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game with fouling and controlling the clock. We got key rebounds, Quinn hit big free throws and that’s how we won this game.”

The Seminoles (13-12, 5-7 in the ACC) made a furious comeback with two minutes remaining in the second half.

After trailing by 10 with 4:19 remaining, a late steal and pair of free throws from Devon Bookert cut the lead to four with 2:11 left. Then, after a Duke shot clock violation, Xavier Rathan-Mayes converted on a layup with 11.9 seconds remaining to make it a one-point ball game.

Three free throws from Cook and one from Bookert pushed the Duke lead to 73-70, but Bookert could not convert from the line with 1.8 seconds remaining, giving the Blue Devils (21-3, 8-3) the win.

Lost among the back-and-forth scoring was what Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski called the “play of the game” in the locker room following the contest. Sophomore Matt Jones—who finished with no points on 0-of-5 shooting

Approximately a year after Lewis McLeod was first found responsible for sexual misconduct by an undergraduate conduct board hearing, a date has been set for his trial against the University—and his time in court will be another year away.

McLeod, who entered Duke with the Class of 2014, was expelled after he was found responsible for sexual misconduct in both an initial hearing and an appellate hearing. He filed a preliminary injunction against the University in May 2014 and is now suing Duke for his diploma, claiming that his case was handled unfairly by the University. Though the trial was previously scheduled to start this month, McLeod filed an amended version of his case in December 2014, which was approved in January. Now, the trial is set to begin Feb. 1, 2016—nearly two years after his first undergraduate conduct board hearing.

The University cannot comment on pending litigation, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government relations and public affairs.

In the amended version of his case, McLeod adds three defendants. In addition to suing the University, he is now suing Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students; Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct; and Celia Irvine, a psychologist Duke hired to conduct an independent investigation of McLeod’s case for the student conduct hearing.

Much of the amended complaint focuses on Duke’s decision to hire Irvine—who, according to the filing, was “incompetent, capricious and lacked fundamental fairness.”

According to the complaint, Irvine’s job was to investigate the identity and conduct of McLeod and to secure evidence to be used by an investigative committee.

The complaint notes that Irvine’s psychology license does not permit her to conduct such investigations in North Carolina. According to Irvine’s personal website, she is licensed in New York, but no other states.

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Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Freshman Tyus Jones complemented his six rebounds with 16 points and a career-high 12 assists to ensure Duke’s victory Monday.

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Coming off a 30-point rout of the then-No. 10 Fighting Irish, No. 4 Duke—buoyed by standout performances from senior Quinn Cook and freshman Tyus Jones— staved off Florida State 73-70 at the Donald L. Tucker Center Monday night.

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DUSDAC considers Tijuana Flats as new MOP vendor Moore emphasized the importance of “good, genuine” service from store workers, promising that students would be well taken care of.

He also pointed out a number of deals that the restaurant offers—including 50 percent off for Duke students on WednesRachel Chason days and “throwback Thursdays,” when a University Editor drink, chips and burrito costs customers The newest Merchants-on-Points ven- $5.49, the same price as when the chain dor could provide students with some opened in 1995.

DUSDAC members gave the food Tex-Mex flavor.

A proposal from local Mexican restau- served—including tacos, burritos and rant Tijuana Flats was well received by chips and salsa—favorable responses the Duke University Student Dining Ad- across the board. visory Committee Monday. Satisfaction “It was surprisingly good—I wouldn’t Bar and Grill, which was voted an MOP necessarily have expected Tijuana Flats vendor in November to be so fresh, but it but never launched as was,” Taylor said. e’re not your typipart of the program, is Some on the comofficially no longer a mittee worried that stucal taco or burvendor, said DUSDAC rito place. We like to condents do not see Tijuaco-chair Brian Taylor, na as one of the most a junior. That leaves sider ourself outrageously popular off-campus committee members fresh—everything is preeateries. deciding between three But Sarah Collins, a pared in house. senior DUSDAC mempotential vendors— Tijuana Flats, Rudino’s — Adam Moore ber from Florida— Pizza and Grinders and where Tijuana began Dunkin’ Donuts—to fill the remaining and has the most stores—pointed out spot for this semester. that it may just not be as well-known The committee had previously met in North Carolina, where it’s only now with representatives from Rudino’s and is growing. planning on meeting to discuss Dunkin’ “Everyone loves it in Florida. Everyone next week. goes—my mom goes with her clients, I go “We’re not your typical taco or burrito with my friends. It’s good, fast and fresh,” place,” said Tijuana Flats area supervi- she said. sor Adam Moore. “We like to consider The restaurant already delivers in Durourself outrageously fresh—everything ham through the TakeOut Central delivis prepared in house. The chicken is ery service, but this would be the first Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle trimmed, the vegetables are diced and Since Satisfaction Bar and Grill is no longer part of the MOP program, DUSDAC members considthe guacamole is fresh.”

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Physics and the French Family Science Now, that suggestion is finally a reality. Center and Teer Building—which, priAfter a year of work by Fix My Cam- or to the newest installation, were the pus, a new ePrint station was made op- closest ePrint stations to Physics. erational in the PhysThough French is ics Building in late adjacent to Physics, e had been getthe building’s ePrint January. The project— ting requests for which had been in station is not on the progress since the re- ePrints in a couple of differ- main level, making it lease of an official FMC ent places, and we decided less accessible than poll in January 2014— to concentrate and see some other options, was completed after Chen noted. months of cooperation where student demand was After a spot in the between the Duke Of- most pressing. front lobby of Physfice of Information ics was chosen due to — Betty Chen its high traffic, FMC Technology, the Trinity College of Arts and Sciworked with the Faciliences Facilities Office ties Office to wire the and FMC. The site was chosen because station and connect to the rest of the of its central location on Science Drive campus’ ePrint network—but the team and its isolation from other ePrint sta- soon ran into a jam. tions, said sophomore Betty Chen, co“The printer was finally in place at director of FMC. the end of last semester, and then at the “We had been getting requests for very beginning of this semester Fix My ePrints in a couple of different places, Campus realized that the wiring, which and we decided to concentrate and see we had completed at first, wasn’t comwhere student demand was most press- plete and some data cables needed to ing,” said Chen. “Physics was by far the be terminated, so we went back to OIT most popular, and I think that over 100 and then it was finally hooked up about students expressed preference for the two weeks ago,” Chen said.

