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Duke professor accused of assault, denies allegations

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enforcement Sept. 26.

Sudan and the accuser have been called to appear and testify at the Durham County courthouse Oct. 29.

In NicholsonPham’s Oct. 7 press release, the law firm wrote that Sudan is considering filing a civil suit for defamation. When asked for clarification, Meredith Nicholson, Sudan’s attorney, wrote in an email that Sudan’s primary focus is “to defend himself accurately and vigorously against these allegations” at this time.

“Once the cases have been successfully resolved, he will then review his options to determine what legal actions may be appropriate and against whom,” Nicholson wrote.

The law firm also wrote in its release that

Three charges of sexual battery and one charge of assault against a female have been issued against Ranjan Sudan, professor and vice chair of education in the department of surgery at the School of Medicine and Duke Health general surgeon, according to court documents obtained by The Chronicle.

NicholsonPham, a Durham law firm representing Sudan in his case, released a statement to the press Oct. 7 confirming the allegations against Sudan of “several misdemeanor crimes against a woman who formerly cared See ASSAULT on Page 12 for his elderly mother.”

The law firm argues that the accusations are “false and completely without merit.”

“They are a misguided attempt to cause Dr. Sudan personal and professional embarrassment,” the statement reads. “The charges were fabricated after the complainant was unable to coerce him into giving her unearned money after she quit caring for his mother.”

The accuser declined to comment to The Chronicle for this story.

Kammie Michael, senior public affairs specialist of the Durham Police Department, confirmed the accuracy of the charges and that they had not been taken out at the time of her Oct. 4 email to The Chronicle. She added, however, that the charges had not been served on Sudan at the time of her email.

Charges were received and served upon Sudan Oct. 6 at 4 p.m., according to court documents. The crimes occurred Courtesy of the School of Medicine in Sudan’s home during the day in mid May, mid June and on July 4, and the Ranjan Sudan, professor and vice chair of three incidents were reported to law education in the department of surgery.

Chronicle File Photo Some graduate students have pushed to unionize for years—this NLRB ruling will make it more difficult.

Duke graduate students may lose right to unionize with new NLRB ruling

By Mona Tong Local and National News Editor

After a series of back-and-forth rulings, graduate students at private colleges and universities may again lose their legal status as employees, and with that their right to unionize.

The change comes due to a Sept. 20 rule by the National Labor Relations Board stating that graduate students at private institutions like Duke do not meet the definition of “employee” under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). As a result, they do not have the legal right to organize under a union.

The rule would overturn the Board’s 2016 ruling in a Columbia University case which classified graduate students as employees, granting them the legal protection to form unions. This rule echoes 2004, when the NLRB under the Bush administration reversed a Clinton-era rule that graduate students were employees.

Although the rule has been announced, there is still a 60-day open-comment period before the board formally votes on it. Austin Wadle, second-year environmental engineering Ph.D. student and co-secretary of the Duke Graduate Students Union, said that during this period, the public may submit “substantive comments” which the NLRB must consider and to which they must respond.

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Life as a student in Duke’s most popular major

By Matthew Wang Contributing Reporter

In the first week of classes, students taking Computer Science 201 walked into the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theater, which has a seating capacity of 500, to find the lecture nearly packed from the first row to the last.

Laptops were wide open, creating a sea of screens that lit up the theater as students waited for Owen Astrachan, professor of the practice of computer science, to begin the first lecture.

The packed class was not an exception for computer science, which is the most popular major at Duke since at least Fall 2018. There

are 734 students majoring in computer science currently, wrote Camelia Pierson Eaves, undergraduate program coordinator for the department, in an email. She added that 1,746 undergraduate and 376 graduate students are enrolled in computer science courses. Those numbers likely includes students enrolled in more than one course in the department.

Computer science is one of the fastestgrowing majors at American universities.

According to the 2018 Taulbee Survey, an annual survey conducted by the Computing Research Association, enrollment in computer science majors at U.S. colleges increased by 8.7% this year, following a

13.3% growth last year and a 24.8% upward spurt the year before.

The popularity of computer science isn’t a surprise for those involved in the program.

Sophomores Abbey List and Laura Li work with the department as undergraduate teaching assistants.

“I think people are getting more exposure to CS in grade school,” List said. “There are a lot of programs that introduce computer science to elementary school students.”

Elementary schools are promoting computer science to their students, taking advantage of online resources that attract young students with simple, easy-to-use coding. Computer science is also increasingly

accessible, with the U.S. Census Bureau reporting that almost 90% of U.S. households have a computer.

First-year student Anuj Som has grown up in this world of increasing access to technology.

“I know that young people see the value of technology,” Som said. “It’s very accessible nowadays and people can pull up code wherever. It’s not limited by the resources you are given.”

Som told The Chronicle that he appreciated the new resources offered, including online resources and TA-led review sessions.

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Duke men’s soccer has new tech

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The men’s soccer team has invested in wearable technology that tracks players’ data.

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Why can’t Duke students tip at the Brodhead Center?

By Leah Boyd Contributing Reporter

It’s a Tuesday afternoon. After waiting in the line at Sazón for 20 minutes, a customer fumbles through their order—only changing their mind twice about what to get—and finally arrives at the cash register.

The cashier goes through their regular greetings, smiling through the fatigue of having to deal with indecisive students for hours. After the all-too-familiar beep of the DukeCard scanner, the customer stumbles off to find an empty table in the Brodhead Center.

The customer moves on with their day, and the cashier on with theirs. But why can’t customers tip the cashier?

While locations employing service staff members, such as the Devil’s Krafthouse and Nasher Café, accept tips from happy customers, counter-service eateries at the Brodhead Center do not provide that option, according to Robert Coffey, executive director of dining services.

The lack of a tipping system is intended to accommodate Duke students who may not be able to tip, he wrote in an email to The Chronicle. Coffey added that Dining does not “want to put pressure on customers that might not have the means to feel the need to leave tips at these locations.”

However, he emphasized that tipping policies and wages received by employees meet community standards.

“All Duke Dining counter-service locations implemented a $15 hourly wage Duke living wage for full-time team members in July,” he wrote. This rate is more than double the $7.25 minimum wage required for all North Carolina employees.

Coffey’s concern for students is not unjustified, as some first-year students

expressed concerns regarding their meal plan.

“I’m low on food points already. From my position, no, I wouldn’t tip. I just couldn’t,” first-year Nigel Veach said.

All first-year students on campus are required to purchase the same plan, which has 800 food points in comparison to plans offering between 2,321 and 3,606 food points for on-campus upperclassmen meal plans.

