1990 Duke Yearlook
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(intense music) | 0:03 | |
(upbeat music) | 0:20 | |
♪ Calling out around the world ♪ | 0:28 | |
♪ Are you ready for a brand new beat ♪ | 0:32 | |
♪ Summer's here and the time is right ♪ | 0:36 | |
♪ For dancing in the street ♪ | 0:40 | |
♪ They're dancing in Chicago ♪ | 0:42 | |
♪ Down in New Orleans ♪ | 0:46 | |
♪ In New York City ♪ | 0:50 | |
♪ All we need is music, sweet music ♪ | 0:53 | |
♪ There'll be music everywhere ♪ | 0:58 | |
♪ There'll be swinging swaying records playing ♪ | 1:03 | |
♪ Dancing in the street ♪ | 1:07 | |
♪ Oh it doesn't matter what you wear ♪ | 1:09 | |
♪ Just as long as you are there ♪ | 1:14 | |
♪ So come on every guy grab a girl ♪ | 1:17 | |
♪ Everywhere around the world ♪ | 1:22 | |
♪ They'll be dancing ♪ | 1:25 | |
♪ They're dancing in the street ♪ | 1:28 | |
♪ It's just an invitation across the nation ♪ | 1:33 | |
♪ A chance for folks to meet ♪ | 1:37 | |
♪ There'll be laughing, singing, music swinging ♪ | 1:40 | |
♪ Dancing in the street ♪ | 1:45 | |
♪ Philadelphia, PA ♪ | 1:47 | |
♪ Baltimore and D.C. now ♪ | 1:51 | |
♪ Can't forget the Motor City ♪ | 1:55 | |
♪ All we need is music, sweet music ♪ | 1:58 | |
♪ There'll be music everywhere ♪ | 2:03 | |
♪ There'll be swinging, swaying, records playing ♪ | 2:07 | |
♪ Dancing in the street ♪ | 2:11 | |
♪ Oh it doesn't matter what you wear ♪ | 2:14 | |
♪ Just as long as you are there ♪ | 2:18 | |
♪ So come on every guy grab a girl ♪ | 2:22 | |
♪ Everywhere around the world ♪ | 2:27 | |
♪ They're dancing ♪ | 2:30 | |
♪ They're dancing in the street ♪ | 2:33 | |
♪ Way down in L.A. ♪ | 2:37 | |
♪ Every day ♪ | 2:39 | |
♪ They're dancing in the street ♪ | 2:40 | |
♪ Let's form a big, strong line ♪ | 2:44 | |
♪ Get in time, we're dancing in the street ♪ | 2:46 | |
♪ Across the ocean blue, me and you ♪ | 2:51 | |
(crowd cheering) | 2:54 | |
Interviewer 1 | So do you feel that this is the, | 2:58 |
the culmination of four years of academic excellence? | 2:58 | |
- | No, I think it's just the beginning | 3:03 |
of a really long morning. | 3:03 | |
Interviewer 2 | Describe Duke in one word. | 3:06 |
- | Fun, just fun. | 3:08 |
- | Challenging. | 3:10 |
- | Outstanding, outstanding experience. | 3:11 |
- | Well, New Jersey is two words, so. | 3:15 |
- | Duke in one word, good question. | 3:18 |
He's got a good question. | 3:20 | |
- | I'm grateful for what this institution has made me. | 3:21 |
- | Oh boy. | 3:26 |
- | Duke- | 3:27 |
- | There is no one word. | 3:28 |
- | Duke in one word. | 3:29 |
- | Hot, very hot. | 3:30 |
- | Oh, that's a hard question, just one- | 3:34 |
- | I think dynamics is a good word, because this, a lot, | 3:36 |
a lot of, a lot goes on at Duke. | 3:39 | |
- | Intense. | 3:42 |
- | Beautiful. | 3:45 |
- | It's been a hell of a beautiful place to go to school. | 3:47 |
(trumpet playing) | 3:53 | |
- | You know, they keep on saying that | 4:13 |
students at Duke are apathetic, | 4:14 | |
or that they're very, not very interested | 4:15 | |
in changing reality, | 4:17 | |
and I keep on saying, where are these apathetic students? | 4:18 | |
Because I never get them. | 4:21 | |
Interviewer 1 | What about Duke? | 4:22 |
- | What about Duke? | 4:23 |
Trying to figure out whether | 4:28 | |
I gave more to Duke or Duke gave more to me. | 4:29 | |