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Flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Dean Smith “He was one of a kind and the sport of basketball lost one of its true pillars,” says head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski Emma Baccellieri News Editor Duke regularly lowers its University flags for the deaths of faculty and Trustees—but this week, they will be lowered for the death of an icon from down Tobacco Road.

Duke lowered its flags Monday in honor of Dean Smith, the former men’s basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith passed away Saturday night in Chapel Hill at the age of

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle David Stimilli, associate professor of German, comparative literature and the humanities, presented a lecture on Franz Kafka at the Smith Warehouse Monday evening.

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Lily Coad | The Chronicle The Duke Middle East Studies Center hosted the second day of its “Rethinking Global Cities” conference, which featured a graduate student panel, among other programming, Friday.

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continued from page 1 The University knew that Irvine was not licensed when she was hired, according to the complaint.

“It kind of begs the question of why Duke hired her,” said Rachel Hitch, who serves as McLeod’s lawyer.

Wasiolek was responsible for interviewing and retaining Irvine, according to the complaint.

In addition to working without proper licensing, Irvine “devoted relatively little time or energy” to the investigation—reporting a “significant amount of inconsistent or wrong information” and failing to collect “critical information essential to an adequate or even minimally competent investigation into the allegations.”

The complaint notes that Irvine did not interview several witnesses it considers who McLeod considered crucial to the case and did not use proper procedures for interviewing the witnesses she did speak with. Irvine did not record any of her interviews and did not address inconsistencies that appeared in the interviews.

McLeod’s case began in November 2013, when he met a female freshman student at Shooters II Saloon.

The two returned to McLeod’s off-campus house, where they engaged in sexual intercourse. The female student alleges the sex was not consensual, reporting that she began crying at one point and made it clear she did not wish to continue. She reported the incident, and the Durham Police Department contacted McLeod the next day informing him that the student claimed he had raped her.

McLeod was not charged with a crime following a brief investigation that was closed due to the female student’s “lack of cooperation” with DPD. The case was then pursued through Duke’s disciplinary system.

A February undergraduate hearing found McLeod responsible for sexual misconduct—a term which encompasses sex- or gender-based harassment, sexual violence, sexual exploitation, relationship violence and stalking. He appealed the finding, and an April appellate hearing found him similarly responsible, with a disciplinary sanction of expulsion. McLeod, however, was still allowed to take his final exams.

Prior to his expulsion, McLeod was set to graduate with his Class in 2014.

In Summer 2013, Duke changed its policies to include expulsion as the recommended sanction for sexual assault. According to statistics released by the Office of Student Conduct, one student was expelled for a disciplinary violation in the 2013-14 academic year.

“Duke was looking to expel the first kid under that new practice to show how tough they were on sexual assault,” Hitch said. “Fairness to Mr. McLeod was not a priority.”

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Nick Martin Sports Editor TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Remember when the media was trying to figure out whether Tyus Jones and Quinn Cook could play together? Mike Krzyzewski does.

Following Monday’s 73-70 victory at Florida State, the Duke head coach reminded the reporters in attendance of that time about six months ago when numerous think-pieces on the Blue Devil backcourt were written. Needless to say, his guards have done everything but issue a retraction for each of those stories.

“Those two guards have been rock solid for me, [Jones] and Quinn,” Krzyzewski said. “Remember when we started the year, I don’t know if you remember, but everyone’s saying, ‘How’s that going to work out?’ Well, it’s worked out pretty darn well.”

With Jahlil Okafor in foul trouble for most of the first half and Justise Winslow only connecting on one field goal the entire game, Duke needed its two guards desperately Monday. And, once again, they delivered.

Jones’ success on the big stage this season has been well-chronicled and Monday’s contest—televised on ESPN—was no different. The Apple Valley, Minn., native turned in a stat line usually reserved for the likes of Rajon Rondo or John Wall, as he went for 16 points, a career-high 12 assists and a teamhigh six rebounds.

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had a great month,” Krzyzewski said.

“He’s had a terrific year, but he’s had a great month.”

Jones’ row of the box score was so stuffed that it nearly over-shadowed the Herculean effort put forth by his partner-in-crime.

The senior captain scored a game-high 26 points, largely keeping the team in the game when the Blue Devils were struggling to solve the length of Florida State’s defense. Cook was able to do so because, as an ACC veteran, there is not much left that can rattle him.

The Washington native was 0-for-3 from the field, committed a turnover and a foul in the first 7:30 of the game, after which the his team trailed 8-4.

Fast-forward another 7:30—Cook has 10 points and Duke leads 22-14.

The same thing happened at the end of the game. From the 5:41 mark onward, Florida State cut into the Blue Devils’ lead and seemed poised to stage a major upset at home. But Cook put in eight of his 26 points during that See Backcourt on Page 8

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Work begins on Finch Yeager Building Ryan Hoerger Sports Managing Editor Tenters in Krzyzewskiville may have been rudely awakened Monday, as the next step in the $100 million renovations to Wallace Wade Stadium got underway— with a bang.

Construction crews began the dismantling of the Finch Yeager Building early Monday morning, ripping away concrete columns, dry wall and steel interior with heavy machinery. The building had served as the press box for home football games, and also housed the offices of Duke Sports Medicine.

Machines punctured the back wall of the building and ripped down the wall, sending debris cascading to the concourse below. After slicing through the building’s concrete columns, the machine brought an entire corner of the building to the

Drew Van Orden—the ace and leader of last year’s Duke pitching staff—graduated in May and is now a member of the Washington Nationals minor league system.

