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After years of planning, local leaders trying to bring a light rail to the Triangle are facing a federal deadline for a $1.2 billion grant.

But Duke, which would have to donate land for the planned route to work, has some questions. President Vincent Price has informed project leaders that the University wants assurances and tweaks to several aspects of the planned rail before he will recommend to the Board of Trustees that they donate the land.

In the last two weeks, this holdout has led to a letter from Reps. David Price and G.K. Butterfield pushing for the rail and has spurred faculty members to speak out in support of the infrastructure.

With grant application deadlines looming, will local leaders be able to resolve Duke’s concerns and guarantee the land donation?

‘Duke is an absolutely critical partner on the project’ The Durham-Orange light rail project would connect Durham to Chapel Hill along a 17.7-mile line, which skirts Duke’s campus. The total project is projected to cost See LIGHT RAIL on Page 4

Robert Anderson has painted official portraits of George W. Bush, Richard Brodhead Courtesy of Bob Capazzo

Duke unveiled President Richard Brodhead’s portrait for the Gothic Reading Room Nov. 2.

The painting was done by Bob Anderson, a classmate of Brodhead’s at Yale, who has also painted President George W. Bush on three occasions. Anderson has been painting privately commissioned portrait since 1973, and previously painted Brodhead when he stepped down as dean of Yale College.

The Chronicle spoke with Bob Anderson about his career as an artist and his experiences painting the presidents. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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little time getting acquainted with the person I’m going to paint and establish some kind of personal relationship with them, which puts everybody at ease.

After a conversation, I see how people are when they’re relaxed, not thinking about whether they’re sitting up straight or being aware of their body language. And the painting is to portray that, as much the body language as getting a good focus of the face and the proportions of the body and that kind of thing.

And then we set up a second session to take photographs and any sketches that I might want to make for the final painting.

I would put together some kind of composite sketch based on the best information I could get out of the photographs and sketches.

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Town hall discusses reforming Shooters II

By Nico Portuondo Contributing Reporter

If you’re heading to Shooters II Saloon after winter break, you might run into protesters.

Student activists organized Tuesday to discuss initial plans for a boycott and protest of the popular nightclub because student activists that allege it is complicit in sexual assault. The protest, discussed at an event scheduled by the Duke Men’s Project—a group that aims to tackle “toxic masculinity,” is scheduled to begin Jan. 16.

In addition to an organized boycott, protest outside the club’s doors and a petition, students suggested shining headlamps on people on the dance floor to reveal the forms of sexual assault that they said occur on a nightly basis.

“Pretty much everyone is aware that Shooters is very complicit in sexual assault and groping,” said senior Chris Camp.

A post from the Duke Men’s Project after the event said it hopes to “line the path to Shooters with signs and protesters to recruit more individuals to pledge and remind those who do attend of what they are funding.”

Others suggested informing first-year students of other activities that Duke offers on Wednesday nights.

Students at the meeting believed that the problem with Shooters runs deep.

“By attending and funding a toxic and corrupt institution, students are complicit in its existence and perpetuation,” a Duke Men’s Project post read after the event.

Some students argued that the entire foundation of the Shooters environment is founded on normalizing rape culture through the mirage of a nightclub setting. Senior Miriam Levitin said she was so affected by the Shooters culture that she remarked she would not feel safe protesting See SHOOTERS II on Page 4

Mary Helen Wood | Associate Photography Editor A Tuesday night town hall event discussed the culture of Shooters II.

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Price responds to HRL inspects balconies with binoculars Identity Evropa flyers

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In light of recent events, President Vincent Price condemned racial hatred in an email to all undergraduate students Tuesday.

He wrote that the University is committed to the safety of its students and will continue expanding security and fostering dialogue on campus. Price also addressed the group Identity Evropa—identified as a white nationalist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center—whose stickers were found on West Campus over Thanksgiving break.

“To be clear: the goals of this organization are detestable and absolutely contrary to Duke’s community values of respect and inclusion,” Price wrote in the email. “Their purpose is to frighten, not educate, and as such should be condemned at every opportunity.”

The university-wide email comes on the heels of several “acts of vandalism and hate” on campus. Last week, a swastika was found spray-painted over a bridge painting memorializing the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. And, earlier this month, swastika-carved pumpkins and flyers reading “It’s okay to be white”—a slogan adopted by racist groups—were found on East Campus, as well as other colleges in the nation.

“Duke is not the only campus experiencing these incidents,” Price wrote. “Every day we read about new and intentional provocations that are clearly conceived to generate attention. We have been in regular contact with colleges across the country that have experienced similar attacks to share information and seek ideas.”

In the email, Price emphasized the security measures and resources at Duke available to students in the face of hate incidents.

“I know these displays of intimidation may be particularly stressful to members of our African American, Jewish, Latinx, LGBT and Muslim communities, among others,” Price wrote. “Let me again affirm our foundational commitment to public and personal safety, which includes enhanced security activities in a number of areas.”

These security activities include additional security at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, as well as planned security cameras for the East Campus Bridge, where the mural was vandalized, Price wrote in a similar email Nov. 19.

Forget bird-watching — balcony watching may be the new hot trend on campus.

In an email to residents of the apartments at 300 Swift sent Nov. 14, Swift Residence Coordinator Matthew Bailey wrote that initial safety reviews of the balconies at 300 Swift would be conducted from outside of the building

via binoculars.

The balconies have been closed since the beginning of the academic year due to safety concerns about the balcony railings.

Bailey explained that the reviews would be conducted remotely, rather than having inspectors enter student residences.

However, he warned students to protect their privacy during the inspections.

Chronicle File Photo Housing and Residence Life is having the balconies at 300 Swift inspected using binoculars, so it warned residents to shut their blinds to protect their privacy.

“As we will be having people looking at the building through binoculars, we strongly encourage residents to close their blinds during the times above,” Bailey wrote in the email to residents.

The reviews were conducted between Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 during regular business hours.

Although Bailey warned students to protect their privacy during the inspections, some residents saw the binocular inspections as less intrusive than alternatives.

“I feel comfortable with the inspections since they notified us ahead of time,” said sophomore Tyler Long, a resident of 300 Swift.

Long said that he preferred the remote inspections to in-person inspections, which he viewed as more invasive for 300 Swift residents.

Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, wrote in an email that the visual reviews are for the initial round of reviews only. Any concerning inspections will lead to on-site followup reviews.

As of Nov. 26, undergraduate students living at 300 Swift had not received any follow-up information regarding the inspections.

No follow-up reviews have been announced by the administration.

Gonzalez wrote that the administration expects balconies at 300 Swift to re-open to undergraduate residents at some point, although the timeline is uncertain.

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‘Kind of pigeonholed’: DSG Senate debuts new caucus system

By Matthew Griffin Staff Reporter

After noting there was general criticism that Duke Student Government did not heed all voices on campus, DSG Senate can now form caucuses.

DSG caucuses consist of groups of DSG representatives who share certain policy interests. President Pro Tempore and junior Avery Boltwood conceived of them to be a way for particular interest groups to discuss relevant issues and to allow DSG members to work on a wider variety of issues.

At a Senate meeting earlier this month, Boltwood presented two ideas for caucuses—the First-Generation/Low-Income Caucus and the LGBTQIA+ Caucus.

“An initial problem I had was how do we… increase representation of first-generation, low-income people in the Senate,” he said. “We wanted to meet up and it was like, ‘what exact shape does that take?’”

Caucuses must begin within the Senate, but their members can be from any of DSG’s branches. If a caucus is empty at the beginning of a new academic year, the President Pro Tempore will let the Senate know that the caucus exists and needs members.

“Part of it was people in DSG feeling like they were kind of pigeonholed in whatever corner they found themselves in,” he said. “Certainly in my experience, [as a] first-year on [the Senate committee for] campus life… you don’t know anything going on outside of your own committee.”

The interests at the forefront of the proposed FirstGeneration/Low-Income and LGBTQIA+ caucuses inspired the idea to institutionalize them.

Boltwood himself is a first-generation student, and Director of LGBTQIA+ Affairs Maria Morrison approached him with the idea of creating a “queer caucus.” Boltwood also mentioned efforts to curb sexual assault and gender violence as an area that could benefit from the creation of a system for coordinating initiatives.

Boltwood told the Senate that the caucuses will serve

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three main purposes for DSG: acting as a point of contact for students on specialized policy areas, distributing targeted information to interested students and promoting crosscommittee collaboration. Part of their job will be creating and shaping legislation, but they will also collect community feedback on their issues.

“I think another important focus is that, by assembling these people together, there’s now an obvious point of contact for people outside of DSG to talk about these particular issues,” he said. “So legislation is one output, but I think another output is [getting] community feedback in a way that we haven’t been

able to do before.”

