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Prof. discusses U.N. climate change report he co-authored

BRIDGING THE GAP The transition to Duke for graduate students can be difficult because of the pay schedule.

By Matthew Griffin Staff Reporter

The world has just more than a decade to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a recent United Nations report.

President Donald Trump said in a 60 Minutes interview last week that he no longer believes climate change is a hoax, but has resisted largescale changes to combat climate change—not wanting to give up “trillions and trillions of dollars” and “millions and millions of jobs.”

Trump also doubted that climate change was manmade and permanent.

One of the report’s co-authors, Drew Shindell—also the Nicholas Professor of Earth Sciences—said addressing the potential impending crisis of climate change could boon the economy. These actions include increasing renewable energy to at least half of the world’s power supply by 2030 and to phase out coal entirely by 2050.

“It is true that if you get rid of 80 percent of the world’s coal power by 2030 there will be fewer jobs in coal, but they will be more than replaced by job gains in renewables,” Shindell said.

He also noted that climate change will increase the economic damage done by freak weather events, and that pollution increases healthcare costs as well as leading to warming.

“It’s like we’re taxing the entire rest of the country with higher health insurance, disaster insurance and public taxes to pay for the fossil fuel companies,” he said.

Shindell said that California is on the track to meet the goals established in the report The state gets roughly 30 percent of its energy from renewable sources and is set to increase to 50 percent by 2030.

“Consumers in California save money by having more energy efficiency, more energy See REPORT on Page 16

Special to the Chronicle A Duke professor was one of the authors of the United Nations report.

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Graduate School was not transparent about these pay gaps and the impact the gaps may have before students come to Duke. However, some were given notice by their department.

“It basically set a tone for the rest of the year and for the rest of my time at Duke where I kind of understood that the University wouldn’t be communicating with me in full transparency and full honesty,” Ravenscroft said.

In early August of 2015, Claire Ravenscroft arrived in Durham for her Ph.D. program in English. Coming from Ohio, she found herself paying a lot of bills.

The University’s response Rent. Transportation. Shipping. Utility. Food. Furniture.

John Zhu, senior public affairs officer and communications What made it worse was that she wouldn’t get paid for almost strategist for the Graduate School, listed ways in which the Graduate two months.

School tries to support students.

“I was moving from Ohio, where I had been working for a “We provide a competitive stipend and a number of other couple years,” Ravenscroft said. “But I didn’t have any savings built financial resources for Ph.D. students, such as coverage of tuition up really to bridge the gap between late August and late September. and mandatory fees for five years, full coverage of health insurance So, when I found out that I wouldn’t be paid for about two months premiums for six years, childcare subsidies for students with after I arrived in Durham, it was incredibly stressful.” children, an emergency fund for unexpected expenses that create a Duke employees who are paid during the academic year hardship and short-term loans for temporary needs,” he wrote in an have their first payday at the end of September. For graduate email to The Chronicle. students, especially first-year graduate students, making ends The Graduate School offers the Helen and Gordon McKinney meet without pay for the first month can be very difficult.

Emergency Loan, which is a $1,000 loan with a 3.5 percent fixed Jessica Covil, also a Ph.D. student in English, described a similar interest rate. According to the Graduate School’s website, students experience to Ravenscroft’s. may only request three loans during their time pursuing a Ph.D. “I was just turning 23 when I came and I had never rented my at Duke. own apartment before,” she said. “I was getting all that set up for “We kind of see [the loan] as the Graduate School’s the first time and it’s hard to do that without your pay, but the acknowledgment that this is a problem,” Covil said, adding that the problem doesn’t go away after your first interest may be acting as a deterrent.

We provide a competitive year either.”

However, she added that the interest may have Some graduate students get a summer stipend and a number of a point. stipend, but there is still a gap between “People are nervous to take out loans in the the last payment of the summer stipend other financial resources for first place. I know I was. That was the first loan to the first payment of the academic-year Ph.D. students... that I had ever taken out actually,” Covil said. “I stipend, as well as a gap in between the last think having interest there is a way to ‘ensure’ that payment of the academic-year stipend and john zhu people aren’t abusing the system when actually we the first payment of the summer stipend.

SENIOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER AND probably all could use that money up front.”

COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST FOR THE Hannah Borenstein, a cultural Zhu confirmed that the loan is tailored to GRADUATE SCHOOL short-term needs, such as moving, but that there anthropology Ph.D. student involved in the Duke Graduate Student Union, added hasn’t been much demand for it. that these gaps initially set students behind.

Until recently, graduate students did not have She explained that the gaps can be especially difficult for students the option to pay the loan in full, Covil added. But after pressure who have to travel to do field work over the summer because they from the Graduate and Professional Student Council and the Duke have to pay for travel and housing in other countries—as well as Graduate Student Union, the administration now allows students to sometimes rent in Durham—with money they don’t have yet. pay the loan in full without interest in the first two months. Interest “I have to still buy my plane ticket and all my other travel begins accruing in the third month. Although Covil considered this expenses basically before I go. That quickly racks up to over $2,000, to be progress, it does not adequately solve the pay gap issue for most but I don’t have any money coming in to my bank account during people.

May,” she said. “It’s not even like I can work somewhere else cause The Graduate School is looking to address this pay gap I’m expected to be doing research somewhere in May.” The three graduate students The Chronicle spoke with said the See SCHEDULE on Page 16

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DukeLIFE aims to be ‘mouthpiece’ Duke remembers Brenda for first-generation students Armstrong at Chapel service

By Mona Tong Staff Reporter

During at least one point, many students have found life at Duke to be disillusioning, overwhelming and intimidating at times— feelings that can be exacerbated for low-income or first-generation students.

A new student organization on campus aims to help with that. Launched this fall, DukeLIFE seeks to provide resources for low-income, first-generation students of all years.

The club also plans to offer an open, welcoming community for these students, who often feel they have to suppress or hide their identity on Duke’s disproportionately affluent campus.

“I think that the biggest problem is that people… don’t know what [being firstgeneration, low-income] means or don’t know exactly how that is tangibly experienced by students here,” said Elle Winfield, a senior and vice president of DukeLIFE. “For instance, it’s not fully appreciated just how much it can affect your life and because of that, it’s not really acknowledged as something that should be celebrated as a remarkable achievement that you got to this place in college.”

Through DukeLIFE, Winfield wants to make Duke’s administration aware of lowincome/first-generation students’ needs and what’s required to fulfill them. Firstgeneration students make up 12 percent of Duke’s class of 2021.

DukeLIFE aims to bolster faculty and alumni relationships, improve mentorships between students and push for policies that prioritize the needs of first-generation, lowincome students.

Winfield noted that for the past few decades, Duke has been making a big push to admit more low-income, first-generation students.

However, the University doesn’t do enough to actually help those students once they’re here, she argued.

“I think it’s really about making [Duke] much more conscious to the fact that we’re here and the things that we need them to do

to step up and be the university that they told us that they were going to be when we accepted our decision to come here,” she said.

DukeLIFE is currently working on building a structure for students to receive help whenever they need it. For example, it is creating a senior mentorship panel for younger first-generation, low-income students that helps answer questions and find internships and jobs.

DukeLIFE is also hoping to organize a plethora of other advising and communitybuilding events, including discussions between low-income, first-generation Duke graduate and undergraduate students, large nationwide conferences and coffee chats at the Von der Heyden Pavilion.

Such projects give first-generation, lowincome students the often-missed opportunity to build connections and reach out for guidance and support.

“A lot of my connections with [firstgeneration, low-income] students have been, I’ve made a comment about being frustrated by costs at Duke and someone has been like ‘oh me too’ and you get those connections by accident,” Winfield mentioned. “[DukeLIFE] is focused on making sure that those connections are very intentional.”

DukeLIFE wants to mold Duke’s policies to better look after the needs of its first-generation, low-income students.

Some of the projects it has worked on is eliminating the application cost for lowincome students applying to Duke and having Duke cover application/testing fees of medical and law schools for low-income undergraduates.

It also hopes to increase access to existing resources for low-income, first-generation students at Duke, as well as to make professors more aware of the potential support that those students may need but feel too nervous to ask for.

“I feel like we really represent the mouthpiece of [first-generation, low-income] students,” Winfield said. “If you are ever worried or frustrated about your identity as first-generation or low-income…we want to make sure that there’s a community there that you can [reach out] to.”

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and actively recruited the very best.”

There are young people walking around who have been impacted by Armstrong that don’t even know her name, Coleman added.

At the service, Frank Davis—co-founder and director of the Durham Striders Youth Association—recounted that, although members of the Durham Striders often referred to her as “Coach Doc,” few even knew she was a medical doctor.

Of course, that is not to say that the people Armstrong assisted did not appreciate her.

Ken Lewis, Trinity ‘83 and 2010 candidate for the United States Senate, met Armstrong as a freshman at a meeting of African-American students. There, she spoke about her work in racial equality on campus and encouraged them to pursue excellence in education, remembering the people who fought for them to be at Duke.

“Brenda insisted that we had an obligation to do well and help others,” Lewis said.

Years later, when he returned from law school, Armstrong remembered Lewis from his days as a student. His son was in the track program under her coaching, and she later counseled him as he navigated going to medical school.

“She mentored me, my wife and my son,” Lewis said.

After the service, Coleman said that the main takeaway he gathered was that “when it’s my time, I want to leave this type of legacy. You hope that one day when you go, people will remember you like that.”

The Duke community congregated in the Chapel Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the life of Brenda Armstrong.

Armstrong, who was the second AfricanAmerican woman to become a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and increased diversity in Duke Medicine as associate dean of admissions, will be remembered by many.

“There had been giants walking the earth, and there is one less today,” said Douglass Coleman, program director of BOOST. Armstrong founded BOOST, a Duke program intended to build interest about science for underrepresented minorities, girls and children from lowincome backgrounds.

At the service, people reflected and remarked on Armstrong’s life, achievements and impact on their communities. Speakers included medical and legal professors across the nation, Armstrong’s colleagues from Duke and members of the church.

Audience members ranged from students she had mentored to members of the United States Congress to directors of health to runners from her Durham Striders program—an organization that combines educational programing and athletic training.

Armstrong was the associate dean of admissions at Duke Medical School for more than 20 years, where she was also a professor. Beyond her professional career, she was a prominent activist. She was chairperson of the Afro-American society in 1969 and a leader in the Allen Building Takeover. Throughout her life, she was committed to achieving racial equality, and with that goal, she made Duke’s medical school much more diverse.

