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in their point of view, said Kate Marusak, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering and member of the organizing committee. “This is basically an effort to get the word out to students about the negative effects of unionization,” she said. “Up until now we’ve only been hearing about the potential positive effects of unionization, but nothing about the downsides.” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an email Tuesday arguing against unionization, explaining that “Duke’s relationship with its graduate students is quite different from that of employer to employee.” “We do not believe that representation of students by a non-academic third party, focused on just one piece of a student’s experience, is in the best interest of students or the University,” he wrote.

Adam Beyer The Chronicle Students plans for Winter Break may include binge-watching Netflix, eating holiday meals and catching up on sleep—but this won’t be happening on campus. Rick Johnson, associate vice president for student affairs in Housing, Dining and Residence Life, sent an email to students Friday explaining that students will no longer be able to stay on campus during Winter Break. Instead, the University has secured several room blocks in area hotels for those remaining in Durham. The change comes as fewer beds remain available on Central Campus due to the closing of some apartments last semester, Johnson noted. “This year there are no vacant apartments available, so Housing worked with Financial Aid and International House to take care of all students needing Winter Break accommodations,” he wrote in an email Friday. International House has been working with its students for more than a month, See HOUSING on Page 4

Chronicle File Photo Graduate students gathered outside the Allen Building Nov. 10 to celebrate officially submitting their unionization petition to the National Labor Relations Board.

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Although the Duke Graduate Students Union filed for a union election earlier this month, not everyone is convinced unionization is the right course of action. The union—which is not yet legally recognized—was spurred on by an National Labor Relations Board decision in August allowing graduate student workers at private universities to unionize. A hearing between

union representatives and University officials is scheduled for Nov. 28, at which point the NLRB will decide whether to approve DGSU’s request for a union election. If a majority of graduate students who work for the University then vote in favor of the union during the election, DGSU will gain legal status. However, a group called Students Against Duke Unionization is arguing that the unionization efforts might actually negatively impact certain students. The newly-formed group currently has 16 organizing members and approximately 100 people interested

Concerns between disciplines SADU members raised several concerns they had with the unionization process. For Daniel Reichman, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, his opposition is largely based on the wide variety of disciplines to which graduate students belong. In grant-based labs, he said, graduate students typically have to work a certain amount of hours per week to even be eligible for the grant. But if a cap on working hours is up for negotiation, he said, this could adversely impact grant-based labs even as it helps others. At the same time, Reichman did note that not all engineering students were against the union, even within specific labs. “If a union forms, they will group us all See UNION on Page 4

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Blue Devils knocked off Penn State and No. 21 Rhode Island this weekend despite dealing with a slew of injuries.

UNCASVILLE, CONN.—With preseason All-American Grayson Allen struggling and several other top scoring options sitting with injuries, someone had to shoulder the offensive load for Duke. Luke Kennard was up to the task. The sophomore led the way with a seasonhigh 24 points as the top-ranked Blue Devils claimed the title at the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena, dealing No. 21 Rhode Island its first loss of the year 75-65. Kennard bounced back from a subpar 5-of-16 shooting performance in Duke’s semifinal win against Penn State Saturday by leading the team in points on 8-of-11 shooting—including 4-of-5 from 3-point range. “We were really aggressive on the offensive

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end. Like Coach said, we had to play small ball for most of the game. We took advantage of that,” Kennard said. “Amile [Jefferson]— just him being on the boards, the offensive boards, we’re ready for kick-outs when he’s in there. We shared the ball very well.” Jefferson collected his second straight double-double for the Blue Devils (4-1) with 17 points and 15 boards, leading Duke to a 36-35 rebounding advantage despite the small four-guard lineup it employed for most of the game. Forward Hassan Martin led the Ram frontcourt with 15 points, six rebounds and seven blocks, but Jefferson was able to get him into foul trouble and limit his impact. With Martin compromised, the Blue Devils exploited Rhode Island’s lack of a true center and snagged 11 offensive boards—leading to 14 second-chance points. “Amile the last two games has 15 rebounds See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Dan Ariely shares insights into motivation in new book asked me, “what do I think?” and she had a discussion with her version of me, and I recommended to her that she install the insulin pump, and she did it. So we talked it over during the flight, and I said I agreed. But it gave me a sense that there are people who read and think and respond, and every time I write, I get a sense that it is a dialogue. I’m not writing in a vacuum. People write back. People sometimes say “thank you,” sometimes they say they’d have done things differently, they have other ideas, they disagree with me, but it does feel like a dialogue, which is tremendous fun.

Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics, in known for his research on rational and irrational decision making. His new book “Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations” investigates the root of motivation. The Chronicle’s Rob Palmisano sat down with Ariely to discuss his research. The Chronicle: Why did you feel the need to share these particular insights in “Payoff” with the rest of the world? Dan Ariely: As I write in the introduction, I find myself doing lots of things that are very painful—talking to people with injuries, doing projects in Africa, all kinds of things, and I’m deeply motivated by those things, but not by what you would call “happiness.” Nevertheless, I feel incredible fulfillment in trying to help, and I started thinking that our model of happiness is kind of wrong— that we think of “momentary happiness” as what motivates us, to sit on the beach drinking mojitos, when in fact, the things that truly motivate us are very different in nature. One particularly difficult experience revealed to me that I wanted people to think more deeply about this, so that is one part. The second part is that we all try to motivate. We try to motivate ourselves, we try to motivate other people and by not actually thinking carefully about what motivates people, we are not doing a good job with it. TC: What is one aspect of motivation the average reader of this book is unlikely to have ever considered before? DA: I think the most surprising thing from research on motivation is that financial motivation sometimes is not only ineffective, but it sometimes decreases motivation. I think that may be the most extreme one. TC: Who do you believe will benefit the most from reading “Payoff”? DA: Because we all try to motivate ourselves, the people around us, the people who work for us, with us, it’s kind of a book for everybody. [The book] may

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Dan Ariely is also known for his TED talks and for founding the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke.

be even more important for those who directly try to motivate others, but I also think it’s really a book about social science, like my other books. It’s a book that helps us understand and reveal the wonders and the mysteries of our daily life. I think we usually think that the big mysteries of life are in the stars, or in molecular biology, but they are within our own lives and how we conduct them. So being able to have a lens of how to reflect on our own lives, I think, is important for everybody.