Caucuses will serve an informal advisory role within the Senate. Unlike the existing Senate committees, they will not have the power to bring legislation to the floor or prevent a vote on legislation. But, a committee could ask the members of a caucus for feedback on a proposed bill.

Boltwood emphasized that the existence of caucuses should not conflict with the work done by committees.

“There’s no way they could actually obstruct anything committees do,” he said.

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Part of the discussion around that part of the track is leaving enough room for emergency vehicles to access the hospital’s emergency room, meaning planners have to consider aerial tracks for part of the route.

FROM PAGE 1 around $2.5 billion–the federal grant for $1.24 billion would cover half of that.

The project earned the nod of approval from the Federal Transit Administration to advance to the engineering phase in July 2017, and GoTriangle has been leading the efforts to make the project a reality.

In addition to federal funding, Durham Mayor Steve Schewel told The Chronicle in February that the project was seeking around $200 million in state funding as well.

The currently proposed route would brush Duke’s campus on several points, and intersects with some key thoroughfares around it.

Patrick McDonough, manager of planning and transitoriented development for GoTriangle, said in February that GoTriangle was working with the University to plan the part of the route around Erwin Road.

“Duke is an absolutely critical partner on the project,” McDonough told The Chronicle in February.

‘Duke is vitally interested in the success of Durham and the region’ In a pair of letters to local leaders earlier this month, Price explained Duke’s ongoing concerns about the light rail.

After an initial letter stated Duke had lingering issues with parts of the route, Mayor Steve Schewel and Wendy Jacobs, chair of Durham County’s Board of County Commissioners, met with Price to discuss the project.

The letters come after Price received a Nov. 16 letter from Reps. Price and Butterfield asking Duke to support the project.

“Duke is vitally interested in the success of Durham and the region, and we want to be partners with the public and private sectors in solving the urgent matter of transit for the entire community,” Price wrote.

The president reiterated Duke’s lingering concerns.

The issues listed included the closure of Blackwell

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Street and the accessibility of the Durham Performing Arts Center, American Tobacco Campus and other related locations. He also noted a concern about ensuring power supply for the school and medical facilities, and protecting the “continuity and safety of research and clinical activities that take place in buildings adjacent to the planned rail line.”

Additionally, Price outlined concerns about ensuring that access to Duke Hospital’s trauma center is always unimpeded, “minimizing disruptions during the construction process” and keeping access to Trent Drive, as well as other patient transit and access points.

“While we still have concerns about several aspects of the planned route, particularly the impact of road closings on downtown and the portion of the line that will run along Erwin Road adjacent to, and in some cases through, the Duke campus, we commit to continuing the good-faith efforts on the part of Duke, GoTriangle, and public officials to seek solutions that will ensure the health, safety and economic vitality of the community, and Duke University,” he wrote.

Price wrote that he appreciated the project leaders’ willingness to reconsider Duke’s request to elevate the rail line over State Road 751 in order to avoid congestion and “facilitate safety.” He noted the University is looking forward to the results of a traffic study that is being conducted in the following weeks.

The president said that he appointed Executive Vice President Tallman Trask to be the principal liaison to GoTriangle for the relationship.

“I hope that these outstanding issues can be definitively resolved in a straightforward and mutually agreeable way,” Price wrote. “At that point, I will be in a position to recommend that the Board of Trustees act favorably on [the] request for a voluntary contribution of land and rights of way at the appropriate time.”

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“Shooters is rotten to its core,” said senior Trey Walk.

The initial goal of the protests is to pressure owner Kim Cates and Shooters management through decreased business to have its staff undertake the “Raising the Bar” sexual assault training, but the group is pessimistic that Cates will compromise.

“We are not thrilled about having ongoing dialogue with Kim Cates,” said senior Kelsey Shelofsky.

College Town reported that Larry Moneta, vice president of student affairs, reached out to Cates about doing the program.

However, Cates said she didn’t because “it was the summer and she only had part-timers.” Cates said she reached out to Moneta during the school year but didn’t hear back. After that, they didn’t “connect further.”

The activists’ ultimate goal is more ambitious than just training.

Many students at the meeting thought that Shooters should no longer be part of the Duke undergraduate culture and that its environment is too rotten and unsafe to be truly reformed. They hoped that in the distant future, first-year students at Duke will no longer be what they described as coerced to go, while inebriated, to a toxic environment that is inherently unsafe and perpetuates cultural norms of sexual assault.

“We need to transform the view of Shooters for freshman from where they have to go as part of the Duke experience, to a view where it’s not part of the Duke experience at all,” said senior Alec Wall.

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During most major holidays, my family either hosts or attends a dinner party. The host family spends the afternoon creating a wide and varied dinner spread. Guests arrive around 5 p.m., each also bringing a dish or two with them. Once everyone arrives, we load up our plates and head to the tables.

One table is usually reserved for the adults and one for the kids.

This past Thanksgiving was familiar in some ways: we hosted that all-too-familiar party. But, we were in a new home — a new place, with some old faces and some new ones. My mom recently relocated to Iowa for her job, along with many of her coworkers, but the families with kids that I knew well were still back in Indiana.

There were also fewer people than usual.

Still, before the guests arrived, we tidied up — my mom specifically told me to make my bed in case people wanted to see the new house — and set out the two tables. One for the adults, and one for the kids. When it came time to sit down, though, I hesitated.

There were only 4 “kids” and 7 adults at that point, with about 9 chairs at the larger table.

A few of the “kids” were also already graduate students, which added to the awkwardness of the seating situation.

My dad told my sister and I to sit wherever, but my mom waved us over to the smaller table. So, we sat there. Just the two of us. Until the larger table filled up, and one of the adults came over to sit with us. When the last family arrived, a few more people joined us, but it still had a sort of awkwardness of feeling that we were not all in our usual places.

Eventually, dinner ended. But the typical activities for the “kids” — playing games, watching movies and TV — had not yet been set up in the new house. We eventually dug into one of the large, still-packed boxes and found some board games. My sister and I played 3D Blockus on our own for a bit. Just the two of us. Another girl, a college senior,

later joined us to play a couple rounds of Harry Potter Clue.

After we took a cheesecake break and snacked on some other foods, the adults decided it was about time to start playing cards. Unlike at most of these parties, though, we all played together. My sister and I were looped into the game, included as part of this tradition rather than hearing the goings-on and echoes of the card game from afar.

We played as if we were a single person rather than two individuals so that we could work together. The two of us together was the equivalent of one adult. It took us a bit to learn how to play — it has elements of

cards the first person plays (i.e. single, pairs, triples, etc.). Needless to say, as we asked questions, we gave away quite a bit of information about what cards were in our hand.

It was a lot of fun. Confusing at first and somewhat difficult to follow, but fun. It was also something of a revelation. I remember always thinking that the loud laughter of the adults was a bit amusing and a bit obnoxious. But joining in with the adults in the game gave me a different perspective.

That day, I was part of that laughter.

It led to a noticeable change in my role in the family dynamic — while I’ll always be my parents’ daughter, I’m no longer a child.

I think that change, though, is one of several in a process of increasing independence.

Some other major shifts along the way included my first time driving without a parent in the passenger seat, traveling to another country on my own, leaving home for an out-of-state college and finding my first internship.

But I don’t feel like a full-fledged adult yet. If I had to set out on my own tomorrow, there would still be a lot that I don’t know.

It’s an intimidating prospect, thinking about the future and setting out without a clear path or any guarantees. For now, I’ll keep sitting at the “kids” table, as I continue to transition, try out different experiences and become more independent.

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‘Seeing White’ podcast examines racial structures through lens of oppressors

By Miranda Gershoni Staff Writer

“America is aspirational. To me, Obama is what we would like to be, [but] Donald Trump and his supporters are what we are,” said actor D.L. Hughley on “The View.”

For the next fourteen episodes in the series, “Seeing White,” host and producer John Biewen carefully unpacks the “we” Hughley referred to in his interview. A series from the podcast “Scene On Radio” from the Center for Documentary Studies, “Seeing White” looks at the racial structures of America, focusing on dissecting the oppressors rather than the oppressed.

Released earlier this year, “Seeing White” has already amassed over a million downloads, receiving 200,000 in the month of October alone.

Racism in America is certainly not a new, nor a revolutionary, issue to examine. It is as old as the country, and anti-racism advocates have been fighting back since the beginning. But the rhetoric of the 2010s, especially since the 2016 election, has placed racism at the forefront of the national conversation again.

Perhaps the reason why “Seeing White” is so successful is that it dared to challenge this narrative by confronting the deep-rooted causes of white supremacy rather than looking solely at the symptoms. Specifically, its focus on whiteness — how it began and how it has shaped the majority of American institutions — rather than blackness, helping frame a new conversation on race.