“She changed the way we look at applicants,” Mary Klotman, dean of Duke Medical School told The Chronicle. “She actively went out and developed relationships and partnerships with undergraduate Chronicle File Photo institutions—some of those were traditionally black colleges and universities— Brenda Armstrong died earlier this month.

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From hacking to Harry Potter, here are some bookbagging gems

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Duke offers hundreds of undergraduate courses every semester, and it can be hard to sift through them all. So The Chronicle read the course catalog for Spring 2019 and picked out four unusual courses that stood out.

These courses, in topics ranging from Wakandan tech to American national security, are open to students of all majors.

Registration windows for undergraduate students will open starting Nov. 1.

ENGLISH 390S-1.01: Single American Author: Bob Dylan TuTh 4:40–5:55 p.m., ALP/CZ, W This special topics course will analyze not books or essays but songs—specifically, the entire discography of American musician Bob Dylan, the first singer-songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

“What’s great about listening to (or studying) Dylan is that his imagination is so rich and estranging,” wrote Taylor Black, assistant professor of English who will be teaching the course, in an email. “His songs are full of forgotten figures, archaic ideas and sayings and unsettled spirits. Once you get past what we already know about Dylan, you find yourself in a kind of dream state, feeling around in the dark, talking to ghosts.”

A legendary figure in music, Dylan recently became controversial for ignoring the Nobel Committee’s announcement and not attending the ceremony in Stockholm due to “other commitments.”

“He’s a hard object to study because he is so slippery and recalcitrant,” Black wrote. “He judges his audience before it can judge him.”

The class is open to both “Dylan devotees as

Bookbagging opened for undergraduate students Nov. 1.

well as those with little to no knowledge of his catalog,” according to its course description.

I&E 590-05: Hacking for Defense Th 6:30–9:00 p.m., cross-listed POLSCI, PUBPOL, SCISOC In this class, the instructors will not assign your homework—the military will.

“We’re basically building startups to solve national security problems,” said Tommy Sowers, visiting assistant professor of the practice and one of the course’s instructors.

Steven McClelland, the Pratt executive in

LIT 390S-04: Brains, Everywhere TuTh 3:05–4:20 p.m., SS, EI/STS, crosslisted LSGS, GSF, NEUROSCI, ROMST In teaching this course, Antonio Viego, associate professor of literature and Romance studies, wrote in an email that he hopes to bridge neuroscience with the humanities.

“As someone who works in the theoretical humanities, I wanted to explore the potential intersections between neuroscience and critical theory,” he wrote in an email.

Viego added that a “neuro-revolution” has been brewing for decades—as our understanding of the brain increases, conversations about the brain have been seeping into the social sciences and the humanities, creating “neuro-societies,” “neurocultures” and “neuro-subjects.”

“I have also been very interested [in] what my training as a critical theorist could bring to discussions about brain imaging and how we ‘read’ these images,” Viego Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor wrote. “What reading practices do we bring Monday, and undergraduate registration begins to brain imaging?”

This course is geared toward neuroscience and humanities students alike, he wrote. residence, will teach the Stanford-originated course with Sowers.

ME 490-03: Materials Science of Science Students will receive problems from real- Fiction world clients—most of whom are part of the MW 3:05–4:20 p.m. special operations community near Duke— In this Pratt course, students will study the and solve them in teams that are often funded properties and manufacture of vibranium— well beyond the semester. the rare, powerful metal in the Marvel movie “It’s really like 21st-century ROTC, where “Black Panther.” students can serve their country building “I’ve been thinking about this sort of products, software, hardware, but in a way that class for a while because I love science fiction really matters,” Sowers said. and thought it would be fun to look at the The class is intended for seniors, alumni and See HARRY POTTER on Page 16 graduate students in Trinity, Pratt or the Fuqua

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Joe Gonzalez discusses new dorms, future of housing

By Julianna Rennie Staff Reporter

The Chronicle sat down with Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, to discuss new dorms, selective living and other housing initiatives.

He’s been at Duke University for 14 years, but he initially “caught the housing bug” when he was an undergraduate resident assistant at the University of Kansas. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

The Chronicle: Who gets right of return to the Hollows?

Joe Gonzalez: There are 23 houses [on Central Campus] that need a home. We were committed to making sure they had one when Central closed, so we’ve been working on this process for over a year now.

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because the houses at the Hollows are rather large and many of the houses on Central are small. Plus, they wouldn’t all fit. There are only nine houses constructed initially in the Hollows and we had 23 groups. So six independent houses are going to be moving to the Hollows. The students that are in those six, if they exercise right of return, they’ll be going to the Hollows next year. The other three houses will have selective living groups in them, but we actually ended up dividing two of the floors on the Hollows so that they’ll each have two selective living groups. So there’ll be five selective living groups and six independent groups at the Hollows. Those actually become identified [Oct. 21 at] night.

We are going to have eight houses at 300 Swift, seven of which will be selective living groups and one will be a large independent house, so the split between beds is almost 50 percent independent and 50 percent selective. Even though the number of houses is different, the number of beds is almost equal. Two of the independent houses that are going to the Hollows are currently in Edens. There’s a house in Keohane that’s being moved to the Hollows. The remainder are going into houses in Craven that are open.

TC: Are students still guaranteed housing if they want it throughout their four years?

JG: Yes. We’re doing everything we can to maintain that commitment that if you want to live on campus, we have a way for that to happen. That was pushed last spring. Initially, we didn’t have the inventory we needed but, fortunately, by the end of the semester, we were able to find an assignment for everybody who wanted to be on campus for the fall. That remains our commitment. If you want to live on campus, we want you to live on campus.

TC: Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, told Duke Student Government that Duke is planning to build two more new dorms on West Campus in the next five years. What can you tell me about that?

JG: That definitely is our ambition: to add 500 more beds to the inventory between two new buildings. That would allow us to bring the undergraduates that are being housed at 300 Swift to West, which is the ultimate goal. We want all upperclass students living on West.

We’re going to be close, but we’ll still have a little over 400 [students] still out at 300 Swift until these new beds get constructed. It’s just a matter of when can we get there. We’d love to see that happen in five years, but it’s a matter of financing.

TC: We’ve gotten reports that there are some dorms on East, including Bassett, that have had problems with mold this year.

What is the University doing about that?

JG: We did get some reports a little over a week ago, so we went in with consult from Duke’s Occupational and Environmental Safety Office. We contacted a company to come in and treat areas where anything was observed that needed to be treated. We also changed a number of the air conditioners at that building to make sure that those weren’t part of the factor of what led to the mildew and stuff that was observed.

Basically, we followed the consult of OESO and worked with the contractor to take whatever steps were recommended. Our housekeeping crew was over there cleaning a lot of things as well. It seems like our efforts have been successful so far, but we’re going to continue to monitor it to just make sure that nothing develops further.

TC: Students living in Swift don’t currently have access to their balconies. Why is that and could that change?

JG: Over the summer, the company that’s managing 300 Swift, Greystar, reported some concerns to us with some conditions they saw on a few of the balconies. Mostly, the concern was where the rails meet the balcony and making sure the rails were sufficiently strong to bear high levels of weight being put against them.

We weren’t really worried about one person leaning against it, but there was more concern now that these buildings have undergraduate students in them—whereas they were originally designed to have graduate and professional students and young professionals in the community—we might have activity out there that’s a little bit different, and I don’t know that anyone would have thought maybe there’s 20 people on that balcony.

We went over and reviewed and—really more out of a high sense of precaution—decided to bring in an engineering firm and have a thorough review done. That review is currently underway. I had hoped that it would be completed by now, but it’s taken a little bit longer, in part because of some of the weather incidents that have happened have directed that firm in other directions.

But I’m hoping we’ll get that report back soon, and assuming it comes back the way we would expect, students can begin using the balconies again. We believe that everything will See HOUSING on Page 16

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At the end of “Scream 4,” the screen cuts away from the killer’s face to black, and Ida Maria’s “Bad Karma” starts to play: “You better believe in karma / Baby it’s gonna sting / The wheel of life’s gonna do you in / So I don’t really have to do a thing.” As a viewer, you smile and relish in the fact that the killer finally got their comeuppance. Sure, it came after two hours of meaningless deaths, cheap jump scares and gallons of fake blood, but justice has prevailed, and karma, along with it.

I wasn’t raised on horror movies and the gaps in my catalogue of films are extensive: “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” are all on my to-watch list.

Rather, I started getting into them in late high school. I was sitting on a bed at my friend’s house, completely enthralled watching the first “Scream” movie, when I got my first college acceptance letter. My friends and I spent weekends in our senior year watching slasher and psychological horrors, shielding each other’s eyes from the goriness onscreen.

My horror movie knowledge is much more based on watching contemporary horror flicks, like the “Purge” series, “Babadook” or “Cabin in the Woods.”

What is so appealing about horror movies, anyway? It’s the same storyline over and over again, merely switching locations between an abandoned campground or an asylum or the garage at the house party of the year. The killer inevitably reaches the teenagers who run up the stairs instead of out of the front door, or kids who think splitting up won’t result in getting picked off one-by-one.

It’s a trope-filled genre and all new films are measured by whether they’ve created anything innovative or have fallen into the same old patterns. And since the first horror movie was released in the 1890s,

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it’s getting pretty hard to do anything new. Why else would we be getting an 11th “Halloween” installment?

Horror films seem to exist in an alternative universe, where good and evil are clearly defined and the killer is always defeated. A couple dozen people might get killed in the process, but the deaths never feel serious. When Michael Meyers stabs an unsuspecting babysitter with a kitchen knife, nobody sheds a tear. Even in the most realistic of horror flicks, when the killers aren’t reanimated, morality feels like a completely alien concept. You’re usually rooting for the

editor’s note killer at the beginning of the movie, but still cheer when they finally get what’s coming to them.

I recently saw “Creepshow” at the Carolina Theatre as a part of their Splatterflix film festival. It’s a series of five short films, all written by Stephen King, two adapted from short stories he had written. The film was entertaining for the exact opposite reason most movies succeed: You can’t identify with any of the characters and the plots are tenuous at best. At most, it’s an interesting look into an alien world, where anything and everything can happen — even if it involves thousands of cockroaches or an Arctic monster locked in a crate.

