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This month Devils and Details meets with David Ntim, a sophomore studying biomedical engineering and computer science, who was chosen as this year’s Duke Chapel Student Preacher. Ntim speaks with us about faith and hope (and finals). Here’s a link to the entire service where he delivered his sermon. To learn about alumni events we meet with Lisa Weistart ’92 to learn about Details of the Devil: The History of Duke’s Mascot, a new documentary about the history of the Duke Blue Devil. The Duke Alumni regional teams have taken the documentary to several regional events and plan to take it to more; Lisa tells us about that, and Ann-Louise Aguiar tells us about upcoming events in Philadelphi and Boston, including one at the Philadelphia Free Library, designed by Julian Abele, who also designed Duke’s West Campus. And David Lindquist ’86, Duke Alumni Association assistant vice president, tells us about an upcoming event in Shanghai.In our Everybody Comes to Duke segment we visit with Emmy-winning television writer and producer Michael Schur, who visited Duke to discuss his recent book, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.
A special compilation of the trailer and the first two episodes of The Race Course, to support its entry for a CASE Circle of Excellence Award,
In the final episode of The Race Course, the class addresses its last topics, including racism in infrastructure, property, and health care decisions and confusion about affirmative action. In the final course meeting, professors and students discuss what they worked through in the course.
Duke University's new course, University 101, The Invention and Consequences of Race, has been going for the better part of a semester, and it's time to face the topic of the day: Critical Race Theory. The class learns what CRT is and what it isn't; addresses "Space Traders"; and learns that Brown v. Board of Education is a lot more complex than people usually understand.
In 2020, as the Black Lives Matter protests gathered strength in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, Duke President Vince Price released a statement committing the university to “take transformative action now toward eliminating … systems of racism and inequality.” He listed expected steps: diversity in hiring and admissions, additional aid, salary equity, Juneteenth as a Duke paid holiday. More, he pledged to “incorporate anti-racism into our curricula … across the university.”One of the first places that led was to UNIV 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race, a new universitywide course addressing the very concept of race, and how it was created and what it has wrought. That 14-week course was the first time Duke had addressed a topic like this in a universitywide course.When it was time to create the UNIV 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race, professor Kerry Haynie had an issue. The course came about as part of Duke’s antiracism effort, and Haynie’s central concern was simple: “I don’t know what people mean by antiracist,” he said. “I mean, I think I have an idea of what they think they mean.“But I don’t know how to do that. That is not what I do as an academic.”It was a heavy lift. How do you create a course with a goal like that? How do you make sure you're teaching, not proselytizing? It's a complicated issue, so the Devils' Share attended that course to document. How'd it go? Did the students like it? Did they learn things? How'd the professors feel it went? What was it like to create such a course? What worked and what didn't? And, of course, what did everybody learn about race?So take a listen to "The Race Course," as The Devils' Share documents a university taking steps towards antiracism -- whatever that turns out to mean.
Duke's UNIV 101 course, The Invention and Consequences of Race, moves along and we discuss with the professors the lacunae in their own educations about race, racism, and America's history.
Duke's UNIV 101 course, The Invention and Consequences of Race, gathers momentum. We learn about the sociology of race and "immigrant whiteness," and how whiteness isn't a color, it's a social status that can be aspired to. Different groups, for example, both become and stop being white. How whiteness has a lot more to do with politics than skin color. And how the professors and the students feel the class is going, and how they chose to discuss or not discuss things.
In 2020, as the Black Lives Matter protests gathered strength in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, Duke President Vince Price released a statement committing the university to “take transformative action now toward eliminating … systems of racism and inequality.” He listed expected steps: diversity in hiring and admissions, additional aid, salary equity, Juneteenth as a Duke paid holiday. More, he pledged to “incorporate anti-racism into our curricula … across the university.”
One of the first places that led was to UNIV 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race, a new universitywide course addressing the very concept of race, and how it was created and what it has wrought. That 14-week course was the first time Duke had addressed a topic like this in a universitywide course.
When it was time to create the UNIV 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race, professor Kerry Haynie had an issue. The course came about as part of Duke’s antiracism effort, and Haynie’s central concern was simple: “I don’t know what people mean by antiracist,” he said. “I mean, I think I have an idea of what they think they mean.
“But I don’t know how to do that. That is not what I do as an academic.”
It was a heavy lift. How do you create a course with a goal like that? How do you make sure you're teaching, not proselytizing? It's a complicated issue, so the Devils' Share attended that course to document. How'd it go? Did the students like it? Did they learn things? How'd the professors feel it went? What was it like to create such a course? What worked and what didn't? And, of course, what did everybody learn about race?
So take a listen to "The Race Course," as The Devils' Share documents a university taking steps towards antiracism -- whatever that turns out to mean.
Here's episode 1.