It was at the Racial Equity Institute in Greensboro, N.C. where host John Biewen had his “ah ha” moment about racism in America.

“It’s not enough to be a ‘non-racist’ white person,” Biewen said. “There’s this belief that if

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I’m not part of the problem, ‘I’m good.’ But this system is self-perpetuating, and those of us who understand it and are actually in favor of a more just society need to get involved.”

The series takes listeners along a journey with Biewen, a white male, to discover the true history of racism in America — a history which most Americans have barely scratched the surface of— and examine the ways in which it manifests today. The series focuses less on the flashy fringes of society depicted in the news and rather seeks to explain the lessdiscussed majority.

“We spent almost no time talking about the KKK and the alt-right and the neo-Nazis,” Biewen said. “I kind of brush that off, that’s an extreme manifestation, and I wanted to look at the much broader non-overtly racist white people.”

Biewen interviews several experts, including regular guest Chenjerai Kumanyika, assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University.

In an interview with the New York Times, Kumanyika reflected on what made “Seeing White” different.

“So often, when you see conversations with black scholars and activists, you want black people to teach you, but you don’t want to do the homework. Here’s a person that’s doing the homework,” Kumanyika said. “And at the time, he had thought about a lot of things about race that I hadn’t even thought about. Just because I’m a person of color doesn’t mean I come prefigured with racial expertise. I’m a professor of media studies. So that was something I felt I needed to support.”

The series dives deep into the history of institutional racism in America, debunking common myths and filing in gaps left by

American history books. Aided by Ibram Kendi’s “Stamped From the Beginning” and Nell Painter’s “The History of White People,” it challenges the widely held belief that race and racial hierarchies are a natural aspect of being human.

“People constructed race with a particular agenda in mind,” Biewen said. “Whiteness and white supremacy were invented to justify slavery and by extension, other forms of exploitation.”

The episodes invite the listener to explore issues with a narrator rather than lecture and condescend. The uniquely intimate experience of listening to podcasts may also help explain the power the series has had to change listeners’ long-held beliefs and perspectives.

“If you’re a listener and you’re involved in the creation of a visual image through your imagination, that you’re more invested and there’s a stronger attachment with that, an intimate connection with that image then looking at it on a screen,” Biewen said.

In the newest season of “Scene on Radio”,

titled “MEN,” Biewen and co-host Celeste Headlee explore the enduring stronghold of patriarchy in American society.

“Patriarchy is bad for everybody,” Biewen said. “There are benefits that all men have and want to hold on to, but there are also ways in which notions of masculinity are very confining to men, and split us into pieces and tell us, as a man you’re supposed to be this way, but not these ways, and how that’s actually damaging.”

Ultimately, both the “Seeing White” and “MEN” series attempt to open listeners’ minds to the reality of unequal systems in an engaging way.

“We see it as a zero-sum game, we think that if women get more power than they’ve had historically, if people of color get more power, then I’m gonna lose because it’ll just be flipped, and they’ll treat me the way that I’ve been treating them for the last 500 years, which isn’t necessarily the case,” Biewen said. “There’s a better world for virtually all of us if we were to overturn these hierarchies.”

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‘Hamilton’ at DPAC brings the American Revolution to the Bull City

By Jaime Gordon Contributing Writer

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s magnum opus “Hamilton” has been a cultural phenomenon since its Broadway debut in 2015. The musical’s soundtrack is now a ubiquitous part of American pop culture. Tickets to see the show in New York City are highly sought-after but notoriously difficult to obtain. Durham recently got a taste of the Broadway sensation when the second national tour of the acclaimed musical is at the Durham Performing Arts Center from Nov. 6 to Dec. 2.

The show sets history to the rhythm of hip-hop. After beginning with a rousing opening number about founding father Alexander Hamilton’s early life, the first act largely focuses on the dynamics of the American Revolutionary War. Hamilton and his revolutionary comrades — Aaron Burr, Hercules Mulligan and Marquis de Lafayette — plan and execute clever military tactics, much to the chagrin of an egotistical King George. Along the way, Hamilton meets the enchanting Schuyler sisters and ultimately marries Eliza Schuyler despite being initially captivated by Angelica. The act ends with Hamilton being appointed Secretary of the Treasury and authoring the Federalist Papers.

The second act of “Hamilton” chronicles the deterioration of relationships established in the first act. Burr and Hamilton disagree over politics, while Hamilton’s marriage crumbles due to an extramarital affair. The act also notably features several Cabinet meetings rendered as rap battles. The musical concludes

shortly after the presidential election of 1800 and its consequences.

The nuanced historical plot of the musical is articulated well with Miranda’s tonguein-cheek rapped-through dialogue. The show runs the gamut of emotions — from poignant to comical — and the audience’s temperament swings in lockstep with the plot.

Although the voices on the original Broadway cast recording will forever be the gold standard, the touring cast does an excellent job of living up to these high expectations. Joseph Morales plays a plucky, erudite Hamilton with nuanced displays of emotion. Shoba Narayan’s stunning soprano voice pairs perfectly with her role as the wistful Eliza. Nik Walker as Aaron Burr and Ta’Rea Campbell as Angelica Schuyler round out the play’s leads with strong vocals and feisty spirit.

However, the breakout performances of the night were two of the supporting roles: Jon Patrick Walker as King George and Kyle Scatliffe in the dual role of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson.

Walker charmed the crowd with his wacky demeanor and catchy melodic motif.

Similarly, Scatliffe’s comedic timing was always impeccable. The musical’s leads were supported by an incredible ensemble of nimble dancers who meandered seamlessly from ballet to hip-hop, playing everything from soldiers to wedding guests.

The wide range of musical styles throughout the show made every scene feel fresh. For instance, the classic show tune ballad “You’ll Be Back” is a stark contrast to the speed-rap of “Guns and Ships,” whereas larger numbers like “Non-Stop” blend the styles

seamlessly. The cast’s melodic harmonies underscore the fiery intensity of rap. By the same token, the diversity of the cast is a striking juxtaposition to the established framework of history. Surrounding the actors, an intricate set and innovative staging created amazing visual metaphors for the story of the musical.

A rotating floor piece allowed for spellbinding special effects — namely, the rewind sequence during the song “Satisfied”.

The entire production was incredibly impressive, yet the greater contextual significance of “Hamilton” is perhaps its most extraordinary effect. The show’s narrative

of merit-based mobility, public-spirited passion, and relentless optimism strikes a chord with audiences in today’s political climate. At DPAC, “Hamilton” was met by an effervescent audience of superfans and newcomers alike. The crowd erupted with applause for signature lines like “I am not throwing away my shot” and “Immigrants: they get the job done.” The media buzz around “Hamilton” could theoretically lead audiences to be underwhelmed, yet the touring show delivers everything it promises and more. The hype surrounding “Hamilton” is certainly justified.

Photo Courtesy of Flickr The Broadway show ‘Hamilton,’ which has dominated pop culture since its premiere in 2015, came to Durham Nov. 6.

Shop Independent Durham Week encourages local holiday shopping

By Jessica Williams Media Production Editor

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are not the only times to find great deals on holiday gifts this year. Shop Independent Durham Week, an annual event held by Durham’s nonprofit independent business alliance Sustain-a-Bull, kicked off last Saturday and will run through Sunday. Local businesses across town are running promotions to encourage holiday shopping in Bull City. From a pet boutique to an olive oil company, Durham has an array of independent businesses for all interests. Here are a few of the local businesses participating in the event: The Durham Toffee Company Creating sweet and beautiful things has always been a passion for Durham Toffee founder Rebecca Burnett. After beginning to make toffee in 2008 in her home, Burnett sold her treats to more and more friends over the years. Her home business officially turned into “The Durham Toffee Company” in February 2016, initially launched at Smitten Boutique downtown but now in over 18 local stores.

“It suddenly became bigger than just me and my little kitchen,” Burnett said. “It instantly enveloped local hearts and stories.”

While it was initially difficult to maintain a work-family balance from the home kitchen, Burnett’s husband and their five children were a constant source of support. Burnett and her family love creating local sweets for the Durham community. Her favorite product is the Durham Toffee MashUp, an upgraded trail mix of toffee and nut clusters tossed together with toasted almonds, pecans, coconut, dried cherries, dark chocolate chips and pretzels.

“My favorite part is that I get set my pace so I have something to give creatively, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually,” Burnett said.

Freeman’s Creative

When Amelia Freeman-Lynde first moved to Durham seven years ago, she was surprised that the town did not have an independent yarn or fabric store. To create a space for knitting and meeting new people, Freeman-Lynde worked on business plans for years and eventually opened Freeman’s Creative in November 2017.

