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Courtesy of Nat LeDonne/Duke Athletics Darcy Bourne, a freshman field hockey player, has had a huge impact for the Blue Devils this year, both on and off the pitch.

By Glen Morgenstern Associate Sports Editor

You may have seen Darcy Bourne before, and it’s not because she’s already a star on Duke’s field hockey team. Bourne is the subject of a now-viral photo, reposted by the likes of British Vogue editor Edward Enninful as well as Martin Luther King III. “When Martin Luther King III posted [the photo], it made me realize how far it had reached,” Bourne said. “No one in the world could have meant more to me to post it than him because of what he and his father did.” Bourne is actually British, born and

raised, and that photo was taken near the U.S. Embassy in London. But Bourne is far more than just the masked face of the Black Lives Matter movement abroad. As a Black field hockey player, she is also a rarity in a sport known for its lack of diversity.

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Bourne grew up in South London, playing “literally any sport” to keep up with a competitive older brother. Eventually, she enrolled in Wellington College, a school with a history and alumni list that rival Duke’s. Wellington College has taught pupils such as Christopher Lee (who played Count Dooku in “Star Wars”), George Orwell, the Getty

family and several European princes. Queen Victoria, who remains the school’s official Visitor, laid the foundation stone herself in 1856. Students are divided into 17 houses (Hogwarts vibes, anyone?), each named after an associate of the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. In other words, it’s more British—and four years older—than fish and chips. Despite that, Bourne is adapting to American life rather smoothly. “Because of COVID-19, I had to fly over on my own, which is less than ideal,” Bourne said with a pained chuckle. “Now that I’m settled in, I’m loving it.” “Things I miss? I don’t have a kettle. I had never made tea out of a microwave, but I’m making do.” Bourne is also Black, a piece of her identity that doesn’t often show up in her sport. England’s national field hockey team has only seen four nonwhite players at the senior level. At Duke, the school’s first Black field hockey player, Vestina Polk, took the field in 1986. That’s nearly 20 years after the first Black basketball player took the court for the Blue Devils. “When you’re younger, without realizing it, you look up to people who look similar to you,” Bourne said. “In recent years, it’s inspired me to succeed so that I could be that role model for younger players coming in.”

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As a child, Bourne did not specialize in field hockey. Instead, she played soccer with the boys’ team at primary school, since there was no girls’ team. She also played club soccer with the Chelsea FC girls’ team. Then, around the age of eight or nine, her school told her she couldn’t play soccer anymore. “When they told me I couldn’t play with the boys anymore, I was annoyed, and it was a shame I didn’t have the opportunity,” Bourne

disabled by mistake By Alison Korn Staff Reporter

Despite filling out their daily symptom monitoring survey on time, some students have still had their DukeCards deactivated due to technological issues the Office of Information Technology is working to fix. Duke’s symptom tracking app, known as SymMon, requires students to answer a series of questions regarding their health—for example, if they have “had an exposure to a person with COVID illness” or “feel feverish”—every morning. Duke has used the app to isolate those with COVID-19 symptoms and test them to mitigate the spread of the virus. Charley Kneifel, senior technical director at OIT and a member of the SymMon app team, told The Chronicle in a statement that “a total of 17,500 students, faculty and staff used SymMon in September of 2020, which resulted in a total of 290,000 health checks.” If a student does not complete the monitoring by 2 p.m., their DukeCard access is revoked, and they are unable to buy food or enter buildings. If a student fills out SymMon after their access is revoked, it will be reinstated. Despite this, some students have recently encountered issues with SymMon’s connection to their DukeCard, receiving an alert that their See CARDS on Page 2

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West Coast students face fires and fear By Chris Kuo Features Managing Editor

Madeleine Berger Staff Reporter

When morning dawned Sept. 9 in Chico, Calif., the sky was dark and orange, and the street lights stayed on. Junior Justin Dodds, who lives in Chico, remembers being able to stare directly at the sun—a small red sphere, smothered by smoke. Ash was everywhere, coating car hoods and camp chairs. Strong winds had caused the North Complex wildfires, which began Aug. 18, to spread into Butte county, where Dodds lives. The air soon became so hazardous that Dodds and his family wore N95 masks when stepping outside. “There were more people wearing masks because of smoke than because of COVID,” Dodds said, chuckling. Drawn home by the pandemic, Dodds is one of many Duke students living on the West See FIRES on Page 2

Jackson Muraika | Assistant Sports Photography Editor A student swipes in to a West Campus building.

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Durham schools adapt Even during a pandemic, Durham Public Schools teachers are teaching and students are learning. PAGE 2

Review: Queen Burger The downtown Durham restaurant is delicious, vibrant and progressive, Maddie Menkes writes. PAGE 6

Twitter’s facial recognition failure Courtesy of Justin Dodds Ash dusts a car in Chico, Calif., Sept. 9. Students who live near the wildfires that have ravaged the West Coast in recent weeks described the fear and lack of focus that the experience caused.

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Durham public schools adapt to pandemic constraints By Phoebe Brinker Contributing Reporter

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Even amid the virtual school year’s increase in workload and challenges related to equity, technology and supervision, Durham Public Schools teachers are teaching and students are learning, teachers and administrators say. Following North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s Sept. 17 announcement granting public elementary schools discretion to choose their reopening plans for the upcoming quarter—including the option of daily in-person classes—the Durham Public Schools Board of Education decided by a 6-1 vote Sept. 24 to remain virtual at least until next semester. Neal Middle School Principal Michael Fuga said that one of the silver linings of the coronavirus pandemic is that the school has been able to increase its communication with families. The administration sends out weekly messages updating parents and assessing families’ needs. Neal has an ongoing partnership with Summit Church, Fuga said, which helps distribute 50 bags of food, 50 bookbags and 30 hygiene bags to families every Wednesday. Fuga said he hopes the school’s efforts to connect with students and their families will help make up for lost in-person time, since it is much more difficult right now to build supportive and trusting relationships. “When we get back in the building, which eventually we will, we’ve built that positive rapport connection, like ‘Hey, when we needed something the school was really there,’” Fuga said. Fuga said he prides himself on learning the names of every student at Neal—a daunting task, given that the middle school currently has around 860 registered students. The virtual learning environment has seriously hindered his ability to get to know students, he said, particularly sixth graders who just entered the school. “But now I’m popping into these virtual