“If they allowed tipping at [the Brodhead Center], I think they would reduce wages for workers who receive tips,” Veach added.

Older students with larger meal plans don’t share Veach’s worries.

“I think I have so much more freedom than last year when I was a freshman. I feel like I can buy anything I want,” sophomore Grace Dessert said. “I’d definitely be willing to use leftover points to tip.”

Junior Brian Glucksman, who submitted the original Chronquiry question, wrote in an email that he eats at Sprout frequently and found the inability to tip strange.

“The workers there are always very kind,” he wrote. “Many remember my name and, when the line is not too busy, chat with me. It felt weird then that I am not able to express my appreciation through a tip.”

First-year Jordan Smith argued the merits of having a mandatory tip.

“I think they could institute a mandatory tip—say, 10%—into every order, and then you have the option to give more if you want, maybe up to fifteen or twenty percent,” he said.

However, some students worried that workers at different venues would receive different amounts of money from tips.

“Workers at the busiest restaurants like Sazón or at the restaurants where the most non-students eat, like JB’s, could conceivably

Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor Students stand in line, waiting to place an order at Farmstead in the Brodhead Center.

earn significantly more tips than any other worker,” Glucksman wrote. “I am not sure if that would be a desirable outcome.” “[I would] definitely [tip] for vendors I go to a lot, especially if I know the workers— places like Sazón and Ginger & Soy,” junior Ana Martinez said.

If workers would become frustrated if they received lower tips than other workers, it could make tipping counterproductive, Glucksman postulated. He wrote that workers may feel obligated to work faster and move more customers through the line and thus earn more tips.

Multiple Brodhead Center employees declined to comment when asked about their

opinions on tipping.

For now, a smile and greeting may mean just as much as a couple bucks. Scarlet, who makes salads at Farmstead, said that it makes her shifts a lot easier when customers are friendly and interactive.

“I’ll have a bad day, and then they ask me, ‘How was your day?’” she said, “and it just makes me feel good.”

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What’s up with all the weird guys in robes?

By Ashwin Kulshrestha Staff Reporter

Under the Gothic breezeways and the dim night of Duke’s campus quads, it might not be all that surprising to spot robed figures walking around the Chapel near the end of the school year.

These individuals are members of the Old Trinity Club, one of Duke’s secret societies.

Duke has had a number of secret societies in its history, stretching from The Order of the Red Friars to the modern-day Old Trinity Club and Trident Society. Founded in 1913, The Order of the Red Friars was an all-male group with members holding high level positions in student government, The Chronicle and the Interfraternity Council.

Members of the Red Friars were given access to the Board of Trustees, the administration and more. Their members include alumni such as President Richard Nixon, Duke President Arthur Hollis Edens and William Wannamaker, former Duke professor and namesake of Wannamaker dorm. The Order of the White Duchy was established as a female counterpart in 1925. Several decades later, both groups voluntarily disbanded.

“It became a very unpopular thing,” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek told Rival Magazine in 2007. “It was at a time when a lot of fraternities and sororities disbanded—not just at Duke but across the country. It was in the ‘60s, it was after the Civil Rights Movement, it was after the Vietnam War, and the whole notion of having selective elitist organizations was not popular.”

This absence paved the way for the emergence of the Old Trinity Club—a group reportedly formed by a displeased editor of The Chronicle who had not been tapped by the Red

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Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor New members of the Old Trinity Club stand on the steps outside the Chapel. Soon after this ritual, they will don robes and walk around campus.

Friars. With a presence on campus today, this group is best known for its antics around the time of the Last Day of Classes each spring when members of the group can be seen standing on the Chapel steps in suits and sunglasses.

Photographs of Old Trinity Club members standing on the steps reveal Duke men’s basketball players among them, including Antonio Vrankovic, Trinity ’19, and seniors Jack White and Javin DeLaurier.

In April 2018, then-senior Colleen Sharp, Trinity ‘18, decided to look into their LDOC rituals a bit more. The previous year, Sharp had tried to take pictures of the men as they stood in orderly rows in front of the Chapel. However, they began to hide their faces and block the camera as she approached, she said at the time.

The men remained silent but when she and others began asking questions, they chose to use their phones to type out messages in response. One such message read, “I wouldn’t ask questions if I were you.”

The following year, she watched as they

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

surrounded the James Buchanan Duke statue on the quad with candles and chanted before sprinting to the circle by the Bryan Center and filing into cars to drive away.

The Old Trinity Club is not the only secret society that remains on Duke’s campus today.

Earlier this semester, the Trident Society displayed a note to members of the Class of 2023 outside Marketplace on East Campus.

“Welcome to Duke University. You are now a part of an extraordinary Legacy,” the message began.

Such notes have previously been found in other areas of campus, sometimes accompanied by a rose.

“In time we will celebrate Your courage and Your growth. Today, we celebrate all that led You to this moment. Do Not Fall Into Darkness, TS,” the message ended.

The Trident Society also made headlines in 2013 when Chronicle columnist Samantha Lachman, Trinity ‘13, emailed Executive Vice President Tallman Trask about his rumored

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connection to the society. In his response, he copied three alumni—two former Young Trustees and a professional racecar driver.

Although his email read, “Don’t really know much about them. Sorry.,” his copying of these three individuals suggested otherwise to Lachman. Four minutes after his first response, Lachman received a follow-up which read, “The CCs on my previous message were meant to be BCCs. Pls ignore.”

The administration’s potential involvement with such a secret society raises a number of questions regarding who exactly is involved with these groups, how much power they have and how high up in administration their influence extends.

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Vegan friendly Big Bowl returns to the Brodhead Center comfort food and Peruvian cuisine. Although these vendors do not have a contract beyond a few weeks with Duke Dining, overwhelming Looking to spice up your lunch schedule? popularity can lead to a long-term deal.

The latest restaurant in the Brodhead Center Indeed, Sazón first opened as a Latin American can do just that. pop-up kitchen selling rice bowls and wraps in a Big Bowl, which was part of the initial traditionally Latin American manner. rotation of restaurants when the Brodhead The intent of these Pop-Up eateries is to Center opened in provide an experience 2016, has returned to The Pop-Up goal is to be reflective of the cultural diversity on West Campus after a organic in its planning for campus, wrote Robert year-long hiatus.

Situated on the offerings to encompass current Coffey, executive second floor as a culinary trends and customer director of dining pop-up restaurant services, in an email.