Senior Trent Swart, the No. 2 man in the rotation, underwent Tommy John surgery this offseason and will be forced to sit out the entire 2015 campaign.

Redshirt sophomore James Marvel, stellar in his four starts last season, fell victim to Tommy John as well, and will join Swart on the bench as a spectator for this coming season.

Three key pieces of last year’s pitching staff, which posted the lowest team ERA for the Blue Devils in 43 years, are either gone or unavailable for the entire year with no hope of stepping on the mound for meaningful innings.

What does that mean for the pitching staff as it gets ready to start the 2015 season this weekend against California? Well, it means two things.

First, the majority of the burden will fall on the right shoulders of junior Michael Matuella and senior Andrew Istler. Matuella was recently named a preseason first-team All America

by Baseball America and the No. 2 overall prospect in the 2015 MLB draft by MLB.com.

Istler has been a jack-of-all-trades throughout his career for Duke, serving as a reliever, closer, starter and even outfielder.

Second, the other eight returning Blue Devil pitchers along with the four new guns brought in with this year’s recruiting class will need to step up. One of those freshmen, southpaw Chris McGrath, was drafted in the 35th round of the 2014 MLB draft by the Seattle Mariners and figures to receive significant opportunities to live up to his billing early in the season.

The biggest question mark at the moment for this staff is who will hold the No. 3 position in the rotation and lock down Sunday afternoons for Duke. Head coach Chris Pollard said early in the preseason that a short list of five players are currently competing for that honor, and this coming Sunday— the Blue Devils’ first series finale in Berkeley against the Golden Bears—we might glean who the favorite is in Pollard’s mind.

McGrath, along with junior Nick Hendrix and sophomores Karl Blum, Bailey Clark and Kevin Lewallyn are the five pitchers that Pollard identified as his leading candidates and there is a different argument for each pitcher.

ground in a heap, filling the air with dust.

“They’re scheduled to be completed with [getting it] down to flat, to grade, with everything gone and ready to move on to the next steps by next Friday,” Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Cragg said.

“It’s about a 12-day process.”

New construction and renovation projects at Duke must meet Leadership in Energy and Efficient Design (LEED) standards. Cragg said that 80 percent of the debris generated by the two weeks of deconstruction—which is being executed by The Beck Group—will be re-used in some capacity.

The new building will be constructed throughout the 2015 season, and is expected to be completed in time for the beginning of the 2016 campaign. When finished, the five-story, 91,000-square foot tower will be home to media seating, the See Construction on Page 7

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Construction workers began tearing down the Finch Yeager Building Monday.

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Blue Devils drop 3 matches at ITA Indoors

venge, defeating Harris, Kahan and Smith, respectively. Smith took the first set 6-3 but proceeded to drop the next two 3-6, 2-6. Harris and Kahan fell in straight sets.

With Duke (4-3) in a hole, it looked as if an upset was imminent. But Smaller and No. 87 Goldfeld came up big in their matches to tie up the score at 3-3.

Smaller dropped her first set 4-6 to Seda Arantekin but shook off the nerves and took over the match from there, finishing with convincing 6-0, 6-1 victories in the final two sets. Goldfeld also fell behind early, dropping her first set 2-6 before

taking the next two 6-2, 6-4.

All eyes—and the hopes of advancing in the winner’s bracket—rested on court six.

Mulholland went toe-to-toe against Pereira but ultimately fell 3-6, 7-5, 4-6. With that, TCU (4-3) joined Miami—which upset No. 6 Alabama—as the only unseeded teams to move to the second round.

Things did not get better the rest of the weekend, as the Blue Devils’ woes continued in the consolation bracket.

Duke was upended 4-1 by unseeded Vanderbilt Saturday and fell to the Crimson Tide Sunday by the same score.

Against the Commodores (4-2), Duke lost the doubles point after Goldfeld and Smith dropped their match 6-4 on court one to Courtney Colton and Sydney Campbell and Capra and Kahan lost to Ashleigh Antal and Marie Casares 6-3 on court two. Mulholland and Harris knocked off Francis Altick and Astra Sharma 6-3 on court three.

Mulholland would go on to win her second match of the day, beating Georgina Sellyn in singles play 6-4, 6-1. The rest of the team didn’t fare as well. Goldfeld dropped her match against No. 15 Campbell 6-2, 6-1 and Kahan was handled by Altick 6-0, 6-3. Harris fought valiantly but came up short against Colton as she dropped a heartbreaking tiebreaker in the second set, losing 6-4, 7-6 (14-12).

Sunday capped off a disappointing weekend for Duke, as the Blue Devils joined Kentucky—the lowest seed in the tournament— as the only teams to go 0-3.

The lone bright spot of the weekend, Mulhollland and Harris capped off an undefeated three matches of doubles play, knocking off Alabama’s Luicelena Perez and Natalia Maynetto 7-5. The other two doubles pairs dropped their matches, giving the Crimson Tide (5-1) a 1-0 lead.

Goldfeld made up for the doubles loss, beating No. 25 Erin Routliffe in impressive 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) fashion, but it was too little, too late. Kahan, Smith, and Smaller all dropped matches in straight sets and left Duke with three disappointing losses in a weekend that went horribly wrong.

The Blue Devils will look to make the necessary adjustments during a long lay-off.

Duke next plays at No. 2 Florida Feb. 20.

Special to The Chronicle When completed in fall 2016, the 91,000-square foot Blue Devil Tower will feature 21 luxury suites and exterior club seating.

“It’ll go maybe from 25-yard line to 25yard line.”

Offensive and defensive coordinators displaced from the coaches’ boxes in the Finch Yeager Building will be housed on the other side of the stadium for the coming season.

With its previous home being demolished, Duke Sports Medicine has moved to the Center for Living Campus on Erwin Road, where Cragg said it will remain after Blue Devil Tower is completed.