- | No, I think it was a good education. | 4:32 |
Yeah. | 4:34 | |
That's, I have a good sense of that. | 4:34 | |
Of course, women's studies was a big part of that. | 4:35 | |
- | I think they also need to be a lot more aware | 4:37 |
of the, the safety problems on campus. | 4:40 | |
And, some of the, | 4:43 | |
I think they should put a little more energy | 4:45 | |
into their race relations things on campus. | 4:48 | |
Since I've been here, it's kind of been really | 4:51 | |
a low level issue that people talk about a lot, | 4:53 | |
but not very many, like, big steps have been made. | 4:56 | |
(crowd clapping) | 5:23 | |
- | I'm not playing. | 5:26 |
- | Did you ever meet Maurice, you know, Rothschild? | 5:31 |
- | No, I didn't. | 5:33 |
- | You didn't, huh? | 5:35 |
- | No. | 5:35 |
- | I met him once. | 5:36 |
You heard, you heard about what's going on, didn't you? | 5:37 | |
- | Yeah, I know, I know what's going on in his story. | 5:38 |
- | What do you think about that? | 5:41 |
Like big scandal at Duke university, what do you think? | 5:43 | |
- | I think that there are a lot of very unaware people. | 5:45 |
(group singing) | 5:50 | |
♪ What you've done for me ♪ | 5:51 | |
♪ I can't forget how you set me free ♪ | 5:54 | |
♪ I can't forget how you brought me ♪ | 5:58 | |
- | Maurice is a very good story. | 6:00 |
I guess, the fraud extraordinaire | 6:01 | |
- | I mean, I didn't know him, | 6:05 |
but it would seem to me that it was pretty obvious, | 6:07 | |
that, I mean he didn't even speak French, did he? | 6:08 | |
- | Well, that's what I heard. | 6:10 |
- | We all planned to go to France for the summer. | 6:12 |
- | I think it's funny that he, he could do it | 6:15 |
and he got away with doing it. | 6:17 | |
I think, I mean more power to him. | 6:18 | |
He had a good time while it lasted. | 6:21 | |
- | Wasn't he, how old was he? | 6:22 |
- | Supposedly he was- | 6:24 |
- | 37? | 6:26 |
- | If he can pull the wool over everyone's eyes, | 6:27 |
let him do it. | 6:29 | |
It's going to catch up to you sometime, but, | 6:31 | |
bravo. | 6:34 | |
♪ I can't forget how you set me free ♪ | 6:37 | |
♪ I can't forget how you brought me out ♪ | 6:42 | |
- | We've been organizing Earth Week and Earth Day, | 6:46 |
and I think the general purpose across the world | 6:48 | |
is that we're giving people the option | 6:51 | |
of taking action instead of just sitting at home | 6:53 | |
and thinking, God, the environment's in a terrible state, | 6:57 | |
but there's nothing we can do. | 6:59 | |
We're finding concrete alternatives | 7:00 | |
for people to take action on. | 7:03 | |
- | Something I'm more active, like recycling. | 7:07 |
We did that earlier today. | 7:09 | |
And it's a type thing, that, | 7:11 | |
I mean, you'll take some more of an active part | 7:13 | |
which we want to encourage. | 7:15 | |
♪ I'm singing praise to the Father ♪ | 7:18 | |
- | It's an extraordinary time to be alive | 7:21 |
after growing up being told about the evil empire, | 7:22 | |
you've seen four Soviets in succession kickoff. | 7:26 | |
All of a sudden, it's as hard to keep up | 7:31 | |
with the rapidly changing events in Eastern Europe | 7:33 | |
as the Pits Men or the ACC standing. | 7:35 | |
- | I was in Shanghai, which is a fairly westernized city, | 7:38 |
at the time that the wall came down. | 7:41 | |
But still, it was kind of strange to see | 7:43 | |