Perhaps the most popular trope of horror movies is the final girl. It’s been

observed in movies from “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” to “Scream.” After the group is picked off one-by-one, the final girl confronts the killer and holds them off. The girl has to be left alive to tell the story, even if they’re going to be immediately killed or incapacitated in a sequel. It is unclear whether the final girl trope is a feminist concept or not.

On one hand, a young teenage girl can hold off an older, usually male, villain, and prevails. However, a man usually shows up to finish the killer off and save the day. Carol J. Clover coined the term in 1992, and argued that viewers first identify with the killer, but then shift to sharing the perspective of the final girl.

Maybe horror movies have lasted so long because you always want the final girl to win. Even if she’s hopelessly outmatched, she gets through based on a cunning scheme and quite a bit of luck.

You identify with her and want her to succeed, despite all odds.

In the horror movie universe, we can believe that right will always prevail over wrong — no matter what the cost — and sheer determination and wit can save you at the end.

That is, until someone wants to make a sequel.

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WXDU’s record fair appeals to the resurgent vinyl scene

By Kerry Rork Contributing Writer

Vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDs. What were once dying music technologies is now finding a new light in everything from hipster undergrounds to teen bedrooms. Whether a music connoisseur or a casual collector, people around the world are taking part in this global revival. Even with the many streaming sites available, people seem to miss the tangible music experience of a vinyl record or CD. After the near-extinction of physical music methods in the early 2000s, its growing audience embodies the exploration and resurgence of an old medium that stands the test of time and the creation of a new music community.

Recognizing the growing love for physical music, the WXDU radio station will host its annual record fair in the Rubenstein Arts Center’s lounge on Oct. 27 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m for a day of music collecting and record shopping. Pulling in local community members, including Duke students and record vendors like Carolina Soul, the record fair hopes to stimulate fascinating discussions on explorative musical experiences. In addition, the fair offers free food and exclusive WXDU merchandise for sale.

This desire for building up a music community extends to the history of the station itself and its shifting future goals.

Founded in the late 1940s as a noncommercial college radio station, focused on sports broadcasting, WXDU, with its own broad collection of vinyls and CDs, has moved beyond this past to serve a

greater music community. In the 1960s, the station changed from AM to FM, with the hope of further expanding their reach in the Durham county. Nowadays, the station provides a number of daily shows run by DJs from 8 a.m to 2 a.m. and 24/7 access to music for its listeners from the Rubenstein Arts Center. Their genres range from hip-hop to jazz, exploring the diverse pool of music within their immense collection.

“Our whole mission is to educate others and to educate ourselves,” said WXDU general manager Caroline Waring.

With this educational principle in mind, each DJ, either a community member or Duke student, chooses music to play during their time-slot. Their playlists are required to include non-rock and North Carolina local pieces, pulling even music they have never heard before. These DJs try to pick songs that do not get played on other radio stations to expose their audiences to the diversity of available music and to promote specific musicians who may not get the coverage they deserve. They steer clear of chart-toppers and overplayed hits. Some DJs even teach about the music, explaining its significance or describing the artists. “[The music] tends to be more experimental and less listened to,” Waring said.

She said her involvement with the station over the years allowed her to learn about world folk groups and noise bands that she may otherwise never have heard, broadening her scope of music genres.

“You get a sense of what is being released now, what kind of music you like that you may have never heard before,” Waring said.

With this hope in mind, the annual record fair aims to further educate the greater Duke

Admission is always free for Duke students.

and Durham community through its unique mix of vendors and diverse customer body.

Everyone from Duke students to avid record collectors come together to share in their love of music, each with their own musical background to offer. The station hopes to foster this community for both Duke and Durham.

“It is an opportunity to talk to someone and learn something,” Waring said.

The fair calls attention to the station and its mission to engage and educate.

Attending the record fair is an opportunity to learn about the music scene in Durham and to meet individuals with shared or

unusual musical interests. Shoppers can purchase records and hear about the background of the musicians from the vendors. It is a chance for music lovers to build on each other’s knowledge and to become exposed to the unique blends of Durham tunes.

Tangible forms of music offer listeners a whole new experience, an experience distinct from online streaming and other abstract forms of listening. Its value is becoming more and more prevalent to the general public, further promoted by events like the WXDU Record Fair to foster a vinyl and music-loving community.

Photo Courtesy of WXDU WXDU will host its first record fair since 2016 at the Rubenstein Arts Center on Saturday.

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Marathon reading celebrates 200th anniversary of ‘Frankenstein’

By Joel Kohen Contributing Writer

Of the overwhelming mass of new books published every year, only few retain their relevance over the decades. Most, however, will slide into oblivion once a change in culture or sentiment occurs.

It is all the more astonishing, then, that Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus” is as prevalent as ever, even 200 years after its anonymous publication in 1818. To honor Shelley and her work, the Duke English Department has partnered with its colleagues at UNC and several other institutions to bring “Frankenreads” to campus, an initiative of the Keats-Shelley Association aiming to hold as many marathon-readings as possible on October 31.

On Halloween, volunteers from throughout the university will take turns reading the famously eerie story of an Italian-Swiss scientist creating a humanoid being, only to abandon it after recognizing his uncanny potential. Starting at 9 a.m., each reader will have 10 minutes to present their portion of the novel until all 150 pages have been read out loud.

“One of the strange things about ‘Frankenstein’ is that it’s actually become more and more popular as the culture got closer to the present,” said Robert Mitchell, a professor in the English department whose work on romanticism and science is influenced by Mary Shelley’s novel.

Although its initial reception was only moderately positive, “Frankenstein” now ranks as the most assigned book at the top 30 U.S. universities and has consistently sold more copies than most other Gothic novels.

Many questions evoked by Shelley seem

more pressing today than they did in the 1800s, Mitchell continued, especially the issue of ethics in science. Frankenstein, who is often mistakenly identified as the monster and not his inventor, takes no responsibility for his creation and leaves it in a foreign world for which it is utterly unprepared. Mitchell added that this dilemma resembles the problems raised by artificial intelligence or cloning that had been purely theoretical in the 19th century, but have become a lot more practical in recent decades.

“The novel is really about a living being, who looks like a human, but seems to have no place in the Europe he is created into,” Mitchell said. This aspect of the novel, he argued, has resonated with many who find themselves marginalized on the basis of their race, sexual orientation or gender. Although potentially unintended, this dimension has been a frequent focus for modern adaptations and has kept heightened interest in the book over time.

Joining Mitchell in this assessment is Ronja Nayeri, a graduate student in the English department who wrote her undergraduate senior thesis on “Penny Dreadful,” one of the many TV shows that feature elements from Mary Shelley’s book.

“No work of fiction could be more relevant than ‘Frankenstein,’” Nayeri said, alluding to said challenges concerning the relations between the human and the non-human. Further on, she lauded the novel’s narrative structure and surprising details. In spite of its copious iterations, she said, “You think you know what it’s about, but you don’t.”

“Another dimension we could add to this is the question of migration and refugees, both in Europe and the United States,” Nayeri added.

The monster cannot be assimilated into his surroundings, and yet wishes to belong to a

society that continuously rebukes him. To resolve this dilemma, he seeks smaller communities, but even these attempts are unsuccessful, resembling the experiences of many migrants who struggle to find their footing in a foreign environment.

In the past 200 years, adaptations of Frankenstein have come in virtually all forms and media. Among these, Robert Mitchell recommended James Whale’s 1931 movie, as well as the more comical “Young Frankenstein” of 1974 and some parts of Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 film. Nayeri, on the other hand, praised the Danny Boyle-directed play starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller. Originally put on by the Royal National Theatre in London, this adaption became particularly well-known, as the two lead actors would alternate in playing the monster or its creator.

The scheduled marathon-reading is not the first event of its kind at Duke. In 2015, the English department and volunteers collectively

read John Milton’s masterpiece “Paradise Lost” in about 10 hours. Two years later, the Department of Romance studies invited the public to a similar reading of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”.

Most of the organizational work to bring the reading to Duke was done by Emma Davenport, a graduate student in the English department.

She reached out to many potential participants and publicized it on various platforms.

Although many of the 10-minute slots have been filled mostly by faculty and staff, there remain some openings for interested students, who are highly encouraged to participate. Starting at 9 a.m. in Allen 314, the event will surely be a gloomy introduction to a long day of Halloween craziness.

Eager students will even have a chance to catch a glance of campus celebrities enjoying literature, as both President Price and Provost Kornbluth plan to take over shifts during the event.

Photo Courtesy of Flickr The 1931 “Frankenstein” was the first film to bring Mary Shelley’s acclaimed 1818 novel to the screen.

Kenan’s ‘Workers’ Dreaming’ challenges popular notions of labor

By Alizeh Sheikh Interviews & Reviews Editor

Who do we allow to dream? Whose dreams do we privilege, and whose thoughtful roundabouts do we fail to consider?

These questions are based on the identity of the individual, requiring us to be conscious of the conscience of another. And perhaps it is the traditional academic renderings of labor, as well as the difficulty it takes to dwell on our own privileges, that make many of us unwilling to thoroughly extend these questions to labor and to workers. But in “Workers’ Dreaming,” a collection photographed and curated at the turn of the century, artist Elin O’Hara Slavick asks us to do just that. Her collection was — and still is — a welcoming antidote to conceptions of class based in the amorphous, conformist connotations of terms like “labor.”

Slavick, a professor and conceptual photographer at University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, does not consider the collection to be part of her truly serious, academic body of work. She conceived of the project while working as an assistant to Joel Sternfeld on his “Ominous Sights” portfolio. While traveling with Sternfeld across the country, she was struck by the individuality, personality and aesthetic of the many workers they came across, who are embedded in our day-to-day lives as janitors, waitresses and cooks as well as installed as a very feature of the American landscape, as truck drivers, construction workers, policemen and gardeners.

“I have been waitress and a chambermaid and a cocktail waitress, and I’ve worked in a record store and cleaned people’s apartments,” Slavick said. “Now I’m a professor, and I notice that there is a difference in class, there is elitism. ... What strikes me is how frequently these workers are ignored or treated badly.”

Slavick’s work itself was not particularly

labor intensive, with her photos requiring a mere handful of seconds to take and always taking advantage of whatever natural lighting was available. Her photography was intuitive, its focal point being the closed eyes of a subject who denies the viewer their attention and creates their own hermetic, humanistic space.

