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DUKE-UNC CONSORTIUM KEEPS FUNDING FOR ‘19-20 DESPITE CONTROVERSY

By Stefanie Pousoulides News Editor

Despite concerns from the U.S. Department of Education over its use of Title VI funds, the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies (CMES) still received funding for the 2019-20 academic year, according to emails obtained by The Chronicle.

In order to continue receiving Title VI

Duke’s endowment at $8.6 billion

funding, the Department of Education required that the CMES send it an activity schedule for the upcoming year to show how its activities encourage foreign language learning and further the “national security interests and economic stability of the United States,” according to a letter from the Department published in the Federal Register.

The plan was to be submitted by Sept. 22, so that the Department could provide the funds

for the CMES by Sept. 30.

According to a public records request

by The Chronicle, Terry Magnuson, vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, replied to the Department of Education’s letter Sept.

20. Angela Morabito, press secretary for the Department of Education, wrote in a Sept. 25 email to The Chronicle that the Department had gotten a response back from the CMES

and was in the process or reviewing it.

The same day as Magnuson’s letter, Giovanni Zanalda, director of the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, was informed that the CMES had received a grant for the 2019-20 academic year, according to an email he sent Sept. 23 obtained by The Chronicle.

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And other highlights from the first Board of Trustees meeting

By Jake Satisky Editor-in-Chief

The Board of Trustees learned at its first annual meeting that Duke’s endowment has hit another record high valuation.

The endowment saw a 6.9% annual return and is now valued at a record-high of $8.6 billion, as of June 30, 2019. This growth comes a year after the endowment posted a 12.9% return in 2018 to grow from $7.9 billion to $8.5 billion.

In the last fiscal year, Duke spent $647 million from the endowment on financial aid, faculty salaries, facilities, athletics and other services. Duke’s endowment contributes to the University’s operating budget.

Fiscal year 2019 was a rough year for university endowments across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania both saw 6.5% growth, and Dartmouth College posted a 7.5% annual return, despite the S&P 500 returning over 10% on the year.

“I think that it reflects what’s going on in the economy over the last two or three years,” said Jack Bovender, chair of the Board of Trustees, after the closed-door meeting. “Are we satisfied at 8.6 billion? The answer is no.

We need to grow it.”

President Vincent Price applauded Duke Management Company’s efforts in maintaining growth in the face of worrying economic signs.

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Aaron Zhao | Features Photography Editor Tight end Noah Gray helped Duke blow out Virginia Tech with 50 yards and two touchdowns, the first multi-touchdown game of his career.

Noah Gray sparks win against Virginia Tech

By Shane Smith Blue Zone Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.—While Virginia Tech scheduling a “white-out” for a primetime showdown against Duke certainly drove a sea of the shade to Blacksburg, there was just one problem—the real dominant color on the field was a Gray.

After an abysmal offensive start, Noah Gray provided the spark that propelled the Blue Devils to a 45-10 DUKE 45 win against Virginia Tech Friday night at 10 Lane Stadium for Duke’s ACC opener. The VT win marked the Blue Devils’ first in the series since 2015, yet they have won three of the last four played in Blacksburg.

Gray finished the game with 50 yards and two touchdowns on six catches, his first multi-touchdown game of his career. Quentin Harris yet again flashed his dual-threat abilities, accounting for 263 total yards and three touchdowns while completing 74.1 percent of his passes.

“We worked hard in the offseason to be prepared week-by-week

for games like this,” Gray said. “I think we weren’t thinking at all about [last year’s loss] and what we did. We think about the opponent we have next. I think this is a really good win against a really good Virginia Tech team that played us really hard, and we’re looking forward to next week’s game.”

Duke (3-1, 1-0 in the ACC) struggled mightily offensively in the early going, tallying just five yards of offense through the first frame.

The Hokies held the ball for over 11 minutes in the quarter and kept the action on the Blue Devils’ side of the field, but could only break through for a field goal on two drives that started in opposing territory thanks to Duke’s stout defense.

It wasn’t until some good fortune rolled the Blue Devils’ way that the game turned. Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker, who replaced starter Ryan Willis midway through the game, coughed up a ball that flew back to his own 16-yard line for Koby Quansah to scoop up.

One play later, Harris found a wide open Gray for the first Duke points of the game.

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Durham celebrates Pride

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The Triangle community celebrates Durham Pride on West Main Street by East Campus.

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Durham Pride brings campus, community together

By Preetha Ramachandran Contributing Reporter

The air is rife with energy. The bassline of Charli XCX’s “1999” shakes the ground. A sea of rainbow flags and signs undulate with the beat as a group yells, “Trans rights are human rights!”

This past Saturday, the Triangle community descended on West Main Street for the annual Durham Pride celebration, an all-day event centered around the LGBTQ+ community and an ongoing fight for equality.

Kiran Sundar, a first-year student at Duke, has attended Durham Pride for the last three years and spoke of representation as the single most important characteristic of the event.

“It’s important to feel as part of a bigger community and to feel supported and to feel loved,” Sundar said.

Other attendees also mentioned inclusion in the community as the primary motivator for participating in the parade.

“I’m here to celebrate life and celebrate pride, you know, enjoy everybody, enjoy life,” Dustin, a high school student from Durham, said.

Brooke and Sabrina, long-time residents of Durham, spoke to the history and importance of Pride.

“We’re really happy that people can be open and out,” Brooke, a 59-year-old member of the Durham community, noted.

“You know, [for] people our age that wasn’t always true.”

“We want to be a support to our community,” Sabrina, Brooke’s wife, said. “It

does us good. I never had models when I was a young person. So I want to be a model for young people. It’s a good time for us to have a voice.”

Young children, accompanied by their parents, also participated in Durham Pride.

“I’ve got little kids,” Brad, a 37-year-old attending with his children, said. “And I need them to see what this is all about.”

Kelly Bowers, Linda Warren and Pastor Margaret Herz-Lane of the Church of the Abiding Savior, Lutheran attended Pride to spread a message of love and acceptance.

“I’m here because where else would I be?”

Bowers said. “I’m a Christian and our job is to take the love where it needs to go. And today that’s here.”

After the parade, the crowd moved toward East Campus activities, which included music, food and craft booths.

The Wells Fargo booth was manned by two people who explained that they aimed to bring attention to the company’s commitment to inclusion and diversity in the workplace.

“We’re here for diversity, inclusion— everyone is welcome!” Zach, a Wells Fargo employee, shared.

Others hoped to foster community within the larger Triangle LGBTQ+ community.

Two individuals, Vivan and Zoe, sat at a booth promoting the Triangle Trans Lady Social—a group aimed at fostering camaraderie between trans women in the area.

“We’re a group for trans women to get together and have a potluck once a month,” Vivian said.

“It’s not like group therapy or anything; we’re just hanging out and being friendly.”

Rebecca Schneid | Associate Photography Editor Colorfully clad Durham Pride attendees march in a parade along West Main Street.

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Unlike Duke, many top-tier research institutions formed offices of research proactively

By Anna Zolotor Contributing Reporter

Unlike Duke, many of the University’s peer research institutions centralized their research offices years ago as efforts to improve organizational efficiency and stay up to date on modern practices, rather than as reactions to costly scandals.

One of Duke’s major responses in the wake of the research fraud settlement this year was the creation of the campus-wide Office of Research, headed by Lawrence Carin, James L. Meriam professor of electrical and computer engineering and former vice provost for research. A 2015 lawsuit against Duke, in which former lab analyst accused Duke of falsifying data to obtain research grants and concealing the fraud, ended in spring 2019 with a $112.5 million settlement that Duke paid to the federal government.

“This new structure brings Duke in line with the best practices at our peer institutions,” said Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington in a news release about the new Office of Research.