classrooms three, four, five times a day, doing the best I can,” Fuga said. “I’m seeing these kids for the first time on a screen, but I don’t want to interrupt instruction to get to know them. It’s really challenging.” Fuga said that although he worries about students falling behind academically, his chief concern is that the school may not be attuned to students who do not have their basic needs met. “I’m always concerned about our kids’ needs,” Fuga said. “When they’re in school, you can see that they need new clothes, they need more food, they need school supplies, housing. But this year, we don’t know because we don’t see them every day.” Fuga is also concerned about meeting students’ academic needs. He said that around 40% of Neal’s students fall under the English as a Second Language or Exceptional Children categories, and 76% of last year’s incoming sixth graders were behind grade level in academic performance. Although the school is doing its best to provide extra resources and face-to-face time for those students, Fuga acknowledged that the situation is an uphill battle. “We’re trying to bridge these gaps as well as they can, but it’s not the same. They came to us with gaps, and now those gaps are even larger, unfortunately,” he said. Chelsea Williams, who runs the Academically and Intellectually Gifted program at E.K. Powe Elementary School and works with second through fifth grade students, echoed this concern. She said the district has put a strong emphasis on teachers getting enough virtual face-to-face time with students and checking in with them. “Normally school is a way to check for abuse or issues like that,” she said, and virtual learning makes that far more difficult. All DPS schools observe “Wellness Wednesdays,” a day devoted to socialemotional wellness. Williams said that at E.K. Powe, students typically check in with their counselors on Wednesdays, and otherwise have minimal Zoom instruction time. Fuga said that his students do not have

Duke announces spring housing All undergrad years can come to campus currently on campus who wish to decline their spring housing assignment and students currently off campus who wish to move on Mona Tong campus—should update their housing status Assistant News Editor through Housing and Residence Life’s housing In a Friday email from Gary Bennett, portal by Oct. 30, according to the email. vice provost for undergraduate education, The news comes after McMahon told and Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and Duke Student Government that the University vice president of student would provide spring affairs, Duke announced Priority for new assignments semester housing that all students who information the second request spring housing will will be given to seniors week of October. be able to live on campus. and juniors, then firstAt that DSG The email stated meeting, McMahon that priority for new years moving on campus, said that Housing and assignments will be given then sophomores “as space Residence Life released to seniors and juniors, a survey to juniors followed by first-years allows.” and seniors Sept. 14 to moving on campus, assess the demand and followed by sophomores moving on campus, needs for on-campus spring semester housing. “as space allows.” Chris Rossi, assistant vice president of student According to the email, juniors and affairs for strategic engagement, added that the seniors can request to live near up to three University would take into account changes in friends on West Campus, at 300 Swift, or in local and national policy. Duke-leased hotels and apartments. FirstProvost Sally Kornbluth wrote in a July year students will be housed in existing first26 email that juniors and seniors would have year communities on East and West Campus. priority for spring semester housing if public Duke will continue to assign all students health conditions remained the same, while to single bedrooms and follow existing safety first-years and sophomores would have priority and sanitation protocols. for fall semester assignments. She added that Students who plan to move onto campus first-years and sophomores would also be on or to move off-campus—including students campus in the spring if conditions improve. By Carter Forinash News Editor

synchronous class time on Wednesdays, but next quarter the school may implement optional club meetings in an attempt to engage students in extracurricular learning. Williams emphasized the difficulty in engaging with students virtually. She said that although attendance is mandatory by law, the district can’t require students to turn on their cameras during Zoom classes, so some students rarely actively participate in class. She said that “the amount of work teachers have to do has doubled or tripled,” as creating content that actively engages students in a virtual environment requires much more time and creativity. However, Fuga and Williams both said that many teachers have had success with new technologies. At both of their schools, students have access to district-provided computers. Although it did not happen immediately, Williams explained that DPS was also able to provide internet hotspots to students without wireless connections at home. One of Williams’ favorite tools is Pear Deck, a software that turns slides into interactive workbook pages that students can add to simultaneously and anonymously. She also had rave reviews of Jamboard, which she described as the virtual version of giving students “a giant poster board on a table.”

“Any time that kids get to be creative and collaborative, engagement goes up like crazy,” Williams said. Fuga said that Neal teachers have had luck with Flocabulary, an app that teaches vocabulary through rapid rhyme, and Newsela, which creates several versions of the same article, tailored to different reading levels. The school also uses Dyknow, a classroom management software that lets teachers monitor students’ activity during synchronous class time, ensuring that they remain focused. Both Fuga and Williams said that although nobody—parents, teachers or students— believes that virtual education is ideal, the Durham community overall agrees that safety is the current priority. Although DPS had the option this summer to implement “Plan B”—the hybrid model of in-person and virtual learning adopted by the majority of North Carolina schools—safety concerns convinced Durham to continue virtually. Most families’ apprehension regarding COVID-19 remains high: Surveys showed that “Plan C”—fully remote learning— appealed to two-thirds of Durham’s elementary school families and three-fourths of its middle school families.

Joyce Huang | Staff Photographer Durham’s public schools have decided to stay remote at least until next semester.

CARDS FROM PAGE 1 card access has been revoked due to a failure to complete symptom reporting even after completing the survey by 2 p.m. One student whose SymMon stopped functioning, sophomore Rachel Enggasser, said the technical issues were “annoying” because they weren’t her fault and interrupted her focus. “The other day, I filled out my SymMon at 9:45 a.m. before I left to get my pool testing done,” Enggasser said. “When I came back, I was getting notifications that I hadn’t completed it, so I kept completing it throughout the day. I completed it about four times before 2 p.m., but they still turned off my DukeCard.” Kneifel wrote that SymMon typically addresses “less than a dozen student issues a day” and that the issues are “often easily fixed within minutes.” He cited multiple reasons why the SymMon app could cease to function. “In some cases we see that a student’s app goes offline and the symptom monitoring doesn’t complete until later, when a student is back online,” he wrote. “In other cases we have seen, the app is not updating the central systems, [or] the web servers that support the SymMon app, Student Health REDCap, and DukeCard systems among others. We have found it is sometimes necessary to restart or reinstall the app.” Kneifel wrote that the team received symptom monitoring support questions from 136 people in the last two weeks of September. Enggasser said she missed a meeting because she was trying to call different numbers to fix the problem. After going through about ten numbers,