“By having them close their eyes, you’re empowering them because they are allowed to be in their own space, and they can be thinking about whatever they want,” Slavick said. “It’s just them, in their workplace.”

Although Slavick’s exhibit is more of a taste than a full, encapsulating experience, it is one that is developed, rich and timely.

It is one that was needed when it was first conceived, and one that is equally needed now. It was not until the ‘90s that individual narrative was extended to the working class in academic discourse. “Working class consciousness” was no longer an understanding that merely arose out of joining the labor force. Rather, it is a component of one’s upbringing and culture, and it constitutes one’s identity from the day one is born. Third-wave feminist discourse brought about new considerations of labor as part of culture, “common sense” understanding and individual upbringing.

Class awareness is as much an identity as race, gender or religion, and it is equally constructed through an individual’s interaction and discourse with others. Karl Marx brought us the nebulous “proletariat,” and third-wave feminism brought us the inverse: individual identity as a working-class laborer. Slavick’s subjects are visualizations of the latter: by refusing us their time and attention, we are reminded of their own agency.

Slavick’s exhibit, which is on view at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, manages to reference the academic nature of the space in which it is situated. It serves as a reminder of agency in an

academic space that bustles with faculty, students and workers alike, a space that constitutes a small corner of the very ivory tower that has historically denied individual laborers that agency.

The images themselves are striking, and the power imbalance they imply directly implicates the viewer. The service workers who frequently wait upon us — the waiters, coffee girls, cooks, valets and drivers — are now laying claim to their own moment, their own humanity. We are now the ones waiting for them, giving them our attention. “No, you look at me,” they seem to be saying.

Though Slavick’s photographs were made nearly 20 years ago, they still maintain relevance today. Many of us see the people in these photographs in our day to day lives, and they feel distinctly familiar. Though some photographs do show their age and manage to have an air of nostalgia — particularly one image of a Torero’s waiter from the early 2000s and another of three

African-American boys selling flavored ice — the vast majority feel all too recent. One image in particular, of a gardener blowing leaves on the UNC Chapel Hill campus, appears as though it could have been taken this very year.

The timeless quality of the photography is somewhat unexpected, given what is popularly known about the speed of automation and the veracity with which it is meant to take our jobs. But economic data suggests the opposite: Although jobs may change sectors, they are not lost, and the number of service workers is only expected to increase within the next couple of decades.

Slavick’s photography is as much a treatise on the recent past as it is an indicator of the future. Service workers will not disappear.

Their humanity, as well as the attention that should be paid to it, will not become an archaic issue. Workers share our dreams and they share our agency too.

Special to the Chronicle The “Workers Dreaming” exhibit at the Kenan Institute provides an insight into the lives of service workers.

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Durham Civil rights walking tour is a walk through histor y

By Miranda Gershoni Contributing Writer

Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery bus boycotts, sit-ins. We have grown up learning about segregation; we’ve grown accustomed to the same black and white photos of labeled water fountains, the same sparkling four words that have come to represent an entire movement: “I have a dream.”

Although this education is important, it has always been presented through a sort of script in a mundane fashion that often leaves out many key facts and ideas.

Preservation Durham is a local organization that “works to protect Durham’s unique sense of place by sharing our passion and knowledge,” according to its website. It provides opportunities to explore Durham’s history in a much more personal way through its free walking and biking tours. Held every Saturday from April to November, these tours range from exploring murals and architecture, to learning about Durham’s civil rights and tobacco history.

The civil rights walking tour aims to educate the community by visiting important sites in the downtown Durham area, including the Durham County Courthouse and the Kress and Woolworth buildings, which were key sites of sit-ins.

Starting at the Durham Farmer’s Market in Durham Central Park, the tour winds through downtown Durham to showcase keystone buildings, monuments and movements along the way.

At the beginning of the tour, visitors are given a timeline of the civil rights movement,

which compares the nation’s events with those occurring in North Carolina in the same timeframe. This timeline includes events like Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery bus boycotts, but it bridges the gap between local and national progress by placing Durham into the context.

One of the 15 volunteer tour guides, Cathy Abernathy, an archivist and history educator, led Saturday’s tour.

“I hope that people understand that Durham had leaders that made a difference,” Abernathy said. “I hope they understand that Durham had economic institutions that made a difference. I hope that the story of Pauli Murray and other leaders inspires this next generation to resolve conflict with nonviolence.”

April Johnson, executive director of Preservation Durham, said that the tours help build a sense of community, whether people grew up in Durham or just moved to town.

“The tours help people identify and connect with Durham’s roots,” Johnson said. “Durham has an incredible story of triumph and struggles for those in the black community and the tours can also be a source of inspiration, especially concerning the history of Durham’s Black Wall Street.”

Although it can be easy to get stuck in the Duke bubble, Abernathy urges students to walk outside the walls of East Campus every once in a while. She recommended that all Duke students read “Best of Enemies,” a nonfiction book which details the history of Durham’s race relations, specifically through the lens of two Durhamites: a leader of the KKK and an African-American domestic worker. Although pitted against

each other by society, they eventually became good friends because of their shared interest in education.

“Educating yourself on your environment is one of the best ways to get to know your community and get involved with the local people,” Abernathy said.

Johnson encourages Duke students to get involved in the local community to form a connection with the town in which they will spend the next four years.

“Although most students will live in Durham temporarily, it will be the place they

‘come to age,’ meet lifelong friends, develop talents and skills, and learn what it means to be a community leader,” she said. “That starts with getting to know a community’s roots and finding out how you connect with it’s story and people, then using knowledge of the past to guide the future.”

Students gain much more from personal engagements with history, that is, seeing examples of the chapters in the history books with their own eyes and walking the same steps as those who transformed the way we live today.

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Preservation Durham’s civil rights walking tour places the city in a national context by showcasing local monuments.

The Fruit creates a space for performing and visual arts in Durham

By Selena Qian Features Editor

It is a nondescript pale yellow warehouse building on Dillard St., about a 15 minute walk off East Campus. There are a couple of cars parked outside, some stuffed animals stuck to an area of the wall, and a ramp leading up to the door. By the stuffed animals, there’s a small sign that says, “The Fruit.”

Now dedicated to the arts, the Fruit was previously home to the Durham Fruit and Produce Company. The remnants of the former establishment are still present in the space: cork and plaster marking where there once were 60-foot long cooler bays, an old fire door and the machines that pumped cold water through the building. According to the Fruit’s blog, renovation uncovered stickers that tell more.

The building was occupied by a company called Mountain Warehouse, then the Antimall, which housed the Electric Blender Shop and 305 South music venue.

The door is kept locked, open only by appointment. Upon walking in, you will see a large swath of black fabric with a large triangle of blue sky and clouds. It is a photograph and part of an installation by Mona Kuhn, who has been primarily a fine art figure photographer.

Tim Walter, Trinity ‘86 and owner of the Fruit, said Kuhn is at an inflection point in her career where she is experimenting with audience interaction in her work.

The viewer must push through the first photograph to see the next part of the work.

A video of mylar flapping against a wooden frame is projected against the wall, and more mylar covers the other three walls of the room.

The mylar represents skin, which contains you and makes the subject unique. The mylar is also reflected, though imperfectly — you see yourself, but in a distorted way.

The Fruit also has a black box theater space

on the first floor, rooms upstairs, and what will be studios in the basement. The upstairs area was previously the sales office for Durham Fruit and Produce Co. It now includes the “blue room,” designed by Georges Rousse. The room is painted in several tones of blue, with the light blue resolving into a square in photos. The space also allows for changes in background color in post-production without affecting the colors in a person’s face.

Georges Rousse also created the anamorphic installation in the other upstairs room. When viewers stand in the corner of the room, the black paint resolves into the word “DREAM.” The installation took around 40 people a week to set up because they needed to prepare the roof before covering it in newspaper. That room now also has a tape installation on one of the walls, created by Heather Gordon.

Walter offers the space primarily to emerging artists for a fee, though at rates lower than many other spaces. Artists and groups can book the space online.

“That’s the primary mission, is to help emerging artists, folks who are pre-commercial and need an affordable space to work in and something that’s really flexible and isn’t a cookie-cutter, standard stage,” Walter said.

Walter originally bought the space in 2014 when he was looking for a photography studio.

He then started talking to different artists in the area about what to do with the space and how to renovate it.

He already knew many of the visual artists in the area but had not realized the potential of the space for performing arts until after hosting a show called “Undone” by Nicola Bullock.

Since then, the Fruit has hosted a variety of emerging and experimental shows, along with a few world-class ones like Duke Performances’ Monk@100 show last year.

“We didn’t have to worry about other people using the space, we didn’t have to share the

space with anybody and we were able to create an immersive experience in there,” said Aaron Greenwald, director of Duke Performances. “It wouldn’t have been possible or so much more labor-intensive and costly had we done that at one of the on-campus venues.”

Greenwald said the feel of the space is less “institutional” than many of the venues on Duke’s campus. It also gives an opportunity to do something that would run over a few days or require more setup.

“It gives people a chance to just pursue an artistic vision, and we don’t look like the Marriott or DPAC,” Walter said. “We’re not a fixed stage.

You have to build in what you want. You kind of never know what you’re going to get.”

Greenwald also said the space is unique and “doesn’t exist anywhere else in Durham.”

“It’s nothing short of a miracle … If he had not bought that space when he bought it, the independent arts scene in Durham, especially the independent performing arts scene in Durham would be in a really rough spot,” Greenwald said. “It is the last and only sizable warehouse space in the vicinity of downtown Durham whose use is dedicated to the arts.”

Walter saw the Fruit as an opportunity to

provide something that the Durham arts scene was missing. He likes the Pinhook, and is now majority owner of the building. He grew up in Durham, as his father was a physics professor and his mother was a secretary at Duke. Walter said he wishes the Pinhook had existed when he was younger.

Before returning to Durham to take care of his parents, Walter spent a few years working in Florida with refugees and farmworkers, then went to business school, worked for a think tank and later some foundations in D.C. He had done some entrepreneurial work and wasn’t afraid to do something of that nature. He has a business partner, Laura Ritchie, who is currently a graduate student at Duke. The Fruit has three full-time equivalent workers, along with workers hired for specific projects like flipping the black box space and volunteers who can also sign up on the website.

“It’s about creating something in the community that I want to see,” Walter said.