I’ve tried to figure out how much to write about my own failings and contemplation versus how much to write about the science, which is another interesting trade-off. It’s much easier, of course, to write in a little bit more detached way about the science, but how much to bring myself into it is something I think about.

TC: How do you think your writing has evolved since the time you released your first book? DA: I think I’ve gotten better. I think TC: What is the most challenging part I’ve gotten more natural in writing. But I about translating research findings and still think that I write basically in the way experimental insights into nonfiction? that I talk. DA: I think it’s figuring out the balance between describing the experiments and TC: What inspires you to continue to describing stories that are related to or shed write? some light upon them. And a second thing DA: I’m enjoying it, and actually, I feel is that I personally write a lot about my own that I have a discussion with the readers. life, which I know is a little bit obnoxious, or At some point after “Predictably Irrational” could be seen that way. But I use my own life, came out, I sat next to a woman on a flight my own experiences, as a starting point—I who was very happy to see me because she write about science not as a great scientist read “Predictably Irrational,” and she told looking at the world and coming up with me that she was a diabetic patient who these great observations, but describing my was debating whether to install an insulin own challenges and failings and so on. And pump or not. And she said in her mind, she

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TC: What is something that motivates you in your everyday endeavors? DA: I have this equation in mind of helping. And my equation is, “How many people do we help and by how much?” So I multiply the number of people by how much, and that’s kind of the weight of the contribution, of how much we are helping the world. And I aim for that number. I try to either help lots of people in small ways or a few people in big ways. Last month I was in Israel for a project, I was in Africa for a project, I did something in Holland, Ireland, then of course a few places in the U.S., and I basically think about all of the ways that social science can be useful and helpful and how we can do more of this. TC: Is there any advice you would offer those aspiring to find the missing motivation they need to accomplish their own goals? DA: I’ve realized that the people who look for the big meaning in life—curing cancer, saving the world—that’s just very tough. Some people are able to do it, but it’s very tough. What is more achievable is to break the overarching goals into smaller parts. Lots of people with injuries write to me or want to talk with me. And some of the most successful quadriplegics I’ve talked to take pride in being able to empty their urine bladder, or being able to get dressed by themselves, all kinds of small things like that, and I think that defining smaller victories—not wanting to “finish a book” right away—and declaring the victories when we do the small things is a very important key.

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Electoral college choosing Clinton unlikely, professors say Diane Hu The Chronicle Despite losing the popular vote by a wider margin than any elected president in history, Donald Trump is now the president-elect of the United States—but many are raising questions about how exactly that happened. More than a week after the election, Trump is estimated to have secured 290 electoral college votes compared to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s 232 votes. Clinton, however, as of Saturday has been reported to have 1.32 million more popular votes than Trump, according to CNN. For only the fourth time in history, the popular vote is in disagreement with the electoral college. “I don’t think it was expected,” said David W. Rohde, Ernestine Friedl professor of

Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle Trump currently has 290 electoral college votes to Clinton’s 232 votes.

political science. “But mainly the reason it wasn’t expected was because Trump wasn’t expected to win.” John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University professor of political science, noted that if the state polling before the election had been accurate, a defeat in electoral votes would have been unlikely. The reason poll predictions largely turned out to be inaccurate, Aldrich said, comes down to an issue of cost. “In the popular vote, they were pretty accurate, but they were not very good at predicting states—state polling is not either as frequent nor do people spend as much money on it,” he said. “Since it’s really expensive to do 50 states, they tend to be much less accurate than national polls.” In the wake of public outrage about the results, interest has been renewed in a lesserknown piece of legislation called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, under which state legislatures would allocate their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. The states currently in the compact are Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Vermont, California, Rhode Island and New York, adding 165 votes out of the 270 needed for the compact to take effect. “If the NPV compact goes into effect, its proponents will have effectively changed the presidential election procedure described in the Constitution, without the bother of obtaining a constitutional amendment,” said Tara Ross, lawyer and author of “Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College,” in a recent PolitiFact article. Daniel Brezenoff of North Carolina started a petition on Change.org for the electoral college members to go against the way their states voted when they cast their official ballots on Nov. 19, making Hillary

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Clinton president. It currently has more than 4.5 million signatories. However actually switching to a popular vote system by constitutional amendment, Rohde argued, would be practically impossible. “I think that there might be a small majority in favor of switching to a popular vote system, but because of what would have to be done, that’s not enough to engineer a change where you need two thirds of both houses of Congress and three fourths of the state legislatures,” Rohde said. Aldrich said that the electoral college system for choosing president was originally

“rigged” by founding fathers for a reason that “doesn’t exist anymore.” “The original intent was that they should all be faithless electors, faithless to the will of the people because they would know the candidates and be able to make a better decision,” he said. However, Aldrich noted that the role of electors has changed in the present day. But Clinton winning with enough electors defecting from Trump in her favor seems impossible. “It’s just not a practical possibility,” Rohde said.