Unlike Duke’s, the Johns Hopkins Office of Research Administration has existed for “at least 20 years” and was not formed “in reaction to any sort of scandal,” according to Julie Messersmith, executive director for research at Johns Hopkins University. She added that the office aims to “centralize as much as possible the processes and opportunities for faculty.”

Johns Hopkins has the highest annual research and development expenditures of any U.S. university, spending $2.562 billion in 2017.

The Office of Research for the University of Southern California, which handles $900

million annually, processes any research “with a contract or grant that requires review,” said Randolph Hall, vice president of research at USC. Hall has been expanding the Office of Research for the last fourteen years, and like Messersmith he said that the creation of the office “was not a response to any particular event.”

The University of Michigan, which spends around $1.5 billion on research annually, making it the second biggest spender, has a similarly centralized Office of Research.

According to its website, the Office of the Vice President for Research has “a central responsibility for nurturing excellence in research, scholarship and creative activity across the entire campus.”

The University of Washington and the University of California San Francisco, which take third and fourth place, respectively, for their annual research budgets, both have central research offices. Both offices’ websites point to the maintenance of ethical research practices as high-priority tasks.

None of the aforementioned universities have had scandals that match the scale of Duke’s recent $112.5 million settlement.

Although most of the highest-spending research universities seem to have had centralized research offices for a number of years, not all of them do. The University of Pennsylvania, for example, “does not have an Office of Research such as has been recently formed at Duke,” wrote Elizabeth D. Peloso, associate vice president/associate vice provost of research services at UPenn.

Instead, she wrote that the offices supporting research compliance all report into the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. This structure is similar to the way

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Duke research was organized prior to the creation of the new Office of Research.

Prior to the creation of the new Office of Research, Duke had a more decentralized research structure. Michael Schoenfield, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email that the formerly decentralized structure “served the university well by fostering innovation and collaboration.”

However, the 2015 lawsuit wasn’t Duke’s first research scandal—former Duke cancer researcher Anil Potti was charged with falsifying clinical data and using those baseless findings to enroll new patients in clinical trials in 2010. This case, along with other research misconduct cases and grant management issues, led the National Institutes of Health to issue new, tightened regulations for Duke researchers in spring 2018.

In the modern research climate, Schoenfeld wrote, “issues like research oversight, federal regulation, grants management, training and scientific misconduct now require a much higher degree of central leadership to ensure consistency and the application of best practices across the whole institutions” which is the goal of the new Office of Research.

In a March email, President Price reminded Duke that, despite the widespread financial and moral impacts related to the scandal and settlement, “it does not reflect the vast majority of our students, faculty, staff, and trainees.”

Duke may be late to the game when it comes to establishing a centralized Office of Research, but faculty and administrators have high hopes for its potential to move the university’s research practices and culture in the right direction.

$32 million Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center opens

By Maria Morrison Health and Science News Editor

Gone are the days of alumni, prospective students and visitors stumbling onto West Campus, dropped off at Abele Quad and left to fend for themselves.

Duke’s campus is gaining a new entry in the form of the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, a complex designed as a gathering place and starting point for everyone at Duke.

The 47,000 square-foot center is thanks to $32 million in donations from more than 50 donors, with the leading gift from Martha Karsh and Bruce Karsh, Trinity ’77.

“What I love about the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center is that it is both a destination and a jumping-off point for your personalized Duke experience,” wrote Scott Greenwood, chief operating officer of Duke Alumni Association, in an email to The Chronicle. “You may come here for an event, or you might start your visit here. You get small ‘tastes’ of Duke in the modern interpretation of neo-Gothic architecture located throughout the center, in the West Campus-inspired quad and in all the center’s technology-driven opportunities.”

The Karsh Center will be formally debuted to students at the grand opening Sept. 28 from 1:00-4:00 p.m., but it is already fully operational and has had student traffic.

Instead of tours beginning at various spots on campus, all Duke tours will originate from the Karsh Center, which will be the new automaticallyselected waypoint for “Duke University” in See KARSH on Page 12

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outreach activities.”

Magnuson also disputed the Department’s criticism of the CMES’ language teaching, FROM PAGE 1 noting that Duke ranks highly nationally In his Sept. 23 email, Zanalda wrote that “at across several languages. In addition to this point all your centers/consortia have received having the highest Urdu language course notification of Continuation Awards for 2019- enrollment in the United States, the CMES 20,” addressing the email to the directors of the ranks 8th in both Arabic and Turkish.

Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Magnuson pointed to “dozens of Studies, Center for Slavic Eurasian and East educational programs each year related to European Studies and the Duke University security and economic issues in the Middle Middle East Studies Center.

East,” related to the allegation that the “This is just to let you know that the Director Consortium does not sufficiently advance of the Duke-UNC CMES (based at UNC) national security interests. He listed several informed us last Friday that ‘a continuation events planned for Fall 2019 that directly award has been made’ for the consortium’s address national security.

NRC [national resource center] grant – in Ellen McLarney, Duke campus director other words the GAN [grant adjustment of the Consortium and associate professor notice] for 2019-20 has been posted in G5 [the of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, also Department of Education’s grant management addressed the Department of Education’s system],” Zanalda wrote. criticism about non-regular rank faculty He wrote in an email to The Chronicle that teaching language courses.

UNC would have “the “[The letter] said specifics of the grant,” At least I saw a stark difference that these courses are as the Consortium is in what I experienced in what not being taught by “managed by UNC, regular rank faculty, which also administers the Department of Education which means tenure the Title VI Area was purporting. track teachers, but Studies grant from the policy across the Department of universities in Education.” omar benallal the United States JUNIOR AT DUKE UNIVERSITY generally Another email is that obtained by The language courses are Chronicle confirmed usually not taught by that the 2019-20 funding was dispersed to tenure track faculty,” McLarney said. the CMES. Eve Duffy, associate vice provost She also noted that many of those classes for global affairs, wrote in an email to Title are taught by instructors with graduate and VI center directors at Duke on Sept. 24 doctoral degrees. Specifically, she mentioned that the Consortium had gotten funded for that faculty with doctorates teach Persian, 2019-20.

Turkish and Arabic.

“By now you may have heard of the DOE President Vincent Price and Provost Sally letter regarding the Duke-UNC Consortium Kornbluth wrote an email to Duke faculty for Middle East Studies,” Duffy wrote. Thursday reaffirming Duke’s commitment to “UNC responded to the request last week. academic freedom.

That letter is now public as part of a public The letter affirmed that the University records request made by the News and would “abide by the applicable legal Observer. Please share the letter with your guidelines” for federal grants, though it faculty who may have concerns about the did not specifically address the concerns letter from the DOE.” laid out by the Department of Education.

Duffy did not respond to multiple requests The message also noted that UNC’s formal to comment. response to the Department of Education After The Chronicle contacted UNC speaks on behalf of Duke as well. affiliates—Carl Ernst, UNC campus A student involved in the CMES director of the Consortium, Director of disputed the Department of Education’s the Consortium Charles Kurzman and characterization of the program. Junior Omar Magnuson—for comment to this article, Benallal has taken multiple Arabic classes, UNC media relations attached “the [Sept. 20] including those at the graduate level. letter UNC-Chapel Hill sent” in a Sept. 24 “I am very involved in the AMES email to The Chronicle. department and in the classes that are a part The Department of Education did not of the Consortium of Middle East Studies,” respond to requests to comment on the status Benallal said. of the Consortium’s funding for this year.

He currently serves as a teaching assistant for UNC media relations declined to comment intermediate and advanced Arabic classes and on the Department’s dispersal of funds. has been involved with course administration and teaching in aspects of Middle East studies Duke and UNC respond and Arabic language instruction.