“We want it to be sustainable, but it needs to pay for itself over time, or pay its light bills.

It has not been the case this year yet, but it gives us freedom to do cool things.”

Selena Qian | Contributing Photographer The Durham Fruit & Produce Co. is a converted warehouse that now hosts local and emerging artists.

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‘Nuthin’ 2 Prove’ is nothing new from rapper Lil Yachty

By Andrew Rawlings Contributing Writer

Photo Courtesy of Flickr After landing at No. 2 on the charts with his album ‘Lil Boat 2,’ Lil Yachty’s third studio album “Nuthin’ 2 Prove” was released Oct. 19.

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As one of the most recognizable rappers in recent history, Lil Yachty has accomplished a lot during his short tenure on the mainstream rap scene. With two songs peaking in the the Billboard Top 10 and a record deal with industry giants Quality Control, Yachty’s career blew up in a matter of months. However, after a disappointing second studio album in “Lil Boat 2,” Yachty, ironically, had a lot to prove on his new studio album “Nuthin’ 2 Prove.”

Is this the key that will finally cement Lil Yachty’s place in the Atlanta trap scene?

Not really. Although the album remains true to his bubblegum genre of rap, it feels like a rehash of everything Lil Yachty has already created. He takes no risks — there is no growth that proves Lil Yachty can continue to achieve long-term success in the music industry. Hardcore fans will enjoy the tried-and-true formula they have loved, but “Nuthin’ 2 Prove” does little to attract new fans or contribute to Lil Yachty’s existing discography.

The feature list proves to be the most most valuable asset of the entire album. With features that include Lil Baby, Cardi B, Gunna, Offset and Trippie Redd, the starpower present in the tracklist cannot be understated. However, instead of complementing Yachty, his features overshadow his choppy style, which appears unsophisticated in comparison. Songs like “We Outta Here!” only serve to highlight the feature while Yachty’s verses are forgettable and repetitive. This effect is only enhanced when Yachty raps without a feature.

The tracks “I’m The Mac” and “Gimme My Respect” are clear low points where it becomes evident that Yachty has yet to master the uneven flow that he experimented with on “Lil Boat 2.” A notable exception is “Yacht Club,” where he teams up with the new-age Juice WRLD to rap about making money and partying. Juice WRLD’s grungy, emotional vocals effortlessly mix with Yachty’s trademark crooning to create a hypnotic sound that continues to build throughout the song. Combined with a bass-heavy EarlThePearll beat, “Yacht Club” becomes a club classic that will appeal to fans of trap and punk alike while marking a high point in an album that is filled with mostly forgettable tracks.

Aside from his features, Lil Yachty finds the most success when returning to the crooning that gave rise to his widespread popularity. The album is split, with Yachty only choosing to focus on his mesmerizing voice on the last seven tracks. Yachty finds his stride within the last few, honing in on flow that accentuates his mumbling and autotune. “Next Up” inspires memories of hits “One Night” and “Wanna Be Us” from the mixtape “Lil Boat” while “Everything Good, Everything Right” could be ripped straight from the tracklist of his debut album, “Teenage Emotions.”

Lyrically, Lil Yachty keeps it simple. Many of his lyrics are similar to other rap artists who live the the high-energy life of a celebrity; Yachty continuously raps about his jewelry, women and drug use. On “SaintLaurentYSL,” Lil Yachty and Lil Baby rap about fashion company Yves Saint Laurent, while on “I’m the Mac,” he talks about how much money he has been making throughout the year. Although his raps reflect his gaudy life, the message remains the same: Lil Yachty is constantly striving for success and felt that he has finally made it big, that he has “Nuthin’ 2 Prove.”

Unsurprisingly, the album lacks the social criticism often found in the works of rappers such as J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Yachty prefers to stick to the classic trap formula rather than attempting to replicate a contemplative and reflective style that would isolate him from his fans and Atlanta trap scene. It makes sense; Yachty’s fan base is much different than those of other rappers. His ostentatious style, especially his iconic cherry red hair, appeal to a younger and more eccentric audience. Yachty’s fans want songs to hype them up and he continues to stick to the norm to deliver the music they crave.

Despite the lack of lyrical depth, Lil Yachty manages to create, for better or for worse, an album that remains an unequivocal expression of his persona. “Nuthin’ 2 Prove” continues to provide music that mixes elements of mumble rap and autotuned crooning to make tracks that tend to blend together, with featured artists standing out among the uniform landscape of Lil Yachty’s flow.

He does not offer any new concepts of lyrical style — yet. Lil Yachty has the foundation to become a staple of trap music, but hopefully his next album will provide the evolution and diversity in sound that “Nuthin’ 2 Prove” is sorely missing.

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$125,000 or college?

By Michael Model Sports Editor

Two months after electrifying the crowds north of the border during the Duke Canada Tour this August, R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson brought that same intensity in their first competition at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday.

After battling against each other during the Blue Devils’ Blue/White scrimmage at Countdown to 64 Craziness Friday, VUU DUKE 106 Williamson and Barrett joined forces once again, sparking Duke’s offense with a combined 52 points and leading the fourth-ranked Blue Devils to a dominant 106-64 victory against Virginia Union in their exhibition opener.

“Our guys were excited and for five of them it’s their first game. We tend to forget that it’s their first game in Cameron, even though it’s an exhibition,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Let them get over that. They’ve got a lot of growing up to do, but overall it was a good night for us.”

The Blue Devils got out to a slow start, trailing 8-7 with 15:20 remaining in the first half, but Barrett took over, leading Duke on a 15-2 run as the Blue Devils spurted out to a 22-10 lead.

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The NBA is trying to have it both ways, giving elite high schoolers an opportunity to make money right away while still keeping them off their teams, and the half-baked solution the league came up with last week will fall flat.

ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported Thursday that the NBA’s G League will offer $125,000 one-year select contracts starting this summer to 18-year-old prospects who are not yet eligible for the NBA Draft and would otherwise likely go to college for one year before jumping to the pros. That’s a lot of money for most ordinary 18-year-olds, but with millions of dollars likely awaiting most top-10 recruits if they take the safer one-anddone route, why not stick with what works?

Let’s assume we live in a fantasy world where every school abides by NCAA rules.

This might not be far from the truth—I think it’s far more likely than not that established bluebloods like Duke, Kentucky or North Carolina don’t have to pay players under the table to play. But if I were a big-time recruit doing a mental cost-benefit analysis, I’d still

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Tre Jones’ behind the scenes effort leads Duke

By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

A year ago, Duke had a highly-touted freshman point guard in Trevon Duval, who was supposed to be a transcendent athlete with great vision.

And yet, despite the hype, the top-ranked point guard in the Class of 2017 proved to be a bust for the Blue Devils. Duval led the team in turnovers by a wide margin, and was last in both effective field goal percentage and box plus/minus for the 2017-18 Duke squad among players with 200 or more minutes.

Frequently, Duval failed to understand when to take a back seat, and let stronger scorers such as Grayson Allen and Marvin Bagley III take over.

This year’s Blue Devils are again blessed with talented scorers, with the top three players in the ESPN Top 100—R.J. Barrett, Zion Williamson and Cam Reddish—all deciding to come to Duke. The trio of forwards proved their scoring prowess immediately, combining for 65 of the team’s 106 points on an impressive 64.1 percent

shooting from the floor.

Despite the obvious contributions and freakish athleticism from Barrett, Williamson and Reddish, perhaps the most encouraging performance came from the No. 17 recruit, point guard Tre Jones.

“I think the biggest thing for Tre is to learn how to communicate, how to lead verbally. He understands the game as well as anybody that we’ve brought in, and certainly on this team,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He has to then understand me, how I feel about things going on in real-time, and then verbalize them.”

Although the box score does not say much about Jones’ performance, the Apple Valley, Minn., native looked like a true floor general against Virginia Union. Unlike his predecessor, Jones seemed to be selfless, and happily deferred to his more offensively gifted teammates.

“My job is to get us organized, and make sure everybody is in the right position to make the right plays,” Jones said.

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Blue Devils shut out by Tar Heels

By Liz Finny Associate Sports Editor

Tuesday nights typically bring nonconference teams to Koskinen Stadium. However, this brisk Tuesday saw Tobacco Road rivals North Carolina and Duke battling it out.

The No. 14 Blue Devils fell to No. 5 North Carolina 1-0 at Koskinen Stadium, with Tar Heel Jack Skahan’s goal in the 56th minute proving to be the difference in the contest.

Both teams came 1 ready to play, as the UNC 0 game was fast-paced DUKE and intense from the first whistle. North Carolina did its fair share of controlling parts of the game, as did Duke.

Both teams played strong defensively and pressured the ball, making it difficult to get into a rhythm.

“It was one of those tough games because both teams were solid and up for it, and both teams defended very well for the first part,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said. “And it was going to take one of those fortuitous moments to win the game.”

Duke junior Daniele Proch had an exciting ball off a long kick with an open field ahead in the first three minutes, but was called offside.

Duke’s leading goal-scorer only got one shot off on the game, as the Tar Heels’ defense had him covered well.

Freshman Issa Rayyan dribbled down the field and juked out the North Carolina defender for the Blue Devils’ first legitimate chance at a goal around the 10-minute mark.

He dribbled past the same defender on two separate occasions and drove a shot from the right side of the goal, sending North Carolina goalie James Pyle diving to the ground to block the shot.

The Tobacco Road rivals went back and forth in possession and momentum in the first half, with Duke (9-5-1, 4-3-0 in the ACC) having the sole shot for much of the half. The Blue Devils also

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Duke men’s soccer once again was unable to push across a goal Tuesday, falling to North Carolina at home. secured the first corner of the game and followed it up with a second.

“Their pressure forced us into making mistakes that we normally don’t make. And then when we did have opportunities, we didn’t execute,” Kerr said. “We knew if we did get moments in front of their back four or three, that we had to make the most of them.

Tonight we didn’t have that extra zip to create open looks at the goal.”

The Tar Heels (12-2-1, 6-1-0) struggled to get anything going on offense, with their first shot coming in the 36th minute of the game.

Soon after, North Carolina got a header by Nils Bruening off the team’s first corner of the game

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 11 The nation’s top-ranked recruit put Duke on his shoulders early, scoring 15 of the team’s first 18 points including a trio of 3-point makes—Barrett would finish the contest with 23.