that there was not much of that radical change | 7:46 | |
happening in China, | 7:49 | |
and people I talked to there thought | 7:50 | |
that it was a bad thing that was happening in Europe. | 7:52 | |
- | I just think that it's, it's fantastic, | 7:55 |
and I'm glad that we're around to witness it. | 7:58 | |
It's amazing that it happens to be happening | 8:01 | |
at the end of this millennium. | 8:03 | |
♪ I can't forget what you've done for me ♪ | 8:05 | |
♪ I can't forget how you set me free ♪ | 8:10 | |
♪ I can't forget how you brought me out ♪ | 8:15 | |
♪ I can't forget, no, never ♪ | 8:20 | |
♪ You brought me out of the miry clay ♪ | 8:25 | |
♪ You put my feet on the rock to stay ♪ | 8:30 | |
♪ You put a song in my soul today ♪ | 8:35 | |
♪ I can't forget, no ♪ | 8:40 | |
♪ I can't forget, no ♪ | 8:42 | |
♪ I can't forget, no ♪ | 8:44 | |
♪ Never ♪ | 8:47 | |
(applause) | 8:52 | |
- | He said you can come up. | 8:54 |
You can be very good filmmaker but, | 8:55 | |
these films don't fall within | 8:58 | |
the realm of the black establishment, | 8:59 | |
you'll get the boot. | 9:02 | |
My first film was a film called Answer. | 9:03 | |
Its about a young, black screenwriter, | 9:06 | |
20 minutes long, a young, black screenwriter who's hired | 9:08 | |
to direct a 50, a $50,000,000 remake of Birth of a Nation. | 9:11 | |
(audience laughs) | 9:17 | |
- | The black community did not like that. | 9:20 |
(audience laughs) | 9:21 | |
In any area, when you're black, | 9:24 | |
when you're African American and you try to succeed, | 9:25 | |
whether it's corporate America, | 9:28 | |
or entertainment world, or athletics, | 9:31 | |
you'll ask anybody who is successful, | 9:35 | |
and they'll tell you they knew they had to be | 9:38 | |
10 times better than they're fellow white counterparts, | 9:39 | |
and that's where Earnest and I approached it. | 9:42 | |
- | What was the question? | 9:49 |
Interviewer 2 | What are gonna be some | 9:51 |
of your best memories? | 9:52 | |
- | The shot, when Lightner hit the shot- | 9:53 |
- | The shot. | 9:54 |
- | And put us into the final four. | 9:56 |
- | If you had to describe Duke in just one word, | 9:57 |
what would it be? | 9:59 | |
- | Basketball. | 10:00 |
(crowd cheering) | 10:02 | |
Interviewer 2 | What's gonna be | 10:10 |
among your best memories of these four years at Duke? | 10:11 | |
- | Hmm, let's see. | 10:13 |
- | Basketball, camping out. | 10:16 |
- | Basketball was cool. | 10:18 |
(woman laughs) | 10:20 | |
(crowd cheering) | 10:21 | |
- | I'll always remember camping out. | 10:30 |
(upbeat music) | 10:32 | |
♪ I know you wanna leave me ♪ | 10:33 | |
♪ But I refuse to let you go ♪ | 10:35 | |
♪ If I have to beg and plead for your sympathy ♪ | 10:39 | |
♪ I don't mind, 'cause you mean that much to me ♪ | 10:43 | |
♪ Ain't too proud to beg and you know it ♪ | 10:46 | |
♪ Please don't leave me girl ♪ | 10:50 | |
♪ Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby ♪ | 10:54 | |
♪ Please don't leave me, girl ♪ | 10:58 | |
♪ Now I heard a cryin' man ♪ | 11:03 | |
♪ Is half a man, with no sense of pride ♪ | 11:05 | |
♪ But if I have to cry to keep you ♪ | 11:10 | |
♪ I don't mind weepin' if it'll keep you by my side ♪ | 11:13 | |
♪ Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin' ♪ | 11:18 | |
♪ Please don't leave me girl ♪ | 11:22 | |