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into account in the eventual collective bargaining contract, he said. What does the evidence show? Studies on the effects of graduate school unionization are rare and part of a very limited field of research, noted Daniel Bowling, a senior lecturing fellow at the Law School, in an email. However, the published studies that do exist suggest either no change or slightly positive changes. One study—co-authored by Paula Voos, a professor at Rutgers University—tackled concerns that unionization would harm academic freedom or relationships with professors. It found, however, that this was not the case—either there was no change, or a slight improvement. Voos did note that in general, humanities students tended to be more dissatisfied with conditions pre-union, and that future research looking at differential impacts between traditional laboratory science departments and humanities students could be helpful. Although the study noted that it is not “the final word” on consequences of graduate student unionization, other researchers The Chronicle spoke to shared similar findings. Grant Hayden, a professor at Southern Methodist University, also said that unionized graduate students tended to have better stipends than they did before, and the same with faculty-student relationships. At the same time, Hayden said that when he was a graduate student he also noticed some students in the sciences being less in favor of a union because they did not feel the same sense of desperation due to wider grant funding opportunities. Neal Hutchens, a professor at Pennsylvania State Law School, compared the situation of graduate students to adjunct faculty, noting that studies can be found on both sides of the issue. Bowling pointed to a successful adjunct faculty union contract at Tufts University that

likely improved working conditions, but that there was also a lockout of faculty at Long Island University earlier this year. “There can be a lot of pain and hardship associated with collective bargaining in some circumstances, and there’s no guarantee how that will end up,” Bowling said. “Labor law in the United States is designed to be fairly adversarial.” Marusak contended that the studies mentioned above have focused on public, not private, institutions—and that caution should be taken before generalizing the results. The professors The Chronicle spoke to, however, said they did not foresee any significant differences existing between situations at the two types of universities. What’s next? Union organizers and Duke officials are currently scheduled to meet with the NLRB Nov. 28 to discuss any objections to the “bargaining unit.” At that point, the NLRB can decide to approve the union election to take place as soon as possible. However, the NLRB’s previous fluctuation on the issue—often due to its partisan composition at the time—means that graduate students’ new unionization right is likely to be rolled back during Donald Trump’s administration. Responding to this concern, Barish said the University could still voluntarily choose to recognize the union even if the NLRB decision is overruled. Should Duke decide not to, he said, graduate students would continue to advocate for their interests in the strongest manner possible. Both DGSU and SADU will be ramping up outreach and informational efforts as that hypothetical election date gets closer. Marusak asked that there be a respectful discussion on the arguments, alleging that certain SADU posters had been taken down or defaced— although she did not know by whom. Barish noted that he was not aware of

these incidents—and that they certainly did not come from the DGSU’s organizing committee. Such acts are also not encouraged by the union, he said.

HOUSING from page 1 Johnson added. The hotels are available from Dec. 20 to Jan. 7 and include Residence Inn Durham, Extended Stay America, University Inn and Millennium Hotel Durham. Johnson explained that one of the hotel options charges the same price that HDRL charged in the past to rent students rooms on Central Campus during Winter Break. That hotel also provides a shuttle service to campus and “free, light continental breakfast.” The prices for the hotels range from $71.50 to $108.96 per room per night. Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, noted that her office is working with students to assist them in reserving rooms for Winter Break. Students receiving financial aid will have the expense covered and will receive a meal stipend. Those not receiving aid will have to pay their own way or travel home. Merit aid students will have housing covered as well. “I think it was a great solution and one that we plan to keep using for the foreseeable future,” Rabil wrote in an email. Students are not permitted to stay in their normal living spaces during break due to “safety and security” concerns, Johnson noted. In past years, students were housed in apartments on Central Campus during break. In March, the University announced that approximately 160 students would be relocated elsewhere as some apartment units on Alexander Avenue and Anderson Street would be vacated because they had out-lived their usefulness and required extensive maintenance.

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Pittsburgh mauls Duke, handing Blue Devils worst loss since 2010 in Saturday blowout Sam Turken The Chronicle PITTSBURGH—After coming back to beat then-No. 15 North Carolina last Thursday, Duke looked like it was still living in the past Saturday. On a cold, blustery afternoon, Pittsburgh blew out the Blue Devils 56-14 at Heinz Field. After initially fighting back from a slow start to cut the deficit to 2114, Duke struggled to move the ball and defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ unit failed to find an answer for the Panthers’ physical offense, which gained nearly eight yards per play. “There [were] breakdowns in every aspect,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “When that happens and they win the offensive and defensive lines of scrimmage, it’s a tough day.” The loss—Duke’s worst since a 62-13 defeat to Alabama in 2010—is a significant blow to the Blue Devils’ chances of continuing their four-year bowl streak. Duke must now defeat Miami next Saturday and get some help from other teams to sneak in as a 5-7 squad thanks to its academic performance rating. But if the Blue Devils play like they did for much of Saturday’s game next week, they will almost certainly miss the postseason.

Mitchell Gladstone | The Chronicle The Panthers broke open Saturday’s game early in the third quarter on their way to a 56-14 rout and averaged more than eight yards per play.