“The Pop-Up goal in the Chef ’s request. is to be organic in its Kitchen—like it was last year—Big Bowl planning for offerings serves Mediterrean to encompass current robert coffey culinary trends and cuisine with a EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF request,” special emphasis DINING SERVICES customer Coffey wrote. on providing vegan and vegetarian As expected, students have frequented Big Bowl since its options.

Featuring unique items such as quinoa, return. Senior Nikhil Sridhar, also a columnist mesclun, falafel, artichoke dip and baba for The Chronicle, has been at Duke since the ghanoush, Big Bowl has obtained the Brodhead Center opened its doors. Sridhar reputation, along with year-round Sprout, as a appreciates the variety the dining hall brings.

“I don’t see any reason to be opposed haven for the health-conscious as well as food connoisseurs. to more choice at [the Brodhead Center],” Pop-Up restaurants are not meant to be Sridhar said.

Sophomore Catherine McMillan, also permanent fixtures, nor do they provide meals for the duration of regular business hours. a columnist for The Chronicle, values the Big Bowl operates within predetermined relatively low prices of Big Bowl, the nutritional lunch hours, generally 11:00am-2:00pm, and benefits and the efficiency of eating a sandwich announces its days of operation before the en route to class.

“So long as it’s affordable and gets the job week begins.

Previous pop-ups have served American done, I’m good,” McMillan said.

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NLRB FROM PAGE 1 “We’re currently mobilizing our members [in DGSU], as well as our allies, to fill out as many comments as possible to make the NLRB contend with the material conditions that is caused by a decision like this,” they said. “One of the scariest things about this [ruling] is that it not only takes away grad workers’ rights, but it also squashes an ever-growing movement to unionize undergrad student workers as well.”

However, Daniel Bowling, senior lecturing fellow at Duke Law, who teaches courses focused on labor and employment law, said that the open comment period is only a “formality,” and, since the board had already exercised its rulemaking authority, it is likely that the rule will pass.

He noted that historically, the Board has avoided rulemaking, instead waiting for cases or controversies to be brought before it. The present activity, with the Board taking on “rulemaking authority,” is relatively new.

Much of the action began during the Obama administration, Bowling said, and it has continued into the Trump years as it undoes Obama-era rulings.

John Zhu, senior public affairs officer and communications strategist for the Duke Graduate School, declined to comment because the rule is still in the open-comment stage.

The DGSU was formed in 2017, after the Obama-era Board’s ruling in the Columbia case. Inspired by Duke’s adjunct and nontenure-track faculty, who had formed a union under the Service Employees International Union, Duke graduate students decided to launch their own campaign for unionization with the SEIU, according to the DGSU website.

In response, Wadle said that Duke hired a law firm in attempts to “quash the union.”

However, following the graduate election for unionization, the results were inconclusive; a majority of the ballots were challenged.

As a result, Wadle said that the DGSU decided to pull their petitions for legal recognition from the Board. Two options remained: strive for voluntary recognition from the University or form a minority union.

“We decided to go on the minority union route and build up our victories organizing on a very direct-action, grassroots level,” Wadle said.

Despite not being recognized by the University, they said that the union has won huge victories in the past few years, including the 12-month pay increase promised for 2022, ending tuition fees for sixth-year graduate students and winning back access to the gym for third, fourth and fifthyear graduate students.

However, if the ruling passes, Wadle said that it would give the administration further ability to ignore the union and would force it to wait even longer to get full bargaining rights with the University.

Bowling acknowledged that with the new ruling, the union would have no legal power, at least under the NLRA. Nonetheless, he emphasized that graduate students would still be able to engage in “concerted activity,” whether they’re in a union or not. Even without a union, graduate workers could put “economic pressure” on the university by, for example, refusing to teach in undergraduate classes.

Wadle asserted that it is integral that graduate students be recognized as both students and workers, as the university “would not function” without their work as researchers, teacher’s assistants and more. As such, Wadle said that it is crucial for graduate students to be legally recognized as workers and for them to have unionization rights, due to existing power dynamics between them and the university.

Wadle said that unions could benefit both graduate workers and the university given the fact that they are “preemptive,” providing mechanisms for preventing problems through a more equitable See NLRB on Page 12

Call for Nominations

Nominations are now open for the Samuel DuBois Cook Society 2020 Awards.

The presentations will be made at the annual dinner and awards ceremony on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.

The DuBois Cook Society was founded in 1997 to Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook November 21, 1928—May 29, 2017 honor the first African American faculty member hired and tenured at Duke University, and to recognize his contributions as a member of the Duke University Board of Trustees.

To nominate a Duke faculty member, employee or student, please visit oie.duke.edu (click on the “about us” dropdown to access the Cook Society page) to download a nomination form.

All nominations must be received by November 11, 2019. Table sponsorship and individual ticket information is also available on the website.

Questions? Please email: carla.peraza@duke.edu

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FOOTBALL

Duke buzzes past Georgia Tech with electric 2nd quarter

By Conner McLeod Sports Managing Editor

Homecoming weekend brought many alumni back to Durham, but Wallace Wade Stadium was surprisingly only about a third full to begin the game.

But as fans began to trickle in as the contest progressed, surely enough, Duke eventually woke up, turning an early deficit into a showing of pure domination.

The Blue Devils bounced back from a heartbreaking loss to easily put away the Yellow Jackets 41-23 Saturday afternoon in what was a one-sided battle for 23 most of the matchup, GT DUKE 41 highlighted by a 28-point second quarter for Duke. The Blue Devils defense, headed by senior linebacker Koby Quansah, showed up when called upon to make big plays, and only allowed 173 Georgia Tech yards on the ground.

“I think we just really believed in our game plan and we were executing really well,” Duke redshirt senior Quentin Harris said.

“The linemen did a great job clearing holes for the backs and you know, there were a lot of running lanes out there and the guys made some great plays when they needed to.”

The exclamation point for Duke’s superior play came near the end of the first half, when Duke blocked a Georgia Tech punt on

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fourth down, and junior safety Javon Jackson recovered the punt for a touchdown. Not only did the Yellow Jackets struggle to move the chains, but they also found it difficult to execute simple football plays such as kicking punts, picking up clear blitzes or hitting wide open receivers in stride.

It’s easy to become complacent when your competition is clearly inferior, and it seemed as though the Blue Devils would have some issues staying focused and energized in the opening minutes of the game. Georgia Tech opened the game with an 11-play, 75-yard drive ending with a touchdown and putting up the first points on the board, despite entering Wallace Wade favored to lose by 17.5 points.