Magnuson formally responded to the “The letter struck a chord with me by Department of Education’s letter Sept. 20. taking classes and by being able to have open “The Consortium deeply values its discussion on topics as facilitated by the partnership with the Department of Education Center for Middle Eastern Studies,” Benallal and has always been strongly committed to said. “At least I saw a stark difference in what complying with the purposes and requirements I experienced in what the Department of of the Title VI program,” Magnuson wrote. “In Education was purporting.” keeping with the spirit of this partnership, the Consortium is committed to working with What the CMES does with its funds the Department to provide more information The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle about our programs.”

East Studies is a language and Middle East Absent from the letter, however, are changes to studies center funded by Title VI of the the Consortium’s curriculum or programming.

Higher Education Act of 1965 and jointly run “Your letter identifies two activities that by Duke and UNC. you consider to be inappropriate for Title VI While the CMES program has various funding, out of more than 100 programs that funding sources, it is partially backed by Title the Consortium organizes or promotes each VI funds that support universities which year,” Magnuson wrote. “Neither of these operate international studies and foreign activities, as it happens, were supported with language programs.

Title VI funding.”

“CMES is a Duke-UNC Center created by To the Department’s complaint that the Title VI funds. Duke’s Middle East Studies CMES emphasizes the “positive aspects of Center and UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islam” without a similar appreciation for Islamic Studies have other streams of funding other religions, Magnuson countered that as well mainly from the University,” McLarney “positive appreciation for Christianity, wrote in an email. “Both Centers also operate Judaism and other religions of the Middle separately but together through CMES.” East suffuses all of the Consortium’s K-12 The CMES is a national resource center

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(NRC), a Higher Education Act term for An ‘unprecedented’ letter programs that serve four purposes: teaching The Consortium made national headlines foreign languages, providing additional earlier this year when it held a conference instruction necessary for comprehensive entitled “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics, understanding of the places where taught and Possibilities” that was alleged to have languages are spoken, reviewing international included anti-Semitic content. Rep. George studies and how they relate to foreign Holding, R-N.C., asked Education Secretary languages and educating on global issues.

Betsy DeVos to investigate misuse of Title VI Department of Education online files list grant funding in April 2019. the four-year Title VI grants for national According to The News & Observer, resource centers by world area. According to the Consortium’s four-year Title VI grant those listed for fiscal years 2018 to 2021, the provided $5,000 in funding for the event, center affiliated with Duke and UNC within though UNC said that it used less than $200 the region of the Middle East would receive of the allocated money. DeVos launched an $235,000 in NRC funding per year. Another investigation into the CMES, according to a center also affiliated with Duke and UNC June 18, 2019 letter from DeVos to Holding, but within the region of Latin America is obtained by The News & Observer. denoted to receive $224,000 in NRC funding At the time of the conference, Göknar was and $372,000 in Foreign Language and Area Duke campus director of the Consortium.

Studies funding.

When his tenure ended on July 1, 2019, According to a Duke website, Erdag McLarney assumed the position as director, Göknar, associate professor in the department she told The Chronicle. of Asian and Middle East studies and former In the Aug. 29 letter to the CMES, Robert Duke campus director of the Consortium, and King, assistant secretary of the Department McLarney were the principal investigators of Education, wrote that most of the CMES’ for the August 15, 2018 to August 14, 2019 activities that received Title VI funding Title VI NRC grant. Göknar was the principal were unauthorized, and that it was possible investigator for the August 15, 2014 to August that the Consortium would no longer be an 14, 2018 grant. “eligible national resource center.”

Göknar did not respond to multiple He then outlined concerns regarding requests to comment from The Chronicle. various aspects of the Consortium’s courses McLarney, who is also the director of and programming. These included the Duke’s Middle East Studies Center and involvement of STEM students obtaining interim director of the Duke Islamic Studies “foreign language fluency;” not enough Center, said the Consortium’s “main mission programs on “religious minorities in the is educating students in the language, culture Middle East;” grade school activities on the and politics of the region,” and faculty in the “positive aspects of Islam” but not the same Consortium can pursue that aim through for other Middle East religions; a lack of scholarship and teaching. “emphasis” on the “geopolitical challenges to Title VI funding allows the Consortium U.S. national security and economic needs;” to “develop those programs partially, the and other issues with Title VI compliance, language program, all the conferences, like he explained. talks,” she said.

“The Department She believes believes the DukeMagnuson’s letter Your letter identifies two UNC CMES has demonstrates how activities that you consider to failed to carefully the Consortium is distinguish between be inappropriate for Title VI “very pluralistic activities lawfully in ideology and funding... Neither of these funded under Title VI, politics in terms of activities, as it happens, were and other activities, our programming,” perhaps consistent and that it “really supported with Title VI funding. with and protected [seeks] to promote by general principles dialogue across terry magnuson of academic freedom, VICE CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCHER that ideological lines are plainly AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL unqualified as a way to model for resolution partially taxpayer support,” through dialogue.”

King wrote.

Students involved in the CMES can take This type of letter is “unprecedented,” interdisciplinary courses at both Duke and according to McLarney.

UNC. The courses are cross-listed in various “No one has seen something like this in departments and programs, including Jewish this field,” McLarney said. “Nor has this kind studies, political science, public policy, history, of letter been put on the Federal Register, anthropology and religious studies, McLarney which is basically making it public.” added.

Omid Safi, Trinity ‘92, Graduate School The CMES also offers a certificate for ‘00 and professor of Asian and Middle graduate students. McLarney explained Eastern studies, wrote in an email to The that those pursuing the certificate alternate Chronicle that he would refer to a Sept. 25 between attending classes at UNC and Duke letter to the Department of Education from each week because the courses are co-taught the Middle Eastern Studies Association of by a faculty member at each institution.

North America expressing concern over the When it comes to future conferences, Department’s action. an annual graduate student conference is The letter, co-signed by 19 other academic already in the works. professional organizations, asserts that the On Sept. 25, the Islamicate Graduate Department of Education’s action “constitutes Student Association at UNC announced on an unprecedented and counterproductive Facebook that its “17th Annual Duke-UNC intervention into academic curricula and Conference” will be held Feb. 29, 2020 in programming that threatens the integrity Chapel Hill. The conference is entitled “Who and autonomy of our country’s institutions Speaks for Islam?: Approaches to Authority of higher education.” within the Academy and Beyond.”

The letter also argues that “tying funding “In light of recent attempts at to considerations that have little to do with intimidation by the state, we are particularly developing and supporting area studies interested in thinking through the politics of the highest quality, will undermine the of power,” the post reads. “As such, we are mission of Title VI.” seeking papers that interrogate questions of The ACLU also wrote a letter demanding authority and power.”

DeVos cease her investigation into the The Consortium lists 16 past Islamic Consortium. In its letter, the ACLU mentions studies annual conferences hosted by Duke “the Trump administration is threatening to and UNC graduate students. Past graduate pull federal funding” from the Consortium conferences are listed in the Consortium’s and alleges that the administration has a archived events page and are listed as “deep-seated anti-Muslim bias.” sponsored by the Consortium.

Jeremy Tang contributed reporting.

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Four-star Henry Coleman III commits to Class of 2020

By Glen Morgenstern Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Duke’s 2020 recruiting class is filling up.

Four-star power forward Henry Coleman III announced his commitment to Duke Friday afternoon at Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond, Va. The No. 42-ranked recruit is the fourth piece to a class that already includes five-star recruits Jalen Johnson, Jeremy Roach and D.J. Steward.

Roach—who lives just a two-hour drive from Richmond—and Johnson communicated with Coleman before he committed, part of a growing trend of recruiting networks. As a player, Coleman boasts solid fundamental play, gritty physicality and a workable midrange game.

Those traits made him Richmond’s AllMetro player of the year as a junior. More

combo forward than pure power forward, the 6-foot-7 Coleman has the stuff of a key Blue Devil role player.

