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Rita Lo | The Chronicle After winter weather hit Durham last week, snow and ice are beginning to melt. Pictured above are stalactites which formed on the benches between Keohane Atrium and Café Edens.

ECU joins Duke in renaming of Aycock Residence Hall Emma Baccellieri News Editor Duke is no longer the only North Carolina university to have removed the name of Charles Aycock from its campus.

East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees voted Friday to rename its Aycock Residence Hall. The decision comes eight months after Duke’s Trustees decided to rename freshman dormitory Aycock as East Residence Hall—following years of student advocacy against using the former North Carolina governor, who had a welldocumented history of white supremacy, as a campus namesake. The change at ECU followed a similar student campaign.

At ECU, as at Duke, campus officials said that removing Aycock’s name from the building is not an attempt to erase his history at the university. A new campus space to be known as Heritage Hall will hold information about Aycock’s history, alongside that of others who contributed to ECU. “We believe that Aycock’s legacy to education will be better served represented in the overall history of ECU in Heritage Hall,” ECU’s Trustees said in a statement.

“We respect the new awareness and appreciation that have been gained by open discussion of values and legacies that impact our past, present and future. While

As Uber has become increasingly popular in Durham, some local cab companies have struggled to keep up.

Durham’s Best Cab was founded in 1999 by a group of close friends, and it has since become a 15-year stalwart of the Durham taxi scene. However, the company suffered a major hit in August 2014 when Uber and Lyft took off in the Triangle, according to Husam Hasanin, president of Durham’s Best Cab .

“It was mostly a revenue issue amongst the students,” Hasanin said. “When students started using Uber, we lost 30 to 40 percent of our business.”

Hasanin added that this took a toll on Durham’s Best’s drivers, who struggled with longer waiting times between calls and were unable to sustain their standard of living.

“A lot of our drivers had a hard time making money to maintain their basic life, and we had to dig deep into our pockets to try

and help them stay afloat,” Hasanin said.

Many Duke students have praised Uber, saying that it is more flexible and efficient than the traditional taxi system.

“I always use Uber because its easier and everything is managed through my cellphone and credit card,” said Diana Arguijo, a freshman.

But it is not just students that prefer Uber to traditional taxi options—many professors have begun using the service as well.

Michael Munger, professor of political science, said that his experiences with Uber have been significantly better than his experiences with traditional cab companies.

“I went out front and called the Uber software, and I was picked up in three minutes,” Munger said. “I live in the woods, and it would have taken 45 minutes with a taxi and even then I wouldn’t have been sure when they were getting close. The interface with a taxi company is just brutally rude and awkward at every point, whereas Uber is smooth.”

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Most Durham public schools receive poor grades Teachers say the state’s new rating system unfairly disadvantages some districts Sarah Kerman The Chronicle The majority of Durham Public Schools received low ratings from a new state assessment—but the results indicate an unfair rating system rather than poor education, educators and community leaders said.

The ratings, issued in school “report cards,” were released earlier this month for the first time. Of the 53 schools in DPS, 46 received letter grades of C, D or F. The system used to grade schools places a weight of 80 percent on students reaching certain Common Core testing benchmarks and 20 percent on students surpassing their performances from years past.

The school report cards were part of a new rollout of education policy initiatives for North Carolina last year that included an updated standard course of study and assessment model.

Local school board members have critiqued the new system’s emphasis on testing to measure student growth, stating that a more holistic approach should be implemented.

“The school grades are based on the children’s test scores, and I don’t believe the score accurately reflect students’ abilities or the quality of the school,” said DPS school board member Leigh Bordley.

Bordley added that grading scales can change from year to year. For example, DPS grades this year were calculated on 15 point scale, with 85 to 100 being an A. Next year,

grades will be calculated using a ten point scale, meaning that schools that maintain their score from year to year could drop into a new category.

She also expressed concern that the ratings do not consider the additional burden faced by schools serving students who live below the poverty line. In 2013-14, 65 percent of Durham students received free and reduced lunch.

“It’s really just a proxy for poverty, it really just shows how many kids a given school has that are living in poverty,” said school board member Natalie Beyer.

Mike Rogers, a fourth and fifth grade teacher at George Watts Elementary School, noted that report cards can have a harmful effect on teachers who have achieved significant growth but do not yet meet the benchmark.

“It talks about where you are at this moment rather than how far you’ve come, and it’s very disheartening to educators who have been working long hours on behalf of their children,” Rogers said.

The ratings were not a surprise to DPS leadership, said Bordley.

“We’ve known this was coming,” she said.

Teachers and administrators were briefed about estimated ratings for their schools prior to the release of the grades earlier this month, she added.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 435 in 2013. The bill mandated the inclusion of the school performance grading system.

“There is progress to be made at every school, we want all of our kids to achieve proficiency,” Bordley said. “We have to be realistic about where kids are starting and take a holistic view.”

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continued from page 1 Munger added that using Uber has decreased the amount of stress involved in getting from place to place.

“I’m not sure when I’m going to get picked up, it’s stressful and the drivers are often extremely rude and don’t speak English,” Munger said of traditional cab companies. “I also have to give detailed directions about where I’m going, whereas Uber integrates both the payment and the GPS, so I don’t have to tell the driver anything.”