In addition to selling craft and DIY supplies, the store hosts a weekly Craft Club, a monthly Yoga for Makers and a variety of classes from block printing to sewing.

“I love teaching beginner knitters, because knitting can really feel like magic, creating fabric with your own two hands” FreemanLynde said.

The store welcomes crafters of all levels, providing an encouraging and educational environment for creative expression.

“Building connections with people is the best part of having a shop,” Freeman-Lynde said, “It’s definitely challenging, but I love meeting people, hearing about their projects and helping them find solutions to problems.”

Freeman’s Creative will host a “Last-Minute Holiday Market” and Solstice celebration of local vendors on Dec. 21 and 22.

The Glass Jug Beer Lab A retail craft beer store with an on-site microbrewery and Durham’s only counterpressure growler filling station, The Glass Jug was founded by the husband-and-wife team of Chris and Katy Creech. After beginning homebrewing in college in Chapel Hill, the pair became increasingly involved in the Triangle’s brewery scene. They moved to Durham in 2012 and were surprised by the lack of places offering local and craft beer. Inspired by the passage of a new law by the N.C. General Assembly that loosened regulations on the filling of reusable beer growlers, the Creeches decided to turn their passion for brewing into a business in 2014.

“People will tell you that if you love what

you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.

In actuality, it’s the exact inverse,” said Chris Creech. “If you love what you do, you will work every day of your life.”

In addition to brewing their beer, the Creeches work on their independent business behind the scenes. From writing a weekly newsletter to marketing the business on a budget, the pair developed The Glass Jug from the ground up. They expanded to a larger space with a beer garden and on-site brewery earlier this year. The Glass Jug hosts social events every few nights, as well as weekly events such as a knitting club and food truck Fridays.

“One of our company’s core values is to build community, and we really enjoy doing this by hosting fun events each week and simply providing a space for our community to get together, run into their neighbors, get to

know the other people at the bar and generally be social in real life,” Creech said.

Pincho Loco Ice Cream A recent addition to Ninth Street’s food scene, Pincho Loco opened in the summer of 2017. Far from just an ice cream store, it offers paletas, milkshakes, floats, cakes, cupcakes and more. To create a fusion of Southern and Latin flavors, the store serves ice cream flavors such as tequila, tiger tail, guava and tamarind that are difficult to find elsewhere in the Triangle.

“Our favorite part of running a local business is to see returning customers. We love to see customers happy with our products,” the owner Martha Morales said.

In addition to their sales for Shop Indy Week, Pincho Loco offers weekly deals such as milkshake Monday and Jarritos float Tuesday.

Special to the Chronicle Freeman’s Creative is one of many local shops taking part in Shop Independent Durham Week.

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‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ evokes sympathy for estranged author Lee Israel

By Sarah Derris Managing Editor

In Marielle Heller’s film “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” 90s era Manhattan possesses a melancholy that seemed to seep out of its very being. In an ever-damp and evercloudy setting, we are introduced to the nowunemployed Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a foul-mouthed and cynical writer known for her biographies of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estee Lauder. The film is an adaptation of the real Lee Israel’s terminal publication by the same name, one that she published late in her career before succumbing to cancer.

Israel’s story is a plaintive portrait of a “starving artist”’s life in the city. Her life was all but under control, with a sick cat, late rent and a chronic case of writer’s block.

As her agent makes clear, a writer’s worth rests solely on their longevity, the limit of expression: marketability. The rules, as they have it, are to be well-mannered, amicable, and through necessary social manipulation, become established within a well-regarded sphere of influence. Such spheres that preclude introvertedness, the trait that fuels Israel’s tendencies.

McCarthy is virtually unrecognizable in her characterization of Israel. She metamorphoses with ease into the writer’s equivalent of Ebenezer Scrooge in an honest and deft portrayal. McCarthy creates plenty reason for the audience to abhor Israel, but Heller’s careful direction manages to humanize the hermetic author, notably after the death of

Israel’s cat, Jersey. McCarthy’s performance demands empathy and pity for the forsaken pair of miserable creatures.

Heller, who previously directed the well-recieved film “Teenage Girl,” is able to capture the nuances in Israel’s essence as not only an uninspired grouch, but deeply unsatisfied and self-critical of her incapacity to galvanize her career. Under Heller’s direction, the film delivered the emotional blows that it dealt. Sensations of misery, grief and guilt each sustained their impact as the the events unfolded.

McCarthy’s Israel lives under the delusion that her aversion to people is rooted in her distrust of them. But, her anxieties seem to lie elsewhere: Her unwillingness to open up is the root of her discord with the page. Israel’s failed relationship with previous partner, Elaine, was a result of her inability to be emotionally honest and available, bearing a striking parallel to her relationship with the typewriter. Good writing requires a certain vulnerability and personal determination, but Israel has built a wall so lofty that not even her words are allowed to breach its sturdy walls, and no criticisms can penetrate. The introvert’s hamartia is her very predisposition.

With each sulking journey to the bar on 87th, McCarthy absorbs the perpetual scotchfueled reality that Israel operates in, always maintaining an earnest grip on her beverage of choice. Israel was an alcoholic — a notorious one at that — but not undiscriminating, noting that no self-respecting writer would ever drink sherry. Of course, it is at the bar when Israel

is re-acquainted with charming expatriate and future conspirator Jack Hock (Richard Grant).

Where Israel’s escape is through her endless glass of scotch and literary impersonations, Hock has his own vices: dope, coke and escorting half of Manhattan’s inhabitants to bed. With no known occupation or permanent home address, Grant’s Hock is the embodiment of a bohemian vagabond living in a romanticized reality, where anything is fair game, including sordid Bonnie and Clydeesque crime schemes. His spunk breathes life into Israel’s despondency and together they forge and sell literary letters to prestigious collectors, a shocking breach of the writer’s moral code. What began as seemingly

innocuous embellishments to perfidiously procured letters quickly transformed into full-fledged fraud.

The film inspires thought on the idea of the authentic versus the replica. Philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” that the reproduction severs ties with the time and creator of the work. That the reproduction lacks a certain “aura” possessed by the authentic. This suggests that the authentic work is inextricably linked to time. Although Israel’s forgeries reflected the “aura” of the individuals she impersonated when presented See FORGIVE on Page 10

Photo courtesy of IMDB ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?” follows biographer Lee Israel as she attempts to regain her former success.

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Children’s tales: ‘Pet Sounds’ and my bond with the California myth

By Kerry Rork Satff Writer

Some children have parents that tell them stories: stories about beautiful princesses and violent dragons, stories about Greek myths and triumphant gods, stories about familial pasts and collective struggles. But I had something different. I had one of my favorite stories from my dad come to life in front of me.

One of the best parts of my relationship with my dad is our shared love of classic and alternative rock and his seemingly limitless knowledge of music history. His mind is a mental library of music encyclopedias and critical evaluations of iconic albums, building my informal rock education since the day I was born. He could go on for hours, pulling out his favorite books and showing me his favorite videos — a full multimedia lecture in our dining room on anything musical, forming my love of history along the way.

Music has always played a significant role in my household, growing up surrounded by musical instruments, CDs and vinyl records (while I remain impeccably unmusical). Yet, even with my lacking musical abilities, my dad and I would record shop, swap current favorite bands, and attend every concert we could together. My dad would tell me stories of these bands that we both loved, from wild conspiracies like “Paul Is Dead” or the origins of iconic bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival.

But the stories about the unconventional creation of the Beach Boys’ widely acclaimed album “Pet Sounds” always stood out to me and seemed to capture my youthful imagination: tales of a lyricist who wrote TV jingles helping Brian Wilson write his iconic songs, recordings of dogs barking for a piece

of the song “Caroline, No,” and a goal to create the best rock album ever made.

On May 25, 2017, at the San Diego Civic Theatre, the Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary tour came to Southern California, my home state and the muse for their iconic sound.

This momentous occasion was 51 years after the recording of “Pet Sounds.” And my dad and I had tickets for the second row.

Recorded May 16, 1966, “Pet Sounds” was a departure from the quintessential sunshine pop the Beach Boys had mastered during the first half of the 1960s. This “California Sound” created what became the “California Myth,” a myth that shaped the perception of this state then and today. Brian Wilson wanted to end this beach-themed time period, hoping to create an album without filler tracks, an album that made a complete statement like he believed Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” had done. His songs focused on themes like social alienation, lost love, and introspective struggles. It was a story of family drama, a struggling artist, constant abuse, and independent triumph, an album beginning with the senseless innocence of young love in “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” catapulting into the slow aging destruction of that same mythological love in “Caroline, No.” Seeing this album performed was like living those stories, experiencing the reality of them.