In an interview with USA Today this August, he revealed that head coach Mike Krzyzewski enticed him with a role like that of Matt Jones or Justise Winslow. Coleman’s other suitors— Michigan, Virginia Tech, Ohio State and N.C. State—offered him bigger pieces of the pie, but Coleman stuck with the program most likely to bring him a national championship.

If Coleman’s decision indicates anything about his priorities, Krzyzewski made the right decision offering Coleman a spot on the roster in Durham. However, the tallest player in the 2020 class so far is Johnson, at 6-foot-8, which may be cause for concern.

Duke still awaits decisions from five-star forward Ziaire Williams and four-star, 7-foot center Mark Williams.

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Blue Devil defense locks down Hokies

Duke captures first victory in Chapel Hill in 20 years

By Cam Polo

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BLACKSBURG,Va.—Unquestionably, the Duke offense will be the side garnering the attention from the Blue Devils’ 45-10 win in Lane Stadium Friday night. And it certainly deserves the praise, with Quentin Harris and his squad racking up touchdown after touchdown in an absolute firestorm of attack in the second half.

But the game did not begin in this manner.

The defensive and special teams performances in this statement win in front of a crowd of over 50,000 will surely be forgotten in favor of the highlight-reel plays from the offensive side of the ball. They absolutely shouldn’t be.

Nearly a year ago to the day, then-No. 22 Duke faced Virginia Tech in Wallace Wade Stadium, and the Hokies had their way with the Blue Devils. Last year, they gained 413 total yards. This year? Only 259.

“Do whatever it takes to defend the line,”

declared Tre Hornbuckle of the Blue Devil goal line stand. “You give us an inch and we will defend it.”

This was made possible by excellent run defense from the defensive line, as well as the linebackers and safeties coming up big with key tackles. Through the air, Duke limited Virginia Tech to only 120 passing yards, as opposed to a ghastly 332 last year.

This may have been a highlight performance by the offense, but it was a statement by the defense.

With 11:25 to go in the second quarter, middle linebacker Koby Quansah jumped on a loose ball fumbled by backup quarterback Hendon Hooker of the Hokies. The pigskin took a Duke bounce, and another and another.

Quansah fell on it, setting the Blue Devils up at the 16-yard line, allowing for an easy pitch and catch from Quentin Harris to Noah Gray to put Duke on the board. This kickstarted an See DEFENSE on Page 8

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Duke’s frontline did not allow the Hokies to get anything going on offense.

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CHAPEL HILL—Though Tar Heel men’s basketball fans were having their fun at the Late Night with Roy scrimmage that kicks off their hoops season, it was the Blue Devil men’s soccer team who really had themselves a party in Chapel Hill oFriday night.

Duke took down 14th-ranked North Carolina at UNC Soccer and Lacrosse Stadium 3-2 in a breathtaking comeback. The win not only ended the Blue Devils’ three-game losing streak but also marked Duke’s first victory in Chapel Hill since 1999.

“It feels good. It is about time,” Blue Devil head coach Kerr said. “We had a bad fortune playing against this group. It’s nice to be on the winning side. It’s been a while [since we last won].”

The game started out rough for Duke, as the new defensive line struggled to put themselves together. Graduate student Sergi Nus was out of action due to an injury and sophomore Ian Murphy was DUKE 3 suspended for his 2 red card against UNC Clemson. In the first 25 minutes of the match, Tar Heel strikers Alex Rose and Jelani Pieters each buried a shot in Duke’s goal. The freefall for the Blue Devils seemed to be continuing.

In a moment of desperation, senior midfielder Brandon Williamson stepped up and saved the night. He finished the contest with an assist and his first goal of the season.

Just one minute after North Carolina’s second goal, Williamson found junior Daniel Wright wide open on the right flank, as all the Tar Heels (4-2-2, 2-1 in the ACC) were packed in the box. Wright then swiftly drove towards the goal and fired the ball into the top left corner of the net before any Carolina defender could interfere. This was Wright’s first goal of the season.

“Big time. Not only that but [to] get it before halftime lifted us quite a bit,” Kerr

commented on the goal. “Going into a locker room 2-0 down is a lot different than going in 2-1 down. I thought, ‘We can go on and win this game if we are up for it.’ And I asked the boys if they felt the same way as I did. They looked at me and they agreed in their eyes that they could do something.”

The Blue Devils (5-3, 1-2) did manage to turn the game around. In the 57th minute, Williamson initiated some quick offense from the middle third. His long pass found senior Daniele Proch on the left wing, who skillfully wheeled through three defenders before sending a cross on the ground to the middle of the field. Williamson arrived in the right time at the right place to tie the game with a forceful one-touch shot.

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Dramatic finish powers Blue Devils to win

By Jake C. Piazza Staff Writer

Duke has had a flair for the dramatic this whole season. Late-game heroics and unorthodox goals have been nothing outside the norm for the 10th-ranked Blue Devils.

Mia Gyau would be the hero this time for Duke.

Both searching for their first ACC win, Duke came out on top with a 3-2 victory against Wake Forest in a dramatic match at Spry Stadium. In order for the Blue Devils to walk away with DUKE 3 the win in Winston2 Salem, N.C., Duke WFU had to rely on a true group effort, as three different Blue Devils found the back of the net on assists from three different teammates.

Notable Performances: Mia Gyau: Gyau seemed to have found the team’s clutch gene that had been missing since Duke defeated Santa Clara in overtime over a month ago.

All the momentum looked to be on the side of Wake Forest. Hulda Arnarsdottir had tied the game with only ten minutes left in regulation and it seemed as if the Swedish forward had made a reservation for overtime.

Gyau clearly had a different agenda as she stunned the entire stadium by belting in her second goal of the season.

After Lily Nabet hit the crossbar, narrowly missing ending the game herself, Gyau was in the right spot at the right time, heading the ball into the net and sealing the game for Duke (6-1-2, 1-0-1 in the ACC). After an exciting 85 minutes of play, Wake Forest did not have enough magic left to extend the contest, as the Demon Deacons were not even able to get a shot on goal off after Gyau silenced the stadium.

Marykate McGuire and Mackenzie Pluck: It was business as usual for Marykate McGuire and Mackenzie Pluck. Duke has needed its offensive prowess all year and the dynamic duo responded by each adding another goal.

McGuire’s contribution came early on after Wake Forest had come out and surprised Duke with a transition goal in the opening minutes.

It did not take McGuire long to respond, as she took advantage of a ricocheted corner kick to put her team even.

Pluck had to be more patient and wait for the right time to strike. Whatever head coach Robbie Church drew up at halftime worked beautifully, as Pluck attacked the Demon Deacons (5-3-2, 0-1-1) right out of the locker room to put the Blue Devils up 2-1.

Brooke Heinsohn: Redshirt junior Brooke Heinsohn had her hands full throughout the night with an efficient offensive attack from Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons only had five shots on goal, but were able to score on

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Brooke Heinsohn anchored Duke and was active all night, finishing with three saves on the game. two of them. Regardless, Heinsohn got the job done for the Blue Devils and provided enough defense to put Duke on the right road to make a run at a conference title.

Looking Forward: The Blue Devils have a premier matchup this Sunday against No. 1 Virginia in what

could prove to be a deciding factor in who goes to the conference championship game in November. The Cavaliers bullied their way through their schedule, with only a small blip against Wake Forest which resulted in a tie.

With five ACC teams in the top 10, fans better buckle up for a wild ride, which, fortunately for the Blue Devils, will be something they are accustomed to with this nail-biter of a season.

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Duke falls to Florida State, fourth straight home loss

By Max Rego Staff Writer

With three straight losses at Cameron Indoor Stadium coming into the contest, the Blue Devils sought to fix their recent home struggles.

Unfortunately for Duke, No. 23 Florida State would make it four straight defeats for the Blue Devils on their home court Friday evening.