“I told our team at halftime three things, discipline, assignments and effort will keep you playing at the top of your game,” head coach David Cutliffe said. “You just can’t afford to lose your discipline right now, have an assignment error and certainly play any less level than what you had been.”

Instead of panicking, Cutcliffe and shot caller Harris responded immediately with a quick scoring drive of their own, ending in a field goal. The Blue Devils did not look back and continued to torch the Yellow Jackets through the air and on the ground.

Harris continued to target freshman wideout Jalon Calhoun all day, who seems to be his favorite receiver, regularly throwing up 50-

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Duke’s offensive line dominated the battle in the trenches against Georgia Tech Saturday.

50 balls to the Greenville, S.C. native. Harris’ trust in his young pass catchers paid off, as he finished with 176 yards in the air, evidenced by a 42-yard connection between Harris and Calhoun which helped set up the Blue Devils’ first field goal.

Duke (3-2, 2-1 in the ACC) really earned its money on the ground though, as the Blue Devils finished with 197 rushing yards due to the explosiveness of backs Deon Jackson and Mataeo Durant along with triple-option play calling sprinkled into the mix. A combination of a few big rushing plays by Harris and Durant

was capped by a six-yard sprint into the end zone by freshman Eli Pancol for Duke’s first touchdown of the game, giving it a 10-7 lead that would only get bigger.

After a pretty embarrassing start by the Blue Devils front four, they found their groove quickly, getting into the backfield with ease and pressuring Georgia Tech’s quarterback on what seemed like every play. As Duke ran up the score in the second quarter, the Yellow Jackets tried to stay in the game with a third See FOOTBALL on Page 8

‘THEY RESPONDED’

Blue Devils put together strongest offensive half of 2019

By Ramona Naseri Associate Sports Editor

Duke’s offense took a beating against Pittsburgh last weekend, putting up three points in the first half and turning the ball over six times, but the Blue Devils entered Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday with mere bruises and proved to be fully recovered in an easier battle against Georgia Tech.

It took until late in the third quarter for Duke’s offense to break away from Pittsburgh’s dominating defense. The Blue Devils were down 26-3 until a touchdown with two

minutes left in the quarter became the first glimmer of hope.

Saturday’s story was different, as Duke already had 38 points to its name when stepping back onto the field for the second half. A key difference was the Blue Devils’ strong running game and ability to get 197 total yards on the ground.

Getting a good start was important for Duke Saturday, as it was able to confidently ride out the lead throughout the competition.

“I think the first drive and the first drive in the second half are always extremely important,” said quarterback Quentin Harris.

“Just to kind of set the tempo of what we’re

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The Duke offense took it to the Yellow Jackets after a dissapointing effort last week.

going to do in the game and really show the defense that we came here to play and who we are as a unit and as a team.”

Duke kept a high morale, and the offense didn’t seem to be affected by last week’s performance when competing Saturday.

“I think we had a great week of practice,” said Harris. “We were very focused, and we regrouped really well. So [I’m] really pleased with the mindset we had all week in practice.

We kind of knew how we were going to react coming out this week, and I’m really pleased to see that translate to the game.”

There were also far fewer errors from the Blue Devils’ offense this weekend. Duke had six turnovers against the Panthers, but Saturday there were cleaner passes, and the Blue Devils finished the game with no giveaways.

“Count the number of turnovers we had today,” said head coach David Cutcliffe. “We put ourselves in a position where we knew what we were doing. We put our guys in a good position and they responded—no penalties, no turnovers.”

Duke’s offense played with little hesitation in this matchup. Harris entrusted his younger players and showed a willingness to go deep.

In the second half, Harris threw a 41-yard pass to freshman Darrell Harding Jr. and the Blue Devils were able to extend their play from this and secure a touchdown. The freshmen also helped in the run game, with Eli Pancol totaling 12 yards and Jaylen Coleman

contributing with eight.

“We had an outstanding first half and played with an edge,” Cutcliffe said. “Quentin was on target, and we had young receivers make really fine plays. It’s always exciting when true freshmen contribute.”

Harris’ certainty with deep passes turned out to be beneficial for the team and allowed Duke to extend a lot of plays. Although it can be tough to make game-time decisions, Harris was efficient with passing, and part of this was due to previously built trust with his teammates.

“I think Quentin understands if you’re not 100% sure as quarterback—it’s the most difficult position to be in—you find that in practice,” said Cutcliffe. “You don’t wait until the game to communicate.”

This was probably the best performance by Duke’s offense in a half thus far this season. For one, the Blue Devils came out of the first half with the most points they’ve earned in 30 minutes of play so far. Duke will have to build upon this and use this to bring confidence, as it now knows what it is capable of in a first half.

Although Duke’s offense had a better performance this week and seems to be back on track, the Blue Devils still lost some momentum in the second half. Duke will have to work on this come next week, as its upcoming opponent is No. 20 Virginia—and the Cavaliers will make the Blue Devils work for all 60 minutes.

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MEN’S SOCCER

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Not a fashion statement: Duke Behind my buying into wearable technology ACC ballot

By Andrew Donohue Associate Sports Editor

Those who show up early to watch Duke warm up before matches this season may have noticed something interesting. The players are wearing what look like sports bras during their game day preparations.

No, this is not a fashion statement. This is the next step in performance analytics.

The players are using wearable technology from Catapult, a company specializing in optimizing sports performance through monitoring athlete data. The technology measures things like sprint speed, distance traveled and overall energy output so that coaches can better monitor player performance.

“This is the third year we’ve used Catapult,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said. “And the last few years, we were just trying to figure it out. There’s so much data so we had to find the important data.”

The Catapult system compiles all the data it collects into a system called PlayerLoad, which measures the amount of work done by a player independent of distance. This helps the Duke coaching staff monitor how hard each player is working and track things like explosive movements and small and long speed running movements.

This allows them to manage players’ workloads to help avoid injuries so that players are not overexerted. “[Catapult] has helped us analyze how hard we want to go in training,” Kerr said. “If one

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Brandon Williamson is one of the Blue Devils that benefits from the team’s willingness to embrace Catapult’s performance technology. or two guys are really putting out too much effort, we’ll dial it down for them. We’ll actually excuse them for part of the practice, just to kind of tone it down.”

Tracking PlayerLoads also helps Kerr’s staff stay on top of player performance and effort during games. Typically, a PlayerLoad will spike during a game due to the increased intensity of movements and the added rush of competition. The Blue Devil coaches work to make sure that player outputs are staying consistent across matches so that Duke is

putting its best product on the field.

“We use Catapult to make sure there are no issues with performance,” Kerr said.