They did not just live in a book my dad would show me or in an album I would listen to in my car. They were real; they were the actualization of those stories my dad would tell me. I knew the kind of influence this album had in music world and the meticulous attention to detail in its formation. It formed the beginning of the concept album, alongside future works like The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” or the Eagles’ “Hotel California”: albums that contain a greater, unified purpose.

It was the beginning of the album becoming the story for musicians.

Right when the band opened with “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” I felt the favorite songs of my childhood come to life. It was surreal, seeing these musicians who changed the music world, who would make up the conversations with my dad, performing this truly incredible album. Not only that, these musicians were a huge part of my dad’s childhood too. It was as if we were sharing this experience of reliving

the music that shaped our lives. I could make eye contact with Brian Wilson and wave at Al Jardine, seeing how these stories in books and movies made each of the Beach Boys who they are today.

And at the end of the night, Al Jardine was by the edge of the stage, shaking people’s hands.

I got to walk up, smile, and shake the hand of one of my favorite stories’ protagonists.

Alexandra Bateman | Design Editor ‘Pet Sounds,’ The Beach Boys’ 11th studio album, was noted as one of the most progressive pop albums ever.

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Once I have all the nuts and bolts as tight as I can, I’ll get to work on the final painting. And then there’s the moment of truth, the finish. Then they’ll schedule an unveiling of some sort, or just a delivery.

It makes me a little uneasy when I see they’ve sent out invitations for the unveiling, but I’ve got a long way to go on the painting. And I say alright, I hope I can hit the finish line in time. But so far so good.

I’ve been at it for 45 years or so, and sometimes I get extensions by agreement, but if there’s a hard and fast deadline, I’ve always been able to meet it. So knock on wood I can keep doing that.

TC: How do you choose the backgrounds of the paintings? In President Brodhead’s painting, you can see the Chapel and a photograph of the train tracks that brought stone to build West Campus to Duke. Is that your choice or his choice?

BA: Usually I like to ask people what they’d like to have in the background. I had to take some liberties with the angle of view of the architecture of the Duke Chapel to get it to sit in the window, where it is in the painting. The Chapel was important, so we knew we needed to have it in there but when we actually took the photographs from his office, the Chapel was kind of off to the side and the branches of the tree were in the way. So we took them out and cleaned it up, and I think we moved the Chapel over a bit and used some additional reference materials to get that as accurate as I could, so it fits nicely into the composition.

People will have requests. If it’s a large enough painting and there’s room we’ll do them, or have a particular little corner of a painting that’s important to them in the background, or some photograph of a spouse or something on a desk in the background. I don’t mind doing some of that, but we don’t want it getting too busy.

It subtracts from the power of the main event, which is of course the subject of the painting.

TC: What was it like painting President Brodhead?

BA: He is so at ease. He’s accustomed to being photographed in various settings in his role as president. I looked for things about him that were characteristic, and I think he was sitting in a very comfortable position the way he would, in a way that was conversational. It’s best if you feel engaged with the person in the painting, as if that person were in conversation with you, looking you directly in the eye and you feel personally drawn to that person, as you would be if you were in their company personally. For me, that did work in his painting and I think he felt that too, so that was nice.

He’s such a generous person and enthusiastic and I think that helps feed me as I was going along in the process and felt encouraged along the way.

From what others have said about him, that’s very much his way. As a leader, you get the best out of people working with you and for you with that kind of manner, so that’s a testament to him and I think he brought out the best in what I could do.

TC: You also painted President George W. Bush for the National Gallery in 2008. How was painting him different?

BA: I knew that I needed to pay close attention to this one because it was going to gain a lot of visibility. There were the politics of it all too, and after the painting was delivered, people said don’t read the press about it. The criticism is not often going to be about the painting, because people aren’t going to differentiate between the painting and the person. And for as many people as admired President Bush, there was a lot of criticism over

some of the decisions he made.

President Bush was a classmate of President Brodhead’s and mine at Yale, so we knew him then. I try with every painting that I’ve done of any kind of political figure to just leave the politics out. I treated my portrait of President Bush as someone I had known for a long time and as a friend. Whatever my political persuasion is was irrelevant, and really whatever his was was irrelevant too. It was more about his character and the way he held himself. It’s quite informal, and I like that, because it’s personal and it makes him more accessible to a viewer.

I felt that way about President Brodhead too, that he was willing to be pretty informal even though he was wearing a suit. He still had enough informality about him that it would be familiar to those with whom he was familiar and comfortable.

I had also painted [Bush] once before for the Yale Club in New York City and I’ve painted him once since then. It’s kind of interesting too now that he’s a painter, so we had a little common ground during the third one. It was for the secret society at Yale. It was so secret that I couldn’t even attend the unveiling because I wasn’t a member.

FORGIVE FROM PAGE 9 as authentic, the moment they are revealed as fakes, the collectors deem them worthless.

Perhaps this is evidence of a flagrant preoccupation with nostalgia and a fetishization of the private lives of salient individuals. Benjamin also stated that a work’s influence can be so great that there is an instinctive drive to reproduction, offering some semblance of control. Israel’s forgeries seemed to assuage the lack of control in her own life, at least for some time.

Writing the forgeries allowed her to take on the the personas of such successful literary icons as Dorothy Parker and Nöel Coward, known for their style and sharp wit. Writing about the throes of the midcentury under the guise of the famous and established allowed Israel to remain impervious. Rather than to write anything of her own, that expressed her own voice or style, she was able to continue hiding from herself, feeling comfortable and in control in anyone’s voice but her own. Even her specialty in biography hints at a preoccupation with others as a means of avoiding or developing the self. Even when she was aware that the FBI were on alert, she continued to compose the letters, writing over 400 of them by her court summons. It was a way of coping, and in the end, it did not cost her much.

At the start of the film, we hear a snobby party-goer boast that writer’s block is an entirely made up notion by writers to excuse for laziness, claiming that he has the capacity and stamina that it takes for the field. For some, a lack of inspiration is the lack of a valuable experience or an extended encounter with the mundane.

For others, it does not exactly take a run-in with the FBI to conjure creativity. In any case, the real Lee Israel was able to capitalize on her brush with crime in her successful memoir by the same name.

The title “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is jarringly sardonic, posing as repentance on the surface. A line from her forged Parker letter, Israel directly references the sheer brilliance of “her” work. But Israel never regretted her actions, acknowledging the letters as some of her best work. Heller makes us feel for the resentful protagonist until the bitter end, making it difficult to determine whether she deserves our sympathy.

Whether she does or not remains contentious, but one thing is for certain: she certainly does not need our forgiveness.

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Duke cruises to victory behind an explosive 25-point performance from freshman Zion Williamson

By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor

Indiana’s lone top-five recruit was no match for the top two freshmen in the nation, as Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett shared the spotlight to lift Duke to a blowout victory in its first game back from the Maui Invitational.

Barrett and Williamson combined for 47 points in the No. 3 Blue Devils’ 90-69 win against the Hoosiers in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Cameron Indoor 69 Stadium IND Tuesday DUKE 90 evening. Duke never trailed in the contest and finished the first half on a 13-1 run to put the game out of reach and take a 24-point lead into the locker room.

“Whoever has the hot hand, we keep going to him. For me, it was for me tonight,” Williamson said. “Coach was talking to me a lot about if I catch the ball on the wing, just swipe through hard. I take my first dribble to my side, so I feel that little bit of advice was a big help.”

The Blue Devils (6-1) thrived in a frenetic pace to start the game, scoring 11 fast-break points in the first seven minutes to jump out to an early double-digit lead. Barrett, Williamson and Tre Jones all got in on the action, and Jones also dished two assists to junior reserve Jack

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Zion Williamson added to his lengthy highlight reel with a windmill dunk off a steal late in the first half Tuesday.

White for wide-open triples.

Duke got a plethora of transition opportunities by starting the game in a zone press and hounding Indiana (5-2) in its halfcourt offense with pressure man-to-man defense. Hoosier guards Aljami Durham and Rob Phinisee struggled to dribble past Jones,

and the Blue Devils forced 13 turnovers in the first half. Duke wound up outscoring Indiana 19-0 off turnovers in the first 20 minutes. “[Jones] is in that room where [Bobby] Hurley, Wojo, [Chris] Duhon, those guys are as far as on-the-ball pressure, no question,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He has

such will and determination. You watch his eyes on the ball, and he almost had it four or five times tonight.”

Most of those giveaways came in live-ball situations that resulted in easy points, like a lackadaisical crosscourt pass by Phinisee that turned into a breakaway windmill dunk for Williamson.

“When I saw the ball bouncing, I knew I was going to get it, so all I did was quickly look back,” Williamson said. “They just stopped running, so I said ‘I’m going to give the crazies something to cheer for’.”