Addressing these concerns, Hasanin said that Uber has pushed Durham’s Best to educate its drivers on how to interact with customers. Durham’s Best has also created a mobile app to compete directly with Uber. The app includes a description of the customer’s cab, the driver’s name and the cab’s estimated time of arrival. Customers can now schedule their taxi from the app as well.

“I think we work with the same concept as Uber,” Hasanin said. “Since we started the mobile app, business has improved a lot. The waiting times have decreased, and our efficiency has improved.”

Many taxi companies have complained that they are at an unfair disadvantage compared to Uber. Unlike traditional taxi companies, Uber is not regulated by either Durham or North Carolina, and cab companies argue that the regulation places arduous administrative burdens on them that their competitors don’t need to deal with.

“I have some sympathy for the taxi companies, because they’re playing by the rules, they’re paying their taxes, they’re accepting the regulation, and

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Uber is getting around all that,” Munger Uber similarly to taxi companies.

“I’ve been talking with some colsaid. “To the extent that the government said that only people with special licenses leagues about how we might react to this,” are allowed to drive to provide transpor- said Woodard, who works as an analyst for tation, the government lied. The govern- Duke’s Administrative Systems Management is not enforcing the rules.” ment office. “If we were to take it on, we For a while, drivers feared this uneven would look at registration, background playing field would force Durham’s Best checks for drivers, adequate insurance, to shut down, Hasanin said. He added surge pricing and the possibility of fees that pride and legacy were some of the being charged to Uber drivers.” key reasons drivers didn’t leave Durham’s Woodard added that security is one of Best when the climate soured. the reasons regulation might be necessary.

Hasanin also added that, in the long “I’ve heard people say, ‘How do you run, he thinks the unregulated nature know who Uber drivers are? Do you keep of Uber will benefit Durham’s Best and an eye on them? Do we know what kinds other traditional cab companies. of vehicles they have? Do we have any “Anything that’s not background checks?’” regulated is just going to Woodard said. “I think t was mostly a revenue people are looking for blow off,” Hasanin said.

“Our taxi cabs and drivissue amongst the stu- assurances that they’re ers must be certified by dents. When students start- going to be as safe in the state, meaning backan Uber vehicle as they ground checks, drug ed using Uber, we lost 30 to would be in a traditiontests and driving tests. 40 percent of our business. al taxi.”

The fare is regulated Durkosh wrote that — Husam Hasanin Uber would be in favor by the city—there is a certain amount we canof “smart, sensible regnot exceed. Uber does not have this stuff. ulation” to protect riders.

People who use Uber have to worry about “[We] welcome the opportunity to their safety, about surge pricing, and that’s work with local and state officials on reggoing to have an effect sooner or later.” ulations that encapsulate our innovative In an email, Uber spokesperson Kai- new business model,” she wrote. tlin Durkosh wrote that Uber currently Thomas Powers, an attorney for the city has a number of security procedures in of Charlotte, said that one of the reasons place, including background checks, in- cities currently don’t regulate the service surance, driver identification and GPS is because North Carolina law prohibits it. tracking.

Powers said that the 2013 Regulatory and “Ensuring the safety of our riders and Administrative Reform Act prohibited partners is our number one priority,” municipalities from regulating digital disDurkosh wrote. patching services such as Uber.

While Uber is currently unregulated, it Powers also acknowledged the fact has drawn the eye of legislators in the Gen- that any regulation might serve to deeral Assembly. State Senator Mike Woodard, crease the number of drivers who sign up Democrat, said that the state is definitely for Uber, but added that this should not looking into the possibility of regulating be the primary concern of regulators.

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“I think the issue is not whether or not it leads to a decrease,” Powers said. “But rather whether the community is assured of the public safety, and that’s solely the concern of regulators. We leave the rest to the private market.”

Not all taxi companies have been aversely affected by Uber’s rise. Bell Belahouel, president of Charlene’s Safe Ride, noted that he actually advises his drivers to sign up for Uber in addition to fulfilling their normal duties. In this way, Charlene’s Safe Ride has managed to make some money from the increased Uber traffic.

“We encourage all our drivers to sign up for Uber, so if I lose a customer from Charlene’s, that customer will come back to us through Uber,” Belahouel said.

He added that Charlene’s has taken advantage of Uber’s surge pricing model.

“When requested by Uber, I took someone from East to West for 25 dollars. With Charlene’s, it would have been eight,” he said.

Unlike Belahouel, Hasanin has firmly instructed his employees not to sign up for Uber.

“Uber really tries to control the market, and when they control the market they can change their policies,” Hasanin said.

“We didn’t want Uber to wipe away our identity, because we also play by the rules, and we didn’t want to break any rules.”

Ultimately, Hasanin said he feared what would happen to the city if Uber does eventually drive out the traditional taxicab industry.

“We are available to everybody. Uber does not serve the underprivileged that live in the city, people without credit cards or smartphones, “Hasanin said. “In case our kind of company isn’t available, I think a lot of people are not going to be able to make it to their work everyday.”

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event spurred in part by Aycock’s rhetoric.

His involvement with the white supremacy movement has garnered attention in continued from page 1 recent years, sparking dialogue about his legacy.

Two other local colleges have buildit has been a long process, we believe that we have arrived at the right decision for ings named after Aycock—the UniverEast Carolina University, one that supports sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North our mission, vision and s an African-Amer- Carolina at Greensboro. values.”