“For example, one particular week, a player is playing at this level of output and then the next week, levels drop significantly even though there is an ACC game which means higher intensity. That happened with one of our players and we had to have a discussion with him about it.”

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FIELD HOCKEY

Blue Devils back on track against Wake Forest

By Max Rego Staff Writer

With a ranked in-state rival coming to town, Duke needed to put together a complete performance under the Friday night lights.

The No. 4 Blue Devils parlayed a stifling defense and timely goals into an impressive 4-0 victory against No. 20 Wake Forest at Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium. With only four shots on goal by the Demon Deacons, Duke picked up its first ACC win of the season in dominant fashion.

“I think the fact that our schedule is loaded with really strong opponents that are having great seasons and getting recognized is enough motivation,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said.

“We love to play a game of field hockey that is going to challenge us, 0 tonight it just was a WF DUKE 4 great opponent, it’s a regional opponent, it’s an ACC game. We’re home, and I think we have a few things that we wanted to correct here at home over the last couple of matches, so I’m really proud of the team tonight for the effort that they gave and for the work that they did all week to prepare for a dangerous Wake team.”

In a first half marked with intensity and physical play, Duke’s aggressive offensive strategy led to the Blue Devils (9-3, 1-2 in the

Basketball games that actually count are less than a month away.

But before we get ahead of ourselves discussing real, dissectable game action, let’s take a step back and revel in all the preseason hype.

Thursday afternoon, the ACC released its preseason honors. Though nobody’s obituary reads “preseason All-ACC selection,” don’t dismiss this as meaningless media fodder.

Rather, embrace that there are actual items to discuss for the upcoming ACC season.

One of the ballots that counted toward the ACC preseason selections was from yours truly. Let’s look at how my ballot compared to the results and go over some key takeaways.

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Jillian Wolgemuth played well Friday, running the back line of the Duke offense.

ACC) taking a 2-0 lead to the break. Duke stayed in position defensively and kept the Demon Deacons (5-7, 0-3) from finding soft spots in the circle.

Wake Forest was unable to find any consistent rhythm offensively and the energy displayed by the Blue Devils resulted in opportunities to score when they pushed the tempo. With the Demon Deacons often packing the circle defensively, Duke tried to find ways to score in transition by quickly

advancing the ball to forwards ahead of the Wake Forest defense.

Blue Devil senior back Jillian Wolgemuth ran the back line of the offense by swinging the ball towards the sidelines and finding holes near the middle of the field. Goals by sophomore forward Leah Crouse and freshman forward Hannah Miller, both off of deflections, swung the momentum in favor of Duke.

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Chalk it up Call me boring with my All-ACC team picks, but the five that were chosen just seem to be glaringly obvious. Jordan Nwora, Cole Anthony and Tre Jones were all absolute no-brainers (more on them later) and John Mooney and Mamadi Diakite aren’t far behind.

Playing on a Notre Dame team that won just three games in the ACC last year, Mooney was the Fighting Irish’s lone bright spot. The senior forward was one of two players in the conference to average a double-double last season, even proving to have an effective stroke from outside. The Fighting Irish are a good bet to finish in the top half of the ACC, making the 2018-19 All-ACC third-teamer a prime candidate to make the first team.

As for Diakite, somebody from Virginia is bound to make the first team and the 6-foot-9 forward is the best returner from last year’s national championship team. Diakite enjoyed a nice breakout in the NCAA tournament, putting up 10.5 points per game and 2.7 blocks per game and sinking a second-half buzzer-beater to keep the Cavaliers alive in the Elite Eight.

Nwora vs. Jones The trio of Nwora, Anthony and Jones dominated the Preseason ACC Player of the Year conversation, securing 104 of 110 votes.

Nwora is the safe pick. He scored 17.0 points per game in 2018-19, the highest mark of any ACC returners and Louisville is sure to compete for a conference title.

The narrative for Jones to become Player of the Year is there: freed from playing a reduced role behind superstar classmates Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett, the Duke point guard steps into a higher-usage role while being the best passer and perimeter defender in the ACC. My biggest holdup with Jones earning Player of the Year is that he will need to score more at more efficient splits, a near impossible task.

I, along with the majority of voters, decided that betting on the uncertainty of Jones was not worth straying from the certain stardom of Nwora.

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 6 down conversion. Unfortunately for Georgia Tech, junior Victor Dimukeje had other plans in mind. The Baltimore native went virtually unblocked and lit up Yellow Jacket quarterback for a sack, his first of three on the day.

While Duke clearly played better and harder than its opponent, its execution wasn’t perfect by any means. The Blue Devils are still prone to allowing big plays as evidenced by the

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23 points Georgia Tech (1-5, 0-3) scored—23 more points than Duke would have liked to give up to the worst team in the ACC Coastal Division.

“I think the lesson for us is that we play well with an edge and we have to have that edge and you gotta learn to play well,” Cutcliffe said. “The best football teams get better when you get a lead.”

As Duke looks to face a much more talented team in Virginia next weekend, the team must clean up its errors if it wants to

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Victor Dimukeje tortured Georgia Tech’s line.

SOCCER FROM PAGE 7 With the Blue Devils undergoing a strenuous ACC schedule, ensuring maximum output and performance from the players is imperative.

Duke is looking to refocus for the second half of the season. The Blue Devils dropped three straight games after rising to No. 2 in the polls, before bouncing back with a huge 3-2 win against then-No. 14 North Carolina to win in Chapel Hill for the first time since 1999.

As Duke gears up for the heart of ACC play and aims to surpass last year’s third round exit in the NCAA Tournament, Kerr is looking for new ways to utilize Catapult’s data with his squad but is also aware of the limits of the technology.

“Right now, we’re not sophisticated enough yet to do things like team selection with the data,” Kerr said.

The men’s soccer team is not alone at Duke in its use of Catapult. The men’s basketball squad has been using it for several years, heavily relying on its data to assist in Tre Jones’ recovery from an AC joint separation.

The women’s soccer team also started using Catapult this year and other teams are starting to phase it in to improve player performance.

The response from the players about wearing the technology has also been positive as they look for ways to up their game.

“Every day, they know they’re going to be wearing a bra and a little gadget in the back and heart rate monitor,” Kerr said. “They know it’s for the right reasons and they know it’s for their safety.”

Catapult and other wearable technology have been widely adopted by the professional soccer community with players like Lionel

The Chronicle Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimović wearing them during practices and matches.

The Blue Devils coaching staff plans on continuing to incorporate Catapult’s data into its practice methods and plans on working more with players to boost their understanding of the data and their performance on the pitch.