Duke’s difficulties in Durham continued, as the Seminoles utilized the momentum generated from an intense first set to ensure a 3-1 road victory 3 (25-27, 21-25, 25FSU 1 23, 15-25). Despite DUKE the resolve shown by the Blue Devils throughout the matchup, the mistakes made by Duke eventually cost them against a talented Florida State team.

In a thrilling opening set that featured multiple momentum shifts, the Blue Devils battled back from a 24-22 deficit only to see Florida State take three consecutive points to secure the early lead. This gave the early advantage to the Seminoles and Duke was unable to bounce back.

“I feel like for those first two sets, it was our errors that allowed them to take that lead,” Blue Devil head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We were setting some pretty good blocks, we were getting some big touches, we

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Duke’s teamwork didn’t pay off against FSU.

Lily Cooper led her team in blocks with three.

were able to get some easy balls to target, but we had some hitting errors along the way. I think those hitting errors made our lives a lot harder trying to fight and stay in that set. I think if we could minimize those and get our offense going a little bit we would have been fine because we were doing a great job on the blocking defense.”

Though Duke displayed a needed sense of urgency in the third set, the Seminoles wrapped it up with a comfortable 25-15 victory in the fourth set.

Throughout the match, Duke (7-7, 0-1 in the ACC) found success with cross court spikes, forcing the center of the Seminoles’ formation to adjust and counter. The Blue Devils showed

improvement from earlier in the season with regards to their offensive motion.

Duke’s crisp passing and communication were undone by costly errors early on, including seventeen hitting errors in the first two sets. Florida State (7-3, 1-0) consistently took advantage of these mistakes, seizing control of the match.

Duke was able to disrupt the Seminoles offense with an effective blocking strategy at times, resulting in seven total team blocks in the contest. The unselfish movement shown early on by the Blue Devils led to a 20.7 percent attack rate for the match.

However, Florida State countered with 9.5 blocks of their own and a few fortunate bounces gave the Seminoles the advantage.

The young Blue Devils displayed some chemistry, a good sign for the remainder of ACC play.

“I think that we were passing really well early on in that match and [Florida State] is a good team,” Nagel said. “That is encouraging to see because we have a lot of young players out there. We were getting some great blocks up there and good touches so we could get some digs and transition but we have to continue to work offensively to make sure we are using everybody as optimally as we can in the different situations.”

Duke followed up its loss to the Seminoles with another home loss in four sets Sunday, this time to Miami.

DEFENSE FROM PAGE 6 offense which had gained a grand total of 17 yards on its first three drives and set the game up for good.

“Coach Cut emphasizes blending offense, defense and special teams, so getting that transition going and that momentum going was huge for us,” said Duke linebacker Brandon Hill of the fumble recovery that turned the tide for the Blue Devils.

Even prior to that, the defense was working to keep Lane Stadium from exploding, with adrenaline from “Enter Sandman” still coursing through the veins of the Hokie faithful. Late in the first quarter, Willis was driving Virginia Tech down the field, taking advantage of great field position and a couple of key penalties. The Duke side bent, but did not break, turning a first and goal from the six into a field goal try after stymying three straight runs.

The game stood at 3-0 heading to the second frame, and Duke only made one mistake for the rest of the game, a 72-yard touchdown down the middle. While admittedly not a bright spot, the defense turned in the performance they needed to overall, and came away as the inciters of the Duke rally. Lane Stadium was empty well before the clock ran out.

“If at first the breaks go against you, don’t let up, put on more steam,” Cutcliffe said.

On Friday night, his team did just that.

And let us not forget about special teams, the players most often forgotten about in any sport, save for perhaps the backup goaltender.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, punter Austin Parker—a quarterback in high

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school—took off, taking the ball around the right end for a 28-yard gain, keeping the drive alive and creating an opportunity for backup quarterback Chris Katrenick to run the ball in from nine yards out for another Blue Devil score.

Also of note is kicker A.J. Reed, who converted on every kick he was asked to make. But he didn’t seem content with extra points, so he decided to bolster his statline by practicing his tackling, chasing down two of his own kickoffs to earn the primary tackle on plays that could have broken the Duke line for a lot more.

This was a dominant performance from Duke in all three phases of the game—offense, yes, but with defense and special teams making the plays the team needed to succeed on the road against a tough Virginia Tech team.

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Duke only allowed 139 yards on the ground.

M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 6 score against UNC in the first place. But to tie it up, to put us back in [makes it even better],” Williamson said. “Scoring my first season goal against UNC—I mean, that’s nice. I can’t really complain about that. I wouldn’t want it against any other team.”

Five minutes after the equalizer, freshman striker Scotty Taylor capitalized on a turnover from Tar Heel defender Matthew Constant. In the follow-up one-on-one against the netminder, Taylor calmly sent the ball inside the near post to put Duke on top. With that goal, the freshman became the second Blue Devil this season, after Proch, to score at least twice.

The rest of the game was filled with collisions, fouls and trolling from the home crowd, reminding people of the fierce nature of the Tobacco Road rivalry. Duke committed a seasonhigh 18 fouls and three different Blue Devils received a yellow card in the game. The whole team was focused on the defensive end, as frontline attackers Wright and Max Moser frequently retreated to help out the defenders.

“I’m glad that they put a great second half together because they deserve to win, they deserve all the three goals they got,” Kerr remarked. “They defended like crazy, which was something that we were missing.”

Duke’s hustle paid dividends as the efficient Carolina offense struggled to force an opening. The Tar Heels had their best opportunity in the 68th minute when a Hassan Pinto tackle gave them a free kick right outside the box. Team captain Mauricio Pineda struck a curling ball that flew above

the fingertips of Duke goalie Will Pulisic, only to be saved by the woodwork.

But the Blue Devils also paid the price for the aggression. Two key defenders, junior Matthias Frick, and sophomore Aedan Stanley went down in the box after collisions with the opponents in the last five minutes. The extent of the injuries is still unknown at the moment, though the defensive line will likely change again with Murphy’s return and Nus’ potential recovery in the upcoming week.

“We knew that this was the kind of game that we needed to come out.” Williamson said. “We needed to get the ‘dub’ because we can take this win, and it’s the energy for the next game.”

How the team will perform next Tuesday at Koskinen against Wright State and into the thick of ACC play is uncertain. But one thing is for sure: the first win on North Carolina’s home field in 20 years is more than enough motivation a Blue Devil needs to survive the midterm season.

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Scotty Taylor provided a spark off the bench.

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GRAY FROM PAGE 1 “I knew we just had a great opportunity to put it in the box there.” Harris said. “We’ve had situations where they’ve gotten us the ball in great field position and the offense hasn’t capitalized before like we had in our first game this year. So we really wanted to capitalize on that and get a score. Thought we had a great play call from Coach [Zac] Roper there with the bubble and go, and thankfully it was wide open.”

Despite the impressive performance, Duke still struggled with the mindless penalties that have plagued them through a quarter of the season. The Blue Devils racked up 62 costly penalty yards on eight flags including a horse-collar tackle, offsides penalties, and a roughing the passer call that negated an interception on the Hokies’ first scoring drive.

“It wasn’t a horrible roughing [the passer]. It wasn’t undisciplined play whatsoever,” Cutcliffe emphasized. “The offside penalties I don’t care much for, but we settled down and handled it. They were not discipline issues. I’m not going to run in [the locker room] and give a bunch of lessons to the guys because they don’t need it in that circumstance.”

With a crowd once electrified by “Enter Sandman” quieted, the Blue Devils forced a quick three-and-out before Gray capped a nine play drive with a one yard score. Now armed with a 14-3 lead, head coach David Cutcliffe went back to the gutsy playcalls he showed against Middle Tennessee.