At Duke, Aycock’s ican, I can’t believe At both universities, the name has sparked diahistory is explained by a plaque in the entryway I rested my head in a place logue but remains unof East Residence Hall. [named for] a person that changed.

The move to rename “We’ve given this wanted my own people Aycock at ECU came afcareful thought. One ter years of discussion argument is that history dead. is history, and we can’t — Lawren Ridaux and protest. A decision could not be reached by change it by erasing,” the university’s Trustees President Richard Brodhead told The Chronicle in June, when at a December meeting, delaying the vote the renaming was announced. “But I don’t until Friday. The school’s Black Student regard this as an erasure.”

Union was at the forefront of the conResponsible for opening and support- versation, circulating student and alumni ing hundreds of public schools, Aycock was petitions advocating for the change and known as the “Education Governor” and hosting a campus panel on Aycock’s life held the office from 1901 to 1905. Aycock last week.

“As an African-American, I can’t bemade his racial views clear in a number of speeches and policies, but his involve- lieve I rested my head in a place [named ment in the white supremacy movement for] a person that wanted my own people was perhaps most explicit in his participa- dead,” Lawren Ridaux, an ECU alumna tion in the Wilmington race riots of 1898. who lived in Aycock as a freshman, wrote Darbi Griffith | Chronicle File Photo The city’s government was overthrown and on a petition. “I hate this and it needs to East Residence Hall, pictured above, was formerly known as Aycock Residence Hall but dozens of black residents were killed in an be changed.” was renamed in June following years of student protest over the building’s namesake.

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Duke cruised to a 22-point win despite Jahlil Okafor sitting with an ankle injury Nick Martin Sports Editor

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With Jahlil Okafor on the bench and Duke coming off a game in which it gave up 62 points in the paint, some worried that the Blue Devils would struggle to hold their own against the Tigers.

Justise Winslow and Quinn Cook were not among them.

Behind Winslow’s 20-point, 13-rebound performance, Duke took down Clemson 78-56 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Winslow poured in 17 first-half points, and Cook scored 17 of his gamehigh 27 points in the second half to keep the Tigers at bay and secure the Blue Devils’ seventh straight win.

“That was one of the best wins we’ve had here in a long time. After Syracuse and North Carolina the emotional wins, and Jahlil’s injury, we’re down to seven guys,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“For us to play like this is spectacular.

I’m so proud of them.... I’m not sure anybody has played any better in the league than Quinn, and he did it again today. Justise had a spectacular day.”

Playing without Okafor for the first time all season, many of the concerns before the game centered around how Duke (24-3, 11-3 in the ACC) would handle Clemson (15-12, 7-8) and its physical post players after being out-

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Senior Quinn Cook dropped 20 points or more for the third time in four games as he led the Blue Devils with 27 points in Saturday’s win against Clemson.

rebounded by North Carolina 49-33 Wednesday night.

But the concerns were quelled early as the Blue Devils dominated the paint in the first half, outscoring the Tigers 3018. This was a byproduct of the zone and 2-1-2 press implemented throughout the game as well as Duke’s willingness to get out and run—it poured in 13 fastbreak

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Freshman Justise Winslow poured in 17 of his 20 points in the first half in Saturday’s victory.

points, nine of which came off their opponent’s 10 first-half turnovers. The Blue Devils would finish the game with 14 forced turnovers and 16 points off the Clemson mistakes.

“That zone allowed us to keep it packed in, not really allow their bigs to get a lot of shots,” junior Amile Jefferson said. “Everyone...rebounded, so there weren’t a lot of offensive rebounds [and] second-chance points.”

One of the positives of having Okafor out of the paint was that it opened the lane up for Winslow to drive and slash past his man and get to the basket for easy buckets—of the Houston native’s eight field goals, six were layups and two were and-ones.

“I try to stay aggressive every game, but especially this game with Jah out, [Cook] had to step up—I had to step up,” Winslow said. “Me being aggressive really helped out the team, defensively and offensively.”

Winslow’s aggression and Cook’s sharp-shooting—the senior drained three 3-pointers in the second half after missing his two first-half attempts— allowed the Blue Devils to build up a 19-point lead out of the break.

“Justise did an amazing job of battling and fighting today,” Jefferson said. “Him and Quinn really elevated our team, and everyone else just banded around that and followed it.”

The Tigers cut the lead down to 10 with 13:57 left in the game, but Duke responded with a pair of 3-pointers from freshman Grayson Allen and Cook and would pile on a 10-0 run to push the lead to 20.

But it was not all Duke early on, as Clemson kept things close and took a five-point lead when Landry Nnoko connected on a jumper with 15:17 left to put the Tigers up 11-6. But the Blue

Devil rookies teamed up with their senior captain to get the fans at Cameron Indoor back into the game.

Freshman Grayson Allen entered the game for the first time following the under-16 media timeout, and just 50 seconds into his court-time, the rookie got the fans on their feet when he flushed an alley-oop from Cook to pull Duke within three points. Allen finished with 10 points in 18 minutes of play off the bench.

“All the kids played—Marshall gave us a huge 24 minutes [with] just his physicality and energy,” Krzyzewski said. “Grayson keeps coming on. I’m proud of my guys. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen today. What I got was a spectacular performance from this Duke team.”

