Christina,” Thompson said. “She’s always been passionate about making Duke a more equitable and accessible place.” He said he has seen Wang work toward this goal through her involvement in Project Build, even before she became a DSG senator. “She has an idea of how to make Duke a better place and it has to do with more equity and more accessibility. And that’s what she cares about, and has been working systematically toward in various ways,” Thompson said. Sophomore Lily Levin said Wang is a person of her word. “She doesn’t have empty words or empty talk,” Levin said. “When she says something, you know she’s going to do it… She’s motivated and has all these good ideas, and she does what she says she’s going to do.”

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Staff writer Devinne Moses journeys in time with a tea test, page 5

life support It’s Madison Beer’s time to shine on her new debut album, page 6

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Sarah Derris ..................... mars

Stephen Atkinson .......... tiktok

Sydny Long ......... by the water

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Still from Wong Kar Wai’s “Chungking Express” courtesy of Criterion Channel

staff note I rubbed my eyes a little harder, catching a glimpse of three ceramic mugs lined up in a row. Each had an identically knitted sweater sleeve that buttons just below an ear-shaped handle. I yawned and watched as the mug turned into a paint streak behind my damp eyelashes. I wondered if the three tea packets, all wrapped in foil and glistening underneath my lamplight, would actually help block the

insistent clamoring in my head and around my room. I have heard tea is good for tranquility, so I brought some to prove it. It was an experiment of sorts. A tea test. The packets were cold to the touch. Their rippled edges could have easily left paper cuts that would send a jolt up my forearm to accompany my mind’s thunder. I grabbed a packet: Earl Grey, a quintessentially British black tea wrapped in blue and silver. I promptly pushed it against my nose to catch

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its calming, quieting scent. But Earl Grey is unfamiliar to me, so I didn’t know exactly what to smell for. If anything, it was the vague scent of foil. I feel like I should know Earl Grey. The tea absolutely, but also the man. I bet he is a suave tea aficionado. In another life, Earl would take me across the sunbaked region of Calabria in Italy, where I could pick overripe olives and oranges while he collected bergamot oil for his tea. He would bathe his tea leaves in citrus and pour the mixture into my mug. One sip is enough for a bitter yet pleasant orange rind flavor to coat the roof of my mouth. As the summer sun falls, we would sit on the beach, opposite the sea without a word, watching the waves crash against the shoreline. It’s a dream elixir that’s critical during a year stuck inside, and it’s one I can always look toward when I’m in need of an adventure. After a few sips of Earl, I moved on to green tea. Evidently, small, budding tea leaves are picked during springtime. The tea brings me back to spring days gone by. Last year, I took on the Al Buehler trail for the umpteenth time. To keep a steady pace, my feet hit the mud and matched the rhythmic beat of my breath. I remember trailing behind an actual runner, hoping they would motivate me to better my mile time. In a matter of minutes, they became a distant flicker, and I ended up standing still with the bottom of my palms pressed firmly above my knees, gasping for air. I looked up for excuses but only saw green leaves rustle in the wind. I looked down for answers and only saw drops of sweat splattered against my dirt-stained shoes. I felt defeated and trudged back home, but I knew a green tea could bring my spirits up. The drink tasted like an unsalted, earthy

vegetable soup with a tinge of sweetness that slowed my deep breaths. It’s a healthy antioxidant fuel that keeps me in the present when I stray too far forward. After Green Tea, I ended with cozy chamomile’s modest yellow packet in my hands. Chamomile, composed solely of crushed daisies, was a past love’s favorite. Back then, the tea smelled like a bouquet, and the unconfined steam fogged up our glasses. Seeing clearly didn’t matter. We had spent three years blinded, telling ourselves that all relationships are tested. But over that time, our white petals were picked off one by one and crushed until the truth hit us both on an autumn afternoon. We sat outside that day, tearing up patches of overgrown grass with one hand while gripping a mug handle in the other. We took our glasses off, and we drank one last time to feel the soothing drops of lemon and honey. With the breakup already done, the two of us reminisced on happy times and rued the ones that got us to where we were. We shared one final kiss, and she departed with a mug of herbal tea. I knocked back the last trickle of Cozy chamomile to relive the lingering memory. My fingers interlocked around the mug’s woolen sleeve, and I leaned into my computer chair. My experiment — my tea test — was complete, and all I could do was look at my lamp and nod. It was like a lighthouse beacon navigating vessels foreign, familiar and forgotten. I sailed back to reality and landed in a quiet, quiet room. —Devinne Moses, staff writer

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VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK Artist Carrie Mae Weems with Writer Mark Anthony Neal

Wednesday, March 17 from 3–4 PM Link to access the virtual event: nasher.duke.edu/resistcovid-artist-talk Artist Carrie Mae Weems and Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke, will discuss how art can function as a public awareness campaign during a pandemic. Carrie Mae Weems created the outdoor exhibition RESIST COVID / TAKE 6! to counter misperceptions about the COVID-19 virus, celebrate front line workers and raise issues of public health and racial inequities.