After working their way down the field to the Hokies’ 25-yard line, Harris threw a quick screen behind the line of scrimmage to Jalon Calhoun, who looked upfield and hit a wide-open Deon Jackson in stride for the trick play touchdown with 37 seconds to go in the half. The wide receiver Calhoun, who played quarterback in high school, finished with a respectable quarterback rating of 640.0 in the win.

“He has been waiting on that [play],” Cutcliffe said. “I’m trying to teach him how to count to three. Catch them, throw them, and now he’s got to run them, which I think he can. He’s a pretty special young player.”

A year after Virginia Tech’s 31-6 stomping of the Blue Devils,

Willis simply could not replicate the same success he had in that matchup in Wallace Wade Stadium where he threw for 332 yards and three touchdowns. The senior threw the ball just 18 times, completing seven throws with an interception.

“I just think we had better matchups,” Cutcliffe said. “A year ago in this game, we were a pretty injured team. I think we’ve come a long way since then, and I thought we covered it and made it hard for any quarterback to play well.”

The teams traded punts to start the second half and after an A.J. Reed field goal, Duke would put the dagger in the game.

With Virginia Tech (2-2, 0-2) driving down the field, Quansah and Michael Carter II met Hooker in the backfield on a fourthand-short, giving the ball to the Blue Devils. For the second time of the game, an immediate score would follow, this time with Harris weaving through Hokie defenders for a 42 yard touchdown run.

“I don’t think there was a difference,” Gray said on how the offense started clicking. “I think we stuck to what we were taught all week and just ran with it. Things weren’t working in the first quarter. Virginia Tech played us really hard and they came out swinging. Ultimately, we were able to figure things out, so I think that’s what led to us picking it up in the second quarter.”

The icing on the cake was a fake punt on fourth down with less than nine minutes to go in the game, with punter Austin Parker sprinting 28 yards for the first down on yet another trick play.

“When we move the punter, he always has an option,” Cutcliffe said. “When we get into the mode there in the midfield everywhere, he can run. Austin is a great athlete. I didn’t know he was going to [run], but we always tag it. When he took off, I knew he was going to make it. I just didn’t know he was going to go that far.”

Next up, the Blue Devils return home to Wallace Wade Stadium for the first time in three weeks where they will welcome Pittsburgh to town, looking to keep their momentum rolling towards a Coastal Division crown. The Panthers are coming off an impressive victory over No. 15 Central Florida and have only lost once to Duke since joining the ACC in 2013.

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n September 25, DSG voted to condemn the US Department of Education in response to the Department’s criticism over a university sponsored—and federally funded—anti-Semitic event that was sponsored by Duke and UNC this past spring.

Dorothy Gheorgiu GUEST COLUMN You may be wondering, how might Jewish students feel about this? How may this outcry against condemnation of anti-Semitism land on Jewish ears? As a member of the Jewish community at Duke University, I am incredibly disappointed in DSG for excluding the Jewish community in any discussion regarding the resolution—there was no effort to seek the larger Jewish perspective on this notso-complex issue. Though DSG has made a statement “condemning” anti-Semitism, the mere act of passing this resolution in defense of the Duke-UNC CMES department’s conference indicates that the condemnation of anti-Semitism was an empty gesture.

While the conflict in the Middle East is indubitably one of the most confusing, involved, and emotional geopolitical crises known to man, the matter of antiSemitism is distinct and clear. The failure of student government to recognize and address the blatant anti-Semitic discourse and fervor that occurred at the Gaza Conference is astounding.

The presence of such disgusting expressions

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your son fell in love with a Jew. I’m in love with a Jew/Oh/I fell in love with a Jew/Oh/Her skin is white and my skin is brown, she was going up up and I was going down.”

Unquestionably, free speech, and even hate speech itself that falls under this umbrella, is constitutionally protected. Moreover, all free speech should arguably have its place at a university, where all ideas should be subjected to debate and scrutiny.

However, events and programs that encourage anti-Semitism—or racism of any form—should never be sponsored by the University and should definitely not obtain funding by taxpayer dollars. By passing this resolution, DSG displays a deep misunderstanding of the difference between “free speech” and speech that is sponsored by Duke and the federal government. DSG’s priorities seem to be to stifle discourse and further divide the student body on what should be a simple choice—to stand in solidarity with Jewish peers against the scourge of anti-Semitism sponsored and promoted by their “academic” institution.

The U.S. Department of Education was not “trying to re-write Duke’s curriculum,” and it is ignorant to suggest otherwise. Regardless of one’s political differences with the leaders of the DoE, blindness to the impetus of the entire matter—anti-Semitism backed by taxpayer dollars—cannot be excused. It is not necessary to agree with the DoE’s entire letter, which clearly contains bias, to agree with the ideological paradigm clearly motivating some of the language used in the letter, or to believe that the DoE has any proper solutions for fixing the DukeUNC Middle East curriculum so it can adhere to the qualifications for federal funding.

Rather, all I am suggesting is that we understand why the letter was written in the first place: overt anti-Semitism sponsored by Duke and UNC, paid for by taxpayers. DSG’s decision to condemn the letter without seemingly acknowledging its cause is yet another unprovoked attack on the Jewish community.

Dorothy Gheorghiu is a Trinity junior.

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of prejudice and hatred at the conference spurred the condemnation of the program by the US Department of Education in the first place, in response to a letter that was sent to Betsy DeVos from Representative George Holding decrying not only the blatant anti-Israel bias, but also the “brazenly anti-Semitic song” performed by rapper Tamer Nafar.

To ignore this cause-and-effect relationship is an indication that DSG has no semblance of an idea as to what the problem actually is, neglecting the context that prompted the investigation. The root problem is not criticism of Israel itself or academic free speech, but the outbreak of overt anti-Semitism seemingly planned in advance and paid for with federal funding. DSG’s conflation of free speech with taxpayer-funded hate speech should raise serious questions as to their blind acceptance of misinformation and capacity to address the concerns of the Jewish community at Duke.

According to a report in the Chronicle, Senator Omar Benallal spoke against tabling the resolution on the grounds that the pressing nature of the resolution could not afford “the lost time” of “having a conversation with the Duke administration.” What exactly does this mean?

Does it mean that DSG felt the need to act so quickly in order to deliberately exclude the opinions of the general student body? Maybe the Jewish perspective, or the perspective of anyone with a differing viewpoint, was not a desirable one to consider. What are the implications of this thought process and consequent action on the espoused ideal of diverse viewpoints in academic instruction at Duke University and within DSG, then?

Some news accounts—undoubtedly some that our fellow students have read—have implied or even outright stated that the Department of Education was on a “witch hunt” for instances of bias. It can’t be called much of a “hunt” when the taxpayer-funded rapper quite literally sung the words: “I cannot be anti-Semitic alone…. Don’t think of Rihanna when you sing this, don’t think of Beyoncé—think of Mel Gibson. Mama, I have bad news. I was stuck in the elevator with this hot chick. Sit down, mama, sit down. Cuz

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LAISSEZ FAIRE ET LAISSEZ PASSER However, much of the rhetoric on both sides is more emotionally driven rather than grounded in theory and history. A more informed perspective might suggest hands-off approach to student loan policy that can help ensure more macroeconomic stability and long-term prosperity. Of course, while it is difficult to address all the intricacies of student loan policy in a single column, hopefully my admittedly heterodox perspective might get more politically engaged students interested in alternative policy prescriptions.

The government really started to get involved with student loans in 1958, with the Federal Perkins Loan program and the National Defense Student Loan program. The Perkins Loan was a needs-based program that offered loans at a 5% fixed interest rate. In 1965, with the first iteration of the Higher Education Act, doubled down on state intervention in the student loan sphere by establishing a guaranteed student loan program, through the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Since then, the federal government has proceeded to interfere more and more in the loan market, distorting outcomes further, leading to a history of significant instability.