she said she was told to “clear the data” on her app because the app “simply was not registering that [her] account activity was working.” This solution, however, did not last, she said. “Since then, it’s happened many more times,” Enggasser said. “Yesterday I spent 15 minutes trying to get my card to register the fact that I had filled out my symptom monitoring by uninstalling the app and clearing the data. It took me like 15 straight minutes of trying the same options, and other people have had the same issues.” Kneifel wrote that when students call the team about a problem regarding the app, the team’s first response is to “apologize and work to fix it for them.” There are specific circumstances that they hear about more often than others. “It may happen that they report symptoms at 2:01 and get a text at 2:10 saying their DukeCard has been deactivated,” Kneifel wrote. “When that happens the DukeCard has already been reactivated and the issue is due to the time necessary to process the SMS notices.” In response to concerns, OIT has been working to improve the app’s functionality and ensure their servers can efficiently determine when a student’s monitoring has been completed. Kneifel revealed the measures the team was taking to update the app so that technological issues like Enggasser’s would stop occurring in the future. “OIT, in partnership with the Duke Institute for Health Innovation, releases updates every one to two weeks to provide enhancements and address reported issues,” he wrote. “We are about to release v1.10 of the app, the 10th release, which will help fix the problem of DukeCards getting deactivated even though symptom monitoring had been completed before 2 p.m.” Version 1.9 of the app was released Sept. 27.

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FIRES FROM PAGE 1 Coast who has grappled with worry and panic, smoke and ash, amid fires that have seared more than five million acres across California, Oregon and Washington. Sophomore Aimi Wen, who is on a yearlong leave of absence, lives in Saratoga, Calif. She said the fires that threatened her home came from the CZU Lightning Complex. Santa Clara County, where Wen lives, didn’t receive an evacuation order, but some surrounding counties did, she said. A neighbor had recently moved to the area from one of those counties, and her phone still had a different area code. When she received a notification to evacuate, she called Wen’s mother in a panic. “We just took out the largest suitcases we had and threw random stuff in there, like our clothes. My mom made us dig in the pantry, and we brought out any food we could carry,” Wen said. The family huddled with their suitcases,

Courtesy of Justin Dodds An orange sky over Chico, Calif., Sept. 9.

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fearing their house could soon be incinerated. Wen said she remembers small, silly things, like her mother yelling at her younger brother Andrew to stop packing so many jackets and leave room for other stuff. The city of Saratoga eventually notified them that no evacuation order was in place. After the scare, Wen’s mother loaded up on emergency supplies: rechargeable batteries, extra clothes, solar-powered flashlights that doubled as phone chargers. Then there were days in September when San Francisco’s sky turned an eerie shade of orange. Smoke from those fires drifted toward Saratoga. Wen recalled going on a walk one morning and seeing ash fall from the sky. “You don’t realize how much white light we use in the house. And that sounds like a weird observation to make. But when you’re standing outside and looking into houses, it looks ghostly because of how the lights are flickering,” she said. Although this fire was farther away and less dangerous, it still took a toll. “It felt very depressing. I think that was like the first time I understood why people in very seriously snowy places, like cloudy places, get depressed or have their moods shifted by the weather,” Wen said. First-year Nick Richard-Craven lives in Pasadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, where he has been taking his Duke classes online. Although his family never had to evacuate, they still had to reckon with the hazardous air quality. “It didn’t feel safe to go outside,” RichardCraven said. “You could not see a mile ahead of you if you looked out the window because of how smoky it was.” Meanwhile, Richard-Craven also had to keep up with his classes as usual. “Being at home and doing online school, I’m already in the house a lot. The only way that I have been able to keep my sanity has been going outside, working out and hanging out with

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ON DUKECHRONICLE.COM Six individual students, 4 campus organizations suspended due to COVID-19 policy violations BY MATTHEW GRIFFIN AND MARIA MORRISON | 10/02/2020 Undergraduates got an update Friday on COVID-19 conduct violations, including cumulative statistics since Aug. 7.

When and where to vote early in Durham: Polling locations, times BY FRANCESCA MAGLIONE | 10/02/2020 Wondering when and where you can vote early in the 2020 election? Check out our list of every polling location.

Courtesy of Aimi Wen Smoke from the CZU Lightning Complex fire.

friends. For a week or two, I couldn’t go outside because of the air quality, which really affected my mental health,” Richard-Craven said. In a normal year, the transition from highschool academics to college classes is already daunting. For Richard-Craven, the fires only made things more challenging. “Not having the ability to go outside and relieve my stress has taken a toll on my ability to focus, and I’ve been struggling in my classes more than I

usually would because of that,” he said. Like Richard-Craven, Dodds and his family were never forced to leave, though a town just 30 minutes south of them received an evacuation warning. Now, in Chico, after a long, smoky nightmare, the skies have finally cleared. “We have blue skies today. And yesterday. That’s kind of like the first clear air we’ve had in a while,” Dodds said Sept. 25.

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staff note From the ninth floor of the hospital, you can see really far off into the distance. Once your eyes move past the miles of trees and trace the Congaree river, they’ll eventually land on the few skyscrapers that mark Columbia’s downtown. Hovering on the horizon is a familiar gray sheet of clouds that

gently transitions into a friendly sky blue. On the thirty minute car ride home from the hospital, I fell asleep. The night before had been a long one, just like every other one these days. I’m way behind on literally everything: my schoolwork, my friendships and even this article you’re reading right now. It would be fair to say I have an unhealthy relationship with deadlines. Even though it feels like due dates rule my

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life, I have no choice but to subscribe to the endless barrage of assignments thrown at me. It doesn’t help that everything is online — learning for the sake of learning jumped out the window the moment I stepped off Duke’s campus way back in March. With any sense of actual purpose replaced by Zoom meetings and Sakai discussions, my ADHD can take the wheel, and eight months later I am here writing an article due at least one day ago. However, my mom used to always remind me to not blame my problems on my ADHD. And she’s right! I know I’m capable of better. I survived high school, I survived freshman year and I’ll survive this. But I can’t help but not feel too hard on myself — life isn’t exactly a breeze right now. Need I remind you, we are in the middle of a pandemic that has upended any sense of normalcy. The thing I miss the most from pre-quarantine is probably my social life. Despite being at home, I don’t have the option of selfishly flaunting social distancing rules because of my family’s medical situation, and as a distance learner I am missing the opportunity to see my friends. But, then again, I can always just text them! So should I really be complaining? Well, honestly, I don’t know. The hardest part of the situation is how isolating being away from campus feels when nearly all my friends are in dorms. I could text them every single hour of the day and still have massive FOMO. Regardless, I’ll try to leave the selfhatred at the door, but I don’t want to indulge in self-pity either. Where is that middle ground? Acceptance? Self-confidence? I’m not sure, but whatever it is, I want it.