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Madison Beer moves into the spotlight with ‘Life Support’

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in lead single “Good in Goodbye.” Other times, Beer’s confidence translates “Life Support” is an album of strings. They’re into raw vulnerability. On “Default,” listeners featured in the opening track, the interlude, the hit find Beer opening up about her struggles single, the closing track and almost every other song with anxiety and depression. Here, she sings on the record, so when “BOYSHIT” opens with to herself, lamenting how she keeps getting a loud crash of horns and a bouncing hook that dragged backwards in her struggle with her declares “I don’t speak boyshit,” you might think mental health. Although this exploration isn’t it’s antithetical to the rest of the album. However, as nuanced or developed as it could be (the you’d be mistaken; through and through, Madison song is a touch under two minutes long), it’s Beer’s debut album is brash, straightforward and, nevertheless unexpected from a freshman in the most importantly, confident. music industry. Beer often draws comparisons to Ariana The best moments on “Life Support” come Grande thanks to their shared love for high when Beer combines these two sides – anger and ponytails and provocative songs. This narrative vulnerability – together. On her hit single “Selfish,” peaked when Beer released the music video for she laments ever trusting her ex: “I shouldn’t love her single “Baby,” where she sings about turning you, but I couldn’t help it / I always knew that you on her partner while strutting around with were too damn selfish.” Placed right in the middle her hair tied way up.Surprisingly though, the of the tracklist, the ballad manages to hold the similarities between the two artists mostly end entire album together probably exactly because there. With the darker, electronic-influenced of the way it mixes the record’s biggest emotions sound of “Life Support,” a better comparison together in one song. for “Life Support” would be Billie Eilish, and Beer ought to be proud of how her debut her debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, album turned out given the circumstances of Where Do We Go?” her career up to this point. Originally discovered While “Life Support” may not quite reach the thanks to Justin Bieber tweeting about her cover same heights of an album-of-the-year-winning of his song, Beer was signed to the record label effort, it has earned a place among some of the of Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun. Scooter best pop debut albums in recent memory – think Braun, despite having the biggest name of any “Sawayama,” “Kid Krow,” “The Album” and “Cuz manager in the music industry and working I Love You” – because it manages to establishes for superstars like Ariana Grande, is actually Beer’s niche within the music industry by doing a terrible manager. Consistently failing to its own thing. For Beer, that means taking the correctly promote his artists outside of Bieber darker sound of Billie Eilish and adding her own and Grande, his ineptitude as a manager led confident twist to it. Carly Rae Jepson into obscurity, ushered Demi Sometimes, like in “BOYSHIT,” this confidence Lovato into cultural irrelevance and somehow manifests as anger. There’s something addictive ignited a feud with Taylor Swift (who he doesn’t about listening to Beer singing about her grief; even manage?) when he kept her from buying maybe it’s the way her outrage is palpable in her the rights to her own songs. Beer was unable to songs, her voice dripping with resentment as she escape Braun’s wake, her early career stagnating sings, “Boy, it’s like treason how you’re treating me” before eventually deciding to become an Social Media Editor

Courtesy of Flickr Madison Beer, who often draws comparisons to Ariana Grande, released her debut album “Life Support” Feb. 26.

independent artist. Unfortunately, like many artists who try to leave Braun’s control, she allegedly has been blacklisted. Nevertheless, thanks to her perseverance and ability to bend social media to her will, Beer steadily built up a following, allowing her to arrive at success without the

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help of the music establishment. Now, like her comrade Taylor Swift in the anti-Braun club, she even owns the rights to her recent work, including “Life Support.” As one of the few mainstream independent artists in pop, Beer can always know that her success is very well-deserved. Perhaps that’s why she’s so confident.

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Duke struggles to handle UNC’s physicality in loss By Shane Smith Sports Managing Editor

Gene Wojciechowski once described the Duke-North Carolina rivalry by saying, “It has been played in black and white. And in black and blue, with a little red mixed in too.” If it wasn’t clear, the renowned ESPN writer wasn’t referring to the two schools’ uniforms, but rather the long-standing tradition of bumps, bruises, blood and physicality when the Blue Devils and Tar Heels meet. While Saturday night’s showdown didn’t provide any lasting images of battle wounds and grit, it was evident that physicality, or the lack thereof for one team, played a chief role in Duke’s 91-73 loss to North Carolina, during which the Blue Devils never led. The Tar Heels’ ferocious defense in the opening minutes set the tone for what kind of game would be played. North Carolina head coach Roy Williams had his guards on the hips of Duke freshmen Jeremy Roach and DJ Steward as soon as they crossed halfcourt. Scrambling to protect the ball, the Blue Devils often found themselves starting offensive sets deep into the shot clock. And once the game had settled in, Duke already trailed 24-6. “They came out really aggressive with us on both ends of the floor, and we never responded to that throughout the whole entire game,” Steward said. “We came out—we were playing too fast, not executing the game plan, which is just playing under control, making good cuts and being poised out there. And we didn’t do that.” In its two previous losses to Louisville and

Georgia Tech, Duke faced experienced guards who dominated the backcourt with heady play. North Carolina’s advantage, however, came from its size. Freshman Kerwin Walton’s height is listed at 6-foot-5, and his classmate Caleb Love combines an impressive mix of length and athleticism at 6-foot-4, 195 pounds. Wing Leaky Black has established himself as one of the Tar Heels’ best perimeter defenders while standing at 6-foot-8. Meanwhile, neither Roach, Steward nor senior guard Jordan Goldwire is listed as taller than 6-foot-2, and Steward and Roach weigh 163 and 175 pounds, respectively. The Blue Devils’ pair of rookies didn’t get a full offseason to develop their bodies for the college game and have yet to learn the crafty offensive skills that other small guards around the ACC—like Miami’s Chris Lykes and Louisville’s Carlik Jones—have acquired over many years at the collegiate level. “We knew coming into the game that they were going to high contest and pressure the ball,” Steward said. “So that means just make back cuts, play off of each other, set screens. I feel like we didn’t do that in the beginning. Throughout the game we would do it, but we didn’t stick with it. It just caused problems throughout the whole entire game and we have to figure that out.” North Carolina doesn’t rank No. 7 nationally in average height just because of its guards, and it was expected coming into the contest that the quartet of Garrison Brooks, Armando Bacot, Day’Ron Sharpe and Walker Kessler—all at least 6-foot-10—would control the paint. Center Mark Williams led Duke with