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to skim nearly all the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports pertaining to student loan policy. The vast majority of these reports were either complaints or warnings about bad incentives, overly cheap credit, a lack of accountability, corruption, and general waste due to an immunity from market signals. It is clear that, since credit is too cheap, too many people are borrowing too much money, and they simply can’t afford to pay back much of their loans. Beyond that,

state-controlled bureaucracy is not susceptible to the pressures of market-based competition, leading to bloated administrations, unbalanced budgets, and painfully substandard service.

Instead of handing the state more responsibility, as nearly all politicians, regardless of stripe, seem bent on doing, perhaps we should consider scaling back the role of the state in allocating scarce credit, and hand that duty back to the market. The price system is the only way of aggregating the preferences and resource constraints of all participants in the economy. Without market-determined rates, risk is too subsidized, and the consequences of overly subsidized risks are all too familiar to macroeconomists who saw what cheap credit did to the housing market in 2008.

But what do we do with all of our current student debt?

Cancel it? Such an attempt would be a $1.6 trillion bill that the taxpayers will have to foot, which is roughly three times as large as yearly Medicare spending. Not only would it create enormous moral hazard for future borrowers, who might see periodic bailouts as inevitable, and borrow for education that they do not need, and will likely not use, but even a one-time bailout would disproportionately benefit the wealthy by a staggering amount (about half of all student loan debt is held by the top 25% of households by income). Such an enormous subsidy would also do little to curb the rising costs of education that have been plaguing American families for years and would probably incentivize colleges to increase costs even more, given the increased demand that subsidies create.

Also at the core of this issue is the culture that suggests that everyone needs some degree. Many jobs don’t in fact need training at the college level, and more people are paying for degrees that simply don’t have the same payoff that they used to. What we might need is a fundamental shift in our educational system that prioritizes practical, job-related skills.

More urgently, however, we need to move towards a higher education market that’s more strongly rooted in market principles, rather than in utopian faith in the capabilities of the state, that has time and time again failed to achieve its desired goals.

Nikhil Sridhar is a Trinity senior. His column “laissez faire et laissez passer” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Drop Palantir, abolish ICE

ast Monday, Palantir Technologies—a company with a multi-million dollar contract with ICE— hosted an ethics tabletop exercise at Duke asking participants to wrestle with ethical dilemmas such as, “Can you save the lives of 10,000 people without jeopardizing the freedoms of 100,000?” Palantir also participated the next day at TechConnect, seeking to network with Duke computer science and engineering students.

Annie Yang PLANTING SEEDS Palantir is a data analytics company that provides ICE with technology that is used in the surveillance, tracking and ultimately deportation of immigrants. ICE uses Palantir’s Integrated Case Management (ICM) to scour local, regional, state and federal databases for utilities data, healthcare provider information, live cellphone records and other information that is used to build profiles on immigrants and undocumented individuals. Unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border are logged into the ICM system, discouraging family members from claiming their children out of fear of background checks. The end result is these children remain detained for longer periods of time.

It doesn’t stop there. Palantir also built the FALCON Search and Analysis (FALCON-SA) system that ICE uses as part of immigration workplace raids, including raids last year that targeted almost one hundred 7-Elevens—one of the largest ICE raids at the time. ICE also uses FALCON-SA to identify and visualize an individual’s web of connections and relationships, enabling the government to expand its surveillance dragnet.

Given Palantir’s reprehensible track record, a number of Duke students protested and distributed flyers about Palantir’s connections to ICE at both events last week. Students refused to stand idly by as Palantir shamelessly treated ethics as a mere hypothetical game while ICE simultaneously uses its technology to jeopardize the freedoms of thousands of actual people.

Students rejected complicity with ICE’s detention and deportation machine by pledging in a petition to withhold their labor from Palantir and other companies that constitute the agency’s technological and logistical backbone. Notably, although

some of the Palantir representatives present claimed to find ICE’s enforcement work reprehensible, they had no qualms with calling Duke police on demonstrating students—twice.

By allowing Palantir to run an ethics exercise and recruit students at TechConnect, Duke University gives a platform to and legitimizes companies that are complicit in the surveillance, detention and deportation of immigrants and undocumented communities at the hands of ICE. The claim that Duke “values its students no matter their background or immigration status” sounds hollow in the context of the institution’s failure to prioritize the safety of its undocumented and immigrant students.

However, the Pratt School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Career Center and Duke University at large still have the ability to terminate their relationship with Palantir as long as it continues to maintain its contract with ICE. Over 2,000 students from at least 17 colleges and counting have been demonstrating at Palantir information sessions and their schools’ career fairs, demanding that their institutions cease their ties with Palantir. UC Berkeley’s Privacy Law Scholars Conference decided not to seek financial support from the company. Lesbians Who Tech returned the 15,000 dollars it received from Palantir’s sponsorship of its conference. And the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology—which Duke University sponsors and numerous Duke students attend every year—dropped Palantir as a sponsor.

Rallying under the calls for #NoTech4ICE and to #AbolishICE, organizations across the country such as Mijente, Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice and Never Again Action have also demonstrated against Palantir—and other complicit companies like Amazon—for their role in facilitating the separation of families, detention of immigrants and deportation of people.

Duke would be in good company if it ceases its relationship with Palantir and chooses to live up to its purported mission statement of developing ethical leadership in its students and helping those who suffer.

But beyond Duke University itself, Duke students need to muster the moral backbone to take a stand against not just Palantir but also Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, McKinsey & Co, Wayfair and numerous other companies that have contracts with ICE and are therefore complicit in enabling white supremacy and white nationalism.

If “logic and reason” are used to justify the concentration camps at the border, the deaths of children, and the tearing apart of families, what value do they have?

Annie Yang

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I sympathize deeply with students anxious about survival under capitalism and finding work that helps them secure financial stability, pay off their loans and support their families.

But my sympathy ends when students prioritize profits and personal gain—“but Palantir pays $43 an hour!”—over humanity and compassion for others. In any case, if we want to take an ethical stand in a profoundly unethical world, we must be prepared to make real, material sacrifices.

Last week, Palantir and its defenders—some of them my fellow peers—argued that we are “emotionally misguided” and that these issues require more “nuance.” If “logic and reason” are used to justify the concentration camps at the border, the deaths of children, and the tearing apart of families, what value do they have?

If “nuance” means Palantir will claim that its ICE contracts don’t negate their “good” work with the Department of Justice, FBI, and US military, what meaningful resistance does it pose to the oppression of immigrants and undocumented communities?

If emotion and outrage give people the strength to demand the abolition of ICE, to physically block ICE vans, to link their arms together to block ICE headquarters, to put their very bodies upon the gears to stop ICE’s odious machine, then I know we are the ones bending the long moral arc of the universe towards justice.

I close with an “ethical dilemma” of my own for Duke University and my fellow students. The concentration camps at US-Mexico border have been compared to Nazi concentration camps. Many people ask themselves what they would have done during the Holocaust.

Today, we live in a time of rising fascism in America. In Nazi Germany, there was IBM. In America, there is Palantir.

So, in the face of oppression and injustice right here and right now, what you will do?

Annie Yang is a Trinity senior. Her column, “planting seeds,” runs on alternate Mondays.

A young woman in pain walks into the doctor’s office

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hen my mom had a minor heart attack this summer while we were at the beach, I sat in the waiting room with sand between my toes, praying that she would be okay.

Liddy Grantland FEEL YOUR FEELINGS

She laid a few yards away, praying that she would be believed.

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine, by Michele Lent Hirsch, uses the author’s experience as well as extensive interviews with young women across the spectrums of geography, race, gender identity and sexuality to explore how serious health issues have unique consequences for people at the intersection of youth and womanhood. She chronicles how often people—including doctors—assume young women to be fine when they are not, and how that assumption leads women to downplay (and undertreat) their pain in order to keep their jobs, relationships, and lives afloat.