Cook then converted on a jump shot and fed Winslow for a transition 3-pointer to cap a seven-point run for the Blue Devils and take back the lead at 13-11.

Clemson fought back to retake the lead on a Rod Hall jump shot, putting the Tigers up 15-13. But once again, Duke received a boost from Winslow and Allen as the two combined for the next seven points.

The pair’s scoring run coincided with a stout defensive stand for the Blue Devils as Clemson went scoreless for the next 3:14. By the time it was over, Duke had put together an 18-5 run that included 12 of Winslow’s 17 points “They had some good looks, but they missed,” Krzyzewski said. “The good thing for us is once we got a three-point lead, we didn’t let up. We had a good end-of-half with Quinn scoring.”

The Blue Devils will next take the floor Wednesday at 9 p.m. against Virginia Tech as they travel to Blacksburg, Va., to take on the Hokies for the first time this season.

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Duke falls on the road again, upset by N.C. State Meredith Cash Beat Writer RALEIGH, N.C.—After falling to the Fighting Irish in a game for the top spot in the ACC Monday night, the Blue Devils could not dig out of another double-digit hole Sunday.

Guards Miah Spencer and Dominique Wilson combined for 41 points and seven 3-pointers as unranked N.C. State upset DUKE 59 No. 10 Duke 72-59 at Reynolds Coliseum.

NCSU 72 Despite an impressive performance from Elizabeth Williams—the senior had 19 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and an assist—the Blue Devils dropped their second straight road contest and lost more ground in the conference standings.

“The game was very simple—they shot 48 percent from the three point line, 33 percent from inside the arc and we didn’t do much to stop that,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We played in spurts, and that is certainly not good enough in our league.”

Duke (20-7, 11-3 in the ACC) started out the game slowly as N.C. State (15-12, 6-8) jumped out to a 5-2 lead in the first minute. The Blue Devils rallied quickly, and strong finishes in the post from Williams and redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell moved them ahead of the Wolfpack 9-8.

It seemed that Duke might run away with the game from there, as it extended its lead to five with a 6-0 run nine minutes into the half, but N.C. State retaliated with a run of its own to cut the Blue Devils’ lead to just one point.

After a three-minute scoring drought for both teams, the Wolfpack took the lead with 6:27 left in the half.

“We honestly just didn’t finish shots,”

SPORTS Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle N.C. State guard Miah Spencer scored a season-high 23 points to lead the Wolfpack’s upset of the No. 10 Blue Devils.

Williams said. “We missed I can’t even tell you how many layups in the first half. We got a lot of the looks that we wanted, but we just didn’t finish them.”

N.C. State retained its lead until the close of the half. Sharp shooting up and down the Wolfpack rotation extended the lead in the last five minutes, and a 3-pointer by Spencer at the buzzer sent the home team into the locker room leading 31-25.

The Blue Devils started the second half with better intensity, regaining the lead within the first four minutes. But once again, N.C. State responded swiftly, knocking down three unanswered 3-pointers and forcing McCallie to call a timeout. The Wolfpack made 12 treys on the afternoon as the Blue Devils went just 3-of-18.

“We’re a paint team,” McCallie said. “We’re

not going to just start shooting great from three-point range. That’s not what we do.”

Out of the break, a Williams turnover led to another Wolfpack triple—one of Wilson’s four on the afternoon—to push the N.C. State lead to 46-35 with 13:33 to play.

Duke then went on a much-needed run, holding the Wolfpack without a basket for almost five minutes in the middle of the half.

During that stretch, Williams led a 7-0 run with four points as the Blue Devils managed to slice the deficit to four by the ten-minute mark.

“I don’t like the way our team played at all,” McCallie said. “I am not happy with the team right now. I wish they could walk home to be honest with you. [That being said], I think we can play. I think we can play with anybody. It’s just frustrating to not have more of a visionary team to see what we can do.”

The teams traded baskets from that point on, but N.C. State once again managed to pull away as the Blue Devils struggled with some of the issues that have plagued them all season— turnovers and foul trouble. Senior Ka’lia Johnson fouled out of the game with 3:26 left in the contest, and Williams, Greenwell and freshman Azura Stevens—forced to foul late to extend the game—finished the contest with four fouls each.

Duke ended with 18 turnovers compared to the Wolfpack’s seven, leading to 28 N.C. State points.

“Twenty-eight points off turnovers might be a world record,” McCallie said. “The turnovers were very poor—N.C. State didn’t really go after us in a way that you could turn the ball over. Those turnovers were 18 of the worst turnovers I have ever seen.”

The Wolfpack connected on 22-of-26 free throws—including all 10 in the final minute— to complete the upset.

Williams—a three-time All American who recently earned her 400th career block— added another benchmark onto her alreadyimpressive list of accolades. The Virginia Beach, Va., native notched her 1,000th career rebound five minutes into the second half. Her focus, however, was not on her own performance, but on how her team needs to improve.

“Mentally we just have to be tougher,” Williams said. “Down the stretch we weren’t tough, and I don’t think we embraced the challenge when they went on runs. We didn’t respond like we should have. This is definitely a mind game for everyone.”

With the loss, Duke has only two more games to get back on track before starting tournament play. The Blue Devils will finish their road stretch at Georgia Tech Thursday before hosting rival North Carolina March 1.