18 points on 70% shooting from the field, but found himself in fierce battles all night and only collected three rebounds. In addition, graduate transfer Patrick Tape saw the floor in both halves but couldn’t crack the Tar Heels’ rough interior play after appearing in just seven conference games this year. “They have a lot of bigs,” Williams said. “They’re all skilled. They’re rotating them in through all parts of the game, so I think we didn’t do as good of a job as we could’ve and that led to them getting a lot of easy baskets, and the results show for themselves.” Playing just four nonconference games this season, this young Duke team was still adjusting to the schematics of college basketball during ACC play, when it normally would have been adjusting to the fierce, war-like competition of one of the best conferences in the country. While the Blue Devils have had trouble closing games all season, it was the physical punch from the Tar Heels at the start that doomed Duke this time around. “They really knocked us back,” Krzyzewski said on the opening minutes of the game. “[North Carolina] really played at a high level of intensity, and their defense was outstanding and knocked us back. They were excellent and we were not very good, and that’s my responsibility.” North Carolina’s depth allowed Roy Williams to keep a wave of Carolina blue crashing on each Blue Devil possession. Three different Tar Heels scored 18 points and their bench had as many points as the entire Blue Devil team. “They keep coming at you with fresh bigs and fresh perimeter, and they’re all good,”

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Krzyzewski said. “They’re all good players. Sometimes, one of them is a little bit better and he goes off. That’s a big thing for them, and they’ve developed that. It’s not luck— they’ve developed that.” If Krzyzewski’s squad is to make a run in the ACC tournament starting Tuesday, it’ll have to carry over the lessons learned from Saturday’s loss. There isn’t time to recover and regroup after each slugfest in the Greensboro Coliseum. Now playing for its season, Duke has to use that emotion to embrace the physicality of the ACC.

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Shelby Walters tosses first no-hitter in Blue Devil history By Em Adler Associate Sports Editor

At 7:02 pm, Shelby Walters was in the dugout with five no-hit innings under her belt, the game still scoreless. By 7:09 pm, Shelby Walters had recorded the first nohitter in Blue Devil history. No. 20 Duke 0 erupted in the bottom NCCU 8 of the fifth inning DUKE Thursday night to the tune of eight runs, with pinch-hitter Sydney Bolan walking off the 8-0 run rule win against N.C. Central with an opposite field home run. Naturally, the Blue Devils screamed out of the dugout to celebrate. But unlike for a typical walkoff home run, their focus quickly turned away from the batter who just cliched the victory, and toward a bewildered Walters. “I wasn’t really fully aware that it was happening, and then just literally 24 other girls are just like, ‘Oh my god, you just threw a no-hitter!’ and I’m like, ‘Oh whoa, whoa, okay sorry wait. I’m a little overwhelmed right now,’” Walters said. “I think, maybe the second inning, I was just like, ‘Okay, things are going well,’ and then after that, I don’t really remember much. I’m always kidding with [head coach Marissa Young] that all my good games, I’m basically blacking out in the game, like I don’t really know what’s going on. So, maybe by the second inning I was like, ‘Okay, things are rolling, things are good. [The umpire] has a good strike zone, defense looks good. You know, bats will pick up.’ And by that point, I was like, ‘Well, okay,’ and then, you know, the rest is history.”

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Walters boasts a 0.42 ERA in 33.2 innings of work this season. “It really caught her by surprise, but couldn’t be more proud of Shelby,” Young added. “She’s worked so hard this year to be ready for moments like this, and I’m just glad to see her dominating in the way she has the beginning of the season.” The accolade didn’t just come as a shock to Walters. It came as a shock to Young herself, and probably everyone else watching, too. Through the first four innings, Duke (14-1) was held to just two hits by N.C. Central (010) southpaw Kiara Hurley, coming closest to breaking the scoreless tie in a couple of runner-on-second-one-out instances and one bases-loaded-two-outs state. But nothing was chaining. Not that it mattered to Walters. Each of

her pitches were at their best throughout the night, and just a first-inning hit batsman was the lone mark standing between her and perfection. She’s never been a strikeout artist, whiffing just three Eagles, but strikes are certainly overrated when you can induce seven groundouts, a pop out and a foul out. Softball is a game of excruciatingly slow development and precipitately instantaneous actions. For four innings, the two-seamer, the changeup, the curveball could be improving, until suddenly a couple fastballs don’t run enough and stay in the down-and-in power zone to a couple of righties. Which is how Walters nearly allowed two hits to lead off the fifth, except centerfielder Jameson Kavel got excellent jumps on both

balls to subjugate the abrupt panic of hard contact to the routine tedium of fly outs. “Kavel’s literally just so fast in the outfield and she just tracks [fly balls] down,” Walters said. “I’m not really worried about the defense. I know that they’ve got my back, so I’m not afraid to throw one if I need to.” That Walters spent so much of the night immersed in the humdrum of America’s Pastime could not have contrasted more with how she began the evening. Whereas Bryce Jarvis was loose in the warmups before his perfect game last year, Walters was as jittery as a june bug in a hen house. “I was talking to [catcher Kelly Torres], actually, before the game…and I was like, ‘I’m like so hyper right now, like I don’t know why,’” Walters said. “So we were like kind of meditating in the bullpen before, so I don’t know if that had anything to do with [the no-hitter]. And I might just adopt it now into the bullpens, doing a little meditating before.” A groundout followed that sequence of fly balls in the top of the fifth, and Duke came up in the bottom half of the inning praying for run support, any run support, to reward Walters’ immaculate performance. What followed was a drop-bunt single, a single to left, a single up the middle, consecutive successful suicide squeezes with runners safe at both home and first, a dragbunt single, a bases-clearing double and, finally, Bolan’s walk-off. “[Walters has] really been on fire since the start of the season,” Young said. “And See NO-HITTER on Page 12