Not everything is doom-and-gloom nowadays, though. My favorite part of being home is getting to see my family everyday. From being home for my little sister’s birthday to experiencing the household gaining a new kitten, there’s so many bright spots I’m incredibly lucky to experience. In fact, this morning, seeing my family is exactly what I’m going to be doing. My dad and I are going to see my mom in the hospital. She’s been there ever since a routine shoulder surgery went nightmarishly wrong, After flatlining, several days in the intensive care unit and at least three more near-death experiences, she’s finally progressed spending her hours in a regular room on the ninth floor of the hospital. We reached downtown when we got a phone call from my sobbing mom. She’s in a lot of pain today: her doctor thinks she re-cracked one of the ribs that was broken during CPR. Unfortunately, there’s not really much we can do. Even if I could help, I wouldn’t know what to do, so all I can do is feel hopeless and wait until we get there. People always mention how crises bring clarity. I’d be inclined to agree, if I didn’t feel so perpetually lost nowadays. For sure, the current situation makes me incredibly thankful that things didn’t turn out worse, which is a perspective I definitely didn’t have a month ago. But at the same time, I am more confused, helpless and pessimistic than I’d like to be. I may not know what the future is going to look like, but at least I know I’ll be able to survive it, whatever that “it” may be. —Jonathan Pertile, Social Media Editor

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From parking lot to pop-up shop: Queen Burger serves an experience By Maddie Menkes Contributing Writer

If you aimlessly drive through downtown Durham you may miss a delicious, vibrant and progressive food joint: Queen Burger. To be honest, I am not a hamburger connoisseur. Growing up, I craved Five Guys cheeseburgers with extra-extra ketchup. However, after an intense middle school bet that I could not go burger-free for two weeks, I showed up my challenger by becoming a vegetarian for a year and a half. Although I never got the prize (a pack of Trident peppermint gum) I lost the indulgent juiciness of a burger. I recently reclaimed it, however, on a visit to Durham popup restaurant Queen Burger. Located on 321 East Chapel Hill Street, Queen Burger hides behind The Durham Hotel. The best way to map out its location is to follow the blasting lively music and the smell of freshly grilled burgers. The outdoor venue is decorated with dangling lights, a vibrant graffitied wall and a turf-layered ground. As soon as I walked through the alley, I felt a rush of energy exuding from Queen Burger. My eyes were immediately drawn to the grilling station that took center stage of the venue. A wooden stage lies at the forefront of the pop-up where a man grills the burgers. Each burger is made on the spot. A wooden menu offers a choice of three burgers: classic, veggie and vegan. All burgers are decorated with onion, pickles and their speciality sauce. The classic and veggie, however, have hoop cheese while the vegan substitutes the cheese out. For those who are not cheese enthusiast, hoop cheese is a traditional cow’s milk cheese that is prepared by separating the whey from cottage cheese curds. It has a cheddar cheese-like orange hue but a sharper taste. Hoop cheese is more common in the South, but it is still rare to find. Outside of burgers, Queen Burger offers an array of deliciously crafted ice cream sandwiches by Rose’s Dumplings and Sweets. Whether you are in the mood for a fruity flavor, such as the lemon verbena and raspberry, or you are craving some chocolate (try the cookie dough with chocolate wafers), Rose’s ice cream sandwiches are the perfect after-burger treat. When it was my turn to order, I went for the classic burger and was delightfully surprised to find that they have gluten-free buns. It is rare to find tasty gluten-free alternatives for bread, but I thought I would give it a go.

I waited for my burger at one of the circular high-top metal tables placed around the venue. Each table was placed six feet apart, of course, to adhere to COVID-19 regulations. After five minutes, my number fourteen was called. I picked up a red tray with my neatly wrapped burger lounging in the middle. I unfolded the paper wrapping stamped with the Queen Burger logo to find a juicy, voluptuous burger. Hoop cheese and the speciality sauce oozed from the sides and the gluten-free burger was in full disguise. When comparing my bun to the others who had classic buns, I would have never guessed my gluten free bun’s true identity. Each bite of the burger was extremely flavorful. The salty golden cheese, tangy cream colored sauce, crunchy green pickles and sweet charcoaled onions all complimented the juicy and tender burger. Although the ingredients of the condiment slathered on to the burger may be a mystery, Queen Burger’s speciality sauce was creamy with the perfect thickness; it sat perfectly on the hamburger buns without making them soggy. The orange sauce had a hint of a sweet mayonnaise flavor that reminded me of ranch combined with thousand island dressing. Each bite of my burger was accompanied

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by the blast of dance-worthy pop music in the background — transporting me to a backyard barbecue. Next up on Maddie’s Menu for the evening was the cookie dough ice cream sandwich. The sea salt-decorated chocolate wafers complimented yet contrasted the creaminess of the cookie dough ice cream. The sandwich was perfectly sweet and extremely fresh on the tongue. Both the ice cream sandwich and burger maintained a perfect balance of flavors where one was not dominating the other. Not only does Queen Burger provide a lively atmosphere and delicious food, but it also contributes to the local community. Fifteen percent of all profits are donated to the we are organization, which provides students, parents, and educators knowledge and skills to understand the complexity of racism in order to dismantle systemic racism. Let me leave you with this food for thought; do not allow COVID-19 to force your tastebuds and adventure yearnings to suffer. Instead, take a short journey to the lively flipped parking lot of Queen Burger where you will devour delicious burgers, listen to pumping tunes and help an amazing cause all while staying COVID-19 safe.