“We want to work with individual players on a more regular basis and try to keep them updated on their load,” Kerr said. “If we can inform them of where they’re at, they can maybe take it to another level. Maybe they’ll feel themselves going particularly hard during certain periods of training work in their minds and hopefully that correlates to the numbers we’re tracking.”

As the season progresses, the coaches will step up their monitoring to ensure players are rested and peaking when the postseason kicks off, as Duke looks to build on last year’s performances and challenge the traditional heavyweights for national supremacy.

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Catapult has helped Duke improve on the field.

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FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 7 The tendencies shown by the Blue Devils during last weekend’s consecutive losses were corrected during the outing against the Demon Deacons. Duke played as a unit and maintained composure against a Wake Forest team that had won four of its previous five games coming into Friday’s contest.

“We stuck to our defense, we didn’t panic and overcompensate for things, we stayed together and that’s one of the things that we took away from last weekend that we didn’t do,” Bustin said regarding Duke’s improvement from its losing skid. “I just have to credit this group for the work that they did all week in trying to own their game and get back to our game.”

Coming out of halftime, Duke stayed with the plan and continued to spread out Wake Forest’s defense. The Blue Devils offensive game plan resulted in open passing and cutting lanes, taking a significant amount of time off the clock when the Demon Deacons needed a quick rally.

The movement exhibited by Duke kept Wake Forest off balance and late goals by Miller and Olivia Sahaydak sealed the deal for a Blue Devil team in need of a win to build off for the rest of the regular season.

Defensively, Duke’s activity in preventing the Demon Deacons from attacking the circle on a consistent basis was a result of preparation and attention to detail. Communication between the defenders and goalie Sammi Steele kept Wake Forest from finding creases in the Blue Devils defense.

“They were putting a lot of pressure on us

obviously and trying to cut the field and keep us to one side. I think when we stayed within our structure, stayed composed and were able to bounce the ball in and out we were really successful,” Wolgemuth said. “Whether Sam [Steele] gets to play a lot or not, she’s a big part of our defense with her vocals and her experience really helps. I think it just shows that we sure things up and we don’t allow them to enter our circle. We did a great job of that today.”

The four-goal victory tied Duke’s secondhighest margin of victory on the season, and it was the fifth shutout in the first twelve games.

The Blue Devils’ home record improved to 4-2, with three home matchups remaining in the regular season.

As the Blue Devils continue their push towards the ACC and NCAA championships, five ranked matchups in their final six contests are still on the docket.

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Good riddance, Virginia Tech relevance?

Head coach Buzz Williams departed for Texas A&M, standout freshman guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker left for the NBA and bruising big Kerry Blackshear Jr. transferred to Florida. All of this leaves a Hokies team that finished fifth in the ACC a year ago at the 14th spot in the projected order of finish. I have Virginia Tech finishing 10th, as I can’t wrap my head around such a precipitous drop, though its roster may be the weakest in the conference.

All in on Anthony No ACC freshman may ever reach the level of hype as Zion, but I expect Anthony and North Carolina to take the conference by storm. The other media members agree with me, with Anthony securing 89 of 110 Preseason ACC Freshman of the Year votes.

Anthony has everything you could want in a prospect. He has the pedigree, as his father, Greg Anthony, played for 11 seasons in the NBA after a legendary career at UNLV. He has the accolades, earning MVP of the McDonald’s All-American game and the 2018 Nike EYBL. And most importantly, he has the fame, with more than 500,000 Instagram followers. He’s even friends with J. Cole.

The freshman guard will be asked to do a lot for the Tar Heels, but I think he’s up to the task. He’s been all-everything for his whole life, why should it stop now?

Fantastic four There’s a clear-cut top four in the ACC— Duke, Louisville, North Carolina and Virginia.

I struggled to distinguish between these four.

Ultimately, I think the Blue Devils are the best of the bunch, but Duke has not finished as the regular season ACC champion in a decade, a trend I don’t expect to change this winter.

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imerick from an alumna” A junior tells me he feels a connection From me he faces no rejection So I follow him back I help him yak In the morning I leave SNU section.

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“Shakespearean Sonnet: Alumni night at Shooters” He is a new alumnus from last year Looking to visit Shooters this weekend.

But in his heart he is filled with real fear— It’s been months since he last spoke to his friend.

She’s a new grad placed at Goldman Sachs.

With her college friends she lost contact Sooner or later she will face the facts— Going to Homecoming won’t bring them back.

He goes to Shooters and dances away.

She goes to Shooters and searches for him.

He sees her and doesn’t know what to say.

Then she sees him and goes out on a limb.

A hug on the dance floor with a whisper— “Do you miss Duke? I miss the way things were.”

“Cinquain: Alumni Weekend Lines” “What’s that?”

She peers at it.

Behind the glass a sigh— Forty alumni stand in line.

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Last year was your year.

You were off to Great Places!

You were off and away!

You had a diploma in your hand And a cap on your head.

You applied to Big Three But went boutique instead.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know: Your public policy degree limits where you can go.

You’ll look up and down the campus. Look back at it with care; For some, they will say, “I didn’t choose to go there.”

With your resume full of Duke and your LinkedIn full of sh**, The “real world” is actually worse than you admit.

You thought you would find A street to go down.

In that case of course, You’d head straight out of town.

But now you’re back Missing your classes Gazing at the Chapel Gazing at Duke’s grasses.

Oh! The places you went!

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Letter: Proposed vaping ban unwise

he perspective on e-cigarette use presented recently in the Chronicle is not held by all Duke faculty, nor is it supported by many tobacco treatment investigators. According to the CDC, the recent outbreak of respiratory illness among e-cigarette users has mainly been linked to contaminated sources of illicit street products containing THC or CBD.

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Riccardo Polosa, MD PhD The U.S. Surgeon General’s report of 2010 and many Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine and other experts have concluded that the diseases from Clinical Immunology smoking are caused mainly by combustion products of University of Catania, Sicily cigarettes, not nicotine. Studies of e-cigarette users have shown that they take in far less toxins than cigarette Scott Ballin, JD smokers. A study published in the prestigious New Health Policy Consultant England Journal of Medicine showed that e-cigarettes were nearly twice as effective at helping smokers quit Frank Baeyens, PhD than nicotine replacement therapy. Therefore, it is Professor of Experimental Psychology misguided and counterproductive to ban vaping University of Leuven, Belgium because it is an important, less harmful alternative to combustible cigarettes for addicted smokers who Louise Ross cannot quit. A ban on vaping products may also drive National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training students to seek out illicit products, increasing rather than lowering their risk. Moreover, e-cigarette use is Brad Rodu, DDS already prohibited in all Duke buildings. Education Professor of Medicine about risks, including addiction, is a wiser approach University of Louisville than more extensive bans.