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super happy in the moment to be surrounded by people that have supported me for the longest [time].” A third-place finish at the season-opening Not far behind Shepherd was freshman Palmetto Intercollegiate last week left the Blue Phoebe Brinker at two-under. In just her second Devils searching for more. Well, it seems like they collegiate tournament, the Delaware native found some this past Monday through Wednesday opened with three-under 69 and then hung on at the Gamecock Intercollegiate. the rest of the way to finish in a tie for third. Thanks to 46 combined birdies, No. 8 Duke Brinker has been thrown into the fire without picked up its first team victory of the season the benefit of a fall NCAA season, so any topwith an even-par total, three strokes ahead of tier finishes are a bonus as of right now. second place. The Blue Devils led after the first “I try to control my expectation of round, trailed by a single stroke after the second freshmen. You just don’t know what [their] and finished with a final round 291 total to freshman year is going to be like, especially take home the title at Columbia Country Club during COVID,” Brooks said. “I just don’t have in Columbia, S.C. a lot of scoring expectations. I just want them Sitting just behind Duke on the leaderboard to feel comfortable.” was No. 2 Wake Forest, the team that figures to One jarring aspect of the tournament for be the Blue Devils’ most pressing competition Duke was the fact that junior Gina Kim, a key Courtesy of the ACC facet of the program’s national championship for the ACC and maybe even NCAA crown. Just over a week ago, Wake Forest topped Duke by Duke bounced back from a disappointing third-place finish in its season-opening tournaback in 2019, struggled mightily after a first29 shots en route to a dominant win at Kiawah ment to take first place this week at the Gamecock Intercollegiate. round 70. Kim carded four double bogeys Island. But the Blue Devils bounced back for a over her final 30 holes to end up in a tie for victory of their own this time around, showing 51st, so it will be interesting to see whether just how much of a battle it will be between Shepherd held a three-shot lead going into the said. “That was kind of bittersweet, and then the Chapel Hill native can put that level of these two loaded rosters this season. final day of play. obviously I saw my fellow sophomore [Megan volatility behind her. “I think the thing I was most impressed by “I was definitely in a zone during that Furtney], she was crying, looked over at my Next, Duke is scheduled to tee it up in is how undaunted the team was by the first time,” Shepherd said. “So that was later in the parents and they were crying, so I was just the Valspar Augusta Invitational, which runs tournament,” head coach Dan Brooks said. afternoon that day, that morning, the weather overwhelmed with emotion and I was just from March 13-14. “It never felt like they were much affected by conditions were pretty brutal, it felt like 35 finishing third and 29 shots back and all that. degrees, windy, the air was just cold. 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Letter: Duke must prioritize the marginalized for vaccines, testing Chancellor Eugene Washington, Katie Galbraith and Stelfanie Williams, We, the undersigned, urge you to prioritize Durham’s marginalized communities in vaccine distribution and testing. COVID-19 data continues to show that Black and Latinx communities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, yet they have the most barriers to accessing vaccination and testing services. These very communities have sustained us with their frontline service throughout the pandemic. To this end, vaccinations, in conjunction with communitybased testing, are of utmost importance to ensure the health of these communities. Throughout the pandemic, Duke has led community health activities aligned with the institution’s commitment to testing, treatment, and community vaccination. However, it has become strikingly apparent that those vaccinated are not representative of the Durham community. In Durham County, which is 35% Black, only 24% of first doses thus far have gone to Black individuals across all vaccination sites. And while 14% of the county are Latinx, they only make up 4% of those who have received their first dose so far. There is a significant gap in vaccine equity for our Black, Indigenous and people of color seniors. Although Duke’s COVID-19 demographic data have yet to be made publicly available, Duke University Health System (DUHS) has a history

of providing unequal care to Black people, and trends in testing data indicate a disconnect from Black and Latinx communities that contributes to health inequities. Despite DUHS’s pledge to “acknowledge our history, engage as a partner with our community, and seek to understand and dismantle any systemic barriers and injustices,” no long-term commitment to expand community vaccination and testing efforts has been made. Disparities in vaccination access are multifactorial. First, information about vaccine registration was not equitably distributed from the beginning. By the time that many in these communities heard that Duke had begun vaccinations for the community, appointments were no longer available. Additionally, many BIPOC seniors have limited access to technology which consequently reduced access and further exacerbated these disparities.Transportation remains a significant barrier, and while assistance is now available, there was a period during which appointments were inaccessible, pushing historically marginalized communities further down the waitlist. Lastly, language barriers remain substantial. Scheduling resources have only been offered in English and Spanish, excluding many in Durham’s immigrant population. The gap in vaccine equity is even more alarming when considering the exclusion of BIPOC from adequate testing and follow-up services. Sites for testing remain concentrated in North and West

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testing, we urge Duke to 1) make publicly available demographic data of those the institution has vaccinated and tested at the level of institutional and community sites, 2) commit to allocating doses to Durham’s marginalized communities, 3) commit to recurrent community vaccination sites in cultural centers of activity, and 4) commit to amplifying mobile and community-based testing efforts for historically marginalized communities. The information provided demonstrates ample opportunity for DUHS to fulfill the promises they made to engage with communities to advance health equity, racial equity and social justice in their fight against systemic racism and injustices. We must remember that Duke was built on the backs of Black and Brown people and continues to rely on these communities to operate today. To promote equitable distribution, we must prioritize historically marginalized communities in our testing and vaccination efforts. Without these actions, we are at risk of further worsening health disparities, which will be detrimental to our community for decades to come. Sincerely, Nguyên Thao Thiị Nguyen, Cokie Young, Njideka Ofoleta La Semilla, End Poverty Durham, World Relief Durham, CityWell United Methodist Church, The River Church, Carolina Outreach, Root Causes See all signatories at chron.it/vaccineletter