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Blue Devils finish 2nd overall at ACC Championships Jesús Hidalgo Beat Writer Despite being unable to take home their first ACC crown, there’s plenty of hope on the horizon for the Blue Devils fencers.

Notre Dame won both men’s and women’s team competitions of the first ACC Fencing Championships this weekend. But Duke took the second position and three freshmen of the men’s squad secured bronze medals in the individual contests.

“I’m very pleased with the performance of our team,” head coach Alex Beguinet said.

“Notre Dame was very hard rock to break for both men’s and women’s, but we did very well.

And three freshmen got medals, which is very promising for the future.”

The conference competition, held in Chapel Hill, N.C., started Saturday morning.

The Blue Devil men’s squad, ranked ninth in the country, routed North Carolina 19-8 and Boston College 20-7 in the team contest Saturday morning. The foil squad took down the Tar Heels 8-1, while the sabers registered a solid 9-0 victory against the Eagles.

In the final match, however, Duke fell to No. 2 Notre Dame 17-10. Led by freshmen Dakota Nollner, who had a 3-0 ledger, the

epée squad was the only team that beat the Fighting Irish, delivering a 5-4 victory.

“It would have been nice to beat Notre Dame,” freshman foil Jan Maceczek said. “But we fenced really well, so we can’t be upset about that.”

One Blue Devil freshman per weapon earned a bronze medal in the individual competition Saturday afternoon.

In the foil category, Maceczek reached the semifinals with nine victories during pool play.

After losing to Notre Dame’s Virgile Collineau 6-15, the Duke rookie beat Collineau’s teammate Hazem Khazbak 15-11 to secure third place.

Freshman Dean Ischiropoulos had 12 wins during pool play in the epée contest but lost to Boston College’s Ethan Grab 12-15 in the semifinals. Ischiropoulos, however, rebounded to defeat Tar Heel Matthew Shlimak 15-11 in the duel for the bronze medal.

Rounding out the rookie trio, Pascual di Tella also registered 12 victories during pool play in the saber competition. After losing 9-15 in the semifinals, the freshman captured third place by beating the Fighting Irish’s John Hallisten 15-11.

For the first time in the history of the competition, the ACC hosted a fencing contest for women. Duke finished second

again, behind second-ranked Notre Dame.

Led by the saber and foil teams going 5-4 each, the Duke women’s squad also took down the cross-town rival North Carolina 1413 Sunday morning. Notre Dame, however, defeated the Blue Devils 8-19 in the second round. In their last match, the Duke fencers bounced back and routed Boston College 18-9. The saber team, consisting of freshmen Jennifer Ling, Natalie Moszczynski and Alexandra Viqueira, beat the Eagles 9-0.

“My experience [in the team competition] was a roller coaster,” Ling said. “UNC beat us in our home meet, so we took our revenge.

Notre Dame is a really hard team, but we gave them a run for their money.”

Beguinet said that although the women’s squad had hard battles against the Eagles and the Tar Heels, he was very pleased with their victories.

Freshman saber Haley Fischer was the only fencer of the women’s squad who reached the semifinals in the individual contest Sunday afternoon. The rookie was defeating Claudia Kulmacz 13-11, but had to withdraw the contest due to injury.

“That is a very sad story,” Beguinet said.

“Haley got a concussion when she was on her way to win the bout. She was very upset about not being able to finish the match but she’s okay

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The Blue Devils had three freshmen—including Jan Maceczek—take home medals at this year’s ACC Championships.

and safe now and that’s the principal thing.”

The Duke fencers will return to competition for the NCAA Mid/South Atlantic Regional March 7 in Durham.

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Duke routs William & Mary, off to best start since 2008 Nick Martin Sports Editor Playing at the West Campus turf fields, Duke turned in another solid performance, downing William & Mary 17-7 to clinch its fifth straight win. The 5-0 opening by the Blue Devils is the best since 2008.

Coming into the game, Duke was playing its third game in seven days and was fresh off a road W&M 7 upset of then-No. 5 DUKE 17 Northwestern. Blue Devil head coach Kerstin Kimel knew that the Tribe was not a team to be overlooked—Duke barely edged out an 11-8 victory last year in Williamsburg, Va.—and pointed toward the men’s basketball’s victory against Clemson Saturday as a similar performance.

“We used the basketball team as an example.

If you watch that team and Coach K and watch how animated he was yesterday, he understood that was the ultimate trap game,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “This game, being wedged between Northwestern and Notre Dame, it could’ve been the same thing for us. I think it’s a sign of maturity for our team.”

The Blue Devils (5-0), much like men’s basketball, came out of the gate strong Sunday.

Senior Chelsea Landon posted a hat trick in the first half and was one of seven Blue Devils to find the back of the net in the opening 30 minutes.

SPORTS Lesley Chen-Young | The Chronicle Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea shutout William & Mary for the first 42:28 in Sunday’s victory.

By the time the buzzer rang for the half, Duke had amassed an 11-0 lead, marking the first time the Blue Devils have held an opponent scoreless in a half this season.

“A lot of people have stepped up this year and made it difficult for defenses to mark one person,” senior Kerrin Maurer said. “In a couple different games, we’ve had nine different scorers, and that was huge for us.

Moving forward, I think that makes it difficult for people to stop us.”