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judges — Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, who replaced judge Mary Berry in 2016 when the show moved from the BBC to Britain’s Channel 4 — opted to quarantine away from their homes for the Everybody knows that you are never supposed to go grocery duration of the show to create a bake-off bubble, so that the show shopping when you’re hungry. You end up getting snacks you could continue under mostly normal circumstances. don’t need and inevitably load up on sugary treats you’ll regret And what could be more normal and traditional than starting off buying later. What nobody tells you, however, is that television baking the season with cake week? As expected, the bakers already brought competitions can have the same effect. This would have been useful their A-game with innovative designs and flavors. knowledge to have about five slices of Marketplace cake ago. As a viewer, watching a new season of the show as it would “The Great British Baking Show” (TGBBS) is a baking competition normally unfold is quite a relief from the drastic changes brought on filmed in England’s Welford Park each summer to find the best by COVID-19. Continuing my tradition of watching this show every amateur baker in the United Kingdom. The show has a total of eight fall has been one of the few traditions that has continued during the seasons, and the first episode of the 2020 bake-off was released on pandemic. I am sure that this sense of relief, and perhaps escape, was Netflix Sept. 22. As someone who has watched every season and every felt by the cast of the show as well. They got to leave behind the daily episode of the show multiple times, this was great news — not only stresses caused by COVID-19 in favor of a taste of normal life. because I can never get enough of the amazing bakes on the show, but On the flip side of these benefits, however, is that the stakes of the also because production on most TV shows and movies has come to a competition are particularly high this year, as the bakers have already screeching halt this year. To watch a show that I have not already seen isolated and been away from their homes before the first episode even at least twice was an experience I had not had in a while. began. So, to be eliminated and sent home early in the competition would be even more devastating than in past years. The baker who is eliminated is announced at the end of each episode, after three separate baking challenges. The brief for the final challenge, the Showstopper, in this inaugural episode of the new season was to create a three-dimensional bust of a celebrity made of cake — among them hilarious interpretations of David Bowie, Lupita Nyong’o and Freddie Mercury. I definitely enjoyed seeing the results of this challenge, as a lot of these cake busts were more like caricatures rather than accurate portraits. All of this is just to say that I absolutely love this show, including the newest episode, because it is just a wholesome, happy escape from stressful events; this effect is particularly amplified in the times of COVID-19, where our baseline level of stress at any given point is higher than it was before March 2020. If I ever feel overwhelmed by work or particularly upset, tuning into an episode of TGBBS always helps. Part of the reason why the show is so wholesome is because the bakers are not incentivized by a large cash prize, as they are in Netflix show “Zumbo’s Just Desserts.” Instead, they are usually driven by their own personal goals. Some bakers express that they just wanted to do something different and for themselves, while some want to prove to themselves that they are great bakers. Courtesy of Channel 4 So watch the show, and make sure to have some sweet treats nearby Each of the twelve contestants, the two comedians and the two judges opted to quarantine away from their homes for the duration of the show. to satisfy all your bake-off cravings.

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Any fan of TGBBS will tell you that some of the best and funniest moments of the show come from the two comedians that the show brings on set to keep the mood light in the midst of the intense baking. Early “Bake off” fans will remember Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, and I don’t think there was a viewer out there who didn’t love them. When the show brought in two new comedians between seasons 4 and 5, Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, I initially wasn’t pleased. However, during their season 3 stint on the show, their puns and funny bits before each episode grew on me. So, when I began watching the first episode of the newest season, I was surprised to find that they had replaced Toksvig with yet another new comedian: Matt Lucas. The newest episode opened with a scene in which Lucas imitated and satirized British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his unclear speech and questionable guidance on COVID-19. I thought this was the perfect way to open the new season; the show embraced the challenges we have faced during the last few months in a humorously lighthearted way. Each of the twelve contestants, the two comedians and the two

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Column: New formation key to Duke’s turnaround Two weeks ago, Duke kicked its schematic aggression into overdrive, fundamentally altering the identity of the team. Blue Devil fullbacks have always pushed farther up the field than what a normal 4-3-3 formation would call for. But with a few games under the team’s belt in 2020, head coach Robbie Church clearly felt comfortable trying something new. Church is generally a bit shy about getting too specific when he describes his schemes. Following Duke’s seasonopening win at Wake Forest, he said, “[We’re] comfortable with changing. We can do things on the fly. We can move Em Adler people on the fly, and do things with the formation. And that’s an advantage of having a veteran team.” That quote undersells things. After Sophie Jones and Mia Gyau suffered season-ending injuries last September, Duke went through near-weekly schematic changes in an ultimately futile attempt to spark consistent offense. And it started this season in a fairly mundane 4-3-3. “We’ll look at different formations,” Church told The Chronicle before the 2020 fall season. “But I think it’s how we play the 4-3-3. We had to fall a little deeper last year than we wanted to fall. We want to play a little bit higher this year somewhat. So we’ll play a lot of the 4-3-3, but we’ll play it a different way, too. We’re still trying to sort that out.” Over a month later, and he hasn’t just sorted it out—he’s almost created a new system. To radically oversimplify soccer formations, the most common systems are the 4-3-3 and the 4-4-2. The 4-4-2 is generally the most balanced, though a collegiate team without the talent to play a 4-33 is a poor one. The Blue Devils have mostly played variants on the 4-3-3 since 2017, but starting with their 0-0 tie in a rematch with Wake Forest two weeks ago, Church has taken the two fullbacks and turned them into wingbacks. A 4-3-3 with two wingbacks is almost unheard of. By pushing those backs across the whole length of the field, it requires an enormous amount of stamina from them, as well as a skill set as versatile as that of a box-to-box midfielder. And while it provides a

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No. 11 Duke defeated No. 3 Clemson 1-0 Sunday evening, a much-needed spark as it enters the second half of the season. possibly overwhelming amount of offensive support, it entrusts just three players to stop the opponent’s counters. For the Blue Devils, however, those three players might be some of the best in the country at their respective positions. Taylor Mitchell, though unheralded, is one of the best collegiate centrebacks, while her back-mate Caitlin Cosme has recently blossomed into an elite defensive force as well. And now-full-time starter Ruthie Jones has completed this group with incredible instincts and athleticism in the net. The shot numbers from recent games don’t pop off the page, and though that’s certainly a problem in its own right, the eye test shows a different story. When wingbacks Gyau and Emily Royson have pushed in the opposing half, they’ve forced the other team to collapse inwards defensively and give Duke long swaths of uncontested possession. These chances are sure to get converted into goals more often as this team develops and as everyone gets more comfortable in their current roles. What’s particularly notable about Church’s wingback-4-3-3 is how

it’s obfuscated postgame stats. Duke was outshot 10-5 in its win against No. 3 Clemson Sunday, but to say the Blue Devils just got lucky would be wildly off-base. Their style has meant that they take long possessions instead of trying quick strikes, while their defense forces desperate shots and smothers team play. When an opponent is faced with the decision to try to beat Gyau off the dribble, attempt a pass through Mitchell and Sydney Simmons or pray for a lucky strike, the latter tends to be the most worthwhile option. Perhaps most important for the long-term prospects of the program, this wingback-4-3-3 relieves Duke of positional inequity. A traditional 4-3-3 would turn the Blue Devils’ recruiting patterns (two forwards committed since 2017 vs. five defenders) into a major problem. But now freshmen Royson and Olivia Migli are contributing on both sides of the pitch. Assuming that Duke’s chemistry in the attacking third will improve as it plays more in this system, high-quality shots will soon follow, and the Blue Devils will soon be an even more exciting and enticing team.