Down on the field level, construction crews have ripped out the track surrounding the field and pushed the playing surface down eight feet. New seats are being added on both sidelines to bring fans closer to the action.

The construction on the stadium’s field and bowl seating is scheduled to be ready by the time the Blue Devils

return to Wallace Wade for their home opener Sept. 12 against N.C. Central.

Cragg confirmed Monday that the work schedule was proceeding according to plan.

Because the construction will not be finished until shortly before that game, the University’s Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2015 has been relocated to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in downtown Durham.

Cragg said the ongoing construction of the new tower during the 2015-16 academic year won’t affect football games, and won’t impact the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2016.

“That just [depends on] the field, that’s why we don’t have the field in this year,” Cragg said. “The tower itself has no bearing on having the commencement [in Wallace Wade].”

Staff Reports Duke headed to Charlottesville, Va., last weekend looking to bring home some hardware for the second year in a row, but returned to Durham empty-handed.

The No. 4 Blue Devils entered the ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championships with 4 title aspirations, TCU DUKE 3 only to be upset by No. 20 TCU in the VANDY 4 first round. The DUKE 1 Horned Frogs were unseeded in this 4 year’s tournament ALA DUKE 1 but that didn’t stop them from knocking out the defending champions in the biggest upset of the first round.

Duke took the doubles point as Beatrice Capra and Rachel Kahan took care of Simona Parajova and Sofiko Kadzhaya 6-2 while Annie Mulholland and Samantha Harris dispatched Palina Dubavets and Alexis Pereira 6-4. Ester Goldfeld and Alyssa Smith’s match went unfinished.

Head coach Jamie Ashworth decided not to play Capra—the usual No. 1 singles player for Duke—in the singles matches all weekend.

This shuffled the lineup and pulled freshman Rebecca Smaller into the number five spot.

The Blue Devils’ 1-0 lead was quickly nullified, as TCU claimed victories on courts two, three and four. Horned Frogs Parajova, Kadzhaya, and Dubavets—all of whom had just lost their doubles matches—got their re-

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior Annie Mulholland won all three of her doubles matches with partner Samantha Harris at the ITA Indoor Championships.

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President’s box, coaches’ boxes, 21 luxury suites and exterior club seating.

“This coming year, a frame will be up, so there will be movement, but it won’t be an inhabitable building,” Cragg said. this is an imageThe new facility is currently being referred to as Blue Devil Tower. Cragg said the building does have a naming opportunity, but nothing has been announced.

Construction of the tower will cause some temporary inconveniences during

the 2015 football season.

Media members and gameday operations staff will work in makeshift tenting structures covering 12 upper rows of the stadium bowl below where the new building will sit. The press area will be segmented and sound-proofed to allow print, radio and television media members to work in close proximity—it will likely stretch from 25-yard line to 25-yard line.

“If you imagine where the Finch Yeager Building is right now and you go down into the bowl itself about 12 rows, those 12 rows will become media and operations for gameday,” Cragg said.

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after a 17-point outburst against Notre Dame—stepped up and took a charge on a driving Montay Brandon with 1:37 left to give Duke back the ball, leading to a jumper from Tyus Jones.

“We just had to try to stand up. It was kind of an up-anddown game,” Tyus Jones said. “It’s all about being together and having your brother’s back. Like Coach said, we came down, missed a shot up three and they get a leak-out. And Matt comes up with a charge. It’s stuff like that, just having your brother’s back and being ready to step up and make a play regardless of what’s going on.”

Although the game had an exciting finish, early on in the second half, it looked like it would be far from a thriller.

After a quiet first half from Jahlil Okafor due to foul trouble—the Chicago native had two points, three rebounds and two fouls in eight minutes of play before the break—the 6-foot11 freshman came out firing in the second half. Okafor poured in eight points in the opening four minutes.

The Duke center spent all night battling Florida State’s rotation of 7-footers, with junior Michael Ojo playing the majority of the minutes in the paint against Okafor.

“I’ve noticed the ACC play is a lot more physical,” Okafor said. “The first half I gave myself trouble by having to sit on the bench by getting in foul trouble. And then the second half, my teammates got me a bunch of easy baskets. But [Ojo’s] a big dude.”

Even with Okafor’s efficient second-half effort, it was the Blue Devil backcourt that owned the game for Duke.

Cook led all scorers with 26 points and kept the Blue Devils in the game throughout the first half, converting a pair of fast-break layups to knot the score at 8-all and finishing the first 20 minutes with 13 points. Aside from Cook, no other Blue Devil was able to convert consistently on the offensive end in the first half.

Tyus Jones finished the first half with nine points and five assists, and flirted with a triple-double for much of the second half. The freshman’s stat-stuffing night came to a close with the Apple Valley, Minn., native stuck with six rebounds to complement his 16 points and career-high 12 assists.

“Twelve assists and one turnover. He’s had a great month,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s had a terrific year, but he’s had a great month. Those two guards have been rock solid for me.”

A dunk by Okafor put Duke ahead 42-29 with 16:10 remaining in the game and it seemed like the Blue Devils would be able to dominate inside and rely on Cook and Jones to lead them to an easy victory.

But the Seminoles had other plans.

Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Jahlil Okafor went toe-to-toe with 7-footer Michael Ojo and did not attempt a shot in the first half as he battled early foul trouble, but the freshman came alive after halftime and finished with 13 points.

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Florida State closed the gap to 55-50 with 7:58 remaining thanks in large part to a pair of 3-pointers from Robbie Berwick. The Blue Devils needed an answer, and the answer came in the form of the corner 3-pointer.

With 7:25 remaining, Duke knocked down three corner treys on its next four possessions, with Jones, freshman Justise Winslow and Cook all getting in on the action. The senior’s triple pushed the lead back to 10 for the Blue Devils.

“We had two or three exchanges where we got some amazing offensive rebounds and just mucked out some plays and kicked it out for some threes and couldn’t hit them,” Krzyzewski said. “They almost knocked us out. Berwick’s two threes were huge.... My guys are tough and responded with a couple buckets and took control of the game.”