After Duke ran for more than 200 yards against North Carolina, the Blue Devils (4-7, 1-6 in the ACC) registered just 25 rushing yards against Pittsburgh and the longest run of the day was a 14-yard scamper by redshirt freshman quarterback Daniel Jones. The struggle in the running game meant that Jones faced heavy duress all game. Led by defensive lineman Ejuan Price, the

Panthers registered five sacks and prevented Duke from attacking downfield. “If you don’t move the ball between the tackles, it’s hard to run the ball. They leverage you outside with their alignment, so they challenge you to run between the tackles,” Cutcliffe said. “Our quarterback got hit a lot and we couldn’t run the ball. That’s never a good combination.” Duke’s lone offensive touchdown came

early in the first quarter with the Blue Devils down 7-0 following a lost fumble by junior running back Shaun Wilson and Pittsburgh’s first touchdown. On a five-play, 59-yard touchdown drive, Jones briefly found a rhythm throwing screen passes, one of which went to sophomore T.J. Rahming for 43 yards. Duke then knotted the score when Jones connected with redshirt sophomore wide receiver Chris Taylor in the middle of the end zone for a six-yard touchdown. That was as close as the Blue Devils would get, though. Pittsburgh (7-4, 4-3) quickly responded with two consecutive touchdowns to build a 21-7 lead. One of those scores came when speedster Quadree Henderson took a jet sweep along the right sideline 52 yards into the end zone. Knowles’ unit failed to find a solution to the Panthers’ various shifts and motions as redshirt junior running back James Conner and Henderson gashed the Blue Devils for 174 of Pittsburgh’s 224 rushing yards. Henderson also returned a punt for a touchdown early in the third quarter to make it 42-14, and quarterback Nathan Peterman had no trouble finding open receivers downfield, compiling 237 yards and three touchdowns on just 11 completions. See FOOTBALL on Page 9

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Duke returns to NCAA tourney quarterfinals Jack Dolgin The Chronicle With the game tied 0-0 on a bitter November afternoon, Ella Stevens performed a fairly nondramatic act. She took off her gloves with about 20 minutes left in the first half. Just a few minutes later, the freshman continued her hot ILL ST 1 postseason with her DUKE 3 second goal in three NCAA tournament 0 games, a finish to an NW DUKE 1 awkward sequence of shots by the Blue Devils that would hold up as the contest’s only goal. “It was the gloves,” Stevens joked. Stevens’ goal gave Duke all the offense it needed against the nation’s top-ranked defense as the third-seeded Blue Devils beat Northwestern 1-0 Sunday at Koskinen Stadium in the NCAA tournament Round of 16. Duke outshot the Wildcats 22-2 and dominated play for the third straight game, setting up a date with top-seeded West Virginia next weekend in Morgantown, W. Va., in the Blue Devils’ seventh quarterfinal appearance in 10 years. “We locked them in, we didn’t give them anything,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We weren’t as sharp as we’ve been the whole time in front of the goal…. [But] we kept them in their half of the field for the most part.”

Senior Christina Gibbons—playing what would ultimately amount to her 42nd and final home game of her career—set up the goal with a shot in the box that Northwestern goalkeeper Lauren Clem saved. Off the rebound, junior Imani Dorsey crossed the ball back into the box, and though Flem went off her line to clear the ball, the rebound went right to Stevens. The Grayson, Ga., native flicked the ball over Flem and into an open net for the score, the seventh goal the Wildcats have allowed all year. It also marked her team-leading 10th goal of the season, which is tied for second in program history among freshmen. “She’s really come into her own,” Gibbons said. “She’s a goal scorer, she finds ways to finish. It wasn’t the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen, but she gets it done.” Stevens went down with an injury going for the ball late in the first half, and she limped off the field before coming back in the second half and again leaving the game. Church said the injury is not serious. Without her, Duke (15-4-3) managed just fine by holding the Wildcats to few scoring chances for most of the contest. Northwestern (16-3-4) tried scoring from its back line, hoping to capitalize on the counterattack. Instead, defenders like Gibbons, Lizzy Raben and Schuyler DeBree took control and refused to turn the ball over on their side of the midfield line. “That was all the defense just being really organized so that way when the ball came out, we could be first to win it,” Raben said. “We talked

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about that before the game, that we expected to have a lot of possession and that their chances would come off counterattacks.” The Wildcats nearly scored in the 74th minute, off one of their 12 free kicks during the game. Mary Erikson—taking the kick from almost 40 yards out—sent a ball into the box that skipped by both the Blue Devils and the Wildcats. The free kick wound up hitting the back post, taking a friendly Duke roll away from the goal before the Blue Devil back line cleared it. Northwestern applied an increasing

amount of pressure in the last 15 minutes, but Duke ran out the clock to send the co-Big Ten champions home after the Wildcats’ farthest postseason run since 1998. Up next for the Blue Devils is a familiar foe in West Virginia. The Mountaineers downed Duke 3-1 in Durham Sept. 9 and secured a trip to the Elite Eight with a win on a snow-covered field against UCLA Sunday. Expect Stevens to bring her gloves. “[Am I] cold? Not at this stage, not when you go to the Elite Eight,” Church said. “[It] may be colder next week.”

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Vanderbilt holds off second-half Blue Devil rally Emily Davis The Chronicle NASHVILLE, Tenn.—With three seasoned ball handlers, the Blue Devils entered the year hoping to limit turnovers in critical situations. But in its first formidable test of the season, the giveaways that have plagued Duke the past few years showed up once again. The Blue Devils fell 77-73 to Vanderbilt at Memorial Gymnasium Sunday afternoon after their late DUKE 73 comeback came up VANDY 77 short. Duke had a chance to win the game tied 71-71 with a minute left in the game, but a combination of turnovers from sophomore Kyra Lambert and redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell along with the Blue Devils’ inability to corral defensive boards late sealed their fate. Although Greenwell and Lexie Brown combined for 38 points to lead Duke, the Blue Devils shot just 2-of-17 from 3-point range and had 19 giveaways that led to 25 Vanderbilt points. Every Duke starter had at least two turnovers, negating the team’s 4830 edge in points in the paint. “We can’t turn the ball over, and guard rebounding is going to be really key,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We need our guards at seven, eight, nine rebounds a game. Those are the things we are going to control and we need to control.”