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Tale of two halves leads to another Blue Devil loss By Cam Polo Associate Sports Editor

The tale of two halves is a story spun time and time again in the realm of college football, but rarely has it been more true than Saturday afternoon’s matchup at Wallace Wade Stadium, with the Blue Devils taking on Virginia Tech in what turned out to be a high-scoring affair. The game finished with a final score of 38-31, but it didn’t seem for a moment like it would get there in the first 30 minutes of play. Under bettors were having a field 38 VT day in the opening half. Duke managed DUKE 31 to hold quarterback Braxton Burmeister and the Hokie offense to a touchdown and a field goal while only scraping together one score itself—on special teams, at that. Both defenses looked as if they were going to stand their ground until the sun set. But then the game flipped on its head. “Our defense was really strong in the first half,” Blue Devil quarterback Chase Brice said. “In the second half [the offense] picked it up.” The teams combined for over 800 all-purpose yards in the final two quarters of play compared to 255 gained in the first two. There was clearly a switch flipped in the locker room, on both sides. This time around, however, it wasn’t the Blue Devils’ pass defense at fault. In a game in which the absences of cornerbacks Mark Gilbert and Josh Blackwell were supposed to be felt acutely, the Duke secondary stood its ground against the Hokies’ aerial attack. Outside of a sequence in the first quarter that saw redshirt sophomore cornerback Jeremiah Lewis targeted on back-to-back plays, giving up 41 yards and a score, Burmeister couldn’t find consistency downfield. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the running defense couldn’t close a hole. Virginia Tech opened up lanes wide enough to drive a truck through for running back Khalil Herbert, who had a banner day for the Hokies. He tallied 208 yards on the ground to go with two scores as well as 150 yards on three kick returns, running all over the place against a Duke team that didn’t even get a hand on him on some of his longer carries. “It was definitely difficult…he’s fast, explosive, powerful,” senior

safety Michael Carter II said. “It was a unique challenge this week but he’s just as powerful as a bigger back.” This is not to say that Duke didn’t get its fair share of shots in— after all, the game ended at a one-score margin, even if the score to bring it there was a consolation field goal as time expired. The Blue Devil offense punched the ball into the end zone three times, a dramatic improvement from earlier season performances. Brice seemed to settle into the pocket, ending the contest with 271 yards through the air and a passer rating of 118.1. In the end, it was the shoddy protection of Brice that accounted for the struggles to advance the ball in key positions. Duke got the football with the chance to take the lead with under five minutes to play in the fourth, but the Virginia Tech defensive front found its way to Brice, sacking him on third down. “You gotta get one more point than the other team by the end of the game,” Brice said. “You gotta fight for four quarters.”

The Hokie defense rubbed it in at the end, putting Brice on the ground twice more before the game was out. In a matchup in which there was plenty of missing personnel on both sidelines, the Hokies outlasted the Blue Devils, finding the stamina to keep pressuring the quarterback just as Duke began to fall apart. The lion’s share of Herbert’s runs came in chunks, with the Kansas transfer ripping off a 60-yard score to seal the game, one in which no Duke defender was remotely close to bringing the 212-pound back to the ground. “The concerns I have, period, for our team [is that] we have not got as many players available as what we have had in years past,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Do I think fatigue and conditioning can play a role? Absolutely.... It’s affected us on both sides of the ball.” Duke will need to bring every ounce of stamina it can store up north to Syracuse this upcoming Saturday to avoid falling to 0-5.

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Virginia Tech running back Khalil Herbert torched Duke in the second half Saturday, totaling 180 of his 208 rushing yards over the final 30 minutes.

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Burns said. However much Bourne has contributed to the Blue Devils’ efforts on the pitch this season, she has made an even bigger mark in a different area.

FROM PAGE 1 said. “When I did start [field] hockey, I was behind everyone.” Bourne made the jump to field hockey quite gracefully. She captained both the England U-16 and U-18 teams and played for the U-21 team at just 17 years old. At one of her games for the English national team, a representative from the company Aspire USA approached Bourne and proposed going to school in the U.S. Aspire USA matched her with several schools, but Bourne felt Duke was the best fit, and so did Duke. “She had all the attributes that we were looking for in the midfield,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “We lost Haley Schleicher and Margaux Paolino in the midfield, so someone with a little more developed midfield experience was going to be key. She brought exactly what we were expecting her to bring.” Those skills have already started to pay off at the college level. Bourne was one of only three freshmen to earn a starting spot, and she leads the team in shots so far. “She’s someone that I love being on the field with, because she makes it easy to play with her,” fellow freshman starter Alayna

The Bourne Ultimatum Initially, Bourne’s parents refused to let their daughter attend the Black Lives Matter protests in Central London in the week following George Floyd’s death. They had a change of heart on the last day of protests, however, and Bourne went to work. “I got some friends together and made the sign up very last minute—the night before,” Bourne said. “Actually, I woke up in the middle of the night and decided that I didn’t like my sign. I wrote over it in white, and it was still drying on the train on the way up.” Bourne’s sign, reading ‘Why Is Ending Racism A Debate?’ and still dripping wet, caught the eye of photographer Misan Harriman. Soon after taking the photo, he posted it to Instagram June 8. The image blew up almost immediately. Enninful, King III, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and more celebrities shared the photo, turning the masked Bourne into an icon of the Black Lives

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Bourne leads Duke with six shots this season and is one of only three freshman starters. Matter movement, even though most viewers probably had no idea who she was. The print of that photo will auction at Sotheby’s in London next week. Its estimated price will range from £3,000– £5,000, according to The Guardian. The Bourne Legacy Not even two months into her time in Durham, Duke is already feeling the Darcy Bourne Effect. The events of this summer and Bourne’s involvement sparked tough conversations among the field hockey team. Following these conversations, the Blue Devils

chose to wear Black Lives Matter shirts before every game. “I was inspired with her involvement,” Burns said. “Darcy has shown us that it is so much more realistic to make an impact than you may think.” “Darcy brought this great experience and a different perspective to the movement,” Bustin added. “It has been so enlightening for so many of our team members. This will be an ongoing exercise.” Darcy Bourne has broken barriers her whole life. So now, there’s only one question to ask: What’s next?