This poem by Kimberly Gaubault appears in the Duke Magazine Special Issue 2021, in which all the stories focus on freedom. Gaubault (McCrae) graduated from Duke in 2000 and is an intentional lover of people and advocates for defining one's personal freedom.
Eric Dozier grew up in a tiny Tennessee town and got his education at Duke. But when it came time to make his contribution in the world, he was drawn back to the music traditions of his background. He now uses that music in performances and presentations, in which things like gospel and call-and-response music help bridge societal divides. Here he even manages a call and response on Zoom!
In our series connected to our 2020 special issue on Realizations, physical therapist Callie Beasley talks about her belief that she had to give up her practice of music to take up her practice of physical therapy. It took a curmudgeonly client, a piano, and "The Sound of Music" for her to realize she didn't need to give up music at all.
In our series on realizations, Duke Forest communicator Blake Tedder tells us about the many realizations he experienced when he underwent the process of recovering from a major burn injury. That leads to a discussion of the realizations he experienced when he believed he was going to die in the plane crash that caused the burns. He uses the phrase "instant satori," and he's not wrong.
A Religious Studies class at Duke University called "The End of the World: Apocalyptic Arguments from Antiquity to the Present Day" seemed rather well timed even before the onset of COVID-19. But in a time when many seemed to fear they were facing the end of the world, the class decided to write a manifesto expressing their feeling that it was not. This podcast tells the story of that manifesto, and the students read portions of it.
This is part three of a three-part series. In February 1969, African American students at Duke seized the Allen Building, the university's main administration building. A daylong standoff ended with the students leaving the building at the same moment that police in riot gear stormed the building. Police subsequently engaged crowds of students in its main quad, using clubs and tear gas. The protest and its results has left a long shadow at Duke. In 2019 celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the takeover brought original protesters back on campus for panel discussions, storytelling, and reconnection with old friends and places. Using those discussions, interviews, and archival tape, Pivot Point tells the story of the occupation and its aftermath. This is part three of a three-part series.
This is part two of a three-part series. In February 1969, African American students at Duke seized the Allen Building, the university's main administration building. A daylong standoff ended with the students leaving the building at the same moment that police in riot gear stormed the building. Police subsequently engaged crowds of students in its main quad, using clubs and tear gas. The protest and its results has left a long shadow at Duke. In 2019 celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the takeover brought original protesters back on campus for panel discussions, storytelling, and reconnection with old friends and places. Using those discussions, interviews, and archival tape, Pivot Point tells the story of the occupation and its aftermath. This is part two of a three-part series.
In February 1969, African American students at Duke seized the Allen Building, the university's main administration building. A daylong standoff ended with the students leaving the building at the same moment that police in riot gear stormed the building. Police subsequently engaged crowds of students in its main quad, using clubs and tear gas. The protest and its results has left a long shadow at Duke. In 2019 celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the takeover brought original protesters back on campus for panel discussions, storytelling, and reconnection with old friends and places. Using those discussions, interviews, and archival tape, Pivot Point tells the story of the occupation and its aftermath. This is part one of a three-part series.
Dr. Kenneth Lyles of Duke University School of Medicine has developed a subspecialty -- in pound cake. He explains how he has come to bake and share some 5,000 pound cakes.
Leslie Lewis '79 calls herself "one of the lost Dukies." In a world where our alumni offerers of advice in general suggest pursuing what interests you and letting things shake out from there, she looks back from her 60th birthday and wonders whether more planning might not have helped her. Mind you, she's accomplished great things, and her look backwards might suggest more about Duke alumni and their high standards than anything else. Her story ends our first season of The Devils' Share. Don't forget to email us at dukemag@Duke.edu if you have thoughts or suggestions for upcoming seasons or stories.
Jim Fleming '09 is an IT project manager but thinks his work came less from specific courses he took at Duke than from his background in coaching, plus "a combination of luck and hard work." It's rather a story.
It was professor Plum, with the candlestick, in the conservatory! Paul Kim, '97, is a forensic accountant, a career you might not have known exists. It does, and in this episode of our "Now What?" series, he describes his breakthrough moment and explains how he got there.
Reid Lewis '84 thought of himself as a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates guy who would grow an enormous company. He turned about to be better at the growing part than the enormous part and has become a specialist in entrepreneurship, and though he wouldn't mind a little more stability, he's found that he loves the challenge and personal nature of his work. For our fourth episode he explains how that all happened.
Tania Hossain Caravella '96 graduated from Trinity with a dual major in biology and history. But that wide range of study did not leave her feeling ready for anything; she instead felt almost clueless about what to do next. Things have worked out extremely well, and has a job she loves in research: "I ended up doing exactly what I'm meant to be doing." How'd she get there? Take a listen.