The game was everything but perfect for Duke, but marks its fourth straight victory and moves the Blue Devils into a tie with North Carolina for third in the ACC, just half a game back of second-place Notre Dame.

Duke will take on Syracuse at the Carrier Dome Feb. 14.

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stretch, including a 5-of-6 performance from the free throw line to lead Duke to its eighth ACC victory.

Many things could be called indicative of the Blue Devils’ season, from Okafor’s dominance in the post or their switch to zone. But Cook’s leadership and play-making in crucial situations may be the most consistent thing on the floor at every Duke game.

“Quinn’s been terrific as a leader. He’s been our most valuable guy,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s not only been a good player—a really good player—but he’s been a great leader.”

Cook’s leadership has come in many forms this season. From mentoring the freshmen as they try and make it through ACC play, keeping things in perspective as Krzyzewski went for win No. 1,000 or taking the big shot with the game in the balance, Cook has repeatedly shown a poise that only a select few have displayed during their time in Durham.

Part of that growth comes in humility. Following the disappointing end to last year’s season, many criticized the guard for his absence down the stretch. In Duke’s final 11 games, Cook was held to single-digit scoring efforts seven times. His best game came in the season-ending loss to Mercer.

This summer, Cook dedicated himself to being the leader of the Blue Devils. Instead of going home, he hung around Durham, bonding with the freshmen and hitting the weight room in his spare time. With all the talk of whether or not he and Jones could work together on the court flying around, Cook kept his head down and accepted his new role as Duke’s two-guard.

The hard work paid off.

Cook is averaging a career-high 14.2 points per game and is doing so at his most efficient clip to date. Both his field goal percentage mark and 3-point field goal percentage have risen about two percentage points, and his 92.0 percent mark from the free throw line is a 9.3 percent jump from last season’s clip. Cook is not just leading with his words—he is backing it up on the court.

“Our guys follow him and he’s been one of my better leaders that I’ve had at Duke,” Krzyzewski said. “And I didn’t know that would happen this year. Of all the guys, I’m most proud of him. I’m most proud of Quinn Cook.”

With Jones and Cook both possibly departing from Duke at the end of this season, Blue Devil fans may want to enjoy the show they are getting in the backcourt. Just six months ago, folks asked whether or not the two could coexist.

After 24 regular-season games and a combined 25.3 points per contest between the two, it is clear that Jones and Cook are not just coexisting—they are thriving.

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ment between his freshman and sophomore campaigns, dropping his season ERA by 0.44 and allowing 16 fewer hits.

Duke’s pitching staff will be the focal point of the team this season and the lineup expects to feature several different freshmen and sophomores who may inevitably struggle as they adjust to the college game. Pollard said that “patience” has become a buzzword among the coaching staff in regards to the all the new talent on the team.

If the Blue Devils want to not only repeat what last year’s squad started—posting a winning ACC record for the first time since 1994 and just narrowly missing out on an invitation to the NCAA tournament—but also improve upon it, it will be on the shoulders of the pitching staff to get them there.

continued from page 6 Both Blum and Clark showed promise in the few innings they threw during their rookie seasons, but Lewallyn was a regular out of the Blue Devil bullpen, posting a 2.41 ERA and a .194 batting average against in 18.2 innings of work. McGrath brings with him hype and talent but no experience at the collegiate level.

Hendrix has been a stalwart for Pollard the past two seasons in relief. He has posted a career 3.57 ERA and .255 batting average against with 73 strikeouts to his credit and an average of 26 appearances per season. The Arlington, Texas, native also showed a marked improve-

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urham neighborhood associations are urging Duke administrators and city officials to actively investigate several student-occupied houses near campus. The Durham Neighborhood Alliance is one of these increasingly vocal organizations advocating for the removal of “illegal” fraternity houses. Their allegations cite local occupancy codes that limit the number of non-related people living together and require special event permits for large gatherings. Fraught relations between Duke students and Durham residents have long existed in the University’s history but, as Duke becomes more established in the community, it is imperative to improve relations to coexist harmoniously.

Any effort to build better relations will require a bidirectional focus. On one hand, it will require a shift in mentality of students and local residents.

Duke students need to realize that individual choices can quickly sour relationships with Durham neighbors. These conflicts between individuals and their neighbors, in turn, threaten all students’ opportunities to access off-campus housing in the future and unfairly prejudice the Duke community in the eyes of its neighbors. Furthermore, while local residents whose livelihoods are disrupted are right

to be concerned about loud, disturbing parties that bring large crowds, excessive trash and dubious behavior into their neighborhoods, the optimal resolution in not necessarily to threaten students with evictions. Just as we as students need to understand the consequences of our behavior off-campus, Durham residents should realize that aggressively evicting students is excluding other solutions. While neighbors should not be forced to endure major disturbances, town-and-gown relations are a two-way street.

Yet, a shift in mentality for students and local residents cannot be the only solution. After all, Duke as a college has a fast turnover rate, with an entirely different group of students every four years. Students will continue to cycle through the neighborhood as long as rental properties are on the market, and it is tenuous at best to rely on each cohort to consistently abide by these standards without the sense of urgency being diluted over time.

The problem, then, is not solely with the people involved, but also with the institutional policies governing these local interactions. The University should coordinate efforts to minimize conflict, enacting clearer policies and practices for off-campus living that encourage peaceful co-existence with our neighbors. An example would be codified contracts

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for students living off campus that mandate stricter enforcement of violations within the Duke judicial system. However, it is important to recognize how past policies have shaped and amplified the relational problems with the local community now. Changes to campus policies governing social life and alcohol use has led greek life and SLGs to seek more lenient, off-campus spaces to hold their events. It is clear that these social housing policies need to be revisited in light of deteriorating neighborhood relations. Yet, the recent HDRL upperclassman housing quotas are a far cry from necessary reforms and face staunch resistance from the greek and SLG communities. Any policy is a choice between two sets of consequences, and forcing the majority of social life off campus is an increasingly untenable outcome for both students and their angry neighbors.