The Blue Devils also contained fivestar freshman Romeo Langford, cutting off driving lanes and making him pull up for shots or become a distributor. Langford air-balled a step-back jumper with Barrett defending him for much of the first half, and he didn’t come out of the break any better, getting his first shot of the second half swatted into the seats by Williamson.

Langford finished the night just 3-of-15 from the field with 13 points.

After Langford made a free throw with 2:34 left in the first half to pull Indiana within 14 at 43-29, it was all Duke for the rest of the half.

Barrett, Williamson, Jones and White all scored on consecutive possessions, and when Barrett See M. BASKETBALL on Page 13

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Blue Devils respond to loss with a statement

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

For two weeks, between Duke’s season-opening rout of Kentucky and the Blue Devils’ march to the Maui Invitational title game, everyone had questions: Could Duke beat the Cleveland Cavaliers? Will the Blue Devils go undefeated?

Would they have beaten the Fab Five?

And then, all the hype came to a screeching halt. Gonzaga lifted the trophy at the Lahaina Civic Center and Duke’s 40-0 dream—if there ever was one—was finished.

The Blue Devils and their core four of freshman stars would have to respond to a loss for the first time.

Their answer? An ACC/Big Ten Challenge blowout that was never in doubt.

“We were just ready to get back on the court,” Zion Williamson said. “We know what we can do. It’s a long season, 40 games, we want to do them all incredible, but we know it’s a hard season. You can’t stay on one game. You’ve got to move on to the next.”

Duke had a clear plan from the very first minute. On the offensive end, the Blue Devils were going to put the ball in Williamson’s hands and let their star freshman do the rest.

But defensively, it was going to be a team effort—a 1-2-2 press that forced several Indiana turnovers within the game’s first few possessions as Duke jumped out to a 22-10 lead less than seven minutes in.

Of course, Tre Jones led the way, setting the tone atop the Blue Devil press. The freshman floor general logged only two steals, yet his intensity in the Hoosier backcourt led to sloppy passes that Duke easily picked off and quickly turned into easy buckets on the other end.

“He’s way ahead,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of Jones’ effort on defense.

“What it does to the other guys, it should make them better at denying passes, so we’re taking advantage of that ball pressure, but it’s a beautiful thing to watch really for a freshman to be able to do that.” “[The press] was part of the gameplan but at the same time, that’s really our game,” Jones added.

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Tre Jones continued to show he is more than just a distributor Tuesday, when he added 15 points for the Blue Devil offense.

“We pressure the ball a lot and we’ve been doing it all year, so we were trying to do that today and get back to play like ourselves.... We wanted to come out tonight and have a lot of energy right away.”

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Blue Devils face tough road test in Wisconsin

By Evan Kolin Staff Writer

Following a disappointing sixth-place finish at the Gulf Coast Showcase, Duke heads north with the potential to make history in the 12th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

The Blue Devils will take on Wisconsin in this year’s version of the series Wednesday at 9 p.m. at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. A victory would improve Duke’s record in the challenge to 10-2 and make it the first program in either conference with a doubledigit win total.

But to do that, the Blue Devils will need to keep the Badgers off the glass. Wisconsin’s 336 total rebounds is the best mark in the Duke country, while the vs. team’s 48 rebounds Wisconsin per game rank 11th.

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Marsha Howard Kohl Center leads the way with 9.7 Madison, Wis. rebounds per contest, with freshman forward Imani Lewis not far behind at 9.0 per game. “[We need] to get really aggressive on the boards and really take out [Howard] and [Lewis],” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “They are dominant on the glass and they go hard to the glass, so we are going to have to body hard on those two in particular.”

The Badgers do not just excel in the rebounding department, though. Led by Howard and Lewis, Wisconsin also boasts one of most physical defenses in the country,

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Leaonna Odom has become one of the Blue Devils’ go-to ball-handlers after Kyra Lambert reinjured her knee prior to the start of the season. forcing opponents to shoot a meager 32.3 percent from the floor—25th in the country— and it’s tied for 28th nationally with five blocks per contest. Nevertheless, McCallie believes her team is up for the challenge.

“We had a very physical game against Missouri,” McCallie said. “I think that is part of the game. You want to dictate it by getting position early—offensive position on the block and also in terms of boxing out, making contact and really frustrating them on the boards.”

Offensively, the Badgers (6-1) also enjoy to run through the interior. Howard and Lewis are the team’s only double-digit scorers at

13.4 and 13.3 points per game, respectively.

Meanwhile, junior point guard Kendra Van Leeuwen has starred as a distributor. Although the Brantford, Ontario, native is only averaging 4.7 points per game, her 6.1 assists per contest place her 23rd in the nation.

Furthermore, Howard and Lewis’ superb rebounding abilities have provided Wisconsin with countless second-shot opportunities—the Badgers’ 18 offensive rebounds per game also puts them in the top 20 nationally. That could pose a serious issue for a team like the Blue Devils (3-3), who have struggled on the glass all season long.

“They are comfortable when they get the ball on the inside and high-low post area,” McCallie said. “They are not afraid to put the ball on the floor from the high post.

Obviously we have to stop that and frustrate them and not let them get good block positioning...keeping them from second shots is really important.”

Duke’s offensive attack, meanwhile, has struggled to move the ball around. In the Blue Devils’ 62-54 loss to No. 21 Missouri Sunday, the team totaled a pitiful six assists.

Overall, Duke is tied for 186th in the country with 12.8 assists per game.

“It is something we have been working on and it is definitely something that has been a problem as noted by our lack of assists,” McCallie said. “[Leaonna Odom] as a junior is really stepping up for us and is going to need to step up and really take that position until we otherwise can develop [freshman point guards] Rayah Craig and Miela Goodchild.”

After the matchup with Wisconsin, the Blue Devils will return to Durham for a three-game homestand, beginning with a battle against Marist Sunday at 2 p.m. For now, though, it seems that McCallie has her team focused on one task at a time, with one big goal in mind.

“We have gotten better—the best game we have played to date was against Missouri,” McCallie said. “We had some great defensive intensity and we had some great playmaking, we just didn’t do enough for 40 minutes. So we want to continue to improve and continue to get better and rebounding-wise really dominate the glass.”

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Duke set to compete at the Tennessee Invite

By Ramona Naseri StaffWriter

After a strong showing at the Big Al Invitational, the swimmers and divers will head to another competitive matchup this weekend in one of the season’s final meets.

Duke swimming and diving will compete in the Tennessee Invitational this weekend, held in Knoxville, Tenn., at the Jones Aquatic Center. The invitational starts on Thursday and will last for three days. The Blue Devils will be competing against five other programs: Carson-Newman, Penn State, Pennsylvania, Denver and Tennessee.

“The Tennessee programs are highly touted, highly nationally ranked programs,” said head coach Dan Colella. “The other programs that are there, all of them have some really high-end athletes. It’s not a big group, only six teams will be there, but there will be plenty of competition.”

The Tennessee Invitational is the first threeday meet of the season. This meet will be similar to the upcoming ACC championships, as both are longer competitions and swimmers will be expected to compete at high levels in up to 15 events. This meet will also have preliminary and final rounds, whereas the team has swam at meets with only timed finals thus far.

Recovery at the end of these long days could be a deciding factor for overall performance in the competition.

“We have a lot of equipment that we bring with us,” said senior swimmer Maddie Hess.

“One is called NormaTec and we have our trainer Aleah, she’s awesome. NormaTec is this compression with air and it really helps flush out some of the lactic acid that you build up during your races so just doing simple recovery and meditation and just having fun and relaxing, talking to people, that’s always good.”

Besides post-competition recovery, preparing beforehand for a big meet is an important part of the process as well. The Blue Devils have had a lot of preparation leading up to this weekend, both in and out of the pool.

“We work all season long so preparing is just every single day of practice and working hard,” explained Hess. “For this, we’ll be tapering which means we cut back on our yardage a little bit so we have more rest and we get to sleep in more so that will help up swim faster.

We usually eat less carbs and more protein and then extra sleep is a big part of it.”

After the women took first, and the men finished second in their last invite—the Big Al Invite held at Princeton—these performances have opened new goals for some. Hess, who finished first in her 200 backstroke at the Big

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Duke swimming and diving has had to focus on preparing its athletes for the strenuous activity that accompanies a third day of competition.

Al Invite, is going out this weekend with her own set of goals.

“Some of my personal goals, to have fun,” said Hess. “This is one of my last shave and taper

championship meets so just to be with the team.

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by Marques Bolden and powered to the rim, converting an easy layup in the closing seconds to give Duke a 53-29 advantage.

“After the trip, we’ve done some things to get him the ball more,” Krzyzewski said.

“That’s just the evolution of your team, so we were able to do that tonight, including at the end of the half, to do a 4-5 ball screen.”