Emily Davis | The Chronicle Sophomore Kyra Lambert led the Blue Devils with seven assists, but every time Duke had momentum, Vanderbilt responded.

Duke (4-1) played from behind for much of the game, with Vanderbilt using its balanced attack to keep the Blue Devil defense on its heels. Led by Christa Reed’s 19 points and three 3-pointers, the Commodores (3-1) attacked the paint to get Duke in foul trouble and crashed the glass even when their shots were off the mark. Vanderbilt had five players in double figures and used 18 offensive rebounds to take control. The Commodores also benefitted from a raucous home crowd that had an

obvious impact on Duke’s possessions. “This was an environment that I think we needed—it was an NCAA championship environment, an ACC championship-type environment,” Brown said. “I’m glad we were able to play in an environment like this so early in the season just to see what it was going to be like.” Although the Blue Devils had an edge inside, foul trouble put forwards Leaonna Odom and Oderah Chidom on the bench in the game’s critical moments. The duo

combined for 17 points and 12 rebounds. Even with the frontcourt tandem limited and Brown and Greenwell shooting just 2-of-14 combined from long range, the backcourt stars found success driving to the basket, bringing Duke within a few possessions late in the third quarter to give the team a chance. After the Commodores opened up a 10-point edge with 5:08 left in the third quarter, Duke fought back. Greenwell scored seven quick points during a key stretch late in the period, and Brown knocked down the game-tying free throws midway through the fourth quarter to knot the score at 64. But despite the Blue Devils’ success attacking off the dribble, Vanderbilt always seemed to have an answer. “I just wanted to keep attacking. I know on film we saw that they were not the best perimeter defenders so our goal today was to get by them and get to the lane. Their help-side defense was awesome, considering I had two charges,” Brown said. “But I need my three ball to fall. If I had hit one or two of those [3-pointers], it would’ve been a different game.” Duke forward Erin Mathias scored down low to give the Blue Devils a 66-64 lead with 3:28 left in the game—their first lead since the first quarter—but Reed came back with a 3-pointer less than a minute later to erase her team’s last deficit of the game. See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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champion credited Allen for holding the Rams’ leading scorer E.C. Matthews to just nine points. “Luke has really taken up for some of the slack for Grayson being hurt. Grayson is playing at about 50 percent, and we didn’t know if he was going to play or not,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s really banged up and he went through warmups and said, ‘I’m ready to go.’ He can’t shoot really well because he can’t get any push, but he really played Matthews well on defense.” In addition to the injuries to Allen and Jeter—who Krzyzewski confirmed after the game is still hurt—the Blue Devils are still operating without five-star freshmen Jayson Tatum, Marques Bolden and Harry Giles early in nonconference play. Duke now has a couple days of muchneeded rest before hosting William & Mary Wednesday at 7 p.m.

“Their scheme was great,” Blue Devil cornerback Bryon Fields said. “Coach Knowles and the defensive staff had us prepared. We made some [mistakes] and let some guys run free that we shouldn’t have.” Despite its early struggles, Duke had opportunities to come back. In the middle of the second quarter, Fields jumped a route before returning an interception 36 yards for a touchdown. Although the Panthers answered with a 56-yard touchdown pass from Peterman to Jester Weah, the Blue Devils once again could have cut into the lead in the final minute of the half. Duke drove to the Pittsburgh 13-yard line, but freshman Emily Davis | The Chronicle kicker A.J. Reed missed a 31-yard field goal. Vanderbilt held Duke star Rebecca Greenwell Reed is now 3-of-9 on field goal attempts in check to hand the Blue Devils their first loss of the season. this season. “We could have been sitting there 28-17 from page 8 and maybe recovered. We did anything but that,” Cutcliffe said. “I’ve always believed The last few minutes were filled with the first possession of the third quarter can affect the game. Unfortunately, so can the free throws and fouls on both ends before the Blue Devils’ final turnovers ended their last possession of the first half.” The second half was all Panthers. comeback hopes. “Give all credit to Vanderbilt—they They quickly added to their lead when Peterman found Weah again for a 39- outplayed us, they out-fought us. They got the yard pass and Conner scored before ball a lot more times than we did, especially in Henderson delivered a knockout blow on a rebounding situation,” McCallie said. “It’s a great lesson for Vanderbilt because they the punt return. The Blue Devils will now try to regroup rebounded well and it went well for them, before facing the Hurricanes on the road next and it’s also a great lesson for us because we did not rebound well and we did not get key Saturday in their regular-season finale. “The thing we have to do is focus stops—that cost us.” Duke will return to action Tuesday at on how we’re going to respond to this. home against Old Dominion looking to Responding to being shell-shocked like The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation clean up its defensive rebounding and take that is never easy,” Cutcliffe said. “We 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 care of the ball following its first setback of have to move on. We have an outstanding For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 2016-17. Miami team looming.” For For Release Release Saturday, Monday, November November 21, 19, 2016 2016