The second half was more of the same for the opening 13 minutes, as Duke netted the first three goals—two coming from Maurer— to go ahead 14-0. But as impressive as the Blue Devil offense was, it was the defense that once again came up big for the home squad.

Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea bolstered the defense with a season-high 10 saves in her 49:52 in the cage. It was not until her 42nd minute protecting the net that the Tribe (0-2) finally managed their first goal of the game, dashing any thoughts of what would have been Duke’s first shutout since a 2013 victory against Providence. But even with the goose egg on the board for the majority of the game, Duryea said she and the defense did not pay attention to it.

“I like to not think that because I feel like if I do, my mind’s not in the right place,” Duryea said. “[I am] just thinking about the next shot that’s coming. If it’s a goal, it’s a goal and I just move on to the next shot. Obviously, I’d like it to be a save, but I think today we just did a great job looking forward to the next shot.”

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Shutout aside, there is something that might be worth paying attention to in regards to the defense’s performance—for the first time since 2006, the Blue Devils have held their first five opponents to single digits. Part of the success has come from Duke’s ability to field five players who all have at least a year of experience under their belt.

“Defensively, we’ve been working on our communication and chemistry,” Duryea said. “A lot of us have played together for two years but there are some new girls getting in. Really just working to get the chemistry and anticipating what each other’s going to do, we work on that in practice, and games are great for that.”

The Blue Devils played Sunday’s game on the West Campus turf fields due to flooding in the corners of Koskinen Stadium. The unusual game environment marked the second time in as many games that Duke was forced to play in an odd setting, as it defeated Northwestern at its indoor facility Thursday.

Part of the Blue Devils’ success has been a result of their ability to adapt to different challenges, and Sunday’s change in location— announced Saturday—was another example of the focus the team brings into each game.

“A theme for us this year is we’ve got to be adaptable,” Kimel said. “Here, there, everywhere—it’s been a tough travel week. I think our kids have responded really well, and I’m really proud of them.”

Duke will have a week off to rest after its whirlwind week before opening ACC play Sunday March 1 at home against Notre Dame.

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While seemingly constructive on the surface, it is necessary to be conscious of the negative effects this new movement could have.

First, accessing one’s admissions file can affect student confidence. Discovering that one was very close to rejection can be discouraging and students who discover such may feel isolated among peers who were “sure” admits. Although it is easy to shrug off the shadow of other merit-based numbers such as SAT results, admissions scores may be perceived as a more holistic evaluation of the student as a person. Such evaluations are therefore more prone to being used as tools of ostracism and stratification.

We know that these feelings may already be common among students admitted off the waitlist, but their ability to move beyond this perception is a valuable example to be followed.

Second, from accessing files, students can glean important information about the preferences and tendencies of admissions offices.

Although such access may yield greater transparency in an otherwise murky and ambiguous admissions process, the potential negative ramifications outweigh the benefits. Knowledgeable students can share important admissions practices gleaned from their files selectively with friends and family, thus giving unfair networkbased advantages. Alternatively, this information can be bought and sold or used by admissions consulting companies as a service provided for money. Although we do not completely oppose a “market” for college admissions information, this new knowledge may be used by applicants to construct their application—and even their whole high school experience—as a targeted effort tailored to the admission tendencies of a specific school rather than as a reflection of their holistic growth as a person.

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it promotes admissions transparency. Officers now must own up to their policies and will be incentivized to eliminate criteria that they are ashamed of. However, these same results would more easily come about if admissions offices were pushed to release detailed aggregate data on admissions procedures. If communal transparency is our goal, allowing individual students to minutely study their files for personal satisfaction might not be the best way to achieve it.

We cannot stop a process already underway, but we can try to minimize its negative effects.

If you do choose to examine your files, or learn the admissions information of other people, take everything with a grain of salt. There must be a healthy skepticism on the ability of admissions officers to effectively evaluate the true character and competency of an individual from an array of scores and short essays. An admissions score is, therefore, more of an entertaining tidbit rather than a total judgment of a student. Finally, students’ activities and standing on campus are far more important than the specifics of how they got there. These backwardlooking curiosities should never detract from a sense of future potential.

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I do not blame them for growing apart though I wish they’d tried harder to grow back together. I understand that life is a series of hellos and goodbyes that we must learn to adapt to. I just don’t recognize who they have become. Divorce, for everyone involved, is never easy at any age. Adults, however, are expected to get over it because they, at least, enjoyed a wonderful upbringing. A friend of mine told me that “I’m lucky my parents were together for the most important part of my life.” I am in no way ungrateful for the childhood my parents

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18 OR OVER and over again. When relationships, friendships and marriages end, we must accept the mess our bodies have made and mop ourselves up. There is currently a cleanup back home, and I am 800 miles away from the damage. I am a phone call away from my mom, and a text message away from my dad—struggling to bear the weight of their problems, trying my best to comfort them both.

Though I have always held multiple hearts in my own, their pain has never overwhelmed me as much as today. 22 years of marriage has run its course and the family I grew up with is breaking apart. I know it is ultimately out of my control; a child cannot save a marriage. This is not about me, but about my parents, their happiness and their right to happiness. I know. I get it. But, I still have the right to react. To feel confusion and loss.

To question the only love I thought would last forever. It’s scary. Because I have always looked at my parents’ marriage with stars in my eyes—as the ideal union of a shared and trusting life exploration.