As part of Duke Magazine's podcast The Devils' Share, Duke grad Aileen Reid describes how she has found her way and advises people to .
For the first series of The Devils' Share, a podcast from Duke Magazine, we focused on the topic we called "Now What?" -- about those early-career moments when you begin understanding how work ... works. For our first episode, Duke '82 engineering grad Danal Blessis shares stories of his career path and gives some wise advice on how to get where you need to be.
In support of its 2018 Special Issue devoted to the topic of fear, Duke Magazine asked 2018 graduates what they feared as they left Duke. These are their answers.
In Duke Magazine's Summer 2018 issue we covered the Duke Honor Council, a student organization working, as it has worked for years, to create an atmosphere of honor on the Duke campus. The piece inspired a response by an alumna, who shared with us a noteworthy expression of honor by an athlete and further tales of Duke's earliest run at an honor council.
Transcript: TRACK We’re an alumni magazine, so we hear from alumni. It’s a treat. Sometimes they tell us amazing stories. Here are a couple that came in response to our piece in the Summer issue about the Duke Honor Council.
ACTUALITY For saved messages, press 1. Saved messages
“Hi I read your wonderful article in the duke mag today i graduated in 1956 and I thought you’d be interested in a story”
In those days we helped tutor the athletic folk and there was a young man who was a football player who was injured and out that year.
TRACK Actually he was a baseball player -- this would be William Donigan, who lettered in baseball and soccer after transferring to Duke from Notre Dame.
ACTUALITY Anyway we helped to tutor him and he took a lot of the classes we took and one of them was Greek architecture, which didn’t come easy to him. SO the boys made up a cheat sheet and gave it to him the day of the test. And we went in, we all had our blue book, and at the end of the test And we said how did you do? And he said I turned in an empty blue book. We said you turned in an empty blue book? And he said yes I looked around the room and i was so honored by going to school with people like you, I couldn’t cheapen it by cheating.
TRACK Your storyteller by the way is Maryann Stevens -- Maryann Dumont, if you knew her when -- and reading about the current honor council brought up those old memories.
ACTUALITY I’ve told that story to all my children, my grandchildren, other people’s children, other people’s grandchildren, a truly truly wonderful young man. He did marry coach Murray’s daughter Cissie, and invited us all to the wedding. It was just a wonderful story, and you know, we always did have really outstanding people at Duke
TRACK No doubt. Still on the topic of the honor council, in the story associate provost Noah Pickus described the importance of ritual -- things like public signings of the honor code -- to the success of an honor culture. As Stevens recalls, Elizabeth Hanford Dole clearly thought so when she stumped for an honor code during Stevens’ student years.
ACTUALITY “I also remember and I believe it was Liddy Dole when she was coming to all the dorms, we came in after the dorm was closed, we came into the parlor and no lights were on it was just candles and she talked about what we should do about having an honor. And i do remember a couple of us said we would be glad to talk about it, but turn the lights on and ditch the candles. Anyhow I do remember so many wonderful wonderful things at Duke.”
TRACK No doubt! Maryann has stories about meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, about serving in the White House visitors office under two presidents, and about writing “Breathing Easy,” a book about raising her asthmatic children. From our perspective, the point is: we love hearing from Maryann and people like her. From her perspective, the point is …
ACTUALITY Going to Duke was just one of the most wonderful times of my life and I thought I’d pass those remarkable stories along. Bye bye.
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TRACK Well, press 919-684-2863. Tell us a story and maybe we’ll share it.
At the closing events of the grand opening of the SNCC Digital Gateway (snccdigital.org/), a repository of audio, video, text, and photography about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC members raised their voices in song.
Transcript:
This is an audio postcard from Duke Magazine
[music]
Duke Libraries and the Center for Documentary Studies played a large role in the creation of the new SNCC Digital Gateway, an online repository of text, images, videos, and recordings documenting the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the national student-run group of civil rights activists in the 1960s (snccdigital.org). At closing events at Duke in March surrounding its creation, SNCC members talked about the importance of sharing their stories with today's student activists. They talked about not reinventing the wheel, about the importance of organizing, rather than merely mobilizing. The new website provides an almost limitless treasure of stories and examples. At the end of the first day of the closing conference an audience member noted that she had never seen so many SNCC members together without hearing them sing. Chuck Neblett, a member of the Freedom Singers, stood up, literally rising to the challenge. These are hard days. Here then is a gift of song from those who have been through hard days before.
NEBLETT: I think we all got to sing.
[SONG: Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round...]
Audience member: One more!
[SONG and clapping: This little light of mine]
Audience member: You still got it!
TRACK: This has been an audio postcard from Duke Magazine.
Duke University on October 5 inaugurated its tenth president, Vince Price. That gave Duke the opportunity to celebrate for a couple days in its own style. Duke Magazine produced this audio postcard.