(woman laughs) | 11:27 | |
- | Hi, this is April and Judy here, | 11:30 |
and we have two big questions for you. | 11:32 | |
Number one, have you figured out Palm City yet? | 11:33 | |
As soon as you do, give us a call. | 11:36 | |
Point number two. | 11:38 | |
- | Oh, we'd like all you guys to support | 11:39 |
the Duke soccer team and football team and basketball team, | 11:40 | |
cause this year Duke is awesome at all the sports. | 11:43 | |
- | Duke is hot. | 11:45 |
We are number one- | 11:46 | |
- | Number one. | 11:48 |
Carolina, go to- | 11:48 | |
(marching band playing) | 11:49 | |
- | D-U-K-E. | 11:54 |
- | Don't forget, as soon as you figure out Palm City, | 11:56 |
let us know. | 11:57 | |
(women laugh) | 11:59 | |
(upbeat music) | 12:01 | |
Commentator | And that's it, it's over. | 12:21 |
The fans stormed the field. | 12:23 | |
The goal posts die an honorable death, | 12:25 | |
and it's celebration time on the Duke campus. | 12:26 | |
The seventh rank Tigers go home with one in the loss column. | 12:29 | |
- | First of all, I think, before the season start, | 12:33 |
I think everybody had the level of confidence | 12:35 | |
that we could win, | 12:37 | |
and we can go out there and compete with anybody we play. | 12:38 | |
And I think we need to, you know, after this game, you know, | 12:40 | |
kind of go back and reflect about our goals | 12:43 | |
and what we established for ourselves | 12:45 | |
before the season even started, | 12:47 | |
and maybe come together as far as like, you know, | 12:48 | |
we can win these next coming ball games, | 12:50 | |
and we can perform well. | 12:52 | |
(upbeat music) | 12:54 | |
(players shouting) | 13:53 | |
(whistle blows) | 14:04 | |
(applause) | 15:07 | |
(crowd cheering) | 15:57 | |
- | It's a true privilege, | 16:26 |
on behalf of the university community, its friends, | 16:28 | |
to welcome back to Duke and Cambridge, | 16:33 | |
this year's basketball champions. | 16:36 | |
(crowd cheering) | 16:38 | |
(upbeat music) | 16:41 | |
- | I never knew until this year's juniors | 18:45 |
started winning, | 18:49 | |
some of the banders started going off, | 18:52 | |
how great Cameron was. | 18:56 | |
And the people who come in campus and make it that way, | 18:57 | |
it's, to me this is the most special place | 19:03 | |
in the whole world, | 19:06 | |
as far as college basketball is concerned. | 19:07 | |
Interviewer 2 | If you had to give | 19:18 |
an incoming freshman for next year advice | 19:19 | |
on how to get the best education at Duke, | 19:22 | |
what would it be? | 19:24 | |
- | Don't take any classes. | 19:25 |
(chuckles) | 19:26 | |
- | No, it would be to get involved | 19:27 |
in something outside of the classroom, | 19:29 | |
like community service, or project- | 19:30 | |
Well I mean, any number of things, like, | 19:33 | |
just something that gets you involved as a student | 19:34 | |
with either something going on at Duke or in Durham, | 19:37 | |
because that's where you learn the most | 19:39 | |
and that's where you have the most fun, | 19:40 | |
and that's where you grow the most, so. | 19:42 | |
- | I agree. | 19:44 |
- | Just to come in with a firm idea of what you want, | 19:45 |
but then be open to experience just everything | 19:48 | |
that Duke has to offer. | 19:50 | |
- | Get involved in everything that school has to offer. | 19:53 |