At that point the nation’s No. 2 recruit decided to get in on the action. Williamson poured in all but four of his team-high 29 points in the last 27 minutes, adding in a pair of alley-oop slams from Barrett in the process as the Blue Devils took a 5236 lead into the locker room. Perhaps the most impressive part of the performance was the extreme efficiency between the young freshmen. Williamson and Barrett finished the contest with a 75 percent conversion rate on 28 shots.

“For people who know me, I’m not one to force my way into the game, I let the game come to me. I feel like that’s why I was very consistent,” Williamson said. “If the shot was there I was taking it, and if the pass was there I was passing it. I was just trying to help my team out any way I can.”

Fellow freshmen Cam Reddish—the No. 3 recruit according to ESPN’s Class of 2018 rankings— and Tre Jones made a spark in their first action after missing the Canada tour. Reddish scored 13 points and nine assists in addition to 3-of-9 shooting from beyond the arc, and Jones ran the offense, tying Reddish with nine assists despite finishing the contest with just six points.

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that went right to Pulisic. Mauricio Pineda had an opportunity to put the Tar Heels up after that, but shot the ball wide and to the left, sending Pulisic flying to the ground.

Duke’s second shot came in the 41st minute on a header by Nicolas Macri, but Pyle was there and secured the ball after bobbling it to keep the game scoreless.

After a few first-half opportunities, Skahan found the back of the net to give North Carolina the first goal of the game after the break. Skahan and Duke’s Matthias Frick lost sight of a long ball, turning in a circle that drew Pulisic out of the goal, which Skahan took advantage of to tap the ball over Pulisic’s

to the already established chemistry, despite having such a young core. This was evident Tuesday, as the Blue Devils recorded 33 assists on 40 baskets and nine different players recorded an assist in the contest.

“It felt the same as practice, I’m kind of used to it at this point,” Reddish said on his team’s on-court chemistry.

“These guys are really unselfish, they’re all getting open shots and playing together. I love it, probably the most fun basketball I’ve ever played.”

One of the biggest questions for this Duke team entering the season is whether or not this squad will be able to shoot well enough from downtown in order to space the floor.

While the Blue Devils converted on marginally better than 30 percent of their attempts between the Canada tour and Countdown, Duke looked strong from the perimeter Tuesday, making 13-of-31 attempts. Sophomore Alex O’Connell and junior Jack White provided instant offense off the bench, providing 21 points including just four misses on eight shots from beyond the arc, while showcasing the Blue Devils’ veteran depth behind the five freshmen.

“It’s not all about scoring,” White said on the team’s output off bench. “But, coming in communicating, encouraging those guys to talk and just trying to be leaders out there…. When you focus on that stuff, the scoring and whatever else just takes care of itself.”

Following Tuesday’s victory, Duke will conclude its exhibition slate Saturday against Ferris State at 4 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

head to put the Tar Heels up 1-0.

“It was a fortuitous bounce for North Carolina and they made the most of it,” Kerr said.

“It was a great finish once it fell in their favor...it was a well-finished opportunity for them.”

North Carolina followed that up with another opportunity, as Pulisic got a hand on a shot by Giovanni Montesdeoca to send it flying over the crossbar. Bruening also got another chance to put the Tar Heels up by two. The 6-foot-3 forward caught a header that went just over the bar.

A free kick by Kristófer Gardarsson brought the Duke fans to their feet as the ball skirted past the opposite side of the goal, with no Blue Devils there to put it into the back of the net. Proch added another goal-scoring opportunity in his first shot with 19 minutes left—an impressive bicycle kick—that went over the goal.

Duke’s defense put on a stellar performance, keeping the Tar Heels from putting up more than one goal. Aedan Stanley had a goal-saving tackle with less than 10 minutes left to keep the Tar Heels from doubling their advantage.

“They’re easily the best team we’ve played so far this year,” Kerr said. “It’s tough keeping them contained because they have so many talented players, they’re up for it and they’re running all over the place.

I thought our guys did a really good job containing them for the most part.”

Despite putting a lot of pressure on North Carolina in the final 10 minutes of the game, Duke was not able to find the goal.

“We have to eliminate errors early,” Kerr said. “In the first half, we let too many balls go under our foot, or just a touch off base, and they did a good job of recovering the ball from those errors. Taking care of the ball was a main issue. I think we can learn from it, and learn a lot about ourselves.”

Duke will head to Virginia Tech on Friday to top off their regular season with a 7 p.m.

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Zion Williamson had two alley-oop dunks Tuesday.

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G LEAGUE FROM PAGE 11 decide that a year in college is worth more than $125,000.

Seven of the top 10 recruits in ESPN’s Class of 2019 next season remain uncommitted to a college. They could choose an unknown path that guarantees them $125,000 but nothing more. Or they could choose the path that funnels players like them into the top quarter of the NBA Draft the vast majority of the time.

Eight of the top 10 players in ESPN’s 2017 rankings were selected in the lottery in June after one year of college—the other two were Blue Devils Gary Trent Jr. and Trevon Duval.

Maybe they would still have been picked that high if they spent the year in the G League, but maybe playing under an inexperienced coach in an environment that NBA scouts are less familiar evaluating would sink their draft stock. Why risk your likely windfall of several million just for a one-time $125,000 check?

The main attraction of college is top-tier coaching and accumulated knowledge of the game that a player wouldn’t get in the G League. Mike Krzyzewski was introduced as Duke’s head coach on March 18, 1980, before more than half of the G League’s 27 head coaches were even more. Roy Williams, John Calipari, Tom Izzo and Bill Self are all national champions who have seen their fair share of players become lottery picks. I’d expect anybody in that group to do a better job of preparing a player for the NBA than a 35-year-old in his first-ever year as a head coach on a G League bench.

The highest level of college basketball also has more superficial perks—charter flights, full stadiums and constant exposure on ESPN, instead of long bus rides between two remote locations that are frequent in the G League.

Of course, those luxuries are all available in the NBA, too, where the top coaches are also every bit as good or better than the best coaches in the college game. That’s where top high schoolers should be allowed to end up whenever they want.

This debate will probably end in the next few years when that door opens, though it’s taking too long, since NBA teams that have kept the one-and-done rule in place for more than a

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decade are reluctant to take on the extra work and risk that goes into evaluating high-school talent.

I’m not claiming that going to college means taking the moral high ground and embracing the concept of amateurism the NCAA tries to promote, and I won’t judge players for making a different decision that might be best for them. But from a pure business perspective, the G League alternative wouldn’t be good enough for me.

JONES FROM PAGE 11 The freshman, who is the younger brother of former Duke starting point guard Tyus Jones, did not score a basket until halfway through the second half, but he did not need to, and his nine assists indicate the key role he played in setting the table for the offense.

Tre Jones led a Blue Devil offense that clearly has great chemistry, and 82.7 percent of its field goals came off of assists, a great improvement on the 57.6 percent mark from a season ago.

“We’re all very unselfish on this team,” Jones said. We’re willing to make the extra pass, passing on a good shot for a great shot, knowing that the great shot is a higher-percentage look than the good shot.”

As the only true point guard in Duke’s rotation, Jones bears much of the distribution responsibilities for the Blue Devils. He picked apart Virginia Union’s zone defense all night, and frequently directed his teammates into sets, showing his strong basketball I.Q. Both of Jones’ baskets came from behind the 3-point Ian Jaffe | Special Projects Photography Editor line, and he connected on half of his four attempts. Freshman Cam Reddish had nine assists in addition to his Especially against a zone defense, the 6-foot-2 guard will trio of triples in the contest. need to knock down shots from the perimeter, fulfilling a role that Duval failed to fill, as he shot just 29.0 percent on Although he may not be the flashiest new member of 3-point attempts in 2017-18. the Duke roster, Jones will be the most vital for the team’s “[Jones] needs to take that shot [at the top of the key] more, success. A ball-savvy guard with a smooth stroke and a knack The New York York Times Syndication Syndication Sales Corporation The New Times Sales Corporation because he can hit it,” Krzyzewski said. “We haven’t had that for the ball on defense, Jones figures to play a key role in the Eighth Avenue, Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 10018 Eighth New York, N.Y. Blue Devils’ overall performance this winter. disciplined ball pressure that [Jones] puts on in 620 a620 while.

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Elizabeth Warren and the myth of race

s the nation gears up for midterm elections, campaigning politicians across the country are pulling out all the stops—as per usual—to promote their platforms and connect with their constituency. However, one recent public stunt that severely missed the mark was from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has been making rounds in the new cycle for using a DNA testing service to prove her proclaimed Native American ancestry. Warren submitted her DNA for analysis in response to President Trump’s repeated instances of mocking Warren by calling her “Pocahontas” and his promised $1 million charity donation if genetic testing supported her Cherokee and Delaware heritage.

Earlier this month, the senator released test results that claimed there was biological evidence for Native American ancestry dating back six to ten generations ago for Warren.

The backlash Warren received for declaring indigenous tribal affiliation was nearly instantaneous.

Kim Tallbear, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, stated that the “very desire to locate a claim to Native American identity in a DNA marker inherited from a long-ago ancestor is a settler-colonial racial understanding of what it is to be Native American.”

The Cherokee Nation—the largest of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes in the United States— released a statement criticizing Warren’s actions as “undermining tribal interests.” Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. emphasized the uselessness of a DNA test to determine tribal citizenship and affiliation. Different tribes have a variety of differing established citizenship requirements for enrollment— ranging from geographic location and familial ties to cultural knowledge—but the blood quantum metric is one the emerged not as a reflection of indigenous definitions of relations, but from laws enacted by the U.S. Federal Government.

Anger from tribal leaders and Native American activists across the country over this situation stems

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from Warren’s acceptance of inaccurate, settler colonial race science as well as the lack of nuance in understanding Native American culture, society and history—much of which has been violently and systematically repressed in the process of settler colonialism, land dispossession and genocide.

Furthermore, what’s particularly frustrating about Warren’s use of the DNA test is that it reinforces the eugenicist notion that race has a biological basis when that’s simply not true. There is no objective, reliable, meaningful criteria scientists can use to construct or identify racial groupings

Editorial Board because most visible traits vary continuously and our cultural differentiations between races don’t have reflections in a set of nucleotides. Race is culturally meaningful, not biologically meaningful; race is a social construct, not a biological construct. Though race has no biological basis, the social construct of race produces differential tangible reality for different perceived racial groups. This is why DNA tests like the one Warren took are unable to determine race.