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n the past week and a half, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a slew of controversial candidates to serve in his administration and cabinet. Among them is Myron Ebell, a libertarian think tank member whom Trump has selected to lead his Environmental Protection Agency transition team. Ebell’s fellow transition team members include lobbyists, former policy wonks and industry experts all bound together by a common thread—staunch denial of climate change. Unfortunately, their denial of the truth will not make its conditions go away. As of 2016, global temperatures have risen nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. Although that might seem insignificant, it is having large impacts in the United States. Summer heat waves are setting records in the south and Midwest as wildfires on the west coast burn increasing intensity. Meanwhile, droughts across the country are lasting longer resulting in low crop yields. Outside the U.S., lowlying islands countries are at risk of a watery demise as rising waves erode coast barriers, sweeping their way ever inwards. Across the world, people’s lives and livelihoods are being put at risk as the planet heats up. It is a time to be scared, especially for

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those who live in vulnerable places. It is certainly not a time to toy around with EPA and play games with environmental policy. In the past eight years, the United States had made significant progress towards climate solutions. Trump’s EPA appointments promise to all but erase it. Their calls to leave the Paris send a message to the world that the United States neither cares about global warming nor respects the sacrifices that 112 countries have

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made to solve it. In their isolationist climate policies, Trump’s new EPA advisers seek to pursue an “America First” climate platform that would provide short-term benefits to some in the US, but almost guarantee a failure to solve a global collective action problem that threatens all of us. “America first” should stand for our country leading the charge against climate change, not backing off from it. It’s easy to understand why some detest the idea of forcing the U.S. to abide by energy restrictions: it will cost them their jobs. They will effectively

be told that their livelihoods are worth less than an idea that to them, might be nebulous. Some already have been told so. Approximately 191,000 mining jobs have disappeared since September 2014. Under the Paris Agreement, more would likely go. But that does not necessarily have to be bad. With proper subsidies, the rise of green energy could lead to employment for wanting energy workers. That is where the EPA should come in—designing energy policies that use carbon/dirty energy tax revenue to subsidize clean energy and retrain workers. It likely will not, though. There is no reason to think that Myron Ebell and his band of energy lobbyists sill suddenly begin advocating for green solutions. The burden will instead be on us: on an individual level, we must all be vigilant about our everyday actions. Energy efficiency and recycling must become more than buzzwords—they must a natural part of our lives. If change will not come from the top of our nation, it must come from the bottom—from people altering lifestyles, joining environmental groups and advocating for local policy changes. None of that is much fun, but ultimately, if we fail to solve problems of climate change now, we forsake our collective home.

The forgotten virtue

onlinecomment “Good advice. Also, don’t discuss persons. ‘Trump this and Hillary that’ is going to start fights. Stay on issues, and listen to the other person. Don’t be so certain you are right about everything. Try saying, “That’s a good point.” — “Man with Axe,” responding to “Thanksgiving: A political survival guide,” published November 18, 2016

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hen asked two summers ago if he had ever prayed to God for forgiveness, Donald Trump replied, “I am not sure I have.” Trump explained, “I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” For readers unfamiliar with Christianity, know that remorsefulness is a cornerstone of what it means to be a Christian. When we think we’ve done something wrong, God is very much in the picture. As C. S. Lewis writes, “Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness.” Before you can repent and ask for forgiveness, however, you have to feel remorse—the tug of conscience telling you, “You’ve done wrong.” When Trump says he has never asked God for forgiveness, it speaks to a misunderstanding of

internment. Reagan said, “The legislation that I am about to sign provides for a restitution payment to each of the 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans of the 120,000 who were relocated or detained. Yet no payment can make up for those lost years. So, what is most important in this bill has less to do with property than with honor. For here we admit a wrong; here we reaffirm our commitment as a nation to equal justice under the law.” Today, at the Japanese Internment Memorial in Washington, D.C., visitors can read five of Reagan’s words etched in granite: “HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG”. It is a powerful statement of remorse from a country mature enough to come to terms with its past. Remorse doesn’t just foster reconciliation among individuals and within nations—it also points the way to forgiveness and growth between countries with historically antagonistic relationships. A group of researchers writing in the journal Science has found that remorse may hold the key to resolving one of the world’s longstanding conflicts. They have challenged the conventional wisdom that material

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Christianity. It hints at a spiritual stuntedness that should worry any member of the faith. The goal here is not to bash Trump; I have already done my fair share of that in these pages. We all have our moral shortcomings and I’ll be the first to admit that asking for forgiveness isn’t something that comes easily to me either. Rather, the point is to understand Trump as a symbol of something greater—our remorseless age. Today, more than ever, apologizing seems to be considered a sign of weakness. But it wasn’t always this way. In “Richard II,” William Shakespeare introduces a character whose virtue stems from his remorse. Henry Bolingbroke, for all his faults—including seizing the crown illegally and suggesting, offhandedly, that his life would be easier if someone could just do away with the imprisoned king he had just deposed— demonstrates remorse as a redeeming quality. Upon hearing that one of his subordinates murdered the old king in Henry’s name, the new king is wracked with guilt. Remorseful, Henry vows: “I’ll make a voyage to the Holy Land, / To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.” Civil strife keeps Henry from embarking on his pilgrimage, and with his guilt unresolved, remorsefulness continues to define Henry’s character in the next two plays of Shakespeare’s “Henriad.” Remorse is not just a matter of easing a guilty conscience. It also is a profound expression of values and priorities. In signing the Civil Liberties Act in 1988, President Reagan expressed the remorsefulness of an entire nation for a shameful moment in its history: Japanese American