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Vote Carlos for DSG prez This year, the Editorial Board has largely focused on questioning power structures at Duke. We have covered the cyclical nature of legacy admissions, the toxic elitism in club culture, instances of white apathy outside of electoral politics, and more. The challenges that the Duke student body has faced this year have illuminated the urgency for abandoning status quos. We believe that Carlos Diaz is the Duke Student Government (DSG) presidential candidate with the vision and the gusto to rise to the occasion.

and serving on the DSG Latinx Caucus, which renders his inexperience strictly to the internal workings of DSG. We are confident that Carlos has the drive and talent to overcome this initial hurdle. Moreover, we strongly believe that his bold policies and deep understanding of the needs of the student body are worth the risk of electing a non-traditional DSG president. Given his outsider status, Carlos is not shy in expressing his discontent with DSG, specifically their patterns of underutilizing resources and

Community Editoral Board The president’s influence over DSG’s culture and the wellbeing of the student body cannot be overstated. Admittedly, here lies candidate Christina Wang’s strengths—she is more than familiar with DSG bureaucracy and won’t face a steep learning curve if elected president. She began her DSG career during her freshman year, serving as a senator on the Equity and Outreach committee, and has risen through ranks since. Despite this strong affiliation, Christina will tell you that DSG does not have the strongest track record and has considerable room to improve. We believe that Christina has the background to provide steps towards institutionalizing equity and building a greater sense of community—two of her primary goals—however, we believe she will only work within the lines set out by the Duke administration. In other words, she is too safe of a choice given the urgent needs of the study body. The difference between these two candidates mimics the perpetual struggle between safe, incremental change and unconventional, sizable progress. Carlos takes the latter approach. We believe the largest risk in electing him as president would be the learning curve he would face, as it would be his first executive DSG position. However, he has worked with DSG throughout his time at Duke while advocating on behalf of Mi Gente as President

ignoring connections with student organizations. He addresses these issues in his proposals to remove bias in the senatorial recruitment process and reform their project model. Beyond that, he backs traditional campaign buzzwords—“equity,” “transparency,” and “accessibility”—with unconventional policies and genuine enthusiasm to do better. It is evident that accountability flows both ways for Carlos, as he was quick to admit when he was unaware of a student’s specific policy concern during our conversation. We endorse Carlos Diaz because we feel that his bold attitude and platform will push DSG out of its comfort zone. Speaking with Carlos makes us wonder how different this year’s administrative policies—sparse mental wellness days, abrupt housing changes, and lackluster social life reform— would be if someone with his unwavering equitable priorities had greater influence in these decisionmaking processes. His history with equitable advocacy and vision for a better Duke community makes us hopeful that, as DSG president, he will be a fierce champion of the student body. Editor’s Note: Kristen Tan recused herself from this editorial. The Community Editorial Board is independent from the editorial staff of the Chronicle. Their column runs on alternate Mondays.

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e come bearing an apology and a very, very tardy column. A bit late for PASH to be ringing in the New Year, right? Let’s just say that we’ve been woefully lacking in muses here on the production side of things. But, with the support of the PASH team and my amazing, patient, absolute saint of an editor, on this fine Tuesday morning, I will be sharing a story with undoubtedly a little TMI: what led me to realize that I was having an adverse reaction to my birth-control pill.

bring myself to hold a colored pencil between my fingers, much less create anything. I didn’t read, couldn’t fathom journaling and wouldn’t be bothered to leave the house. I was suddenly disinterested in the sum of things that made me myself. For a long time, I thought that this was just what life was like, what the world did to you after you’ve lived in it for a certain number of years. When an in-person biology lab compelled my return to campus this semester, I found that the guy I liked was happily in a relationship. Ouch. It then hit me: there

Bridging the gap

o you remember when you were a little kid, somewhere between the ages of 4-7, or maybe even a teenager, and your parents or teacher would give you elaborate instructions or explain how you should or shouldn’t do something…then you would go and do exactly the opposite of what it was they had just told you. And when you came back, even though they might help you through it, you got that “I told you so” look or lecture. Well I’m pretty sure that this is how Christ feels about the church sometimes…actually maybe a lot of the time, especially as it relates to the way we have interpreted his teachings on poverty and marginalization.

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SEARCHING FOR CANAAN

It was the April of my first year at Duke, and there was this guy. He had a smile that lived on his whole face, cheeks kissed with dimples, and he made me laugh. So, naturally, I sped to Student Health as fast as my little freshman legs would carry me and requested that I be prescribed The Pill. I was surely on the cusp of a new chapter of life, and whatever decision I made, I wanted to feel safe making it. Turned out to be a false alarm on the whole new chapter of life thing. Things didn’t work out, and a month later, $179 was unceremoniously billed to my mother’s insurance, my own university apparently being an “out-of-network provider.” But, I decided to keep taking the pill, now prescribed by my friendly innetwork gynecologist, because birth-control could regulate my periods and help with acne, and I certainly wouldn’t be saying no to less cramps and clear skin. It continued to be a staple of my daily routine throughout sophomore year, which is why it took me so long to realize that something was wrong. I love my parents so, so much. However, there is one wrong they’ve committed that I have yet to forgive: choosing Ohio as the venue of my childhood. Ah, I jest. However, it speaks for itself that the most Black people my own age that I’ve seen in a single place is at Duke. The bar for a diverse environment is on the floor, to say the least. But, I was ecstatic— at long last, I was surrounded by peers who shared my lived experience, as they’d lived some iteration of it themselves. I think I was so busy breathing in the collectiveness of it all—those group brunches at Marketplace and arrivals to parties en-masse—that I didn’t notice the small, intimate cliques come into being. Until I found myself on the outside looking in: staring at laughing groups of girls, at friendships that I seemed to have missed my invitation to. I pored frantically over every aspect of my self and appearance, inventoried every contour and crevice of my personality. Because that’s where the answer was, I was sure. That I wasn’t pretty enough, funny enough to be friends with. That I wasn’t enough of anything to be worth knowing. Loneliness is something impossibly sticky, something that leaves you completely powerless, because it’s inescapable until someone else saves you from it. It hurt every day, until eventually it felt like there was nothing left of or for me. That’s when COVID hit. We were sent home and told that we couldn’t even return for our clothes. While life as we knew it fell to ruin, all I felt was relief. At home, I reached a cautious equilibrium. I didn’t wake up in tears every day. I was laughing again. Like I was back in my body instead of watching someone else move my limbs. But, I was different. In the past, I’d completed an art portfolio for my high school capstone project, and yet now, I couldn’t