With Warren’s insensitive centering of her barely existent “ethnically” marginalized heritage in her political career, this news item also allows us to consider the larger context of politicians manipulating the discourse of racial identity in the United States. In a burgeoning era of irresponsible weaponization of identity, it has become increasingly fashionable to emphasize or adopt a certain racial/ethnic identity to further personal gain or to conversely develop a reactionary position of white-washing oneself.

Warren officially listed her ethnic identity as Native

American, rather than white as she had previously indicated, as a law professor in the 1990s at Harvard University—a questionable move which she’s never fully addressed—and has since been using her debatable “indigeneity” as a chess piece politically. Both former President Barack Obama and California Senator Kamala Harris have been criticized for raking in support based on their race while not delivering enough politically for their Black constituency on issues that affected the the most—like police violence and mass incarceration. U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley—born Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa—has altered her name and presents herself as an evangelical white Christian woman similarly to how Texas Senator Ted Cruz—born Rafael Edward Cruz—has shied away from name-based ethnic affiliation during his time in the Republican party. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and former neurosurgeon, has used his race to push back against talking points about police abuse and has acted as a green light for the Republican Party to continue pushing policies that harm black Americans. The appearance of a certain race or ethnicity is automatically imagined to translate into progressivism or at least acting in the interest of that demographic, with little scrutiny paid to stances or voting records.

Warren, like every other public figure hoping to gain points in the political landscape by clinging to or rejecting racial and ethnic difference, has played into this damaging pattern of behavior that flattens cultural or personal meanings of racial identification.

Regardless of the outcome of these actions, ultimately, the consequences of reducing race to a political chess piece far outweigh any possible gains.

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-Clueless Casanova Dear Clueless, Dating apps have become an undeniable part of our social fabric as horny and/or lonely young people. If you don’t have a profile but want one, here’s what your mom didn’t tell you.

Because I started my Chronicle career as an actual journalist—how far we’ve fallen—I would like you to know that I thoroughly investigated your question. Not only did I ask not one, not two but three of my friends how they would advise you, I also (re-)downloaded Tinder, Bumble AND Her. I am nothing if not committed. And as someone who has dated people—in real life—of multiple genders across multiple dating apps, I am uniquely qualified to answer your question.

First: setting up your profile. Be yourself! Oh, but avoid selfies because having a photo taken by someone else suggests that you have at least one friend or family member, which is an attractive quality in a partner. And don’t write too much in the bio section. But don’t write nothing. I like to just put a joke about myself in the profile, and that’s worked out fine. Keep in mind that, especially at a school as small as Duke, people you know in real life are going to see your profile, so don’t put anything that would embarrass you when you look up from your phone and make eye contact with a classmate you just swiped left on.

Then again, dating is inherently embarrassing! It just is, and that’s fine! Admitting that you want something, even by downloading a stupid app or four, is an act of vulnerability and that can feel silly and embarrassing at times. But that’s life! We never stop wanting!

Now, on to the top four apps.

Tinder: Tinder is probably the most widely-used dating app among college students. Avoid “super liking” strangers; it comes off a little strong. On the other hand, don’t play it too safe either. One of my friends said that if you see someone you know and you’re interested, always swipe right because you can’t lose: if they swipe left then they don’t know you’ve swiped right, but if they swipe right then you both have. This is apparently “the game theory trick stag hunt”… or something. I argue that the discomfort of seeing them in person after neither of you message each other for three days is a definite possible loss, but if you have a stronger stomach for that type of thing: there are no possible downsides. The stakes here are really quite low! And remember, we’re leaning in to discomfort

and vulnerability! Just not too much!

Bumble: Bumble is kind of the same as Tinder in that you “swipe right” for yes and “swipe left” for no, but with the added gimmick that matches disappear if no one messages within 24 hours. This is supposed to get you past the discomfort of who’s going to message first and encourage you to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak, but I think in reality it leads to a lot of expired matches and an inbox filled with hollow questions or just “hey!” The same rules still apply: message if you’re interested, ask them a question, or comment on the interests in their profile. Avoid leaving it at “hey!” or “hi!” or, worse, something gross.

Her: Her is like Tinder but with a more challenging user interface, and also there are no men. Tradeoffs! If you don’t have a cat as one of your photos, you probably need to find one, otherwise no one will message you. Queer women love to talk about their cats, or yours. This is not a euphemism.

Ask her about astrology, maybe?

Grindr: Grindr is mainly geared toward gay and bisexual men, so I had to phone a friend for this one.

Every single person on Grindr is braver than I am, because Grindr gives you no option to sort or filter whose profiles you can see, or who can see you. This means there are a lot of anonymous profiles, with pictures of just men’s chests, or like, a sunset. I asked my friend, a star Grindr user, his advice for people thinking about downloading it, and it was: “1) don’t do it. 2) don’t do it. 3) but if you wanna get laid, do it.” In that order.

And there you have it! I think my friend on Grindr has landed on a truth that unites all of us, queer and straight.

The great equalizer: dating apps make us feel a little terrible.

Ultimately, I can’t think of anyone who has established a meaningful, lasting connection with another person through a dating app. Actually, I wrote this and then one of my fellow editors said he met his last two girlfriends on Tinder... but it remains to be seen how the current one is going to work out.

It’s almost as though gamifying our unending, lifelong search for an intimacy that will finally make us whole leads to no actual increased success in “finding a good match,” only the illusion of increased choice and possibility as we infinitely swipe and scroll through a never-ending stream of hopeful faces like ours.

So, sure, download the app, but keep your expectations low and communicate what you want clearly. In life, as on Tinder, don’t be afraid to ask for what you want, but be prepared to accept rejection gracefully. Recall that there is a real person on the other side of the screen (I mean, unless it’s a catfish or a bot. Don’t send any money.) And be safe!

Frances Beroset is a Trinity senior and the editorial page editor. Email her a question at fb55@duke.edu so she doesn’t have to fabricate a question next time.

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The Duke Difference: Saving their money before your life

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he theologian Augustine observed that his teachers, “being beaten in some trifling question by another teacher, would seethe with more bile and envy” than the most rambunctious child. Those in positions of stewardship are often more puerile and irrational as those whose best interests they pretend to steward.

Such irrationality has been displayed in rare form by our alma mater dear. This past week in a world that no longer makes sense, a university with an $8.5 billion endowment won’t cover student healthcare. For students whose calculated parent contribution is more than $0, the $3,535 cost of required health insurance will no longer be included in their financial aid package.

Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of the Karsh

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Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid told The Chronicle that the good people in the administration hope that “the cost will not be something that the families can’t manage reasonably.” Because hope pays the bills. These good people even sent “letters home as early as possible” so that those barely able to afford to attend Duke have time to pull $3,535 out of thin air. Rabil’s office, in all its magnanimity, will allow families to appeal for funding. The only problem? The appeals process has yet to be established.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and governmental relations, touts this move as “consistent with our peer universities.” Did Schoenfeld leak our newest recruitment campaign?

“Duke University: Don’t be a leader. Follow the herd.” If our peer universities jumped off a cliff, would we jump, too? If our peer universities decided to bring racism back into the admissions process, would we join them? Duke could be a leader. Duke could stand alone among our “peer universities” and guarantee a real commitment to the welfare of its at-risk students. Instead, in the best Duke tradition of free thinking, we’ll save a few bucks and follow the crowd.

Given the idiocy of this announcement, one half expects the University’s next policy to be something about letting students eat cake. It may not have occurred to the Louises and Antoinettes in the administration that students who are would not be here but

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he has lived in Los Angeles my entire childhood. She works for a real estate firm just a block away from Rodeo Drive. Like many Californians, she gets her raw almonds and self-satisfaction at Whole Foods.

If she’s feeling indulgent, she’ll take her Audi sedan through the In-N-Out drive through.

She lives like a Californian, she walks like a Californian, but she certainly doesn’t talk like a Californian. For good reason too, because Sarah Blanchard isn’t a Californian—she’s a Texan. And maybe it’s that Texas spunk, but

Reiss Becker COLUMNIST my Aunt Sarah actively defies many aspects of California culture and, especially, its politics.

When together, Sarah and I love to discuss California’s “kooks, nuts and freaks.”

Although there are plenty of Californians who could be called kooks, nuts or freaks, Sarah and I are focused on California’s politicians. These are kooks like Rep. Maxine Waters, who recently publicly called for aggressive harassment of her political opposition and has bragged that she threatens Trump supporters “all the time.”

Waters is joined by nuts like Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, who talks a big game about California “showing the way” for the nation in the age of Trump. If only California could show the way out of the nation’s highest poverty rate, but that would involve answering tough questions about Brown’s preferred economic policies. The freaks are exemplified by former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. While mayor, Newsom had an affair with a subordinate, female coworker in what was a predatory use of power.

Thankfully, Democratic primary voters have high standards and thus elected Newsom to be their candidate for Governor this fall. Are you

for financial support may not have $3,535 lying around.

Note the common thread in Rabil’s and Schoenfeld’s bureaucratese: money. This decision wasn’t made for us. This decision wasn’t made to safeguard our best interests. This decision was made for money. Rabil’s illogic claims that “This is an effort to steward the university’s funds in the best possible way.” Is there a better investment for university funds than the health of its students?

Schoenfeld believes that this move will “ensure that our financial aid funds are used in the most efficient and effective way.” Where is the inefficiency in funding the health of financially at-risk students?

What is ineffective about paying for essential health services?

Someone at Duke University was told to go over the books and cut something. The line item they chose to cut was “Students’ Health.” What a shame that Duke seems to care more about its lucre than our lives.

And since one of Duke’s offices looks first to its support for financially at-risk students when cutting costs, who can trust that the University will not kick them to the curb as well? Graduate students, untenured faculty, departmental assistants and instructors should all wonder whose head is next on the block when Dear Old Duke looks to its $8.5 billion and finds something wanting.

But how much can we do to fix this, beyond talk and petition?

This problem was created by, and can only be fixed by, those good people whom it will never affect. Did anyone working in the Karsh Office or in the Allen Building or anywhere in Duke’s administration have their healthcare cut and their futures jeopardized? Anyone nominally in charge could at any time step in and look far and wide in our $8.5 billion of funding and find funding for the basic health costs of students who have nothing left to give. Of course, those in charge could likely point to some funding bylaw or chart, some regulation about what funding can and can’t go where, before telling students with nothing left to give, “Sorry.”