There's so many opportunities here to take advantage of. | 19:54 | |
- | Activate. | 19:58 |
- | Yes, yeah, activate. | 19:59 |
Seek out the, the less publicized clubs | 20:00 | |
and go to all the talks, go to lectures, | 20:03 | |
forget about doing your homework and, and- | 20:06 | |
- | This school's got a lot to offer besides just academics, | 20:09 |
and I encourage everyone to take advantage of that. | 20:13 | |
- | Oh definitely, it's a better part of the education. | 20:15 |
Go to demonstrations, get involved in activist clubs, | 20:18 | |
seek things out, so. | 20:22 | |
- | Yeah, it's really a great institution | 20:25 |
and I hope all incoming freshmen | 20:28 | |
have as great a time as I did. | 20:31 | |
(acapella music) | 20:35 | |
(calm music) | 20:45 | |
♪ O Trinity of love and power ♪ | 21:07 | |
♪ Our brethren shield in danger's hour ♪ | 21:13 | |
♪ From rock and tempest, fire and foe ♪ | 21:18 | |
♪ Protect them whereso'er they go ♪ | 21:24 | |
♪ That ever let them rise to Thee ♪ | 21:29 | |
♪ While hymns are praise from air and sea ♪ | 21:35 | |
- | It's sort of sad for me | 21:43 |
because most of my friends are younger than I am | 21:44 | |
and I'm going to miss them. | 21:46 | |
I'll miss people at Duke a lot. | 21:47 | |
I think that was the best part of my entire Duke career, | 21:48 | |
was just the people I met and friends I made. | 21:51 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 21:53 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 21:56 | |
(marching band plays) | 22:09 | |
- | There are very few instructions | 24:13 |
for our commencement speaker at Duke university | 24:14 | |
with the exception of the slogan | 24:16 | |
on this young man's waterboard right in front of me. | 24:17 | |
(audience laughs) | 24:20 | |
He has a sign that says, don't have a cow man. | 24:21 | |
(audience laughs) | 24:25 | |
I do not intend to. | 24:31 | |
Here we mark a time. | 24:35 | |
Your commencement, your step. | 24:36 | |
We pray bold from the sanctuary of the Academy | 24:39 | |
to the heady temptations of a changing world. | 24:41 | |
We mark this time, the class of 1990, | 24:44 | |
not simply as a whimsical exercise, | 24:46 | |
and not simply because on these occasions, | 24:49 | |
we genuflect to tradition. | 24:51 | |
For those of us who are visitors | 24:54 | |
or relatives or mere ornaments, | 24:56 | |
this is a moment that we are happy to share with you | 24:58 | |
and privileged to witness. | 25:01 | |
We'll carry it from here in a locket of our memory. | 25:02 | |
For you, however, it is more than a moment. | 25:06 | |
It is more than a fleeting sensation | 25:10 | |
to be recalled intermittently. | 25:12 | |
For you, this is your time, 1990. | 25:14 | |
You'll carry it with you the rest of your lives. | 25:19 | |
The members of the class of 1990, | 25:22 | |
inseparably bound to the events of their time. | 25:25 | |
Your time, 1990, is also a time of transition, | 25:29 | |
but unlike mine, yours is a time of explosive, | 25:32 | |
dizzying, exhilarating, cataclysmic change. | 25:36 | |
I like to remind young people on these occasions, | 25:41 | |
it's easy to make a buck, | 25:45 | |
it's tougher to make a difference. | 25:48 | |
Or shorter still in the words of another friend of mine, | 25:50 | |
Spike Lee, | 25:56 | |
do the right thing. | 25:58 | |