was absolutely nothing on my horizons that would necessitate me to take birthcontrol. And what if the self I’d been living with for the better part of a year and a half, the one without energy, without hobbies, without hope for good things, wasn’t really me? So much changed situationally for me sophomore year, which, birth-control or not, would have precipitated depression. But in the time since, my environment had changed for the better. Why did I still feel this way? Could it possibly be the birth-control? Crudely testing my theory, I stopped taking the prescription cold-turkey in the middle of the monthly cycle. And in the two weeks since, I’ve felt that quiet thrum of contentedness, the one I thought I’d never feel again, return to my chest. I wake up and have things to look forward to—not just sleep. Stopping my hormonalbased pill was the best decision I could have made for myself. Please don’t go and say that the Vice President of PASH has told you that birth control is bad and to stop taking it. Birthcontrol provides freedom, autonomy, and agency. It allows you to engage in pleasure without compromising what you want from life and when. But it’s also a medicine. And medicine always comes with side effects. On the pamphlet attached to my prescription, which I still have a month and a half ’s supply of, listed under the heading “Less Common Side Effects,” there it was: “Depression, especially if you have had depression in the past. Call your healthcare provider immediately if you have any thoughts of harming yourself.” That’s exactly what I didn’t do: call someone. When you look up “birth control and depression”, you find articles titled, ”No, your birth control won’t cause depression” and directly below, “Possible links between birth control and depression”. Who do you listen to when the evidence is mixed? Well, your body. You’ve lived there your whole life, haven’t you? No matter how rare the incidence of a side effect is, if it’s listed, it has happened to somebody. Don’t believe that the somebody can’t be you. If you feel like something is wrong at any point while taking a prescription, let someone else in, especially the person who prescribed it. If I had, perhaps two and two would have come together sooner. Oh, also, under less common side effects, “Problems tolerating contact lenses” is listed. If that’s you and you had no idea that it could possibly be related to birth-control, consider this fate and call your gynecologist.

In my last column I talked about how I critically reflected on Martin Luther; that is also the jumping off point for this week. See, in 1525, Martin Luther wrote an essay called “Against the Robbing and Murderous Hordes of Peasants.” It was his take on the The Peasants’ War, in which German Peasants attempted a violent overthrow of the landlords and nobles. This uprising was in fact inspired and borne out the Peasants’ identification with Luther’s reformation; yet, as Luther’s title might allude to, he was not on the side of the Peasants. Luther wrote that the Peasants had “taken on themselves the burden of three terrible sins against God and man, by which they have abundantly merited death in body and soul.” And he would later go on to give

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here, because even the American Church has been permeated by the false notions that everyone in America can pull themselves up by the bootstraps in this country. When the church does engage with poverty or living inequity in the United States, it is not in ways that fight to help reform policy, uplift the community or help change the conditions. Instead it is your standard once-a-year Thanksgiving food drive. The church is not fighting to upend and end poverty. It is fighting to silence and placate those in the midst of suffering and need. And this is not to say that every church in this nation ignores the need of their community, but rather to say that on a whole

the church has pushed away the revolutionary ideas of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. The Church has embraced a twisted notion of “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:3),” leading the church to conjure up an exegesis which, as Dr. Liz Theoharris of the Kairos center aptly states, “spiritualize[s] the gospel and claim[s] that Jesus is not concerned with material/economic issues.” In fact, Jesus intended the phrases to teach us not to prop “up the hegemonic system that impoverishes and exploits the many.” Yet from theologians as seminal as Luther to the present day church, we find a church that turns its back on true and deep change in the way the church engages, fights against classism and stands with those who are in poverty.

From theologians as seminal as Luther to the present day church, we find a church that turns its back on true and deep change in the way the church engages, fights against classism and stands with those who are in poverty.

” the nobles and landlords the supposed theological grounding to kill the peasants with no holy ramifications. More simply put, in this moment Luther took the side of the social hierarchy to side with the nobles and landlords and condemn the peasants. While in the 21st century the church is not calling for the heads of the poor, there still remain some teachings that align with the way that Luther viewed the rights and status of the poor, which also hold cognitive dissonance with Jesus’s teachings. At present the institutional church only likes to engage with issues such as poverty, food insecurity, lack of clean water or unsafe living conditions when it is mutually beneficial to the institution. There is a clear preference for sending parishioners on summer-long mission trips halfway across the globe for the perfect photo opportunities, while turning a blind eye to the many families and communities crying for help in the very same cities we find these churches located in. That is to say, social equity is only fought for in places that the United States has deemed “developing,” while ignoring the need of those

And as I have said before, if the church aims to actually get back to those ideas of Jesus, like the ones he put forth in his Sermon on the Mount, then it must stop standing with the hegemonic power structures and instead be an active force in dismantling them through true cooperative and purposeful works with in its local communities. And the church has frameworks for this; it just needs to use them. For example, it could draw on the teachings and critical thought of 1960s and 70s Latin American Theologians Liberation Theologians like Gustavo Guiterrez, or womanist scholars and theologians such as Katie Cannon and Emilie Townes. In reading and practicing theologies and teachings modeled by voices like these, the church has a chance to fully embody what Jesus envisioned for us when he gave his Sermon on the Mount. Tatayana Richardson is a Trinity senior who thinks everyone should read “Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader.” Her column, “searching for Canaan,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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NO-HITTER