It is time to coordinate efforts between greek, SLG and independent student leaders and the Duke administration to more deliberately shape the spaces in which social and residential life manifest on campus. Otherwise, continuing this model of out-sourcing the more problematic elements of Duke’s social culture to the off-campus community will continue to burden the surrounding Durham neighborhoods.

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here is much to be said about the spring semester of senior year. Hopefully at this point, most of your studies are winding down. Your schedule looks pretty empty with maybe a capstone course and a physical education class or two or four. It’s different for everyone. In fact, some people are destined for graduation with distinction and are currently slaving away in some dark corner of Perkins working on their thesis. Others are slowly coming to grips with the dark, poor and jobless future in front of them, while a select few are dancing through life since they already have a job. During the semester, I’ve spent so much time accepting my dark and poor future but it was also during this critical period of apathetic seniority that I realized I wasn’t actually done.

In a meeting with my academic advisor, I learned that there was one more thing to do. Major requirements?

Check! Foreign language requirement? Check, check,

ingly, during drop/add, none of my friends told me that comp sci would be hard, or even that it required much work. Maybe my friends suck, or maybe they are all brainiacs and I’m the one missing a few brain cells that would make coding easy.

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But like a daytime soap opera, it all took a turn for the worst. Well at least I saw it as the worst—it was mostly I needed to put more effort into learning computer science. But let’s be honest, no one is really looking for a challenge during second semester senior year. Most of us are looking for a job or applying to grad school.

In fact, some of us even finished our QS requirement years before the glory of senior status.

Nevertheless, I was a QS credit short and this semester was going to have to incorporate that shortcoming.

After struggling through countless hours of computer science and coding, I realized that I actually liked the

Fedner Lauture 50 SHADES OF GROOT check! Quantitative studies requirement…? Whelp.

I had fallen into the deadly T-Reqs trap like a complete and utter plebian. Literally, one credit away from graduating and I forgot my second quantitative study credit. Normally, I don’t stress the small stuff and honestly one more class would not kill my senior spring.

In fact, I thought that there must be tons of math classes or even “math classes”—you know what I’m talking about—that I could take.... Right? Well, not really. There are tons of math classes but the majority were classes I didn’t qualify for or were not interesting to me. So what’s a poor unfortunate soul, like me, to do in sight of so many limitations? Granted most of these limitations were my own creation, but they were limitations nonetheless. So I decided to do something totally new—I decided to take a beginner’s course in computer science!

“Computer science, it’s the easiest!” Said no one ever.

Before computer science, I used to think that I was not only the passenger but also the driver of the struggle bus. This course made me realize differently.

I wasn’t even on the bus—I was a speed bump on the road of struggle and every bus took a turn. Interest-

challenge. In my senior apathy, I forgot how much I enjoyed challenging myself. There is something unbelievably awesome about accomplishing something that you were never able to do before. I have become so accustomed to the SWUG lifestyle that I was hesitant to try something new. Granted, computer science wasn’t the easiest thing to pick up but that only made the journey more interesting. This semester not only became the semester of Fed gone young, wild and free but also the semester of Indiana Fed. Adventurous has never been an adjective I would attribute to myself. In fact, I used to make fun of people who were adventurous. Like why would I climb a mountain, when I could hire people to build an elevator and take that to the top. That may be a slight over-exaggeration, but it gets the point across. It’s absolutely never too late to try or learn something new.

Even if you fail, you still learn a valuable lesson. It’s not a “how to do” but more of a “how not to do” scenario.

Nevertheless, it’s time to go out and do something crazy. Even SWUGs like to live young, wild and free.

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ox News has been posing some heavy questions as of late. How can Americans continue to buy into elitist liberal media propaganda after Brian Williams’ fall from grace? Since when is President Obama so obsessed with beer? And why are the Koch Brothers only willing to contribute $889 million dollars to the Republican Party in 2016? Okay, I am embellishing a little with that last one, but the rule of three is just too enticing, especially while criticizing the blatant partisanship of a source of a so-called objective news.

On the other hand, Fox anchors have recurrently explored the answer to a question that is entirely legitimate—why have some people been so unpleasantly

Brendan McCartney A TOUCH OF GINGER nasty about “American Sniper”’s story and success? Indeed, while the movie and its depiction of America’s most lethal sniper Chris Kyle has achieved national acclaim from audiences and critics alike, a vocal minority has spoken out against both the movie and the man.

Matt Taibbi wrote a review in Rolling Stone entitled “American Sniper is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize.”

The Guardian published a piece in which author Lindy West asserted, “The real American Sniper was a hatefilled killer.” Most infamously, Michael Moore tweeted, “[Snipers] will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse.”

Each of these public figures has been widely condemned, by an ostensible vast majority of Americans.

With popular support, Texas Governor Abbott even established “Chris Kyle Day” just two years after the veteran’s death. Fox News anchor Sean Hannity has been especially vocal in his support of Kyle, devoting many segments to defending Kyle and interviewing his family members. In a recent interview he lamented to a political analyst, “But yet people still pile on... what is it about people that just have total contempt and a lack of understanding for... those brave men and women?”

Hannity’s implications—that many critics of Kyle either misdirect their political anger or lack a true understanding of his story—are sound. I consider Chris Kyle a selfless hero who made immense personal sacrifices to serve his country and the people within it. Those who condemn him for his anecdotes and his kill count lack empathy for the psychological, emotional and physical burdens that soldiers are forced to face. They use the movie as a vehicle through which to condemn what they view as a terrible war while simultaneously assaulting the legacy of one man who does not deserve their targeting.

Yet despite my unusual agreement with Hannity, something about his words bothers me. Here is a man known by many as a bastion of conservative ideology,

lecturing liberals about the importance of sensitivity.