Congratulations to all of you. | 25:59 | |
(applause) | 26:01 | |
- | And now as you go forth from this day, | 26:12 |
I want each of you to know that you go with our hopes, | 26:14 | |
our fears, our confidence and encouragement, | 26:17 | |
and with our love. | 26:21 | |
Congratulations to every one of you. | 26:22 | |
Godspeed. | 26:25 | |
(applause) | 26:26 | |
(calm music) | 26:29 | |
(crowd cheers) | 26:32 | |
(upbeat music) | 26:44 | |
Speaker 1 | I've been in the Bay area | 26:55 |
for about 20 years. | 26:56 | |
I've never seen anything like this. | 26:57 | |
Speaker 2 | It's almost unbelievable | 26:58 |
that we could construct something like this | 26:59 | |
that would be so vulnerable. | 27:01 | |
Speaker 3 | We have no gas, no refrigerator, no lights. | 27:03 |
The house is halfway gone. | 27:06 | |
What are we supposed to do? | 27:07 | |
(intense music) | 27:09 | |
- | This is crack cocaine. | 27:10 |
Speaker 4 | The cartels fight back against our police | 27:12 |
protecting a multi-dollar enterprise. | 27:16 | |
Speaker 5 | Noriega is a very skilled man. | 27:20 |
He eluded us. | 27:23 | |
He's not running drugs, he's not running Panama. | 27:24 | |
At present he's just running. | 27:26 | |
Speaker 6 | The United States is eager to work | 27:27 |
with the Panamanian people to rebuild their economy. | 27:29 | |
(intense music) | 27:32 | |
Speaker 7 | Think about the way in which | 27:47 |
some countries handle dissent. | 27:48 | |
One has to be proud of what the Supreme Court did. | 27:50 | |
(crowd singing) | 27:55 | |
Speaker 8 | A new breeze is blowing | 27:59 |
across the Soviet Union. | 27:59 | |
Let this spirit of openness grow. | 28:01 | |
In short, tear down the iron curtain. | 28:05 | |
- | We want to be free. | 28:09 |
Free. | 28:11 | |
(intense music) | 28:12 | |
(upbeat music) | 28:16 | |
- | Sparks, I'm out of here. | 28:43 |
Interviewer 2 | What do you remember most | 28:46 |
about the eighties? | 28:47 | |
- | The eighties? | 28:48 |
Bell bottoms, disco. | 28:50 | |
Oh that was the seventies. | 28:52 | |
My mistake. | 28:53 | |
- | You said make it easy? | 28:54 |
Okay, describe Duke in one word. | 28:56 | |
Diverse. | 28:58 | |
(man laughs) | 29:00 | |
- | Don't you do something wacky to get into the Ehrlich | 29:01 |
or something like that? | 29:03 | |
Interviewer 1 | When you guys look back on the eighties, | 29:05 |
what would be the thing you remember most? | 29:07 | |
- | Michael Jackson. | 29:10 |
- | Why don't you feel this question, Karen? | 29:13 |
- | The entire decade. | 29:16 |
- | Probably Ronald Reagan. | 29:17 |
(laughing) | 29:18 | |
- | Because why? | 29:20 |
- | Because we came of age in the Reagan era, | 29:20 |
and I think it's formed us, shaped us. | 29:24 | |
- | Good answer, good answer. | 29:26 |
- | You proud of that? | 29:28 |
- | No. | 29:29 |
(laughing) | 29:30 | |
Interviewer 2 | What will you remember most | 29:32 |
about your time here at Duke? | 29:33 | |
- | I'll remember, I'll say | 29:35 |
I'll remember the friends that I made | 29:36 | |
because that's been the most important thing | 29:37 | |
to me about being here. | 29:39 | |
- | I'll never forget the people. | 29:41 |
I think there'll be friends of mine for the rest of my life. | 29:42 | |
- | Yeah, I'll miss it. | 29:45 |
It's been a blast. | 29:46 |
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