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me eat a tomato like an apple. “Just bite into it!” she said, proffering the little red orb. This was, she proclaimed, the best tomato in the world. High sugar content (高糖度) amela rubins (アメーラルビンズ), or simply amela (アメ―ラ) tomatoes have a firm texture, and the small snap of each bite gives way to an explosion of juicy sweetness. Amela in the Japanese Shizuoka dialect means “sweet,” but amela tomatoes don’t just have one of the highest sugar contents of tomatoes worldwide; these red gems also balance acidity and a potent, fresh aroma to deliver an umami-packed sensorial experience. The tomatoes are so savoury that they seem almost salty. I remembered how from the moment my mother discovered the amela tomato, she had become a regular visitor to the farm that produced them. Yanagisawa Farm grew these tomatoes in a large greenhouse and sold them on-site alongside tomato jams, sun-dried tomatoes and tomato juices. My mother’s conversations with the cashier would reveal little details about the artificially inflated heat and carbon dioxide levels inside the greenhouse that mimicked climate conditions of the Cretaceous period; we learned the sweetest tomatoes are the ones that are slightly deprived of water, and we heard little snippets of the lives of the family that had built the farm. Every time we carried home a box of discounted tomatoes, cheaper because they were the wrong colour, shape or size for commercial distribution, we carried back with us the love and labour that went into the creation of them. Through my mother’s produce explorations, I learnt to appreciate the intimacy of food creation that begins far far away from the kitchen. Standing under the fluorescent lights of the produce section at the department store in Hong Kong, I was struck by the fact that everything we consume is imbued with the lives and labor of people that facilitate their creation. Everything we own, and most spaces we inhabit, is intentionally shaped by thousands of hands that have their traces erased. At that moment, I saw the links between myself and the things and the people around me like bright threads entangling us all in the mammoth web of humanity, and yet I felt disconnected, fragmented—a distance that seemed unassailable. Seeing these Amela tomatoes that had felt weighted with meaning back in Japan jarringly inflated in monetary value yet detached from the land, stories and hands that had brought them to this particular department store in Hong Kong felt peculiar. I wondered if they would taste as sweet. Hannah Homma Tong is a Trinity senior. Her column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Twitter failed at facial recognition

e’re not going to label Twitter as just a fluke. It’s a major problem. considering the image content. “Chaotic Good” or “Chaotic Evil,” Recently, Colin Madland tweeted about an Even if you chalk that last one up to an because let’s be honest, it’s purely issue with Zoom’s facial recognition algorithm. accident, how would Twitter explain the “Chaotic Chaotic.” His colleague was having repeated difficulty discrepancy between photos of Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama? They’re both well-known and frequently-photographed, so there should be no dearth of possible training data. As politicians, they even have special portraits so you don’t have ON TECH to worry about objects in the background. Tony Arcieri found that even if you swap the colors of their ties, the algorithm will still choose to preview McConnell’s photo instead Twitter is a funhouse mirror of our world. It’s using Zoom virtual backgrounds and sought his of Obama’s. one of the few corners of the internet where you can help. Madland quickly determined that it was It’s ridiculous. It’s blatantly biased. And this see updates from your local journalists, celebrity not a technical misdoing on his colleague’s end, pervasive bias is not a one-off “error.” It’s built chefs, self-proclaimed anarchists, grassroots but rather, a problem with Zoom: the algorithm into the core of Twitter’s system. political activists and your neighbor’s dog account removed the face of his Black colleague and To Twitter’s credit, the company’s all in the same place. It’s just great! replaced it with a pale desktop globe. Yet, the communications department said they didn’t While Twitter, the home of the hashtag, is not problem didn’t end there. When Madland find any racial or gender bias when they the largest social network in town, its influence on tweeted the screenshots of him (a white man) originally tested the model. But how does Twitter culture and events has been pervasive. interacting with his colleague (a Black man), actually find evidence of racial and gender bias? With a cult-like following, the platform often the Twitter algorithm resized the photos and How did they miss this key issue with the mobile feels like a laissez-faire free-for-all, serving as both cropped the colleague out of the photos entirely. image preview, which has since been duplicated a productive news-bearer and an escapist haven. This occurrence was not unique to Madland’s by many other users? But we cannot forget that Twitter is actually an Twitter account. Twitter’s CTO, Parag Agrawal, wrote “Love intentionally-designed space. Every feature, like Thousands of people began to run their own this public, open, and rigorous test—and eager to buttons or threads, has been crafted by a team of tests, including us. In our little experiment, we learn from this.” designers and engineers, who each bring their own created an image that includes our headshots That doesn’t acknowledge the impact this backgrounds and perspectives to the table. placed on opposite sides. We then flipped the fundamentally flawed model has had on users, If you watched even just the trailer for Netflix’s photo to create a second image. who may not have realized how their images were documentary “The Social Dilemma,” you know When we created a “test” tweet with the two being cropped by the platform. that the websites we interact with each day are images included—without any blurring—the When artists, political activists and others on hyper personalized thanks to algorithms. Simply, algorithm automatically resized both of the the platform are trying to amplify their message, algorithms are the processes or sets of rules that images to only show the headshot for Jess, who is they might not realize that a whole part of their dictate how social media platforms operate. white, on the mobile version of Twitter. photos are being erased by Twitter.This “public, Like in the case with TikTok, algorithms If somebody were casually scrolling through open, and rigorous test” that Agrawal is excited sorts users based on preferences and Twitter and came across this tweet, they would about does not absolve Twitter of the responsibility characteristics in order to provide them with not even notice that Niharika, who is Asian, was of conducting rigorous testing on their end to weed “relevant” information. While personalization in either of the photos. Even when the images out racial and gender bias from their machine can be helpful, it can also backfire. Users were both flipped, the image preview ends up learning models. It’s great that tech-savvy users can become entrapped in “echo chambers,” being the same. can catch these errors in practice, but the burden “filter bubbles,” or, as one professor puts it, This is clearly a flaw in Twitter’s algorithm. shouldn’t be on users to find the deeply baked-in “algorithmic content hell.” Dantley Davis, chief design officer at Twitter, bias in Twitter’s neural networks. But Twitter takes that one step further: not would have you think that Colin Madland’s facial Twitter, of course, is not the only company only does Twitter’s algorithm warp the content hair and dark-colored glasses are “affecting the with a fundamentally flawed facial recognition of your feed, it also decides which tweets you model” due to the high contrast. So does Twitter’s algorithm—in a review of major facial see first, what trends you might be interested facial recognition algorithm identify facial hair recognition tools in industry, researchers found in, and how you see photos that are posted to rather than, you know, actual faces? that this technology consistently underperforms the platform. If a pair of glasses and a beard are going to mess for women and people of color, with women of So when the Twitter algorithm decides to up the algorithm, maybe they should consider color doubly impacted by algorithms that haven’t resize a photo and hide non-white faces, it’s not building an algorithm that resizes images without been rigorously tested for bias. And several of the