It is because of them that I love love. The thought of their marriage slipping through my fingers and the sheer, inevitable helplessness I now face, is sincerely unsettling. I question how love could last in my own relationship if it couldn’t last in the example set before me. I wonder if my house can ever be a home if I can’t find them drinking wine

granted me. We were a team of three against the world—traveling, exploring, fighting, loving. The two of them, together, are my constant, my rock.

And it is the loss of this unit, this togetherness, which makes this blow especially hard to handle.

I understand now that words are easily lost between two—that grudges are powerful enough to eat away at even the strongest of relationships.

I would rather acknowledge their separate lives than force an unhappy one; would rather support their decision than return home to empty eyes and crooked smiles. If a more abundant future is to be built apart, then it must be the right thing for them both.

They showed me 19 years of companionship, and I will show them 19 more of support, but it is an emotional and traumatic event to accept. If you too are in the midst of something similar, I can’t tell you to feel better. I can only tell you to have patience. There are bad and better days, but it will get easier to accept and understand. Now more than ever, they need your unbiased support. Remember that, even apart, your parents will love you no less.

You owe it to them to continue growing—to live and love with the utmost intensity.

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Duke is a progressive, equality-driven institution.”

Phrases like those paint an optimistic image of Duke. Duke has its social problems, but it usually isn’t long before they are addressed in some sort of campus dialogue or another. With programs like the Me Too Monologues, You’re Not Alone and Common Ground, most marginalized groups have some degree of a platform. So you can imagine my surprise at a recent RA team building activity, when the question “are housekeepers discriminated against?” was asked, and everyone instantly responded “yes.”

I could definitely understand the answer, but I would not have jumped to that conclusion so quickly. And with the help of the team, here are some of the reasons we came up with.

Most housekeepers are members of minority ethnic groups that have historically been marginalized. I cannot speak for all of Duke’s campus, but in my four years at Duke, I have only seen two housekeepers who were not African American or Hispanic. When those minorities make up a significant portion of the employees working at the Duke minimum wage of $12 an hour, that probably contributes to our association of those minorities with their socioeconomic status.

James Tian ONISM But ethnicity and socioeconomic status aren’t likely the sole reason for this discrimination at Duke. The Duke community at least is described with pride for its inclusivity, and I don’t think our student body is that shallow. We kept thinking.

What about the nature of being a housekeeper?

I’ve seen people often leave trash around a common room, thinking that the housekeeper will clean up after them the next morning. I almost universally observe a complete absence of worry about vomit or clogged toilets—it’ll all be someone else’s responsibility soon. It isn’t uncommon for RAs to send emails to their hall urging residents not to make a large mess over a three day weekend. No, that’s not to help the housekeeper. It’s so the residents don’t have to live with the mess for an extra day… until the housekeeper comes in and cleans it.

Housekeeping is supposed to consist of basic cleaning tasks, yet when a huge mess is made, we still expect them to clean it up. This creates a dangerous hierarchy of power that leads to their exploitation and disrespect. Duke needs to manage expectations for housekeeping and create student accountability for messes.

So why should the average Duke student care?

After all, we are very busy people who would gladly pay someone else to clean up our messes.

And by the nature of the institution we attend, we probably think we have more glamorous lives in our futures. But this relationship is also problematic and adds to the dangerous hierarchy that leads to disrespect.

Besides the obvious reasons of respect and integrity, there are strong reasons to respect housekeepers. Though we may be ambitious, we are still young and naïve. A 50-year-old housekeeper has much more wisdom than a 20-year-old college student, no matter what the student is studying.

The professors and doctors I respect the most know they can learn something from anyone and to treat any person as their equal. Doing so keeps them humbled and grounded, which is a vital component of their lives. No matter how ambitious their resumes, they measure their character by how they treat those of a lesser status.

So let’s talk about what we can do. For one, each quad has a resident cleaning closet. If you make a mess that can be cleaned up, use those supplies and clean them. Housekeepers almost always take a lunch break around noon. You can catch them in the kitchens heating up their food. If you aren’t bothering them, introduce yourself and thank them for their hard work. Apparently, housekeepers aren’t even allowed to be in the common room with a student. Break that rule. Get to know your housekeeper. Lastly, housekeeping appreciation week is March 23-27th. It’s not for another month, but mark that down in your calendar. Work with

edit pages your house council, or do something special for your housekeeper on your own.

Upon reflection, I realized the most important value from housekeepers is that they are actually all unique people who take pride in their work. Many of them are proud to work for Duke, making the facilities we live in desirable. Good, clean facilities are just as important in a top ten university as the professors, students and ideas. We should respect them just as they respect themselves as an integral part of the university.

At this point though, you’re probably wondering what Coach Cutcliffe has to do with any of this.

Well, when Cutcliffe first came to interview at Duke, he drove through the night and arrived at Duke very early. Here is an account of his visit.

“I got on this campus about 3 o’clock in the morning. I went in and out of buildings, talked to some of the housekeeping people. They were more like me than anybody I met, to be honest with you.

My kind of people. I just liked their pride in being a Duke employee. I asked them about that, about what was good about working for Duke.”