Brooks swished an elbow jumper. However, the Preseason ACC Player of the Year landed on Hurt’s foot and rolled his ankle, promptly exiting honestly, no different than any other start. the game and heading to the locker room. The But I know she loves the big moments, and sequence sparked memories of Zion Williamson playing at home, on TV tonight, definitely lit and the infamous “shoe game” two years ago. a fire in her, and she was ready to shine.” However, unlike Williamson in that contest, In a game associated with lazy Sunday Brooks returned to the game for the Tar Heels, afternoons and summers that stretch past emerging from the locker room six minutes the skyline, the time given within the game of game play later. The senior immediately to appreciate the possibility of Walters’ checked back in and sunk another mid-range accomplishment lasted all of seven minutes. jumper from the opposite elbow to put North The ACC Network announcers didn’t even Carolina up 18-4. realize she’d pitched a no-hitter until several Three minutes later, Brooks held the minutes after Bolan crossed home plate. ball near the baseline in what looked to be “I didn’t know it was the first [no hitter in a broken possession. But he quickly stepped Duke history]—first one?!” Walters said. “And back to create separation and sunk a corner then afterwards, Coach is like, ‘It’s literally three to put the home team ahead 24-6. like the. First. One. Like, ever.’ And I was like, Steward did his best to keep Duke in ‘Oh, shoot.’ That’s so exciting. I can’t think of the game, going on an 8-2 run by himself, anything more honoring. I’m just honored to including a four-point play. But North be remembered for something.” Carolina was relentless, following that up with a 12-2 run of its own, and went into halftime up 42-26. It was tied for the Blue Devils’ lowest scoring half this season. “They were just completely knocked back with FROM PAGE 1 the level of defense, the intensity that Roy’s team came out with,” Krzyzewski said of his team’s gave North Carolina (16-9, 10-6) its largest lead struggles to begin the game. “And Roy’s team of the night at 66-42. played hard the whole way. But those first eight to “We couldn’t string together stops,” Steward 10 minutes, they were at a really high level. And it said. “We can’t trade baskets on both ends of the just knocked us back.” floor. So we just Duke will look to got to get stops rebound Tuesday against and fight. That’s Boston College in the the main thing.” first round of the ACC Brooks was one tournament. It’ll mark the of four Tar Heel first time the Blue Devils are seniors honored playing in the tournament’s prior to the start of opening round since 2007. Duke’s final conference record the contest, with the “I need to help them 6-foot-10 forward more confidence-wise undoubtedly the and just coaching-wise so most accomplished of the quartet. And every time that they they can turn this around,” Krzyzewski the Alabama native scored, the crowd responded, said. “They have good attitudes. Our practices sending him off in style. are good. They’re good kids. But did we play However, Brooks’ regular-season career well? No. Did I prepare them well? No. I didn’t nearly came to an end less than a minute get it. I didn’t help them enough. And that’s my into the game. responsibility. I’m gonna try to do what I can to On North Carolina’s first possession, help them play well on Tuesday.”

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within DSG—such as the lack of effort when reaching out to identity groups on campus— and pledging to rectify them. This year he noted that there was no outreach from DSG to cultural groups like Mi Gente. “Students should not have to reach out incessantly in the hopes of being heard. The student government should be working for the student body, not the other way around,” Diaz wrote on his campaign website. “DSG is meant to represent everybody, not just a few senators in the room,” Diaz said. Diaz promised to uphold DSG’s commitment to consulting with underrepresented student groups on campus and increasing transparency in funding. “At the end of the day, I’m only one person. I’ll never be able to quite gain the level of understanding of every community that should be and so that’s why I want to surround myself with people who do know a lot about each and every community,” he said. Diaz added he is not someone to “push conflict aside” and instead likes to “address it head-on.” “If there’s a project I think is problematic or a project I think does not have much use, I’m going to speak up and I’m going to make sure I’m inviting people who will speak up,” he said. Diaz plans to work with identity centers and student groups to demand institutional funding for stoles and identity graduation ceremonies. Last summer, he worked on the Student Advisory Board to plan the 2020-2021 school year along with various departments, working to center on the voices of BIPOC members of the Duke and Durham communities to get input. Following the announcement that upperclassmen would not have housing on campus just two weeks before classes started, he voiced student concerns to administrators that this policy was inequitable for low-income students, exacerbating housing insecurity and declining mental health for some students and contributing to gentrification in the downtown Durham area. “I’m okay being completely honest with anyone I need to be honest with. I don’t care too much for upholding images for being friendly, for putting on this facade,” Diaz noted

of his readiness to face conflict when necessary. “I want things to be done and I want people to hear what needs to be heard.” Part of Diaz’s platform aims to expand the course cost transparency tool and factor hidden costs into financial aid. He added that he seeks to make it easier for students to waive the Duke insurance fee. Additionally, he hopes to expand the use of leftover food points. “A lot of students have so much leftover and the fact that we can’t use it in any other way is a little ridiculous. I am hoping to be able to push those for some kind of Duke credit at the store or for laundry or even for parking passes,” he said. He also plans to create a career closet for students to borrow clothing for interviews, career fairs and conferences. Diaz seeks to implement required sexual assault training for all student groups and strengthen no-contact directives for victims of assault, which allow students who report an assault to request no physical or virtual contact with their perpetrator. His platform also emphasizes making students feel safer on campus through more blue lights and an institutional partnership with Noonlight, a safety app already partnered with several peer institutions. Senior Jamal Burns, a friend of Diaz’s, was eager to commend Diaz as proving himself capable of “locating insufficiencies” with the status quo. “Throughout his time at Duke, he has invested his time in bettering the lived experience of marginalized communities and Duke more broadly,” Burns said. Rebecca Ewing, lecturing fellow of Romance Studies who had Diaz as a student in the course “Latinx Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond,” wrote in an email to The Chronicle that “Carlos has proven to be deeply committed to social justice in service to his communities at Duke, in Durham, and beyond.” “He is unafraid to engage in difficult conversations surrounding race, class, gender, national origin and the intersectionality of these and other identities in order to work towards a more equitable society,” Ewing wrote. “He has challenged me as an instructor to examine my own inherent biases, demonstrating respectful dialogue and impressive leadership. Carlos will lead Duke Student Government with empathy and critical thought and reflection.”