At the heart of many women’s stories, like the story of my mom, is a fear that they will not be believed by the very people with the power to heal them. Stereotypes about women’s lack of credibility and inherent emotionality make doctors more likely to ignore or undertreat women’s pain—not just anecdotally, but systematically. Women’s pain is consistently taken less seriously, with women waiting longer to receive treatment

for the same level of pain, and far more often receiving sedatives for the same pain that, for men, is treated with painkillers. (For example, my mom waited seven hours before receiving pain medicine in the E.R. She was too afraid to ask for pain medicine earlier for fear of being accused of fabricating her symptoms in search of painkillers.) Studies of chronic pain conditions are overwhelmingly conducted on male subjects, even though 70% of chronic illness sufferers are women.

This medicalized sexism has especially disastrous effects for women of color. A landmark 2016 study showed that half of the medical students and residents interviewed still believe that black people experience less pain than white people do. Not half of all white people—half of medical students, the people who will one day be physicians to black people in pain. When medical racism interacts with medical sexism, the results are deadly: black women die in childbirth three to four times more often than white women do. Serena Williams’s harrowing ordeal with the birth of her child in 2017 brought the issue to national attention—and very nearly cost her her life.

Women, especially women of color, develop varied strategies to combat the assumptions people make about women’s lack of credibility in reporting the experiences of their own bodies. Comedian Wanda Sykes recently appeared on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight to discuss her strategy for combating medical racism and sexism: bring a white man to the doctor to repeat everything you say. Hirsch also references a study aptly titled “I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything,” saying “some women...practice a version of self-policing in which they try to avoid

becoming the ‘stereotypical female.’”

When trying to get a doctor to understand how much pain they’re in, women have to make careful calculations concerning how they present themselves. Too emotional, and a woman risks being seen as irrational, hysterical, or dramatic, and written off entirely.

Too composed, and the doctor may assume the pain is not as bad as the patient says it is.

I learned these strategies young. Talking about my back brace would invariably make me cry, but when I was in the doctor’s office, I would hold my feelings in until my throat ached, not letting the tears fall until I had made it to my mom’s minivan with my lollipop in my hand. I knew, even at ten years old, that I had to be seen as “reasonable” to be believed. But I also almost always left appointments feeling like the doctor and his team didn’t understand how much I hurt.

Anxiety about seeing a doctor for my pain kept me from finding a pain specialist when I got to Durham. I was at a place, medically and geographically, where my orthopedist from home could no longer help me. But the possibility of not being believed or understood terrified me, even as I knew that my whiteness, my status as a Duke student, and my insurance coverage mean that I’m more likely to be believed than the majority of women.

I was able to live with pain without seeing a doctor for a year and a half before I slipped on some ice and spent the next two weeks with pain so severe that it hurt to breathe. Desperate for relief and worried that something major was wrong, I walked into Student Health.

I soon found myself doing exactly what I feared doing: sobbing uncontrollably, unable to perform the role of Reasonable and Believable Girl In Pain that I had rehearsed for half of my life.

But the doctor said something that still makes me tear up every time I think about it.

“I believe you.”

Her belief led me to see a pain specialist: a doctor who did not take my pain as seriously as I had hoped. But a year later, it led me back to that same clinic, with the hope that I could find another person who believed me. It gave me enough courage to tell the scheduler on the phone that I needed to see a female doctor. It led me to a doctor whom I am growing to trust, and who has been more honest and empathetic than I could have imagined a doctor to be.

When I told my best friend about how it felt to read Invisible, to see my own anxiety, fear, and shame reflected in the experiences of so many other young women, she said, “I’m so glad that somebody else wrote this book so that you didn’t have to.”

I am, too. It is validating to know that not only is my pain itself real and valid, but that the pain I have experienced in the medical system is also real and valid.

But I also want more for women—all women, certainly, but for women at the intersection of anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, classism and xenophobia in particular.

I want my future daughters, nieces, goddaughters and granddaughters never to hurt, but beyond that, I want them to be believed when they do hurt—no matter their race, gender identity, class, sexual orientation, or how they present their pain to their doctors. I want that for my mother and the other women in my life now. And I want that for me.

Liddy Grantland is a Trinity senior who is currently rage-snacking. Her column, feel your feelings, runs on alternate Mondays.

“We’re thinking deeply about the research work we conduct on campus and how that FROM PAGE 1 work is commercialized and how it supports the larger economy of the Triangle,” President return for the past 10 years.

Vincent Price said after the meeting.

“They’re facing, as all endowment He said that at the meeting, administrators managers are facing, some economic like Vice President for Research Larry Carin headwinds,” he said. and Mary Klotman, dean of the school of Bovender noted the University is starting medicine, talked with the trustees about the to think about research portfolio across the a future capital Are we satisfied at 8.6 University. Faculty who have campaign that will billion? The answer is no. started their own companies concentrate on spoke on one panel, Price Duke’s high priority We need to grow it. noted, and another panel needs, such as focused on what Duke’s increased financial peers are doing with research jack bovender translation. aid and improvement CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES in STEM fields. It Jack Bovender, chair is still in the early of the Board of Trustees, planning stages, and its exact goals have yet added that two consultants from McKinsey to be defined, Bovender explained. and Company offered their input on what Price added that Duke’s current focus is peer institutions were doing and how the on maintaining the philanthropy levels from research commercialization landscape the Duke Forward campaign, a large-scale looked as a whole. capital campaign that ended in July 2017, “The intention is to spend the year while it sets the foundation for another studying, then we will go into a mode where capital campaign down the road. Duke we’re attempting to determine the right Forward raised more than $3.85 billion from strategic and tactical decisions,” Price said.

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Research Commercialization

At its first meeting of the 2019-20 academic year, the Board of Trustees kicked off what will be the defining theme of the year—how to better commercialize Duke’s research efforts.

The trustees will conduct a review of Duke’s “research, translation and commercialization efforts” throughout the year, according to a news release. Future quarterly meetings will focus on different aspects of the issue, from engagement with the Durham community to partnerships with regional universities.

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KARSH FROM PAGE 3 Google Maps and on rideshare services.

This not only provides a central point for visitors but also allows for them to travel through the Nasher Museum of Art or the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, campus features that were previously cut off from most tours.

“Thousands of alumni visit campus each year, and we expect that a large number of them will be coming to the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center for events, meetings, tours, to plan their day on campus or just to spend some time with friends.

The center will also be the first stop for prospective students starting later this month when we start hosting admissions information sessions,” wrote Sterly Wilder, Trinity ‘83 and associate vice president for alumni affairs, in an email.

Wilder hopes that the center will be “a place

for studying, holding meetings, getting away from the noise and networking with alumni.”

The center includes a study space, market, reception area, boardroom, library, outdoor courtyard and a 159-square-foot “Virtual Duke” interactive screen—the largest of its kind in North Carolina. The administrative building will hold 40 staff members from the Duke Alumni Association and 10 from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

Supported by and designed for alumni, the Karsh Center will be a place for current students to connect with graduates. There are more than 170,000 active alumni.

“We want students to know early on in their Duke journeys that alumni are there for them—that they are willing to give them advice and help them with their next big steps,” Wilder wrote. “We like to say that the Duke experience isn’t just formed in the years that students are here. It’s forever.”

Admissions

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag spoke to the trustees about current admissions practices in the wake of the Varsity Blues admissions scandal.

Bovender said that Guttentag went over safeguards he has put in place to prevent a similar scandal at Duke, such as his close liaison with the alumni office and good relations with the athletic department.

“I know as trustees we came out of that feeling very good about how proactive Christoph and his staff have been in safeguarding this because the reputational risk to the school is very very great,” Bovender said.

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