If the most popular man at Duke not named Coach K could see the values and dedication of the housekeepers, then perhaps we can reflect on our attitudes as well. Instead of disrespecting a group of people we tend to think are below us, let us value them, as Coach Cutcliffe has, for their unique contribution and pride for their work.

James Tian is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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shmael here! Due to our Blue Devils’ last minute public lashing of Chapel Hill’s Basketball Demimonde, I am currently suffering from hangover as treacherous as the Ten-Day War. I am also nursing second-degree burns from my most recent attempt to make celebratory bonfire out of Penn Pavilion in sacrifice to the rivalry gods. Unfortunately, I was caught by the Duke University riot police for these actions and sentenced to three years of maintaining main quad mulch paths.

No matter how much I boast about my epic blackout actions on YikYak, my fraternity GroupMe and Pinterest, I cannot fix fact that I have been lying in my dorm bed since Thursday morning, incontinent and without beautiful Shooters woman to comfort me. Since these burns make it difficult even for my hands to perform most basic pleasurable tasks like typing, I will provide you readers instead with exclusive transcripts from my newest occupation on the Duke campus.

Recently, as you may know, I have been knighted as new donation soldier for the Duke Phonathon. There, I am bequeathed with extraordinary task of begging for donations from Duke Alumni. I am unsurprised to find that this task is not very different than begging for affection from Duke female: often one is met with busy indifference; more often one is met with disgust. But with enough charm and manipulation, one can achieve returns that while certainly more than nothing, are nonetheless under-target! Anyway, much like in the glorious illiberal democracy of Zembla, my calls are monitored by the Duke Phonathon overlords. Here is exclusive excerpt from Phonathon transcript I have located: Susan, 56, Greenwich, CT: Mmmyello?

Ishmael: This must be Susan. Hello and how are you, Susan?

Susan: I’m…well. Who is speaking, please?

Monday Monday PEACE! LAND! BRODHEAD! Ishmael: This is Ishmael, Susan. Susan…ah, such a pretty name that is.

I am sure you must know this. I detect in this disyllabic dulcet a sultry sibilance that simultaneously triggers within me a bodily tingling and a fervent longing for my mother tongue. O, I could repeat your name forever, Susan!

Susan… [Hangs up] [Second call] Susan, 56, Greenwich, CT: Yes? Ishmael: You made a grave mistake, Susan. Do not turn your back on me.

Susan: Please stop calling this number. I have no time for this. Call again and I will— Ishmael: Do not get so cross, sweetheart. This call is no prank. I am calling about your son, Paul. What a great boy, he is. Wouldn’t you agree? So smart, he is. Biomedical Engineer, pre-med, star actor on “Me Too Monologues” and facilitator of the Common Ground. Such a sensitive soul. He was destined for such great things. What a shame it would be if…

Susan: What…

Ishmael: Oh have you not been informed?

Susan: Enough with this! My boy is alright I spoke with him last week.

Ishmael: Last week, an eternity ago! When the world was still bright for Paul and the Chapel still a shining bastion of Paul’s future. He does not call you enough, does he? You must have spoken with him before the surfacing of the binge drinking, the dorm-room noise complaints, his accumulation of parking violations. Before life toppled from beneath him like the secondfloor of a Soviet-era Zemblian village hut. Life is much bleaker for Paul now. He is catatonic in a gothic basement-cell, shivering in his Vineyard Vines fleece. He has exhausted his FLEX and is in crippling debt. He has an orgo test for which he cannot study. If he is not freed soon, he may…he may fail orgo.

Susan: [Sobbing]. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?!

Ishmael: Susan, Susan, Susan. I must admit that your weeping does something to me. Your voice is now so exquisitely hollow. Susan, do not fret.

I have told you my name. Besides, it is not me who is important. I did not imprison your dear child. He imprisoned himself. I want him to be orthopedic surgeon as much as you do, my sweet honeysuckle. But in order to help him, I need your help. I need a payment of $2,000.

Susan: [Weeping subsides into confused whimper] Wha-what?

Ishmael: Yes, Miss. I will need $2,000. For this charitable donation I can guarantee you the freedom and nourishment of your son, along with mainquad bench named after your honorable family. I would be willing to accept this gift in the form of check, money order or credit card.

Susan: I can give you $200.

Ishmael: Wonderful! Deal! Thank you so much Susan. Your son will be very grateful to have his life back. We have saved him, and in doing so have pushed Duke Forward. I see in Paul’s future wonderful grade point average, many satisfying hook-ups, and liberating three-year healthcare consulting hiatus before he ultimately abandons his puerile medical dreams. You are such a beautiful person, Susan. Suuuu-sannn. [Line goes dead] As you can see, I take this job very seriously. It is of utmost importance to me that my precious Duke University moves Forward with endowment larger than GDP of Mongolia so that it may continue to offer top-notch research opportunities to Harvard rejects! It is due to my patriotic efforts that I am named Mr. Employee of the Month and given a glorious $50 bonus to feed myself. Ciao!

Ishmael is currently under investigation by three different offices at Duke.

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The Chronicle

This Weekend at Duke

Samantha Schafrank | The Chronicle Members of the senior class reunited at their East Campus dormitories Thursday evening.

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle The Alpha Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. collected canned goods and clothing for the to benefit the Durham Rescue Mission Thursday evening.

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle The Alpha Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. hosted a Black History Month quiz bowl at the Mary Lou Williams Center Sunday evening.

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