The Blue Devils made nine of their last 10 shots in the first half and shot 52.4 percent in the game.

Barrett did bounce back from that unimpressive sequence against the Bulldogs with a more efficient outing, scoring 22 points on 9-of-18 shooting before fouling out with 8:42 left. Duke’s home floor was also kind to Williamson, who shot 11-of-15 for his team-high 25 points.

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ACC is separate so I’m really looking forward possessions after intermission, Duke’s 24-point to having everyone together. I’m really looking advantage at the break was more than enough forward to backstroke. I did really well at for the hosts to coast to victory.

Princeton so I’m just excited to see how my And as usual, the Blue Devils made it look hard work has been paying off.” easy—Williamson added a few more jams to The Blue Devil women have recently his highlight reel, Duke tossed its obligatory jumped from No. 20 to No. 16 in the alley-oops and there were handful of widelatest CSCAA national poll, the highest open threes to light up the scoreboard. they’ve been ranked since 2015 when But none of it would’ve been possible they were ranked 17th. This weekend will without the Blue Devils’ early fire. be their first competition since the latest “We know we can score the ball. We polls and it will be exciting to watch as showed that again tonight. The next thing eyes will be drawn to how they continue that will really separate us is on the defensive to perform. end,” junior Jack White said. “We have the “They’re very excited,” Colella said about tools to do it, it’s just going to be getting those the Duke women. “It’s nice to have the rest of reps and getting on the same page.” the nation be able to see the results that they’ve Duke couldn’t have asked for a better been putting up over the first half of the season answer to its first loss. The Blue Devils never and that just equates back to the work that once looked in the rearview mirror, instead they’ve been doing in the pool.” allowing themselves focus on things they’ll With this being one of the last big need to improve before ACC play. championship meets for the team, before Whatever hype train there was roaring heading into the ACC championships late toward U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis February, it’s important for a lot of the is no more. Duke’s loss to Gonzaga showed players, especially the newer ones, not to get there are certainly chinks in the armor— in their own heads. Colella will be going out especially with four first-year players, even there with some key advice. if they are already national stars.

“Stick to the process and sticking to As for Coach K? He also wanted to their game plan its really being able to stay make a statement of his own before leaving composed in that kind of environment the podium. and going out and executing what they’ve “Duke fans, just cut it out, man. These been working on every day in practice,” kids aren’t perfect,” Krzyzewski said. “Let’s Colella said. get real about this whole new thing. Let’s After this weekend, Duke swimming and not get spoiled. We’ve got four 19-year-old Thetrying New to York Syndication Corporation diving will have a break from competition kids, they’re bustTimes their ass to learn Sales 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 The and New Yorka Times Syndication Sales Corporation until mid-January, when they’ll compete how to play have lot of pressure on Information 620For Eighth Avenue,Call: New1-800-972-3550 York, N.Y. 10018 in27, dual-meet them. Let themFor grow.”

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early in the second half, but snapped out of it when Krzyzewski called a timeout and yanked off his jacket in a fiery huddle.

“Nothing was fired up. The arena was not fired up, my team wasn’t fired up, even the pep band was not playing. We had to pipe in music. We did, didn’t we, in the second half?” Krzyzewski said. “I can’t do a cartwheel or stand on my head. The main activity I can do is take off my jacket, which I know I’m not a pretty sight to look at, but at least the emotion of it may have helped a little bit.”

Back-to-back alley-oops from Williamson to Barrett and Jones to Williamson soon gave Duke its largest lead at 27 points. “[R.J.] says I don’t throw him lobs.

I’ve thrown him like three in the past four games so he can’t say anything anymore,” Williamson joked. “He’ll say, ‘bro, throw me a lob,’ and he’ll barely get off the ground.”

The Blue Devils will remain home for three games next week before final exams, beginning with a matchup Saturday night against Stetson. Their 18-year-long nonconference home winning streak is unlikely to be in doubt again until it welcomes St. John’s to Cameron in February.

R.J. Barrett scored 22 points and added nine rebounds for Duke Tuesday.

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ecently, a new Facebook group, Subtle Asian Traits, has taken the internet by a storm. Common posts are filled with glimpses into childhood homes, cultural in-jokes involving Cantonese phrases and screenshots of texts from parents. The group was created in September by a group of Chinese-Australian school friends and has since grown exponentially to over 700,000 members in under three months.

Subtle Asian Traits is part of a larger, rapidly growing pop culture trend. 2018 has ushered in a considerable uptick in attention paid to Asian experiences and voices—as well as emerging conversations around Asianness and identity— on both social media and the big screen. Crazy Rich Asians, the most successful studio rom-com at the box office in nine years, tells the story of an Asian-American professor who travels to meet her boyfriend’s family and is surprised to discover they are among the richest in Singapore. This movie—in conjunction with the Pixar short film, Bao, that aired before Incredibles 2—highlights an evolving place for Asianness in mainstream media.

Growing up, many Asian-Americans don’t often see people who look like them in popular culture. Asian representation was largely confined

onlinecomment “Does the editorial board have actionable suggestions which, if in place before this semester, would have had a high liklihood of preventing the various acts of terror and vandalism from occurring? In the absence of surveillance, what less-problematic mechanisms would the editorial board suggest to help in identifying the perpetrators of those acts?”

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to yellowface—a Hollywood practice where Asian character roles were played by white actors. In 1938, German-American actor Luise Rainer even won an Academy Award for her depiction of a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth. When Asian actors and actresses were cast for roles, there’s a well-documented lineage of them being relegated to stereotyped tropes, like “Kung Fu villains” or “dragon ladies.”

Given this context, it’s abundantly clear why recent examples of Asian representation in popular culture

Editorial Board have been so celebrated. Authentic and culturally literate portrayals function as platforms to facilitate conversations shared experiences that are nearly universal among the Asian diaspora.

Kinship formed over shared memories of being teased about smelly lunches or favorite childhood toys allows individuals to openly express and bond over meaningful aspects of their Asian identity. These channels for community-building serve the priceless role of lovingly affirming the experiences and cultural touchstones that had formerly been sources of alienation. To see cultural nuances magnified on the big screen uplifts Asianness as just as worthy of depiction and adoration.

While these cinematic works and online spaces have certainly served as worthwhile cultural representation for the Asian and Asian-American community, they also act as powerful reminders of the conversations yet to be had.

Despite the flourishing digital community Subtle Asian Traits has built, it’s important to acknowledge it can also reinforce a hierarchy based on skin color—reflecting a pervasive colorism in Asian communities. Colorism can be seen clearly in the frequent erasure of South and Southeast Asians. East Asians—populations with comparably lighter skin on average—often receive the most visibility.

Scrolling through the group, another clear trend is members posting about their parents’ racism.

Internalized racism and anti-blackness remain major issues in Asian communities; when thousands of members acknowledge—with a laugh or a like on the post—the racist beliefs in the community, it normalizes these violent views.

Furthermore, media representations of Asians still present a homogenized image of the Asian community.

On a campus like Duke—where 28 percent of the first-year class is Asian—we see this manifest itself in the admissions process and event programming like Lunar New Year—where the focus is mainly given to Chinese students. The catchall category “Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI)” is popular among both researchers and race equity advocates, but it can disaggregate identities in harmful, marginalizing ways.

The lack of cultural and national distinction blurs critical issues like the fact that Asians in the U.S. face the greatest within-race income inequality. Furthermore, an overall lack of awareness of Asian and Asian-American history persists, like the history of Chinese migrant labor—another pressing reason for creating an AsianAmerican Studies department on campus.

Many Asian-American students at Duke struggle to navigate the complex, isolating line between being too Asian to fit into white groups, but too white to fit into Asian groups. The rise of Asian-American presence in popular culture has felt like a win for so many; it has brought long overdue validation and affirmation to individuals who grew up rejecting fundamental aspects of their culture.

However, divides along identities like class status still exist and more focus is needed on the diverse ethnicities that are encompassed within the Asian-American community.

We must reflect not just on how to elevate awareness of the issues affecting distinct AAPI communities, but also the historical legacies and present-day structures that perpetuate inter- and intragroup disparities.

Letter: GPSC Task Force responds to racist incidents

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n Nov. 13, 2018, the Graduate & Professional Student Council passed a Resolution Against Hate & Bias, responding to a string of racist incidents that have targeted black, Latinx, Muslim, and Jewish members of our student body. As stated in its first preambulatory clause, three hateful vandalisms occurred in the span of just two months, from mid-August to midOctober—one of them being the engraving of swastikas in a bathroom stall.

About a week after this resolution passed, our campus has once again seen an attack on the Jewish community in the form of a swastika. We, the members of the GPSC Task Force Against Hate & Bias, firmly denounce this act and stand in solidarity with those targeted by its message.