Here is a man who has made a career out of critiques of “political correctness”—also known by social conservatives as “hypersensitivity”—surrounding dialogue regarding race, gender and socioeconomic status. Here is a man who now considers himself a proxy to a heroic victim of offensive and inappropriate discourse.

Hannity’s frustration with criticisms of Chris Kyle’s service overseas comes strikingly close to what he denounces as political correctness. Just as “hypersensitive” Americans caution others to consider the effects and implications of their word selection, Hannity expresses discomfort with Michael Moore’s poorly formed judgments about Americans in uniform. The justifications for the discomfort are perhaps different—while a typical advocate of politically correct language will suggest certain words and phrases might be unnecessarily harmful to others, Hannity would likely argue that, sentimental feelings aside, nothing can excuse disrespect of our armed forces, even after they are gone. While the justifications are different, the implications are the same—we should be thoughtful and careful about our word choice.

Regardless, I might be giving that justification too much credit. More likely, Hannity opposes contemptuous language about Chris Kyle most centrally because of his partisanship. Criticism of an American sniper thrust into combat in Iraq can easily be conflated with President Bush’s perhaps-rushed decision calculus in deciding to invade in the first place. Indeed, his sensitivity to partisan attacks is what strengthens his appeal to more fruitful dialogue about the movie.

This is because different groups have disparate levels of understanding about how certain words can affect them. A gay person will likely have a more visceral reaction to a hateful use of “fag” just like a woman will likely feel more targeted by the phrase, “you hit like a girl.” To nail this point down, one only needs to look at the approval demographic breakdown of the “Like a Girl” commercial, which aired during the Super Bowl.

According to USA Today’s polling, there is more than a 10 percent difference in the approval rating of the commercial between men and women. Perhaps this signals that one group just needs to get over it, as Hannity might suggest, or perhaps it shows that certain groups naturally have a better understanding of the way words affect them.

“Hypersensitivity” is not a trait exhibited solely by liberals, and it should not be framed to be. The characteristic sounds like a weakness, but with deeper scrutiny it parallels one’s empathy for others’ unfamiliar experiences. Whether for the woman who might be triggered by a casual use of the word “rape” or for the soldier who might face psychological duress from accusations of cowardice, we should be thoughtful about the unnecessary weight that we can so easily drop from our dialogue.

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’ve become pretty jaded by the world lately. Too many late night life conversations about wars and genocide and planes crashing have made me wish I was an aerospace engineer, so I could help put colonies on the moon to escape. Instead, I just walk around, studying my surroundings through whatever the opposite of rosecolored glasses are, my inner cynic out in full force. In these times, sometimes it’s hard to remember that there’s still good for the sake of good.

That is, until I walk into lab.

Let’s back up for a minute. Fall semester junior year, I went abroad to Queen Mary, University of London. The first thing two of my engineering professors there asked me when I told them I was from Duke was, “Oh, do you know Farsh?”

They were referring to Dr. Farshid Guilak, a leading expert in regenerative medicine and head of one of the best orthopedic research labs in the country. At the time, I had no idea who he was.

Two months later, I got the email that informed me I was going to be a Pratt Fellow in that same orthopedic research lab. Confession—I

Ananya Zutshi BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEER was so excited, I cried. Not uncontrollable sobbing, but definitely a gentle tear as I read and re-read the email in my East London flat. I was going to be a part of one of Duke’s best traditions—undergraduate research.

Ask anyone—regardless of major or year—and they’ll know what a big deal undergraduate research is at Duke. With over 50 percent of all Duke undergraduates having some sort of research experience here before their graduation, it’s easy to see why it’s one of the university’s top selling points. The opportunities here are just about boundless. We have, quite literally, a street called “Research Drive”, and whether you choose to send countless emails until someone replies, or participate in an established program, like Pratt Fellows—shout out to Dean Absher—you can to get involved if you wish.

So why, with all the other things to do in college—dancing and singing and sports and, of course, classes—add research to your load?

The simple answer—it’ll be one of the best decisions you make in your time here.

If you ever mention to me, even in casual passing, that you work in a lab, I will immediately ask you what your research is. It is one of my favorite past times to see someone come alive as they describe what they willingly spend hours doing. Suddenly, these 18-22 year olds transform from their normal college student selves to young adults throwing out words that I don’t understand and explaining concepts I can’t grasp. But I love it. In that moment, they aren’t talking about a problem set or something they were lectured about. Pride and passion is clear in the way they talk because they are telling me about things that they have had to learn the old fashioned way—by doing.

Participating in undergraduate research presents the rare opportunity to, as a college student, make valuable contributions to a body of work in science. Duke’s research culture isn’t about fetching senior graduate students’ coffee. It’s those senior graduate students, post-doctorates and faculty entrusting you to carry out experiments and research something unique and unknown, using reagents that cost thousands of dollars and machinery that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Advisors and colleagues become friends, sources of guidance and sharers of stories.

Immediately, real world responsibility is placed on your shoulders, and I have found that Duke students tend to thrive under this weight.

We welcome the opportunity to apply and prove ourselves with utmost enthusiasm. In a lab, you aren’t just an undergraduate. You are a peer with a valued opinion. As senior Silvia de Denaro Vieira eloquently put, “Undergraduate research gave me confidence in the laboratory in a way that no class could have. Being given the opportunity to work one-on-one with incredibly talented and patient researchers propelled me to study natural sciences despite my humanities background.”

More than anything, participating in research inspires me. It’s a daily reminder of the remarkable things that are happening in the world. There is no textbook for what I get to do. While my classes give me a toolbox, research is what really lets me get out there and answer questions I want to answer.

A small sampling of the things the incredible people I am proud to call my friends are involved in—developing computational models to help explain the sensation of paresthesia during spinal cord stimulation during chronic pain treatment, evaluating the effect of gene knockdown in toxicity of carcinogens to fish embryo development, studying why people cheat or have certain preferences, profiling adipose derived stem cells for their regenerative properties and markers of pathogenesis, inserting and deleting genes in biological systems using the latest in genome engineering and being the only person in the world who can make meniscal derived matrix.