concessions, like land swaps and reparations, are central to achieving peace between Israel and Palestine. Instead, the researchers found that “[s]ymbolic concessions of no apparent material benefit may be key in helping to solve seemingly intractable conflicts.” In the survey, Palestinians rejected side payments, considering it insulting to be paid off for matters of sacred value. They remained, however, open to a symbolic concession from the Israeli side, such as an apology for the 1948 Nakba that drove hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Pride and unpleasant memories may drive emotional distance between the two sides, but only remorse promises to bridge the divide. Now, more than ever, we need to embrace a virtue on the verge of being forgotten. Remorse does not come easily. Many of us have unpleasant childhood memories of being forced, through clenched teeth, to say sorry. (I know I didn’t always mean it.) But growing more familiar with remorse is part of growing up, for remorse alone provides the key to healthy relationships with those we love. Remorse is not a status quo emotion. It is transformative. Remorse drives healing in relationships and reconciliation among countries. It speaks to our capacity for introspection and growth. A life without remorse represents a missed opportunity. An age without remorse is a tragedy. Matthew T. King is a Trinity junior. His column, “at the water’s edge,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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oo exotic for here, too Western for there. First-generation kids balance everyday a dichotomy so deep, at a certain point the hope for acceptance fleets into evanescence. Assimilation is a malady our societies proliferate. I grew up in a D.C. suburb where I represented diversity to everyone but myself. Although the thick hair and dark skin made it hard to not protrude in every class picture, I did not choose to see myself as any different. I spoke with a seamless American accent (thank you PBS Kids), played on my town’s girls soccer league throughout elementary school and sang songs of a faith different from my own in

math games and hilariously clumsy Hacker’s henchmen, Buzz and Delete, nor do I remember it for the compelling introduction song. Rather, it was the brown girl with a big bun and even bigger brain, Jackie, who represented something I could latch to. Her sense of order, melodrama and adventure were all qualities rarely attributed to the rare stereotypical bland side-kick characters whom I perceived to look like me. Although Jackie’s familial background remains unknown, the power of representation, accessibility and a culture of inclusion is quite the contrary. Given the impact of this single character, there can be much more done to uplift

Sabriyya Pate a sublimely homogeneous county choir. Nonetheless, as much as I could define myself beyond cultural heritage, those around me relegated my identity to that of “outsider.” For many children of immigrants, the social ostracization that begins as early as pre-kindergarten is only a precursor to the societal forces wishing you to forfeit your identity for the sake of integration. My father’s Hausa-Fulani robes and mother’s mispronunciations would often embarrass me (or as my mother would say, “ehm-baa-rass”) because of the fear of alienation that underwrote my experience as a dark face in a sea of Caucasians. Perhaps it is because darkness was so frequently equated with horror, the younger rendition of myself felt unsafe in seemingly borrowed skin. There is an important distinction to be made between assimilation and integration. While integration reinforces a firm grasp on the majority culture, including language, values, religions, hierarchies and more, assimilation encourages a cross-influence whereby the minority culture can eventually be accepted by the majority one. Integration values quickly adopting the status quo at the expense of meaningful transitions, and dissuades the minority culture from steadfastly holding prior aspects of their identities. While of course integration can work as a two-way process whereby difference introduces potential conflict but harmony can eventually concludes the tale, assimilation can create a market for accent-therapy, hair-straightening products and other industries advocating conformity more generally. On the other hand, integration also seeks to promote a wholesome adoption of the identity “American,” but this time not necessarily creating an environment where abandoning affectation for one’s culture may be an advantage. In a culture of assimilation, for example, immigrants and their children’s voices are not heard without conjured “American” accents. When I was young, I rarely heard characters that sounded like my parents. Yet, I was able to see one aspect of my identity in very few. Today, the racial diversity in kids’ television shows gives me hope; but, there is still more to be done to include immigrants and firstgeneration kids. I remember Cyberchase, an animated television show that helped me “see math everywhere,” not for its riveting interactive

How Hillary Clinton lost

t’s taken several days of thinking for me to make conclusions about how the Democratic party lost this election. This is not a commentary on Trump supporters— nor an argument about what this election means for the political and social conscious of our country. I’m not here to talk about values, nor to throw more insults at the Republican Party, nor to debate the morality of who voted for its nominee. I’m here to talk about strategy— precisely the kind of planning and attitude failure in campaign strategy that completely underestimated the power of the conservative, white voter. The Republicans are poised to control the congressional and executive agenda in this country for the next four years, and Democrats must learn from their mistakes in order to overcome the odds of this situation. Since the 2008 election, the nucleus of Democratic campaign strategy has changed

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uglier. When a Trump-supporting white demographic has this kind of election sway, and when the Obama coalition of millennials, urbanites, and racial minorities fails to sustain Obama-esque support, it is not possible for a Democrat to get to 270 electoral votes. But our mistakes in strategy do not stop there. Not only did we ignore demographic realities, but Democrats also walked into this race with naïve arrogance—thinking that the 8 years under Barack Obama had catapulted a majority of white America into liberal awareness of racial, religious, and social pluralism. This optimism turned out to be inaccurate, and it should be made very clear to liberals that our lack of ability to acknowledge white, suburban fear of a changing world is not going away anytime soon. The Clinton campaign failed to recognize the size of the demographic that is worried about globalization’s effect on American jobs,