significant factor in the decision to desegregate,” Endowment chair wrote letters to leaders of the Segal said. “The reason was money and they Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation and delayed as long as they could.” Rockefeller Foundation announcing the board’s FROM PAGE 2 move. The philanthropic giants responded research. Money and reputation threatened affirmatively, archival documents show. “White young men and women went there By the early 1960s, the federal government On June 2, 1962, the Board of Trustees because their white parents went there, and and national philanthropic organizations announced that Duke would amend its they were trained in the academics and habits signaled they would only give money undergraduate admissions to include Black of how a white person comports themself in for research and educational purposes students. the world,” Segal said in an interview. to institutions with nondiscriminatory Duke operated within the racially admissions policies. The first Black graduate and professional segregated rules of the Jim Crow era, and its With millions of dollars in grants and students students were not immune to its ideology. contracts on the line, Duke set out to make the A handful of Indigenous, Asian, Latinx Students wrote letters to the editors in The case for desegregation to the Board of Trustees. and Asian American students had enrolled Chronicle espousing segregationist beliefs, “We initially proposed integration in the at Duke as early as 1880, records show. But such as a 1958 letter to the editor fearing the graduate school and professional schools only, Black students did not attend the university as a starting point,” R. Taylor Cole, Duke’s until the fall of 1961, after Duke changed possibility of interracial marriage. “The half-cracked ‘moralists’ of the North provost at the time, recounted in a 1980 its graduate and professional schools’ have taken the issue of ‘equal conditions for all interview.“...We concluded that we would admissions policy. races’ and decided that the South must kneel present the proposal to the board in terms that Walter Thaniel Johnson Jr. and David down and obey their commands to surrender to we thought would be fully understandable to Robinson were the first Black students to integration,” student James Kennedy wrote. the board … legal, economic, and educational attend Duke Law School. Ruben Lee Speaks But more often, archival records suggest a reasons, all of which pointed toward the was the first Black student to enroll in Duke prevailing sense of apathy among the student absolute necessity for integration.”. Divinity School, though he enrolled with body regarding issues of racial justice. Three administrators, including Cole, special status, as he had already received a “Many of us are beginning to wonder what wrote a memo for the trustees outlining divinity degree. the reason is for so few students asserting reasons for changing Duke’s admissions In the fall of 1962, James Eaton, Ida Stephens opinions and taking action on the matter of policy that did not stress the “moral aspects Owens and Odell Richardson Reuben were the the pickets in Durham: is it because they are of segregation,” Cole recalled. first Black students to attend the Graduate trying to remain calm and stable during an The memo also said that desegregating the School of Arts and Sciences. Matthew A. emotional period—or is it that they have no graduate and professional schools “should Zimmerman and Donald Ballard were the first opinion at all to assert?” columnist Barbara not be considered an argument” for admitting Black students to enroll in the Divinity School Underwood wrote in the same issue of The Black students to the undergraduate school, as official degree-seeking students. Chronicle announcing the board’s ultimate Segal wrote in his book. Key administrators at the graduate and decision to desegregate. The Board adopted the resolution to open professional schools directly recruited these Regardless, the sentiments of students graduate and professional school admissions first students. seemed to have little effect on the Board to applicants of all races on March 8, 1961. Johnson and Robinson recalled Dean of Trustees’ decision-making, according to “A possible diminution of revenues may Elvin “Jack” Latty’s recruitment efforts in a Segal’s research. have led to the action by the Trustees,” The 2012 interview with Duke Law School. “I don’t think what the Chronicle wrote Chronicle reported at the time. “Was I seeking integration? No,” Robinson or what students thought was a particularly Following the Board’s decision, the Duke said. “In fact, my entire family was opposed

to it. They were concerned for my safety.” After meeting Latty during one of the dean’s recruiting trips to Howard University, Robinson found Latty to be “a most persuasive, fatherly figure. He said, ‘We’re gonna do this.’” Owens, the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from Duke, enrolled because of the recruiting efforts of Daniel C. Tosteson, then chair of the Department of Physiology. She met him when he came to Durham’s North Carolina College, now North Carolina Central University, to scout potential graduate students. “I am eternally grateful to Duke, eternally grateful for the fact that they allowed me to enter that school. But I’d never for one moment say if I hadn’t gone to Duke then I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Owens said in a 2014 documentary produced by Duke Graduate School. “I don’t think of it that way.” Owens recalled her siloed studies in the laboratory, saying she didn’t know there were other Black graduate students and later Black undergraduate students at Duke until her graduation in 1967. Looney noted the distinction between desegregation and integration. “The bars were lifted, but [Owens] was never integrated in the community at Duke,” Looney said. “It’s like when we think about diversity and inclusion … diversity is being invited to the party … inclusion is being asked to dance.” Asked whether she thinks Duke has become fully integrated since she began recruiting minority students more than three decades ago, Looney said, “We’re still dealing with some of the same issues that we dealt with in 1987. We also have made tremendous progress.” “There is still a lot of work to do,” she said.

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