But until the university with $8.5 billion pays for the healthcare of financially at-risk students, any answer is the wrong answer. I ask that any of our leaders step up and provide the moral leadership for which they are so richly compensated. Your moral leadership is conspicuous by its absence. How does the callousness and cowardice of this quiet announcement uphold your sacred Community Standard?

And of all the donors who pay handsomely to have their name on a new pile of stones or the next big glass box, could not even one be found to provide funding for students’ healthcare? Duke is not great because of its empty buildings. Duke is great because of the people who fill them. Please fund full lives before investing in dead stone.

I close with the words of one Jesus of Nazareth, a man not unremarked for his commitment to human welfare. “I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” Until Duke stands with its at-risk students and offers them a full and feasible life here so that they might enjoy a similar future hereafter, Duke’s commitments to service and bettering humankind will remain hollow hypocrisies. If you will not support those in need on your campus, what example do you set or impetus provide for making a difference out in the world?

These are sad days for our community, and they will remain sad until those with the power to fix this problem do so. So, you good people, choose: do you care more about Duke’s money, or Duke’s students? A child’s moral compass would point you to the right answer.

Chronicle File Photo Many students will no longer have their health insurance paid for by the University.

Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

California’s kooks and nuts offended by the hypocrisy and conveniently selective outrage? Me too.

I don’t like California’s leading officials, but I respect that they have produced incredible results. Currently, the reign of California’s kooks, nuts and freaks is peaking. Until last June, the Democratic party held super majorities in both houses of the state legislature. In the governor’s race, Newsom has comfortably polled far ahead of Republican candidate John Cox in the polls for the entire race. On a national level, the state is reliably blue in Presidential elections, has two Democratic Senators, and a largely blue House delegation as well. At every level, the Democratic party controls the levers of political power. Despite this, there is some hope for conservatives on the left coast.

California Democrats don’t picture Paul Ryan when considering their biggest political threats, but maybe they should. In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed by Congress last December, the Speaker made significant changes to the tax code that will affect California. Prior to the TCJA, Americans had been able to use a policy called the “state and local income tax deduction” (SALT) to subtract the entirety of what they pay in state income taxes from their federal income tax burden. Which seems swell until one realizes that because rich people pay top state tax rates, the SALT deduction is effectively a handout to rich people in high tax, often Democratic states: states like California. Democrats love the SALT deduction because it shields wealthy Californians from bearing the full cost of the state’s incredibly high taxes and thus allows them to raise taxes far higher than would be politically feasible otherwise. Thanks to Ryan, the taxation bonanza is ending. In the TCJA, the SALT deduction was capped so that taxpayers could, at most, deduct $10,000 from their federal tax bill. Consequently, the taxes of many wealthy Californians will rise.

When that happens, said people will question

whether they should continue to donate to and vote for the Democratic party. In an ideal world, California Democrats would acknowledge this impending tax revolt, see the error of their ways, and embrace tax cuts.

Because that won’t happen, Republicans will have an opportunity. Cutting taxes is such a natural, winning issue for Republicans that columnist Robert Novak once declared that “God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.” The California Republican party has a useful function now!

The next shakeup of California comes from the Supreme Court. Last session, the court decided the case of Janus v. AFSCME (the largest public employees union in the US) in favor of the plaintiff, Mark Janus. The court ruled that, because union collective bargaining is inherently political, public sector unions could no longer coerce dues from non-unionized employees without violating said employees’ First Amendment rights. Quickly recognizing the decision’s ruinous consequences for public unions, Justice Kagan argued this “decision will have large-scale consequences” and that “[p]ublic employee unions will lose a secure source of financial support.” The implications of this decision for California cannot be overstated.

For decades, public unions and the California Democratic party have had a cozy, mutually beneficial arrangement. According to the California Policy Center (CPC), California public sector unions donate “$255 million per year, over $20 million per month” in campaign contributions-- a staggering amount. Even more ridiculous, the CPC cautioned that “the calculations that come out of this exercise are probably conservative…” Saying that public sector unions are among the most politically influential actors in the state would be an understatement. Naturally, Democratic politicians rewarded the unions for their largesse with significant pay and benefit

increases to the point where public sector employees make double, on average, what private sector employees do. Fortunately, the gravy train is coming to a halt. PostJanus, California Democrats can still rely on considerable financial backing from the public unions. The problem for Democrats is that, financially speaking, that support will mean drastically less.

Experts say that California is overdue for another earthquake. I won’t speak to the intentions of the San Andreas fault, but California’s political scene is due for a seismic upheaval. The reign of the kooks, nuts and freaks is peaking and the stage is set for decline.

I both hope and predict that the contradictions and consequences of California liberalism come to bear in the minds of future voters. We are simultaneously the fifth-largest economy in the world, we consistently elect politicians who purport to care about the poor above all else and yet we have the nation’s highest poverty rate.

Our elected politicians have the audacity to blast the TCJA as a “tax [break] for the wealthy” in nearly the same breath as they defend the SALT deduction, a tax break that overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy. The cost of living in many California cities is so high that middle class San Franciscans are actively choosing not to have children for fear that they will not be able to financially support them. My hometown, Los Angeles, has a skyrocketing homeless population of people who cannot afford to live lives of dignity because of policies that make housing prohibitively expensive. In the interior of the state, residents are wracked by a substance abuse epidemic so severe that you would be hard pressed to distinguish Eureka, California from West Virginia. Despite it all, Governor Brown claims his state is a model to follow. I would tell Governor Brown to go to hell, but I’m afraid he would take California with him.

Reiss Becker is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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science of science fiction in a rigorous way,” wrote Christine Payne, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and the instructor of the course, in an email.

“The materials science aspect came together when I saw ‘Black Panther,’ since vibranium is such a good example of a material that enables the story.”

Besides vibranium, the course will also examine the nanotechnology of Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age,” as well as the 3D printers of Kelly Robson’s “We Who Live in the Heart.”

“The class would be good for anyone interested in materials science,” Payne wrote.

“I’d love to have a mix of majors in the class.”

Students will need a basic knowledge of physics, chemistry and calculus, as well as permission from Payne and Donald Bliss, the director of undergraduate studies for mechanical engineering, to enroll.

TC: There’s currently a moratorium on new group housing. What’s going on with that, and what is the future of selective living at Duke?

JG: It was agreed a little over a year ago that we would have a moratorium of any new selective living groups being added until fall of 2019, and that was in large part to allow us to successfully relocate the 23 houses on Central.

But after fall of 2019, I think it’s really part of the conversation underway in terms of, ‘What is the ambition for undergraduate housing moving forward?’ There’s a task force operating at the Board of Trustees level talking about this question. It’s possible the moratorium could continue—it’s possible it could be lifted. It’s not a new question. The question has been asked during my 14 years here, but this is the first time that I would say it’s really being talked about at a different level.

Selective living groups have had a long history here at Duke, so I don’t think it’s something that anyone would disregard lightly, but I also think there’s been important points made about, ‘are there better possibilities for Duke that don’t include selective living groups?’

We’ll see where the conversation goes.

TC: Looking forward, what are you most excited about?

JG: What we’re most excited about is the fall of 2019 and how—for the first time since I’ve been here—we’ll have an upperclass housing inventory that we’re universally excited about. We’ve known about the need to renovate Crowell and Craven for a long time. Those renovations are finally being completed. The opportunity to discontinue using Central Campus and bring the Hollows online is an improvement.

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RELIGION 266S: Harry Potter and Religion WF 10:05–11:20 a.m., CZ J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series, loved by millions of children and praised for its Christian allegory, has been accused of spreading occult and Satanist ideas for decades. And this course will try to uncover why.

“Using a popular series like Harry Potter as a lens can be a great way to explore more abstract topics like the history of science or definitions of religion and religious experience,” wrote Chris Howell, a graduate student in American religion who will be teaching the course next spring, in an email.

To study those abstract topics, the course will examine the scientific themes, the religious basis and the cultural debates of the series—both the books and their movie adaptations.

“I hope the course will appeal to students with a wide variety of interests,” Howell wrote. “Students who like fantasy literature will likely enjoy it. But students with interests in historical topics, or the relation of technology to religion, or the culture wars in America concerning children’s literature and education, or the literary use of Christian themes like death and resurrection, etc., will all find in the class something that interests them.”

degrees of warming, all of the world’s coral reefs will die. He added that two degrees of warming will cause an additional 10 centimeters of sea level rise by the end of the century.

The world has already seen one degree warming—the effects of which are beginning to become noticeable, Shindell said.

“We’re seeing more of the really strong hurricanes in the North Atlantic,” Shindell said. “That gets even worse at 1.5 degrees, but it doesn’t get as much worse as if we get to two.”

In order to have a 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, the world FROM PAGE 1 must have zero net carbon emissions in about 35 years, the report said. In order to have a choices and cleaner energy,” Shindell said. “It two-thirds chance of doing so, the timeline works really well.” shrinks to 25 years.

Shindell said that emphasizing the benefits According to Shindell, reaching these targets of fighting climate change is an effective way to would require taking action long before the push for change. deadlines for carbon neutrality.

“The net is that this is actually good for the “We have to make huge strides within American economy,” he said. the next decade to be on the path to zero The report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental net emissions by the middle of the century,” Panel on Climate Change examines the he said. impacts of an optimistic projection of world warming to 1.5 Celsius or more above preindustrial levels, as opposed to an increase of two degrees. Two degrees of warming was FROM PAGE 1 the target set the 2015 Paris Agreement, from which the United States withdrew in June of issue for incoming students, Zhu wrote, last year. but it hasn’t figured out how yet. He added The report finds that even 1.5 degrees that it was a long-term goal to provide of warming will lead to heat-related deaths, year-round funding for all Ph.D. students the spread of disease and rising sea levels. in their guaranteed funding period.

It concludes that a warming of two degrees “There are a number of logistical would increase all of these impacts and cause questions to address, but it is something “substantially lower economic growth” for both university leaders are actively tackling,” he developed and developing countries. wrote. “The logistical questions have to do “There really are noticeable differences with complexities inherent in the payroll between the two targets,” Shindell said. system at an organization as large as Duke, For example, he said that 1.5 degrees of but we expect to be able to address this warming will lead to the deaths of three- matter for the next entering class of Ph.D. quarters of the world’s coral reefs. At two students.”

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