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immigrants and first-generation kids, in addition to racial minorities. To wholeheartedly embrace one’s “foreign” accent is no simple feat. Not compromising one’s intuitions of comfort and respectability is a skill not for the fainthearted. In a world in which sacrificing your identity for the sake of integration is lauded, the value of celebrating countercultures remains understated. Today, I can proudly profess my love for jollof rice, a popular Western African dish. I am dignified by the languages I speak, and the tongue that connects me with people throughout the sub-Saharan. My parents’ accents fall softly on appreciative ears, reassuring me that this country truly can welcome all. As estranging as the namecalling, inadequacy of representation and pressure to conform can become, I am thankful for the resilience these antiforeigner, anti-American, intentional and unintentional demonstrations of chauvinism have cultivated. To my fellow first-generationers, our hidden languages, celebrations and cultural norms may still distinguish us from whatever “the norm” has been fashioned to co-opt. It is up to us to use these wrongfully manifested resentments for the fostering of a more enthused appreciation and pride for the diversity we represent. Furthermore, studies have shown that guilt is one of the biggest struggles facing first-generation college students, and universities are often weary to address grievances. Calling attention to them in our intimate circles is just the beginning. Amidst a dismal political landscape, time to reflect on the apolitical has never been as auspicious. After all, appreciation and togetherness need not fall along partisan lines. Recognizing cultural biases, reaching out to the “other” (and in turn shattering those constructs) and importantly holding on to our senses of self, will serve our communities today and tomorrow. All immigrants and nonimmigrants have a role to play in genuinely putting words of inclusion, liberty and respect into action; space for diversity is ubiquitous throughout classrooms, cafeterias, grocery stores, the entertainment industry and beyond. The burden to correct the alienating prejudices found in these places falls on us all. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “in formation,” runs on alternate Mondays.

significantly. We used to rely on a combination of working-class whites and minority turnout to win elections. However, after the sustained surge of African-American, Hispanic, and millennial turnout in both the 2008 and 2012 races, progressive leaders were convinced that we only had to turn out our young, multi-ethnic base in order to overcome Republican control of the white demographic. You don’t have to do much research in order to find out that most pundits have agreed on this trend for the last 8 years. As whites become less relevant as a demographic in future elections, the GOP was predicted to become “a predominantly Midwestern, white, workingclass party,” while the Democrats would employ a “coalition” of “upscale whites with racial and ethnic minorities” as their core base. We told ourselves that the changing racial makeup of the United States favored our side: as young, urban and minority voters began to control a much larger share of the total voting population, we would only need their support in order to control national races. Many of the election models were based on this general theme. Any advocate of identity politics knows that the changing racial makeup of our country favors Democrats, and they applied that idea to predict a Clinton win. It was expected that a surge in minority, women, and millennial votes would flip states like Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and Pennsylvania in the Democrats’ favor. Nearly all of the models that I’ve observed were forecasting—with suspiciously high probability—that the Democrats would sweep the presidential election, take back the Senate, and make up their deficit in state-level governments by this logic. In losing this election, it’s clear that our leadership missed two things, the firstly that white voters today still constitute a vast majority of the electorate, and secondly that Donald Trump has far great support among whites than any of the models predicted. Despite this narrative that minorities and millennials will soon dominate the electorate, 70 percent of the 129 million ballots cast in this election came from white voters. Trump won that demographic 51 percent to 39 percent, which means that 51 million whites were supporting him. That number is twice as large as the number of blacks, Hispanics and Asians that voted for Clinton, combined. This election has shown that if the white demographic turns out in force against a Democrat, they can not only be competitive in the race, but can absolutely determine the outcome. When you take this in conjunction with Clinton’s surprisingly weak showing with African Americans (only 88 percent voted for her, as compared to 93 percent for Obama), and Hispanics (an abysmal 65 percent voted for her, according to exit polls), the picture becomes

increased domestic threats from a changing racial makeup, and being left behind in a country that—for the last 8 years—has seemed to stop prioritizing them. They prioritize those fears over Trump’s sexism, racism, and offensive personality. It’s also likely that Trump’s cruel, bully attitude is what alleviates some of his voters’ worries. Our unwillingness to admit the size of this demographic is what lost us the election. Donald Trump was bigger and more acceptable to the general public, than liberals were ever willing to admit. Taking this election in account in determining future campaign strategy is the only solution to this, especially as we head into the 2018 midterms. Democrats traditionally do not show out in great numbers for midterm elections, while Republicans are more consistent voters in both presidential elections and midterms. This means that taking the Senate back (which is possibly our only pragmatic option for trying to stop the passing of legislation) is possibly off the table. In order to regain a divided Senate, we need to take our medicine, and take it quickly. This means facing the reality that appealing strictly to the base, and not expanding into other demographics, might not be a viable strategy given the attitudes and demographic makeup of the American electorate. There has to be an acknowledgement that Trump has woken a sleeping giant: a populace that is susceptible to appeals of nativism, fear of other racial groups and combative tendencies. Without altering our campaign strategy with awareness of reality, we will have trouble putting ourselves in a strong position in the legislature to block or affect Donald Trump’s policies. If the Democratic party is ever going to serve as a moderating influence on a Trump political agenda, then we have to strategize with full knowledge of our obstacles, and also come out in better numbers than we did in this election. The Silent Majority elected this man President, which means that the power of this group is not to be underestimated. Now is the time, more than ever, when Democrats need to lean into politics, not out of it. Nothing will ever change if we do not make liberal voices heard—both in public, and at the polling station in 2018. But we will not succeed until we are willing to take a good, hard look at our party, and try to improve the quality and scope of our movement. This means viewing the world as it is, not as we hope it can someday become. As deeply disappointed as I am about where we are, I know there has never been a more appropriate time to give a damn about politics. Donald Trump, we’ll see you at the midterms. Sincerely, the Democrats. Nic Justice is a Trinity junior and the co-President of Duke Political Union.

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