Didn’t understand most of that? It’s okay—neither do I. But they do. And that’s incredible.

Ananya Zutshi is a Pratt senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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February 10 - 17 EXHIBITIONS

Kabul, Afghanistan. Panorama photographs by award-winning filmmaker James Longley, explores the Jada-e-Maiwand neighborhood of old Kabul twenty years after the Afghanistan civil war. Thru February 20. Power Plant Gallery. Free.

time it has delivered to a college campus. Items on the menu will be offered at their regular prices, and a small delivery fee will be charged.

The MOP line-up has undergone several changes this year. The program began the year with one vacancy, as Vine Sushi and Thai dropped out of the program before beginning its first year as a vendor.

Another vacancy opened in September, when vendor The Pizzeria unexpectedly closed. After considering several different local vendors, DUSDAC settled on

The Chronicle local sushi restaurant Sushi Love to fill the first opening in November—a move that proved popular, with demand overwhelming the restaurant in the first week of delivery.

Several weeks later, DUSDAC selected Satisfaction to fill the final opening in the line-up, and it appeared that the MOP program would open the Spring semester with a full slate of vendors. But difficulties arose in communicating with Satisfaction, and DUSDAC began exploring the possibility of selecting another option two weeks ago.

Last week, the committee discussed six options—Monuts Donuts, Don Marcelo’s, Pomodoro and Pizza Mia, in addition to Tijuana Flats and Dunkin’ Donuts.

Miró: The Experience of Seeing. Thru Feb. 22. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

Area 919: Artists in the Triangle. A survey of noteworthy work by artists who live in the Triangle and contribute to a vibrant and innovative local artist community. Thru Apr 12. Nasher Museum of Art. $12 General Public; discounts for Duke faculty and staff; Duke students Free.

From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration. Andrea Patiño Contreras’s multimedia exhibit explores Lynn, Massachusetts, a hub of refugee resettlement. Thru April 13. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

EVENTS

February 12 Café Miró. Special Spanish menu at the Nasher Museum Café. Reservations: 919-684-6032. 5-9pm.

Mukwerere. Jamie Bell’s and Austin Powers’ Senior Distinction Project (T’15).

The story of two Zimbabweans struggling to come to terms with identity, freedom and belonging in the face of the violent Fast Track Land Reforms set in motion by the dictatorial Mugabe regime. 8 pm. Sheafer Theater, West Campus.

February 13 Mukwerere. (See Feb. 12) 8 pm.

February 14 Duke Wind Symphony: Viennese Ball. Food, music, and Viennese dance, featuring a live waltz orchestra and polka band. Dress: semi-formal to formal.

7-11pm, Freeman Center for Jewish Life. $12 per ticket, $20 for two.

Mukwerere. (See Feb. 12) 8 pm.

February 15 Duke Jazz Ensemble: Valentine’s Weekend Jazz Concert. Annual concert featuring the Duke University, North Carolina Central University, & UNC-Chapel Hill Jazz Ensembles. 3pm. Baldwin Auditorium. $10 gen. adm.; students & sr. citizens free.

February 17 String Improv. Class with Jennifer Curtis. 5pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. (ATC) = Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. All events subject to change.

2/10

The Last of the Unjust (Le dernier des injustes) Tournées French Film Festival (7:30pm)

2/16

[Vienna:] A City Without Jews + short films – introduced by Ingo Zeichner Reel Global Cities film series

2/16

Birthplace (4:30pm, W) – Q&A to follow w/ survivor, Henrik Grynberg Documentary film follows the journey of Jewish-Polish writer Henryk Grynberg to the area where his family sheltered to avoid extermination during the Nazi occupation. There he finds the corpse of his father and learns that one of his Polish neighbors was the murderer. ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.

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continued from page 3 “I would be going to French [if the printer wasn’t here], so I’d definitely say this has improved my available time,” Jeffs said.

Chen noted OIT’s cooperation, infrastructural help and funding with the project. Funding was especially significant for this project, Chen said, with

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continued from page 4 83. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of government relations and public affairs, said it was the first instance he could recall of Duke lowering its flags for a member of the UNC community, though he was not certain if it was the first time ever.

“If anyone deserved the honor from UNC, it’s Coach Smith,” Schoenfeld said.

The flags were lowered to half-staff Monday at sunrise and will remain lowered until Wednesday at sunset.

The decision to lower Duke’s flags is made by several members of the administration, including Schoenfeld and University Secretary Richard Riddell. The decision to lower Duke’s North Carolina or United States flags, however, is made from members of the state and federal governments, respectively. Governor Pat McCrory ordered Sunday that all state flags should be lowered in honor of

$3,500 of the project covered by OIT. “I think OIT from the first meeting understood why students would want an ePrint there and were willing to do it,” Chen said.

Even when Fix My Campus projects requested by students aren’t feasible, administration will treat them seriously, she said.

“Most of the administrators we work with are usually more than willing to look into things for us even if they’re not possible,” Chen said.

Smith’s death, which Duke has complied with, leaving both the University and North Carolina flags at half-staff.

“Coach Smith is a legend on and off the court and his life will leave a lasting legacy at Chapel Hill and across the state and nation,” McCrory said in a statement requesting that flags be lowered. “May the skies shine Carolina Blue in your honor, Coach.”

Smith coached the Tar Heels from 1961 to 1997, leading them to two national titles and 11 Final Fours. He also won an Olympic gold medal as coach of the 1976 U.S. men’s basketball team and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.

In his 36 years at the helm of the Tar Heels, Smith recorded 59 wins over Duke—24 of which came against Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski. He is one of few coaches with a winning record against Krzyzewski, who expressed sadness for Smith’s death in a statement Sunday.

“He was one of a kind and the sport of basketball lost one of its true pillars,” Krzyzewski said.