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an you say something in your native language?”

“It’s actually just how I’m speaking to you right now. English is my first language, and Chinese is my second.”

“No, can you say something in your native language?” my professor insisted. “Like how you would say something to someone on the streets in Singapore.”

a perception of class or education, and then there are other accents that are linked with foreignness. It is all the more disappointing when my professor at Duke makes me feel that my accent is too “foreign” and consequently, less than ideal.

As “你好吗?”, the most basic greeting in Chinese, left my lips, I already felt regret. Why did I cave in, instead of holding my ground?

Day in and day out, I find myself vacillating between embracing my Singaporean accent to express myself the way I am, and conveniently adopting a twang or two to sound like my American peers.

Alethea Toh

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GUEST COLUMN People often assume that just because I have a Singaporean accent, I can’t possibly be a native English speaker. As a matter of fact, many Singaporeans, particularly millennials like me, grow up speaking English as their first language. English was first introduced into Singapore under British colonization and upon Singapore’s independence, Singapore adopted English as the main language in administration, education and business.

Singaporeans own a unique accent: our intonation and the way we stress syllables is distinct from British and American dialects, with variations depending on one’s ethnicity—namely, Chinese, Malay, Indian or Eurasian. But what is it about our accent that makes it so undesirable, that compelled Crazy Rich Asians—a Hollywood blockbuster literally about Singaporeans—to suppress it? An unconscious bias or cultural ignorance?

Despite my repeated explanations that English is my first language, my professor kept probing for a different answer.

I sighed, and simply out of frustration, I muttered some rudimentary Chinese, just to satisfy her.

I regularly witness this linguistic othering at Duke and in the US. There are accents that carry certain privileges, like

It takes courage to express ourselves fully and truly, to preserve our accent despite our marginalized voices. It also takes courage to actively westernize one’s accent in order to thoroughly fit into American society. Day in and day out, I find myself vacillating between embracing my Singaporean accent to express myself the way I am, and conveniently adopting a twang or two to sound like my American peers.

My accent is undeniably an innate part of who I am.

My accent carries the rhythm of my national anthem, the heartbeat of a five million-strong nation, Singapore’s diverse ethnicities and cultures, and yet, the commonality of being Singaporean. I embrace the staccato beat of my accent proudly during conversations with friends and at job interviews, on this American soil that is ten thousand miles away from home.

On unfamiliar and foreign land, the Singaporean accent is like music to my ears, a love song from home. When Singapore’s ambassador to the US Ashok Mirpuri visited Duke earlier this year, he expressed his hope that no matter where Singaporeans reside on this planet, they would always feel a tie back to home.

That’s the power of the Singaporean accent—wherever I go, I can almost instantly identify the Singaporean accent in a sea of

people. Every time I hang out with Singaporeans here at Duke, I feel comforted in a home away from home, basking in the melody of the Singaporean accent.

And it really hits home for me when the Singaporean accent resounds on the global stage. The moment Kenneth Sng delivered the Opening Speech at the 2016 US Presidential Debate as the Student Union president of Washington University in St. Louis, his Singaporean cadence reverberated throughout national television, enthusing me and other Singaporeans all over the world. During my internship in Seattle this past summer, I was energized by a Singaporean colleague who always spoke confidently with the richest Singaporean accent despite having been in the US for twelve years. Here we are Singaporeans, being heard loud and proud, in the United States of America.

Just as the distinct accents of the Irish, Scottish, New Yorkers and Southerners each have their own story, so too does my Singaporean accent. Instead of judging me by my accent, be open, listen to my story and hear me out—you’ll find that we actually speak the same language.

Alethea Toh is a Trinity senior.

What living with less pain could look like

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hen I found myself hastily preparing for a last-minute trip to see my grandmother earlier this semester—a trip that would involve mostly sitting with my family and navigating grief—I packed the softest and most comfortable things I own: my Duke English major shirt, my favorite cotton pants and the least sexy underwear of all time.

cause me more pain. Often my back hurts more after sitting, not because I picked an uncomfortable chair, but because I found myself leaning forward, excited by a conversation or enthralled by a class discussion.

Singing in choir, dancing my heart out, baking cookies, making out in the car, taking airplanes to exciting places—all of these joyful things cause me more pain. If I were to orient my life toward

our lives toward pleasure, making “justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences we can have on this planet.” brown offers many examples of what this pleasure can look like. She talks about sexual pleasure in liberated, healthy relationships, as well as other, less evident pleasurable activities like fashion and adornment, dancing, drugs and eating good food.

Orienting my life towards pleasure certainly doesn’t mean ignoring the ways that I live with pain. Pleasure activism also means saying “no” to painful activities that don’t satisfy this a desire within me, that will hurt more than they heal. It means listening to my body, giving its pain the room to take up however much space it requires, and forgoing the shame and guilt that I feel when my body’s limitations

reducing pain at all costs, would I not have to give up these joyful, painful moments?

And what about bigger, more life-changing, joyful, painful things, like being a pastor or social worker or writer (or all three)? What about being a parent?

What is the balance, in a life of chronic pain, between a livable life and a joyful one?

Luckily, the work of social justice facilitator and author adrienne maree brown (name intentionally uncapitalized) came into my life recently to offer me some answers to these questions. brown’s latest book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good is inspired by the work of black feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde’s seminal work, “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” brown adapts Lorde’s idea of the erotic as an internal sense of satisfaction, felt and understood only when a person is fully in touch with their deepest feelings and desires. brown uses Lorde’s work to construct the idea of pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy… we all need and deserve pleasure and… our social structures must reflect this.”

Her anthology of essays, excerpts and interviews explores multiple valences of how we can orient

Ultimately, brown wants the reader to notice what in their lives gives them pleasure—not in a cursory, fleeting way, but in a deeply satisfying way—and work to integrate that pleasure into their practice of activism.

Pleasure activism sounds a lot like self-care, but it goes deeper than that. It’s not just a practice, it’s a way of living—one that does not necessarily rely on economic investment or normative ability status in the way that conventional, Instagram-worthy, commercialized self-care measures so often do.

Pleasure activism can apply to people of any and all intersecting identities, because it is about finding what gives you, the individual, a sense of deep satisfaction and joy. And pleasure activism also recognizes how privilege and pleasure intersect, and works to dismantle any social structure that would deny the right to satisfaction, joy and selfdetermination to all people.