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companies that develop facial recognition tools have hit pause on those programs, in light of how facial recognition has perpetuated racial biases in policing. It’s a step in the right direction. Twitter’s communications team has acknowledged that “it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do.” Given that their users interact with the product frequently, sometimes scrolling through feeds multiple times in a day, Twitter owes it to all of us users to be completely transparent as they move through their analysis. And that doesn’t mean just putting indecipherable code on a website hidden behind complex legal jargon. Twitter needs to publish their analysis in a way that can be understood by the average user, with updates included at the top of users’ feeds. Twitter’s review of the training datasets should not mean throwing a bunch of statistics on a report—Twitter needs to actively review their training datasets, at least on an annual basis, to understand who is underrepresented in the datasets and adjust the datasets accordingly. If photos of underrepresented groups, like women and people of color, are unclear, new photos need to be added and the facial recognition model must be retrained. This isn’t just a problem with photos in a database—we have to recognize that the lack of diversity of our technology workforce is inevitably reflected in the technologies we all use. If the identities of a technology’s creators do not reflect those of its users, we can’t expect meaningful change in the algorithms that drive our digital interactions. If Twitter had a more diverse team, perhaps the major issues caught in the “public, open, and rigorous test” would have been identified earlier in the product development process. Maybe then, users wouldn’t have to do Twitter’s work of finding obvious, shocking flaws in the algorithms after the fact. As the adage goes, garbage in will equal garbage out in our algorithms. So, Twitter, why not harness that chaotic energy to prevent the next dumpster fire? Jess Edelson and Niharika Vattikonda are Trinity juniors. Their column, “on tech,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

Seniors, our Duke isn’t coming back

’ve been walking through the remains of Central campus lately. As the weather continues to cool, and the leaves start to rustle in the trees lining

behind. I didn’t expect to be overwhelmed with a trip to any other Duke dorm. Those apartments nostalgia for the trashy campus that once was. felt like homes. And amidst these nostalgia walks, I’ve been Those homes disappeared when Duke forced to confront the jarring reality that the Duke destroyed Central. Not only did Duke demolish it, they burnt it to the ground. And with its destruction, the Duke I arrived at three years ago evolved. I’m sure similar personal COLUMN crises of nostalgia have befallen many graduating students before me, but only the Classes of 2020 and 2021 have been forced to face senior year at an entirely different Duke. The Duke that was the backdrop to our dream Alexander Avenue, the area has a kind of vacant I remember so well doesn’t exist anymore. senior year isn’t COVID-compatible. Those who beauty. Other than the occasional campus bus I don’t have many personal ties to Central grinded for three years with the promise that barreling down Oregon Street towards Blue Light, campus. I never lived there. And anyways, the “senior year I’ll have free time!” aren’t seeing the streets are largely undisturbed. Plots of land demolition of Central campus was a long time their hard work pay off. In 2016, The Chronicle that once anchored the ancient apartments that coming: the walls and ceiling were dotted with published 101 Things To Do Before You housed the majority of Duke’s greek life are now mold, the metal staircases had rusted, and rising Graduate, a list that will be left incomplete for covered by wild grass. I can see the Twitter caption tensions in Duke housing reform made Central’s many of us. Students can no longer “meander now: “the Earth is healing; we are the virus.” destruction inevitable. through the Duke Gardens,” “get kicked out of During a year where an actual virus has Yet I still remember piling into an Uber to an Perkins at closing,” or “ride the bull and dance in changed the way we spend our days, taking a upperclassman’s apartment, caked in sweat from the cage at Shooters.” For the Class of 2021, that walk after hours of Zoom classes provides some hours of dancing at Shooters. Watching my friend Duke is long gone. much needed stress-relief. With the Duke Gardens trip on the metal stairs leading to her door, leaving I had my own list of senior year expectations. closed until further notice, the abandoned Central a gruesome purple bruise on her leg as she limped I wanted to cram into Cameron Indoor Stadium campus serves as a different kind of wide open to the finish line of her Saturday night. Washing one last time. I wanted to win Krafthouse trivia. I space where I can clear my thoughts. the X’s off of my hands in the dimly-lit bathroom wanted to hug my friends. Walking through this new, empty reality of before settling in for 2 a.m. Enzo’s and a movie. I hope that no other senior class has to face Central campus is calming. But I still see the Visiting a Central apartment at the end of what’s supposed to be their best year here at a ghosts of Theta girls sprinting across the street a long day felt like the pure joy I assume adults version of Duke that pales in comparison to the towards the C2, hair wet, coffee thermos in hand. experience after their 9-5, kicking off their shoes, one they saw as a starry-eyed first-year. The bus driver patiently drummed his fingers on tossing their keys on the counter, and melting into But Duke is ever changing. If I had to explain the steering wheel, making sure they didn’t get left the couch. Stopping by a friend’s place wasn’t like to someone from the Class of 2018 what campus

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looked like now, they’d ask me what exactly is a “Blue Light.” Duke has to keep evolving, and sometimes that means tearing down something that once meant a lot to people. Every fall brings a new class hoping to mold Duke to their expectations. The Duke experience is malleable by design. Eventually, that means getting left behind. But we’re not left behind yet. We’ve been trying our best, whether that meant rapidly finding off-campus housing, making immaculate class schedules that our first-year selves could only dream of, or booking accommodations for a graduation we can only hope to have. The senior year we wanted to have was never going to live up to the senior year we’d get. And now, all we can do is try to make new memories with the Duke we’ve been given. When we return to Duke after graduation, it won’t be like this, because it was never supposed to be like this. Future classes won’t have to face this version of Duke. There won’t be any footprints on the ground telling us where to stand, any professors trying their best to project across the lecture hall through a mask, or any one-sided bench swings on the BC plaza. I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to this Duke. I’m not sure I want to. Then I’d have to acknowledge that it’ll all be over soon. Jake Malone is a Trinity senior who’s probably on a walk right now. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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