We recognize the great importance of responding to such hateful incidents whenever they occur, and of supporting each other as fellow students and human beings.

We are immensely glad to see examples of this kind of solidarity already taking place within our university. Mi Gente, who had their own mural defaced in September, quickly posted a note of support to their Facebook page, calling for “togetherness” and promising to “remember these injustices in [their] future alignment against hate.” Likewise, the Duke Black Alumni (DBA), the

Black Student Alliance (BSA), and the Students of the Caribbean Association (SOCA) issued an Open Letter to the Duke Community, in which they condemned antiSemitism and called “on leaders at all levels, students and everyday citizens to condemn all words and acts of hate.”

Our own resolution calls upon the administration to amend its policies to explicitly define and address expressions of hate and bias and to clarify their consequences. We recognize that hate and bias occur on many different scales, and it is the responsibility of us all to help build safer, kinder, and more welcoming spaces.

We promise to hold GPSC to this standard, and we hope that other student organizations will do the same, taking the aforementioned groups as models of what it means to practice good citizenship towards each other.

This letter is signed by the members of the GPSC task force against hate and bias, listed here. Jessica Covil is a second-year Ph.D. student in English. Krishni Metivier is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Asian Religions. Anisa Khalifa is a first-year M.A. student in Critical Asian Humanities.

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uke University has endured a series of racial epithets and symbols of domestic terrorism and white supremacy during my 22 years as a professor at Duke. This continued with the word “n*****” scrawled on the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture just as the first-year students settled into their dorm this past August. More recently, anti-Semitic symbols have been left on campus, along with propaganda from

Don Taylor GUEST COLUMNIST a white supremacist group seeking to mainstream their hateful ideology.

These events invoke a mixture of anger, fear and exhaustion among historically marginalized and targeted groups on campus, and the anonymity of the attacks amplify those feelings, because if it could be anybody, it could be everybody. Roommate, hallmate, classmate, officemate, labmate, person on the bus beside me, at the table in the Brodhead Center having lunch, or a Durham resident unconnected to Duke looking at the produce in Harris Teeter on Ninth Street, and so on.

Duke’s location in the South, and our own history that is just beginning to be openly discussed and wrestled with, gives special potency to racial slurs, either those spoken against community members who are black, or those that tell others that they are not white. The noose hung on campus a few years back encapsulates four centuries of the black experience in our nation: treated first as captives and property and then as a freed people, who were simultaneously used by whites and treated as a mortal threat. Instead of spending the 50 years after the ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution systematically establishing the full

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citizenship of freed slaves, we did the opposite, with violent fighting against reconstruction, state-sponsored terror against blacks, and the development of Jim Crow laws and more subtle but impenetrable social codes that served to keep whites in power, both politically and economically. Regardless of the intent of the person who hung the noose, its continued power as a symbol caused black members of our community to look over their shoulder in fear, or to wonder in exasperation what it will take to be acknowledged as vitally contributing to, and belonging at Duke. That time lost to anger, worry, fear and doubt—instead of studying, teaching or researching—is both a personal injury and a deprivation to our entire community.

Failure to fully reckon with our racial history is the original (and ongoing) sin of the United States, but it is not too late.

Anti-Semitism is a particularly virulent and pernicious form of hatred, which has managed to surface in most global or imperial cultures, across many centuries. The idea that a group of people could be exterminated is perhaps the original sin of human beings organized into social groups. As a Christian, I am aware that across the centuries of vicious deadly infighting among different sects and denominations, the one “doctrine” to which virtually all Christians subscribed was that the Jews were damned and should be shunned or destroyed. The emboldened expression of anti-Semitism and its joining with white supremacist ideology that we saw plainly displayed in Charlottesville, is bubbling all around and among us and our campus and nation are troubled.

Duke University is an intellectual, workplace and residential community that is struggling to find our collective voice to meaningfully address these symbols, slurs and threats of violence. Saying “this is not us” is obviously wrong; sadly, it has long been part of who we are. That part of our identity is deep, but it is not immutable.

What do we need to do next? First, we need to look out

for each other where we find ourselves—in the dorms, offices, classrooms, labs, apartments and neighborhoods where we live and work and stand up with and for each other. Different groups that have been targeted need to join together with persons who may well be targeted in the future and try and find our collective voice that affirms both our humanity and scholarly pursuits. We need each other. There are many things that Duke does to keep students, faculty and staff safe, and there is ongoing discussion about what else can and should be done, but all of us need to be on alert. As a white man with power on campus, I think that I have extra responsibility to speak up, especially when no one is watching.

Second, we need a more active intellectual community at Duke that affirms the investigation and debate of ideas and the creation of knowledge, and also sets expectations for how this is done. Anonymous acts of cowardice have no place in a scholarly community. Hateful speech and slurs are asymmetric in impact, and serve to systematically truncate voices from historically marginalized groups. We should create space for all members of the community to make most any argument they wish, so long as they are willing to own and defend their words and engage in respectful dialogue.

And if I expect others to listen to me, then I need to be prepared to listen to them. I believe that the faculty need to do more in leading and modelling this effort at Duke, and I stand ready to help.

If we as faculty, student and staff jointly assume responsibility to look out for each other, then the voice of an invigorated community will crowd out voices that are designed to terrorize or distract and replace them with the type of intellectual discourse that we want. In that way, we will build the Duke we want together and provide an example of how our country can move forward in these troubled and divided times.

Don Taylor is a professor in the Sanford School and Chair of the Academic Council. This piece represents his personal views.

Embracing candor, diversity and inclusiveness

ith students from 64 countries and 47 U.S. states, representing many races, ethnicities, genders and socioeconomic statuses, Duke is home to a unique assortment of people and cultures that foster a diversity of opinions and ideas. Duke’s

Duke Honor Council COLUMN desire to create a multicultural community is evident from the way it shapes its classes with people from all walks of life. However, are we as Duke students taking full advantage of that diversity by recognizing and appreciating each other’s perspectives and cultures? And is creating a more inclusive community a question of honor?

The Honor Council believes that creating a community that allows us to bridge cultures, build lasting friendships and embrace inclusiveness deeply depends on notions of honor, integrity and moral courage. Recent Honor Council discussions have revolved around the multiplicity of perspectives on campus and the ways in which a community can be built around a spirit of candor that

cuts across the ingrained social and political boundaries, embracing the wonderful opportunities created by diversity and inclusion. With this in mind, we must reflect on our efforts to create a more globally diverse and inclusive community.

Personally, I have witnessed little genuine effort by both international students and American students to truly recognize and appreciate each other’s perspectives and culture. From my experience as an international student, it seems that international students often tend to form some of their closest friendships with other international students; despite coming from distinct countries, international students can empathize with each other. While some international students have an easier time adjusting socially, others struggle either because of language barriers or conservative upbringing. These barriers create a transparent wall, which very few locals and internationals are willing to break through.

It is upsetting that often generalizations about entire countries are made based upon the values and behavior of a few individuals.

Stereotypes will be eliminated only if we make a genuine effort to understand each

other’s cultures and viewpoints, beyond the food, dance and traditional clothing.

Duke curriculum emphasizes cross-cultural inquiry in an attempt to nurture global leaders who understand and appreciate the cultural limitations, values and outlook of other nations around the world. But are we embracing the culturally inquisitive spirit outside the classroom? How many of us approach international students to hear their side of the story before jumping to conclusion based on that portrayed by the media? How many internationals hush their ideas and opinions in the pursuit of blending in with the Americans? How many foreign students avoid asking hard questions about the foundations of America, the Civil War, or the civil rights movement for the fear of offending?

Curiosity and cultural exploration should always be encouraged because they allow individuals to see cultural and global phenomena in new light. There are definitely subtle ways of approaching sensitive issues without hurting the sentiments and values of others. However, there is a fine line between asking questions to hear a new perspective and asking questions with the intent of challenging or attacking a peer. Honor and integrity help draw this

line, to create a harmonious society where individuals can begin to understand the world around them while respecting others and their beliefs.

There are several communities and students on campus that harbor resentment towards others based on what they have been taught to be true. These students should embrace the unique opportunity at Duke to get to know someone for which they may harbor resentment. Students should make a genuine effort to understand their perspective, to learn to value and respect people on the basis of who they are instead of the place or background they come from.

Duke is a melting pot in itself and every single one of us has the opportunity to embrace multiculturalism, to develop a global orientation, and to establish a diverse group of friends. Creating an inclusive community is a two-way process that builds on the cooperation of both internationals and locals.

We must remember to actively listen, to hold our notion of honor high in every pursuit, to have integrity, and to have the courage to act when the Standard is compromised.

This week’s column was written by first-year Priya Parkash.

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