For me to live as a person with chronic pain, and also as a person interested in spending my life fighting oppressive structures, seeking deep pleasure is a much more sustainable and ultimately beneficial way of living than seeking a life of as little pain as possible. I will never not be in pain, so if I can shift the goal of my days away from lessening pain and toward pleasure, I may be able to find a life both livable and joyful.

are different from the limitations of the other bodies around me.

Pleasure activism makes room for two things to be true at the same time: for this body of mine to be the site of pain, but also the site of joyful and liberatory pleasure. Singing, dancing, baking, traveling, wandering around museums, sitting in classrooms, chatting with friends, lying in the sunshine, stretching on a yoga mat, marching at protests, pastoring, parenting, living: all of it will hurt. But these pleasures will also feel good in the place in my soul where the erotic “yes,” the most whole part of myself, resides.

I am still learning how to do this, to answer my body’s constant pain with space and time and good things rather than shame and strictures and frustration. In truth, I haven’t gotten much further than opening big heavy doors with the automated button and wearing more Comfort Colors.

But I do know that my idea of the future— something that often simply looked like pain to me—now includes pleasure, too.

Liddy Grantland FEEL YOUR FEELINGS

My brain had unconsciously decided to prioritize physical comfort in anticipation of an exceedingly uncomfortable few days.

When I looked down at my suitcase, I wondered: why would I give myself this level of comfort only for such an uncomfortable time?

Do I not deserve to feel good in my body even on the days when I’m not hurting?

This question is important to me because I live with chronic pain. My body is and will always be physically painful. Why would I ever do anything to make this body hurt more?

The immediate answer to this question is that much of what is required of me, dayto-day, makes my body more uncomfortable than it already is. For example, sitting for long periods of time, especially in chairs without adequate back support, is one of the most common culprits of increased pain in my life.

Yet I need to be seated for the duration of each of my classes, usually more than once a day, in whatever seats are available in whatever classroom I’m assigned.

The same truth—that experiencing increased pain is built into my daily life—can be applied to big heavy doors, to my backpack, to my bras. I interact daily with things that turn tolerable pain intolerable.

But it’s not just obligatory activities that

Liddy Grantland is a Trinity senior who hopes her mom and dad didn’t read the part where she talked about making out in the car. Her column, “feel your feelings,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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ASSAULT FROM PAGE 1 WRAL-TV originally reported on the case “without reaching out Dr. Sudan so that he could respond personally, thus turning a personal disagreement into a public and salacious incident.”

In response, WRAL-TV News Director Rick Gall said that WRAL-TV contacted Duke Health for a statement. He said that it is “consistent with how [WRAL-TV has] approached other stories,” as the organization reaches out to the accused’s employer with the intent of receiving a statement on behalf of the employer and the accused.

Gall added WRAL-TV was unaware if Sudan “had legal representation” when they initially reported the story.

“Now whether or not Duke Health spoke to him before responding to us, or at some point to spoke to him, I’m not absolutely sure,” Gall said.

Sudan has been affiliated with the University since Oct. 1, 2008, according to a statement from Duke officials provided by Sarah Avery, director of the Duke Health news office, to The Chronicle. The statement notes that the accuser is not a patient or someone from the Duke community.

“Nevertheless, it is timely to reiterate that Duke University takes allegations of misconduct seriously and reconfirms its commitment to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all patients, students, faculty and staff,” the statement reads. “At this juncture, Duke has received no information that would require restriction of Dr. Sudan’s clinical duties nor educational roles. Duke respects the integrity of the legal system to review the allegations consistent with due process.”

His Duke Health profile states Sudan is a weight loss surgeon and has three board certifications: the American Board of Surgery, General Surgery; American Board of Psychiatry/Neurology, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent; and the American Board of Psychiatry/Neurology, Psychiatry.

Sudan mentors medical students in their third year through the anesthesiology, surgery

and environmental physiology study program, according to his School of Medicine profile.

He has received grants for vascular surgery and metabolic and weight loss surgery technologies and curriculum.

In August 2018, Duke Surgery announced that Sudan was named as a consultant to the education division of the American College of Surgeons, a role in which he would serve for two years, according to a news release. The objective of the ACS education division is to encourage “the highest quality of surgical care and patient safety through educational, assessment, and accreditation programs.”

According to Nicholson, Sudan is “extraordinarily polite,” “self-effacing” and “not self-aggrandizing.” She asserted that, due to Sudan being “a high profile figure,” the case has “caused all sorts of alarm bells to go off.”

“I am absolutely confident that he will be exonerated,” Nicholson said.

Ben Leonard contributed reporting.

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process that balances power dynamics between workers and their superiors.

“As an individual worker, my ability to make change is often dependent on administrators’ willingness to meet with me, and on their good opinion of my work and my ethic,” Wadle said. “Whereas if we band together, there’s not really an argument to be made against us, because we’ve come collectively and small-d democratically to fight for the things that affect our working conditions.”

Ultimately, they viewed the ruling as a larger attack on vulnerable groups by the Trump administration. They added that, by refusing to recognize the DGSU, Duke’s administration is “complicit” in these broader attacks on labor. “[The Duke administration] could truly stand up to the Trump administration, not only in cases like the Middle Eastern Studies

These TA discussions are among the ways that the department is trying to cope with its increasing numbers. List and Li both teach a weekly discussion section of 20 students. “[Astrachan] said he wants to make it a class where you can discuss with peers and ask questions instead of lecture halls,” List said.

The department has also expanded its course options this year, adding classes such as “Algorithms in the Real World.” One of the new courses—Computer Science 102—is an introductory course that will be available in Spring 2020. The course aims to draw a link between programming and other areas of study—natural science, social science, engineering and the humanities—to consider real-world problems.

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program’s recent investigation, but they could also choose to stand up against their labor rights violations, by formally recognizing and voluntarily recognizing the union and having a full good faith negotiation with us about our working conditions,” Wadle said.

Bowling noted that the ruling is one reason that the current period of U.S. labor relations is particularly fascinating. He noted that the current college-age generation has used the NLRA as an unprecedented tool to avoid workplace exploitation.

While these efforts are “overdue,” Bowling commented, they have also created “very interesting issues.”

“When the Labor Act was passed in 1935, it was certainly aimed at more of a typical blue-collar workforce,” he said. “I don’t think Congress could ever have conceived of a day where college students, [football players], or docents in a museum would form a union... To me, it’s a very interesting period in labor relations where we see how this all sorts out… I think it’s just—stay tuned.”

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